Go Ape on 23rd =)

Time: 2.05pm

Date: 20 June 2011

Location: Hargrave.

wow. finally Jun's-omg-totally-awesome-once-in-a-lifetime-turning-23rd-birthday-celebration-yay! week has passed and it PASSED by SO.FAST.

Well, I may have made it looked way more than what happened by the intentionally bimbotic name but really, I had a really nice day =)

I kinda unofficially took the week off, mentally. Was really fun floating in Lala land for a while...

Well, the day started unlike any other.

Waking up with the delicious fragrance of scrambled eggs was delightful! He went through the trouble of preparing continental breakfast which plated hash-brown (elegantly split into two while he was flipping it..), scrambled eggs, garlic bread and a slice of crispy ham. He even made mushroom soup to wash it all down with..

So after some washing up, making-up, waking-up and much dilly-dally, we finally left home to head to the city... for my LONG AWAITED massage~ yea! I bought a voucher online and R sweetly booked the massage session for me couple of days ago =) So I made him promise me nothing but zas for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and Sweet Sixteen marathon for the whole day under the sheets, among other things. Sweet Sixteen was chosen just because he really can't stand it. lol. Needless to say that didn't happen... we ended up having a movie night watching 3 Idiots with the bunch instead. It was a pretty nice way to end to day =)

Sticking to the story, we were supposed to head to this pizza place on Flinders Ln (because I went on and on about having pizzas)... We did go to Flinders Ln alright.. but to Yu-U! that restaurant that I've been CRAVING for since the research I did for his birthday a month ago! wanted to go there during Sarah's belated bday celeb but didn't work out. The place was fully booked. when we were there, we realized they don't need that many people to fill up the place. Not really business minded btw... they could have maximize the usage of space to have host more customers.

Anyways, all is well! The food was so so but it's the whole initial excitement of having your 'dreams' come true was amazing... lol. I'm actually pretty easily satisfied. The restaurant was empty when we went, at 12. lol. never so punctual. Ordered Salmon bento and pork bento.. the price was reasonable. $18/set considering the generous portion.. Lit ordered Jap Plum alcohol drink and hot sake. lol. The sake was a little too strong but the plum was alright.

Then we walked around the city all the while having Lit told me that he was craving for Koko Black. Was a tad uncharacteristic of him but didn't put too much thought into it... It was drizzling but not too cold. we trammed and walked a little to Vimala near Lygon by 2pm for my massage~ the massage was pretty awesome... but really, I still miss Arokaya in Sunway. lol. All the while the poor guy has to scout for public bench adjacent to a restaurant that has outdoor heater to get some heat in the cold winter's day... OMG... if only I know this would happen earlier, i wouldn't plan the massage that day.

After that, he seemed to be in a rush checking his phone and watch every other minute when we trammed to Bourke st... i KNOW something's up but lucky him, the thought of Koko Black's Ice Mocha was occupying must of my RAM at that moment...

When we were in Koko Black, he asked for a table for 3 while I gestured for 2.. which was weird but I was too busy and distracted by chocolates and drinking Ice Mocha in my head. after a while Cheer Ray showed up. Haven't seen her in AGES... being us, we always have something to catch up and chattering over tea (of ice mocha and ice-cream) was simply not enough.

It was getting dark around 5... so we headed back. Conveniently, kar kien 'TEXTED' R while we were in Myers for a toilet hunt, to ask if we want to join him, Jer and Ean for dinner in Glen. Suspiciously convenient... I didn't wanna spoil his plan and played along. What a good company I was =)

Ofcourse we went to La Porchetta!! Finally having zas~ lol. it's like having all my favorite food in ONE day! everyone was there... to name a few Jerr, Kar Kien, Joe, Saab, Lam, Marie, Nic Ng, Flo, Pei Chern, Chu Ian, Caryn, Ben, Jerm, Amanda and even Gracia, lol. Then some of us came back home for some green tea, Red Rock Deli (thanksss) and 3 Idiots... which R's been going on and on since Feb. Aamir Khan was pwetty cute I would say =)

Being 23rd now.. I would say is not where I would imagine myself to be 5 years back. But I'm taking it one day at a time. Felt deflated and pointless some times to doing what I am supposed to be doing. I love who I'm with, the company I keep but not really the situation. I would admit that circumstances could have been better but really... it's a struggle to psycho myself... which I'm not doing very well in. In this extremely conflicted state... often felt the urge to press the restart button sometimes...

Guess all I'm saying is... thanks for the motivation and your ways of pulling me back from the insane side of the mental scale... All my weird antics... eg. I can't stand re-wearing socks coz it's icky but don't like showers... because I don't like the cold feeling after showering, even with the heater on... and you have to admit, showering is quite a hassle and it's not like I don't like to be clean. lol. and yea... thanks for the wonderful birthday =))

Big 3

Date: 4 October, 2010.

Time: 3:54am

Location: R's.

hey... thanks for the magical week...

wouldn't have been without you =)

all that planning must have gotten you sick...

...get well soon...

p/s: Happy bday CA !

Excitement.

Time: 11:15pm.

Date: 27 Sept 2010.

Location: Comp Room, Howitt.

2 weeks in... Excitement is the spark on your face when you see that ice-cream waffle cone in Coles... excitement is when you asked me out to fringe performance tomorrow. North Melbourne. heck, don't even know what we're watching.

Sem break is fun with you around =)

... thanks for being here...

*edited*

lol, you just walked back to return me the jacket after borrowing from me 5 minutes ago coz you realized that I was using it. LoL. the cute things you do really crack me up some times.

ironies of life.

Time: 4:14am.
Date: 12 May 2010
Location: Comp Room, HH.

this is pretty sad.

context: talking about the number of organ donations in various countries who adopted a 'presumed consent' (or opt out) system of organ donation after death. Both Spain and Sweden adopted the same policies but "It has been suggested that one of the reasons Spain's donation rate is so good is a result of the higher numbers of healthy people killed in road accidents..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6902519.stm

Even though Spain adopted a "soft" system as compared to Austria's, the system was highly successful for the Spaniards, because of road accidents. cruel as it may sound, maybe it's not a bad idea for malaysia to promote the rempit culture for the betterment of fellow malaysians in need?

First Times.

Time: 9:10pm.
Date: 25 Feb 2010.
Location: How!5, Clayton =)

so many first happened.

I worked in Monash Club for the first time.

Got my first pay check from Monash Club.

Forgot to write down the shift I worked for the first time.

Hence Monash Club didn't pay me for the first time. In other words, free labour for Monash Club for 2 hours, for the first time. Swt, I know.

Became a returning resident for the first time.

Moved back to Howitt, for the first and last time, I think.

and yea, did I mention that I acknowledge that the sharp stabs of pain in my stomach, was gastric pain... for the first time?

I'm gona live my choices next week for the first time too... let's hope I can make the most of it.

anyways, weird things has been happening. Felt like it's open season on Jun lately... Don't know if it's a good thing.

Happy CNY =)

Time: 7:33pm.
Date: 15 Feb 2010.
Location: Evelyn Street, Clayton.

hmm, yesterday was a really emotional day... for various reasons. I did wear cheongsam on the day of chinese new year alright.. but instead of being at home with my family, I spent the last few hours in Monash Palace.

no point getting emotional actually. this is what I've chosen, so be it... remember your goals gal.

one. more. year.

a very important year indeed.

Anyways, from our awkward porn night to our awesome lou sang, glad to have spent it with u buncha awesome people.

Akmal, the actual host of this CNY eve get-together, made Nasi Lemak... lol... he's suddenly SO malay =p Jia Yeng prepared Lou Sang, Vegetable and Lin Zi Tong Sui (that's the reason why I ignored your reply, Richard). Tai cooked fish! what's a reunion dinner w/o fish, man... Zax made Kapitan Curry Chicken, Sarah brought Melon Sago + coconut milk. and yea, she cooked. lol. Pey Chin cooked... well, she cooked everything. She helped out during the whole cooking chaos. I made Chicken Stir fry with Lee Kum Kee sauce and fried Nian Gao =) All in all.. Everyone played along wonderfully...

so... to all you peeps out there, have a great chinese new year. hope you'll appreciate what u've got. I certain did, more than ever =)

*edited* and yea, forgot that I made stir-fry dong fun too.

gosh, woman.

Time: 1:06
Date: 12 February, 2010.
Location: 256, Evelyn st, clayton.

Loneliness. lol. cliche I know but how can I be feeling lonely surrounded by a group of interesting people?

There are so many things I feel the need to say to express how I feel but surprise, surprise... words seeem to fail me time and again. well, rather. I seem to fail it time and again...

Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's the same routine I'm going through over and over again, everyday. Maybe it's my fear of changing but my reluctance of being stuck at the same place in time which I deem to be inadequate.

Maybe i'm retreating into myself again. I feel so angry at some people for no apparent reason. Good People will get hurt if I'm not careful with my expression. Totally feel like a ironic loony. I feel so unchallenged!!! hence the dissatisfaction?

You know what I wanna do?

I wanna go to an all you can eat buffet, get stuffed and vomit my guts out.

I wanna to go a freaking rock concert alone to listen to songs that I havent heard of and scream my guts out.

I wanna cry on someone's shoulder like nobody's business for no apparent reason...

I wanna feel good about myself, for once. havent been feeling much of that in these few months.

... or maybe it's starting to feel like Chinese New Year and I'm not home.

pathetic, self-resentment, angst... in short, I'm a basket-full of crazy. How can i be this discontented? GOSHHHHH WOMAN! SHAKE OUTA IT!!!

really need to watch a korean drama to get the tears outa my system. but I don't like Korean drama. URGGGGHHHHH!!!! life's full of stupid contradictions.

Wee Kheong a Wee Kheong.

Time: 7.11pm.
Date: 5 Feb, 2010.
Location: 256, evelyn st.

This the second time that I stepped foot in Monash Medical Centre, twice for the same person.

The first time was with Yueh Hwei, Aric, Iggy and Kane... for the same reason. aiyo.. that wee kheong... tiba-tiba told me that he to Moorabin, again.

Really hope that infection is nothing big... stupiak kidney stone... ISHHHH... it's gona be agonizing for him to go back to Malaysia wei...

... and you... left too.

Time: 10:20pm
Date: 20 Jan 2010
Location: 256 Evelyn st., Clayton.

not only good things come in small packages, wicked things too... like you.

I think that gal's prolly landed safely in KLIA by now coz this spoilt little gal flew MAS. spoilt wicked gal.

hmmm...

so to refresh your memories about what you'll be missing here... I took the effort to make you suffer. buahahah!

You're SOOOO gona misssss....




Random outings...




the PO family...




and yea.. Toan too...

p/s: PO is gona be a lot quieter without your lame jokes... =~~(

Me and ma Girlz.

Time: 12:19am
Date: 19 Jan 2010
Location: 256 Evelyn St.

I was about to blog about my unexpectedly awesome outing with Jia Yeng and Gwen... we started our day in Camberwell but somehow ended up in Brunswick's Nicholson St catching a tram back to Collins st.... Adventure indeed =)

WHOA, the day was full of revelation. some wonderful revelations that made me wish we hanged out more last year. hmmm... why didn't we... WHY?

anyways, speaking of revelations, I really wanna thank Iggy for the very very wonderful goodbye presents he left me... one of which is LEAVING Australia for a long long time =)

such a friend.

Speaking of friend, being a very very awesome friend myself, I left him a souvenir. yup. I'm just that great... not only so, I'm VERY considerate too. For some reason the pics in his lousy blog couldn't load. so nahhhhhh, here u go. Why am I such a good person....

... and so there's Wee Kheong.

Time: 1.48pm
Date: 15 January, 2010.
Location: 2/56, Evelyn St

one by one and so they flee,

further away from the apple tree....

hmm, just came back after seeing Iggy walk through the T2 gate for the second time...

why second time you ask?

hehe, that'll be a story about a fook chow miser who tried to push his luck with AirAsia.

anyways, bye bye Iggy, hope you enjoyed ur flight, filled with the kind of people, YOUR people whom you love so dearly.

just remember to take care... and don't do stupid shyt in your bro's wedding.

and p/s: just wanted to say... I told you so~

really enjoyed the moment that you walked out of T2 for the first time... like... wow. like having front rolls seats in cirque de soleil or sth. Awesome. Marshae and I enjoyed it soooo much!

Fark fb.

Time: 11:21pm.
Date: 6 Jan, 2010.
Location: 2/56 Evelyn, Clayton.

HORRIBLE.

of all the things that happened since the end of last year... I learnt something...

When the going gets tough, it is just gona get tougher.

I feel like I've stirred up the hornet's nest and these aggressive buggers just took turns to make make my life miserable... Not only that it's making my 'Amendment Year' miserably hard, with it flushing my confidence down the drain.

yes, I decided to make 2010 'Amendment Year', of which details will be added when the time is right.. just not right now.

I do know that things happen(s) for a reason and that I should be patient to let life lead me to wherever I'm supposed to be. But why can't it just take me along the scenic Scotchman Creek Trail instead of rushing me through the farking underground? So what if it is a bad analogy coz the only Melbourne underground transportation line is it's City Loop... As everything is falling apart/changing around me, this blog is what I have blardy control of. It's like I'm life's neverending practical joke, man...

What spawned/or added oil to my already smouldering anger (towards the treadmill of obstacles that some higher power strapped me onto) was my farking facebook account.

BLARDY HELL. I've been using facebook for ages now and all these while I've been logging in with my msn email and out of the blue the stupid facebook said my email, that one I've been using forever... doesn't have a facebook account. like.. WTH?!??!?!!??!!

you know that closed door, open window shyt? It's been happening to me... A LOT. and this time it's not as good as it sounds.. why the fark would you wanna close the perfectly good door and leave A window slightly ajar... why not open MORE DOORS? I'm kinda tired of escaping through cracks of the closing doors in the nick of time, only to start playing hide and seek with your ridiculously hidden window.

Hmmm... sounded like the scenes from season 2 of Being Erica...

Anyways, back to the facebook thing. The only anomaly in my settling life that is even relatively related to my facebook account was... *drumroll*... Iggy.

no surprise there huh? ok, so he claimed that he didn't meddle with my facebook account but The Iggy works in mysterious ways... but before getting into the specifics, I wanna point out that dude, I'm happy for you =)

Ok. I should've known better than to let him use my pc. He has a way with things... like me, whatever he touches, his magical hands will magically change the properties of my properties... in more ways than one... regardless of his intentions...

What happened was when we came back to Evelyn Street after dinner with Wai Chien in Grain Express after work... I 'SUDDENLY' couldn't sign into my fb acc. like.. wth. It was working perfectly fine just before getting to work this morning. So after he left, I tried to log into my acc... apparently i NEEDED to use my monash email to log in. like... wth. fine. So i logged in to change the settings... so that it allows me to log in using my old msn account again. BUT guess what? It didn't work. SO... think I've lost my old account... like.... WERT THE FARK.

GEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.... what's next? Brad Pitt getting married yet again to another woman? THAT would make my life more miserable....


p.s: Wai Chien, hope you have fun with your parents coming =)

pp.s: omg, met the awesome-st dog in Clayton today.. SOOOOO... CUTE... makes me miss u more, pipi....

Silver Lining... finally.

Time: 12:02am
Date: 2 Jan 09
Location: 2/56 Evelyn Street, Clayton =)

yeshhhhh... thanks to Pey Chin, Jia Yeng and the people actually saved me from my days in the streets... omgg... really... like... silver line wei... thanks for taking me in =)

anyways... hope my lucky streak will percede la..... i really dont have a contingency plan.... well atleast I'll be save for 1 month...

and on a totally unrelated note, if you think my driving sucks... wait till u see this... I've only got one word for it... WOW.....

Stupid Drivers Compilation.

"Happy" New Year.

Date: 1 January, 2009.
Time: 1:50pm
Location: Maccas, Clayton.

I couldn't believe that I actually need to resort to this situation...

I'll try to sort things out the best I could.. If I couldn't.. I duno what I'll have to do if I couldn't... wth... again I'm pushed into situations like these. and it's all my own doings... wth.......

anyways, in the words of Wee Kheong, I'll have to live in the now... instead of dwelling in the past. but it's hard not to... especially when we walked by Fed Square yesterday. It's flooded with memories.

This year, being here in Clayton is utterly a different experience for me. Maybe.. the freshness of the place's ran out. it didn't have that homely feeling that I felt in Sunway... plus... carrying the baggage, my missions.. is a little tiring. Damn, this is just the beginning of the year...

in the words of Sum 41, I think (or was it Bowling for Soup), "the first day of the rest of my life... I Miss you already..." and this time, you, is a collective.

... anyways... Happy New Year to you, my loved ones.

From where I'm standing, I see that friendship is something that is invaluable... really treasure our friendships....

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...? -