Moments like this.......

-06-06-2005
-Monday
-1.55 pm

I'm in KL now!!!!! What? Again? Yeah, the truth is ever since I came back from Brazil I've been going up to KL quite often since Malacca will forever remain a "DEAD TOWN" and also coz I needed to visit some relatives and friends that I've not seen for AGES..1Year and since I'm in KL, might as well take the opportunity to SHOP la...man...SHOP la!!! This time round it's my 6th time here within 2 months..WOW! I can't believe that.At least, I have a good reason for being here..well quite lame reason lah.Actually, my aunt asked me to come down from Malacca just to Jaga Rumah(Look after her house) since she and her family are going on a cruise holiday from Singapore,Penang,Phuket and back. Looks like I'm the security officer in charge of her house..*YaHOO**I've got the whole entire house to myself and the maid only since my sis is working in the afternoons and will only be at home during the nights! "Let's get the party started in here"!!!hahahahaha. I jolly good make full use of her home*wink*...my aunt will faint when she returns this Wednesday!!!Muahahahaha.
Eh...I'm a good girl k? Do you really believe that I'll turn my aunts house upside down? No of course!!! Was just pulling your leg..........As usual attended church,DUMC(Damansara Utama Methodist Church) with my sis yesterday morning and I'm sure you must be thinking man..a METHODIST CHURCH??? Praise and Worship must be very lame and stuff but I assure you that this church is no ordinary Methodist Church!!! It's worship is just superb and basically just like any other charismatic church where you see ppl dancing and jumping during worship and the singers and dancers are just filled with the holy spirit and have the *Ooom* for GOD! Even the music instruments are so sophisticated!! It's always fun going there for services*grin*!
Came back after lunch and guess what?I dropped of to dreamland at about 3.30 pm and didnt wake up until about 5.30 pm and that's when my sis came back from her church meeting.
Eric, 1 of my sister's church friend and also my so called MSN messenger chat friend picked us up at about 10 pm to go out for an ice-cream. To his *horror*, Amirul,Jaja and Jeremy were coming along so everybody ended up at McD, The Curve . It just felt so good meeting up with Amirul and gang again after soooo long and also finally meeting up with ERIC aka "Sith Lord"..hahaha. This guy here is just way damn hilarious,witty,funny and whatever it is don't ever argue with him coz his vocab is too "Powderful" for even us as normal human beings to keep up with him!!! I seriously enjoyed yesterday's moments with Eric and gf,Amirul and gf;Jaja,Jeremy,Lionel and sis!!! Can't imagine 2 different age groups of friends could just blend in so well...Amirul& gang and I are from the 19,20 age group and Eric& gang and sis from the Young adults;26-29 group. Come to think about it, we were the only group at McD making the most noice and fortunately we were not ask to leave or kick out by the management*sigh*!!
So I guess that's about all for the day...going out with Danial later!!Tchau

Which road will we eventually take?

-13-04-2005
-Wednesday
-2.27 am




Come to think about it, the effect on this slogan is just remarkable!!! Life is a journey of different,different roads and as some ppl put it.."Life is like a roller coster" n we cannot predict what's gonna happend in the future but only GOD! I still remember one poem I did in Form 5 SPM, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and it talks about a traveller deciding which road to take at a fork road..the road less travelled or the road more travelled, we soon find that he chooses the road less travelled. Who KNows, I might be like him taking the road less travelled in life and nobody can say I'm wrong just becoz I decided to make that difficult decision!! Where do go from here....? life is all about making decisions and sometimes being human, we tend to make mistakes and yet God being so forgiving still forgives us entirely of all the sin we did...THat's how wonderful our Lord Father is!WEll, I just wanted to show this part of a testi what my friend wrote for me in friendster:--
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>V ~ Vivacious<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>E ~ Elegant<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>R ~ Remarkable<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>A ~ Appealing<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Life isn't all that great after all!!!!

-12-04-2005
-Wednesday
-2.19 am

After carrying that burden for 3 weeks, I've decided to let it all out!! Sometimes things are just better out than keeping it inside oneself!!! I've always felt better sharing it with my guy friends that trully and really understands me than just telling it to any Tom,Dick and Harry. We are human and we do have weaknesses...so what is so wrong in just liking HIM? I do blame myself sometimes for liking him coz it has cause me hurts and made me suffer, but after all who ever said liking a person was easy! WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY GOD? HOnestly, HE has been such a dear to me,treating me like his baby princess, calling me from time to time and also smsing me but why on earth did I REJECT HIM? WHY? WHY? WHY? Eventhough he still calls me from time to time and knowing that the feelings I have for HIM wouldn't fate off just so easily, I still soften my heart and accept his calls!!! After all, I'm still HOT blooded right?*wink*! I just feel like bursting into tears now but too bad Andrew, my crying shoulder isn't with me so I guess I still have to wait till I eventually get back to MLK this Friday to accomplish that..(NOW IN KL)!
PPL just have no idea the pain,hurts,sufferings,frustrations and etc we human go through when we are in LOVE. The thought of the word LOVE will definitely come to many ppl's attention to as why a 19 year old girl like me would use such a strong word to describe her feelings...? I'm still confused as to why I REJECTED HIM coz if this decision was made 1 year ago by the old VERA TAY, it would just seem and look so bizarre but now after coming back from Brazil and being more matuared a girl, I feel that this is just not the time to be serious and to have a relationship eventhough I really like HIM coz now I just have to concentrate on my FORM 6 and nothing else! WE will still be forever best of friends but If HE really does like and love me , I'm sure given a chance, HE will definitely wait for me until the right time comes!

I'm lost in the world of my own!!!

-31/03/2005
-Thursday
-10.29 pm

Time really does fly huh? In a flash, I've been back here in Malaysia for just over 10 days. Can you just believe this? Personally I just can't. I still can remember very well when I was just about to fly off to Brazil to start my Rotary Exchange Programme and now after 1 year everything has just come back to the original way that it used to be, back in old mouldy Melaka and getting to know that most of my friends are up in KL either studying or working *sigh*! Caroline is up there working in Starbucks, Maju Juntion and I dont know when will be the next time I'll be able to see her since she does not come back often but thank goodness for Jeremy who is currently studying at KDU comes back every weekend so at least I still have 1 more Mamak Partner to go out with.Anyway, so far I've gone out with ppl like Suet yin,Carol,Andrew,Jeremy,Sandra and also not forgetting my precious mei mei, Rebekah,the first person that I saw after arriving back here in Mlk. What a life!!!
Last monday, I gave my presentation about Brazil to the Rotary club here and fortunately everything came out well!!! I guess everyone were most fascinated with those very sexy Samba Pics especially of the moving picture!!!

Here are some good examples for you ppl to see!!!
And as for now......just hanging around, going out with friends and just waiting to go into Form 6 which will only start in mid May!!!!

During my happier days back in Brazil.aka Farewell Party....

Carnaval next week...huhu

-Day 314 in Brazil-
-02-02-2005
-Tuesday
-3.04 am

So Carnaval is starting this Friday and everyone is still busy preparing for the Grand event through out the whole country.
I'm so excited as I will be celebrating it in the Carnaval stadium together with all the exchange students and also together with some Rotarians. All the Samba schools in Sao Paulo will be taking part and I'm sure this will be the best thing that will happen before I leave Brazil!!!!
AS I am blogging now,it's already 3.40 am and I'm using the comp in Rodolfo's house in which I'm spending a few days here from last Sunday until today so sad to always leave someone that you really like so much and inside,you know that you don't know when we will ever see them again!!!!Anyway, yeah I'm in Rodolfo's city which is in Juquitiba,SP and so far I've been able to get out from the polluted Guarulhos and get some good and fresh air here in this small city down south of Sao Paulo.Eventhough we didn't do much due to the bad weather which rained every single day here,in which we planned to go river rafting, we somehow managed to visit a mushroom farm owed by 1 of the Rotarians and also did some sight-seeing at the waterfalls in the jungle. Last night,I even went for their monthly Rotary meeting and even presented my Host Rotary Club Banner from Malaysia to the President of the club here in Juquitiba.My stay here is just wicked and I really enjoy Rodolfo's accompany not mentioning that his mother is just an angel!!!!She's like the sweetest women I ever met in my life of course not forgetting my own mother back in Malaysia:)
After Rotary, Rodolfo and I were so bored and we just fooled around his camera and managed to take some very nice pics....First, this i have to say, his Rotary Blazer is just sooooooooo damn cool
.I really envy him so much because while on exchange in Malaysia last year,he was lucky enough to go for the Rotary International convention in Japan and therefore he got so many pins from around the world so put on his Blazer. Well, I must say that my Blazer is rather awesome too.Too bad I don't have a pic here to show to you guys. Time flies and without knowing it,it's time for me to say my goodbyes to all my close friends in Brazil and leave for an even better place in this world call MALAYSIA!!!!!! 6 weeks and thats all you guys have to wait for my return back where I truly belong......

Andrew....Andrew...thanks for always beeing there!!!

-Day 303 in Brazil-
-22-01-2005
-Saturday
-6.12 pm

ERmmm...so I just finished blooging and here I am bloggin again!!!! Why? Because of someone who is bugging me to write more things in my blog........So, since I have nothing to do now, I guess I´ll just write something about a friend of mine call Andrew Liu!WEll, I guess writting down in words about him is rather tough since both of us are actually chatting in MSN now. I´ve known this guy here for like ages,ermm let me see how long?I guess more than 5 years....yeah I guess thats it!!!! We started of as just friends but slowly the friendship blossomed into something so marvellous that everyone thought that we were a couple....*kekekeke* How ridiculous! Anyway, yeah....in February when he had to leave for NS, I was so worried that I´ll never get to see him before I go off to Brazil but guess what? He came out from NS the weekend I was supposed to leave....WEll, I don´t really know if he did come out just to see me off or it was just a coincidence.Andrew, you got to answer this question ok? I don´t know what to say more about him? He has been there for me during hard times and I guess I can´t live without him. He has been my listening ear and my shoulder to cry on and eventhough me being half the globe away from home, that friendship between us is still as strong as before and I guess now it´s even "STRONGER". AS he just told me :You're always "higher class" than the rest of my frends> I guess this has made it clear that we are really close friends and nothing can bring our friendship to an end...right? Andrew? I know I´ve I told you this, but I really like to write it down here. I donno why I got really jealous when I found out that you were together with Sue Ping. I guess sometimes, we are just afraid that we´ll loose a good friend..... But seriously, I´m cool with it now so you don´t have to worry about it anymore ok? I need to go now, but I´ll write more stuff later on....Andrew, I love you and Miss you so much ok.....Big hugs and kisses..

A new year ahead......A new life ahead too!!!!!

-Day 292 in Brazil-
-11-01-2005
-Tuesday
-2.13 pm

As I look back and think of the year 2004.....many good and I consider bad things has happened to me but by the grace of God, somehow I managed to go through the year to a NEW YEAR ahead of me!!!! Well, last year was absolutely a awesome and wonderful year from me if I must say so. Let me just list out what I did :
1)Worked at GSC Mahkota Parade!( Was the best working experience)
2)Andrew and Nara went to NS.....*sob sob*
3)Went to Brazil for my Rotary Youth Exchange Program.
4)Celebrated my birthday in Brazil...It was ok though
5)Went on a Easter Holiday together with my Brazilian family.
6)Went on my trip to the Northeast of Brazil with 45 others exchange students.
7)Got to Know my 4 best friends, Emmãnuel,Kofi,Kate and Claire during the trip
8)Went out with exchange students for a tour round Sao Paulo city and to a dutch
city called Holambra.
9)Went to OCTOBERFEST in Blumenau and Florianópolis in Santa Catarina, Cascavel
and Toledo in Paraná to visit Kofi,Camila and kate.
10)Went for a Rotary Party with other exchange students too.
11)Went to the Airport to welcome Rodolfo back from Malaysia.
12)Went for my sister ,Marina´s University Prom.
13)Went to Amparo for the Farewell Party for all the exchange students who are going
back this month."It was really sad
14)Went to BELO HORIZONTE to visit Emmãnuel and Raphael(ex exchange student to
Malaysia
15)Spend Christmas with my 2nd Brazilian family here in Brazil and guess what? I
received so many presents.
a)Leather purse from my dad
b)A pair of shoes from my mum
c)A hair Straightener from my older sis
d)A Palmeiras,a football club FLAG from my second sis
e)A Palmeiras official Jersey and tower from my bro
16)Spend New year with my Brazilian family at home and it was really nice.

So...that was like a summary of what I basically did last year!!!I´m sure this year will be a even better year for me!Definitely I´ll face challenges but the good part of it is that I´ll learn something out of it.Yeah!!!!

Belo Horizonte here I come...

-Day 265 in Brazil-
-14-12-2004
-Wednesday
-6.20 pm

Huhu.........Finally I´m going to Belo Horizonte to visit Emmãnuel and some of the exchange students who went to Malaysia last year!!!!!!Raphael,rafael,Bernado,Fernanda...Can´t wait to see you guys :)Anyway, the biggest reason that I´m actually going to BH is because of my Good friend,Emmãnuel!!! This dude here has brightened my exchange year here in Brazil and thanks to all his cute and sweet SMS..I made it through until now! Well, actually let me give you guys a brief story on how I met him. It was during the Northeast trip that I went on with some other 44 exchange students that we knew each other. He was bringing along some other short term exchange students from India from BH to visit Brasilia and so being me I started the convo with him and without knowing it he was actually Jeremy´s Good friend while he was in Brazil.Jeremy was an ex exchange student to Brazil last year from Malaysia.What a small world!!! From then onwards, we started to communicate with each other through MSN ,ICQ and also though SMSes.So this is the story of our great friendship.....Weird right our amazing story? Anyway,from tomorrow night until next Tuesday, I won´t have the time to on9 because I´ll be away in BH.So you guys will only see me back on Wednesday ok......I love everyone!!!!

Make A Joyful Noise / I Will Not Be Silent
David Crowder, Terry Butler

Key:G
Verse:
Bm D E Bm D E
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
Bm D E Bm D E
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
Bm D E Bm D E
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
Bm D E Bm D E
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth


PreChorus:
C9 G/B C
The flowers of the field are crying to be heard
C9 Dsus G/B D
The trees of the forest are singing
C9 G/B C
And all of the mountains with one voice
C9 G/B D C G/B C Amsus
Are joining the chorus of this world
C9
Oh, yeah
G/B
Oh, yeah


Chorus:
G D/F#
And I will not be silent, no
Em7 C9 G
And I will not be quiet anymore
C9 D/F# Em
Running through the forest Dive into the lake
C9 G
Bare feet on beaches white
C9 D/F#
Standing on the canyon
Em C9
Painted hills around And the wind against my skin
G D/F#
Every ocean, every sea Every river, every stream
Em7 C
Every mountain, every tree Every blade of grass will sing


Chorus 2:
G D Em7 C9
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
G D Em7 C9
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
G D Em7 C9
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
G D Em7 C9
Make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth
(repeat)


I really wanna thank Kofi and Kunyalala for sharing great Christian woshrip songs with me....You guys have changed my life!!!*Blessed be the Lord*....Remember he rulesss and rockssss foreva....
Ps://Andrew, I really want you to teach me how to play this song when I go home..The chords and lyrics are all here...Take care!

I´m ready to go home!!!!!

-Day 263 in Brazil-
-13-12-2004
-Monday
-3.56 pm

I´ve been going out for the last 4 days in a row and I´m just so drained.......Went out with my host family last Wednesday and Thursday for Christams shopping and last Friday went Christmas shopping with another exchange student from Indonesia, Esti to 25 March. Esti stayed a night in my house on Friday and we were busy wrapping Christams presents from the Secret friend,a game that we were supposed to play on Saturday, A Christams Party and farewell party for exchange Students who came this January that was organized by ROTEX!
Basically, I´m still feeling the jinx from the Farewell Party last Saturday! The whole event was so Emo and everyone was crying during the speech the each of us had to give.*Sigh*! But somehow suddenly at that moment, I felt that I am ready to go home! Anyway, yeah....Finally I´m ready to leave all my good friends and family here and go home to my friends and family back there and to go back to my normal life!!!
Pai,mãe,irmã,irmão...amigos...EU TE AMO!!!!!

Thank you Kofi....................

-Day 259 in Brazil-
-09-12-2004
-Thursday
-11.32 am

Third Day
Love Song

I've heard it said that a man would climb a mountain
Just to be with the one he loves
How many times has he broken that promise
It has never been done
Well I never climbed the highest mountain, but I walked the hill of Calvary
Just to be with you I'd do anything
There's no price I would not pay
Just to be with you I'd give everything
Oh I'd give my life away
And I've heard it said that a man would swim the ocean
Just to be with the one he loves
All of those dream are empty motion
It has never been done
Well I've never swam the deepest ocean, but I've walked upon the raging sea
Just to be with you I'd do anything
There's no price I would not pay
Just to be with you I would give everything
I would give my life away
And I know that you don't understand the fullness of my love
How I died upon the cross for your sins
And I know that you don't realize how much that I give you
And I promise I would do it all again
Just to be with you I've done everything
There's no price I did not pay
Just to be with you I gave everything
Yes I gave my life away
I gave my life away
Just to be with you

ps://Andrew, I´m not sure if you know Third Day but I´m sure you must have...Anyway, their songs rocksssss too..Especially this is here...*hugssss and kisses*

We are totally Words Apart!!!!!!

-Day 254 in Brazil-
-04-12-2004
-Saturday
-3.05 pm

Jars of Clay
Worlds Apart
I am the only one to blame for this
Somehow it all adds up the same
Soaring on the wings of selfish pride
I flew too high and like Icarus I collide
With a world I try so hard to leave behind
To rid myself of all but love
to give and die

To turn away and not become
Another nail to pierce the skin of one who loves
more deeply than the oceans,
more abundant than the tear
Of a world embracing every heartache

Can I be the one to sacrifice
Or grip the spear and watch the blood and water flow

To love you - take my world apart
To need you - I am on my knees
To love you - take my world apart
To need you - broken on my knees

All said and done I stand alone
Amongst remains of a life I should not own
It takes all I am to believe
In the mercy that covers me

Did you really have to die for me?
All I am for all you are
Because what I need and what I believe are worlds apart

[Additional lyrics:]

I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
and wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
More and more I need you now,
I owe you more each passing hour
the battle between grace and pride
I gave up not so long ago
So steal my heart and take the pain
and wash the feet and cleanse my pride
take the selfish, take the weak,
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
the sin-soaked heart and make it yours
take my world all apart
take it now, take it now
and serve the ones that I despise
speak the words I can't deny
watch the world I used to love
fall to dust and thrown away
I look beyond the empty cross
forgetting what my life has cost
so wipe away the crimson stains
and dull the nails that still remain
so steal my heart and take the pain
take the selfish, take the weak
and all the things I cannot hide
take the beauty, take my tears
take my world apart, take my world apart
I pray, I pray, I pray
take my world apart

-Vera Tay-

I´m tired, I´m sick, I´m fedup!!!!!!

-Day 252 in Brazil-
-2-12-2004
-Thursday
-4.50 pm

I have been so lazy with my blogging these days that someone..ermmm*hinting* who ar? had to put pressure on me just to blog today!!!!Well, I guess they just miss me..Don´t you Andrew?kekekekkek!!!Ok..Basically, from the last update, what did I do? I can´t even remember..that´s bad!!!I guess I just lazed around at home,eat ,do nothing and grow fat...hauhauauihahaia, Doesn´t this sound like Garfield? Oh, have you guys watch the Galfield film? It´s totally hilarious and funny.I guess those that hasn´t watched it, better go now...I bet you guys will laugh till you drop!!!kekekekekke..Oh ya, where was I? So, let me see? I went out with Rodolfo(Brazilian boy who just came back on a 1 year YEP in Malaysia)for the whole day yesterday. We went to Bienal(it´s the biggest Art exebition in Brazil) but after a while Rodolfo was like "Let´s go to some other place to talk, it seems that we are in this place but we are actually not looking at anything"!! He just came back from Malaysia last Thursday and we have lotsssssssss of things to talk about(i.e), his experiences in Malaysia and mine in Brazil,his travels in Malaysia and lots more!!! Actually,when I was still in Malaysia, he came to Melaka for a visit and he stayed at my place,it was really weird at that time because he couldn´t speak English and I couln´t speak Portuguese.Time flies and here I am now, in Brazil speaking Portuguese and him speaking fluent English and BM!!!! So, there we were at this Shopping place call Shopping Ibapuera, thinking of going to BURGER KING(The first in Brazil that just recently opened) to eat but as we arrived at the foodcourt, you would never imagine how many people were there and the line was just so longggggggggggggg..So, idea 1) forget about it, let´s go somewhere to eat. We got ourself a sandwich and sat down on a bench and just started to chat about everything under the sky....It was just so good! It was around, 2.30 pm, let´s go for a movie? Why not? ok....so, we went to watch Captain Sky and the World, which to me was the biggest fiction ever in history!!!It´s actually a movie based on a cartoon book! Later, we went to some place for a drink and Guess what? Both of us found something very interesting...AÇAI!! I guess Malaysian will never know what´s that.It´s a Brazilian fruit made into a dessert. We usually eat it with bananas and Granolas.I guess In Rodolfo´s case he misses it so much after a year and for me basically I have never eaten it so it was a new adventure for me! Not soon later, it was slowly getting dark, I still didn´t have the feeling to go home, so we just walked and talked, and walked to no destination along Paulista Avenue( The Wall Street of Brazil)until can you imagined that we walked as far as 4 metro stops.At 8 pm, it was literally jet black and we decided that it was time to go home...I went my way to catch the metro back and he took a bus to his University!!!The day was great and I guess it was perfect!!!!
My recent ups and downs:::::::::::::::::::::
18/11/2004>>>>>>>> A party to celebrate the Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil
The Rotary Club Of Sumaré
20/11/2004>>>>>>>>>I visited the Malaysian Trade Center at Paulista Avenue
21/11/2004>>>>>>>>>Football game at Morumbi Stadium(São Paulo vs Juventudes)
23/11/2004>>>>>>>>>My first Presentation about Malaysia at The Rotary Club
24/11/2004>>>>>>>>>Went to the Airport to receive Rodolfo back from Malaysia
25/11/2004>>>>>>>>>Went for my host sister,Marina´s prom!!!
01/12/2004>>>>>>>>>Went out with Rodolfo going round town, basically to everywhere

Today, I received an email from AirFrance about my flight scedules Back to Malaysia*sigh*!!!!! I´ll be leaving Brazil on the 9th March 2005 and from today onwards it´s only about another 3 months....I don´t wanna go back but what can I do? Anyway, Christmas is coming and the Christmas mood is everywhere around Brazil....Including my house>>>>>>Note: The Chritsmas Tree was put up even before November!!!!!!
Anyway, to end this blog, I´ll like to wish all the following people here a very very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and may all your dreams come true:
1)My family=Dad,mum,bro and sis
2)Andrew and AAron Liu
3)Sandra Sim
4)Rebekah Tan
4)Joanne Ang
5)Justin Tan
6)Mr and Mrs. Jason Teh
7)Caroline Chan
8)Cherzzz
9)Emmãnuel Campos
10)Camila Gnoato
11)Gabriella
12)Rodolfo Ismael
13)Kofi Zwana
14)Kate my mate
15)Claire
& All my good friends in Malaysia,in Brazil and all the Gatewayans back in Melaka,Malaysia and last but not least,to all the Rotary Exchange Students in Brazil.

Cascavel.....Kofi and Gang

-Day 229 in Brazil-
-9-11-2004
-Tuesday
-5.10 pm

So...where was I...oh ya, just after Florianópolis!!!! Jana had to go back to São Paulo as she was supposed to go for the Pantanal trip so I went to Cascavel alone!!!While on the bus trip, guess who I was sitting beside? It was an English Boy!!!I couldn´t believed it but it was true...He was traveling around Brazil alone for 6 weeks and he was heading for the Falls!!!What a coincidence!!!Anyway, I stayed in Cascavel for a week and the first day when I arrived, I decided to give Kofi and Kate a surprise!! I called Kofi and he just couldn´t believed that I was in town!!! All I could here in the background...shouts of Excitement I guess...Kofi and kate were shouting like the world could fall down anytime!!!I guess I´m special somewhere inside them *cheeky smile*...I went for Kofi´s band practices, his school,getting to know all his goody friends and even went round town sight seeing with him and Gang!!!!I was staying at Camila´s place(she went to Malaysia last year) and we had so much fun.I went to Uni with her and even hung out together with her friends!!!I just couldn´t believe that finally I was meeting the famous Camila from Cascavel! She was so famous back than In Malaysia as she was a very nice,sweet,wonderful,respecful,kind exchange student from Brazil to Malaysia!!Even my dad and the YEP coordinator have said that she is a very polite student*wink*! I also had a great opportunity meeting the other Malaysian girl,Paramesvari who is from another city,Fransisco Beltrão near Cascavel!!!I was just so contented with life at that moment but wait a minute...No one in this world is ever contented with life? "Weird hei?".....She came down from her city just to meet up with me after hearing so much about the other famous Malaysian girl living in São Paulo *wink*..lol!We decided it was time to show our culture to Camila´s parents by cooking our famous "Curry Chicken"!! "Yum Yum....it was just delicious!!!Just miss Malaysian food so much!!!Fortunately,Camila brought home some Baba´s curry powder so this really made our cooking so much easier *wink*! So, Sunday came and I had to leave Cascavel....*sob sob*!!!But anyway, I was going to Toledo, the city where Rafael comes from..He is currently in Malaysia under a 1 year exchange too!!His family was just awesome especially Moiz(exchange student from India)who is staying at their house...I stayed at their place for 2 days and during those time...Moiz brought Paramesvari and I out to town for sigh-seeing and shopping of course!!!Prices down south are just so CHEAP...this word is very important to gurls you know? Besides, I went for a Rotary meeting there and met 4 other exchange students!!!I guess it was time to leave for São Paulo...I was reluctant and tried to extend my stay but...you know? I had to leave no matter what *sob sob*
So, this is the end of my South trip and I really had a wonderful time.....
Love you guys so much......

OCTOBERFEST...."PERFECT"!!!!!

-Day 221 in Brazil-
-1-11-2004
-Monday
-6.01 pm

So, I´m finally back in freaking São Paulo after coming back from Blumenau-OCTOBERFEST and from the south of Brazil...What should I say about the trip? It was wonderful,awesome,great,marvelous,excellent and etc.....To be honest, in non other words, the trip was just "PERFECT"! The first city that Jana from Botswana and I headed was of course non other than the famous OCTOBERFEST in Blumenau...Actually, do you ppl out there know exactly was it OCTOBERFEST? Answer me ppl....do you guys really know? Seems like no one is answering me so I guess I better explain it! It is actually a German drinking festival originated from Germany and I bet you ppl are wondering what´s a German festival doing in the middle of no where in freaking Brazil? Many years ago(donno how many), but anyway, the south of Brazil was formally a German, Italian and Dutch colony and Blumenau happened to be a German colony...So, "ahhhhhh" you ppl understand now? OCTOBERFEST in Brazil is the second biggest festival in the world after OCTOBERFEST in Germany and so being there was some sort of a achievement huh!So, where was I? Oh ya....back to Blumenau, Jana and I stayed at the Youth exchange Vice Chairman´s house for 3 days and it was just pure fun and enjoyment!!! German music was just being played everywhere around the city and ppl dressed in traditional German costumes were just happily dancing and singing!
Jana and I did quite a bit of shopping too that we actually found ourselves spending too much money but as you ppl know, OCTOBERFEST is only once a year so I guess it´s quite worth it after all!!! Guess what? We just couldn´t believe this part...We came across a group of British and American students studying at Belo Horizonte who came from São Paulo to Blumenau with us on the same bus and we met up at OCTOBERFEST too!!! All of us hung out together and had lots of fun together...isn´t the world so small?
Without realizing it, we were leaving Blumenau and was heading for Florianópolis to visit the Magic Island(named by the Brazilians) and to meet up with Gabi also.OK! This is really scary!!!We were again on the same bus with those freaking British and American students..isn´t this really scary! Gabi was an ex exchange student who went to India last year on a short term exchange program and there she met up with our short team program team from Malaysia too!This world is just too small!!! Well, during our 5 day stay with her, we just went to the beaches to relax, got oursleves all burned and also went for the most crazy band concert of Gabi´s bf!!It was just FUN FUN and nothing but FUN! I also had the opportunity to go to Gabi´s University were she is studying Languages(German and English) and I even bumped into some exchange students from Florianópolis and I was really delighted!
This is just part of my CRAZY AND SCARY trip..I´m really tired of typing now after rewritting for 3 times because my stupid computer keeps on shutting down*argggg* Well, I´ll continue tomorrow ok? Lots of love to everyone and ANDREW.....Thanks alot for always being there for me and also I´ll always cherish those *hugzzz* you promise me ok?
Love.........................VERA

OCTOBER FEST FINALLY!!!!!

-Day 198 in Brazil-
-08-10-2004
-Friday
-4.32 pm

My God....Finally everything is finalized!!!! Now at least I can go to Blumenau and my south tour peacefully!!!! I seriously just dislike(was almost near to saying Hate but...) my counselor(which exchange student doesn´t?)kekekke.Sorry dad, no offence ok?Here the story goes, My friend and I,Jana from Botswana,Afica were planning to travel down south next week but as usual....Under the YEP rules, all exchange students must get authorisation letters from their natural parents, host parents and last but not least the Youth Exchange chairman!!!!! At first, I was seriously thinking of not letting my Chairman know of my travelling plans because I knew complications would occur but as a good exchange student I decided to do it the proper way by getting all the authorisation letters ready!!!! My counsellor was such a job to handle..."You will miss school for at least 2 week", "Where will you be staying?"," I need all the information of all the place you are staying " and etc.....I could have just killed him but I just stayed( pretented) calm infront of him and let out all my anger at home!!!! My Rotary Club President was such a sweetie....he didn´t even object to my travelling plans..instead he was giving me support by telling me to have fun and to enjoy my stay there!!!
People out there always thinks that Youth exchange students lifes are great and wonderful...(of course they are) but not mentioning all the rules and regulations set by Rotary..*sigh* No comments!!! So, What do you all think? Just to go for 14 days to the south ,I needed to go through such a job just to let my counsellor approve of it!!! ------------------

LIFE´S A ROLLER COASTER!!!!!

-Day 195 in Brazil-
-05-10-2004
-Tuesday
-5.11 pm



TAKE ME AWAY --AVRIL LAVIGNE
I cannot find find a way to describe it
It´s there inside
All I do is hide
I wish that it would just go away
What would you do
You do if you knew
What would you do

*Chorus
All the pain I thought I knew
All the thoughts lead back to you
Back to what
Was never said
Back and forth
Inside my head
I can´t handle this confusion
I´m unable come and take me away

I feel like I´m all alone
All by myself I need to get around this
My words are cold
I don´t want them to hurt you
If I show you
I don´t think you´d understand
´Cause no one understands

*Chorus
I´m going nowhere on and on and
I´m getting nowhere on and on and on
I´m going nowhere on and on and off
and on and off and on

Take me away
Break me away
Take me away

Life sometimes can be sickening!!!!!............*No comments*

Avril Lavinge Rawksssssss!!!!!

-Day 193 in Brazil-
-03-10-2004
-Sunday
-6.34 pm




FINALLY!!!!! Today, I got my hands on my favourite artist´s CD..AVRIL LAVIGNE!*Wink*
I´m so happy coz I found it in Extra supermaket for such a cheap price..Only R$27.90
Besides, I also bought another Cd...The sound track for a Brazilian soap-opera on the Tv every night from 9 pm to 10 pm....It is really good..
GTG now.....host sister got to use the comp now!!!Byebye

***Sorry for those anti Avril lavigne fanss!!! No offence ok?

NORDESTE 2004!!!!!!!!!!!!!*sigh*

-Day 192 in Brazil
-02-10-2004
-Saturday
-11.53 am

Time really flies hei!!! NORDESTE 2004 just ended like 2 months ago but to me it still seems like yesterday!!!I can still vividly remember those freaking moments we had on the trip and I´ll probably keep it at heart till as long I can remember! NORDESTE 2004 was my first Rotary organized trip and will my last too...The rest are too expensive so I decided to go down to the south of Brazil together with a few exchange students and we´ll be making our way to the famous Iguaçu falls...It seems that it is one of the 10 wonders in the world..*TRUE OR FALSE*??? Let me see? I know who to ask!! The MR Know all..Mr.Jimmy Tay!!!! Who´s that? Well...that´s of course my dearest father!!!!!!! Ok guys...I´ll find out from him and let you guys know ASAP ok? set? Saturday!!!!* evil smile* let´s get the Party started.......hahahahaha!Actually,it´s just a very normal saturday,I´ll be going out with my host mother later on and we´ll probably catch a show or as usual...her style!!*SHOPPING*
Ok...fellers! I got to run now....Hope to Blog later

Together with those freaking Aussies...We all had a blasting time on the trip....I really do miss my trip* sad*!
Vera Tay

ERmmm....Trip pictures together with my good friends..Kofi from Zimbabwe,Kate from Australia and who do you think that cute gurl is?
Vera Tay

Love you,Love you and love you!

Love you.....Love you....Love you!!!!
Vera Tay

My sadness,My madness,I´m my own savior!

-Day 190 in Brazil-
-30-09-2004
-Thursday
-4.09 pm


LOST IN TRANSLATION

Thunder storm and lighting strucks,
The clouds suddenly changes from
baby blue to jet black,
Rain starts falling from heaven above
and it gets heavier and heavier....
I´m all alone in the middle of no where,
Trying to find a place to excape,
But all I see is darkness covering me.
I´m stuck, I´m stuck....
This goes on and on in my head
Fear begins to overtake me
Sweat just keeps running down my head
I start to turn round and round
Seeking for help....
I´m lost, I´m lost.....
I donno what to do!!!!
I´m lost in this world of confusion
HELP....HELP....HELP....
*Screamimg*...........arrrrrggggggggggg!!
Written by:
Vera Tay

This is exactly how I felt as I was blogging........Sometimes I just wonder what is it like to live in a world full of pain and suffering???

-Day 188 in Brazil-
-28-09-2004
-Tuesday
-10.27 pm


The city at night.................Just so pretty...especially this dutch looking house turned bar!!!
Vera Tay

My host sister and I took the Teleferico up to the mountain..It was just so fun and scary too...
Vera Tay

A birds eye view from the top of a mountain!!!!Beautiful right?
Vera Tay

A family picture just before getting on the train for a joy ride!!!
Vera Tay

This was in the town...look! The designs of the houses and shops are so Dutch!!!! Fomally Dutch town
Vera Tay

This pic is so funny......just look at my host moms eyes while she is eating!!! Beside is my host sister,Larissa!
Vera Tay

-Day 188 in Brazil-
-28-09-2004
-Tuesday
-8.49 pm

It was just a freaking and awesome weekend in Campos do Jordão!!!!!!! Had so much fun there celebrating my host fathers birthday and I had a whale of a time there........We leave Guarulhos on Saturday at 12.30 pm and arrived there at about 2.30 pm....We had some problems looking for our hotel as my host mother booked it through the Internet!!!!! After going for a free half an hour ride going round and round the city......FINALLY, my mom decided to call the Hotel!!!*Sigh* Ok....found it and we unloaded our stuff and straight away we leave for Lunch.....I was just famished....could even hear the gastric juice churning in my stomach....Anyway, We went to a bem chique restaurante (porch restaurant) and I had Fettucini.....and some rice,meat,fried bananas and of course my can´t forget GUARANA ANTARTICA (typical Brazilian soft drink) with a piece of orange and ice......Delicious Lunch! After Lunch we walked round the city and of course my mom..the first thing she always does best....SHOPPING! *Wink* Walking around the whole day until dark than we got back *Detail......Brazil gets dark at around 6 pm* My host sister and I went for dipped in the rather small but comfortable so called heated indoor swimming pool but actually it was freezing cool! Dinner was marvelous and the food was just satisfying!!!!!* No comments*....As usual, went out with my mom SHPOPPING again...She bought like just 2 pairs of boots that cost about R$700.....My god! I was just so stunned!!
Sunday.....Breakfast went on well and lunch too....After Lunch,we went on a train ride to another city and the whole journey took about 2 hours..to go and to come back.It was just amazing looking at all the beautiful scenery as I told you guys that Campos do Jordão is like Genting highlands In Malaysia and so it is really high up in the mountains and there are lots of greens!!!>>>The train ride ended at about 4 pm and soon after it,My sister and I wanted so much to up to the mountain by the teliferico....so my dad gave us some money and off we went...I never sat on this b4 and it was just so thrilling. By the time we got down it was already almost dark...we rushed back to the hotel to get ready for my host fathers birthday dinner..After getting ready and stuff,my 2 host sisters,my host mother and I went down to the lobby to wait for the birthday boy...We sat there waiting and waiting and finally my host sis decided to go up to the room to checked things out.*Gosh* My host dad was feeling so ill...he was literally lying on the bad speechless...Felt so sad for him but thank God he was almost well the next day.!!!!His birthday dinner was a disaster and for that we just ate Pizzas but I was happy!!!Next day, woke up early and got ready to go back to good old Guarulhos.............Campos Do Jordão never to be seen again by VERA TAY JIN MEI from Malaysia!!!

This is the famous Brazilian actor I was talking ealier on......The Raul guy...I bet everyone was thinking that he was such a cutie! LOL

Together with Freez from Thailand,Camille from Belgium and Me with our colourful and awesome Rotary blazer.

The 12 of us...Exchange students with our flags taking a group picture during the International Peace day parade outside Patio do Colegio...

-Day 184 in Brazil-
-24-09-2004
-Friday
-11.26 am

Can´t believe that I turn 6 month here in Brazil and I just can´t believe that time just flies!!!! I was supposed to confirm my flight back to Malaysia yesterday but *sigh* my counselor forgot to give me the air ticket which he is keeping!!!!Anyway, I´m gonna do it after I blog!!!! I´m so happy because on my way back to Malaysia I´ll be stopping in Paris because my route goes to Paris and I´ll be meeting my Uncle there who is coming over from London. I´ll fly on the 10th March 2005 and reach Paris on the 11th and we´ll spend the weekend In Paris and go to London by the Eurostar train which goes under the English channel .Most probably I´ll spend a week there before I return to Paris to catch my return flight back to Malaysia.....So, ppl,my fans,my friends, my close ones....be prepared to see me back in Malaysia by the 20th or latest 21 March 2005...Can´t wait to see everyone back in Malaysia in one full piece!!!
Last Tuesday( 21 September 2004) , It was International Peace day and 12 of us Exchange students including me went for a Parade in the center of Sao Paulo......It was just awesome! All of us with our different flags from our own country just made the whole event more colourful and cheerful...I even met a famous Brazilian actor (Raul Cortez) who was giving a speech on the stage and all the exchange students just went crazy taking lots of pictures of him!!! He is currently acting in a Brazilian sop-opera which I never fail to watch every night....SENHORA DO DESTINO ......Finally, my ability to understand sop -operas are good enough..so I decided to watch it... It´s just excellent ! Anyway,where was I.....Ooooooo...okok I was until when those freaking students (Including me) all trying to get his pic..and after it was a parade of all different cultures in Brazil from Japan, China, Colombia, Peru,The Jews and etc.... Guess what? After the event...All of us decided to go to 25 de Março......A very popular and cheap place to shop for anything you want....like earrings,clothes,shoes and etc!!! Everyone bought lots of stuff including tons of pins which we found from a store that had all types of pins to hang on our blazer...GREAT! This weekend I am traveling again to Campos do Jordao .....a very posh part of Sao Paulo and the whole family is celebrating my host fathers birthday there....Can´t wait for tomorrow but before tomorrow comes., Afterwards I´ll be going for my host sisters University Party at 4 O´clock and I guess It will be so fun...This month is just full of activities and I hardly spend any weekend at home....There just has to be some kind of party or outing during the weekends...Hai!!!! *TIRING*...............

-Day 177 in Brazil-
-17-09-2004
-Friday
-3.46pm

It´s been a wonderful yet depressing 6 months for me here in Brazil.....On one hand I miss my home so much but on the other hand I don't really feel like going home!!! Isn´t this just strange? I´ve just fallen in love with this awesome country and the my host family just treats me like their very own daughter.. How will be able to leave Brazil in a happy mood:( I still can vividly remember the day when I just arrived...I was thinking to myself ..one year such a long time but without knowing it 6 months has past and the remaining 6 months will soon past very quickly and *wink* I´ll be back home in Malaysia!!!!* SOB SOB*
Ok.......lets talk about something good now....Today,I just found out that there is another Malaysian gurl here in Brazil.!!!!!!!!!!* Happy* but she is staying in another state.We chatted on MSN and *wow* I just couldn´t believed it!!! We planned to meet next month in Falls do Iguaçu.Can´t wait till than...

A group photo of most of the exchange students in Sao Paulo in front of the Municipal theater

Well, Last weekend was just awesome!!!!!!!!! We all had a city tour round the center of Sao Paulo and not only that......I had the greatest opportunity to get to know all the new exchange students that just arrived last month. On Saturday, I went to the cinemas to watch Ferrenheit 11 September together with a bunch of exchange students and it was really great!Eventhough there were 2 Americans and they really hated the show.hahahahhaha.Well,Its normal.George W. Bush supporters!!!!!!!!!!!!

Together with Mu... from Turkey; Emily from USA and I at an Arts museum.
Vera Tay