Happy 2009!

It's already 2009! I haven't even get myself used to writing 08 on the date. Life is like that. When you haven't got hold of that something, that something has already left you. So appreciate everything in your life right now, right here.

I didnt go count down for new year. I'm actually quite pleased that I didn't go anywhere crowded and sticky. Coz last night I spent the time with my little cousin sister in her air-cond room discussing about Korean language we learned ourselves. lol....on her cozy bed. Then, I fell alseep before the clock struck twelve! lol. Luckily Zhuang came back from mamak and woke me up at 11.40pm so that we could count down together in the cozy room. And she brought back roti canai! Yum! I stepped into 2009 with roti canai and dal sauce on my fingers. lol.

Then the environment got crazier when we decided to record the Negaraku translated into Chinese version by me. =P The first few attempts were failures coz me and Mei couldn't help laughing in the middle. Luckily in the end we recorded a pretty decent Chinese version Negaraku. And then we sang the "hahaha" song we saw from TVXQ, too. See below for the hahaha song from TVXQ. lol. It's pretty funny.



Today I bought another 2 books from MPH in Midvalley. Keke. Neldon Mandela's Journey to the Freedom and Paulo Coelho's Alchemist. Both books were in my buying list for very long already. MPH is having a 3 for 2 promotion. Another book is for Audrey, the Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella. Haha. I've got so many books to read. Wait till I finish watching the Iljimae then I will start reading them.

Oh! I can't wait to go home watch Iljimae already. After eating birthday cake with Zhuang then I will rush back and watch till I cannot stand the sleepiness. =P Oh, by the way, I'm blogging from Zhuang's home.

I... am... ver...ry... pek... chek.... with.... the....ver....ry... slow.... con....nect....tion... 

Fast....ter... lah... dung...gu...

A post from home

I'm home!

Had a lot of nice soups to drink, unlimited food, unlimited desserts! And a lot of nap. Ahhh....This is trully a relaxing vacation. =P

Get many dramas from my dad. Korean, China, Hong Kong TVB, and lots of movies. Hehe. Dad told me if I watch 2 hours per day, I will need 2 years to finish watching these movies and dramas. lol. That's really a lot!

2009 is coming. What is your new year resolution? I'm going to list down mine soon. =)

Wrap up for 2008

I know this is too early. But I may not have time to blog when I'm at home. I wanna make full use of the time spending with my family.

Yes! I'm going home!! The last time I went back hometown was 7 months ago. The more I think of going home, the more I feel homesick! =D

Alright. I should be wrapping up 2008. First times in 2008:

1. Got my life saving certificate and medal
2. Learned CPR and first aid (but forgot the first aid bandaging already. Hehe)
3. Swim 1km non-stop in my life
4. Had my first 10km run
5. Visit to orphanage
6. Learned and tried debriefing (although I did so-so only, but I love the idea of debriefing!)
7. Camping on mountain top (freezing cold!)
8. Being dumped...
9. Car accidents (summore 3 times in a month)
10. Kayaking
11. Buy clothes from internet (actually tried once and that one singlet only)
12. Give tuition
13. Give pocket money to parents every month even when I'm damn bankrupt already
14. Started paying study loan
15. Working in an industrial based company (had some 'culture' shock when I first started)
16. Staying in a double-storey house... with a lawn! =P (My aunt's house's not counted)


And during this year, I just realized I miss my family so sooo much. And miss my grandma and her dog Pinky, my home and my hometown itself! Because this is the first time I left home for so long.

This year... some friends left, some new friends came; some friendships were strengthened, some were revived, some were slowly losing their grips; Some get to understand more, some get to misunderstand more.

But I only feel one thing inside.

Lonesome.

Even when I'm surrounded by cheerful people, supportive people and sometimes even family. I feel something empty. Inside.

Is it because some hope within was broken? Broken by a hopeless relationship?

I dunno.


This... is 2008.


I await a more cheerful and lively 2009. Lively not by the quantity of the cheerful activities, but by how things or people can enlighten my heart.

Pieces of nothing

Formatted my PC. Antivirus keeps popping out boxes saying virus is detected but it could not remove the virus. That's why I'm lazy to on my PC for 2 days.

Reading a Taiwan Novel about friendship. It makes me appreciate the time with the girls more.

Still cannot accept the fact that my supervisor is leaving the company, leaving me. Maybe it is time to be independent.

Forehead a bit warm. Maybe eaten too much heaty stuff.

Very anticipated to go orphanage later.

Singing along with Eason Chan's MV "浮誇" on Youtube just because I could not pronounce the Cantonese in the karaoke with colleague yesterday.

I love the way he sing 浮誇. The emotion. And the song feels like "I write sins not tragedies" by Panic at the Disco. But Eason's 浮誇 is more explosive. =D

Love the moment spent with the girls last night at my house. It gave me the exact feeling from the friendship in "Sex and the City". I hope, like those ladies in Sex and the City, we can even bring our kids to our gathering in the future. =)

Just some pieces of me here and there. To share with all of you. =)

Results are out!

Yeay! The 10km run results are out!

Okla. I'm quite satisfied with this. I consider it a good start and the results make me feel like going to another run to see whether I can improve the timing. To compete with myself.


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Went to Raleigh monthly meeting on Saturday. This time was a picnic at Waterfall Pisang. We were lucky it was a sunny day. =)

I like this photo (taken by Hock Soon). Very energetic and almost all of us left the ground. We were in a huge longkang on the way trekking towards the waterfall. We tried several jumps before we get this picture. lol. But too bad my face was blocked by GP's hand. Kena slapped. haha.

Updates:
Pictures taken from Hock Soon and Shih Chung, our Mr President.

With GP at the drain

When we reached the waterfall we found that there were quite a lot of people doing abseiling on the waterfall rocks.

We didn't abseil. But we got to do waterfall massage. Hehe.

Photo taken with Mr President

I particularly like this picture. Very natural. I was too focused on the massage and didn't notice I was snapped.

Group photo taken at the waterfall. Nice photography effect. Luckily this picture brightness was good, not too over-exposed.

Blocking the water in the drain with our butts. The water level went a foot high! That's the power of teamwork. =P And the water went gushing downstream when we stood up.

Great voices

Just realized I haven't compile the singers I like in my blog.

My favourite voices are:
1. JJ (林俊杰)
2. Eason Chan (陈奕迅)
3. Stephanie Sun (孙燕姿)

I always think JJ has very nice voice. And he's a good composer too.

Have a look at JJ singing live here. I tried to look for short and nice clip so you all no need to wait until the middle only can listen to him sing.



Very very heavenly voice!

Another male Chinese singer I like is Eason Chan. But I can only find this prize giving award which has better microphone sound quality.




Then for female Chinese singer, I think Stephanie is brilliant!


(Can't find her live A cappella clips)

Hehe. I think not enough. I put one more concert live clip of her

Randoms

Just met mum yesterday! =) Brought her to Pavilion and treated her lunch and tea. Only two of us for the first time. I love the time we hang out together. Feel really really warm in my heart. =) Hope I can do the same thing with my dad one day. Hehe.

Oh and yesterday went repair my car because the car was really noisy when I drive up to only 30-40km/hr. It was the gear box. It sounded like a truck! lol. Plus the brake pads were also exhausting due to lousy quality of local vehicles. They had solidified and powdered already. The repair costs me more than a thousand ringgit. I'm officially broke now. Again.

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Was looking for Korean drama. Then I found Iljimae which was filmed in 2007 and released this year. Still looking for place to download. Hopefully can get the drama. The main character in this drama is filmed by Lee Jun Ki who acts as a Robinhood at night but a naughty guy in the day time. I think it is going to be funny and sad in this drama.



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With so many public holidays drawing near. I'm currently under holiday mood. =P I miss those school times when I can have months of holiday. Holiday is a luxury for me now. Sigh. Grown up life is so so so different. How I hope I can go back to childhood time. lol.

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Oh gosh. I keep running to toilet today! It's something I ate yesterday or the day before. I remember I started having stomach cramp and feel like diarrhea since yesterday morning right after I woke up. Add up together with yesterday I ran to toilet for almost 10 times already. Sigh. Need some 保济丸 if you know what it is.

My first quarter marathon experience

Just came back from Singapore, and Singapore Marathon.

I started my first quarter marathon in my life with 10km women category. Finished at around 1 hour 29 minutes. But according to those who went to last year's marathon they will start count only after I pass the starting line. I was way behind in the long queue before the starting line. So it will be lesser. Hehe. Convincing myself now. Never mind, I will get the record from them soon.

The night before the marathon, I felt my heart beating really fast and my head kept thinking of excuses to not turning up in the marathon. But the nervous feeling disappear right after I passed the starting line the next day. I ran until 5km and felt my legs wobbly. Actually it's all mental. I was doing well before this. Non-stop running. But when I saw the signboard showing 5km (it was the first signboard that stated how far we had gone), I thought to myself "What? Another 5km?". And then my foot instantly went wobbly. lol.

So from then on I started to do the interchange of walking and running. Hehe. Thanks to the organizer and sponsors, they had many drink stations which provide mineral water and 100 plus every 1km or so. It was actually the signboards stating "drink station ahead" which gave me the motivation to fasten my pace and keep running. Haha. And thanks to those first aid stations which unlimitedly provide muscle pain relief cream. I think those drinks and creams are helping in terms of mentality. Coz I felt refreshed after having them. And thanks to Zhuang's Agel energy boost which I brought along.

And some spectators who kept giving firm support with really strong and loud voice really helped. I think "Keep running! You can do it!" is really a great line. Two white men (one was a photographer and another was a passerby) only repeatedly shouting this firmly could already lifted up my spirit. And "You're reaching 5km" dampened my spirit a lot coz it made me calculate the distance and the muscle pain I had to endure before I reach the finishing line.

50 meters before the finishing line, the MC was really supportive and kept pumping up everyone's spirit. I guess it was the motivation from the MC, I gathered up my energy and sped towards the line. What scared me was that right after the line when I started walking slowly I felt like my lungs were collapsing! OMG! Maybe I should not speed 50m before the finishing line? Luckily the pain in the chest slowly disappeared.

I really enjoyed the marathon. The triumph when you finally manage to reach the finishing line is so so so much different from seeing an "A" in your exam paper. It's pretty similar to the triumph feeling I had when I reach the top of Gunung Irau eight months ago. But the crowd and the noise in Irau was not as bombastic. Marathon was like a party. Hehe. ^^

Regardless of the medal and certificate, I also get to know new friends (e.g. Ken, Charles and Michelle), meet up some Monash friends who were also joining the marathon and met some representatives from Monash Australia. The time was too packed to meet up with my hometown friends though. Plus my international roaming for Maxis was not set up (I din know have to set up one. lol.), totally cannot contact everyone when I was in Singapore. lol.



Update: Pictures below! (Taken from Shiang and New's facebook)

Before starting

 The crowd was running towards the finishing line

Me, Shiang, Suk Jiun and a guy whom I dun remember his name.

 Kokum and I

Giant Adidas shoe! With YY...

Girls with medals (from the left: New, YY, me, GP, Ying Hui, Michelle and a girl I dunno her name)

See the white fence behind me? I fantasize these kind of fence in my garden! hehe

Me and Shing Wei

Suntec Foodcourt! Can you believe this is a foodcourt? OMG! I thought it was an old Chinese bookstore.

Christmas is COMING! Awww... I'm so obsessed with christmas decorations!

Care more. Love more.

I'm packing up for the Singapore marathon on Sunday. Actually I'm yet to start packing up. lol. I'm planning to pack up.

I'm having a lot of thoughts right now and start evaluating myself.

Just now went out with CY and New and found that CY has very very good debriefing and motivating skills, which I lack. So now I'm evaluating my own motivating skills. I think I have zero. lol.

And when I came back and met Heng online, he asked me "Do you think you're a caring person?" I answered pretty fast. No. I'm not caring. Not even to my family members. I know it's really bad. But even though I really love them, I feel very awkward showing care to them. Sigh. I think I should start learning now to care for people and to console people. Coz I duwan myself to have a personality I dun like. Wish me luck for this. And for the marathon too. Gosh. I'm yet to pack! And it's almost 11pm now! And I'm going to meet the Monash folks tomorrow at 6 something in the morning. Gotta go pack already.

See you!

Chinese fries

When I craved for Mc Donald French fries last night, I bought this instead when I passed by the stall.

I bought these Chinese fries! -- 'ham chin beng' and 'yaw char kuai'. They only costed me RM1.20! Hehe. Way cheaper than a packet of fries. I love the sweet taste of this kind of 'yaw char kuai'. This is not the normal one. This kind is slightly sweeter than the normal one. And 'ham chin beng' is my favourite! Coz I like the red bean paste inside! Yumm!! And the sesame seeds make them even more tasty! Hehe.


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Zhuang said I should write more often. Hehe. Paiseh. I run out of idea most of the time. Coz recently I didnt do much things...

Oh ya! I did do something last weekend actually. I went out with Chee Hui! She came to work in PJ just a month ago and I had been waiting for her to call me to hang out together. Coz from her blog I know she's too obsessed with her TVB dramas. Hehe. So didn't want to kacau her. CH came to stay over last weekend and we had a lot to chat!

I counted back the years we've known each other and found that we've known each other for more than 10 years already! If I only count from the year when we started talking to each other, it was way back in 1997. It has been 11 years! And if I count from the year when we were in the same class, that will be around 14 years! We managed to keep in touch again after a few years of out of touch after the graduation from high school. I really treasure that. =)

It was her novels that kept us in contact. She posts her very original and interesting stories on her blog and I always had to follow them coz they are very well plotted. Coz I like those weird weird stories involving past life, mysteries, investigation. I believe one day she will become a famous novelist in Asia. I'll be the first to buy her book if she publishes her stories. If you all are interested with her stories, this is her blog. I'm consciously promoting her blog. Kaka. Coz I think the stories are really good!

Biotech geeks go funny on Youtube

Hahaha.. I've heard there's a video advertisement on a biotech product on youtube. Then I looked for it on youtube. It cracks me up! Biorad is so creative! Summore the singers are good! (This is not an intention to advertise for Biorad PCR machine. Just some personal sharing with friends. hehe)

The PCR Song

There was a time when to amplify DNA,
You had to grow tons and tons of tiny cells.

Then along came a guy named Dr. Kary Mullis,
Said you can amplify in vitro just as well.

Just mix your template with a buffer and some primers,
Nucleotides and polymerases, too.

Denaturing, annealing, and extending.
Well it’s amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do.

Chorus:
PCR, when you need to detect mutations.
PCR, when you need to recombine.
PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is.
PCR, when you need to solve a crime.
(repeat chorus)


Then I found another video which is lots lots more funny than the commercial. This video is not a commercial video though.




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Okay! Upon request from WY and Zhuang, I've decided to put my room picture here. I'm not that famous to attract attention from all over the world anyway. So, I reckon not many people is interested with my room. Here, this is my room.


I'm very satisfied with the compactness of this area. Heehee...


It's pretty messy there coz I dun have enough containers to place the junks. Those beside the non-woven wardrobe are junks I seldom use. I'm going to bring back hometown bit by bit. Oops! Forgot to close the wardrobe when taking the pic. Very messy..


I love how the curtain let the sunshine shines through.. =) Taken from the doorway

Sui yang one

My dreams had always been 'interesting' most of the time. They are always like Amazing Race or Survival. In most dreams I have to run away from some enemies or monsters or ghosts.I never got caught in any of these dreams (am very good in hiding in my dreams. lol) but the disappointing thing is that the dreams never showed what happen to me in the end. Another type of dream is I have to run towards/ looking for some checkpoints in some sort of survival games, always feel the triumph when I passed every checkpoint.

Last night I dreamed that I was chased out of a big bungalow (which in my dream is a house I had just taken over from someone). Then an old lady who looks like the stepmother in Cinderella (whom I took the house from) chased me out and then for some unknown reason she came to chase for me. So I ran around the house compound looking for chances to get into my house. lol.

The compound suits my taste very much. Haha. It had a round and clear swimming pool, a small garden with some flower beds and wooden bench painted white. And the compound has small path lined with assorted pebbles. Everything in the compound are mainly in my favourite colours: light pink, white and soft yellow (except the pebbles, of course, which are in various grey and white colour). Aww.. How I wish my future house to look exactly like that! hehe.


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Have a look at some of the pictures I got from Shu Woan's FB on the Raleigh Conference.

This is the exhibition board me, Sulan, Shi Wei and Alice worked on until 4am on the first day of conference. Starting from polystyrene board, a whole stretch of green cloth and some printed A4 papers.

Was having fun playing this table tapping game

Watching Peter speaking Mandarin to Shih Chung. Peter is very good in speaking Mandarin! With China accent summore. Salute! While SC.. Erhem. He should practice more Mandarin. (oh by the way, I heard Peter is one of the chief police officer in Hong Kong. It's so cool to meet a police chief face to face!)


Group photo with Hong Kong Raleighians in the conference:

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Recently I am having this habit of saying "sui yang" (it's translated into Chinese from Cantonese "soi yeong" aka 衰样: normally for scolding people who is not behaving well). But, I applied this word into every aspect. For example:

1. She very sui yang one, always tease me.
2. This machine very sui yang one, always break down.
3. Sui yang, it's raining now... (I hate rainy days)
4. The birds very sui yang one, everyday shit on my car! (Which really put on my nerves, I always have to wipe the shit away. Grrr... )

Then one day, I heard my colleague sitting next to me started picking up my "sui yang" words. lol. So sui yang. hehe..



P/S: Pictures of my new room will be out on next post. =) Be patient yea.

Shifted house

Hey folks! Sorry I haven't been updating my blog for SIX days!

Actually I was shifting house from USJ to Sunway on Sunday. I only manage to set up my PC on Tuesday. It was a dread to me not being able to go online for 2 days! Plus these few days the connection hasn't been good.

Guess what? I went nuts when I could not find the power cable linked to the CPU when I was setting up the PC. I went searching in the whole (new) room but couldn't find it. But I remember I had cleared the old room in USJ before I left the room. I was frantically telling my mum that I could not even switch my PC on without the cable! Then my clever mum told me that I actually can use the cable we use for rice cookers. I quickly ended the conversation with mum and tried it with the rice cooker cable. It worked! When the screen came alive I almost danced around my PC worshipping the rice cooker cable. lol.

Wednesday night went to a motivational talk in Damansara which was pretty enlightening. After listening to it, I feel more courageous facing problems in life. Grab some of the great lines I got from the talk:

1. We get what we ARE, not what we WANT
-meaning: what you get in your life now is actually a reflection of you character and behaviour. So you are the one who is fully responsible on the incidents around you, good or bad. Which is quite common sense isn't it?

2. The future will be the same if you dun change yourself
-So start changing today into a suitable person (more confident, cheerful, wise, determined) in life fitting into the requirements to get what you want in your life!

3. Master your mind, don't be mastered by your mind
-Control yourself from being slacking, being low confident, moody etc. because we are the one who should control our mind and deeds, not our feelings.

4. This too will pass
- This is a sentence you should always tell yourself when you are in bad times. Because bad times will pass. And we must not forget that good time will pass too.


And a confident person will tell him/herself that

"The world is a better place because I'm living in it"



p/s: The new neighbour has two very very pretty dogs. I'm gonna try get closer with them slowly. Keke..

p/p/s: Not yet taken a photo of my house. Actually its' just like normal house. So I'm still thinking wanna post it up or not.. Plus, I'm worry about privacy issue.

Inpsired by Raleigh again

Just came back from Raleigh International Regional Conference. I went to the International Youth Centre (IYC) last night. Then had a cuppa with our own Raleigh KL people and Raleigh international delegates from Raleigh UK, Raleigh Hong Kong, Raleigh Sabah and Raleigh Borneo. Had a fun chat with Sham - a 40 years old man who still treasure the moments he went through in his expedition back in 1987.

I met great people like Stacey Adams our Raleigh CEO (from UK), Jim Clements the Country Director for Sabah Expedition from Raleigh Borneo (from UK), Tom Tong the Raleigh Hong Kong president (obviously from HK), Gary the Raleigh China president, Daniel from Raleigh Singapore and presidents from Raleigh Sabah. Most of them are way past 30 years old.

Oh by the way, does anyone of you keep wondering what is this Raleigh thing? Last night Heng's mum called me. And we chatted. Then I told her I'm having a cuppa with people from a youth development organization (didn't tell her Raleigh coz Raleigh is not very famous in Malaysia. I want to save time from explaining what Raleigh is). Then she asked "Is it a Christian cell group?" I was like.. hmm.. I have to go explain what Raleigh is anyway. lol.

Folks. If you want to know what is this Raleigh thing which I had been repeatedly talking about in my blog (coz I can't help it)...

Raleigh is a youth development organization
which helps young people age from 17-25
to not only learn about team work
but also inspires them to search within for their own abilities
because when one is pushed to the limit only one can find their hidden abilities

Raleigh emphasizes on charity programmes such as community services and environmental causes. The expedition venturers work on government projects such as environmental sustaining /research and community (building school, bridge, water gravity system in a rural village) which is a collaboration between Raleigh and the Sabah state government. We not only have Sabah though. There are also expeditions in Costa Rica & Nicaragua, Namibia and India. And for your information, Prince Williams also joined this expedition before. He went to Chile. For more info please click here.

You know when I start loving Raleigh? That's when Vic, our dinasour (senior) told us about his expedition experience. "We thought we could not finish our project in the expedition. But in the end not only we reached the target but even achieved way more than what we expected. Always remember you can achieve more than what you expected." This line, can be used in our daily lives too. And since then I keep telling myself that I can achieve more than what I think I can.


Raleigh pushes you to the limit.


And when you had been physically and mentally strained by these heavy workloads, you will know how much more you can push yourself beyond your limit. (Photo taken from a Sabah expedition in Spring 2008, they were building a bridge for the villagers)

Last night I guess I've pushed myself to the limit because I have zero idea how to go to IYC. I drove there alone last night at around 8pm. I got lost 2 times. I took a wrong left turn at first to Bandar Tasik Selatan which resulted me U-turned to the opposite road. Then I drove all the way back to Sri Petaling and made a U-turn and then went back to the right direction.

This second time, I called up JY for directions. Having false direction from JY, hehe, I went all the way straight on Kesas from Subang towards Cheras expecting a Cheras toll. Half way driving I found that the signboards along the road no longer showed Cheras nor Bandar Tun Razak, but Ipoh, Kuantan and Kajang. I was so panicked. Found a U-turn and went all the way back (highway very hard to find U-turn one) and then U-turn again to go back towards Cheras again. lol.. That was a scary night. But luckily after that I manage to find IYC (The last part of JY's direction is genuine. hehe)



Last night I prepared for the exhibition board until 4am. Which explains my sleepiness now and body-aching all over because of lack of sleep even though the IYC has good hotel-like beds. Sigh. Tonight I'm gonna sleep very very early. And I mean it. And lotsss of water. Anyway, we, the exhibition set up team, were very satisfied with our exhibition boards that we created using polystyrene board and a green silky cloth which was really difficult to secure its position on the board. Will put the photos of the boards up here when I got the photos.

I was most of the time dozing off during the conference presentations. lol. Those videos of expeditions and Raleigh HK's marathon programmes kept me awake. They were really motivating to watch.

Yawn. So tired and tomorrow I have to move house. I'm gonna get some sleep now. Tomorrow morning only pack my stuff. Hehe. Nites!


Update: Just found one picture regarding the Raleigh conference on FB. Here it is!

Spot me! =P

My Best Friend's Girl

I'm so hooked to this book. My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson.



It's about how a 32 years old lady taking up the responsibility to adopt her best friend's 5 years old daughter after her best friend's death. The author describes the narrator's grief very well. And it always bring me to tears when Tegan, the little girl makes her learns to open her heart bit by bit.

It's a very touching chick-lit. It tells a lot about a mum's worries on her children, so much till I feel the stress from the heavy responsibility of this superwoman who has to work and take care of Tegan.

Another thing that touched me is the zero race boundaries between the narrator, who is black, and the little girl who is white and the man who loved both the narrator and the little girl very much who is a white too. It makes me fantasizing about the world full of love without racial discrimination and trusts among different races.

This book made my days! =)

Hairstyles for 2009

Hmm. I googled for the 2009 hairstyle trend. And guess what I found?


There are 3 types:

1. Short - Pixie style




2. Long - Straight and silky




3. Long - 70s wavy hair



Which one should I try le? 3rd one I definitely don't need to change anything to my hair already coz my hair looks fluffy like the most right hand side picture. Hehe.

Pixie one is quite impossible coz I have thick hair, I might look like I'm wearing a helmet when having that style (unless, according to Audrey, I go trim my hair every 2 weeks)

Silky one is quite tempting to me. But I had that last year already. Having back the same silky hair will be quite boring, isn't it?

The most drastic change will be pixie hair, but it's sooo short! I might need to think twice. Hmm...


Which hairstyle I should I choose? I want to have a new hairstyle in 2009 =) Any suggestions?

She died...

I made a very stupid mistake. It was on Tuesday.

I accidentally poured half an icebox of ice water onto myself and flooded my front lab coat pockets. The nightmare was that my handphone was in my front lab coat pocket!! So it was as if I gave my handphone a shower. A cold one.

I tried to dab it dry. After that I just put it on my lab bench and continue my work. I didn't switch off the phone coz I thought it was dry. When I went back to look at my phone, the screen was dim! As if it was sending me some signal telling me "I'm dying..." So I off the phone and expect it to be able to be switched on. But when I tried to switch it on the screen showed nothing. It's just black. And blank. Tak rak. Illek. Mei You. Kosong. Obso. =(

I then put it in the oven to dry it for 30 minutes. After that can on la. Was so happy! But I dun dare to on it too long. Scare the electric board will get electrocuted even more. So I switched it off again and waited for the clock to tick by.

I left work at sharp 5.30pm and rush to the nearest handphone clinic (handphone shop) and requested a first aid on my phone. No sign of water was found inside. Handphone doctor adviced me to take out the battery and leave it dry for 2 days, then only see whether it's spoilt.

So the final moment has come. I was able to switch the phone on! But I can't press the important buttons like "Cancel" and "Back". So whenever I want to go back to the main menu I will have to switch off the phone and switch it on again. Summore, I set this phone to auto-lock long time ago. So, now whenever it autolocks, I can no longer use the phone coz I can't press the unlock button! And I can't even switch off my phone when it's locked! I have to remove the battery straight from the phone and put it back to switch it back on.

Argh.. I need a new phone. I'm gonna miss this phone. =( It's very handy and I'm already used to holding it. And, and I'm used to typing sms with it without even looking at the keypad.

I need a phone. Oh gosh. I'm broke. I'm getting a cheap one this weekend.

Numb..

This song explains my current feeling very accurately. But sadness had been drawn out already. Numb took the place.

Sunburn from kayaking

Humph! It's a busy and tiring day!

kayak with Raleigh people.

All these kayaks had to be carried from the storeroom which is 100+m away from the lakeside. Summore some of the kayaks are very heavy. My arms are aching now because of this (not because of kayaking)

It's my first kayak experience. We had a kayak guide who taught us how to paddle and the hand signals for kayaking. Everyone is listening to the briefing except me who was dozing off. Hehe.

Then after that we were 'thrown' into the water to practice our water confidence. We had to turn and somersault in the water. Oh ya! And we had to learn switching side from one side of the kayak to another in the water.

Then we can start kayaking! But I didn't really master the technique of kayaking, I just couldn't keep my kayak straight when I move forward! See where I'm going?

Then we formed a line with our kayaks. It was fun!

Another line.

I got pretty serious sunburn on my face now. I look like the Santa Clause's Rudolph reindeer now. Why? Because I'm having a really red nose (from sunburn) and red cheeks! =( Tomorrow it's gonna turn dark. Sigh...

Raleigh is always filled with high spirits =) Even our kayak guide (at the very right) also joined in happily with us. hehe... [Picture taken from Richard Teh's FB]


Then after that I rushed back to OUG for my tuition. And I collected some stuff placed at my aunt's house which was brought by my brother from hometown. I didn't unpack them until I'm back. I just saw a harddisk box in the plastic bag. I remember mum told me they are going to give me mum's unused internal harddisk. So I was expecting they put the old harddisk into the box.

Then when I came back and opened it, inside the box is a brand new 500GB external harddisk!

OMG! I was so confused I called up mum and asked her why was the external harddisk here. She told me it was the birthday present from herself and my bro and his girlfriend. Awww.. I'm soooo touched! I felt my tears welling up.

Oh by the way, I think my legs are going to fall apart. But kayaking doesn't use much leg muscles right? Hmm. I dunno what's wrong with it. Maybe I walked too much? lol. Oh! Or was it the jog I had the day before yesterday? That was my longest jog I had in my life. And guess how many km? 1.5km only. keke.. The second longest jog was with Ching Wan last time during A Levels. We jogged around the football field for around 3-4 times and I was already knocked out. I'm so proud I made to 1.5km this time. Haha. I know I'm very lousy.

My goodness the marathon is like one month away and I am still not sure whether I can make it for 10km. Please, give me the perseverence and determination to proof to myself that I can run 10km. =)


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Now I'm happily eating mum's gong zai beng! =D

Something there is very big lo... 18SX or not? Heee.. Gotcha!!


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Tonight, I'm gonna make full use of the weekend to have a 100% beauty sleep to rest my berkecai-kecai punya leg. Muahaha.


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JJ new songs are nice! Especially the 小酒窝 with Ah Sa. Thumbs up!



I also like the rapping part of this song called 不潮不用花钱. (I thought it is supposed to be 不愁不用花钱? Hmmm) Plus. The lyrics is very non-sense. No meaning at all one especially the rapping part. But the rapping part tune is nice. =) It's at the very last part.




Updated 10 November 2008 7.59pm

Sleep deprived...

Had always wanted to post this video already. Leehom's new song- "What happened to rock music?" I think it's nice especially the combination of electronic guitar and 琵琶 (a chinese traditional musical instrument) part.

VS

But the MV is a bit too normal, typical western style rock star MV. But what's more important is the music right? =)

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These few days kept saying wrong things:

1. Wanted to say autoclave but said photostat instead.
I asked my lab mates "Who want to photostat Schott bottles?" lol.. If only the bottles can be photocopied. hehe

2. This one is in mandarin: 向男生表白 becomes 向男生漂白. ROTFL [Roll On The Floor Laughing]

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Argh. So many things to do recently.

1. Have to prepare for the exhibition of Raleigh Asia Regional Conference. Due date is very soon which is next Tuesday! And now I still have no idea how to do le.
2. My chemistry class preparation.
3. Teaching swimming on Friday. Gonna practice my backstroke already. Keke..
4. Moving house! Not yet pack my stuff. Oh and I must remember to call up the owner to settle the deposit.
5. And omg omg! Should I go to the Gunung Ruil trip. end of the month? The stay in Orang Asli's house is really new to me. =( But hor. I know nobody there. =(
6. And etc etc etc. Will only tell here what is etc etc etc when I succeed. Keke.

Sometimes I hope I can just lie on the bed staring at the ceiling and basically just doing nothing. But normally when I have the time to do that, I will end up watching dramas or movies.

Ok. Off to finish up my etc etc etc stuff first. Ciao~~


p/s: Yeay. Obama won the election! Am so happy! Actually I should say I'm envious of America. Coz second class citizen is never going to become prime minister in Malaysia ever. I'm so proud of white Americans who voted Obama because they are willing to accept second class citizen as their leader. I respect them!

The vintage style birthday dinner

This picture says it all.

We had a dinner at Pizza Uno Taipan to celebrate Shi Yun's birthday. That was my suggestion. Keke. Coz Pyramid is really boring to us already. lol.

I didn't know it had shifted to another row of shophouses in Taipan. Just one row behind the old one. Same row as KFC in Taipan facing the mainroad. And it is now bigger and more spacious compared with the old Uno.

We took quite a lot of pictures this time. Hehe. Because the ambiance in this restaurant is really comfortable.

5 of us. CP are you missing us? Just imagine the glass on the table is you la. hehe. =P

Then we went to cut the cake at Station One in USJ.

The cake. The present. And the girls.

The performers were really lousy in singing and sort of dampen our mood a bit. We tried to talk to each other but the performers were yelling at their mics (instead of singing) and most of the time went out of tune. It was really hard to talk with such noise. In the end we yelled (I mean raised our voices) at each other so that we can hear each other.

But the waiter/waitress there were really considerate and clever. They switched off all the lights in the cafe when the cake with lighted candles was brought in front of SY. And at that same time the performers were singing birthday song and everyone was looking. lol. It was really at a good timing. But it can be bad too. Coz I wouldn't want people to turn and look at the numbers of candles on my cake. Hehe. Sorry yea SY. Hehe.

Camwhore for a while there.

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My parents just brought grandma for a body check up in JB and she was found that she has a weaker heart now and have to rely on medicine to strengten her heart. After knowing this I have a sudden urge to go home. To be with my grandma just like those old times when we sat on the couch and listen to her talking. Miss those old times when me, my bro and grandma happily sprung off from car to buy sundae cone from Mc Donald in JB whenever we went for shopping in JB. She's old at age but young at mind. She's a very open-minded grandma. Although sometimes immatured and always do funny things, she worth my respect because of all the sacrifices she had done to the family. And she is the most adventurous grandma I've seen climbing up to the 4th floor roof top to adjust the antena at her 75 years old. I miss her. Miss her cute chuckles. =)