why hello, you :)

so how's your cny?

2012-02-01T17:54:00.000+08:00

no really, how's yours?
mine was pretty bland, although i do enjoy the happy but short moments with my friends and relatives!
as mentioned earlier i hadnt been receiving alot of angpaos this time around, but that just about makes me appreciate the occasional few that i get every now and then! its not much but really human being human, we only appreciate things when we dont get them :P like all the chinese new year cookies, i wasnt much a fan of it in the previous chinese new years, but now i actually crave for them because i dont have them at home! haha, so friends if i ever go to your house and you see me munching your cookies away, please dont say anything!

so my cny started off with us heading down to penang before cny. lol how weird is that, and we had a reunion dinner the day before cny eve.

baby ryan! okay alot of my friends in facebook said i look like the mother == some even said i look like im in the confinement period summor. walao eh! (that's it, im officially activating my MSSD gamfei plan again :P) but he's such a cutie! and he smiles when you do weird things infront of him :)

my pretty cousin whose wedding im going to be the bridesmaid for! well its really my first time being a bridesmaid so i really dont know what to expect (unless you consider flower girl as a pseudo-bridesmaid haha.) well i expect myself to be by her side the whole time, doing everything she wants me to do, well i think i can definitely do that :) and i really dont know if i actually have any white dress to go with her even gorgeous dress. hmm... anyway i cant wait hehe.

cousin with cousin in law :) the number is diminishing, where all our cousins from around the world? the food that day were scrumptious!

and we were back in KL even before cny began!

we also went to temple to pray, where they have beautiful lantern decorations! you know eversince i got an iphone i've been clicking away nonstop at the camera. not only is the quality good, the pictures after editing seem quite nice too! aww really gotta love iphone apps :)

i've also managed to catch up with some of my friends who i hadnt seen in a long time, LIKE a really long time! hong onn still seems the same, just a little thinner. we saw so many seniors from bu4, some became thinner, some prettier, some fatter, some just didnt looked the same anymore..well i guess we've really grown out of teenage years :) now all we ever asked them now is : have you started working?

and that, above, is us in hongonn's extremely comfy room!

Lee Huey Wen, the senior with the same name as me. i remember us even being in KRS together, representing Bu4 in MSSD badminton together, being a librarian together..aww those times!

apart from that, our once-in-awhile outing still continues! we had dinner and snowflakes :) and really, looking back at the pictures we actually looked quite pretty la haha. we were complaining that we look ugly in every picture we took that day, but i really dont think its ugly now that im looking at them again!

love you siewming xx. love your cajunnes when you're with us. :)

my yearning for snowflakes- finally satisfied!

i've also met up with some of my uni mates- jia ern and sueyee, and we were supposed to wear new clothes that day, but someone thought she could escaped by wearing an old blue top :P

really love the times we can just sit down over lunch and talk and talk and talk like there was no tomorrow :) its sad that we're soon gonna separate and walk our respective routes but im sure never gonna forget these two!

some really beautiful decorations in one utama :) gah shouldnt have hold the ugly plastic bag while we were posing for this picture!

xx! seeing how they transformed since sem1, the feeling seems surreal, like im the mother seeing them grow up like that haha.

also (so many also), ive met up with my college mates! well, not all of them sadly, only two because the rest are either overseas now, or is busy/somewhere else. the two hadnt changed one bit, except brian grew a little bigger this time! he's going to medicine (like finally), just like the rest of us!

joanne khoo- my sampattest friend! we were sampating so much when brian was shopping for his coloured t shirts :P

hello brian king, brother from another planet!

we've also (another also) celebrated alina's 21st birthday party in her house! just the day before alina and me were shopping materials for her birthday and came up with an idea of making a cake for her. well the cake didnt quite turn out as planned as we couldnt find any butterfingers (an ingredient for the cake), so in the end we had to literally make our own cake! like mix flour eggs butter and everything! it turned out to be harder than expected, so we didnt give it out to our friends since there was another cake. but alina told me her mom actually gave out the cake to all her relatives, and her mom actually said it tasted so good HAHA. okay, i should had eaten more of my own cake to taste it properly.

and apart from that, the preparation was hilarious! i was looking at my iphone the ENTIRE time when i was making, just to follow the instructions from the puny little screen of mine haha. and after barely finishing the cake, i headed off to my cousin's place to visit her for the last time before she goes off to oz! (i wish her all the best in her future undertakings in OZ, and i believe she'll do so well there!)

after about an hour or so, we headed back home again and i was just in time for the party. when i entered, my mind was literally going ''WOW'' because it was really so hawaiian! (the theme was hawaiian) nice preparation there siewming and qingxian! luckily i had that (only) sarong in my wardrobe which i hadnt wore it even once, well now i can finally put it to use :)

anyway i really hope alina enjoyed her birthday party! although the game playing was abit unsuccessful but we had so much fun laughing till we had muscle spasm haha.

group picture! we had 10 shots of this lol.

the pretty girls plus wengkhong. its nice how we always catch up once in a while :)

and as for yesterday we went to jyyyee's big mansion! its so huge, too huge i really couldnt believe my eyes! and so beautiful, rachel should really visit her place one day and get some ideas for her future career haha.

some mirror in her house. if i begin to talk about her house im never going to finish talking about it haha. you've gotta see it with your own eyes :)

on a pretty random note, i saw this in snowflakes today and that really tickled me from within:

the next time i go there imma go try steal their spoons too. problem?

so that just about sums up my chinese new year so far, how's yours?

USA trip part 4

2012-01-26T21:48:00.001+08:00

just some leftover pictures which i totally forgot to blog about because they were all in another thumbdrive!

US first whitehouse on the left, liberty bell on the right. just so you know, philadelphia is US first capital, hence the origin of all these exotic buildings and monuments!

(wikipedia :The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American Independence)

fun fact about it: one day it broke, an indication that freedom indeed has a price!

it was shoooooo cold that day and i know you see us smiling here, but the smile's actually fake. hahaha. my ears were literally cracking hence i had no choice but to put the hoodie on despite looking ridiculous == im like the black version of red riding hood!

chinatown- a place frequent alot during our visit there to stock up on chinese food and for meals! its not too far from my sister's dorm, probably takes like 10 minutes to walk there, and we went there so often (just like reading market) i could totally remember the way to go there. and it feels so like china when we're in there, even the price tag's and descriptions are in mandarin haha.

mexican food, the day before my daddy left :(

everything was vegetarian but everything was so delicious! i had trouble understanding the menu though, everything was so mexican i felt like i was reading another language =S

one fine day my sister decided to rent a car and drive us down to korean town to feast on their renowned chichen in this place called Bon chon! somehow all korean restaurant has a 'chon' in their naming of the restaurant. and the chicken wings were scrumptious! we had like 24 chickens for lunch! fat die us but delicious betul :)

on the last week we decided to keep our nights busy as we had only a few days left in US and we so didnt want to put the nights to waste...and thus the idea of cupcake making! it was my first time making cupcakes, and i must say it was a success! layqueen (my sister's friend) and i had a crash course on how to decorate the cupcakes (the picture on the top right corner) and in no time we decorating our own cupcakes! we also made a few cupcakes for one of my sister's junior's birthday, and seriously, i would die to receive cupcakes with cute figures like smurf on it T.T shoo cute you dont want to eat it.

and since my mom's birthday was on the 9th of january, we had another round of baking session for my mom's birthday, and this time we made my sister's renowned tiramisu cake! my sister's tiramisu cake is by far the best tiramisu cake i've ever tried. hmm maybe one day i can try making it on my own for someone :)

and on one of the remaining nights we had a super exhausting but fun session of marvel vs capcom! well, it's sorta our childhood because we used to play alot of street fighters when we were young, but the newer version has so many characters with so many powers we took time getting used to it. our hands had blisters towards the end, and i kept dying == aw man, writing about it makes me wanna play it right now!

chinese food- peking duck in chinatown!

western food!

US equivalent of tutti frutti. well actually there is tutti frutti in US too but it looked really pathetic in US, so deserted and lowly maintained. this is zhiven's favourite place!

and i just love US internet connection, you can totally stream everything online and watch straight away! i finished the whole season 6 and 7 of how i met your mother!

all in all, US is actually not a bad place to be in if you put aside the shockingly different culture (eg. blacks scaring you in the middle of a street #truestory) and definitely will be a good place to live in if you have all your beloved family members with you :)

till then!

USA trip part 3

2012-01-25T23:51:00.000+08:00

just some pictures taken from my sister's blog:

we always have this tradition of taking christmas pictures everyyear despite not celebrating it, and by taking christmas picture i mean basically just having a christmas tree in it, and we have one of that in all the different places in the world, including back in KL :) and now we can finally add one more place into the list- US. its nice that we have this annual picture thing going on, looking back at it now we've really been to a whole lot of places :)

anyway continue with my US post!

this was in atlantic city, a must-go place for all gamblers and all shopaholics because that's where all the outlets of different brands are! and we were forced to gamble the free 20 dollars they gave us as a start, and in no time we got back all our bus tickets plus extras to spend in atlantic city :D

and we literally shopped till we drop. i have never bought so many branded clothes in a SINGLE day. our first stop was at Polo Raulph Lauren, and we spent at least 2 hours attempting to choose everything in the shop. and the bill came up to be quite high, but it worth EVERY penny spent because the prices were all crazily reduced even after conversion! like, you can never get that kind of price in malaysia. come to think of it, buying branded clothes in malaysia can be quite a reaped off.

we didnt really take alot of pictures because we didnt have time to do so. even spending an hour plus in forever 21 wasnt enough because the shop was sooo big, and so packed and all the clothes were so terribly scattered and thrown around! not to mention i had to go about trying to squeeze my way through groups and groups of teenagers going all ''omg you should totally try this'' and ''omg this looks so hot on you'' and they're not at all small ==

but still i got what i wanted after going through all the XS (yes im a XS there, really feel so tiny there but super fat here in msia), i got myself a dress and a pants and am okay to go. really want to go back there one day when there are less people and choose the clothes at my own pace!

ah forgot what this place is called, but my sister had to drive like a 2 hour plus journey to reach there. our initial snow tubing planned failed because it was not opened! so we just enjoyed the breeze and headed back down after awhile =)

lasertag! i super duper love that game! it was the first time for most of us and we really did have fun, including my parents! and i beat zhiven (again) in the game on the left!

city central in philadelphia

shopping in victoria secret, philadelphia. really love their lingerie but why are their cups so huge!?

and my parents went crazy in the Gap outlet because everything was so cheap, i shant reveal the price here because it just seems too ridiculous haha.

dinner in chinatown together with my sister's friends! chinese food ononomnom!

a very nice family portrait!

more korean food delicacies! kimchi soup aw super missing it now :)

our mandatory jumping shots. i really miss the times in US with my sister. it was freezing cold outside and our first instinct was to ''hey let's do some jumping shots'' ==

in reading market, Philadelphia :) we go there so often during our visit there till i could remember how to go already. we go there every other day to stock up on food for home cooked dinner :)

countdown in philadelphia! the fireworks here look like jelly fish! and really, they shouldnt use ''someone like you'' by adele for a countdown lol. such a mood spoiler.

most of the people of our generation have no idea who rocky is. but thanks to my non astro existing childhood, i know exactly who he is.

pretty.

the ONLY sakura flower left in winter, and i was lucky to see it! imagine how much more beautiful it would be if there were to be a row of sakura flowers infront of me :)

that's about it for now :) wait for my next massive update soon!

signing off,

xoxo.

USA trip part 2

2012-01-25T19:30:00.000+08:00

i know im suddenly blogging alot, but i really just wanna finish blogging about US because i dont want put all these beautiful memories into my..forgotten-memory-dustbin :)

the pictures are really not in order, somehow blogger made my pictures all unviewable, hence i cant rearrange like i want to.

Battery park, on our way to liberty island! its really so easy to capture a nice picture in US because everywhere looks so pretty! even wilting trees can look so good in pictures :)

The queue on that day was massive; we waited for about an hour plus just to get on the cruise! The view was scenic, and once we’re on the cruise I started clicking away again. I was literally having a war with the wind and my hair while doing so ==

And eversince the 911 incident, US has been extremely strict about security, we had to battle the cold wind out in the cold with our jackets, and removed them all (even shoes!) once we’re in the security examination room! Its not just like that in battery park, its like that everywhere. Well its quite mafan to some extent but safety first.

our cruise :)

Pretty much Our main staple for a few days in a row till one day my mom said she refused to eat anymore bread or burger! Yeah they have the best food around, but we still crave for Chinese food a lot. Guess we’re still very much asian afterall :D and did I mention that they serve the biggest food portion ever? Seriously, 4 of us can share two servings and we still cant finish them ==

starbucks coffee- is everywhere in US. like everywhere. every corner of the street, in every street and im really not exaggerating. its really everywhere.its like the mandatory drink to have every morning before work, because its so convenient and not expensive at all if you work in US. well we cant drink this everyday in malaysia or we'll go broke one day :( and dunkin donuts are like the boss of the donuts there as well. i havent seen even one bigapple or Jco around.

falling in love with photography- just because every picture looks so nice :)

Statue of liberty! its actually just an island with the statue, really nothing to go about from there. but its a pretty humungous statue and a must go place in US!

the famous bull in walstreet- a symbol of wealth for business people

Wallstreet- my dad’s paradise. Apparently its every business man’s dream to be able to be there! my dad's pupil literally dilate when he was there, he walked around like a small boy in his neverland :P

grand central, where all trains connects, just like in movies :)

my sister's extremely cute hamster! been playing with it everyday when i was in philadelphia and i actually learnt to distinguish one hamster from the other. well i miss playing with them, i miss letting them run on their cage and fall and run again and fall. actually come to think of it, i miss my sister's super cosy room with the pillows and all :)

breakfast in Sabrina's- is perhaps one of the greatest breakfast ever. portion is extremely huge, but everything just tastes so good. looking at these pictures now make me really want to savour all these fine food again.

i remember walking quite a distance from my sister's dorm, and it was raining. and i remembered it rained even harder when we were walking back, and the wind blew like there was no tomorrow. it was actually quite a funny scene- we were holding our umbrellas trying so hard to fight against the wind, but to no avail as my umbrella kept turning upside down for at least 5 times. we must have looked really silly haha.

abraham lincoln memorial on the left, martin luther kind memorial on the right- both fought for black's rights.

this was in washington Dc, and one memorial so far from the other we had to walk and walk and walk till we, especially my mom, finally couldnt walk any longer and eventually found a place to sit down and have coffee :D

we spent hours sitting there, just chatting, just camwhoring :) awww happy times

white house! and that was pretty much all we could see haha.

the garden outside white house. those miniature houses do look real dont they?

my memory is failing me, i cant seem to recall what memorial this is.

photography level: ASIAN
museum of natural history- is the biggest museum i've ever been to! they have so many sections, and so many things to read, till in the end i didnt bother reading them anymore :P

our mandatory camwhore picture :)

dinner in washington Dc, and i super love the chicken wings!

subway in washington Dc really does look like a spaceship, and its so clean!

blogging about all these really makes me miss the happy times spent there...:) but i will be back one day!

USA part 1

2012-01-25T16:10:00.000+08:00

in a blink of an eye, we've already been back for 2 weeks. just yesterday, i envisage myself fighting the cold outside, hands in pockets, walking earnestly to the next destination in hope of some shelter, or running back ''home'' with my sister with only t shirt and slippers on. how time flies.

its been two weeks, and though chinese new year is here, it doesnt really feel like one. well, not really when you're not allowed to celebrate, when you're not given angpaos nor allowed to give angpaos. its my first time spending cny in kuala lumpur, and i must say, driving on the road can never been easier :)

well, besides the US-withdrawal syndrome, everything's just as it is now, in a way im happy that im able to see all my friends again, happy to see my relatives in penang before cny, happy to be back home. happy that im actually more motivated to study for USMLE after coming back from US. happy that chinese new year this year is so different, in a sense that it feels like a family day everyday, hitting malls and going for lunch with the parents!

anyway here comes the long overdued US post! :)
snippets of newyork city.

new york's actually a pretty dirty place, we were greeted by a slightly lowly maintained airport in newyork (much to our amazement haha, i've always imagine it to be super grand and big) and there were rubbish everywhere, it just kinda brings me back to home again!

and It was so nice seeing my sister again! :D it has been a year and while everyone has gone about with their own lives, seeing her again makes me feel like we have never really been apart. funny how when we see each other it felt likeshe never left, and when we left it was as if we never really went there. life is just too fast and short!

I wasnt so used to seeing so many guailows and or lang atfirst, but towards the end of the trip it felt so normal to be the extrememinority till I could almost feel how it will be like staying overseas in thenear future haha.

Our very first dinner in newyork city: Korean food at arestaurant zhiven’s uncle worked at. Look at how much he ordered for us! (and hencestarts the long relay of food marathon in us haha) we couldn’t finish of course,so we tapao-ed, but to no avail cause we didn’t get around eating it. but it was really one hell of a authentic korean food.

my dad can totally live in US because they have so many variety of vegetarian food! some can be so subtle you wouldnt even notice they have no meat in it, heck, even i can be a vegetarian there! :)

Macy’s window decorations (which is super chio!) if only one utama or pavillion has that!

We basically walked around new York in the cold air,shivering and jumping around to keep warm as we weren’t used to winter yet .well, i reckon it wasnt as cold as the year before because according to my sister, there were snowstorms and everywhere was white! but we were unfortunate because it only rained when we were there, and it snowed only like pathetically, almost unseen on the last day when we were there. such a pity! now its snowing madcows in philadelphia =(

anyway not to digress,

The famous timesquare! Electronic billboards everywhere! So impressive.

And anywhere along the streets you could hear people singingor performing for passerbys and some random homeless people even approached usfor money == I guess its super normal there.

Newyork skyline, again extremely beautiful! And I stillremember how cold it was up there,thinking about it now brings shivers down myspine again == the wind was so strong I couldbarely walk straight haha.

On the way down we saw this machine that could transform ourcoins into some tokens with significant figures on it, like the statue ofliberty and so we decide to play with it. Too bad they don’t accept Malaysian coins,or it would be so much cheaper haha.

Apparently some famous skating ring they set up annually! Butit was packed with people and we were starving, so we went around searching forfood instead haha.

like the concept of it, so green-house feeling what's with them using natural light and all :) i tried my first US style chicken there, and immediately fell in love with it.

They have the best chocolate cookie ever, something likethose u see in subway but much nicer!

Houses in Brooklyn! Seriously, I really think they have toomuch money till they don’t know where to spend it on than extravagantly decoratingtheir houses with big soldiers toys and Christmas tree. And according to zhiven’suncles, they do it every year during Christmas till now it sorta became like atourist attraction! Haha some even have doors opened for us to step into theirhouse and take pictures with it. Its just unbelievable.

some beautiful buildings in newyork city! does the picture on the left ring a bell?

and everywhere along the street you can see big ancient buildings like this, every one of them just as impressive as the others. malaysia's skyscrapers is nothing compared to good ol' vintage buildings like this :)

apparently all these confetti will be let down during countdown, and mine is in one of them :) i still vaguely remember what i wished for, well, hope my wish comes true!

i still remember i was so in awe with all the beautiful sceneries around i couldnt stop clicking away with the camera to capture the beauty of it all. but towards the end of trip, i almost got used to it cause everywhere had the same beauty- the vintage, ancient feel :)

in M&M store!

random picture with Christmas hat :)

we actually wanted to take a picture of this big christmas tree behind but it doesnt look so big now that im seeing it in pictures. but it was huge in reality!

central park in newyork

there are squirrels everywhere! look at their fluffy tail

ground zero, in memory of those perished in the terrible tragedy. it was so sad watching the video some of the tourist actually cried.

while waiting for the phantom of the opera to start :) my parents were sleeping almost throughout the entire broadway show cause we were severely suffering from jetlag.

that's about it, till then!

so long Malaysia, 3 weeks aint long!

2011-12-23T00:02:00.001+08:00

what a tirrrrrrrrrrrrrrring day.

with barely enough sleep yesterday, i was aroused by my dad early in the morning (again i thought i was dreaming, it keeps happening i dont understand why, i mean after so many times i think my subconsciousness should be conscious enough to tell me that its NOT a dream. for those who dont know, this happens on several occasion where i'll think im dreaming about my alarm clock ringing and i'll continue sleeping, when in actual fact it actually IS ringing haiz) -.-

had to bring viva to the pet shop for boarding early in the morning, and head off for andrew's birthday lunch (HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!) had the fullest meal ever thanks to the bottomless chips which made most of full even before our meals were served and my sore throat became worse :'( i just hope i can recover by tmr!

and then after heading back home chilling for awhile attempting to upload the christmas pictures, i got a call from my dad telling me i have to go to KL now because i have to be there to sign the confirmation paper to prove that i am indeed the owner of the sim card. long story but ah lazy elaborate here. and uncle robert fetched me from house. honestly, i felt so guilty for having him to come all the way from KL to PJ to fetch me and back to KL ugh. but i guess that cant helped since i cant drive (feels super spoilt and pampered haha) and there again in KL my dad's staff gotta bring me to pavillion to cut the sim (shit now i really feel spoilt =.=)

so we walked from my dad's office to pavillion, and from pavillion back to my dad's office (feels super far when you're all sweaty and tired hahaa.) and i waited for another 40 minutes (40 minutes!!) for my dad to come down, just to tell me to go BAcK to pavillion to wait till 7.30 for someone to fetch me. so i walked all the way back again, in searched for a reload card to top up my phone, when my mom called and asked me to walk to the monorel and go home.

so from pavillion i walked all the way back to the monorel and from monorel walked one round to KL central and had to line up shoooo long for the freaking ticket. tired hell man seriously. and i waited for another 45 minutes for my mom to reach kelana jaya to fetch me lol.

haha by the time my mom reached, i was soooo tired and sleepy i nearly konked haha. should have been sleeping by now but im waiting for my iphone to reach back home cause my dad's currently holding it and he's not back :(

but i dont think i can tolerate this tiredness anymore, gonna sleep anytime soon. just writing all these down cause for me its a super weird experience! like i've never walked the same road so many times in one day lol. and alone haha.

anyway to go through this for my new iphone, im not complaining :D cant wait to use it hehehee!

teehee!

2011-12-19T18:24:00.001+08:00

i feel like i have so much to do in such a short period of time. gotta buy all the essentials before heading to US, gotta start packing my clothes bits by bits starting from now, gotta stop being all hyped up and excited about it, gotta ''pretend'' that its-yet-another-excursion-to-somewhere when clearly its not, gotta acknowledge that once that dream holiday is over, i've gotta head back to malaysia again and endure all those stressful moments, EOS USMLE (ugh) but i guess right now i should just bask in the current euphoria :)

cant believe i finally get to see how the real deal is like and not just seeing them through the tiny screen of which its channel has somewhat near to 20 years back of movies...dear oh dear the life w/o astro.

imma go US and shop till i drop! and see my beloved sister once again! well i sure hope i can get used to her accent there :)

and im currently so broke now you cant possible imagine. for the past few months after cheer my savings has pretty much been stagnant except for the daily expenditure on meals when i stayed back to study..and now im using up hundreds and hundreds of money just on presents, and clothes, and more clothes and food, and fun. gotta start bugging everyone for the money they still owe me for the presents!

on a random note,i like this one phrase in the green balloon the other day ''Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.'' you know who you are! :)

till then!

updated blog!

2011-12-17T22:32:00.000+08:00

gonna be a real quick one before i continue with my selective project. anyway blogging has never been harder with the 'c' missing on my keyboard. and selective has never been harder as well! gotta keep copy pasting each time i write a sentence, how convenient :(

anyway birthday celebration updates!

sueyee's birthday with group 7 peeps! hope she enjoyed her multiple birthday celebrations with similar people. haha i didnt know they had another one for her the day before this! and sueyee you have no idea how long i took to search for you and suxin's present! :)

happy birthday to you~ with some other random songs! who started that tail of irrelevant songs anyway? haha.

suicide group LOL just so we wont be ''dan lain-lain'' dont die!

random spontaneous threesome outing. okay actually not cause the initial plan was to go cheong k with whole bunch of fairytale people. but the planned failed cause most of them couldnt make it hahaa. and we ended up not cheong k-ing also, went flying chillies instead to indulge in thai delicacies! thinking about it makes me wanna eat again (shit)

and outing that very night with rachel lim qiu then! i was sooo tired that day cause i had barely enough sleep the night before, woke up shupper early for selective and went for badminton right after that, and having barely enough cleansing of the body haha. dirty dirty! but it was nice catching up! she even invited me to her church's christmas party, which hopefully pictures would be up for the next post on it =)

pegasus cheer outing at ben's klcc :) the girls

expected more from ben's actually as the reviews were super good online, guess i dunno how to appreciate :P gladd so many people came i thought it wouldnt be a successful one!

all hail pegasus! :)

lexie's 20th birthday! with her extremely diabetic but cute pikachu cake haha. them girls!

watched victoria secret at her place for the 2nd time, still cant get over them T.T

crazy friends, can never laugh enough with them around :)

okay this was........shoo long ago when we headed to bangsar to meet up with my cheer outfit tailor. really gotta thank jiaern for accompanying me all the way there. love her to bits! and i remember being extremely full after drinking that big cup of san frasisco coffee. greedy la buy one free one -.-

one utama is officially my second home, i went there nearly almost...everyday after selective? one time to to watch movie with qingxian and wengkhong, another time to buy suxin and sueyee's present plus random shopping,and another time to get my mom's shoes and her christmas present. and another how many times just to...basically do nth! eat sleep drink haha.

oh oh and the usual meet ups in qx's condo! i normally dont talk about it but this time one's pretty weird. we encountered so many....animals? from bats to frogs to cats....to MOSQUITOS! prolly cause we went around stepping on stones and playing with swings and sitting on grass and looking at the dark skiesss..ahh bliss! never knew qingxian was so afraid of animal haha.

anyway till then!

le more outdated updates

2011-10-31T18:16:00.001+08:00

woohoo im such a dedicated blogger im blogging everyday!
okay that's just cause im really bored now.

more events!
Jeleine's 21st birthday celebration

pegasus family :)

ive known jeleine purely through pegasus cheerleading, and i must she's one of our best cheerleader around, and also an extremely nice friend. like seriously she would comfort me when im looking stress, and she never skips practice *sayang her to the max and she also knows all the dramas happening within and outside our cheer group (so she must really be quite special :P)

and her parents cook the nicest food ever, the food was soo scrumptious! and the cupcakes her pharm friends made for her were simply.....too beautiful to be eaten. but i reluctantly still took a bite (okayla, not reluctantly la everyone was snatching for the cupcake with butterflies on it ^^)

if it wasnt for cheer i wouldnt have known this great bunch of people! :)

fund raising where we sold jeleine's awesome sheperd pie, eunice's awesome blueberry pie and other stuff plus THE BADGES! woohoo i was correct to make the cute coloured ones cause everyone was getting that, my only regret was not to follow my instinct and make more of it because everyone in the cheergroup was telling me how ugly it was -_- now i have so many unsold white ones left i dont even know what to do with those! maybe give them to the next cheercaptain =/ and what am i to do with the props -_-' put in the storeroom let it lay eggs for one year.

some random jogoya trip simply because i miss them too much, and also they were having promotion buy 1 free 1 girl! as in, 50% off for girls la not giving girls out for free. and seriously, the food there really is not bad! too bad i dont appreciate jap food and currently my appetite has been decreasing wth -.-

woohoo this was so long ago- jillian's farewell in levain :')

i hope you're coping well there jillian! you can continue ranting to me about everything whenever u catch me on fb :) be yourself and join activities you like and trust me, you're going to find that UK's actually a very nice place to live in =) i miss you!

hahha thank you jillian i looked so pretty here :P and also that was my first time going to tokyo world (isit tokyo world?) in pavillion =) tried some really yucky icecream and some delicioius mochi!

till then!

sungai lembing :)

2011-10-30T18:51:00.002+08:00

all the events here are so long overdued...pardon me :(

anyway, one weekend me and my parents went on an excursion to sungai lembing! another one of our random trips to anywhere at all..this time my dad picked sg lembing after much research about all the different holiday destination.

it was only like a 3 days two night trip...but the sad thing was when we got back, my mom had some serious diarrhea and my dad was sick too :( well i guess the food there didnt really suit us afterall cause seriously, it wasnt really as good as what was portrayed in the net. below average, actually.

but all in all, i say it's worth going! and seriously, if you have like a pro camera with you, SUNGAI LEMBING is a must-go!

our first destination was to some waterfall on our way to sungai lembing. nothing spectacular, but it was nice emerging ourselves in water and embracing mother nature once again :) city life can really be quite exhausting sometimes huh?

okay i know i looked like i was super ss-ing there but my dad was actually with me before this T.T he went to take the camera and took so many pictures of me like this. but he didnt want to be in the pictures when i volunteered to take for him instead :(

2nd destination which was on the next day: hiking to some EXTREMELY beautiful waterfall. if i have the energy now i would Google and search for its name, but right now im just so lazy to do it haha.

woohoo after one hour of hiking, we finally reached! and the view was simply indescribable. i really felt like i was in paradise, the place was simply magical, what's with the big ferocious waterfall and exquisite rainbow and the clear water and everything else..it was so beautiful. shoo shoo beautiful.

nice shot of papa and mama, but all my shots were quite blur cause of the water droplets on the camera :(

aduh orang cina itu pergi spoil the picture :(

now you why u should go if you have a DSLR, trust me, if even my lousy camera can capture pictures like this, pictures taken by a DLSR are going turn out even more unbelievable :)

haha look at the number of people there! some arrived there late and it such a pity because the rainbow then was already getting really small..

more pictures of it.. ahhh :')

havenly picture!

3rd destination: sungai lembing museum. we were sorta occupying the rest of the day with mini trips like this cause all the major activities were in the morning. museum depicting the good ol' mining days, also nothing spectacular.

some beautiful petals on the floor :)

crystal house but the crystals were quite ugley actually lol.. have to pay to enter summor pift!

the well known bridge (which i lazy google the name)

our final activities was to hike up the hill before sunrise to catch a glimpse of it. but due to some unforeseen circumstances (my mom was having severe diarrhea at that point), my dad had to teman her and i was the only one going up :( sometimes i wish my sister was still with us, im sure everything would be 10 times more enjoyable.

anyway glad that i didnt gave up half way cause alot of people did! especially the fat ones hehehe.

and owh how beautiful it was up there! too bad noone to take pictures for me.

i've pratically summed up what we did in sg lembing. oh and did i mention that the lodge houses there are perhaps the cleanest place i've ever stayed in? seriously, not even a prick of dust on the floor, i dont know how they do it. lol.

till then!

everything awesome!

2011-10-28T19:35:00.000+08:00

omg poor bloggie, im going to shower you with lots of love and updates today!

CHEERLEADING
seriously was one of my most stressful period. even studying for EOS wasnt that stressful (okay mayb it was last but that was so long ago hehe)

cheerleading practice for two and a half months finally boiled down to the day we had to perform. and it was shoo fast. too fast, one minute we were waiting for the judges to come, and next minute we're done and finish with it. but i must say, this is the best cheer routine from pegasus i see so far! :) not being perasan or what, but really, i felt like everyone was doing their thing on the day, no falling of stunts, everyone was smiling till our buccinator muscle was having serious spasm (especially jeleine! haha just to get the judges' attention aww sayang)

i guess the PMS-ing and dulan look i give them did paid off. and PS: i hate showing them the dulan look cause seriously, everytime i do that, i feel so bad for doing that. glad they bonded well, pegasus does have alot of people with different personality, and they were having so much fun which im glad they did, but it brought me more problems cause that means i had to control them even more. yes i have to admit, at one point i really felt like breaking down infront of them and telling them im done and finish with them, but im glad i didnt do so cause now i felt like all that was worthwhile! and it was also such a great accomplishment for me :for being a cheercaptain and sticking with it for the whole two and half months!

seriously, i have never thought i would even step into cheerleading world, let alone be a cheercaptain, so really, it was such an accomplishment *wipes tear :) and thank goodness i had a sister who was also cheercaptain last time, at least she knew how i felt about things :)

now to pictures! regret not taking more pictures during practice :( afterall its the process that mattered, not the end result!

go pegasus!

we got 3rd =)

boosting our spirit before performing :) nice shot!

pegasus with jia ern darling (seriously, i have never seen her so HOT before! abit not used to it!)

group 7! we can totally form a stunt team in our next orientation!

BU4 gang, funny how some of them didnt even know each other other exist in BU4 last time! (andelu ah why u so cute!)

more darlings :) seriously, knowing i have friends who came and supported all of us was seriously a blessing on my part. im so glad to have known all of them, from the heart truly!

the awesome video!

and for now, IM SO DONE WITH CHEER woohooo! honestly speaking, im abit sick of cheer now but i really treasure the friendship made!

ohya plus i've also joined badminton and road relay this cheer. badminton, I SWEAR, was one of the most nervewrecking event ever. seeing my house mate battling for their life in the court, my heart was palpitating so hard i was almost hyperventilating. more nervewrecking then seeing chongwei and lindan play! lol, glad we beat draco in the end!

and road relay was succccccch a last minute thing really. i had to sub for vijune last minute because she had some injuries during one of our cheer practice. i felt so odd in the bunch of athletic people -_- but it was a good experience i guess, at least i knew i did what i could for pegasus :)

MY birthday!

20, really is just a number. seriously i feel just the same as when i was 18, i dont feel like im any taller, any prettier (okayla that's just quite superficial), but really, i guess we grow gradually and be more mature as we aged without even realizing it! and im glad im still as close to my secondary school friends as ever, cause really, i treasure our friendship to bits and i'll never want to lose them!

group 7 uni mates. love them to bits too!

haha now thinking back its actually quite an amusing thing. i told my parents the day before that i wanted to go out during lunch to celebrate my birthday, and they were SHOOO against it, like they almost warned me not to go anywhere and stay at home. seriously i was quite pissed with them cause it was my birthday man. little did i know, my uni mates actually pakated with my parents to celebrate my birthday in the afternoon *guilty much now i love my parents shooo much! :) thanks guys for planning this for me! i feel so special now!

6 beautiful girls =) and seriously, they're all getting prettier and prettier! *jealous

thank you so much touched!

my secondary school friend celebrated for me over dinner. it was such a different experience with them cause seriously, i've never celebrated my birthday so fast in my life. the plan was the bring me away while ik shawn orders the choc desert thingy, and i suggested that we watch a movie after dinner. so we went to buy tickets for ourselves, and we had like 15 minutes left before the show starts. so when we got back to Chillies, we had to celebrate it so fast. LOL really, but i love them to bits! thanks guys for taking some time off in your hectic schedule to celebrate it with me, really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart :)

other many birthday celebrations!

ting's (sorry couldnt make it for the dinner, all cause cheeerrrrrrrrr)

yvonne kam's with our extended group7 family!

ron's in his gf's place

khaled's!

aww seriously so many birthday celebrations with the group7 peeps! gonna miss them so much after we part :(

mooncake festival!

has got to be the most exciting thing ever. lol actually the whole thing was actually quite boring, but we made it fun with our blowing of candles and all those chasing chasing with the juniors! aww kinda miss them already now!

group photo!

okayla that's all with my terrible english today i cant help but to stop writing :) till then!

malacca malacca

2011-09-02T12:09:00.000+08:00

yes we finally made it to malacca!
and i've finally tried satay celup! actually it tastes exactly the same as the lok lok in penang, to be honest :) its the same sauce! now i can has pseudo satay celup in penang since they taste similar!

and malaysia's a really really hot country, so hot to the extent of us not wanting to walk any further under the scorching hot sun. we were literally sweating non stop from the beginning till the end lol. i havent sweat nor eaten so much in a long looong time!

and jonker street was packed, PACKED, packed with CHINESE people. whatsup with all the chinese people lurking around along the streets of malacca on a public holiday, they really should just stay at home and give those who havent been to malacca in a long time more space to walk in *cough us cough

pictures time!

the famous..red building? this goes to show how terrible my history is lol. i think i used know all these.

we had lunch in this hawker place, and i remembered the food tasting better last time. maybe there were too many people yesterday.

our food! despite it tasting just okay only, looking at this picture makes me drool again! :D

it was so terribly hot, drinking a cup of cold coffee just felt genuinely spectacular. haha too bad there werent enough tables in the shop!

some fruit candy i bought :)

so this was one of the many failed shots of the red building behind :(

went into one of the air conditioned shops and bought a few things! and finally we have a family photo!

durian chendol! awesome!

A famosa

ohya we saw like a bridal wedding photo taking thing. omgawd taking bridal photos in such weather x.x

satay celup! shoo many people o.o

on our way back we saw this handome lamborghini! shoo super chio!

thanks daddyy and mommy for bringing me to malacca! :D we had a great time!

more holiday events!

2011-08-29T10:27:00.001+08:00

frankly speaking, this holiday had many ups and downs. some of the downs had been thoroughly overwhelming, and as for the ups, they werent strong enough to cover up the effect of the downs. but downs being downs, i dislike writing about them in my blog, reason being i hate keeping memories of them here, and also, whenever i write about something sad, it reminds me of whatever that has happened in the past and that'll make me sad as well.

and since this is going to be a happy post (because im currently very happy), i shant dwell on all the sad things me and my family have been through :) i believe we've been through enough together, and shared many experiences and secrets which i care not to divulge in my blog.

speaking of holidays, there are some happy events which i have yet to update on!

Electives
well, although i felt it was a little too long, i have to admit, i did learn quite a few things throughout attachment there. me and suxin seen countless number of surgeries there, ranging form ectopic pregnancy to laparoscopy to appendicetomy to tonsillectomy..its simply countless. and bypass surgery alone, we've seen about roughly 5?

and we've been attached to the nicest doctor in the world, Tan Sri Dr. Yahya. honestly, i've never encountered someone so modest and friendly, who was so willing to answer all our stupid questions and explain to us why this happened, why that happened, despite his status as a Tan Sri and one of the board of directiors in KPJ and IMU as well.

and his secretaries are just as helpful as well, and i feel a tad bit guilty for always having to bug them about this and that lol. i hope they dont mind!

suxin and me actually watched 4 movies together throughout our electives, how slumber lol.

KL tower visit + timessquare shopping
yeap we finally made it to KL tower! the last time i went was about...say 15 years ago?
anyway KL tower hasnt changed much at all LOL but i dont remember doing so many things last time when i was there. anyway we picked the simplest package which includes going up KL tower and going to a mini safari.

and so we decided to walk from the monorel station all the way to KL tower, w/o realizing we could actually take their free shuttle bus -_- hence we were sweating profusely by the time we reached.

messing around before going up :) i love this shot!

when we got up there, we were actually more interested in all the souvenirs shops than looking at the view outside lol. we actually even comtemplated buying a shirt each as a remembrance. the earphones with a lady's voice explaining everything didnt help much either. and the entrance guys actually thought we were from Japan! LOL flattered much!

after we went back down, we saw this whole malay cultural dance, and decided to take a picture with them. one of them could even converse in Mandarin!

headed to the mini safari next. there was like this big snake which we could pay to have it on us for a picture =S too scary already. and i love this picture too!

after KL tower i brought them for lunch in a thai restaurant right next to my dad's office :)

i was shoo shoo happy when i could find the place! thought we would be lost in KL :D hope they like the food as well :) my dad came by to see us too!

after eating we headed off to timesquare in search of sueyee's winter shoes! but in the end, nobody bought anything there, and we were short of time as well, and extremely exhausted. at about 4 oclock, we bid our goodbyes! threesome outing succeed! :D

catching up with rachel
had dinner with rachel in OU, before heading back to her place for huey ding to fetch us all to play....BOARD GAMES! seriously, i didnt know board games can be so much of fun lol. we went to subang and they had all sorts of exotic looking games, many of which we didnt get to play because we didnt have enough time. NEXT TIME! and her friends are so extremely funny. and we didnt take a picture lol.

real SHOPPING with siewming
finally got to see siewming after she came back from UK! everything was soo perfect except for the terrible show, winter's bone. i strongly recommend it to everyone who wishes to have a good sleep in the cinema -__-"

anyway we had a good time catching up! laughed so much about..anything at all :D and then we went shopping, siewming had to buy food for her trip next day, while i have to buy some gifts for the doctor and his secretaries :) so by the time we were done shopping, we had to carry shoo many things, plus they're all big and heavy things!

whoosh! what an extremely fruitful day! :)

and we had lunch in food republic as well, I love the food there! and thanks siewming for the bag of little sweet goodies :D

sayang her :) the malay cultural dance we watched was waaaay better than the show!

siewming's 20th birthday!
glad the surprise was a successful one! and wengkhong was smart enough to come up with a reason as to why he told the waiter that there were 7 of us :D

so me and wengkhong met up a little earlier to buy her pressiez and cake, and, despite a last minute plan like this, im thankful that so many ppl turned up :) and the card was sorta a disaster because noone knew how to draw properly xD

happy birthday siewming! :)

girls alone!

guys and girls!

miss you guys shoo much!
till then!

for the most wonderful friend in my life :D

2011-08-22T00:06:00.000+08:00

yeap, this is for you siewming.

you've been the bestest of friends since forever, i couldnt have felt more indebted than ever :) the times u were with me when i was down, the happy moments with you when i was UP, and the things and secrets we've shared together.

you know what? i can never explain why i've always felt so comfortable with you, i have never felt this complete comfort in anyone else at all, this complete trust in anyone at all. i really cant explain why. perhaps you emanate such aura to everyone around you, maybe others feel the same with you as well.

one thing for sure, i've always been able to pour out 100% with you, and tell you my deepest feelings and thoughts, and you'll never judge me :) i thanked you for that, you're so genuine at heart, and i hope this quality of yours do not change with the passing of time :) perhaps its this bubbly nature of yours, or this motherly nature of yours, that made me feel drawn to you, that whenever i have something to share, being it good or bad, i would have always thought to share it with you. and it has never changed for a long time, i hope you do so too :)

you're one friend i'll never like to forget, and will never like to lose, so let's always forever keep in touch al right? i like how we go out once in a while, and still feel so close to each other, like we still see each other everyday :)

i vaguely feel that i write the same thing about you every year, but that just shows how i've never felt different about you all these while :) i wish our friendship remains strong even after we're miles and climates apart, and will still remain strong as we get older and have our own commitments and responsibility, i really do hope that!
my parents used to tell me ''friends come and go'' i really do not want that to happen to us!

reminiscing about the past, i remember doing so many things together that even memory alone cant make me recall ALL the things we've done. lucky for pictures, parts and parcel of memories still remain dear to my heart, and looking back at all these cute pictures we took i understood how our friendship blossomed through the things we did together. i mean, how can our friendship not grow when we've done all these stupid things together?

this was when we were 18, when we just parted to our respective colleges. we used to have TONS of this kinda outings together, and this was one of them :) i still remember we actually didnt pay a single cent for this, and i was still using my rotating camera back then! and everyone looks slightly different now (eg, like how alina gained some weight, and how qingxian and weilin grew some hair). being 20 now, i can still totally imagine US doing the same thing as what we did back then. funny how we dont grow up, but still grow up as well :D

fast forwarding to this year, when you and alina came to visit me in IMU! you guys actually wanted to sit in for my lectures, but were late due to some reasons, and you guys o.O and whaa at the specimens in the medical museum, and took pictures of it, and with alina's super driving skills we actually had time for 100yen before heading to OU! glad that you've actually seen my Uni and know how's it like in IMU :)

and this was in 2007, when you, jyyyee and me took part in a trip to Johor to help the flood victims! funny cause i dont actually remember doing alot of charity work there, except for pretending to carry some boxes for our moral project last time. i remembered we treated it more like a fun trip than a charitable trip, and took pictures everywhere we went, even in the toilet :D aww we were so young!

and this was 2006, our very first countdown together in the curve! now come to think of it, the combination of people in the picture is actually quite unusual, what's with zicong in the picture and gideon with hong onn being so close at that time :P and i remembered us staying over in hong onn's place afterthat!

and DO YOU REMEMBER THIS? i remember laughing non stop when i saw these pictures, seriously too epic :P you actually baby sitted me the entire day just because my parents werent at home! do you still keep your little magnet angel? i remember mine had a very big mouth, just like me :P and it was the first time i've actually done something like that, being the not so artsy me :) and we went to OU too to watch a movie with tse wei and wengkhong! aww memories!

and then there was sleeping over in kee aik's, where we actually had a campfire at night o.O and we brought marshmellows and food for bbq omg how happy we were last time! i think the picture of us around the fire with illusional fake snow is still in my old friendster profile :P that was the first time ever i slept over in a guy's place, this picture above being the 2nd time when we went to amber's big mansion! how nostalgic!

our very first malam bakat together! which ironically was our last too :( and thanks to our terrible headmaster it was a pretty horrible morning bakat with not much audience -_-! but our dance still won the morning tho, after all it wasnt about performing on stage, it was about having fun during practices and actually, performing together that mattered :) i remember the dance was a pretty last minute thing, and we practiced in tropicana golf and country resort's dance studio!

back in 2008, when we celebrated your birthday and you were genuinely surprised! i think that was the only birthday surprise that was actually a success that year lol. and quite a number showed up too, even when they had tuitions right after that :)

and finally the last day of school, when we all braided our hair :) and this is one of our rarest, complete X group picture with everyone in it! somehow group x outing nowadays are never really complete, not when tse wei's in UK, not when jyyyee's dead busy now, not when calista's in sg now :( but its okay! at least we have tons of memories together when we were in high school, i understand we all have our own responsibilities and not everyone lives as near as we do :) as long as we have each other in our heart can already hehehe =)

i still have sooo many pictures with you but if i were to post them up one by one it would take years for me to finish this post, hence i would stop here. but i hope our pictures just dont end here, i wish to continue collecting all these memories with you, and maybe one day we can make an album of our life's journey :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIEWMING! MY OLD/NEW BEST FRIEND!

back to life!

2011-07-31T21:49:00.000+08:00

this week was a pretty emotional week for me and family, hopefully things would be better as time goes. now let's look forward to a brighter, happier future shall we! :D no more dwelling on the past! no more no more no more. that's it, no more fullstop.

gosh i feel like i missed so many things in just one week! i missed the chance of cheerleading with my pegasus family, missed going to peili's gathering, missed swimming with alina, missed hanging out with qingxian, missed the ANNUAL cheong k session! ahhh! electives will commence tmr, still dont know what to expect =S hope all is well.

as off now, im going to try focus on the more important things i need to gaodim :) no more digressing!

orientation!

2011-07-25T23:07:00.000+08:00

this post was written on 15th september 2011.

this new blogger system looks really different from the previous. am gonna try getting used to it now :D it looks cooler to write on now, now i feel like im writing a very important piece of work haha.

now orientation orientation!
i've been a junior in sem1, OO in sem2, OC in sem3, and now i've also spied in sem4! what an interesting journey throughout orientation every sem :)

of all above, i would say spying is the most interesting. and also the most restricted one. why do i say restricted? because u have to restrict yourself from talking too much, or u'll be perceived as ''overly confident'' or u might just be bocor-ed earlier. you cant speak to your friends as well, and you have to act noob in every single thing.

and the worse thing is, YOU HAVE TO LIE. i mean lying isnt so bad, its just whenever juniors ask where u went everyday from 4-6pm-ish, you'll have to make up some ridiculous excuses when infact you were attending your own sem's lecture. i've came up with ''having AAD problems'', ''gotta meet up with mentor'', ''overslept'', and that's just not all, but i'll just stop here.

despite all that, SPYING IS really so much of fun! well i have admit that towards the end i was really feeling quite drained for not being able to speak to my friends (to the extent of MISSING THEM so much despite seeing them everyday), at that point of time the only freedom we had were during lectures when we TOTALLY be ourselves. but all in all, i feel that as spies, we did out job and the group did bond well :) i hope the bond between the juniors and spies werent too strong to break their heart tho.

and i had withdrawal syndrome the day after we've been revealed. honestly, for a short moment, i wanted to be with them, i wanted to be in sem1 again :) but now i feel like i love my own batch more! all the familiar faces, all the close friends, i wish we werent the in the 2nd last sem in IMU :( gonna miss all of them so much..

now moving on to pictures!

this was during dry icebreaker where everyone was still quite quiet, and then the wet icebreaker was actually not that clean compared to the last :)

and then during indoor treasure hunt where i appeared to be quite ''smart'' knowing everything about IMU, even knowing who the dean of medical science is (but still keen wai said it was the wrong answer haha, have to have PROF infront lol) paiseh paiseh, i tend to get carried away when im high lol.

signature hunt to get jiecong's signature wasnt an easy one. we had to caterpillar crawl from one end to the end, and we were all already so tired. think the floor sure damn clean there.

and then the spies were so involved in the 1st dresscode, we even used our very own dance in it :D had to stand infront cause we were still junior, gotta act like junior haha.

telematch where i was the only spy skipping lecture :( how dedicated hehehe. and qingxian came to participate! we even went out for dinner afterthat to catch up omg writing this makes me miss qingxian so much now! this is one lovely picture :) if we were in the same sem she could be my closest friend. such a sweet girl.

during outdoor treasure hunt where i was back to my senior self again, running around talking about everything under the sun, going damn enthu and crazy about things. and i was sooo dirty that day, but i think jia ern was worse :D

during the spy revealing event after dresscode 2 where group7 peeps were really shocked, to my amazement. other groups bocor-ed way earlier than that day, but somehow our group has remained blur throughout the entire orientation, reallly shoo super. somehow group7 has always been the slowest in knowing everything haha.

to be honest i was quite emo during dresscode because i knew we were gonna be revealed. i even asked two of my juniors how they will react if they found out someone has hurt their feelings. they prolly thought i was acting funny then cause i was high, but emo at the same time lol. now all has been revealed, no more lying, al though some still teased us saying they cant trust us hahaa.

all in all, it was a good experience, totally dont mind spying again after sem5 when im really free :) but then i'll be really old already. and funny thing is, alot of the juniors are actually of the same age as me o.O

till then!

of everything colourful

2011-07-21T15:14:00.000+08:00

3 days nonstop shopping spree
there are a few things i forgot to blog about lol. the week after we finished EOS, me and family (more like me and my mom actually) went on a shopping spree for three days berturut-turut! thinking about it now makes me feel sinful because we actually spent like a bomb in every places we went to.

so first and the 3rd day was in ou, while the 2nd day was in midvalley. it wasnt intentional, i can assure everyone of that because we didnt know midvalley had such massive sales happening at the exhibition centre! it was CROWDED in there! after few hours straight squeezing here and there trying to get correct sizes of everything, we came out with bags and bags and even my dad bought something! infact, i think he spent the most because everything of his was the most expensive hehe.

and then i saw this whole bridal-wedding-extravaganza modelling show that made me wanna get married there and then just to have a feel of wearing those pretty bridal gowns. those, are like, my dream wedding dress that i've always dream to have when i get married! seriously so pretty! :D

anyway i now can has new sandals and clothes for UNI! :) and for now im refraining myself from shopping again, because i realized i've alot of clothes either not worn yet, or have only been worn once/twice. quote mommy, ''i think im getting addicted to shopping'' the saying holds true to me to now -___- ok, no. more. shopping.

admist all that, mommy and i finally got to realize our long overdued plan of buying my dad shirts as a gift for his birthday + father's day :) but sad to say those shirts above arent what we bought in the end. sure, we picked those initially but they werent of the correct size because it was TIGHT FITTING. and my dad doesnt wear tight fitting clothes. so we had to go back another day and re-select other sizes (of which they were all too big) and finally my dad decided to pick another 3 of different patterns and category that fitted him which, of course, were more expensive. but i didnt have to pay the difference because my dad insisted that he would pay. awww :) but anyway i really hope to see you wearing your new shirt papa (i know you read this), dont wait for 10 years to wear it k!

weng khong's 21st (actually 20th) birthday celebration!
actually its our 20 but according to chinese calender its 21. so yeah 21 :)
and his parents cook the nicest food ever! but it was so much when we left there were like more than half of everything left :O

pictures credit to once of his friend :)

we bought him a wallet from parkson and we actually spent like 30 minutes at the wrapping counter in parkson just to beauti-fy the card further lol (the wrapping lady was very nice to us). and then i had clothes crisis after we were done shopping in cold storage for food to be brought to gopeng. stupid skirt, i had to go back and change to a new skirt lol. i was actually wearing only a shirt and a pants but thanks to qingxian and wei lin i had to change (and model and bear my wardrobe being harassed by them xP ) so many times because they wanted me to wear something....airy at the bottom haahhaa.

group photo! the photographer's name is zhishan xD (from the picture) its nice to see everyone! and wengkhong received alot of t-shirts this time around haha.

anyway after the party qingxian and weilin headed back to my house to sleep :) my house is officially a refugee centre haha (*inside joke)

ed-board gathering

just this monday we had our ed-board gathering in NEWAY! it was actually my first time going and thinking it might be awkward i actually asked around if any other people i was close with were going. but, it wasnt awkward AT ALL. some of them even changed from being not-so-friendly-last-time to extremely friendly whoa i was pleasantly surprised! and its nice catching up with xianhui and choong after shoo long! glad i didnt skip it hehe.

AND AND. i didnt know neway's food is so tasty mmm, i seriously would consider just going there for buffet and skipping the singing part.. sadly we didnt take any pictures, so no pictures -_-!

harry potter outing
is a special outing because i finally got to see siewming! :D harry potter was a very good movie to me, though siewming struggled keeping awake because she only had two hours of sleep before =X and its sad for me but happy for her that she's leaving to UK this saturday, so soon :( cant properly spend time with her because she's such a busy woman! its okay we're having a sleep over tonight in my house again so hopefully we'll be able to catch up a little more! :)

aya, brain block cannot think liao. till then! nap time! heh.

2 days 1 night in gopeng

2011-07-19T15:06:00.002+08:00

woohoo just a few days ago i went to gopeng with qingxian and weilin under my dad's company's trip :) yeah it was super weird at first being my dad's daughter and joining all his staff and all but we soon got to know some of them (especially our group) and they were all super nice people!

and we, group 6, won the amazing race woohoo! but actually it wasnt really about the winning, it was about having fun together in a group and thanks to US, we were officially the noisiest and the most enthu group ever, running to our every destination x)

stopping by kampar to drop my mom in my ahma's place as well as to buy our lo mai fan and ham gok zaaai (say this in a very high pitch tone!)

the first day activities were high course rope climbing and white water rafting, of which the former was soooo freaking TIRING FOR ME. you see, i dont really have much hand strength, and having to pull myself up (esp when i weigh this heavy) using only my hands was tough.

the bottom was still okay for me, but i got stuck at the helicopter ropes for the longest time ever! i just. couldnt. pull. myself up. so i ended up slipping and dropping all the way down before the tires just to restart climbing that rope.

i was actually damn dulan when my dad asked me to smile for the camera, because i was in such agony hanging like that for dear life. i actually have various positions up there, and qingxian said i looked like i was modelling HAHA. i was figuring out how to rest up there, which obviously was a vain effort.

after one last push, i was finally at the first platform. and seriously, w/o people constantly encouraging me, i think i would have given up half way because my hands were just simply too tired, and sweaty :)

more pictures of us up there, it was kinda scary looking down =S

flying fox!

this has got to be the funniest incident ever! it was the easiest of it all, just standing on the moving platform that brought us from one tree to the other, but according to weilin, her hands went jelly and she let go of her grip, leading her to falling right before the next platform HAHA. and she's the first person who has ever fall off that thing! she definitely set a new record here it was shoo funny! and everyone was looking because she was the 2nd last person up there!

look at the bruises on my hands :( right now they have turn a slight blackish in colour, and my legs are just as fugly now. (and to think that qingxian and weilin only had minor blueblacks, am i haemophillic?)

but anyway,

mission accomplished!

after completing this activity we were asked to come up with a sculpture using natural resources around to illustrate our emotion there and then. our group's one was pretty nice but we didnt have a picture of it.

the lorry that sent these pigs and piglets to the market to be slaughtered. hahaa this was our main mode of transport. and we actually posed so many times for my dad to get this picture :P and thanks to the a branch which knocked my head i now have harry potter scar on my forehead -_-

2nd activity : white water rafting!
sadly we dont have any pictures of us rafting because we werent allowed to bring our cameras along, but THAT WAS the peak of the entire trip! it was shoooo fun shooo extremely stimulating! and lucky us we got the most experienced guide so we didnt go the wrong way, or got stuck in between the rocks of which some of the boats did :) and there were so many instructions to listen to. for example, the guide would say ''on the job'' and we would have to paddle, and when he says ''bom bom'' we would have to sit into the boat. ''to the left/right/front'' was when we have to sit on the respective sides and ''jump jump'' was when we have to, well bounce up and down lol. i love ''high 5'' and ''on the hole'' the best because that was when we could high 5 using our paddle and splash other boats with it hehe.

and we actually requested to capsize like 2/3 times because we enjoyed the feeling of going down :) and qingxian actually fell of the boat once when were instructed to go the front! lucky for her she was fine. we shouted so much throughout the activity and during the de-briefing the person incharge actually mentioned about it, ugh paiseh much hehe. luckily never mention name.

3rd activity on the 2nd day was amazing race and caving :) i actually didnt have alot of sleep because someone was snoring so loudly.

anyway, we raaaaan to our first pitstop which was to kayak from on end to the other with only one boat, so one had to stay in the boat and kayak all the back to fetch more people.

and then there was more running before we reached gua tempurung for caving! we dont have much pictures of us caving as well because it was quite dark in there and we had to crawl in the water alot. but it was beautiful inside, i especially like the crawling in the water part :P

group 6 !

and yay, first team to arrive to the magic fire where we were awarded with free 100+ :D

me and my dad :D glad i didnt miss this awesome trip!

and that was almost the end of it, we washed up, bid our goodbyes to a few friends we made and headed back to kampar to have lunch :)

a few more pictures

welcome to the toilet! how innovative! we were like bathing in a super huge dustbin!

family :D

shopping for JUNK before the trip! happie happie~

till then!

sem4 lai lai!

2011-07-08T19:50:00.000+08:00

I PASSED! :D :D
averagely, but its okay its still a pass! HELLO SEM4!
reality didnt hit me till only after badminton when we were having lunch in mcdonald, to be exact, right after we were done playing with the disgusting sauce which we created out of....wait lemme think, chilli sauce, coke, shake, pepper, tomato sauce, cabbage, frenchfries, and HAESEL'S SALIVA. ewwww!

anyway, more updates! :D

getaway in penny's place!
we went baking. ohyah. the theme of the day was to wear, and act as childish as possible, hence explains the super act cute hairdo! and we went swimming too. OHYEAH OHYEAH!
finally after 112318 years of not baking, we managed to come out with batches and batches of perfect cookies! :)

the end result, with penny's brownie missing here. and look. at. the. durians hehe. finally satisfied my cravings after shoo long!

yay happy kids enjoying the taste of accomplishment -_-

lol ferocious cat fight. rawwwwr.

swimming!

we actually went to the Jacuzzi, and guess what we did? (you'll never imagine) we actually went round and round and round like the teacup ride in genting -___-! but it was shoo fun! and there was a mini slide for us to act all childish and all that, well all that sure did suit the theme perfectly.

shopping in KL with sueyee and jia ern!
yeap we finally had our long overdued threesome outing! and i brought them to timesquare and sungai wang because i know jia ern's in need of more clothes! uni clothes to be exact, but all she ever bought there was clothes that werent exactly suitable to be worn in uni, but still nice nevertheless! had a great time with them, and i didnt think i was going to spend alot there, which i did eventually because who can ever resist such cheap clothes man! we literally spent like so many hours only on ONE floor of sungai wang, that just showed how irresistible each shop was cause the clothes were so darn cheap! and i also brought them to that place i always bring people whenever i bring them to KL for lunch because they have the best curry fishballs ever :)

pictures are with jia ern, so stay tuned :) glad they bought quite alot for themselves! at least i dont feel so guilty for buying so much as well! :P and i hope to see them wear what they bought as well :)

kai hoe's belated birthday celebration!

only one group picture!

hope he had fun! and that chunsien ah, why didnt he come leh. we were suppose to celebrate for him as well -_-! and khaled can be so funny sometimes -______-!

okay after this meal im definitely going to be broke!
gonna have a nice dinner with family tonight! till then!

UPDATOS.

2011-07-05T12:13:00.001+08:00

a very good morning, my name is Lim Huei-Wen and im a second year medical student how may i address you?

this phrase is dead in my head for the longest time ever, im silently worried now that i might just blast this out to whichever stranger i pass by...

anyway more updates!

jia ern's pre-EOS birthday celebration

glad most of them managed to turn up despite exam being around the corner. i remembered jia ern's last birthday celebration being two weeks before sem1 summative, and i remembered playing musical chair with then sem4 seniors on the 4th floor. how time flies (i suddenly feel extraordinarily old -_-) im now already sem3 going on sem4 (hopefully, though..)!

anyway it was sorta a surprise cause jia ern thought there were only 3/4 of us celebrating for her. so there we were trying to stall time, pretending not to know what to order (actually we really didnt know what to order) while waiting for the others to arrive, which they did after like 30 minutes or so with a cake i bought in hand. of course kai hoe was holding the cake again, its becoming a tradition!

group picta! :)

nobody would believed we were actually celebrating our friend's 20th birthday, because we were making so much noise at the entrance persuading (more like forcing) jia ern to play the piano. and jia ern did which was so melodiously soothing to the ear, but i guess the shopkeeper didnt think so because right after jia ern was done with her piece, they closed the grandpiano -_-! but i have a video of it with us playing a fool behind so no worries! i just have to find a way to upload it on facebook, can anyone help? i'll just upload it on youtube if there's no other way :)

chunsien's birthday

this has got to be the saddest cake ever, im so sorry for buying such a small cake for you :( its the thought that counts right?
anyway he wasnt surprised even a tiny bit because he saw jia ern talking to shane which jia ern doesnt normally do -_-!

Post Eos lunch with group FFFFFFF

aww im gonna miss them so much la, all the fun we had during pbls (seriously it was one hell of a pbl experience with them, they brought pbl to a whole new awesome level haha) after two sems together, its hard to forget what we've been through with our various faci!

and the boys are freaking hilarious omg -_- can never stop laughing with them, just looking at their pictures can make me smile. for more obscene pictures please go through my pictures in FB. i think we'll be split ted next sem, but the memories and friendship built will never fade with time! :)

PASAR MALAM Woohoo!

this was right after my last day of EOS, where i headed off to qingxian's place to BER-EXERCISE. ahh felt so good to be finally healthy again, doing normal things any regular person would do. after swimming, i actually just wrapped a towel around me and played badminton with my swimsuit still on -_- (what has got to me then) and my towel fell! paiseh paiseh, luckily noone except siewming saw haha. it felt so good to be catching up with them again!

after cleaning up, we headed off to PASAR MALAM to eat, eat and eat. and i had abit of a stomach ache after that thanks to that scratching butt lady who handed us our food. but other than that, everything was FUN! :) (who knows going to pasar malam can be this fun haha.)

jakun moments

transformers outing!
by wengkhong, as random as it can be (because wengkhong doesnt normally plan things like this)

in fish and co

whoa and i havent met some of them in the longest time ever! some became so pretty already! *cough wei lin cough

transformers was...okayla, not a big fan of big hard roboty creatures, though im glad i didnt fall asleep this time :P

KINDERGARDEN GATHERING

whoa seriously, is this not cool or what! after near to 15 years of not meeting each other, we finally had a gathering. (im still amazed with what fb does to us man) and our pretty teacher wye yin has not aged even a single bit! infact i think she has grown prettier man!

yea i've got to admit it was pretty awkward at first, what's with everyone now knowing, and not remembering each other. but things went well towards the end, and you'll be surprised how many friends in common we actually have. am actually looking forward to the next gathering, where it could be in wyeyin's house! her house has a pool man whoaaaaaa. and btw, she's no longer a teacher, infact she stopped teaching a year after we left and went on to do insurance :)

and i finally went shopping with my mom yesterday! my mom had been dying to go to M&G and we all bought something hehe. so happy! ohya and not to forget yumcha yesterday night with wengkhong, tse wei, alina and qingxian :) ps: i still cannot get used to tse wei's accent of maturity.

till then!

pre EOS EOS EOS

2011-07-03T17:01:00.001+08:00

stuff updated during the pre-exam period. (i actually have been updating, just not posting it :)

29th May 2011
i dont even know where to begin. from feeling extremely stupid during csu in the morning, till staining my pants in the library in the afternoon (what a terrible day), to winning a pair of sunshades worth rm1k+ from the optical shop i normally frequent, to witnessing an actual snatch thief infront of our eyes (we could have been the victim), to receiving a phone call from 2nd auntie saying that ah ma's not gonna make it. everything was so up and down today, and our plan of having a good meal to celebrate my sister's birthday on her behalf in cafe cafe was called off. we immediately traveled up to kampar to have a look at ahma. she has been a worrying one since few months back when she couldnt even walk, nor recognize anyone. but i've checked her pulse and its actually still quite strong, only everything else is degenerating.

*edited. she's still the same but she's well overall, nothing to worry about. its just heartbreaking sometimes to see her lying there in vain, waiting for her time to come. let's just pray for the best :')

31st may 2011.
cafe cafe for dinner! awesome food as always! its actually a belated dinner celebration on behalf of sis. should have been studying but alas laziness and procrastination got the better of me. pictures in my daddy's phone which i think, would never make it to this blog so no point saying that i'll upload the pictures soon.

4/6/2011

jennie's birthday!

at least this is what i think it was for.
and her parents had been extremely generous, treating us such an expensive meal like that. i feel indebted to them! and to think that i nearly miss it due to my stupidity in interpreting jennie's message. i actually thought it was monday instead of sunday what the. i thank my dad who was willing to fetch me there! and we bought her a lomo camera, hope she likes it! :)

that very morning me and suxin wanted to go uni to study the slides, only to realize uni's close cuz it was agung's birthday or somehting. so we ended up in papa rich studying from 1+ till 7pm. saturated much. and we got free porridge for staying there for so long HAHA. not true. i think they had left overs.

KKB-

was hell lots of fun! and hell lots of knowledge gained. sometimes i actually prefer learning stuff throughout real life experiences, instead of giving us hours and hours of lectures attempting to cramp everything into that few hours of lecture a day, knowing that nothing would actually stick in our brains.

besides KKB being extremely hot, and besides having very little sleep every night (infact i only had 30 minutes of sleep on the first night), everything was actually bearable as we continued living there (even the toilet with spider webs and big fat lizards with occasional crock coaches lurking around seemed fine already).
gain alot throughout the entire posting!

we spent everyday clerking, and somehow i only manage to do PE on the last day. throughout the entire stay, i had a hypoglycemic patient, a baby suffering from chronic bronchiolitis and asthmatic patient. we could hear rhonci from the baby, and i had so many questions on my mind. like, when the patient had shortness of breath, tiredness and chest pain during exertion, it felt so much like stable angina. but patient's a long term asthamatic patient, so most likely it was due to asthma. but those symptoms just fitted stable angina so perfectly. perhaps asthma causes stable angina? but mr subra said its not possible. and he had normal chest expansion wth? wasnt an asthmatic patient suppose to have reduced chest expansion? and barrel chest on an asthmatic patient? WHY? everything was so confusing to me, maybe as the years pass i'll be able to grasp the whole picture better.

we also managed to witness the entire process of childbirth, from giving birth to stitching. it was such a funny scene. one minute we were discussing the case and next, after getting a call from one of the guys, everyone STOOD UP together and in no time we were on our way (some still in their pajamas!) to the delivery ward HAHA. but we were 4 minutes late, hence we could only see the removal of placenta. thankfully, there was another childbirth due an hour later, and so we waited and it paid off! NOW i really gotta think twice before i actually give birth man, the process seemed so excruciating!

and one more very nervewrecking incident happened. not sure if i should write it here, but i figured its okay since nobody reads my blog. one of my friend actually fainted after watching! we were so kelam kabut! hahah now come to think of it, it was actually quite HILARIOUS. if we were to be graded, i think we would all fail. the first thing chithra did was to take out her phone and see if she could call anyone. then shwennee and i went out to search for a doctor, and the first person shweenne approached was the security guard AHAHA. anyway i told the nurses and the nurses told us to take a wheel chair. fine. never tell us where. we had to search high and low for it, and when we found it, we didnt know how to open it. anyway we did opened it in the end and brought it to my friend immediately. we placed the girl in the wrong position with her legs OVER THE handle, and thought it was good to go. half way thru, the nurses stop us and told us to adjust her properly. FAIL. and when shwenne pushed her out, she didnt know where A&E was HAHA. what a scene.

im definitely looking forward to our next visit to the hospital, which would be in gombak this time :) (i really wished to go back KKB one day tho..)

and not to forget the laughing part. seriously nonstop laughing with group F members. 1st night studying attempt worked. we studied till 2am. 2nd night studying attempt failed. instead of studying, we were taking pictures and videos and making a fool outta ourselves. imma upload the video soon!

to those going to KKB, remember to head down to their psr malam and try out these round donuts! :)

and my dad took us to eat lobster after i came back! they must have missed me too much :') sayang them alot. OL right one thing, they actually came all the way to KKB just to pass me my phone!

lazy update liao haha, wait for next post la!

xenophysella cheopsis is a rat =)

2011-05-23T02:17:00.003+08:00

This will be my last blogspot till after eos, partly cause i dont wanna get distracted while im studying, and also cause i prolly wont have much activities to blog about prior to eos. At this very moment, im lying on my bed, refusing to close my eyes because i want happy non-studying moments to last longer but the very fact that i know im cheating myself saddens me already. Hahaha what a melancholic beginning but u get me. In short, i dont wanna resume studying! :( but i have to, i must, i seriously can use some serious mugging shit to pass this stage.

Anyway i hadd so much sinful fun these two days! Really, knowing that happiness has its ending really makes me appreciate the euphoria i have right now, the time spent on doing happy stuff and quality time spent with family :) these two days had been nothing but fun and joy! well, except for what im about to write next.

Yesterday me and mom headed back to kampar to visit my ah ma after knowing from my 2nd aunt that she wasnt doing very well. She was defaecating everywhere, and when we got back she couldnt even recognize most of us. It's sad and worrying but it's been like that every now and then. And everytime after incidents like that she improves and im hoping this will be the same. Just a week ago she fell down twice during the night and being the feeble her she bled. Alot. We had to make this trip, i really hope she recovers soon and be the normal her again .. Will pray hard. Anyway besides not recognizing us and mixing the names up she's practically fine, so dont worry :)

That very night after dinner with mommy in ou (we had thai food yums) i went over to siewming's place to have a little chat. Gladwe made the decision to do this as i really, utterly missed her :) their last visit to my house i would consider them not visiting at all because i had serious stomachache and i couldnt do anything but sit down x) siewming, if you're reading this, i know you can go through all these and eventually be an utterly good accountant! You're doing things i wouldnt have imagine myself to do and its a good thing, cause these things only but make you grow! Hang in there alright! Much love to you. And i love the bookmark u gave me! And i love how your family members are so united, watching movies together :) u shud join them sometimes!

Today mommy and I went shopping at KLCC! Bought so maaaany things, literally shopped till we dropped! Took lrt at roughly 12, and only came back at 7pm -.- walked till i died-ed man seriously. But i love shopping with my mom, partly cause i get to buy expensive clothings hehe, and also cause i get really frank comments if its ugly lol. So yeah, more uni clothes FTW! :)

Till then!!

clinical microbiology made ridiculously simple is what's on my table now.

2011-05-21T09:40:00.001+08:00

i havent laughed in such a long time! like, really, really laugh in full blast. yesterday was definitely a nice night out for all of us (us being penny mei-cheen chunsien and me while the others went for their movie which we didnt want to watch because it was sorta a horror movie :() sorry guys!

i just wish i can be as crazy as how i was yesterday all the time. but i realized i kinda have a mood season or something (which i cared to share with them yesterday, but vowed not to talk about in my blog), and im still not 100% convinced with what they told me yesterday, though im going to look at it on a different perspective now (try) so yeah, please bear with me if im being very unfriendly or indifferent towards things :)

anyway there was this bride in the place we dined in yesterday (gardens) and outta the blue her friends told us to embarrass her? it was so fun. at first i thought i heard 'embrace' but no, 'embarrass' is the word. lol. okay, so we didnt embarrass her, because we were too embarrass to even embarrass her, and by embarrassing her we might just embarrass ourselves too. geddit geddit? so we came out with a song for her that goes like:

''pretty megan, getting married soon,
pretty megan, looking all so good,
pretty megan, congratulations to you,
we are so happy for you,
pretty megan.

HAHAHA writing about it makes me smile now. we were laughing so hard! and that chunsien, super intense man when he sings. voice can vibrate one. and he was doing so much action we couldnt help but laugh! after that was more laughter, and laughter and laughter! we were laughing so much till we didnt actually know what we were laughing about already xD

and then we paid, and went to alexis for desert. and continued laughing at literally anything under the sun (or the moon). and truth and dared each other. (MEI-CHEEN, you did not hit chunsien's butt properly!) and then, it insidiously turned into kinda of a serious, emo session where we talked about each other. if you dont already know, I LOVE EMO SESSIONS! we used to have one every sometime in secondary school last time! talking about problems which, in my opinion, wasnt a problem for them except mine but i do understand that people have different feelings about things, and no one can really be 100% sure of what we trully feel about things.

i just wish exams are all cleared now and i can do anything i like! but that's not going to be true so im just going to bear with it for awhile :(

ohya and siewming, rachel and huiling came over to visit me last friday after their supper in snowflakes which i didnt go because i was late in the library studying. I REALLY MISS THEM SO MUCH! and sorry i had to had such bad stomach ache when you guys came -_-! i wonder why it came so suddenly too. we should really find time to chitchat more! that night (or morning, they went home at about 2AM :P), wasnt enough okay! hehehe. and you guys have to put up with what seemed to be a horror movie xD

okay till then! the next i update this blog will be god know's when. by that time, i'll prolly be a fat old woman still munching away with her her chips :P

2011-03-18T23:21:00.002+08:00

Ah in a dilemma again, another big decision to make, another 'something' to put my mind on. Why can't things be less ambiguous and be more straightforward?

Am gonna give it a thought tonight and hopefully, I'll come up with something tonight. Or not.
Gah I don't know!

On a totally random note, I realized I'm not good in dealing with situations like that of today. Makes me so feel so hopeless sometimes hahahah.

2011-02-16T17:52:00.002+08:00

feeling soooo tired but yet cant sleep- its a terrible feeling.

insomnia please go away :'(

what a jog

2011-02-05T18:42:00.003+08:00

yes what a jog.

so what happened was this. daddy and I decided to go jog in kiara hill after months of not exercising. so off we went at about 4+, and after warming up and whats not i started my way up first while my dad turned back to get an umbrella from the car as it looked like it was about to rain.

so i continued jogging/ walking up for about 15 minutes, constantly checking over the sky and looking if there were any signs of rain. as i got up higher,it started drizzling a little, and then stopped. and then it continued for awhile,and then stopped again.

taking no further risk i jog to the pondok (than god it rained just at the right time when i was near the only area with pondoks) and waited a while. and then it started to drizzle a little heavier than before and with another family there i continued waiting lol. tried calling my dad and home but to no avail as well.

AND THEN. suddenly i miraculously caught sight of a rather familiar car. MY DAD'S CAR. lol. was quite surprised actually as cars are normally not allowed up the hill. so happy die me i quickly hoped onto the car!

turned out we actually didnt bring any umbrella (LOL) and turned out my dad was using my mom's phone, hence explain why i couldnt contact him earlier (LOL). and my mom's phone was out of credit (LOL).he wanted an umbrella. no umbrella. no credit. cant call me. new sport shoes. cant get wet. so my dad pleaded to the guard to let him drive all the way up there to fetch this poor little daughter stranded up there. sounded so pitiful hahahha, well at least that was what my dad told the guard. thinking about it now we should thank the guard for being so flexible haha.

and on the way down it started pouring like cats and dogs. or like cows and buffalos. and every other people were drenched, all earnestly running down for shelter. we offered help to the women and girls to come hitch our ride instead of running all the way down drenched wet. felt so happy to do this. i mean its not everyday you get to help a complete stranger whom actually trust you. we manged to fetch 3 women and a girl down to their cars and im glad we offered help to them. could tell the first women was abit hesitant in receiving our help but as the rain got heavier i guess she couldnt DONT hop onto my dad's car. it was crazy to turn down an offer like that!

felt good to do good deeds like this :)
didnt now small gestures like this could make my day! sometimes i feel small things like that transcends wealth and fame or whatever dont you think so? im so happy :)

but as for the run i guess i gotta work harder tmr. LOL.

hello CNY!

2011-02-01T00:30:00.003+08:00

i feel so like a boss now sitting in my dad's humungous room on his humngous chair typing away acting all big shot and all that. imagine an employee walking in right now asking for my consent on something...so cool.

sadly, that'll never happen because im not a businessman. nor a boss of a big company. my future doesnt lead me to big chairs and big tables and big office rooms like this. my careeer brings me to, perhaps, properly sterilized room with medical equipments and in-coming patients. but i guess i can live with that too :)

since i have nothing to do, i'll blog about something! i know i havent exactly been very clear about what i did during my holidays, but i know i'll come to that one way or another :) soon.

1. alina's CNY open house
it was a pretty impromptu thing for me because the inital plan was to skip that event ( i know right how can i) and head of to my dad's office to print my lecture notes. but we didnt go to KL afterall because knowing my dad, he wouldnt be able to finish all the cleaning in time :)

its just so weird, we tend to get so high and crazy whenever we're together, this secondary school gang i mean. i guess its really true when people say settings doesnt matter, its whom you're with that tells the story.

glad to see all of them after such a long time, and yes, have i not mention that they've grown so much prettier! ji-ann has straight long hair now (she'll be happy i mentioned i think :P) and wei lin and qingxian suddenly became a WOMAN!

and its nice catching up with them too. its weird how close knitted we are despite not seeing each other that often. i dont know if its just me or what, but i feel that we're even closer than before!

we played mafia, heart attack equivalent games, we ate, we talked and YES we TOOK a whole lots of pictures! from family potraits to cool shots to normal happy shots :P cant wait for alina to post them all hideous photos on facebook!

one thing we didnt do, which was weird, was to gamble lol. guess nobody wanted to be the ''zong ga''. and alina's parents actually cooked all the food by themselves, how amazing is that. too bad i cant taste them all. but the deserts and the cakes were shoooo good though.

2. alina's surprise birthday + farewell celebration
which was again...a failed attempt. i planned it as early as a week ago, but i feel so bad having to pretend that i didnt plan anything :P the plan was to bring alina to marche curve with only a few of us, and meeting the rest in marche itself where alina, supposedly, was to be surprised. but we met huiling and yixuan on the way walking there -.-

marche is. well i cant say much since i couldnt eat meat, but i dont really think its worth the price. the atmosphere is nice, though i have to apologize to the guailow sitting directly opposite us as we were making too much noise and playing with everything they have there..including the innocent lamppot :P

drinking in laundry after marche. man i think i have a fetish for drinking now i realize! the feeling is incredibly...soothing! the laughing and laughing and laughing afterwards was definitely not a contribution of the alcohol influence i can assure you of that. we were crazy in jeffrey's car playing with the innocent snowman :P

love them to bits!

happy birthday alina! nice backdrop :)

yes we went all crazy posing with everything they could possibly have. this picture was intend to look like we were criminals taking criminal pictures of ourselves. fail i noe lol.

a blur group picture! she is 20 not 30 or 40 guys.

3. Jyy yee's and munwai's surprise party!
i've been seeing them so often now than before, partly cause i start missing them too fast :P another fun filled night with them. and the balloons we bought for jyyyee actually came off quite handy in pictures! hope jyy yee had a great time :)

it was a pretty small group as it was a monday night. in TGIF!

love the balloons! and siewming the card was very nice dont worry!

the video of jyyyee standing on the chair blowing her cake from afar is still with jyyyee. and speaking of which i actually still have a few videos yet to be uploaded in youtube. will do it as soon as i can i promise!

and then spontaneously, we decided to plant another surprise for munwai! so off we headed to his house hoping everything turns out well. we stood outside for awhile wishing so hard munwai hadnt slept. thank god he didnt lol.

dia muscular betul wearing singlet lie that to sleep!

~ ~ ~ ~

just came back from bangsar with rachel lim :) havent shop like that in awhile already thanks rach for bringing me there! didnt intend to buy any new year clothes actually but i guess buying some clothes is kind of mandatory to bring out the new year feel isnt it? we should do this again! havent been girly in awhile :P

AND GUESS WHAT! I AM NO LONGER A VEGETARIAN! (which means you can ask me out to eat possible anything w/o bearing the risk of me rejecting your invitation :P) but im still broke.

and i noe some of my uni friends read my blog *cough cough* dont la quiet quiet like that. i will shy one leh. reveal yourself! i'll give you some kind of treat!

till then!

2011-01-29T15:06:00.006+08:00

i dont want to think about anymore.

i am not okay. i told her im okay. but nobody needs to now this.

sometimes ignorance really is bliss.i used to know it without really wholly understanding the meaning behind this. but now i do.
this is a happy blog its a happy blog. i dont write sad stuff.
but its doesnt matter anymore because i can move on with life. and i will. there're just too many happy things waiting for us to discover. aint?
dont ask me if im okay. because im always going to tell you im okay.

mix and splather

2011-01-29T09:34:00.002+08:00

its been AGES since i last update this poor little thing. i admit, i've been lazy, but there's a reason to it. technology was failing me (profound much hehe) but seriously. for the past two months or so, i've been surviving on my sister's poorly functional laptop, and when i say poorly functional, I MEAN IT. takes me 30 minutes to get a picture open on facebook, and its killing me already (yet alone updating this blog, no way i would go through such agony for this lol) plus i've also been surviving on my cuckoo handphone for the past one month or so eversince i lost my baby iphone :( for those who dont already know, imu is a haven for thief, so dont go around displacing your phone, just keep the phone with you AT ALL TIME in your pocket haiz..

now that my dad bought another 2nd hand laptop for me to use which is pretty fast for an old laptop, i WOULD UPDATE! (about...everything? that's quite alot) so what have been to for the last...6 months?

okay so by now i've already done two runs- bareno run and formula one night race. i took part in the 5km category for both event, which was actually just a fun run. bareno was okay, i ran almost throughout which was an accomplishment to me because i dont normally run when i train at kiara hilltop :) but being the usual clumsy me i fell down at beginning of the race, like wth right. it was quite dark in the morning and i didnt know what i tripped over (till now, i still dont know actually) and i fell just like that LOL. the scars are still on my legs though it was much worse than before. so i actually ran the entire run with bleeding legs. but i guess it motivated me to want to finish the run faster because i dont want to die of hypovolemia and circulatory shock xD

my greatest accomplishment thus far : top 95 and a medal! was so happy that day :)

the night before we actually stayed over in penny house with barely enough of sleep as we did, well what girls normally do in a stay over (movie, talk etc etc..) despite feeling like shit and waking up late in the morning, thanks to penny's super speed driving we managed to reach there in time!and now we have a new pickup line that goes like ''loser loser, double loser..'' :P

Formula night run
omg this was a disaster. everything was okay until the end of the run where people didnt know where to go after, or if that was the finishing line or that was where we were suppose to gather. seriously, right after i finish my run, i stood there for nearly 20 minutes figuring where to go next. should i still stay in the track, or walk out? tried asking volunteers but they brushed me aside. tried asking the runners as well and they were equally blur. so eventually i walked out of the track and found a line to get my goody bag and my medal. waited so freaking LONG for the line to move. after like 45 minutes or so, i managed to get my medal and stuff and i stomped our furiously. and there they were pacifying us apologizing to us for the delay. i thought this was the end of it, but apparently the other category runners had it worst. the line was soooooo long and not moving till a line eventually became a crowd when some just couldnt wait any longer. and some just went in and snatch a handful of medals away. it was havoc. in the end, they closed the goody bag giving station and the people were told to go online and hear more about it. of course people couldnt take it as some ran a freaking 21km just to come back being told no medals were to be given. and the poor 42km runners came back to an EMPTY place. by the time they finished their run, everyone (including the organizing team) had already abandoned the place and headed home. poor them.

but as for the run, it was okay i guess. walked alot, had pretty bad stamina for it.

clubbing night
well practically it wasnt a really a clubbing night for me as i headed home quite early. *potong
after dressing up and whatsnot in lexie's place (dressing up was frustrating but fun :P), off we headed to the mist club in bangsar at about 11pm. there werent much people when we arrived, and we waited like an hour plus for people to start dancing on the dance floor. we saw this couple kissing vigorously, and some guy trying to split them apart later (i presume that's the girl's actual bf?) and soon after, both of them headed out of the club doing god knows what :P what an interesting sight for an innocent girl like me *erhem erhem hahah* and we also saw bondans in the toilet and they were smoking hot lol. make me feel so diminished sometimes. a guy, hotter than me, of cuz cannot accept lah ish!

i learnt that its always better having guy friends with you when you club, because the guys in the club kept hitting on us, which was okay at first, till it became more and more disturbing. gave them like a thousand hints that we werent interested, but they were just so persistent. poor amrit had to come and jaga us *guilty but thank you so much!

looking hot!

tao with my beloved darling- siewming! (and ik shawn)
both of us have been yearning to eat tao since like forever; and our dream came true at last! was meant to be like a secondary school gathering, but due to such a late notice only 3 of us managed to make it :) but no regrets! as they say, the food is indeed better than jogoya's! everything was soo good though we didnt know what we were ordering because we ordered a tad bit too much. all in all, i would say its definitely worth a second time! :) and i finally got to see siewming and ikshawn after such a long time! :)

after dinner, ik shawn drove us back to ou where we watched a movie- red riding hood. it was pretty nice although somehow i felt like it resembled twilight (the song, the actors..the atmosphere, what's with the involvment of werewolf and stuff) but the actors were so hot!

missing them already :(

up till now i've also already done two dances in imu, which if you're a friend of mine i think you would see it on facebook :) i realized, i really really do love dancing, as much as im not a pro in it. i just like performing infront of the audience after having practice like a thousand times. dont get me wrong tho, i only like performing dances infront of the audience. i still get jittery whenever i have to announce something infront of the batch, or if i have to say something infront of a bunch of people staring at me. its just me i guess- i dont really enjoy being in the limelight, not in that way i guess :)

the first dance was for orientation finale night, where for the first time, i was able to dance with all my close friends. it was fun, and worrying at the same time, as our progress wasnt as expected, and studies were bleeh. but the dance turned out quite okay in the end. we skipped lectures, changed lab schedule, practice for hours just for this one dance. and i also got closer to some of them whom i werent close to before :) initially there were quite alot of us, but some eventually dropped out :(

my darlings.

the 2nd dance was for oral health week, where we only took 3 weeks to practice for it. it was a hard dance, but as all the dancers were pretty darn good (except for me :( ) we managed to learn it and perfect it in quite a short time! and we all have to thank penny for figuring out the dance steps and coordinating the ENTIRE thing, i love her so much for this :) she's such a nice person. if i was expressive enough i would tell her how awesome she is! we've been using alot of britney's song because her songs are always so dance-able!

feel like dancing again!

on a totally unrelated note, i managed to get so many cute freebies from the dental booths! :) guess that event was a success!

daddy's 55th birthday!
we actually went to tony roma's in KL on his birthday to celebrate for him, some place we wouldnt even think of going last time when my sister was around. (i wonder why we went there, it was my dad's idea actually) but the food was not bad. and at the end, i got the people there to sing a birthday song for him, which was quite a funny scene as he wasnt exactly young anymore and doing this kinda thing for him just makes everything look so surreal x)

next morning, we celebrated again with my sister and zhiven this time through skype :) it has been kind of like a ritual already to celebrate infront of the laptop, where my sister would buy a piece of cake back there in US, and we would sing the song together and take pictures with the laptop...awwww i really really miss her so much noone can imagine. its just different talking on skype you know, somehow its just different.

still a family picture! :)

orientation mdctp111
i realized i havent been talking about orientation, which was all my life was about at some point beginning of sem 3. getting to meet a bunch of new juniors, having juniors that were so darn enthusiastic about everything (even until now), getting a taste of orientation again, mamaking and getting scolded right after, staying over in JY's place for one night, and how can i forget this, ORGANIZING an event in orientation was the least i expect myself to do. i felt so attached to group 7 at that point of time, like group 7 was everything in my life :)

everything started like usual, where juniors came in feeling awkward about everything, shy about making new friends, shy about introducing themselves to their once respectable seniors- US. and in no time, they bonded, they laughed, they went through hardship in orientation, only to triumph as ONE- wow so profound again hahaha. but that was how i felt in my orientation, i felt like we really went through everything together :) i wasnt as active as before in terms of spending time with group7, as i had other major commitments eg. treasure hunt event, dance etc..

organizing something like this- wasnt what i signed up for. i thought it was be a breeze, no i seriously thought there wasnt much to do, but i thought wrong. we had to come out with a plan, come out with proposals, get people to help us for indoor, come out with the group sequences, book the park for outdoor, book the entire IMU for indoor, wait for approval (which just sucked really, IMU FTW) come out with station locations, come out with clues, stick the clues, come out with the scoresheet, come out with booklet, supply everything the station master needs, brief the SMs, talk infront of the entire mdctp batch (normally it wouldnt be hard for people, but me being me, it was nervewrecking?) and lastly, ACT LIKE A SENIOR. whoa, act like a senior? that's definitely the hardest hahahaa. no im just kidding.

but it was a good experience because now i know im capable of doing this :) there wasnt any certificate given out for this, but i had one in my heart- one that certifies that i CAN do this! its a self-building experience i would say. and thanks to jia ern and the rest, it came out pretty darn well! *proud :P the only fallback was the darn video -_-! no seriously, it was so lame i could have killed myself for appearing in the video any second longer -_-! speaking of which, its nice to keep a record of it just to laugh my ass off in the future hahaha.

and i now have a new bunch of SPs i could look into! hahhaa ok that's just something minor.

eversince orientation, the juniors have been overwhelmingly organizing tons of dinners and lunches together, which is good but sad at the same time cause i only manage to go for a few. cutting down on activities is one of my priority now, though i dont think it helped much in terms of studies anyway hmm..

this was taken during charity home visit where i did nothing but abandoned my poor juniors for a nice dimsum breakfast under the excuse of wanting to buy more brooms for the juniors. bad seniors x.x

PBL group EFF outing
never have i ever been so close to a bunch of friends whom i know through academic grounds. this is definitely a first. and this was also our much-delayed first outing EVER. we had dinner at la bodega, Bangsar and the food was scrumptious, but never adequate (i'll get to that part shortly after :P) and the guys showed their true naughty colours, taking dirty slutty pictures of themselves ROFL. i never knew they were so crazy! i've also never laughed so hard in such a long time! i'll definitely miss this bunch of people when we move on to sem4 :( maybe we still can have csu practices together?

after eating in la bodega, we felt like it wasnt enough and headed off to delicious to feast on their cakes. no seriously, it was such a funny scene. one minute we were looking at 3 (or 4) diabetic looking cakes infront of us, and next thing you know they were all GONE and down in our gastrointestinal tract (how medically inclined). LOL. poor ruey-yi taking pictures of the cake didnt get to eat much of them xP

love them to bits! (thank god they dont read this!)

Jillian's birthday
with the usual few of us, only now with one extra member- her bf, and one less member- jiecong.
LOL it was pretty awkward at first, and still pretty awkward towards the end. we tried talking to her bf, but her bf answered jillian instead x) we bought her a domukun btw, hope she likes it! :)

one of the more decent pictures

funny looking pictures in FB again!

english singing competition
thumbs up to the choir comittee for doing such a great job in it! the lecturers were sporting, singers were tremendously good, and congratulations to ti fanny for earning herself a top2 in the solo category! didnt know there're so many potential singers in group7! there isnt much to talk about actually because i was just an audience, but that event definitely spur me into wanting to join a singing competition again! x) i know i shouldnt, i know hahaha..

till then! :)

this will do

2011-01-19T16:15:00.004+08:00

yes i got so tired of my previous header and i do realize i loo ind of young in that picture.
its nothing but seriously this will do for now! :D :D

stupid eyboard is retarded. i cant type the alphabet between J and L and i cant put comma either. so its either fullstop or full sentence.

aight that's it till then! :D

HAHAH omg just saw of my photos which i never knew exist! its damn funny! it actually comes across more funny than nostaligic actually. i do have an ugly past hahahahha its so funny! pics in fb :P

some inspiring words :D

originally wanted to use some of the flowers and butterflies here for my header but decided not to. didnt realize the words are so meaningful :')

too many farewells, too many.

2011-01-15T17:25:00.004+08:00

at some point in life, all of us have to leave. even if you dont actually leave the country, you leave your once constant life to move on to your next phase of life, inevitably, as much as you try to avoid CHANGE. you, eventually leave your friends and move on with your life as much as you try to hinder it from happening. it's inevitable. its not within our control.

and whoever says leaving isnt a heartbreaking thing to do? to leave is one thing, to be left behind is another. i remember my sister leaving the country, the incompleteness i felt for weeks. i came home to this exact empty house, with nothing changed, only a sister missing. the feeling was....one i have never felt before, mainly cause i've never had someone so dear to me, who've been with me since i was born, leaving me.all the crying, all the mixed feelings, all the absence concentration on everything else..all the everything.

the fact that everyone is leaving one by one and soon, i'll be leaving too, is actually quite difficult to think about. i think about leaving the country, leaving all my family and friends behind, and adjourning to my new phase of life, i think how scary is it to leave all my loved ones behind and fight in this war alone. i think of how sad my family and friends will be when i can no longer go on trips together, or have fun together. i think because i know exactly how they will feel when i leave, because i felt that way before. its really really sad.

i have approximately one and a half years more in msia (or maybe two) to maintain this kind of life before i leaped onto a completely different phase of life. and im not leaving this country for any other country near msia, of which i could come back often to visit my home. im leaving this country to adjourn across the globe, where time zone and season difference is enough to keep us off contact. its ironic, i used to want to go overseas so badly when i was young, and now that im getting very near to that, i suddenly wish to stay in m'sia longer. but its for a better future, i know.

after all, the only constant thing in life is change, right?

i wish all leaving msia this year a very safe journey to whichever country you travel too, and i hope we continue to stay as close as ever and remain in contact. and for those going to aussie, please do come back often!

to alina, to know you for all these years is a blessing on my part. you have been a great friend, a great companion, and a great advisor to me. without you in secondary school, i think i'll still be the anti-social, quiet and shy girl you've seen in form 2.

to bryan, i didnt see it coming. you've been a great leader in our team, constantly taking up roles and tasks nobody would envisage to do. and your lames jokes are to be remembered forever. i wanna see a collection of it all when you're back! its been very nice having you around.

and to ee lyn, you've been a great jie jie to all of us, one that will make us feel comfortable with at all times, till now i wonder why. your laughter and your jokes (not lame!), and your sampatness and sportiveness will also be rememberd forever.

i rather u all dont read this, because i dont want you all to know how tak sampai hati i am. (thank god noone reads my blog)
much love to all of you, i hope i'll still be seeing you sometimes after u leave! xx

:)

clinic visit

2011-01-13T22:26:00.002+08:00

clinic visit yesterday was quite unusual. first time dealing with real patients, of course we didnt do any physical examination or anything as tedious as that, we did history taking! the simplest of it all!

it was actually quite nice, and quite weird. lol. because we never had real patients to practice on. and now that we were dealing with real patients, we really couldnt PRETEND to show some concern and act all kind hearted and all that. we had to be genuinely concern! or at least look like we're genuinely concern lol.

the patients are different in the sense that, some refuse to divulge more information, and some just start spilling everything out from middle to head to bottom. and without sequence. one minute we were talking about his hypertension, and next minute his was telling me about how his dad died! and i havent even wrote down his personal details which, according to what we have learnt, have to go first.

i guess this teaches us that reality is infact superbly different than that of simulated ones. simulated patients are well trained on what to answer, but real patients could just about tell you anything under the sun. kinda awkward at first, but we learnt how to deal with all the out-of-the-blue remarks eventually, and learnt to cope and continue on the right track without digressing lol. and im glad all the patients were very cooperative, although some had to take care of their children lol.

good experience, much better than PD at least! (PD was a nightmare) and now to more tedious part.....the report...well not before my 2nd clinic visit! hopefully i'll get more bizzare cases other than hypertension and diabetes :)

cheerleading rocks!

2011-01-12T22:42:00.001+08:00

i meant to blog about cheerleading a long long time ago but procrastinated till now because i wanted this post to be special. and alas lazinees got the better of me and im now here (finally) blogging about it in uni, how special it seems xD

but cheerleading was one good memory, and skill, i'll treasure forever. never knew i would enjoy this much, not when i know how heavy i weigh, and how inexperienced i am, and how a complete noob i am in cheerleading. yes, i know nuts about it, but i enjoyed.cheerleading used to be, perhaps, the only thing im keen not to join in highschool, because it would seem like such a joke. perhaps everything hindered me from wanting to join cheerleading.

but god knows what went into my mind, i decided to go for pegasus's first cheerleading practice. (maybe deep down i always wanteed to try but was utterly doubtful about it.)i remember during my very first cheer practice in sem1, there were only 3 of us. everything seemed so distant and unclear, all the knowledge about cheerleading and all that. which muscle do i need to tense? how do i tense? and how on earth am i going to do a freaking toetouch!

and alas, two of them pulled out and i was the only sem 2, then, remaining. but a few others joined, including karrie and jeleine and jj. and it remained like that for a while till a few others joined before the raya break. and the fun level seemed to increase threefold afterthat. in the midst of practice, there were so much of laughter, so much of joy despite the long hours and the fatigue. we celebrated tons of birthdays together.

i guess its the company and the activities, and the determination and motivation of winnning that kept us going. the most stressful moment in sem2, then coincided with the increase in cheer practice. from weekly, to twice a week, cheer practice soon became a daily routine for weeks. it was perhaps the most tiring, the most lack of sleep, the most fast-paced period ever. i tried my best juggling between the increase in workload of studies and the hectice schedule of the practice, i think i juggled it okay. for a moment i felt pretty suffocated, like i was about to drown in a sea of incompleteness. cheerleading was, at that point, incomplete, our routine was messy, people were not showing up during practice, and studies was...lagging behind. everything seemed so in between.

but as time progresses, things started falling in place. my studies was getting more thorough, cheerleading practice was becoming more productive as it went, albeit even more tiring than ever. and before i knew, i made a whole bunch of friends from all different kinds of courses and sems whom im quite certain i would never know had i not join cheerleading. cheerleading was what kept me going in the midst of all the stressfulness and guilt. my friends tell me how joyful i become when i see any of my cheermates, till now i wonder why. to say that we've been through ups and downs together could simply be an overstatement, but i definitely felt like we did. we pulled through and remained composed throughout the entire ordeal, though i wouldnt say we werent jittery on the date of event. despite our performance (i admit its not the best of all teams), i really think enjoying the process is what matters most, but of course a little be of a reward towards the end wouldnt harm. :)

D day went through like a blink of an eye, cant believe months and months of training all finally bowled down to this very special day, to that very special 3 minutes performance. we practiced like hell, trying earnestly to correct all incorrect timing of the dance moves and to polish up whatever that was still unsure of. my excitement and nervousness for cheerleading instantly won over all the past performances i participated in.

the moment of truth was difficult to anticipate. on one hand, there was a voice telling me to stop hallucinating of even getting anywhere near 4th place, but on the other hand i was still anxous to know the result. and the fact that dasuni kept telling us ''good news, good news!'' made things even more complicated. like i was in a war with myself. and when it was announced that pagasus bagged off 2nd in cheerleading, it was truly overwhelming. it was too much of everything. i think everyone felt the same. instantly, all the effort that we've put in, all the time we've invested in this, all the inner mix feeling of joy and guilt that ive been constantly enduring throughout the entire thing, was worth it. WAS IN EVERY WAY WORTH IT. no words can do justice!

and the few outings that proceeded after that had been very good. writing about it and the fact that im now staying back just as late as when i had cheerleading, made everything so much more nostalgic. (i still go AWW whenever i pass by the 4th floor where we used to have our cheer practice)

cheerleading would definitely be one of the major highlights in imu, perhaps even more enjoyable than orientation, and i can now gladly say that i love cheerleading! but what i love most is the bunch of friends i've made, and the enjoyment i reaped from this experience. :)

AND OMG I JUST FOUND OUT SOMETHING INCREDIBLY UNBELIEVABLE. BUT ITS HAPPENING. OMG (this post was actually written a few days ago)

ze sis's two weeks of fun holiday in Msia

2011-01-08T01:22:00.001+08:00

yes, my sister was back for two weeks last december, yes, two obscenely short weeks after 8 months leaving home. that two weeks was fun filled, hectic, lethargic, memorable. am just waiting now to go to US to visit her in June/July/August...well hopefully our schedules permit us to do so!

we all miss her so much already, and thanks to whatsapp we now pm each other everyday! during lecture, before i sleep, during my vege-samurai sessions, tv sessions.. and my mom and dad are using my iphone like nobody's business! so much for privacy..but its okay i can live with that :) i hope she's getting over the home sick feeling, everything's going to be alright! :)

to jot down simply everything that has happened is simply a vain effort of my part, because it is unimaginably not viable. hence, i'll just keep this short and sweet and that means, more pictures! :D

holiday with sis started with us waiting anxiously at the airport terminal, constantly looking over the barricade to see if there were any sight of my sister and zhiven. the sight of them walking through the doors, hugging each other goodbye is....too good to be true. my sis is back!

sis wanted to eat everything there is to offer in msia, hence here comes our local delicacy! yums (oh no, should stop tempting myself)

and then there was crab in klang :) (should really stop blogging about food)

''dont steal my crab!''

our mandatory camwhoring shot!

went shopping several times for the ENTIRE day. never walk so much in my life!

in ou mall with christmas deco behind!

dragon-I's siew long bao. a must eat for my sister. she loves it!

went down KL several times too to shop..and EAT!

curry fishballs near sg wang

that was only for appetizer :)

pepperlunch for lunch!

snowflakes for desert!

pavi's christmas decoration!

my whole family. my dad even came out for lunch with us :)

at the end of the day, we bought soooo manyyyy thingsssss. more like my sister bought so many things.

and another 5 days to penang, pangkor and kampar!

my 90 years old grandma! :) intitially we didnt plan to put a night in kampar, but finally relented to my grandma's merajukness!

my nephew in penang. shooo cute! its so hard to get him laughing or showing any kinds of emotion.

celebrated christmas in penang as well

roasted.......chicken, not turkey. delicious! we waited one hour for this!

my beloved cousins

and cousin-in-law. this would probably be my first time celebrating christmas with my cousins :)

and here comes pangkor! we stayed at the exact same resort, which was blogged a few years ago.

enjoying the serenity of it all

me and my dad

and my sister bought this gingerbread house from US. so we were busy bulding it, the house was fine, the snowman was tricky. the eyes and all just couldnt stick!

but we managed to in the end heehee

everything's perfect except for the windows and the terrible looking snowman done by my dad! lol

went to spa and massage at night, where we had to go NAKED. so uneasy for me but it was okay.

so many monkeys outside our room! on the first day we didnt lock the door properly and when we came back, two packets of groundnut were missing -.-

the almost successful jumping shot. we nearly got this one right, but i was a tad bit slower. ish!

our last few dinners together before we bid them goodbye :(

did medi and pedi with my sister. chio!

and we celebrated new year together by upholding our tradition of watching every narnia together :)

fire works taken from outside my house opposite curve. it was okay, remember last year's one being slightly better.

and smillion's gathering!

so far away now :(

plus high tea in Levain!

we'll see each other soon!

love to you jie!

till then!

skype crazy!

2011-01-05T23:10:00.000+08:00

this was before i installed version 5.0

us very happily chatting with peiying with no disturbances. see how happy we are? hahahah.

and then it decided that peiying's face was too big compared to ours, so we became her new uneven eyes. and skype decided to give her a yellow face to look more asian since she's in UK now. and her partially yellow hair dye.

and then two extra humans popped out of no where. weird, one's even in my house.

and we were curious as to what qingxian was doing. seducing us?

yes, definitely bermiang-miang with us.

continue bermiang-ing. we -.-ed.

qingxian ''ehhhh why u guys not buying it wan!!''

the rest ''BOOOO, blek, not nice aso!'

and then her mom came in and we all pretended to be super excited. wipe the boo face expression out of us immediately.

after her mom left, the boo-ing and ew-ing continued even more vigorously than before.

okok enough

and then alina decided to show us her kungku kick. we were immediately outta of picture when she kicked.

eh, where did alina go?

okay its time to go, love for everyone!

muacks!

haha it actual fact all that didnt really happen, but i now have version 5.0 which allows video conferencing! no more video-less conversations hahaha.

kissing 2010 a big good bye. hello 2011!

2011-01-04T18:13:00.002+08:00

well since im in uni and have nothing better to do (well, that's not entirely true) while waiting aimlessly for my mom to pick me up from school and everyone has gone home except for those stilll discussing about medical jargons in the pbl rooms with their assigned pbl mates, i will blog :D

year 2010 has beeen..well bountiful. there were ups and downs, but somehow i only have a vague, if not no, memories of the downs. i remember being uber stressed about EOS, but now that its over, was i actually very stress? was it actually very difficult? was it that bad? did i, actually, break down during the process? how was i feeling actually? ironic enough, people tend to question themselves if it really was as felt after they've been through all the downs in life.

well the ups were definitely memorable.

i joined cheerleading for the first time and never knew i would enjoy it so much. i participated in charity work with my friends in an impoverished country for the first time. i enrolled into a medical school. i had the best orientation moment of my life. i never had so many loved ones leaving the country in one year. i received the best results of my life.i got interviewed by a australian paper for the first time. i had the oppotunity to make a video for the sam award ceremony this year for the first time. i made a bunch of whacky, interesting friends whom are so dear to me now.

the list is simply inexhaustive. of course there were smaller, more insignificant things like, i had my first coach pouch, or that i did pedi and medicure for the first time, or that i passed EOS or that i had my first iphone. or that love my old friends just as much or that i volunteered to do charity with my sis in KKB. or that i danced for the first and last time with my sister in imu. or that we won the photography competition (which wasnt my effort) or that i had the guts to join a singing competition. or that my birthday was special. or that everything was good.

what has passed has passed. while its sweet to reminisnce about the happy past, let's alll look forward to a brighter and greater 2011 okay? happy 2011 everyone! hello sem 3, please make me stop slacking! :)

2010-12-23T15:59:00.002+08:00

bye peeps! off to kampar, penang and pangkor with ze' family.
but i'll be back!

la kon laos!

2010-12-13T02:29:00.002+08:00

sorry for the long hiatus, will resume blogging now!
erm anyway..day 7 and 8 here i come!

day 7
day 7 was the day of sorrow. tears were shed, we left the village pretty heavy heartedly. it was such a sad moment for all of us as we bid our goodbyes to the villagers of muangkham. its so disheartening that even i dont desire to speak of it anymore. the feeling, knowing that once u turn around after u leave you know you're going to have to bear the consequences of your action, but still having the guts to turn around because you just couldnt bare not spending the remaining minutes with them, was truly unbearable. the departure was a slow and painful process, as some of us just couldnt throw all that behind, and leave. and just leave, knowing that once your turn around, that is prolly the end of it. day 8 didnt matter anymore. day 8 swept by like it hadnt exist, like what we did during then was simply just a bittersweet dream..

but departure was a must. we had to leave at some point. and so, after a painstaking period of crying, we finally got onto the boat and leave the village for good. it was sad at first, sure it was, but the waterfall trip later pretty much made everything better. soon, it was the usual nonstop yelling and screaming, piba-ing and laughing as we made our way to top of the hill, only to get a smaller version of the enormous ferocious waterfall at the bottom. it was only the biggest waterfall i've ever seen. it was a tiring journey up as it became pretty steep as we proceeded.speaking of which, i actually cant tell if sg chilling's one was greater or this was. but either way, that was one good experience i'll never forget. hopping onto stones in hope of not getting wet with a bunch of friends, only to get wet terribly as we proceed nearer to the waterfall due to the big splashes it made, getting really terribly drenched as we stood there motionless to take a few pictures...it was chaos. it was fun!

and they have the prettiest non man made pool on earth. okay, that's prolly not a pool but that's what they called it. its so blue it almost seemed fake (why is it blue, can anyone tell me?) unlucky for me (and suxin and lexie) we had that thing so we couldnt just jump down and have the time of our lives. no, we sat at one corner instead immersing our legs in the clear water.

i got myself a shirt there because the prints on the shirt were just shoo cute! and we took alot of pictures ont the last day because the view was pretty. omg i cant remember much now because that didnt matter anymore for me. but i did have fun.

picture-orrhea right now to compensate for the lack of description now.

pictures dont do justice!

the pool where people swim in. seriously, why is it so blue! and they had a monkey rope hanging on one of trees for people to swing the hell outta them. i was so tempted to try but then again, i know it wouldnt be a wise thing to do.

this was when we were higher up.

out great mommy in blue. she cooked all our scrumptious meal, and i thanked her from the bottom of my heart. without her, god knows what would have happen to my...intestinal movement. i thanked her for her kind hospitality, for taking so good care for us, and for appreciating what we've done for this village.

our drinking buddies. they made this entire trip so much more enjoyable, and i will really really miss them.

day 8 was........*thinks hard* okay nothing really happened, or maybe i was just too tired. they brought us to this pathetic mall that felt pretty much like the downgraded version of sg wang. there was nothing to see, nothing to buy, nothing for us to do. i instantly understood the true meaning of sick-building syndrome we learnt in com med -.-

so..we ended up playing cards, only to be shoo-ed away by the shop lady for making too much noise.

and then we went to this bom museum. i really attempted listening to our local tour guide, but to no avail. and it was as if he understood that we were all so tired, and he brought us to this video room to watch video clips of boms, of which the couch was freaking comfortable most of us slept through it all. like deep sleep kind of sleep summor. lol

anyway that pretty much summarizes the entire trip. the journey back was perhaps the most nauseating ride ever. my tummy felt funny and this feeling continued for about a week after that with headache accompanying it. i thank penny for keeping up with my mood and feeling when i stayed over at her place :) thank you penny! koi hard chao lai lai! :D :D

this was perhaps one of the most well-spent trip ever. i wouldnt exchange this for anything in the world. it is one good memory i can keep in this little blog of mine :)

till then!
(why does this post sound so negative :P) i think cause im really sleepy now lol

laos muen lai lai part 3

2010-12-08T01:31:00.001+08:00

Day 5

day 5 was play day. in the morning we had construction to finish up again, this time we got the opportunity to actually align the bricks in a row to make the wall, though they said our bricks were super sengetedly arranged. it was, again very tiring despite already doing it for 3 days in a row.

me standing next to Mr genius. please dont start sem 3 notes just yet!

see my noob face tring to put the semen in between the bricks. apparently we had to put ALOT, like how we put jam in our bread just this time we've gotta put prolly 10 times more than we usually apply.

building the bricks, i became much better at this on the 3rd day :) it was quite tiring tho.

children looking at us while we do out stuff.

oh arent they cute.

after cleaning up, it was time to visit the city- luang prabang. we took a 30 minutes boat ride from the village to the other side of the river. luang prabang is much of a nicer place than vientienne. its cleaner, newer- i guess we were in a tourist area, hence all the goods sold there were, i presume, much of a rip off. but eventhen it was still quite cheap for us after conversion.

one of the nicest and largest temple ive seen in laos.

from there we parted, and started walking our ways.

we decided to try their local coffee there, and i tried their original one. it tasted quite the same as the ones in malaysia i would say, i brought some home and even my parents said so. but i brought too little home. my parents were complaining about how they could only make the most 3 cups out of it. my bad, sorry, i should have bought the entire coffee powder in the market instead of in the tourist area where we bargained so terribly for only such a small amount of powder :(

another temple, dont they all look the same!

according to peter, the temple/ museum above used to be a palace for the king and queen, and lying just opposite to the temple is this long pathway all the way up to the peak of the hill where the king and queen used to enjoy the nice view up there lol.

english words, yay? felt so illiterate during the entire trip.

i love this picture! we were outside yet another temple and we've been inside. it was just a grand, with a big statue smacked right in the middle of the temple, and walls with colourful, very colourful drawings.

we looked like we were doing business.

sex and the city! there were actually alot of places like this, with a nice western vibe to it. we initially wanted to dine in a place like this, but decided not to because hello, we were in laos. should enjoy more of their local delicacy :)

the empty streets of luang prabang before the night market invaded the empty street.

yer,so cute one.

mushrooms! tasted like..keropok :P

penny searching for her right wallet. she bought a few in the end,not from this lady tho.

cendol equivalent! tasted like cendol too!

chess equivalent, saw this right after we got off the boat. how resourceful

YUCKS, i dont know what this is, i think its a reptile drink. damn disgusting

more disgusting drinks. lol are those snakes?

in the end i managed to bring home 2 pencilcases, one for my sister and one for myself, 5 wristbands, and a pathetic amount of coffee powder. of course with a period of non stop bargaining before that. im still thinking its a rip off.

see kids swimming in there and all that.

night was spent gazing into the black sky in hope of catching a glimpse of a shooting star. was a failed attempt for me at least, but i did manage to see one (ONE) when we were on a boat ride back from luang prabang. uttered something in my mind before i broke into hysteria, screaming along with the other people who also saw the shooting star :) it was a cold comfortable night. every night was a cold comfortable night, almost felt romantic lol. we did this two nights in a row if not mistaken, the gazing into sky activity with all the little naughty kids breaking the silence of the quiet night we longed to have. had to cheat them into sleeping before we could actually enjoy the night with a few company.

day 6

day 6 was colouring competition day. we've pre-packed all the pressiez to be given to each and everyone of them, with colour pencils among the other goodies so they could used them to colour.

distributing to all the kids.

so into colouring. i guess some of them didnt know it was a competition as they finished it up in such a short period of time. lol the girl beside angeline was trying to emulate her style of colouring.

ee so cute

we took some and started colouring too. midway i almost gave up because there were too many details, reminding me now the very sole reason i enrolled myself into a medical school. why the heck did i enrol myself in a medical school?

suxin came to help me shortly after or this wouldnt be the end product haha. it was seriously nice, wen xin! :D

their library with all the books in it. they have all kinds of books, ranging from english to japanese to...i dont know what else. SHANE, dont study please!

eveerybody seemed to have a picture with mok, because she's just too cute!

later in the afternoon, there was actually nothing much we could do already, so we basically just lazed around waiting for evening to come. some of us tried digging the coconut skin out of the coconut shell but it was all just a vain effort as soon most of us got quite tired. but it was fun, wouldnt wanna do it everyday though. it tasted just as good as it looked :) santan to be used to make agar-agar

and then we helped them with their cooking for dinner. lol i couldnt do anything for nuts honestly, ended up just peeling the mint leaves from its stem, that's the least i could do haha. *and posing for pictures erhem

they werent just ordinary coconuts (al though they were initially), after emptying them they added ABC and namkhong in them and it tasted shooo good! should have made that discovery earlier!

saw two dogs fighting, and decided to intervene because they were just too cute aw. i names them blackie and brownie HAHA.

since i really had nothing to do and couldnt bear going back to our dorm because it was way too hot to sleep in, i spent the remaining evening interacting with these little kids. i learnt alot of words from them by acting them out, taught them how to camwhore too. they were super fascinated hahaa. and that's mok im carrying again!

they're such posers!

there were two at first, and then more and more kids started jumping on the wood lol.

later in the evening, they had a farewell ceremony for us. its called the basi festival- an festival held to thank us and bid our goodbyes. its all very traditional i would say, like a ritual to be performed everytime someone leaves.

picture for formaility

this beautiful thing in the middle played a major role in this event. during the event, the person most front was suppose to touch the table, and subsequent people behind were to touch the person infront of us, making a chain from back to front. the locals there then chanted something while touching the table, transferring all blessings and wishes to us via this thing. the white strings were then tied on to our wrists with additional blessings. i had so many of them at the end of everything and they're all nicely kept in my drawer now :) it was a really sentimental moment for all of us.

speech, bla bla

of course there were speeches and present giving ceremony and all that before, but there isnt much to say at this point :)

dinner was laksa again yums! and we had chickens and agar- agar, it was the best dinner i had in laos. i think i ate alot that night, partly cause i knew it was going to be the last dinner there in the village. it was shoo good.

agar agar!

peggy and her..malat lou named ed. he's been a really nice guy to us

it was a clubbing night man i tell you. soon, all of us headed in to the community hall again to sing the song we've practiced for ages, and the night begin lol. everyone was dancing to the songs and going all wild, and what amazed me was the locals were so open about it! they (young, old, whoever) all started dancing and offering beers to us, i was so o.O to the max! this was prolly my first time clubbing with people of all ages, in a non clubbing place yet with a clubbing atmosphere haha! it was soo much fun! and to see this people shake, like the slutty kind shake, was too shocking to believe lol. and the girls. they grind. they seriously grind -.- and i thought they were decent people.

what a wild night lol

anyway more pictures i missed out :

this was where we stayed! at the 2nd floor!

it was terribly messy inside

our beloved host guy who was always so friendly to us

where we sleep. its actually quite comfy if you have enough clothings on you at night

done. yay?

day 7 and 8 coming up!

laos piba day 3 and 4

2010-12-07T03:05:00.000+08:00

okay here goes :)

day 3
day 3 marks the starting of our construction plan :) we woke up as early as 6.30 laos time, had breakfast and all and started working. first day was actually kind of productive for us, where quantity mattered more than quality. our numbers were handy. the kids and us formed a human chain from the river all the way up to the construction site next to the school, where a library would be built. the locals were really helpful, even the elderly offered to help despite us telling them not to :) the sight of young children carrying one brick at the time was very cute to see. ONE BRICK. one kid actually used a plastic bag to carry the bricks, its fragile easily broken plastic bag we're talking about, and eventhough it was broken and it served no purpose any longer the kid was still keen on using the plastic bag. SHOO CUTE! without the children's help, we couldnt have achieved that much in such a short period of time :)

the bricks we donated

some were destroyed along the way :( such a pity

among other failed jumpshot photos before working. damn they were ugly

my way of carrying..and i wasnt always smiling like this :P

the kids happily offering their service

lol, i kind of feel ashamed of my strength. it was shoo heavy but some of them could actually carry them with ease (they just made it seemed so easy to carry). towards the end of everything i was quite worn out already with aching back and everything (it seemed that it was easier to carry the bricks with my back). after cleaning up and everything which took us all approximately 2 hours (how do i know? because i was the last to bath), we headed off to have lunch again.

did i mention that we were so WELL fed there? we had 3 big meals a day plus everything was refillable! and it was so scrumptious we kept adding more! but towards the last few days we didnt anymore because i realized how wasting it was when we couldnt finish our 2nd serving, and how the locals would love to finish up our left overs instead of us wastefully throwing it all away. but the food there..was shoo good. it almost felt malaysia-ish, like my mom's home cooked food :D

we have two person to a set of dishes each time, can you imagine the amount we've consumed

omg, fish soup am drooling now. tasted like zha choy tong.

owh and i love their sambal thing. it tastes like sambal plus spaghetti sauce together, and they served us that almost every meal. love that to bits.

after transferring the bricks, we had a tiny bonding session in their respective classes.

this is their classroom :)

chill lah ee lyn HAHA.

MOK!

group picture!

after cleaning up and whats not, they took us around the village. (this is actually day 2, not day 3)

cute children so fascinated by the images in the camera.

awwwww

emo boy. okay i have a story to tell about this boy. in actual fact, he isnt a he. he's a SHE. am i confusing you? (he's not a sheman okay HAHA what the heck) we didnt know she's a girl until a day later or something. but she's kinda pitiful because her mom doesnt really care much about her, which explains how she gets really clingy to someone once you're close to her. can you see the toughness in her face.

they have this river weed everywhere, im suspecting that's their main source of income. they extract these weeds from the river, put them into two big straw baskets and carry them all the way back home, where they clean them with water and align them on these straw mats to be dried under the sun.

washing

removing the weeds

this is their temple. i think they really do...mengagung-agungkan their temples there (how do u say that in english)..its as if temples are their pride, temples symbolize wealth or something. all the temples ive seen so far in LAOS are just as grand as this, or perhaps brings about more grandeur than this. im suspecting they pray to buddha, based on some zoom in pictures ive taken in laung prabang. that cute little girl there is KONG. there are monk settlements around the temple.

we were also being brought to the village chief's house, though we just sat there and stoned a little because there was nothing we can talk about. haha we tried some water with medicine wood or something inside, tasted normal.

the kids peeping inside as if we were display animals haha. they keep doing this when we were around, whether it was in the community hall, or in our host family's house.

tired from all the walking

a very cute puppy names BOBBI. honestly they have the cutest stray dogs on earth. all the stray dogs looked as if they were pure breed, with alot of FUR.

their...convenient store? lol far from what i imagined. they do sell most of the necessities.

at night was spent bonding with the kids again. it was a spontaneous thing since we had nothing to do after dinner.

dinner. i swear i've never eaten so many bananas in my life.

the place ran outta electricity during dinner. we had candle light dinner :P

i think i was playing a game with them, like some reaching-my-hands-and-clap kind of game.

ee lyn with the kids. she was so good with the kids. they were singing ABCD and shouting 1 2 3 5 5 6 with her man. see the kids listening so attentively to ee lyn, think she was trying to remember each and every of their names :)

it was a fun night. soon there were lesser and lesser of us, as some of them went to the river side to lie down while we stayed behind and played with the kids. they danced their traditional ritual dance for us, and we cheered. we dance our nobody nobody but you, but we looked kinda funny. we played some games with them too, and danced with them. actually i think we were very SHY that day, like we didnt really dance properly because there were so many of them, and so few of us hahah.

that very night marks the commencement of our late night drinking. the malat lous where playing a drinking game, and peggy and lexie joined them while me suxin, andrew and yao fan took a few bottles and went walking around the village which, at that time, was already pitch black. i like nights in laos hehe :) speaking of the malat lous, they're the nicest people on earth. they're so friendly, and the best thing is they dont advantage of people. they brought cheer to us, brought laughter to us, made us laugh like no business eventhough we couldnt really communicate. we piba-ed here and there, pai hong nam here and there...so much more to be said.

day 4

at this point im quite confused with the dates. what happen to the construction pictures in the morning? did we not take pictures? nvm lah as long as blog everything sequence doesnt matter does it lol. actually i think they brought us around the village in day 2. day 3 was health screening..ah doesnt matter.

anyway health screening was fruitful. i believe the entire village didnt come, as we had so any extra strips and all. were they scared at the thought of screening their health? maybe they were afraid they would be pricked. hmm dont really know. the men came a little later than the women, they prolly came after work.

i was in charged of checking their eye sight, men were easier to deal with in general because they knew alphabets. they were asked to write (or draw) the words out because most of them couldnt read alphabets. some of them (most of the women, that is) DREW the alphabets out lol, took them ages to finish drawing one E or one A. the men, on the other hand, were fast. im impressed with their eye sights, some of them could easily read the last few lines where the alphabets were as small as dot from the distance we were standing. even with my contact lenses on, i could the most read till the 6th or 7th line only. i guess they dont read that much afterall :)

they kept cheating :( some of them attempted using both eyes to read them, some told the others the answer. defeats the whole purpose of testing their eyesight.

we had 5 stations in total in 2 streams- one for eyesight, one for blood pressure taking, one for blood glucose reading, BMI and lastly the advice corner. there was this one old lady perhaps over the age of 90 who had a super duper outrageously high blood pressure, i dont know was it 150/80 or something, but it was shoo high it was frightening. of course we didnt frighten her lol, but we advised her to go to the nearest clinic to have a check. hope she's fine now :)

chai yen yen (relax) its just finger pricking :)

kids so fascinated with...blood?

adrian and shane the GENIUS giving them advice, with peter translating. poor peter had to run around translating for us because we were so helpless in communicating.

aww this picture is really cute. emo boy!

i have to talk about the origin of this HRMPH thing. i did that hrmph thing on the first day when everything was beef and it became viral, it started spreading till it became a LAOS thing now. even the children there were using the hrmph thing with us lol! thanks to ee lyn.

so many extras

btw, this is day 3.

day 4
more construction again. this time, we transferred stones from one site to another, and attempted making bricks outta semen readily mix by the locals. first few attempt were seriously blah, i mean the semen kept breaking and our bricks were always incomplete, but we got better as we progressed. still, i thought we were kind of slowing them down because they could have done it much much faster than us. it was quite tiring for me, whats with working under the blazing hot sun and that metal thing aint light either. the locals seemed to be doing all that with ease they're just so tough!

ohya, we first made a human chain and transferred the bricks from one site to another.

then we transferred stones from one site to another.

bricks readily piled up!

and then me and lexie continued making more of the bricks, only to realized all the other girls have disappeared. so after making bricks for awhile (some of which were terribly destroyed along the way due to our noob skills), we went off to find the rest.

they brought us to the river side to see people extracting river weeds from the river (?) and we hopped onto a boat that would bring us to an island to collect more sand for the semen.

for a moment i thought they were posing

tadah! we're on the boat! the funny thing was that very evening my dad called telling me to wear a life jacket if i ever got onto a boat LOL. if they had life jackets there i would have worn them, i assure you papa :P the island, was seriously just an island on its own, with nothing else, no civilization nothing. but the sand was like the cleanest and the most glittering sand ever, it was beautiful.

me and lexie working very, very hard :P

and then someone started throwing stones in the river, and soon we all got involved in that. and OMG i could freaking throw stone into the river and it wouldnt sink immediately. it would hop a couple of times on the surface of the water before it sinks. for the record, it managed to hop 6 times 1 time, 5 times a couple of times and blah blah blah. 6 times! i sangat bangga dengan sendiri lor i tell you, was super elated that time! with the right angle, the right stone and the right projectile motion, it was possible. i tell you, i still cannot believe this! *am gonna find stones in malaysia and attempt throwing it again next time* it was soo much fun!

the locals were kind enough to collect stones for us to throw :')

whoever made this..should enrolled him or herself in an art school :)

and then on the way back from the island, God knows who started splashing water here and there, and the entire boat was wet, because then everyone started splashing water at each other. it was seriously havoc! and since i've gotten all wet, me and eelyn decided to jump down from our boat. i know i know, stupid idea (daddy please dont scold me when you read this) but we did it anyway. it was near shore already, and i forgotten i didnt know how to float without swimming, so once i jumped down without even hesitating i swam to the shore lol. the boat ride was exhilarating!

the soil was so soft beneath my feet, like my feet would sink in.

lunch time with soya bean! what a hassle to have to untie the rubberband and drink it with the risk of it spilling everywhere? well, worry no more, because u can just turn it upside down, bite a hole at one corner and start drinking..like this

HAHA. best way of drinking ever :)

anyway in the evening they brought us hiking and farming.

and then we reached a river where all the kids started swimming in it (or bathing, whichever). and the leaves there can actually be used as soap. just rub it against your palms, and tadah!

see what you get! although it didnt really smell like soap, smelt like leaves anyway, but im assuming that's how they clean themselves up.

their farm. lol one night i remembered we took a mat with an intention of finding a place near the river to lie on and look at the sky. we unintentionally lied on their plantation *ouch. i heard they didnt water that area anymore eversince. sorry :(

i am farming!

this roughly wraps up day 4. at night was spent drinking and piba-ing again. it was again, another fun night with the malat lous hehe :)

some other pictures :

i have too many pictures with dogs, too many..

walao gayanya

hrmph! with oi

best laksa ever. think my sis would love it because its not spicy at all. day 5 and 6 coming up. till then!

laos ngam lai lai part I

2010-12-04T01:42:00.002+08:00

Day1 and 2
when we were still so enthu in taking pictures. the same cannot be said for every other days, especially the last few days when even bringing my camera along was a burden lol.

our flight was at 1.45pm, there actually isnt much to say about the flight, but then again we were still quite enthu hence explain the number of pictures in the plane. everything on board needed money, siens max. but the air stewardess were all so chio.

now everyone can fly!

after reaching vientienne airport and carrying out the usual procedures, we headed to peter's lodge to have a rest. meeting up with peter and his peeps were a little awkward at first, but man i tell you towards the end of the trip the awkwardness were all gone man.

our very first group photo outside peter's guesthouse

before the 10 hours bus, we got a glimpse of a celebration they have in vientienne in conjunction of vientienne's dunno-how-many-years as the mother state of laos. it actually all looked like msia's pasar malam to me, just bigger (way bigger) and more people. we had dinner in one of the shops in that area :) the people there actually arent bad looking. the girls there are in some way, gorgeous. they do have a little bit of chinese genes in them do they? the guys there all looked like malat lous haha.

our very first dinner. tried baby ducklings too, they tasted okay, like normal eggs i would say.

some food we didnt manage to try until a few days after. its chicken btw :D tasted ol rite.

that rounded thing overthere tasted like kaya balls and cream puffs.

laos is lacking rubbish bins honestly. they throw their rubbish in every corner they can find. look how ditry the park is.

day 1 practically was just travelling, travelling and more travelling. the 10 hours bus alone had literally killed some of us already, thank god me and suxin chose the correct sits on the bus because we could even put our legs on the bar infront of us..and come out with a leg dance HAHA.

on our way we stopped by to have a pee, and i guess in laos its impossible to find toilets for free. each entry requires you to pay 1000 kips (that's roughly 20 cents here) eventhou the toilets are terribly dirty. i could have had more icecreams in muangkham village with that money i spent for toilets. the only free toilets u have in Laos is if you do your business among the bushes.

yes i felt terribly discriminated lol. they kept serving beef on the first day i felt so underprivileged. i had to eat cold white rice while the rest gotta eat hot noodle soup with beef in it :( plus it was quite cold.

oh and did i mention how DELICIOUS the ice-cream in muangkham village was? its simple, bears resemblance to the ones sold in pasar malam in malaysia, but its better. and its so cheap its impossible.

after reaching the bus station in luang prabang, we took tuk tuks to our next destination- to the river for our boat ride :D i would say we've tried all 3 modes of transport in Laos already lol. still prefer the boat ride the best, at least it wasnt so dusty (like the tuk tuks) and it wasnt that nauseating (like the plane).

had like breakfast before that, where we 1st encountered our CHROMOSOMES. haha seriously, the yao char kuais there are shoo cute! they have two sister chromatids joined together in the centromere, with short and long arms. seriously! and they taste just as good as the ones in msia! :D love their half boil eggs too.

chromosomes!

no, i dont want to sit tuk tuks ever again. the air was bad already with exhaust fumes flying everywhere. could have died (okayla not so kuazang but srlsy lol)

our very first boat ride.

lol, so tired

your everyday luang prabang view =)

at the jetty.

upon reaching the village, we were greeted so warmly by the locals there. all the children stood in two rows at each side, making a pathway for us to walk through. and we were bestowed upon only the most natural thing on earth- a necklace made outta flowers. i was soooo touched, i believe everyone was. i felt like our presence was so appreciated. :) at that point, i knew we really had to do something for them. change their life, make our presence worthwhile :D i hope we did achieved what we initially setted out for :)

that's lin and danoi in the middle :D

yummy river weed! first day i couldnt make out what all that were lol.

the kids and us...we were strangers at first. i couldnt recognize even one of them, the earliest kid i could make out of was Fa because she looked so sweet. they were shy, they wanted to approach us but they didnt dare to. we approached them, but i guess they were to shy to communicate with us :) some of them did mention their names, but even then i couldnt pinpoint the names to their faces, nor could i remember their faces to begin with. they all looked identical, like twins, with the same body height and weight. it took us some time, a few a days actually to eventually get to know each and everyone of them. to see how strong a bond we've fostered with them really moved me. i couldnt even utter a word in lao when i first got there. i found it hard remembering those words that seemed so easy to me now. back then, it was hard. i wonder what got into me as the day passed. lao became much of a easier language after i bonded with them. i like how i used to act out the word, and they seemed to understand what i was relating. that was how i learnt. i learnt the words the primitive way. and there are a handful of words now i can use to communicate with the locals :') im glad i took the initiative to want to learn lao, to want to communicate, to want to play with them. they were so happy with us :D the people are different. ego never seem to be in their vocabulary. :')

our very first picture with them.

can you imagine yourself in that position at her age? i doubt i can even carry that at my age.

can you imagine yourself bathing in mekong river with no shampoo no soap no whatsoever? i cant.

that's pui, ya and (i dont remember ugh). penny's bf in the middle.

can you imaging yourself roaming free in your neighbourhood, knowing its safe to leave your house?

the life there is just so different :) and as i say, they're so tough without even realizing it :D more to elaborate in the following post. till then!

sometimes less is more :)

2010-12-03T01:37:00.005+08:00

everywhere i go, everything i do now reminds me so much of laos. i guess this really is post-withdrawal syndrome. in some way, this trip was much better than alot of the holidays i went previously, though it wasnt as luxurious and expensive, i thought it was really..something. it was really something different. it made a difference. i made a difference. i never quite felt like this before, the tormenting nostalgia's now slowly creeping its way to my heart. i went there with a feeling of indifference, never in my mind envisaging i'll come home with such a different feeling. i guess i felt really attached to the place, to the down-to-earth, modest, only the nicest and friendliest people on earth. i really miss all that i left behind, i miss that part of me living an idle life not struggling with the hustle and bustle of life, that part of me doing something significant to the impoverished. i miss lying down, seeing the world past before me without having to feel the need to get up and run the marathon with them. i felt like when i was there, i stop with them, i live with them in the past, i enjoyed the moment. back here, everything just flashes before my eye and before i realize, its already another day. i feel that i always have to catch up with life, with the speed that im suppose to withhold. but then again, that's the kind life we're suppose to be in, the kind of life we're studying for..

but what or who i truly miss, is the people i've made bonds with in laos. how they were always so hospitable during our stay, how they were always so helpful despite our poor constructing skills, how they were always so happy with our presence...that im immensely grateful.

they are so contented. they have nothing, but they are contented. the children there are nothing like those in malaysia. they have nothing, yet i see them roaming happily in their little village, barefooted, with nothing but dirt in hand and dirty clothes on them. i see glitters of euphoria on their faces as they carry out their house chores, doing what they've been doing since forever. they appreciate everything they have, i learnt that appreciation is the core of their contentment.

we have everything, but yet we complain. we complain alot. we are always never satisfied with what we have. they had our left overs, and they were happy. we threw our left overs because we were too full. we complain at the slightest dirt or heat or cold. they take it all in without a word. we complain about having to do house chores and work. they do it like it was something they ought to do at an age of 4. i like how they're so tough and independent without them even knowing it. i've never felt so welcomed and appreciated before. we went there with the intention of helping them, but deep down i really wondered if it was us that needed help more. i felt like i've learnt so much from them in such a short time. contentment, simplicity, euphoria, hospitality, unity...and so much more being portrayed in that small village of theirs :)

this has to stop. this really has to stop. i'll start blogging about laos already. till then!

a poem for our little friends

2010-11-30T13:27:00.003+08:00

credits to the former singaporean team that went to muang kham

I know your country is poor.
I do not know the shade of your skin colour.
I have packed sanitary wipes.
I guess poor means dirty.
I slept on the plane,
I must recharge to bring cheer to you.
I guess poor means sad.

This is how you look like, there are so many of you.
In long skirts, long pants and long sleeves,
Are you hot?
It is blazing in you country.
Yet, you bring out your rope of rubber bands,
jump and laugh,
you have examinations tomorrow.

We taught you
past, present and future tense.
You giggled and looked curiously at us,
strange formations at our lips,
unfamiliar sounds and
alien faces.

You taught me about the present when I looked less obscure.
I have a digital camera,
we took a photograph together.
The present is now,
The future is later.
In the same clothes you wear everyday,
you carry a beautiful smile.
I have a big wardrobe at home,
I hate that my shoes are not colour coordinated.
I smile when needed, what is it like to smile
unconsciously,
the way you do.

We held hands and
laughed a lot
when words become sounds that mean nothing.
We like weaving thread around pencils,
running in pools that form after the rain,
I am surprised I am having fun
without my laptop and wireless network.

I look at the candid shot of us in laughter.
My friends and I from our developed country
are to help you and your friends in your less developed country.
I guess you are poor,
I am right.
But all my other guesses were wild and wrong.
In your little hut with no furniture,
you have everything we long for
and need.

precisely how i felt. :')