Desperately need these.. =/

Recently there are two things sitting in my "must buy" list:

1. Korean dictionary
2. Swim suit

I lend my Korean dictionary to my lil sis who equally loves Korean language. After a while I think I might as well give it to her since she likes it so much plus I saw a more advance dictionary in Popular bookstore. But last week when I went there to look for the dictionary again, it was gone!! =( Sigh... So I'm still waiting for it to 'reappear' in the shelf. lol...

For swim suit. I know I own damn a lot of swim suits. But the newest two-piece swim suit I own is loosen already. =( The last time I swam, I had to keep pulling the shorts to prevent it from falling off. lol. My old one-piece swim suit was loosen long time ago. So now all of them are sitting in my closet. I'll never buy two piece swim suit already. But the one-piece swim suits I like are all more than a hundred. Sigh.. I rather pay the fees for Korean language course and live with my loosen swim suit first. lol...


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Have been looking for this song after heard it from radio. Coz I love the style of this song. Is it R&B? I dunno..

I always miss the introduction of the name of the song by the DJ. I first thought it was Eason Chan's song before I heard the intro. Hehe.

Today when I heard it from radio, I sat right next to the radio until I hear the intro. Finally I know who sings this song.

Two thumbs up for this song! Light and soothing!

側田 - B.O.K

22 years ago..

I just realized my current hairstyle is so similar with the hairstyle when I was a toddler. hehe.


See people! I'm already that dark when I was 3. I'm naturally dark! It's not suntan I get from trekking nor sailing. =P


Ok. Gotta go continue my Korean drama watching. Finishing soon. =)

Update more next time =P


Add-on: Argh!!! Episode 22 1/7 dun have Chinese Sub ah! Only have Vietnamese Sub. I really need to brush up my Korean language already. Sigh..

Lady Gaga has got talent!

Poker Face by Lady Gaga...

In the beginning I really hate this song coz it sounds annoying. But after a while it's quite catchy and I kinda crave for this song recently. lol.


Can't find the MV for this song in Youtube due to location restriction. Dun really like the cartoon dancing around in this video. lol


When I check youtube for this song I found her acoustic version of Poker Face which I find it extremely amazing. Amazed by how the song can be modified into slow and easy version. =)


Ever seen people playing piano with feet? Here it is (at the very last part)! lol...

She's weird. But talented =)


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Went to aunt's house last weekend. Haven't stayed over her house for 2 months I think. And it felt like years. lol.

Had some bakzhang. Had a memorable girls talk session with cousins. Aww I love these moments. =) Went sipping Starbucks hazelnut chocolate at the Gardens.





It was oh-so-relaxing. =)

Except I slept quite late girl-talking with my little cousin. She's grown up so much. I still remember she was still a baby lying in my lap staring at me with her big eyes. =P Never had I imagine we can have girls talk session when she's 16.

She's like my little sister already. =) Love her! (Alright, Zhuang if you're reading this, love you too! =P)


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Celebrated Hin Kian's birthday yesterday at Bubba Gump the Curve.


The birthday boy and his wife

I ordered a special set which I thought it's worth the price.

But ended up I couldn't finish the dish. I was too full I almost vomit. Feel bad I wasted 2 pieces of garlic bread, few pieces of French fries and the coleslaw.

When I was fighting with the nausea, the staffs of Bubba Gump came towards us with a cake cheering for Hin Kian. They ushered him to stand on the chair and shake his bootie before they gave him a birthday cheer. Those staffs are very fun people. And their cheer was cool =P



I almost die when I ate the last piece of cake. =P

Fancy some camping experiences?

Hoho! So glad that IW is coming back again this coming June!


For anyone of you who:-

-hasn't seen a long drop or who dun even know what it is. (For those who dunno, it's a very "luxurious" toilet bowl hole in the jungle)

-hasn't slept under the starry night in the jungle

-hasn't run wild in jungle or bathe in a river

-thinks you are nobody (We make you feel important! =D)

-loves challenges



Here's a chance for you to experience it.




(Click for larger image)


Application forms can be obtained here.


Still dunno what it is? Refer to Raleigh blog and The Star for more info.


Gosh! I still miss the fun from last year IW. This coming one will be even more interesting I bet. =)

In love now..

I'm in love now.

I'm in love with....

Korean language!

Haha.. Gotcha!! =P

I've been smiling since I went to inquire about the Korean language course at ICLS and confirmed my place in one of the classes.

I've started to like Korean dramas since 2003 and since then I started to learn phrases from those dramas. Around 2004, I started to learn Korean language from Kosnet, following every word the audio clip played. I only learned on and off, still learned mostly from dramas. Then I started to think about taking up Korean course around 2007. Went to take the information sheet (with timetable and all) from ICLS for the first time in Jan 2008 I guess.

But turned down the plan coz I dun have enough savings. It's RM435 per course!

Threw the paper into rubbish bin. Really wanted it but no money. What to do...

Then around 6 months later, I went ICLS again. Took the info sheet again. No money again. Threw it into rubbish bin again.


This is the second piece. Din take the picture of the first info sheet.

In between, I got to know a very kind Korean guy introduced by Chung Ming. He's staying in Busan currently. But he's very kind to teach me Korean language a little bit here and there through MSN audio calls. So I learned many sentences and one of my favourite is "내생각에는예쁘다구생각에" meaning I think I'm pretty. Muahahaha..

He didn't contact me after several lessons due to busy with his master year. So, I started self learn slowly from a book for Korean language beginners.

But learning from book has got its disadvantage. I dunno whether I had pronouced it correctly or not. Although the Korean friend of mine finally showed back up again on MSN but my new home has very slow connection. He no longer can call me through MSN to teach me the pronunciations. Sigh.

So, jeng jeng jeng!

For the third time in my life I went to get the third piece of info sheet! lol..


And I swear to myself that I will never turn down the plan again this time! Never!

Yor.. Can't wait for 23 June to come. Faster la. Faster la.

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Pinky was lost last Tuesday! My cousin brought her to JB (which is 45 mins driving distance) to shave her fur. Then dunno how the next morning he checked the house she's no where to be seen. Sob..

Either she ran out of the house.. or.. or.. someone stole it and.. and.. if it's worse.. might have already in someone's stomach. Cry.... I can't accept this fact that I will never see her again.

I miss her. Sob..



Pinky.. Although you're smelly and naughty. I still love you. =(

Please come back Pinky. =(

Hello Broga Hill

I got to know Broga hill few months ago. But this hill is not very tall. Or I should say it doesn't look tall. So it didn't attract me.

Until one day I saw the pictures taken by Khee Kuan (my senior from Monash University) who posted the photos on FB, I was amazed by the view seen from the hilltop. From the hilltop one can see mist covering the city below before the sunrise.


Nice right??!(Photo courtesy of Khee Kuan)

From that day onwards I have different perspective towards the hill.

One Sunday I went Broga with Soon, Li Ern and her Uni friends. Total 9 of us. We started to trek up at around 5.30am I guess and managed to reach the first peak before sunrise.

Just got down from cars before our trek


The hilltop was just like those in pictures I saw online. Round round and grassy. =) It's a very cute hill.

The sun was not out yet. The dawn was almost breaking.

And then it started to become brighter.



Sun behind the hills


Orange! Love this picture! =)


Sun popped out. =P




Jumped!


Layers and layers of hills. =)


The grass looked spongy and soft, like teddy bear's fur =P I love how the hill look smooth from afar. Feel like singing "The Hills are Alive" from Sound of Music when I saw this view. =P






With Tian Chad and Li Ern


These grass looked smooth from far only. Before I went to this hill I wanted to take a photo of me lying on the grass. When I was there only I know it's impossible to lay on these grass. Coz it's very very tall and poking.


Laying on the huge rock on second peak. Nice view from there.


View from the rock


Watching the world upside down


Lie on the rocks with Ying Ying and Li Ern. Lazy to get up already. =P

Ended up all group photos taken on the huge rock. Haha.



Everyone same pose =D




Ying Ying and ZJ did some funny posing for photos. The rest of us couldn't stop laughing.

Tang lang quan (Praying mantis kungfu style)


Zui quan (drunken kungfu style)


Taichi


Dragon ball merging style. Hehe.


The Oh My God pose. Kudos for that!

When we almost reached the car, we passed by a rubber plantation without fence. Since I grew up in town never in my life had I touched the latex before. So I sprinted towards the tree and touched the dripping latex! At least now I can tell people I touched latex before. Haha.



After the trek we went to a panmee stall nearby for late breakfast (coz it was 11am already). The panmee was nice. They said the chili was super spicy. They loved it. I didn't try at all. Coz scared my ears will explode. =P


Tried the cendol too. Not bad. But I still miss my hometown Indian cendol.
(See my arm. Got shape one le.. Kia kia kia...)

Photos courtesy of Marble Goby and ZJ

Pusat Akuatic Darul Ehsan is the best swimming pool in Klang Valley?

Today went for dinner at Asia Cafe with WY and Aud before meeting up GP, Vincent and Yannie for KK trip photo exchanging. (Oops! This reminds me that I haven't see the pictures since I reached home till now! Ok Ok see tomorrow. =P)

Saw one newly opened Korean teppanyaki stall. Being a Koreanphilic, how can I miss the chance to try Korean food right? So I tried the Korean pork teppanyaki. Nice oh! The taugeh got some butter-ish and mayonaise-ish taste and the pork was just brilliant, tender to be chewed and nicely marinated.

Pork Teppanyaki (very very big plate!! Like those for pastas)

Half way eating the dinner, so unluckily it started to rain and we were sitting at the roofless area. So, we started to carry our things to the roofed area to look for empty seat. But so unluckily there's a big crowd in Asia Cafe today coz today got soccer match.

I was like a weirdo carrying the very big plate around and everyone was looking at me. -.- WY and Aud already finished their dinner so they just need to carry their drinks which was not as eye-catching. Dunno why I almost everyday have to do such embarrassing thing one. Ish..

In the end we tumpang-ed someone's table. lol.. Very awkward circumstance. After the dinner we went to Snowflake to transfer the pictures. I had red bean soup as dessert. The rest tried Snowflake bestseller (some combination of ice-blended cincau, sweet potatoes and yam). Didn't take photos this time (forgot.. hehe..)

We had a good laugh thanks to Yannie. lol. I laughed until my stomach hurts.

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Since I've already started on food I might as well bring them all up here. Hehe.

Last Saturday after sailing I went to have some pasta as dinner with Keen. At Restaurant Caff, Pizza, Grill, Pasta @ Bandar Puteri Puchong. This restaurant serves very nice Italian food. It's quite famous for its mushroom soup and its cozy environment. Malaysia Most Wanted Food and some bloggers also highly recommended it.

I had Aglio-Oglio Mushroom Spaghetti.

(Sorry la.. Too hungry already so I took a bite first only took the photo. Haha..)

Keen always orders this:

Turkey Ham Salad (if not mistaken) and mushroom soup!


The mushroom soup damn nice one! Next time if I crave for mushroom soup I know where to go already. Hehe.

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Then last Sunday went shopping with Aud! We took our lunch at Canton-i Pyramid. I only took their dimsum coz I was not hungry. Coz I've eaten lunch after the Broga trek already. (Oops! Not yet blog about Broga! Tomorrow I will write about that)

Yam mini bun with melted egg yolk inside


The egg yolk was not as juicy as I thought it would be lo.. But it was ok ok la.


Charsiew pao also ok ok only. Haha.


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We went for our lab manager birthday celebration this week during the lunch time at a Secret Recipe nearby.

I had black pepper grilled chicken rice with ice lemon tea (their promotion set). Then my sweet tooth ushered me to order one of my favourite Chocolate Indulgence cake. And I did. lol.


Shared with Cheng Yee. Her sweet tooth also likes Chocolate Indulgence. Hehe.

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Went swimming on Friday after work at a nearby aquatic centre - Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan (PADE), rated as the best swimming pool in Klang Valley by a blogger called Er Lang. Even better than Bukit Jalil's swimming pool? o.O



He rated:

1. National Aquatic Centre Bukit Jalil,NAC --------------3 stars

2.Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan, PADE--------------------4 stars

3. Pusat Sukan Negara Panasonic, PSNP---------------2 1/2 stars

This is the place where I always swim after work lo. Too shy to take photos of the swimming pool. =P So I'll just take other people's photos. hehe.


Standard Olympic swimming pool size. 50m length with depth of 4m.
(Photo courtesy of Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam website)

Swam 1km almost non-stop. Felt the syokness and satisfaction after 2 months never swim. Muahaha! I feel refreshed even until now. =)


Gosh! This week had been so fulfilling for me. I'm so glad I had good foods and good swimming pool. =)

Sailing with Raleigh and RSYC

Last Saturday went for sailing with Raleigh people. Yes! You read it correctly! I went to sail! haha...

Never in my life could I imagine stepping into one of these elegant boats. I remember when I was standard 5 my teacher sent me to Sebana Cove Marina in Kota Tinggi for a sketching competition. The title was to sketch the keelboats parking at the dock. That was the first time I saw keelboats.



The second time I managed to see these boats was when I stayed in Sebana Resort with my hometown friends during weekends and I managed to take some photos with the boats. But still no access to them. I could only stand beside the boat for pictures.


I've never done this before!

Last Saturday, thanks to Raleigh and Royal Selangor Yacht Club (RSYC), I got to sunbathe on the keelboat!


I had really bad sun tan afterwards. After KK trip already very tanned. It's worsen by the sailing now. But it's worth it coz this brand new experience is proudly sitting on my (virtual) "have done" list.

We reached RSYC early that day. Before the rest reached we took some photos with the boats parking by the roadside.






Took with a broken old boat also. =P


Took with the RSYC flag pole coz we got nothing to do. haha. .

As usual we started with making a big circle, i.e. the monthly meeting.


And not to forget, the must have group photo with new Raleigh banner. =P


I particularly like these photos where I was candid shooted by Eric Ho. =P






A leng lui sailer, Ai Lin, gave us a short course on sailing later on. She taught us about the sailing terms of different parts of keelboat and the position name of each crew in the boat. We were flooded with lots of sailing terms which I forget almost every part in the boat. I only remember starboard (means right hand side of the boat), mainsheet, jib and keel. Hehe.




Skipper (the captain who control the wheel)
Mainsheet trimmer (control the main sail rope)
Jib trimmer (control another sail rope)
Cockpit (pull up and down the sails)
Bowman (stand in front one.. dunno what's the job role.. hehe)
Balast (a heavy-weighted man/woman who has to run from left to right of the boat to balance the boat depends on situation )

After our buffer lunch at RSYC, we were introduced to our skippers respectively. Mine was Jeff, A strong and tanned British at his 60s.


Jeff led us to his keelboat called Rapscallion. Long and hard to pronounce name. lol.. Jeff showed us how to get onto the boat.

First hold the handle


Then stand on the side of the boat and then just cross the leg over to another side.



Get Pei already hopped on. But we were still taking photos. Hehe.

The first thing we had to do was to take the covers off the sails and fold them neatly and put them into the drawers underneath the seats.


The interior of the boat: 2 beds, 1 sink, 1 oven, 1 kettle, (stove I'm not sure got or not), 1 toilet, 1 reading table, 2 storerooms.



Toilet. The water has to be hand-pumped from the sea. First pump was to flush down (not yet pump up the seawater), second pump was to pump up the seawater and reflush the bowl.


Keen at kitchen area


I stood in front of the storeroom

Jeff showed us the indicators for speed of the boat, depth of the water and the third one I dun remember. =P Maybe fuel level.


Jeff showed us the compass. It's very important for sailing coz you dunno which direction you heading to when you're in the wide open sea.


At first the sails were not pulled up. Jeff used engine to drive the boat to somewhere more open, somewhere lesser obstructions.


Then Jeff gave an order to pull up the sail. We unzipped the cover, loosened some ropes (under supervision of Tom, Jeff's helper) and started pulling the ropes. And finally the sails were up!


Sailing needs a lot of tacking. Tacking is when the boat wants to sail towards one point, the boat has to go zig zag towards it. When the boat reach one point where it needs to turn right or left, we have to get ready for tacking. Tacking is done by loosening one jib sheet (rope that holds to the jib sail) and tightening another one. This changes the direction the jib is facing thus changing the direction of the boat.

Whenever Jeff said we need to tack, all of us got ready at the left and right of the boat. One side was to be loosen and one side tightened. Gosh pulling the ropes needs so much energy. Actually we just need to turn the wrench, not pulling the rope, when we want to tighten the rope. Everyone was busy pulling and letting go of ropes when tacking. So no photos of us tacking taken. =(

See the rope in between me and Get Pei? It's a tightened rope. We were getting ready to tack at this moment.

Other than tacking, we actually have nothing to do except sitting at the side of the boat enjoying the sun (urgh.. I hate sunbathing..)


They were so lucky their boat has shade =(


It was quite scary that the boat would tilt to one side!! When Ai Lin said balast has to climb from the one side to one side, it was actually true!

The side of the boat almost touching the sea


We were all balasting the boat. Haha.





We saw one very nice circle rainbow when we were resting! This was the second circle rainbow I saw. The first one I saw was when I was 11 years old in Kampar.

Nice right?

Jeff was nice. He taught everyone of us how to control the direction of the boat.




After that only I realized that if the boat was tilting to the left we have to turn the wheel to the left as well to balance the boat. It really helped balancing the boat! =)

We saw Starcruise too! This is the first time in my life seeing a Starcruise (normally just see in newspaper or dramas) Hehe.


Around 5pm everyone reached the dock and started to fold back and cover back the sail.






We took a group photo with Jeff and his Rapscallion


All the boats are 'parking' by the dock already


Everyone enjoyed the sailing. See the smiling faces. =)



p/s: Do not wear caps during sailing unless you really hate your cap. The wind was too strong that day it blew off Get Pei's favourite cap to the sea.

Photos courtesy of Eric Ho and Marble Goby