Reviving my blog..

Whoa.. I almost forget I have a blog!

OK la.. I'm back!

Just came back from my 5th yoga class. At first I was really reluctant to register for the class. Coz I think the class will bore me. I registered because can't stand my mum nag me almost everyday about how yoga can benefit me. So I gave up.. lol. Summore I wanna change my body posture. I feel that my posture is starting to get worse. I looked like gorilla when I walk and stand.. lol..



The yoga poses are too hard for me. I was thinking of giving up on yoga after having strained my body to do the poses during my 3rd class. But, after 4th class I started to notice my standing posture is better now. More straighten up. =) Now I think yoga is worth the hard work and pain. Now I kinda like it already. And the poses have became interesting challenges which makes me feel adrenalin pumping when I visualize myself achieving them.

Wish my postures will be all straighten up after yoga. =)

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Last weekend went to Pisang Fall. It was Raleigh May Meeting!

The trek was easy and fun trek. Easy coz no uphill at all. Fun is because lots of stream crossing and walking in streams. And the streams are easy streams. Ankle deep most of the time. =)


Pisang fall got very limited falls. Only two.. =.=


Having fun watching people kena tortured. lol..


Me and June


Cooking with Vincent, the Mr President


Me and Ange when going towards the fall. See, the stream is really calm and only ankle deep. Wanted to race with Christal in the trek one.. haha.. but didn't.

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Just came back from steamboat at Yuen @ Bdr Sunway with the girls because Steven and his fiance came Malaysia. Steven has to come Malaysia every 3-4 months, if not he will feel something in his life is not right. Hahaha.. He loves Malaysia too much already. =P

As usual, the procedure is eat + chitchat + gossiping about all the lecturers in uni last time + talking about career future + Malaysia and Indonesia market nowadays.. Whoa.. Very deep conversation, but I like to listen to this kind of informative chats. =)

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Yesterday someone say I look like kampung girl when he looked through my long hair photos in FB. =.=

Maybe I should stick to my short hair already. Aunt says short hair suits me. ^^ She say I look more energetic with short hair.

Short hair nice also. No need to really maintain it. No need to care whether I need to tie it up, where did I put the hairband, whether it's too kembang during hot and humid weather and no need to wait too long for it to dry after shower.. etc etc.. I'm loving it! =)

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Next Sunday Ekiden race already. Die. I not yet train lo.. Die Die Die..

Super Duper Luper Zuper RANDOM!

I like this song! Heard it on radio over and over again and can't help fall in love with this song.

Fireflies by Owl City

Very fantasy-like. I can imagine millions of fireflies floating on grass lawn at night litting up the grass in the dark. And there's a dimly lit swing, a couple sitting there. Wind caressing their faces softly. And the stars above blinking with the fireflies. =) Nice right?

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I'm not continuing my Korean class already. So sad.. But what to do. I have to save the money for other purposes already. Have to stop spending money on Korean language unless I hit a jackpot. lol! But if I hit jackpot the first thing I will do is not to get myself a Korean class though.

Hmm... If i hit a jackpot now I will go Korea. Second will be a Europe backpack trip. And then keep the rest. hehe..

Recently I dunno what I can write in my blog. Actually I got lots of things to blog about:

the swimming session with Christal and Luyi
the 'kidnap series' by some of the Raleigh comm.
the near-accident incident yesterday due to a reckless driver (not me! It's someone who doesn't see properly before change lane)
the newly bought Braun epilator (yeay!)
the pictures of the funny Adam and cutie Kexin I promised to post on the blog
the yoga class which I'm gonna join
the year end plan with the girls
the beach vacation plan with Zhuang
my new perfume!

And most importantly my kai-ma (kai-ma is godmother in Cantonese. But she's actually a goddess called 妈祖) say 2010 is a good year for me, although at first will have difficulties, but afterwards everything, literally everything from work, finance, health, family, relationships etc etc, will be brilliant! Hehe.. Not really kai-ma la.. just that Cheng Yee says I every year must go Tian Hou Gong see her and tilik nasib with her, she say the Goddess is like my kai-ma lo...

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Wah.. Just read a bit about 妈祖 (or also known as 天妃、天后、天上圣母、娘妈). She was human. Her dad is a public servant (巡检官). She's a Hokkien. She's actually from a family of 5, the youngest daughter in family, very intelligent, lived by a sea, love to swim, love to do charity, love to save fishing boats, is a hero in her village, everyone ask for her advice when they got trouble. She died when she was 28 yrs old. After she died people still see her saving fishing boats in the sea. So, people started to call her 神女 or 龙女. Throughout the years people give her different names. That's why she got so many names. But I always forgot what she's called whenever I wanna talk about her and eventually will say "neh.. my kai-ma lo..."

I every year must go find her to 求签 one.. Because every time also very accurate. Hehe. And last year I was scolded by her in the 签. Really very accurate. I really did something silly. And she scolded before I did the mistake. After I did already only I understand what she mean.

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Full house food and drinks cannot eat one..














I can never act sexy.. Coz I'm not..


Kexin got the potential.. Even Adam's palm faced up meaning he cannot resist Kexin's sexiness. Hehe....

1 is better than 2?

Just came back from meeting Chee Hui whom I would say is my closest hometown friend. Watched drama in her room until I dun feel like leaving. Feel comfortable being with her. =) But sometimes will feel like just came back from a war because she talks like bullet. Hehe.

Forgot to pay back the dinner to her. Oops.. Have to treat her back the next time. =)

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Recently there's a song called "Two is better than one" by Boys Like Girls.

When I'm listening to this song a very peaceful thought came to me:

I dunno about two is better than one. But I feel at ease being 'one'. =)

I dun feel that lonely at all already! Being single is no longer dreadful to me already. I feel free and relaxed =) This feel so much different from few weeks ago when I felt unwanted, lonely, isolated especially when I saw couples walking by.

I had this change of mind few days after I set my 2010 new year resolution which is to let go of those stupid lonely feeling about being single. And thanks to the line Zhuang shared with me "If I cannot be with myself, then I'm not good enough to go anywhere by myself". I find this line easier to catch when changed to "If I cannot be with myself, then I'm not good enough to do anything alone". This line is like a powerful force, pushing me to be independent emotionally.

After I've changed my thinking, the whole world I see have become so much more friendlier. And couples in public places look so sweet and I even started to give blessings to them in my heart. =)

I just realized that I was once like this too, happy with everything around me. Even sunshine can cheer me up. Dunno since when I started to feel gloomy with everything. Nothing seemed to satisfy me.

But now, the cheerful Heay is back! I'm so glad I manage to find myself. In a more proper way, I finally respect myself. =)

Go Yink Heay! Aza!

Cameron + Ipoh trip

Just came back from Cameron trip with the girls.

We stopped by Ipoh and had the famous taugeh at Kong Heng Coffee shop. The shop was so fullt seated that we had to stand beside the table to watch (and give pressure to) the customers so that they could leave their table and let us sit down.


Popiah. Nice but got har mai which I dun eat. hehe..


Taugeh. Nice!


Satay. So so la.


Hard boiled egg in tea


Beef noodle. Delicious! Even better than the one in my hometown. I like the radish!!

Then at Cameron we visited the strawberry sanctuary opposite Equatorial Hotel. Have to climb a little tar road slope to get to the shop.




Maybe we overrated strawberries in Cameron. It's actually not really sweet. It was very sour!



We also went to the pasar near the Equatorial Hotel.


I bought a strawberry dip chocolate stick. The strawberry was soggy and the chocolate was artificial. Not nice.

Then we had steamboat dinner with organic vegetables. The tomyam soup was good. Maybe it's the weather.



Then we visited the pasar malam. Had very tasty strawberry ice stick. Bought yellow colour cherry tomatoes (which is surprisingly tasty just like those red ones) and a cactus for Alia (my colleague).


Spot me!


I'm still biting on the strawberry ice stick

We stayed at a very very nice holiday home, called Arabella Holiday Home. The outside looks like a very European style bangalow.






I love love love the compound area!!


I found this picture from Google. It's not the room we stayed. I guess this room is first floor one. But the room we stayed looks something like this la.. But the room we stayed has 2 queen size beds and space enough to put 5 more tilams. And the bedsheet, pillow, floor were very clean! The bedsheet and comforter smelled like home. Got very clean detergent smell. Hehe. The floor was shiny and clean. Thumbs up for this holiday home. Next time if I come Cameron I wanna stay here again.


Then the next day went Boh tea plantation and its factory. Took lots of pictures with the tea plants there. Had a sip at the Boh tea cafe.

Then visited the boring Big Red Strawberry Farm where we were not allowed to touch the plants. The strawberry ice stick was not as nice as the one sold in the pasar malam. And the vege sold there looks expensive to buy.

So we didn't manage to pluck strawberries in the farm but I'm satisfied having to touch the tea plants. =) And climbed a little to the top of the tea plantation which was like about 170m only. Keke. But it did killed my "hiking withdrawal symptom" a bit. lol... And the fog and cooling morning weather was refreshing. I love that trek.

Summore I met a Korean family at the top. Their kids walked very slow in front of us. So they keep asking their kids to walk faster down the hill. Then I told them "kwenchanayo" (means it's ok). Then the young couple was very surprised and looked at me. Then the guy asked me "are you Korean or Chinese?" in English. At that moment I was so excited. So I tried to answer in Korean but my mind was suddenly blank! So I wanted to reply him in English. But I suddenly dun even know how to reply him in English. I was like "Korean.. errr.. err... no.. not Korean" =.= I'm really useless. But luckily I managed to squeeze in the sentence hankukeoreul baewoyo. Seriously I need to practice more on my Korean speaking.

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Erm by the way, I just sat for my Korean exam just now. I got 94% this time! It's way better than I thought. I thought I can only get 70+. Teacher was being generous coz got a few questions I answered wrongly because of misinterpret the meaning of the questions, but she didn't minus mark from there.

Since I told myself I'm gonna treat myself a good meal if I get 90% and above for the exam, I'm gonna look for nice food tomorrow after work. Muahahaha..

p/s: More photos to come =). Photo taken by Audrey (for the Cameron part) and me (for the Ipoh part).
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Heard this song on Audrey's car during the trip. Very cute song very 林宇中 called 幸福马戏团. I like the chorus part! =)

Check if you're pretty =P

Ladies always want themselves to look pretty. And every lady believes that she is pretty (unless that lady has very low self esteem). Today I saw a news article about scientists found a new golden ratio for female facial beauty.

It's:

36% = distance between mid iris of the eyes and mid of the mouth/face length x 100 [Vertical]

46% = distance between iris of the eyes/face width x 100 [horizontal]

So theoretically one who has these ratios would be a perfectly pretty chick. Hehe.. But don't be so sad first... According to the research, if one want to be closer to the perfect ratio, one can use different hairstyle to achieve it (e.g. using fringe to cover some part of the forehead). Jessica Alba, Liz Hurley and Shania Twain are found to have these golden ratios.


Jessica Alba


Liz Hurley


Shania Twain

Being one of the girl species who has too much self esteem on her own look. Keke dun puke la. I admit that I'm highly satisfied with my face sometimes. Oops.. I mean most of the time. Although sometimes I would think I look like a guy.

So, being one of those confident girls, I measured my face and calculated the ratios.



For the vertical ratio I measured from my hairline to my chin instead of from below my fringe though.

I found that my ratios are:

Vertical ratio = 34.39%
Horizontal ratio = 45.71%

Hey my horizontal ratio is not bad!

But the vertical is a bit off. It means my face is slightly longer or the distance between my eyes and the mouth is slightly shorter. I can't change the distance between the eyes and the mouth. So, I calculated backwards to see how long my face should be to get the 36% ratio. In the end I found that my hairline should be 1 cm lower.

But, when I cover that 1 cm length from my hairline with my hand my face didn't look better though. lol.. Maybe it's the distance between the eyes and the mouth then. Hmm.. So I can't change my hairstyle or remove the fringe to make myself look 'perfect' then.

Nah.. It's just 1.6% difference. Nevermind. I still look awesome. Kaka.. I told you I'm confident with my face. =P

IW Dec 09

Just came back from IYC (International Youth Centre). Helped up with the ice breaking game and was supposed to go to Gombak to collect food and deliver it to IYC but was lost in Taman Connaught. So I went to IYC instead and due to time constrain coz ice breaking game will be starting in an hour time. Vincent went to get the food instead.

There are 32 participants this time and the surprising thing is that the ratio of guy and girls are 1:1! For the past IW normally girls are more than guys one. This one look so healthy and balanced! And I saw good signs: participants get along with each other well pretty fast. We gave them the chance to get to know each other at the lobby while we getting ourselves prepared. Then when they came to the registration desk they were all chatty and laughing already. There are only few who are quiet but I think I dun see any aggressive ones. Maybe it's still too early to judge. But I like the atmosphere when they started playing the ice breaking game. They got so excited when they were playing Dwarf Wizard and Giant (I see full anticipations from them) and I think they had fun!

Weird enough I thought Monster game was fun but when they played that game they looked impatient and tired. Maybe they had too much running in the previous game and it's hot and stuffy there. Summore the food had reached when the game started. Maybe they just felt like eating dinner.

All in all I guess I lifted the spirit gua. That's the main point of the ice breaking game. And the other points of the ice breaking game are: to get them know each other (at least the names), to get sweaty and hence more open and high (aka lift their spirit), to remove the awkwardness of having body contact with their new friends (coz IW will need lots of body contacts and trust)

Then I met Maexi! Someone whom I haven't met since last IW, or was it last last IW? I missed her soo much! Often think of her whenever I go for Raleigh activities. All these while I thought she went over to Aus for studies. Coz saw her FB during June or July saying she's in Aus. Then just now she told me she had been here working, in the same company tim... =.= Such a huge misunderstanding. lol...

Got to talk to the Raleighians and laugh with them, most of the time laughed at BJ (hehe). Met some who goes "Ah.. I've seen you but may I know what's your name?".

I got so nostalgic when I was there. Made me miss the June IW 08 and 09. Today is like a family reunion!

But many didn't turn up la. I didn't see Lali (in UK now), Jia Yaw (not free on this weekend), Adrian, Alan, Li, Kelvin. And Shih Chung and Xin Tong are definitely not here. Miss them lo. If all of them turn up I think there will be more fun!

Sunday I'm gonna see them again. I'm gonna go Gombak without getting myself lost to get the food and send it to IYC again. And I have to bring Poh Ee's projector and laptop there too. Hope they have fun in the jungle and a safe one. =)

Desperate or not

Recently I have very weird emotions. Sometimes I feel very desperate to have a boyfriend. But sometimes I think all these desperateness is just because I need a soul mate.

This sudden desperate emotion might be due to few ex-classmates getting or gotten married. I felt that I'm unwanted and even worse, unseen. Am I that bad ah? Maybe nobody notice me gua, this is how I console myself most of the time. Some friend said it's because I stay at home most of the time or just hang out with cousins, so I didn't get to know more people.

But actually no loh. Every week I go to Korean class (but the class are almost all girls la). I teach drawing (I'm teaching kids though). I might had reduce the frequency of hiking but I will go as soon as the monsoon is over. Seriously I don't see any reason nobody noticing my presence. lol. Desperate-nya. I myself cannot tahan my desperateness also. =P But sometimes that's what crossed my mind loh. Don't you single ladies out there same age with me think the same too?

And it's worse when you have this feeling towards this guy and this guy don't even treat you like a girl. How hilarious right? Haha. It's all the same since my first crush. Nobody have the same feeling towards me like I did. There's one exception only though, where we really started out but ended down in drain due to some hilarious reasons from the other party.

My romance history had been such a joke.



Since I have such a pathetic romance history.I might as well stop looking around but looking back at myself. I realize I haven't been treating myself good enough in terms of emotions. Might as well using the time to treat myself better than wasting time on nonsense feelings which will give no return.

This is my first 2010 new year resolution.



Just ignore me. I'm just talking to myself. =P

Facebook fails

Found this website last night. It's called Facebook Fail. This blog has a lot of funny facebook News Feed. Some are very hilarious. Some are just so-so. I picked out some funny one. Have a laugh! =)

1. I ate chicken, not salmon. lol!


2. Cock cookie drumstick?


3. Think before you write a comment


4. Does newborn determines whether you'll be aunt or uncle? lol... Roll on the floor laughing.


5. When you're dating two girls, make sure your girlfriends don't read this.


6. Sorry I forgot to mention that to you. =.="


7. Roomies fight on Facebook.


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Pictures from my birthday and Shi Yun's birthday. =)

My birthday celebration at Alexis, Bangsar.













This is my order: Spaghetti Carbonara with bacons



Shiyun's birthday celebration at Michaelangelo, Solaris.



Sweet sweet couple =)


Act professional but actually not. lol..


Food!!