Tuesday, February 23, 2010

End of this chapter of my Tale

Finally in my very own room of my very own house.
Its has been a long time since I set foot on this house.
Feels like… Home :)

I’ve been thinking on my way to the airport earlier on.
I thought of what have I gain and learn from this internship.

FIY, I’ve been a Vice President of IAESEC for a year before I started this internship and I’m familiar with almost everything I do over in Taiwan.
Even in Taiwan itself, one of the most common question that hits me is “why did I come over seeing I can’t learn anything much from here?”.

People usually learn from the best, learn from someone who is better than he/she.
My trip to Taiwan? Completely the Opposite.

I don’t work with all the Big Shots, President, Vice President or people like that. I work with normal members, lower end people, lower education people, people are living in a small village in a remote area.
Rewind 2 years back, I never hold position in any clubs, I never lead any team, I ran for election and was selected as Vice President. Without proper knowledge and capabilities, I had a very tough term looking what I was left behind and what I have at that point of time. It has been really hard for me. All I can do is keep pushing myself without proper way of learning and struggling to keep up with the pace set by others. Thank god I manage to not only do well, but was at the top of the chart. However, I reach my limit and was exhausted when I reach the ending point of my term. I couldn’t find motivation in whatever I need to do. So I thought I needed a change, I need something different. Decision done, I accepted my Taiwan Internship.

When 1st come over here, I thought I made a wrong decision with a few things which upsets me.
Then I started working with the people here. It’s completely different the way they work things out. Everything I learn before this about Effective, Efficient, Speed, Accuracy, Power and things like that. What I see here in Taiwan? Slow, Steady, Take it easy, Keep in simple, Details and it continues. As funny as it sounds, it’s just what I needed at that point of time. I take things easy, keep it simple, just try my best. Soon, I find myself getting back to the Happy go Lucky guy I’ve always been before this. My motivation finds me instead of me looking for it and I’ve never been so motivated.

In Short, what I gain, I gain from lower end people.

I’ve always had this feeling of wanting to try out tourism stuff and this trip allows me to do that too. Along with a lot of all the little things which I’ve always want to do. Working a really cool place? Yes it is. Listening to the river flow every day? The office is right beside a government protected river. Working in a place with no pollution? Yes, no pollution there. Able to listen and look at birds flying here and there? Yes I get that too. Holding a bird in my hand? Yes. Own homemade coffee? Yes. And so on and so forth.

During this period, I notice another important thing which was long forgotten by me. 
"If I want something, I just need to go get it."
My time in Taiwan won't be as great as it it, I won't be as happy as I am now if I don't realize this. It's also the reason why I ended up completing almost 3 internships instead of one. I'm officially a trainees of CTLC. Then I was there in most of NTLC Winter Camps. Then I was helping another 2 small business is their marketing stuff. 

Finally, I came to a conclusion of this chapter:
It’s about all the small and useless pieces being combine together and became a beautiful priceless piece of work. At least it is for me.

With this, it marks the end of my internship in Taiwan. It marks the end of this chapter of my journey.
This is my tale, this is my story. How about yours?

Special thanks to:
Nature and Ecology Society of MiaoLi, C.E, Ah Ping and Family, Aunt and Uncle who worked with me,  , Shitan Secondary School, CTLC, Katherine Lin, Van, Ines, Peggy, YunYun, Chris, Benny, NTLC, Julian, Cira, Angeline, Yule, Trainess of CTLC and NTLC, FungRou Jie, Mum and Dad.
Thanks for helping me and giving me such a great time. It’s like I never leave home with all of you being so nice and were like my family.








P.S: This is the last post on this blog. A new chapter calls for a new story and a new blog. 

Monday, February 22, 2010

Good Night

Last Good Night for you.

Nitez Taiwan

Time Flies

The time starts ticking…
A second passed by…
A minute passed by…
A day, A week, A month and finally…
More than 2 and a half months passed by.
As I sit on my comfortable chair in my dorm, memories flash by as if it just happened yesterday…
How funny my reception turns out to be…
How I met with the aunties and uncles who are working with me…
How I ended up with a “breakfast girlfriend”…
How I official held a bird in my hands and save it...
How I ended up doing almost 3 internships instead of 1…
 How I met up with my friend from another country…
And the list can continue for a few more pages.
Now here I am, blogging before I spend my sleep for the last time in a place which gave me so much memories. 

The First Picture I took since i landed here.
Notice why I was a bit far behind and the girl on the right side laughing?
It's because they are actually cam whoring  without noticing me and i pop out behind when they take their picture. The girl who laugh is the only one who notice I'm there. 

24 hours

Less than 24 hours to go...

Feeling of knowing i can get home is so great yet part of me is reluctant to leave this wondrous place.

Time is ticking...

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Chinese New Year Event

Some sort of Chinese New Year event was held next to my office today.
There’s shops, dragon dance, some sort of traditional thingy competition, Chinese drum performance, lion dance and most importantly, free meals.
What I find it different is about the dragon dance. They actually threw BIG firecrackers towards the dragon while it is performing. It’s quiet dangerous but it fun. Do that in Malaysia and you’ll be in the court the following weeks getting sue by other people. 









Saturday, February 20, 2010

48 hours to go

Less than 48 hours later, both my feet won’t be touching the land which I’ve been in for the last couple of months ago.

I’ll be in an airplane, getting ready to take off all the way back to my homeland. 

Time for Goodbye


2 and a half months since I set foot on Taiwan.
Now, only 2 and a half days before I leave.
“Goodbye” has already started coming out from my mouth.
It started with the owner of an orange yard while having a good talk with him in the afternoon.
And I suppose that I’m going to be saying that word very often until I leave.
They say Goodbye is the saddest word, will it be the same for me?


Cute? Think again!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Blue House

A friend told me the last 7 days will be the busiest days, but here i am, taking a rest and enjoying my 2 and a half months "unique and cool" office. 

Maybe i will really miss this place. 


Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Rainy Days

Sitting here in the office, thinking of what to do for the remaining 5 days...


People talk about being moody during rainy days, now i know how it feels.
People talk about being lazy during rainy days, now i know how it feels.
I talk about rainy days, now you know how i feel :P

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Less than 7 days

I’m sitting on my bed, reading through blogs, chatting with my close friend and thinking about my internship.

I got less than a week left here in Taiwan. Part of me wanted to get bad to my real home do badly while the other half wanted to stay back.

Spent the whole day staying in front of the computer watching movies and playing games. Best part of the day? I guess the picture below explains it.

Eyes are getting tired. Guess it's time for me to sleep now. 
Nitez zzz zzz zzz

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy V Day 

Remember that it is not only for couples but for everyone else too. 
It's for you to express your love to someone. 
Don't have a wife or girl friend? I'm sure you can celebrate with your parents and i bet they will be happy. 


Saturday, February 13, 2010

Chinese New Year 2010

So i am still in Taiwan, still in my internship and am i alone in my hostel?
Of course not!!! I joined one of my friend's family to celebrate Chinese New Year.
So what's the difference as compare to how they do it in Malaysia...
The answer is... *drum roll*... NOTHING!!! They eat, they pray and they talk. It's all the same.
I just had my dinner and now i'm sitting in the living room, surfing the net, chatting with friend back in Malaysia, and updating my blog. Everyone must be busy as my MSN and Skype contacts are minimal.

To everyone out there,whether i know you or not, whether i hate you or not, enjoy the Chinese New Year!!!

To CTLC (my hosting LC), please gather ang pao from your parents as i will be collecting from you guys later on.

To NTLC, after spending so much time with you guys, maybe even more than the time i spend with CTLC, please do gather ang pao also ya.

To my Parents, Relatives and Friends, sorry for not being there this year. I wish i were, but i'm still in Taiwan. But still, keep the ang pao for me!!!


Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Last Trip to Taipei?

Counting downs the days i have left... Soon i will stop stepping on the land of Taiwan. 


Here's the updates about my Internship:

Last Winter camp

Night Market


Toilet Restaurant

National Taiwan University

Friday, February 5, 2010

2 weeks and i got no time left!!!!

Only a little bit more than 2 weeks left here in Taiwan.
Going to help out in the winter camp again tomorrow and might stay in Taipei a little longer. That's roughly 1 week gone.
CNY from 14th Feb onwards... Another week gone...
So that's 2, minus 1 and then minus another one... which leaves me with.... 0 weeks...
I'm flying back to Malaysia so fast!!!!
I calculate and estimate my time and days i have left, and it doesn't seems like i have time to meet up with everyone before i leave. Talk about how fast time flies.

Went Hiking for 5 hours :)
My English translation work was published!!! There's another 3 more of that.
Done another set of english translation for a famous shop yesterday. Hope it'll be publish too!!!!