THE FUTURE

The future is a long time away.
Then again it is not.
The sad disadvantage of being a TCT is that you often set your mind on going to a certain place for university, when you might have to go back to your own instead. It is not a rare occurrence for people staying in their own country to want to go to other places as well, but for TCTs, its harder.

The US is where I want to study medicine. If not, Singapore, UK and India is fine but my heart is set on medicine. Unfortunately, medicine takes about 8+ years to study unpaid but after those first years, you do residency and you get paid. Medicine is expensive, no joke. 40,000 is the average PER YEAR. The number makes me shrivel up and die a little inside. My parents also have my sister to take care of, and she is showing interest in medicine as well.

I like planning. It amuses me.
xx
Megs

Third Culture Teens. (Third Culture Kids)

TCKs are people who are in the middle of two cultures, because they have moved around a lot or they live somewhere apart from their original country. I'm a TCK, or a TCT as I like to call it.

Chris Shaughnessy is an amazing speaker who has lived in 81+ countries, and he isn't even married yet. He talked to our school about the life of a TCK and how they are different from those who remained in their home country for most of their lives. I found him terribly funny and his accents were amazing.

As you can tell, I've changed my blog a bit and my writing style is going to be different (I'll tell you about that assignment later). New Blog year (yes its been over a year since I've been blogging), new blog ideas.

Get ready for my posts.
xx
Megs

Happy.

No, I am not going to write about my friend's dog, Happy the chihuahua; I'm going to talk about his namesake.

I've been feeling really stressed and irritable for the past few weeks and I hated feeling that way. I wanted to feel comfortable and relaxed like I used to.
Yesterday, was one of the most beautiful days Malaysia had ever seen. The skies were clear, the sun was bright, the wind was cool. When I woke up early, or au chant du coq as they say in french, I felt really good. Usually, I don't like leaving my soft comfortable bed; I always feel lethargic. This time, I practically threw back the covers, grabbed my books and started working.
I finished off all of my work by mid afternoon and had the rest of the day free!
Best feeling in the universe.
xx

WHAT I DID WHEN I WASN'T AT MST-DAY 2

Oh hai there!
Well, to cut to the point really fast because I'm really sleepy at 8:30 even after drinking some coffee,
I went to PAWS today! :D
Paws Animal Welfare Shelter is a shelter for cats and dogs, and the adoption rates are really cheap! They have about a hundred dogs and maybe 50 or more cats that don't have any homes.
Our job was to walk the dogs, (we only managed 10 -.-) and just help out.
Those dogs are adorable! And super strong!
Anyhoo.
I g2g.
xx
Megs :)

WHAT I DID WHEN I WASN'T AT MST-DAY 1

Oh hai there!
I've never been so sore before in my entire life.
Well I probably was but I don't remember.
Well I remember but I'm not in the mood to talk about it.
ANYHOO,yesterday, I went to the ORGANIC FARM near Genting.
Took us ages to find the place, but once we got there, we were working so hard.
We did the following things:
1. Mowed the grass
2. Raked the leaves+cut grass
3. dumped the leaves+grass near the compost (compartment?)
4. put the leaves INSIDE the compost (compartment?)-much harder than it looks :\
5. cleared 2 rows of weeds.

Well that was a hard and tiring day!

xx
Megs :)

WHAT I DID WITH MY TIME: PRE-MST

OH HAI THERE!
Tonight is the night before MST, and I've taken the evening off to chill and do whatever to take my mind off MST tomorrow.
I can see that it isn't working since I've mentioned MST 4 times including this sentence.

ANYHOO, So far, I have
#1: COMPLETED THE WALL OF MY ROOM.
You see, I cut out the really good pictures from my leftover magazines and put them up on my wall to make it more interesting. I've got some pictures here by the way.

Wall #1
above my desk

Wall #2
above my bed

Wall #3
above my shelf

Wall #4
my only blank wall

As you can see, wall number 4 is my only black wall (roll in them 'cool story brah's) I left this on purpose so that if I ever needed a quiet blankness, I could look over there.

Reading that line again told me that it made no sense, but I'll leave it there because it made sense to me when I first wrote it, so maybe it will make sense later.

SO, when you now enter my room, it looks a bit smaller, but cozier with an essence of 'Meghna' on the walls. I actually doubt that I'd wear any of the clothes in the CLEO magazine but it looks nice on my walls.

FACT: THE WALLS LOOK COOLER WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY IN MY ROOM.

#2: CHECK OUT THIS LINK

 It's a step by step tutorial of how to dance to PARTY ROCK ANTHEM by LMFAO. 

I'm sure you all have heard the catchy phrase "shuffling shuffling". If not, check out THIS LINK.

So, I've learned how to SHUFFLE :D, but its not necessary proven that I'm good at shuffling. 

So check it out if you're bored and can't sleep because you are too excited for MST.

Wow, reading this again, and I've concluded, LAWL I'M SO LAME.

Yeah gotta eat my dinner or I'm dead meat.

xx

Megs :)

MST

In case you didn't know, ( you probably do, but I'm telling you anyway) MST stands for Malaysian Studies Trip. Every grade in middle and high school (from 6th to 12th) go for the MST. My grade this year is going to Gopeng, where they will do super fun activities like caving, rock climbing, and white water rafting. I'm not going unfortunately, so I will join the other people who aren't going.

So I'll post about what I did while everyone else is in MST doing whatever, so my friends know what I've been up to. (like they care- HA!)

xoxo
Megs :)