First Love

Hello, readers...I bet when you read the title of my entry, someone special from your past will appear in your mind. It doesn't matter whether he/she was your first crush in primary school or someone from your neighborhood whom you admire in your teenage years. They said first love will remain forever in our heart. Some of us experienced the first love in the early age and the lucky ones will last forever as husband and wife. Nevertheless, some of us ended up with tearful break ups and horrible pain. 

It's really hard actually to forget someone who you thought will be the one spending the entire life together with you until the very end. However, cheer up, dear friends because right now I will give you the most effective ways to forget about your first love. Here are the tips :

1. Cry. It's okay to cry. Just let it all out. Scientist had proven that crying releases hormones called endorphins that acts as painkillers for your body. Furthermore, crying also flushes away a number of harmful toxins existing in your body.

2.  Cut off all communication with your ex. This maybe the most agony way to forget someone whom you used to talk with every single day but believe it or not, you will get better day by day.

3. Your family and friends are the best person to spend the time with at this difficult moments. You can share and open up about your feeling with them and you can also ask for some advice and comfort. 

4. Do not try to find out how your ex is doing if you are in the healing process. Don't ever try to check his/her Facebook status every single day because it will only make you feel worse when you see he/she is doing completely fine without you.

5. Be strong and keep telling yourself that when someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. Someone who is much better than your ex and what is the most important, don't afraid to fall in love again or else you won't get married until you die. :)

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Désirée Ball  

Kevin

Based on the story "Kevin" written by Catherine Lim, I can see the imbalance relationship between Kevin and her mother where her mother mostly dominated the relationship. She is a fierce, perfectionist  and unreasonable kind of mother. At the other side, Kevin is an obedient and passive boy although he is a very smart student. Things were going so complicated for Kevin when he had to study really hard to achieve 95 percent marks or more in every test he sat in order to satisfy his mother. To make the situation worse, Kevin felt so stress and fed up with his mother when she always nagged at him and even warned him to do his best or else he will get punishment such as twisting of the ears, a caning on the legs and buttocks and a withdrawal of permission to watch TV or to go to a cinema for a month. 

Furthermore, when Kevin got the high marks, his mother never fulfilled his dream and just brought anything that she thought was good for him. Pity Kevin when his mother brought him a pair of sneakers eventhough he asked for a pair of football boots to go and play football with Boon Kee. Her mother also controlled his friends by not letting him be friend with Boon Kee because in her opinion, he can gave him bad influence. One thing that made me amazed with his mother's behaviour was how she managed to keep a file full of Kevin's marked exercises and tests.

I know that Kevin's mother wanted the best from him since he is her only son in this world but from my point of view, the way she acted was quite troublesome and only bringing deterioration in a long term for Kevin. Can you imagine what kind of person Kevin will be if he was treated like that along his teenager years? Kevin will probably becomes one of the persons who are dependable and can't make a right decision in his future life because we can see in this story that her mother always decided anything for him. In addition, Kevin will also become an antisocial and unskillful person in the communication techniques if he follows her choosy mother's rules on how to choose a friend.

No matter how bad your mother is, at the end of the day, she still the only mother you have in this world. Eventhough Kevin's mother treated him not the way he wanted but I think that Kevin and his mother should speak up from heart to heart and try to solve the problems tolerantly despite their differences in opinion and behaviour. They should appreciate each other more and at the end of the story, Kevin also should pray for his mother's healthy. In a nutshell, this story is worthy to read as it remind us about our parents and how we should treat them well.

A young boy said to his mother, "How old were you when I was born?" 

His mother replied, "23." 

"Wow, that's a lot of time we missed spending together."

A Cake Maniac

Hi...Last weekend, I spent my holiday at my best friend's house. It's been a while since I last visited her family. Actually, I was not planning to come to his house at all but my instincts told me to do so at the very last minute..huhuhu.. A bit info about my best friend..she is an expert chef but I'm the vice versa.. :)

Maybe because she is one of the older sisters in her family..3/4 of his siblings are the boys and that is one of the strong reasons why she is a good cooker I guess. On our way back, we also met a cute boy with his grandfather when we stopped for a while to fetch my friend's youngest sister. He is so cute that made me felt want to grab him and just take him home to keep for myself.

Hi...Am I cute??

OK.. back to the topic..actually we planned to make 2 types of cakes, Orange Sponge Cake and Banana Cake...but at the end of the day, she managed to make 6 cakes in just two days. Can you believe how crazy she is when it comes to bake a cake.. I just can shook my head when I saw how strong her determination. If she felt the cake was not good enough, she will make it again the next morning. The only advantage about it for me is I can eat the cake as much as I can..haha

Some of the cakes...

Chocolate Sponge Cake

Pandan Sponge Cake

Banana Cake

Orange Sponge Cake

Besides, I also spent a lot of time with her family members. I helped her mother made the lunch and played the games with her younger brothers and sister. We also went to shopping for a while at the evening and enjoyed ourselves very much with unstoppable jokes and laughter. How lucky I am because her family treated me really well and made me felt as I am the part of the family. It also reminded me about my family and made me realized how much I miss to spend time with them. OK, see you again :)

" A good friend knows all your best stories, A best friend has lived them with you "