Strength

Time: 10:57pm

Date: 29/12/09

Location: Zax's room, 20 Stockdale Ave. Clayton.

had a great day with Szu Huei, Ever and Liza yet... when the snowflakes settled, I feel so hopeless right now...

Everyone's gone. did I make a wrong decision?

nonetheless, I have to look at the big picture... my mission is incomplete.

if there's a God, please do give me strength when my other friends fail to... really need it right now.

Christmas

Time: 5:21am
Date: 26 Dec 2009.
Location: on my bed, @home.

Been OD-ing on Ugly Betty recently. You have NO IDEA HOW many times I squeaked... I mean... talked in a non-high pitched tone... in DISBELIEF on how LUCKY Betty is yet I don't MIND being her.. living her life...

yes, at this point I wanna clarify that I do know that Ugly Betty's fiction.. BUTTTTTTT... what's fiction anymore right? Every piece of fiction is, to some extent, built from reality. Well, very selective parts of reality.

and I wanna say... Henry is, hot. lol. much like Jack MacFarland's explanation of Hot Gay Nerd, I think it's safe to say that Henry is.. well... borderline on his sexuality. AND Calvin's not bad too... lol. his weird/awkward sense of humour I totally get =p

GET WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY LUCKY???!@??@#$?@#?!?#@?$@? She should be LUCKY BETTY.

owh yea, I was supposed to write something about bro being back home for Christmas.. and that we had Japanese in Royal Ipoh Club's Kizuna for dinner.. been there 3 times since we came back ald... We were never that conventional to begin with =) The food's quite overpriced if you ask me and it puzzles me why people liked it so much.

So.. Merry Christmas and a happy new year everyone!!

One Week.

Time: 4:28pm.
Date: 23 Dec 2009.
Location: my Room, Ipoh.

One more Week... My year, 2010 will officially begin...

owh and Happy Winter Solstice everyone.

Gram, ur tang yuan was... perfect =)

Avatar =)

Time: 11:36pm.
Date: 21 Dec 2009
Location: Living Room, @home.

I ended up watching Avatar with ah Kai, my 11 y/o kid Godbro... coz they won't let him in to watch Bodyguards and Assassins, while mommy, daddy, Wai Po and 13 y/o kid Godbro watched on the other room.

lol, I keep seeing the shadows of Pocahontas playing behind Avatar... the whole 'indie' free but strong spirited gal and a broken but hard-headed guy concept... age old formula to a great Hollywood Blockbuster. Coupled with the issues of climate change and environmental problems...

"You think I'm an ignorant savage...
u've been so many places, I guess it must be so.........
but still, I cannot see, though the savage one is me...
How can there be so much that you don't know.........
YOU. DON't. KNOW......."

Waiting...

Time: 4:27pm
Date: 20 Dec 2009
Location: Living room @ home.

ooo, watching Bodyguard and Assassins with grams, mommy, daddy, Hong and Kai at 5:30pm in Ipoh Parade. Am waiting for daddy to come back... Hong and Kai's totally in the Kung Fu phase hence the choice of movie. I'm actually looking forward for the pasar malam session after the movie... YAY, Chow Tau Fu!!!

hmmmmm, mom is clearly not getting the clue... she's still showing me the Gold Coast pics that they went to... hmmmm.... hmmmmm... OMG... she's still going on and on about it... OMGGG... READ my facial signalssss.... OMGGGGGGG WOMAN.....

Be Prepared =)

Time: 5:43pm
Date: 20 Dec 2009
Location: moi room, Ipoh.

- SMJK Yuk Choy, Ipoh -

I went to this 72nd Kinta Scout Troop's gathering in Yuk Choy yesterday and it brought me back.. like... WAY back.

- CCC, aka Andrew now, and Yuan Han -

- Yuan Han and the crab in the bucket -

- Yuan Han's friend, Sammi, Andrew -

Yuan Han knew I'm bored out of my brains so she asked me to be on of the few designated photographers there for the event, which, I found was a little redundant as digital cameras are so afordable these days and practically everyone has a phone with atleast a VGA 640x480 pixels camera built in.

- Interesting Things #1 -

apparently we all spelt it wrongly all these while...

- Interesting Things #2 -

Though I'm a deactivated Guide, it really reminded me of the times we all spent together... Girl Guide WAS my world... many moons ago.

I still love it though, parts of it... parts where hierarchy and politics are impermissible. I left because I couldn't love all of it.

- Yuk Choy's School field -

- eyes on the prizes -

- banners -

Plus, it was great to meet so many old friends/rivals (coz these sorts of gatherings are where the Scouts and Guides come to battle... not to socialize/learn from each other through competitions) from Yuk Choy, Sam Tet and PGS, my alma mater ofcoz. Some of them I haven't met since I graduated from high school.. It's about TIME...

From the top Wai San, Wei Theng, Bobo,

-moi, Si Jie, Thong Thong, Nancy, Yin San, Wen Jing-

and yeaaaa, it's GREAT to see that Nancy --my exhigh schoolmate-- is going out with Jeffrey --my ex primary schoolmate-- =) LoL... I sOooOOOooOooo didn't see it coming.

Anyways, as much as I grumble about PGS being inadequate or lack thereof, I did learn a lot, growing up and out of there. Not exactly happy about all the choices I made, they were mine nonetheless... and am living with 'em now. Though it was a hard decision to make, dwelling on the 'what ifs' and 'what could've beens' will serve me no good...

- night view -

In short, it's great to reminisce about the good old times, great to be there to celebrate this event with them =)

- Once a Guide, Always a Guide...? -

RESPECT

Time: 6:37pm
Date: 18 Dec 2009
Location: in moi room

hmmm, been spending a lot of time with mom these days.

Respect's earned and mom's losing hers for grams... fast... yet I'm not in the position to do anything.. should I?

fake!

Time: 5:09pm
Date: 15 Dec 2009.
Location: My room.

buahhhahhaha! my fake fake accent is actually recognisable =)

mommy, daddy and I went to the company's convention cum 8th anniversary thingy in Penang so we put up in Jalan Larut's Royal Hotel (which used to be Dorsett). met these two outgoing middle age uncle and they know straight away that I was in australia... buahahhaha...

I fake it and I faked it gooood!

Pasar Malam.

Time: 11:53pm

Date: 10 Dec 2009

Location: My Room, Ipoh.

ooo, just sent pig pig to Medan Gopeng, to go to KL, to go to Taiwan... for 21 days!!! Think she'll do fine anyway... she's resilient =)

anyways, just wanna say... I'm sOoOOOOOoooOOOoo happy being able to eat some many things that I didn't get to before.. buahahahah! Chow Tau Fu... Lui Cha... u name it... lol.

and finally.. am watching 2012 with my parents later today.... joy. no really, I'm really looking forward to the popcorns! the Aussies don't really like caramel popcorns... ishhh....

and there's this uncle, parents' friend who practices chinese traditional medicine told me I'm exposed to the risk of diabetes and will guarantee to see the result, if not sooner, during my first pregnancy due to excessive consumption of chilli... apparently chilli will disrupt the normal functions of ur pancreas, hence increasing the probability of being diabetic.

ZOMG... so... chilli or diabetes? ooo... tough one.

Your Face by The Frames

Time: 4:52am.

sometimes it makes me think, what can I offer...

which.. is nothing much.

that's... sad, really.

a person who was so full of potential yet... hmm....

anyways, I'm looking everywhere for an MP3 version of this song...

Your Face by The Frames.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3l7_o9oEw

such a hauntingly good tune.

Dance Camp 2009

Time: 4:23am
Date: 03 Dec 09
Location: Yuan Han's House, somewhere in Setapak.

The Dance camp thingy just ended yday.

There was more breaking than Dancing. well, more like my spirit breaking while we're dancing.

It. was. painful.

like what they say, I'm getting too old for this shyt.... lol.

art student gone mad.

Date: 091125
Time: 4:40am.
Location: @my room, @home.

lol.. I ain't gona be part of your system... so Althusser... lol.

Lonely Planet - Threw It On The Ground

I Hate It.

Date: 25 november, 2009.
Time: 12:49am.
Location: my room, @home.

there are somethings that you never realize it's there, until you realize it's there... well, this is one of those things.

It's been a while now... I never knew I needed it before... but I've been relying on it so much so that now when I'm on the verge of losing it, I realized that it's quite a scary thing to not live without it. It'd be great if things can stay the way it is... for as long as possible atleast...

I guess life, like energy, can only stay in a form/place/condition for so long... energy changes form, life moves on... really hate the fact that you can just leave without feeling the way that I do...

Home, at last.

Date: 24.11.09

Time: 3:38am.

Location: My Room, M'sia.

Finally... I'm home =)

if it weren't for Cole's doggie choc biscuit... pipi vaguely remembers me...

... that... dog... hmmm....

Last Night in London.

Location: somwhere between Queensway station and Bayswater.
Time: 10:51pm



hmm, going home tomorrow! lol.. it's not like i'm complaining about the trip or anything.. it's jst that... it's a little tiring. the HORRIBLE time that the britishs picked to service/renovate its' Tube didn't help either..

I stumble all over Ldn and Paris.. basically throughout the trip with 4 humongous luggages with the average weight of 14kg each... that's excluding the hand carries which includes 2 notebooks and daddy's dvds and souvenirs. TERRIBLE I tell u!!

just today, we got back from paris to ldn and reached Luton around 3pm... We took a bus to Luton Airport Parkway or something lidat and then a train to St. Pancras... then walked all the way to King's Cross (and next door seemed like an understatement.. like everything in UK, the place was huge, King's Cross wasn't too small either.) and took train to baker's rd. To realise that the entrance that bro normally use is... *drum roll* CLOSED. from baker's Road, we walked to the opposite trail and took another train to Edgware. THEN... we had to walk around 5-10 minutes to another terminal to take a train to Bayswater, because apparently the Queensway station's closed... and the whole maintenance thing totally screwed up the whole Tube system...

HORRIBLE!! we walked here and there and everywhere... asked other people which, not surprisingly, the Tube's pretty confusing for the locals too... finally we found a train that goes to Wimbledon and got off at Bayswater station at around 5pm++....... zomg, luckily the Brits we met in our trips were actually quite nice, same goes to the French. they were quite sympathetic with our luggages and all... all in all this trip was ok... It's like backpacking.. except you do it with your family... and you stay in nicer-ish accommodations and have nicer-ish meals... but unlike backpacking, you can;t really seee what you want to... coz u're with ur family...

anyways....

i'll be back home in around 24 hours' time =)

yup, under the constant *and persistent* encouragements (and I use the term loosely... coz in some culture, they call it nagging endlessly...) from the companies I keep.... well more like kept =~~(

I'll be able to see Pipi in around 24 hours~~

It's my last day in ldn and I instead of crawling from pubs to pubs, experiencing the local culture... I spent it with my family crawling through the ditches.. i mean in the Tube stations... then to Whitley's and Tesco metro... how... fun... ... ...