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2012-02-07T10:59:00.001+08:00

Phew. The last few days has just been hectic! Enrolling into courses I'm taking in the upcoming semester and preparing my time table so I can be prepared to sign up for lectures and tutorial I want.

I've stayed up till the middle of the night to arrange the best fitted time table. What a process! Good to those who have fixed time tables.

Anyways, at my very first attempt, I manage to arrange 90% of my classes to Monday and Tuesday, and only 2 hours of class on Friday. Showed it to my parents and they think it's a bit too cramp and they were worried that I can't digest all the info(s).

So last night, I rearranged and made out 4 timetable options! So after reviewing and reviewing, I pulled one of my 2 hours lecture to Thursday evening. And other still stay on the same day just more breaks in between. So overall, I'm happy.

Hopefully I can get a job. I have my Wednesday free! Thursday morning and afternoon free. Friday free after noon!

Anyway, I was sitting in front of my desktop starting from 7.45am this morning. Just to get ready to sign up for classes as it's available starting 8am. Just as expected, system down cos of overloading users!

After an hour, I had the worst case scenario. Stomach ache. So, I switched on my laptop and bring it in to the toilet with me! embarassing much. This is what we students do, sacrificing for our studies! Anyway, after pooping. I continued refreshing both lappie and desktop at the same time. Only manage to succesfully sign up at 10am. 2 bloody hours!! just tick and save! 2 clicks for 2 hours! And I realize, from that moment, I fell in love with my laptop. It turns out my laptop is doing all the job!

Gonna repeat the same steps for another few more days for other courses. Gosh! My streamyx internet is the best package available already. And still the website is so shitty.

Now, ready for some vain photos.

The dress Mom bought from Dorothy Perkins.

Thank God we have similar sizes that allows us to share our wardrobe.

(Ignore my hands on hips pose)

The dress I bought for Mom from Isetan.
It turns out that ,she says I wore it nicer than her so she gave it to me.

Me and my dad. Peace out.

Short recap

2012-02-03T01:03:00.000+08:00

I know I haven't been keeping up with my blog and definitely am not happy with it cos eventually, those significant memories will be blurred out and vanish into thin air! So many things to post but I'll just make this post a "teaser" post since it's already 1am and I couldn't sleep.

Or how about I just number down random yet significant points. Fast, efficient, simple, read-able.

1. I slept from 4.30pm til 8pm. Therefore, I couldn't sleep now.
2. I'm watching "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".
3. I had my driving test this morning.'
4. Met Ching Mei and Michelle.
5. Surprisingly, I passed.

6. I had a blood test on Monday. Test result is out and mommy say I'm as healthy as an angel. (OH YEAH)
7. I still miss dancing.
8. My new found addiction: Jayessleetv
9. My new found weakness: Comfy chairs and bed. (I sleep wherever and whenever I can)
10. I HAVE NO BOYFRIEND. Just friends that happen to be boys.

Peace out.

The rise and fall of a shopping empire

2012-01-25T19:47:00.001+08:00

It is down to a generation where shopping is must in nearly every single soul. Particularly in Malaysia (and Singapore), these 2 shopping heavens are now a hot spots for every youngsters or even angmoh(s) to do their shopping spree. Picture these 2 scenarios:

2002

A: Where have you bought this dress?

B: Parkson (Miri)

2012

A: Where have you bought this dress?

B: KL

Few years back, we have trouble finding a parking spot. NOW, we can't even enter the car park due to the congestion!

One tiny suggestion: Make your dad/husband drive you, buy him a newspaper (or 2) and leave him in the car and park illegally.

Anyway, all I want to say is I went to KL with my Dad for a 3 days 3 nights stay about a month ago. We manage to book the earliest flight available which is with MAS so we can reach KL as early as possible. We had lots to do and I couldn't shop until the 2nd evening! Dad went to watch Malaysia Open to support Dato Lee Chong Wei while I shop.

I find it funny that most people are buying CNY clothes while I'm getting those bulky clothes. I was queeing in Zara's fitting room. Behind me is a young women, her mom was behind her and she thought my clothes are her daughter's. She commented (without realizing it's actually mine): why wear so warm? Eventually she found out after her daughter turn towards her holding another pile of clothes, and I just kept silent to prevent her from feeling embarassed.

Sweater from Zara

Jacket from Zara

Jumper from Bershka

Jumper from Zara

There are a few other things that I bought, a puffer and 2 bags but I didn't take any pictures of it and no way I'm modelling them cos they are all winter clothes and Miri is just too hot to even try them on!

We stayed in Boulevard hotel. So I can shop between MidValley and Gardens but unfortunately, my time in KL is too short and I didn't spend much time in Gardens. I only shop from 4pm til 9pm. Shops close at 10pm but I was so into shopping that I forgot my dinner and I ate at 9pm. By the time I finish my dinner/supper, close are already closed. These are a few things that I bought, they are all winter stuffs cos I think they are super good buy.

I remember vividly that the last shop I entered was MNG, I was so hungry and thirsty. The clothes I bought are so heavy and bulky. I am allowed to splurge on my dinner, so I went to Dragon's Eye (from Centre Court to South Court). To my surprise, it was already freakishly 9pm and the queue is still freakishly long! And I can't stand anymore. All those changing, walking, I just need to satisfy my legs and stomach!

So I walk back to the centre court and walk out to the long stretch choices of restaurants. I wanted to try out Hong Kong Gary but the stretch is very long as well. I wanted to try out Din Tai Fung but I totally forgot where is it and I'm too lazy to walk further cos it's in Gardens. I don't mind to just have a cup of green tea frappuccino and a croissant in Starbucks, but I'm afraid Dad couldn't claim the receipt cos it's not a proper dinner. So just beside starbucks, there's this restaurant call Delicious. Honestly, I am not attracted by it, but it's quite a large restaurant and I can see like about 2 or 3 empty tables in it, so I don't care and just went in for it.

I am not a big fan of Western Food. I prefer Chinese or Korean food. I use to not eat spicy but after a long stay in Brisbane, (not to mention visiting Mad Tong San for continously 8 weeks) I am in love with the spicy and sourness of Korean Udons! Sadly, this restaurant only serves Asian style and Western choices. I really want to order the breakfast menu cos it has croissant but I asked the waiter if they still have leftovers which I really don't mind and they said no to me. So I ordered an Ice Lemon Tea and a glass of Tiramisu first.

After being served, I continued to flip through the menu, and finally I chose a Japanese dish.

Tepanyaki Salmon, with fried soba. I love soba, but I have not tried fried ones before this.

It turns out to be fairly nice even though the exterior of the salmon looks rather dry.

But inside, it's really soft and juicy.

I would have much prefered Chinese or Korean but this one is just fine. And the splurge isn't that much (what a waste when I could, LOL)

Anyway, on the 3rd day stay in KL, me and daddy went to Gardens as soon as they are open (10am) to get mom her new handbag and try my very best to get her some dresses. It was really rushing cos we have to check out at 12noon and head to my aunt's house for an earlier reunion dinner and a casual tea ceremony of my uncle's wedding. We stayed in my aunt's house for a night as we're leaving very early next morning.

Checking out

My cousin came along that night and brought along her 2 extremely adorable kids.

Daddy taking care of the baby boy. (admitting that I forgot his english name)

While I was playing with Baby Ashley. She's so fun to play with.

This mall crawling experience has been superb and tiring. And now, I envy those who is studying in KL. Looking back in Australia, where on earth do you find shopping malls with good food and good sales. Everyone buy their clothes from Supre/Cotton On. Everyone is wearing the same thing. Everyone is wearing Havaiinas.

Who says "wai guo de yue liang te bia yuan?"

Would anyone care to do a proper translation for me?

Happy Chinese New Year :)

A random post

2012-01-24T08:36:00.002+08:00

There's so much drafted posts in my blog, they are yet to be finished! There's one post about my KL trip, what really stop me? PHOTOS! I know my readers love photos. But I didn't manage to take much cos most of the time I'm a lone ranger. Secondly, I feel like most girl bloggers post up what they bought but I don't want people to think that I'm showing off what I have. SO please don't judge no matter how that post come out to be. I know, haters gonna hate.

Anyway, CNY just isn't happening to me. Definitely no CNY clothes to wear cos there's just to little time to shop when I last visited KL, and I spent my time and money hunting for winter clothings as they are on big sale especially for UK brands. Plus, I spent most of time in MidValley, I believe Gardens will have nicer dresses cos I spent the very last minute "fast track" shopping in Isetan and manage to get 2 lovely dresses in Isetan for mommy. Failed to even walk to Robinsons cos it's at the far end from Isetan. Oh well.

I'm going to KL again, just before departing to Gold Coast and to Brisbane. So this time, I'll try hunting some nice dresses.

I'm still having driving lessons. I'm such a lousy driver and yet I need to rush before I go back to Brisbane.
Pity my sifu for needing to face such slow/dangerous learner. Pity my dad for needing to pay (if I need to renew my license if I fail to pass). Pity my mom for still needing to drive my sibs to every single tuition. Pity my friends who still need to pick me up before every gathering.

Birthday is coming soon! OMGEE. I'm almost 19. I must spend my last -teen wisely before I start having 2s in my age for the next 10 years! wth

This is such a trash post.. I'm just too bored to do anything else at this very early hour!

My Weight!

2012-01-18T11:35:00.001+08:00

Before I went to Brisbane (Jan 2011): 44 - 45 kg

Mid year break (July): 44 kg

Year end break (Dec): 42 kg

Today (18th Jan 2012): 41kg

Don't give me "the look"...

To girls out there, I'm not proud of this. You think I want this? I have no idea where all those weight went. My friends ask "When are you gonna snap?" (which reminds me of how Bella Swan looked like when she's pregnant)

One of my bestie invited me for a Cardio dance lesson, before I even answer yes or no, she stopped me and said "No, you should't go, can't afford to see you slim down even more."

I ate lamb chop for dinner, McD's apple pie for supper and instant noodles 3am while I was having sleepover at Haw Rong's. I had rich chocolate swiss roll topped up with vanilla ice cream. The night while I was shopping in KL. I had Tepanyaki Salmon, Fried Soba, a glass of rich Tiramisu and Ice Lemon Tea.

Ok, enough blogging, more eating.

Looking back

2012-01-08T15:51:00.001+08:00

I have wanted to pull the plug to this blog several times and start a new one but somehow, I resuscitated and continued. Yayers to all those jolly loyal readers and those who linked me in their blogs.

Anyways, it's another random Spaghetti Sunday. Funny, by coincidence, mom always asks us if we would like to have spaghetti for dinner, and that particular day always turns out to be on a Sunday. I am not a big fan Bolognese Spaghetti. Carbonara and Napolitan is better. However, I prefer those that don't come in very "saucy" style of cooking. I prefer it cooked/stir fried with olive oil and herbs and served with a variety of raw veges and cold seafood! So if I'm right, today is the 4th Spaghetti Sunday since I'm back for a month already!

I'm currently in my mom's office. ~~MOM! Y U WORK ON A SUNDAY!~~ So I'm bored. Knowing that I haven't been keeping up with my blog, I know I should at least try to build some fresh content (even tho they are always rather boring to read). So, as I was facebook-ing, I realize I do have quite some decent photos to post. They are worth to post too cos I have privated my photos on Facebook. Which pretty much makes people think that I don't even exist anymore. So here are the pictures. Btw, do you prefer captions then photos or photos then captions?

My foundation year Chemistry class.

Awesome Chemistry teacher - Maureen. She's as good as any SPM tuition teacher available in Malaysia.
Love her!

This is my ~~retarded-looking~~ Academic English Teacher. Incredibly awesome one too.

I love this class the most! (obviously, they are all East Malaysians)

*I'm rather tall as you can see

After celebrating Amy's birthday. The night where Pei Yee is slightly drunk.

Celebrating Aunty's Birthday with housemates, neighbours and her daughters :)

Random

In one of the JYF meetings in church. Counting cars.

(just in case you don't know, I'm the one in the middle wearing the biker's jacket)

Do I look old or young?

Truth: I'm the 2nd oldest in the group.

In one of the EMYF meetings in church.

Where guys, in my case, Amos, have to serve girls or get bullied by us girls.

I am very very ticklish. I could scream and cry if it's too unbearable.

Went to do some voluntary work for a charity.

Basically what we did was processing Christmas gift box, pack and wrap them.

Those pressies are for children in poor countries I believe.

Me and (oops I don't really remember her name) from China in EMYF.

The awesome girls I hang out with when I'm in Brisbane.

Last but not least, my "good" friends.

They are the ones who taught me how to ponteng every afternoon classes.

They are also the ones who taught me how to crawl out from the back door to rush to the canteen to buy food even if it's not recess yet.

They are the ones who taught me pens of many different colours are for signalling not writing.

They are the ones who will accept me, no matter good or bad.

Lovely.

2012

2012-01-05T15:01:00.002+08:00

Happy Twenty Twelve peeps!

My sibs begged me to make a clarification. In the last post, I mentioned that my sibs actually named the 2 other dogs, Happy and Baby. So after reading my post, they were like "WE DID NOT NAME THEM WITH SUCH LAME NAME", and demanded me to make corrections to my blog which has been posted for hours. And thus, I promised to make it up to them in the next post. So here it goes:

Dear readers, Charlotte and Timothy did not come up with lame names such as "Happy" and "Baby" for the dogs that live along the street we live in, it was named after by their owner (our neighbours, no offence though). My sibs always give creative great names such as "Longears" - our favourite mutt.

Countdown Celebration

On the very last day of twenty eleven, I decided to hang out with my friends. We spent our dinner at Our Daily Bread which wasn't our plan initially. But every other restaurants are flooded with people ready to party their year away. After the dinner, we went to Starbucks which took us forever to find a parking spot. But Starbucks was very hot so we went to Desserts and minutes before the countdown we went to Al Fresco to see the fireworks.

Driving Lessons

I am born on January 1993. So to be logical, I should have received my P license. But before I am back in Miri this hols, I have not even started on those baby steps yet. So I signed up for ever boring law lessons, failed once, passed the second time. Signed up for the equally boring engine lesson. Had my thumb print. And yay! Up til now, I had 3 driving lesson (still very far from graduating). Gah.

Year 1

Even more annoying than boring law lessons. I'm gonna start my Uni life this year! Should I just continue with Bachelor of Arts? Or consider Bachelor of Business Management majoring Real Estate and Development? gah. wth. I should be enrolled by now!

Pissed by this runny nose I'm having.

The Merrily Happy Dogs

2011-12-25T17:37:00.001+08:00

Have I introduce to you the new member of my family?

No, my mom wasn't pregnant and isn't pregnant. While I was away from my family earlier this year, my sister brought in a new dog! (not puppy, she found him from somewhere) They named him, LONG-EARS. Of course we didn't keep him in the house cos he needs his freedom and our we don't have a fair size of compound for him to roam, but his sorta like ours already.

Mom, who is not too fond of canine wasn't up to the idea of keeping the dog at first (I think) cos of Charlotte and Timothy's skin allergies. Plus, the responsibilities of rearing a dog is beyond our capabilities. Who will be the one scooping his poo(s) and bathing him?

It wasn't until a day when she accidentally ran over Long-ears's paw and she felt awfully sorry and that's when she started taking care of Long-ears too.

He's damn cute. Whenever we call after his name, he'll dart towards us and wag his tail like a metronome. Since mom hurt him once, whenever mom call after his name, he'll just ignore mom. Even so, he stills bark at strangers.

We feed him everyday and play with him once in awhile. For a non-pedigree dog, Pedrigree dog food is too expensive. My maid hand him out a big empty ice-cream box filled with lunch and dinner leftovers.

Since it's Christmas, me and my family went for a Christmas buffet lunch. Turkey and lamb was served. Before heading for the buffet, we took 2 plastic bags to take away or in chinese, tapau the bones for Long-ears. Of course, we know that tapau-ing food is not allowed and even bones might not be allowed too, depending on different hotels.

When we are about to leave, I ran to the assistant chef as I saw him carrying the tray of leftover lamb back to the kitchen. I held him back and ask him whether I can just tapau the bones for my dog. I made it clear that I just want the bones not the meat in case he quickly judge and says no to me. As blur as he could be, he referred to the master chef who was just beside me. Shocked. I explain it again to the master chef and he said okay. And I ask him to kindly deliver it to the table I was sitting at.

Before we left, the master chef himself passed a plastic full of bones for us. To our surprise, he not only gave us the lamb bones, he pretty much gave us all the bones they had. Chicken, turkey, lamb (with a bit of rendang and mushroom sauce flavour). The packet weighed about 2 kilos.

Once we reached home, all of us open the car boot and shout for Long-ears (he might be somewhere else as we don't keep him in our house). When he saw the maid carrying a big plastic bag, he know that he'll be having a very big ~~treat~~ feast today.

There are 2 other dogs which live along the street as well. My sibs named the black dog, Happy and the hairy one, Baby. To prevent a chaos from happening between the dogs, we made sure the other 2 get a fair small portion too. Before throwing the bones to either Happy or Baby, Timothy even greeted him Merry Christmas which made my neighbour laughed.

Greet Merry Christmas to Long-ears, Happy and Baby.

The Thanksgiving Lunch - Malaysian style

2011-12-01T10:46:00.000+08:00

*This post was written a week ago. But I was very sick so sorry for the delay.

I'm not anti-social la. I'm beginning to feel worried that people might start to forget about my existence since I rarely update my fb status, I usually tweet. And I've blocked all my photos and friends, which make stalking harder for people, when they can't even go to my friend's profile to see my photos unless we share lots of mutual friends which I don't mind :)

Anyway, most of my friends finished their exams on Thursday, so a few of us organized a lunch which happened to be on a thanksgiving. FINALLY! more photos and captions instead of words. (for those who don't bother to read obviously)

So, May, Elaine and I decided to meet at our suburb's bus stop at 8.45am in the morning. But guess what, everyone forgot this and that (well, only May actually) so we only manage to get onto the bus at 9.45am. LOL. Poor Charlotte, who reached the city at 9am waited for us for an hour.

Btw, we prefer Woolworths than Coles. We LOVE doing grocery shopping in Woolworths.

Chern in red, May in Black. Choosing prawns.

Charlotte in charged of the trolley. Have no idea why is she so hyped.

Oh Wait.. I know why...

Cos May's Tip Toe-ing. *she's too short*

Chern can't stop laughing...

My job for that day is just to.. uhm, make sure we have all the things we need.

*Elaine's in charged of taking the photos so we don't have a picture of her. (duh)

Seafood

From the left: My bag, sausage, lettuce, eggs, prawns, drumsticks.

Chern's very first pair of knife. (after the entire year!)

Yay :) We bought all the stuff we need.

My breakfast (it was already 11+am)

Dance performance in Queen Street.

Charlotte washing the lettuces.

Chern scraping off the seeds inside the bitter-gourd (we all love bitter-gourd)

May slicing the sausage.

Elaine... just posing for the sake like she's doing something.

Ok la.. She did crack AN egg.

Charlotte beating the eggs.

Me making the sauce for drumsticks. (I hate my "antennas", I look like a lobster.)

Curi tulang.

From the left: Elaine, Charlotte, May and me.

I seasoned these drumsticks with the sauce I made earlier.

May with her self-claimed "World's best prawns". She self-claimed that it's her family recipe, when we all know that she actually searched the internet the night before.

Me cooking corn soup.

Me and Charlotte cooking iceberg lettuce with oyster sauce.

Elaine cooking bitter-gourd.

EATING TIME:

Prawns by May

Baked drumsticks by me

Bitter-gourd with eggs by Elaine.

Corn soup by me.

*We cooked savoury rice as well, but kind fail cos I think we put too much water.

Iceberg lettuce with oyster sauce by Charlotte and me.

Last but not least, kitchen prepared by Chern. haha

In Chern's bedroom.

We went to the Southbank's man made beach later on.

And guess who was there...

Brandon and Angela. Angela just finished her last paper.

Angry bird trying to wet little bird. Poor Chern.

Me and May

We went to Hazel Tea after that and played Monopoly Deal like crazy. But no more pictures cos we're just too tired and into Monopoly Deal.

Can't wait for my family's visit.

Miss Blogging

2011-11-24T19:57:00.000+08:00

Exams are over! Yay!

Anyway, it has been an amazing and tired year. I'm not here to brag, but I have been really really really hard-working throughout the year. It's really tiring and discouraging at times but I'm happy that everything is done now.

To be frank, I was never the hard-working kind of student back in high school and primary school. I have no idea how many times I have been canned for not passing up my homework when I was in primary school and when I was in high school, the rate of me passing up my homework is probably as close to zero.

But I did put in some effort and the last few months before SPM and I think I really started becoming hard-working and really studious and motivated. And with that 5 months of hard-work, I manage to get 7As, which is of course not as good as having straight As but I'm proud of myself and I believe God thinks I deserved having it.

I believe my source of becoming a very hard-working girl is due to competition. I remember when I was in form 3, I don't remember seeing my friends putting in effort into studies, and therefore, I flunked my PMR, which I only got 5As. But until SPM, one of my friend is good in her sciences subjects and my other study partner is the straight A kinda person. So naturally, I don't want to be looked at the dumb one among them, and I just started being serious about studies.

Mom told me that I work well under stress. Well, I don't find my 5 months of SPM study period stressful at all. In fact, I was in one of the lousiest (stress-less) class of all form 5 classes. But I don't associate much with my classmates, I mostly hang around in other classes. LOL.

After coming to Brisbane, I can say 8 out of 10 of my friends are SPM straight As students. And their straight As are mostly A+s. They either wanna pursue dentistry/ pharmacy/ doctor/ physio. HOW CAN I NOT HAVE COMPETITION!!! So that's why it's another of hard-working studying. Til a point that I'm really a bit stressed out.

Do you have any idea some of my friends make me feel like Distinction equals to Malaysia's D (Fail). I cried the night before sitting for my AE. Cos I calculated my marks, and knowing I'm at the position of being so close to a HD but it seems impossible. Gah. that feeling is so so so ... indescribable.

While I was having my accounting lesson last last week, one of my classmate asked about my GPA. And of course I told her since I have nothing to hide. I swear, it's not that good, but again it's not that bad. And guess what she told me, "Why don't you study Dentistry or Doctor? Why choose Arts?"

Oh gees. First of all, I'm no science student. Yes I did science stream. But trust me, I got my As because I'm hard-working and I rely on my tuition teachers. I admit I do quite like physics back then but I don't want to be an engineer. It's just not how I see myself in the future.

So I quit taking physics in IES and I took Chemistry. I had given up on my bio when I was in high school. I don't want to know how my body works, it's good enough to know my body still works. I still have a HD in my chemistry but, I study a lot. My friends, they can not study and still go sit for the test and get higher marks than me. Or they can even study on the morning before the test. Or even watch movie and study at the same time.

See! I can never be like them. And if I really go pursue all these dentistry kind of course, can you imagine how much more effort I have to put in?!?!?! Doing foundation's chemistry alone, I'm already giving out 90% of my effort. But when it comes to accounting. I never studied at all and I can sit in the test not worrying how low I'll get.

And, I am sure of what I'm going to do and how I see myself in the future with my Arts degree. I believe blogging did really cultivate the interest some how some way. I don't care even if no one reads it. (Of course I do hope people reads it, but the polls don't matter) I really just hope people read it and tell me, "woah, you're good".

Ok. I think I blogged too much words. Probably only my mom reads every single word of it. Thank you if you have not close this tab and read till this very point.

btw, I'm thinking of becoming a vegetarian (but I must have seafood, does that count?).

Song for the day: You were my friend - David Choi

This feeling ...

2011-11-16T00:19:00.000+08:00

ARH! Mommy and daddy booked the wrong seats for me D:

I don't want window seat ahhh. Especially if I'm alone.

I was already lying on the bed since 11pm, but it's bloody 2am and I'm not asleep.

Too anxious about my AE research report results that's going to be out 9am in the morning (i think).

~~Oh screw you PMS~~

Charlotte ahh, you better fly with me :( Whoever else coming to Brisbane!!! BOOK 16H and 16J, so I don't need to change me bloody window seat 16K! argh. I just feel so shitty right now.

Studied from 10am til 9pm. And I should be resting but I can't. damnit

I want to sleep and forget about this feeling but wth! I can't sleep.

WikiLeaks. PhotoLeaks.

2011-11-12T18:21:00.000+08:00

Wow, I just know that Julian Assange, chief editor of WikiLeaks is from Queensland.

Anyway, here's a nice picture of me. I know the pictures I have are rather ugly and dull.

Note that: I'm a blogger, not a photographer! I blog words not photos.

Oh yes, I love my ESPRIT "CUTE" tee. But it's fading :(

Royal obsession syndrome

2011-11-11T18:56:00.000+08:00

It's incredible to know that I'm just one step closer to getting into a university. A step even more closer to graduation. And a closer to step in reaching Miri.

Anyway, I went to the library again. See what I've borrowed!

Winnie the Pooh

Oh Vanessa! How I wish I could send this to you now!

I know you have a high level of obsession towards pooh bear.

Just like me, still crazily obsessed with the royal family.

Queen Elizabeth II: A birthday souvenir album

Diana Princess of Wales: A tribute

William & Catherine: Their lives, their wedding

Three generations. No kidding people. It's Swot Vac, when people are sticking their nose into their books while I'm reading these!

One of the AE topic is related to politics. And sometimes, we casually talk about the Queen, since Australia is under the Queen too. My teacher once asks us, how do we remove the Queen, cos unlike a government, you can remove it by voting another party, but the Queen, even if she dies, the one next in line will just take over. Well, the first think that came into my mind is, why want the royal family to be removed! I love the fact that they have a higher status quo.

If only there's monarchy studies/ royalty studies/ royal journalism/ kate middleton's personal assistant. Oh wait, I can be the governess to her children! I'm pretty sure mom would be face palming at the point when she reads this.

Anyway, this is a footage of Rupert Murdoch being attacked by pie. He's an 80 year old man. His life is very much similar to the royalties, but again, different. That lady in pink suit, is his THIRD wife. A 42 year old Chinese money face woman! He can be your father lah. See what she did after her 'husband' got "pied". lmao.

Signing off.

How do you pronounce ......

2011-11-06T16:34:00.002+08:00

Came back from church and was trying to study. But gees, the weather was so hot that it made me feel very tired and sleepy. Well, my mom told me once that cold weather is NICE to sleep, but hot weather makes you WANNA sleep. I do noticed that when I first came here, which was still blardy summer, I took afternoon naps very frequently even tho there wasn't much I did in school that make me so tired.

So, mom's hypothesis is proven to be correct.

Anyway, I felt really sleepy. But again, I really do not want to sleep cos I know I'll just end up sleeping til 8pm and feel very very lazy. So instead, I pulled my laptop all the way to my bed, and watched Mona Lisa Smile.

Damnit! What a good movie to watch on a Sunday afternoon. It's really an intriguing movie to say at the least.

Basically it talks about gender inequalities back in 1950s. Women were still struggling to define themselves as the world has already defined them as what they are - housewives.

Even though they were given college educations, they were blinded by traditions and more traditions. They may have received high education, but at the very same time, their very aim was to get proposed and be good in raising up the family.

Until this teacher came into this very famous school, trying to teach what she thought would be future leaders, but ended up being very disappointed, cos the girls she's teaching are not meant to be future leaders, but, WIVES of future leaders.

The very funny thing she said was something like:"You learn physics to know what's the volume and mass of the meatloaf you made?"

Women in those time had the idea that being a housewife is their main goal and at the same time, they could handle their studies too (cos they get married when they are still in college. note: NOT graduate school).

Then she said another thing:" Do you think you are really reading xx when you're ironing you're husband's shirt?" (xx stands for a famous someone that I couldn't remember and I'm lazy to refer back to the movie)

Ahh. I wonder what will I be if I were born in the 50s. It sucks if that's so. I really should have remembered this movie when I did my AE seminar on gender inequalities as well.

So, that's movie studying outcome number 1.

Moving on to movie studying outcome number 2.

It disturbed me very much when I heard one of the student saying the word "advertisement" in such way: ad-ver-tahyz-muhnt, instead of: ad-vur-tis-muhnt.

She said it like how we say "advertising" but instead of pronouncing "ing", replace it with "ment".

Immediately after hearing that word, I rewind, listened it for another time and paused. Google then came in useful.

If you go to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/advertisement it shows the rare one first. The one with -tahyz-. Even to other sites, most of them voted -tahyz- as how they would pronounce it. Interesting huh. (or is it just me who finds it interesting)

Then I was trying to figure out which is for which slang? British or American or even Welsh and etc.

One of the answers in the forum said that -tahyz- is used commonly for Northern Americans, while -tis- is used commonly by British. So, as most of you are Malaysian readers (as we use British English), -tis- shall be the correct one. But again, this answer was found in a forum. If you use Google translate, it will pronounce it as -tis- too. (Assuming Google sticks to the American English way of speaking it)

Last but not least, since when is English logical. It will always have rules and exceptions that applies in different situations at all times. Who even invented all these rules to begin with.

Big Head Prawn

2011-11-05T14:33:00.000+08:00

Hey people! this is another yet no photo post. I don't know why, I can never make this blog look photo-ish.

It's down to revision week = last week of school! Then we'll have our SWOT VAC (which means study week) and then the finals. yikes.

Anyway, I have something to share and I know my mom will be phoning me after she reads this.

Even though I finished all my assignments last week, but I had my AE presentation on Wednesday, as well as maths unit test on Thursday. However, it doesn't stop just there. I had to submit my scholarship on Friday.

So on Thursday night, after having my dinner, I went back into my room, to have work on my scholarship application. Well, I haven't had much to do since I had asked mom to scan my certs to me and I also submitted another scholarship which was due a week earlier. So basically, I just had to take out a few documents and add in relevant ones, and continue writing the cover letter.

Then, I checked my bag-like pencil box... I couldn't find my pendrive. Can you imagine what I looked like? This scholarship is so important to me and it's the night before my due date. Then I remembered that I used the school computer during break time and I left it plugged onto the CPU. I almost cried, but, I didn't. I stayed calm and think.

As I've mentioned, I submitted another application last week via email. Woots! All I have to do, is just to download them and save them and send them! hahahaha.

As for the cover letter, it was not required by the last scholarship, so I couldn't download it. But then, every once in awhile, I back up my entire pendrive into my laptop. Which means, I have a copy of all the certs as I've mentioned just now as well as my cover letter and all other assignments in the pendrive I've lost.

PHEW!!!!

Note to self: Never carry a pendrive, WEAR IT!

This is already my fourth time leaving my pendrive behind in school. (Just in case you're worried, I got back my pendrive the next day from the receptionist).

And here's a tip for all of you:
1. I know 16GB pendrive can come in very useful, but you do not need them for college assignments and work. I use a 2GB pendrive and it's always enough for me to use. Keep that 16GB pendrive in home for other uses.

2. Choose a very normal like pendrive. No one will want it. My mom has lots and lots of pendrives given by colleges/university as souvenirs. These pendrive normally has a college/university name on it. People wouldn't want to take something like that either unless it was given to them.

3. Never fill your 16GB pendrive with tons and tons of movies. People will definitely take it for their own privilege.

So, learn from my mistake. I doubt that I can ever learn from my mistake. Haiz.

Anyway, just in case some people may be wondering why did I applied for 2 scholarships. And yet, I may not be a top top student. Not even a top student. First, take what is offered! There's this scholarship just for my faculty, even though there's just one spot, your chance is still there even if it's very small.

Who knows the smart people lost their pendrive too and didn't make a backup of it, and failed to submit it on time. And it will be yours by luck maybe.

I came across people with results that are just so and so, but still, they manage to get a very decent scholarship (from the case that I'm referring to, she got a FULL ANU scholarship for her postgraduate degree. She did her undergraduate degree back in Malaysia)

But don't get your hopes high up, just try :)

Good luck to all SPMers :) And congrats to perth-lians who are going back to Miri soon.

3am in the morning

2011-11-01T01:17:00.000+08:00

Summertime and I drive, ain't no place we've gotta be
I can take my eyes off you, you keep looking back at me
I just sigh, no sense of time, blazing down the open road
Let's get as close as we can get, go as far as we can go

Take me to heaven in the middle of nowhere, I
Can't wait to get there
Can't wait to get there
Just you and me, where we end up I don't care. I
Can't wait to get there
Can't wait to get there
To heaven in the middle of nowhere

Summertime and I drive, heaven's blowing in a breeze
Look too good to watch you both, so I just keep sneaking peeks
Miles passed, your feet on the dash, toes keep tapping to the groove
Of two young hearts set on fire from the light of the moon

Loving this country song.

Not much can appreciate country song. Only Taylor Swift comes to mind. Do you know Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl sings country too? See! Country ain't bad.

I've posted a rave song, electro-pop song and country song within this month. Tons of dance videos to my earlier posts. Conclusion: I don't have a favourite genre. But I just couldn't accept heavy metal and the "du-tze" kind of shufflin.

I'm up at this time doing matrices and integration. ~~I'm so hardworking~~.

I cried again

2011-10-30T19:59:00.002+08:00

I guess I have come to an age where I get emotional very easily. When I said emotional, I do not mean emo, as in the unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who don't smile. Anyway, let's say if I am witnessing a wedding, and it's very touching, so I cry. That kind of emotional.

Anyway, I saw this video by Selina:

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This song was released a year after the fire accident. To thank all of her supporters.

I remember vividly. I am no S.H.E fan. I just listen to some of their popular songs. Read the newspaper once in awhile about them. That's all. Even when the news reported about the accident, I didn't really notice until I saw my mom reading about it and being very concern about it.

Few months later, she had a media conference on the day that she is free to check out of the hospital. The tele was showing it out, so me and mom were like sitting in front of the tele, crying for her!

We can't control those tears. It's like their weight is so much bigger, and the gravity-force is so strong.

Gradually, I forgot about all these happenings. Until this video is out. And until the last half of the video, I started crying. I'm so sensitive aye?

I cried cos I feel touched by few things:

1. of course of her determination and her positiveness
2. HER DAD! her very very very supportive dad. The no.1 man in her life.
3. By tomorrow (31 Oct, her birthday), she's going to be MARRIED to the no.2 man in her life (going to be the no.1 man)

Very touching ehhh.

Conclusion: Listen to your dad about choosing your husband. I am 100% sure that I inherited all these emotional genes from mommy. I've never seen dad cry.

OH MOM! This video is for you <3

We were talking about friends

2011-10-29T23:17:00.002+08:00

These few years, I have been wanting to be a great friend to all the friends I have.

I do not expect myself to be their bestie, nor expect them to accept me as a bestie. I just want to be a friend to them. Cos that's what friends are for.

I learnt from the wrongdoings I made in my life. Back then, I might not have been a great friend.

I bad mouthed my friends. I judged publicly. I back-stabbed them. How many of you can actually admit that you have never done things like these before. Everyone does. And I find it stupid, hideous and shameful.

With that, I had a price to pay. I lost a friend. A friend that I will never be able to turn to again.

After years, I do not expect whoever that is to accept my apology. Nor do I expect whoever that is to treat me back as before if whoever that is forgave me. I deserved it.

I do not know how to say but, I learnt from my mistakes (uhm, at least I believe that I'm trying harder now and constantly reminding myself to be careful). So without these wrongdoings, I might lose more friends in the future.

I still bad mouth people sometimes, but to myself most of the time. It's so hard to not have opinions on other people.

I do hope I have not hurt any of my friends because of what I did, and I really hope that they have considered me as a good friend.

In Time

2011-10-28T20:35:00.001+08:00

YES! Another Friday :)

YES too cos basically, all foundation year assignments are finished! I'm left with AE presentation and Maths unit test next week. Then it's revision week, SWOT Vac week, Finals week, 1 week of fun with my friends in Brisbane, 1 week of fun with my family in Brisbane, then MIRI!

hahahahahahaha. Count the weeks people! 6 weeks. Freaking 6 weeks and I'm back again.

Semester 2 flies so fast! Me and my few friends think that it's faster than sem 1. It's probably because we have more things to do in sem 2 than sem 1. Woah, you should have seen how my sem 2 life went. Super pack!!!

Anyway, we felt really loosen up today cos we had just passed up our AE research report yesterday. I slept at 4am in the morning!!!! Google Docs sucks. The percentages made no sense at all!

Let's say I counted and 5 male respondents disagree and 4 female respondents disagree. But in the overall disagree section, there might be only 3 respondents who disagree. 5+4=3? wth.

Thank Goodness it's just for the appendix. Reminded the teacher and luckily he said, all he cares is my writing not the stats.

So, after class, we went to Time Zone for awhile. They played the dance machine thingy. I suck at it. And honestly, that's not dance kay! Every time I enter an arcade, all I want is to either play with the hoops or the racing cars.

After that we went to Nudo's for lunch. We planned to watch the newly released movie "In Time" at South Bank at 2.45pm. But, we wasted too much time playing with the dance machine. We finished our lunch at 2.45pm, and we're still quite keen to go watch the movie in South Bank cos it's cheaper, AUD 5.50. Plus, the movie really only starts at half an hour later, cos the advertisements takes another half an hour. But we're worried we couldn't find a nice spot in the theater as it is Friday and the movie was only released yesterday.

So, one of suggested to take the cab, maxi cab. (like a van actually). It doesn't cost a lot since Southbank is just 2 stops away from the city. There were about 10 of us (some left after lunch, some came for the movie), each of us will only need to pay 1 dollar. But, the 2 vans that were opposite us were occupied, so we ran! Hideously. Cos we saw another van.

Anyway, long story cut short (I feel like as if I blab nonsense, blab so much and still couldn't get to the point). Mission fail.

But, we've anticipated this movie very much and it's hard to see all of us so free! So instead of South Bank, we watched it in MYER. Original Student Price: AUD 13.50. Cinebuzz Student Price: AUD 6.50. But we paid AUD 9.50, so I assume that it's a new movie, so it's more expensive.

So here's the trailer :

A really nice movie. Best of all that I've watched in Brisbane. (wait, Harry Potter was good too)

I cried in one of the scenes. I freaking cried.

I have so much to say about the movie at the moment. But I guess I'll blog it another day. I do not want to be a big spoiler. (and I'll tell you which scene I cried)

Next movie: Twilight Breaking Dawn & The adventures of Tintin.

God save the Queen

2011-10-26T06:51:00.000+08:00

Katy Perry was in Brisbane - wow
Boyce Avenue was in Brisbane - wow
Justin Bieber was in Brisbane - more wow
David Choi was in Brisbane - double wow

Queen Elizabeth II was here in Brisbane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - TRIPLE THE WOOAAHHH!

With Prince Phillip too, of course.

But......... I missed it D:

Why?
1. I didn't know earlier.
2. I have school. (but I would skip if I have to)
3. I was sick. (but I would go see her despite the flu)

Anna Bligh with the Queen. Red and Green.

Anyway, I am not that sad for not being able to meet her. Actually, Prince William and Kate's plan was to visit Brisbane, but they cancelled it. WHY OH WHY!!!!!!

I would camp out in Southbank just to wait for their arrival. I-MUST-SEE-THEM!

Anyway, my brother and sister commented that my previous blog post sounded very emo. NO, I'm not emo. In case you have not notice, that's just the narration to the front part of "We Found Love" video. Love the Irish accent.

And the picture below, just purely random. I love tumblr-ing once in awhile. They are sorta addictive. Not much people play tumblr on the east side, so I might as well post something a like on the blog.

According to my friend, it's Deepavali today! uhm, have no idea who to wish to at the moment accept Bhalvinder. Oh gees, I remember her scolding me cos I packed my bag and was ready to leave the school (remember the H1N1 incident?) Mr Albert said it clearly that we could leave already.

Don't you just love the Times New Roman font in my blog?

I can't deny

2011-10-24T21:26:00.001+08:00

It's like you're screaming but no one can hear.
You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important,
that without them, you feel like nothing.
No one will ever understand how much it hurts.
You feel hopeless,
like nothing can save you.
And when it's over and it's gone,
You almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you can have the good.

We found love in a hopeless place

2011-10-23T15:11:00.000+08:00

As much as I love Rihanna's song, I think her videos are definitely getting more and more insane.

"We found love" her recent single, featuring Calvin Harris, that was released a month ago. I sorta fell in love with that song, for no reasons, cos all this while I think her songs are rather "modern"/"fashionable" (couldn't find the right word to describe) but again, it doesn't sound too "extreme"? (again, I couldn't really find the right word to describe)

Anyway, a month ago, I was really loving her new song. I'm no major fan of hers but her songs are always very refreshing

Then, her video came up 2 days ago. After watching it, I'm so speechless.

I know I put up the video here, but kids, please don't watch. It's hopeless. It's for your own good sake. Trust me, I'm an 18 year old girl, with lots of ~~temptations~~ things I would love to give it a try in the world, but I regretted watching it. It just disgusts me.

Basically, the whole video has lots to do with drugs.

I get the main point of the video - which is, drugs are no good. But seriously, only the last 10 seconds of the vid tells us that! Other than that, drugs drugs drugs.

If you wikipedia it, this video has something to do with the story about Chris Brown abusing her. What? that's so long ago? Btw, the guy in this video, is Rihanna's new love.

So is that why the lyric goes "we found love in a HOPELESS PLACE"????

I find this video very HOPELESS!
Other than that, I think Calvin Harris did a great job in making the music and Rihanna in the vocals.

Please don't think of me as an old fashion lady who can't keep up with the modern world's idea. Be rational.

Rave

2011-10-22T14:28:00.001+08:00

A song introduced by my brother. woots. ~~Not suitable for all ages.~~ haha

A Malaysia production leh.

I've never went clubbing. But I really do dig this "music". Well, give me almost any genre and I will tell you I like it. Maybe not heavy metal.

Too bad it's only 1.45 minutes! I thought clubbing musics are those that never end.

Enjoy :)

A trip to the clinic

2011-10-20T17:36:00.000+08:00

For the first time in Brisbane, I feel so sick. Yes, I did have a few headaches or flu back then but they were really minor and all I had to do is just drink a cup of Redoxon (Vitamin C) and sleep.

But I really struggled through yesterday. I woke up, feeling some dryness in my throat. But there wasn't any sore throat yet. Felt frustrated through out the day. Throwing stupid temper on the computer cos it did not function well. LOL.

Even though I force myself to bed at 9.30pm last night, even after taking a clarityn pill (which was suppose to make me feel drowsy), but it took me hours and hours to really get into sleep. Skipped my morning classes cos I couldn't wake up feeling my stones and sands in my throat and stupid mucus in nose.

Chatted with mom on FB, finally made the decision to go see a doctor. At first, I wasn't keen to go see a doctor cos I know it will cost me, and even with OHSC (medical insurance), I still have to pay some. But mom reminded me that I had a fever fit when I was a baby (or known as Febrile seizure).

It's week 14 and exams are on week 18. Knowing that I have to either sacrifice A. money or B. health and studies, of course, option A was chosen.

So, made an appointment with the doctor in the city that does automatic deduction from my OSHC account. (save me the trouble from needing to claim back the money myself) Yes, waited for awhile even I made an appointment. But another poor guy waited even longer even though he made an appointment, so I should be contented. Plus, my condition was so poor that I don't even want to raise my voice.

The doctor consulted me for just 5 mins. All I did was open my mouth, say "aaahhh". He flashes the torchlight with a pop-sickle stick. Feel my neck, and wrote my a prescription. Tada, and say buy-bye to 32 AUD ( =RM100)

Wait.. Many clinics here don't have a pharmacy so I had to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine. I don't mind walking to the pharmacy cos it's quite convenient since I'm in the city, but taking out my wallet and taking out the money in wallet feels very, I don't know what to say. Anyway, the medicine cost me another $20. (Hopefully, I can claim it back)

Skipped the rest of the class for that day. Went back home, took the medicine and slept.

The cool thing about the medicine, is that, it's like a 3-in-1 medicine. I had fever, sore-throat and flu. But all I had is just one medicine. SUPER CONVENIENT.

And guess what, the minute I close my eyes, I was asleep!!!! YEAH

Looking back at how I rambled about seeing the doctor, I actually appreciated it. Cos you see, If I hadn't visited the doctor and went to the pharmacy straight away, I might have asked for paracetamol (for fever), clarityn (for flu) and lozenges (for sore throat).

Anyway, I feel so much better now. Like SO SO SO SO much better. Even though there are still mucus in my throat and my voice sounded very different, but I'm so looking forward to studying now, I'm quite energized.

Even though I'm sick, thank God it didn't happen later or earlier. I had my maths seminar on Tuesday (some of my classmates have it today). I have to submit my draft on either Wednesday or today, but thank God I submitted it yesterday. And if I had it later, I will have more to deal with, assignments' due date and more exams!!!

Til now, I'm still not sure how did I get sick. I have sufficient sleep, 7 hours every day. I drink lots and lots of water. I carry my water bottle EVERYWHERE I go. None of my friends are sick, so no contact to diseases. Just cleaned my room on Sunday, so impossible that there are germs floating.

Anyway. 1 month to Finals! and 2 months to Christmas!!!! woots. Good luck everyone :)

Kids these days

2011-10-18T18:05:00.000+08:00

THIS 8 YEAR OLD GIRL (even the 5 year old girl in the 3rd video) HAS SOME SERIOUS TALENT IN MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH!

This is a MUST WATCH!

Thanks to Matt, I watched it. I did realize it since my YouTube account is subscribed to Ellen's. But I never bother to watch cos Ellen only post "previews"or "trailers".

I can't stop laughing AND CRYING while watching them.

boom badoom boom

Nikki Minaj has very good sense of humour too, not to mention the hair.

I respect you blondie!!!! even tho you're just there doing.. basically nothing. *salute*

To Mommy:
Thank GOD me and Charlotte were not born this way. (well, maybe for Charlotte)

Prom?!?!?!

2011-10-16T21:34:00.000+08:00

What is it with me and balls?

What I like...

1. Elegant long dresses

OH YES! She looks damn good in this Jenny Packham dress. I believe Leighton Meester wore it too in one of the Gossip Girl episode, but Leighton is tiny wee bit shorter than Kate, so I reckon that Kate wins this look!

2. Vintage/Pin up hairdos

Lots of people are going with loose curls in a half pony cos it's probably the easiest thing to do. But I really do think that loose curls in half ponies will always make you look like you're going to a junior home-coming.

Or else, bring up all your hair. Get rid of hair dangling over your shoulder and neck AND FACE TOO!

A clean look is always the best.

Disclaimer: Other hairstyles are nice too. But these are the ones that have always impressed me.

3. Shoes

Sadly, I have never tried wearing stiletto. I'm pretty sure I would fall, so I hardly hunt/google them thus, I'm not sure what are good stilettos for balls. The furthest I've been through are wedges. And surely, wedges are NOT really the thing for balls.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying wedges are ugly, but how often do you see wedges that can

4. Make-ups

I don't want to say it out too loud, cos I am not good in make ups, but people are always playing with smoky eyes. Dark eye liners, long lashes, harsh low eye liners.

Disclaimer: I'm not saying smoky eyes are not nice! Just everyone's wearing it.

5. Clutches

Alexander McQueen's clutches!!!!! I'm not sure why she uses skulls, at first I wasn't that impressed because of the skulls, but I get to like it later on.

Just in case you haven't notice, the four "holes" are designed for you to slip in your four fingers.

THAT'S WHEN I STARTED LIKING THE DESIGN.

6. Corsages

FLOWER POWER! but if you're wearing a long sleeve dress, forget about the corsage. Wear a bracelet instead.

What I despise...

1. Boys with spiky hair

Uhm, no way. Not only in prom, no for anywhere and everywhere. I guess, they want to achieve a "volumize" hairstyle. But often, it ended up looking like dragon ball.

2. Boys wearing low cuts/very skinny pants (or both).

The first thing that came into my mind is the KOREAN FASHION WAVE. ~~Super Junior~~.

Pink/purple shirts with contrasting coloured bow ties and vest of a size smaller.

Disclaimer: Not saying Korean fashion is ugly.

3. Girls with combed in mini Tiaras. or even just tiaras.

So, pretty girl A wore a tiara to the prom. But she was announced to be the prom queen, so she takes of the tiara on her head, awkwardly, and was awarded the new one. Hmmmm, imagine if it's combed in tiara, yikes! Hair's gonna mess up. #awkwardmoments

The list goes on.

Conclusion:

I rejected 2 years of prom. Uhm, I'm just not the kind of girl who's keen and excited about prom. I was watching 90210 few weeks back, and I totally fit into the character Silver. She doesn't like proms, and she blogs (that's the only attitude I fit in).

I'm not anti-prom. But, yes, in some sense, I do find Prom kinda lame. But I'm not saying people who loves going to prom is lame. PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG! especially my school's prom just happened like 2 days ago, with the theme "Tattoos and Tiaras" and I just mentioned Tiara in the list I despise.

***Disclaimer: All those comments are just my opinions. Yours might differ from mine and I respect that, even though I sounded very harsh.

Currently

2011-10-14T17:14:00.001+08:00

Hey peeps!

Having a small migraine now. I have no idea why but all I could think of is that I have irregular sleeping patterns. I can sleep for only 4 hours one day and the other for 8 hours (or more).

Anyway, I saw this Uncle Tobys cute advert on my blog. And coincidently, I just bought Uncle Tobys' Yoghurt Topps on Thursday because Woolworths was selling it for only $2. And looking at my horrible sleeping patterns, I definitely need these especially when I have no time to make breakfast. I could just nom them when I'm on the bus.

Uhm , shame to say, this is my very first yoghurt bar in my entire life. Well, it's simply because it's not something we really need in Miri and I never think of it as a healthy breakfast, even with all of the grains and muesli, oats etc. I had 1 for breakfast and 1 for lunch these 2 days, my conclusion is, it tastes nice but a bit too sweet. I would prefer it better if the sweetness have reduced by 25%.

Anyway, few of us went to the city library just now. So these will be my current reads:

1. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

2. Roald Dahl: Esio Trot

3. Geronimo Stilton: The Kingdom of Fantasy

4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Did you notice that all these books are children books? Yeap! I grabbed them from the children section. LOL.

I also grabbed 2 New Idea magazine. Shame enough to say because it has Prince William and Kate Middleton's picture on it. Freakishly, I still have my #royalwedding fever.

Oh, I got this CSI: NY disc from the shelf too. But it's locked! I have no idea how to crack it open. Anyone know how?

I grabbed a Chinese novel too by the way. 张小娴 - 我们都是丑小鸭. But it's with Pei Yee now, same as the Harry Potter, it's with May now.

I really wish I could make it a habit to read before I go to bed every night. To be honest, it's a very hard routine to practice, when I couldn't even make sure I read a chapter of Bible every night.

Btw, I'm afraid all the reading about Kate and William will make me blog way too much about them again. Oh gees, how embarrassing it was to blog about them freakishly long few months back, as if I was a specialized journalist.

I was on Sarawak Tribune

2011-10-09T13:47:00.000+08:00

2 more months and I'm back in Miri!

Anyway,

TADA! Me and Elaine was on Sarawak Tribune last week! Mom scanned it down and emailed it to me.

But I wonder, how many of my friends would actually read Sarawak Tribune. How many of them would even read the news!?! English newspaper some more. Furthermore, the most they can get to is their parent's paper. And I guess most of them order Chinese newspaper instead of English ones.

However, this article is not about me la. It's about my school. Note: that picture was few months back, so I don't really look like that any more.

I realize I am not a photogenic person. I hardly look natural and pretty. Best photos of me are taken when I'm not even aware I'm being taken. My face muscles become all crapped out when I know I'm going to be shoot, not to mention, for newspapers!

I read it and I realized my school didn't change a single thing that I wrote in the testimonial. But poor Elaine, her surname was spelt wrongly. But she looks so much more better than me la :p I still had my horrible pimples back then.

MUAHAHAHA. 2 more months and I'll be in Miri!

Current state: brain dead due to more due dates to meet and exams to face.

"Sobriety" Day 1

2011-10-05T17:37:00.001+08:00

I have no choice but to do this.

I have this huge addiction to dramas. Thanks to Letty, she is the one who introduced me to this "world of dramas".

Last year, the addiction was still okay because me and my siblings share a computer and my parents is constantly controlling the use of computer. But I must admit I once had Facebook addiction. So last year around July, I asked Letty to change my password, so that I wouldn't open it. In return, I got a pretty satisfying SPM result.

Now, Facebook is nothing to me. But drama addiction grew because of Letty's amazing hard disc: Gossip Girl, Glee, Pretty Little Liars, Heroes, Hellcats, Nikita, 90210 etc etc etc.

I jumped from 1 Season to another, 1 Series to another. (I believe in the future: 1 Hard disc to another)

So yesterday, I decided to DELETE A-L-L my dramas from my laptop. Yes, it's a very very cruel thing to do. Especially for people like me, who can spend whole day not going out just for dramas. I still have a set of copy of all the dramas in my hard disc. Now, all I have to do is to find someone I can trust. And ask he/she to ~~bury~~ keep it safely until my finals are over.

God bless me. Asian friends! Please don't tempt me any more.

I have been praying very hard to God to give me good discipline and good time management. But faith without action is nothing. So here's the action. First step: Destroy all distractions!

T.T

So sad. It's like saying good bye to your pet. And because of that, I bought a box of ice-cream to reward myself for having the courage to delete all dramas. (Now I have to say sorry to my stomach)

Don't worry. This blog will now have more attention.

I can't wait to go back to Miri

2011-10-04T20:41:00.001+08:00

It's only the beginning of the new term. And I'm already making lists of things I wanna do when I'm back in Miri.

Especially when Letty is having her holidays real real soon! And good gosh, Esther Wong, how can you start later than us and finish so fast?

List of things I wanna do when I'm back in Miri:

1. DRIVER'S LICENSE! I'm 18.67 years old already. And 17 years old form 4 people can already drive, when this 19 years old uni student still can't drive. Well, look at the bright side, I will always have a driver and I do not need to worry about getting into an accident or paying for the car insurance.

2. Lutong porridge. Damnit. I didn't get the chance to try it the last trip I went back.

3. Escpade's Sushi. I have never been there.

4. Jamming with my brother. Play my mini piano.

5. Braid my sister's hair.

6. More and more and more kolok mee.

7. Grandma's "Ban". They are like Vietnamese rolls? But instead of using rice wrappers, we Hakka people (maternal side of my family) use this sort of oily wrappers, like kueh tiaw, but not in strips. For the fillings, you can have the choice of either mangkuang with carrots, leek (韭菜) with bean curd (豆干), or salted vegetables. I love the leek fillings best! But my sibs and dad love the mangkuang fillings better. Grandma always make the first 2 mentioned, no idea why.

8. Bitter-gourd.

9. Our Daily Bread & MuiFang. Before SPM started, Pustaka was so crowded that I spent most of my afternoon in Our Daily Bread to study. I won't stay at home because my sibs will be disturbing me on and off. Plus, my study table is so crowded with tuition revision papers. During SPM exam period, me, Bella and Shirley would go MuiFang every morning before going to school. We would order our own bowl of noodles or whatsoever + HALF BOILED EGG!

10. Hanging out with my buds.

So much stuff to do now. Assignments, Seminars, EXAMS. Brain dead. Week 11 now. Week 18 EXAMS. Week 20: MY FAMILY IS HERE!

English is HARD

2011-10-02T19:33:00.000+08:00

LIKE IF YOU AGREE WITH THE TITLE.

Which language is the hardest?
A. Chinese B. Malay C. English

DEFINITELY C. English
2nd goes to Chinese, 3rd goes to Malay. But all this while English is probably my best language among these 3, but it does not mean my English is good, just that I really am interested to learn more and I'm willing to take whatever it takes to improve my English.

After all these years, I couldn't recall any of my teacher teaching me how to differentiate nouns, verbs and adjectives. Yes, I do know past and present tense. But not past participle and Good Lord, whatever else there is. I believe people who know these stuff (in Miri) have either went to Sri Mawar or ITS. I went to CH (Mei Gong) and I never sign up for English tuition classes.

oh wait! I did when I was in kindergarten. Sri Indah alumnus: Do you remember Aunty Lesley? The so call "ang moh". Yea she taught me a lot. She has a small library of her own where I would spend time reading from one end of the book shelf to the other end. Too bad, my reading passion ended pretty much in primary school.
My mom was never the #kiasu type of mom, who sends her children to all kinds of tuition, not to mention, her eldest daughter and when I was 6. I guess her main purpose is to treat that tuition more like a "day care centre" with English tuition benefits.

Trust me. My mom is always a workaholic. She once left me in school until 6-ish pm. I was practically the 2nd last person in kindie / school. (The last person in kindie would be the teacher who accompanied me, and the security guard in primary school) *I was in the afternoon session back in kindie.

Anyways, I dropped Chinese since form 4. Practically, I fail my Chinese throughout form 3, the only part I can do well is probably Chinese calligraphy, but the full mark is only 6 marks. sighs.

You've gotta admit, English has so many verbs, adverbs, past tense, past participle tense, whatever tense etc! The worst part is, THERE ARE RULES AND EXCEPTIONS! far too confusing.

I believe most of my friends who have better English write with "feel". If it sounds smooth, we'll just go with it. Not caring what tense it is, and we tend to use "big" words (vocabulary words). Synonyms but words that are rarely used. I think we do that to impress the marker. #kiasu

Pronunciation. Learnt some from Choral Speaking but really easy words. Pn. Chia did taught us how to read phonetics (weird symbols found in dictionaries, right beside the words). Basically, I forgot them.

Pronunciation are rather confusing. Talk about -ch-. When do you read it as /sh/, when as /k/ when as /ch/.

1. My sister's name is Charlotte (/sh/ar-luh t). Often heard in BM's suku kata way, /ch/a-lo-teh. Seriously, I have always admire my sister's name. It's such an old English name, but thank goodness, nurses and public government servers have totally ruined it.

2. Chef! the tricky one. SO.. is it pronounced as /sh/ef or /ch/ef? SHEF it is! I won't blame people who pronounced it as chef. I believe some of my teachers pronounced it that way too.

3. Chicago. so is it /sh/icago? or /ch/icago? SH-icago's the one.

4. Chaos. is pronounced as /k/aos.

5. Cheese. is pronounced as /ch/eese.

These are just easy words. When it comes to names, stuck! Examples of street names I've encountered that involves -ch- pronunciation: Leichardt, Chauvin. I have always pronounced, Leichardt, using /ch/. But thank goodness, someone corrected me. It's suppose to be lei-/k/-ard.

But Chauvin, is still /sh/auvin.

Btw, Mater Hill (a place in Brisbane). Raise your hands if you pronounced it Ma-ter, cos that's how the Aussies pronounced it, as well as Google translate. But the dictionary clearly says mey-ter. So cheers, cos I believe most Malaysians will pronounce it as meyter. Me and May did ask our AE teacher once, regarding this, and he says Aussies have pronounced it in the wrong way.

Literature, novels and short stories. I believe "The Pearl" was read in the age of 12 in other countries. But we only read it in form 5. People are already reading plays by William Shakespeare by the age of 16.. the best we've got? Sonnet 18 and Life's Brief Candle.

Long post indeed.

Finally! A picture of ME in my blog. I private-d my pictures on FB. only people who stalks my friends (oh wait, my friend list is private-d too) can see dumb pics of me.

Failed pinned-up bun btw.

My arms do make me look like an anorexia person. Look at the difference between my thighs and arms! incredible.

Lastly!

READ PEOPLE READ! I regret not reading that much to be honest. In the future, I promise that I will use partial of my money to make a library room in my house instead of branded goods. From adults section to kids section. Every Friday night will be "reading" night. hahahaha. I think that plan is gonna fail.

Remember how Enid Blyton is a MUST for my generation? Now, I strongly recommend Geronimo Stilton and Jacqueline Wilson for starters. Jessy, the lil' girl from the house I live in now, has finished reading all available Geronimo Stilton series. Back in Miri, a family friend's daughter (only 5 years old) has started reading Geronimo Stilton too. I personally love it very much, even at the age of 18! my sibs too.

Byes. New term starting tomorrow.

when i'm down i randomize

2011-09-30T15:24:00.000+08:00

Why do you have to be so expensive? By the time I start earning my own money, settle all bills, pay back my parents, save up enough, you will be sold out and I will be dead.

#economicrecession

wth! October is here?!

2011-09-30T10:34:00.000+08:00

Good gosh. for the first time ever, Friday sucks. Why? Cos it's the weekend right before school starts.

Miss the good ol' days. Where school isn't that freaky. Aside from those teachers in high school, canteen food were awesomely good and cheap. School is as big as a shopping mall. Hard desks were as good as a pillow. Toilets were nasty but yet the hot spot of all times. Life was good. blinks.

College life is serious. Teachers are awesome. Respect them much. Seeing that I was very much a brat in school.

But, October is here. It's down to the last 3 months of 2011! Last 2 months of college life. And I can already imagine my parents having "the ultimate uni talk" with me again. Had the exact same thing going on last year, just that my options are still wide, now, I've gotta narrow it down.

Always admiring people with very determined paths. Whenever you ask them, they can name out 1 or 2 career that they are sure to go happily with.

I remembered it was last year in one of my mom's education fair. I got to sit down with my dad at University of Canterbury, Christchurch's booth. So she asked me about my options. I named her a few, and I can remember what I told her.

1. Nursing

2. TESOL (education related stuff)

3. Engineering

4. Law

Yes, from one faculty into the other. She can almost go through the entire brochure with me.

Most of my friends are rather good with their options, most of them were deciding on Engineering and Pharmacy. In Brisbane, most of them are deciding on either Dentistry or Medicine.

Even until now, I can't get my mind straight.

All I want to do is "do a bit of this, do a bit of that". I do love studying, I don't really want to stop study and go to work. But I just think that I need a gap year to figure things out. Get some books and look myself in a faraway cottage.

I miss the days where I can just immerse myself into the book. Note: Books are the bestest gifts ever.

Whenever you have no idea what to give to a person, go buy a book!

Don't even try asking me what kind of lifestyle I want in the future. I'm not even sure where I'm heading.

this is just a random post that has wasted your precious 3 minutes.

MOLES

2011-09-28T18:42:00.000+08:00

Have a mole? ever thought of laser it off? or go to some ah pek's shop to get it scrubbed off?

Hold on to that thought and see these!

BLAKE LIVELY

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS

CINDY CRAWFORD

RAINIE YANG

SARAH JESSICA PARKER

JULIA ROBERTS

~~she has another one on her chest~~

EVA MENDES

ANGELINA JOLIE

NATALIE PORTMAN

MARILYN MONROE

In short, embrace your mole if you have one! (unless it's cancerous) Look! I have one too! ;D

All that Randomness

2011-09-23T22:34:00.000+08:00

Samantha!!!! WHY YOU SO CLUMSY! WHY YOU SO FORGETFUL! WHY YOU SO NO ORGANIZED!

okay, enough of self-slapping. HOLIDAYS ARE HERE. ~~with much to do. sighs~~

Started playing Sims Social recently. But I'm not that pro. and trust me, it won't be long until I find it boring again. Went to watch "Johnny English" with my friends awhile ago, and went to Garden City's Woolworths to do window shopping. Yea, we love window shopping at Woolworths.

Oh! here's something worth to tell.

It was Accounting lesson on Thursday. Last 2 periods of the day, 3.30pm - 5.30pm. We didn't have lessons because each of us are suppose to do presentation, but I did mine on Tuesday. So I went to class just to give some support to my classmates, ~~as if~~.

Anyway, the Academic Director came in to our class to make an announcement about the power failure in the train station. So there wasn't any train available from the central station to Fortitude valley. And according to him, there's gonna be loads of people taking the bus/cab, resulting in a massive traffic jam. So we're allowed to leave class an hour early, 4.30pm to be specific. Looking at the time, it was already 4.20pm. Naturally, I was happy and put both my fist up in the sky with a lil' jump. (If you guys watch Heroes, it's like how the Japanese guy always do when he shouts "Yatta")

I was sitting at the back row, but somehow, the whole class started laughing at me! I didn't even make sound. or did I? They were laughing so loud, including the Academic Director and my Accounting Tutor. So I was like covering my face and listening to my classmates laughing at me. The Director even commented that: "you were so funny that you made everyone laugh". Pretty much embarrassing huh.

Currently, I just want to learn new stuff and forget everything about studies. ~~Why the pressure~~

I want to learn how to play the guitar, harp, cello!

However, I must say, I am not that passionate to dance anymore. Sweet 16, please motivate me back when we're all back in Miri.

but I still love my piano. Watching Christina Grimmie on her piano gave me no reasons to regret learning piano. thanks to mom too.

Playing piano in church this Sunday! super love the songs Amos chose. And playing piano in the church is the only reason I touch piano these days. Christian songs are so reviving! Seriously. not to mention Christmas songs!

Anyway, I was listening to this song by Chris Tomlin "I lift my hands" on YouTube (Christian song). It was a VEVO video, so there were adverts background. Just right below the video was a link/advert to LMFAO's "sexy and i know it". Lol.

Yea, super random. Have a fun holiday to all in Brisbane, and GOOD LUCK to all PMR students back in Malaysia. Grats on finishing UPSR to primary 6 students and study hard to all SPM students.

Signing off.

Christmas! is still not here. sighs

2011-09-18T18:56:00.000+08:00

I have no idea why my Christmas mood is soooooo turned on!

It is like ever since I started living in Brisbane, the Christmas mood just comes once in awhile. What do I do? I find Christmas Songs to hear! and sometimes I can just imagine myself celebrating Christmas with a bunch of friends and families. I was up late last night, and I couldn't help but stumble upon this song on YouTube!

And every time I listen to it, I'll either sing along with it, or even dance with it. I should really record my silly moments alone sometime. And blog it out if I have the guts.

SUPER DUPER LOVE IT! Don't worry, it's not a song sung by choir or oldies.

Love Christmas! but celebrating Christmas in Miri doesn't really fits the picture. If only Christmas does not involves worrying about starting school in another week (for those still in high schools or primary schools)

bahhh. All I Want for Christmas is You!! You = Christmas.

If only Christmas can happen every alternate day!

Lil Wayne - How To Love - Christina Grimmie & Tyler Ward (Rock Cover)

2011-09-13T16:44:00.000+08:00

Oops. I forgot to put in the link of TW and CG's cover. Check them out. I believe this is the best cover for this song so far. Better than Sam Tsui's and Megan Nicole's! I reckon.

Super like Christina's personality btw.

How to Love

2011-09-13T16:38:00.001+08:00

Lately, I have been abandoning my dramas. Blogging is much more productive I guess.

Anyways, we hardly see "educational" music videos nowadays. Music videos hardly makes sense. Do note I'm not talking about lyrics. Lyrics is a whole different topic.

I came across Lil' Wayne's "How To Love". I heard the original version back in Miri but wasn't that into it until I heard the cover that Tyler Ward and Christina Grimmie's covered.I really love the rock version TW and CG did. It sounded more happy and skilled.

I was chatting with a friend and we were exchanging opinions about the song. Then, I was told that the MV has much more meaning to it. Eventually, I searched for the MV, and learnt that it is really is somewhat "educational", especially to teens today who won't listen to their parents and teacher's advice. And needed Lil' Wayne to make them realize.

The MV basically, talks about a girl who had a bad upbringing environment. I think she had premarital sex and needed money to raise her kids. So she ended up being a prostitute and this leads to HIV.

So check it out:

BUT, the MV made it looked like it was her mother to blame. If her mother was to marry a better/rich guy she would have ended up better. In reality, it is true that a girl who marries a guy with a better background tends to live a better life.

So, artists do make a very important role in setting examples, but sadly, they are not of good examples to be learn from.

What they often teach is "to be yourself". But somehow, they are teaching their fans "to be like them". yikes.

Enjoy :)

Change

2011-09-13T13:44:00.003+08:00

911

Watching Dear John reminds me of it. It has been 10 years.

Fun Friday

2011-09-10T01:22:00.000+08:00

Okay! Finally, some photos :) from my friends. I'm not a good photographer and I have no camera.

These are a few good moments I spent with great friends that I met in Brisbane. I'm sure some of them will read my blog. ~~so paiseh~~.

So last Saturday, we went to this Brisbane River Festival opening thing beside the river. The fireworks are scheduled to start at 7.05pm but we went there around 4pm just to get a good spot. And when we reached there, it was already very crowded.

A picture of Amy and Charlotte. Great lights at the back.

Fireworks from the river and tall buildings.

Group photo. Basically, we're all Malaysians. Even more "kick". We're all EAST Malaysians. There are others but not in this photo.

Celebrating Charlotte's birthday at the Japanese Restaurant opposite our school.

It was rather warm few days back. So I wore shorts and slippers to school this morning. Who knows, it was half way through the class and the teacher told us that it's raining heavily outside. And the worst part is the wind is terribly strong. Me, May, Amy and Pei Yee were all wearing shorts and slippers. So Chern suggested that we try out Ajisen Ramen since we have been eating Mad Tong San for continuously 7 weeks!!!! That's why I always think that they should give us discounts for being such a great supporter. We were practically jumping all this while, to produce more heat. One of em say what, turning kinetic energy into heat energy and some say 心静自然热? wth. we were basically shouting from queen street all the way to the restaurant due to the extremely cold windy weather.

Me and Amy

Here are some really old pictures. I dug them out of my friend's album without their consent. SORRY. I'm too desperate to blog.

Clockwise from me, Amy, Esther, May to Charlotte :)

Cooking dinner at Pei Yee's kitchen. Amy, Esther, Me and May.

I am proud to be a Malaysian!

*It seems like I only have Malaysian friends. hahaha. What to do, we blend in so well.

And I believe that's why my English has not yet improve. argh! stupid canto accent.

Candies

2011-09-09T18:42:00.000+08:00

Another Friday. yayers.

After coming to Brisbane, one thing I fail most, BLOGGING. I remember being a hardcore blogger addict. No blog, no sleep. nearly. My hours spent of blogging is like how people spend on Facebook, on average. I blog long passages, not mattering whether it makes sense to people around. But now, school hours and dramas has taken it all. Tweeting is only the social pathway that I can relate more to, as it only requires instant inspiration (or sometimes, frustrations) and it will only take a minute or 2. There are no notifications and no spamming made available. In someways, the hidden aim of twitter, is to spam yourself.

Anyway, FRIDAY. Spent 2 hours of lessons to only hear people giving seminars that I'm not interested in. Not saying that you guys did a bad job in conveying the message. When I did mine, I can almost assure myself that I will be asleep if I was among the audience. The topics sounded interesting: Cosmetics, Food additives, Theobromine in Chocolates, Plastic bags, Coral Reefs etc. But in the end, who would even care to take some actions.

They were talking about plastics and the dangers of using plastic bags. At the end of the day, I will still go to supermarkets and grab as much plastic bag as I can from the eftpos counter. I use them as rubbish bins. So in some ways, I'm actually still re-using it (3R concept). But who will ever care to go get a chicken feather made plastic bag, unless the world is in a very very very very serious condition. And unless the government insisted on doing so.

But as a student, our concept is GRAB WHATEVER YOU CAN. okay la.. most of the time I learn that from my grandma and May. My grandma use to take as much stuff as she can from the plane. From spoons to even the container (few years back when travelling with MAS). We use to "grab" the comfy pillows and blankets from MAS airlines.

I was delivering my seminar on Food Additives last week. And I talked about the disadvantages of preservatives (sodium nitrate/nitrite) in meat, as well as, artificial sweetener, aspartame. Like in the end, who will even care to avoid meat and candies. HOWEVER! DO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT... NEVER IN MY LIFE, I HAVE EATEN ANY SWEETS/CANDIES/LOLLIPOPS/MINTS/CHEWING GUMS/COTTON CANDIES and you name it.

yes, I do eat chocolates but only the ones given by my parents. And they must be of known brands: Cadbury, Hershey, Lindt etc. And most of the time, I only accept dark chocs. No white/milk chocs. Try giving my chocolates wrapped in gold/red shimmery wrappers (indicating xx brand chocolates) I will definitely say no to it.

So don't think that I eat chocs because of the brand. I won't accept branded chocs even if you're a friend to me. I just don't. I only eat them if I'm the one buying them or my parents.

When I was young, I don't even want to touch the wrapper of the sweets (even if it's brand new). Until now, if the wrapper is left opened (after someone consumed and left it on the table), I swear I wouldn't touch it with my naked hands. I must use a tissue to sweep it over.

Candies are like my kryptonite. Give me 1, I rather jump off the building. But luckily, my friends are kind enough to understand my phobia and respect it and never forced me to eat it. phew.

I don't know if there's a name for this phobia, but to let me know if there is one. I even wikipedia-ed it. List of Phobia

My very first intention to blog was because of the activities I did this afternoon. But my friend has not uploaded the photos. Hopefully by the time she uploads it, my inspiration is still there.

Ciaos.

I'm a good girl

2011-08-31T22:40:00.000+08:00

This is such a dead blog.

Anyways, I'm still way too busy with my assignments. I don't know when will it end!! And I promise to make this blog as lively as before.

This past few weeks (month) have been incredibly tiring. One thing proven. I'm too use to Malaysia's education system. Everything depends on that one and only SPM. All you have to do is study for that 3 weeks of examination. Other than that, you can just 'flunk' on your class teachers and homework given by them.

In my SPM days, school time = sleep time, tuition time = school time, sleep time = revision time.

I realized that I'm a very exam-based student. I'm not smart, but I'm willing to sit quietly whole day with my book, a notepad, pens and highlighters ALONE. I'm okay with my homework as I treat them as revisions. But assignments are just tiring. Especially when they are to do with research. Journals are not that easy to find ahhh. Scholar.google.com don't just give you pretty journals. They give legal opinions! And decent journals only give free abstracts. In order to read full text, you must buy it!

Sem 1 was pretty relaxing. I had sufficient sleep. I'm good at keeping up with my homework and assessments, there weren't that much assignments. Sem 2, basically, I have at least 1 assignment/seminar to do EVERY WEEK! sweats.

Seminars are better than assignments. Presenting in front of 20+ people isn't as bad as presenting in front of the whole assembly. Plus, I once vision myself as a teacher, so it should be quite fun.

I'm now on a short break from doing my powerpoint on food additives for my seminar on Friday. And that's not the end yet.

There's still much more behind. But to be honest, I couldn't have ask for anything better. I believe foundation is probably better than other options for me.

Okay. This is just a short break for me. Time for me to go back to my work.

SPRING IS HERE PEOPLE. i see flowers blossoming :) Brisbane River Festival this sat :) see ya there ;D

Feels like this

2011-08-25T21:09:00.000+08:00

Remember how we use to play cassettes in our dad's car when we're 10 years old (this is only applicable and relevant for people of my age).

Well, my very first "pop boy band sensation" was Westlife. Pretty much influenced by mommy cos she likes the song Seasons in the Sun so much. I don't really remember why but it was a very old song and came to be rather popular when I was around 9 years old I suppose. So we started buying a few Westlife albums from the CD shop beside popular and speedy too. And once you enter the car, you'll rip of the plastic seals, play the cassette and switch on the lights in the car and start flipping through the album cover, searching for lyrics and pictures.

Then since we were total blurs, there were a few times we bought cassettes with "bonus tracks". Got so attracted by the word "bonus" bought it and ignored the word "karaoke version".

At first, it pretty much upsets me. Total waste of money aye. But thank goodness, some of the songs in karaoke are available in the normal versions in other albums we bought. So we are still able to "imagine" the boys singing while the music is being played.

This leads to another thing. I really think this has somehow trained me to listen to how accompaniment musics are played, thus improve my piano accompaniment skills. To be honest, I'm not good in playing classical musics. I do adore them, but somehow, I'm just not that connected to them. From grade 1 to grade 8, I have no distinction, only 2 merits (border line of merit) and others are just merely pass. For example, in piano exams, 100 is the passing mark, my marks will be 101, 102, 103, etc.

Too bad, nowadays, it's not easy to find very pure karaoke versions of songs.

This is just a very random post after listening to an old time favourite by Westlife :)

Science

2011-08-19T22:26:00.001+08:00

I was skyping with my brother and we were talking about the new book he got from my parents.

"A brief history of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Some of you may accidentally pass by channels such as Astro's Discovery Channel and bumped into this person, who's mouth is not moving but is somehow, talking!

Anyways, fascinatingly, my brother told me how he has described time.

"We do not know what is happening at the moment farther away in the universe: the light that we see from distant galaxies left them millions of years ago and in the case of the most distant object that we have seen, the light left some eight thousand million years ago. Thus, when we look at the universe, we are seeing it as it was in the past." (Hawking, 1998)

I'm not sure was this in the book or something my brother thought of, but this lead us to this.
He was saying to me that, people often say that the end of the world happens when the sun dies out. Since the sun is so far away from us, then when end of the world is here, assuming the sun dies out at 10am. But due to the distant, we earthlings may only know that the end of the world is here at 12noon. (all these are just assumptions)

And even some say that the partial gravity of the Sun is pulling the earth, and when the end of the world is here, our earth will be like flying around everywhere like an inflated balloon. But it will still happen slower cos the speed of light is still faster than anything else.

Secondly,

"Newton’s laws of motion put an end to the idea of absolute position in space. The theory of relativity gets rid of absolute time. Consider a pair of twins. Suppose that one twin goes to live on the top of a mountain while the other stays at sea level. The first twin would age faster than the second. Thus, if they met again, one would be older than the other. In this case, the difference in ages would be very small, but it would be much larger if one of the twins went for a long trip in a spaceship at nearly the speed of light. When he returned, he would be much younger than the one who stayed on earth. This is known as the twins paradox, but it is a paradox only if one has the idea of absolute time at the back of one’s mind. In the theory of relativity there is no unique absolute time, but instead each individual has his own personal measure of time that depends on where he is and how he is moving." (Hawking, 1998)

This is even incredible. Imagine women who are so afraid of getting old will beg their husbands to buy houses that are nearer to sea levels.

okay, i know what i'm saying doesn't make much sense to some of you. And I was never a bright science student, so don't laugh if there are any more principles against it. Complain it to Stephen Hawking!
Seriously, sometimes it makes me think, how do these people came up with all these sorts of ideas. Including how the galaxy looks like. It's not like you can think for 8 hours, rest and think for 8 hours the next day. Imaginations don't just stop there. It keeps on flowing.

Everyday, we wake up hoping for a productive day. Hoping that we can spend 1 hour less on tweeting, 1 hour less on facebooking, 1 hour less on dramas or "laughing gor"(i'm not a big fan, i don't watch tvb, i just know that he's a big trend) and so on.

But these people, their day must be spent really productively.

~~Sad enough,~~ he's an Atheism. Not saying that any religion is good or bad, but wouldn't it be great that if a great great scientist/cosmologist can approve of religion and science at the same time, for all laws and principles.

Anyway, do check out this 2 websites if you wanna read the book, but I will still encourage you to buy the book. Looking at the website, I can assure you that you couldn't stand for more than 5 minutes.
website 1: http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/abhotswh.html
website 2: http://www.fisica.net/relatividade/stephen_hawking_a_brief_history_of_time.pdf

Feeling insecure

2011-08-11T21:12:00.000+08:00

I miss my dearly siblings.

It feels extremely bad whenever you see siblings still living under one roof, sharing the same location. No matter how hard your day was, or how much fun you had with friends outside, you can always have a "friend" in your house or just relax and calm down with them in the same refuge. It's fun being a big sister y'know. You get to see them grow and watch them making the same mistakes you've made. Just this time, you may not be able to prevent them from making the mistake but you are sure that you'll be there to catch them when they realize that they are wrong.

Even though you get to Skype or FB chat, it still doesn't feel the same. Using Skype and FB chat, is like forcing you to talk at that 1 hour you have. But at home, you can just talk if you feel like and not talk if you don't feel like, and they won't think that you're weird if you're not talking. And being on Skype/FB chat, is like you need to talk. Or else, there will just be an awkward pause/silence, and there grows the fear of distancing!

Nah, don't think too much. We still talk like we use too. Just that it's not the same as to, "you talk whenever you feel like to". Gees. If this ever happens to be my research art report, I can only imagine circles everywhere stating repetition in each sentence. But to be honest, I feel much more confident with my research art project in Sem 2. I've got my great dad to help me. And I've been pushing myself a lot. (But I must admit, I sleep in a lot these days!)

Blogging really does make me feel better. I was in the mood of not knowing what to do. I have homework to do, but they are not due til next week and I still need a few other stuff to be done before doing them (cough*lame*excuses). I was watching drama, but I watched 1 episode of Gossip Girl until I realize the next episode is in Italian, switched to Hellcats and couldn't watch for 10 minutes and started Pretty Little Liars. Watched the 3rd episode half way and I already don't feel like watching it. Too creepy and too fake for me. I prefer something with mysteries but with action or at least some comedy. Romance but classy and funny. So, the only thing I can ever watch is Nikita, Gossip Girl and Glee.

However, I must admit that maybe something is wrong with me today. Not the dramas' fault. Just mood swings.

Anyway, looking forward to tomorrow cos it's FRIDAY! Yayers.

New blog!

2011-07-31T15:25:00.000+08:00

Hey Peeps! This is gonna be cool.

Me and Angie just established a new joint blog!!! We're still keeping and updating our individual blog but making that new blog is just something we like to experiment with, and who knows it might be interesting.

Do check out our new joint blog, as well as Angie's blog.

Cheers

Sweet air

2011-07-29T23:29:00.001+08:00

Intensify week. Gone? Yet to be determine. Anyway, I made it through another day. Something to celebrate aye?

After an hour plus of boring chemistry lesson, me, Pei Yee, Esther, Charlotte and Brandon went to Mad Tong San 2 AGAIN. Mad Tong San should totally give us ambassador badges that comes with great discounts and so on. Had another round of spicy steamboat. It wasn't totally steamboat either, but there was a portable gas stove to heat the squids, baby octopus, pork, rice cakes and bean sprouts. It looks yummy-licious right?

After the mouth burning lunch, we decided to watch Captain America at South Bank, but it's a 4.50pm show and it was only 2 something. So we sat laying on the green dry grass at south bank, talking and looking at couples getting all over each other. LOL. As if we never see that in dramas, so kampung leh. I ended up with lots of dry grass in my hair, like I just came out of a barn.

Charlotte didn't join us for a movie cos she needs to be home early and she didn't bring along her wallet which has her student ID.

Anyway, I sat with Brandon in the movies, while Pei Yee and Esther sat on the other side. Me and Brandon find the front part rather boring, and we were "half-sleeping". When the movie ended, we both agree that the ending was just way too cliche.

You guys will just have to go check out that movie to understand what I mean. It's not a lousy movie, quite nice to watch, just not that fantastic. It's not as exciting as batman nor as romantic as superman.

But both of us were captivated by the trailers before the movie. They showed "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Priest", "Green Lantern" and I can't remember the name exactly but it has relation to aliens and country if not mistaken. Anyway, Brandon wants to watch the Ape thingy and both of us wants to watch "Priest". Maggie Q is in it too.

This is my laptop's wallpaper for the time being. It's our family photo! Taken during the holidays.

This is the original copy. I did not expect that there'll be make-ups and hair-dos on that day but I must say the make-up made me look better. Some of you might notice, I HAVE NO FREAKING EYEBROWS! yea.. I'm the kind of girl with not much hair. Daddy's trait. While my sis has bushy eyebrows and thick hair. Mom's trait. And after looking at all the photos, MOM IS FREAKING PHOTOGENIC. and I think Tim has that trait.

killmenow

2011-07-25T20:12:00.000+08:00

Passed first stage of denial. Pretty much couldn't resist the heartache. Bloody much refreshing your inbox, twitter @mentions, and fb homepage. ~~And not so much of myfy.~~ Wishing there's something you could ever linked with.

This post is irrelevant. ~~not to mention school and assignments.~~

Princess Mia: [while watching a list of possible husbands, a picture of Prince William appears] Yes! Oh yes! I, I, I absolutely accept!Charlotte: Prince William. He’s not eligible because he’s in line for his own crown. Princess Mia: [Disappointed] Oh!Joe: If he’s not eligible, why is he included in these pictures?
Charlotte: I just love to look at him.Queen Clarisse: Me too.

kthxbai.

Rubbish

2011-07-23T12:06:00.000+08:00

I'm back in Brisbane! New beginnings aye?

Last minute packing ain't fun! I thought this trip was going to be easy! Just pack up those few clothes and pack the souvenirs bought and that's it. Who knows.. I had to leave for Brunei the next morning and it was bloody 9pm and I couldn't find my IC! Thank goodness I found it at the very last minute.

It was suppose to be me, May and Pei Yee to fly back together. But lucky for May, she gets to "extend" her holidays. @May Wong: cepat balik la. Semua orang sangat cemburu kat mu! Cikgu pun rasa pelik juga. So, it was only me and Pei Yee. We bade farewell to our parents at Grand Palace's car park and went up to Brunei by a taxi as our parents need to work.

Since there was only 2 of us, we were lucky enough to be arranged to be seated with a brunei girl who's heading to QUT to further her nursing degree. (I would not trade for some old uncle who coughs throughout the flight, nor a mom with a 1 year old baby that cries non-stop) She sat next to me and she started talking to me. I gave her my Aussie number before we get off the plane cos she's new in Brisbane. #imaniceperson However, til now, she hasn't call me yet. Oh well, hope she's doing fine :)

I couldn't sleep cos of my blocked nose (i did not cry, it was purely my nose sinus). So I watched "Just go for it" and "Unknown". Gees! Jennifer Anniston is still that pretty!!

Anyway, as I have promised, I will blog about CH concert.

If you have loads of CH friends added on Facebook (or even non CH-ians), you'll realize that your Facebook homepage has been loaded with compliments of CH concert! I went on Saturday, which wasn't that crowded. There were still some empty seats, but not much. I heard people saying that Sunday tickets were all sold out!

I'm going to be honest for all what I'm going to say, no bias.

It's good that they have a storyline to follow, but I would have to give credit to Mei Gong (my primary school) who started the idea when they had their school concert last year in indoor stadium. However, CH did great with the story, it was touching especially when Clement sung LeeHom's 落叶归根. The actors were really good and committed to the story too.

At the very front part where the program emcees were singing, I would say it's rather a long song! They should make it shorter. But it was good overall.

I really like the scarecrow dance and the "water" traditional dance. I really love the traditional dance's outfit. The blue satin looks really pretty under those lighting. The lighting crew did a very good job too. Just sometimes we can see the shadows of the crew in-charge of pulling the curtains (which did impressed me too!). They should dim the lights a little bit more perhaps.

The zhangzhu 藏族 dance, deja vu? Watch that tons of times, listen to that song millions of time (even sung it).

Season drum was a tiny winy bit boring to me. Uhm, I'm not here to judge their skills or quality whatsoever. It's just purely the impression you guys gave me. I did not stay and watch the choir too, went to buy snacks instead. LOL.

The 15 minutes break was a good idea since it's such a long show and for people like me who wouldn't want to miss a single bit of it. However, it was quite short. THE TOILET WAS FILLED WITH PEOPLE! gees. Great song playing while break though, Kenny G! hahahaha.

New student dance did a great job too! Some very weird choice of receptionists too (lmao, not sure if you guys get what I mean).

The drama's choice of actor was rather hilarious. I reckon they chose the right people to act for the drama.

Well, that's pretty much all I guess.

Pretty much suck at this post but I will post it no matter how.

The Pressure is On

2011-07-13T09:14:00.000+08:00

Days are counting down! oh gees, this ain't good! I can't believe it, I have been in Miri for days.

Parkson is still lame old Parkson. Chung Hua is still the best Chung Hua. The weather is still freaking hot. I guess I haven't change a lot too (despite the fact that I have more pimples than you last saw me). Some people even think that I have either slimmed down a little/maintained my figure (with Aussie having so many obese people and food that leads to obesity). Even my grandma thought that I was not living/eating well over at Brissy.

To be frank, I think I've gained some weight since my arrival in Miri. The food in Miri are so oily!!

Anyway, I had fun despite the hot weather. I met old friends and spent time with them. I just wish I can have more time! I'll be leaving in less than a week and everything starts from a big digit count down again! Am I ready to face that?

This trip make me cherish them more and I think I'm going to miss them loads. I mean loads and loads and loads! Life in Brisbane is fun but I will never trade them for Brisbane. If only we can all go to Brisbane ~~or uk~~, how fabulous will it be!!

If only Malaysia has its own "Ivy League" and a true good one.

So much for now. Reminiscing the past.

Future?

2011-07-05T09:34:00.000+08:00

Being in Miri is fun and relaxing. The air is a bit different though. Kinda prefer Brisbane's.

Anyway, I was at mom's Australian Education Fair yesterday. It was surprising to see so many RRSS students and not many CH students. Probably because they are busy with concert and sports day! No matter how, I would say it was a good response yesterday. I would really advise people to come to as many education fair as possible, receive as much information as possible, I wouldn't say that I have the experience, but I see my friends who kept on delaying making their decision, has lost lots of chances on getting better options.

For example, your forecast results may be better than your real SPM results. Even if your real SPM results are out, and they are better than the predicted ones, you can still withdraw from your school and try applying for scholarships.

The more you slack, the harder it is to catch up. You tend to lose the momentum of how hardworking and discipline you were when you're dealing with SPM. I use to think that I want to have a gap year and work to explore what I'm passionate in doing. I would say that it's true, but how many of you will end up finding your true dreams? Most of you would just end up serving tables or hand out leaflets!

ONE BIG MISTAKE students always do. Yes indeed you should listen to opinions from experience seniors/friends, but don't commit 100%!! Learn from colleges and universities' representatives, agents, parents and you yourself! Widen your horizons! Everything has it's good and bad. It just depends on which one you can tolerate more and suits you more. People often complain how hard A-level is, but you never know, it may suit you compare to entering SAM programs, ADP, Foundation, IB, F6 etc. Of course, whenever I communicate with you, it may seem like I'm a bit bias about entering foundation. It is good, but I wouldn't want to see people entering with regrets and come out complaining about it right? and I tend to do that because I have a tiny winy bit of experience with it. XD

And I should say this too. Parents!
They often take in control of all things. I would think that some parents limit their children's choice in pursuing a degree they want. I totally understand that what they do is all because of their child's benefit. So, as children, you should definitely prove it to them of your abilities and capabilities in areas that you are passionate of! All things are possible. I have SPM science stream straight A friends who pursue business, arts and commerce degrees. While, SPM 1A or none friends who pursue engineering programs!

It's July now. HALF YEAR GONE! All the best to Form 5 students out there and strive hard for your dreams and ambitions :)

Everyday I'm shuffling

2011-07-04T11:39:00.001+08:00

Hey people!!!!!!!

I'm free from exams and I'm back in Miri :) There's so much to tell you now! I'll just briefly tell you all the stuff that pops up into my mind.

Me, May and Pei Yee were travelling back to Miri together on the same flight, Brunei airlines. We went to the airport together and checked in together. It turns out that our luggages weighted 4 more kilos than the luggange allowance. Their handcarries were still somewhere else and only I have the key to my luggage's pad lock. So I took out my shoes and clothes and stuffed them into my laptop bag and some of their plastic bags. Phew. But it was still 2kg exceeding the limit. But the girl just let us in :) thanks

We kinda "sneak" in when we enter the departure hall. There was a guard standing beside the weigh to weigh our handcarries, but while he was busy talking to other passengers, we sneaked into the scan machine counter. LOL. phew.

We were crazy in the plane. We slept for the 1st hour, woke up when they served us lunch. Pei Yee had low fat lunch (under special request by her brother), LMAO! The bread they served us was super delicious. Even after we finished our lunch, May requested for more. LOL. I intended to nap throughout the whole flight cos I slept around 4.30am the night before the flight due to packing and cleaning up my room. And woke up at 7am, which made me pretty tired. But I couldn't sleep after that meal, and watched Red Riding Hood by Amanda Seyfried instead. I also watch "Unknown" but only half of the movie cos the flight was landing very soon.

Once we touched down Brunei, all I could think of is, THE WEATHER IS EFFIN HOT! and we're already in tees, shorts and slippers. Oh well..

I can't wait to explore Miri! I had open air dry noodles last night and slept through the morning. See me at Imperial Palace later? :) Miss you all loads :)

EXAMS

2011-06-26T16:16:00.000+08:00

EXAMS

Happy Daddy-kins Day

2011-06-18T23:34:00.001+08:00

Hey Peeps!

It's Father's day! I seriously am not good in doing this but I'm just going to give it a try.

Every year, mother's day is always the talk of the city. The church celebrates Parent's day on Mother's day (which is sort of unfair to dads all around the world). Flower shops offer promotions and discounts on Mother's day gifts and I believe that restaurants are mostly booked on Mother's day. Somehow, Father's day just doesn't seems like it. And what's funnier is that Father's day was created just to complement Mother's day?!

Anyway, we as obedient, thoughtful children still celebrate it right?

Anyway, my dad has been a great person and he still is.

Even though, we don't have the same frequency slash wavelength sometimes.

Even though, he's so fierce that I think my friends (not to mention guy friends) are afraid of him.

His previous career as a lecturer had inspired me most to become an educator in the future. He was ever actively involved in church activities and school's Leo club, not to mention the football team. (and he forbidden his daughter from joining the school's concert) But come to think of it, I very much appreciated what he did. I got 7As for my SPM, which I practically fail every subject when it was still march of last year. (I know it's not straight As, but I don't know why I'm just that happy with it)

He had liver cancer when I was in form 3. It felt terrible for most of us.

(AHA! I caught you off guard didn't i? Believe most of you didn't know that!)

Anyway, to sum up. Mom and dad flew to Singapore for about 4 months. His operation was around May and they stayed there until August. And 3 of us siblings were left to be at home with our kakak and our grandma who lives behind. Of course we're sad that our dad had cancer, but part of my mind was telling me: FREEDOM! (come on, I was at a rebellious 15 then..) But then I realize, things ain't that easy. Life with my grandma and my aunties and uncles is just so much harder. (not that I don't appreciate them, but it's just not the same as living with your parents)

Thank God he was able to find a legal liver donor (some part of the world, donating organs are considered as illegal trading.) and he's able to survive until today. YAYERS.

I was lucky to have him alive. Cos after a few months of his operation, and before PMR that year, my uncle passed away of a sudden heart attack. It's my cousin's dad. And of course, it would have been my father who had illness. Whereas my cousin's dad just passed away suddenly.Wow, I would have not preferred it that way. Can you imagine, not being able to spend the last few moments with him?

And a few months before my dad has his operation, a father of a friend of mine, passed away because of cancer too.

HOW LUCKY I AM TO STILL HAVE MY DAD RIGHT!

and readers! Do you know how lucky you are to have your dad being healthily alive today!?!?

It's almost 2am in Brisbane now, and 12 midnight in Miri. (dad is so gonna kill me, especially when I have church to attend tomorrow morning) and I suppose by the time you read this, it's still Father's day.

GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

I have no money (well, the money I have is my dad's). But I can BLOG! (yay)

Hey Daddy!

This is for YOU! (*hopefully you refresh it hundreds of times and hopefully I can earn some money from nuffnang to buy you a big pressie!) Nah just joking.

I would have definitely use this golden opportunity to take revenge on you! After all those years when you were lecturing in Curtin and preaching in Sunday service, using our (me, tim and ling's) ever ugly photos in your PowerPoint's! (OMG). If I were in Miri, I would have dig out all the old photo albums and find those hideous photos of you when you're in the 70's. Wearing those flare jeans, and super slim and tight, button up shirt and ray ban sunglasses. Peace!

Thanks for all those wonderful bedtime stories that you've told me. (And they are not written by Hans Christian Andersen, purely by dad or my grandpa) Really love those stories. Thanks for being thoughtful and send me all the way to Brisbane to further my studies. I'm blessed to have you. Thank you for accompanying me to Brisbane, helping me settle down, taught me how to cook (even though, I don't cook nowadays. Not even instant noodles). People were saying how awesomely "fast" you were when you were here. Thanks for being strong when you had cancer for the family's sake and I hope you will continue to be healthy.

YOU ARE AWESOME

Last but not least, dad, read it and treasure it. Don't need to show it off to your colleagues, church members, Curtin students, and DEFINITELY NOT OUR RELATIVES. (appreciate that much)
And don't need to bring this up when I'm back in Miri, don't make me feel flushed with hotness on my cheeks. Treat me some dry noodles is enough.

MISS YA! LOVE YA! SEE YA!

I just wanna lay in my bed

2011-06-17T17:16:00.000+08:00

EXAMS!!!!!!!!! *yikes.

Anyway, yesterday was officially the last day of my semester 1. clap your hands and shout hooray! but I am an obedient girl and I went to school to study (uhm.. well, the other motive was to download dramas). All I can say is, school line is damnit SMOOTH! Downloaded 6 episodes of Nikita for 6 hours. YIPPEE YA YA. ~~I did maths while downloading it~~. Btw, don't you guys feel bored with Facebook. I can only stare at it for the most 20 minutes. But, it's definitely a good thing, you have more time for real faces and real books. Twitter is way better. Simple, fun, not that addictive and not that time consuming. (but not tumblr.. REBLOG-ing is FUN)

We're having SWOT VAC now. Meaning study week. And after study week, we'll have 1 week of exams. Lucky me, I only have 4 subjects to deal with. Research arts has no exams, but piles of assignments (shitty much). And after my exams, 1 day of shopping and packing, next destination: MIRI

I can't stop thinking of it. I can imagine my to-do-list a few meters long.

Pretty much love this picture. Sums it all up. Thanks, Patrick the starfish.

And I can imagine my ever hard-working and kiasu classmates' face. Why can't they ever be happy and satisfy with their marks? As if 90 is failing. GOOD GOSH! This pretty much look like it. haha.

And I found this photo while I was listening to Usher's Remix for the song, OMG. LOL, her hand actually follows the beat. You should really try! (not sure whether it works for the normal version of OMG or not)

No one will bring me down

2011-06-12T21:17:00.003+08:00

Oh yes, and you must be thinking what has gotten into her? This is not the Samantha we often see..?

Well, all I can say is you don't know me well enough. When I'm alone, not seen by anyone else, I do effing ~~self humiliating~~ activities that you could never imagine of. Try busting me when I'm in my room (of cos my miri room lah) one day with a recording camera, and be ready to catch the funniest thing you can ever think of. (It's stupid though, to post this in my blog, knowing that people will read and try to attempt to see my "other side". ahh well, I was never that persuasive.)

Anyway, that's the picture of me with my 3D glasses. If you were to follow my tweets you will know that I went to South Bank cinema for Pirates of the Caribbean in 3D with Vanessa before she left, as well as Charlotte and Pei Yee. The movie was awesome but I would love to see more about the mermaid and the ever handsome missionary. (I must say I have never seen such handsome missionary, no offense to missionaries out there though, our prayers goes to you)

And I was so happy for being able to keep the 3D glasses as you know we couldn't do that back in Malaysia. Those 3D specs seem so precious to the cinema owners. LOL. So I cam-whore-d with it. Well, this is probably the best nothing-to-do thing to do. Lol, it sounds confusing but if you read it slowly, I think you'll catch it. Don't bother if you can't, it's not much of a deal.

I remember how I use to cam-whore much when I was preparing for SPM. You can't do much stuff cos all those activities consume much time. And cam-whoring can only take you a minute or 2. (depending on your sense of perfection lah.) Some people take tons of photos looking all the same, and Photoshop it till it look 99.99% similar. (as if their camera can do 100 burst rates) Change your pose mah. You can have your signature look whatsoever, but posting albums on FB naming "me on 1st of July", "me on 2nd of July" and when you open into it, they look all effing similar. What's the point?!?!

Anyway, Brisbane is freaking cold now. Colder than Perth but not as cold as Adelaide. I first thought that maybe it's my own problem especially this is my first year in Brissie. Perhaps I'm the one not use to it, but it seems like my friends and aunties and uncles who have lived here couple of years says that this year is way much colder than last year. I can still survive lah. I'm still wearing lesser than those working people in the city. I really have to raise a white flag when I see Aussie teenagers. How can they still wear shorts that looks like their underwear and singlets? Hair all bundled up! As if it's still summer. Then what you wear when the real summer comes?!?! at least think of your skin a bit by wearing at least a shirt and shorts-that-are-not-so-short. Oh well, perhaps they lived in Alaska for the past 15 years.

I went to city after church this morning, with Pei Yee, May and Elaine. Winter shopping! except this is not a fashion crisis sorta shopping. Since it's going to be a public holiday tomorrow, we really have to stock up some stuff to prepare for colder days to come. After all, it is only the beginning of winter. I bought a fleece blanket which is really worth it. The original price was about $20 per meter, and when I saw it last Friday it was $11 per meter, but I didn't have enough cash at the time, and I'm so glad that I didn't bought it the other day cos it's only $6.48 per meter NOW! (and I should not visit the shop again these few days. In case the price drop again, i will feel so unforgiving)

I was having a minor headache and I had a nap with the newly bought blanket. I thought it was going to be a 2 hour nap, but it turn out to be a 4 hour sleep. LOL! I think I can stop hunting down for hot water bottle already.

*Is Brissie for Brisbane misleading? Wonder if anyone thinks that it's Bristol? woah, if only i can. UK DREAMS PEOPLE! Queen's Birthday tomorrow. Double woots.

For some reasons, my Christmas spirit is totally turned on these few days. I wanna celebrate Christmas so much. Probably because of the cold season now. Triggers the thoughts of having a cold Christmas.

"when Christmas day is here, the most wonderful day of the year" (this song has been in my head for days! so Glee)

And for reading the entire long blog post, I reward you by giving you a 'slightly' normal picture of me. I guess tilted-head pictures are always my signatures. LOL

Dirty Dancing 1987

2011-06-05T14:24:00.000+08:00

I was watching Glee season 2. They were at sectionals. Quin and Sam were singing the duet.

The first thing that popped into my mind was wow, are they singing BEP's "The Time"? but after listening to the chorus, then I remembered this song was sung years ago, not by BEP. BEP only grabbed the chorus and did slight changes to it.

I googled it out, and I found out that it was sung by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. It was also chosen to be played in the movie "Dirty Dancing" in 1987, as the final song. It has won several awards, and after listening to it, I have to say BEP ruined it so much!! I won't say Glee ruin it cos they did help introducing this song to the younger generation, but definitely not BEP.

And I found the final dance on YouTube! and I fell in love with it! It's probably in my Top 5 to-do-list in Miri. Hunt that movie down, and watch it over and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmILPAcRQo

And the dance was choreographed by Kenny Ortega, HSM's director. (I can understand if you can't relate at all in the last paragraph, but don't tell me you can't relate to this. People who are in their 40's should have watch this before.

Anyway, copied this from wikipedia:
Originally a low-budget film by a new studio and with no major stars, Dirty Dancing became a massive box office hit. As of 2009, it earned over $214 million worldwide. It was the first film to sell more than a million copies on home video, and the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles, including " (I've had) The time of my life".

On a ride to paradise

2011-06-04T02:41:00.003+08:00

It has been terribly long since I last posted on my blog. Twitter had really taken most of my ideas away. Not to mention school.

I've got so many random stuffs to blog now, probably because I've accumulated them throughout the days I didn't blog. I remember how I blogged every single day last year, eminently last April, 29 posts! I practically blogged everyday.

School has been really tiring. Assignments all due on the same day! 6 assignments for research arts and 1 for AE. All on the same day. Can you imagine how much stress and pressure there was the days and weeks before the due date! But since it's ended, woah, I can set my feet partying on the dance floor!

Days are getting pretty boring here. There's definitely a sudden crave for the magical word.. :X
Anyways, I started watching Glee, thank goodness I got a whole bunch of drama from Letty before coming to Brissie. I finished season 1, starting season 2, but I only have up to episode 9. SAD.

Season 1 was awesome. Season 2 was a bit different. Well, I've only watch up to episode 3. Shall do a review after I finish all the episodes/dramas.

I actually watch episode 1 in Miri, that was a long long time ago, before SPM if not mistaken. However, it didn't attract me, so I totally hang there. But, I moved myself into it cos I really want to hear some music and see some dancing. City life ain't what you think it is. Instead of seeing people shopping like what you see in KL, you see bankers and office women, dressing up smartly pacing up and down every morning. I realize women here really can dress themselves up pretty well for office, if you compare to what you see in Malaysia. In Malaysia, girls wear pretty outfits to work but they don't necessarily have the 'office' look unless you're working in a bank, given a blazer or a uniform outline. But here, woah, they can even set their hair before going to work?!?

Here's another favourite eating outlet that i often visit. Little Singapore. I went again yesterday, but I haven't transfer the photos up into my lappie, so I'll just upload it another time.

Can't remember what's the name for this dish, but it's nice if you're the type of person who doesn't mind light flavours.

This is hokkien noddles, they are tasty but I miss Taiping ones damn much.

The ones in Taiping are so much nicer...

One of my friend I met in Brissie, Vanessa was awarded JPA scholarship and she's went back on the 1st of June. So we had a farewell for her on Monday and Tuesday, but I didn't go for the Tuesday farewell cos I was sick. But they had MAX BRENNER! jealous much.

Anyway, these are some of the photos I took. We walked from the city to the cultural centre and stroll along to South Bank, and took the City Cat. WOOTS! We have never been on the City Cat cos it was still under construction because of the flood when I first came here and there's no need to take a City Cat as a transport for most of us. So, we just journeyed down to the last stop (University of Queensland) and took another City Cat back :D

The scenery were super duper AWESOME!

View of the City. Awesome sky.

Some of the flyovers and the City.

That's Vanessa.

Esther and Brandon. (what's the guy in red fleece doing?)

More City views with the stunning sky.

Random bridge. There was a lot of bridge from South to the city.

Love this one.

Note the other City Cat. We're moving away from the city.

From left: Brandon (kch), Esther, Pei Yee (both miri), Charlotte (sandakan), Vanessa (kk), ~~some random guy who wouldn't give us more space~~.

Reaching UQ. The skies are marvelous that evening. Good for Vanessa as she's leaving :')

Pictures tell a thousand words. (in this case, 4 words)

On our back, there's this group of student kayaking. They were really fast. (Their muscles must be strong) They kept on waving at us, so we wave back.

From left: Charlotte, Vanessa, Esther, Pei Yee, Brandon

After a ride on City Cat (which only ate me 30 cents, LOL), we went into a Japanese restaurant in South bank. I ate a little only, potato salad.

Then, we went for Brisbane's eye - the FERRIS WHEEL!

I was quite determine to not go at first. I am a person who is afraid of heights. But, after all the begging and persuasive talking... i went up. I almost pee out, cos I drank lots of water since I had a sore throat and the first round was awful for me. I was holding on to Charlotte. But the next 4 rounds were nice. It was already dark that time, so the City view was awesome. But not much pretty pictures, cos too much light reflection.

I must say that our timing went really well. Best timing for the stroll towards South Bank, best timing for City Cat ride, best timing for the Ferris wheel ride. AWESOME!

All the best to Vanessa who's going to INTEC, and hopefully she'll get bonded to UQ after her SAM program. (at least she got an oversea scholarship, yay) So sad that she's going. We use to have lunch together at Mad Tong San and Little Singapore. OH! did i mention we went to South Bank cinema to catch a 3D movie together, with Pei Yee and Charlotte. We watch Pirates of the Caribbean. The price were so much cheaper than the ones I had in Indooroopily. Oh man.. Too much happy to reminisce.

*Title of post inspired by Britney Spears' Toxic after listening to Glee's version.

*counting down 29 days.

Black Swan movie review

2011-05-23T09:52:00.001+08:00

I watched the Black Swan last night. It was terrible but good. Paradox huh..

Well, I should put it this way.

The story was really good. When I watch the trailer, it really did attract me to watch. But one thing I didn't know is that, there's so many unexpected scenes.

However, without those scenes, the story wouldn't be perfect.

Without those scenes, the evil dark side of the movie may not be portrayed as well as it is now.

I got so disgusted by the movie, that there was this moment where I stop and close the whole movie. But I couldn't stop thinking that I have wasted 40 minutes watching it and not know the ending. So I wiki-ed it, and read the story. The story motivated me a bit so I decided to continue watching it, but with my towel, covering half of my view.

So, if you are going to watch this movie, just finish watching it. I think I really did see something and have a new perspective from it. And by the end of the show, you'll realize that those scenes are necessary to make the movie 'complete'. Unlike some random movies, where they have scenes that really doesn't help at all and it just doesn't make sense and does not suit the objectives of the movie.

These movies are really just a waste of time and you regret watching it a lot sometimes.

It's definitely not an ideal movie for kids. (well, they shouldn't even watch it at all) But, I guess it's okay for some of the teenagers nowadays. Provided they handle the content in the right manner.

Provisions

2011-05-22T12:57:00.004+08:00

Hey, it's been long since I last updated my blog.

I've been busy with stuffs and to be honest, I've lost the mood to blog. Well, you may misunderstand when I say that. It doesn't really mean that my blogging mood has just vanished into thin air. I just feel obliged whenever I want to blog. There's like a couple of times where I typed down a few words, and the next thing I know, I'm pressing the backspace button. Or else, I'll click on the "new post" tab every time I switch on my lappie, stare at it for few seconds, switch to another tab, and got carried away with homework or movies I brought from Miri (I re-watched Nikita and Gossip Girl) and when I'm about to switch off my lappie, then I realize that I didn't blog again.

Oh well, here's a few photos throughout these few weeks (or even pictures from last month).

These were taken when I went over to Pei Yee's house.

She bought these 'pau(s)' from Sunnybank and insisted that i try some.

The first batch was pretty nice but the fillings inside are quite hard. So we microwaved the second batch but longer time.

When it was done, it didn't turn out softer, but harder and BLACK!

Roasted pau(s)

Top view

Bottom view

These were taken during the mid term hols. Me and Pei Yee went to Market Square to have our lunch.

She ordered Prawn Noodles. Looks really yummy.

I wanted fried Kueh Tiaw and dry ones.

The menu didn't really specify whether it is wet or dry, but i assumed that it's dry ones.

But it turns out to be wet. Disappointed much.

These were taken just a week or 2 ago.

Me, Pei Yee and Vanessa had our class finished earlier, so we went to our favourite Korean restaurant - Mad Tong San 2

Me and my Malaysian friends tend to hang out there on a lot. Especially Friday lunches.

It's like, this place never disappoints us if we have no idea on where to try.

I wanted something light. So I ordered vermicelli. But it came with rice.

And I ended up ta pau-ing back the vermicelli and ate the rice with kimchi (free side dishes).

These 3 are the free side dishes. I love them a lot. They tasted superb.

I think May and Pei Yee quite like it too.

And the best part is, you can get REFILLS!!

Cold Macaroni's ( i have no idea why macaroni's exists in Korean restaurants)

Kimchi

Raw onions and soy sauce

We ordered the dumplings too! Nice :)

Pei Yee had her birthday on Wednesday.

So me and Esther went over to her house and cooked dinner for her

~~(but we left her to do the washing. tsk tsk)~~

Rice (we mixed normal white rice and multi grain rice)

Beef!

Chicken (i know it looks not that appealing, but i can assure you that it's really tasty and sweet)

FINALLY! some green veges.

Mushroom and egg. I tried making it into omelet, in a piece. But it's just too hard.

So we scrambled it instead. LOL!

Fish from a can. With onions. (Pei Yee insisted on this one cos she really likes the fish and she loves onions)

Okay, so her birthday is on Wednesday but some of us finish our class at 5.30 and some of them have home-stay curfews to follow. So me and Esther just enjoyed dinner with her, while we plan to have her real celebration on Friday. (It's a surprise)

So on Friday, which we normally have lunch out together, Me and May lied to her saying that we need to make a trip up to UQ to settle out IELTS stuff. Elaine only joins us once in awhile as her classes finished earlier and Vanessa didn't went to school (so they don't need to make excuses)

But of course, both Elaine and Vanessa met us at Hungry Jacks and we went to buy cake and KFC to surprise her.

While Esther distracted her to eat lunch at Little Singapore.

KFC!!!! we bought 15 pieces of chicken, 2 chips, 8 mash, 1 large coleslaw.

The chips were nice, not the mash. (I much prefer Pete's Deli's)

And we also got her a blueberry cheesecake.

This is pretty random. My clean room!

See! the floor is so clean that it reflects the light from the window.

But I can convince you that it will be messy again after 5 days.

Glimpse of Happiness

2011-05-10T21:08:00.000+08:00

The weather is indeed getting colder. I was still wearing T shirt and shorts on Sunday.

But now, I must wear a jacket on top, but I was wearing shorts yesterday, despite the rain and wind, not to mention 16 degrees.

Why I don't wear jeans/stockings like almost every other people do?

1. I might as well train myself to adapt to cold weather until winter is really here.

2. I am ~~poor~~ not that rich and I don't have enough jeans. (Do not rebuke me by saying that I'm studying here and therefore I'm rich. Every family has their own way on 'budgeting', while mine is on education not so much on fashion. sad to say so.)

Anyway, we went to Pancake Manor to celebrate Esther's 18th birthday last Friday. Apparently, the restaurant use to be a church. nice.

The food, I would recommend you to go for a lunch set, like majority of my friends did. Why? I'll explain.

This is what I've ordered. Macadamian Madness.

It serves 2 pancakes with roasted Macadamian nuts.

On top of that, vanilla ice cream and maple syrup by the side.

When my dish was served, I must say mine looked quite appealing compared to the others.

As most of them ordered lunch set (which serves crepes first, then a regular pancake)

These are crepes.

All of them are tasty, but you'll get ~~really~~ sick of it after a piece of pancake/crepe.

May ordered the simple pancake (which comes in 3)

and I think she regretted after a piece or 2.

While Esther ordered a Crepe set.

(note all of my picture's crepe's are entree size, so her dish has 2 crepes instead of 1)

The others ordered set lunch, so they get to try the best of both worlds,

1 crepe and 1 regular pancake with ice-cream.

YES YES YES YES!

I bought this!!!!!!!

TIME MAGAZINE: Special commemorative issue of The Royal Wedding.

It was last Wednesday (5 days after the wedding).

And I only have 2 hours of English lesson. The first lesson was rather useless.

We were in computer lab, so by nature, everyone will either on their Facebook. I on my tumblr instead cos I've abandoned my tumblr for quite sometimes, and reblogged a few wedding pictures.

And I saw this on Tumblr. My first thought was, "since i can't download YouTube videos, it should be okay to get one of these..."

After class, I was walking back and I wasn't hunting for it.

But I can't help noticing tons of magazine with their picture as cover page at all of the news-agencies.

I wandered for awhile and finally I bought it. It was pretty expensive, $6.50 for 50 pages to be exact.

However, I'm glad that I bought that instead of buying those cheaper yet thick fashion magazines that includes articles of other celebs along with tons of adverts.

And on Friday, after our lunch, we went to the supermarket and "New Idea" published a souvenir magazine of Royal Wedding too. For $10, with a lot more pages. Well, I manage to persuade her to buy it.

And she's now lending it to me. THANKS ELAINE!

And my landlady saw an article regarding the Royal Wedding in one of the magazines she has. And borrowed me to read. The article was written after the engagement but before the wedding.

~~I've become a world-known freak.~~

I realize that I really enjoyed myself while reading, not to mention articles and pictures of the wedding. So I made a library card. WOOTS.

Guess what I've borrowed?

A magazine with 12 exclusive pages of the Prince William and Kate (again, it was after the engagement, before the wedding)

I guess I'm a real Royal expert now. Who knows I might be publishing for their 10-years anniversary album?

Here's a product I highly recommend!

BODY SHOP: TEA TREE BLEMISH FADE NIGHT LOTION

I bought it on the day I bought the magazine.

Since my arrival in Brisbane, my forehead has been naughty and pimples are sprouting out of nowhere.

I think it's because of Milk.

I love drinking milk. But if I buy fresh ones, it stinks quite fast, about 6 days later.

So I often buy boxes of milk from the shelves that can last up to 6 months. (like dutch lady in Malaysia)

Plus, it's cheaper.

Well, 6 days and 6 months. There must be some unknown chemicals in it right?

I guess, that's the cost of buying stuff like that.

And milk often boost our hormones, so yea.... more pimples just to sum it all up.

But with, Body Shop's Tea Tree, i can see that my forehead is getting better (as long as I don't scratch it anymore)

I apply this too if my pimples are really ginormous.

My holidays are over

2011-05-03T20:00:00.003+08:00

School started today and my maths teacher was late for class for 20 minutes. I forgive you teacher. ftw

Anyway, everyone seems to be asking what have I done during the holidays. I heard answers saying they went back to their home country and some answers that they went Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast or whatever coast. I went to Gold Coast before and I was too lazy to pull myself up to go for any shopping and not even grocery shopping!

But I manage to went out and catch some fresh air of Brisbane. My landlady brought me and Pei Yee to Inala and there's this place with lots of Vietnamese shops. I think that place has a small Vietnamese community itself, I think it's just like Sunnybank comprised of a larger Chinese community. We tried out this amazing Vietnamese restaurant where we ordered spring rolls or called popiah (i think) and also some kueh tiaw (ho funs) and vermicelli! They were really really YUMMY! Should bring my family there when they visit Brissie. Sorry guys, no picture of it. I was too hungry and when the food arrive, I totally forgot about taking the pictures. I reckon that the sauce that goes with the popiah is really delicious. I think it has vinegar, carrots and soy sauce. Well, I'm not good in guessing what's in it...

We passed by lots of small grocery stalls, and guess what, Auntie told us that the ginger sold here (Vietnamese shops) costs more than 10 AUD per kg. And if we were to buy it from Sunnybank, it will cost about 30-40 AUD. The exchange rate between Malaysia and Aussie is about 3.2 now. Can you imagine buying just a kilo of ginger will cost you about RM100!!!!

After having lunch, she dropped me, Pei Yee and Jessy at McGregor Park to have a look around. We saw this cute little girl and she played with us while her mom is taking care of her younger sister. I think her name is Hannah. (I'm sorry but it's hard enough for me to understand Aussie slang, what more to say a child who hardly can speak)

After that day, I pretty much did nothing except watching Gossip Girl! WOOTS. and did some AE Research Essay draft and maths.

I'm pretty much upset with myself for not using the time wisely to go do some exercise. My reason is always, the weather is too cold. Smack my ass.. I've got to un-glue myself from my chair and bed! Slept till pretty late these few mornings. But I'm back to my early morning routine I guess? School's starting...

Oh..

And I've watched Fast Five

WOOOOOTS! Did not regret for watching it, and now, I want to do a Fast and Furious marathon to watch all the previous 4.

We went to Indooroopily's cinema. I went in as a kid (under 12. I can never have this experience in Miri. Feels good) But still, the tickets costs me a bloody 12 AUD! Sadly the seats are all taken and the seats in a row left, are the first 2 rows. My head was pretty sore after that, but still, I did not regret. The 12 dollars spent was worth it! I heard that it's sort of like a reunion among few of the major characters from the previous ones.

Every movie surely has a girl that catches every one's heart. And I must say that she's smoking hot!

Gal Gadot's her name. Weird name huh? Cos she's an Israelites! She represented Israel and joined Miss Universe as a beauty pageant! Cool huh?

Other than these 2 days, I was ~~pretty~~ all caught up with all the news and images of the Royal Wedding. (and still am) Call me a Royal Wedding freak all you want. I don't care.

29th April 2011 - A day to remember

2011-04-30T10:48:00.008+08:00

Yes indeed. I'm a royal wedding freak! (like it below,after reading the post)

Even though I slept through the night, when I woke up, I'm still thinking of it. I'm like one of those crazy girls out there obsessing over Justin Bieber, I'm still very into Prince William and Princess Kate's wedding and marriage :) (I've just got a thing for Royalties and British kay?)
(Are we suppose to call them Prince and Princess now? or Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?)
I'm supposing both, I Google-d it and I'm supposing it's okay cos the Queen is also the Duke of some place :)

Find out more from YouTube - The Royal Channel. I'm going to download all the videos when I'm back in Miri!!!!

The show started from 4pm (Brisbane time) but I missed it, which I think it's okay cos it's probably showing some random interviews from TV commentators talking and commenting about the royal wedding. I started watching from 7pm. Where after a few minutes we saw Prince William and Prince Harry getting out of Clarence House, getting ready to set off to the Westminister Abbey.

And after that was the arrival of guests. We saw Julia Gillard (Australia's Prime Minister) and her partner. David Beckham and Victoria Beckham which look amazing. Elton John and his gay partner (wth, in a church). Brunei's Sultan (i wonder where's Najib?) And here comes the two, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.







I guess everyone knows what I'm going to say. Her HAT! Her outfit was nice but boom her hat! Don't you think that it's a bit to edgy for a royal wedding? Haha, well, that's not really the main point of the story.

And here comes the Maid of Honor and the flower girls and page boys. Pippa (Kate's sister) is really pretty too and I really like the flower girls' dresses.



And here comes the BRIDE!!!!! The moment we've all been longing for.








It was really thoughtful of her to give a last wave to the crowds outside before entering the abbey. Her gown (designed by Sarah Burton from Alexander McQueen), is so damnit beautiful and elegant. Thank goodness she didn't wear a strapless one. It may look nice on her but it will just ruin the Royal idea.



Her entrance song was really a nice piece. And besides the wedded couple and the gown, the choir really did amaze me. Westminister Abbey boys choir rocks!



Cute right? Did you guys notice that the choir is all sung by males. The parts where normally a girl sings will be sung by boys with younger age cos they haven't really develop their "apples".


Both of them can just stare into each other's eyes when they pronounce their vows even thought million and millions of people are watching them LIVE! They were really calm and they did everything gracefully, no mistakes. (~~Awkward little moment: The ring.~~ Let's just move on and forget about it eh?)

They always say Kate is lucky to have the prince. But don't you think that the prince is lucky to have her too?
So they are both lucky to have each other! :)

After the ceremony, back to BUCKINGHAM PALACE!









Thank goodness it did not rain, cos they were saying that they'll carry on with the procession, no matter rain or shine, to thank the crowd who has been supporting them by camping outside the abbey and the mall for nights. Both of them really made a perfect couple!

The Balcony! (sounds like the pub in Miri!) NO! this is a way better balcony!
They had a fly past ceremony and they kissed, TWICE! I'm happy that they didn't have a sloppy kiss or french kiss or whatever kiss you call. It would just ruin the royal standards.

And they live happily ever after.

Who let the Dogs out?

2011-04-27T11:17:00.001+08:00

Hey peeps! How's everyone doing? Enjoying your hols? or still down to tons of school work and assignments and exams?

I was watching this movie "Marley and Me" from my lappie awhile ago. And I have 2 conclusions to make.

1. Brad Pitt, do you ever regret giving up on Jennifer Aniston? She's one smoking hot mature woman. Why do you even think of breaking up with her and go for Angelina Jolie? I'm not saying that Angelina Jolie's bad or ugly, in fact, i quite like her acting skills and the movies she produced. But when it comes to choosing a wife, Jennifer Aniston is the one!

2. That dog is like the most adorable dog ever.

When it comes to DOGS,
would you prefer a small breed? for example: Chihuahua, Norwich Terrier etc.
or would you prefer a larger kind of breed? for example: Golden Retriever, English Shepherd, Labrador etc.

I won't despise small breeds but if I get to keep one, definitely the larger kind. Or should I say, I prefer Guardian Dog compare to Companion Dog.

But I would have to admit, I can never ever like poodles. They are only cute in cartoons and dalmatian movies. I'll prove it to you.

the last one looks more like a gorilla to me!

Oh well, just a small update. Nothing much to write.