Information Is Not Knowledge

Hey everyone! I know it's been so long since I've been here *gasps*.  I finally decided to update this space before I forget or procrastinate again. 

I have been working on a few things recently and it really took almost all my free time away. The first one would be looking for a place to study. I think I'm considered as a 'drop-out' (or not haha), because I just decided to stop after much contemplation. It's a really long story on how I came to that decision on just stopping my studies altogether, but I hope it was the right choice and even if it wasn't, it was the best option available.

So I stopped because mainly I wanted to resume my studies overseas. I wanted to gain experience not only in Malaysia but elsewhere as well, be it New Zealand, US or actually anywhere at all. The problem was, education in those places are expensive and if I chose to continue the semester which I dropped, chances are I wont have the opportunity to further my studies elsewhere. 

I know some may ask why not just complete your studies in Malaysia, but it has always been my lifelong dream to step out of my comfort zone, into the wild and gain new experiences. Haha now I sound like an animal from the show Madagascar trying to escape the zoo.

My mum was talking to me the other day about my education, future and my plans. Then she started talking about knowledge and this quote she read by Einstein.

To say I was left in awe by this quote would be an understatement.

I was awestruck. Dumbfounded. Mind blown. 

The words kept playing in my head again and again. I always thought information was something to do with knowledge. Like whatever we read or heard, I always thought it was of some value close to knowledge. But now I realise, all these little bits and pieces of information we obtain from others are nothing without experience.

There's only so much a teacher can teach and a student can absorb. And now it finally makes sense why many of us feel that half the things we study for exams cannot be applied after that. 

Heck, some of us can't even remember what we studied after our exams because everything we have been focusing on was... gathering information. We were so focused in trying to accumulate all these information in our brain we forgot to pay attention on how to apply it. We get so caught up with memorising stuff that most of the time when a question which we know the answer to is twisted in another way, we become stunned in shock, not knowing how to respond.

I guess I really want to experience places as they are, and not just gather blank information on all of them thinking I know what is out there, when in actual fact I don't. This is why I have been yearning to further my studies overseas. At the end of the day, it's experience that counts.

I just thought this was something really interesting to share. Hopefully you were as mind boggled as me hearing about this quote.

Just some photos I took while I was away.

 Went to Anselm's hou- *cough* mansion *cough*, for a small bbq party.

 We celebrated Gillian and Anthony's birthday there as well.

We didn't get to swim because it rained and according to Anselm, the water wasn't that clean.

It was a nice place to take pictures though.

Besides that, I have been helping some of my friends from IACT for their assignments. 

I have a feeling that they have alot of assignments right now because my friends asked me to help be a 'model' for them.

And no one would ask me to model for them unless their condition is critical LOL.

I can't model gaisss. For nuts.

I mean I'd like to think I can, but the actual fact which will always remain a fact is that I just don't look that good in the camera.

For some reason Blogger makes my photos a little more yellow than it is.

 My sister says I look scary here haha.

I couldn't really smile because otherwise there was a chance my braces would be peeping, and I know most photographers/ people who looks at photographs do not like braces, so I didn't dare take the risk.

Therefore all I did was try to contain the metal in my mouth. 

Sigh, brace face problems.

Yeap that's pretty much what I have been doing, looking for universities, going for gatherings, helping fellow friends in their assignments, serving the youth ministry in church and oh, I started dancing again! 

Going back to Urban Groove for classes but right now it's pretty hard to juggle as the biggest event of the year for my Youth Ministry - The Youth Rally, is in 3 weeks. There's so much to prepare, and so much things that need to be done in this 3 weeks and I'm freaking out. We are having practices like 4 times a week now and next week I think we will be having everyday practices. Not to mention it's time for a spring cleaning around the house now that Christmas is coming.

I will try to update soon, as I will be off to camp for this weekend! :D So excited. I just hope I don't get fat when I come back with their 6-meals-a-day plan -.-"

Did I mention I bought a new phone too HAHA. So much to update. Till the next post! Will talk about my new phone then.

Paul & Belize's Wedding

I finally found time to change the look of my blog hehe! All this while my blog has been super colourful thanks to it haha but I decided to go for a change this time. Hopefully this looks nicer of course LOL. Oh and it was that point of time where whenever I view my blog and see my picture on the header, I just cringe with utter disgust.

You know like how you think a picture is really nice, but then after some time, when you come across the same picture again you realize all the tiny flaws you never noticed before, like how your hair is a little messy, how yellowish your skin tone seemed to look and ultimately, how hideous you looked in it.

If you’re agreeing to the part where you cringe  like me whenever you see my header, then I’m very sad :( HAHA ok ok not like I will ever know whether you were nodding while reading this.

And that’s why the previous look had just got to go. Basically, that was what I’ve been up to the last few days. Didn’t have time to do an update on anything because I was just too engrossed with the design and stuff.

By the way, I don’t know what’s up with TM but ever since the night before yesterday, the Internet completely stopped working! Called them yesterday and they said they would send their technician to rectify the problem in 24 hours. But now it has been almost 24 hours and we have yet to hear from them.

I wanted to do so many things but it felt impossible without the Internet. I mean I needed to do some research on certain things and without any connection, I felt everything I needed to do was a total lost of hope.

Therefore, all I was able to do last few days was watch the telly and do a little reading.

Anyhow, here’s an update on Paul and Belize’s wedding which happened last week.  It was the wedding of the year in our church! They ordered 90 tables, which meant they invited close to a thousand people to share in this joyous event together with them.

It was held at the Grand Dorsett, and my, this was the first time in more than half a decade have I attended a wedding at a hotel.

Of course it was a big deal for me!

I have never worn so nicely to any wedding before, and this was a first.

Mostly its also due to the reason I had nothing else to wear -.- Till I had to resort to my prom dress lol.

Yes my prom dress was not that grand. I wasn’t willing to pay a bomb for something I would only wear once (or twice) in my lifetime.

I shall just spam the pictures now.

God bless Paul and Belize. Hope their marriage life will be equally as beautiful as the night was.

More posts coming up sooooon!