I should be asleep now but...

just watched 2012.

good movie amazing effects.

got me thinking much...

spent the last 2 hours or so reading about the apocalypse online.


I am so gonna miss my 8 am class tommorrow.

There's no way I'm just gonna sleep for 4 hours and wake up on time.





BTW, thy shalt update me blogeth soon'


love colin xoxo

AFS Planungswochenende in Muenster

First of all, this is what I usually have for dinner. :P Boiled potatoes, brussel sprouts, and wurst. All cooked by myself :)

Last weekend I was in Muenster. Cool city, waaay better university town than Duisburg. We had a Planungswochenende at the Aasee in a Jugendherberge which was sorta like a YMCA. It was sorta like them training workshops that we had in Malaysia. At this camp we started out with discussing everyone's idea for the CHapter. The one thing about my chapter is that it is probably the only chapter where the older volunteers are involved actively in the chapter in germany. Later in the evening on Saturday this lady came in and gave a talk about visualization and how it can make a presentation interesting. Well I thought the talks were pretty ok. I learnt quite a lot about how a chapter works in Germany besides meeting a lot of new people. :)

The one thing that I didn't really like much about the camp was my inability to speak german fluently. Well basically I was nervous and making grammatical errors everytime I spoke.


Looking through the application for next week's Auswahl. Out of all the applicants, only one guy is applying to Malaysia and it is his 5th choice. It is gonna be my duty to convince him to apply for Malaysia next week.

Me and Pierre, returnee under the PPP program from the US.

The AA See.

The lady on the left is Cordula, the Sending COordinator for the Chapter.


Mahlzeit!

L-R: Gerhard, Hosting Coordinator; Katy, returnee New Zealand; Frederica, returnee Japan; Sara, returnee USA

On my left is Teresa, returnee from the US. She is pretty active in the chapter.

This lady here is wonderful. The chapter leader of AFS Komitee REN. She hosted a Malaysian girl before, her name is Sherene I think.

So that was my awesome weekend. :) Can't wait for more activities with my chapter!

xoxo

colin

Appreciate...

...what you already have, before it too dissapears from your life.

Start focusing on what is important in life and not what has already happened and not worth wasting the brain power on.

Think of those who have high hopes on you and not those who don't care at all.

Things are working out. All is well.

xoxo

colin

Just a thought...

nothing more.

xoxo

colin

Internet in my room

After almost a month... of using paid internet at the internet cafe and walking 15minutes every night to the uni library for internet... I finally now have interenet in my room.

The initial problem was my notebook. To get internet, I'd have to look up the physical address of my Notebook but for some unfortunate reason I just couldn't open up my control panel and also the Network centre of my laptop. Friends say it could've been some spyware or something malicious in my computer or something. They tried it themselves and they just shook their head and said colin what have u done to ur PC.

Well I haven't got a clue either... maybe it was from downloading all those shit through the torrent thing. Which by the way I might add that I still wanna go to the library every now and then cuz the connection speed there is incredible. in Malaysia I would be lucky to get even 35kbps to download my gossip girl episodes. at the Uni library it went up to 1.0mbps once. and the thing about my internet connection is that it sorta has a limit to it like if I've used about 5.0GB the connection sorta slows down. It's an internet stick by the way. On the plus side: I get internet anywhere in Germany... trains, coffee shops, airports. One of the kids in class said that they tried the stick once and it sucked. Especially when it rains says he. But so far I haven't experienced anything bad. The connection is rather slow for German standards but it is indeed comparable to Malaysian standards.

SO I kinda had a talk today in Uni which I was supposed to attend but I thought I'd just skip it. I don't have classes today so I thought I'd just be doing some revising at home. Probably some groceries and gym later. Classes are getting more and more difficult everytime. MOst of all I just hate Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik. It;s just bull. The lecturer treats us like we are suppose to know everything already but ok well maybe the others know everything but I don;t so yea... Planning to do some revision on that.

Well that's all for now I guess. I miss home, not a lot, but it's just cuz I have people there who care a lot about me. All the more not to let them down huh?