melanie's blog

Miracles

Among the hills of the meteorite
Lies huge; and moss has overgrown,
And wind and rain with touches light
Made soft, the contours of the stone.

Hence, if belated drops yet fall
From heaven, on these her plastic power
Still works as once it worked on all
The glad rush of the golden shower.

- C.S.L

my perfect major?!

hahaha... luckily i did the right Maths major in Uni.... phew!

determination

do i dare to try what seems impossible in the physical?
do i even have the determination this snail have? hmmmm ;-)

think on that!!

puzzle

Solve the puzzle and you will know the story of my life.. kinda!! More of the choices i have made this few months and they are all linked. See if you can understand and see the pattern!!

I have chosen:

To be paid for work over paying for work
Employment over further studies
Challenge over complacency
Trying over judging
Singapore over KL
Republic Poly over Melbourne Uni

You get it yet?
Vern, don't kill me if you do. I can explain!! =)

engaged

Not me lah!!

My frens got engaged last week.... The story according to my other fren Qing is 'spoiling the market'. It's so romantic. Read it here

So happy for them!! And they won the photo competition too! How cool.

grandfather's wall

In my grandfather’s house, there are many rooms. However, it is not these rooms that made the house special. What made my grandfather’s house unique is this wall in his house. It is being said that the success of a man is in the kind of family he raised. Well, then this wall would be an apt representation of my grandfather’s pride and success as the man of the house. This wall is the wall of the graduates. It displays the photographs of each smart-looking graduate (ahem) in the family in their graduation gown. It has been the pride of my grandfather.

Survivor of World War 1 & 2, a national renowned Chinese poet and calligrapher, a sawmill enterpriser, father to 11 children, grandfather to 30, great-grandfather to 17 + 1 on her way, and at the age of 97, I think his greatest wish and pride is to see all his descendants successful, living a good and healthy life. I am probably too young to know exactly when this wall tradition began but it must have started way before I was born. I remember seeing them in the old house and had always wished for my own photograph to make it onto the wall one day. I would stare at those glorious photographs of my aunts, uncles and cousins in admiration wondering when would be my turn and whether there would be enough space when it comes to me, as the photographs are ordered by rank and age. And so ever since I was a kid, I have been inspired or maybe brainwashed to want to go to college and bring back a photograph of my own for that wall.

Even though the old house had been taken down, we continued the tradition of the wall into the new house. And adding onto the line, we have our cousin Jeremy graduating from UWA joining all 18 of us on the wall this new year. This marks an end to cousin Erica sitting at the tail of the line after a good 4 years. The line of photographs spans over 40 years till date and the next in line would be cousin Jun graduating from UCLA in 2 years time. Would there be enough space for everyone else? Definitely YES!

This wall is just a small fraction and a sneak peak into the family as a whole. Not everyone holds a college degree in the family and that doesn’t mean that they are not successful and that my grandfather doesn’t take pride in them. May it never be! On the contrary, some of them are more successful in the eyes of my grandfather. Oh well, that depends on what you mark the definition of success by. The wall is a good representation but it is not the complete representation of my grandfather’s success as a man bringing up his family.