http://mymemorabletale.blogspot.com/2011/12/dear-2011.html
So,
As promised,
this is gonna be a hell-long-post, get prepared to read, or leave. *smirks
Mental notes to be taken seriously :
- Almost all the photos here belong to yours truly, some belong to Christopher and some belong to Mr. Ho Rui You. :)
- Read the warning notes carefully.
- I am extremely sorry for the late blogpost. I actually.. drafted, erased, drafted and edited for quite a long time. xD
-Unless you're interested in my uninteresting life, you better read it from A to Z. :P
-I'm sorry for not updating much previously ever since after my exam. Blame the internet, I couldn't blog much and I was doing some university research so I didn't spare any of my free time blogging about my life.
Alright, long story short,
Here are some highlights of the year. When I said some, you better
Marriage.
It was.. .... ....
HECTIC.
It's like everyone is rushing to get married, first my brother then my sister. People around me shoot me a pressuring yet rather challenging question which sounds like this ;
Hey, when's your turn?
Staring at them blankly, unknowing what to answer, I smiled,
Soon. :) In another decade or less perhaps?
Anyhoo, both weddings were carried out successfully, peacefully, and of course, full of love and joy. :)
10 years ago, I've been wondering...
How would it be if my brother and sister happened to get married one day?
How does it feel like to be bridesmaid?
All the hows-questions surrounded me and within a year, the questions above were answered. :)
So the number of my family members increases in two years. When's going to be my turn?
That's for me to know, for you to curious about. *grins
Gatherings.
Relating to the first topic that I have mentioned above, both my sister and brother's wedding bring the family together. Part of my maternal Aussie families came back to Malaysia to celebrate this joyful festivity together with us. Grandma is one of them, I'm sure she's extremely happy to attend and be able to witness her first and second grandchildren's wedding ceremonies.
Speaking of family gatherings, I still remember clearly how shy I was when they came over to my house.
(")(") Hahaha, because I've never really meet them before PERSONALLY (don't count the younger days, my memory fades, y'know. :P ). Meeting Christopher, Justine and Joshua with their Aussie accent is completely new to me, but oh well afraid not, PK get used to their accent pretty quick, so there wasn't a problem at all. ;D A (unplanned) visit to their apartment near Ampang area was pretty awesome too! We had a so called "camera war" going on with Christopher's order:
Keep on pressing the shutter release button until you snapped a good, decent photo of Joshua and Justine (who are actually hiding their faces) (\(^.^)/)
Mehh, fun times. :)
Follow on, we had a family outings/trip to Penang! It was on December 2011, I remember. I didn't manage to blog about the trip due to my busy schedule in studying, heh. :( I couldn't really remember what I did or where I went but I'll try to think back and blog it out here. The 2 days 1 night trip was lovely. All I knew was we were quite excited to see lots of scrumptious food and our Nikon babies will give out a lot of "Chik-chak" sound before we officially placed the food into our mouth! Woots. Penang food are always so irresistibility good! :)
Although the time that was being spent together was short, but I had aboslutely good times with them. The love, the care, the crowd. It was beautiful! :) I even braved myself to snap photos with bloody scaredtheshitoutofme snakes with dear Justine, how's that! *jittery smiles :X
Truly miss the heart-to-heart-only-teenage-can-understand-conversation as well as the massive-superpoking session that we had along the journey back and froth! <3
Beautiful, beautiful. Absolutely beautiful!
At the end of the year, not many of them (from Aussie) came over to attend sister's wedding. :( Partly because the kids are busy with studies and the adults are busy with works. Only Aunty H, grandma and Uncle P managed to join us this year but it's okay. We had great times together celebrating Sue's birthday at Mont Kiara? :)
Highschool friends' gatherings. Speaking of THIS, I had many outings with them, tried my best to fit them in my freetime slot. It's hard to meet up with them, I admit. :( Cuz' almost everyone of us has different semester breaks, which we can't really appoint a date to meet at one time! Raya at Shahiela's was cool, spent more time with dear bestie and I'm glad that she finally got to study what she wants! <3 Congratulation, sweetheart. Finally your dream has came trueeeeee. :)
College.
THIS is a broad topic. Hahaha so where shall I begin? :P
Let's begin from January!!!! Hahahahahaokayjoke.
I will TRY to make this as short as I can, bear with my long-winded attitude okay? Haha.
Red Day!
http://mymemorabletale.blogspot.com/2012/01/red-day.html
A-level High Achiever Ceremony for batch 2010/2011! :)
Congratulation to Sherene Ng, (who's now studying Architecture course at hku) for getting a set of marvelous results! :) You made all of us proud. :)
Exams!
One of the most stressful part of life is definitely this. To ace, to have a better future, all of us has to go through.. exams. I wouldn't dare to say that I did marvelous, but I know that I am improving.
Maybe I wasn't as hardworking as other friends did there, deep down, I know what I did and I tried my (not 500% but) best.
Here's an advice to those who's taking A-level as your pre-university course in the future.
If you wish to choose this pre-uni studies before your degree, make sure you study constantly. Make sure you know what you're doing/studying and keep asking the lecturers or seniors if you are in doubt. The most crucial part in studying this course is, never give up. No matter how many times you fall, get up and fight back. Last but not least, do spare some time to have fun with friends. :) Have study groups and score well!
SN12D!
From the beginning of A-level until now, I'm glad that I'm a part of SN12D. :) Although it might not be the best class among all the other classes, I'm happy that I knew each of them, interacted and get to know them personally. :)
Date : October 6
Venue : College hall
First time in dress at college. First formal event organised by the SPUS team for us, the seniors. :)
Everything looked grand. The decorations, the lightings, the sound system, but the pathway to the hall after entering the main door was pretty weird. It was as though we're getting prepared to enter a very creepy haunted house. Like seriously. :/ The emcees of the night were alright. A lot of awkward moment but I guess it's fine after that with some cheers from the fellow attendants. Performances were a (sorry) little bit boring. (But I appreciate the effort there) Whereas.. food wise... *crack knuckles* don't mention. The best part of the night was definitely the free-to-dance-session, which the "dance" floor was dedicated to all the seniors to groove til' errr... drop? No, SYIOK. Hahaha.
Same songs were being played over and over again. Gangnam style -replay for three times, Fantastic baby - at least two times and gahh I was expecting more English songs, not KPOP. ;__; But oh well, what can I say if it's the trend today? ;___;
Photos photos! :D.
Pre-Battle Days!
As days are getting lesser in 2012, we're approaching the end of the year, it means that A2 exam is just around the corner. The attendance is well, shocking in a way that only a few attended the lectures, tutorial classes.. since the lecturers finished teaching the syllabus except for Mr. Lee's classes. Half of a DK (lecture hall) students were present, for his classes. Wonder why? Because he likes teaching new efficient method to solve the Maths problem that we always have when it comes to the pass year papers. ;__;
Another thing is, most of the A-level students would prefer camping in the library than attending any classes. So you see, it has become our territory especially when the diploma students are not around?? Hahaha.
Most of us will be rushing to finish all the pass year questions or having some study group with frienids. There goes the saying : Together study, together makan, together play. TOGETHER STRESS yo.
Speaking of that, college life is about to end. Sad, but I know it's time to move on. All I could do is to enjoy myself as a college student to the maximum, fully utilise the time I have with friends, smile more, appreciate the people around you and be awesome. Am truly grateful to have met so many nice people here, be it the smart ones, the good-looking ones, the active ones, the crazy ones..
Hereby, I'd like to thank each and every lecturer who had personally taught me, passing me on the knowledge whether it's in the syllabus or in general, I wanna thank them for their thoughtfulness, their strict-ness, their scoldings, their care and their love. Thank you, Ms. Chong, Mr. Siva, Mr. Lee, Mr. Hoo, Ms. Ong, Ms. Jynn, Ms. Joanna, Mr. Chong, Mr. Keong, and whoever who had guided me throughout the whole A-level course. :) Thank you!
Birthday Celebration.
My 19th - was the bomb. Ngeh. It was the best out of the best.
Read this again? > (link)
:D
As pathetic as it may sounds, none of my classmates is active in carrying out birthday celebration like this for every of our classmates. Like no offence and seriously speaking, we never really have any activities together, to tighten our relationship and stuff like that? No, it never happen in my class. So being the initiative me, combining with Jan and Hui's ideas, we finally came to a conclusion that, we just gotta do this since it's our last year being here, at TAR College. :)
And zhere you go. (photos)
Our plan was initially to celebrate every month's birthday babies but nah-ah, we finally decided to combine 3 in 1 celebration. Simply means, we're actually combining those whose birthday falls on the first three months and organise a celebration you get what I'm trying to say?
So yeah. 3 in 1 celebration. We had four times celebration and it was a success, not 100% but well at least it's 80% success judging by the attendance. :)
Am glad that I'll never need to plead anyone to attend this simple celebration anymore. :')
New Attempts.
McD Funrun that is! Have I NOT mentioned to you before? :P
The whole Stadium Merdeka was colorful with
Travelling is another new attempt that I never really tried when I am at home.
Travelling alone -having dinner/lunch alone at place away from hostel's cafeteria/college -to somewhere like KLCC's Kinokuniya, to sit and read books/magazines there occasionally -to go to library without any company for study purpose -to walk back to hostel (although the road looks dark enough to be dangerous that any case might happen. Thankfully, I'm still fine, up til' today. )
Travelling with friend/s -for photography outing and shooting. It was part of my dream and I'm thankful that I had loads of photography experience with a dear friend of mine. :) -to one of the recycling factory at Penang with a group of PR students. It was a truly enjoyable trip with Leong and the gang, Jan and many other awesome people. :) Recalling back the "Apom balik" arguments between the babi(s) always make me laugh. Don't ask me why, it was humorous if you were there to witness the incident. XD
-mostly with Jan to somewhere by car. It's great to travel with her, she'll be the driver and I'll always be the one shouting : JAN CAREFUL! or CHILL JAN CHILL. Hahahaha. She is famous for her "typical KL Driver", a title given by Ah Hui just for your info. xD
Crashing into college friends' Deepavali Open Houses in one day was what I did this year. It was my first time, (which I wish to crash more if I have the chance in the future) whoopsmyintentionhasfinallyrevealedwhoops. :P
Nehh, I was just joking. Chillax about it yeah? xD
We first went to Tushil's house, thanks to driver KENGYE, although it's stressful to face the traffic and we did get lost for a few times, we finally arrived at Tushil's house just in time? Hahahaha, Kengye should thanked us - the passengers for the "entertainment" and "laughter" (to ease boredom and tension) that was provided along the journey though. :P Miahahah.
The food cooked by T's mum was delicious and don't mention the cookies, we can't seem to stop untighten the cover, take and eat. Untighten, take and eat. A gateway to become FAT. :D
The whole atmosphere was really lovely with sounds of kids shouting and running around, the sight of laughter between different races, celebrating this festival together and also the mood. :) The happiness that surrounds everyone just feels good!
In the afternoon, god blessed us with heavy rain, which I wasn't sure it's nice because we were actually heading to another friend's house just nearby T's living place. But oh well, thanks so much to him and his brother, we were there by car, but ended up got soaked up by the rain when we got down from their cars. STILL, without the ride, we might have been there by foot and otherwise we'll have to walk under the rain. Thank you very much, Tushil! And your brother (for the ride), your mother (for the food), your father (for the hospitality), your siblings (for the friendly smile) and and and nehhh too much to be listed here. :P Just thank you, man!
Okayokay. *stops* I seem to babble a lot there. =_=
Nextnextnext! The next Deepavali Open House definitely goes to Umma's! :D Her house was FULLLLLLLLL of people. Was first greeted by her mum, as she was surprised (looking at me), as I went to their house with an Indian wear. :P Ngehh, we didn't really eat much though cuz' half of our tummy was filled with T's mum's homecooked food! Hahaha. But we did eat some snack at Umma's, (I must say all the murukus, biscuits, cookies and cakes are alll YUMMY! :D ) Time spent at her place was quite long before we officially go back for our revision. (Mind you, it was still the exam season :( ) Chit-chatting, snapping photos, eating (smirks, pk smirks) and meeting new people. :) It was an awesome Open House as well.
Poor thing, that my wedges was broken when we were on our way back. :'( Poor WangsaMaju's cobbler have to mend PK's wedges twice. :'(
To think back, it was 13th of November 2012. I've to admit, I had a great evening and it was definitely very memorable. <3
Compliment of the day : "Hey! You look good in that punjabi suit! The colour, the texture.. it suits you!" :)
Turka, you hear that. Your Punjabi suit shinessss. :D :D
Food explore!!
Not only in 2012, I can say I try almost every food that is available at Wangsa Maju hahahaaha how nice's that? :P Okay. There's nothing to be so proud of I know but hey! It's cool yaww to try different kind of food to treat ourselves better with food if we're stressed up with studies and hey!
I'm very very grateful. :')
To be able to eat.. what more to get to try all kinds of different food, at KL area. :) I never really like exploring food until I come to KL, and I never really LOVE discovering and rating food until I meet people who LOVE FOOD and that, influence me as well. xD When they say, people who love (to discover) food are awesome people, I couldn't disagree with that statement anymore! Hahahhaahhaha. #vainlaughs
11 February 2012.
The very first time I had my Asam Laksa at KLCC's Little Penang Kafe. Not used to it, but I like it. :> That day can be considered as my first photography attempt at a public place too. :D Weeeee.
The nooby PK. :3
:D
Yashica.
Bought my first film SLR camera with my own collection of money. <3 Developed my first roll of film and here are some of the humble photos. :)
Mamak Moment
Mentioned this before in previous posts. Mamak moment with awesome people while cheering for Dato' Lee. It was nice, to scream-cheer-shout-swear-fliptable(whoops)-clap-chant together with the crowd for Chong Wei. His role isn't just to play the badminton for our country, but his responsiblity on his arm is to raise our country's name and pride. In fact, what he actually did was uniting all of us, the Malaysians, together, to give our 500% support to him. No matter what was the final results, be it the champion or not, it doesn't matter. He lives in all our hearts as the National Hero, and that's what that matters. <3 :)
Work as a part of the BBW crews.
THIS. A lot of stories to tell here but I can't squeeze it all in this post so I'll leave this for my next blogpost? :P
Life at a Hostel.
You know, many rumours have been spreading about the goods and the bads about hostel but in my opinion? It's just as good as living outside. Security is good, management is good. The only dissatisfaction is only the bad-internet-connection, the inequality treatment during semester break by the diploma students and the food wise.... heh. Otherwise, it's good enough to a typical town girl like me.
Many people get homesick easily whenever they're at hostel, but not me. I'm used to it (I call it my second home) even the first day itself. Maybe I'm used to being alone at home so that's why I don't feel that there is a lot of difference? Might be. I love my life there. :) I can be independent, made my own decision and though I get extremely lazy at times, /.\ gees it's indeed a wonderful experience to stay with great roommates, Yeeleng was the first and Li.Cher is the second. :) I'm extremely grateful to learn from them in all aspects spiritually and mentally. A lot of crazy moments happened with them and I'm sure the memories will always stay in all our hearts. :)
Volunteers.
Ever since I stepped into this college, I never stop learning, practically from anyone. :) I was actively involved in volunteering jobs, at college or even out of college's compound. :) Firstly, I was one of the volunteers in cleaning the garden at Block Q, the place where the School of SSH (Social Science and Humanities) students have their tutorial classes. :) Mr. R, a French lecturer who's in charge of the garden utilise all the usable, recyclable materials to rebuild and redecorate the whole (previously unwanted and dumped) garden. It was truly an amazing sight if you've never step into the garden before. You'll see a lot of innovation and creativity in his head when he was doing all these. You guys should check it out sometimes. :)
Apart from that, I volunteered myself to be part of the photography team for SPUS of TAR College. :D Basically, I was being called to snap photos of the events (using my humble Nikon Coolpix s8000 :<, not any professional camera, mind you incase you're thinking further than I am) that happened. Take Teachers Appreciation Day, KL Tour, Students High Achiever Day and Sports Carnival for examples. :)
Was glad that I joined the team. :) The joy of helping others by doing what I like and have passionate about is such a indescribable feelings. :D
Outings.
Countless, I must say. To the heart of KL, to Genting Kelang (GK), to almost everywhere!
Every time after exam, we'll pick a day to go for karaoke session to release some unhealthy stress due to over-night-non-stop-studies. Imagine how powerful karaoke can be to suck out all our tension by just letting us to hold the microphones. :P Ngehh, the disadvantage is of course having the need to spend KACHINGKACHING -money. :(
Movies movies movies with the girls was interesting because the first movie that all of us watched together was "Sinipster", the horror movie. lol It wasn't that scary anyway. Seriously, horror movies are never in my favourite list, you know well to be frank, I.. (call me a chicken) tend to think too much after watching any scary movie, eg : The Chuck (you guys remember that freaky doll with a stitch on his face? (")(") ) Ahhh. That was manymanymanymany years ago, haha. But I'd love to try watching more at present, in the future. :3 *dare myself*
Then, dinnerdinnerdinner at AH HUI's (Carol Chai) living place was f-awesome. :D Hui and yuqing were the one responsible to cook, CHEF lah so called. :P Me- being the helper, and dish-washer (sounds so wrong) and dear Jan was the photographer coughs. coughs. coughs. :P No offence okay if you're reading this? xD Your skills is f-awesome. Hahahahaha.
I don't have photos to show you here, as all the photos were taken Yuqing's Nikon baby. :)
Then, lunchlunchlunch at XUERUU's (it's actually xueruu and huiqiong's condo) was f-awesome too. There were three chefs this time! Particularly, Qiong, Yu and Xue Ruu. :D Whereas my responsibility as the dish-washer never change, Hui and Jan were the "helpers". :P Ngehh.
By looking at the photos above, how and what do you think? Look grand, aren't they? Hehe. :P
....
Tanjung Sepat! Our very first outing to this far. :D
Us - Jan, Jeesin, Mongyen, Hui, Qiong and PK went to Tanjung Sepat and
The journey began when all of us met up with driver - Weijan at Setiawangsa station. Qiong being the GPS helper, Hui being the "entertainer" and me being the photographer as well as qiong's personal assistant. :P
Poor Ah Hui who kept on crying to the mother of God for a goodgood weather. Being the one who "sacrifice" as she would say, (thanks to her wail) the weather was perfect. :]
It was a great trip with the girls, trying the seafood ESPECIALLY the egg-yolk-CRABBY woots. One word : Scrumptious! (Y)
Ah Lai : Can we NOT walk on the bridge? *shivers
US : No, lai NO. :P *pushes ah lai evil-ly
After that we had some pao-eating session for snack. Yes, you hear me right. We never seem to stop eating and we know this is going to be so fattening but who cares. (^.^)V
At long last, we reached the beach! :D The sunset was alright, nothing really nice but we were extremely thankful for the beautiful weather. <3 :)
Of course, we experimented with a lot of jump shots. We failed to be creative, however. :< Since time's running fast, they (the models) did what they could and me (the photographer) snap away what I can. :D So here are the shots.
We ended our day by having snack/dinner together at a restaurant near Jeesin's house. :) A lot of heart-to-heart conversation happened in the car. <3 Indeed, it was one of the best day I've had in 2012. :)
Photography.
My love and interest in this hobby has grew from normal to absolutely obssessed. At first, I thought I'll never have the chance to expand my photography contacts as I was quite dissapointed with the society's inactive status which makes me regretfully sad wasting my membership fee, RM 10 for nothing. :( Thankfully, I met a few photography enthusiasts who are willing to hangout together, for a short photography trip whether around the college, or during any particular event, outside of college's compound.
I've been snapping away a lot of photos, nice, awesome, ugly or unwanted? There are too many of them to be categorized. Did you guys still remember my first photography outing at college with a dear friend? :) There you go! (if you haven't read it yet) http://mymemorabletale.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html
That was in... January! :D
We then had a lot of photography opportunities being offered by one SPUS's (School Of Pre-University Studies) staff, Ms. May. :)
I'd like to show my highest gratitude to Leong and Rui You, my close friends at college who always offer me chances to explore MORE in the photography world, as in being the photographer in certain events? It gave me the opportunity to get to know people, to not be shy, to improve myself, my skills by experimenting and lots more. :)
In May, I was glad that one of my photography-extremely-close-friend has won himself a Canon 600D in a Nat. Geo. Photography contest. :') I was invited to be one of the people to attend the award ceremony as well as a photgraphy talk by Ira Block. :) It's such a blessing to witness the whole event, that your friend's dream has came true, and the hard work all this time is so worthwhile. Well it's late but I still want to congratulate you, Ho Rui You once again for the brilliant effort, as well as the continuous passion in photography. You make all of us proud! Look what Santa have got you as an early present? :)
#hopefullyinthenearfutureitismyturntogetaDSLRforfreetoo. :)
Photography outings never seem to stop as both Ruiyou and myself always initiate to have at least one photography outing almost every month (except during exam season) to improve ourselves, to approach people in the society that we're living in. We've been mostly to Petaling street, Central Market, KLCC, train station, and some other places at KL. :) It was extremely awesome, I must say! <3
By the way, by the way! Have I told you about the royal visit by the Duke and Duchness of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton at KLCC? :D
Woooo. YES. I went to KLCC, upon class being cancelled (not on purpose, but it was so coincidentally happened that many of my lecturers were absent on that day!) Call that lucky, I managed to make myself to meet the prince and the princess with Leong and Danny. <3 :)
It was crowded with hundreds of people holding their respective cameras, their banners, their enthusiasm as well as their excitedness while waiting for the arrival of the royal couples. :) The drama began when they reached. Screams and cheers were roaring everywhere, as usual, people push each other to have a look at them, to snap photos of them and also to shake their hands. o_o Everybody was experiencing being the meat between the bread at such a hot weather, smelly sweats filled the air. *owww
It was a great experience. ;) Leong said. "Now we understand how papparazzi feels like". xD
In the meantime, on April, a photo-album collaboration has created. Beyond The Limits is the name. ;) Have you guys checked out my album and also Ryo's?
The themes so far sounded like this ;
1) Impression.
2) Grand.
3) Unedited.
4) Wonder.
5) Sepia.
6) 20 metres challenge.
7) 7-Minutes Mobile Phone Challenge.
All in all, my photography journey in 2012 has been incredible. Without any of you guys, there'll be no such outings, or even great memories being created. As a learner myself, thank you for being such awesome people and such a patient teacher in guiding me all this while. :) Hopefully, in the future we'll have more chances to go for photography trips together and I'm sure it's gonna be amazing. :D
Love you all!
Self.
Here comes to the part where I'll be talking about self, of how I improve from a nobody to somebody.
The nobody me - I was extremely shy to new people. But once I get to know the person, I would dwell in and can talk almost any topic. Because I was too soft-hearted, I hurt myself and I wasn't mean enough to protect myself. Being vain, I admit that I have this creative gene in me. I never seem to stop making cards to friends since high school. And I'm glad that I made people happy by my hardwork and that's a sense of achievement that no one could ever tell. I was never good at grabbing opportunities, what more to participate at any activities. I was less hardworking as I used to be. I procrastinated a lot. I hate cats. They frightened me where ever I go. /_\ My temper is bad, not very but bad is still bad.
The somebody me - Speaking of interacting with people, after a handshake as an introductory, I can talk to you like you're my close friend with the condition that YOU have your own limits (in presenting yourself), not to the point you brag about yourself or talk crappy topics. I learn to be mean now. My current degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity and degree of immaturity. I learnt how to protect my heart, and I learnt how to be more optimistic than optimistic. Speaking of being creative, I focused more on themes and favourite colours this year. Whether it's in the form of booklet, certificates, keychain or cards, I made more people happy and I shall call them as my personal happiness projects. :) Procrastination still happened, whether it has got worsen or better, that's for me to know and to change. They say, when you realise that time waits for no one, or you have only limited time in life, people tend to rush things and start to appreciate life that they are living by creating countless to-do-lists. What's the point, I 'd ask?
To me, I enjoy everything I do to the maximum since the day one I registered myself as a TAR College student. And I dare to say, I never regret. Another point to see good change in myself is, I became a more loving person, thanks to someone. :) I told you I never like cats, no? If you hand me a couple of kitties of cats purring, I won't feel anymore disgusted but more to being compassionate. (AS LONG AS THEY DON'T FRIGHTENED ME AGAIN) Hahaha. <3 :)
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Summary.
As a whole, this whole year has been extra-awesom-azing to me. From the beginning of the year until the end, my life has never been so splendid. I wasn't expecting 2013 to be this great but what I hope secretly is... I hope to be a better - stronger person physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to endure all the hardships in life. It's time to act like a real adult. :)
To those who managed to read this whole post with patience, you deserve this from me,
Love you lots!
The best post ever XD
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