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The Year of Change: 2010

2011-01-01T21:04:00.000+08:00

Can't help but feel that i've passed through a phase of my life. I'm now aged more than a quarter of a century, and boy, do i feel old!

The year 2010 marked really tremendous changes for me in every way. Wanted to jot down some of the things that were significant to me in the past year.

1. Left my parent's company to venture out on my own. Joining a pharmaceutical company doing sales. This is a entirely refreshing experience for me, as I no longer am under the scrutiny (and ridicule) of my parents. Finally understand the taste of (semi)freedom.

2. I have a fixed and regular salary, with a good comission as well as allowance. Being able to save (well, i spend more than i save actually), finally truly have to deal with management of my own money. I know i have a lot more to implement in terms of money management, and will work towards implementing them in 2011.

3. Visited soooo many countries (whee)! I <3 travelling and airasia :) First was in April, to Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. This working trip was fully sponsored by my company. And our job was to escort and accompany some doctors to attend a conference there. Had a hard time adjusting to my role as it was barely a month in the company, and had yet to warm up to the drs nor mastered the skill of acting friendly to them. But well, survived it in one piece and had forge good ties with the Drs that went on the trip.

4. Fantastic trip to Cambodia with my dearest baby and close friends. It was a truly wonderful trip, and what other way to describe a place that has RM1.50/mug DRAFT beer. Mad <3. The trip was an eye opener, because Cambodia is a really poor country, and we could see the conditions that people lived in here. It is sad that a whole nation should suffer the consequences of a devastating war even though it has been years after it is over. The trip to Tonle Sap really left an impression on me as the living conditions of the 'lake' people really saddened me. But the trip was fun, because of the company that we had. Funny antics abound as we visited the Angkors around Siem Reap, and when we frolicked in the pool at the hotel. Wouldn't mind going anywhere with this bunch!

5. Cooked my first ever proper meal for my dearest on his birthday. It was pan-fried Salmon with Thai Sweet Sauce. I L-O-V-E-D it. Not sure i could say the same for him, but at least i think he liked it :). I even topped it off with a Mango Sorbet with i made myself. Thinking back, it was an amazing feat. Sadly the present i got him (a GPS Navigator) was stolen few days after his birthday along with his wallet and a host of other things. It was a really bad time for him as his house just got robbed couple of days before the incident, and he already lost his laptop, camera, hard disk and cash. Ouch. But looking back, I'm happy i cooked the meal for him, as it is an experience to remember while physical gifts could always be lost.

6. Celebrated my birthday with a dinner in Rakuzen and my birthday gift this year was a promise. A promise of an IPAD :) that would be delivered at a later date :(. LOL. Due to the shortage in US, UK and basically everywhere else in the world. Finally got it 30th July. 2 month overdue but still LOVED it anyway. Feel a little bit sorry for making a fuss of not having a birthday present, but honestly speaking, i was more touched by his gesture to give me an ipad as a gift. It was nice knowing that he was willing to go through quite a lot of trouble getting it for me through his sister's business contact in US. And it is a very expensive gift! A tad too expensive, if you ask me. But! Absolutely loved it. And also very touched by the fact that he brought me to have our potraits done ( he said since no gift to give me so at least got something special for me). However the stupid artist didn't know how to draw nicely. But appreciated bee's nice thought anyways.

7. Visited Guangzhou with dearest, Phangy and Ban in August. It was my first trip ever out of ASEAN. And of course, the lengthiest airplane ride ever (four hours). It felt great to finally make a trip to China, as I have heard so much about it, and after all it is the place where my ancestors were from. Since i'm a cantonese from a place called Zhongshan, the trip was even more special for me. We recognised some difference in culture in China, especially when it comes to social etiquette. No one queues up there, they still spit on the floor, the cantonese curse like theres no tomorrow, and their toilets are scary dirty. It feels like a place where the economic development is way faster than the community development. Nevertheless, it was a very enlightening trip. I got to know that THINGS CAN BE VERY CHEAP ACTUALLY! We visited a gift wholesale place there, and everything was mad cheap. Like earphones for RM1.35. WTF! Really liked the place even though the food was not really to my liking (lots of pork and beef, not enough fish and chicken). Would definitely return for another trip.

8. Baby G was born! Ct's sister gave birth to a very adorable little one at DSH! Baby Noel was also born this year :)

9. Lined up 8 hours to purchase an iPhone 4 with Cyn, Wayz, Sheena and Pau Pau. Was there during the launching and it was madness. Took the queue number at about 12pm. Waited till 8+pm before we got our units. Haha. But the retina screen makes it all worth it!

10. Free hotel stays!!! Bunked in with woopz gang at KL Hilton courtesy of one very generous company (not mine ahah). And the second time was also courtesy of the same generous company but this time in One World. KL Hilton is really fantastic - Crabtree and Evelyn toiletries eheh! One World was a wee bit disappointing. Chinaman-style rooms, but the stay was enjoyable even though it was quite last minute. Not forgetting Sepang Gold Coast, which was a nice getaway for us and a thoroughly enjoyable experience, including the roadside durian session :)

11. Went for two Night Marathons and ran the 10km. The first one was the Putrajaya Night Marathon, second one was the more enjoyable Energizer Night Race. Enjoyed both entirely, however need to improve on my timing. Ran 10km in about 1hr 20mins for both of the races. Would definitely like to be sub-60mins in the future. WORK ON THIS IN 2011!

12. Daddy gave Ah Yan, Mom and I flowers during CNY 1st day. Which coincided with Valentines Day. It was a really sweet and surprising gesture. There is a rift in father-daughter and husband-wife, i know he sometimes regrets it and thus the gesture. I will work hard to mend it.

13. 2010 was also the year of the gluttony affair (as Sheena like to call it). I dined in Xenri courtesy of Aunty Carol. Very nice Jap restaurant with really costly prices. Had THREE lunches in Sage. LOVE that place. LOVED the foie gras. Once was for the Pantai Hospital docs and i got to tag along for it. The next was with Pikz and Sheena, for which i owe them for all their help in getting me a job and being there for me through the good times and bad. Love them both. Third time was with Mom for her birthday. Wonderful wonderful place. Not to forget Levain as well, for it was there i had the first taste of macarons. But i won't dare venture to say that this is in the same league as Sage and Xenri. It is WAYYYYYYY out of league.

14. Our dearest MeiXian finally graduated and now she's all grown up and a big girl with great responsibilities in her company! Proud *sniff sniff*. She's travelling everywhere for training and stuff. Very glad that it all panned out for her.

15. Made good friends in my company. Sad to see them leave, and will be sad to leave (shhhhh).

17. Went for slimming at Bizzy Body. It is very effective in slimming toning my body. Coupled with the special diet they gave me I really did have vast improvement in terms of my silhouette even though my weight did not go down a lot. Very satisfied with the results but i have since gotten slightly fatter. Will be on a 'hellish' diet starting tomorrow (no, seriously).

18. Got my very first branded sunnies, a Gucci pair, courtesy of a very dear friend for my birthday :) And she will be back with my very first branded handbag soon :) <3

19. Travelled down to Singapore twice. The first with Ct's two sisters, and the second with Pikyi and SingYew after attending Kenneth's wedding in JB. Fell in love with the restaurant Food For Thought. Will be back again for it. Paid some tuition fee to Marina Bay Sands. Takda ong la the place!

20. Attended MAD parties!!! PikYi's birthday bash at Zouk, Wayz & Cyn's joint bday also at Zouk, our very fabulous iPyjamas party @MArc Residence and Edwin Soh's Back To School party at A Famosa M'cca! Yayys >3

21. My very first Halloween party where i dressed up! As a freakin' Joker Nurse! Nailed the part :)

22. A girls only trip to Xmas Shopping Trip to Bangkok. 8 girls. 3 days. Tops. Dresses. Bottoms. Bags. One word to describe it - FUN! Except for the fact that we were trapped on a delayed plane on the way back from BKK and had to celebrate Xmas on the plane, with a packet of Nasi Briyani. Luckily the Nasi Briyani was yummy.

23. Finally realised the logic behind the phrase My Better Half. For he truly is my better half. Always there to support, advise and guide me along my drama and crisis. <3 I know i sometimes am a little indecisive, petty and emo, but i know that i can always look to you to point me to the right path.

24. Faced with something Yuchen and I call the Quarter Life Crisis. I was finally faced with the fact that I have yet to achieved what i thought i would at the age of 25. Plenty of things that i SHOULD HAVE or WOULD HAVE done. It made me realise that in life, we really have to 'carpe diem'. Seize the day. Plenty to work on in 2011.

25. Finally, i am proud to be able to start my very own business. An online one. It will be a very exciting journey, and would be the first among many that will be set up in the future. I need lots of passion, ideas, patience and some luck as well. Wish me luck!

Retrieve Lost File from Windows Mail

2008-10-09T00:06:00.001+08:00

I have just recovered from the shock of finally being able to find my ‘lost’ file from Windows Mail.

See, what happened was I spent the whole day working on a file which I opened in Windows Mail but not through the SAVE AS option.

When I was working on the file, I just kept clicking the Save button without realising it was being saved in some secret location that the people in Microsoft ‘devised’ simply to make their clients lives extremly difficult… (haha i’m just being super angsty here)

anyway, i browsed through these site which gave me an inkling of where i could find my file:

http://www.pcmesh.com/windows-vista-index.dat-1.htm
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1505405&SiteID=17
http://vistahelp.wordpress.com/
http://phaktor7.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/recover-outlook-attachments-saved-to-the-olk-folder/

Which really helped me realise that THE FILE IS SOMEWHERE HIDDEN I JUST COULDN’T FIND IT!

I followed all these steps diligently except for the fact that i couldn’t find the ContentIE.5 folder although i was IN the Temporary Internet Files folder!?!?

Ok I’m rambling here but in short these are my steps of HOW TO RETRIEVE A LOST FILE FROM WINDOWS MAILS:

1) Go to Control Panel > Folder Options > Click the VIEW tab > Click the SHOW HIDDEN FILES button > Uncheck Hide Extensions for Known File Types > Uncheck Hide protected operating system files

2) Go to My Computer > C: > Users > [Your Username] > AppData > Local > Microsoft >Windows>Temporary Internet Files

Click just cut and paste C:/Users/[Your Username]/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary Internet Files/ into your Windows Explorer toolbar (although this didn’t work for me)

or’

Reopen your attachment (mine was in Microsoft Word 2007), click on the Microsoft logo thingie, go to Prepare, and click on Properties (gosh, how i hate the new Microsoft Office now) and you will then see something like “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\JX13B7TU\Diet_Planner_Business_Proposal.docx”

So just remove the back portion and paste into windows explorer (e.g. C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5)

For most people, they should now see a Content IE.5 folder. The file is located in there, so just sort by Date Modified and go through it.

But for me, I couldn’t see ANY folder whatsoever. Meaning No CONTENT IE.5. WTS is this? Other people could see it! Angsty.

So i spent TWO HOURS FIGURING WAT WAS WRONG WITH MY COMPUTER!?!?! !@#$#%

when i was nearly in tears… i suddenly thought about pasting it into my Internet Browsers!!!

IE *cut and paste* --> Windows cannot find blablabla DAMN YOU!

Mozilla Firefox *cuts and paste* –> The directory name came up! I was estatic! But weirdly enough, there was no listing of the files/folders in this Content IE.5 directory! WHAT’S UP WITH IT, man?!!?

One last try…

Google Chrome *cuts and paste* –> IT CAME UP! Never was i so happy to see weird alphanumeric characters like SEW26GPM or JX13B7TU or ODKFU80I!! Did some clicking around (using the CTRL F function searching for docx) and found my file in no time.

Seriously. If this blog entry could even help one other person, all my wasted years spent dabbling with computers would be WORTH IT!

Let me know if this helps anyone. *Peace* LOVES GOOGLE TO DEATH!

Saving Energy: Green Electronics

2008-08-04T18:15:00.002+08:00

Make a count of the electronic equipment you have in the house. Your handphone, laptops, desktops, cordless phones, tv, psp, wii, ps3... the list goes on.

Ever wonder how much energy these electronics consume?

Greenpeace has recently updated their Guide to Greener Electronics. So here's a list that ranks the top 18 manufacturers in terms of its GREENness (on the scale of 10):

5.1 Sony Ericsson - Leading with almost top marks on toxic chemical phase out but poor on recycling.
5.1 Sony - High score for products free of the worst toxic chemicals and committed to cuts in it's greenhouse gas emissions.
4.8 Nokia - Docked one penalty point for poor take-back practice in India. High renewable energy use.
4.5 Samsung- Scores well on chemicals and waste criteria. But very poor on energy issues.
4.5 - Dell - Good on toxic chemicals and e-waste, but low score on energy issues.
4.3 Toshiba - Scores well on toxic chemicals but badly on e-waste and energy.
4.3 Acer - Good commitment to phase out toxic chemicals, but poor overall on e-waste and energy.
4.3 Panasonic - Several products free of toxic chemicals and good energy efficiency, but poor on e-waste.
4.3 Motorola - Average scores for toxic chemicals, e-waste and energy issues.
4.3 HP - Good on amounts recycled and committed to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
4.1 Apple - Increasing number of products free of the worst toxic chemicals. Low scores on energy except for good energy efficiency in products.
3.9 Sharp - Good on toxic chemicals and energy efficiency but very poor on recycling.
3.9 Lenovo - Some points for toxic chemical commitment and good on product energy efficiency.
3.7 Philips - Top score on energy issues but zero on e-waste policy and practice.
3.7 Fujitsu Siemens - Some products free of the worst toxic chemicals but poor on e-waste and energy issues.
3.3 LG - Some points on toxic chemicals and e-waste but zero on energy.
2.15 Microsoft - Some commitments on toxic chemical phase out but poor on e-waste and energy issues.
0.8 Nintendo - Some improvement on toxic chemicals and commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Another point to highlight is that laptops are still very much more energy efficient than desktops (source here).

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Notebooks are the most obvious way to save energy in home computing and client-side office computers. Energy consumption is a critical factor in notebook design. It determines how long the batteries will last, which should at least be a couple of hours even with the most power-hungry processor. As a consequence laptops use the most energy efficient displays (LCD), adapters, hard disks and CPUs that are available. All CPU manufacturers have special mobile versions of their CPUs sporting PowerNow! (AMD), SpeedStep (Intel) and LongRun (Transmeta) power-management features.
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So on your next electronics shopping spree, remember to pick the ones that will help green the world!

Back To Basics - Fresh is Best

2008-08-03T20:09:00.001+08:00

We live in a world where we work fast, live fast and therefore eat fast. Almost everything under the sun (and edible) is available frozen, canned and highly processed.

Jean Michel Fraisse, author of cookbook Taste (as featured in theStar today), observed that:

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“In France, we worship fresh produce but this practice doesn’t exist here – not any more, anyway,” he says. “In Asia, 90% of the food explanation and information is outdated and obsolete. The food and beverage industry here is caught in a time warp.

“Having lived in Malaysia for the past 12 years, I have seen the cooking competency level decline over the years. Malaysia is not short of talent but it’s sad when good chefs are forced to go abroad for better pay because it’s cheaper to hire foreign labour to cook with poor quality produce.”
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One does not have to look far to see this. Just switch on the AFC channel on Astro. Most of the cooking shows produced in the Europea and Canada features chefs cooking food using only fresh ingredients. Compared this to Malaysian cooking shows, which (mostly) shows chefs cooking with ingredients from Maggi or Ayamas. While i am well aware that these shows are sponsored by these companies, it is disheartening to see that Malaysian Chefs are actually promoting these products in a cooking show.

Mr Fraisse also adds that:

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It’s no use resorting to organic food only when your health or those of your family members are affected. By then, it may be too late. Why not start now?

“Although the price you pay for good quality and organically grown food may be higher now, it’s actually more cost-effective in the long run. Nourish your family with all the nutrients from good, wholesome food and think of how much you’d save on health care costs in the long run.”
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Organic food is often label the 'food for the sick'. This is furthest from the truth, as everyone needs the best nutrients and nourishments in life.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Flock OMG

2008-08-02T23:15:00.001+08:00

Hello! This is a test blog direct from my newest browser - Flock!

Flock is built on Mozilla Firefox.

The reason i downloaded it was because i'm currently following Ed Dale's Thirty Day Challenge. The 30DC is a program that aims to show us how to make money online. Hopefully i'll be able to make my first dollar online at the end of the program.

Please do join this program if you are interested in online business. What's a better way to learn than to follow those who have already made it happen.

Best of all, it's freaking free!!!!!

So go now, join today and learn something!

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siao kia

2008-05-02T17:14:00.003+08:00

hahahahahaha im crazy la i know!

find me @ ecogreen.com.my/lihua

(cannot blog in foul language, since it can be linked to ecogreen lol)

im back

2008-03-19T17:01:00.002+08:00

well hello, my dear readers...

its been awhile since i've really blogged.

its not to say i don't have enough things to blog about, its just that i don't have enough mood to blog... that said, its time i get back on the blogging bandwagon... want to capture the dian dian dee dee of my life...

hehehe...

things are going okay at the moment. just okay though. not great, definitely not fantabulos (this is referring to my working life). i didn't really expect to have this much challenges. internal squabblings, endless procrastinations... you get the drill.

but i guess, this happens to most working people, i guess. i'm always trying to remind myself that i have made the right choice for my current situation.

anyhoo, personal life is going great, as usual :D... but definitely need more cuddling time xD!

ok.. time for another bout of discussion (bout, cuz there'll be fights...)

till next time peeps, toodles~

this day in history

2007-12-24T13:38:00.000+08:00

From Left: Ct, Me and Aaron Choo.

The day i met him.

hello world~

2007-12-20T14:03:00.000+08:00

omg its been such a long time since i've last blogged here...

to liven things up a bit heres something interesting...

spotted this on my mom's table today...

its a namecard!

omg so cute! ahhaha...

this namecard belongs to someone who owns a company selling uniforms.

super creative...

maybe i should make a namecard... vegetable shaped one!!! cabbage or tomato should look interesting :)

hee

Me the Fresh Grad

2007-11-09T16:44:00.002+08:00

to say that i have graduate would be counting my eggs before they are hatched...

but count them i shall anyway!!!

i am finished. done. over. with my compulsory education. (well, compulsory in societal terms, that is...)

this sem, i took MBB, Plant Biotechnology, SCI2010 and Genomics... by the 30th of November i would be able to confirm whether or not i've passed them all.

so, tonite, we'll be chilling at Somo Mont Kiara, and then it'll be workworkwork starting tmr.

can't wait.

-its the past thats the most haunting-

2007-09-02T02:12:00.000+08:00

23082007

2007-08-23T20:51:00.000+08:00

as i have said, i will be practising plain blogging, no frills, just uncapitalised words :). feels good jotting down my thoughts as it flows. can polish up my engrish oso, no?

lol.

went on a wild goose chase for a dvd recorder at 1utama with parents today. parents+ecogreen were being featured on NTV7 today at 7.30pm and we wanted to purchase a dvd recorder to record the momentous occasion.

first, we dropped by at jayajusco, still my one stop favourite spot for home appliances (not like i buy them so often also lah). RM999 for a Phillips dvd recorder that records straight onto a dvd. they had much higher end models, which included a harddisk. freaking expensive at nearly rm2k each. rather buy a handphone okay! decided on the RM999 one already, but then the sales staff say NO STOCK wth... display set can sell lah, but no special discount price oso. damn not worth it, because the display set is already well-used.

went to BEST DENKI then. they had a slightly wider range of models, but didn't have the low-end phillips one. mostly high-end models with RM2k price tags. they carried a low-end panasonic one, with the same functions as the phillips recorder but at a slightly more expensive price of RM1299. but then oso dun have stock!!!! wth.

then daddy thought about calling the production people and see whether they can provide us with a soft copy. can wor!!! problem solved! pocket don't have hole also. :) but downside is have to wait a bit before i can get the soft copy.

one thing good about buying electronics/home appliances nowadays is the installment payment plans, which are most of the time, 0% interest. i think its a win-win situation for the buyer and the seller. buyers are able to afford the things they want earlier, and sellers can sell more! but of course don't go buying unnescessary things lah...

on another note, dad has promised to get my a handphone as soon as i finish designing a brochure. i have been putting the designing work on hold, due to the huge workload, but after 3rd September (or maybe even before that! *squeals in delight*), i may be able to complete it.

then i will get a kickass 3G HighMP Camera MP3 phone! no iphone, though. wayyyyy out of my league :(.

nvm. soon i will be able to afford it.

on another another note, i have thing CRAZYYYYY thing about 2008. i dunno why i'm filling in the year as 2008 on my assignment cover sheets! sheesh! all wayyee's fault lah! get me so fixation on 2008 and 2009...

don't care! you must get married on 090909. by hook or by crook!

lol

Don't Lie.

2007-08-23T20:44:00.000+08:00

lying is sometimes a good thing.

if lying can protect the people that we care about, it is the lesser of the evils.

undoutbly, it could be risky, but if it involves people who is worth the risk, we should, by all means, lie with a straight face and feel absolutely no guilt about it.

when it is necessary, lie.

2sens.

Paradigm Shift.

2007-08-22T23:56:00.000+08:00

haven't been blogging for a really long long time. i could take the easy way out and put the blame on being too damn busy with coursework and other miscellaneous activities (such as spending time with ct) but the truth is that i have totally forgot the meaning of blogging.

for a long time, my blog posts have not been reaching to the most important audience. that is, me. i have been constantly trying to write entries that are entertaining to readers of my blogs (albeit only a handful, but still counts!).

the reason i started this blog was because i wanted to document my adult life. i started the blog just a few days before i turned 21. i had this crazy intuition that my life would change dramatically from my 21st birthday, that it would be more interesting than all my 20 years combined. i wanted to document the changes that i would be going through, the fun i would have, the people i would encounter and everything else that matters.

my intuition was right. my life did change dramatically. i met great friends, became philosophical, less self-conscius and of course meeting the person that i had been waiting for a very long time.

in the midst of these wonderful things, i forgot my main point of blogging. if ever i wanted to blog about something, i would insist to include pictures, funny remarks, good write-ups and the whole 'quality-blog' thing. these requirements are hard to fulfil, as they require immense creativity and of course, time. thus, i chose not to blog.

reading some plain blogs, blogs which do not have fancy photoshopped pictures, funny remarks or creative videos, have made me realise the fundamental reason of blogging.

to document things that are significant to me. entries that will make me smile and nod in reminiscence of old times.

and thats what i shall do. no more fancy photos, no wannabe videos, not even properly capitalized words. just plain thoughts. good ol' thoughts.

except, of course, when i feel like i want to entertain.

and to my own readers dissing me in my chatbox: Nah, blog lah blog lah :p.... thanks for continuing to drop by although i havent been updating.

theStar pimps EcoGreen!

2007-06-19T20:08:00.000+08:00

Parents interviewed in TheStar!

In conjunction with the World Environment Day on the 17th on June, my parents were interviewed by the Star :).

Its the third time we've been featured in this particular newspaper so far. We are always thankful for the exposure they give to the organic cause.

Here's the link.

Not sure the link will be active for how long, so i saved a copy :)

Click the below picture for a jpeg file of the whole article.

A very well-written article... And my mom is very happy because her picture turned out to be quite good. lol. She has had horrible experiences with interview pictures one involving a full page picture of her with her eyes half closed. In a female magazine. -_-"

Since we're on a roll, i'll post some pictures of EcoGreen. :)

Klarh. Dem happy.

till next post.

BIACK!

2007-06-19T00:09:00.000+08:00

UPDATED: 19th June 2007

Ladies and Gentlemen IT IS SO OVER!!!

(My exams i mean)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTZ!

A quick rundown:

SCM3011 Tropical Aquatic Biology
Paper was WOOOKAY but nearly got the fright of my life when reading instructions for the Short Answer Questions section... Apparently we had to answer 6 topics (i.e. questions) instead 4! And i only prepared for 4 topics! So die die oso had to crap some stuff out...

BTH3711 Food and Industrial Microbiology
Only had four days to prepare for this. Since i skipped MOST of the lectures, everything was relatively foreign to me. The paper was errr okay? Plenty of familiar/run of the mill questions, but my answers were pretty dodgy since i forgot some of the stuff i studied T_T.

GEN3030 Genetics of Development
Freaking CRAZY killer paper actually turn out pretty okay. Studied the syllabus about 1 week prior to the exam, but actually only had 1 day to revise since Food & Industrial Microbio paper was held on Wednesday and this was on Friday. So it was all havoc and crazy cramming... Pikki, Wayzie and I went to Kakak's place to study together the night before the exam and we had to constantly bitch and gossip to keep each other awake. LOL. Fun tho'.

ETW1102 Business Statistics
My last paper was Business Statistics... which is in fact a first year business unit. I took it my elective. Stayed up the whole night to cram in Probabilities, Index numbers, Regression lines and all that shyte i left behind in A-levels. Whole unit in 1 day... T_T Blame those who said that Business Stats is freaking easy.... IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT BECAUSE I PROCRASTINATED BASED ON YOUR STATEMENT!!!!

Results coming out on the 13th of July. *kiasukiasukiasu*

Anyways, what's done is done! Now I have my life back until the next semester! (Which would be rather interesting since we are moving to the new campus!!! SWEEEEeeeeeT!)

Will be BACK in action again! Blogging, i mean.

Just caught Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer @ Cineleisure.
Not bad la... but I seriously don't have a thing for action movies... i'm a chickflick kinda gal!

Next on my Cinema List: 200 pounds Beauty... Korean! I Likey!

BTW there's this new doughnut shop (Big Apple Doughnuts) at the Curve (near TGIF) and their melt-in-your-mouth doughnuts are seriously to die for!

Go TRY!
DunkinDonuts can go keep their Jalur Gemilang coloured doughnuts...

A tad on the expensive side tho', with the doughnuts costing RM2 each or RM9.50 for 6.

Meanwhile... Please thank me for enriching your life.... because i hereby present to you....
The greatest Tollywood MTV. EVER.

EDIT:

Mr BanKeeTan has filed a complaint highlighting his displeasure on the lack of acknowledgement given to him for referring the Tollywood MTV to me. o_0|||

Thus, on behalf of all, I would like to sincerely thank him for enriching our lives.

Thank you, Bankee...

*thumbs up*
(and yes that blurred out face next to him is me... pardon me sub-standard photoshopping skills...)

"The Layan Entry"

2007-06-03T21:57:00.000+08:00

NO TIME!

No TIME!

Yet i'm slacking T_T.. slap me!!!!

anyways!!!

heres a precursor to the blog diarrhea that will be afflicting yours truly once i get exams out of my system!

my Exam Schedule:
8th June Tropical Aquatic Biology
13th Food and Industrial Microbiology
15th Genetics of Development
18th Business Statistics

T_T

And CONGRATs to pikki on her allnewkickass AQUARACER! Dang i want one!!! T_T

but first... a collage of picture from my birthday nite at Passion! WOOTZ

Perfectionism

2007-05-05T19:20:00.000+08:00

WHOA!

Haven't been posting for a looooong time...

Sorry people. Sorry to myself. For not updating. As Frequently. As I would like.

Had a chat with someone (^^^) the other day...

I might be a perfectionist.

OKAY DON'T LAUGH!

As wikipedia (amen) defined, perfectionism can be thought of as: The persistence of will in obtaining the optimal present and future quality of spiritual, mental, physical, and material being.

Those who have been into my room or study(ied) the same classes with me WILL say that i do not show any characteristic of being a perfectionist.

Because, i'm messy-dirty-lazy-procrastinate-ing person.

A perfectionist cannot all that, right?

Well, wrong.

In my case, my perfectionistic needs are so intense, that i rather not do anything, than do something imperfect.
(Applicable up to when the flood reaches the eyebrows, e.g. assignments almost due, exam is tomorrow, DBKL threatens to seal my room because of its filthyness, and so on and so forth)

It's just like in this case of blogging.

I have nothing/no mood to write therefore I don't write for fear of writing something sucky.

But now, when everyone threatens not to visit my blog anymore [okie la not threaten, already don't visit already :( ], i HAVE to blog something out by hook or crook...

It's like I set a minimum standard that i need to achieve, and if i don't think i can achieve it, i won't want to start doing it.

Case #1: Tropical Aquatic Biology report

Sets high standard (wanna get high marks)
> glances at the data/work involved
> don't wanna do coz hard to achive the standard/perfectness
> don't wanna do
> don't wanna do
> don't wanna do
> don't wanna do
> don't wanna do
> HAVE TO DO IMMEDIATELY DY COS TMR MUST PASSUP :(

And while doing the assignment, i insist on writing out what i think i should write out, even though it's impossible to actually find enough information to write. And when i can't do that part, I'll just stop. And not continue until I accidently find out that another half an hour have passed.

Only then i'd force myself to skip that part (boohoohoo lost marks *kiasukiasu*)

SEE? I'm a perfectionist!

And when blogging, I set this 'standard' of having to write funny/interesting stuff or uploading photos, and if i don't feel funny and have no photos to upload, i just don't blog...

Perfectionism, right?

Or maybe, i'm just plain L-A-Z-Y.

On ANOTHER note:

Two persons who share the same BIRTHDATE (both are 23), blogged about how to play/cure mosquito bites recently.

He blogged about it first:
Ceetee

Then she did (albeit a MUCH better and more in depth version):
Cheesie

PHWOARRR!!! FATED ONE!!!

Now, who's born on the 26th of May, 1985? Let's see our blog got similarities or not!!! heehee

Zeroes...

2007-04-10T14:39:00.000+08:00

ROTFLMAO!

*Disclaimer: Only for those who have watched Heroes...

Got Me Of Course Happy

2007-04-02T11:51:00.000+08:00

- Fatty's Happy 23rd -

~~(to be edited soon)~~

Click here. *discreetdiscreet*

Cheeky Moments In Uni

2007-03-17T21:40:00.000+08:00

You think you know how stressful exams can be.

You don't.

Take a look at pictures below, and you will understand the impact exams can have to youngsters of this generation.

What started as a normal, mundane, study session at the library...

Developed into a camwhoring session...

Slowly spiralling out of hand...

Attack of the rodents!

The villianiest vermin was also spotted...

Escalated into a full blown body examination!

A low-profile student in the lecture hall

Playing with Kakak's Bag...

BOWLING SESSION IN PYRAMID

WINNERS

LOSERS :(

FARNEY HAIR

Pikki played with my hair in Ah Phangz' room.

*Disclaimer: Pics taken quite awhile ago. We are MUCH prettier now thank you very much.

2419200 seconds

2007-03-17T21:35:00.000+08:00

13 March 2007 @ theCurve

:D

2007-03-15T01:31:00.000+08:00

Malacca Trip Feb'07

2007-02-17T13:22:00.000+08:00

Had an ultra-fabulous time at Malacca with Phangz, Dingz, Sokest, Kaya and Ct last Saturday.

We went-a-eating around the Malacca town and walked about aimlessly. Haven't spent such quality time with the people around me recently.

Some piccies I took during the trip. Pardon the lack of human beings in the pics, will be uploading the camwhore pics later. For now its just the "artistic" ones (self praise is a disgrace, lol).

Tree Murder.

2007-02-10T00:22:00.000+08:00

Trees were chopped down at the park opposite my house.

They were diseased trees.

Becca says...

2007-02-08T23:21:00.000+08:00

Becca says...

When GOD makes u wait for so long, it would be a worthy wait.

WALAU!

2007-02-05T01:02:00.000+08:00

OMG! I LOVE MY NEW CNY SKIN + CNY TECHNO SONG!

c'mon lah! only once a year... bear with it k!

:P

Angry Phangz and other stories.

2007-01-30T20:46:00.000+08:00

The photshop brush thing is really fun...

So far created a few pictures ady:

Phang is angry at Cynthia.

THIS PIC SERVES As A REMINDER TO NEVER IRK PHANGZ!

Idol Lai Man Yin requested this for her one month annivesary with her pet Rafiki, uh, I mean Justin.

NICE! I mean, Idol. Oh, okay, justin too. o_O|||

[l.i.h.u.a.]'s Top 30!

2007-01-30T19:25:00.000+08:00

Here's a list of 30 most played songs on my Windows Media Player.

*thought it'll be fun!*
(number of times played could be small compared to yours 'cause I just updated my WMP to Version 11... the counts started from then)

Number in bracket () indicates number of times played.
Name is bracket [] indicates MY translation of the song name.

30. Hui Dao Guo Qu [Go back to last time] - Jay Chou (33)
When I'm feeling a little blu-ish

29. Yuan You Hui [Round.. err dunno how to translate] - Jay Chou (34)
When I want to listen to songs that I can't hear the lyrics...

28. Too Serious Too Soon - Gareth Gates (38)
When I'm doubting...

27. Feng [Wind? I think] - Jay Chou (37)
When I'm feeling sad... Damn sad song. MTV even sadder.

26. Name - Goo Goo Dolls (42)
When I miss old times...
Nicest song ever. Just ripped it from my old old CD, few days only already 42 times played!

25. Never Know - Jack Johnson (46)
When I feel like listening to some adult alternative pop/rock 0_O (what a general genre)
I was infatuated with Jack Johnson awhile back thus explaining the high play count.

24. Free Loop - Daniel Powter (47)
When I'm in the mood for engrishy songs.
I still cannot figure out whether Mr Powter sang the words 'one night stand' in the song or not. Sounds like he did, but doesn't seem like it fits the song. Lazy to google the lyrics. Shall continue singing to the song the way I perceive it is.

23. Yi Shou Jian Dan De Ge [A piece of simple song]- Wang Lee Hom (60)
When I feel I want to sing a song properly. (This song simple to sing mah!)
But wooh, Wang Lee Hom's songs make me swoon anytime.

22. I Want You to Want Me - Letters to Cleo (76)
When I need some headbanging music.

21. Stupid Cupid - Mandy Moore (77)
When I feel NAUGHTY!

20. Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader (78)
When I feel like dancing and singing (which is like, all the time).

19. Susan Suo [Susan says/said/saying] - David Tao (88)
When I feel a little R&B-ish

18. Shen Lan Se De Qing Shu [dark blue/navy love letter]- Jay Chou (103)
When I... actually Jay Chou songs are suitable for all occasions.

17. Emotion - Yu Chae Young (111)
When I'm feeling a little CRAZY, baby! This is the 'soundtrack' to the famous Korean Girls Karaoke in Youtube. I always bob my head to this song when it gets played.

16. Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae (139)
When I'm feeling old school...

15. I Will Still Love You - Britney Spears ft. Don Philip (152)
When I'm feeling lovey dovey... (which is like, NEVER, but I still like listening to it :D)

14. Lieng Zhi Lien Ren [Two ekor lovers/a pair of lovers]- Gary Chao Ge (161)
When I'm feeling dreamy... (which is like, always)

13. It's Raining - Rain/Bi(163)
When I'm feeling HOT!!!!

12. Jin Tian Ni Yao Jia Gei Wo [Today You Want to Marry me!]- David Tao (164)
When I'm feeling cute :p

11. Shining Friends - 2R (171)
When I miss my frens...

10. Ke Ai Nu Ren [Cute lady]- Jay Chou (198)
When I feel like listening to someone singing to me...

9. Better Together - Jack Johnson (221)
When I feel like shaking my feet to the music...

8. Say Goodbye - Debbie Gibson & Jordan Knight (245)
When I feel dueting with myself...

7. Timeless - SG Wannabe (246)
When I feel like listening to a nice, slow korean song 0_O

6. Tian Tian Ye Ye [Day Day Nite Nite]- FIR (353)
When I feel like stretching my vocal chords. o_O||| This song hard to sing!

5. Mu Hei [Eye black? Err dunno] - Fiona Sit (388)
When I feel like listening to bad singing (FIONA SIT SINGS IT BEST! OUT OF KEY!). I really like out of tune singing! I mean, seriously!

4. True Colours - Phil Collins (439)
When I'm feeling like I should love everyone in the world...

3. Somewhere We Know - Keane (505)
When I'm feeling like going to the beach!

2. Liang Shan Bo Yu Zhu Li Ye [Liang Shan Bo & Juliet]- Gary Chao Ge & Zhuo Wen Xuan (826)
When I'm feeling a little romantic...

1. Ban Dau Tie He [Peninsular Iron Box] - Jay Chou (972)
FAVOURITE SONG! Very catchy chorus. Sad song :(
I still dunno what the song means! But I Like! Very Muchie!

Thank YOU for reading till the end! lol.

Did a little calculation. Jay Chou's Ban Dao Tie He (Peninsular Iron Box) is 5:19 minutes long.
972 x 5:19 minutes is 5167.8 seconds
5167.8 seconds is 86.13 minutes
86.13 minutes is 3.59 days.
(Since Nov 17, 2006, Friday)

lol!

Those who wanna check their Play Counts:
At Library, click View > Choose Columns and tick the Play Count box.
Then sort it according to the number of times played. :D

Happy playing.

(HOW FUN!)

Brushed Past.

2007-01-28T18:08:00.000+08:00

It's Addictive!!!

I'm HOOKED on photoshop brushes!

My first EVER photoshop brushed pic. Lol. Damn cheesy/amatuerish! But i likey!

Okie larh... I might be a little late on catching up... but still! It's really fabulous.

Especially for a person like me who cannot draw to save my life! Wuah! So syiok! Now I can make nice photoshopped pictures!

Tells self repetitively:
Must learn photoshop. Must learn photoshop. Must learn photoshop.

Alritey! Off to download some nice, girly, fabulous photoshop brushes.

Aaron Choo's BBQ Do.

2007-01-27T16:33:00.000+08:00

Hello peeps!!!

Been really busy doing alot of stuff.

Don't ask me what stuff. *sweat*

AnYwAy,

Mr Tall, Dark, and Handsome (*ahem*) Aaron Choo held a BBQ thing at his spanking new house in Kota Kemuning on the 29th of December 2006 (last year leh!).

There has been a few notable events I attended since my last post (and obviously lotsa self-indulging pictures as well), so, I will have to blog them in separate entries. Slowly, of course, but SURELY!

But, really, 29th of December 2006 was nearly a month ago. Need to blog consistently.

Back to the main topic.

Phangz as Aaron Choo's Ah Sou was kinda the person-in-charge AS WELL, so she invited us to go along. Apparently the BBQ thing was supposed to be a gathering for 'their' friends, so we were kinda the outsiders, lol.

Aaron Choo's spanking new, big, shiny house is at Kemuning Utama (i think). With only a handful of the houses being occupied, his house was purrrfect for some wild, noisy BBQ party.

But, no. Instead we had a nice, sweet, innocent little BBQ-ing gathering.

Mr Host Aaron Choo!

Pikki and I went together. SOCK!

*Promised* her to fetch her home safe and sound so no alcohol for me that day lol.

One of the PIC (person-in-charge) for the night~ Phangz...
DOUBLE SOCK-ness!

We were one of the first to arrive, so we sat on Aaron's new sofa with special leg-lifting function.

Abit bored, so Pikki assumed her normal open-mouthed tv-watching position.
*dun kill me, pikki*

Mr. Ct-In-Da-House (lame!) in attempted murder of a pretty girl. *sweat* (the compliment is to compensate for my guilt in uploading the previous picture, tq.)

As with all rich-people houses, Aaron Choo's house also has a built in Bar thingie... SWEET~

Chio~ us with Aaron.

Clarence and I.
Mr Clarence flicked an unfortunate fly who landed on the sofa at my direction. Fly-debris landed on my (flabby) arms and I had to sterilise my poor (flabby) arms.

Ok. Not Funny! Next!

Kaya Bun aka Mr. Phangz taking 'wet-look' a little too literally. Lol. Actually he just washed his face.

Me teaching Ct the ways of a camwhore.

Aaron and I posing with Kaya Ban and his two loves, Chiq (Phangz) and Chick-en wings.

On the other side, a fashion show of sorts was going on. The models lined up according to their respective sizes.

Out of pure evilness, Pikki and Phangz decided to make my hair ugly ala Dr Khoo (ex-monash lecturer, now in TARC).
WAH! Got similarities wei...

To show my petite-ness, I decided to take a pic with Mr Big Ravin.

Dingz came later after tennis. Who would know the small and fragile dingz would be able to lift a tennis racket. Never underestimate the small dynamite...

Phangz putting our years of training in the laboratories to good use by mixing the alcohol...

Ct hou bah bei gamm, chorr hai gor dou...

Okie larh.. forgot the other details ady...

But we did play a few hilarious rounds of Bing, Bang, Wahh where Ravin almost drank the whole 'pail' of drinks :D

Don't have the pictures with our faces drawn with lipstick, tho... MX CHOO~ SEND TO MEEEE!

Kthxbai

Pic of the Year 2006 Tribute~

2007-01-06T18:03:00.002+08:00

As Congratulations pour in for Miss Man Yin, Lai, more and more people are sending in their own tributes to the Pic of the Year 2006.

Here is one from an avid reader, Iua (which is actually me).

Pic of the Year 2006

The Animated Version

Pic of the Year 2006 - Latest Update

2007-01-06T03:53:00.000+08:00

Due to the uproar over the method that the Pic of the Year was chosen (actually there was no uproar, just ychn pointing out there were more champion pics around), the panel of judges (actually its just me), decided unanimously (one person of course unanimous) that there should be 5 awards instead of just 1.

After much deliberation, these are the 4 other Champion ones~

The Champion admiring some chrissmassy twigs. (Credit to ychn for reminding me)

Champion trying to impress Chun Li (of Street Fighter fame) aka Becca the Sexy Legs

Champion looking in awe at the few strands of what used to be known as hair still attached to Uncle Choo's scalp. While Chun Li is feigning deafness.

Champion Pic Runner Up 2006. To be viewed in sequence with the champion pic (the winning pic) to fully appreciate the Championness of it.

Here you go, the Champion Pic Of the year 2006 as featured previously,

(Apparently Bak Pei aka London Zone D aka Guai Lou loves the sequential pics also, well, at least he has SOME taste~)

BECAUSE all the pictures were perpetuated by ONE person, i.e. HSBC High Profile Executive Miss Man Yin, Lai, only one Certificate is to be given out.

Consolation 'mentions' (no prizes lah, boh lui $.$) to the Christmassy Twigs, Uncle Choo's few strands of hair and the Chun Li wannabe Becca Sexy Legs, including her ball. Uh, i mean her Santa hat furball.

Also, another picture that is rather champion, but relegated to just being 'commendable' because of the other person in the picture. *grossed 4eva*

Yeah, I'm fed up too, ManYin!

S.

~THREE CHEERS TO OUR CHAMPION! ~

Pic of The Year 2006

2007-01-05T21:49:00.000+08:00

crazili.blogspot.com

APPLAUDS
the

PICTURE OF THE YEAR
2006

Congratulations
to
Miss ManYin Lai
(HSBC High Profile Executive)

for the
Best Pose EVER found on the WorldWideWeb

From left: ManYin Lai and Becca Sexy Legs Consolation Prize to Becca the Sexy Legs
- for providing the prop used in the award-winning pic~

JWEET ARH!!!

2007 Resolutions.

2006-12-30T21:01:00.000+08:00

YES, I KNOW! This is a very old-school blog topic.

But, I really want to put my resolutions OUT THERE!

First of all, a brief recap of IMPORTANT occurences (in my life) in 2006.
1. I turned 21.
2. ManYin turned 21. (VERY important, lol)
3. Opened the second branch of my cafe.
4. Met and got close to Pikz, Kakakz, Phangz, MX Choo, Dingz, Wayz.
5. Got to know Cyn better!
6. Maintained my results :D
7. Went to Sheraton :D
8. Got to be more sociable, friendly and nice (i think?)
9. Got SLIGHTLY thinner. :p
10. Started this blog :D

*list is not exhaustive, can't remember much, i'm exhausted (pun intended)

Can't recall much else-lah. The year went by too quickly i guess.

But I shall FULLY UTILISE 2007. It WILL be a very GOOD year. No doubt!

New Year Resolutions~
1. IMPROVE my results.
2. Meet more GOOD friends!
3. Open more EcoGreen branches. :D *$kaching$*
4. Go visit ManYin Lai. (but, doubt can la... EXPENSIVE $.$)
5. Have a better social life (as opposed to my previously non-existent one)
6. Be less procrastinating.
7. Be less rude. (relli!)
8. Be happier! (Although I'm really happy now!)
9. Be more critical, when thinking.
10. Communicate better!
11. Improve photography skills!
12. Better time management~
13. Plan holiday with family (so long nvr go dy!)
14. Improve Adobe Illustrator Skill~ (of which i'm currently lousy at)

Things I wish for (AND WILL GET) in 2007!!!
1. New, Slim, Sexy mobile with a GREAT camera (for camwhoring).
2. New, Slim, Sexy laptop! (not really a neccesity, but too tempting!)
3. Nice, new WADROBE, with matching earrings! (in dire need of one...)
4. A roach-free car! :D (must exterminate them! grrr)
5. More money $kaching$!
6. Blackhead-free face!
7. More brains.
8. More, oh, nevermind.
9. Brand new, slim, but HUGE storage external Hard Drive! (I am SUCH a geek)
10. Brand new DeeVeeDee writer :p (See how geeky I am?)

Okie la.

That's all.

Oh, one more thing left, as much as I love my life currently, I would also like a certain someone who loves me, for me, with me. To love back.

Oh yeah, this is categorised in the things I wish for and WILL get section :D

(mou1 sweet1 wa3 hou2 gong2 leh?)

Meantime, it's party time~

Saying goodbye to a GOOD year and Welcoming an even BETTER year ahead~
(I am honestly, QUITE excited~)

Cheers~ Feel da Energy people~!!!!

Congrats~

2006-12-29T13:50:00.000+08:00

CONGRATULATIONS!

HAHA~

...

o_0

(you are SO gonna kill me!)

WARNING:
1) for those who know, DON't REVEAL k? just laugh!
2) for those who don't know, just wait till you know K! :p

Xmas Partay At Wayz' Very Nice Sri Hartamas House

2006-12-27T02:46:00.000+08:00

Hello!

Xmas time is here again :D

We were closed for one day on Xmas Eve, so whole family went KL for a drive around, then off to theCurve for some tea alfresco style COMPLETE with a live band singing nice christmas carols. TOO FUN!

Anyways, theCurve has nice Xmassy decor!

Then, after browsing around at Borders, we left at about 8pm.

Left for Wayz party at about 10.30pm with pikki promising to drive me home later :D.

See, there was this cocktail do we (mostly MX) planned. All sorts of alcohol, mixed by wayz the hostess herself. Supposed to be formal cocktail party but somehow, the rules were loosened abit.. CAN WEAR JEANS :D

After a the first drink, our camwhore addiction kicked in and we played with the fan effect this time :)

Wayz' stand fan turned into a prop. Titanic! :D

Camwhore duo strikes again! Looking dangerous, baby! :D

Too much wind...

Hair cannot be blown up due to ginormous amount of gunk (gel/mousse etc) in kakak's hair! She's damn CUTE!

Check out the SOKEST Cynthia's FACE wuah! CHAMPION!

Her face truly potrays the truth. The truth that no one can beat her in being the sokest.

HEEEE! CHIO~

While we were entertaining our addiction... the rest of the people were also entertaining theirs... the GAMBLING addiction!

Actually, they were play the bluff game, i think.

Wayz was relli busy making drinks for us. Seriously, girl, you should consider a career in mixology :D

Kakak + My long lost friend Edvin Phang of Puay Chai. So sweet i jealous!

Siti and MeiXian. Siti is Kaya Ban Lee's friend. Yes, SITI is his real name!

Aaron is Kaya Ban Lee's friend #2. His is 176cm tall, as I would find out later...

TADAH! The legendary Si Roti Kaya Ban Lee finally appears for the first time. We were very excited to meet him, for he is a legend. Anyways, Kaya is Phangz brother.

YOU BELIEVE OR NOT?

Okie la.. they are not siblings :p.

And YES, Kaya is his real name.

Us girls, minus Christine... who relli didn't camwhore much with us. Next time must infect her with the virus first :D

Then! MX the girl with a little mental problem (AKA abit siao) said she wanna walk alone to Cristros which has just changed its name to LAME MyHome Bistro to meet Mr Boyfriend KJ. SIAO ISIT! So whole gang walked there with her lo.

And the good news was MeiQi See was there! At MyHome (damn lame!). SO TOO GOOD get to see her and other friends.

But who is this hairy guy in MyHome with MX Choo?

Mental MeiXian and KJ

Tooks pics like mad at the entrance of the MyHome(lame) Bistro. We kasi blocked itu pintu depan. HAHA... zor zu ppl do business! Nvmla dun care!

The guys.

Ze Maddies.

A totally ZOR GAI (block road) Group Pic we took.

A veli SWEET christine and me.

YANYEE IS TOO CUTE. KAKAK IS CUTE OSO. CUTENESS OVERLOAD.

Einstein and I. Quan Meng extra. HAHA! :p. Yes! His real name is Einsteint I SWEAR.

And

World is damn small again he is SAMANTHA THAM MUN YEE's friend. In Nottingham.

My Buddie Pikz and I at our usual behaviour.

Mr HannJing who is Wayz properteeee...

GUESS WHO I MET IN MYHOME(LAME)!

A BUNCHA CHS BUDDIES!

There were

FanLee!

Carie!

Tsing May! Havent met her in 200 years.

Barbara and KiatHor. These two I alwiz meet *sweat*

A4 PAPER YUZONG the SOUYEH! What's with the moustache, buddie?

The FEMALE version of KJ. Seow Khai Jia :D

AND OF COURSE MAIN POINT OF GOING TO MYHOME(LAME) MY SEE MEI QI.

Siti and Aaron with Meeeee

Mr Sokest Johnathan. (Cyn's BF la!)

Sokest at her usual SOK-self

HEEE siao!

So many people there my eyes saw RED!

Q.uan Meng and E.dwin Soh as labelled accordingly.

Then TAkE PIC TAKE PIC, DANCE DANCE, SING SING... we walked back to Wayz' nice Hartamas house.

On the way back, Pikki the evil girl spotted a spray vendor. We stuffed Rm20 into the vendor's hands, grab 9 cans of foam and ATTACKED the unsuspecting bunch in front AKA Boon, Edwin, Quan Meng (Cant remember who else).

On the other side of the enemy line.
Christine x1 can of foam
Me x2 cans of foam
Ben x2 cans of foam
Pikz x1 can of foam
Sheena x1
Edvin Phang x1
MeiXian x2 (?)

Above list not entirely correct.

And we sprayed the daylights outta them! hheeh.. but then someone tergrabbed a can and we got sprayed back blablabla in all everyone was dirty, but happy.

Then we went back into the house to camwhore sumore!

Phangz.Boon.Me!

LeeFahs

The Bread Couple

KAKAK and Edvin being NOTTY.

Edvin Phang Ek Larng and I

My Favouritest Kakak in the Whole World

Have to get into as many photos i can!

Wayz damn headache dunno wat drink to make next!

THEn! Dunno WHICH smarty go suggest to play this chair thing where randomly picked peeple get onto a stool and questions get asked... and if cannot answer must DRINK...

First! PIKKI and the Hostess!

THEN! Edwin Soh with Pikki

Wei this pic seriously like bridegroom toasting guest during wedding leh!

THEN! Phangz and Kaya's turn. Tsktsk! Very lebih they all!

Mr Fong AKA Kakak's DAD! SEE YOUR DAUGHTER!

THEN! Edwin SOH kasi HUMM HOI sama saya.. ask me to go up! Nevermind! ASK Aaron to go up! WEI! I spoke only 3 sentence to him before leh. Damn paiseh.

Anyways, Aaron is very MOU GU (innocent). Cos just before Kakak stepped down, I took a pic with Siti. Edwin thought I took the pic with Aaron, then he ask Aaron to go up the chair! end of story.

I relli want to write out wat question were asked... but! I was a bit tipsy. No actually i was VERY tipsy. Thanks to MQ See and her Chivases.

If i was tipsy, BEN was even worse. Red-faced and drunk. Hee

Next up was Boon and MX

I actually edited a pic with Boon and MX, but nowhere to be found in my folders~...

So after the game everyone abit siao ady... took pics again :D

Normal/Not Drunk

Abnormal/Drunk

Sokest with her SOK back

Who would've known edwin soh is a master camwhorer

HAHA... Chorn Tyng and I

By 3am, pikki was a bit drunk cannot drive. So, i couldnt go home! :( Slept over at Wayz place balik-ed at 9am so early!!!

WOOOOOOOKIE
RELLI SLEEEPYY!

I HAD A RELLI MERRY XMAS!

Next Up! Niw Yier! :D

If I don't blog before then, Have a GOOD YEAR ahead! Wish me luck too! ;D

Landom Pics

2006-12-21T14:47:00.000+08:00

Just a few random pics I took recently.

Filler post :)

Haven't washed my car in ages, as you can see from the dusty side mirror...

Shot this pic at the 1 utama traffic light. My car window was throwing one of its tantrums, so I pressed the lens against the window and shot the photo. Damn yeng this bird!

We took a booth during the National Cancer Society Run organised by a buncha people (Charity Run blog click here).

The thing was held at Kiara Park TTDI. Some piccies I took while I was there...

Some prickly tree.

They were installing some railings to prevent kids from falling into the pool. Nice zigzag shape.

Footpath heading towards a bench.

Finally, some Christmas related photos.

O Kissmass Twee! (The work KISSMASS is courtesy of Phangz the wordsmith)

Santarina? Wanna Puke? Maybe you should look closer at the caption......

Hehehehehehehe lame~

Okie la back to work slacking like mad.

Sun will shine, My Friend!

2006-12-21T12:49:00.000+08:00

pic stolen without permission from latitouneuse2.skyblog.com

Sometimes, we get lost...

But soon, the light will come to guide our way:)

Maison KL.

2006-12-18T21:50:00.000+08:00

Went clubbing at Maison KL on 7th Dec with:-

1. Wayz

2. Pikz

3. MeiXian

4. Wilson

5. Wayz's fren #1 (Disha... or something)

6. Way's fren #2 (woopz, can't remember the name)

Anyway, we actually planned to go a week earlier, but was delayed due to trouble convincing parents for permission... *blushes*

The purpose of the nite out was to celebrate our results. Actually, there wasn't much to celebrate about laa... just improvements. :)

We arrived at about 10.30-ish (too early) before MeiXian came with KJ after work.

They had a nicely patterned wall thingie which was purrrrfect for taking piccies :)

Thus, we proceeded.

Long Island Iced Teeeeeeee

MX came with KJ and the whole posse.

Wayz fashion theme was Geisha ala Japan. Pikki's fashion theme was towel wrapped around body.

I look awkward. Should practise by taking more pics with Wayz.

Ah Teng left Wilson alone that night, so we had to babysit...

MeiXian took Pussycat Doll's Buttons' lyrics a little bit too literally.

Pikki looking ghastly here, but check out the two dudes in the background. *scared*

As usual, I was being very creative about my poses.

Trying to emulate Bubbles (Wayz's pet Beagle), by licking. Everywhere.

Self-potrait. Must practice geh.

Wayz is a fast learner. She wasn't really pro-camwhoring previously, now look at her! I'm proud of her :)

MX caught Lazy Joseph hanging out in Maison when he should've been studying for his Exams! Anyway, the ironic thing is, Joe is Mx's best friend and Joe is my brother's fren. The world is one whole big friendster.

Self-indulging. Nyeknyek. Long Islang Iced Teeeeeee

I have no idea why the two pics above are so tiny.
Using my Electron Microscope, I can only guess that the first pic is Pikyi with Dishana (Wayz's Fren #1) and the second pic is Wilson holding two glasses of the cocktail looking like an idiot. :p

Okie, the pics are loading as they should now, but the above description still applies. :)

MX and Joe who is trying to look cool, of which I can safely say he did not succeed.

KJ and MX.

Pikz and MX looking prettee... without me (hmph!)

A random group piccie.

Pikki and Vincent.
Apparently he was once got very drunk in PD and sang Tong Hua (Guang Liang's song) on top of his lungs, although he doesn't speak English. Not sure how that is significant to me, though.

John and I caught on camera, talking. Pikyi and Gang were making a big fuss out of me talking with the saird person and I have no idea why. Anyway, John and Vincent and the background people in Pikki's White Chick pic above.
Which speaks volumes. :p

Okie la, the caption is lame but I'm out of ideas.

Okie. That's all-lah. :)

Nites all....

Erm, something missing?!? YES! Pics with my camwhore buddie!

Camwhore how can leave us out geh!

Bangle from Mr Matthew Lim. (Still have not met him yet!)

Nose ring ala Cow.

Ears ala Minnie Mouse.

WOOOHOO Too chio~

Nyeknyek.

Oh! I HEARD pikki's sis took more pics than we did during their trip to Langkawi.

HOW CAN?

This is atrocious. I am threatened.

This calls for a serious intervention. The stakes are HIGH.

A pic-taking competition might be the only solution.

...

Sg Wang Spooked Me Out.

2006-12-14T21:07:00.000+08:00

This post is SIUPER outdated but it is certainly not MY fault for the pictures were not with me!

*blame, excuse and denial, all rolled into one sentence*

After our Horrible + Terrible exams... we went SHIOPPING @ Sg Wang.

We were shopping for bikinis, beach shorts, sunnies and other essential items that are important to a girl's life. These are necessities, not a luxury.

Anyway, Kakak went and tried this capsicum-my dress which in our opinion *laughs evilly* was fabulous. It was capsicum green and even looked like a capsicum in shape. How capsicum-my is THAT.

But she didn't buy it because it was too radical for Kakak, who feared Edvin Phang Ek Larng might rather be dead than to be seen in public with a green capsicum (100% joking + did not happen + totally untrue + fragment of my imagination).

When it was time for lunch, we spotted this dark lil' restaurant on the toppest (6th) floor of Kam Horr (Sg Wang in Cantonese). It was called gasoline or fuel or petroleum or something else I cannot really recall. It looks really small from the outside but there was actually cubicles further inside.

So we went into the cubicles.

I had the fright o my life when I saw the decor. Ghoulish theme wei... I was tricked! Fooled!

But anyway, this calls for a serious camwhoring session. I steeled up and told myself that nothing was more important than an opportunity to camwhore.

So we did.

Piksy tried.

I tried.

But it was Kakak who got it right!
*rhymes geh*

Someone (or something) needed help...

So we offered a helping hand...

This drink was created for all the Kakaks in the World!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Translated literally, the drink means: Uptight Virgin Faking Serious.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA.
Almost died laughing.

After discovering that Kakak was actually faking her seriousness, we chopped off her hand...

Piksy felt something was hovering above her, and looked up...

After exchanging greetings with the hovering individual, piksy continued her favourite activity (that is, camwhoring) with MX Choo.

Piksy thought she was taking the picture alone... but look closer...

A surefire way to obtain tickets to diabetic world by drinking sugar syrup shots.

The Witch and her Voodoo Doll.

Spot the real humans...

Piksy found her ex-boyfriends head hanging from the ceiling and was estatic.

MeiXian found skinny hands appetising...

MX Choo exposes her trueself.

If I didn't know better I would've thought they were twins.

Alrighty!

Done for the DAY!

*throws confetti*

*celebrates*

oh, phangz! I GOT MY SENSE OF HUMOUR BACK!

Langkawi Trip Part 5

2006-12-14T18:28:00.000+08:00

Okie la...

Faster finish Day 1. (To satisfy YChn's unsatiable appetite for blogs).

So, after stuffing ourselves with the GOOD food, we adjourned to the poolside to frolic around.

Night View of the Pool

This basket thing on the side of the pool.

As we sat down lamenting about how full we were, we looked back into the dining room and smiled contently.

Took my gear out...

Posing for photographs...

But got attacked by flying green apples thrown by the Sok-est Cynthia and other jealous people. (Who would have known green apples were potentially dangerous projectiles...)

I still do not know what was going on when this picture was taken, but it sure looks like a violent crime to me.

Attempting to take a "Meteor Garden" style photograph... but failed miserably...

After repeated attempts...
*note my wet footprints indicating that this picture was taken by the camera timer...*

Oh, we were just lazing around, feeding mosquitoes...

We had to stay still for about 15 seconds...

But some of us were kinda impatient... Or were we... *wuuuuu spooky/scared*

A heap of crazy girls.

A row of *insert adjective here* butts.

Then after that we went to the lobby to rent a DVD, went back to our rooms, watch the DVD. And slept.

NOT.

For more info, wait for the next part of the Langkawi Trip Series...

*suspense...*

Langkawi Trip Part 4

2006-12-14T13:22:00.000+08:00

Hahaha. Long wait, sorry peeps.

Now where did we stop?

Oh yeah, I blogged about the room didn't I? Yes, it is THAT niceeee.

Anyway, enough gushing. I know I promised that I will blog on the nice view outside the room around the hotel, but lazy to compile lah... so I will be going chronologically.

After checking in and paying a measly RM5 to the very nice bellboy... we were left to our own devices, watching the plasmah teevee, sleeping on the heavenly bed, and camwhoring on the balcony.

After a while, we were kinda excited to show off our bodies, so we changed into our bikinis. NOT. HAHAHA. This was something I dreaded for a long time and for a very good reason as you will be able to witness shortly.

These people have the devil's body! (mo2 gui3 de4 shen1 cai2).

Die la. Me and my pail-shaped body :(.

Here's proof.

New promo poster for the newest Malaysian movie - The Cicakgirl

Goldfishy Kakak groping me

A few of the Langkawi's Next Top Model.

Due to the glaring sunlight, I squinted my eyes.

The two rich girls who were born with a golden key in their mouths came down to join us.

Notice me in the red circle??

Here, let me highlight it for you :) *smiles kindly*

And then I squinted my eyes again.

The squinty eyes were such a hit that during dinner the meanies passed around the digicam zoomed up to the squinty eyes #2 and passed the camera around the dining table o_0|||...

Sumore nice pics @ the pool~

That night, I secretly planned to murder my all my female tripmates because god was unfair and gave them the devil's bodies aka mo gui de shen cai.

Hehe...

Okie, after exhausting ourselves trying to shield fatty parts of our body from public view, we adjourned back to our respective rooms to prepare for buffet dinner~

See, dinner was FREE because they were renovating the resort and wanted to compensate for the 'inconvenience'. How convenient (pun intended) for us to get a free meal.

The part of the buffet that attracted the most attention...

Free Flow Choc Fondue *droolness*

View from the dining place :D

These are just the appetizers...

Darren wanting to impress his mom by eating salad...

Self-proclaimed 'SOK-est' Cynthia and Kakak

Phangz + Mx

Koh Baba + MX

Whole Group - 3 person

Mr Butter Wilson. He eats minimum 4 packets of butter per MEAL.

Fresh Mussels + Tabasco Sauce = No Diarrhea!

Phangy Munghy

Laughing at my squinty eye pics. The digicam was then passed around the table and finally judged as the COMEDY PIC OF THE YEAR. Cheers to me~

Dessert!

Pikki Experiencing Heaven on Earth

Pikki ran out of lipstick and she was desperate cos there was this cute guy sitting opposite her. So she used the choc from the choc fountain instead. Pretty close to the real thing, huh?

Finally, we see Phangz taking some risk and licking a poisonous-looking-unidentifiable fruit.

MeiXian, my dear roomie, gobbling up nice food as per her usual self.

o_0||| haha! Okie la, I'm equally guilty of lame poses like these.

Pity these two guys getting too little airtime... heee... they were recruited to our trip as our personal trip cameramen.

Kla... lazee dy...

Till later!

Pending Matters.

2006-12-08T18:06:00.000+08:00

Wuah! To many pending matters. Too little time!

Okie la.. actually, I have quite a lot of time on my hands but I just cannot be disciplined enough start the things.

1. Fix my stupid router at my cafe.
The connection resets every two seconds and I just cannot bear with it anymore. My blood pressure increases everytime i chat on MSN because i get disconnected every message or so. Arteries gonna burst jor!

2. Blog...
about Langkawi Part 4 and so on and so forth.

3. Blog...
about our post-exam Sungei Wang outing. Damn long ady.

4. Blog...
about Maison outing yesterday keke...

5. Work related P&C stuff.
This is the most crucial. Heck, I'm getting paid for it. But not really doing as much as I should, i think.

6. Re-skin my blog.
Getting bored with the skin hoh?

7. Shopping
But that will have to wait till i get my first paycheck EVER

8. Use more of my camera
S3 baby collecting dust on my shelf.
Actually hoh, this has more to do with buying the wrong type of rechargeable batteries lo. See, I bought GP batteries. S3 is a guzzler and the battery juice dries of pretty fast. And by fast I mean a few hours. Hate It. When I get my paycheck first thing i do will be to buy MAHA rechargeable batteries. But very expensive... *like knife stabbed through heart*

9. Meet Up wif Frens...
who are back from overseas: Soon Bee. Li Chia. Ker Yun. Joon Sing. (who else I left out)

10. Meet up wif Frens
Kakak. Phangz. Pikki. Wayz. Cyn. MX. Dingz. Hehe...

11. Plan a fabulous Cocktail party during Xmas.
In da planning process.

12. Finish the Langkawi video.

13. Repaint my nails.

14. Watch Aquamarine.

15. Finish watching One Tree Hill Season 2
So that I can go on to Prison Break, Greys Anatomy, rewatch Goong and My Girl.

16. Install Haloscan for PrettyTeen Ychn.
Hehe... sorry I'm very the procrastinating one.

17. Catch Up with ManYin.
Miss you too much, girl.

Langkawi Trip Part 3

2006-12-03T00:17:00.000+08:00

Since i've logged into blogger might as well blog Langkawi Part 3. heeee

Previously, we stopped at Tanjung Rhu.

After getting our feet salty and sandy in Cape Rhu, we headed back to Kuah town to raid the shops and get our booze and junk supplies... hehe...

The Booze.

Absolut Vodka.

The Choc.

Wilson the Security Guard. No-lah, actually he was just waiting for us girls to finish shopping hehe...

After buying loads of snacks, noodles, sunkists, biscuits, soda water and BOOZE we headed off to grab some lunch at the local McDs.

There were some kiddy ride outside McD... thus...

Siao Char Bohs never grow up.

And then we went to Sheraton Perdana for check in.

We had actually booked some accomodation at a budget motel called Malibest on Pantai Cenang. That was BEFORE pikki's super well-connected-rub-shoulders-with-famous-people cousin gave Pikki some FREE VOUCHERS to stay at a five star hotel.

The last time i stayed at a 5 star hotel was 10 years ago. OMG we were damn estatic. The Sheraton Perdana website further made it worse by posting up to-die-for pictures on the web. But nothing prepared us for what we were going to see...

OMG we were going to stay here for 3 nights!!!

Welcome drinks were awaiting for us.

Okie. ONE complaint. The welcome drinks were tasteless and had weird names like Cinnamon something something. But excusable-lah... since they gave us nice cups to drink it in... lol!

Somemore provided us with cold towels for freshening ourselves... heee

Our boss then did all the paperwork for checking in :) heeee thanks pikki love yah too much!

Walkway to OUR ROOMS!!!

Ding + Sheena + Pikki's room 1308.

Room Arrangements were as berikut:

1) Baba and Mama (duh!) - Room 1304
2) Mei Xian and I - Room 1306
3) Phangy Munghy and Cynthia - Room 1303
4) Kakz + Pikki + Dingz - Room 1308

Our room was connected with Baba and Mamas room...

And then...

And then...

And then...

We went in!

The room MeiXian I slept IN!

Our room was a little more special because we had a King sized bed and sofa. The rest had two queen sized beds each... hehehe....

Can SEE bathroom from inside.. NYEK NYEK NYEK... According to the bellboy... the rooms were apparently called Honeymoon Rooms. The reason is apparent once you SEE the bathroom lol...

Can SEEE from outside!!!!

CAN YOU SEE MEEEEE?

Bathtub. Pretty normal la. Expected it to be in Solid Gold geh... Hmph!

This is the Westin trademarked Heavenly Bed. Dunno how many layers of linen of dunno how many thread counts.. goosefeather pillows etc... ZONG ZI is DAMN HEAVENLY! Oh yeah... the resort is called Sheraton Perdana but apparently it has been taken over by Westin or something hence, the presence of the newly renovated rooms with the heavenly bed :) *gleeful*

Pure BLISS

MUMMY! All the rooms got big big plasma TEEVEE!

Trying to act like rich people...

Pretty Birds Perched on the balcony.

Pic taken from the balcony next door.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE siao! too nice!!!

Giving our parents the due treatment they deserve for raising us till so big (dai jek)...

Kakak and Phangz snuggling on the heavenly bed...

WOOKAY.. nite time!

(Sorry la, PrettyTeen, very abrupt ending again)

Next part will be on the Exterior of the place.

*DROOLS*

I will leave you with an educational video on excercising. On the bed. On the Heavenly Bed... TEEHEE

Blackie Tooth Polish.

2006-12-02T22:35:00.000+08:00

Now, I'm sure all of you have heard of Darlie Toothpaste before..

Yes, my dear frens.. this blog topic will be about toothpaste.

It used to be called Darkie toothpaste, but the name was changed to a more politically correct name Darlie. Which is more accurate since the toothpaste is in no way DARK.

But ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you, the BLACKEST TOOTHPASTE ON EARTH.

Yes, it is black.

Don't for a second be fooled by its fair exterior, because fair it is not.

Packaging wise, it looks kinda like NORMAL toothpaste. But this is the most abnormal toothpaste you can ever find in the world. Oh yeah, it's Japanese. Count on the Japanese to come up with these queer products.

With the cap removed, its sooty contents is clearly visible. The paste is PITCH BLACK.

WOOOOKAY.

Next, apply it onto toothbrush.

The toothbrush used in this picture is my old Kodomo Lion toothbrush. I'm using oral B now. Grew up dy.

Camwhore first. (Credit to Bro YouJing for snapping this pic... hee)

When I first used the toothpaste, I had thought the black will turn into foamy white once I start brushing. Don't ask me why but it just seemed more RIGHT if toothpaste were of WHITE colour.

But no, the more you brush, the blacker the foam becomes. Grosssss....

Eyes Enlarged For Dramatic Effect.

Even when you spit it into the sink, it still is black.

It is damn weird, sorta like using mascara to brush your teeth.

But wait there's more!

If you think the COLOUR is weird, wait till you taste it.

Normal toothpastes tastes minty, or pepperminty, or refreshing like how some company like to brand it. This blackie taste salty.

And there seems to be some sandy material in the paste.

Okie. That's all lah.

Main aim of this entry is to show you how spesial (spelt special la i knoe la :p) my toothpaste is. My toothpaste is better than yours!

Anyways... i've also brushed my teeth with ashes before. As in coal (arang) ashes... heee

No wonder I have weak teeth.

So there you go, an update. :) Been very busy but will try to update Langkawi Part 3 really soon :) Cross your fingers :)

And oh yeah, brush your teeth, people! *community service message*

P.S. ManYin, I've run out of fabulously packaged imported UK colgate.

Langkawi Trip Part 2

2006-11-23T13:17:00.000+08:00

Alrity. In the previous post, I stopped at the part where we pissed off a fat car rental man.

We then rented a Toyota Unser for RM70 per day, for four days. On the final day, we could return the car to the jetty at anytime. Since we were taking a flight back to KL, the rental people charged us an additional RM20 to drive us all to the airport. Kinda fair la...

Us Chilling In The Car.

It was in the car that we "SiONG KAI" to Darren and Wilson. "Siong Kai" sorta mean adoption in cantonese. So it was decided that Wilson was Baba (because he drove and he is a Baba, as in Baba Nyonya). Naturally, Darren was Mama. Ok, don't ask me why it was natural, i do not know.

Family Twee

Dad - Wilson

Mom - Darren

Big Sis - Kakak Sheena

2nd Sis - Me

3rd Sis - Ding

4th Sis - MX Choo

5th Sis - Phangz

6th Sis - Pikki

Lil Sis -Cynthia

So niceee! We were one big happy family.

Since we could only check into Sheraton at about 3 pm, we decided to go to Tanjung Rhu to kill some time. The journey was quite long and we had quite a lot of fun singing James Blunt's You're Beautiful out of tune in the car. We also repetitively yelled "Baba and Mama!" in the car, since we asian are taught to respect ze elders, especially parents.

Along the way, we spotted a secluded beach with beautiful blue water. Unable to resist the temptation, we stopped the car by the roadside and headed off to the beach.

GT Girls Wannabe

Camwhoring with the rental car.

I learnt the art of making the stone bounce a few time before sinking into the water. Apparently, the skill lies in throwing the stone at a angle as horizontal as possible. Thanks to our SIFU Baba Wilson.

Our daddy likes to squat.

This pic is too chio~

My dear PikYi and I

Random pic of Cynthia, Ding ding and Phang.

Pikki and I catching hermit crabs in the sand. We're meanies.

Cynthia, Ding, Phangz and Kakak.

Mama and Daughter MeiXian

Macro Pic of A Shell.

You Die We Die

Cape Rhu.

New animal species spotted in Cape Rhu. Pikkilonus giganticus (I have no idea.)

Random, but very nice.

All of us are trained Shaolin exponents. Heng Gong Sui Siong Piu

Tried to capture many jump pics ala Smashpop. But to no avail. Somebody please teach me!

Rich, lazy daddy sleeping on the beach.

Like father, like daughters. The beach chairs were property of Four Seasons Hotel, i think. We trespassed, hee... Later on, the Security Uncle came and halau-ed us away. But he did is nicely la... he said "Sorry, for hotel guests oni..." Wuah, good manners wei...

With happiness come nice poses.

Pikki and I lifting the stone boulders. What do you call a female Hercules. Hercula? And plural of Hercula? Herculae. (nods in contentment)

My lil sis Cynthia and I. And by Too Kiut, i mean me.

Don't Cha...

Very sunny la the weather...

Langkawi's Next Top Models Season 1

Wokie.. that's all for the day. I bet you were damn frustrated waiting for the pics to load. Even more in the next entry!

Till then Ciao~

Langkawi Trip Part 1

2006-11-22T23:19:00.000+08:00

WHEEE!

I'm back BLOGGING (i think).

Since the trip was a few days and 1128 pictures long, I shall spilt it into a few entries.

Must faster blog about it ady.. cause I find some of the information a little hazy already. lol.

Disclaimer: Trip mates might find some 'information' intentionally left out. Sorry la, this blog is not parent-proof *winks repetitively*

Night 1

We took a Transnational 3-seater bus (no, the bus does not have only 3 seats) to Kuala Perlis at the cost of RM 33. The bus left from the Jalan Duta bus station at approximately 11.00 pm with 9 noisy idiots aboard. Yes, we were the noisy idiots. Seating arrangements were as below:

1) Kakak Sheena + Pikki
2) MeiXian
3) Phangz + Ding
4) Yours truly
5) Mom + Dad (Darren and Wilson)
6) Cynthia

Insomnia List were as follows:
1) MeiXian
2) Me
3) Phangz
4) Cynthia

The rest were sleeping like pigs. Not that it wasn't expected of Kakak lah... for, she is the sleep queen.

Yes.That.Is.Kakak.Sleeping.In.A.Bathtub.

Haha. Will get to that a little later.

Stopped half-journey for a half-hour break at somewhere ( i really dunno where we were). As usual, MX and Wilson was really hungry, so they ate Nasi Lemak, Burger and Maggie mee. I mean, whats new about MX eating? Now, if she DIDN't eat, then that's news. (I'm turning into a mean blogging mean ogre. Sorry MX, JOKING dear)

MX eatin'.

Girls' Group Pic at the Rest Area.

Disclaimer #2: Due to the enormous amount of photos taken, I am not able to properly credit the photographs. I can pinpoint which camera it was taken with, but I dunno who took which pic...

Light were switch off during the journey. To compensate for that, the drebar bas decided to switch on the air-conditioning at full blast. WTH crazy la. We are in a tropical country ok, wanna freeze me to death is it? Luckily i drank same propylene glycol (antifreeze) before boarding the bus. (No i didn't drink it la, please don't think it is consumable).

I took a photograph of the lighting in the bus. Special, innit.

At about 5am, we arrived at Kuala Perlis. Within seconds of stepping off the bus, a few guys came over and offered us so-called 'special rates' for hotels, car rentals, ferry tickets and snorkelling packages. If we didn't know better, we'd be fooled. See, last year when some of us (excluding me), the SAME people cheated us (excluding me again) RM70. To cut the long story short, DO NOT take any 'cheap and special' packages from the people at the K. Perlis jetty. You can get the same, if not better, prices on the island itself.

So, anyways, Darren gave us a bit of a fright when he disappeared immediately after getting off the bus. Apparently he went off in the opposite direction from where we were heading. After waiting for a bit, we decided to go to the ferry ticketing booth. And SUR-PRISE! We saw him there already.

Turns out he hopped onto a stranger's motorcycle who ferried (pun intended) him to the ferry jetty. And by the time we arrived, he already bought the tickets. Efficient, yes, but not the smartest way to give us heart attack. lol.

After buying the tickets, we had some time to kill. Off we headed to this old-school style Malay (not mamak) restaurant.

Signboards at K. Perlis.

A young malay lady made the roti canai. Maybe its just me, but since the proliferation of mamaks in KL, eating roti canai made by ladies have become some of a rarity for me. Usually, I only get to eat those made by foreign men.

The roti telur was kinda nice and the curry was tasty. But then the Milo kosong was not GAU at all and the rest of the gang complained. Maybe K. Perlis people don't drink GAU Milo leh... luckily I ordered Milo... not kosong... at least it was sweet, heee...

Soon, 6am arrived and we walked back to the nearby jetty to board our ferry.

Did I just captioned the picture 'Ferry Fairies'? Somebody KILL me!

This picture could have been a tad more interesting had I held the camera more firmly. I cannot understand why I have such shaky hands. I do not eat chicken feet. Heck, I hardly eat CHICKEN.

Kakak Sheena and Ding ding in the felli.

MX hogged three ferry seats and made herself comfortable so that she could catch her 40 winks.

Arriving on Booze Island :) The Biggest club in the Malaysia.

Lazy PikYi had a taste of her own medicine when the LiHuas gleefully gave her the fright of her life, much to the delight of Cynthia in the background. (p.s. Cynthia is the SOK-est of us all.)

Waitin' for our rental car to arrive. There was this fatman who was pretty pissed off with us. He quoted a ridiculous price for car rental, and we brushed him off, telling him that we wanted to 'pergi makan dulu'.. but then we went to rent another car instead. Serves him right la. Wanna cheat us, not so easy!

WOKIE. Time to sleep dy. Working nowadays, so I have to wake up really early. *sighness*

Till next entry, ciao~

Busy!

2006-11-18T16:54:00.000+08:00

And I thought I would have much less work after exams.

On the contrary, i have loads to do:

1. For the business - omg too much to do i'm scared.

2. Rush for the trip video (hopefully can do it by Mon) - No easy feat since we took approx. 1128 pictures plus some other videos during the trip. How to arrange? How to categorise? My laptop is old and cannot handle such a formidable project :(...

3. I wanna blog about the trip. :( No time.

4. Room is freaking dirty.

Another make-me-think-of-Sheraton pic:

I wanna go back!!!

Emptiness.

2006-11-17T15:47:00.000+08:00

Had HEAPS of fun at Langkawi with all the peeps.

But I feel empty now.

Miss 'em heaps.

Heres a pic. Too moody to sort out the pics. PLUS there are too many of them, and some are still with Cynthia, Darren and MeiXian(videos).

OMG the videos we made were hilarious.

Time to watch 'em again! :)

Look who hitched a ride on my car today...

Life Goes On.

Fun @ The Fair!

2006-11-10T11:54:00.000+08:00

WOOOHOOOOO!!!

Exams are OVER and DONE with!

Okie a quick rundown on how i did...

NOT GOOD.

Three weeks of insufficient sleep and continuous mugging will cause:
1) Extreme exhaustion
2) Suddenly proliferation of obscene red pimples on face
3) Obesity (due to instant cup noodles @ campus)
4) Sudden urge to take insane videos
5) Compulsive litterbug syndrome (throwing of rubbish from the ground floor to 1st floor)
6) Affinity to sleep on benches/chairs in public

*this list is not exhaustive, there were many other things we did in the uni campus :p.

And other negative effects.

But whateverlahidon'tcarealready.

First thang we did was head off to Pyramid for.....

jeng jeng jeng... what else but

REDBOX.

Woohoo, syiok like mad!!! (sorry, this post will continue to be filled with intelligible exclamations)

After the screaming session everyone was dead tired and all collapsed into a state of vegetation by the time we hit home.

Initially we wanted to go clubbing at Zouk but did't because:
1) Still exhausted
2) The kids (Wilson, Pikki, DingDing, MX) might not be able to enter

So we decided to go to Euro Fun Fair @ 1U instead.

List of Attendees:
1. Me
2. MeiXian
3. Pikki
4. Wilson

In Front of the Entrance.

Didn't carry my camera into the place because we wanted to try some of the rides.

List of Rides Tried:
1. Challenger (SCARYYYY + DIZZY)
2. Flying Car or something (NAUSEOUS)
3. Ferris Wheel (DIzZy)
4. Vortex. (Okie, this is a lie)

Vortex is freaking scary... it swings you 360 degrees... giving the similar effect as jumping from a high rise builiding. Wuah damn crazy. I think i will faint if i try it. Too old for such heart-stopping rides.

Took a few pictures in the fair with pikyi's phone camera. Will upload it later.

Oh, and our dear friend Mei Xian puke.
Hello?!?! Is this the Certified Lifeguard we know? The one who can save lives??!!!?
TARAK GUNA MIA BUDAK! lol.

Anyways, it was damn fun/funny. The carnival atmosphere really got to me. There really is something about BRIGHT BLINKING LIGHTS that feeds the soul.

Tripodless + Impatience + Lousy Composition Skills = The pic above. :)

The centre is only partially light up :(.

Sighz. Wanna go again solely for taking pics :)

Gotta go! Shoppin'!

News Flash.

2006-11-01T22:12:00.000+08:00

One of my dad's workers got featured in the local papers today. Saw articles about it in theSun, TheStar, Berita Harian and Malay Mail. Didn't check the other papers but i THINK they would have given the news a mention as well.

Here is the excerpt:

Source: The Malay Mail

Twin foetuses found -by AZMAN ABDUL GHANI -

YESTERDAY was not an ordinary day for Musykar Hussin, an Indah
Water Konsortium general worker based at the company ’s oxidation pond in
Taman Wawasan, Puchong.

The 36-year-old man was busy manning the machine which filters the rubbish at the pond when it came to a halt at 8am.

Thinking it was caused by some rubbish getting stuck in the machine, Masykur decided to look.
To his horror, the man saw two foetuses stuck to the machine.

He immediately called the police.

“This is the first time in the past 12 years that I have made such a discovery.”

The oxidation pond receives a large volume of waste from houses and offices in the
surrounding area.

Police believe the foetuses could have been flushed down the toilet from one of the premises.
Tracking them down would be hard, a source admitted.

Initial police checks revealed that the foetuses, between 18cm and 25cm
in length, were male and female twins. The age of the foetuses could not be ascertained.

Subang Jaya police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Fuad Talib confirmed the incident and said a post-mortem

Just had my genetics exam today. Apparently, many miscarriages are due to chromosomal disorders in the zygote/embryo/foetus itself, and spontaneous abortions do occur due to these abnormalities (Source: my lecture notes).

But the thing is, was this a miscarriage or an intended abortion?

Anyhow, it really saddens/frightens me because there was not one, but TWO foetuses found. Twins, wei, Twins. So cham/scary...

People...! If wanna play, then play safe. Dun anyhow simply play. Wanna play, play properly la.

Another Community Service Message by Woopz Productionz.

Freaky!

Exams!

2006-10-30T21:53:00.000+08:00

Stressy!

A Stack Of Notes.

Shivers.

But after that...

Sheer BLISS @ Sheraton Langkawi

WOOHOO! <3>

Jolts back to reality. Time to hit the books now! :(

I Adopted A Blog

2006-10-24T04:58:00.000+08:00

AHAHHA

I'm so happy!

It's 5am now.

Supposed to finish my ENV quota for the DAY.

But i went and ADOPTed Manyin's new blog!

Faster go see!!!

And read her content AS WELL :)

Adoption is very popular nowadays. Madonna and Angelina Jolie oso adopt what! (Pointless sentence).

Anyways
Wuah Hands Very Itchy To Change My Blog Template.

Cannot Must Wait Till Exam End.

Happy.

Me Past Blog-of-Shames.

2006-10-22T17:25:00.000+08:00

*Horrors*

Was surfing (googling) SEE MEI QI just now... cause i MISS HER SO...

MeiQi Miss Engineering

Chanced upon her multiply blog. Which linked me to my own multiply blog.

OMG I blogged about the most mundane and uninteresting things.

Other than the multiply blog, I now present to you, my blogging history... in chronological order...

1. Xanga
2. MSN Spaces
3. Multiply
4. Blogspot (but it's empty)
5. And finally this blog. (Haha... i even have TWO blogger accounts)

If you're too free (yuchen, i know you are), I invite you to click on those accounts... and have a free laugh on me...

*shudders*

Glad I've found my blogging direction (blog also need direction)...

Or have I?!?!?!?!

Nevermind.

Since I have used so many blogging sites, I have the right to give my two sens (RM).

1. Xanga: Highly Un-customisable therefore very bad and ugly. Woopz. Cheapo me dunwanna pay to upgrade. So shift!

2. MSN Spaces: WTH. Lousy interface, buggy. Some more not customisable how to use.

3. Multiply: Slow like a freakin snail. Not very customisable.

4. Blogger: Wah damn good I like. Many templates. If dunwan templates and wanna act smart CAN customise FULLY! So good. If wanna act smart, but not really smart, plenty of blogskins to download. Too good. Use this!

BTW, blogger.com has been bought by google. Google is buying all the good websites. Blogger.com la, Youtube.com la, Writely.com (online wordprocessor.. FREE WEI!)

OMG 5.50pm time to resume study.

p.s. Bored.To.Death.Can't.Recall.A.Single.Thing.Studied.Be.It.Cell.Met.Instru.Or.Env.Health.

Songs That Old People Listen To?

2006-10-22T13:06:00.000+08:00

Shit, I'm Old.

Currently, Jack Johnson and Corrine Bailey Rae are on repeat mode in my playlist.

I listen to them OVER and OVER and OVER again.

Well, such fan-tahhs-tic songs, who wouldn't love 'em.

How surprised I was when 20-year-old Phangz said the songs sounded OLD.

My god, I must really be growing old.

Click here to download Corinne Bailey Rae's Put Your Record On

Click here to download Jack Johnson's Better Together.

And tell me whether I'm really old.

Of course la, my playlist is still peppered with the occasional Jay Chou and David Tao.

But how can anyone not LOVE Corrine Bailey Rae? Huhh? HOW?

Prays to god that Phang MUST be tone-deaf.

Siao Gin Nah Phangz

On Another Note...

There's this GEM of a website, Photojojo.com.

It directed me to this website where they teach you how to draw photos of people like those on the Blur CD Cover. Click Here for The Site.

Here My Attempt. My lil BROTHER :)

Hmm.. Too Dark, but guess who?!?? lol.

Wuah... very random entry. But hoh, EXAM time so nevermind.

Bai Bai La!

I Miss You.

2006-10-16T02:30:00.000+08:00

How I wish Uncle can stuff me in his luggage.

BAKTI Flower Shoot :)

2006-10-15T20:32:00.000+08:00

Bangunan BAKTI is where our Organic Cafe is at. It is a beautifully maintained place, with gorgeous fountains and flora.

So, to day, armed with my S3 and a tripod, I went to shoot the flowers in compound.

Nice Bokeh.
So cham. My S3 can only shoot decent bokehs for macro shots :(

Hehe. My Namesake wei...
Ok, you can stop puking now.

This photo didn't turn out as well as i wanted it to be.

The ant is not really sharp lo.

WOOHOO Love this pic.
The bowties will one day grow up to become lego flowers.

Marginalised Hibiscus.
It's red coloured brother is the national flower.
But it is a noflower i.e. nobody. (omg so lame)

Photoshop one la.
Was so scared of the butterfly no time to switch to Colour Accent mode :S

Not very nice hoh?!? Nevermind la... slowly improve... hehee...
Spent an hour taking those piccies under the hot sun... sweated like a pig.

Veterans Sing Karaoke

2006-10-15T01:31:00.000+08:00

Today is manglish blogging day. Says me.

Went-a-singing with two Ah Peks, Andrew and Han today @ Neway 1U.

Actually hoh, I planned to study Instrumental Analysis today... but then Andrew wanted to have a farewell lunch with Han before he (Han) leaves for his 28k UK job. And pulled me along.

As we asians are taught to repect the elders, I willingly oblige to have lunch with them. Didn't want to anger them, because of their age.

Then out of the blue, Uncle Andrew wanted to sing K. Wuah, gave him an inch, now asking for a meter. Oklor, so i agreed lo. (Because i secretly wanted to sing K also la.)

When I was 'pan-ing' leang leang (dressing up, in broken cantonese), Pikki came online so i ajak-ed her to come along. Sooo happy when she agreed lol. Oh What Fun!

Piktures!

Dun condemn my expensive retro hairband! I love it!

New K addict PikYi and Old K addict *Me*

You cant't get more Ah Pek than these two.

Okie, I know this pic is lousy + without flash. No choice la, the both uncles look, erm, not so nice in the other pic with flash. Cannot put it up. We must protect our senior citizens. They have contributed to much to our economy since independence. *nods*

I'm siuper ugly in this pic but i wouldn't pass the chance of posting a photo of Han looking like tazzy (nickname by manyin).

Uncle Andrew is very semangat about singing K.
He is planning to methodically index his Han Yu Pin Yin lyrics file soon.

Ah Phang's friend Gina Seow aka Siao Ginn Na.
Someday i'm gonna regret putting this photo up.

FUN!
Somehow, Uncle Andrew looks lethargic. Sigh, old men.

And now... for the grossiest pic that will appear on this blog

This fella was in my bathroom.
Manual; F.2.7; Shutter Speed 1/80

FREAKY!

8 Reasons to Celebrate and other stories...

2006-10-06T23:32:00.000+08:00

Exams coming up. Assignments STILL pending. Thus, no/less blogging. Cries Cries.

This is going to be a very random entry, as my brain is too lethargic to think about mind-boggling things like how-to-structure-a-blog.

A Few Random Reasons Worth Celebrating. *pours imaginary champagne*

1. My NEW Canon Powershot S3 IS

WOOHOO. New camera. Goodbye to my loyal 2MP Sony Cybershot. Say hello to Canon Powershot S3! 6MP.

Ok, before you go 'What's the BIG deal about 6MP? I've got a #@%$%&^* kick a** 10MP Camera'... i will need to explain that the CCD (whatever that means) is bigger and better. The camera has 12x yadda yadda I'm boring you. ANYWAYs, costs about RM 2K including extended warranty. Free small AND big tripod, 1GB memory card, camera bag. Great DEAL :).

Actually, my dad agreed to buy it because we need to shoot some saliva-generating photographs of the food served at my cafe. I welcome the learning curve that I will go through with this camera, because it is no normal point-and-shoot camera, with full manual control. Woopz. Boring you again. Haha…

Some pictures I took with the camera so far.

2. My Ear Infection Has Been Healed.
Yes, I had an infected ear.

This was what happened:
Friday night, the last day of classes before the mid-semester break, Pik Yi, Kakak Sheena, Wayz, Hann Jing, Mei Xian and I went to eatz at Loong Si Fu (Master Dragon, ROAR!) in SS2. Aiya, we ate the usual stuff nothing interesting etc.
Something worth mentioning: Phangz was absent again! beatttttt'

THEN! Someone suggested we go over to the Medan Selera place to eat something called the Balidong. Now, being ignorant, I have never heard of Balidong before. Kakak’s eyes lit up with the mention of that ‘sacred’ shellfish, and she animatedly described to me the skills involved in eating the seafood.

“First you must suck the end (tip) lightly, then, using your mouth, cover the other end (the shellfishes’ mouth), then inhale with all your might, as in trying to create a vacuum.” said Sheena in delight. “Oooh, how interesting.” thought I.

So off we went. And I ate a few shells with gusto, quickly master the sucking technique. Then I ate one and there was this really horribly ‘fishy’ taste in my mouth I had to wash it down with an extra cup of Limau Ais. Later, when arriving at home, I felt a little queasy.
Sure enough, I threw up a little while later.

You know, when you vomit, mucus (with some chyme i.e. stomach digested stuff) will travel up into your nostrils. Which is gross, so I blew my nose la, duh. I blew so hard that the mucus + partially digested food was pushed into my Eustachian Tube aka ear, causing me a temporary but excruciating pain in the ear.

Soon, it fermented there or whatever, and my partially lost my hearing (partially la.) So off I went to the GP and he gave me the antibiotic Augmentin. Cost me RM70. But it is healed now. Good.

Never blow your nose too hard after throwing up. Oh, I learned later that only stale (i.e. not fresh) balidong will cause that fishy taste. Alright, will give it another try when I’m sure it is fresh. I’m a sucker for seafood.

3. My sprained leg is healed.
Sprained my leg yesterday morning while walking around aimlessly in the house. Haha. Seriously. Have been limping around these two days. Thanks Pik Yi for giving me a ride to Uni today.

NO PICS because the swollen foot really looks like Babi Punya Kaki. Not good.

4. Sharksurf.
Whoa. This is something very cool and I will be getting one, maybe two, starter packs really soon. For RM 99.00, you get a .com web address, one year of website and email hosting and other things thrown in. The .com web address and the one year of hosting is already worth MORE than the RM 99.00, so its damn worth it. But one catch, after one year, you'll have to pay the normal prices. I think, Rm 50.00 for the web domain and RM 350.00 for the hosting. Aiya, after one year, just shift to a free webhost lo :)

Damn cool. I wanna register wonglihua.com...

5. Langkawi Trip is ON!

My babes and I are going to Langkawi Island right after going through a series of torture aka exams.
Leaving on the 13th Nov. Staying 3 days. Double and triple WOOTS cause we got cheap
Airasia tickets at Rm 9.99 which is even cheaper than the Set Dinners at Vivo. Which brings us
to our 6th and 7th reason to celebrate. But before that, it is worth highlighting that bikini-wearing is compulsory, as ordered by Kakak Sheena. However, that is not supposed to be categorised under REASONS TO CELEBRATE. Conversely, it should be categorised under REASONS TO FEAR. How the heck am i going to get in shape in time for the bikini-wearing trip?!? Horrors. *Prays the rest will binge on fatty/lardy foods and will have bulges like me, too...*

6. We will (probably) be printing our own tshirts for the Langkawi Trip which is absolutely cool
and fun and out of this world. Hehe. Our tshirt logo lookz likez thiz:

CUTE neh. haha...

7. Vivo.

Went there with Pikyi and her sis Kei Kei last wednesday.

They had cheap dinner sets on weekdays. I think about Rm 10 for a set of pasta/pizza with a softie (soft drink la...)

Some food we had...

Food was so so only lar... was really looking forward to it because SmashPOP said the food was really nice. Maybe the chef was on leave la.... :p

More piccies

Aiya... number what already? Lazy already la... stop here la... hahaha
8 reasons to celebrate. *Tells self must be happy*

Oh yeah! Something else.

I just read the smelliest Magazine in the whole wide world.

The Digital Camera Malaysia October 2006 Issue.
The minute i opened the plastic, toxic fumes engulfed me. Seriously. Must be the print/ink smell or what i'm not really sure. But it was really stinky. I fear that if i read it a little while longer I would've done irreparable damage to my alveoli (lungs, people, lungs.)

I exagerrate. But really, it WAS smelly. Aired it for a while before i continued reading it. Everyting is unhealthy nowadays. Even magazines :S.

Lastly, TODAY is Autumn Festival aka Mooncake Festival aka The-Day-Chang-Er-Ran-To-The -Moon.

I leave you with a picture I took with my Powershot S3 at full zoom, yesterday :(. Today no moon. Too hazy. :(.

Manual Mode.
ISO 400.
Aperture 3.5.
Shutter Speed 1/500.
Spot Metering.

HAPPY MOONIE!

What my KH teacher taught me.

2006-09-23T23:51:00.000+08:00

Haven't had the time to eat a decent meal, what more blog. Crazy Monashians.

Anyways, i'm having my midterm break now, so i have a lil' more time to blog. No, actually i haven't. Assignments are still awaiting me. But nevermind them first.

Back to the Topic.

Yes, K.H. Kemahiran Hidup. Living Skills.

Y'know, i hated that subject. Save for the part where it involved sawing wood. I love sawing wood :). Sawing AND polishing wood, with sandpaper. Nice....
All the cooking and sewing has scarred me for life. My jahitan kia was the 'teruk-est'. How can anyone with normal eyesight poke the needle tip into the SAME hole repeatedly, huh, HOW?

Nevertheless, i wouldn't say that KH was totally useless for me. I learnt what CONSUMERISME was.

Oh, was it in KH that this was taught? Woopz. Can't Remember.

Anyways, Phangz was saying that there was this 1 meter long sour tape on the market, of which i have never seen so far. I LOVED sour tapes and would eat at least one per week when I was in primary school. But so far I've only ever tasted the short ones. And now Phangz is telling that I missed out on the best stuff - the 1 meter long ones!

And how surprised was I when I saw it on sale at the stationery shop near my house. Wuah, of course I bought it la!

This was my childhood.

Then I saw this...

Oh, dare to claim 1 meter of FUN even...

KH taught me that as consumers, we have consumer rights (duh!). So I’m gonna check this claim.

First,

Then BUKA it.

A waft of familiarity filled the air when i opened it. It's the fragrant SOURishy smell of the sour tape. Droolness.

Take some pics first. Sour tape oso must camwhore.

Then, using my ever trusty (and rusty) measuring tape, I

Measured its length.

104 cm in length.

Not bad. Not only they didn't overpromised, they overdelivered as well.

Very impressed I'd say. Good on the company.

This company has passed my stringent consumer rights testing. How about you? Have you exercised your consumer rights yet?

WOOHOO another useless entry. I'm GOOD at this!

And now for 1.04 meters of FUN, MEMORIES, and SOURNESS. YAYY TO SOUR TAPES. *nods*

I have nice earrings.

Planet Hollywood.

2006-09-14T03:29:00.000+08:00

Changed my blog title from Reflections to Woopz Productionz. None of my entries are reflections. I don’t reflect. And Woopz Productionz has absolutely no meaning. So now I would have to change my header picture. Woopz.

WOKIE!

Planet Hollywood Pictures time! Sorry for the delay in updating but if you all don’t know yet, I study at a university aiming to excel at churning out mindless report-writing mad scientists. While charging exorbitant fees. What superb marketing people they have.

Anyways, I nearly deformed my fingers today during laboratory session. The lecturer was too giam (as in giam siap, stingy) to give us rubber gloves to transfer concentrated, corrosive acid. The aluminium foil melted/reacted with the acid on contact and generated so much heat it nearly scorched my bushy eyebrows. WEI I PAY EXPENSIVE LAB FEES LA! Damn giam.

Woopz. Digressed.

We were supposed to be at Planet Hollywood by 8.30pm. However as usual, nearly everyone was late. Traffic jam, police kacau, took wrong turn, pump petrol, need to make up, boss scold, tyre pancit (ok, I know, it’s punctured), etc various standardized late excuses are ingrained in us Malaysians. When Sheena, Pikyi and I arrived at about 8.45pm (?), Wayz and boyfriend Hann Jing was already waiting for us.

Eh Same Pic as previously?! HannJing apparently hates taking pictures.
Why lah? So cute, right?

Oh, how come Sheena, Pikyi and I arrived together, you ask (or maybe you didn’t)? They came over to my house to bathe straight after lab. Which brings us to another different (long) story whereby I had to skip class to clean up my room before they came over. Nevermind bout that.

Later on, Cynthia arrived towing along with her a boyfriend, named Jonathan. Then along came flower Phangz, Darren, Ding Ding and MX.

Pikyi, Phangz and I decided to leave all the ordering (work) to our Kakak Sheena who expertly and efficiently ordered Hawaiian Pizza, some pasta whose Italian name I cannot remember (the white, creamy type, not the tomato-ey type), and BBQ chicken. Wootz.

BBQ Chicken. Taste as good as it looks.

Now, for the highlights of this blog, PWETTY PICs of us. *nodsw vigourously*

Official Presentation of Birthday Card by
Yang Bodoh Datuk PikADee to Yang Birthday Wayz :)

I walked around like a freaking clown the whole night because PikYi simply anyhow told me my blusher was "OK!" when it was disastrously weird. How often do i MakeUp ha? How often? You wanna do this to me meh?

Kakak Sheena and I.

Mei Xian and I.
Mei Xian can singlehandedly finish eating a whole cow. Yet she's so fit. Unfair.

PikYi and Flower Phangz

Wayz, Pikyi and I

PikYi and I. Cute lieh....

Ze Girls :).

Now, for some WEIRD/UGLY/SCARY pictures. We practise transparency. No photoshopping/hiding of ugly photos. Save for fat photos. No posting fat photos of ourselves here.

Kakak Sheena efficiently splitting the cake.

Lihua. Phang and Lihua. Wong in a Physics defying photo.
How come the screen can be in front of my face? Huh? How?
The LCD screen was at least 5 meters away.

Phangz force-feeding a reluctant PikYi.
A picture that would make kaya bun sit up and realli realli think twice.
Heeeee... jokingz phangz!

OUR two birthday girls with OTHER PEOPLES birthday girl.
See how awkward the other girl is?
That's cause we forced/yelled at her to stand closer for a pic.
Poor thang.

And NOW!

Revealing the single most disturbing photo ever taken.

Ready?

Ready?

Ready?

WUAH!

JUST LIKE A SCENE STRAIGHT OUT OF RESIDENT EVIL.

The waiter la! Ate too much chicken feet that's why hands shaking uncontrollably.

That's all for the Birthday Parties.

Next entry shall be about Consumer Rights. Stay Tuned! :) *winks*

Happy Birthday Cynthia and Way Yee

2006-09-11T17:32:00.000+08:00

Cynthia and Way Yee turned 20 on the 8th and 9th on September respectively. We very happily obliged to celebrate for them *winks repetitively*.

It was decided by Kakak Sheena that we were to have dinner at Planet Hollywood @ Bintang Walk. Which i totally disagree cos its damn EXPENSIVE and i dun have 'mountain' (i.e. banker) to pay for me. :(

Digressing. And no, i did not totally disagree. Whatever.

Planet Hollywood Pictures to be upload l8r because i'm more excited about uploading the Qba photos. No one said blogging should be chronological.

Anyways, we have been wanting to go clubbing for ages but didn't get the chance to. Till now...

Hehehe...

We decided to go to a rich people place to mingle with rich people. Hehe. Actually, it was rich person Way Yee who decided the place. No, it was Wayz's rich friends who decided. Woopz. Digressing again.

So, we were to club at this super high class place called Qba in Westin KL. Which is beside JW Marriot and Louis Vuitton which goes to show the high-classness of the place.

When we first arrived at the front entrance of Qba, we were kinda skeptic because the place was silent and elegant. Like a hotel lobby.

How wrong were we.

We were then led into the main bar area, which was only accessible through a maze of, erm, velvet curtains.

Then we saw this.

Wuah. High class wei...

The place was full of old men. And gwei los. And yuppies. Which totally different from our usual crowd i.e. the la-las... Heck most of them were smoking cigar. And to me, cigars are for old mafia bigshots. *Innocent Me*.

Anyways, a little background on the place first.
Its signboard reads Qba Latin Bar and Restaurant.
They have live latin/salsa music. Which is totally Fab-ulouso.
No cover charge.
Featured in Malaysian Tatler magazine, which speaks volumes because Malaysian Tatler features the whos who in Malaysia. Dun play play. I will be on the front page one day.... maybe....

The place doesn't have cover charge, so we ordered a bottle of Chivas and another bottle of Absolut Vodka. The pure type. No nonsense flavouring like mandarin or peppar. Who likes to drink PEPPER! Woopz, actually i've never tasted any of those.

Anyways the vodka was damn bitter, so the 'Monash' gang chickened out and drank all the chivas while the brave and seasoned (?) 'Hartamas' gang downed the vodka. How brave they were *nods vigorously*.

When they brought the drinks, they just brought the two bottles with the ice and the cups, without any mixers. Us, being SAN PA (how do you say SAN PA in english, erm barbaric?) were like 'EH, NO MIXERS ARH? THEY DUN SERVE HERE ARH?'
Some smart aleks (including yours truly) offered 'HIGH CLASS PLACES DRINK PURE ON THE ROCKS WAN...'.

Which made us feel super stupid when they brought Orange Juice and Coca-Cola later.

Woopz. Haha.

Bday Girl # 1 aka Cynthia posing with the chivas.

The liquor was RM 380 per bottle. Of course its before taxes. The billed was shared among 15 people. Expensive, hoh. Normal price for clubbing, I guess.

lihua.wong & lihua.phang - Mabuk Flowers :).

lihuas + pikyi doin the 'Lock Hands Drink Beer' Wedding cliche

And so, after doin many 'Lock Hands Drink Beers' and 'Yum Sengs' we went off dancing.

The dancing floor was a little bit too small for our liking. Thus, with our dancing skills limited to random movements, we actually stepped on quite a few other people's toes. With stilletos/heels. Woopz. Anyways, many of those on the dance floor were really dancing salsa. Therefore, to look less like idiots we had to 'fake' salsa moves e.g. copying the neighbouring dancer's leg movements and random hips shaking moves ala Shakira MTV. Didn't quite work i think.

Speaking of idiots, there was one bald man who was conducting the disco. Yes, conducting. He had his hands up in the air, waving in concert with the music. His mouth was singing along. I think he knew spanish or watever the band was singing. And his face had the most expressive expressions you'll only ever see in epic movies like Titanic. During the intermission, where they played PussyCat doll's Don't Cha, he was STILL singing along and waving his hands around ala Pilharmonic Ochestra conductor.

Seriously. It was really quite hilarious and we actually followed some of his movements.

To give you an idea of what he looked like...

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me...

After getting tired of stomping on people's toes, we went up to rest and replenish ourselves with more alcohol so that alcohol dehydrogenase will continue to have work to do.

And took more photos...

Mr. W with Cynthia

Mr. W was supposed to fetch us home. Before he decided to be greedy and downed numerous glasses of Chivas and got super drunk, puked, and couldn't even walk properly. Poor Mr. W. He was so sorry the next day...

Next time don't be greedy k? Hee... Didn't really get to know him because he was only sober for the first 30 minutes after i met him. Woopz.

Evidence of drunk Ding forcing Pikyi to teach Salsa.

While we were drunk...

The idea was to appear as behind the scenes prop. But ding 'xposed' herself.

Hee....

Overall super fun nite. I just realised i didn't take any pictures of Bday Gurl #2 Wayz at Qba. So here's one from Planet Hollywood.

Happy Bday Way Yee.

What a fun nite.

Darren also blogged about the nite. Click here to view his blog and more picture :).

Professional Interior Designer

2006-09-05T16:19:00.000+08:00

I dunno why but blogger really does not like me at all. Averagely, I have to log in about 1,298 times before it lets me blog. Sien.

There’s a put-turtle-emoticon-on-msn-nick epidemic, with yours truly equally involved. Apparently, this is dedicated to Steve Irwin, the croc man who died from a stingray barb. Guess he really wasn’t a stingray kinda man, was he? Anyways, this dedication to him is apt, as he was commendable in his efforts to conserve nature and wildlife.

But then, why does the (tu) emoticon look so much like a tortoise?

Anyways, one of my dad’s friend was saying that he had it coming for him. I mean, like, sticking one’s own head into a croc’s head? And all the other brouhahas. I’m not being mean, but jobs like his really have high risk, and viewers like these shows because it’s exciting. I just hope he bought expensive life insurance, for his young kids. Prayers goes to his family. RIP, Steve. “Crikey!”.

On another note, I got the annual IKEA catalog! These people are really efficient. I think I got it on 1st September. Probably cause my house near to IKEA. Anyways, the rooms are so pretty. Man, these people are great marketers, they really entice us with those beautiful pictures.

I wanna refurnish/rearrange my room.

Excited, I retrieved a long forgotten software My Home Designer by TS Exim S/B. I got it for free when I bought a magazine for RM10 at the Architect exhibition in KLCC Convention Centre a while back. It buggy, but way better than plotting rectangles on graph paper.

Ok. People who have been into my room may think, WAITAMINUTE! Isn't that the same?

I can't change my bed, cause its my feng shui place ( i think?). I'm just scared to change the placing. And my desk has to face the windows. Cause its my fengshui placing. Scared results will drop if i changed the place.

But i definitely need a bigger desk. My miniscule 85cm x 45cm desk is wayy to small for messy people like me. Which will cost me about RM 200.

I also need a rug for the floor.

And boxes to store my notes, reports and past year questions from Year 1. Yes, it is still lying around.

And a side table for my handphones and keys. So that it won't keep getting missing.

Full length mirror for me to ask "Who is the lengluiest of them all?" daily.

Throw pillows. Pillows for throwing at trespassers such as my brothers.

Opens Excel Spreadsheet. (Wah, like pro-interior designer!)

Types types types --> Sum.

Wuah! Almost Rm400.

Ask see daddy can provide installment plan for me or not?

haha.

Also.Need.New.Fake.Adidas.Shoes.

Yes, i'm a Sungei Wang fake sport shoe fan.

The designs are damn real, for only a fraction of the price. Instead of a pair of real adidas or nikes, i can buy, say, 5 pairs of fake sports shoes. And no, they are really not distinguishable from the real thing. No lame and ugly words (e.g. SPORT, ADEEDAS, NIKI etc) visible on the outside nor the inside.

Pretty nice stuff. I've been wearing these for few years. And each and every pair has custom-tied shoelaces. Criss cross, diff colour, straight across, you name it, they'll do it. Sometimes, extra charges may be appliable, but insignificant compared to the exorbitant prices of the real stuff.

Very anti-establishment. I like.

...

Time to buy another pair lolx!

Advantages of a Chinese Name

2006-09-02T01:58:00.000+08:00

~Received a very nice message today. Made my day. Maybe there's really something about Manyins's fortune chocolates.

I just wrote a damn long post about this issue i'm damn pissed about.

But then i realised that if i published it i will never be able to erase off the label of immaturity people will associate with me.

I still insist it is not immature, but i have a sneaking suspicions no one else will think so.

BAh!

So i won't publish it.

Already 2 am, still wide awake and very bored. Cannot be arsed about my pending reports. Heck, every week i have pending reports because new reports are due weekly. Stupid.

Chatting very chattily with the other lihua about how we got our names. We have the same names, but different surnames.

And so do another 5,733,842 people in the world. I have a very common name. Something like Siti or Ali in Malay terms. Like John and Smith. Mine is the chinese version.

But i still love my name. Thus, i don't have an english name.

I used to have really cools alternative(!) names like, Kaylen (modified from KaiLan, vegetables, in honour of my family business - i have very creative friends) and Ice.

I was really serious about the name Ice at a time, but parents were disliking it, because, well, it's cold, and its also a name for Syabu, a drug.

In fact, one of my more talented friends wrote a poem about Fire and Ice, of which, very likely was referring to me. Ah, those were the innocent days.

I used to hate my name, cause it never seemed cool enough to match with names like, May, Michelle, Amber or, heck even Mary. Yes, that was me. I was once an insecure dimwit.

But not anymore. I love my name to bits.

And its also very useful.

I shall tell this remarkable story of long lost friends who found each other after a gap of 14 years.

See, it was at this party, Cheng's party. Cheng invited her friends from college as well as a few of us high school mates. There was this girl, she introduced herself as Cheryl or some other name. And my fren Yu Chen introduced herself as 'Yu Chen'. And this Cheryl was like 'Gan Yu Chen?'. You were my primary 1 classmate/best buddy in Sarawak! And so they found each other. Of course this was not what exactly happened in chronological order, but you get the gist.

Now, Cheryl introduced herself as Cheryl and Yu Chen didn't even blinked an eyelid. Cause she doesn't remember her friend as a Cheryl and she has 54,074 other friends with the name Cheryl. If Yu Chen had used an english name, say, Mary (i think this is her english name, but i seldom hear her using it...), would they have realised that they were once best buddies? Very unlikely.

Thus, you have just witnessed the advantages of sticking to your Chinese name. Be very proud of our roots.

And if idiots cannot pronounce our names, that's because they are idiots. I will not change my name for the sake of dimwits. And I'm proud of Zhang Zi Yi and Gong Li cause they didn't use english names. Same cannot be said for Lucy Liu or Jacky Chan. Actually, Jacky Chan should use some super cool name like Xeng Loong, which is a romanization of his chinese stage name. So much nicer than Jacky Chan, kan?

Cheers.

Other people's nice blogs.

2006-08-30T12:09:00.000+08:00

Having major arguments with blogger again. Dunno why my side
bar fonts are so damn big. Probably they just want to emulate the owner, the
obesed yours truly

Blogging from the university computer labs. Bored.
No one wants to go to the Korean restaurant with me. :(

Genetics mid-term coming this friday. I have only been to the lectures once. Hey, that's way better than my Instrumental Analysis subject, of which, I am shamed to say, I have never been to any lectures, yet.

I'm kind of worried though, but this hooky culture has been embeded too deeply in me. I mean, I can't really bring myself to wake up early for that 8am instru lect, no matter how hard I try to. Ok, maybe i didn't try hard enough, but still! 8 am kan?

Anyways, i think my lifestyle of sleeping and waking up late is really unhealthy. I know many of my friends do this as well, it is kinda the norm for us kids (haha! i better use this word more often, because one of these days someone will revoke my right to refer to myself as a kid. Waiddaminit! It has already been revoked! Hehe).

Anyhow, time really flies by very quickly when you're in front of the computer screen. With WMP playing your favourite mandopop and kpop. And with your taskbar blinking perpetually, indicating new messages coming in from messenger. And with all the ridiculously funny blogs around.

Just yesterday night, I sat on my chair at 9pm, vowing to finish my report due tomorrow (today) by 12am.

You guessed it! I just finished it 10 minutes ago. I really wanted to finish it. But then i stumbled upon TV Smith's Duasen parodies. These are super funny, relevant and spot on.

Click on this to laugh your brains out. Adult Rated - Vulgarity Alert.

Just click on it already!

And after you've done that, click on the archives. Almost all entries are tickling. But some, like the one above, is freaking HILARIOUS!

Now tell me, how to do my homework like that?

This entry has absolutely no meaning/objectives, save to share with you the funny website I found.

Cheers, peeps.

My Wedding...

2006-08-29T18:27:00.000+08:00

Wuah!

Watched Siti Nurhaliza's wedding on TV3 last night.
Oh my, what a B-E-A-U-Tiful wedding.

What is my dream wedding?

My dream wedding (as of today, 29th August 2006) would be a simple affair on the beach.
Maldives, Redang, Gem Island or Sipadan. Or Seychelles. Drools...

But for all practical purposes, a wedding at Redang will be perfect enough. Cheap ma...

Arrival by speedboat, with my entourage of white fairies (my girlfriends, haha!).

The walk down the aisle will be replaced by a walk down the jetty...

nice, kan?

Of course, walking with white, pointy heels on those planks will be asking for trouble. So, I shall walk down the 'jetty' barefoot. Of course, with fabulously manicured nails. A wedding gown with a loooooong trail on that jetty would be fabulous. Coupled with professional photographing maybe from KidChan, it'll look like a scene straight out of the movies!

Wedding Vows Location

Hehe. Anyone watched the Sammi Cheng Richie Ren show? Summer Holiday. There was one part where the wedding vows were read in the water, in a heart-shaped floral bouquet or whatever you call that thing... Nice! :)

Of course, with family members and selected close friends around, it will be a pretty close knite affair. Simple!

Romantic....

Later in the evening, a dinner reception will be held on the beach itself, just like in the above picture. Fabulouso. But, i can forsee one pitfall, mosquitoes!!!

Later in the evening, there'll be a fun session with Karaoke, free flow of beer/drinks, dance, campfire thingie where everyone will dance around it.

Then, we'll book the most expensive suite on the island, decorate it with lacey cloths and all that hullabaloo.

And then...

Next day, breakfast on the beach for everyone.

Then free and easy...

Hehe... nice right?

All the traditional rituals will first be performed at KL or wherever, then only very close relatives are flown or sent by bus to Redang.

Wuahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, nice!

Now all I need is rich boyfriend/rich fiance/true love... :)

What's in my pencil case?

2006-08-28T17:56:00.000+08:00

Haha.

I don't care. I'm gonna blog about my pencil case contents.

Trivial, yes. Nevertheless, my pencil case stores my 'wan sek gah chang', i.e. tools of my trade.

1. Stapler and Bullets
Stapler is one of my most important tool. Procrastinator me will usually finish up reports due on that day itself, in the university. The stapler is for stapling my report together for submission. My stapler bullets are gold-coated. Ok, no they're not. But they're gold coloured. When you wanna impress someone, what better to use than gold. When my lecturer sees my report, his eye will catch the glistening, golden stapler bullet at the left hand corner of the document, and voila, a good impression is achieved. :)

2. Ruler
For whacking classmates. Sometimes also used for drawing lines. This ruler is branded-nia, OXFORD! Been with me since primary 5.

3. China-made pencil with cheap red eraser
Very useful. Ever since i lost the stylus for the pda, i have been poking on the poor touchscreen with whatever that is within arms reach. Dried-out ball point pens, mechanical pencils, pen covers etc sometimes even nails. Ever since i discovered this pencil, i have been using it to poke the touchscreen. Brilliant. Scratch-free.

4. Writing pens
Pens of various red, black and blue. Kilometrico. Faber Castell <-- this pen is cheap but rocks!

5. Marker pens of varying colours
For mindmapping. Blue squares, purple circles, green ovals. Whatever. But i usually only use it when exam is nearing.

Nice! Colourful!

6. Testube labeler
Just a normal Faber Castell fine marker. For marking test tubes, beakers. :)

Aw. What a mundane pencil case. I should spice it up by rearing spiders in matchboxes and keeping it in my pencil case.

That'll make an interesting entry.

What's in your pencil case?

:)

Sorry for wasting your time.

Cheers.

Prince Cafe SS2.

2006-08-26T22:58:00.000+08:00

This packed Hong Kong style cafe has one of the rudest staff i've ever encountered.

The said person was rude while taking our order, giving us the impression that she was irritated. She was reluctant in answering our queries and gave short answers. More like grunted in reply. Stupid hog.

Since it was almost 4.00pm, I ordered a drink (expensive, RM 5.90), a friend ordered Pork Rice and another one of us didn't want anything.

The rude hog commented to her colleague, well within my earshot, that 'Three people only order two things". Damn rude, kan? Its not like as if we hogged the table and ordered just plain water, but even if we did, it definitely did not warrant such a remark.

I was damn pissed and wanted to ask her name, just to scare her or maybe make a complaint about her. Lucky for her, she did not reappear, prolly hiding because she saw my penetrating stare from afar.

Bitch.

Don't go!
(Pic illegally stolen from this random blog)

Furthermore, the drink I ordered was nothing fabulous, and the pork rice my friend ate was mediocre.

Anyways, that's beside the point. Rude staffs are such a turn-off. It'll be awhile before I go there again.

Bleh.

Skinned.

2006-08-26T01:35:00.000+08:00

Had a major disagreement with Blogger today. Could not log in on Firefox,
Opera nor IE. Sien. Finally IE worked. Fingers
crossed.

Skinned my blog again, this time with a much simpler template. I like! I'm a simple girl.

Spent the whole nite trying to load this as my header

Damn nice, kan?

Anyways, couldn't. I think its too small. Couldn't be bothered to resize it. bleh. It'll have to wait till tomorrow.

By the way, if you didn't know, the banner is a montage of Goong avatars (created by beautifulxmess@soompi, and some by me of course). Goong is a fictional korean drama about a korean prince (Joo Ji Hoon) and his wife (Yoon Eun Hye). Super nice! My favourite.

Went for dinner at Paramount (somewhere near SS2), in a restaurant patronised by my daddy when he was my age and studying at UM. Omg, thats about 30 years ago. Wow.

No pictures were taken because the Eten's camera is the most horrendous phone camera i have ever come across. Actually, there were some pics i took, but it is damn ugly. I want a decent camera phone!

Heaps of work, still undone. Cell Met demonstrators go pandai pandai change the report format! WTH. So uptight for what?!? Sigh, have to live with it. Procrastinate a bit on that first.

(Notice me struggling to fill up the post? Haha...)

Went for a K session on Wednesday, 23rd August with Cynthia and two newfound friends, Eeling (She wears clothes sized XXS) and Tammy at the newly opened (in July) Neway 1U. On the way to 1u, i found out that Eeling's boyfriend is Yu Chen's coursemate. Small world. Called Yu Chen to gossip a bit about Eeling's boyfriend and Yu Chen, never able to resist a K session, joined us because she had a half-day leave.

Neway 1U is superb, though a tad hidden. You have to take the lift right outside new wing's Long John Silver up to the fifth floor. No other entrances will lead you there. Took me a long time to find, which is rather absurd, since i can almost memorise each and every tenant in 1U. Anyways, it is, like i said, superb.

Cheap! RM 8++ student price, tea set with 1 drink. Nice food as usual, e.g. Unagi rice, BBQ pizza, etc a wide variety. Total bill came up to about Rm 15 each. 4 mics per room! Two wireless, two wired. En suite bathroom! Freaking cool, i'd say.

No more walking to the other end just to pee. Pee right in the room! Fantabulous. No more missing that crucial song that you've been waiting for ages.

I've actually heard about this en suite thing being available for a slightly higher price, in Hong Kong. Didn't think they'd actually bring it here. And is it just me, or the price is the same as usual?

So its damn cool. Go there at least once, just to try peeing in a Karaoke room. Trust me, it is damn weird peeing while listening to your friends sing right outside the loo door.

Korean Food...

2006-08-25T17:56:00.000+08:00

Have to start studying. Payback time for all the missed lectures
:(
Trying VERY hard to kick my procrastinating habit.

Picture Stolen from masak-masak.blogspot.com

Craving for Korean Food!

I have been to a few Korean restaurants, the most notable being the one behind Sayfol International School (Restaurant Jung Won). Damn ON that place :).

Anyways, i heard that there is one (cheap!) restaurant serving korean food in Amcorp Mall. Will pay a visit real soon.

I have to update more regularly. I need some regularity in my life. Max two days per update.

I visited Jung Won last month. Still lazy to edit and post up the pics. Will upload Jung Won photos soon. :)

Here's a link to the Amcorp Mall Korean restaurant review.

The Day I (Discovered) Lost My Purse.

2006-08-05T11:17:00.000+08:00

The Day I (Discovered That I) Lost My Purse.

TODAY!

Basket. I lost my purse.

(Looks Exactly Like This. In Black)

Esprit OK! Imported from UK! Gift from good friend! :(

Three Possible Point-Of-Occurence:
1. The pathway from Watson's The Curve to Watson's Front Gate (near Secret Recipe).
2. The Curve front gate
3. The road in front of my house.

Damage:
1. Few ringgit (I was damn broke)
2. Few cents
3. My credit card
4. My DAD's credit card (I die...)
5. Maybank ATM
6. Public ATM
7. MyKad
8. Driving License (2nd time lost dy)
9. Redbox Card (This one nvm)
10. Juiceworks Loyalty Card (Can almost redeem the free juice dy!)
11. MPH Book Club Card
12. Random rubbish i like to keep in my purse

...

Now i have to go make a police report to our good old PDRM, go to JPJ and NRD, Maybank, Public Bank...... Cancelled my credit cards... BASKET expensive!!!!!!

My fault... My carelessness...

From now on i shall stuff all cards/money into my jeans pockets. No need to carry what purse la bag la what rubbish...

Meaning i have to drop my jeans to lose my cards/money....

KNN.

Edit (06/08/06 12.29 am) Oops!!!!!!! FOUND IT!

haha...

Hiatus.

2006-07-15T12:51:00.000+08:00

...

sometimes feelings just overwhelm you, and you're unable to articulate them.

that's what i'm going through now.

*sighz*

will update soon. :)

meanwhile, life goes on and my year two 2nd semester begins in two days.

The Hall-yu Korean Wave - What Malaysian TV/Entertainment industry could learn.

2006-07-06T23:31:00.000+08:00

Most people would know that I follow the hallyu (Korean), Taiwanese and Hong Kong dramas rather closely.

'Korean dramas are so cliche!'
'Those people who like Korean dramas are bimbos with childish expectations of life.'
'Taiwanese actors can't act.'

Blablabla.
I hear some of you professional critics' criticisms.

~~Will those who would prefer watching cute/pretty people with lousy acting THAN watching ugly not-so-cute-and-not-so-pretty-either people with lousy acting hands up please?~~

I wouldn't speak for others but I would personally prefer to watch a HOT (rich) Korean actor chasing after a beautiful korean babe than watch an old man trying to convince his (fat) first wife to allow him to take another (young) second wife. [Oh, wait a minute, YOU watched that drama too?]

BAH! How do I articulate this properly?

What I'm saying is, films with HOT people and decent storyline can SELL everywhere while films with old men with weird storylines CANNOT be sold for a decent price anywhere. Imagine selling a Malaysian movie (with the second wife cliche storyline) to, say, Japan. Funny, can? They can never relate to it. Heck, even locals are tired of these stories. Save, maybe, for the makciks who once faced the same problems (husband getting second wife).

Before I irk overly-patriotic Malaysians who will stand up to Malaysian productions (but in reality watches only foreign entertainment), allow me to bring up a very popular Malaysian comedy.

Senario.

Each and every episode that I've watch is ridiculous to the point of unbelievability (got such word ah?). Adult males acting as babies (with full costume i.e. nappy, pacifiers etc), adult males cross-dressing and the list goes on.

It totally does not reflect good on Malaysia. If we were to sell this type of show to foreign markets what would the foreigners think of us?

That we are stupid.

Some thing is serious WRONG with that show. I know it sometimes involves an educational message or two... but to have adult wearing kids clothing and acting so silly is erm, wrong?

Oops. I think I've irked the extreme patriots.

Ok, I recognise that there have been few rather intellectually stimulating programs, some of them targeted at teenagers, of which educational themes are inculcated into the storylines. I say kudos to them for trying to bring up the standards of Malaysian TV. But these shows are few are far between.

I vividly remember one rather successful Chinese drama produced by Astro. Does the name Homecoming ring a bell? Yep. That is one of the few good Malaysian dramas. In fact, it is the first local Chinese drama to be shown in a HK TVB channel. Proud-nya…

But, like I said, these dramas are few and far between. Check out the spcnet.tv. This is a portal which viewers/readers submit reviews on dramas they have watched.

Taiwan, checked. Korea, checked. TVB and ATV, checked. SINGAPORE, checked.

Malaysia, NADA, ZERO, ZILCH.

Sighz.

Some comparisons.

Hottest singer in Korea (subjective)

Rain/Bi/Jung Ji Hoon - Hot! Hot! Hot! *drools drools*

Hottest singer in Malaysia (Indisputable)

Mawi - Erm, Hot? World...

(One of the) Hottest actor in Korea

Hyun Bin - Need I say more?

(One of the) Hottest actor in Malaysia

Rosyam Nor - Need I Say More? ~~Best pic I could find.~~

Sniff Sniff. Can you blame me for watching foreign entertainment?

The Korean Wave has provided a tremendous boost to tourist influx into Korea. Tourism is also one of the key areas of economy in Malaysia. So why can't we film beautiful people prancing around in beautiful clothes on beautiful beaches (REDANG! PERHENTIAN! SIPADAN!)?

Thus,

Things I Would Like To See on Malaysian TV.
1. Cute actors
2. Pretty actresses
3. Malaysian culture (Malay, Chinese, Indian, Baba Nyonya, Kadazan etc etc) and not second wives/third wives/fourth wives that kinda farce.
4. Higher quality of filming
5. Superb soundtracks
6. Impressive storylines (Nevermind if its cliche)
7. Beautiful sets. Does not necessarily have to be ridiculously big bungalows with roman pillars.

Please-lah. And don't say that we are not comparable to Korea, HK, TW etc. Compare our beaches/islands to Korea and HK. We also have hot actors/actresses. And can produce classic movie epics like Puteri Gunung Ledang. So there is definitely potential to improve the local entertainment.

Disclaimer: I'm a biotechnology student. So in no way am I the most qualified person to judge the Malaysian entertainment industry. Thus, this is just purely my point of view, basically a couple of random observations thrown together to form an opinion. And this is not personal. So, don't blast me with negative comments, ya? :)

CHSPJ turns 50

2006-07-04T13:23:00.000+08:00

My alma mater has turned 50! Old nia... but still relatively youthful when compared to my primary school. Puay Chai is an old hag... 80-over i think...

Newly Built Main Entrance: Eh! How come look like main entrance of posh cemetery?!?
Picture obtained from sgkatholik.smjk.edu.my
The Star Metro ran a centrespread article on the occasion, which includes interviews of a few famous alumnus.

Fong Kui Lun - OBA, Bkt Bintang MP, DAP punya etc etc
Tan Sri - Chairman of Big Listed Company
Siow Hui Mei - 'Chink Chink' The name does not register (apparently host of a talkshow)

(Click on links for a screen cap of the article)

For some unfathomable reason they did not think of interviewing me. HOW CAN?
Nevertheless, being definitely worthy of a Metro centrespread interview, I hereby submit my own interview :)

Another Very Mediocre Alumni - Class of 2002, Wong Li Hua, 21
Wong Li Hua will always be thankful to Catholic High School for providing her with access to the cheapest food in town.

"We used to pay only RM 1.00 for a plateful of rather palatable fried rice. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to get even a decent bowl of ais kacang at that price." laments Wong who spent 5 years in the said school.

She reminisces about the wide variety of food that used to be available there. " Fried rice, Nasi lemak, porridge, chap fun, fried noodles, fishball skewered in (used) sticks, hydrogenated fat sandwiches, fake crabmeat sticks, you name it they (canteen operators) have it." Wong also have full praises for the vast assortment of (unhealthy) packet drinks available, all for just RM 1.00.

While the cheap food allowed for poor students to fill their bottomless stomachs (growing age), those with more money would also take advantage of the cheap food. "We often saw the rich kids eating the fried rice or fried noodles with assorted skewers. Some had normal sized fishball, small fishballs, large fishballs, super-sized-my-ball-is-bigger-than-yours fishball or fake crabmeat." Wong quickly adds that the food purchased was sometimes wasted by these rich kids.

Wong also praises the CHS canteen for not only providing eat-in service, but also takeaway and even delivery service. "The service is comparable to restaurant chains, such as Pizza Hut and the whatnots. The seating arrangements are very well-planned."

A survey of the canteen showed that tables were aplenty in the canteen and there were even a few sections for diners to choose from. Among the sections are the field view seats (often reserved for form sixers), the prison-type seats (which the guys like to hang out) and the under-a-tin-roof-but-next-to-garbage-area section. In recent years, a new section with pebble-washed flooring and sturdy aluminium table was also introduced to provide students with even more seat choices. Self-claimed high-classed students whom hate crowds and refuse to eat in the main sections of the canteen can choose to eat at the ugly green marble tables at the other end of the netball court. However, these patrons will have to endure the nearby stinking drain and potentially deadly mosquitoes that proliferate in that area. "Anything," they say, "is better than eating with those low-lifers."

Delivery service is sometimes available when favour-oweing friends are around. "We get speedy delivery of food with just a shout away. But one will have to prepare for the worst and choose a scapegoat beforehand." advises Wong. She goes on to tell an intriguing story about how an intercepted delivery was retrieved from the discipline teachers room. "To date, I still do not know which courageous student did that unselfish act."

For Wong, the cheap food and canteen were definitely the more prominent aspects of the school. "Recess will always be close to my heart." says Wong emotionally.

Disclaimer: This is meant as a joke. CHS means more to me than just cheap food. The crazy friends, the violent discipline teachers, teachers (the lazy ones, the blur ones, and the dedicated ones), the not-so-adequate facilities, the haunted toilets, the VAST tapak perhimpunan, my embarrassing moments, my deviant days as a misguided prefect, and also my irresponsible days as an interactor will forever be buried in my heart.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL PJ!

Seeing Double

2006-07-04T13:03:00.000+08:00

Woots!!!

The twins are coming! Yes, I mean Charlene and Gillian.

Link to Official Website

They'll be here for two nites in August and I am seriously contemplating on going since I cannot forsee Se7en and Rain holding concerts in the short future (at least in this year).

Yayy TWINS! I just hope they perform . I remember very vividly that this song was the one i was humming while waiting with friends for one of the SPM papers. It starts like this "學業要緊我會小心 "...

Hopefully, for that 1 night of the concert I can relieve all my secondary school memories :) Gosh, has it been 4 years since i graduated?

Sense of Humour

2006-06-25T01:03:00.000+08:00

World Cup Ramblings: I hate the Swiss. I am not going to wear my
Swiss-made watch until World Cup is over. I hate them. They beat Korea
2-0.

I'm through with the semester exams (!).

Still adjusting to my 'exam-lag' (i.e. wide awake at night and sleepy in the day), i aimlessly (mindlessly as well) surfed the net for unimportant stuff and read even more unimportant blogs until i saw this...

(Picture grabbed from kennysia.com)
Kenny Sia was writing a parody about the inflation in Malaysia. I sniggered to myself when i saw the photoshopped protest signs.
I then clicked on the comment box and saw this
(Picture grabbed from kennysia.com)
And then i laughed till tears ran down my cheeks....
Two similarly funny things, yet i am so much more tickled by the 'wordy, texty' version of it.
I have a weird sense of humour.

Skinned Blog

2006-06-25T00:51:00.000+08:00

I've skinned my blog!!!

Added haloscan comments so that non-bloggers can comment.

Will add a chatbox soon enough.

Now this blog really looks professional.

Now all i need are readers.

Exams the Dread!

2006-06-21T22:08:00.000+08:00

Woke up at 9 a.m. today with a horrible horibble sneezing fit. More accurately, i was woken up by my horrible sneezing fit. I sneezed (tempted to use the word SNAZ... is there such a word?) every 30 seconds for about half an hour or so... do the math and it will show that i sneezed for about 60 times in total. How awful.

Had to ignore blogging for a few weeks to prepare for my exams. It's no easy feat to cram 5 months worth of lecture in one week (or two days for some of the subjects scheduled unbelievably close to each other... *bleh*)

When facing with exams, i will usually feel very guilty about playing hooky and skipping lectures throughout the semester. Too great is the temptation to just forgo boring lectures in favour of my bed, especially the lectures that are held in the wee hours of the morning (8 a.m. wtf?). But no use crying over spilt milk. (Note to self: attend more lectures next semester!)

Reflecting on my year and a half in Uni, i cannot help but feel eerily worried about my progress thus far. Is it just me or i haven't yet learn enough to be worthy of a 2nd year student? I cannot help but feel that i have not done enough justice to exorbitant course fees.

*ponders about future*

But enough about my pitiful laments.

Time to watch the World Cup matches :).

Oh, and then study a bit for my ecology paper. My last paper :)

Will blog more in a few days when i'm done with exams.

21st Bdae Celebration Part (1)

2006-05-27T20:36:00.000+08:00

Woots!

I'm 21, finally, after a 21 year wait... (lame attempt at a joke)

Had a sorta 2-day celebration thingie, with the climax being a clubbing session with my girls @ Cafe Flam, Sunway.

See, it wasn't supposed to be a clubbing session. I was duped by the name Cafe. Cafe, my foot. You see, what i wanted was a quaint little cafe (that serve alcohol, of course) for some girly heart-to-heart chat. And to evaluate Samantha's new boyfriend, Eric :). But what i got was a tiny bar-turned-disco instead.

When i arrived, Karen and Takeshi were already inside rotting with boredom :).

Cheng cheng, being the darling that she is, offered to chauffer me to and fro, expecting that by the end of the night i will be too drunk to drive. What a dear... :) Thanks Chng Chng Chng! A short while after Cheng and I arrived, Samantha walked up to us with a very manly Eric in tow... lolz.... They look so absolutely cute together my heart just melted... hahahaha.... I have a very soft spot for Samatha :). Three of us girls took a photograph, with Eric being tasked with photographing us at our best angle. Evaluation Number 1., i thought. Passed with flying colours. Easy task, i'd say, given that all three of us had no bad angles. :)

Then, when Cynthia and Ehua arrived, we were 'escorted' in by the very influential Takeshi :)

The place was packed like sardines, and we were huddled into a small corner with an even smaller table. No chairs provided for this 'special' corner, luckily we had unused amplifiers which we took turns sitting on :). This is the consequence of being VERY indecisive and booking at the very last minute.

But what fun we had. Stingy old us ordered a bottle of Dewars (no freaking idea what it was, but it was the cheapest)... and 12 of us shared it out. Being amatuerish drinkers, there was plenty for everyone... :)

Everyone was high-spirited, and then the unevitable happened...

WE cam-hoed like there was no tomorrow...

Samantha and I

A very mature looking Cynthia and a youthful me...

Petite Cheng and I

Karen and I: Our bdays are one day apart

Takeshi and I: World Peace Activists, NOT

Self-cam

Cheng and Karen: Deskmates in Form 2

Ehua and I

Picture explains it all: DO NOT TRY TO BE CREATIVE when you are far from it

Snap Snap Flash Flash *Nokia Mono Ringtone Fills the Air*....

Sian and See Mun announcing their arrival in a very unglamourous way: Calling me on my monotone/monocolour Nokia phone. I'm using the world's most antique and basic phone :) I'm not complaining though... It has NEVER hanged during crucial situations.

BAH! Photos i took with See Mun and Sian is stored in Sian's Pixel-overloaded Olympus camera (*drools drools). I'll upload them later.

Meanwhile, it was drink drink drink and then off to the dancefloor. Tiny, but still existent dancefloor. Needless to say, PACKED with a capital P. No, PACKED with all letters capitalised. Formed a dancing circle and randomly/sequentially pushed one of us into to circle for some serious booty shaking. No pictures possible given the scarcity of space. Anyway, who in the right mind will bring a Thousand-Over-Ringgit camera into a shoving and prancing crowd to take pictures for blogging? No one.

Sian, Ehua, and most notably manly Eric did NOT join us in our booty shaking session. Eric?!? (Eyebrows raised...) Standing at the corner watching some obsure team playing soccer against another obsure team.

Eunice and boyfriend Brendan was still stuck in some horrible jam at some bridge somewhere. Poor things.
Somemore photo-taking...

Cheng, Me and Karen

*some missing pics still in Sian's camera...*

Then Eunice arrived with Brendan...

*Shoves drinks to Eunice and Brendan*

Gulp Gulp Gulp

Off to dancefloor to dance our heads off...

WAT IS THE DJ PLAYING????????????

Micheal Jackson's Billie Jean.

YUCK with a capital Y. Where is Pump It by the Black Eye Peas???????????

AND THEN

Miss Party Pooper a.k.a. Samantha Tham says she wanna go off... Is she insane??? I haven't even yet had the chance to look at their faces properly!

*discuss discuss* *plans plans*
Cynthia the baby girl (who has freaking curfew) goes off... Thanks babe for coming :)
Samantha disallowed from leaving, as unanimously voted by all present.
Suggests Ming Tien for YumCha and grilled fish *drools*
QUARTER bottle of Dewars left...
Li Hua: Bring it home la... (kiasu kiasu)
Someone (can't remember who): Finish it la....
Li Hua: (blur blur) Okies...
*Samantha proceeds to pour drinks for everyone. And a very concentrated one for me.*
Everyone drinks up. I was forced to down dunno how many cups in a very short period of time.
Group photo before leaving

Partners-In-Crime

*Drunk drunk* Walks to Ming Tien.
Orders drink.
Time to open presents!!!

Knots are difficult to untie when drunk

Whooooo suspense!

Nice surprise!

This is how i look like when happy

Perfume!!! Another expensive gift from Cheng :)

Sian and I

Eunice and I

Time to go home :(

VERY VERY VERY happy nite!

I want to thank EVERYONE that came. I had such a great time. My 21st bdae celebration with you guys will be forever etched to my mind. :)

Other bdae-related posts to be up soon. Cheers! :)

Epilogue

2006-05-19T13:55:00.000+08:00

OBITER DICTUM: Someone mentioned that she came across
her friend's marriage photographs on friendster. Her friend is 20 this year.
Married. I'm 21 in a week's time, single and alone. But happy!
The girl has roused from her deep slumber.
A slumber that has been going on for 20 freaking years.
I am awakened.

Here I am, hovering on the last days of my twentieth year, blogging in my unkempt room in my parents’ slum of a house in a swanky middle-upper class housing area. Well, not exactly slum of a house, but close to it in terms of the amount of rubbish we store in here. XD.

With my twenty-first just round the corner, I look back and reminisces on my life thus far. Memories conjured shows more failures than successes. Or maybe that’s just because I am self-effacing.

I am overtly boisterous at times while uncompromisingly harsh (on others) the rest of the time. Well, more to the boisterous side, I reckon, but I bet my bottom dollar that my mom begs to differ. But she knows I love her :).

I am a procrastinator. Heck, I even procrastinated my birth. I was born two weeks late after making my mother go through much agony. Wait a minute. I’m still causing my mom agony now. Nevertheless, some of my friends beg to differ. They don’t think I’m a procrastinator. They think I’m just plain lazy.

I am mean. That is, when I’m really irked. But, most of the time, I’m too chicken shit to be mean to anyone else except my family members. I have no galls.

I not smart. For real. And I also have no galls sit for the MENSA test, for deep down I know that I get an average score. Or worse still below average (*horrors*, I’m dumb). But well, these MENSA test are design to favour those mathematically-inclined. Don’t try to put me down based on weak my mathematical ability, you MENSA meanies… i might have other (undiscovered) talents.

But the ugly, green and gooey caterpillar has undergone the last molting in her cocoon and will metamorphosise into a charismatic butterfly. Well, not the best analogy, for I’m rather terrified of insects (butterflies included), but the point has been articulated. I shall molt my fears, imperfections and failures.

I am now fully responsible for my own actions and can vote.

I am old. Wake up, you procrastinating a**, and live life to the fullest :)!