Wow! It's been such a long time since my last post here in my blog. The Insomniac Dreamer is back and had another sleepless night thanks to my F'king mind that keep filling me with worrying thoughts.
So... I'm in GERMANY! Ever since my trip back and fourth from Taiping to Penang in November last year, I've been traveling non stop. Went to Langkawi for the first time and stayed at a friend's place for 3 days. Then, had my first flight ever to the Land down under! AUSTRALIA!!! Travelled around the Southern part of Perth... Came back to Malaysia on Christmast day... Had the last 3 freaking months of Hell in COLLEGE while having fun with my dearest housemates. Without them, I don't know where I would be right now... Maybe in an asylum or a mental instituition... And currently, I'M IN GERMANY!!! EUROPE!!! Without parents or any adult supervision...
Of course I'm here not on a holiday. I'm here to be trained and perhaps grow up to be a good Chef one day. I'm here to chase my dreams and live it! I'm so crazy about Europe and the Western part of the world. It feels like a dream being here... See, I'm dreaming again...
Okay, so here is the stats so far... I wanted to travel out of Malaysia since I was like 12 years old... Had a pen-pall in Australia and longed to fly there ever since. I've done that so far... Took me 7 years to fulfill that dream. Too bad I've lost contact with that pen-pall of mine, so I didn't really get to meet her like how we had wished to do so 7 years ago.
Then, fell in love with France and it's language when I was 14, all thanks to the band Simple Plan. They hail from Canada, but they speak French. Haha! Totally fell in love with the language and I found new interests. I started to have more interest in sports and always supporting Canada! Haha! From Commanwealth games to A1gp(Automobile 1 Grand Prix)... Always supported team Canada and France... Malaysia too of course but when it came to the diving and synchronised swimming during the Commanwealth games, it's CANADA all the way...
It's funny how I meet friends... It's always thanks to my interest. I guess people with the same interest will always be great friends. Haha! Knew a girl called Christin thanks to a TV-Chat about a Simple Plan video... From music to sports. Yeah... We were crazy girls. She made me watch F1 cause I said A1 was more interesting. Fell in love with F1 racing and gone FERRARI crazy...
I have always had a deep interest in languages. When I met my best friend when I was 16, I found the only person to have that same interest. She too love languages and she was espeacially interested in Espanyol. Haha! I actually learnt a little bit of Spanish when I was 13. I always did last minute homework. Since Form 1 and Form 2 is in the afternoon session, I always did my homework in the morning before going to school while watching tv. Dora the explorer! Haha! Thats how I learnt Spanish. My parents think I'm crazy to want to learn so many languages cause I wanted to buy a French phase book during my form 4 time and they were like, why do you want to waste money on this book? I'm the black sheep of the family, always the weird one.
Well, thanks to my best friend, I ended up being a huge football fan! ARSENAL! The UK!!! Fell in love with the hot Dutch striker and it was NETHERLANDS all the way. ROBIN VAN PERSIE!!! ORANJE!!! WOO!!! KOM MAAR OP JULLIE ORANJE! Got in contact with Christin again and she was crazy over GERMANY... Phillip Lahm, Podolski, Ballack and bla bla bla... Heck! She even learnt the language and she is so good in German now... I have no idea how she learnt it that quick.
Culinary was something that hit me out of the blue. Must have been my mother because she always love to watch cooking shows on the telly and we had the AFC channel. That was when I discovered Gordon Ramsay. The culinary tract was my one way ticket to escape Form 6 and perhaps give me the wings to fly. Travel, to see the world, fame and fortune... Yeah, I WANT IT ALL!!! Tried for a scholarship, got it and I was in college. That was when language turned ugly on me...
FUCK! I'm CHINESE but I can't speak the most important dialect... MANDARIN... Never worked in my life, always thought that being good in school is the most important thing thanks to that school that made me mentally ill. The ugly truth is, it's still all about the money in the end of the day. Fame and reputation too... I can't fit in with knowledgeable people and can't fit in with the not so knowledgeable people... I guess I just don't fit in anywhere, or I just haven't found it yet. Eventhough my college life was hell, but I still had a lot of fun in my hostel life!
I MADE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS!!! I will never forget the day I met my first international best friend... Oh Haliunaa I miss u so much... I never thought I would ever befriend someone from Mongolia before, but it happened! I got to learn her culture and even her language... Well, just a little bit. Haha! She thought me how to loosen up and just have fun! Then there was the twins and a guy who is now her fiancee... I can only hope the help and hospitality I provided them made their stay in Malaysia a great ever lasting memory...
To sum it all up... My dream is to travel, experiece new cultures, learn new languages and make more international friends! Now that I'm actually here in Europe... It does feel like I'm living in my dream... Maybe when it is over, I might never wake up again...
