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 =)

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?

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

Yasmin Ahmad's Funeral

Location: How5!, Clayton.

Time: 8:59am.

Beautiful imperfections.

How ironic that this is vid was themed funeral.

May she rest in peace...

I missed it... =(

Time: 1:30am
Location: How!5, Clayton.

hmm... waiting for mommy to online... feel like a stalker...

anyhoo, talked to MJ again today...

... Can't believe I missed this... and I miss Starbucks to.... =(

NCSM charity walk

http://salleharon.fotopages.com/?entry=1869560&back=http://salleharon.fotopages.com/?page=0

Happy Dumpling Festival =)

Time: 3:37am
Location: How!5, Clayton.


Oooo, mommy msn-ed me today... telling me it's The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, also called the dumpling festival....
hmm, wonder why everything is food to me... lol.

I used to listen to mommy complain about not able to eat dumpling coz I'm born a day before the 5th day of the 5th month in the chinese/lunar calender.

Grams makes the best Dumpling! She'll make it every year with Er Yi... mommy and daddy even brought some down to KL for me last year. I threw it in the freezer and that 4 dumpling lasted me for quite some time...



p/s: the pics are not the ones made by Grams but sure miss 'em this year =(

Happy Chinese New Year~

Location: Daddy's hometown, Teluk Intan (TA, coz it used to be called Teluk Anson and people here never really gotten over it.), Perak.

I would like to first point out that mommy's pc's internet browser's font is freakishly small. Hell that woman has the eyesight of my 70 year old grandma but having a pc with freakishly small font for a browser... women...

Anyhoo, as known by thousands and thousands (i'm not sure of the amount of the 'WHOLE Chinese population') of Chinese all over the world... It's the first day of Chinese aka Lunar New Year~ (but we normally call it cny. If it's lunar new year, it'll be lny... then it wouldn't be cny anymore... hmm.. having a lame moment there...)

Although we stayed in Ipoh practically all our lives, we (speaking for bro and I) never once spend the first day of Chinese new year in Ipoh.

SO what's different this year?

As we're carrying out the tradition of coming back to daddy's hometown to spend cny like we did for the past 25 years (obviously I'm speaking about my family), the answer is... Not Much has changed.

... except that that's a McD Drive Thru in TA now~

Frankly, I can never understand WHY TA can even be considered as a city as of April 2004 (thanks wikipedia =). I thought cities need to have enough people in it to even be considered as one... hehe... being rather mean here.

Here's what NOT written in wikipedia.

Teluk Intan is famous for its local and very abundant residents, the mosquitoes. They're huge, hungry and especially attracted to me.

Teluk Intan is also known for its dirt-filled, not free flowing water in the longkangs aka ditches surrounding the city. That's where their 'residents' meet, greet and mate on a daily basis.

It's been like this since the middle ages I pressume...

Teluk Intan is also well-known for its very very low water pressure... and that's why I took forever in the bath room, unlike what some sources (lame arse bro) claimed that its due to my incompetence.

In Teluk Intan, there used to be this really kick-arse malay mamak store infront of the now San Shau Ye Chee Cheung Fun Shop (which is the best TA Chee Cheung Fun in the city) and Hotel-G. The row of mamaks serve the BEST Pourri, period. (I just made up that word, don't know the exact spelling mahh...)

It's something made using flour and grilled... not grilled... like heated up using a pan like stove with some oil... looked like a small little heat packet. But instead of having liquids in it, it's filled with air. So there you have it, flour with air. delicious!

In Teluk Intan, there used to be a really famous Nasi Lemak stall near Antek Avenue's Shi Jian Dian (in English it literally means Time Shop). But nowadays that auntie's kids' all grown up and she retired... DARN kids, they always grow up so fast =P

Funny that I googled it and no relevant hits came up... so I'm going to paraphrase it in different ways, so that the next person who googles it won't come out disappointed.

"Shi Jian Dian" in Teluk Intan; Teluk Intan's "Shi Jian Dian"... yea, my imagination's running pretty dry lately.

--- latest updates --- Mommy daddy and bro's snoozing happily coz 9am in MY house would've been like a ghost town, except Pipi... who has a feet fetish or something... always licking, biting, chewing, playing with his front legs...

Erm... too much info again...

To me, TA is more of a necessary place to stop by every year just so we can tick that off my family's to-do list. I'm not saying that it's a chore coz by not coming back here, it doesn't feel like chinese new year to me. Plus, we're not that close with daddy's family as we're staying about an hour and a half away... Besides, their family members had too much history that we don't know, hence, unable to understand the social/power relation between them.

I guess that's what makes a place special... Not the material stuff but the people living in it that defines it. And Food... Don't know why that I keep contradicting myself...

So, it's almost 9 am now, the kids are about to wake up and we're gona receive a big fat ang pow first thing in the morning from our parents~ buaahahahhaha!!! Nothing feels more cny than receiving a huge red ang pow from the beloved human beings first thing in the morning.

Then off we go! Visiting the same few houses that we have been going for... for years before I can even remember... =)

9 March 2008.

Location: the ivory towers, Sunway.


Today's the 9th of March 2008, aka the aftermath of Malaysia's 12th general election. Though yesterday was International Women's day, all the attention was placed on the progress of polling while women's issue was nothing more than being used by candidates as baits to fish women's votes.


I woke up feeling like Christmas today.

Turned on the tv and *blank*. The electricity's out. Smart condo management, people.

Anyways, there's this talk about riots and rallies etc happening around the nation today. This suspicion arisen among the public coz there's been a little but evident shift in M'sia's political landscape... Though it may be small, it created a tsunami in Malaysia's political sector.


I'm really curious and can't wait to see what lies ahead, what will change...

Especially what will happen in my hometown, Ipoh.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

On a totally different topic here. I watched American History X yesterday. In short, it's a great movie.


It's partly due to Edward Norton's extremely convincing acting skill; other than that, I feel that people today can relate to the idea behind this movie made in 1998, about 10 years ago.


It so happened that I have the privileged of being forced into studying about WW1 in my first sem. To know about fascism and all these awesome epochs (cruel it might seem, but you still can't deny the fact these thoughts of grandeur were magnificent) that defined the world we're living in now...


In a way, I understand this movie the way I understood it and i can't help but think, what if some random Malaysian were to take this fascist idea a little too far, this can happen on our soil too... Gangsters, Activists, Mat Rempit gone wild... take your pick.


All in all, it's true that "hate's a baggage, life's too short to be pissed off all the time".


So Asshole, I forgive you.

For now.

Are We Even Living For Ourselves Anymore?

Location: Bro's Bedroom, Ipoh.

First things first, no, today the sun will not rise from the north, so NO, I didn't just woke up at 6 in the morning.

Ok, lame dry humor aside, I just cannot shake the conversation mom, dad and I had yesterday (at dinner in Wei Choy around 8:30pm just after dad brought Ah Pi out for a walk... Wait, was I being a little too specific? hehe... Anyways,) mom and I have been pushing each others' buttons yesterday.

Since yesterday morning she kicked me outa bed at 10:30am,11:30am, 11:49am, 12:15pm and I finally woke up at 12:30pm... I am always grumpy & moody in the morning so when she poked fun of me, my body reacted by overproducing hormones that made me EXTRA emo.

Yes, I got all teared up and fought back by lashing out stuff like "It's been 2 weeks that I've been home and you keep talking about this same freaking issue EVERYDAY and for the first 100 times you said that, I tried very freaking hard to NOT bite back... But you keep going on and on and on with this and it's really getting on my nerves OK?! Now I don't only find it HURTFUL, I HAD to rebut to protect what little SELF CONFIDENCE I have left intact with me now... SO freaking SHUT UP already!!!"

Well, that's what I said... It's just that it's in Mandarin and less organized.


She was really taken aback to see me snapped just like that, but I don't regret saying that coz she didn't bring up the issue again for the rest of the day. BUT NO, she just had to find some ways to EXPRESS her ability to fight with her HIGHLY functional tongue of hers. Since I'm home, I'm the hamster/sitting duck sitting in a cage...

We argued about the things that she put in my room (it's HER temporary extented storeroom now) and the things that she put in bro's wardrobe (all the winter clothing and shit -- What sparked that? I merely suggested that she should put the winter clothing in her newly built closet and she told me the long grandmother story of bro not being in the house and the space is just alright for the unused winter clothing) Then some some titter-tatter, I avoided her for the rest of the day.... til dinner that is.

Dad's not out of town and that's pretty rare for us, so I made it a point to not eat with granny and godmom earlier on to have dinner with my immediate, closest family.

To make conversation, she told dad that if I hadn't promised to go for the function, I would have taken part in that rally 2 weeks ago... and Dad gave me that LOOK (that he's famous for when he despises, strongly disagrees, looks down, angry about something, etc) and asked: "what are you trying to prove? Are you trying to be like your Er Yi?"

-- long story about my er yi... --

I ducked and avoided the whole topic and pretended that I was SOOO into that football match (Liverpool vs New Castle United which Liverpool won 3-0) and didn't hear him say anything. He said and I quote...

"Don't do stupid stuff la, we spend so much money on you for you to go to Monash to study..."

That eager beaver sitting opposite me JUST CAN'T WAIT to give me her 50 cents...

"Yealor, yealor. What if you got caught? What would mommy and daddy do? You're just 19 ok?"

... All I heard was *mummbbleee* *fummbleeee*... Ok, I have to admit, I was a little childish using that description, but why did I keep quiet while they desperately tried to share with me their oh-so-very-koreck-thoughts?

The thing about my family is that, there are some things that CAN & CANNOT be spoken out loud cause they will use their "I've been in the world for more than *how-many-years*" and "I have eaten salt more that you have eaten rice...". No, I do not doubt their experiences and judgments but they won't understand what is it like to WANT to do something like what I wanted to do... It's frown upon... and it is always a potentially fatal spark for any ferocious arguments, at anytime in my family.

She came up with three really genius principles which no doubt that she had came up on the spot saying...

"there are 3 ways to support something 1st being financially, 2nd being mentally and 3rd being action (coz "physically" slipped her mind I presume) AND all we should never never choose is taking action... It's not for US..."

I wanted so desperately to ask, what do you mean by US? Do you mean OUR family? Do you mean the CHINESE community from around here? Or you're just referring to those who are 'dumb' (can't speak)? WHY should we keep quiet IF we feel strongly about something?

Instead, I know better but I replied: "typical Chinese mentality".
(and that totally fired dad up...)

WHY didn't I ask all these question??

Coz I'm born and raised in this family. Coz I know that we're in a public place and IF I talk back, ALLLLL the drama that you can find on TVB will be presented live... Coz I'm brought up in a traditionally Urban Chinese family.

too complicated?

According to my parents, WE, as children, no longer live OUR lives anymore. WE live for our parents and ancestors. WE live FOR our "kind"... Just like it's frown upon to marry non-Chinese like Indians and Malays BUT those Mat Sallehs are totally accepted here. If we committed suicide or wasn't careful with our behavior (say, had sex before marriage) we'll not only put ourselves to shame, we'll drag along a WHOLE BIG BUNCHA BAGGAGE down with us... We'll be considered as irresponsible to our parents, their parents and their parents' parents...


Like who started this crap anyways? WHY do we need to trouble ourselves by considering the imaginary chain binding you from doing what your heart YEARNS to do and strongly know that it's correct to begin with? Is this social system having positive influences on fields other than morality and cognitive rationality? More importantly, is this posing a threat (other than being nurtured with STRONG self censorship) to freedom of speech, freedom of happiness and freedom of EXPRESSION? Maybe they say is true, social norms CAN change people's rationality...

Would the future of mankind be any better IF people start to live for THEMSELVES?

p/s: After the whole shebang, mom and I resolved the whole me giving her the cold shoulder thing after the VERY CRAZY shopping in Uda Ocean, Ipoh. I don't know which is crazier. The fact that people spend money like water to buy normal, VERY normal stuff or the fact that shopping therapy works in my family EVERYTIME... Says who Money can't buy happiness?

Being The Bystander.

Location: B12.3a, Sunway.

After that chaotic experience yesterday, I never knew anyone, i mean ANYONE can be that ALONE in his/her entire life, period.

Just in case I'll offend anyone with this entry that i'm about to start writing, I just wanna say I did not take part in the demonstration but thinking back, I should've taken that invitation, at least by the end of the day, I did something meaningful that I feel proud of doing.

I call this the Sze Vien Disease... Camwhore In the Cab.

Anyhoo, I went to this place to attend something without knowing exactly who the chairpersons are, and yes, now i dearly regretted giving in to the REALLLLLLY annoying invitation by the elder. Like WTH !! She called like more than 10 times regarding this stupid issue in a period of 2 weeks... Even my mom find it really annoying.

And so, I went. I wanted to take a cab to KTM station, from there, I'll go to KL Central, then take an LRT to Dang Wangi to take a cab to THERE. After dolling up and decided to put my 3 inches high heels to the test. I woke up at 2pm that day. After spending about 35 minutes bathing, getting dressed and packing for a stayover, I didn't even think of taking anything before happily hopping on a cab to reach my destination.

ME in Cab Again.

When I was in the cab, I started thinking. Can I survive strolling around town with my heels and an at least 3kg paper bag of stuff? In a heartbeat, I made up my mind to go there by cab, even if it cost much much more than my initial plan.

It's as if some mythical power above and beyond telling me that I should'nt go. I should just turn back (even my pig told me not to go...) but NOOOOOO I have to have my stupid conscious that kept reminding me of my stupid promise to that elder and the other friend of mine... That demonstration thing totally slipped out of my mind and the result of that was all major trunk roads to town area was blocked by our very responsible police force which led to a MAJOR jam from Sunway to Federal.


Imagine... 45 minutes from Sunway to federal! Totally absurd!!

Even that pleasant and polite looking Malay uncle driving the cab was starting to boil from the inside, he reached a boiling point when he saw that 5-6 'mata' blocking 3/5 freaking lanes causing an unnecessary jam. The Malay Cabby shouted 'Idiot' and slammed his honks. Yes, I was taken aback but at the same time, I understand why he was this flared up. Imagine stucking in a jam which's going nowhere which an manual (geared) car!


After that things got smoother but the saga of Malaysian traffic didn't just end there. And coz of that, my supposedly 30 minutes journey turned into a 2 hours++ tour around KL. Before I reached my destination, I got my make up done and almost dozed off. 2 hours is suffice for me to reach Ipoh from Pudu.

Anyhoo, when I finally reached there, I felt all scared, alone and petrified all at the same time. Imagine that you are standing ALONE by the entrance of a hotel waiting for my friend to pick me up, with make up, with heels... Yup, looked like a hooker, a inferior hooker standing there ALONE. I still remember seeing these Ang Mos shooting each other glances while scanning me top to bottom doubtfully...

I know that I just made the stock of Malaysia's Prostitution Industry (MPI) dive down the ditch.

- btw, this inside joke was made by Ivan and Chee Kean, who were my friends, in that form 2 geography tuition lesson. When the teacher asked us to name some of the famous industries in Thailand... They immediately said Industri Pelacuran... -

Anywayss, one of the factor that I didn't have my brunch was coz I took Yen's idea of googling how to go THERE and from duno where I read that there's a Starbucks.

Pretty Gek Suan...

So, reached there at 5pm, hungry but fresh. Just in time duno for what ceremony thing. So I was like, ok, luckily I'm not late~ But never in a million years I'd realize that I'm the EARLIEST there, other than the organizing comm.

I was like.... FREAK. What am i supposed to do till the real function (that allegedly) begins at 7:30pm? Yes, I'd be lying if I say that I never thought of grabbing all my stuff and jumping on a cab to roll back to my very cozy cocoon which protects me from the outside world of humans NEVER cross my mind.

Well, no one said it would be easy to be a person who'll stand by her words. I decided to be the noble one (artly coz I can't find a solid reason to excuse myself. HEY, I did say PARTLY ok?) .

Pretty?

Everything happened vividly & suffering-ly SLOW... Minutes passed by what seemed like Millenniums. I feel so unblendable in some foreign land that I hid in the closet/ changing room for the VIP and pretend to be really ecstatic playing with someone else's' kids. Imagine. 1 year old still learning how to walk...

Finally, they started at the function at 8:00pm , which is punctual according to Chinese customs. Everything was ok and well until someone came up to change the our (the elder & my) seatings. Some may call it an upgrade. Suddenly being in some sorta spot that requires me to put on a smart and fake HAPPY smile made me so rigid and uncomfortable. This, of all all other seats around the whole freaking hall is the one I came to avoid!

Sometimes, dreams DON'T come true, miracles will back fire and shoot you in the chest.

Every second spent there, I died a little inside (besides feeling numb all around my checks and lips from all that artificial happiness...). It reminded me of my A-Lvl's prom's experience.

Anyways, luckily I managed to coax someone to send me back. I could've swore that I'll go hysterically FAKE to strongly suppress that EXTREME loneliness caused by social pressure that were about to erupt if I would need to put up with ANYMORE of that... I don't belong there!!! Now I know!!! The Function was supposed to be really beautiful. WHY do people need to complicate stuff?

So, if there's something similar as such organized by them next time, I'll be the first to run in the opposite direction.

The only consolation was that I took some pictures before that camera's battery failed on me. He bailed on me...

p/s: Jing Yi, these pics big enough for you to drool over? =P

pp/s: This totally cracked me up!! Like it did last year...

Trapped in the Drive-Thru by Weird Al Yankovic



Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGVYki-oyQ

Random...

Location: On my very very comfortable Sofa @ Home, Ipoh.

Wanted to eat Looi Cha (the veg soup rice thing) this afternoon, guess what I saw in Ipoh?




SO, Ok, the 3rd pics' kinda irrelevant... It's just that I haven't been in Ipoh Garden East for some time and was kinda surprised to see something being erected in the wasted lot (which was previously used as illegal parking lot).


Anyways, all I wanted to say was since when simple laksa cost RM 3.00, non-complicated dry/wet curry became RM 3.30 and the normal Chee Cheong Fun with curry chicken cost RM 3.00? Ipoh used to be my personal paradise for cheap, good quality food... What Happened?

People, especially with the recent increase in the costs of flour, petrol and other daily necessities, some unethical hawkers took advantage to increase about RM 0.10 - RM 0.30 on everything they sell. RM 0.30 may look small to you rich people, I believe that this will definitely be amplified in more urbanized areas like KL and Sunway. Oh, speaking of which, the condo seized this opportunity to increase the rental next year from the current RM 530 to RM 580 per month for every student staying in twin sharing rooms.

Yes, it's not a typo. RM 580 per person in twin sharing room, which add up to RM 1160 per room.

Sad right?! It's a vicious cycle!!

Yes, I am this free. I even made a chart about it.

So do u think it's the right time for me to ask for a raise from my parents?

Anyhoo, since I'm being all random here, watching Linkin Park's new vid while listening to Paramore's Crush Crush Crush, I might as well upload some random pics.

My Huge Meds in Yen's Hands.

Freedom 1: After INT paper.

Freedom 2: Candid

Freedom 3: Cheeese. Too bad nic and yen missed it.

This we took in Central Market Annexe where the Freedom Film Fest took place.
Cute huh?

Pool of ants. Grossssssss.

I saw this while walking from Pink with Helen after dinner.

Eggy Mess! In Tesco Extra, Ipoh.

Find it really interesting...
Oh, this is being sold in Tesco Extra if any one would wanna buy it...

p/s: This is really funny. Thanks Winfred~ http://www.bestofthemisc.com/photoshops/madness-this-is-photochoooooopz-hilarious-300-photoshops/

Provocative Stuff for the Day # 4 - Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka

Location: B12.3A, Sunway.

As a Malaysian, I feel the need to spread this around. Everyone must be reminded of their roots once in a while right? and this video is great. the sound effects and all. Should be shown to students in schools, i reckon.

Name: Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka -- about Hartal.
Source: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1254132763




This is the trailer for KOMAS's another successful Freedom Film Fest 2007.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxMl4_j5ENY



p/s: for those Monash student taking ftv, please watch the trailer of Freedom Film Fest at 2:17 (2nd minute and 17th second). I was surprised too~

Provocative Stuff for the Day # 3 - At the Crossroads - Malaysia.

At The Crossroads - Malaysia.

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9zmRMoDt58

All I have to say in response of this clip was fake or real democracy thanks to technology people are able to take charge of information. This clip is still on there for a reason I guess (in other words, Why govt hasn't taken any action to eradicate this clip is quite puzzling)

All I wanna say is that Malaysia is (allegedly) 50 years old now. The people should be critical audiences instead of being passive all the time. Everyone is entitled to have their own thoughts here. Although sensitive issues like Feminism, Islam and the overall racial problems were addressed, it's up to wise audiences to make their own judgment without being too inclined to what the text suggested.

All in all, this clip shed a rather negative light that made Malaysia looked bad...

Buried Local Talent KRU Edition.

Yes, there was once (or twice) KRU sang english songs... But sadly for us, it's been ages. Why must they concentrate in Malay songs? If they had more english songs, think they would be bigger now? Anyhoo, from all their videos, we can all see that they've came a long way... Being big shot celebrities and producers are not that bad also what...

KRU's For You.



Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En17wPlmm1A


This is their new and improved Tyco. It was during that N*Sync era where 3D was not as developed, so mind the animation. I personally love this song... I initially thought it was from a foreign band.



Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMnUiDTUPls

KRU - C'monlah --- <Ohh!!! and this is WAYYYYY COOOL!>

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4SCCytQs5w



Plus, they're totally humorous!! Charismatic... Yusry... and Norman and Edry ofcoz...

KRU: Terhangat di Pasaran.



Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Xa11ME9mg


And this song was so big that many people who doesn't really like malay songs heard of it.

KRU - Negatif



Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNikNonGsck

KRU with Feminin as special appearance - Untukmu (a cappella)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ2juiuSnHI

I think malaysians can do themselves a favor by listening to this song. Though it may not make a big difference, it might just open a up a narrow mind or two.




p/s: Yusry was cute and in fact, he is cuter now! How did he do that?

I drove to the Club today.

Location: @home, Ipoh.

Ok, to be fair, it's not my first time driving to the club (by club I mean Ipoh Swimming Club, the website is not very glam I know) but it is my first time driving there just to work out in the gym. And Yes, I don't remember the last time that I ever worked out, just today, I happened to wake up in Ipoh EARLY (8am IS early) in the morning.

I went, barge in, forgot my Junior membership number but luckily I remembered my parents' so I went in at 8:20am and checked out at 9:15am, barely an hour.

The first thing I noticed when I went in was The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's Face Down was on, I was like, WHOA~ so cool, coz I saw many aunty, i mean OLD aunties and some really fit uncles. Then through the reflection of the see through glass (I have super power) I SAW A TV.

Since when ISC's gym has MTV?!

COOL!

OH, I tried the treadmill for 15 minutes, and a treadmill-ish walking machine thingy for 10 minutes. I totally felt like dying there! I didn't actually tried too hard to get my heart-rate to the fat burning zone. With the hyper tyriod, I AM constantly in fat burning zone already. The reason that my slim down's insignificant AT ALL is because my input's kinda, just kind of high too.

So with a little hopping, a lot of walking and running for about 1 minute (out of the total 15) I'm almost always on the cardiac training zone, quite high actually for a normal yijun's workout.

I used to worked my ass out to get to the cardiac training zone.

Ok, there's this Beckam guy worth mentioning. I forgot the exact spelling of his name, this is actually the second time I saw him in the gym in the 3 years he has been working in ISC. haha. He's... big. for those who have seen my hands, mine + mine + half of mine = HIS. scary actually.

After my fruitful workout, I headed for that famous nasi lemak (which I last check was RM 0.60, in other words, nasi lemak which taste as good and cheap is close to extinct in Ipoh, let alone Malaysia) near Gunung Rapat. Maybe it's Puasa month for malays, that kind hearted auntie's really nice nasi lemak stall is NOT THERE. Disappointed i AM...

What have all the tasty-cheap Nasi Lemak gone?!

Night In Pasar Malam.

Location: @Home, Ipoh.

Today I had the longest msn conversation (till date) with bro. He totally pissed me off (not in a totally bad way).

What did he do you say?

He commented that this dog (Fujii, Minni's baby) is afraid of me. Like WTH?!


Can't you see in Fujii's beady eyes that he enjoyed my company?

And then, he sent me This.


Knowing that I don't have a credit card (like he does) and I LURVE British's stuff (Mainly Hugh Grant and his totally HOT accent. I don't normally like droopy eyes but HEY, look at him! It works for him!!)

It's like the photo of LOOKING at this Dorothy Perkins outlet isn't tempting enough, he HAD to get the 50% sign!! like the Chinese old proverb goes "can see cannot eat"!! It's literally 'so near yet so far'... both physically and economically.

Then He was so excited when he showed me this.


HAHA! Like ANYONE care. Well, apparently he did. Just because of the word "Berry" reminds him of his Berryz Koubou. His craze lead many of his friends (mainly Winfred) and family members (me) to think he's a sorta... well... pedophile.

I still couldn't believe that the UK version of Hello Project is THIS... SAD.

Hmmm... Difference in culture indeed.

And So, he asked me to wait as he has something for me. I prayed and prayed and even crossed my fingers (plus toes) to hope it's a gorgeous ZARA gown from him. Then out of the blue, he sent me this picture. Literally.


I WAS SO TRILLED! Thought he's gona give me a car this next year!! then HE just had to dampen my hopes. He was actually just trying to show me the pictures he took during his London trip.

Being me, I expressed my disappointment. Then he said maybe he'll give me this for my birthday next year.


LIKE I'M HAVING SO MANY CHILDREN WOR. Duh. and even so, I'm SO not driving this if we (my family) were going anywhere at all. License or no license.


And that smart guy sent me this. Double Duh!

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And so, I needed a rebuttal.

So what if you're totally surrounded by all the heavenly branded bags and clothings that I so deeply yearned and worshiped.

I'll have to take something that even you didn't realize how much you DESIRE (on the inside) so much so that you'll so totally regret for tempting me with Dorothy Perkins and that really cute blue car (though it's even cuter in bright hot pink) that I'll be dreaming for a few days now!!

(on a not related topic, I smell a loving bond/trend of conversation between you and me~)

Anyways, it's Monday. And Monday at Home is.......

*drum roll*

Yes, it is Pasar Malam DAY!
(I didn't miss more than 10 Pasar Malam Day when I was still stuck in Ipoh.)

I just realized that it's actually saddening to walk alone (mommy and daddy went to Sungai Besar)... with so many people judging what I wore and NOT judging them back without anyone beside me. And it is weird to be walking walking walking - take picture - then walk - take pic... those unforgiving eyes... Judging.

Anyhoo...

There's This.

Home-made Ice-cream~~
(Mommy said it's made of glue)

And this...

(lantern festival aka Mid-Autumn's Festival)

and this... Sorry... This picture is not Sher Yen friendly.

...THEN THEY HAVE...

AW.... Fried PRAWNY!!

*Laugh* *Laugh*

AWW...Fried Sotong!!!


*Evil Pointing Smile*

*MAw-HAw*

~~ Dreamy Fried Sotong that you don't have there ~~

*Evil Pointing Laughter*

pp/s: Bro, how did the leng lui selling the Fried Sotong knew you went to UK? I went to buy the fried sotong today, she offered me the RM2 packet but gosh, like enough meh, I told her that my bro always order RM 4 ones. She's like: "that specky guy who went to UK?"

I was like: "yeah..." and trailed into a web of confusion while i was giving her the raised brow expression.

p/s: If you don't already know 'Buck' (he gave me this impression that the whole world has seen him on youtube before) There was this fuzz surrounding the VMA about Britney's horrible horrible performance for the opening. And so I stumbled upon 'What The Buck' Show. It's CoooooL!