Lamed

Friday will be my Korean exam.

Damn stressed now! Haven't really do revision on everything.

The scribbles are all scattered here and there in my exercise books and some rough papers.

I need to compile them together into a notebook specifically for my Korean study which I'm yet to buy. lol. So kelam and so kabut.

Nevermind, I'll compile it nicely after the exam so that I can get ready for the next level: Beginner 2, which begins in 11 August which is way too early for me to save money, which also means that I'll be really busy during weekday nights again.


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My new intern student, HanChong, is a very lame guy. He always says something lame silently and calmly which we normally ignored at first but when recalled few seconds later it silents or freeze us later. Sometimes it's quite funny it cracks us up.

And then we would look like one of these emoticons:



Yesterday I looked at my watch and exclaimed "啊呀!我的手表花了!" He said "戴老花眼镜就看到了咯" (Sorry, no translation coz it only sounds funny when it's in Chinese)

Ronald started to laugh like this:


And then I was frozen:


And Cheng Yee was speechless:



Oh by the way, I just realized that different places have different expressions when being struck by a lame joke:

Manglish: Sweat, kek dao, ketionks etc
Malaysian Chinese: 炸到, 冷, 用肺讲话 etc
China folks: 被雷到

I dunno about English one. Can it be: Lamed? Frozen?

Another busy weekend

Last Friday night was a packed one. Korean class at SS15 till 9pm, then meeting with Raleigh recce team at Bangsar Mc Donald's at 9.30pm, then right after the meeting a surprise birthday party for our Raleigh president, Vincent, at Gabai Waterfall.

I dragged myself home very 'early' the next day.

Woke up at 8am the next day for badminton appointment with my fellow colleagues at Menjalara, Kepong. I just played for less than 1 hour my engine died. lol. My limbs were like cotton candy. lol.

Actually the main reason I went to this badminton thing was for the food my colleague promised me. Hehe. She told me the food at the cake house there are very nice. And it's the main reason I write this entry too. Keke.. Coz the food were indeed very nice!


The cake house's name is De Pastry Chef


It's so famous that many celebrities came to visit the pastry


Not only the meals were tasty, there were different types of attractive cakes displayed too.

These were the food we ordered:

Fettuccine Al Funghi. I love! Taste very Italian. =) This is how a pasta should taste like! Yum! It had a spice aroma which I could not name.


Chicken chop. Ok la.. Like normal chicken chop lo.


Tomyam meehoon. The tomyam lacked the aroma of serai and daun limau purut. But still consider ok ok la.


Mango smooties I ordered. Nice!


The drinks my colleagues ordered. Dun remember the names. I only remember the middle one was melon+honey coz I wanted to order this. =P


My supervisor, Toh Theng.


Yenny

After the meal we went to visit Cheng Yee's parents at their coffee shop near the Pasar Kepong. Chit chat a while then went back. I K.O. in Toh Theng's car during the journey back to Sunway and continued to sleep when I reached home. This was the longest sleep I had in my conscious life. I slept from 3.30pm till Sunday morning 7.30am! o.O Feel very very refreshed the next morning. Actually I still feel refreshed now. lol.

Sunday was another busy day running here and there. But I was recharged so I didn't even feel a tiny tinge of tiredness. =)



I'm refreshed. Are you? =)

Admiring Zee Avi

Few days ago I received a song from Zhuang called "Bitter Heart" by Zee Avi.

I didn't have the chance to listen to it coz my PC have been giving me problem when opening softwares to play videos or audio. It will lag.

Just now finally I had the chance to uninstall some of the unnecessary programs and then played the song. When I first heard it from my PC, I knew right away that this is the song I have been humming when I was cooking my dinner just now. I heard this song from the radio station and love the happy tune of the song.



Since it's so nice I decided to share it at my blog. I went to youtube to look for this song and a Malay-like girl shown up in the videos. I was wondering where this singer come from.

I was shocked when I found that she's from Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia!

I'm so touched that a Malaysian singer can come up with Norah Jones type of song and gain fame in the US.


P/S: Zhuang I love this song! Thanks for sending it to me! But too bad the song cut off halfway. =(

Eason is coming to town!

Eason Chan is coming to Sunway!

OMG OMG OMG!

I've been telling myself that I wanna listen him singing live if I have the chance to. The death of Michael Jackson gave me a lesson that "Don't hesitate if you really like the singer".

Eason's a great singer. I started to notice Eason Chan after I heard his 幸福摩天轮.


After that his 明年今日 attracted me. I was actually attracted by one of the sentence 人总需要勇敢生存 which I think it's very motivating.

Then one more song I really like is "Aren't you glad"! It's his first English song. It's written by a white man But too bad Malaysia cannot view the MV due to copyright restriction. =(

Some other songs which are nice are 兄妹, 浮夸, K歌之王, 不如这样, Shall We Talk, and his very new hits 七百年后.

Awww! I really wanna go to his concert coming up next month. =( But very kelian. Nobody is interested except the intern student, Ronald, in my lab. Sigh.. Maybe ask him whether I can tag along. Or maybe I just go there alone la since its just nearby (at Sunway surf beach).

Gunung Angsi surprised us

Went to Angsi again last Sunday.

The trek was difficult and tiring as usual. Half way up I was having stomach cramp.


Luckily the pain was just for a while. We managed to reach the peak at noon (we took 3 hours to reach the top).

So we happily started to cook lunch.


Soon brought the whole market up. We had 100 plus one person each, ice candy in thermos to keep cold, lollipops, carbonara macaroni, mushroom soup, Cloud 9, Cadbury.


Mushroom soup


Macaroni carbonara (In the end we made a conclusion that this thing is out of the meal list for future treks coz it takes forever to cook the pasta)

At some point when we were cooking it drizzled a bit that we had to cover the food with raincoats to continue cooking.


To speed up the cooking process, we decided to build one more fire source. The 'gas stove' cook mushroom, the firewood cook the pasta.


Three kids play with fire. Hehe.


From the photo it seems that the girls cook and the guys build fire. I have no idea why I fall into the guy category. lol.


In the end we successfully get the fire and managed to heat up the macaroni.

Yea you read it right, we only managed to heat up the paste, not cook it. Coz the dark cloud flew towards us and brought us unwanted visitor - heavy rain.




We had to eat in a circle with a raincoat on our heads to cover the food we were eating. Seriously very kelam kabut.

Thanks to the rain all of us have no appetite already. We just gobbled down the food and pack everything and took our group photo before we left the peak.


Sad faces

To compare the difference, I feel like putting the photos before and after the rain

Before:


After:


Guys you can skip this part:
I wasn't looking good coz I was having menstrual visit and the rain spiced it up. All I wanted was to get to the washroom as soon as possible. Despite the uneasiness from worrying about the menstrual stuff the raining experience was a special one. It felt different trekking in the rain, what's more with erhem.. menstrual visit. Kaka.

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During this trek we got to see and eat quite a lot of fruits. lol..

First when the trek just started, we saw nangka.

Trying to sniff and see whether it has nangka aroma. But it didn't have the aroma. Maybe it's still not ripe yet.

Then when trekking back after the rain, I smelled something like mango. As a mango-lover, I had to stop and look around for the source of the aroma. It was some round yellowish fruits lying on the trail. It has hard thin skin like those of luo han guo but with very strong mango aroma inside. (Sorry la.. It rained. So I duwan to wet my handphone to take the photo of the fruit. Hehe.. ) The fruit that I saw was already opened and eaten. So I just took up and sniff only. Hehe.

In the end when we reached the carpark, there's a Malay uncle who brought his family to picnic at the waterfall there offered us his rambutans, claiming that he's leaving and his Ford had not enough place to put the fruit already. We gratefully thanked him for the fruits feeling very lucky already.

After a while he came back from his car with another bag of mangosteen and duku. We were astonished already. But he went back to the car, think a while, and came back to us with 2 durians! I was so shockingly astonished and touched. lol. Maybe he saw us all soaking wet with raincoats and all, pity us gua. lol.


These are all from the uncle

Since we had no knife, I used the swiss knife to cut the durian. It's my first time using swiss knife to cut durian. lol. Such a good experience. And gosh! The durians were superb!



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After the trek we had heavy dinner at USJ. Me and Maggie ate 2 bowls of rice and Soon ate 3 bowls. o.O We were too hungry already. Didn't eat enough during lunch. lol.


I keep this entry short coz I'm really tired and I really need to sleep already. lol. Sorry folks!