reflections

NEW BLOG!!

2010-03-28T02:12:00.001-04:00

heyy people! im officially switching over to tumblr for my new blog!

please please please relink me at reflections (its the same domain name! only on a different blog site) - http://astrikeoflightning.tumblr.com

do drop by (leave your comments by clicking on "comments" at the BOTTOM of the post!) and talk to me!

thanks ever so much :)

xoxo!

slow down.. this night's a perfect shade of dark blue.

2010-03-22T19:44:00.000-04:00

adrian yeong is defaming me on his blog. stupid boy. i update so much more frequently than him now and he says im the one procrastinating. hmphhhhh! here's a post just to prove him WRONG! :P

biology is my life now. i have a cell bio test on thursday, then a genetics test on friday.. :O

then SPRING BREAK WHEEEEEEEEEEE!

actually not really :( my spring break to do list:

the book of laughter and forgetting analytical paper (min. 5 pages)
cell bio extra credit research paper (10 pages) - i think im going to research on macular degeneration

sighh. but at least when im done with all that im going to visit sherry for a couple of days :) yayy! im so excited! according to her, yorktown heights is really small. but like.. when i was a kid i used to dream of living in a small town where like you could easily walk to school or to stores and you'd know all your neighbors and you'd have lots of kids the same age as you to hang out with! this was inspired by all those sweet valley twins books :D and now i actually get to experience living in a small town!

i'll let you know if i prefer a city to a town at the end of my visit :D i really hope the weather clears up by the time spring break comes around. last week was sunny and warm and we spent most of our time outside.. trying to study :P but more often than not we end up playing frisbee or football.. we even tried soccer once :D hehe. but the next couple of days is supposed to be rainy :( eww.

so i was studying bio.. and i was bored :)

knockout mouse. so cute!!

sister chromatid after meiosis :P

omg i feel like such a nerd now. i actually find these pics amusing! :D oh bio, what have you done to me??

xoxo :)

tequila shots in the dark scene of the crime

2010-03-15T15:55:00.001-04:00

hi people :) its finally spring! the weather last week was wonderfully warm and sunny and breezy wheeee! but then on friday it became typical spring weather - or well, typical for binghamton anyways - dreary, gray skies, strong winds and the occasional rain shower.

summer's too hot, winter's too cold, fall is still cold, and spring is rainy. why am i so dissatisfied with the 4 seasons?? i wanna live in a place where its sunny, breezy and with a year-round temperature of like 60-70 degrees. how awesome would that be! :D but well.. such a place would only exist in my dreams, i guess! darn it.

anyway, 2 weeks ago on one of those wonderful sunny days, charlie todd - founder of IMPROV EVERYWHERE - came to campus and conducted the binghamton university mp3 experiment in front of our library :D

you guys might have never ever heard of charlie todd OR improv everywhere.. but you HAVE to have watched youtube videos of his "missions" like frozen grand central (which was carried out in kl too sometime last year i think!), and of course the no-pants subway ride! a link to improv everywhere on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/improveverywhere?blend=1&ob=4

so, our mp3 experiment is exactly what its named after - all us participants download a pre-recorded mp3 file online, and we gathered in front of the bartle library dressed in either red, green, blue or yellow and at precisely 12.45pm, everyone pressed play on their mp3 players. of course, it wasnt exactly synchronized as some people started late, and some too early. nevertheless, it was a very fun experience! we followed the instructions given through the mp3 file, and it included warm-ups, thumb wars, following people around, high-fiving the people NOT involved, dancing in the fountain.. stuff like that :P we definitely surprised the people who had no idea what was going on and we had a whole crowd of people standing and watching the fun :D

the 15 second naps that he had us take every once in a while - crazyyy people sleeping on the snow!

the process of forming a human dartboard! reds in the middle, then green then blue with the rare yellow "darts" dispersed around the dartboard :P it was madness in there!

the highlight of the day - the EPIC BATTLE that we had been preparing for! our ammunition was, as you can see.. BALLOONS!

people rallying for the epic battle! it was greens/blues vs. reds/yellows!

the very dramatic "deaths" that we brave soldiers suffered at the hands of our enemies! :P

in the end though, everyone had to die and we spent a few minutes meditating under the warm sunny sky.. ahhhh :) i would so totally take part in more of his missions any time! wheeee!

thursday night we went to watch alice in wonderland in 3D at loews and it was AWESOME! :D this tim burton adaptation of lewis carroll's classic story stars mia wasikowska as alice, johnny depp as the mad hatter, helena bonham carter as the red queen and anne hathaway as the white queen. great storyline and wonderful acting :) the only part i found slightly annoying was the way the white queen literally danced her way around the entire time. i get that she's the ethereal graceful queen and all but.. the dancing. the hands. the buttered fingers!! o.O i will never look at a butterfinger the same way again hahaha. and who could NOT love the cheshire cat?!

i ♥ johnny depp :)

on friday, one of wyman's friends from suny geneseo came to visit him.. part of the tripod haha :P his name's ke and he's a pretty cool guy :) so on saturday we went to the ΝΑΦ house (which really looks SO sketchy from the outside) and of all people.. we met candace there! that was just a :O moment.. like what on earth was she doing there?! she and her twin, lindsey have to be like the most good girls around! "good girls go bad" much? hahaha.

anyway, the party was kinda dead.. i guess with the horrible weather no one really wanted to go out. offers to smoke up and dance were aplenty but like.. eww? no thank you. i actually want to live!

sunday was laundry/study day.. tossed around a frisbee later in the evening and the guys taught me how to actually throw and catch a football the right way this time! i think ive gotten the hang of it but i cant throw very far and catching it HURTS! but the fresh air was very invigorating :D

spring break is coming SOON! march 27-april 4! i have 2 tests in the 2 days before break starts which really sucks but ive already started studying so hopefully i'll do well :)

xoxo for now!

the party don't start til i walk in..

2010-03-09T18:40:00.000-05:00

helllooooo! its getting harder and harder to like constantly update my blog.. LOADS of things are happening but like i dont have any pictures of anything and all so its just gonna be words. sometimes i think of how some people are so philosophical on their blogs and i wish i could be like that.. like write stuff that makes me sound smart :P oh wellls :) i'll just be me!

last week was pretty busy, what with everyone having mid terms and tests and everything.. i had 2 bio tests and i think i did all right for cell bio.. waiting anxiously for my genetics results now! sighh. bio is getting tougher and tougher :O soooo many details to remember! one day when we were so sick of science kelvin came up with an awesomee idea for a major.. the major of INVENTING. as in invent ideas. then engineers or whoever can actually make it.. we'll just come up with the idea for it :D haha! takes skill ya know.. all that thinking.. :P nahhh we're just lazy lazy people :)

so after a loooong week, we decided to head out to the ZΨ house to party it up with the hugeee crowd. like it was literally jam-packed with people so you had to squeeze your way through to get anywhere! great music and awesomee dance floor though :D denny's run after that coz we were hungry and we had coupons that got us free meals :D yayy!

saturday was spent.. doing spring cleaning! well. kind of la :P coz like.. the weather everyday is absolutely gorgeousss! :) cool, but very sunny :) yayy! it almost feels like spring despite the slowly-melting piles of snow still on the ground. we watched MIRRORS that night :/ it was a good movie la.. and the guys scaring us at every opportunity made it less scary than it wouldve been if we had been watching it alone.. i was really annoyed with the ending though, but everyone else thought it was good..

anywayyy i cant wait for thursday night to come.. alice in wonderland in 3D! wheee! i really hope itll be as awesome as it promises to be! :D

xoxo for now!

time, is going by, so much faster than i..

2010-02-27T15:43:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt2kM0TsubU - its so touching.. it made me cry the first couple of times i watched it.

time really flies. sometimes in class i find myself writing "2009" instead of "2010" and then i find myself amazed that its 2010 already.

its the end of february now and its been snowing almost every hour for the past 3 days. the snow piles are like more than a foot high now and theres melted snow everywhere - eww :( i wish winter would just end already! its really getting me down..

on the up-side, we had a snow day on thursday, so we went up to mtview for sledding and snowball fights! most of the time though, it was more trayfuls of snow shoved into your face rather than being hit by actual snowballs. fun? oh yes, most definitely :) and yesterday we played football in the snow! i still think its kinda weird.. which other game doesnt allow you to pass the ball forward?! but despite the shoving and falling into snow, its was pretty fun.. and a good workout too! running through snow is very exerting! but at least i can now say i have attempted to play football :) american-style, that is.

emotions were astir last night :/ cheered myself up by watching a very morbid musical :)

"never forgive, never forget.."

i thought the saddest part of the movie was when he realized that he murdered his wife :( all the characters have a creepy edginess to them, which only makes the movie more compelling. and their voices are all absolutely wonderful! there's nothing like a macabre musical to banish emotional anguish :D

xoxo!

once i'm in, i own your heart.

2010-02-16T00:09:00.003-05:00

another week has come and gone and CHINESE NEW YEAR just started! :)

happy chinese new year and gong xi fa cai to everyone! :D

there was absolutely no CNY celebrations here at binghamton.. which was really kinda depressing. not being with my family was even more depressing :( but well, we found ways to entertain ourselves over the 3-day weekend anyways :P the last 3 days have pretty much just flown by! i had a genetics test on friday morning.. i really hope i did well :/ but then i was freeeee the whole weekend!

in the spirit of chinese new year, a whole bunch of us decided to try out this new buffet place near campus.. buffet star restaurant. asian cuisine, of course :) i thought the food was pretty decent, and for 11bucks, pretty reasonable too! the only annoying part was having to line up for food.. who lines up for buffets?! when we got back it was a round of cranium, then apples to apples and finally a game of KENT! its this really fun card game where you try to get 4-of-a-kind and then get your partner to say "kent" by signals or signs that you figure out beforehand. the other team has to do the same and you can try to intercept signals and then win more points for your team.. its awesome! :D

last weekend was also the NBA all-star weekend and with kelvin and wyman being so crazy over basketball, me and sherry ended up watching too.. and i'll admit it was pretty fun :) but still no match for premier league! :D we watched this movie, 500 days of summer.. an interesting movie. you can definitely empathize with the main character :P there was also a couple of rounds of mario star party.. which made me realize just how addictive video games are! :O its crazyyy!

we just got back from the theater. we were contemplating dear john and valentine's day.. but they had terrible reviews on rottentomatoes so we decided it wasnt worth it. wolfman was another option, but we decided on this:

overall, i found it an enjoyable movie :) but then again, maybe its just because i like greek mythology and cute guys :) whee!

♥

lost in a fairy tale, can you hold my hands and be my guide?

2010-02-07T17:33:00.000-05:00

random thought of the day: i wish i could live in a fairy tale :)

i caught a cold somewhere and my nose is all stuffed up now :( its so not fun. boooo. i really need to get better soon, i have a genetics test coming up this friday!

2 of my friends, kelly and wenjing celebrated their birthdays last friday, on the 5th of february :D

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY WENJING!!

sherry and i spent friday night out with kelly at a mixer at the naphi house where we met the brothers of ΝΑΦ and the sisters of ΣΟΠ as well as the rush-ees of this semester. eric and kevin joined us too, as well as melissa, amarnath, ray, carmen and jeffrey. it was quite fun i guess.. but we missed kelvin and wyman :( somehow its just not as fun unless its all 4 of us together!

i dont have pictures of the night yet coz sherry hasnt uploaded them yet.. i'll update this when i get the pics! :)

on saturday, we were playing with waifai's new cranium set :D cranium is this board game where you pick activities to do from 4 different categories - creative cat (drawing and sculpting), word worm (lexicons, puzzles, mind melds, gnilleps), star performer (charades, acting, singing) and data head (all sorts of random trivia questions). and this time we actually managed to finish a whole game! sidi, stanley and vincent won, then kelvin, ray and waifai, and err sadly wyman, sherry and me came in like third! hahaha. good game, though :)

chinese food at the union (yum!) and then we were playing indian poker in wyman's room.. OMG. most stressful game of poker on earth!!! ARGHH. the guys are like total poker sharks and they totally messed with our minds :( sighh. i need to learn the tactics of poker :P someday! hahaha. sherry was out first, then kelvin and then me.. not bad la. i was leading, then kelvin and wyman tag-teamed against me! but it was fun :))

we watched gridiron gang last night too after a pretty lengthy discussion about.. stuff. talking is good :D i like talking. anyway, it was the 2nd time i watched it and i still loved it! :)

football movies are always so inspiring! i like!

♥

jazz-y beats, anyone?

2010-02-03T22:29:00.000-05:00

overnight, the season has changed from almost-nearly-but-not-quite-there-yet-spring to winter again here in bing.. sighh.

this is the view from my window.

i want to make snow angels in that white field of snow :(

but a bit the malu laaa :p heheh

okay anyways. in an effort to make myself slightly more cultured, i agreed to accompany sherry to this jazz concert that was being held on campus in the casadesus hall.

we got lost looking for the hall.

we found it in the end :) i managed to sneak one picture of the band coz no photos were allowed :D

a jazzy quartet

wayne escoffery is the dude in the picture.

veneration is the other three dudes.

excuse my pointing out the obvious :)

the 3 dudes have names too okay. im just lazy to explain.

the vibe-ist was very enthusiastic -

he kept shouting beats out loud to the beat of his vibes -.-

..very loud.

the bassist was mellow.. and very chill.

the drummer was cool :D

conclusion = i dont think im cultured enough to appreciate this kind of jazzy instrumental stuff. i kinda zoned out halfway through and everything started to sound the same..

BUT. the guys are really good on their instruments and its pretty obvious that they really know their stuff when you watch them individually. as a group though, i found it kinda overwhelming.

not cultured enough la, what to do :p

last, but certainly not least...

HAPPY 19TH BIRTHDAY VICTORIA!!!

loves!

a very belated NYC trip update!

2010-02-01T22:19:00.000-05:00

hello! took me forever to upload the pictures but here they are! enjoy :)

a view of manhattan from the water. isnt it gorgeous??

this is us on liberty island, with manhattan in the background!

lady of liberty

ellis island grounds

ellis island museum entrance

a very cool car park in chinatown! how crazy is that!

times square!!! the place that truly never sleeps!

dinner at hard rock cafe and we got 50% discount

coz one of the orders was late :D woohoo!

NYU! conveniently located right in soho..

OMG how cool is that right? you can walk through soho during your breaks!!

the peanut butter & co. shop

where everything is made of peanut-buttery goodness. mmm..

christmas carols at.. somewhere. 5th avenue? :)

madison square garden :)

times square again.. our regular haunt almost every night!

strawberry cheesecake at junior's

mocha cheesecake too!

S.O. G.O.O.D.

the huge glittery christmas tree at rockefeller center :)

central park woohoo! subways are awesome.

i wish kl's lrt system was like this.

central park with absolutely beautiful landscapes.

day trip to MoMA with bing/cornell people :D

wyman, waifai, calvin, jiaying and suzie! we also met jonathan yam there!

the SUPER DUPER HUGE CROWD at times square on new year's eve!

this is us wishing everyone a happy 2010! :)

loves!

a brand new year calls for a brand new start!

2010-02-01T00:22:00.000-05:00

hello people!

admittedly, this is the start of the second month of the new year, but its only the 2nd week of classes here at bing so do forgive me :) my year has only just begun! i will try my very best to keep this blog alive and fresh with the ups and downs of my life! i really will, i promise! :D

just a quick update.. i spent about 2 weeks in the big apple, a.k.a. new york city - concrete jungles where dreams are made of.. - which was ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.. managed to spend quality time with ui tee, adrian, jay and cezlynn! loved it! ;) we ushered in the new year 2010 at times square, then i came back to good ol' bing to spend another 3 weeks lazing around and generally being highly unproductive. very relaxing indeed :)

THANK YOU SO SO VERY MUCH MUM AND DAD FOR LETTING ME GO TO THE CITY.

right so as i mentioned, the first week of the spring semester has just ended! im in 3 courses only this semester - molecular genetics, cell biology and british fiction. very interesting courses, especially the science classes and i have great professors this semester too! lectures have already started, but luckily none of us really had any work to do.. so we headed out on friday night to the naphi house to party it up with their version of REPLAY ;) being girls, we couldnt resist the temptation to dress up in killer heels despite the freezing temperature. but hey, can you blame us? now, if only the guys would put in some fraction of the effort girls do to look good..

but whatever. guys will be guys. so it was 5 of us - sherry, kelvin, wyman and ray - but surprisingly enough we knew a lot more people there, which made it all the more fun! we pretty much owned one of the pong tables coz the guys were on a winning streak.. which was yet another surprise. believe me, it really was. the house is actually tiny. very cramped spaces, despite the 3 floors. they do serve awesomely good drinks though :D and the guys were very generous that night. whee :)

good music + good atmosphere + loads of people + good drinks = a very good time

however. the next morning had me wondering - is the alcohol-induced highness of the night before worth the alcohol-induced pain of the morning after? hangovers are no joke. but no match for hot showers! :D

saturday was lie-back-and-relax day and in the night we headed out to watch the dollar show, which was truly brilliant! the dollar show is a semesterly event where the 10 or so acapella groups in our college perform several songs each, either original songs or covers of songs that they arrange themselves. they are REALLY good. i especially loved the binghamtonics, the rhythm method (ha. ha. :p), the binghamton crosbys and the treblemakers :) i would love to try out for one of the groups.. maybe next semester ey? david auditioned for the crosbys this morning, i have to find out how it went :) after that we just chilled in wyman's room - ice cream, poker, and apples to apples. yeahh. :D

sunday was yet another relaxing day.. walmart run to get stuff and also gifts/cards for 3 people whose birthdays are within days of each other.. and all in this week too! sherry and i just finished watching pride and prejudice.. i ♥ this movie!!! makes you believe that maybe true love isnt dead after all, and that one day you could find your very own mr darcy too! aww :)

okay, im off to bed now.. somebody saaaave meeee. preferably superman, thanks. i detest mondays. and im going to have to start taking classes seriously this week. wish me luck please?

loves!

air yang dicincang tidak akan putus ♥

2009-12-02T14:11:00.000-05:00

i miss malaysiaaaa

i reallyyyy miss home

and i miss all you guys back home and in other parts of the US!

but fear not! air yang dicincang tidak akan putus :D

i freaking hate the cold weather here wth -.-

and to think i thought id LIKE it.. urgh have to eat my words now wth.

i emailed my dear darling ah xingggg yesterday after omg so damn long and i felt so bad coz like im the one who's like MIA! but its okay my guilty conscience is now alleviated coz i emailed her a freaking long email that also had lots of totally random bits of info hahaha :) yayy me!

and now im going to do physics hw sighhh. finals next week is going to be a KILLER. 2 presentations and a paper due..

and then the week after that, its finals :O :O :O

and then HOLIDAYYY ♥

hehehe

xoxo for now :)

everybody's gonna ♥ today!

2009-11-28T01:33:00.001-05:00

black friday morning dawned wayyyyy early for me! like omg i woke up at seven thirty am. i have never woken up this early in all my 3 months here. never! victoria and wenjing wanted to go at 5am like every other ki siao person lining up outside walmart for hours -.- i was just like.. dotdotdot. so they were nice enough to let me sleep in a lil bit more hahaha. we caught the first bus at 8.20am and off we were to oakdale mall! it was really cold walking to the union by the way :|

first stop - charlotte russe! 25% off everything in the store!! :D

2 pairs of jeans, 3 rings and 6 pairs of studs for $55

i ♥ this totally blinging ring ;)

we wandered into every other shop and finally we went to american eagle! that was like where i wanted to go to get the hoodie i was checking out online :P everything in the store was at reduced prices and there was an additional 20% off for check-outs before 12pm :)

wine-colored super warm super comfy zipper hoodie! $20 :O what a steal!

then i saw this gorgeous hoodie for $23 and i HAD to have it!

im like.. addicted to hoodies

i have to stop!

but theyre sooo uber comfy and its pretty much what i wear everyday hehe :)

grabbed a quick lunch at arby's (their roast beef sandwiches are sooo good!), then hopped onto the bus back to campus! we were waiting in the bus for like 10 minutes so to kill time..

victoria! (eh, seriously this girl is like 10 million times the shopaholic that i am. no joke.)

wenjing!

made it back to campus, tiredd out but happpyyyy :D

it was still freezing cold.

whenever the wind blew we shrieked in unison -.-

we sorted out all our stuff, chilled for a bit, then me and victoria hopped onto yet another bus to go to boscov's! its this huge departmental store in downtown binghamton :)

uber-fluffy and warm and comfy hoodie! $22

its fuzzy all over!

and its reversible ;)

see what i mean by addicted? :| hahaha!

pajama pants! :D

umm. thats a lot of plaid :O lol.

k end of shopping spree :)

.. i bought 3 hoodies for like an average of $22.30 each.

im in hoodie heaven!!

so anyways, today was sebastian's birthday!! :) me and victoria had dinner with him at the plaza diner, his dad's treat ;) woohoo!

happy 19th birthday sebastian!!

he had some jumbo shrimp thing

victoria had seafood alfredo yum yum!

and i had a chicken cordon bleu sandwich which was damn yummy wth but the picture of it wont upload nicely GRR.

we were soooo tempted to order dessert. look at their list of desserts offered :O

dessert mania wth.

page one

page two

but then we decided not to coz we were too full from the huge portions they served us! another day la ;)

it was FREEZING COLD AND EVEN WINDIER THAN BEFORE while we were waiting for the bus.

i had never been so happy to see a bus than i was just now wth.

this is an actual picture of the BCC buses we get when we cant get the BU blue buses :)

so ive been sitting in the bus a lot today and i thought about ~~a couple~~ ~~a few~~ okay la quite a lot of things:

the busybody malaysian in me when we passed 4 police cars with their lights flashing surrounding a house and i was the only jakun trying to see what was happening and thinking "omg omg what happened??" ;) keh-poh-chi & pat por to the max hahaha wth
what would i do without buses?? i love the bus system here :) clean and safe, with friendly and helpful drivers yayy! i think it has improved my sense of direction too wth. around binghamton, at least. i think ive forgotten subang roads already :O uh-oh..
WHAT IF I FORGET HOW TO DRIVE BY THE TIME I GET HOME NEXT YEAR??? :O
im sooo sick of studying sighhh. i havent had a real break since last year okayy. i dont know how the rest of you guys are surviving :( im dying. the life is slowly being sucked out of me... okay la im exaggerating a bit. but really. do you guys realize we've studied jan-may, then may-august, then fly here fly there and september-now!!
I CANT WAIT FOR WINTER BREAK ;)
despite the supremely cold and gloomy weather and like less than 4 hours of sun in a day, i actually like it here in bing :) having friends really helps make life that much more fun ;)
ive done laundry three times in the past 3 days. including today. how much more lifeless can i get?? o.O

xoxo from me ;)

the perfect words never crossed my mind, coz there was nothing in there but you..

2009-11-25T20:53:00.000-05:00

new moon was an absolutely terrible movie wth! i really think all the twilight movies are going to be sooo bad :| but i have to post these pictures up :D

i want the one in the middle ;)

it helped that they had all these hot werewolves walking around topless all the time :D

the one and only person who made the movie worth watching -

taylor lautner ♥

"OMG! OMG! OHHHH..." hahaha quote of the night by nguyen!

i was team edward in the book.. but now im all for TEAM JACOB! woohoo ;)

how can you resist such a yummyyy body like that? ♥

now, 2012 was a great movie!! :) action-packed and heartwarming at the same time.. veh naise. i like. :)

and... i saw this absolutely gorgeous pair of heels at tj maxx!!

GUESS 4"suede platforms for $40

:O :O :O

theyre mine now ;)

♥

when i look at the stars, i feel like myself..

2009-11-22T14:24:00.002-05:00

at 10pm on the 16th of november, 2009, sherry knocked on my door, absolutely bursting with enthusiasm for the LEONIDS METEOR SHOWER 2009 that we were planning to watch that night :) she had her backpack with all her stuff.. and the tiniest pen-light ever! :P hahaha.

so we headed over to wyman and ray's dorm to "group-nap" til 2am.. a plan that totally failed -.- i WANTED to sleep.. but sherry and kelvin were too hyped up so i didnt get any sleep at all! only ray slept, but thats coz ray can sleep through just about.. anything. ahaha :)

at 2.30am we got ready to head over to the nature preserve! when we reached, there were already loads of people at the bridge, where we originally wanted to chill to watch the stars, so we headed further into the preserve, which was like really really crowded with SO many people hanging around!

with sherry heading the way, we hiked up to like this mini-mountain in the preserve. we were kinda lost going up coz instead of going UP we were more going AROUND the mountain.. but anyway we made it up there safely in the end and omg i fell like a gazillion times. i still have the bruises now :(

the field of goldenrods (which were mostly dead :P)

the clearing in the field where we were sitting :)

it was actually a really cloudy night and lots of people were actually leaving by the time we got up there. but we decided to just wait it out :) while waiting we ate, played crazy loud games and made a few stars of our own..

finger star yayy :)

hahaha foot star too! not bad la, can kinda see the star shape ;)

then the REAL stars came out.. and it was an absolutely breath-taking sight :) it was just so.. surreal :) okay, the picture looks like its specks of dust, but theyre actually STARS! and we saw a few shooting stars too!

everyone make a wish :)

it was mad cold up there so we did jumping jacks to try to warm up hahaha :D

the clouds started closing in again at about 5.30 so we reluctantly decided to head back. we were actually debating staying up there to watch the sunrise, but it was just too cold!

some confusion when we were trying to get out of the field.. it was dark. and really quiet. and it was really scary trying to get out of the field. zombie nation o.O

the goldenrods were like as tall as me okay :|

finally we made it DOWN the mountain safely.. and thats when the real confusion began. we were okay at first, following the yellow trail markers.. there was a period when we were really lost and when we finally found another yellow marker we were like sooo relieved!

but no, our trek was FAR from over! our main target was to get to the lake so we could cross the bridge and get out the same way we got in. so when we saw the lake we were basically following it.. there was this period where the trail markers were really confusing and we went back and forth the same stretch of trees THREE times before we made it to the lake edge and realized that we were actually headed in the OPPOSITE direction from campus :| these blue markers were ridiculously hard to spot in the dark. urgh.

X marks the spot

finally though we saw a road and we headed towards it with all intentions of getting onto the road and out of the trees no matter what! lucky for us, it was the right trail that we were trying to follow and omg after nearly 2 hours of wandering around we made it out safely!

the trail that led us out of the preserve.

see how happy we looked when we realized we were safe :)

we walked out of the trees and the first thing that came to my mind when i saw this road was like..

"OMG. civilization!"

we were at the road that led to freakin HILLSIDE! thats damn far away from where we entered the nature preserve pls! we checked out the map, and we covered like at least a third of the whole preserve with our mad trek. thats.. damn a lot of walking.

when we reached mountainview, the sun was rising :)

and there we are, sitting on the steps leading to appalachian dining hall!

it was suchh a crazy night/morning. haha. we were probably running on pure adrenaline :) it was about 7.30 by the time we headed for the showers. we ate breakfast.. and then went to sleep! hahaha. sleep is amazing. we missed our classes that day, but hey, some things are worth skipping classes for ;) it was an awesome bonding experience for us too!

p/s: all credits for the awesome pics go to kelvin! :) he is.. more of a camwhore than me wth o.O serious one. hahaha!

i wish you would step up from that ledge, my friend..

2009-11-15T22:30:00.005-05:00

helloooo! :)

the weekend came.. and ended in a snap. seriously. why does time fly so fast when im having fun?? boo :(

first, i apologize in advance for the lack of creative pictures because i didnt think of taking any exciting pictures to blog about! oops :)

so anyways, friday evening, me sherry and kelly went for KOREAN IDOL at the old union :P i think there was a grand total of 10 non-koreans in the whole hall hahaha. not bad eh. it was pretty cool at first.. we got to watch kenny dance! hot damnn ;) then there was this wacky duo of rappers! one guy kept forgetting his lines, and his partner had to jump in and save him by rapping super duper über FAST. awesome! we didnt understand a single thing, but thats okay ;) this was followed by a pretty sweet duet and then this rock band came onstage.. this was where it started getting boring -.- like 15 minutes of technical difficulties, during which the guy was talking to the audience in korean. the following 4 rock songs that they played.. all pretty much sounded the same to our highly non-korean-understanding ears. hehh.

me and sherry bolted during the intermission haha :)

we met up with the guys who were bowling, and i met lindsay and candace, 2 twins who look nothing alike o.O theyre pretty nice :) we all headed to get bubble tea and while exploring mohawk, we found this in the kitchen!

authentic CHINA GREEN TEA!

led by lindsay and candace, we all snatched a few packets :P technically, you could say we kinda-sorta paid for it. kinda. sorta. i guess?

okay, not really. oh wells :)

anyway, wyman and kelvin left for the late nite poker tournament and me sherry, ray, ben and wai fai headed to ray's place for a mini crash course in texas hold' em poker! which is insanely fun and AGONIZING, all at the same time! heheh :) we joined everyone else back at the old union for district 9, but we were kinda late and totally didnt get what was going on so me, sherry and wai fai went to sherry's room to watch..

which was a totally awesome movie.. right up til the end when fall changed to autumn while they were fighting -.- mehh. channel-surfed a lil, talked a lot, and before we knew it, it was like 4! o.O i went up to grab my stuff and we all crashed at sherry's whee!

woke up at 10.30 the next morning, and despite valiant attempts to make the 10.30 bus to walmart, we ended up missing the 11.30 one too and had to wait for the 12.20 one -.- typical teenagers huh.

oh oh after 2 months plus of buying bottled water, i finally decided to invest in a FILTER! yayy me. less plastic, save the environment! here's my über cool portable filter and my stash of cups that i grabbed from the dining hall during dinner :)

the bus back was late though so we were half an hour late for the first basketball game of the season! the BU BEARCATS vs the bloomsburg huskies! again, no pictures of the game itself, i dont know what was wrong with me, i only thought of taking pictures when the game ended -.-

i blame it on the excitement of the game :) despite the many misgivings i had about watching a basketball game, it was actually pretty cool! everyone was very the kan-cheong and they gave out lotsa random free stuff during time-outs and half time! the stuff ranged from pizza to BU tees to cash vouchers to a CAR to free lasik surgery. how utterly random is that?! hahaha.

after the game, we decided to explore downtown binghamton! oh did i mention it was an absolutely awesome-weather day?? it was like.. almost warm! :))) in the middle of november. the weather here is mad random sometimes. hopped onto the bus, walked around a lil.. the place is kinda scary actually. it was dark by then so i was kinda relieved that we had wyman, ray and kelvin with us :) we ate yummy pizza, then went into boscov's! its this hugee department store that sells like.. everything. there was even like this chocolate bar!! :O

i bought this really cute pair of pajama bottoms and a packet of hershey's dark chocolate xx's yum yum! :)) we all bought diff types of candy hehehe. ohh. i had a HERSHEY'S TAKE 5 for the first time ever :D chocolate. pretzels. caramel. peanuts. peanut butter. all in one lil bar of yummyness. nuff said ;)

we played poker again and the loser had to do some random stuff inspired by watching SILENT LIBRARY videos. omg. the things that they do.. *shudder* here's the link if any of you are interested haha, its mad funny :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-xNQx17WWs

ended the night with this hilariously entertaining movie..

wicked! ;)

patience is a virtue.. or so they say.

2009-11-13T15:37:00.005-05:00

how to be patient

dear k,

i know this semester hasn't been an easy one for you, and im really trying to be as supportive as i can possibly be, given that ive only known you for less than three months. i will admit that i think some of your problems ARE your fault, but i guess i cant really blame you for it, seeing as youve never experienced this before. honestly, i feel that you THINK youre really "american-ized".. deep down though, you know youre still asian. you just dont want to admit it, and thats why youre doing all this now, to prove something to yourself. truth be told, sometimes you really do kinda freak me out with the things you say and the stuff you do! and sometimes i get so annoyed with the ridiculously inane things you say. but then you open up about the problems youre facing.. and thats when i can feel your hurt and loss.

but then the next time you say something mean or hurtful or shallow about someone, i get mad again. i admit, i myself am guilty of being mean and shallow at times, but i actually DO feel bad about it. you dont - and you even admit that you know youre snobbish and a b*tch. sometimes i wonder why? why are you so shallow? you know it, but you dont wanna change.

you have your own good qualities - you can be nice, funny, caring. you were so hardworking in high school and you used to go to church every week. what happened now? what changed your priorities? now its all about guys. yes, i KNOW youre still trying to get over him, i know all about it. but the way youre going about it is just.. not right. i wish you could understand that you dont need a guy to be able to live an awesome life right now.

the way you act around some people, the way you only want to hang out with certain people, the way you always want to have everything YOUR WAY. im starting to get really tired of it. answers like "i'll see how i feel about it later" or statements like "see if i care" - they can be pretty hurtful you know? you really hurt s with your insensitive joke that day.. we only kept quiet because we know what youre going through.

soon enough, it just might end up being "us" against "you" if things remain the way they are now.

♥

2009-11-11T15:28:00.003-05:00

listening to this song never fails to bring a smile to my face :)

so yesterday i had like a really weird fever out of the blue.. like what on earth? i was perfectly fine in the morning.. i started feeling really out of it in geography and when i got back i literally died :( my head hurt and my whole body ached and i was nauseous :(

my theory is that my immune system just crashed on me coz ive been around all these sick people week after week! first sherry had the flu, then kelly caught it, then sherry was coughing again and then jia was coughing! o.O so i guess i HAD to fall sick, just to get it over with. LOL. and now im feeling better. really tired. but feeling wayyy better!

im not dead.. not yet anyways! :)

2009-11-09T14:49:00.005-05:00

i find myself constantly amazed at how FREE i am here! like literally, there are no rules stopping me from doing.. whatever i want :P heheh. but HEY i havent gone wild coz i know thats what all of you are thinking! this is a purely shallow post about whats been happening with my social life. im not really in the mood for philosophical thoughts now :)

nothing big really happens during the week because all we have time to do is study, talk a lot, do homework, talk some more, write papers, hang out.. oh and talk some more ;) yeahh we talk a LOT. hahaha! my inner circle is mostly just me, sherry, kelly and sometimes victoria, but im super duper happy to say that our social circle has expanded to.. several different circles! :D like we have different groups we hang out with and thats really awesome!

so lets see.. weekends are the total bomb because like we pretty much dont study on fridays and saturdays.. work hard during the week and play hard during weekends! ;) we usually party on fridays and chill on saturdays so here are a few shots of the last 3 weekends! the weekend before halloween, halloween weekend and last weekend!

the theta tau mansion is like our current favorite place to party :D it also helps that we know the fraternity guys so its more fun!

victoria, kelly and me.. quite the posers LOL.

me and sherry! omg i love jello shots theyre so yummy! :)

halloween eve night! at the lambda house! lol kelly was like a preppy schoolgirl in a really slutty outfit and sherry was a gothic fairy :P i was.. not dressed up hahaha. all though now i REALLY want a leather jacket ;) umm i didnt really do much on halloween weekend coz i had a physics test that monday! :( how evil is that right like setting a test after halloween weekend?? urgh. physics is the bane of my existence now. i spend like.. goodness knows how much time on physics. its depressing -.-

right so this weekend was really fun :) i was done with my tests so i was totally ready to chill :D one of our friends, wyman, had his 2 friends from cornell (jia ying and calvin) come down to visit him so me and sherry were just hanging with them!

friday evening was spent at the mall with kelly coz she was looking for a dress! then i rushedd back to catch a 5.30pm bus to get to the GRAND WOK CHINA BUFFET next to wal-mart! we were mad excited about it coz we'd been saying we wanted to go there for AGES but we never got around to doing it! it was like 11 of us there.. sherry, victoria, me, wyman, ray, kelvin, jia ying, calvin, wai fai, sidi and ben. shoulda been more but some of them were busy :( no pics though coz i forgot my camera! the funny part was that we ALL rushed into.. the WRONG bus!! that was so silly of us omg! we ended up spending like half an hour sitting on the bus going downtown -.- but hey, good bonding session :) hahaha! china buffet was pretty good.. we're def going back there again someday! :D quick wal-mart run and then..

theta tau black&white night! :)

i ♥ sherry hahaha :)

group shot of all of us there that night!

jia ying, me, kelvin, kelly, ray, sherry, wyman and calvin

the party was fun fun fun! we spent most of the night playing beer pong (for the first time ever lol! usually we play flip cup) and the pros of the night were jia ying, ray and SHERRY! hahaha. awesome possum :) by the end of the night most of them were pretty drunk.. only me and ray were the sober ones lol and kelly had left earlier. hunger kicked in and we headed over to denny's to grab food! and we friggin WALKED back to our rooms! at like 4am in the morning. it was a freezing cold 20 minute walk and i was in HEELED BOOTS. im amazed at myself. heheh. the cold air sobered them up though :)

it was a pretty tiring night! our saturday began at like 2pm and me and sherry had lunch wayyy up at mountainview with the rest of the crew and then the 7 of us headed over to the basketball court! volleyball and basketball whee :) it gets really dark really early nowadays :( by 5pm it was dark. and cold. the guys had an actual game while me and sherry kept score lol and then we all headed back to wyman's and ray's place!

they actually have a RICE COOKER omg! :) so we ordered chinese food and cooked rice and ate while watching south park :P HAHA. south park is mad funny! :D then our movie marathon began with..

STEPHEN KING'S "IT"

i was mad nervous coz i HATE horror movies :( it was a really freaky movie.. like it really didnt make sense most of the time :/ hahaha even the guys were freaked out by the end of it. i can totally understand how kids get phobias about clowns after watching something like this o.O we were all kinda jumpy when it ended and like everyone had to go to the bathroom! no one wanted to go alone and no one wanted to stay in the room alone either! hahaha. we're so lame :P

anyway, to banish the creepiness of IT, we watched..

A NEW POLICE STORY which was a pretty good movie :D

and no one wanted to sleep yet so on to.. WATCHMEN!

sadly though, i think only 2 of us actually watched the whole movie lol. it was so. slow. and. dark. so yeahh i really tried to focus coz i really wanted to watch it! but i ended up giving in to sleep coz it was just really boring. haha. it was a friggin 3 and a half hours movie too! when it ended it was like 6am :/ so we all just crashed at their room! tiredness.

jia ying and calvin had to leave the next morning and sherry had to study for her bio test so we all woke up at like 10am. and sunday is like work day for us so we pretty much camped at the library til dinner time! 4 hours of sleep is NOT ENOUGH.

but heyy it was a really fun weekend :D

oh for more summery days!

2009-09-21T00:19:00.007-04:00

it was an beautifully sunny and warm sunday afternoon! what better way to spend our time than by taking a lil walk around binghamton university's very own nature preserve? :))

being one with nature is a good thing y'know? :D

the "we" here means me and sherry!! :))

the very first thing she showed me was this purple flower down below! its honeysuckle! you basically pluck the petals off and suck on the ends where the nectar is. it was really surprisingly sweet :)

okay, so we were actually there coz sherry had to carry out this bio experiment which involved..

watching bumblebees land on flowers! she had to count how many times the bees landed on a patch of flowers - one in the sunlight, one in a sunny/shady area and another in a shaded area. she chose goldenrod, which is this flower below and that bee on it had to be the HUGEST BEE ON EARTH!!! seriously. i was too scared to actually get a close up of it but trust me, it was HUGE!! and scary.

so while she watched bees, i went around snapping pictures of nature in its finest glory! well, almost. its about fall now so the leaves are turning red :D i was sooo happy that the skies were clear and blue and it was sunny and warm today!

see this one tree is fully red already!

after watching bees, we decided to walk along the..

where we took lots of pictures! :P kinda jakun la but hey malaysian rainforests are like.. wet, muddy, leech-infested and green/brown. here its all pretty! i couldnt resist taking pictures!

this is a mushroom if you cant tell..

queen anne's lace! very delicate and pretty!

there were so many different-colored berry bushes. they LOOKED really good but theyre probably poisonous or something!

white berries..

i really like the red splash in the middle of green effect :)

blue/black berries..

these are red berries with purple aster growing next to the berry bush!

we thought this might have been poison ivy :S coz its red leaved with reddish stems lol. but luckily it didnt turn out to be anything poisonous :P

and here's the marsh! or wait maybe this is just some random river -.-

we then moved on to the...

where we saw lots of trees on the way. like this one kept losing its leaves everytime the wind blew. signs of winter :(

its so fascinating to see that the leaves have touches of green, yellow AND red!!

voila! our "pond"!! hahahaha! nah just kidding this is just a tiny puddle :P we didnt find the pond so we're gonna go back another time! yayy!

it was really fun just wandering around acting all tourist-y with the cameras and shades :P HAHA! :)

you know that i could use somebody..

2009-09-19T15:38:00.004-04:00

hellllooo :)

its the weekend! i absolutely adore weekends! :D they have some sort of power over me.. no matter what, the very fact that its the weekend never fails to cheer me up! i wake up on thursday morning thinking "oh its friday tmr!! :DD" and i wake up on friday morning going "THE WEEKEND IS HERE!!"

yup. i know im a lil bit crazy sometimes. but hey, who doesnt love weekends?? time to chill, relax, do whatever you want. its pure bliss! :))

the past two weekends have been pretty busy for me. so im posting a rather delayed post on whats been happening here so far! umm no pictures though sorry :P

right so me and a bunch of my friends decided to go for a partayyyy on our first weekend here! it was an asian-american frat party where all the guys looked the same and all the girls looked like carbon copies of each other. from their hair all the way down to the shoes.

no, im not exaggerating. i wouldve taken pictures coz it was kinda funny but theyd have thought i was some psycho stalker!

long story short, the party wasnt all that happening. but that was probably because we didnt know anyone at the party. the drinks were good though ;) haha!

right, time to introduce my girlfriends here! :)

first off, this is victoria! she's from shanghai and she's a TOTAL SHOPAHOLIC! hahaha. this girl is crazzzeeee. she absolutely loves shopping and she's not worried about money. i wish i could be like that -.- lol. and she loves gory movies. like.. what?! thats nuts. we were actually gonna go watch final destination last night. i was the only one who didnt wanna go! but it wasnt showing so oh well too bad!

this is wenjing! she's from guangzhu in china as well (i think thats how its spelt?) and boy is she ever LOUD. lol. she loves singing, talking and she's really friendly!

these two gorgeous girls here are sherry (on the left) who was born in china but moved to NY at the age of 4-ish so she's almost an ABC. hahaha. she is awesome!! i love her already! hahaha. yet another shopaholic who's super talkative and always up for anything!

the girl next to her is nam sun! we call her smiley coz she's always so bubbly and happy and smiling! she's from korea and i swear she acts almost exactly like the korean girls we watch in korean dramas like in full house/my girl! hahaha! :DD

so we went shopping at oakdale mall during the labor day weekend (3 day weekend YAYY!) oakdale mall in johnson city is like the only actual shopping mall here in binghamton. the next nearest mall is all the way in syracuse. we plan to go there.. some day :D literally EVERY shop was on sale!! i loved itttt so much. but i was a good girl and controlled myself :) i found a totally cute top for ONE DOLLAR. like.. what an awesome find! i was so happpyy! okay ive actually bought quite a lot of stuff already but seriously everything is on a budget :) so im not going crazy spending money like water!

after our shopping trip we were all excitedly getting ready for the party lol!

well the upside is i can say i HAVE attended a frat party.. which is more than what any of the rest can say ;) and this means nic, john, willie, ui tee and so forth. ahaha :) hopefully the next one will be more fun!

last weekend was pretty fun coz we went shopping yet again.. and then in the night we went to get ice-cream at cold stone creamery (which is totally super super yummy by the way!!) and then coffee at starbucks!! then we were so awake due to the sugar rush so we went for this "late nite" thing on campus where we watched the proposal!! :D damn funny please! i looooove that movie!!

last night it was friday night and campus was sooo empty coz lots of people went home to celebrate rosh hashanah (the jewish new year). so yeah, we were intially gonna watch final destination with kelly, eric and soo yun but it wasnt showing so they went to watch sorority row but we decided to take a walk around vestal! thats the part of binghamton that we're in. from our dorm to the university entrance was a 15-minute walk.

so the thing is our uni is located on this road called vestal parkway east, which is basically a LONG straight road, kinda like a highway and theres lots of shopos along the road. so sherry, victoria, smiley and me were just walking along and talking. our mission of the night: hot chocolate!! :) so we ended up at panera's and yes, hot chocolate on a cold night equals happiness :)

we kinda calculated that we walked about 4 miles the whole night. thats like.. WOW. so amazing right! ive done so much walking here but its actually FUN coz the weather is cool and this place just feels so safe! ooh we also kinda just lay down on the grass in one of the fields on campus and watched the stars. which was really peaceful. food for the soul :)

then we came back to my room and... dyed my hair red!!!! with one of those DIY kits hahaha. well theres no big difference -.- theres hints of red but only visible in the sun. i guess these kits arent meant for asian hair. maybe i shouldve gotten a bright coppery red instead of the dark burgundy red. but yeah so now my hair has hints of burgundy which is kinda nice :) success! then we watched the divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood!! :DD totally girls night out hahaha.

okay that was kinda a long story but ive definitely had fun so far with these 4 girlfriends of mine :)) here's to many more fun days and nights together! :)

after a long hiatus.. :)

2009-09-13T13:11:00.002-04:00

helllooo!

:)

i totally abandoned my blog despite promises to several people that i would keep the "blogging spirit" alive in me! oops. anyway. im back! and better than ever ;) LOL. only joking.

welcome to my little world here at BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY in binghamton, new york!

its not the big apple by any stretch of imagination though. binghamton is a small city/town (i dont know which it is. hmm.. ) with a beautiful scenery of mountains and forests. which is slowly turning from lush green to dusty gold and will soon be gorgeous red!

here are a few pictures of my campus! which i intially thought was HUGE. though after 3 weeks of exploring, im slightly crushed to realize its actually not that big after all.

okay wait its taking waaaaay too long to upload all the pics so just click on this link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/album.php?aid=106896&id=644402425

so ive been having classes for 2 weeks already and im not swamped with assignments yet but there is definitely a need for constant studying throughout the week to keep up with readings, homework and self-reviews of all my classes. yes, i actually DO study :) which is why i dont blog everyday because i dont exactly find much fun in reading about people's everyday schedules -.- especially if they're as monotonous as:

"Today i spent the whole day studying in the library..." and etc.

im kinda shifting off topic. lol. so anyway. i basically study during the week and play over the weekend :)) i will update about my binghamton late nights some other time when i get nice pics :) if i ever do!

when i first arrived in binghamton, i HATED it. but i think that was because i felt so out of my confort zone. first off, my baggage was delayed for like 3 days. 2nd, the room i was in was like devoid of any creature comforts. no fan, no bed sheets, no pillows, no comforter, stuff like that.

now my room has pretty much transformed into my haven :) one day i'll make it nice and neat and pretty and upload a picture of it :D

ohmygosh okay i gotta run now but i promise i will update about my roomie, my friends and my life so far here :)

xoxo for now

HAHAHA!

2009-09-11T01:17:00.002-04:00

Pagi itu pagi minggu. Cuaca cukup sejuk sehingga mencapai takat suhu beku. Sebab itu saya tidak mandi pagi sebab air kolah jadi air batu dan air paip tidakmahu keluar sebab beku di dalam batang paip. Pagi itu saya bersarapan dengan keluarga di dalam unggun api kerana tidak tahan sejuk. Selepas itu emak sayamengajak saya menemaninya ke pasar. Tetapi saya tidak mahu. Selepas emakmenikam perut saya berkali-kali dengan garfu barulah saya bersetuju untuk mengikutnya.Kami berjalan sejauh 120 kilometer kerana pasar itu letaknya 128 kilometer dari rumah.

Lagi 8 kilometer nak sampai pasar saya ternampak sebuah lori kontena meluru denganlaju dari arah belakang. Dia melanggar emak saya. Emak saya tercampak ke dalam gaung. Dia menjerit “Adoi!”. Lepas itu emak saya naik semula dan mengejar lori tersebut. Saya pun turut berlari di belakang emaksaya kerana takut emak saya melanggar lori itu pula. Pemandu lori itu nampak kami mengejarnya. Dia pun memecut lebih laju iaitu sama dengan kelajuan cahaya. Kami pula terpaksa mengejar dengan lebih laju iaitu sama dengan dua kali ganda kelajuan cahaya.

Emak saya dapat menerajang tayar depan lori itu. Lori itu terbabas dan melanggar pembahagi jalan lalu bertembung dengan sebuah feri. Feri itu terbelah dua. Penumpang feri itu yang seramai 100 orang semuanya mati. Pemandu feri itu sangat marah. Dia pun bertukar menjadi Ultraman dan memfire pemandu lori. Pemandu lori menekan butang khas di dalam lori dia..lori itu bertukar menjadi robot Transformer. Mereka bergaduh di udara.

Emak saya tidak puas hati. Dia pun terus menyewa sebuah helikopter di Genting Highlands dan terus ke tempat kemalangan. Dia melanggar pemandu feri yang telah bertukar menjadi Ultraman itu. Pemandu feri itu terkejut dan terus bertukar menjadi pemandu feri semula lalu terhempas kejalanraya. Pemandu feri itu pecah. Pemandu lori sangat takut melihat kejadian itu. Dia meminta maaf dari emak saya. Dia menghulurkan tangan ingin bersalam. Tetapi emak saya masih marah. Dia menyendengkan helikopternya dan mengerat tangan pemandu lori itu dengan kipas helikopter. Pemandu lori itu menjerit “Adoi..!” dan jatuh ke bumi. Emak saya menghantar helikopter itu ke Genting Highlands. Bila dia balik ke tempat kejadian, dia terus memukul pemandu lori itu dengan beg tangannya sambil memarahi pemandu lori itu di dalam bahasa Inggeris. Pemandu lori itu tidak dapat menjawab sebab emak saya cakap orang putih. Lalu pemandu lori itu mati.

Tidak lama kemudian kereta polis pun sampai. Dia membuat lapuran ke ibu pejabatnya tentang kemalangan ngeri itu. Semua anggota polis di pejabat polis itu terperanjat lalu mati. Orang ramai mengerumuni tempat kejadian kerana ingin mengetahui apa yang telah terjadi. Polis yang bertugas cuba menyuraikan orang ramai lalu dia menjerit menggunakan pembesar suara. Orang ramai terperanjat dan semuanya mati. Selepas itu emak saya mengajak saya ke pasar untuk mengelak lebih ramai lagi yang akan mati.

Di pasar, emak saya menceritakan kejadian itu kepada penjual daging. Penjual daging dan peniaga-peniaga berhampiran yang mendengar cerita itu semuanya terkejut dan mati. Saya dan emak saya terus berlari balik ke rumah. Kerana terlalu penat sebaik saja sampai di rumah kami pun mati. Itulah kemalangan yang paling ngeri yang pernah saya lihat sebelum saya mati.

HAHAHA. that is the most idiotic essay i have ever read! damn funny please :D

you cant play our broken strings..

2009-08-12T13:15:00.003-04:00

i spent like.. more than 8 hours at ou today. which is a bit crazy. but it was quite a productive day :D whee.

reached at like 10am and wandered around checking out stuff that i needed to get for binghamton. then xizaan came and we just walked around the mall :) or erm rather i window-shopped and he had no choice but to come with me :P hahaha.

then we woke justin up and he dragged himself out of bed to join us for lunch at delicious! next to reach was xin and then nat and they joined us for dessert! mm the desserts there are like to-die-for! :)

then it was shopping again! :D we dressed justin up in skinny jeans at topman coz xizaan is trying to convert him to the skinny jeans side. hahaha! and then who was to appear in front of us but nic and zhen hong.. and his date! ;) er i dont know her name, much less who she is, but yeah. nic was being such a lamp post. you get the picture :) so he joined us!

after more shopping the guys kinda got tired and decided to go get movie tickets for..

i totally LOVED this movie!!! :) super funny and super sweet! :) even the guys enjoyed it :D awesome rom-com!

purchases of the day include: a long cardigan from M&S (YAY! ♥), friendship rings from diva!!! (awww ♥), scarves from forever21 which nat and xin bought for me and xizaan!, a pair of ipanema flops which only cost me rm28!!! and err.. laundry nets and a basket from jusco. LOL.

all in all it was a good day :D shopping AND spending time with my best friends :)

its not forever, right?

2009-08-09T10:56:00.002-04:00

after zhen hong's farewell party, i dropped a pretttttttyy drunk nat off at her place then headed home to catch some zzz's before waking up at freakin 6.30am. only to wait for nic who reached at 7.30am. then he was like speeding all the way to the airport, doing 180 on the highway and by the time we got to mcD's where everyone else was, it was time to say goodbye already! :'( at least we made it on time for that!

JAY KAI!

my dear ah kai friend :) he was like the 2nd friend i made when i first stepped into inti, during ENL 101 class.. i still remember that day! we were also in the same cal class :) jay is seriously FUNNY and he's always fun to talk to :) im going to miss him!! :( but im sure he'll somehow find the best clubs to chill at even in iowa ;)

CEZLYNN :)

i remember the first time i ever talked to cezlynn.. on khidir's birthday! coz she was pretty close to him then :P she was in chem1 class but always either waaay back or waaaay front. and she was the good girl who paid attention not like the rest of us who treated chem1 class like it was time to relax and chill :D cez is like one of the most reliable and trustworthy people around! and i mean it :) she's also like the closest girlfriend i have in college besides xin and nat! im going to miss her toooo :'(

i was like almost crying in the airport when they were going down the escalator! kinda emotional right :P ye heng and sie hui were already crying! but hey, at least theyre going together so its not so bad! :) i think theyre gonna have a total blast there! even though its iowa ;) haha!

all the best to you, my two good friends :)

i dont believe that anybody feels the way i do about you now

2009-07-31T13:28:00.005-04:00

31 july 2009

so like the new AUP committee organized a lil farewell party for us seniors who will be leaving veryyy soon! which was very sweet of them :)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NIGHT!

my good friend justin mah dedicating the calling's wherever you will go to me ;) HAHAHA.

charles teo making a very touching speech too all of us!! awwww ♥ watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTROeWwdb-4

our one and only xizaan with a totally awesome cover of WONDERWALL! :) ♥ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eRhYTGuhI

it was a pretty fun night all in all and everyone was going crazy signing shirts and getting their shirts signed in turn! even those who WEREN'T leaving any time soon ;)

it kinda made me wish i wasnt going so soon :(

we got the beat that bounce

2009-07-25T06:26:00.003-04:00

life has lots of little luxuries that we dont seem to truly appreciate when we have them. its only when theyre gone that we realize how much we rely on having those things in our everyday lives. hmm. its kinda funny.. in a sad way.

i wish i could just stop time for a little while. just a little while, so i can take a breath of air.

today was inti's COLLEGE DAY at inti-uc in nilai!

another tiringgg day for everyone, but fun nevertheless! :)

there were LOADS of people there like mr amir&all the sao staff, our i-saw committee - charles, xizaan, celine, gab, joey, adrian - and of course nat and xin! i-saw sold like spca merchandise, cupcakes (me and xin :D), cookies and jelly (charles' mom!)

me nat and gab were also taking part in this tug-of-war thing with like 10 people per team and we were doing all right all the time actually.. just that we were kinda unlucky in getting the side that was more grassy than sandy.. it was a best of three thing and we always ended up on the sandy side twice out of the three times. sighhh we were quite demoralized coz the other inti team ended up champions while we ended up in 4th place :'(

but then after that we took part in the other random games.. we actually got runners-up medals for this event called "rock 'em and knock 'em" - where we sit on this mechanical bull and try to stay on for as long as possible! i managed 21 seconds, nat 17, jillian 24, shane 36 (champion pls!) and gab... 14 seconds! HAHA :) he was so sad coz he said he was owned by everyone. yeah so shane made it through to the finals and even though we ended up 2nd it was still fun :) painful thoughh! :( rope burn sucks!

all though.. i felt so bad that we were having fun playing all these games while the rest of them were stuck jaga-ing the i-saw booth :/ oops..

thanks to some people this one person keeps popping up in my mind like every few seconds -.-

its very weird. hm.

p/s. safari is like my new favorite web browser :D

in the shadows

2009-07-23T07:39:00.001-04:00

when life gets you down.. try to smile :)

but if you cant smile. then what?

life can be such a b*tch at times

you got new friends? well, i got homies.

2009-07-20T11:08:00.002-04:00

my day started extremelyyyy early, at 8.30am, when my mom walked into my room and woke me up to tell me something about going to the bank to collect something for her. i think i just went mm okay..and err went back to sleep :)

so from valencia, i headed over to bsc to collect some fixed deposit slip thingies and then finally back to subang. i basically drove in a triangle coz valencia, bangsar and subang are like 3 sides of a triangle. yes, i know that was random.

right then i had to go to sjmc to get a flu vaccination so i dont end up in the hospital with a case of swine flu when i finally get to NEW YORK! which is pretty much rife with swine flu. my arm still hurts a bit :( but i think that means the vaccination is working right? :D

i headed to college at about 3 after picking nat up and yayy i found parking right smack in front of college :) finding good parking always makes my day. really. so if im in a bad mood in the morning, you should know that it can only be coz of 2 reasons:

(i) sleep deprivation

(ii) missing out on a good parking spot

after lepaking around intima for a while, we headed over to sunway pyramid with xizaan and justin to watch..

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!

it was a reallllyyy LOOOOONG movie, approximately 2 and a half hours! the cinema was pretty empty and justin was complaining that he couldnt see anything so we moved a few times til we found the perfect seats.

throughout the whole movie, justin was either totally lost, bored, sleeping or moving around in his seat. he even wanted to jog around the cinema to end his boredom. what a monkey. totally disturbed my zone of peace and serenity. HAHA :)

the movie was all right.. a bit draggy at times and i wasnt totally blown away by it but it was a good effort. even darker and more sinister than before. but then again, the book itself was very dark and quite scary at times so i guess its no wonder the movie was too! helena bonham carter makes a very evil and creepy bellatrix lestrange.. brilliantly plays the part of voldemort's fanatic follower.

dinner at popeye's and then we wandered around the mall for a while. oh yeahh and we had ice cream coz justin had like the free new zealand natural vouchers :) mm yummy! i think between us we tried like almost every flavor ;)

but only if you told me to

2009-07-19T02:20:00.002-04:00

Just one more moment,
That's all that's needed,
Like wounded soldiers,
In need of healing
Time to be honest
This time I'm pleading
Please don't dwell on it
'Cause I didn't mean it

I can't believe I said I'd lay our love on the ground,
But it doesnt matter 'cause I made it up forgive me now
Everyday I spend away my souls inside out
Gotta be some way that I can make it up to you now, somehow

By now you know that,
I'd come for you,
No one but you,
Yes I'd come for you,
But only if you told me to,
And I'd fight for you,
I'd lie its true,
Give my life for you,
You know I'd always come for you

I was blindfolded
But now I'm seeing
My mind was closing
Now I'm believing
I finally know just what it means to let someone in
To see the side of me that no one does or ever will
So if your ever lost and find yourself all alone
I'd search forever just to bring you home
Here and now, this I vow

By now you know that,
I'd come for you,
No one but you,
Yes I'd come for you,
But only if you told me to,
And I'd fight for you,
I'd lie its true,
Give my life for you,
You know I'd always come for you,
You know I'd always come for you

No matter what gets in my way,
As long as there's still life in me,
No matter what remember
You know I'd always come for you

Yes I'd come for you,
No one but you,
Yes I'd come for you,
But only if you told me to,
And I'd fight for you,
I'd lie its true,
Give my life for you,
You know I'd always come for you,

No matter what gets in my way,
As long as theres still life in me,
No matter what remember you know I'd always come for you,
I'd crawl across this world for you,
Do anything you want me to,
No matter what remember
You know I'd always come for you,
You know I'd always come for you.

this song is so sweet it gives me butterflies :)

mystical illusion was on the 17th of july 2009 at pj hilton.

it was.. extremely tiring. with a very anticlimatic ending.

AMAZING RACE 2 @ BUKIT TINGGI

2009-07-07T05:14:00.004-04:00

TRU organized the AMAZING RACE 2, this time held at Selesa Hillhomes, Bukit Tinggi on the 4th and 5th of july - last weekend. we had a really awesome time of fun and fellowship with the Temerloh Gospel Hall youths :)

us SJGC youths and our helpers met up at church at 9.30am on saturday morning before splitting up into our respective cars and off we were to bukit tinggi! the temerloh ppl were already there by the time we arrived and it was actually rather daunting seeing almost 90 unfamiliar faces, coz i didnt go for AR1.

i had been asked to be a group leader as well as an apartment captain so i was feeling kinda worried about whether id be able to communicate with them, much less bond with them, in less than two days! id have to say that most of them were actually quite shy and reserved.. we SJGC ppl had to make the first moves, which was kinda funny considering there were only about 30 of us! but yeah, we were technically the "hosts" so go figure! :)

after lunch we had a lil free time so we started chatting to a few of the girls. when the time for AR2 came and we were divided into groups, i was pretty relieved with my group coz i had li za, lucas, and a few of the girls whom i had just gotten to know :)

those girls ended up in my apartment too! we were quite excited about it and everyone was like laughing at us :) i also had kat and anthea in my apartment! the rooms were BRILLIANT. air-conditioned, with proper beds and HOT WATER in the bathrooms. it wasnt camp.. it was more like a holiday! :D

the race went pretty well! my team was pretty much the least kiasu of all.. we strolled along happily between stations, lepaked for a while at a few stations while thinking of how to complete the tasks and basically were very relaxed about the whole thing :P the only time we really ran for it was after we completed the last task! we reached at the same time as 2 other teams, but because i wasnt holding the clues, hsien zern said i had to wait :( we ended up in 6th place out of 10 teams. that wasnt too bad considering our goal was "not last!" ;) we regretted a bit though coz we couldve been 4th! or even 3rd if we had been more competitive. but hey, the whole point of it was to have a blast and enjoy ourselves so it was a good job :)

no team photo coz i didnt have my camera and i dont think PG has uploaded the photos yet :P

that night we had worship at the tennis court with shanice and nick leading us. a bunch of us had been asked to help be back up singers :) after that was a games session where we played the usual games.. human bingo, nuclear bomb, mini scavenger hunts and the ever present water games. luckily no one got wet :D

after that they handed out prizes from the race and of course, junk food was featured in the prizes. that night was like junk food feasts in all apartments! :D lights out at 11.30pm and my girls were quite good.. everyone was in their rooms by 11.30-ish :) heheh.

that night was soooo nice. i slept for like more than 8 hours okay.. a feat unheard of in camps! hahaha. breakfast at 9 and then worship in the hall where desmond shared his testimony of how life is like a roller coaster, sometimes up and sometimes down. it was very touching :) i think it really helped some of the non-believers understand what being in a relationship with Christ is all about. a guy from temerloh also shared about how he became a Christian. overall, the session was quite inspiring and at the end of it, 15 youths accepted Christ :)

then it was time to pack up and exchange contact details as well as take photos. urghhh my apartment missed the photo okay!!! :( coz like some of the girls were quite slow. haha but the wonders of photoshop can easily make it look like we were there :P

some of the girls from my apartment and team :)

yun xin, yun ning, xin rui and an lee. the rest.. erm. i dont know their names :( sorry la too many ppl! haha :)

2009-07-05T14:30:00.004-04:00

I did my time and I want out, so abusive
Fate, it doesn't cut, the soul is not so vibrant
The reckoning, the sickening
Back at you, subversion, pseudo-sacred, pyscho virgin

Go tell your classes, go dig your graves
Then fill your mouth with all the money you will save
Sinking in, getting smaller again
Undone, it has begun, I'm not the only one

And the rain will kill us all
If we throw ourselves against the wall
But no one else can see
The preservation of the martyr in me

Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial
Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial

Oh, there are cracks in the road we lay
From when the devil fell, the secrets have gone mad
This is nothing new but would we kill it all
Fate was all we had

Who needs another mess, we could start over
Just look me in the eyes and say I'm wrong
Now there's only emptiness but I'm missing something
I think we're done, I'm not the only one

And the rain will kill us all
If we throw ourselves against the wall
But no one else can see
The preservation of the martyr in me

Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial
Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial

The limits of the dead!
The limits of the dead!
The limits of the dead!
The limits of the dead!

Fake and defenseless lie
(Psychosocial)
I tried to tell you first
(Psychosocial)
Your hurtful lies are giving out
(Psychosocial)

Can't stop the killing
(Psychosocial)
I can't help if it's hunting season
(Psychosocial)
Is this what you want?
(Psychosocial)

I'm not the only one

And the rain will kill us all
If we throw ourselves against the wall
But no one else can see
The preservation of the martyr in me

And the rain will kill us all
If we throw ourselves against the wall
But no one else can see
The preservation of the martyr in me

The limits of the dead!
The limits of the dead!

i think we're done, im not the only one.

a silence that spoke a thousand words

2009-07-02T11:54:00.008-04:00

right, so the management meeting was on wednesday afternoon. its like where all intima council members (representatives from each club/society) have a meeting to discuss issues with the top management of INTI - JOYCE YUEN, LAMBERT SIOW, and 3 others whose names arent exactly in my list of priorities. haha.

now, first off let me say that i tried to be polite. i really did :) but when some people are being plain ridiculous, its pretty tough to keep cool and be polite when all you want to do is slap some sense into them.

a lot of issues were brought up, and almost none were resolved. the issue about the soundproofing of the music room, for one. i clearly recall the last management meeting where lambert assured ICF that the music room had been installed with double walls and ceiling-to-floor soundproofing. however, this semester there are still lecturers complaining to the ICF students while they practice in the music room. rather than admitting that maybe the soundproofing he ordered wasnt really up to standard, he asked them back why HE hadnt personally heard any complaints from lecturers. well DUH maybe its because the lecturers dont have time to go look for you, and really, if they were facing a noise problem during a lecture, obviously theyd be complaining at the moment itself and who else would you complain to besides the source of the noise?? he makes no sense! its so typical of him to not admit that maybe, just maybe he's the one who's to blame.

soon enough, i had my opportunity to say my piece. haha :D

by that time i was feeling less angry la coz the meeting had been going on for like one hour plus and i was FREEZING COLD and sleepy to boot! but yeah i went straight to the point asking joyce yuen EXACTLY WHY we had not been allowed to foster our kitten in college.

now, i understand that yes, it probably isnt appropriate to keep a kitten in an office. but goodness, we're talking about INTIMA OFFICE! where no one has objected, or voiced out any complaints, where joshan and co were happy to let us keep our kitten there..

and where joyce yuen has probably NEVER STEPPED INTO THE WHOLE YEAR, if not longer.

so what exactly is the big deal here? we all clearly understood that chilli (or cleo, as she's now called!) was to be fostered in college for a couple of days, until we could find a permanent home for her. she even dared accuse US of animal cruelty! now, THAT really pissed me off. she claimed that "picking an animal up and putting it into a cage" was what we did, and that as such, we were being cruel to the kitten.

PLEASE. that just shows exactly how much she knew about the situation before jumping to a conclusion and telling us to get rid of the kitten.

for those of us who were actually aware of the situation, cruelty towards animals would have been the last thing to accuse us of. that little kitten was ADORED by almost everyone who walked into intima office, and she even managed to win the affection of some students who really disliked cats! it really got me sad that she could accuse us of being cruel to our darling chilli :(

back and forth our arguments went. she even told me to get I-SAW to collaborate with animal shelters around subang, which is another ridiculous suggestion. she obviously does not understand that its NOT THAT EASY TO FIND PEOPLE TO ADOPT ANIMALS. she also doesnt seem to understand that organizations like SPCA and PAWS are already under tremendous stress from the sheer volume of rescuees/abandoned animals that arrive at their doorstep everyday. coupled with the vast lack of adopters and resources, they have their own problems. so much so that euthanasia is prevalent when the animals flood the shelter. as the INTI SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL WELFARE, one of our main objectives is to CARE FOR THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS AROUND US. which basically means providing temporary shelter to animials who need it and then trying to locate families for them. i tried explaining this to her, but to no avail.

thank you so much to joshan and oliver for being the first to back me up :) finally, she decided to get the opinions of the rest of the management. the general consensus was that shelter work CAN be carried out, but it just wasnt appropriate to house animals in an office. i asked "i dont think the college would be willing to give us a room to shelter the animals, would you?"

my answer was a silence that spoke a thousand words.

lambert just had to add in his two-pence worth. he seems to love spewing forth obtuse examples that are either so lame they become ridiculous, or so obscure and contrasting from the issues at hand that they become.. oh okay, theyre basically ridiculous. his first scenario was likening students fostering a kitten to lecturers bringing their kids to college. he also mentioned that if I-SAW was allowed to foster kittens, stact club might one day decide to adopt a homeless old woman.

that has to be the most ILLOGICAL example i have ever heard in my life.

how can anyone compare fostering a kitten to adopting an old woman?!! its like saying we should place homeless humans into cages and feed them and bathe them and treat them like pets. does he not grasp the fundamental differences between animals and humans in today's concrete world??

i seriously had nothing to say after that. though i must admit i was pretty rude to him after i listened to his example.

the conclusion of the day - the management would be happy for us to carry out rescue work BUT not in college. which is pretty much useless, because college is where ALL I-SAW MEMBERS are most of the day and that allows us to take turns looking after any rescued animals without overly taxing any individual member. this was another issue that joyce yuen tried to use against us. she also asked why none of us could foster the kitten at home. IF WE COULD WE WOULD HAVE!!! but we cant and thats why we chose college to be our "shelter" for our kitten.

a silence that spoke a thousand words.

the eight words that hit me:

"WE ARE NOT GOING TO SUPPORT YOUR CAUSE. "

thanks for nothing.

bye bye chilli :'(

2009-06-30T10:02:00.003-04:00

on sunday afternoon after church i dropped by college to check on chilli :)

little did i know that that would be the last time i would ever get to play with her :'(

i know, i know, we only found her last wednesday so we've actually only had her for like 5 days.. but what can i say..she stole our hearts! ♥ its not like anyone even complained about her :( we were feeding her, cleaning her, making sure she didnt mess up the office and all.. and giving her lots of love and care :)

then a bombshell named JOYCE YUEN was dropped on sunday night at 9.58pm.

"Please do not keep the kitten at the college as it is not appropriate. I expect you to arrange for the kitten to be taken out of the campus tomorrow. You can arrange for it to be adopted."

no reasons, no explanations whatsoever. what is her PROBLEM?

at our recent launching, i clearly recall her saying how she was so happy to see our club being formed, about how students really need to be more aware about the issue of cruelty towards animals.

HAH.

yeah SURE.

what a HYPOCRITE.

so maybe its against college regulations, but the least she couuld do was like give us a few days notice to find someone to adopt our kitten right? but no.. i dont even see HOW having a kitten in college will hurt ANYONE! college has like so many stray cats roaming around anyways! i dont understand WHY and what annoys me is that she didnt even give us a REASON as to why its "NOT APPROPRIATE".

how is I-SAW supposed to promote its cause fully without the full support of college management? the way its going, its more like theyre perfectly happy to have us sell merchandise, establish a relationship with SPCA and ultimately give INTI a good name.. but when it comes to taking care of a stray kitten in college itself, theres absolutely no support. more like out and out rejection! No Action Talk Only must be their policy huh.

luckily, dr chan managed to find a permanent home for chilli - with miss jas, a lecturer at inti too!

chilli probably wont be able to remember any of us, but im just happy we were able to care for her and help her get a good home :)

i really want to adopt a pet, but i cant coz my mom thinks im not capable of being responsible for a pet! i guess thats really why i decided to really get I-SAW going, so id have the opportunity to help animals, even though i cant adopt any for myself.

tmr theres a management meeting with intima.. i really feel like bringing this issue up. i know i'll definitely get support from the students and from intima. but mr amir advised against it.. :(

okay, rant over :) i feel a teeny bit better now :)

the pulau ketam incident: RESCUE MISSION!

2009-06-29T13:45:00.009-04:00

27 june 2009

at 5.45 am my alarm rang, waking me up from my supremely comfy sleep. i snoozed for a bit then called adrian.. who sounded VERY wide awake -.- and then jumped into the shower. the night before, me and adrian were stressing out a lil bit thinking about what we were supposed to wear. we decided on tracks and sports shoes, to be on the safe side :D adrian picked me up and we headed to college to meet up with the rest of the gang - dr chan, charles, xizaan and gabriel!

after checking our stuff, we eagerly set out for the pulau ketam jetty, the meeting point for all the people involved in today's mission. adrian practically ran to charles' car so me, xizaan and gabe accompanied dr chan. reached the jetty at about 7.45am. while waiting for everyone else to arrive, we hung around the jetty where xizaan kept offering to pay us cash to do ridiculous stunts -.- and gabriel decided to chat up some girls ;)

hahaha no la :) he met one of his friends, coz there were a bunch of kdu college students taking part too! surprisingly, charles met a friend too, and so did i! one of my dad's friend's daughter, actually. small world,huh? :)

after a half-hour ferry ride to get to pulau ketam, we finally reached! gabriel was kinda sea-sick so he basically slept. charles and xizaan were in their own worlds with ipods and what not. me and adrian ended up sleeping due to boredom.

our first view of crab island!

our main objective of the day was to go around the island, informing residents about the importance of neutering their pets, as well as to ask their opinions about the effectiveness of our campaign. we also tried our best to catch any stray animals to be brought back to JKK to be spayed/neutered. incidentally, we wore tracks and shoes for nothing :P we really thought we'd have to like literally chase after stray dogs and stuff!

this was like our headquarters - jawatankuasa kemajuan dan keselamatan, aka JKK. this was also where the temporary klinik kembiri was set up to spay/neuter cats and dogs.

there were a LOT of people there that day - about 30 volunteers all together. they included representatives from ICSJ, KDU College, Petster, Save A Stray, some independent volunteers and of course SPCA.

pulau ketam is like this small island where houses are built on stilts, and it has a MAJOR overpopulation of stray dogs.

the main reason for the stray dog problem? the RUBBISH. literally, there was rubbish EVERYWHERE on the island. i have no idea how the people there can stand it. the smell and the sight of the rubbish was absolutely disgusting. the rubbish was dumped on the ground beneath the stilts. the paths are actually elevated on pillars so theres loads of space to just chuck rubbish beneath the house. no wonder the stray dogs can survive and reproduce - by subsisting on leftovers and what not.

YUCK.

these were the first couple of stray dogs that we actually managed to go up close to. they were sleeping in this abandoned house, about 5 dogs all together.

after being alerted to our presence, they disappeared down this secret passageway thing. haha! underground tunnels okay. dont mess :D

the main mode of transport around the island?

BICYCLES!!

seriously, EVERYONE had a bike, some even modified to have engines! the walkways were actually designed for bicycles i guess, so we like created our formation whenever any bikes appeared to avoid confusion to us and the bikers..

and most importantly to minimize the risk of us accidentally falling over the edge of the walkway and into the rubbish dumps. damn dangerous okay. hahaha.

while wandering around the island, interviewing random people, we met this kid here. he seemed normal at first.. telling us about the dogs coming out at night, about his pet cat..

now, the picture might LOOK happy, but the real deal is that he was holding his cat by its paws and STRETCHING it o.O we were like WTH dude stop it! i think he mustve thought we wanted to be friends with him coz after that he was like showing us dead fish and he kept like cycling after us even after we walked away. the freaky thing was that there was NO ONE else around that area and like the kid kept popping up and down from the walkways! we didnt know where or when he would appear and this charles was so scared he ended up freaking me out too! ahaha!

more interviews! this uncle was telling us about how the animals are not the main problem. he wanted us to neuter humans instead! LOL. crazy guy.

this uncle was very eager to talk to us about the problem. he also mentioned that some of the island's residents had previously paid a man to catch the stray dogs and then carry them and dump them at nearby abandoned islands. that is exactly what the PULAU KETAM ISSUE is that has been highlighted in the news. proof that the residents themselves are responsible for the whole mess! well, some of them, anyways. investigative reporters, at your service! :D

ad and gabe posing with the cage that the villagers use to trap the dogs at night.

one of the dogs waiting to be neutered at the JKK. absolutely gorgeous, right? :)

one of the wild dogs that SPCA caught and brought to the clinic to be spayed.

she is the mother of these 3 wild puppies, who were also brought back to be neutered/spayed. they are really cute, but really wild - they shun contact with humans and they constantly huddle together to avoid even looking at any humans! SPCA brought the 4 dogs back with them to be rehabilitated and then hopefully adopted.

the Petster team found this litter of 12 puppies, but with no mother dog. some of the puppies were really tiny but some were pretty big. all were cute though! :) luckily, we managed to find an adopter for them who lived on the island itself.

what happens in ketam stays in ketam :)

it was a really good experience, and with good friends making great company, it was definitely a fun trip! :)

hot stuff ;) chilli-hot, if you get my drift..

2009-06-26T06:21:00.007-04:00

mr subra's brithday was on the 22nd of june!! it was a monday though, with no organic chem class so.. we decided to have a lil celebration for him the next day after class! :) it was really miss jerry's idea :D

this was the physics 2 gang walking in after our class ended with a cake for mr subra! he was SO funny - he saw them walking in and he was like "no, no, its not my birthday!" but he couldnt deny it for long obviously :P then we started singing and i think he was like shyyy so he started erasing the whiteboard! like whattt? hahaha!

we also all signed a card for him :)

mr subra blowing out the candles! :P he's reached the golden age of 50 by the way!

he was really sporting! - we pushed one candle waaay down into the cake like we always do and he actually took it out with his mouth! way to go sir!! haha :D

me, willie, ui tee and lik xiang also bought him 4 bottles of coke :P he's like ADDICTED to coca cola okayy. its like his favorite drink in the whole wide world!

today was a very SLEEPY day.

woke up at 5.45am (i know, right, thats like, mental!), fetched joshan and off we went to kelana jaya lrt station! or so we planned. erm. we ended up at the taman bahagia lrt station instead! :( my sense of direction is SO damn bad i dont know how im going to survive. but at least we ended up at an lrt station :P

half an hour later we reached the ampang park station, grabbed a cab to get to the us embassy, went through security, stressed out a lil bit watching other people's interviews and it was finallyyy our turn!

stressed out for nothing, pls.. it was easy peasy lemon squeezy :) hahaha. finished the interview in under 2 minutes and yayy my visa has been approved! :) thank God for that :)

nic sleeping.. and guess who decorated him so prettily? ;)

on wednesday morning, dr chan rescued this ADORABLE lil kitten from the street in front of silva and she brought her to college for us to feed and look after for a while. however, we instantly fell in love with her and she's been like adopted by I-SAW :D

i LOVE this lil kitten :)

after taking her to the vet and stopping by dr chan's place to get stuff, chilli@charlotte (we still cant agree on a name) is now very happily settled in intima office :P in a cage with blankets, a hot water bottle, a litter box and toys :) she's fed a few times a day and LOVED to bits by almost everyone who steps into the office :) seriously super manja okay :)

ISNT SHE SO DARN CUTE???

even willie agrees :) and its almost impossible for me and him to agree on an animal being cute :)

strongholds come, tumbling down and down and down and down..

2009-06-24T11:55:00.003-04:00

i feel so.. devoid. of emotions, of LIFE itself. why??

i have a feeling i know the answer why. and its really getting me down. even though life goes on around me and everyday is packed with activities.. i still feel empty inside.

im sorry. You should be FIRST in my life and i know ive let things slide - too caught up in the material life i live day after day. each time i tell myself that i have to start picking myself up off the floor, something new comes up and distracts me again - leaving me right where i began, if not further down.

"im caught up in the moment, but not in the right way.."

it scares me. but i believe in You and i know that..

You will never leave me, nor forsake me.

thank You for being there - so understanding, so forgiving.. always.

step by step, im moving forward, little by little taking ground :)

my day late friend..

2009-06-21T01:16:00.005-04:00

So let me get this straight
Say now you loved me all along?
What made you hesitate
To tell me with words what you really feel
I can see it in your eyes you mean all of what you say
I remember so long ago, see I felt that same way
Now we both have separate lives and lovers (and lovers)
Insignificantly enough we both have significant others
Only time will tell
Time will turn and tell

We are who we were when
Could've been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could've been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when

But thoughts they change and times they rearrange I don't know who you are anymore
Loves come and go and this I know I'm not who you recall anymore
But I must confess you're so much more than I remember
Can't help but entertain these thoughts
Thoughts of us together

We are who we were when
Could've been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could've been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when

My day late friend

So let me get this straight
All these years and you were no where to be found
And now you want me for your own
But you're a day late and my love, she's still renowned

We are who we were when
Could've been lovers but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when
Who knew what we know now
Could've been more but at least you're still my day late friend
We are who
We are who we were when

this song once meant a lot to me and i guess i have to admit it still does.. it definitely brings back memories of how these lyrics once reflected my life.

a friendship that could have been more..

a love that could have been.

in retrospect, its really kind of funny :) we both liked each other in primary school - std 6 and it lasted til form 2. the sad part? neither of us ever told anyone, and obviously didnt tell each other! a chance lost because we didnt have the guts to grab the opportunity. i wanted to kick myself when i found out. and yeah, by the time we found out, we both had significant others.

but, you know? i really cant help wondering what it wouldve been like if we had gotten together..

who knew what we know now?

couldve been more but at least you're still my day late friend :)

you know who you are.

xoxo from me

orientation night - may 2009

2009-06-20T02:06:00.002-04:00

yesterday was an extremelyy LONG day!!!

it all started with bio lab at 8am in the morning. i have no idea why such things as 8am classes exist :( they certainly dont make me more alert in class! -.- my brain only starts functioning after 10am :) or even later :D

today me and willie drove separately but we ended up parking next to each other! hahaha but i reached first :) i thought i was pretty early..left my place at around 7.30 so it was actually quite impressive seeing willie reach at around the same time as me, considering his intense dislike for morning classes. im quite sure that boy would spend the whole day sleeping if he could!

bio lab was actually surprisingly fun! :D we're learning circulation now so miss irene let us do a mini-blood test on ourselves! it was to check our blood types, as well as to determine if we were Rhesus-positive or Rhesus-negative. i already knew my blood type - B+ - but i still wanted to try it out :D the slightly scary part was that we had to prick our fingers (to get blood, duhh!)

we first had to sterilize our hands so that we wouldnt get any blood infections. the lab provided us with these needle-injecting things that looked like pens. you unscrew the cap, place a sterilized needle in it, screw the cap back on til it lights up and then its ready to go! now, willie and sebastien absolutely refused to do it (or even watch, actually!) so i teamed up with yeok. his went smoothly coz i was the one doing it of course ;) hahaha! only joking :) and ohmygosh he definitely had a lot of blood to spare!

so the scary part is putting your finger to the tip of the injecting thingy - i mean like who on earth would willingly subject themselves to being punctured by ANYTHING sharp and pointy, no matter how small?? hahaha. so he pressed the button..

and wth nothing happened -.- everyone laughed at me coz i was like "eh yeok! nothing happened!! damn potong steam pls!"

anyways it worked the next time.. it didnt hurt, really :) just like a tiny jolt of electricity. i think right my blood circulation isnt very good.. i didnt have much blood flowing out, but luckily it was enough to show that i really was B+ :D i think willie wanted to throw up when he saw my bloody finger. poor guy. heheheh :)

we finished at about 9 and then we went to chill at aup office for a while. miss jerry is like super fun and funny to talk to! hahaha! especially when its with xizaan, willie and adrian! :) LOL whee all the fun lecturers are going to be coming for INTIBALL 2009! miss jerry, miss shanta, miss M, miss kalai, miss lim.. yayy! it took a LOT of persuading, but finallyy even MR SUBRA agreed to come for the ball! :D

now we just have to persuade willie.. super anti-social pls. hmmph!

im supposed to tutor jerusha for BIO121 but she wasnt feeling well today so she cancelled.. hm. i need cash pls? thats like kinda why i agreed to tutor :P hahaha! and she says she really needs help so i dont mind :)

so i had like a lot of hours to kill.. most of the ppl in intima were cramming for their history mid term and so i entertained myself by reading this book nat lent me - glitter baby! so far its been a pretty good read :) yayy! then after that went to eat lunch at our usual place - face to face! :)

we headed back to college.. only to find out that a fire drill was going on. my goodness. we were freakin LOCKED in college coz they didnt want students going out. ishh if it was a real fire we wouldve all died okay! it was HOT and they made us stand in the basketball court! we were seriously contemplating making our escape through this back door route through metro college :P but then yayy the gates were unlocked!

xizaan just so happened to be walking back to college and then we were finally on our way to jaya one to collect intiball stuff from MYC. i was driving and besides xizaan there was joshan and cezlynn. we collected a lot of random stuff - notebooks, skin cleanser, chewing gum.. and my goodness.. EIGHT CARTONS OF MUSHROOM SOUP. what on earth do we need so much instant soup for??? now intima looks like some warehouse rather than an office..

my grandma called to say they were going out so i decided to stay in college for orientation night. luckily i managed to convince xizaan and jia yang to stay :) thanks you two! :) and there was also zhen hong, joshan, erin, joey, charles.. ben and stephie were there too and they bought me these pretty green bangles! thank youuu ben! :) erm. the night was overall okay.. the performances by reza salleh (check his myspace/fb profile for his music! he's pretty good!) and BLB were probably the highlights of the night! at about 10 we were all feeling tired and so we headed back..

wth i spent 14 hours plus out of the house!! super tiring day.. i reached home to an empty house and like it was kinda late and i had to open the gate myself.. a bit scary haha. but yay i made it safely :P showered, went online while waiting for my hair to dry.. and then i happily went to sleep.

end of story :)

raymond's farewell..

2009-06-19T11:20:00.003-04:00

was held at italiannies @ sunway pyramid :) yesterday night - 18 june 2009

raymond's going to be leaving to canberra, australia - to finish his degree at ANU! he got a freakin full scholarship from shell okay.. dont mess. haha :)

so it was a pretty big crowd there that night, about 25 people all together? i knew almost everyone except for like one guy? i fetched nat and casey there and we reached prettyyy laate actually, around 8 while the rest of them had been there since maybe 7-ish? we werent as late as the captainball people though! haha.

me xin and casey shared two pasta dishes - the classic carbonara and the penne bolognese! erm lazy to upload pictures of the night - go to raymond's fb profile and check the album "6 18 Sephyrave's Farewell Dinner" for all the pics of the night!

most of them left wayy early, i guess coz it was a school night, and also because quite a few of them had mid-terms the next day for various subjects. i had a really bad craving for dessert, so me nat and casey headed to..

baskin robbins!! :D

they had a few new flavors, and the first one i saw was STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE.

it tasted.. absolutely DIVINE!! :) mm. tasted exactly like strawberry cheesecake, complete with lil bits of crust, topped on a crunchy wafer cone!

yummy dessert perfection :)

im gonna miss seeing raymond around.. but im sure he'll do perfectly well in ANU! :)

all the very best, raymond!!!

joshan is wasting my time!!!

2009-06-17T02:03:00.002-04:00

ishh!! im like stuck here in college being veryy bored!

xizaan is studying next to me :) hahaha. do go check out his new blog - just click on his name :)

a slight warning - it contains "adult" content. HAHA :D

so anyway, we headed over to glenmarie just now, to collect stuff for INTIBALL 2009.

junk food, to be precise -.- hahaha. thats gonna be on the menu for the night :P he coudnt get the college van so i ended up having to drive there, following him driving joey's car.

joshan is a pretty HORRIBLE driver.. but i shall not elaborate further :)

luckily we got back to college safely, BUT there was no space to park inside so i had to like go around ss15 looking for parking which i absolutely HATE -.- i had a nice parking spot today too!

we're supposed to be meeting joshan now to discuss the intiball promo week details but no sign of him anywhere. so i shall go back to waiting. very. patiently.

xoxo

fel*

rotaract annual dinner

2009-06-16T05:16:00.005-04:00

14 june 2009

with A2 out of the way, all the a-levels people were free to partayyy and so we ex-rotaract committee finally got around to having our "farewell" dinner :D

we were at the sun n' surf restaurant @ sunway hotel and it was an international buffet-style dinner. i think it cost around RM80++ per person BUT we ended up paying RM7 per person :D is that AWESOME or whatt?? hahaha!

rotaract's club fund is significantly lesser by oh lets say RM1000? oops. sorryy adrian.. we know you still love us :P

me and nat got there late. around 8.30pm while the rest of them - ben, susan, adrian, nico, chun yong, yan ming, sarah, ju wenn, anusha - had been there since like 6pm, happily stuffing themselves. the food was pretty good.. not all that great, but good nevertheless :) there was this fishy-looking sashimi that ben said was whale meat.. :S err..poor whale :( neither me nor nat dared try it!

we headed straight for the vast array of desserts! :D

this was my yummy dessert plate :P we grabbed the biggest plate and took like one of each dessert on display (almost, la) :D they were ALL goooood :) there was also lotsa fruits and CHOCOLATE-DIPPED MARSHMALLOWS and some kinda pastry, also for dipping in the huge pot of melted dark chocolate. mmmmm :)

after we were all feeling full and satisfied, cameras started flashing and camwhoring galore began! the expert camwhorer of the night award has to go to...

NICO!

hahaha! that boy has mastered the art of sticking himself into EVERY photo, popping his head in at the last minute! hahaha like super khalefeh!

aiyoh, kinda spoil la the background.. looks like we're at some lil kid's birthday party!

see see that nico putting his skill to good use!

ohmygosh my smile is so retarded :) i was making my eyes HUGE. or at least, i was trying to :D

we tried taking a group pic in the lift but that failed! couldnt get everyone's head in :P so it was at the lobby that we parked ourselves and were being veryy noisy! all the people kept staring at us. silly people. they couldve like offered to help us take a group pic but noooo.. :P

us looking very formal and dignified!

a crazy random shot :)

chun yong is drama queen of the year :)

we all headed back after that with nico sending me, nat and anusha back, all the usj people! we went CRAZY in the car, blasting music and sticking our heads out of the car while singing "gives you hell" at the top of our lungs :D totally rocked the usj4 'hood!

im so going to miss rotaract board members! we'll all be going our separate ways :'( but heyy thats what facebook is for :) whee!

the brothers BLOOM ;)

2009-06-14T02:56:00.003-04:00

13 june 2009

woke up LATE at 9.30am and rushed off to sunway pyramid to meet chui yeng. she texted me at 9.48am saying she was already there and i was like "oooopsss! so sorry yeng!!". we were supposed to meet up at 10am to buy movie tickets but i only reached at like 10.15am.. i left her alone for nearly half an hour!! :(

right so on thursday hannah texted me saying she booked tickets for the brothers bloom on saturday at 11am and i was like.. HUH?? who or what on earth are the brothers bloom?!

i actually thought they were a malaysian indie band or something :P haha!

we met hannah at around 11 and after smuggling in snacks we settled down for the movie! the cinema was literally deserted and there were about 10 people all together, including us.

im glad i decided to go for it :D the movie was brilliant! a con within a con was the name of the game and boy, were the brothers bloom ever the kings of their trade!

mark ruffalo as stephen and adrien brody as bloom played their parts as excellent conmen who conned countless millionaires of their money through intricate storylines created by stephen.

together with their mysterious japanese harajuku sidekick who has a nack for creating nitrogen explosives, - hence the name bang bang! - played by rinko kikuchi, they travel the world playing their parts as characters in different stories, all carefully written out to manipulate rich fools into giving them money.

however, bloom suddenly feels comes down with a case of guilty conscience and decides he wants out! stephen doesnt stop him and lets him go, but a couple of months later, he finds bloom and lures him into playing one last con.. a ploy to con eccentric multi-millionaire heiress penelope stamp, portrayed by rachel weisz, out of her many millions of dollars! penelope stamp is a woman whose hobby is collecting hobbies ranging from building pin-hole cameras to riding a 10-foot tall unicycle while simultaneously juggling chain saws!

wanna know how the story ends? go catch the movie :) you absolutely wont regret it! its laced with british humour and eccentric antics that cracked all of us up :D hahaha! it has a bittersweet ending but i dont regret watching it at all! i rate it 8.5/10 :) coz its not your normal action/comedy flick thats so predictable. this movie was really unpredictable and its got cool, jazzy, rhythmic and mellow soundtracks! :)

a scene where stephen, bloom and bang bang watch bemusedly as penelope walks boldly into an antiques museum - part of which theyve accidentally blown up wrongly thanks to penelope - while everyone else rushes out madly!

the brothers bloom = con men extraodinaire! :D

after the movie ended we wandered around window shopping, trying on kids clothes - which actually fit, dont mess :D - and going crazy over the yummylicious selection of bread at bread story! bread is gooood :) mmm!

headed home at about 4pm and i wasnt looking forward to paying the expensive parking fee at all! pyramid parking on weekends is crazy expensive! but there was this woman giving out free parking tickets as long as we completed a survey so yayy for me! my parking fee of 5 bucks ended up being freee! :D

napped for like an hour coz i was so tired then went out again for a veryy early fathers' day dinner with my cousins at TGI Friday's @ subang parade. awesomely good food as usual but i controlled myself and didnt order dessert :D *mudpie...*

the end of a veryy stressful week! :)

2009-06-14T02:19:00.004-04:00

12 june 2009

arghhhhhhhh i totally messed up my grade6 piano exam :'( nuff said.

my bio test 1 results were pretty terrible o.O i scored like 9.2/15 which is.. oh my gosh. its like i lost 6% LIKE THAT. sighhh. hopefully she decides to NOT minus marks for wrong answers.. then i might get like 10/15 which isnt great but its better :) the text was crazy pls - 100 objective questions and 34 structure questions. miss irene.. WHY? :( it actually wasnt too tough..but the thing about bio2 is that there is just wayyy too much info that we're supposed to memorize and its practically impossible!! how now brown cow?

see how stressful my week was? grr! organic chem2 test is on tuesday too..!!

anyways, after i got back from pj i rushed through my shower to get ready by 6.30pm coz adrian said he'd pick me up at that time for our I-SAW committee dinner with dr chan at..

the organic vegetarian fresh mart and restaurant @ ss18 - right across the road from college!

who woulda thunk that any of us would EVER eat there?? okay, it was dr chan's suggestion and it was VERYY generous of her to offer to buy us dinner :) so me, charles, xizaan, adrian, cezlynn, celine, fernie, joshan, joey and stella all happily agreed to have dinner with her!

oh yeah, adrian was laaaaaate coz he was helping his mom run some errands and we only reached college at about 7.30pm. oops. dinner was supposed to be 7pm! but welll standard malaysian timing so i guess dr chan was okay with it :D haha!

anyway she preordered food for us - organic chinese tea, mushroom soup, some rojak dish with very yummy sauce, a vegetarian pizza and fried mushrooms. everything was organically grown and vegetarian. there were a LOT of cucumbers and pineapple in the rojak, pizza and fried mushroom dish. and i mean A LOT. this joshan kept dropping vegetables into my bowl -.- ishh.

i was pretty full..but not satisfied! it felt like i hadnt actually eaten real food :P hahaha. it was an interesting experience.. if theres ever a next time, id actually like to try the ala carte dishes :D anyway, after dr chan left we lepaked there for a while just talking and then everyone decided to head back to college.

me, adrian and xizaan were the unhealthy trio and we went to bean's dessert kitchen for tong sui :)

yum yum :) that was a sweet ending to a long day!

I-SAW promo week.. a success! :D

2009-06-13T23:45:00.004-04:00

10 june 2009

the INTI Society for Animal Welfare is officially alive and kickin' at our very own ICSJ! :D

I-SAW promo day was a definite success :) credit to the whole I-SAW committee and special thanks to mr amir, dr chan, cezlynn, nic and shahrul and jacinta from SPCA!

the day really got going at about 10am when shahrul and jacinta reached college and bringing with them 5 adorable kittens and 2 hyperactive puppies!

im not exactly the biggest fan of cats.. but i couldnt resist picking up the kittens and just cuddling them! :)

this is angie.. a daschund mix puppy? forgot to ask shahrul. she was really friendly but seriously crazily hyperactive. the puppy lying down behind her is her sister annie, also hyperactive! angie was definitely the dominant sibling and according to shahrul, they both bully their brother :P

can i hear a "GIRL POWER!" ? ;)

willie was absorbed with angie and it was quite funny! haha. ishh. he only likes short-haired dogs. and he always insults my puddle :( grr!

mr amir LOVES all cats and of course he couldnt resist picking one kitten up too :)

the launching ceremony was a short and simple one that somehow involved a LOT of work -.-

see the board behind that? my hard work okay :D okay fine, maybe it was more of willie's work than mine.. heheh. anyway, we had lots of suggestions on how to conduct the launching ceremony. the most memorable of the suggestions were:

1. xizaan - release a bird/several birds from a cage to symbolize animal rights and freedom! considering how much he doesnt like birds.. it was quite a noble idea :P

2. willie - get a big piece of cloth and get each person launching the club to carry a puppy/kitten and dip their paws in paint then place pawprints on the cloth! :D i was so excited about this!

sadly, both these ideas were turned down for their own reasons.

so we resorted to using dry ice. which cezlynn and celine had to drive to goodness-knows-where at 8am to get a one-kg block coz baskin robbins refused to sell us dry ice unless we bought a cake. and on top of that we had to pay like RM 1.50 per 100g of dry ice. which was MADNESS.

the thingy behind the table covered in the sheep quilt was actually a cut-out of our logo that was surrounded by christmas lights. when the water was poured over the ice, smoke started flowing out, the quilt was drawn back to show a lighted-up logo and music started playing. not the most dramatic launching ceremony but it did the job :)

a close up of the I-SAW logo on the back of our club tee-shirt.

be a member of I-SAW and help save a life today! :)

SPCA trip!

2009-06-13T12:07:00.005-04:00

6 june 2009

on this bright and early saturday morning, me, charles, xizaan, adrian and celine were on our way to SPCA to pick up merchandise for our I-SAW promo week sales.

we also wanted to check out the animals at the shelter.

and i was overjoyed to be able to go play with my puddle again :)

okay, it was actually about 11.40am when we left my place :P not very early at all! charles woke up late and adrian took forever to get ready so like we were kinda delayed :P

we made it to SPCA safely but we kinda got lost coz we made a wrong turning! goshh. charles wanted us to like create our own route to SPCA but with him being the dangerous driver he is.. we decided against that idea! luckily we managed to get directions from this uncle at a nearby petronas.

when we reached there, both shahrul and jacinta werent in so we met nicole, their colleague and she was really nice too. she passed us the merchandise and checked the stock and we discussed some I-SAW stuff with her. or rather, charles and celine discussed while me, xizaan and adrian played around with the many dogs running around the office :D hahaha!

psssssst.. this is puddle!! she is the most adorable and manja toy poodle in the world! seriously..i think im in love!! :P arghhh i wish i could steal her and then she'd be all mine :D

i want a dog! like, really, really. a small dog :) like.. a toy poodle (with hair like puddle okay, not like normal poodles please), a maltese (like pei-chern's vodka!) or a west highland white terrier! theyre like my top three favorite dogs so far :)

couldnt really get a clear shot of her coz she kept moving around but she is the cutest fluffball doggie :) whee! my day was made coz i got to play with her!

after that we visited the shelter and wandered around looking at all the animals. me and charles gave the others the grand tour of SPCA :P haha. or well, we tried to anyways! the kittens are really cute :P id love to have a kitten too! but then when it grows to become a cat..i'll erm find someone to take care of it for me :P maybe i'll give it to rifdy haha! then his mom would kill me though.

HAHA xizaan is so funny! he isnt really the biggest fan of birds and theres this area in SPCA where there are loads of pigeons wandering around. he took one look at the birds flying and wanderign around and he was like "im outta here, bye!". hahaha!

then we were on our way back to subang and we were debating on where to go for lunch. we wanted to go for yong tau foo since we were in ampang, but no one knew where to go so it was back to subang for us. however.. who ever thought that we'd suddenly have a punctured tyre?!

woah. stress. while on the highway a car pulled up next to us and told us one tyre was punctured so charles had to pull out of the highway into this apartment place in desa tun razak (err, where??) so we could try to change the tyre.

none of us really had any idea of what to do, except celine the lifesaver. she managed to tell the guys what to do with help from her dad over the phone. embarrassing as it is, me and xizaan were really pretty much useless. adrian and charles were doing most of the brunt-work with the tyre, and celine at least knew what was supposed to be done. hahaha. oh well. now we all know how to change tyres after that crash course :D whee!

we got back to college and headed straight for KFC coz we were starving! hot and spicy chicken, yummyyy :D all thought i really think it was the KFC plus the fact that it was a really really burning hot day outside when we were changing the tyre that made me get a sore throat. xizaan has a throat infection :S my poor sick friend. he like half dead walking around college.. *touch wood :)

after getting home, i headed right back out again after grabbing a quick shower to church to meet up with hannah, iishan, christina, jo-lynn, pei wen, kin leong, james, aaron, wern hsiang and casey! aunty collene was there too! we were going for dinner at mark's restaurant - frames @ TTDI plaza! the food was good, but i think i ordered the wrong thing.. some mushroom mascarpone pasta thing.. halfway through i started feeling quite jelak :S but it was a fun night :D casey as usual was talking a lot of crap, but so were the rest of us so it was cool :) im lazy to upload pics, sorry!

got home about 12am feeling totally exhausted! a very busy and productive day i think :D hahaha!

a turning point :)

2009-06-08T10:43:00.016-04:00

okay i have been told by the few readers of my blog that a post is LONG overdue. i think ive been really busy lately so yeah :) or maybe just too lazy hahaha!

1 june 2009

my birthday started off with me having extra piano lessons. a kinda not-so-fun way to start the day but it wasnt too bad haha. then i headed back to subang for dinner with a group of my closest friends :)

charles, cezlynn, celine, erin and carmen picked me up. they spent like half an hour going around usj3 and usj4 looking for "a green gate, its a house with a green gate!" - brilliant instructions from nat :P my gate is grey! miss lim bought me a mocha frapp and passed it to cezlynn to pass to me. isnt that like really sweet of her?? :) aww.

no one wanted to tell me where we were going so i basically just followed them round and round sunway pyramid being absolute clowns :D it was charles' idea to have me sit on those animal thingies that kids love sitting on and be driven around the mall! however, i made the rest of them all get on with me too!

a LOT of people were watching us and laughing at us! hahaha. what an experience. never again, please :P

we headed to bubba gump shrimp after that :D the food was like supremely YUMMYY :) pricey, but gooood! thank you so much to everyone who was there :)

nic, jon and VG - all professional camwhores :P

erin and carmen! i didnt actually expect them to be there but i was pleasantly surprised when i saw them in charles' car :P

LOOK a photo with both joshan and ui tee looking at the camera. this is RARE material i tell you! hahaha.

ahhh my darlings xin and nat who made my birthday a mind-blasting day!!

eugene, xiao wei and sherlyn who i seriously never thought would be there! how cool is that? :D yayy i was so happy that they were there!

adrian is in both photos, looking surprisingly.. NOT action! hahaha! he's smiling and looking happy! yayy!

adrian, me and justin. this was the first time i have ever like been at a party with justin!! proudness, pls ;)

adrian getting suffocated by justin's mah-scles, justin, me, gabriel and kar wei!

me and gabriel.. i can see gabriel's eyes! :D but maybe thats coz he's not actually smiling..

me and justin were camwhoring quite a lot that night but a lot of shots we both didnt like.. :(

i like this one though :) whee

xizaan! :D his hair quite nice in this pic :) nicer than mine. jealous-nya :( hahaha!

charles, cezlynn and celine - three of the best people to work with ever! they make a totally brilliant team! :D

tze yang and willie! who only came towards the end coz they were walking around pyramid looking for my gift. haha! a fernando torres pillow ;)

kennard drove all the way down from nilai just for this dinner :) which was reallyy sweet of him!

my choco-licious birthday cake that proclaims to the world that im mindblasting :D AWESOME :)

me with xin and nat, two of the people i absolutely love!! even in the midst of their A2 examinations, they organized the dinner and even managed to stay til about 10 :D what would i do without them??

and finally, a group photo with almost everyone who stayed til the end! xiao wei, sherlyn, joshan, ui tee, john, nic, zhen hong, VG, adrian, erin, ye heng, carmen, eugene, casey, justin, xizaan, vinod, kar wei, kennard, jon, charles, celine and cezlynn. missing people: xin, nat, willie, tze yang, freddy, ollie, gabriel, adrian wong, and justin

i ♥ my friends :)

for all the pictures of the night, go to

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=85965&id=644402425&l=69558aaab4

I-SAW PROMO WEEK!

2009-06-07T23:41:00.003-04:00

shites my blog is virtually dying. and xizaan keeps spamming my chatbox so if the comments dont sound like me.. you know its him :) and im supposed to be having piano class now. i think my teacher is ready to murder me and bren :( i can already sense that my scales are doomed. i so felt like crying just now :'( my pieces were absolutely screwed even though they were good last week. ARGH. stressness maximus.

I-SAW PROMO WEEK is this week!! better come support us on wednesday, 2-4pm @ ICSJ concourse..

p/s all these adorable puppies and kittens will be there :)

of procrastinations and cina affectations..

2009-05-19T11:41:00.003-04:00

college life is getting increasingly hectic by the very minute! i can literally feel my workload growing heavier and heavier. yet i still find the time to post about it :P procrastination much? thats me, all right. self-proclaimed queen of procrastination 0:)

we finally managed to settle our I-SAW proposal today :) that stands for the INTI Society for Animal Welfare, in case you didnt already know. you should've known though. right now we're pretty fired up about it - charles, xizaan and yours truly ("the flame is still burning inside me!") but we're definitely going to give it our all.

*do you hear that adrian yeong?? its not "just for fun, la"!!

lately we've been on this supremely cina kick where we all speak as "cina" as humanly possible. if youve heard us speak.. you'll understand what i mean. recently xin has been scolding me for using terms like "lor" and "wan" in my sentences when i IM her :D she finds it extremely annoying. i admit i used to as well but somehow it just.. grows on you! so much so that it has become a subconscious, everyday-conversation kinda thing now :)

the reason behind it? its our way of being as malaysian as possible before flying to america! when we get there, we could, of course, still speak cina.. the only downfall being that no one is going to understand us :P

on the other hand, it just might be the result of a certain someone's influence! :) i wonder who?

anyhow, i have an eight o' clock class tomorrow morning and i am DREADING it. organic chemistry II and we'll be learning a new chapter. yayy! willie is driving tmr so i can sleep a tiny bit longer :)

p/s.. blogging is kinda therapeutic isnt it? :) hm.

good night, nobody.

a day at sunway pyramid

2009-05-17T07:19:00.006-04:00

16 may 2009

the day started off with us meeting up at sunway pyramid for cezlynn's post-birthday celebration! :) we were supposed to meet up at 11am but knowing us malaysians with our typical SMT, only me, john and ui tee were there at about 11.15am.

we rushed around pyramid for about an hour trying to look for cezlynn's present :P (we never learn not to buy last-minute gifts coz somehow, buying gifts BEFORE the day itself is like super super impossible!)

right. we then met up with cezlynn, charles, nicholas wong and jonathan, the only "early" birds of the bunch. after wandering around aimlessly for a while, we finally decided on TGIF for lunch! err no pics of food coz everyone was too hungry :D

nicholas somehow convinced the people at fridays to get us a mini-cake for cezlynn and to give her the standard fridays' birthday treatment :D she was originally supposed to sing us a song but that failed so she had to do THIS instead :)

ohgosh the amount of whipped cream that she had to eat was.. rather daunting o.O hahaha!

her supremely yummy square of cake from TGIF.. according to charles "i come here all the time" teo, it was their mudpie :D mmmm.. charles' mojito was awesomely good by the way :D

group photo time!! adrian, zhen hong and eugene joined us in time for the birthday song too!

see ui tee hugging his skateboard :P

thennn it was time for our movie.. ANGELS AND DEMONS!! by this time, we were joined by a lot of other people, namely: nic, erin, carmen, ben, stephanie, han lim, suzanne, han sen and qisti! that brought our total to 19 people :D

i have a sinking feeling im missing some people though o.O

it was actually a pretty good show :) followed the book closely except for the ending where they failed to explain WHY the camerlengo orchestrated his intricately diabolical scheme! charles was VERY annoyed about that hahaha!

look! he was so excited about having such a long line of tickets :P like a lil kid right!! :D

the day ended at about 6.30pm and everyone went their separate ways home sweet home :)

happy birthday cezlynn :) and ISAW too!

2009-05-16T11:52:00.006-04:00

15 may 2009

a mini "tribute" to cezlynn see zhi lynn!

*kind
*caring
*thoughtful
*practical
*sweet
*reliable

as ui tee is so fond of saying.. "a friend in need is a friend indeed" :) and cezlynn never fails to be that friend!

i got her these adorable mini-cupcakes :D they spell out "HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY CEZLYNN" in case you cant read it :P

me, charles, joshan and joey visited SPCA today to discuss forming our spca club... and it is definitely ON!! we've officially named ourselves the INTI Society for Animal Welfare! ISAW. any suggestions for mottos/slogans? :D we invited the SPCA people to set up a booth in ICSJ in june to promote our cause. we gladly welcome anyone with a heart for animals! :)

what they really need now is people to adopt and care for the many rescuees from the very recent pulau ketam issue where the authorities were dumping stray dogs onto this isolated island called pulau tengah. incidentally, the isolated island is practically a mangrove swamp with absolutely no source of food for the poor dogs. the situation was so dire that some of the dogs actually turned cannibal and were eating other dogs. the pictures are HORRIFYING :(

while we were there we had the chance to check out 8 of the rescued dogs (all female and most were pregnant) who were being "rehabilitated", so to speak, to living in safety. most were still extremely nervous and one dog was literally constantly shivering in the corner of her cage :'( its really really sad..

here are a few links to the issue:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/5/6/nation/3843068&sec=nation

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/300+dogs+dumped+on+Malaysia+island+eat+each+other-a01611862690

so, anyone up for adopting a dog/cat/puppy/kitten? just drive over to SPCA Selangor in Ampang and check out the many animals up for adoption! they REALLY need love, caring and attention :)

live long and prosper :D

2009-05-16T11:20:00.003-04:00

14 may 2009

STAR TREK!! yet again another movie outing but this time our group expanded to 11 people including xizaan, jia yang, adrian, joshan, ui tee, gabriel, zhen hong, nic, erin and carmen :) i never thought id actually be watching star trek.. i had absolutely no intention of watching it and i knew absolutely nothing about it before going into the cinema.

i walked out of the cinema happy (albeit slightly confused) and i totally enjoyed the movie :D

xizaan actually tempted me into watching it coz he told me got a hot guy in it and he made me watch the trailer :P haha!

besides chris pine starring as captain james tiberius kirk (wow i even know his full name!), and zachary quinto as SPOCK, i absolutely loved anton yelchin as pavel chekov and simon pegg as scotty!! they were so freakin HILARIOUS! :) whee!

good show. recommended watching :D

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER! :)

starry starry night..

2009-05-12T11:51:00.003-04:00

family dinner on mothers' day with my aunt and uncle from perth as well.. it wasnt really a mothers' day dinner, just a normal dinner coz we celebrated mom's day on saturday! the pics of that night were taken with my cam and im too lazy to upload coz it takes forever! hehh.

bren and i were pretty bored.

so we created these stars out of toothpicks! and nothing else, mind you! :D

okay so maybe it was him creating them and me ooh-ing and ahh-ing and stealing them. hahaha :)

AREN'T THEY AWESOME!!

i really tried to make one! but its NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS! grrr. i nearlyyy got the hang of it..and then my dad scolded us for wasting toothpicks :P oops!

adrian's new signature :)

2009-05-12T11:42:00.002-04:00

this is what adrian does when he is bored and sitting in INTIMA office :) jobless much? HAHA!

p/s: the first picture was like one entire sheet of A4 paper! and he was doing the same thing on an envelope too!! o.O

a nutty conversation :D

2009-05-12T11:27:00.002-04:00

HAHA! xizaan totally cracks me up :)

uleong. says:
nut ing

fel* says:
youre nut-ing
what an interesting activity
what does nut-ing involve?
collecting nuts?

uleong. says:
hahahahaha
yes

fel* says:
ooh eating nuts

uleong. says:
like a squirel
collecting nuts
store them under ur bed
or ur pillow

fel* says:
ahhh
sounds fun!

uleong. says:
wait for next year and eat
yea

fel* says:
not next year
winter time

uleong. says:
here got no winter
so
next year lor
no la
wait till rainy days
then eat

fel* says:
ohhh
yeah la
everyday so hot
rainy days wont be around yet
so you save your nuts la okay?
good boy
hahahaa

uleong. says:
saving already
rainy days i very emo
so i eat nuts

fel* says:
ohh okay la
i hope it cheers you up

uleong. says:
makes me go nuts

fel* says:
better than being emo

uleong. says:
hahaha
can we go nuts together?

fel* says:
LOL
sure no problem
cfm fun la going nuts

uleong. says:
ok
good
next time when the rain comes i invite u

whee :D

x men origins: wolverine.. featuring GAMBIT!! ♥

2009-05-10T04:28:00.005-04:00

5 may 2009

WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!!!! its freakin AWESOME, nuff said :D i absolutely LOVED it :)

the movie stars hugh jackman as WOLVERINE and i shall not spoil the movie for those who have not watched it yet!

pssst! looooook its TAYLOR KITSCH playing remy lebeau a.k.a GAMBIT.

i ♥ GAMBIT!! :)

im so happy gavin hood cast taylor kitsch as gambit..he is so PERFECT! :D

* side-note: now if only catherine hardwick had cast either steven strait or taylor kitsch as edward cullen in twilight.. but NO they choose..erm..whats-his-name?? oh yeah robert pattinson.. (i googled it coz i reallyy forgot!)

..just looking at this picture makes me feel happy :) wheeee!

taylor kitsch. is. SEXY.

pei-chern's farewell

2009-05-10T02:39:00.002-04:00

3 may 2009

aunty yoke kee (pc's mom) organized a steamboat dinner at pc's grandmother's house as a small farewell for her on sunday night. her grandma's place is really near BSC and it is a freakin mansion. literally HUGE. and i thought the dining hall looked like a chinese restaurant when i first walked in! coz of the chinese antique-ish deco i guess and the round marble table haha! her whole family was there i think! at least, everyone in kl. her family is HUGE too. i always thought it would be cool to have a huge family :)

anyway pei-hsia asked me to invite pc's college mates and i did..only to find out on sunday afternoon that pc herself was inviting some of them too -.- what on earth! "surprise" indeed. ah well. guest list included jean, woei cherng, vinoad, charles, joshan, ui tee, justin, yew leong (are you reading this xizaan? :D), kar wei, kc, razif, and some other people who i dont know. oops. me and my family too! my brother apparently hit it off with xizaan -.- why is it my brother knows all my friends while i know NONE of his??

i was dragged on a mad goose chase around bangsar by charles, vinoad, joshan and ui tee at nearly 10pm to look for.. a blank tape. see, they brought a RADIO for pc and the plan was to record a message for her from all of us. now is that brilliant or what? the downfall - no one thought of bringing a blank tape. good job, guys :D needless to say, we failed. the only places open at 10pm are the restaurants and bars in telawi!

err then we rushed back so aunty yoke kee could cut the cake (i felt so bad that they were waiting for us, which they totally didnt need to do!) which was absolutely yummylicious by the way :) - pavlova from alexis wheee! so darn good :D

i left with my parents around 11pm but i heard the party then moved to pc's place and everyone left like 3am plus. sounds like they had fun haha. it didnt FEEL like a farewell though, more like just a gathering. pei-chern was really excited about leaving hahaha. like her excitedness outweighed her sadness i think :P

PITH youth challenge 2009

2009-05-10T01:05:00.006-04:00

2 may 2009

Partners In The Harvest (PITH) was co-organized by our very own SJGC and her sister church, PJGH and it was an international evangelical event with participants coming from all over the world to take part in the activities, workshops and to listen to inspirational speakers. the youth challenge was aimed at youths (aged 13 - those who felt they were still young at heart :P) with several mission workshops to participate in.

it was scheduled to begin at about 1.30pm but i was there at 12pm along with chui yeng, darrel, joel, and steven our driver :D we were the "volunteers" from SJGC to help with setting up. i was volunteered by chui yeng. i mean, she asked and obviously i couldnt say no!! :) anyways steven, yeng and i were selling PITH tees and joel and darrel were selling juwita suwito CDs.

the lighter blue was the girls' cut and the darker blue was for guys. heheh the logo is three wheat stalks designed to look like people jumping for joy :D its kinda cool when you think about it being partners in the HARVEST. get it? :)

it started off with worship led by the impressions! theyre this malaysian christian rock group but theyre like old-school rock :P heheh. then there was a special performance by juwita! i have NEVER heard any of her songs before but i really enjoyed listening to her :) she has an amazing voice!!

then the stage went to the speaker of the day, andrew "no relation whatsoever to simon cowell!" cowell :D ahaha. okay it was interesting to listen to his experiences BUT the thing is most of us there were youths and yes, it was a youth challenge, but i felt the way he was speaking was almost as if he expected every single one of us to enter long term missionary work right there and then. i dont think all the youths there knew what mission was exactly and most just tagged along with friends for the workshops after that. i joined the indonesia workshop and i was almost convinced to join them for their upcoming youth camp in july! :D

PITH was still going on, til night, for the adult participants. youths were encouraged to stay of course, but most of the TRU-ers left after the workshops. it was a success in that there were about 500 youths participating (woah!), but maybe it was a tad too intense for younger christians and even more so for those who dont know Christ at all.

ipoh daytrip :)

2009-05-03T04:59:00.006-04:00

right so my dad came back on thursday night and he was like "tmr we're all going to ipoh with uncle steven, aunty terina and cassandra." like literally out of the blue just coz it was a public holiday! incidentally, we're not actually related to the family we went with :P honestly i was like "nooo i dont wanna go!" coz xizaan told me there was this zara/pull&bear sale @ cineleisure and i had convinced my mom to take me there on friday morning! but when my dad decides on something we generally just go along with it to make him happy :) haha!

we started out at about 8.15am and we headed to rawang first to grab breakfast. it was supposed to be dim sum -.- note that i say supposed because we didnt end up having dim sum :( we went round and round rawang (which is really small actually) and we found out that the dim sum shops only open at night! grr. havent they ever heard of brunch :( out of hunger we ended up at this coffee shop where i ordered lo mai kai.. and there was a freakin fly in it!! like OHMYGOODNESS. it was not a good start to the day. grrr!

anyways. our journey to ipoh did not involve the highway at all. instead, my dad decided to take the old trunk road where theres like one single lane only. the point of it was to look at the countryside and random small towns -.- like huh?? haha i think he regretted it though coz he's a pretty impatient driver and he kept overtaking all the cars. it was single lane traffic so you can imagine it was just a lil bit terrifying.

when we finally reached ipoh it was lunch time and i was hungryyy! i kinda slept most of the way coz i tend to do that in the car :P and the scenery wasnt exactly the most exciting thing in the world either. we went to old town and spent a good half hour searching for this restaurant that was apparently famous for ipoh hor fun. sadly we didnt find it. (sadness. the whole trip was full of plans that never came into fruition due to our inability to find places to eat!) i actually texted joshan in the morning to ask him to recommend places to go. he replied at 5pm when i was back home already -.- reason being he was sleeping. what a person. we went to this place instead. oh, coincidentally, i found out my dad used to go to school at st michael's too!

yes, i know the name of the place is "mee kari ipoh garden" but i ordered the kai si hor fun instead and it was yummmyyy! :D i forgot to snap a picture of the actual thing (i think i was

too hungry) but it looks pretty much like the picture below. haha :)

while wandering around old town we noticed a few shops that we decided to come back to. one of them was this salted chicken shop. the people were literally queuing up to buy the chicken -.- to tell the truth, i have never heard of salted chicken before this. neither had my mom or brother :P but yeah its apparently a popular local dish. it was quite good but the chicken wasnt exactly that salty. the herbal sauce-y thing that the chicken was baked in was the salty part haha.

aunty terina was like super excited about seeing this funny mountain soya bean place and she kept saying the tau foo fah here was really really good. personally im not that big a fan of tau foo fah but since there were people constantly queuing up to order i decided to try it too :D its like this tiny corner shoplot and they have a drive-through service where ppl are served bowls of tau foo fah in their cars! hahaha. we shouldve done that too coz it was a reallyyy hot day!

this is what the tau foo fah looked like. okay let me try to describe it. its really smooth, like way smoother than the tau foo fah back here in kl or subang. but i thought the syrup that came with it was so sweet it became like sickly sweet =/ i didnt like it very much, but bren loved it! the guy kinda pissed all of us off coz he was SO RUDE to aunty terina when she was ordering. she forgot to collect one bowl and when she went back to ask he was like telling her that she left it there and its her fault. like wth?! all she did was ask politely for it. so if she hadnt remembered to collect it then he wouldve also "forgotten" about it right. arghh. what a total arse.

and finally, we kept passing by this shop in old town and eveyrtime i saw it i laughed so i snapped a pic of it :P the chenai potty's!! :D the name is so cute! they sell traditional indian clothes i think :D

after stopping by a bakery to buy kaya puffs - which were awesome :D - and haha my dad bought..charcoal!! (of all things :P) we headed home! we met up with cassandra's family again at uncle bernard's house last night for a very yummy bbq dinner and stayed til like 1.30am. it was crazyy. i was like falling asleep on the comfy sofa :P why is it my parents can lepak with their friends til so late while i cant? darn it! :P hahaha.

♫ song of the moment: 5ive - until the time is through

a trip down memory lane to visit my favorite.. boybands!

2009-04-29T11:01:00.009-04:00

last week i heard the moffats' i miss you like crazy totally by chance on the radio..i think it was fly.fm!.. and it totally sparked me into this boyband kick!! it was a trip down memory lane like back to the time between the 90's and the early 21st century! :) i used to have a crush on like at least ONE of the guys from the each band ;) hahaha! well, almost all of the bands anyways! :D

okayy first up here is n' sync!! :) i remember back when i was in std 3 i was like the ONLY girl who listened to n' sync.. like seriously! what was wronggg with all of them?? i never thought justin timberlake was all that hot actually :P i know he's the most talented singer among all but i always thought jc chasez was the hottest :D sadly his solo efforts were..well, lets just say not even close to the success JT is enjoying til this day!

and then here we have the BACKSTREET BOYS!! :) my all time favorite! they have like a gazillion albums but this one has all the best songs! i actually have this album in both tape and CD! :P my tape a bit wrecked (must be from being overplayed!) so i got the cd! :) my favorite guy was nick carter! here im totally following the general female population but what the heck :) nick carter! although i must say his hairstyle in the 90's was so typical of that generation - the long floppy locks! hahaha it makes me laugh watching the old music videos! :P

here's a conversation i had with xizaan about boybands :P he's so funny!!

uleong. says:
got
backstreet boys my fav :D

uleong. says:
i still love them (and here he was showing me all these ♥ symbols!!)

uleong. says:
i serious pls
i stil love them
i got bsb boxers

goodness i laughed my head off at that!! :D his favorite guy was the "partially balding guy" coz "i find his balding sexy"!!! oh xizaan. entertainment :)

ahaha now its westlife! hmm one thing i felt was kinda annoying was the fact that they were constantly covering other artistes' songs! sure, they have a lot of their own songs but i think a lot of their singles were covers.. i didnt have a favorite guy here but i think shane's voice is pretty good :)

and now im at.. BLUE! ahhh. blue had a short but sweet career as a boyband :) i think 3 of them tried their hand at solo efforts but none really made it! i was in lurve with lee ryan! sighhh. sexyness :) and his voice.. ♥ first sight..or is it sound? mmm :) hmmph xin loved duncan james but im like . . . :P

the moffats!! the ones who inspired me on this boyband kick :D i wasnt exactly an avid fan of the moffats but i do like miss you like crazy and girl of my dreams! whee! erm im not too sure about all their names but i think the guy with the short hair is cute :P haha!

andd here's 911!!! mmm i love lee's voice!! another lee :D yayy! he's like the lead singer of 911 and his voice is like.. mmm :) another ♥ of mine :D my favorite song is all i want is you coz its soooo sweet!

hmm i just realized i missed out on hanson!! oops :) but i was never really a fan of theirs either so oh well :P hahaha i love mmmbop though! its such a happy upbeat song :D there are soooo many boybands out there (mostly defunct now haha) theyre generally kind of the same. like there'll be one lead singer whom all the girls will love and there will always be one member who no one knows!! gosh i feel so sad for those guys who are so left out!

hmm on monday i walked around the pasar malam in ss2 with joshan and adrian.. it was freakin hot and crowded and all the people were like pushing their way through! ickk!! then we met up with gabriel and nic for dinner at murni. it was like my first time ever going there (quite sad, i know) but the food was pretty darn yummy :)

on tuesday i went to PD with tze yang and willie and a few of their friends but i'll update on that when (if ever!) i get the pics :D whee!

ღ song of the moment: anberlin - stationary stationery

intima conference

2009-04-26T10:16:00.011-04:00

.. was held from 24 - 26 april 2009 at our very own icsj! its this thing where all the intima excos of every inti college from around malaysia gather to discuss.. umm, intima stuff? :) oh and metro college was there too. technically the actual "conference" lasted one day and the other two days were for.. socializing! :D fun, innit? i think it was fully paid for by inti too!

i was recruited as a "helper" for the bbq that joshan and co. organized on saturday night, along with cezlynn, ui tee, vinoad, jillian, han lim, qisti, alexis..and a few other people too! we helped set up the bbq stuff and i think i was supposed to help cook but i didnt.. oops :) sorry joshan. he did a briliant job bbqing though and all the people clustered around the bbq pits (set on the floor, mind you!) managed to... bond :D

most of them were color-coordinated in their own intima shirts and all so it was obvious that they were sitting in their own cliques. i liked the black polo with the orange collar! i think it was inti sarawak. me and ui tee were talking about exchanging inti shirts with them, like in football! heheh :D fernie managed to get them to mix and mingle by setting up some game..a really funny one but i have no idea how it goes really!

ui tee played a VERY important role as... the MAID!! :P hahaha! lucky me i escaped from clean up duty coz i was helping out with the "ah bad" game and also the station games! whee thanks fernie :) me and cezlynn were helping hoor with her game which involved blindfolds and three balls. the thrower has to throw the ball to the catcher who was blindfolded using any strategy, as long as the catcher caught the ball with his/her hands. the objective of the game was to improve communication as only the thrower could talk and the catcher had to listen in order to be able to catch the ball. everyone else was supposed to remain silent but they needed reminders every now and then! most of the groups took pretty long but i was quite impressed with some of their throwing skills haha! very the accurate :) one thing that was totally disgusting was touching the blindfolds.. the sweat-soaked blindfolds. can i say EWW? i felt so sorry for the last team!

the "ah bad" game this time around wasnt as entertaining as it was during the intima council camp last year at kalumpang. there we had people literally jumping on each other and wrestling and so many "ah bads" were "discovered"!! hahaha! most of them were veryyy trusting of each other and i was kinda falling asleep :P

by the time the station games ended it was practically midnight and i was freakin exhausted! not to mention sweaty and icky.. luckily freddy was sweet enough to escape from the mph to send me home! :) i arrived back almost exactly the same time as my aunt so i didnt feel so bad :D yayy! ohh and my darling cezlynn brought me three korean drama box sets :D thanks a bunch cez! love youuu!

all in all it was fun but tiring.. our intima did a pretty good job from what i saw so kudos to them! :)

♫ song of the moment: shinedown - second chance

WARNING!! heat wave alert!!

2009-04-22T12:53:00.006-04:00

attention to all malaysians everywhere. may i draw your attention to the fact that today was a FREAKIN HOT DAY. i think im being ever so slightly repetitive..but seriouslyy. BEH TAHAN!! hahaha. grrr. im so annoyed with the weather. its playing HAVOC with my skin :( nooooo! sadness is me :'(

oh i went to summit AGAIN, only this time with my brother..who was *ahem* "sick" (what rubbish! sick people lie down in bed not walk around in shopping malls!!) he wanted to buy magic cards -.- what is it with guys and this obssessive need to collect pieces of paper?? i draw for him can? :D

we went to visit the dvd shop AGAIN. oh noes. the dvd guy probably thinks i have no life since ive been to summit twice in three days. oh goshh. how i regret not going for the lang tengah trip with everyone else!! this heat wave is brilliant beach weather so im sure theyre having the time of their lives!! :) silly me. im missing out on getting a great tan too!! :P

there's a bright side to today though. my mom has been having a very guilty conscience lately coz she says working at her office has made her cross all moral boundaries :P haha! she has so many funny stories to tell about her work though :) very entertaining! so she wanted us to go to salvation bookstore to buy her an uplifting book. welllll after much consideration we decided on this women's devotional bible with like lots of interesting anecdotes on living a Christian life in today's modern world. it was kinda expensive but i think its really worth it and its our early Mothers' Day gift to her :) yayy! ahaha and she appreciates the fact that its colorful with a larger-than-usual font :D

we ♥ you mom :)

ღ song of the moment: lifehouse - broken

oh the oppressive heat!

2009-04-20T10:26:00.014-04:00

today was a very HOT day. as in HOT!!! goodness. i nearly fainted!! (okay so maybe i didnt :P) malaysian weather is going crazy..im even starting to miss the thunderstorms that were an everyday thing two weeks ago! see how fickle the weather is :( first floods now droughts. hmmph.

so i thought of a genius plan to escape the heat!! :D my grandma's sis (technically she's my grand-aunt but she says going "grand-aunty lily" makes her sound so old so we all just go "aunty lily" :D) came down (or is it up?? my geography is so bad) from perth for a holiday and she's staying at my grandma's place. i happily played the role of chauffeur to the both of them and we spent the afternoon at subang parade. lunch at uncle lim's and i had the yummy chicken porridge! :) wandered around aimlessly for a bit and my aunt got a new hotlink sim card for her one-month stay here.

wheee then we flew over to summit to shop for.. DVDs! :D i know its illegal but well...its almost a malaysian custom so yeahh.. 0:) (this is supposed to be an angelic smiley okay?)

LOOK WHAT I BOUGHT! :D the complete season two! happiness is me :)

here are some random shots of people that i took last thursday after my final paper! microeconomics. which was. terrible :(

this is the before shot of xin and sie hui! dont they look enthralled by each other?? ;)

and here's the after shot! haha. i found the contrast in colors so fascinating :P

another negative shot, this time of casey and freddy! err the washroom sign kinda stands out doesnt it?? casey was going through xin's phone without permission. he's such a meanie :( he grabbed it and wouldnt give it back! we were at snowflake so we couldnt really force it away from him. hmmph! ooh speaking of snowflake.. i love the desserts there :) whee. perfect for hot days!

this is a photo of the mango i had after dinner just now. its here simply because i like mango and it made me happy :D yayy!

♫ song of the moment: hey monday - homecoming

chillin at the holidae inn.. :D

2009-04-19T11:37:00.013-04:00

that chingy song suddenly popped in my head! :D though i really did chill at the holidae inn..or to be more specific, at kites restaurant @ holiday inn glenmarie! good food, nice chairs and yummylicious desserts!! at a fantastic price of rm25/pax , whats not to like?? :)

i took pictures of like everything i ate! mmmm :D

this is the restaurant - pretty soothing decor and can i mention again, very comfy chairs! :D

my brother's mushroom soup with seafood which tasted exactly like sharksfin soup with slices of mushroom -.- i took this pic coz the bread roll was as hard as a rock and i found it very funny when he dropped the whole roll in :P

my YUMMY appetizers! wheee :)

they had a jap section which i looved. the salmon and cod were super fresh and oh-so-yummy! sadly i didnt get any oysters :( my brother had like 10 i think! ishh!

hmm this was sorta the fusion-esque main courses with a mix of eastern and western! there was also a bbq hot plate where the chef grills stuff for you. sooo slowwww i didnt like him :(

DESSERTS-GALORE!!!! there was like a zillion different choices of desserts! however i picked the ones that looked the best :D and they were to-die-for! my fav was the mocha cheescake (the one at the very bottom!) mmm :)

just because i was bored with no one to entertain me except nat whom i was texting, i decided to cam-whore a bit and also take pics of the boys sitting with me!

here's my dear darling brother brendan! this is the first ever picture he's willingly smiled for! but he still refused to take one with me :( meanie!

err now this is yours truly who was trying to entertain herself :P

the twins!!! they are so freakin CUTE! :) theyre even sitting on the same chair coz i asked them to smile for me! jun hao on the left and jun wei on the right! the only difference is a tiny mole jun hao has on his left cheek! they were so funny! at the end while we were all waiting for the parents to finish talking, (their conversation was mostly about me and my education -.-) so they went for more food...and deposited it right into a tupperware they brought from home!! i was stunned for a bit then i thought these boys are smart!! :D hahaha!

whee. that was a good dinner. im so stuffed i dont think im gonna eat tmr! with holidays for two weeks i can sleep in and basically laze around the house. brilliant! :D hmm i was originally supposed to go shopping at ou with casey, su ting and jun yih but i had this dinner which made up for it so oh well! shopping another day! or more like window shopping coz im very much cash-strapped! darn it :P the topshop sale the other day cleaned me out!!

ღ song of the moment: matt redman - the Father's song

of resolutions and rounders!

2009-04-18T09:41:00.010-04:00

"before i even speak You let me know,i am understood"

relient k - i am understood
after three weeks of not attending TRU (and i feel pretty guilty about it!) i went today and i was hit by a wave of love emanating from God. i may sound like im being a bit over the top but truly, todays extended worship session was amazing. kudos to everyone who played a part in creating such a wonderful atmosphere :)
what with semester finals just over and a whole bunch of other stuff preoccupying my mind lately, ive been feeling really distant from God and it seems like there are days when ive gone through the day without once thinking of God. i disappoint myself..but even worse, i feel like ive really let God down :( major guilt trip today!
liesl led everyone in writing down our sins on a piece of paper and we then wrote a practical way to worship God in our everyday lives on a pebble. going outside to "sacrifice" our "sins" on a miniature bonfire was a very symbolic gesture and it truly felt like i could let go of my burden and know that God forgives me :) thanks so much liesl.
*a lil reminder to myself about what i wrote on my pebble: to place God first in everything i do
i hope i can achieve that state where i reach for God first in my life. in the affirmation session we had later, bernard told me i was "confident and mature" and i was really touched by all the stuff he said :) but honestly i dont think of myself as confident or mature..there are many times when i feel so lost, so unsure of myself and though i try not to, i always worry about what other people think about me. does that make me a shallow person? :( sighh. i hope not.
on a lighter note we went to the field to play... ROUNDERS! :D i loooove this game! hahaha. i made it home twice! :D yayy! we won 8-6 and it was supremely fun! pretty surprising that i can play actually considering i can barely hit a tennis ball with a tennis racket..and here i am hitting home runs (well, almost!) with a baseball bat one fifth the width of a racket. whee :)
Justin. says:
STRESSSSSSS
how la friend?
i so handsome
so buff
so nice
so kind
voice of an angel
magic like a magician
why got no girl want?
HAHAHA. this conversation took place at 12.30am when he was at kar wei's place "studying" for his accounting finals. :P another funny conversation i had at like 2am was with ui tee :D we were talking about prison break and his words were something like.. "prison break is a damn good show. the main character reminds me of me!" i laughed my head off :P
im really going to work hard at placing God first in my life. i know its not going to be an instantaneous thing and im probably going to fail many times. but i know that God will always be there for me and that i am understood.
♫ song of the moment: hillsong - reaching for you

friendship or a relationship?

2009-04-17T09:43:00.001-04:00

"these thoughts run through
my head, over and
over.."
anberlin - paperthin hymn
exactly what has been running through my mind lately? its thoughts on whether friendships or relationships are more important at this point in my life. around me i see relationships blossoming and im happy for my friends :) i also see relationships failing :( but it does bring bittersweet memories of my own failed relationships.
i love being single :) i really do. its like having freedom to be. to feel whatever i want to about whatever or whoever i want at any time without having to worry about what your "other half" thinks. freedom to be me. but then at times i miss having a special someone in my life. having someone you know will be there for you. but then a relationship cant work out if both sides dont feel the same way about each other and as darkness sing so aptly, love is only a feeling! :D
back to my original question - friendship or a relationship?
here's a situation: A and B are together. both C and D are friends of both A and B. D likes C but C isnt interested. then A and B break up and C is in a relationship with E. A doesnt know how D feels about C now but because A and D have become closer friends, A is starting to feel something for D. at the same time, C and E are falling apart and no one knows how D feels about that.
wow. im confusing myself even! :P right so whats A to do here? to jeopardize the friendship with D by confessing or to just go on like normal and remain close friends with D? bear in mind that A and C are close friends and C and E arent working out so theres a chance of C falling for D. dilemma much? :) the possibilities are endless.
when the glass is half-empty: to ruin a friendship for an improbable relationship
when the glass is half-full: to have a shot at happiness that could last forever
how do you know when youve met the one? the one you want to spend the rest of your life with? ahaha. anyone have any idea? i certainly dont! the only answer i can come up with is to let God handle it. but with two failed relationships behind me, im starting to wonder why God is seemingly letting me go my own way? maybe i just havent been listening.
deep down, i think that as at this point in my life, i value friendship above relationships. but honestly the thought of having another shot at happiness if i choose to open up is pretty tempting ;)
ღ song of the moment: the offspring - kristy, are you doing okay?