Gratitude

For the crazy night that I've had,

For letting me in and,

For not judging me,

Thank you Min

Thank you Danial

Backpacking Around Europe

A cover of the song Backpacking Around Europe by Yunalis

performed by,

Debbie Eng

&

Kee Wei

:)

MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia!

This is how I rock n' roll yeah

What about you?

Ohhh Brother, it was only funny the first time

I wasn't fully awake yet when I stepped into the hospital. After leaving my brother at the emergency ward, my mother was so furious she just dropped the both of us at the hospital and took off, I proceeded to the registration counter to register as told by the nurses at the ward.

"Excuse me, my brother is in the emergency ward, do I register here?" I asked the man behind the counter.

"Yes, fill in the form here... First time?" he asked, behind his mask.

"No, second time." I winced at the word.

*********

Half asleep, I heard my father talking to my brother outside of my room.

"Why are you up so early?" my father asked my brother.

"I'm going to school for futsal," my brother replied. It has been four months since he played football due to breaking his arm four months ago while playing. He was officially recovered last sunday and his orthopedist had given him the green light to continue all sport activities. And I bought him a new football to celebrate that.

I went back to sleep as it wasn't my routine to wake up at eight in the morning. I usually sleep way past that.

I was awaken again, still half asleep, and I heard the main door downstairs, swung open and then hit the armchair that was placed behind the door. My brother had came home and he announced something at the door.

My mother replied, "What?" in mandarin, loud enough to get me to open my eyes.

My brother repeated his sentence, and I could hear it clearly this time "I broke my arm, again."

Mother went into a hysterical fit, she started screaming and shouting at my brother. I jumped out of bed and rushed down the stairs to see my brother, standing at door, his left arm cradling his right arm.

I stared at it, it looked deformed, bent, like how it did four months ago when he broke it. My mother screamed and shouted all her frustrations at him. He was apologizing, "sorry... sorry..." he was saying, almost breaking into tears.

"Are you serious?" I asked him.

He nodded and I examined his face. Searching for a hint that it was all a big prank, I waited for a punchline... Nothing.

The first thing I felt, deep inside my stomach, my tangled gut, telling me how messed up it was to break your arm, heal it after four months, then break it again in a five days, barely making a week. Second, anger. How could he do this to himself?! How could he! Third, fear and pain, by the look on his face and how he was craddling his arm.

My mother continued her explosions, cursing, yelling, crying, screaming all the way to the hospital. I couldn't even think. Brother just accepted them all, sitting quietly in the car. Then we arrived at the hospital where mother just left us at the entrance. She then sped off. She was lost and was still in the progress of accepting this unbelievable news. I still hoped that this was a nightmare and I should wake up very soon, laughing at my ridiculous dream.

I guided him with my left arm while I scan the area for help. All the patients at the waiting area gave us their attention. They stared us and after a few seconds, realized that we were lost. One by one they lifted their arms and pointed in the direction of the emergency ward. I smiled gratefully at them.

Entering the ward, a nurse signalled us to the empty ward on the left. He sat down on the bed, carefully positioning his arm. I could feel everything on the tip of bursting out now. My own vents, my screamings and my cursings. And then I looked at my brother and realized the pain and the messed up emotions that he was already feeling. It made me realized, that he was scared and frustrated himself, that all he needed was comfort. I placed my arms around him and hugged him as we broke into tears.

********

So here I am now, in the hospital accompanying him. The fact has started to sink in. He broke his arm, again, after five days of recovering from the previous fracture. And yes, it will take another 3 months to recover, we both sigh at the thought of it.... Football? Don't even think about it.

Debbay

Feel Good Moment

I am feeling so good right now, because:

1) All my assignments are over with, including my Design Journal. Now all I have is final exams =.= but let's not spoil it for tonight.

2) Finally, finally, have time to watch movies.

I.e. The Proposal :) Me likey. and later I'm gonna watch The Reader, Angels and Demons, Borat (nvr watch before okay!) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons. A movie marathon! Who's with me?

And,

I can't wait for this!!

I loved the cartoon on Nickelodeon

Avatar: The Last Airbender

I can still remember how I lost myself in it for a few days after watching it for the first time. I went around telling my brother that I wanted to be an AirBender ;)

3) Bought my brother his first football and surprised him with it.

Arrived at the entrance to the house and ordered him to take my things in for me, the laptop- Zeus ;) and my handbag with the Nike soccer ball in it. Dang, it was so hard to get him to do stuff for me. He almost ruined my plan.

"I can't hold two stuff leh, my other arm is still mending (oh yeah he broke his arm like 3 months ago)," he said.

I gave him the =.= face and chucked my bag at him, completely ignorning his whinings. "It's so heavy lar. Hold for me... Don't know what's in it. It's so freaking heavy. Don't you think its heavy? Don't you want to know whats in it?" I went, going straight to the point. He is as blur as me, I have no choice otherwise it would take the whole day.

Catching up on the "subtle" hints, he pulled the zipper on my bag open, saw the plastic bag wrapping the ball, pull it out and open it and saw the ball... which he then reacts by jumping a couple of times, gushing OMG OMG and hugging the ball and then giving the big sister a big squeeze, and unlike other times when I force him to hug me, he means it this time. And it feels great.

I'm feeling good,

Debbay

ending it with a bomb

And that is the end of my string of assignment! I feel so light I can fly. Today, I'm showing off my groups final assignment. We have to design and build a sculpture and install it in a public area. We took about a day for planning and 24 hours for building.

We call it, The Rock. I think. We designed it to spice up the Bali Courtyard in our college. Yes, the courtyard has a Bali theme. It is like a Bali temple in the middle of nowhere. The Rock was inspired by the stone elements that are often present in Bali Temples.

The Rock looks different at different angles.

Our main constraint during the building stage was to connect the random planes (surfaces) together. Because the planes are so random, it was tough shit to estimate and to calculate the size of the planes in order to build the model.

The emphasis and main focus point is on the glass shards. We used Heineken beer bottles :D

the glass shards are placed on the crumpled aluminum foil for a better result in capturing the sunlight. and it works beautifully i tell ya

the group!

from left. Tony, Eng Wei, Melvin. Jireh, Debbie and Danial

Behind the scenes:

Day 1

cleaning the beer bottles and dirty cans/

oh gawd i will never touch those again

cutting the tins open to do our weaving

breaking the glass

calculating the size for each planes

level A, 90%

Day 2

9.00 am

weaving like them ol' ladies in tibet =.=

12 pm:

starting level b

2pm:

lunch break at Simply Nyonya, Taipan

its their signature drink-longkang water

a mixture of sour plum drink and cincau

desert:

shaved ice from 100 yen.

my fav :D

and i got them to like it too!

8pm:

still weaving

12 pm:

problem discovered!

stress stress stress

the weaving aluminium cans we realize, we will never get to finish in time.

3 am:

problem solved

substitute weaving texture with aluminum foils

4 am:

Danial taking advantage of us.

(He had a nose bleed =.=)

5 am:

6 am:

How strange it must have been for the 7/11 cashier to find 3 "drunken" customers to go into the store at 6 in the morning to get a roll of aluminium foil and 2 red bulls.

7 am:

Danial down.

hah! we're even

8 am:

finishing touches!

9 am:

structure and skin completed!

cleaning up

10 am:

Place glass shards on the surface

Build base to maket the sculpture float on water.

Failed.

Broke down.

Pulled self together

Back to initial plan.

Put sculpture on ground.

Secure sculpture.

11 am:

Done.

Glad,

Debbay

To Yin

Happy 18th Birthday

Chan Yin Shi!

xoxo

me love you, soulmate!

Hallelujah!

HOMG HOMG HOMG HOMG!!

TWO DOWN! (final assignments)

ONE MORE TO GO!!

i can smell my sweet freedom already (this friday, quickly book me!)

72% free!!!!!

Debbay