Fight-or-Flight

My dear Jamie Oliver

2009-09-12T18:25:00.007+08:00

Browsing through my pictures and i saw this...

The end of my Jamie Oliver

The cover page

First page

middle page

The last page

Thanks to Paul

**sob.......**

Last day

2009-09-09T09:43:00.005+08:00

Last day in Sunderland

We took a final walk around the places, including the Bridges.

We went to campus and said goodbye to our lectures- Dr Yakubu, Dr Anne & Dr Mitchel and Barry, the senior lab assisstant. We couldn't find Dr. Keith!!!

We had our last dinner at the usual place-The Chester

We ordered our usual main course and dessert- The rocky road chicken and chocolate fudge cake

We were full and busted like we always did.
Chocolate fudge cake with vanilla ice-cream

I'm gonna miss here!! In fact, i already did!

Italy Trip

2009-09-05T07:01:00.032+08:00

i'm back from Italy!

The Italian sun is as bright as in M'sia, the only difference is that from 10am to 6pm the sun in Italy is exactly like the 12pm-to-2pm-sun in M'sia. I'm soooooooo tanned. Not joking, exactly like a Philipino. Arghhh... (u know how i hate it... :(

i'll tell the my travel story from the first day to the last in Italy. Too many things happen. Maybe i'll remember for life.

A backpacker's story

Day 1(24/8/2009)
Pisa

A Tiff!

We saw the Leaning Tower. The excitement was rising, despite the bright sun shining everywhere, there was no shelter, no shade.. If u know me, i'm the type of person who couldn't stop taking pictures of sth i like dearly. The view was so nice, the leaning tower contrasts against the greenish grass. We stand on the grass to take pictures, many tourists were doin the same. There was a sign: keep off the grass. Who cares??? MAybe i had bad luck, or maybe the guards hated us, we were all being whistled and chased away from the grass. hello.. ..every ppl have pics with leaning tower on the grass, it was where the best view of the leaning tower was taken, all my friends, friends' friends had it, NOT FAIR!! Fine then, we went to somewhere else altho we were quite pissed. i continued taking pictures at another place, waiting under the sun for the best spot where some ppl were already there taking their own sweet time posing their best pose. okay finally my turn! i asked bobo to stand and pose sth like pushing or leaning on the leaning tower and he refused. he just took one picture and said impatiently thats enuf. i know it was HOT, i swallowed hard and asked again, the reply was even more impatient. Angry, i couldnt hide it anymore, i exploded on spot. Everybody saw, why shud i bother? i couldnt control myself, anger got the better of me. i walked away, leaving him behind carrying 2 bags (we went straight to Pisa before checked-in hotel in Florence). i forgot how long we separated in a sea of tourists, i took quite long time to chill down, i think i took about hundred pictures on just the Leaning Tower. haha. Or what u expect me to do?

Rational or not, reasonable or not, i wasn't going pisa to take just 1 picture and then goin home. However, we managed to find each other after about a good hour. We were fine then. hahahaha...

Day2(25/8/2009)
Florence

Dead, Almost!

An accident almost took my dear life away. i was crossing a road after taking some pictures. i turned to the left, the car was like 50 meter away from me. i was thinking if i ran over the road i would be safe and i would be reaching the other side of the road before the car even reach me, it wasnt a highway anyway, just a small road with traffic on both directions. So i ran, and then i reached the middle of the road, still running, and before i can turn to the right to check the car coming from the other side, a deafening screeching sound that made me stopped and turned as part of the reflex action. i was shocked, and stunned! The car was braking hard and finally stopped just 2 inches before my knees. My legs refused to move, every muscles in my leg were locked. i was standing straight, looking at the car like a retarded person. And finally the screeching sound stopped, it took me few seconds to come to my senses. i forgot to check my right before i cross! i quickly moved to the other side, my legs feeling week. my heart couldn't stop beating faster. i had cold sweat.

i apologized to the driver, the driver was mumbling something in italian, i didnt bother to care, i felt sorry, the driver was shaking head and covering the forehead with one hand. Seconds later, he drove away.

i continued walking to the next attraction site -- Piazza Michelangelo. i wasnt myself, i wasnt feeling like talking so much, the accident kept flashed back at the back of my head. my heart still pumping at the speed higher than normal. Bobo was telling me jokes, trying to calm me down and i appreciated that.

i think i need to go back kindergarden to learn how to cross road. i think the incident left me a phobia. i'm quite scared whenener i cross a road. i nearly die in Italy. i nearly couldn't go back Malaysia to meet my parents and friends at all. i nearly lose everybody. i was ust crossing the line of life and death. i nearly ruin my future. Come to think of this: "live ur life like u're goin to die tmr". Everything is just so unexpected, we never know what is gonna happen to us next, how true it is...

Day3(26/8/2009)
Florence

The ice-creams looked irresistible in the hot italy weather. We had ice-creams at different shops, twice or thrice in a day! The most ridiculous/craziest one was 2 scoops for 8 euros! we felt cheated because the price wasnt showed... Flavours that we had tried were: melon, tiramisu, pistachio, chocolate chips, watermelon, banana and strawberry. Melon, watermelon and banana flavour were the best..

Pinochio, it is originated from florence.

Day 4 (27/8/2009)

An experience in trenitalia from florence to venice was BAD BAD BAD!! The lousiest train i've taken in my life! There was no air-conditional all along the journey. It was exactly the sauna experience for the 3 hours journey, it seemed forever... i couldnt sleep/sit/rest well in the train and i begged to reach the destination in the fastest time. It was like "when do i gonna reach??". The only ventilation was through the opened window but it didnt make any better as the air flowing in was as hot as the outside temperature of 32-34 degree celcius. i was sweating non stop.

Day 5 (28/7/2009)
Venice

i like Venice the most among all the places i've been in Italy. Why? because it is a beautiful small city. The main transportation is by boat. All everyday-kind of activities were carried out on the small little boat. However, the UV was extra strong. i remembered i didnt stay under the sun much because most places were shaded but i became double tanner than the last 3 days..

Who's hotter?

This is a-must-try in venice! An authentic venician pasta--Pasta in squid ink sauce/ Pasta al nero di seppia. Not really a good recommendation but it worth a try. The pasta and squid were covered in absolute black color, not very tempting at first look. It had a very strong squid smell/taste, if u didnt like it u might think it stunk. :P

Day 6(29/8/2009)
Rome

Thanks to catherine, i booked 1 day earlier to Rome because she changed her mind last minute. We had a HARD time finding our hotel, it was at a very 'ulu' (isolated) place. We walked almost 1.9km UP THE HILL plus asking around the locals before we could reach our hotel. We hardly see any "human" on the way up. When we finally met an old lady strolling along the street with her doggie, we were in another problem communicating with her. she couldn't speak English and we couldn't understand Italian. All we did was kept saying "si, si, si" and follow the direction where her finger pointing to. hahaha..

Okay, this is Mc Donald. It looked rather like a palace, with statue, flowers and paintings hanging all around the wall...

Day 7(30/8/2009)
Rome

Finally we met up with catherine and Xinme. we were supposed to meet earlier at the train station (Termini) but they missed the train..*too bad*. Me and bobo were waiting at the train station even before they boarded the train from florence. While waiting we did some 'exploration' in some parts of Rome.

Fontana di Trevi

Night view of The Colosseum

Piazza Venezia--the place we would stopped by everyday, morning and night...i see no reason why we loved this so much...hahaha

Mc Donald a.k.a. Mac Dong Dong seemed like a MUST-EAT everyday, thanks to xinme for loving Mc Dong Dong so much. Xinme and me had Crispy Mcbacon meal all the time while catherine and bobo had CBO (chicken, bacon and onions) meal at all times. Both tasted not bad, better than any other choices as only few choices(less than 6) were available in the McD outlet in Italy.

Catherine couldn't sleep at night. She was tossing and waking xinme up, complaining that she couldnt sleep. hahaha.. i was sharing bed with her and i pulled all the blanket to myself. Poor catherine.. no wonder she couldnt sleep..hahaha.. i was so evil!"P

Day 8(31/82009)
Rome

The Vatican City

This was the place where we spent most of our time hanging around, looking at "Mr Bean" 's painting, eyeing for lovebirds, playing around, resting..... hehe

Day 8(31/82009)
Rome
The Spanish Steps

Day10(1/9/2009)
Rome
We were chilling in the hotel. The hot air outside made us all felt like staying in the air-conditioned hotel room, camwhoring behing Xinme while she was writing postcard.

We LOVE Rome!--Vatican City

We LOVE ROMA!--Vatican City

Day 11 (3/9/2009)
Rome
Catherine and Xinme left in the early mornign for Berlin. Bobo and me moved to another hotel. Altho the hotel was 4 star, it was far from city. In fact, it was quite 'ulu'. Why always me? why the hotels i booked always wrong location? i've no idea.. haha. It took us half a day to find the hotel.
So left the 2 of us. Kinda miss the company of Cath and Xinme-the funny pair.

A wedding ceremony was taking place in Basilica Santa Maria Degli Angeli dei Martini

All in all, i think we had drank the amount of coke of our life in Italy, about 2 bottles of coke a day. The weather was crazy hot and the coke was the best remedy. This bottle of coke was quite unusual. The bottle was made of glass and not plastic. Xinme was planning to bring the glass bottle back but at the end she changed her mind, the bottle was quite weighty!

Stadio Olympico

Day 12 (4/9/2009)
Edinburgh

Adios Italy. Feeling sad, we were leaving Italy...

So contrast to the weather in Italy, edinburgh was so windy and cooling. i'm so in love with UK's weather.

We took the train back to Sunderland around 6pm. We slept all along the journey in train. i guess we were tired. Bobo even snored! Ooopss! hahha..

It was so cold at night in Sunderland. i started shivering once i stepped out from the metro. The rain just stopped and it was windy and freezing. i only had a thin sweater with me while bobo only had a thin t-shirt. hahaha.. The coldness reminded me of walking on the street in aberdeen during last winter .....

.....The end of backpacker's story....

i'm goin back!

2009-09-05T06:28:00.002+08:00

finally i confirmed the date of my flight which is on 9th september. chewyen's flight is on the 6th, 3 days earlier than mine. but mine will land in KLIA..how stupid...why cant mine land in spore too? It is so troublesome to go back jb from kl with big luggage. i'm booking MAS back but it only allows 20 kg of check-in baggage...arrgghh (my luggage will definitely weigh more than 30 kg). i totally forgot about Airasia, Airasia can even add up to 30kg with some charges.....how dumb! It is only a short flight from kl to jb, be it airasia or not, i just want to go back!!!!

i'm goin back JB.......!!!!

2009-08-19T22:33:00.020+08:00

Amsterdam-Brussels-Barcelona-Madrid

Madrid

Plaza de Mayor

Estadio Santiago Bernabeu- Madrid football stadium

Kaka..Kaka..Kaka

Puerta del sol

Our roommate from Chile

Oh yeah paella again!

Croquetas--An authentic spanish snack--fried smashed potatoes.

Tortilla de patatas-- Potato omelette with baguette

Pollo Asado

Jamon- All of them were hanging from the ceiling..It looked kinda scary, making the restaurant like a carnivor restaurant..

Bocadillo de jamon- Bacon Sandwich

(think**) Cant remember wat it called. Basically it tasted like "you-zha-guai" coated with chocolate..

Chunks of roast pork in a baguette costs us five euros for one. Some parts of the pork chunks were not even cooked, i threw most of it (hell i didnt wan to get infected with Salmonellosis), the baguette was as hard as a wood...Definitely not worth the price, in fact i think it was overprice!

Smiley cafe creme--Bobo's creation

2009-08-18T22:06:00.018+08:00

Amsterdam-Brussels-Barcelona-Madrid

Barcelona

Barcelona beach. The weather was hot, the people were even hotter!

beach volleyball

Paella marisco--the authentic spanish dish...i loveeeee it! i had two plates of paella STRAIGHT! (that explains why i put on weight). i simply couldnt resist it. Basically it is "seafood fried rice". The rice is riched with seafood taste mixed with some spices and it gave a nice feeling when chewed..wahaha

Barcelona Football Club

Olympic Stadium

2009-08-18T19:22:00.023+08:00

Amsterdam-Brussels-Barcelona-Madrid

Brussels

Street artist

Manneken Pis--the famous brussels landmark. This bronze statue has a legend about a small little boy saved the city by urinating on the burning fuse..

Complimentary wine *cheers*

my starter: Oyster

Bobo's : prawns in dunno wat sauce

Julia's : Fish soup

My main course: Mussels

Bobo's : Grilled chicken (mine taste better!)

Julia's :Grilled Salmon (the salmon so little..mine still the best..wahahaa!)
Dessert of the day--Butter cake with sweet topping, served with sinfully cream

Mechelin

Men's beach volleyball!!

Women's beach volleyball

In the palace garden

Toy museum

Checker freaks.. Julia the big time winner!

Cherry beer + belgium chocolate...NICE!!

Europe trip II

2009-08-17T22:29:00.018+08:00

Amsterdam-Brussels-Barcelona-Madrid-London

Amsterdam

Canal Cruise

Live Porno show!!

Huge penis!

Happy Breast day!

Spacecake...wahahaha...

We were too old for all these..the children playground was too HIGH class for us..those kids were actually showing us how to play on these.. (**sia suey**)

The sheeps coming! RUN!

Watch ur steps CAREFULLY! Those were the 'organic materials' left by the sheeps..(wahhaha)

baa baa black sheep have u any wool? (looks like there is no black sheep at all..)

moooo.... moooo....

Windmill

Convocation

2009-08-14T22:09:00.008+08:00

“Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.”

~ by Arie Pencovici

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch

So finally, we made it!!

Europe trip1

2009-08-11T19:54:00.015+08:00

hiya, sorry for the MIA mode. i wonder how many apologies i have mentioned in all the entries i have in my blog. haha..well i admit i'm not very good blogger. Not that i have lost the passion in writing (or rather blogging), just that its hard to find time and motivation. There is always an excuse for each MIA . so what's for this time? mm...ermm....well...it's erm.....mm...errrr...busying planning for my holidays before starting another phase of working life..."P

It has been quite stressful planning for holidays..making all the bookings..it can be as stressful as looking at "saham"(if u get what i mean). it can be 20 pounds difference within a mere 5 minute. For example, now i gotta pay extra 104 euro just for the flight for 2, blame the indecisiveness on placing bookings 2 days ago when the flight was only 20 euros for 2. ***cry**

howeve, it made all worthwhile.... i love traveling, altho it was tiring, altho it made me tanned. i'm back to the old ms. charcoal. i can see the color difference ( or "ton warna") on my arms and legs..arghh.. Kinda a bad news to me, u know how hard for me to turn ABIT fairer and how easy to turn into charcoal. What can i do? Blame my skin sensitivity.. That explain why i hate sun, why i am so reluctant to go to the beach where sun is everywhere and how i hate to be recognized or greeted as " amui, nak apa?" .....

--------------LOLZ------------------

okay..pictures time..

my holiday schedule:

London-Sunderland-Edinburgh-Durham-York-Paris-Switzerland-Sunderland

Sunderland-Amsterdam-Brussels-Barcelona-Madrid-London-Sunderland

Bridge of London

Edinburgh

York

Durham

Eiffel Tower

The lourve

Cailler Chocolatess...Who can resist?---Switzerland..

The photographers..(from left: dad, koko, my uncle & leonard)

self-defense..

Zermatt

It;s DONE! It's OVER! yayyyyy!!

2009-06-09T07:25:00.002+08:00

yay yay! exam is over! partay..shopping..movies..gatherings..holidaying....and lotsss more are coming.."P

i LOVE HOLIDAYS!!!

It was such a miracle that i managed to pull through it all.. Assignments and projects that squeenzed in between the finals were enough to scare and stress me up like an animal. Well..It's DONE!!
I'm graduated!!
(Putting my fingers cross and praying real hard...)

To get a degree is not easy. To be graduated is not simple tho.
Hell graduation is costing me a fortune!

Robe hiring: 38 pounds
Bringing in guest(s): 25 pounds each (there's no free seat even for parents!)
Photography: budget pack-30 pounds (One 10x7 and two 5x7 prints)
family pack-75 pounds

The dateline for online booking was like 33 minutes ago. i TOTALLy forgot to place my booking until like 2 minutes past 12AM. i was like oh no oh no! Good thing was that i remembered, altho it was late! haha..well..hopefully it will still be accepted. anyway it's more than hundred pounds in total, who doesnt want to open door for business?

Sacrificing sleeps as usual during the exams and assignment have done too much destructions that made me look like an old lady with big panda eyes now. i need to sleep for a month!

fair and square??

2009-05-16T22:39:00.002+08:00

How can one get a full score of 100 marks for an essay-type course work?
"it was too good
too perfect to mark..."

Can u believe it?

It's hard to accept this.
there is only one reason to explain this.
...........

Need i to say it more clearly?

#%A#&#*!!

*ManU crowned the champion league, again! bobo damn beh-song**
haha..
study-lah

stresss

2009-05-10T19:12:00.004+08:00

i'm so stressed with medical microbiology..arrggh
The paper is tmr...

A cascade of stress episodes, following after one another...
Before i can really settle down my mood since the bad presentation few days back, biasness is all i can say, i gotta put that aside and prepare for MORE battles to come..

Help me!

r-a-n-d-o-m-n-e-s-s

2009-05-01T08:43:00.008+08:00

yay, 2 assigments down.
1 more final project next week
another presentation
exams
bioinfo assigments in 2 weeks

(still praying**)

see, how big is the mosquito in uk. (geographical variation huh..?)

C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E. Thats how we release stress..(hoho)

i love soupssss.. i think i can survive on only soup. yea bobo cooked this for me. XD

Procrastination in action

2009-04-09T00:44:00.003+08:00

Spring break is here...
we should have a picnic under the warm sun while enjoying the warm air and the cool breeze...

Right now i'm pretty loaded with workssss...
And it is 1 month away from finals..

But but but...
Productivity has been far way down....
i havent gathered myself to concentrate on finishing works..
Yea..procrastination in action..
Slacking...
Lagging...
(shake head)
(**no hope dy larr..)

Maybe chewyen was right..
i should have gone somewhere...
Instead of scaring myself looking at the piles and tonnes of assignments and revisions to be done within a month..
But the thought of "holidaying" when the finals is just 4 weeks away..
make me shrink with the panic and stress molecules swivel up my head..

The same day last week..
A lil' bit overworked and overstressed was me..
plus a mixture of emotional tension vexing my soul..
kinda a torment to me..
i'm glad that i did all i could
To present the best of me in that pile of papers that determines my grade..
well...i have a feeling,
that it will repeat as soon as the end of this month..

**praying in silent..**
that i'll be fine
be healthy
Get through all this
and done with it!
SMILE XD

Howhowhow??

2009-03-07T09:10:00.003+08:00

u know, for the last few weeks, i always thought i failed my spanish exam. so i didnt even dare to face my spanish lecturer to check my marks, to get back my portfolio.....

Until wendi told me one day in class that i can actually check it ONLINE..

and..

I paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssstttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, i'm in dilemma.

Should i continue my spanish module, or not?

many many factors have to be considered...time management is the main problem...

Breath.

2009-03-06T05:22:00.003+08:00

SO........

Pre-stress period is over....

I'm in stage 1 stress point..

Lets see....
Presentation on Puto (wth is that?)
Molecular bio journal paper critical review
Biotechnology lab report
Project thesis
Lab design
Project poster
Project presentation

....................................................

Beer tasting session

2009-03-05T22:43:00.004+08:00

Beer tasting session in class yesterday was enough to make few of us drunk..
Can't believe it..

Rolling Hitch-Product from Sunderland Brewery. It is non-sellable. we were tasting this as control to compare with the other beers that we've made during the previous lab:
Lager, Wheat Beer, Bitter, Brown Ale and Stout.

Results: Wheat beer (Veiss beer) tasted the BEST. This is the beer that my group has made. Hooray!!Clap Clap! (Altho we used the wrong yeast) haha.. Well, alex had 1 bottle of our Veiss Beer and he said it tasted better than the lager beer that hanjie has made. LOLZ..

After class, Kah eng looked like a crab with whole body turning red! Catherine, julia and grace were like lobster...

aiyoyo...

BOBO's Birthday

2009-03-05T09:06:00.012+08:00

2nd March

We had a surprise celebration in Chester Restaurant- a small but cosy Italian restaurant with nice atmosphere and the prices were reasonable.

Bobo posting with the chocolate chips cheesecake that i've made for him.

i like this pic..u know..*grin*

Everyone..

The starter: Aromatic Duck..It was yummy yummy!!
Creamy mushroom (or watever the name is)

Rocky Road Chicken- well-marinated chicken topped with a layer of cheese, served with peas, chips and onion rings.

Cajun Chicken. The rocky road chicken tasted better than this.

Chocolate Fudge with ice-cream. this is sinfully good, the choc fudge was sticky and creamy with the choc sauce that went perfectly well with ice-cream.i'll definitely try to make this one day.

Road Trip to Manchester & Leeds

2009-03-05T05:19:00.003+08:00

Lets go babe.....

Leeds City Market
Shortbread, choc oatcrunch, snowballs, ostrich egg, scotch eggs, etc...They are sooo tempting...

Manchester Chinatown

The chinese food in Manchester is cheap and nice..

Game session--Penalty time

Weipheng and i

Dim sum

The Wheel of Manchester

Manchester Library

Having fun at the Manchester library

Old Trafford..Bobo is not a fan of ManU. so we did not go into the stadium which was said the biggest and the most famous stadium in England. He wanted to pose with thumbs down in front of Old Trafford but he was too timid to get bashed up by the ManU fans..

YORK

2009-02-17T00:32:00.019+08:00

13rd-15th February 2009

Soul party, a charity social event. Devi, the host and her friend, Chris.

Pop music was played all night. ohyea, bobo was dancing too!

York Minster

On the way up to the Minster Tower

The Shambles. It was the oldest street in York. According to Devi, she said that the houses were built with a very narrow alley between them and the roofs almost touched in the middle because the land was very expensive back in the 15th century. So the residents tried to extend the space of their house in the middle since it was legal to do so during that time of government. Now restaurants, shops, accessories, souvenirs are found in the Shambles.

Things to find in the Shambles:
Freshmade Cafe-o-walnut fudge

Peter's sword (Narnia)

Keychains, softtoys, souvenirs, etc..

mushroom handcrafts (From York Open Air Market)

Footballer miniatures

Fund-raising event

42nd street is a theatre play, describing how a girl, Peggy Sawyer, rised to stardom in the musical showbiz. It was FANTABULOUS!!. A very worth-watching play on Valentine's Day! 10 out of 10!!

Hot potato with tikka masala chicken from Fat Jacket

York Designer Outlet

In the train back to Sunderland, cam-whore in the first class couch..

Hooray

2009-02-04T02:18:00.001+08:00

I'm goin to YORK next weekend!!

3 days and 2 nights..

Can't wait!

salud!

SNOW

2009-02-03T00:16:00.005+08:00

It is snowing again..

On the eighth day of CNY..
It is heavier, stronger this time..
Icy coldd...
The snow kept disturbing during our lecture
today's practical was cancelled
Dr Noel said it was due to the weather..
Hooray! no lab!
cheersss!!!

i was lost!

2009-02-02T22:20:00.010+08:00

I was terrified

It was dark and cold around me
And the trees have a mocking sneer
i was wrapped in panic
Alone in a foreign place
What accompanying me was the biting coldness
Lost in a world that scared me to death

i was supposed to take a bus to the place where i worked but the bus didnt go to the right place, it turned into a different direction which led me to a strange place which i didnt know at all. Panic, fear started to unveil. i didnt know what to do, the only thing i could think of was to call my bestie, chewyen...lolz..i was half crying over the phone. i know she did her best to calm me down.

i got down the bus. There was no houses nearby, no signboard, only a bar and a store. As told by cy, there must have menu outside the bar and address must have been writen down in the menu. True, fat last i found myself in a place called "Silkworth terrace" from the menu sticking on the window of the bar--the only clue that told me my location.

i was asked to wait till cy and ron came to save me.. My phone couldnt reach kah eng (Is talk mobile sucks, or O two?), i called another fren who wasnt picking up my call, the boss's phone number wasnt saved in my contact list (i took the wrong phone). who else can i ask for help now? i realised i have very little frens. ohyes, jeremy, my blockmate. thank goodness that he picked up my call and all i asked him was to pass msg to kah eng.

Finally, a familiar car stopping in front of me. i saw ron. i saw chewyen. i was relieved!!! they've came to my rescue. i was worried if they couldnt find me. A million, or billion thanks!!

i reached the shop where i worked safely, although it was already late by 30 or 45 minutes. i was still abit unstable, recovering slowly from the shock i just had..

Thinking it back, i should have told the bus driver to stop me once he went into a different direction. Everybody said so.. maybe i was silly or naive, thinking that the driver might make a U turn or sth like that, that was why i sat in the bus like a wood until....

ROFLOLZ>>>>>

oh goshhh..

2009-02-02T21:20:00.003+08:00

i forgot i wasnt wearing kneepad..
i forgot i wasnt as fit and skillful as before..
i forgot the best position to save the ball in the quickest speed..

All thanks to the volleyball session last thursday..
i ended up getting a big round bruise on my knee...

it was so damn painful...

oh mi gosh..!!!

CNY

2009-01-31T01:12:00.008+08:00

Happy chinese new year!!!!!!!!!

well, the festive feel in uk is definitely not like in jb... I had lectures as usual in day time while at night i was rushing for my spanish portfolio... haha..sounds pathetically normal right??

but nvm, we had a fabulous pre-reunion CNY dinner..

**tada**

my fried gyoza..(leart from shirlyn shifu). 99% of the gyoza was nicely wrapped and prepared by shirlyn and i only in-charged of frying them..hahaha..

steamed fish

we dont usually have sushi during CNY reunion dinner but i think we were all craving for sushi....It turned up great and it was the most "laku' dish..
tuna and crabstick sushi

Dessert: honeydew 'xi mi lu"

Everything was prepared by us..bravo! salud!

bestie's visit

2009-01-27T22:06:00.010+08:00

shirlyn came all the from Aberdeen to visit us in Sunderland on the 21st jan, and she had no idea why she had to go back before the CNY...lolz.. did i mention she came all the way alone in the land of uk? that was really sweet and brave, wasn't it!!

Food we cooked, or rather they cooked(chewyen and shirlyn)..hahahah..

who says we cant have BAK KUT TEH in uk?

iceberg lettuce.

we are proud and happy..

National Glass Centre..

Roker's beach...
we love beach, aren't we?

Ready get set go...(quoted from chewyen)

Don't they look like they are hanging at the lighthouse?
Too small? he can even swallow a lighthouse!

although both me and chewyen were busy but thanks for her company that made us laugh non-stop. It was fun all the time and most of the times it was like we were back to high school time, we updated each other the latest gossips and laughed over crazy jokes... Missing those midnight girlssss talkkkkkkk......

Hola. Como tellamas?

2009-01-22T09:10:00.005+08:00

Buenas dias!
Me llamo Noelle,
se escribe es eneh, oh, eh, eleh, eleh, eh.
Tengo veintidos anos.
soy estudiante en universidad de Sunderland.
y tu?

Spanish exam last tuesday was......

muy DIFICIL!!

Saurkraut and beer making

2009-01-17T10:05:00.014+08:00

i've been busy, busy and super busy, since i came back from scotland. Tonnes of works are awaiting me..sigh~~

Industrial biotechnology is kindFUN, but tiring. we had our first practical making sauerkraut, second session brewing beer. Sounds fun isnt't? we gonna make yogurt (durian yogurt perhaps?? "P), soy sauce etc in our upcoming practical sessions. (can't wait!)

Saurkraut that we've made. They are to be fermented for a year!

The cooking team. As instructed by Dr Keith, we added in oil, then cooked the sauerkraut which have been fermented for a year(can u imagine??), put in peeled apple and done when the apple turned soft... And everyone has the chance to taste. well it tasted like the "sze chuan cai" of china style or the 'a-char' of malaysian style, not bad though especially if u like sour stuffs.

Brewing beer session.

Beers that we were making:
Lager, Wheat Beer, Bitter, Brown Ale and Stout.

The brewing processes include:

1. Weighing the required amount of malt.

2. Mashing the mixture with warm water that must be stirred from time to time.

The temperature must be maintained between 60 to 70 degree celcius for 1 hour.

3. Sparging the mixture in the copper until the required gravity is reached.
4. Boiling and adding in bittering hops.

the hops..

5. Transferring the wort to the fermenter and adding in yeast culture and allowing fermentation for few weeks.

Analysis of pH, temperature, color and gravity must be carried out at each step.
The analysis team

Analysing optical density of wort at different time length...

bobo was shaking the hopped wort before the gravity analysis.

Barry, the humorous, helpful and resourceful lab technician.

Our team "CAT" made wheat beer and we named our creation "Veiss" beer. Nice one isn't it? The idea of chosing "Veiss" came from the "Weissbier". Since "Weiss" was taken we decided to change the 'w' to 'v' and it still gave the same pronunciation..
Tada~~ our beer is brewing underway..

Team Wheat beer, with Dr. Keith, our module leader

Veiss' beer (Wheat beer, to be fermented for at least a week)

Team Bitter

Team Stout

Team Lager

Team Brown Ale

yeah..so we gonna taste our own brewed beer in a few weeks time!!

Scotland

2009-01-05T04:59:00.029+08:00

Hola!

7 days and 6 nights Scotland trip

Aberdeen-Inverness-Elgin-Lossiemouth-Edinburgh-Glassgow

i'm just back from Scotland trip. It was FUN, FUN and FUN, especially with great companies...

Scotland is all about scenery, very beautiful scenery. Check out my facebook for more pics...

Met up with Shirlyn darling....( hey, can't wait for u to come sunderland!!)

Jump!!--Aberdeen--

Loch Ness Lake where the rumours about the monster(nessy) was being spotted hundred years ago..--Loch Ness, Inverness--

Urquhart Castle

oh well, whose idea was it, umm.. yc or catherine? -Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Inverness--

now it's their turn..uuhuu--Urquhart castle

Lets go to war!!--Inverness--

Breathtaking scenery..--Lossiemouth, Elgin--

YC and julia at the other hilltop..

yea we jumped again!--Aberdeen beach--

They jumped! or are they running in mid air?

we had steamboat for new year day..--Aberdeen--

**teng**claps to shirlyn, she made this pork dumpling! i love it so much!! luckily i've learnt few tips from her before i left.."P

It's not a bank or a hotel, it's a BAR! --Edinburgh--

Belhaven the Scottish beer..Oh my, the taste was really nice, it just went smoothly down ur throat, leaving a sweet sensation in the mouth. um..it produced quite an amount of foam but the foams just blended well with the beer. A-must-try in Scotland!
The other glass slightly lighter in color was cider, it tasted not bad, with sourly citrus feelss~~

Roasted pig--Edinburgh--

Crackling hog roast roll--Edinburgh--

Traveling was indeed very tiring, but we were having fun all the time, having jokes to laugh out loud together..

i'm soooooo broke now.. Did i mention i lost a bloody 70 pounds (= RM420) while traveling in scotland??? ouucchhh~~(heart pain-nya~~ !!!) The notes just fell from my jean pocket without i realized it AT ALL!! sob~sob~

Holidays are always feeling so GOOD! and it always ends fast, without knowing i left with only A WEEK, with all the assignments piling up.....arrgghhh..it's last minute work again..

medical microbiology presentation
Immunology critical review
1000 words project summary
Spanish portfolio
SPSS assignment

**Faint**
So, no more partying around, no more playing around, tight me cuff me and lock me in my room, and let me stick to my chair and my laptop till the new semester starts.....

i missed my doctor appointment this morning, AGAIN! It was the third time already!! i've TOTALLY forgotten about that till i woke up this morning and realize the time was already 5 mins past the appointment time. Arrgghh~~
**Double faint**

A warm Christmas Day..

2008-12-26T06:21:00.016+08:00

A warm Christmas mearnt so much to me. It gave a great opportunity to know more about ur friends and made the bonds grew stronger between closed ones. i would rather to have a heart warming celebration than spending time rocking in club, getting drunk with a bunch of cool friends..

This is paul, a very outgoing, independent and obedient boy.

A story that i think is very true and i'd love to share it again. Imagine this, a party is all about u, u enter the party unnoticed, people are giggling away in another corner while the rest are laughing, dancing, jumping and having fun in their own groups, what would u feel? Terrible isnt't? i'm trying to illustrate that christmas is all about HIM and it is supposed to be the celebration for HIM and without his presence the celebration is meaningless..

i had a great Christmas day in Cassie's house with fantastic christmas feast which lasted the whole day. We were welcomed with FOOD, FOOD and FOOD.

First experience of traditional English Christmas lunch was GREAT. Cassie was a great cook, a baking queen, a very good friend with lots of stories to share. She made us all BUSTED before we left. A very traditional way of christmas lunch usually included turkey but this time we had duck instead of turkey and it turned out superb.

Here are some food that she cooked:
Baked potatoes, grilled lamb, baked mixed vehetables, fried rice with roasted chicken, baked duck and baby sprouts..

Baked mixed vege: carrots, parsnips, red onions, mushrooms, courgettes, parsleys and garlics in olive oil.

Baked duck in special seasonings..

The desserts:

Cupcakes and scones

Pancake wrapping cranberries and yogurt. This is FANTABULOUS!!!!!
Apple crumble. It tasted MARVELLOUS!

Apple crumble. i love it, love it to the MAX!! it wasn't too sweet and it went so well with the custard..

Cups of English tea with different kinds of 'sweet stuffs' made everyone HAPPY!!

Christmas cracker..

Christingle

2008-12-26T05:26:00.004+08:00

The Christingle service was on the Christmas Eve.

The Christingle

Look at this
It has lots of meanings

The orange represents the world God had made, big, round and full of goodness;
The four sticks represent four seasons of the year to remind us of the gifts God has given us;
The candle represents God's light making a difference in our dark world;
The red band represents Jesus' love surrounding.

Sources based on Sunderland Minster

m-u-f-f-i-n

2008-12-22T20:07:00.003+08:00

Passion for baking continue....

Carrot and banana muffin..

While everyone was saying good, kah eng said, this taste more like a cake than a muffin..sob sob~~
Nevermind, will sure make a better 1 next time. haha..anyway it was my second experiment..lolz.

Twilight

2008-12-22T08:35:00.007+08:00

i didnt know why but i ended up watching Twilight on sat night. Overall it was not that bad though. but the fact that each best parts only lasted for 5 mins, so disappointed-nya...Other than the cool family baseball part, the hunting part, and how bella was almost killed, the rest were moving kinda slow. (dont u think so??). It was like 1 hour plus before the so called 'exciting part' came. After the first 15 mins of the movie started, Kah Eng was whispering to me, "what kind of movie is this??". LOLz..we continued on, everyrone started to get bored and Alex even fell asleep, Lucy was saying that they had too many many conversations...hohoho..

One of the best scene that i love..this is called romantic..awwww

Edward is always sweeeet**

I'm essentially a selfish creature, i crave your company too much to do what i should.
Edward Cullen

“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.”

Edward Cullen

"You can sleep, sweetheart, I'll carry you"

Edward Cullen

But hey, they fell in love pretty fast, isnt't it? she saw him, she sat next to him, he smelled her and then they fell in love....

As Ron claimed, don watch the trailer next time because he was shouting and complaining that the trailer only show the best parts. it was kinda true after i checked it out after the movie. LOLz..But actually i find that the story line is quite good,minus the bored first 1 hour. and i think probably i will read all 4 stephenie meyer's books : Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn maybe because i think im hooked!

Between, Robert Pattinson is cool!! muahaha...

holiday feast

2008-12-22T02:13:00.009+08:00

Ooh la la...

Holidays is here...
i cant wait to give it a blast...

my passion for baking starts burning..

Minced meat and onion pie-- My first experiment, it turned out not bad though, but but but...the top crust was a lil bit too thick while the bottom crust was a lil bit too thin....Lotsa space for improvement. According catherine and julia, it looked like a mooncake but tasted like "fu-rong-siu-bao"....lolz..

The filling..

Pork lasagne (credits to Kah Eng, all thumbs up from everyone)

our feast

"tang yuan" with peanut filling.. (credits to WeeHong, it went well with ginger soup )

No picture of us, because we were too busy enjoying our feast...i even forgot to take a picture of Wei Pheng's "tom-yum char tong fan" which tasted superb...
we ate till our stomach almost burst..
we drank wine and listened to wine's story..
we watched Madagascar till some of us fell asleep..
we talked like we've known each other for long time....
we cracked jokes and laughed like nobody business...
we enjoyed the company of each other....

Gosh, can holidays neva end????

A life journey

2008-12-07T23:14:00.010+08:00

There comes a point in life when u need to decide

What is truth and what is lie
What is genuine and what is fake
who to rely on and who to trust
who to care for and who to respect
who worth ur tears and who back stabs u
who says one thing but do otherwise
and etc...

Footprints on the path, which direction to follow?
There were a lot of time, i stopped at this point, wondering which way to go..

should i continue to walk on?
It is too complicated
i yearn to be simple
but i cant..
Life is too complicated with too many complicated people..

Heartbroken..
It hurt me
painful indeed
i was crying inside
but still i smiled, i talked and i joked
as if nothing was bothering me

slowly i learnt
how to protect myself
and those i care
from falling into trap
again and again
because
that was my fault
for being so silly
putting in all my trust
so deep
that we ended up being
such a laughing stock

i realise
i cant be weak
even if i cant be strong
i must act like one
And learn
to be smart, to be realistic
and stop harboring
in my ridiculous
everyone-is-innocent dream

snowball fight

2008-12-05T21:05:00.007+08:00

Sunderland was snowing heavily last thursday.. Malaysian vs 'ang moh' snow ball fight was taking place outside Fleming building...

Kah Eng was at the first line of the war field..

Casey, our warrior tried to protect himself behind the snowman to avoid the aggressive attack from the enemies.. He fighted bravely while most of us were hiding behind him..BRAVO!

Kah eng was preparing to attack! watch me!

Their arm strength was really power~~

At the end, we had co choice but to retreat and raise white flag. It was fun and painful, of course. i was hit twice..ouccchhhh!!!!

The view from my window..

so colddd~~

snow snow snow, let it snow..
Lovin' it!

yumyum

2008-12-01T05:01:00.005+08:00

who says we cant have chinese food here in uk?

who says we cant really cook?

Look at this...

char-siew fan.....

char-siew, or otherwise known as chinese roast pork, is a popular chinese cuisine, best served with cucumber and butter rice. it was unbelievable fantabulous!! Too bad it was short of dark sweet gravy sauce, if not it would have been EXCELLENT!! lolz.. nevermind, we had omelette and broccoli to compensate for that. we indulged happily, the sticky look with its burnt edges looked kinda inviting, making all of us hungry at first sight when it was fresh out of oven. The juice released when it was chewed satisfied every bit of our tastebuds, with its aroma filled the whole gastrointestinal tract..:P ...LOLz. i have been craving for charsiew for long time and this try-out was a SUCCESS. All credits to CATHERINE!

i love it!!!!!

show me a little miracle

2008-11-13T06:55:00.007+08:00

hola,

my biotech project is underway..

i'm facing 'gel' the whole day, re-do and re-do again..at least up to 8 or 9 times, really frustrating...

i was hopeless, and nearly wanna give up, the process was sooooo time consuming, too many failuresss, no point mentioning it, but still i hope for a little miracle to happen on me...at least for once..

it's a process of learning, it's the interesting part of science( quoted from Dr. Noel)

Persistence leads to stubbornness. i wont give up!

hoping for the best. Show me the results tmr morning!!

Durham trip

2008-10-13T01:15:00.021+08:00

A daytrip to Durham was really fun! it was organized by chaplaincy.

Durham Cathedral

The interior of Durham Cathedral. i managed to snap this pic before we were forbidded to take anymore pictures.. It was built 600 years ago. there were meanings behind every pattern in the tainted window, carvings on the wall, the structures etc.. For example, Sir Cuthbert loved the number 3, thus the cathedral was divided into 3 levels..

doesnt this place look familiar?

Cuthbert's cross

i jumped!

we jumped!

Top shop..

street performer

Durham's street..(it looked like Diagon Alley)

If u re thinking this is a tissue box, then u're WRONG!! guess, guess again.. wat's this? tengteng** (it is a pair of spongebox bedroom shoes!! selling at 7.99 pounds=RM48)

Wat a coincidence! we bumped into the northumbrians..

over the river..

Group picture (chaplaincy members..) the one standing in the middle with brown coat and tie is Dr Yakubu, my med microbiology lecturer..he's sporting and fun!

St Anne's church

2008-10-07T05:12:00.017+08:00

Last sunday we went to visit St. Anne's Church which was a catholic church at South Hylton. The church belonged to Father Kevin. The service was very traditional and i had a great experience on how catholics attended their mass. Father Kevin invited us to stay for lunch. We had fun exploring the church (or Father's Kevin's house), learning dance from a bombay guy who had a flexibel sexy body...

Father Kevin was preparing salad. The salad tasted sooo nice with blue cheese!

There were about 20 or more invited to the lunch, some from jamaica, bombay, india and mostly malaysia. (yay malaysia rules!) we were served with rice, pasta, minced beef, salads, french bread and the dessert raspberry crumble which tasted SUPERB!

Father Kevin has a mini green house in which he grows tomatoes!

The garden the father had around his house..

Err...i don know what we were doin...we just wanna took picture with the green leaves..

This room is very comfy, the sunlight shining thru the window, brightening and warming the room and making us comfortable..

Father Kevin has alot of ancient decorations in his house..

This is the front look of St Anne's church

julia was playing piano downstair while me and jeremy( my block mate from Penang) went upstair to play with the ancient piano..

This piano looked ancient..

Ancient and Huge!

The music supposed to be coming from here.

He was busy helping to make raspberry crumble with the father in the kitchen, finally i have chance to take picture with him..

Recent updates

2008-10-06T05:08:00.007+08:00

1--i pulled out a guy's boxer in horror after staying in my room for a week. It was so...ewwww.... it was stuck in my heater, at first i thought it was my shirt coz i used to hang my shirt on the heater, who knows when i pulled it out, a dirty white color underwear came out.....

2--i'm getting rashes all over, it is very irritating when they're getting very itchy. My friend has the same problem and she has to wait for 1 week to get to see doctor after making an appointment....so lacking of efficiency~~

3--i'm greatly regretted for not taking immunology back in inti. i cant understand a single thing my lecturer taught in class in my advanced immunology class. Every word came out from the lecturer's mouth was processed as question mark, question mark and loads more in my brain..how do i survive..??

4--do i looked like a 17 years old kid? sigh~~i have a baby face that disguises my age..

5--ang moh finds my surname very interesting, i'm always asked to pronounce my surname and they are greatly amused after knowing the correct pronunciation...swt**

6--i have signed up for spanish and japanese classes!! yay!

7--the local accent is really bad! i cant catch what they are trying to say!

8--The local beer tastes much better than the buatan tempatan in malaysia...

9--i'll be really happy if u throw me 20 pounds now!

Newcastle

2008-10-03T03:57:00.005+08:00

It feels so warm sitting under the sun in the cold wind..There is no need to comb hair, anyhow it will get messy again once we step out from our house.

In the city of Newcastle... ( back from left: vicky, me, catherine,wendy,emily, weehong; front from left: julia & leehong)

Behind us is the University of Newcastle, and to the right is Chinatown

Well. i dont know what was this, but the wall looked nice..lolz

Sunderland II

2008-10-01T05:58:00.017+08:00

Sunderland is turning colder now.. According to BBC it says that the temperature will be at 1 celcius this saturday night.. ohmigosh..!!

Subjects i'm taking this semester are medical microbiology, bioinformatics, immunology and 1 biotechnology project. Each lecture lasts for 3 hours which is kinda a torture for me..arrgghh.. It is so much worse than INTI. First hour is okay, second hour starts fishing and last hour my mind is elsewhere out of the lecture room already.. lolz..

Did i say the houses here are boring in my previous post? here are the evidences:

The houses are always in brick-red color, the designs are roughly the same...

One of the typical house in sunderland.

This is the city campus. i'll see this building every day, even on sunday!

One fine day...

on the way to the town.. this place is quite scenic... my frens were trying to chase away the pigeons and i was taking picture of the "flying" pigeons..

lee hong is scaring away the pigeons

The sunderland town

The Millenium Bridge

Sunderland port

The typical characteristics of the doggy here are short and fat, and very obedient. The locals love dogs, we can see the locals here bringing their dog for walk everyday and everywhere, including in the city..

See, the owner said "sit" and the dog sit obediently...

they look like tomato but they are not when there are tails attached to them. so wat r they? they are yet to be found out...

Food i cooked myself:

Even tho they were not up to perfection, i was kinda satisfied with myself for being able to cook..haha.. they dont look that bad rite?

Vegetable pasta.

Curry chicken.. the chicken was not overly cooked, it was just nice, but the curry was abit too watery, not creamy enough, but everyone finished it happily..

Microwaved fried rice. It was the first time eating rice in Sunderland since i kinda missed eating rice. It didnt taste homely..sigh.. Cant complain much since it was the frozen food i bought from Mark and Spencer. i added some mushrooms, onions and egg on top.

The idea of putting these food photos here came from Jason who always show the food he cook in his blog, making me jealous nia~~..LOLZ...

Sunderland

2008-09-28T06:30:00.013+08:00

hi all, sorry for this late update. i've been busy during the first week in Sunderland and now everything has settled down. i'm fine. Don worry okay..

sunderland is a good place, very peaceful. ppl here are quite friendly and helpful. racism is not that bad. Only the buildings here are kinda boring, all the houses are of the same pattern, design and color, not much variety from one another...haha..

chewyen is just staying 2 mins walk from my block. she's stil the "chong chewyen" i know for long except that she is more independent and mature now. lolz..Gotta thank her alot for bringing me around the places. i was totally blurred the first day here and if it is not her i wont know wat i should do and probably i'll be the "sakai" here..haha...

Lavender.... i walk past them every morning..

Gosh i hav so many books to study!!

Sir Tom Cowie Lecture Theatre in St Peters campus..

these are the wines displayed nicely in the biotech seminar room. Not only wines, chocolates, biscuits, tea, coffee are provided too...they make us so so happy in class!! our lecturer told us that we will be making beer, yogurt, bread in laboratory...yay!! cant wait!

this dog is HUGE! he's boston..

Game session with our lecturer, Dr Keith Thomas during the social night.

sunderland beach..

the white color dots are actually the ducks floating in the middle of the sea.

National glass centre

The river in St Peters. The sunshine warms me up, even though the wind is chilling...

That is the light house in Sunderland beach. To reach there we had to walk for 30 minutes from the beach....
**me & catherine a.k.a miaomiao**

2008-07-28T12:41:00.000+08:00

yaye....!!

i got uk visa!

Sunderland..here i come!!

Cant wait!

2008-07-27T23:53:00.013+08:00

KAMPAR is a small peaceful town located at the south of perak, with well known UTAR and KTAR centered in the town. There is “old town” and “new town” named by the locals. The houses as well as the shoplots in old town are quite run down and they look quite old. Well the people speak Cantonese in preference. So as to say it is of great great disadvantage for Cantonese-idiot like me to land in a town like Kampar..(I cant communicate!!)

The food sold in old town were kinda cheap. Where can we find such chicken rice which costs only RM2.50 in JB?

Bike is the main transportation in Kampar. We can find bikes in every house and usually not 1 or 2 bikes can be found in each hse but at least 5 or 6…

He;s on bike..

I’m on bike.. I know it looked weird with me on the bike holding the umbrella but it was drizzling that night so i've to use umbrella to prevent myself from getting drenched.. ohya did I say HE dropped my camera and my phone at different time within 1 hour? Gggrrrrr…..

Write me the formula for the chemical reaction of COUPLING.. I could spell it when I was cycling on this road. Ask me how i did it. There were few cars stopped by the road side. We were riding past those cars and well, call me intentionally or unintentionally, I spotted the reactions of coupling, within those cars.. *wink wink***grin*

It was drizzling the whole night and we were waiting for it to stop but luck wasnt on our side.. Not wanting to stay in-house all day and wasting the chance to enjoy the scenery, we ride on bike and started to explore the places despite the drizzles - the housing area, UTAR, the shop-lots where we hunted for Ramli burger but it was closed that night, probably due to the rain. Our disappointment did not last for long, to our delight, we saw lok-lok..hiahia…It was quite satisfying to have lok-lok after a long time hunting for FOOD in the drizzles…There is some similarity between KAMPAR and NILAI town– both places are quite secluded, quiet and become A-L-I-V-E at night especially in mamak stalls…

His sister, Jia-Ying on her bike, before goin to class…

The morning scenery in Kampar new town.

Spice up ur life! Spicy ramen(ma-la-ramen) from Little Taiwan. It was GOOD. Spicy-lovers, this is a must try!(well it was eaten halfway then only I took a picture of the ramen, it was simply fabulous...with extra add-on tomatoes and cucumber by HIM..)

**teng teng teng** our new specs! Well he has perfect eyes and why is he wearing a spec?

DOMINO'S alas!! We have been hunting for Domino’s pizza since eras ago.. y? it was l-o-n-g story..*grin*..and finally we found it along Jalan Imbi! GREAT DISCOVERY!

We ordered a take-away pizza and rushed for the last train to go back jb. Before the train came we managed to get a nice spot in KL Sentral and finished every bit of it since we were in great hunger. Only 1 regular thin crust pizza was not really fulfilling for a big giant like him and a small giant like me, thus we had another round of KFC - zinger burger and chicken twister..( yalor fast food again! I think I wil go vegetarian soon after so much sins of eating chicken, did I mention he’s a chicken freak? )

The train came and there came the nightmare of strugglings with the coldest night...we hardly slept. Anyway, we survived....ciao~~

Danga Bay

2008-07-24T00:00:00.006+08:00

here are some pictures updates...

cultural village

at the beach

Prince of Tennis

2008-07-17T00:35:00.008+08:00

my latest anime obsession, Prince of Tennis.. hiahia..

Echizen Ryoma, one of the Seigaku regular.. he's the main character in the anime...well, he's only 12 years old, born in United states and came back Japan to challenge his seniors..and he's real COOL!!

Tezuka Kunimitsu, the tennis club captain. he's a GENIUS..Fuji Syusuke..he's wearing the same smiley face everytime, everywhere regardless of watever situation he's in.. very similar to the third captain (shinigami) in BLEACH, except that his smile is not a cunning 1..
Monoshiro Takeshi a.k.a. momo-chan. his 'dunk smash' is superb!! (well, i've a crush on him..shhh..*smirk*)

Some recent pics

2008-06-30T22:32:00.012+08:00

Me and hweechia at cold storage..

Wat will the one bobo miss the most after he go back brunei? Answer: Wong Kok Char Chan Teng’s thursday set lunch…:P

It’s euro again….and he can read on euro news for hours!!

Try this…vege + fruit juice… immune system booster and constipation no more!

At bugis junction

Subway sandwich..nice and healthy!!

184R reunion at Tebrau City, JB.
Me, tsufei, mayjean

New hair cut

The angel in black..

Subang, kl and inti

2008-06-28T00:37:00.014+08:00

Been busy preparing documents for uni and visa applications.. what a heachache!! The procedure, the process, the preparations are so so so troublesome…During those inti time, daily visits were made to the UPO(University Placement Office) for enquiries and uni applications. Now, many trips to kl/inti, nilai/subang have to be arranged for submission of final transcripts and other required documents for uni and visa application, to ensure approval of visa application, to process visa, to settle ptptn repayment, for pre-departure briefing and…..??? aiyoyo.. all procedures have to follow to avoid visa being rejected which is the thing that I worry the most… haiyyy…

Anyway, despite all the trouble we had to go through, we made out most of the fun and enjoyed every step we had to take.

First trip back to INTI.
Do I look thinner?or not?

hahaha.. i know I DO look thinner, thanks for ur compliment!

The blurer, the nicer…it covers all the imperfection..ngek ngek**

Bobo, me and Julia at Facebook Cafe...

Second trip to kl

Day1

My family and i started our journey to kl in the morning to attend my bro-in-law’s sister’s wedding in Renaissance Hotel at jalan ampang which will be held at late evening. Me and my bro were kind of confident to direct the way to kl as we put in 100% of trust on the signboards and the direction given by my sis the day earlier which turned out totally wrong! Lost in kl for nearly 3 hours… from sungai besi we went all the way straight(the instructions given by my sis) till we sensed sth wrong. Then we followed the direction given by the signboard to jalan tun razak and then back to sungai besi but god knows why we ended up driving on an unknown highway which led us to bukit jalil. We were tired, hopeless and hungry….gosh, after asking for direction from a kind local resident, we finally reached mid valley within 10 minutes. By the time we reached Boulevard Hotel which was just above mid valley, we were left with only 1 hour away from the cocktail wedding party. Rushing thru the dress-up and make-up, we managed to reach there for the last half an hour of the party before the dinner started..

The wedding was grand, heart-touching and blessed. The food was expectedly good. The decorations were in gold. The table of which the blessed bride, the bridegroom and their close families were sitting was decorated with rose petals. A friend of theirs was playing violin and there was a small orchestra in the right front corner, creating a romantic ambiance with their magical instruments for the whole night. A dance floor was set up before the stage, the bride and the bridegroom as well as other couples were invited for dance, the video clips were heart-warming with romantic music at the background, the people who attended the wedding were dressed up gracefully….

Day 2-

Shopping with family at Mid Valley and The Gardens. Dropped by Fong Lye Taiwanese Restaurant for lunch. Overall, the food were pretty good, they offered a lot of taiwanese specialties..The only drawback was the service, we had problem with the seating....and NO credit card payment.. So next time if u gonna make a visit to this restaurant make sure u have enuf cash in hand...LOL...

Day 3.

i hardly slept the night before partly because of cups of Chinese tea I drank during dinner and partly because bobo was on the way coming to kl. I only slept for 2 hours. After receiving msg from bobo, and I knew it was stil early, I did a teabag eye treatment to reduce eye bags and dark circle as I knew for sure both wil seek me as I only had 2 hours of sleep. After bathing, waiting for the morning to turn bright and saying goodbye to my parents, I began my journey to meet bobo at kl sentral. To my surprise, after going out from the lift which opened to the hotel lobby, bobo was already waiting there at the lobby.. *wink*

Then we began walking to klcc to take LRT to KL Sentral and KTM to Subang. Subang the place with all the sweet memories I can recall.. a lot of changes since I left.. Cabana yee mee and charcoal bread didn’t taste as nice as last time, no more Rafi the mamak shop and the BESTEST burger was gone… There was a new branch of old town kopitiam which was my favourite opened in subang. I love the coffee toast bread and the oldtown white coffee was superb….

The main purpose we went subang was to settle uni stuffs with Elizabeth, the Sunderland representative. From unconditional offer to accommodation booking, then filling in visa form, checking financial documents blah blah blah…only to find out that my financial documents were insufficient, which means to say I need to make another trip to subang again and so visa applications have to be delayed... wat the *toot*!!…aiks..

Then we went to bukit bintang. My bro was already waiting for us in Replica Inn, the budget hotel we had booked earlier. We walked and shopped and explored the whole bukit bintang, from BB plaza to Sungei wang, then went to search for Domino’s pizza but we failed to follow the direction given by the receptionist at info counter. So no Domino’s..aiks..*sigh* Nvm, we continued with our second mission to search for J.Co doughnuts at The Pavillion, I donnoe how long we had walked, from the ground floor to the top floor, hunting for J.Co doughnuts so desperately and finally our persistence brought to success.. woohoooooo…. We were jumping in joy and walking while running to J.Co as if we won the Jackpot. Gosh..

3 yummy doughnuts for 3 kid-like adults..

The red rules..

Take-away "starbites" from pizza hut..

My mouth bigger or the pizza bigger?The night view of Bukit Bintang from Replica Inn..

Everybody slept right after dinner! i suspect someone must have mixed in sleeping drugs at high dose in either the doughnuts or the pizza….When we woke up, another supper session continued.. well for the two guys..

we were eating and sleeping like pigs…Needless to say, the adipose tissue especially around my tummy were rejoicing once again…Arrggghhhhh

Day 4- back to ulu-ulu INTI

Meeting up with Julia, Wendy and Deepa for dinner at Melati kopitiam. Managed to catch 20 minutes of the INTI interschool basketball match, that was where we saw Yishan..the forever basketball fan..

from top left clockwise: Wendy, Deepa, me, Julia

We managed to catch the night train and went back JB....ciao~~

Kitchen raider

2008-06-25T23:03:00.005+08:00

Well I’m supposed to post this earlier… Tiredness and laziness ruled over me that caused this delay... To cut short all the excuses, lets go straight to the content related to the above title.

The father’s day gift for this year was the cheesecake I’ve made myself. Well, it was my first time baking a cheesecake and it was not easy though. I know it was definitely not perfect, from the outlook to the content and the crust, it was almost near to failure… “mai hiam beh pai”.. haha.. but anyway thanks for the compliments and encouragements from my family, despite the odd taste in my cheesecake, they still claimed it was nice and finished the every bit of my cheesecake…

The cheesecake tasted bitter, at first I was suspecting the chocolate I’ve put on top, till now I haven’t got the answer but instinct told me it was not chocolate but something else that I forgot to put in to cover the taste. (Well, I might be wrong, pls correct me if u know why ok? :-P )

I brought some for bobo to try too the day after father’s day. According to him, the cheesecake did not have the taste of cheese (hey, I put in 2 packages of cheese and add in nothing else except sugar and eggs!!!!!), and it was bitter, overall (or rather forcefully) good… bleh

Before baking…

I think I better dont show the after baking photo. Anyway it looked abit ‘chao ta”..hehe..
But u can imagine the outlook from the pic below. The black color lines were chocolate, followed by a layer of dough, 1 layer of cheese in the middle and the bottom one the crust.

The tri-layer..

Met up with Charlene and Shirlyn last week. It was like so so so so long ago since the last time I saw Charlene in coffee bean but it was coincident, together with Helen, Soek Kam, sinyee and chiawen (did I leave anyone out?) A nice girls’s nite out not forgetting asking for advice from Charlene, the big chef who had recently promoted to “er-chu”.. Well, according to her, NEVER ever refer to or seek advice from online recipe which I did in the past and ended up failure in my cheesecake.. haha..

Other than cheesecake, I did another dish that I was kinda proud of myself. I cooked pasta for the dinner for my family. Well, don ‘cheh’ ok… it was a special 1 that I referred a lil bit from internet and I modified a lil bit from internet plus a lil bit advise from Mr. bobo who knows theoretically hell lot about good pasta but practically..ermm… well…zero.. I wanted to make it special, so I chose the sea shell shape pasta rather than the normal spaghetti, and the white Italian sauce rather than the tomato sauce which can be seen everywhere.. I was thinking about making cheese pasta, but rethink back, I ve already baked cheesecake the previous night, if I were to make cheese pasta again, it will be so very sinful… Instead I decided to make a healthier 1 which will be combination of 60 % veggie and 40% meat..

Sea shell pasta topped with capsicums, mushrooms, tomatoes in Italian white sauce..

On top of all my successful or rather the imperfect try-outs, I have to thank Mr. bobo who accompanied me to the Giant to shop for all the ingredients in the morning of father’s day... My brain was empty about wat to prepare for pasta and he provided a lot of different ideas that made the pasta special…

My precious nephew = ]

2008-05-13T03:48:00.018+08:00

must blog about this... ... fa lalalala...

This leng-zhai below is born on the 13th of April.

2 weeks old: "i love sleeping during daytime…..just like my ah-yi….ngek ngek..

1 month old (full moon) : “I have deep passion in sleeping, I even slept while my daddy, mummy, ‘po-po’, ‘gong-gong’, ‘wai-po’, ‘wai-gong’, ah yi, shushu, ‘gu-gu’and ‘jiu-jiu’ were having celebration for my full moon.. "

" yo yo yo, auntie & uncle out there... my name is Jerson Lau. I’m 1 month old.”

“This is my favorite sleeping style, with my head tilted up high and my palms holding together”

He’s so adorable. I like to kiss him on the forehead every night

"I’m red hot chilli pepper. "

"Everobody loves me. See, I’ve got so many presents.... "

“I will grow up as a charmer with my stunning, electrifying smile..”

“yoyoyo…I love music..yoyoyo”

“I have big eyes..just like my ‘ah-yi’..haha”

I’m having my dinner while camwhoring with my “ah-yi” and “po-po”

“my ‘ah-yi’ and ‘shu-shu’. (please handle with extra care, I’m fragile..)”

“my mummy and my shushu’s girlfren”
Baby Jerson is in my hse. He is so darn adorable. i love him soo muchhh...

Happy Mothers' Day

2008-05-11T03:33:00.001+08:00

Mothers’s Day’s tiramisu cake for three noble mothers- my mummy, my sis who has just joined the mother’s group and my sis’s mother’s in law. Each candle represents each one of them.

My mum with white roses and a gift (from ian-hsia--my mum’s future daughter in law)..

White roses are being displayed nicely on the computer table..

My sister has just upgraded to become a new mother..
Pink roses for my sis

It's past tense..

2008-05-01T01:43:00.000+08:00

i've been doin quite alot of random thinking these few days but i cant help but those memories jz flowed thru my mind. Things that happened and evolved around me or the people that involved in my life... Once my life was evolved only around books. It made me felt like a geek! Otherwise, i would eat, go to bathroom and go to bed. i admitted i've been kinda or rather even more emotional this semester than the previous ones. Tears were shed and the culprits were NOT only the assignments that i was rushing for or the endless journals that i've to drag myself to complete on time or the bias-ness and cruel-ness of lecturers on giving marks and assigning any tasks that made our life so torturable, it was rather the people whom i was confused with their genuineness, sincerity and loyalty.

"of course, wat are frens for?". We heard this over and over again everytime and everywhere. u call them frens when u only get to know them 1 month, 1 day, 1 hour or even 1 minute ago, but sad to say, only true frens will stay true when we're in tough, isnt it? Once i thought i've made some 'good frens', but only when it came to some circumstances, the value of frens became so obvious that we could even draw a line between the good and the bad. It was real saddening and disappointing when i realised the truth that i've been used like an object or being betrayed. i felt an absolute retard....

It was all past. Blame it all on my stupidity of NOT being wise. Tmr is still a good day. i've learnt the mistakes n i wont let it happen again (hopefully:-@). Karma do exist, i believe, so be good. :-P

p/s: i hardly blogged during those stress period which lasted continuously this semester ( or rather last semester, anyway it is past. ). i even rarely on my msn, or nearly n-e-v-e-r browsed thru friendster and facebook. Sorry, i'm not purposely on MIA mode. That explained why i did not reply e-mail or messages...

Ipoh Trip

2008-04-25T01:57:00.020+08:00

Saturday (19th )

It was a non-stop eating trip. All we did in ipoh were Eat, Eat and Eat. All thanks to ivy the Ipoh girl, our so called “mama”. She brought us to places with nice food, tempting us to keep eating. It’s no surprise that I’ve gained few pounds. Gosh~~

Firstly, “ngah-choi-kai”

“Cluedo” session.

“yumcha” session
Camwhore in the toilet. The toilet was equipped with air-con, tv (broadcasting live football match), speaker other than the usual toilet equipments….

Another game session

Supper—“wa-tan-hor”. The portion was really BIG. 2 big “wa-tan hor” and another 2 big “char-mee” for the nine of us.
Sunday (20th)
Dim-sum (breakfast)
Dim sum again
We went for movie "Forbidden Kingdom". It was great. 8 out of 10! bobo said liu yi fei is big big big "leng lui"..
Curry chicken wrapped within the bread & herbal “ba bao”chicken.

erm.. exercising in the gua (ji-le-tong) guess who are we? from left: vely, me, leehong, emily, miao
supper( first round)

supper (second round, only for the guys)
“Beware of weird uncle”

Monday (21st)
This is how they bake the “hiong pia”

On our journey back…

freeee!!!

2008-04-22T07:47:00.016+08:00

Exams were over, finally!!

Finally i can smell "geosmin" (fresh earthy odor).

It feels sooooo good to be stressed-free. i'm lovin it to the max!

However, I’m still in heavy sleep debt. Hours of sleep were sacrificed for the exams and after exams. Our heads were buried in tonnes of notes; the brains functioned like a sponge, absorbing as much knowledges as it could. After the exam, no one felt like sleeping although everyone was tired and sleepy. It’s kinda like we were missing out all the fun if we slept.

We went to cheras pasar malam which was known as the longest pasar malam in Malaysia. There we began our first round of eating marathon. The place was so so so crowded, ppl were squeezing into every possible empty space, pushing and brushing ppl's shoulder either intentionally or unintentionally. However, with all the good food tempting us to try, no one actually mind about the heat and the crowdedness. Food we sapu that day: china burger, hong kong polo bun, egg tarts, red bean ice-cream, tauhu bakar, dumplin, Taiwan sausage….
The next day which was thursday, we had BBQ farewell night. It took the whole day to do the preparations but after all it was FUN and we camwhored all the time.

It's me! Does it look like me?

DSCAU sept 06' intake + wendy (spot me spot me!)

The cards we made for our lecturers.

The following day (Friday)

We went to Shabu-shabu in Puchong. It took us 2 hours to reach there from Sungei Wang. Three cars going together, at the end we were going separate ways heading for the same destination. And it took us nearly 2 hours to reach Puchong. Why? 1. Too many wrong turnings. 2. None of us were familiar with the place and 3. The signboards did little help to us. At last we managed to find the place and reached there safely about 9 something at night.

The results of “tam chiak”. (**grin**)

Wendy’s turn to show the “spare tyre”

Sitting in Errol’s car was always exciting and adventurous. This time, not only the temperature hitting the max that he needed to stop the car, he forgot to tighten the oil tank cap. He realized it after he started the engine and drive for few metres. The oil was splashing all over and the cap was missing! All of us have to go down and search for the black cap in the middle of the night. At last Errol found it..

Errol and Kah Eng were wiping the spilt oil.

I gotta ransom Errol for this piece of evidence that he was sleeping while driving* grin*

Thus when everything was done, another 2 hours were gone. This explained why we reached at 2am while the rest reached at 12am.

crap

2008-04-08T20:28:00.000+08:00

sorry for not posting any updates for like 3 months+. i'm sorry.. i didnt mean to ignore this blog, i jz simple have no time to even log on to blogspot...

crap.crap crap crap crap craaaappppppppp

im way too busy this semester. i seriously need more sleep. The average hours of sleep i get since chinese new year till now is around 3 to 4 hours per day. Thanks to Inti. Thanks to DSCAU.

i've finally settled with all the assignments, lab report, lab journals & presentation, and i left only 1 week away from my finals. Do i have enough time to prepare for finals? i really donnoe. i feel like giving up but definitely there is no way to return. There was one time that i was considering (actually i'm still thinking the same way now)whether i've made the right choice for myself. do i really make the right choice, if yes, why do i have to torture myself this way? wat if i have other options and will it be a 180 degree turn in my life? or will it be a better one and less sufferings? my life in inti and weekend plan are only all about lab journals and report.. crapppp...

i will try to blog more often when my finals is over which is after next week, alright?

i'm doin fine, despite all the stress i have to bear with it, at least for a few days more. Don worry k.

This semester everyone is too busy with all the school works. That means to say we hardly go out for dinner, for sports, for yumcha or even hang out together as often as last time. instead we spent more time burying our head in endless unfinished tasks, not forgeting bitching bout the lecturers, and thinking of ways to get rid of "pests". (or rather "parasites")

This semester is like a war, the only difference from the World War I and II is that tears are shed rather than blood. (i rmb a quotes from vely which she posted it as a pm on msn: one litres of tears to achieve destiny). since last thursday i was having fever, vomiting, gastric pain and appetite loss. i'm recovering but my appetite is not back to normal yet :(

i mean, we have all gone thru all kind of hardships, and perhaps in the future all what we have gone thru will be our lesson and experience.

oppss.. i should be studying now. i've no time!! sorry.. will post another entry after my finals k..

Back in inti.

2008-01-09T18:29:00.000+08:00

Its beeen long since i last clicked on the "new post" icon. The same old word- L.A.Z.Y. Its the problem with all the malaysians who lovvveee to talk about F.E.E.L.I.N.G. Thanks to Mr. Steven who provided this statement during moral studies.

Why do i stil taking moral studies while i already attended and sat for the damn moral exam in my A-Level? It was thanks to Mr. Eng. i was forced to sit in the freezing lecture hall listening to moral education. oops.. did i say i was illegally attending the lecture without paying? if u wanna pay for me the 150 in order for me to enrol for the moral studies, pay me then but forget bout the enrolment. no probs if i hav to attend with u and i dun mind goin to the lecture with u every week as long as u pay me...ngek ngek..

im back in inti for almost 2 weeks. B.O.R.I.N.G. i was frustrated with the paying system in inti. It was troublesome.. The long queue which we have to bear with it for few hours til our turn came, the inefficient card machine which needs lotsa maintenances, the unsatisfying manner/attitude we received from the finance officer....i've almost gone crazy with all the inconveniences. Inti was ridiculously dropping all my subjects out of sudden. My public bank card was cancelled due to my blurness!! Its ok. i wont be paying anything anymore for inti. WO REN!!

Classes started since the first week but no one bothered to attend any in the first week. m glad and happy to see my buddies and my dearest classmates coming back here. miss them so so much for the past 2 months holidays. Classes jz started and im yearning for more holidays. m stil in holiday mood....

i'm taking microbiology, genetics 2 and principle of biotechnology this semester. m majoring in biotechnology, not food science anymore. Its a long long grandma's story, but i havent lost my passion in food science yet. It is the first degree so doesnt matter which major im taking now. probably in future i'l be doing my master in food science and continue studying till brain damage? haha..dun worry, its just a saying....

i'll be taking IELTS this friday...!! God, grant me wisdom!!

Last weekend me and engeng went to Midvalley and The Garden. It was kinda a sinful day, we ate non stoppp.. Sushi king for lunch, Mc D cornetto chocolate sundae, polo custard bun for me and taiwan egg tart for him, octopus takoyaki, Carl's Jr burger.....

we were looking for J.Co donuts in The Garden. We heard it was very famous and always with long queue. We walked through every corner and every end to search for it and we stil couldnt find it. Then it was in the KTM (where we met my sista vely, dain, andy and gangzz) on the way back we saw ppl carrying the J.Co donuts plastic bag then only we realised it wasnt in The garden, it is in the Pavilion. Oh btw, guys, taiwan shilin and maple story(donuts) will be opening soon in The Garden. Cant wait..

Bacon swiss crispy chicken burger from Carl's Jr. It was super delicious, double or triple thumbs up! Its american size portion was just the right size for 2 normal malaysians. Mc Donalds and Burger King gain no stands to fight Carl's Jr. It makes me crave for it for daysss after..

Carl's Jr fries with 2 different dressings

1 giant bite, 2 giant bitezz

u heard bout the globalisation story? A sarawakian, who stays in Brunei, eating American size portion burger, shocked by the tastiness of the Carl's jr French fries, in Malaysia.

Sayonara

2007-12-09T18:59:00.000+08:00

I noe i havnt been updating myself since my last post which in turn is goin 2 break d promises i made 2 u so here i m wif dis new post.. The reason y i didnt blog is bcoz i did nothin for d last few weeks... Eat, sleep, watch tv n walkin up & down my house every minute like police patroling d cities.. Even my mum started 2 feel annoyed n ask me y m i walking up down up down d house.. :-p
The last few weeks gone like dis without me doin anythin... hehe....

Today i feel as though it is d happiest day since i got back 2 Brunei coz i meet up wif my 'A' level frens which i havnt seen them for almost 2 yrs since we left shool dat time coz i got NS n after dat I went 2 Inti.. we went 2 play basketball n it was fun as it bring back our memories summore we played at d court where we trained for our matches during high school time... Eventhough we din really got our game back like d old days; where we keep on runnin around d court, d shootin accuracy was great n full of stamina. wat 2 do, 'lau liao' =).. We all feel like amateurs jz now coz our pace has gone, no accuracy, lack of stamina...
All of dis is due 2 studies studies studies which i hate d most... Aiks...... I have not really play ball since i land myself in Inti... Haiy... Sad case...

Oh, here is sumthin i would like 2 share wif u... After d match, 1 of my fren wanted 2 go buy drink where d shop is jz few meters away so he walk der. On d way der, got a lot of dogs wanderin around & when d dogs saw him they bark.. He scared n came 2 us and we all laughed but due 2 thirstyness, he decided 2 go back der again... Haha, dis time 4 dogs chase him n stubbornly he ran towards our way so we all jumped up 2 d stage.. Luckily der is 1 stage where ppl can sit n watch others play ball...

D dogs then turn around n we all started 2 laughed at him... We laughed so loud dat d filipinos playin at d same court looked at us... haha... He got scolded by one of my fren, he said nxt time if got dogs chase u, u dun run towards us.. U should run d other way so let d dog bite u alone n not all of us.. its so funny if u saw d incident...

When we all tired n decided its time 2 go back, he dun dare 2 go back alone 2 where his car parked.. He said we all should walk in a group of 13 so dat when d dogs started 2 chase us, not all of us will get chase as der is only 4 dogs.... haha.. Luckily dis time d dogs jz sit der n stare at us, I think its bcoz we r in a big group n they got scared by us... :)

They r all funny fellows, we play, chit chat n fool around.. Its so much fun...
Hope 2 meet up wif them more often b4 i go back 2 Inti...

Erm, I think dats all i got here n it'll probably b my last post... I kept my promises so dun keep callin me Nato..... Arggggggggggg....
bye bye everyone.... Thanks 4 readin my post....

my updatez

2007-12-07T00:27:00.000+08:00

Heyhey…gosh..so sorry for not updating my blog.. seriously im getting lazier and lazier to blog…
Ok. Here are some updates…..

5th december

I ws so happy. I ws back to the normal, healthy and energetic hweeli. Yeah!! I slept for more than 12 hours til 3.30pm. gosh..haha…neway, I was happy. My fever was gone. My sore throat was gone too. No more muscle pain. My appetite went back to normal. As I said, im as strong as a tiger..wahaha…

Met up with suitheng, an old fren for dinner at Sakura..

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4th december

I was not feeling well the whole day. I was stil feelling good in the morning as I went for jogging with my mum. After breakfast all the different kind of diseases started to find trouble with me. Gulping down glasses of honey and tonnes of water did little help to my sore throat. It felt like my throat was burning and it killed my appetite.

Accompanying my mum to go to the popular book exhibition at indoor stadium in the evening, with the hope that goin outside would make my condition better. But I ended up feeling worst. I started to get muscle pain all over my body, fever, spinning head, cold hands and cold feet and I was feeling cold while my body was generating heat which made me very uncomfortable and it resulted to a sleepless night. I felt like dying. Visiting to toilet was like every 15 minutes.

I was praying, silently, that my guardian angel will take away all my diseases and I wil regain back my healthy body…

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2nd december

I worked at kerrys, selling perfume. It was just a 1day work.

The perfume I was promoting was CK man, the newly launched perfume. It has a spicy woody top note and a musky base note. The scent is kinda strong at first and it goes with the skin, its fragrance becomes nicer and nicer after few minutes.

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1st december

Old frens reunion.

Meet up with ming eng, sinyee, yihui, roejin aka rojak, chuikim, chiasin, jinli, michelle and a junior, Christine.

We headed straight to Kim Gary for lunch as ming eng and sinyee kept complaining about hunger… We girls neva behave like girls. When we tok everyone in the shop will hear us and when we all laugh together the whole shop will collapse. There was 1 family sitting at the table next to us. They kept looking at us especially when we all laughed. Luckily I was sitting back facing them. Sinyee was embarrassed cz her face turned red very easily nowadays…

ming eng neva stop 'fighting' with evryone, including me..

After lunch and our long hours talk, we finally paid the bill and shhoppp!!

Yihui and I were the last to go back.

After reaching home, my family and I went out for dinner together. Ohya did I mention my lil’ brother was back? Yes he jz got back in the morning. So it was kinda like a small family reunion dinner cz we barely had time together for dinner nowadays…

ZON was having midnite sales on that day only. Woaahh..it was golden shopping time..how can we miss it? Haha.my mum and I shopped non stop while my brother and my dad were quietly walking around. It was until 11.30pm when everyone was physically and mentally tired then only we happily went to the cashier, paid and went back home..

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30th november

A normal lazy day. I slept like pig and woke up a few hours earlier before the sun goin back home..

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29th november

It was a business fair for SME (small medium enterprise). I worked for KOMPAS HR management services as a 1-day-temp-administration staff. All I needed to do was to give out leaflets in front of the booth, to introduce the company to ppl who walked pass my booth and to answer inquiries (that was why the previous night had to do ‘home work’ lorrr). Sometimes I was stunned with some unfamiliar business quotes and shortforms which all sounded very alien to me, it was kinda embarrassed to say ‘I donnoe’ and I needed to act professionally. All I did was to give them a sweetest smile and jz answer according to wat I’ve learnt from my boss…

I was wearing a pink collar shirt and a black pant plus a black blazer. Probably I looked more mature with the blazer, some ppl thought I was 22…haha..i jz looked at them with a sweet smile and said nothing...*smirk*

The lady boss got me a nametag with a big font size NOELLE NG printed on it. I was kinda proud when I was wearing it cz it made me look SMARTER..lolz..

The exhibition was in Persada International Centre (next to Pan Pac). It was freezing cold inside and I was shivering even tho I was on blazer. The air-cond made me jerk for several times..it was kinda like an igloo..

There were talks given by the well known businessman and businesswomen as well as the chairpersons for respective business field organization. Some talks were quite interesting while some were mixed with lotsa business terms, resulting a takes-forever-and-ever-talk to a cuckoo like me.

It was not tired, in fact I was kinda enjoying myself. I had morning tea. Then the lady boss took me out for lunch. Not more than 2 hours, there came the evening tea with sandwiches, popiah, pies and other local kueh-muih…

It was good experience to me as it exposed to me a real business world, which is totally different from wat I’m learning now. Business ppl will never miss out opportunities, it was shown especially during break time, the participants aka the attendees will take this golden opportunity to get to know more friends aka business partners and to build stronger diplomatic relationships.

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28th NOVEMBER

Yi Tong’s 21st bday..

First we met up with tong at bubble milk tea shop at clementi (haha my fav shop!), then yitong brought us to a jap shop selling the cheapest jap food in spore. The food tastes quite good too. Not much different from those well known jap reataurants. Haha….

Camwhore in mcD while waiting for chiawen…

Group picture at mind’s café.

this is our so called "gu tou" game..(bone)

Came back jb around 11.30pm. Then I started doin some ‘homework’ for next day’s exhibition.

Whoooppss

2007-11-24T21:39:00.000+08:00

A half day shopping at Jaya Jusco Tebrau City with ever-busy old friend ms Hoo Hwee Chia…

Green tea ice cream……always our favorite. While eating green tea ice cream, the same thought popped up simultaneously in our minds. It was a sweet n funny memory we both shared together. It happened on one fine day when we asked piea hoon to buy green tea ice cream for us while we were in chiawen’s car, on the way to go and fetch her. If not mistaken she was holding 4 ice cream cons while waiting for us at the entrance. By the time we reached the ice cream already melted and it was all over her poor hands.... Cant help laughing when hweechia mentioned about this. It is worth talking over and over again especially when we all grow old. By the way, haven’t been keeping in touch with piea hoon. Anyone has her news?

The finished diced pork shanghai mee soup. Man this is SINFUL!! The soup was covered by 1 thick layer of brick-red saturated fat. It was the fat escaped from the diced pork. Aww my poor little bile has more works to do, and my adipose cells rejoice as they are getting more and more friends…

Tada~~

We went into Wh. Inside were full of temptations. Me and hweechia picked some dresses and then we started camwhorring.. ~~ngiak ngiak~~

Christmas tree

Kitchen raider

2007-11-17T22:35:00.000+08:00

There’s 1 saying: “being able to walk into the kitchen and walk out of living room”, this is the motto of every woman towards the goal of becoming a successful woman…

I have been thinking of making chocolate cookies since last sem, before the sem break. The idea of ‘raiding kitchen’ started to stir in my mind after being inspired by the great chef, deepa and motivated by my buddy, julia

Here are my evidences.

My chocolate chips cookies. **Thumbs up from my dad… **

I’m proud of my little achievement...

The ‘chao ta’ version. My mum said the ‘chao ta’ cookies taste even better than the normal 1. haahaa

I know I know. Obviously it is not perfect. There are still spaces for improvement. But this is my first attempt to bake cookies, so a little clap for myself **grin**

Other than the cookies, I made fu-zhuk yi mi. This looks better than my first failed attempt.

Not NATO!!!!!

2007-11-07T23:42:00.000+08:00

Ok, since i promise lao po dat i need 2 blog once a wk so dat she can noe wat i'm doing back home at Brunei so u ppl r lucky u can read dis blog.. All gotta thanks 2 Hweeli. I will stop blogging after holiday ends.

My 1st day activities in Brunei starts off with my sromach growwwwl so i have 2 search 4 food at around 1.30 am.... Its 1.30 am so u think there is any food left? So i have 2 cook mee goreng to fulfill my stomach needs... hehe (^_*) Thanks 2 my mum, i can have xtra ingredient in my mee... I added egg wif chickn n wantan kept by my lovely mum ....

erm, how does it taste? its not delicious but 'bo hiam be pai, hiam kanasai'... haha

"Special noodle cook by me"

Y do i stay up dat late? All bcoz of LiVerPo0l... Its worth waitin n watchin though... noe y?
hehe =p

Liverp00L won 8-0.... Very happy n wish dat u r beside me so we can watch it 2gether...

Plasma TV "liverpool 8 - 0 Besiktas"

'Plasma TV' i got shocked & wow, when i got home...... hehe

After Liverpool match, i continue my FM till 10 am n ate a piece of cake; Oreo Cheese cake. Its super delicious & comparing wif wat i've eaten in Secret recipe, appuuuiiii. I jz wish dat i can enjoy d cake wif u coz u'll sure love it very much. Come 2 Brunei 4 holiday someday n we can eat it 2gether...
;- really miss u....

I slept d whole afternoon so i skip my lunch... My dinner was chicken curry...

Chicken curry cooked by mother

"Ore0 cheese cake"

My life back home is so dull; nothin 2 do.... sleep, eat, sleep, eat is like d only things i'll b doin 4 dis 2mnths holiday.... Other than dat, watchin TV, FM(think only u noe wats dat), chattin are d activities dat will b accompanyin me all d time....

Yyyyyy? Feel as if i m a diasble person; useless....

Oh, m not totally useless though at least i can blog which u ask me 2 do... Wat 2 do, Need 2 keep my promises..
I'm not Nato dear, will keep my promises... hehe.. (^.^)

My 2nd!!

2007-11-06T21:47:00.000+08:00

My 1st time 2 JB is d time when we r goin 2 Sg but i've only been 2 City square n d purpose is 2 exchange $. sad sad... hehe.. So its not consider as my 1st but wat 2 do, its fact.. Jz accept it... =(

2nd time 2 JB is totally different, i Luv it very much as it is d place where my dearest is born & its all thanks 2 u dat i m having fun der as i got 2 eat a lot of wonderful food.... FooD FooD FooD is all i heard d minute i reached JB.. Its marathon eating time!!!!!!

First we went 2 buy Curry puff as i have been craving 4 it since dunno when & dis Curry puff thingy suddenly comes 2 my mind.. U noe i want 2 eat it so u ask ur dad 2 brin us der in order 2 buy it.. I'm glad dat u do so as i got d chance 2 eat such delicious puff b4 goin back Brunei.... We continue our race with wantan mee n it's superlicious with d meat wantan n d unsalty sauce... Oh damn Nice, 'Ichiban des ne'..... Then we went 2 eat 'mee hun kue" which is foreign 2 me as i've never eaten it b4, 2 b honest d soup doesnt taste dat gud as it contains 'ikan bilis' smell n i doesnt like 2 eat ikan bilis but d mee is nice; very smooth n with a nice egg fragrance...

Mee hun kue

Lastly our marathon came 2 an end wif Chicken Rice.... D chicken n 'cha siu' taste normal as wif other stall but d rice is delicious with butter smell... Overall d chicken rice taste nice....

Chicken Rice

Oh man, u guys should c n touch my tummy, its bloated like basketball; big round & stiff.... U dare 2 laugh summore, arggg arggg... Whose fault is dis? (^_*) I feel dat if we have more time 2 go spent in JB, u will have drag me 2 eat d stone grill as well rite? Plss la my dear, m not a cow wif 4 stomach... (^.^) Forgive me 4 not statin d shops name as i have bad memory in rememberin name... Hehe

Overall dis JB trip is fantastic as we are able 2 spent time 2gether wif delicious food accompanying us all d way.. M very thankful dat i follow u back 2 JB eventhough d time is limited but we had all d fun within d short period....

hey gurl, Miss u so much here n enjoy ur 2 mnths holiday. Take care n bcareful...

It's 2nd!

2007-11-06T01:53:00.000+08:00

wat comes to ur mind when u see the word 'second'?

heeeheee...shhhh....

November second
It's a special day for u and me
It brings pieces of memories together
It means that WE had grown 1 month old
It reflects a bond one cannot see
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

At Pavillion

We are at Mc Donald. Below are a series of continuous events. haha..i cant stop laughing when i see those pics. They are all taken thru bobo's webcam in Mc D, Bkt Bintang

black horse prince ( hei ma wang zi)

Gui Ling Gao( aww..my eyebag...nvm, eat more gui ling gao, it's good for health!)

Cameron cemeroon

2007-11-04T16:40:00.000+08:00

Hooray!!

Finals finally finished!! Nightmares finally came to an end. Biochemistry2 was KILLING ME! It was almost pushing me to the max!

My biological clock was overturned. i studied when ppl slept n i slept when ppl woke up for class. i even RARELY talk to or see my roomie...the longest time we saw each other each day was not more than 5 mins... aiks..

okay we needed to release stress. As wat we had planned before, we went to cameron the day after finals! A peaceful place indeed, a place for us to inhale fresh air n to relax...

Cameron Highlands

31st Oct --1st Nov

i guess all the DSCAU peeps were inherited with post exam syndrome--no one slept after exams even tho none of us slept well or rarely slept before exam. The night before the trip, most of us were burning midnite oil watching drama, hoping to sleep on the journey in the car. But the van we got in was..was...aiks..speechless. We hardly slept in the van cz the seats were too BOUNCY.....

Before we began our journey. "shuai ge" (before car-sick~~ngek-ngek~~) i purposely paint the nail polish for him the night before we went to Cameron. Doesnt it look nice? ( k guys, i made him do this pose for me, he's not ermm...not wat u re thinking right now.. "P)

****see, i treat u so good, i help u to clear ur name!!****

Poor bobo. He got carsick on the hilly way up to cameron. Between CONGRATULATIONS, u survived!! lolz

Cactus valley - the place where we get to taste all nice strawberry specialities..

Strawberry waffleStrawberry fried ice-cream
Strawberry milk shake
strawberry yogurt- the healthier choice

Strawstrawberrrryyyy

Our leng zai tour guide..a super health conscious person. He's eating fresh garden salad with butterhead juice...wow..!!

"Butterhead."

Our farmhouse. The guy next door is a pianist... i miss him, julia, do u miss him? **smirk**

According to our tour guide, BOH stands for Best Of Highlands.

Guys, ready, be serious!
yaye! say "cheese"!

Do we look like flowers? *grin*

Steamboat served with 4 HUGE plates of fresh vege. Not a problem if we carry out our detoxification plan in cameron. wahaha..

Chilling in our farmhouse at night.

Not forgeting about the sunrise. i havent really seen sunrise before. To satisfy my eagerness to experience the beauty of sunrise, especially in Cameron Highland, i slumbered out of bed at 5am for the sake of not losing this golden opportunity. Good. It was stil dark n freezing cold. i was trembling even tho i already pulled my jacket on. We were standing in the middle of darkness, screaming out of coldness when the strong freezing wind blew. Too bad, Mr. Sun was too shy n Mr. wind was too enthusiast, and after struggling for almost 20 mins till we could take it no more, we balik rumah laaa....

After came back, we started playing some cardgames till about 8.30am. Then we went to the morning market n began our eating marathon. Things we bought: Sweet corns which can be eaten raw, strawberries, fried potato balls, steam sweet potato, roses, sunflowers, n some vegetables too.

Next we went to T cafe in Tanah Rata for breakfast. Their strawberry scone was super duper nice! Highly recommended! i ate the gado gado salad, it's quite nice too.

After that, we went down to Ipoh. There began second round of eating marathon. We had ipoh chicken hor-fun, some of us had chicken rice, then we went for tau-fu-fah n soya drink. Then ipoh old town white coffee.... All thanks to DENISE, our ipoh girl..haha

Then WE fainted kao-kao in the van all the journey back to nilai.

N then.....TA DA...

we had a little birthday surprise for vely...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTA!

U love the water balloon and the cake smashing?haha..

Hope u enjoyed ur birthday that day. sorry this post is lil bit late but i wanna put this post for all of us to remember. haha..Wish u have a good year ahead n all the best for u!

kla..i guess this post is long enough.

HAppy 21st Birthday!

2007-10-24T23:43:00.001+08:00

Happy 21st birthday to me n IVY!

i wanna thank a lot alot ppl here. Thanks especially to BOBO n my sista!! Not forgeting my nu er wendi too... U guys have done alot alot for me!! Thanks for sacrifying sleepless nightsSS to complete the photo album for me. THanks for goin thru all the troubles to LowYat n Time Square to get all the materials needed. i felt really touched, n i felt bad actually cz u guys did so much for me...

BOBO, thanks for the surprisessss. muackss.. im so touched after hearing all the stories n how u get the surprise earrings for me!!

VELY, MY SISTA, thanks for the t-shirt! lolz..i was so touched when i saw the t shirt. i felt so embarrassed cz i couldnt control myself...lolz

Wendy, thanks for the idea and doin the all photoshop works... i know u havent been sleeping well too...

DENISE, thanks for ur gift. I love the belt so much!

BIBI, thanks for all the different varieties of cakes n specialities from Brunei! Ur future husband will be so lucky to have u!!

Also thanks mingeng n yitong for calling from s'pore. Thanks allison, shirlyn, kitky, chewyen, hweechia, janet, sinyee, yihui, rosanne, chailyn, sokyin, azliza, ruihua, cheehui, yvonne, liting, june, weijin, joanne, weishan, ashlee n michelle my roomie.

Not forgeting my dearest classmates for celebrating birthday for me. Thanks a-miao(catherine), julia, dain, andy, jason, pearlyn, emily, leehong, ivy( who has the same birthday with me!), sharon, audrey, errol, deepa n sarabjit.

I LOVE U GUYS LOTSS!!

All of u have made my birthday a memorable one. i don know wat i shud say here except millions of THANKSS!!

Okay, as promised to ms ming eng, here's the story time! Here we go.

My biological clock overturned already. all thanks to inti. To wake up 9 oclock in the morning was kinda a challenge to me. i got a morning call from bobo at 9 but i cancelled it n we were supposed to go out at 930am. i ws stil sleepy n my bones refused to move so i overslept until i got another call from him. it was 1015am. i jumped out of bed n rushed thru evrything.haha..u know la when i was rushing i usually cannot find my stuffs properly, so causing all the delay~~ lolz..

Then we went to mid valley. Have our lunch at Oh Sushi. Gosh! another story of embarrassment. The waitress was in PMS mode that day. god knows why. None of them smile. Ok. after finished our ramen, we waved to the waitress, signaling we wanted bill. we waited so long till i was so kinda bored with waiting. then i played with bobo's phone n i donnoe wat happen to me that day, the phone jz slipped from my hands and it fell right into the small plate of wasabi+soysauce right in front of me. the wasabi splashed all over my face, my hair n my shirt. MAN i was wearing WHITE shirt! It ws a loud *clang* n all the peeps lin the restaurant looked at me like i was the alien. i ws so damn unlucky!! arrg..i wanted to dig a hole n hide myself on the spot. i wished i was invisible. Bobo ws laughing too, hur, don think i don noe u were actually laughing.. n stop denying that u din laugh! i wanna strangle u!

ok. after spending half an hour cleaning n drying my shirt in the washroom, we headed to "The Graden"- the new complex next to midvalley. Here are some photos we took ..

i like the background

The tiramisu at the basement was "II CHI PANG DES NE"(chinese + jap). It ws not too sweet, it just melted right after putting into the mouth!

Then we went back around 7. Bobo slept during the whole journey back. wat can i say? he's such a pig...

Then at 12am my classmates were celebrating for ivy n me in dining hall. It ws a double celebration.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO IVY!! We shared our birthday on the same day!

"hong ji dan"

DSCAU..

Then around 3am, bobo's stomach was growling. According to him, he wasnt hungry but sth was wrong with his stomach cz it was making sound when he was not hungry.. haha.. ok. then we went out for Ramli burger. While waiting for the burger, there came a sudden super heavy rain. We were running under the heavy pouring rain with the burger back to our block. The wind was so super freezing cold. Gosh! This was one of the craziest thing i've done in my life. ALL because of the burger we got ourselves wet. "So susah payah to get the burger!!" luckily the burger was not wet n stil perfect altho it did not taste as nice as usual cz the boss was rushing to cook the chicken n egg fillings while the heavy rain came, plus we didnt eat it right after it was ready, we ate it after we both bathed. lolz...i was like washing my hair 3 times within 24 hours...i was kinda tired of walking into the bathroom..haha..

i lovvveeeeee the photo album. i wanna sleep with it, hug it everytime i see it n bring this to wherever i go nxt time. It is u guys' effort n i really really love it!!! THANKSSS

Its all about Food!

2007-10-15T02:46:00.000+08:00

I'm back in jb. i'm back!!

Again...JB IS NOT SAFE! This time, it is reckless driver!!

i witnessed 2 road accidents today! Wat happened to johorian nowadays...

This morning, there was 1 car fell into a drain. The lady in the driver seat was struggling to get out of the car. Ppl were rushing forward to help. i cant really see clearly as i was kinda far from the scene n i jz put my finger crossed that no one was injured.

At night, another car sped thru the next lane where the cars were coming from the opposite direction. It was kinda dangerous cz who knows wat would have happened if the car coming from the opposite direction banged right into this car? The i mpact would have taken the innocent lives! Luckily no one was injured. The car was blocking the road, causing abit traffic jam...

ok, end the stories here bout accidents.

Me n my family went to Suntec where there was a launch of HD5 at the convention hall. There were lotsa good bargains n all the manufacturers such as samsung, LG, panasonic, sony were showcasting their latest products on HD plama TVs, HD LCD TVs and etc. There was performance too. Chen Di-ya from this year project superstar was there too!

After spending few hours in the exhibition hall, we went down to grab some food in food republic. Then we shopped around from suntec to marina square til all of us were hungry and tired. Here are some photos taken from CA.

Yeah food looks nicer than people. Thats why only food pictures are taken. haha..

Changing Appetites

Appetizer. Golden fried onion. i used to pick out any onions i found in any dish on my plate. But this appetizer made me forget bout the stinko onion smell. It doesnt stink, it tastes nice!

Cheese The Chicken.

Nice name isnt it? This tennesses-style chicken topped with mango slices and cheese... Sinful but i love this!
Crispy thin crust pizza, with fresh mushrooms in cream mushroom sauce and mozarella...Another thumbs up!
Pork rib grilled in honey BBQ sauce. The meat was so tender n so smooth n it was melting once i swallowed down my throat.

Double layered crispy spicy golden deep fried chicken burger wid fresh lettuce n tomatoes. To eat this we gotta have BIG mouth! The chicken was not overcooked, with just the right juiciness. Not only the chicken was crispy, the bread on top was crispy too!! Oishii ne!!!!!!

Seafood heaven!! Mussels, clams, squids n prawns with wine herbal savory rice..
It sounded nice but NOT a good choice though. It was messy!

Did i mention they serve american-sized portion? yea they do. They served jug instead of mug. Our super-sized drinks that came in jugs, I say jug because its serving was really looked like more than a mug. To add to our sinfulness, we ordered a chocolate drink ( erm i forgot the name of the drink dy!) which was topped with a scoop of ice cream, chocolate chips, chocolate sauce and whipped cream in a 'jug'.

Beer Bath.. Its OCTOBER! Oktoberfest!!!

I was tired, the whole day shopping used up all my energy plus i din really have a good sleep last few days ago. i slept all the way back from sg til i reached home... haha..yea i slept like a pig..

Cheers to our persistance!

2007-10-04T21:31:00.000+08:00

CONGRATS!

A BIG CLAP for:

a-miao, vely, emily, ivy, bobo and me

We had undergone our detoxification & redetoxification plan for 4 days.

Not to say ur plan been a successful one. But we survived!

Day 1

Lunch: tomatoes, cucumbers, dragonfruits, starfruits, pears,carrots

Dinner: tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, guavas, kiwi fruits, capsicum, peach

Supper : kiwifruits

End of the day, we were kinda bored with eating fruits. Fruits actually killed our appetite. We sweared we wont eat fruits for at least 1 week.

Our stomaches were happy but our tastebuds were crying in dissatisfaction!

"Temptations" did not manage to lure us into trap at times. Cheers to our strong determinations!

SUCCESSFUL!!

Day 2

We were kinda sick of fruits already.

Lunch: cabbages, tomatoes, sawi, carrots, chinnese cabbage. Boiled in soup.

It tasted really good! At least our stomaches were filled with something hot!

At the same time we were rushing for lab journals till 4am.

Dinner: KFC.

We broke fast! The chicken was full of lipid. We forcefully swallowed down the chicken with full guilt. Not anyone's fault. If someone had to be blamed then blame the big group we went out with that day! Its ok. We decided to extend another day for toxification.

Supper: sour plums(dadah!), cheese pringles, mooncakes, coconut biscuit...

We were so happily indulging into junks! Junks made us happy and high!

Rushing for another lab journal n i managed to finish it by 4am, as for bobo and miao their task 1 n task 2 stil hanging halfway...

FAILED!!

Day 3

Redetoxification

Lunch: 1 apple

Tea time: 1 apple

Dinner: Chinese cabbages, spinach, tomatoes. Boiled in soup.

Supper: guava, cucumber, starfruits

Racing against time to complete assignment task 1 and task 2 till 6am.(class nxt day at 10am)

SUCCESSFUL!!

Day 4

Redetoxification extended for 1 more day, all thanks to the sinful KFC we took on day 2.

Lunch : cucumber, kiwi fruits, apple, starfruits, guavas..

We only have 1 hour break, so we had our lunch at our college sidewalk cafe instead of goin back to our block. We sat at the most inconspicuous corner. Amiao was embarrased while cutting the fruits as ppl walked pass our table.

Lab session was killing me. i wasnt feeling well since morning and the experiment lasted for 5 hours with long waiting time in between the lab session. i was half dead..

Tea-time: swissroll cake.

It was nice from the outlook but inside was stuffed with cream. sinful + guilt

I left the lab earlier as i couldnt stand it anymore. i faster ciao back to my room and then i dropped dead on my bed and became unconcious.

Dinner: Noodle soup with vege

Vely brought a bowl of noodle full with vege to my room at 8.30pm. I was so touched~~THANKS!!

Supper: 1/2 of Ramli chicken special burger!!

Ohh la la! we had been craving for burger since the first day we started our detoxification plan. Since it was the last day, lets BREAK fast!! The burger was YUMMYLICIOUS!!

Forget about the journals and tests. Lets chillll first! 2 midnight movieSS in a row till 6am. (Tmr class at 10am!)

SUCCESSFUL!!

Results:

I LOST 2 KG!!

CHEERS!

steamboat night

2007-09-27T01:11:00.001+08:00

Self prepared steamboat. Of course it was superlicious!

Fivesome..

Three sakai from inti. Err..it was vely's idea. i cant believe we were doing such "retarded" pose.

Wendy wendy, smile!! Never mind bout the cream, it only happened once in a year. lolz...Oops..who wz that leng-zai at the back?

we are all of same height! *wink wink*

Updates

2007-09-26T03:15:00.000+08:00

Currently im in the mood of not-doin-anything. In another word,im rebeling..hoho...

Let me slack for few days first before i start to 'pia' for the next coming test which will be in another 2 weeks

Been kinda emotional these days. Its kinda embarrasing when crying in public. Gosh!

Here are some photo-updates for the previous weeks.

Genting trip- A lil' farewell for William & A-Jit

This is the group picture of my classmates. Chilling out in the night cold wind, drinking iced blended coffee, ppl might think we were insane. Anyway we were kinda enjoying ourselves despite the bone-chilling wind...

erm.. i'm not sure wat i was doin, perhaps i was offering chilled vanilla to my sista.. Rock climbing. i didnt manage to reach the top. Never mind. i 'll do better next time...Congrats to errol and jason! they completed their 'mission' successfully. The pictures showed andy(left up), jason(left bottom), ivy(in the middle), me(right up), Vely n Bibi(right bottom)Illegal gambling...haiz..wat shud i say bout my fellow classmates? mm.. they really shudnt gamble..i mean gambling is not wrong but why must they do it in an illegal way? *smirk*Red alert! This gentleman' was holding the pole so tightly in the cable car. He was so freaking "sked" especially when the cable car stopped moving, hanging halfway on the way goin down from Genting. i jz tot of sharin this lil' story to my beloved frens.. *wink*

And here, tada~~

Here are some photo-updates on the last day of the previous sem.

Group picture taken in the korean restaurant. We were so used of being embarrased as the noisiest gang, especially with all the crazy peeps around.

William was so happy. Was it because he loved feeding tigger, or julia was around that day?

Andy loves to pose with tigger and kangaroo. LOLz

beezee

2007-09-16T21:51:00.000+08:00

hey guys..
i'm stil good. Sorry for the long break.

Dont worry. i'm recovering..

Sad to say that im getting older like an ah-mah. INTI is the culprit. Things tend to just slip thru my mind. It became worst when i forgot my fren's birthday whom ive known for so long.. i really didnt mean to forget but i know it's kind of disappointment when ur close frens forget yours. i know i know.. Its too late. i am very guilty and sorry and i know its kinda impossible to ask for forgiveness.. If someone scold me in the face probably it wil make me feel better..

This week had been a tough one for me. It was jz the third week of new sem and i already loaded with tonnes of revisions and lab journals to do! n CRAP! i flunked my first biochem test which contributes 10 percent to my finals! It was like studying days and nights, sacrifying the whole night sleep but the efforts did not pay off... **benci beennnci** ish ish...

i'm missing jb.. i kept falling sick since i came back nilai. The worst thing was that i woke up at 6 o clock one morning and found that my eyes were swollen with intense pain. The cornea was lined with blood capillaries that made me looked so much like a Drosophila. i was stil sleepy and tired so i went to sleep again, hoping that it will become better. But stil, the redness did not cease when i woke up at 9. i was kinda worried but i have class at 10 til 12 and another lab session from 1 til 6. i was wearing my specs the whole day actually trying to do some cover..haha.. After lab i was almost half-dead and i stil had loads of revisions to be done coz nxt morning was the biochem test. i did not go to see doctor cz i ws in a race against time. i was so stressed and i din have time to go n see doctor... i kept "fishing" on my study table and at the end i managed to get a proper 1 hour sleep before the test.

Talking about lab journals...**long deep sighs~** All my experiments were screwed from the begining till the end. Very disappointing! Totally dislike lab session now, dislike journal, dislike biochem..

Thanks for all who helped me along the way. i was really stressed few days back, physically, mentally and emotionally. i finally broke down to shir when i cannot take it anymore... Thanks shirlyn dear! thanks for listening to my crapz! i was so much better after talkng to u...

This is life. i stil gotta move on. Right?

*** So sorry i know i ve neglected some of my frens and some important stuffs. i know i ve been busy all the time and i really hope i am free. A lot of things happened. Really sorry!! i m trying my best to put things back into place. Hope u guys understand...

Davidoff Cool Water Advertisement

2007-08-31T18:28:00.000+08:00

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2007-08-30T10:12:00.000+08:00

Sorrryyy all. i am back! i've been pretty busy since i came back jb.. i was sick after came back n i fainted for almost 3 days at home. then i started working from the 23rd til 29th for Davidoff promotion in metro kerrys. i am free finally but i left another few more days before my new sem starts. Aw.. how i wish..how i wish i can dwell a lil' longer here!

Anyone see this Davidoff Cool Water poster with this sexy Sawyer from Lost? i jz realised channel 5 wz advertising this perfume too! The whole tv ad wasnt looked like it wz advertising this perfume though, Josh Holloway came out from sea n this perfume finally appeared on screen in the last 3 seconds.. lolz.

i notice ppl love to have tattoo at their ankle. Is this the latest trend? oh u noe im kinda outdated dy! lolz... u name them, from school girls, gentle ladies, punky hair stylists, modern mothers to macho big big brothers, a-long, gangster-like ppl and lam-chap ding-dong...all of them have tattoo at their ankle! i gotta admit the tattoo looks nice on some of them but not all of them... Getting 1 for myself? of course NOT.

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MIA soon

2007-07-15T15:38:00.000+08:00

i think i going to MIA through blogging until my finals over. ohyes Finals is here, counting down another 4 weeks...4 weeks.. It is SO not enough for me. As i said INTI is crazy. Forget about revision, there are assignmentsss and testsss and presentation coming all together in another week.

First time in my life, staying awake till 4 in the morning, to fulfill our craves for MC DONALDS breakfast set. We almost turned the whole Mc Donald Nilai upside down. We talked like we nobody business. Reusing our Mc D kids card to redeem hashbrown for endless time. All the tables were full with our trays, burger wrappers, polystrene plates and etc...Somemore cathy and julia tapao "stuffs" from there... omigosh..they are really funny!! And cathy, she's the queen of all bargains. At first we were told that we were not allowed to redeem anyhting upon purchasing breakfast set. Since nothing specific was written in the terms n regulations on the kids card, our cathy managed to talk back n convince the manager, n all thanks to her we all had free hashbrown for endless rounds...

Last friday i met up wif Ashley my ex roomie. Havent been catching up wid her since A-Level.. We still tok non stop like last time..hahaha. Cabana's charcoal bread stil tastes superb! The cabana auntie was shouting " MISS CLAYPOT YEE MEEEE!!" once i stepped into the shop. gosh! all the ppl there looked up at me.. *blushed blushed* She stil remember me! n when she tok to me we were like shouting to each other. She was shouting from behind the counter and i shouted back from where i sitted. Everybody in the shop can hear every single word we said. I was updated with some "shocking news" from Ashley. i listened till my jaws dropped. Well, wat can i say? im getting more and more illiterate about the way some ppl think. perhaps they are right, of course they think they are right all the time. im glad that i dun have to live in "fear" like i used to live last time. Thats the way they are, they are right in certain ways but most of the time our definition of right n wrong contradicts each other. Jz let it be, thats not my concern anyway...

Last few days i was kinda deep in thoughts. kinda emo too..then feeling down again and the cycle repeats. Maybe it was me being isolated here for too long. Maybe it was me being worried about everything and yet nothing. It happened once in awhile but more often recently. i just felt a sudden nostalgia. I found myself missing the people I knew. i think about everything. The past and the present. the life i've led, the friendships i have n things we've done n my achievements n all... i realised i havent done enough. there's always something i lack, i din put enough effort to getting the outcomes i desire. There's always a regret. Pathetic i am...i met one of my A levels fren in one utama last week. It was such a coindence. we din even keep in touch after A levels and that day he jz cam back from Ireland and he was goin back to his hometown in Sarawak on that night itself. The good thing was we stil can recognize each other's face and remember each other's name. The bad thing was..we din know each other enough. i felt like we were total stranger. Same as to my other alevels frens, we hardly contact each other and now we don even say hi thru MSN. maybe only some frens but mostly we don even bother to say Hi... perhaps i m jz as snobbish as the rest of other stuck up bitches i met last time....pathetic pathetic~~nya~~

my dad called me yesterday. Bad things keep happening around me. i donnoe why. one of my relative passed away last week. i was shocked but i was more shocked that i din feel hurt at all. only a tint of sadness brushed through me when my dad told me n that wz it...after that i stil can laugh like normal the way i laugh. mayb i ws not really close to that relative. n i only got to see him like once or twice a year. the last time i saw him was like...mm..last december? i cant remember. maybe im cold blooded n im insensitive to ppl around me.im such a ignorant kid...

ish..too many things to do.. i thinking too much..
Genetics test in another 2 days. 'i wan to score well', thats wat everybody says, including me, but i havent even finished 1 chapter. i screwed my first test........sigh~~

im jz random blogging..blogging about anything that comes across my mind, before i turn on MIA mode....

It's us again..

2007-07-08T03:28:00.000+08:00

A lil reunion for we gals- tong& bao, net, chia & me. So happy!! It has been donno how many eras ago since i last met up with tong. She was waiting for us at the highest floor and the most end of midvalley..... When i climbed all the way up to meet her, she has already finished shopping the whole midvalley... mm..wat can i say? she's good!! then janet came, we all left midvalley n headed for one utama. haha..2 days continuously to 1 utama for me. we took taxi, n we din realise it was a premier taxi. i swore to my life i've never heard of such thing n i mz say it was no difference than the normal taxi. It ws jz a normal perdana with the car body painted in yellow. Thats it! n the charge was triple!! the meter kept jumping evry 5 seconds, meaning that the fare kept increasing by 20 cents evry 5 seconds. The term "scarible" (introduced by ms cathy) is most suitable to describe this. At the end, the whole journey cost us bloody 50 ringgit!!

i admitted i've been to 1 Utama for quite a few times but today wz my first time leading the way. Usually i jz followed ppl, ppl pointed the direction for me and everytime i went to 1 utama for food, usually to a specific restaurant. so tong u cant blame me for bringing u guys to the wrong direction. i neva really shop in 1 Utama. hahaha..at least now i learnt where and how exactly how to go to old wing and new wing. hehe....

Too bad i couldnt join u guys in sunway.. ish~ish~....

Shogun

2007-07-08T01:58:00.000+08:00

oh yes..finally i watched Transformer. It was reeeeely GREAT!! lurve it!! Double thumbs up! now i understand why people keep talking bout it. they are not exaggerating.. it's true wat they've said bout the transformer ..hahaha.. Rate this movie---200 over 100! *winkwink*

For those of my frens who are jap food fanatic, here's a big recommendation---SHOGUN!! it's a japanese buffet restaurant in One Utama. We girls din eat like girls. Guys were totally defeated!! *smirk*

Missing the most--- aloe vera with green tea ice-cream, raw salmon with wasabi & baked cheese OYSTER...they are...H.E.A.V.E.N.!! If u are sushi freak, u are sure gonna be screaming with desire....the desire to swallow them all; the sushi are super seducing....

Everything was perfect. Except the angry partss...
scene 1-- Taking the bus U82 at kl sentra to One Utama. We jz got up the bus and we all din have small change for the bus fare. The impatient & the rudest ever bus driver was scolding us sth like: BAYAR SEKALI! JGN DIRI SINI.!

scene 2-- Reaching One Utama, the bus wz passing-by a taxi stand n someone(not us!!) pressed the button. the bus driver stopped the bus. We together with few passengers got down the bus and the crazy driver started screaming from front: BODOH BODOH BODOH&^^%$#!!$^%%!

scene 3-- In ktm on the way goin back nilai. we were talking n laughing. alright we were a lil bit too loud. One malay psycho, who wz sitting behind me, turned his head n shouted: "SENYAP BOLEH?!!?!!!"

Did we go far too much???

2007-07-06T00:56:00.000+08:00

i cant tag in my tagboard..wat happen? Help!! anyone??

Malacca trip

2007-07-04T16:19:00.000+08:00

After sacrificing the whole night sleep for the love of computing test, we were off to Malacca the next day evening. It was a last minute decision. well we are all spontaneous people. haha.. most of us were half dead and we grabbed every single opportunity we have to sleep, for example, in the bus, in the car, in ktm.... All thanks to ERROL TAN. He got for us all NICE pictures of sleeping/sleepy/zombie/exorcist faces..., not forgeting the sound recording of snoring bobo..

Eating marathon from the moment we reached Malacca.

1st destination : Satay Celup.

2nd destination: Cendol at Jonker street. It wasnt nice cz we got it from a 'so so' shop. the most famous cendol shop has finished selling the best cendol.

3rd destination : Mamak..

This is ROTI USA. Wat can i commend about this? Mmm.."Super Good" recommendation by my friend. It's a mixture of everything. Yes mark the word EVERYTHING.

It has a "roti" wrapped within a layer of egg and topped with all kind of fruits, u name it-- banana, orange, apple, raisin, lychee... and also cucumber, carrot, corn, nut....decorated with cili sause, mayonaise, paddle pop ice-cream(2 scoops, each at 1 end), and colorful ice cream toppings.

Sounds delicious. Looks very tempting. am i rite? We ordered this at 3am, recommended by a fren( u know who:P). When the 'aneh' served this in front of us, we got a real big shock! of our life! Luckily i was sharing with my fren. It's a real messy and weird combination!!!

Then we went back hotel. Me & Vely sitting on armchair, watching TV, eating snacks till we dozed off...

Next morning 7.00am... Leehong bought the malacca most famous "Bao' for us. It was super super nice, so juicy till the black sauce dripped onto my jacket. Vely dropped half of the pork filllings on the floor.....

4th destination: Chicken rice ball shop.

5th destination: Malacca most famous cendol shop. Then we shopped along the Jonker street.

Nyonya Cendol, topped with "Gula Melaka"...oishii ne..

Cow's Candy. We all love this..6th destination: Malacca town where all the Red Squares, muzium, Stadthuys, the Clock Tower are situated.

7th destination: Mahkota Shopping Parade. We had another round of cheesee cakessss..

8th destination: Early dinner at one of the shop near mahkota...( ikan bakar stall not yet open, most famous satay shop finished business, the most famous cake shop not open too...aiyyyyy)

9th destination: Shopping in Klan The Streetwear Store.

10th destination: Malacca bus station. Slept in A&W while waiting for bus...

Exhausted. But we all have FUN! After reaching Nilai, i became unconscious for the next 24 hours... hahahaha..

Flame Of Passion

2007-06-25T18:24:00.000+08:00

Flame Of Passion--That was the theme of the Inti Ball, our prom night.

Ladies: Prom Queen LeeHong, Flowery Emily, Kiddish Hweeli, Gorgeous Vely, Elegant Bibi & Feminine Julia...

From left: Hweeli, Emily, Leehong, Deepa, Julia & Vely
From left: Vely, Errol, KahEng & Me

i'm strangling bobo.. Tai Lou and mistresses.. Another Tai Lou and mistresses

Me, my buddy and my sista...

Group picture. Missing: Deepa!!

The opening eventDeepa's wonderous work.

Missing all..

2007-06-22T21:34:00.000+08:00

sorry for delaying this post. actually i was supposed to post this entry earlier. the connection here is super slow and i had limited patience to wait for the photo-uploading process... thats why causing this delay..

Yea thats my new outlook. i wont ask for comment. i know wat u guys gonna say. im ready to be laughed at. Nvm... go ahead... hair will grow one!
Think of the +ve side.. ngiek~ngiek~

Sleep..Sleep..Sleep..

2007-06-22T10:48:00.000+08:00

Havent been sleeping for almost 30 hours already..
i'm seriously lacking of sleep now...
Stress-o-meter is almost hitting its end soon..
Datelines, assignments and test kept rushing in.

The night before Management test...
After the test, i used the last 12 hours rushing continuously for biochem assignment, journal and lab report.

It was 7.20am. Lets snooze for 5 mins before going to class. Journals kept us company the whole night til morning..

Spending almost 8 hours on biochem journal while it only contributes 0.6 marks for my finals..
Re-doing biochem assignment for 3 times + countless time of editing....

Inti is crazy! i look so busy all the time and i have little time for myself. Actually stress is good. My life seems meaningful. whoa, with all the books n papers occupying every single lil space available on my study table and my bed.. so nerdy...

K.E's Pringles.. He eats Pringles like drinking water. Here are the 10 Pringles he jz bought one shot last week..
So so so so so so tired. sleepy. worn out.
i'm going to sleep like no one business...

Lacking glucose?

2007-06-05T16:45:00.000+08:00

A worthwhile, and an UNFORGETABLE experience i had this evening. Blood donation campaign was evryone's topic in inti. Everybody was talking about it and my frens were so keen to show off their generosity. Not being the first time of donating blood, of course i did not chicken out, altho the sight of needles and the smell of antiseptic tilted my stand at times.

Perhaps this would be my last experience, perhaps, the worst one.

After donating blood, according to catherine, i looked kinda pale and my lips were WHITE. i was feeling perfectly alright, i did not even feel a tinge of dizziness. But who knows after taking few sips of warm milo, a sudden dizziness seized me and everything went black. The next thing i knew i was lying on the floor. People were at my both sides, they were like talking to me but i didnt manage to answer them, and then i fell unconscious again. When i regained consciousness, i was lying on the adjustable chair. Thinking back it was kinda funny. haha.. i fainted twice and i didnt even know when i fainted. Catherine my buddy was with me and she was accompanying me throughout the whole incident, and we both skipped our computing lab class because of this.... haha..Thanks so much buddy!

i think i scared the hell out of everyone. Evryone looked at me with worried face. All in all i got 7 needle holes on my both arms. The doctor looked worried after taking my first blood pressure reading which was 90/50. she suspected i had hypotension and suggested glucose dripping, and she had hard time poking the needle into my vein cz my vein was too small. Hell it was damn painful. The doctor had two unsuccessful trials poking into my vein, leaving 2 wounds on my poor skin. The first time was poked while i was unconscious and the second time i was screaming with no sound coming out from my throat. i jz allowed them to do anything to me, i couldnt care more, i had no strength to resist anyway. My fingers were cold, strength-less and i couldnt grip firmly when i was asked to do so. When the doctor wanna poke for the third time i resisted. i was well-awared of the surroundings by then. i would've called myself stupid if i allowed myself to get tortured by the needle again. At the end she din manage to drip glucose on me.

i hate needles!

After lying down for 2 hours and forcing myself to gulp down 6 cups of water (i was threaten to get glucose dripping if i didnt drink!), i was finally allowed to go back.

i ate one bar of chocolate before i dropped dead on my bed.

i'm stil not sure wat have gone wrong with me. My hemoglobin count was normal. i had 7 hours of sleep the precious night.. My pre-donation blood pressure was 118/70 which was normal...

Anyway i'm so PROUD of myself for donating blood! No regret at all, really!

Fight-or-Flight

My dear Jamie Oliver

Last day

Italy Trip

i'm goin back!

Europe trip II

Convocation

Europe trip1

It;s DONE! It's OVER! yayyyyy!!

fair and square??

stresss

r-a-n-d-o-m-n-e-s-s

Procrastination in action

Howhowhow??

Breath.

Beer tasting session

BOBO's Birthday

Road Trip to Manchester & Leeds

YORK

Hooray

SNOW

i was lost!

oh goshhh..

CNY

bestie's visit

Hola. Como tellamas?

Saurkraut and beer making

Scotland

A warm Christmas Day..

Christingle

m-u-f-f-i-n

Twilight

holiday feast

A life journey

snowball fight

yum~~yum~~

show me a little miracle

Durham trip

St Anne's church

Recent updates

Newcastle

Sunderland II

Sunderland

Danga Bay

Prince of Tennis

Some recent pics

Subang, kl and inti

Kitchen raider

My precious nephew = ]

Happy Mothers' Day

It's past tense..

Ipoh Trip

freeee!!!

crap

Back in inti.

Sayonara

my updatez

Whoooppss

Kitchen raider

Not NATO!!!!!

My 2nd!!

It's 2nd!

Cameron cemeroon

HAppy 21st Birthday!

Its all about Food!

Cheers to our persistance!

steamboat night

Updates

beezee

Davidoff Cool Water Advertisement

COOL

MIA soon

It's us again..

Shogun

Malacca trip

Flame Of Passion

Missing all..

Sleep..Sleep..Sleep..

Lacking glucose?

yumyum