Pre-Valentine's Clubbing.

Location: Bro's Room, Ipoh.

It's the 8th day of Chinese New Year. It's very special coz it's what Chinese call the 'people's day' (ren re)... Chinese believe that today is everyone's birthday regardless of skin color, age etc., it's human race's Birthday.

So to you, yea you...and the other 2 readers out there..

Happy Birthday.

Today's uber special coz not only the Easterner are feasting and celebrating, people all over the world's celebrating Valentine's Day, a day where love is (supposedly) celebrated and shared among you and your loved ones. To view the history of Valentine's Day you can either google it or click here... bla bla bla...

Anyhoo... went to Rum Jungle again today (which is my 5th time clubbing and 2nd time there in Rum Jungle~). With a buncha people (mostly Simon's friends' friends...), Simon, Christine (Simon's friend) , Zhao Xuan and Richard. Yes, I'm talking about that Richard Wong from Mrs. Ong's English tuition class that I attended since Standard 2 for 5 consecutive years. I owe it to her for my strong English background... If not for her, my English would be much much WORSE than my already really broken English.

Oh yea, before we went to Rum, Richard suggested that we (him, Adrian & I) have a get together for old time's sake. Since Zhao Xuan needed a ride, she joined us for a drink in Ipoh Garden East's Kopitiam (Like seriously, we've been there a LOT during this CNY coz most of them stay nearby and all... so to make things easier, Kopitiam became our 'Lao Di Fang' for our random but frequent spot to hangout).

About tonight... it started really slow... Coz Rum's quite empty around 11:30pm. Guess there's not many party animals in Ipoh, or, maybe it's not the 'it' spot for them to crash. Our initial plan was to go to Sincero, a club where many rich spoilt brats go to... Or so I heard (I haven't actually been there before seeing that I'm still new to this party scene). But it's Wednesday, not ladies' night nor is it a public holiday this Thursday, the dance floor was like Ipoh's Giant, really few patrons...

Rum wasn't any better at first. The band played but the response wasn't optimistic. There were just too many old (well, >38) people drinking beers there... but everything changed when there's this really hot Malay gal went and broke the ice. With a little help from the cute (but sadly short) DJ -- forgotten his name -- she set the dance floor on fire, figuratively speaking ofcoz. They should have known better that teens nowadays (atleast the few I know) are NOT into Techno anymore... It's soooooooo passe. I' feel like someone's smashing my head with a frying pan and bluring my vision whenever I hear em. Yes, I can truly say I hate techno. Say NO to Techno! <--- it even rhymes!

Anyways, it was pretty fun towards to end of the night... or morning... about 1:30am then coz I heard that the club's closing at 2am. Everyone warmed up, some of Simon's friends finally start to get into the mood. And Richard, totally unexpected, he's like oil to the already burning fire... A few of them were pretty sporting and that's kinda important I guess.

Any yea, forgot to mention, bro if you're reading this post, mom and dad welcomed a new member to our family... A spanking new Phillips 42' full HD LCD screen TV was hanged up on our cozy living room's wall at approximately 6:45pm yesterday evening. The old 29' TV was moved to mom and dad's office... just so that we don't dispose it. Compare to the 20kg++ Phillips 42' full HD LCD screen TV that old one is sooo freaking heavy. IMO, we got a really good bargain coz all the normal Full HD TV (from other brands like Sony and JVC...) are more than 10k while this baby's only about 6k (5999 to be exact). Mom insisted to buy that surround system but I think our living room's too small for it to go full blast lor... The TV speakers alone are loud enough for my ears. All in all, it added up to about 8k, inclusive of surround system.

To end this post, there's a few adjectives I learnt from the guys who studied in Aust for a year now. Virgin Blue = Red. Bush fire in Melbourne = hot gals... yup, that's all my rusty short term memory can accommodate.

So nitez folks, Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine's ~

My very soft bed and warm blanket are summoning me..
It's simply too hard to resist...

p/s: Shout out to Alan Ooi, my primary schoolmate who's not on his journey in becoming the next Patrick or Phillip Sum. Good luck ya~

Online in Kopitiam, Ipoh.

Location: Kopitiam in Ipoh Jaya East...

Fun you might say. Feeling like a journalist myself... onlin-ing using my future notebook (aka dad's current 1y/o Acer)...

Just wanted to say... This vacation of mine is dragging on too long and it's beginning to get a little lengthy. Ishh... nyways... sitting in Kopitiam at this hour with a notebook only meant that mom wanna do some sign up online.

Free broadband is good for business...

My 'Night-Life'

Location: Bro's Room, Ipoh.

I'm actually sleeping in my bro's room these days... I know I know... Haven't been updating lately. Lazy... slacking.. blah blah...

Anyhoo, in the past week (since the first day of CNY) I can proudly pronounce that I HAVE a nightlife~ I'm not exactly sure how long it'll last, I'm pretty sure I won't be having this much fun after school starts.

As you know, a CAR is a great form of transportation so having a car = having a pair of Olympic running legs, which is fun and convenient enough for me to maneuver around Ipoh's hot spots. AND as you know, Ipoh's a pretty small place and the places where people from far and near gather. To sum it all up, there's only Green Town and Ipoh Garden East where youngsters like us hang around til the wee hours of the morning.

Seeing that I attended an all girls' school during my secondary school days, my parents are naturally conservative about the idea of ME, a girl, going out at 10:30pm... Surprisingly they were really calm about the whole thing about me reaching home at 4am ++. Dad didn't give me the look while mom only asked me to apologize to dad (coz he missed called me about 15 times when my handphone ran out of batt). And this abnormal situation freaked me out.

Although they didn't set any curfew, I tried not to cross the line today by reaching home before 2am. Hey, at least I made an effort ok?

I don't normally go to clubs and stuff... Yesterday was my 3rd time hitting the clubs and for an amateur like me, I find it extremely FUN~ It's not the beers that's important, instead we had so much fun coz the club was crowded but not packed and the songs were kinda... well, let's just say it's not as lame. I went with my primary schoolmates Simon, Tiffany, Wei Kei and Zhao Xuan, my partner in crime during my secondary school days.

Ipoh-nites must be familiar with Rum Jungle. If you don't know where is it, you're either living in the many many monastery in Ipoh for the past 100 years or you're just turning 7 years old this year. I've heard so much about this place and to finally go there with a buncha outgoing friends, I can honestly say it's the best (out of the 3) clubbing experience I've had in the past 19++ years.

About the club, it's good to have a dance floor where people can shake their boootiess. Other than being quite economical (RM 168 for 2 buckets of beer) the majority of party goers were under 35 (that's only my POV). Unlike SG8 (where the once famous disco, Shuttle 8 used to be) Rum's not invaded by those weird looking, drug taking uncles in their 50's, it's (what VJ always say) more Happening.

Well in my opinion, I think it all boils down to what company you went clubbing with (er, weird as it may sound, I'm not exactly used to the word 'clubbing'... I feel like I'm not a regular to use that word yet...). Zhao Xuan to get all crazy with and Simon, our rock. Just don't feel safe without him around.

I do wish to get more exposure. Doing the things that teens do today made me feel like a part of the youth community... Hope that this temporary nightlife of mine can prolong~ (though mom and dad won't be as thrilled about hearing this... hehe...)

Lastly, just wanna wish you guys a really happy CNY~

p.s. Accidentally got Satisfaction and Diary of a Call Girl (where I'm sure that's where the producers of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl for their 'inspiration'...). Differences are obvious. Apart from filmed+produced in different countries, Satisfaction has more drama while Diary of a Call Girl will appeal more to people who like Gossip Girl. Moonlight's Pretty cool (it reminded me of Interview with the Vampire... My darling Lestat... sorry braddie). Then there's About a Girl, Cane, Life on Mars, Journeyman and Samatha Who.. Check em out if you're bored.