What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

I finished reading this book and now my mum is reading it as well !

I found it very informative, real and helpful so I thought I would share with you the tips and lessons inside it, so that everyone of you will not miss out on the golden knowledge !

1. everything has value. You have to find ways to improve the values of things to discover opportunities behind them . ( vision of entrepreneurship)

2. every mistake has its solutions. Its solutions could be turn into opportunities for success . We just have to look around hard enough to notice the things need solving and changing. ( vision of entrepreneurship )

3. Do not let people tell you what you should do in your life. Do not let the society's stereotype vision and status quo to frame you into a typical thinking box about how you should do and act.

4. Luck comes with hard work. So put yourself in that position to attract luck.

5. Dont give up. Keep trying. But remember failure is good as it makes the road to success. Learn when to let go and accept defeat. Know that giving up is not a bad thing and keep holding on is not a good thing either.

6. Remember it is a very small world. Your life will often consist of the same people over a period of time. Treat people well. Care for your reputation. It will give you opportunities and give you an easier time in life.

7. Combine your skill, your interest and whether there is a market for it ,  u will have the perfect job and u wont have to work in your life. And if there is no market for your passion and talent, create it.

Hope for a good life !

What I wish to accomplish in 2014

Here are what I want to do and accomplish this year :

1. finish reading all the books I bought

2. Finish my novel

3. Learn about make up

4. Get used to contact lenses

5. shop for dresses

6. learn more about university life and life aboard

7. Get more working experience

8. Send an article to The Star

9. Get to that essay competition prize giving ceremony

10. get good result for the A2-level exam

11. apply for scholarships

12. get scholarships

13. lose some weight and get my body in shape and be healthy

14. figure out more about beauty and fashion

15. be sociable and  go to events and places with people

16. learn some new skills , cooking ? baking ? dancing ? photography ? video editting ?

17. drive more !

18. earn the first amount of salary in the age of 20 !

19. treat the family and myself with that first salary

20. get into a nice university in a nice place and continue with my degree !

Late night haunted thoughts

I feel bad about what I did.

I feel that I am not a good person as people think I am.

I think that sometimes I am selfish, not considerate, not thoughtful, always think of myself and only myself and somehow using people as how people use other people.

The more I think about it, the more I feel bad about myself.

And then I started thinking how I have treated other people.

I think I haven't treat people good enough.

And that what if one day I wake up and someone is gone and I didn't get the chance to redeem what I did and that I haven't treat him or her well enough.

Then I have this madness to get up and call everyone I know how much they mean to me and I just want to tell them I'm sorry if I have did something wrong and I just want to tell them how much I love them, no matter the things we have gone through.

It's a week away from a new year, 2014. And I really hope for a brand new start and a more awesome future .

2013 has been one of the most awesome years in my life. And I am very happy about it. Grateful about it. And blessed.

So now I hope for a good start for 2014. I want to go find a job. Still thinking about it.

But no matter how bad things are or how much hardships there is, things will be fine in the end.

Oh well.

Happy new year ! Happy 2014 !

Looking for Alaska Review

It is official. I am rather fond of John Green's books and his writings now. I am so glad that I have bought his books collection .

Looking For Alaska is both familiar and yet different with The Fault in Our Stars. John Green's writing style is rather the same in the two books but the storyline is so different and so special and therefore extraordinary compare to The Fault in Our Stars.

The style of the whole plot is already one of a kind, to begin with and then there is the fast pace of story-telling tat will hold your attention till the end of the book.

The one thing that made me adore the book is that I have never yet read a book which one of its main characters die in the middle of the book and that shocked me and therefore made me love the book more and admire the wit of Mr John Green for doing that.

Anyone who loves The Fault in Our Stars should try reading Looking For Alaska. And anyone who loves John Green's writings will not be disappointed with this one. In fact, this will just make you loves his writings more !

So now, I should start reading Paper Towns . Peace out !

The Updates in My Life

So I thought I should at least write something like this. It seems very appropriate.  So here we are :

My Cambridge A-level exam is finally over !!

Which also means I graduated from college !!

And that leads to me leaving INTI !!

That marks the start of holidays again !! But not just any other holidays, it is those kind of holiday when you graduate from school and wait for the time comes to go into another school to study higher level of education !

I applied for a few UK universities ! I went through an interview and I also got an offer right now.

One of the highlights of this holiday is definitely that moment when I won the essay-writing competition I participated in my college !! I got the Silver Award, which also means I will get RM200, a certificate and a book award !!

Another highlight of this month will be that I am going for a holiday to Hong Kong with my family !!! Can't wait !!

Oh and also, I'll be buying a new phone. Sweet !

And, I think celebrating Christmas at Singapore will count too since we are also going to Singapore on Christmas Day. We will also be heading to The Universal Studio !!

I will also be following my mum and sis to their Bakery Acedemy open day and also their baking course trial classes ! Will be fun !

This holiday also consists of meeting up and hanging out with friends at different places !!

New achievements, new experiences, new way of living ! Life is good right now !


Note : If any one of you out there thought I'm bragging and being very arrogant or proud of myself or the things I am doing, NO. I am not. In fact, I'm just so happy and grateful that I want to share my happiness because a shared happiness is so much better than a solitude happiness. I don't think I should be apologising but if you feel bad about your life or yourself after reading this, I'm deeply sorry. And one word of advice, I dont think you should feel any jealousy as well because every dog has his days and so every one of us will have our days of glory. I am sure of it. And maybe some of you will think that the things I have just wrote about is nothing to be highlighted about because they dont bare any significance in your life, then it is okay. You dont need to do anything.  Thank you very much for your time for reading this.

Reading and Writing

I have this theory that no one could really keep all the knowledge and inputs without putting out some outputs in some ways which then means that if you read a lot of books, there will come a time when you somehow have to write them out in your own ways.

This year of 2013 has been a fruitful year in the Tiffany's Literature Land. I have been reading tons of books written by a lot of other authors and that makes me feel happy and grateful. I have only been reading and re-reading Harry Potter series for a while now and also the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. And in 2012, the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins is added to the collection. But in 2013, I have been introduced and recommended to a wide range of books and genres, the likes of The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ( and his 3 other books) and of course, the rather new Mortal Instrument series( 6 books in total) and Infernal Devices series( 3 books) by Cassandra Clare.

One thing about how amazing it is to be able to read new books rather than the obvious reason of having new stories and fictions to read, is to have a taste and insight to how different every author writes and how the writing style reflects to their individual lifestyles. This is maybe not very obvious or valuable to a regular reader, but to any aspiring writer out there, it is golden, in my opinion anyways.

I just love to observe and analyse how everyone writes and how the styles give different auras to different stories, it is an amazing thing to do actually. It is definitely obvious that authors in the modern era write differently from authors like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and so on. It leads me to wonder whether I have my own unique style of writing too and how my writing style compare to other people's.

After reading different kinds of books by different authors, I come to realise that the bottom line of writing any book is the existence of knowledge and real-life experience and not just the writing styles and the fantastic usage of words and twist of sentences. Of course, this makes me wonder again whether I have enough experience to write the stuffs I think I want and could write. Right now, I still think I'm lack of it though. But young people could be successful authors too right ? As my mum said, 'Dont ever question what you write,'. That's an awesome advice because I always question what I wrote and then tried to change them and then ended up with nothing which makes me sad always.

So now what I'm trying to do is to write whatever that comes to mind and not question it and go with the inspiration, the flow and my gut feeling. I do think it will work out well.

-Wrote all this while laying on my stomach on the bed, feels good-

While Reading The Fault in Our Stars...

So I have read 4 chapters of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and I must say I love it. I genuinely like the way Mr Green wrote, his style and word usage and everything. The storyline is quite fast-paced and direct but it is just perfectly planned out and so it is immensely interesting. (And I think there is a thing to authors’ names. I think that names that are easily said, written and remembered are so much more cooler than those that are not.) And this is the first book I read that got me some insights about cancer. And also, cancer and young love. I don’t really mind the foul languages.

So as I’m reading, I start thinking about how it would be if some guy gave me his book to read and with his phone number written at the title page. It must be extraordinary to start a courtship like that, the nerdfighteria’s style! Then I remembered I have once given a book to read by a guy whom I liked as well and I remembered feeling rather lovey-dovey at that moment. But turned out, it ended with nothing.

And as I’m reading the lines where Augustus Waters asking Hazel Grace rather aggressively about when could he see her again, I thought to myself how familiar that situation is. And then I wondered whether it is how guys hint that they are pursuing you. I smiled at how Hazel responses to those advances because that seems to be similar to how I think I did it, but not quite the exact same, but you get my point.

One thing that made me feel that I’m not wrong or weird or alone in doing it is that Hazel didn’t really reject those advances but being coy and flirtingly suggest how Augustus and her should meet again and somehow let Augustus knows she’s still interested. That seems like what I did, although you know, in different situations. I guess I have flirted around the situation of school work? But I don’t think what I did account to flirt. But generally, having something to say to someone? And I have been getting that kind of flirt in return.

And moving on to Hazel and Augustus’s casual meet-up or date, I just think it’s so awesome. The thing to emphasise here is casual but with a hint or touch of romantic interest. These kinds of dates are the best, in my opinion. And this got me thinking again. I did have this kind of dates right? But more casual than this though. But yeah, definitely, but with less romantic aura, but those auras are most certainly presented.

Then comes the time I think to myself that it must be so nice and amazing to share a book which you love to a person you like, like how Augustus and Hazel did it. It must be so touching to be able to share opinions about the books with each other. Also, they unintentionally have a special word to themselves, which I find it so cool and fun and meaningful in many ways. And the fact that Augustus unshamefully and wittily let Hazel know he likes her is just flawless and that kind of reminded me those moments I had, which of course, I hope are real and genuine, right from the heart.

Now I haven’t finish the book and so I don’t really know how Hazel and Augustus’s story will end but I hope for the best! ( And I think this is my first modern young adult book that revolve kind of heavily around the subject of love. )

~ A book lover courtship~