Hello Again!

It's been years since my last post, I apologies.. A LOT of things happened and it's safe to say it's life changing in my perspective, in a good way. I won't touch on that topic in this post since I don't have the mood for that. What I'm trying to write about is..

GIFTS IDEAS YOU CAN GIVE/MAKE

for your significant other <3

:)

Since it's the 19th September, my lovely Girlfriend is celebrating her birth! (L) Happy Birthday Pumpkin! May Allah Bless you with everything you desire, aamiinn

Honestly, when it comes to my special person's special day, I tend to pour all my soul in making or thinking the perfect gifts which I don't even know why.. being a Hopeless romantic perhaps? wait is that even the right description.. let me google this in a sec..

Hopeless Romantic's urban definition:

• This person is in love with love. They believe in fairy tales and love. They're not to be confused as stalkers or creepy because that's not what a hopeless romantic is. All hopeless romantics are idealists, the sentimental dreamers, the imaginative and the fanciful when you get to know them. They often live with rose colored glasses on. They make love look like an art form with all the romantic things they do for their special someone.

okay, talking about going overboard lol .. Okay enough about this. let's get started on some of the present ideas which I gave/made over my journey together with my Girlfriend :)

Explosion Box

Basically, the short concept of an Explosion Box is a box that does nothing but fall open when you open the box's cover? What's so special about this is the contents inside the box :) The probability of sentimental things you can put inside or the way you construct it to make it sweet as sugar is super high! 

Now I'm going to briefly show you how I did mine. if you guys want the full guide, there's a lot of it on YouTube. Since most of the guide is hard to properly follow, you can just simply try to learn the foundation on How To make the box and let your creativity do the rest :)

Below will me the brief process on how I made my very own Explosion Box!

I only spend BND7+ for the materials & BND5 for the pictures, it's quite affordable!

With the limited time and resources I had, I was forced to juggle around my creativity to make this. Just imagine if you try conquering this slowly, it won't be impossible that you can make a better and more dynamic version than mine! :)

Hand-Made Drawing

I can't quite grasp on how I can explain the sentimental value of a hand-made drawing but for me it's quite appealing when you were given one, just imagine something that being made with the intent of giving it to someone, the time taken and skills being pour into an empty canvas to show your thoughts/feeling is simply unexplainable yet sweet, right? :)

Since my drawing skill is close to none, I had to reach out to a friend of mine which is extremely skillful is this area. LET ME EXPLAIN first, even though I was not the one that made this painting which extract out the real sentimental value, we had a discussion on how I want the drawing to be made or appear. the contents of the drawing is solely my thought/feeling and my friend is just a bridge to make it happen. :) 

Below is the Hand-Made Drawing that I ordered. I was super satisfied with it to be honest!

Since I'm a REALLY BIG fan of the Lord of The Ring, I requested the background to be related with LOTR's concept and the wording to be in an Elvish Writing to make it more personal for me. I always thought that the Elvish tongue to be romantic and deep in a way. Another reason for this is because I want to give her an indirect message relating to my hope in this relationship :) Don't worry guys, she'll know the exact translation when the time is right! hehe

Treasure Hunt Gift Box

We all have our fair share in the excitement of treasure hunting, following a specific trails that leads you the next clue is quite fun. So I tried to incorporate that thrilling sensation when I try to make what I called the Treasure Hunt Gift Box. 

The idea is simply to guide the person into reading a sequence of sentences so that they can know which gifts to move to next, with that as the foundation, now you can simply just lay down the trails with meaningful words. In addition of simply getting the gifts, we might as well add our real feeling to it. This may escalate the sincerity of the gift box as a whole and it's quite fun! Don't you think so?

Below will be my very own version of Treasure Hunt Gift Box! :)

The Not Forget Me Jar

Fun, cheap and easy to make and the only down-side of this is it's super time-consuming. So you really need to plan this out carefully if you want to make one in the future! :)

The main purpose of the Not Forget Me Jar is simply to let your sole existence runs in their mind everyday even if it's just for a brief minute by inserting your thoughts, reminder, advices and many more in a piece of paper.

In order to achieve that, the only rule for the receiver to follow is simply to open one piece from the jar everyday until it runs out! I made this Jar back when I was dating my girlfriend who was studying abroad (Approximately 11,255KM) away from me. Since communicating often with her will be troublesome due to the time differences, I made the Not Forget Me Jar in hoping that at least I crossed her mind each day until she return back to Brunei. The reasons behind the time-consuming part is that I made notes worth of 7 months which is roughly 215 days or more worth of notes.

Interestingly, I found out that in some days during the whole 7 months, the note that she picked out from the jar was what she needed to read to help her through the day. Knowing that, all those countless nights is worth :)

LoveBook

Okay,this one is my Girlfriend's present for my Birthday which I think deserve to be in this post because it's super sweet corn! 

The idea of a LoveBook's contents is simply abstract. You can find an empty book and just fill it with words coming  from your heart, or make drawings that concurrent with your relationship. It's up to your personal creativity on how you want to express your feeling to your significant other.

In order to get the jest of what a LoveBook can become, I'm going to show you my LoveBook that I received from my Girlfriend :)

Okay, I'm not going to show you guys all the pages because it's personal lol ...but I think you get the idea on what is a LoveBook now! :)

There tons more but I think this is enough for today, I really do hope that these ideas can help you in the future :) Making your significant other smile is one of the best feeling you'll get. Honestly we don't need to invest heavily to make gifts, just remember your sincerity is important to make it special! Plus, there's tons of very good ideas in the Internet, just google it. Good-luck!

As for my next update, I'm not sure when it will be (It's tough to get the idea on what to write nowadays) but one thing for sure I'll be around!

Stay Tune x

LOVE 101

We were told to do a presentation in any topic of our choosing for our English class. To make things fun in college, I was thinking about presenting something fresh and fun! :D

At first, i thought that i could easily do this topic with ease, I've never been so wrong in my life.

I was basically jumping into the pool without a life-jacket.

In the end, I managed to compile a pack of information worthy of sharing with you guys!

Enjoy!

:)

What is Love?

• Emotional  physical and or spiritual response to what makes you feel good.
• Love, to me, is not an emotion… It’s more of a promise. Love is a promise that you make. When you say you love someone, you’re saying that you will be there for that person and take care of them when they are in need. You’re promising that that weather you have had a bad day, you will still try to make the person you love happy. Love is a whole lot of promises.
• Love is a farce.
• Love is at any time when you think you have reached the bottom, in your relationship , to try again, and again, and again.
• Love is when two people connect on a deeply affectionate, passionate, and spiritual level. It's when two people can have sex that makes you as a couple feel like you have become one with each other. Love is loyalty, it's when you are with someone that would make you never want anybody else.

With so many definition of Love, have you ever stopped for a second to think about the Science in Love?

Did you ever notice in a way, Love is a mysterious yet natural emotion in us and it must have to do something with our inside chemistry to one another? 

Today, i'm going to elaborate more on a certain topics that are related to one another.

In order to get started, firstly i need to inform you the basic physical signs when you are falling in Love (:

Physical Sign

There are several factors that can be an indication when someone managed to trigger your inside.

• Your Hormones Gone Wild

When you fall in Love, your cheeks flushes, or even maybe your palms become sweaty. The reason behind this is because there's a rush of chemicals and hormones that flooded your brain and body, resulting on the symptoms to appeared.

• You Wake Up And Go To Sleep Thinking Of Someone Other Than Yourself

The truth in this phenomenon is usually sub-conscious and automatic response, almost like your mind is programmed to do..

• You Smile When You're Alone

In general, the little things that will make you smile such as when he or she texted you or even you heard a certain song that reminds you of him, just because all those happy hormones are flowing through your bloodstream

• You Suddenly Care More About Your Appearance

Before, you have a habit to go out and looked like a homeless person and the thing is you don't even care, but now for a certain someone you now have a purpose to look good always.

• You Become A Little Bit Obsessive

People in Love, Love to think about each other. They somehow manage to relate even the smallest thing to that person. Right?

A few factors had been laid out which can be the basic foundation to see if you are falling in Love. The next time you experienced any of this symptoms then it must be true. :)

The next one i'm going to talk about is..

Ancient Greek's Definition of Love

First of all, what is the difference between when i say " I Love Someone", "I Love My Family" and "I Love my Best Friends"? The word Love are being used for the same meaning yet different level of Love? Basically, this complicated situation are being managed and handled by categorizing them to several words. Those Ancient Greeks are AWESOME!!

Eros

As you can see the tension of Love is real between the girl and the huge Pizza! In a way, it can perfectly illustrate the concept of "EROS", named after the Greek god of Love (the Romans called him Cupid) and it is used to express sexual Love or the feelings of arousal that are shared between people who are physically attracted to one another, Eros is not a bad thing, but it is also not a good thing. *wink*

Philia

The second variety of Love is Philia. This word speaks of the warm affection shared between friends. Philia is often associated with the heart (metaphorically speaking). We feel Love for our friends, obviously not in an erotic sense, but in the sense of being kind and affectionate. However Philia is not felt between people who are at enmity (Deep rooted hatred) with one another. We can feel Philia toward friends but not toward people whom we dislike or hate.

Ludus

This was the Greeks' idea of Playful Love, which can be referred to the affection between children or young loves. Basically, it's like the flirting and teasing in the early stage of relationship.

Storge

The type of Love you have for a dependent. It is commonly being called as "Motherly Love", which embodied the Love between parents and their children. 

Pragma

Another Greek's Love was the mature love known as Pragma. This was the deep understanding that developed between long-married couples. Pragma was about making compromises to help maintain the relationship work over time, and showing patience and tolerance.

I really do hope you are still following this. x

Next up, i'm going to discuss about..

The Three Stages of Falling in Love (Scientifically) 

All the information below are being collected and summarized from a Case Study on "Science Behind Love" conducted at the Rutgers University in United States.

There are three stages of falling in Love:

1. Lust
2. Attraction
3. Attachment

Lust

Lust is said to be the initial stage of getting in Love. The feeling of lust is basically backed up by the sexual hormones within the body, the "Oestrogen and Testosterone" are the two basic types of hormones present equally within Men and Women's body. This hormones have the ability to excites the feeling of lust within the brain. When this happens a process called "Limbic Process" occur in the brain, it's a response to lust that have health-promoting and stress-reducing potential. In addition, Lust, Love and pleasure ensure the endurance of mankind through mating. The mating process is a discrete inter-related process initiating attraction. (:

Attraction

The second stage of acquiring Love is attraction. This phase is said to be one of the beautiful moment of life. This is the phase when a person actually starts to feel the Love. Scientifically, it has been concluded in the study that there are three more sub-stages of attraction that portray drastic changes over the individual's personality.

Scientist have elaborated that initial symptoms such as;

1. Stress response
2. Attitude Reaction

...are developed toward someone. It has been specified in the study that any person who falls in love will acquire a slight or drastic change in the above factors. For this reason, whenever you bumped into your crush, your sense decline, your heart beats like a drum and so on..blame all this on Adrenaline.

To make things interesting by following the theoretical research, a physical experiment was also conducted to prove the veracity of physical evidence for Dopamine. The brains of a new couple struck with Love were observed using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. (The one you see in the movie where the doctors put a sticky wire on the patients forehead *I Think*) 

It was genuinely shocking to discover the minds of both Male and Female have large spikes of Neurotransmitter Dopamine, a chemical that stimulate the feelings of pleasure within the body. The couple furthermore revealed the following facts which are, the surge of energy and they tend to slept less compare to before, must be the Love with extra caffeine. ha ha ha.

Last but not the least, Serotonin can also be found which is the important chemicals involved for the exciting feelings of Love. Serotonin basically diverts your minds and bounds you to think about your lover and nothing else.

Attachment

When a couple passes through the above two stage of Love successfully, the time of bonding with each other becomes powerful. Attachment is a bond helping the couple to take their relationship to the advanced levels. While investigating the "Attachments Factors", scientist discovered two sub-stages involved.

The first one is Oxytocin, also known as the "Cuddle Hormone", is one of the most powerful hormones released equally by men and women, especially during orgasm. Oxytocin formulates the depth of Love and focus the attachment in partners.

The next one is Vasopressin, known as an anti-diuretic. It performs its operation along with the kidney, therefore controlling thirst. This hormone is released in major quantity quickly after sex.

As of right now, we basically covered almost all the basic and scientific stuffs relating to Love. To make things interesting, now, i'm about to discuss on how you can keep the Love strong and healthy.

• Relax and let yourself get carried away by the joy of being with someone special (:
• it's important to be honest with and trust each other
• Physical intimacy should ONLY be with the consent of both parties involved, never forced or one sided!
• Remember! you may be in love, but you both have a life! take time out away from your loved one to be with friends and family. A bit distance could surely be good for the relationship.
• Lastly, you should be able to talk about your feeling and emotion freely with your loves ones without having to worry about being judge or yelled at

This being said, there are no hard and fast rules that apply to relationship, more so teenage relationship. These are just some general pointer to help keep your relationship positive and healthy!

I do hope by reading all this, you'll manage to absorb some of the information and make use of it in a way that is beneficial to yourself, everyone deserve to be Love and experience the beauty of it :)

oh! wish me luck for the presentation tomorrow.

xx

one hell of a ride :)

"Hello, this is RoomZ hotel, Cheng speaking, how may i assist you!"

On the 19th July 2015 marked my three months six days as a receptionist, i would like to show my appreciation to all my co-workers for being super nice and awesome by remembering all the moments we spend together. :) 

   .....learned a lot from each one of them. You know who you are. In terms of life/love lessons and many more! Thank You!!

    surely, will miss every seconds of it. 

Truly sorry that i didn't owned that many decent pictures with each one of them hmph.

all the best in the future guys! x

I'm just a Tweet away ~

Heaven's Night Art

Take the dusty ladder from the store room, grab a blanket, buy tons of beverages & set a suitable playlist..there's a "RED" LUNAR ECLIPSE happening two days from now people!!

AFTER LAST YEAR OF ENDLESS DISAPPOINTMENTS OF MISSING ON ALMOST EVERY SINGLE STARGAZING EVENTS due to my geographical location

IN TWO DAYS, I'M FINALLY BE ABLE TO GAZE SOMETHING REALLY SPECTACULAR!!

DEAR NEPTUNE!!

It's a freaking BLOOD MOON RED !!

It can't never be better than this

Unless

the possibility of experiencing "Interstellar" was legit for my generation than..It Can..Lol

The last time I witnessed a normal lunar eclipsed, I managed to get my 2nd shooting star!

So i'm hoping this Saturday night will somehow be the same

Let's all just hope for a clear sky 

and 

a memorable night

Aamiin.

ps - The next occurrence of this beautiful phenomenal will be in the year 2030+

DON'T MISS IT

a "Hiatus" from self

" Note to self:

don't worry, if it's supposed to happen, 

it will."

I've been marinating on the above phrase for the last couple of weeks..I should let you go now. sigh.

A Sequel...

Greetings Earthlings

 

I never tried this Alignment before

Doesn't it look refreshing?

It does, doesn't it!

Speaking of refreshing

Guess what?

It's something related with "trying something new"

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I'm doing a sequel for "With You, Maybe?"

pretty exciting isn't it?

I KNOW I AM

*Shrug*

Before anything, i'd appreciate if you buckle up to your imaginary seat belt cause..

We're about to ride our imagination wild

K.

I'll admit that's lame.

An Interesting, Maybe Weird Date That Might Just Work

1. Technology Taking Over Cupid's Job

..It's a known fact that ALMOST everyone owned mobile phones. It made communicating with other mortals a little tad quicker. Correction. More quicker. But, sometimes, there's a group of people that can get irritatingly too attached with their phones. (It's not wrong though) Phone here! Phone There! Phone Everywhere!

      Spending time with your best buds isn't the same anymore, let alone, having a romantic date with your SO. Try imagining you're on a first date with this particular someone; you picked her up, drove to a decent restaurant & finally arrived at the table. What's next? FOOD of course. LOL! But seriously, FOR SOME, it tend to get a little bit awkward, you know, nothing to talk about, being shy or something.. What do we do to avoid this awkwardness instead of just MAN UP? Captain Mobile Phone to the rescue! 

           Shoot! ..went off road! I was originally planning to tell you something that you can try but there are some ground rules that you and your SO need to strictly follow;

• NEVER. EVER. Verbally. Interact, With. Each. Other. ...but both parties CAN speak to other mortals
• Hand-signs are allowed
• Face-gestures are allowed
• Communicating via writing is..Okay but not recommended
• Doodling would be interesting
• Weird humming toward each other? ..the heck? if you're into those kinda of stuff, be my guess, i know i am hahaha!
• Holding hands or other physical contacts? Text & ask the girl ...LOL!
• Sufficient mobile phone's credits
• Fully charged phone

Here's the catch! The ONLY way to communicate with each other is through ANY messaging applications(Phones) Whatsapp, Kakao Talk Messenger, Telegram?, iMessage..

Now wouldn't that be interesting? :)

A possibility happenings

   " It was 7:34PM. Sarah was about to put on her blue-ish earrings when suddenly there's a repeatedly light knock on the door. She grabbed her phone and went straight to open it. Upon reaching the door, a slight buzzing from her pocket can be felt, she ignored it.. There's Tim in front of her holding a single white rose fresh cut from her mom's garden. She smiled. He smiled. From then, there not even a single word went by to disrupt the stillness of the moment.. Just another notification's tone coming from Sarah's phone. Hesitated to check them... It was a text from Tim. Praising how beautiful she looked ..before she could even finish reading it.. Tim made a bodily gesture to come with him.."

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" Table 12. Two person. No verbal interactions. Just smiles & frequent giggles. A puzzled waitress came with the menu. In between, checking the menu and his phone, Tim then decided to break the silence by ordering their dinner like a normal customer would. He then straight away get back to his phone while giving Sarah a Billion smiles.. " 

You get the idea right!?

IF YOU DO THEN TELL ME THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY AWESOME!

You know how we can become more confident in talking through texts than real life?

We become

More cheesier 

More straight forward

More everything

woah

Physically there, Mentally Focused. Feelings everywhere.

There's a couple more that i could write about but i don't want to.. 

Just kidding 

I'm just tired. like really tired. Skeleton tired.

But hey, here's a brief description on them

2. Upside "date "Down

Write down a couple of things you want to do on your date. 

Asked him/her to do the same. 

No discussion! 

When y'guys meet, compare the list and match out the same activities that y'guys wrote. 

When you got it

Do it differently

If there's no match. At all.

Pick something out, randomly.

For example;

Dinner? ..night picnic

Movie? ..Story-telling around a camp-fire

Star-gazing? ..A bench, under a streetlight, talking

3. Language 101

Re-directing self and your partner to changed the way y'guys communicate. 

If  y'guys talked in English, changed it to Malay. 

If you guys talked in Malay, changed it to English.

If you guys talked in Chinese, changed it to Malay. 

If you guys still want to talked in Malay, you can changed it to Standard Malay.

You get the idea right? :)

FOR THE ENTIRE DATE!

These are the only things that i could think of for now, i hope one day i can try this out! (If i did, i'll tell y'guys all about it) ..surely be a fun experience!

Sorry, Engrish game too stronk in this post!

 

WAN TU BE TAHT GUY? 

BE THAT GUY DON'T

YOU'RE CHOICE NUMB NUTS

it's a joke. 

hahahahahahahhahahahahah

But Seriously, 

Sorry for any mistakes up above!

Happy weekend lads! x

 

  

CAT TO THE RESCUE!!

I'm going to let you guys into my world for a little bit.

For the past straight NINE days, I've been pushing myself to the limit to get my mind off from something. The "Chronology" beneath will give you a little bit of a sneak-peek..

It all began on September 6th, Saturday.

6th - Frisbee's friendly in Bandar w/ Polytechnics & Mighty Ducks

7th - Hard ass Ultimate training session w/ Vikings

8th - Intense pick up session

9th - Intense pick up session

10th - Intense pick up session

11th - Football's friendly w/ PRE-U's

12th - VM

13th - BMC's Futsal Tournament (Group stage)

14th - BMC's Futsal Tournament (Quater-final, Semi-final & Final). 

Why?

This "Something" that i just mentioned,

It feels like i got poked in Facebook

&

 It's from "Reality"

Throughout the nine consecutive days, i constantly feel profoundly empty. 

I was hoping it would get better soon, but yeah, it doesn't

So when i'm about to fell asleep after i got back from school,

my cat just jumped on my bed and lay right beside me, purring.

I finally realized something.

If you're having a cloudy moment, there's always someone or something that still see you as their rainbow.

You just have to hold on to this.

What i am trying to say is that,

When reality hits you like a cannon ball, you CAN just ignored it by keeping yourself busy.

By doing that, you simply just camouflaging that feeling with a temporary filler.

Of course, you'll not think about it for a moment. 

But

They will certainly get you right before you sleep w/ that late night thoughts

It will be a hard ..& slow ride to the other side, 

Like a tick-tock on the the clock.

I'm just saying that,

Holding on to the smallest comfort CAN have a difference,

kinda act as a temporary remedy

that you can apply on for every 3 hours.

Something to hang on (for the ride)

 while waiting for time to disintegrate all the problems away.

Making sure there's a little bit of rainbow to ease the journey even a little bit!

I'm not trying to indicate that by simply thinking positive, all the problems are gone. 
*poof*
The struggle is real.

" Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand, just relax..& wait "

Think about this when you guys ever need a helping hand. 

I may not or may be wrong in so many levels.

I'm not expressing all these because i'm sad or miserable.

It's just one of those situation that i'm not sure why i felt that way.

I held on to something that i know i can't do but stubbornly i'm still gripping that imaginary rope tightly.

Fun True Fact.

I'm literally talking about me trying to quit smoking.

I have managed to cut down smoking tobacco by puffing two sticks or three per day or none at all.
If you don't believe me, try reading it again, it makes sense!!
trying to reach y'guys in a different approach

LOL!

xoxoxoxoxo