French Toast

Rain fell heavily again and the thunder was loud this afternoon. I found myself at Lunchbox once again having my lunch all by myself. Instead of having rice or noodles, i decided to got for a French Toast instead. I was in for a long wait. I guess they’re slow in food preparation for tea time. I don’t blame them much. Twenty minutes of waiting, twenty minutes of staring out the glass walls and having my mind wander off~ Eventually my meal arrived…

Tada~ French Toast. =)

Yea… well it didn’t come half eaten already. XD I ate it halfway and then i thought, hmm… this might make a blog post. So i stopped, arranged and took a photo. Well, let me explain the French Toast. Basically from what i know, French Toast is made with eggs and bread and some honey poured over if you may. But thus far, i’m pretty sure i’ve not tried any French Toasts other than the ones my mom made or the ones i made. Which is basically bread dipped in egg and fried. As simple as that. This on the other hand, has extra ingredients. After careful study of my food, i found that it consists of bread, beaten eggs, butter, sugar and honey. How they made this French Toast? I’d say they buttered one side of each bread, then lightly dipped the other side in beaten egg, fried the egg dipped side on pan till the crusts are a little crisp, added sugar on the butter side, stacked the two bread slices, put a teaspoon’s worth of butter on the top and poured honey over it. And tada~ Lunchbox French Toast! ^^

Haha~ Funny how i decided all so suddenly to blog on foodstuff. =P Exam tomorrow! Somewhat prepared but you’ll never know. Optimism helps a lot in keeping one cool and comprised as one faces the daunting task of defeating the questions in exams. =) That’s all for now! =D

Such a wonderful day =)

Such a wonderful day today for a stroll… under a shade of course. =)

Out comes the rain from the dark puffs of clouds in the sky, the loud and scary rumbling of thunder heralds the rain. It was then i decided to have my lunch. So to Lunchbox i went. =)

Passing through Starbucks, i was immersed in the ambience of the place and the music it played. What a wonderful day it is. =) Even at Lunchbox, as i waited for my food to arrive, alone i stared out the glass walls, insulated from the humid environment outside, the cool gentle touch of the air-conditioned air on my skin, the soft sound of music in my ears, i watch nature in awe and wondered my thoughts away as i immersed myself in dreams. Such a wonderful day it is. =)

You know what would be nice right now? After i had my lunch of rice and omelette? A wonderful cup of tea. Hmm… but i didn’t want to order again. So i ventured out to the vending machine to see what it had. The whole vending machine was packed with all sort of drinks. With my one ringgit note in hand, i fed it to the machine and pressed B5, out came out, iced lemon tea.

I took a step outside and opened my can of lemon tea and took a sip. Ah~ The refreshing taste of lemon tea… not chilled enough though. I took another sip and then continued on back to Starbucks. There again i was immersed in the ambience of the place. Stopped at the counter and had a look at the beverages on the menu. Mmm~ Hot chocolate sounds nice at a time like this. I would have had one, but i thought it’d be better to save it for a day when i had the company of my friends, all of us with hot chocolate in hand, and the weather just like today, it would be so wonderful. =)

They were selling popcorn at the cafeteria today. Found it strange so. Maybe it’s because it’s Halloween today. I felt like having some, cause it’ll just be cool to have some, but it’d be too much for me to finish it.

The weather was just so mesmerising. It made me stop by the tall seat at the cafeteria. I sat there with my drink and stared into space as i enjoyed the weather. I guess it’s just that i haven’t had a nice good stroll on a nice good day like this with a nice good drink in hand. XD Am i introverted for strolling alone? Haha~ Maybe, but it wouldn’t be the same walking in a group if they’re not into strolling and just enjoying the weather. Unless of course the group has a common interest of doing just that! XD

Ah~ Such a long post. I think i should stop here. =) Gotta study now so gotta go! =)

Hexaflexagon

Going through my friend’s Facebook wall today, i came across this curious word: ‘hexaflexagon’. So i went googling it and what came up was simply amazing! IT’S A MULTI-SIDED PAPER ORIGAMI THINGY! Well, that is if you could even call it origami. =) So i decided to make it! RAWR! And yea, i was supposed to study but in the end i got distracted by this fascinating thing called a ‘hexaflexagon’. I found a website showing me how to make one, and so i began to make it…

When i finally completed it, i found out that IT WAS A TRI-HEXAFLEXAGON! Nooo~ It’s not the cool 6-sided hexaflexagon called a hexa-hexaflexagon! Oh wells~ I SHALL TRY IT SOME OTHER TIME! =) Well, here’s a link of where i was taught to make a tri-hexaflexagon: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-hexaflexagon/

A tri-hexaflexagon that i made. ^^

Of detours and being lost!

Well, it’s such an interesting day today getting all lost taking a detour as i drove home today. ^^ It all started at uni, with the thunder’s grumble and the gentle sound of raindrops splattering on my car’s windscreen.

As i was about to head off fro uni, my awesome friend came back from the future and forecasted immense congestion on the LDP… okay, this sounds too science fiction. =) I was told that the LDP was at a crawl by a friend of mine who left ahead of me i the same direction. True indeed the cars were all at a standstill as i exited onto the LDP. So i took the left lane heading past all those cars going up the bridge and decided that today i shall try using the Federal highway instead! And like some wicked witch i laughed as i passed those cars stuck in the jam. Hehehe~ Nah, i’m not that evil. =)

A map of me adventure towards the lost isles! =D

Turning off onto the Federal, i only knew one way to get to SS2, by making a turn off onto Jalan University somewhere along the Federal highway. So i drove slow and attentively looked for what would seem to be the right turning off. (it’s a left turning so don’t be fooled by the pun! XD) I saw a signboard saying ‘Jalan 222’. It sounded like a road i need to go to. Besides it has a number 2 in it so it can’t be that far from SS2… right? So i turned off right there and found myself in unfamiliar ground!

I immediately stopped at a BHP petrol station and decided to call Berry for help. Teet teet, teet teet (is that how the phone sounds?… oh wait, it was some kinda caller ringtone!) no response… so i decided to head further in to see what might lie ahead. Then i came about what seems to be a small roundabout but it was just kinda like a pile of broken bricks in the middle of the road. I made a right and went up and up the hill. I passed by a cemetery that spooked me out so i decided to turn into the housing area and stop to call for help! Tried calling Berry again… no luck. Then i thought, well which of my trusty friend would pick up their phone and would be able to help me out of this and make me ‘found’. Hmm…… i called Nicole.

A map of me adventures back to civilisation! ^^

At first she didn’t know what to do so she told me to wait for a call from Jin. I decided to backtrack and stopped by a Shell station. There Nicole called back, this time, armed with the wonders of Google maps. =)

Then i started off, with Nicole on the phone with her trusty map and my good old manual SLK (small little kancil) with a phone in one hand and the other changing gears and steering the car. Yeah, it was tough. And why didn’t i think of handsfree or speakers? =P With her help, i found my way out of the woods and into the familiar territory of Jalan Semangat! ^^ From there, my internal GPS kicked in and i’m definitely going to reach home in time for dinner. =) No more detours from here on! XD

Well, that’s about my story of getting lost taking a detour to escape from the jam on the LDP. Haha~ A very interesting one indeed. Looking back in Google maps, if i had only continued on past the cemetery, i would have ended up at my secondary school. =P lols~ If only i had Google maps in my phone then~ =) Adding to the ever so awesome time being lost on the way home i saw lotsa carnage on the road! Branches and leaves strewn everywhere and a tree fallen across the road! O.O (gasp!) Haha~ =) And now, it’s raining and i’m so tired. I think being lost drained all my energy. Haha! Fell asleep right after dinner, the sound of raindrops carrying me away into slumber~

Being happy for others! =)

How can you be happy for others when you’re not happy for yourself? So, cheer up! ^^

Rain… welcome it

Such a wonderful rainy day it is. The gentle sound of the piano playing in my earphones and the ambient sound of trickling raindrops as well as the distant rumbling of the thunder. The sky is dark but yet the sun is ever so present might you not realise it. Let the gentle cool breeze pacify you.

Chocolate milk!

Such a lovely morning today. ^^ The ground was wet when i awoke. The air cool and refreshing as i arrived at uni in my little kancil. Ah~ Such wonderful weather, let’s go for a walk! =D

So walk i did. I seem to had plenty of time this morning, arriving at uni at 7.30am. Decided to go for a morning walk towards Sunway University. Went through the front entrance of sunway uni, noticed lotsa lotsa construction going on. The bridge link from monash to sunway uni almost completed, just some roof panels left to be placed. And hey, it connects to the Graduate Centre! =) Yay, i shall visit that place once the bridge link is opened.

So walk and walk i did. Visited sunway uni cafeteria. Went to check out the foodstuff there. Nothing much seems to have changed. As i walked towards the back entrance, i noticed Le Cordon Bleu cafe open. O.O Open so early? I wanna try it someday, too bad there’s no one to teman me. =P

Walking out the back entrance, i suddenly decided to get… milk. ^^ Went to the magazine store beside the mamak and chose a random choice of milk. I went for chocolate milk! =D XD Then i exited happily with my chocolate milk carton in hand. I was heading back towards monash when i realised. NOOO! WHERE’S THE STRAW? @@ Too lazy to head back there so i decided to cut it open. Accidentally tilted it and i spilled some and got a stain on my t-shirt. –.- Great… and the hole wasn’t big enough for the right volumetric flow rate to satisfy one delicious gulp of milk. XD Hahaha~ So~ I headed back to monash carrying my carton of milk, not being able to drink it. @@

And at last! Back to monash! Went straight to the cafeteria and grabbed a straw there. Slurp, slurp, slurp. Ahh~ Delicious chocolate milk~ XD Oh, met Berry and Hui Hui on the way to the cafeteria. ^^

So, that’s about what happened in my random walk in the morning to buy some chocolate milk. XD

A random drawing during my morning lecture! The outline of my milk carton. Says below, “RIP chocolate milk” =P

The first… the best

It has been a wonderful birthday this year… =) I’m really very happie~ First time celebrating with my friends on Wednesday yesterday and now, today again. They surprised me as they came to my house to celebrate my birthday today after a round of cycling at Bukit Cahaya early today. =) I really didn’t expect them to do that after yesterday’s celebration. =) It has been an amazing birthday. >.< Thanks everyone… so much. >.< Thank all of you who came to day to surprise me with the cake and present: Eunice, Suet Teng, Khim, Jo Keat, Jackie and Pang Chien. Also, Sing Kae who’s back at his hometown who contributed for the present. Thank you so very much. It’s the greatest birthday i had thus far. >.< Thank you. =)

Birthday celebration =)

I’d say, this would be my very first birthday celebration i’ve had with my friends. =) Thank you so very much all of you. >.< Interesting experience having you guys come to my house to pick me up and bring me to three places today! =D Funny thing is, one by one you left from one place to another. =P Jin, Jo Keat, Jackie, Khim, Hui Hui, Berry, Nicole, thanks, all of you for the awesome celebration, though it was last minute for you guys. =)

Let me just talk about the places we went today. ^^ First off, we went to Dataran Glomac for lunch. They were supposed to bring me to one place but it was closed! =O gasp! But fortunately there was another good place at the same row. =) Forgot what the place was called though, we celebrated Jo Keat’s birthday there before, i just called it the piggy place cause they have lotsa cute pig pictures in there. ^^ Then we headed off to Food Foundry at Seksyen 17. =) There we ate cakes for tea. =D Nice crepe cakes… though they’d be nicer without them being frozen. =P They had paper and colour pencils there for ppl to draw stuff! How nice is that! =D Interesting concept. Finally we went to 1U! =D to a place called, Whiskey~ No idea why it’s called that, but they serve nice coffee there. =) They had nice ice cream too! =D Ice cream from The Last Polka. =) There we tried teh tarik ice cream and salted gula melaka ice cream. XD It was sweet but totally worth it! =D Haha~ I had Chatime there before we went. =)

 Here’s the pic of the ice cream i ate! =P

Once again, thank you all guys for the awesome birthday! >.< Much appreciated. =D

Two decades

^^ Well~ My birthday just passed~ It’s as usual… staying home… on the comp all day… kinda boring. Only interesting parts were replying all the wishes and the blissfully nice weather yesterday! ^^ The rain is soooo nice~ =D Yea, i’ll keep this post short, i don’t seem to be in the blogging mood these days, unlike my secondary school years. =) Alrites, i would really like to thank all those people who wished me happy birthday! =D A total of 77 of them! You know who you are. =) Thank you very much. ^^

Ah~ Btw, i have yet to post about my trip to Perhentian. Eesh~ Why am i so lazy these days. =P Shall post it as soon as i can. >.< I hope i eventually do. >.< But for now, bye~ =D Thanks for all those wishes again, it’s been so much of a blessing. =)

Interesting drive home ^^

Well, i know this post has been long overdue… but i still want to post it anyway. XD AND –> That new uni laptop ah~ –.- I DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT! x.x Kena twice ‘backspace’ in the Blogger page where you write posts… you know what ‘backspace’ does right? –.-

Anyways~ Yeah, it was a few days ago. Tuesday i think. I had a very interesting drive home that day. =) I was driving home that day when i stopped at a traffic light. And in the car in front of me there was this little boy who was facing towards me. He pulled out his rubber band and started showing me some rubber band tricks!!! O.O He showed me a star! I was like, ‘Woah~’. I just smiled at him at first but then i thought, i can’t just smile at him at all his tricks right?? It’ll be… err… boring? So i decided to entertain that boy. I took out a piece of rubber band of my own! XD Then i started showing him tricks! XD First off, double star!!! XD XD Haha~ He was amazed. I wonder whether he actually could see it though… But then later, he showed me the Batmobile! O.O I was like, ‘Not bad~’ Then i showed back the Batmobile to him… but i morphed it into a hot air balloon! XD XD He was shocked~ XD Haha~ And quite excited too~ =P You should see his huge eyes when he saw the hot air balloon. Haha~ I tried to teach him… but i don’t think he got it… Then i showed him my star and the alphabets as well. =) But alas, the traffic light turned green and we had to depart~ Fare thee well little boy~

Haha~ It was really and interesting thing that happened. XD And random too~ lol~ =) But it kind of made my day. Was happy that i got to entertain that boy. Haha~ Seeing the smile on his face. =)

Exam week begins

^^ Yay~ I’m done studying for now!!! =D And it’s… earlier… but it has been a productive day! =D

Well, uni today was unusually noisy. Many people here and there, even at the library all the tables were occupied. Came to uni pretty late today but i got free parking at the staff parking area!!! =D Hahaha~ Lucky me~ I came just when the people were leaving after their paper. =) Exam officially starts today, though not for me, mine starts this Friday and first up, Design. Haha~ It’s an open book paper. We get to bring in the textbook and a drawing handbook. Yeap, a drawing handbook. This design paper is basically technical drawing and a little calculations. 5 questions only~ It’s 40% for externals. Yea, only 40% but that means it’s 60% internals and for one of the projects, due to crappy marking schemes, we got kinda low. x.x

Haha~ Hey, what’s with all this? Feels like my post is pretty boring! XD Hmm… must make it seem happier. Hmm… any happy thoughts? Well, i have these Hershey’s dark chocolate i just bought. About half the pack is gone! XD Haha~ It’s kinda a huge pack too! =)

Hmm… hmm… hmmmmm… why, i’ve got nothing interesting to say… XD Ah wells~ So it shall be time for me to depart. Shall be back here blogging soon. =) Adieu~

The Lorax! o.o

Heya! Well, just a quick post of the random and most interesting stuff that happened these few days~ ^^ Gotta sleep soon or i’ll really grow into a panda one day! XD

Right! One fine day as i was walking through the second floor of my uni library, i stumbled upon this shelf, and guess what i found! Children's story books! O.O I was like, ‘Woah~ What is this random thing i’ve stumbled upon??’ I saw this book ‘Lorax’. Oh hey, there’s a movie about it! So i took the book and started reading it. By the way, exams like just round the corner. XD What the heck am i doing? Hahaha~ Just being my random self. So, the story goes like this. There’s a boy, who wondered about the past of the dark and gloomy place he was living in. He went to the Once-ler who had been in that place since long ago. The Once-ler told him about the once so beautiful landscape that place was long ago. With the animals and the unique erm… forgot what the trees were called… well, unique trees then. =) They were fluffy that’s all i know, and the Once-ler and his family made them into… into… erm… i guess i have bad memory. Well, he made them into some clothing which he sold for lots of money. So he decided to chop down all the trees and make himself rich. But the Lorax, who speaks for all the animals and trees there, warned him about all the troubles he’s causing and sent the animals away. Thus, there are no more animals there, just crows. In the end, the Lorax went away as well, and the land was left all dark and deserted, skies all grey of smoke and water all black! Before the Lorax left, he left a clue saying, ‘Perhaps’. (i think that’s what it said if i remember it correctly… XD) And so the Once-ler pondered over that clue until the day that boy came by he finally understood it. Perhaps if one, who care, would come by, all this can be undone. So the Once-ler gave that boy the very last seed of that really fluffy tree and asked him to plant it, and care for it so that all the green and animals would come back to that place. The end. =)

Wow, such a long story!!! Oh wells~ Next up, hey, you know how Tesco advertised their new outlet at Paradigm Mall? They hung Tesco HELIUM BALLOONS at the front gate around my area! And attached to it, an envelope containing a Tesco catalogue and a membership form… well, ignore that but the HELIUM BALLOONS ARE JUST AWESOME! XD XD Haha~ Some advertising they have~ =)

Had a new haircut today… gosh… i seriously don’t know anything about hair fashion. x.x I think i screwed up my hair again. XD Haha~ Well, gotta make what you don’t like to something nice. Haha~ I’ll think of a way to make it nice. Hmm… how to style… I’m seriously not good with hairstyles… I hope someone comes to save me one day~ XD

Oh and my sis is back. =) Very glad to meet her. Got to spend some quality time most importantly. =) Went out shopping and stuff today so i have no time to study. XD Well, sacrifices have to be made. =P AND I HAVE OBTAINED CHOCOLATES! XD Well, those stressful friends of mine sure do need them. =) Right, i hope they can finish them cause i bought a whole lot of them. XD And now~ MUZ SLEEP ELSE I TURN INTO PANDAH! XD XD Haha~ Right, goodnight. =)

BR 31st!

So… this post was due yesterday… on the 31st! ^^ And do you know what is the significance of the 31st? It occurs 7 times in a year and most importantly…. it is BASKIN ROBBINS 31% OFF ICE CREAM DAY! =D Ain’t that just awesome? =) Well, intended to go out for an ice cream outing but didn’t quite come to past… not sure about the rest though when they went out for dinner that night. I know one person who got BR ice cream. =P Grr~~ Haha~ Well, i had Haagen Dazs ice cream after dinner last night! XD Though, you can’t quite say which ice cream is better… hmm… i think all ice cream is about the same. It’s ice cream after all! XD Haha~ Though…. i don’t think that’s true for some cheap kind of ice cream. =)

Ah yes, yesterday was a really really unproductive day~ I was at uni since 11.30am… i wandered and wandered, searching high and low, went far and wide, for a place to settle, and the motivation to study did not come to me till the last 2 hours i was in uni. So… lots of time wasted. I really hope i can find some motivation to study… hmmm… and i’ve thought of something. A challenge perhaps? =) But there’s no one to challenge me~ Haha~ XD Well, today, i really wanna wanna like study really really fervently and furiously and intently! Hope it will happen. =) But of right now…. i can’t find a suitable place yet. =( Currently at the cafeteria… blogging…. waiting for lunch… maybe after lunch. Please, please have a suitable place for me to study when i come back~ =)

BOOM! Blackout!

It was such a very very nice morning today. ^^ Because~~ it was raining! Woke up at 8.30am today to my alarm, saw the sky so dark and it was raining. So i was like, ‘What time is it? 8.30am? Can’t be…. right back to sleep!’ ^^ Finally woke up at 10am. XD Then off to uni i went~

For the first few hours, i was just… well… wandering round and round. I’m a wanderer, a wonderer. =) Didn’t quite feel like studying yet… till after lunch. =) Swot vac just doesn’t feel the same… Oh wells~ Hey, the whole of Berry’s group came today. Berry, Hui Hui, Erick, Tem Mee, Tse Hui, Nicole and Robert. Wow~ The study kinda bunch. ^^ My group is like the playful kind of bunch. Haha~ As usual, study, play, wander, play, study. That’s like a cycle i can’t escape from. =P So progress is sloow~ So i decide that i should skip studying and go straight to past years. =/

And in the afternoon, as the clock struck… well 5pm. What did you think? XD Haha~ Yeah, 5pm. It was time for STARBUCKS COFFEE! 50% off fraps. =) Had green tea frap. Wow… it was… milky. ^^ Kinda a little too milky for me but it’s nice. And it’s 50% off~ XD

Heading back to the library, we were at the cafeteria near the construction site. And suddenly… BOOM! A loud bang came from the construction site and immediately the whole uni plunged into darkness. O.O THE WRATH OF THOR! XD Kidding~ Heard that the excavator hit a power line. So, the whole uni had a blackout. Emergency power came on. In the end the library was closed early. Guess it’s a sign to stop studying and have a break! XD

Okay… well, i’ve been gone for quite awhile now… and then back to continue the blog… but i don’t fee like it anymore… oh wells~ Shall stop here. =) Goodnight~

Stress filled with chocolate =)

Well, it’s been 2 weekdays at uni on swot vac and my chocolate ration is down to 3 pieces!! XD XD Wow~ And i say how stressful my friends are. XD Hahaha~ Well, Jo Keat and Nick took most of the Hersheys yesterday. Half the packet gone in a day. =P At least they’re happy with all the chocolate they had. =)

So, it has been 2 days into swot vac and what have i done thus far?? Well… yesterday… arrived at uni about 11am. Left my stuff with my friends and went to Pyramid for some ‘shopping’! XD More like chocolate shopping lah. Finding chocolate for my friends. Just some random thing i do every swot vac, buy chocolate. My reason, to make everyone happy and de-stress with chocolate. =) And it was such a coincidence meeting some people i know at Pyramid. Two people in fact! Well… one i don’t quite know actually. =P Haha~ I was coming out from Jusco when i saw… KEE WEN! O.O WITH ALL HIS YELLOW LUGGAGE HE WAS CARRYING! Seems that he just came back from his hometown and he needed to get some bread. =P And then someone else came by! IT WAS THAT GIRL WHO’S ALWAYS WITH AUDREY WHOSE NAME I DO NOT KNOW! XD Haha~ Sorry, don’t know her name. But it was like, ‘Hey!’ then ‘HEY!’ O.O Such coincidence. =P

Long did i shop for chocolate… problem was, it’s so hard to find the right chocolate. I want chocolate that comes in pieces… and dark chocolate preferably. But it’s just SO HARD TO FIND THEM! Walking here and there, to Jusco, Giant and The Cocoa Tree. Evaluated and decided. Finally got a pack of Hershey milk chocolate Kisses, two boxes of Beryl’s chocolate, one Black & White, means dark and white chocolate, and another Mint and Bitter, means mint and dark. =)

So, it was onto lunch… another difficult decision to make. Saw the word ‘SUPER SAVER!’ at Popeyes so i decided to eat there. XD Chicken, fish, two scoops of rice and a scoop of mash potato. =) Later, i went for Chatime! XP Wow, spending much aye? Haha~ Tried the Hazelnut chocolate flavour. It was… like… Milo. o.o Milo? Yeah, somewhat like Milo. So with that, a bag filled with Seremban Siew Pao and another filled with chocolate, i headed back to uni. And wow the weather was so extremely hot!

And today, i went for another short shopping trip to Pyramid. =P Basically bought something… and Rotiboy. =) Had late breakfast, light lunch. Needed something to eat. Haha~ Then i came back to uni. Wanted to play frisbee but then i don’t know anyone there~ So i decided not too… but there were many people anyway. Haha~ All the stressed out people trying to de-stress. =) And now i’m here typing this blog. I probably should be going home now. There may be a jam… but it’s the school holiday so i guess it won’t be so bad. =) Alright that’s all for now. And another wow, this blog is one of the longest in such a long time. =P Well, i have not blogged for so long… finally starting again. Hope it’ll continue. =)

Hairclip! XD

Today, i learnt something new. Something i never knew… but unexpectedly found out! O.O I LEARNT HOW TO WEAR A HAIRCLIP!!! XD XD Well, the story goes like this. I had badminton this afternoon and when i was playing, i notice my hair always got in my way. Like, ‘Oh darn, i can’t see the shuttlecock! I’m going blind and my hair is the cause of it!’ XD Then my friend came along so i asked her, ‘Hey, do you have a hair band?’. ‘Nope, but i’ve got a hairclip.’ I was like, ‘Hmm… a hairclip?? Err.. okay then, can i have it?’ I so totally know how to use a hairclip. Was always wondering, how’d you clip your hair when the hairclip’s so thin? Well, i had her wear it for me. I heard a ‘click’ and it was on. WOW! WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Girls are so pro at using hairclips. XD XD Later on after the game i took out the hairclip and gave to to another friend of mine who went on to play with it and then showed me, ‘click, click’. O.O GASP! I WAS LIKE, ‘WHATT??? I DIDN’T KNOW A HAIRCLIP COULD DO THAT!!’ Hahaha~ Such awesome engineering, simple yet just so awesome. Haha~ So, i now learnt, how to use a hairclip! =D

swot vac

It’s been a long sem this sem… and now it’s the study break. Where’s the break in the study? Haha~ What a paradox. Well, i have to say, this sem is just so very very screwed up. I’d rather not go into the details, you’ve gotta ask me in person. Haha~ And studies this sem, not so good. Lectures… i’ve skipped many and not paid attention to lots. >.< So dead in finals. I don’t think i can do so well for this sem… i’ll try my best the very least. So much has happened this sem… and ever so much more as uni life began. I’m just… not who i used to be… and it’s not like i changed for the better. Sigh~~~ =D Haha~ That’s called a sigh and a smile. Sigh out all the worries, and a smile to cover it up. XD Ha~ I think… blogging has always been a part of me… i should… well… start BLOGGING!!! It’s a place where i can put my thoughts to, the way i see things. Hmm… will blogging bring me joy i once had? Where is that Joel i once knew? Whom everyone once knew? Hahaha~ I’m weird~ And weird i shall be. Can’t change a thing about it if it’s who i am. Alright, it’s time to start studying… not now though, i wanna sleep. =P I shall study tonight cause i can only study or do any kind of work at night. Yes, i am a nocturnal person. It’s not like almost everyone else isn’t nocturnal these days. Haha~ Owls~ Study hard fellow uni mates! Let’s all try our best to get HDs! I’m not forcing you. =P Just find a way to have fun studying. It makes studying a whole lot better. And also, don’t forget the smiles! =D

Smiles… i once used to bring them… where are they now?

A flat tyre

Well, there certainly has been a chain of misfortunes these past few days. Let me just blog about one particular one.

It was late on a Thursday. 6pm to be exact. I left uni, it was starting to jam up. Had a slow ride home, thinking about my warman project. So many difficulties… Was just driving, thinking, until a motorcyclist honked at me. O.O Hmm… i was wondering why. I looked to my side and i saw him pointing at my rear tyre. Immediately i suspected a flat. O.O But then i didn’t hear anything and i could see the tyre. So i didn’t know how bad it was. I decided that i should try to drive all the way home then check. But as i was driving, slowly, i was worried as well, so i prayed for safe journey. At first, i thought it wasn’t too bad a problem. Just that i noticed my car was now underpowered when i go up hill or try to accelerate. No sounds yet. Then i was approaching a petrol station, i was thinking whether i should stop and check. My house is like two kilometres away. But then, at that time, i started to hear sounds from my rear tyre. Oh God, i think it’s bad. So i took a detour and stopped at the petrol station. Came out of my car and i was quite shocked to see my tyre completely flat. A radial fracture around the tyre. Rims touching the ground. Wow, so much damage. I didn’t know. So i opened the boot and started changing the tyre. Called home to tell about the situation. First time changing the tyre. Was kind of determined to do it right and get it accomplished. Learnt some essential new things about changing a tyre. The tyre was hot, the tyre is heavy, the tyre is dirty. XD Haha~ Yeah. And the rim cap was hard to take out if you don’t know how. I had help from a worker at the petrol station for that. Thank you sir! =) Well, once it was all done, i went to pump my tyres. Took about 15 to 20 minutes changing the tyre. Haha~ I think that’s kind of slow. But at least i got to learn something new. =) And i’m happy learning new things like this. =)

And now, the following day, in the morning. Guess what? I heard some sound coming from my OTHER rear tyre as i was heading off to uni. I stopped my car to check and i was surprised to see a screw in the other tyre. –.- Great… Went back home. My mom fetched me to uni that day. At least i don’t need to pay for parking. =) Haha~

Well, i’d just like to thank God for protecting me. Thank God for no accidents, for the people who helped me, that kind motorcyclist. Thank you very much! =) Looks like leaving late that day was a good thing. Traffic jam, driving slow. Better than driving fast and who knows what may have happened. Thank God for his protection. =)

Earth Hour 2012

Well, it’s Earth Hour today! =D I actually didn’t even realise it was! (gasp) Noooo~ Haha~ Well, i found out, so i did what was right. Turn off all electrical appliances around me. =) Yeah, my family didn’t bother to off everything so i just did it myself. Just in my room, alone, in the dark, no fan. One hour is really long so i thought of something to do. Haha~ I PRAYED! XD It really takes a lot of time off since i prayed for like so many things… until my brother came into the room and switched everything on. –.- Oh well, time to shift. Shifted to my sister’s room. At least there weren’t any mosquitoes there. =) So i waited… and waited… in the dark… the hot air… no fan… sweating… haha… until the last five minutes. I couldn’t wait anymore so i stood up and started counting down. Then i started swaying and soon enough dancing as i counted down. I’m odd… XD Haha~ YEAH! So one hour’s up for Earth Hour. Hmm… i feel guilty for missing the past two years of Earth Hour… actually, i remember i was out of home one of the years… and i blogged about what happened outside home. Hmm… can’t find that post. Well, here’s a link to the previous post about Earth Hour i could find. =) Enjoy! And support Earth! =D

http://jsooncx.blogspot.com/2009/03/earth-hour.html

Ipoh field trip!!! =D

GOOD MORNING EARTH! WOW, IT’S SO BRIGHT NOW AFTER ONE HOUR OF DARKNESS! ^^ =D

It' haz been a long day~ Woke up super duper early on a Saturday morning just to go to uni. –.- Well, of course for a purpose lah. Who’d be so crazy to wake up so early on a Saturday morning just to go to uni for… no purpose… unless of course you’re that kind of crazy person who does crazy stuff! =D Haha~ Well, today was field trip to Ipoh day. Reached uni at about 7am. The whole LDP was void of cars. Very few cars indeed… and scary as well. It’s like everybody’s going fast therefore i must go fast too or they’ll condemn me. o.o Hey, why do i sound like Khim right now? O.O Haha~ Well, i reached 100km/h on my SLK today. =) (small little kancil lah XD) But it was like the first time i travel on the road so very early in the morning. Interesting experience. Well, it’s always interesting to experience new stuff. =)

Right, so it was said that the bus leaves at 7am sharp. But no~ It actually leaves at 7.30am! We got tricked by our professor! XD XD Haha~ But it’s a good thing. You know, Malaysian timing lah~ XD Yeah, so we waited in the ever so dark halls of Monash, in the wee hours of the morning, where ghosts and zombies still rooooam the grounds of uni. XD Haha~ Joking, don’t get afraid. =P Yeah, onto the bus we went and to our amazement, guess who came along. Our very dear electrical lecturer, Dr. Tin Win. =) Well, i don’t know why everyone teases him, i’d rather not, though sometimes i just play along. XD XD So evil eh? Haha~ Nah, i’d rather not. =) And who’d you know came along as well. Ms. Evonne! (i think that’s how you spell her name =D) Heard that yesterday’s lecture was like 20 minutes long. XD Wow, what a way to end your last lecture with the maths students. =)

We departed at 7.40am. Reached a stop within Selangor (i think) for a break and breakfast. I slept most of the way (maybe all the way actually =P). We reached Ipoh at the factory at about 10am. And such coincidence, there was a POWER OUTAGE! XD XD Lol~ So ngam. Haha~ So we were brought to see the machineries for the machining process of the sand casted stuff. Yeah, that. Oh, it’s actually a factory that produces centrifugal pumps. =) Looked like turbines to me at first… And back to the machines. They were there, it was hot, and dark, and the machines weren’t working unfortunately. So we didn’t get to see much action there. BUT! We had one more place to go. A FOUNDRY! But i actually didn’t know what that is until i checked my phone dictionary. =P Well, if you don’t know, go check the dictionary. =P

At the foundry, we got to see the sand casting process. Actually, all the moulds were already there so we only saw them pouring the molten metal into the moulds. And then they showed us around and explained the process on how they do sand casting and other stuff. Here, i’ll explain some of the stuff we did with some pictures i took. =) Forgive me for the bad quality pics, my handphone camera is just terrible. =P

This is the factory we went to. =) It’s called KewPump. They manufacture centrifugal pumps for various purposes. Here is where they do all the machining, assembling and painting. Unfortunately there was a power outage at that time so we didn’t get to see any of the machines in action. The other place we went was like 30 minutes away, called KewCast. Same company just that there is where they do all the casting of the metal parts.

                                                    

Melting metal in the furnace. They use scrap metal from all those waste from punched out metal sheets. I think what they were using right now is stainless steel metal. They also use cast iron.

Here they’re pouring the molten metal from the furnace into the so called ‘ladle’. If you can see at the background, there’s that display of some numbers ‘1632’, i think that’s the temperature of the furnace. =P And in the picture right beside that, they’re pouring the molten metal into the mould. They added some ‘powder’ into the ‘ladle’ just before pouring the molten metal to coagulate the impurities that rises to the top of the molten metal. Then they put a stick into it and pull the impurities out. They use that heated metal to light up some holes at the side of the mould (already had some combustible liquid) to draw air out of the mould. This ensures that there aren’t an air pockets that might cause defects. And then they put sand into the risers to ensure the molten metal at the top of the riser doesn’t solidify so that when the metal cools and contracts, it can draw metal from the riser. It the top cools, it’ll get stuck. =)

 

This is a picture of a RM400,000 spectroscope which they use to test the quality of the batches they make. O.O EXPENSIVE!!!

This are the sand moulds used in the sand casting process. The black part is the sand. They add some hardener to harden the sand so the mould is actually quite hard like rock. And the whitish stuff you see on some is the ceramic lining that they put onto the inside of the sand cast to prevent the sand from sticking to the cast.

This is… err… from the looks of it i think it’s a core… or a mould… I’m not sure. =P Wasn’t listening to this part. Haha~ But it’s for the turbine.

This is how the casted metal looks like right after it’s done hardening. No machining yet so it’s rough and dull. They make two halves of the turbine and weld it together to become one. =)

Alright, that’s about all the pictures i have at the foundry. Quite interesting… though the smell there was of molten metal and it’s just horrible. Smells like poisonous gas or something. x.x Haha~ Well, once we were done there… it’s MAKAN TIME! XD XD Everybody was like looking forward to that. So our lecturer brought us to town to eat Ipoh nga choy kai fan. =) (basically chicken rice with bean sprouts) Wow, we ate a WHOLE LOT THERE! It’s like my table, there were the 6 of us. Ming Leong, Zhi Ming, Wai Kit, Noel, Khim and i. We were given one plate of whole chicken, two large plates full of bean sprouts, a bowl of soup and each a plate of rice. We were so hungry that when the bean sprouts came, we already started eating. XD Btw, it was 2pm already. Yeah, so it was like vegetarian at first, until the MEAT CAME! XD We added like 9 bowls of hor fun (koey teow), some dry, some soup. THAT’S LIKE SUPER LOT! I ate one plate of rice and about half a bowl of hor fun. >.< The rest finished ALL! O.O WOW! AMAZING! XD XD There were like 60 of us mechanical/mechatronics engineering kids. GUESS HOW MUCH IT ALL COSTS! RM740! XD XD Yeah, we all paid RM15 each. So it’s like shared among everyone. Too bad for those small eaters. =P

Yeah, so after lunch some of us went round town. Some bought salted chicken. Some went to the famous tau fu fah stall to get some tau fu fah of course. I saw some random shop selling ‘Roti Ayam Daging Kambing’. O.O WOAH! WHAT’S THAT? Aswan and I was wondering so we checked it out. It was like a HUMUNGOUS bread stuffed with AYAM, DAGING AND KAMBING! XD lol~ RM26, worth it? Haha~ After that, we stopped by some place to buy the famous biscuit of which the name i don’t know of. But it’s really nice. The leftover money from lunch were used to buy each of us one biscuit, just nice. ^^ Oh, did i say it’s really nice? =D

And so, that was about it at our trip to Ipoh. We headed back home around 4.30pm. And oh, the bus full of mecha and mechi guys, all talking about girls. Oh my~ This is seriously ENGINEERING. x.x Lol~ Kee Wen ah~ Haha~ Well, it was a great time together we had with friends and the lecturers. =) Awesome indeed! Haha~ Hope there’ll be another one. =)

Out for a movie! Wrath of the Titans

It has been long since i enjoyed McDonalds RM1.05 ice cream… long time… hmm… i think. Just felt like that when i was eating it. It seems unfamiliar. So long~ Haha~ But it’s nice… hmm… i think last time was better though. Not sure. =P

A rare rainy morning today was. I was quite reluctant to get out of bed. x.x SOO LAAZYY! XD Haha~ Was at uni half an hour early, sat in my car, leaned the chair back, turn the music up, and just enjoy myself in my mini ‘room’. Then it started drizzling again, but i just stayed on listening to chinese music which i know not the meaning of the lyrics but it’s nice. =)

Went out today with my friends Kee Wen, Jackie, Pang Chien, Eunice, Suet Teng and Sing Kae for a movie. CLASH OF THE TITANS! Eh wait! NONONO! WRATH OF THE TITANS! Yeah, seems like the latter is the sequel to the former. But i’ve never watched Clash of the Titans. Well, this movie was…. i’d say… acceptable…. but… i’d only rate it a 4 out of 10. I don’t know why. There’s just so much more it can be done better with. Haha~ >.< I have no inspiration to blog now. >.< Haha~ What should i do now…

After much deliberation… we had an immensely long meeting… considered at every perspective…. we finally decided…. we shall… eat… McD! XD XD LOLOLOL~ LOL! So typical wei! Reminds me of my A-Levels friends. The four musketeers. Go to pyramid for our long lunch break. Orbit around the ice rink several times. Finally to decide… ‘Let’s eat McDonalds’ XD Lol~ Funny lah we all. Haha~ Love you guys! Miss you all too! >.< Haha~ All far and wide overseas. =) All the best my friends! =) Yeah, back to McD. WE HAD ICE CREAM FOR DESSERT! And i belanja’d them all. =P Somehow ah, my wallet suddenly feel fat today. >.< Haha~ lol~ But my bank account depleting. =P But, it’s nice to belanja people once in a while. I don’t often get too. People just don’t want to accept. Haha~ And most of the time i don’t have the chance. =P

Hmm… so many red curly lines… =P Well, i feel like there’s nothing much to blog about right now… no, there is a lot to write about just that can’t think of them now. >.< Okay then, that’s all for now. Till next time! =D Remember to smile! Smiles are important. =)

Jam… at the parking lot

Such a warm night tonight, but such a beautiful sky it is…

Left for uni at 10am today, pumped some gas into my car and headed for uni earlier for parking. Class starts at 12pm though i usually can’t find parking on Thursdays. So, i tried my luck an hour earlier today. Went straight to paid parking. Went round and round one row after another searching for a parking lot. None… went to the last row. I see an opportunity! A parking spot small enough for a kancil and it leaves enough space for cars to pass by. ^^ Thank God for a parking space. I’ve been praying before i came to uni. Haha~ And it’s really a good thing having a small car. Love my SLK! ^^ (small little kancil) =P

AMAZING! Two screen computers! O.O I never knew there was a computer lab at my uni where all the computers had two screens! And! There was the ‘SmartBoard’! O.O Same like the one in Sunway uni when i was there. Kinda cool. You write on it with a special ‘pen’ (no ink whatsoever!). You can record what you wrote and replay it! XD XD Haha~ Kinda fun to play with. But i doubt i can at Monash. =P But, it’s just so cool to know new stuff. ^^

Berry! You’re so huge and cuddly like a teddy bear I WANNA HUG YOU! XD XD

For the first time ever! I was stuck in a traffic jam at the paid parking for like 15 minutes or so. x.x Haha~ They closed one exit lane so everyone had to squeeze to exit on only one other lane. >.< Well, at least i got out and the jam hasn’t started yet. =)

Yet to write that poem Sing Kae inspired me to write. =) Shall work on it soon for my name is ‘soon’! XD XD =D lol~

Spending time alone with nature

Sitting on a park bench, watching the autumn leaves fall, trees sway and leaves rustle as the autumn wind blows. I can imagine myself there as i was sitting on a bench at uni, in front of a mini garden, gardeners tending to them, people walking past by, strong winds blowing, clouds in the sky drifting so slowly. Listening to music as i watch this, so much like nature orchestrated.

Everyday early, just for free parking. So much time to do, usually spent in my car, listening to the radio, watching the white birds at the sewage pond flying about in the sky, leaning back on my car seat, having a little shut eye before classes begin.

Something i find funny: Walking towards a door, i confidently pushed it open. Confidently pushed it open as though i’m a hundred percent sure it’ll open. Yet it did not. So i almost crashed into the door. Imagined the scenario where i actually did. Haha~ Just find it funny. =)

First time… i think. Being at uni, all alone. Waiting for friends. I had some time spent alone with nature. Just observing. All alone. I am, was and would almost ever will be, an introvert. Though i’m a kind of introvert extroverted to other introverts. Towards the very extroverted, i’d be introvert, unless of course i know that person really well or i’m high. =) Hmm… why am i here talking about introverts and extroverts. Back to topic! Yes, alone with nature. Have you ever been so? It’s quite a pleasant thing for people like me. Though i’d rather spend time with friends outside home. @@ NO! WAIT! I shall talk no further. XD

So much time spent today troubleshooting my project. That relay, robot, programming stuff. Such a headache. @@ But thanks to some generous people who offered their opinion and help, we finally managed to figure out the problem. =) THANK YOU! ^^ Though we went round and round testing this and that until we were almost out of hope. But then came along help! ^^ It’s really nice helping people. And a nice thing to know people are helping you. =)

Study…. NO, SLEEP! x.x

Came back home today feeling tired… but it’s only 5.30pm! Hmm… i thought to myself, ‘I should study analogue so i can do the tutorial tonight.’ Yes, i was determined to do just that. Went up to my room, and changed clothes. Then i saw the Honey and Clover comic i haven’t yet read finish. So i was like,' ‘Hmm… i think i’ll just read it finish now. There’s only like one section left’. So i lay on my bed and started reading. Once i was done, i was just laying there on my pillow, so soft and comfy. Then i thought, ‘I think i should rest a little first.’ Wasn’t planning to sleep at that point. But slowly my eyes closed and my body felt all weak. So i decided to sleep for a while. Thus, i was brought to dreamland. In my dream, i dreamt of many floors of a multi-storey building. There was a huge open atrium, bridges connected across. There were no railings! I was like all afraid, feeling that feeling when you look over a railing of somewhere high. And my ‘very good’ friends were like playing around with my fear of heights, mockingly trying to push me down. It was reeaaally scary. You know, high floors, no railings = x.x It’s not like i’m afraid of heights, well just a little, but when there’s no railing, i have every reason to be afraid. XD
And as dreamland slowly faded, and as i slowly opened my eyes to reality, i was all so blurry and i thought, ‘Err~ What time is it??’ Couldn’t get myself up to look at the clock, neither have i my handphone with me at that time. So i was like just laying there in my bed, all so blurry, feeling tired, body aching all over. Until i rolled over the pillow and i could see the clock just across. ‘Oh, 7pm, just on time for dinner. Great, i missed my chance to study.’ And forcefully i rolled myself off my bed and got up to me feet with much effort, swaying left and right like a drunken man. @@ Haha~ Just an over reaction i often do. =)

The beach

The beach,
Such a wonderful place it is,
Where land meets ocean and sky,
Take a stroll with the one you love.

The beach is a wonderful sight,
As the sun dives into the ocean,
The orange hue fills the sky,
As the moon and jewels of the stars appear.

The soft white sand tickles your feet,
So gentle it is to touch,
Take a handful of it,
And release it through the air.

Let the gentle sea breeze,
Brush through your hair,
And the sound of waves crashing,
Mesmerise the both of you.

The beach is where i want to be,
Away from all my troubles,
To the sun, sand and sea,
To the beach is where i want to be.

Thank you Sing Kae and Jia Jin for your contribution to this poem. And as promised, here it is in my blog. Hope it brings smiles to everyone who reads it. =)

And now, a random pic i took from the Garrett popcorn serviette…

Feeling monotonous…

Well, well, it’s a Saturday and yet i have to go to uni today. Had to attend a lab visit just over an hour in duration. Well, cool thing to see all the machines and stuff but then it’s only for that and on a Saturday! XD XD Can’t complain, i’m a student.

Bed bugs are still around… they just don’t seem to die. =.= During the hols i’ve been checking my bed daily, squishing bugs. Now as uni starts i’m not as free anymore. Only do my hunt on Thursdays and Fridays when my classes end late. Ah~ Today’s another biohazard day, house filled with toxic fumes from the cockroach spray my dad uses to kill those bed bugs. x.x I’m might just die young because of this.

Fly to uni, just in time for the lab visit… a few minutes late. Explanations already started, just tagged along. We got a detailed explanation of the functions of the machines by someone whom i do not know who people say in facebook sound like Kenneth. XD Haha~ Yeah~ And then there was the demonstration on how to use the machines and stuff by the lab technician. There was a milling machine, grinder, welder, metal cutter, metal bender, metal curver, saw, and another machine that i forgot the name of but was kind of cool. Some random stuff that happened, we saw a helicopter landing outside the lab window, and we found a bottle of chloroform… i think if we dropped that we’d all be dead cause there’s so much in it. Haha~ That lab seems like a dangerous place. XD

My Engineering Design group decided to go out to KL today to get springs for one of our systems in our project. Couldn’t join them, usually busy on Saturdays. Khim said Berry was at uni today so i went to say ‘Hi!’ to him and Hui Hui. They were doing their maths assignment. Already done, just the sketching part. They’re so rajin, so much better off than ‘some people’. –.- I really hope those people will be alright…

Driving home i saw a stalled lorry and a bad accident. Hmm… jammed on a Saturday, no wonder. I hope there’s no casualty in the accident with the mangled car. Arrived home for lunch and went out of music practice not long after. Sleepy afternoons Saturdays are. Slept most of the time in the car. Slept when i came back too.

Night, out for dinner and to 1U. That’s what i do almost every Saturday. Went to the music carnival, there were lots of CD’s there. Music, movies, anime. Bought something for my friend… let’s just say it’s a souvenir from the carnival. Nothing much to do there, so i went walking around 1U. I was yearning for ice cream… wondering around hunting for ice cream but didn’t buy any in the end. Though when i met back up with my parents, i found that they bought Haagen Dazs and Garrett popcorn, macadamia. Really sweet the popcorns. Though macadamia was nice in the sweetness. If you don’t know yet, i don’t quite fancy nuts. But this time, i’ll make an exception.

So that’s about it today. I feel reeaally monotonous. Yes, but i like this persona. And i notice my blogging style has changed. It seems… so… boring. Not the happy, fun, funny type it used to be. Oh well… times change. That’s all for now.

My feelings betray me, why am i such an idiot, i hate the devil..

Roti…. DRAGON

First and foremost i’d like to say… i’m feeling soo sleepy right now! Must be because i’m laying on my bed typing this blog post. =P

Yesterday was an interesting, exciting and fun day out! =D Initially i only planned to stay for dinner but things just came by so i tagged along! Haha~ I’ll start off with the last lecture of the day, Bio-Nano Engineering. Well, it’s not actually a lecture i’m supposed to attend. =P Just crashing in my Chem friends lectures cause i was staying back for dinner anyway. Haha~ The really funny thing was when i attended that lecture while my friends from Chem SKIPPED THE LECTURE!! XD XD Well, i actually didn’t know they skipped lecture, i joined my other friends and sat up front of the class! Playing DrawSomething! Of course i listen to the lecture also lah cause it would seem suspicious if i don’t. Haha~ I’m an illegal immigrant. =P

And so, lecture ended late actually. But after lecture, my friend invited me for frisbee! Well, since everyone else was playing, i might as well join in. XD Mind you i was wearing shirt, long pants and leather kinda shoes while i was playing frisbee. >.< First time playing frisbee for me!…. hmm…i think i might have played it once or twice before… BUT it’s the first time i played the frisbee game! It’s something like captain ball. Throwing the frisbee from one end to the other end and catching it within a specified area gives you a point. =) Of course there’s more to the rules but i won’t be talking about it here. XD Ask me if you wanna know! Haha~ But i’m still an amateur. =) But it’s a fun game, i quite enjoyed it though i can feel my lowness of stamina within me. x.x

After a few rounds of frisbee, the sky was getting dimmer signalling the time for dinner! =D Btw, my team lost cause we were mostly amateurs. XD But we’re playing for the fun of it, and fun we had. Good to be exercising and sweating once in a while. =) Haha~ So i asked my ‘fat’ friend to go exercise cause she doesn’t seem to be exercising lately. XP Ah yes, back to the story. Dinner time! We went to Murni, Mentari for dinner. There were like 11 of us. One big gang went out makan dinner sama-sama and berbonding. XD Haha~ This reminds me of my CF’ers when we would go out mamak’ing after afternoon recess cell. ^^ Miss those times~ ^^We talked, chit chat, and ate together. The friendly atmosphere of fun and laughter between friends. ^^ The FOOD! Berry ordered the most interesting of dishes and drinks! HE ORDERED ‘I MISS YOU’ AND ‘ROTI DRAGONNN’!!! XD XD XD Here, i took a pic of it. =D My camera’s a little cacat’ed so please forgive the bad pic. =)

 

ROTI DRAGON! XD

THERE! THAT HUMUNGOUS DUMPLING IS ROTI DRAGON! XD Wow, i was amazed at the size of it. And it so totally looked like a dumpling. That sauce you see there is like the tomato spaghetti sauce on spaghetti bolognese. It’s a little black pepperish. But it tastes good. The inside is way better! Meat, cheese, ham, mushroom! XD Well, i’m not too sure of all the ingredients but those were the main ones. BUT IT IS SERIOUSLY DELICIOUS! XD XD It’s really really nice! XD Haha~ I think it costs RM12. If you have a chance, try it. It’s nice alright, just that it’s huge.

Ah~ And there was a joke about Berry eating Dragon!!! DRAGON! I have a friend named Dragon. Haha~ And someone said, ‘Who knows, Dragon might be eating berries right now!’ XD XD Hahaha~ Funny, nice time we had together. =)

And after dinner i got back home. I was HIGH! FULL OF SUGAR FROM THE MEDIUM RIBENA I DRANK! XD XD HAHAHA~ But after my ‘high’ness wore off, i was all tired and sleepy. x.x KO’ED! So i went to sleep early. Had quite a good night’s sleep though the next morning i was somewhat reluctant to get out of bed at 6am. Haha~ =)

Well, i hope i get to do this more often, spending such great time with friends. =) Mon Ami/Amie! ^^

Just like old times…

Walking down the streets with a can of coffee in my hand, 
Walking slowly, sip by sip i drink my coffee, 
Ever so lonely these walks are. 

Observe the wonders of nature around, 
The breeze so gentle to touch, 
Leaves calling out with their rustles so subtle. 

Much time i have to reflect, 
Much time i have to ponder, 
About the way i am to wander. 

The sun burns, out comes puffs of clouds.

I love music, i love car rides, i love looking out the window, not a sound from the outside, the music plays, as though telling a story of images passing by.


The evening sun today, it was so bright and orange. Seems like it was burning high up in the sky. Clouds were like smoke coming out from the burning sun. I took my phone out to take a picture, but alas my phone was low on battery. Such a waste. It’ll be a beautiful scene. Though my camera isn’t that great. If only i had one, that i can use to take these beautiful things i see.


I feel like i’ve been shot right through my chest. The pain lingers through the night…

Such cunning dice…

I was at Toys”R”Us today and i saw these two dice. Says it’ll always show 7 and 11. So i shook the box and what do you know, a 7. I shook it again, 11. And again, 11. Hmm… amazing. I thought the die was most likely biased and it tends to fall on 5, 2 and 6. Then my friend said, ‘Aiya, like that of course always 7 and 11’. O.O Could there be a more simpler explanation for it?? I examined the dice this time and i was like –> …… –.-‘ What the heeeck! One die is all 5’s and the other is either 2’s or 6’s. –.-‘’ Sweat~

Langkawi – Part 4

Ah~ Time to continue where i left off. It has been 3 parts now to this post. Wow~ That’s the longest i’ve ever written about on thing… hmm… maybe there was another. =) Nevermind, let’s go!

So, it was day three, we were all tired after a long night before. Hmm… but we were still kicking! =D After lunch we decided to go for a movie. Seems that there’s not much choices to the movies and there’s, i think, only one cinema on the whole island. So we went to watch ‘The Darkest Hour’! It’s some movie about invisible aliens invading Earth wanting our precious resources and sucking all electrical energy from living things in the process. Yeah, electrical energy. The human brain sends impulses to the entire body via electric pulses. So the aliens actually see us as food. Haha~ Well, at first everybody seemed to be doomed. Of course it seemed so since the aliens were invisible and they seem to be able to kill humans quite efficiently. Neverthelesss, they found out how to detect the aliens and how to counter their shield as well as hide themselves from the aliens using glass. =) And so the retaliation begins. That’s about so how it ends. =)

After the movies, we went back to our apartment to wash up and rest a little while before dinner. I was all so tired. Sunburned, exhausted, warm, all i felt like doing was cover myself up in a blanket and lie down in bed. Well, i did just that. I snuggled into my sleeping bag and rested awhile. =) We had seafood dinner that night. The food was, well not bad at all… doesn’t seem enough though. :P Maybe it’s because i’m just hungry. After dinner, we decided to go to a beach where we can chill out and relax under the night sky. So we went to Pantai Cenang. =) Ahh~ The beach. Close your eyes, lay on the soft sand, hear the sound of the ocean, the waves beating on the shore, the nice cool breeze. The sky, filled with stars, the moon shining ever so brightly. So calm, so relaxing, such a nice time having a chat with friends and playing around. =D Haha~ That’s about it that night. We spent over 3 hours on that beach. We all then went back to the apartment, played a little cards, watched some TV, then we all went to bed. I could see everyone was tired.

The next morning, well, i woke up early. Partly because i slept on the hard rock floor. XD I’m so bony and you know sleeping on the floor isn’t that comfortable. That morning everyone woke up surprisingly early. And i surprised everyone with Christmas gifts. ^^ Actually, i wanted to wear a Santa hat and sing Christmas carols. Haha~ Make it seem like Christmas to them. It would be nice if we had a Christmas celebration too. XD Haha~ We all packed up and bathed and prepared to check-out. After that we went for lunch. I had Penang loh mee. Haha~ It is Penang loh mee but it’s not as nice. ^^ Later we went shopping for chocolates, biscuit and alcohol! I was asked by my mom not to buy any chocolates so i didn’t buy much. Just two bars and some wafers. We still had quite a lot of time till our flight home so we went to a place called Galeri Perdana where all the gifts to our ex-Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir during his time as PM was. So many things in that place! There wasn’t actually much time to see all of them in detail. Haha~ We were going too fast. =) But it was certainly interesting to see all the things there. We spent most of our time there, then we headed back to the shop where we bought our stuff to collect them cause we left them there as we went to the gallery. We went shopping at another shop that looked really familiar to me. Then i thought, ‘Oh! I think i’ve been here the last time i came to Langkawi!’ That was long ago, when i was still small. Surprising i still remember. =D We had a light tea before heading to the airport. Then once all was settled with the rental cars and luggage, we boarded the airplane and headed home. =)

A long 4 days together with my friends at Langkawi. Many new experiences, interesting events, happy times, fun and laughter. =) Haha~ Almost felt like there could be more. Of course, we had to part and go home, but what happy memories we had there, let’s keep it and reminisce someday. =D With this, i’ll end my post on the Langkawi trip. Haha~ It has been a great time there. =D

Langkawi – Part 3

Haha~ It has been a week now since my last post. I haven’t even finished the post on my Langkawi trip yet. XD Well, i’ll try to finish it off now… if i can. I hope i still remember the events from a week ago. Haha~ I think the holidays are getting to my head. @@

Well, after a very long night, little rest, soon it was morning. That morning, most of us were all just exhausted. Good thing no one got a hangover. Almost all who drank puked all of the alcohol out already. Haha~ We actually wanted to postpone or cancel the island hopping thingy as my friend an i were talking about it last night while everyone was all groggy and asleep. But seems that we already paid for it and everyone seems fine enough to go, just a little head ache and sore throat here and there. Haha~ So off we went. Most of them only woke up about 9am or 10am. We all washed up and prepared for island hopping and left around 11am.

It was a really bright day. The sky was so blue and open and the sun was just glaring at us. We arrived at the jetty where we took a boat from there. I forgot how much it costs… hmm… well, it’s been a week. Haha~ I’ve been slacking so much on this post. Well, first off we were dropped off on an island which name was… err… something… err… hmm… i know i have it somewhere… ??? All i remember was the signboard but in my head right now, it’s blank. XP Oh well, it was some island. The sands were white and small grained, soft. We found a shade where we put our bags and then off we went into the sea. ^^ Yup, we all had fun there. The couple was nowhere to be seen though. Haha~ The rest of us was in the water. Just walking around the shallow spots at first. But i was ambushed and pulled into the water by someone. –.- Kicked a rock in the process. Haha~ Not only that, later one of my friend carried me and threw me into the water also. –.- Wah, i kena bully wei! Haha~ Well, we were all just having fun there. Dipping in the water. It was cold, the water, the wind too was blowing. We spent an hour at that beach then we set off to our next location. Some bay where we saw eagles being fed. The swoop down from the sky and grabbed the chicken drumstick floating on the water. There were brown eagles and grey eagles. Seems to me that the brown ones were not so efficient in catching the chicken from the water. I think the brown ones were the younger ones and the grey, the older ones. :)

Next off we were brought to Pulau Dayang Bunting. There, you could see the profile of the island looking like a pregnant lady laying down on her back. And there was a lake on the island called Tasik Dayang Bunting. I heard last time that if a lady bathed at that lake, she would become pregnant. Haha~ Well, there’s a story behind it but i’m not sure how it goes. We had to hike a little into the lake area but it wasn’t too tiring. At the lake, some of us dipped our legs into the waters and some of us rented a paddle boat and we paddled around the lake. Oh, it was so tiring doing that. And my legs got sunburned because of that. Haha~ So going back was more so tiring then getting to the lake cause my leg was all exhausted from the paddling. XD

Well, that’s actually the last of the island we went to. I’d say, not enough islands. Haha~ I’d rather go to more beaches. XD We sped back to the jetty. Oh the wind was so strong when it hit your face. I even felt like i could have been carried away by the wind as it blew me almost like a parachute. Haha~ When we reached back a the jetty, we all had cool new hairstyles. XD LoL~ It was about 3pm when we got to the jetty if i’m not mistaken. We didn’t have lunch so we went to a nearby mamak at the other larger jetty that seemed to have a mini shopping mall. Oh the food there was so UNHEALTHY! Haha~ I ordered maggi goreng. Yeah, they gave me maggi goreng with the taste of the ocean. XD So SALTY! XD XD LoL~ And the ais kacang there was soooo SWEEET! I think i could feel my teeth decaying there and then. Haha~ High blood pressure and diabetes. XD

Hmm… seems that 3 posts may not be enough to cover what happened in four days. Wierd, i’m pretty sure i managed to squeeze my China trip, which was almost a week long, to just 2 posts. Hmm… maybe i’ve added too much details here. XD Haha~ Well, i’m not sure whether i want to continue on with what happened the other half of the third day and the last day or should i just stop right here. Okay, i’ll just see whether i’m in the mood of continuing tomorrow or later. If not then, oh well, that’s all. =) Okay, that’s all for now. I think almost everyone has now recovered from whatever illness they got from the trip. =) Keep on smiling people! =D It’s good for you! Haha~

Langkawi – Part 2

Well, that night, i bet you could guess what happened. What involves a group of people and a whole lot of alcohol? Throw in some games with it and voila you get a drinking fest! And guess what happens next. XD Of course lots of throwing up and drunk people. Haha~ Well, i was only in the games for the first few rounds. Beer, not much effect. To my bad luck, i was forced to drink so many times in a row. @@ Good thing i had wind in my stomach that i threw up. XD So i didn’t actually threw up from the effects of drinking too much. Haha~ Even before i drank i prayed that i wouldn’t get involved too much into this, that i will know how to control myself. I actually thanked God i threw up. Haha~ Must be a sign that i was needed for the mayhem to come. XD

So, i was out even before the beer was finished. Then my friends moved on to the hard liquor. Vodka shots… with filler as an option. That far, it wasn’t so bad… yet. After i threw up i was so very dissatisfied. Haha~ Well, i just had to try the vodka too. XD Had a bun, and went in for some vodka voluntarily. Still… sober. Next up…. art thee be me pirate’s rum! Yeah, the rum was crazy. You could feel the burning effects of it on your throat. I tried some too. It was, well, more satisfying now. At least i could say i’m satisfied with what i have drank. Still… sober. But, the others were getting drunk. You could tell. The increasing volume, the urge to drink more. Among the nine of us, leave me and the two that sat out on this, means six of them, i’d say all of them were pretty much drunk. And i’d say 3 of them were still able to think straight. But the game still went on. I should have known, and perhaps took action to stop… but i don’t know how to. Haha~ Well, it was to the finish of the bottle of rum… or till one threw up. Fortunately one threw up… at the same time unfortunate cause it was all a mess! He missed the plastic bag i put in front of him. Haha~ Perhaps i should have forced it onto his face. XD Well, once that happened, those sober, three of us, the ones still able to think straight, another three, but one couldn’t help so he sat out, we all had to… well, clean up… and help all the drunkards.

Now, we have 3 sober, 2 drunk but able to help, 1 went straight to bed, 3 absolutely drunk. The one who vomited first was brought to the toilet where he spent much of his time there. Another was sitting on a chair, wanting to sit the whole thing out, to let his liver process the alcohol. He later went on to call someone to talk to! Oh my, i could just imagine how troubled that person would feel… and helpless too. Another was walking here and there, laughing and talking.

Well, we sent off the girls to bed first. Then us boys, 3 of us, one drank quite a lot, had to clean up and tend to the drunk people. We cleaned the floor where all the vomit was, tried to talk to the two who were so active and drunk but to no avail. Then one by one all of them started to vomit as well… till all of them did. @@ The worse was still that guy who vomited first. Wow, so much vomit, seriously. He vomited on the bed as well. I was there, i heard, i saw, i ran for the plastic bag, but i was too late. Oh, there were some stuff on the bed as well, they got vomit too. I tried to salvage whatever was left just in case he were to vomit once again. Well, that was all for him, but he caused the one who went to bed earlier to vomit cause he rolled onto him. XD Chain reaction, at least he was sober enough to ask for a plastic. There left the 2 most drunk of all. After they vomited everything out, they were much more easier to handle. One of them was put in bed so there left one more. The one who drank and helped us wasn’t feeling too good as well so he went for a short sleep. About an hour or so. So i just went around cleaning the toilets, sweeping the floor, tidying everything i could tidy so that it’ll be easier tomorrow, boiled water, tend to the one on the chair.

Around 3am i finally went to rest. The one on the chair was sleeping in and out but i think he’ll be fine so i took my rest. The one who rested for a while then woke up and took over. I’m not sure what he did but i could hear them speaking outside. I was quite uncomfortable too, can’t sleep quite well, stomach, windy. Must be the empty stomach and the little alcohol i took after i vomit. Seems that the one on the chair finally slept at 5.30am and the one who took over didn’t sleep much either. Wow, must be really strong to endure the effects of alcohol and still taking up the responsibility of taking care for the drunk. =) Good job, i salute you. And thanks for teaching me how to handle drunk people. I’d say, this is a valuable experience. It was kinda fun too. Haha~ Just that i couldn’t be the one who shouts at them and be forceful to them. XD Oh well~

Finally woke up at 7am cause i couldn’t sleep much. And WOW! How long this post is. I think i should make a 3rd part then. XD It’s late, i’m having a sore throat right now all of a sudden. Oh well, get some rest, drink lots, eat some medicine and i should be fine. Hopefully everyone else is doing fine. =) Get well soon! Oh my, why i suddenly feel all flushed. @@

Langkawi - Part 1

It’s a whole new year of 2012! =D This is my first blog post of the year. ^^ Well, blogging is slowing down lots for me right now. I think it’s because i play too much games these days that i have no time to write any. O.O Haha~ Hmm… i wonder how did i write so many posts in my secondary school life amidst the real busyness of a life of a class monitor and secretary. XD

Now, the first event of the year… trip to Langkawi! =D A trip with my dear friends, the nine of us, set of to the isle of Langkawi, mainly for the booze and chocolates but for me, it’s just the fun and the chocolates. XD FYI, Langkawi is duty-free if you don’t know it yet. :P We took the afternoon flight to Langkawi. Met at the airport around 5pm. Long time have i not met with all of them together, it’s just good to see them. Haha~

Though we were on time for the flight… it got delayed. –.- AirAsia, haha, i’ve heard of them always having flight delays. Well, what do you expect? Cheap flights, poor service. XD Haha~ The tickets cost us each RM123.Well, at least we have time to catch up and play some games while waiting… although, we missed the sunset. D= In the end, our flight was 7.45pm so we arrived at Langkawi quite late at night. Once we reached there, we had to rent two cars for us to get around the island. Haha~ Those people at the rental car booth seemed to be persistent that we take the Toyota Yaris. I suspected something… but oh well, everyone seemed to be in agreement. In the end, we rented the Yaris and a Toyota Vios. It was about RM70 per person for all 4 days, i’d say considerable. =) We had a late dinner once we arrived at Kuah town, all of us were famished! The food wasn’t enough for everyone but i guess we’re just grateful for any food we could find to fill our empty stomachs. =) We finally arrived at the apartment, Kondo Istana, where we were to stay at for the rest of the trip past midnight. My friend got the lodging for RM79 altogether! =) That’s like really really cheap. The apartment was, well like any other apartment, i’d rate it 3 out of 5 stars. Although it was kinda late when we got to our apartment, my friends still went out to get some beer. Then we all played some cards till around 3pm when we finally slept. That’s about it for the first day… more like a merge between our first and second because of the delayed flight. :P

Day two, hmm… let me try to remember. Ah~ The few of us who woke up early went out for breakfast. We went to a nearby coffee shop to have breakfast and bought back some food for the rest. I’d say, the fishball noodle wasn’t bad, and i think it’s about the best in that coffee shop. Well, that’s just my opinion. Once everyone was awake, we went for the cable car ride up the high mountain! The cable car station was located at the Oriental Village somewhere north of the airport near the mountains. On the way there, we got to see a bay filled with yachts! Well, i think this is the first for me. I’d say, compared to others, i’ve never been overseas much… but then again compared to others, i’ve been to overseas lots! XD lol~ Okay, so at the Oriental Village, we found a booth where we booked island hopping for the next day. We even got the cable car tickets cheaper by RM1 so it’s only RM14 per person. And something funny happened to my clumsy friend. Haha~ It was a big place up the mountain… oh my, dejavu. I felt like i wrote this blog post before in my dreams! =O Haha~ Well, continuing on, some… particularly one of us was afraid of heights! =O Well, i’m sure it’s a common thing. Everyone is scared of heights, just that we have different intensities of fear. =) The winds up there were kinda strong and cooling but not as strong as the ones i felt at Australia at the… err… penguin island i call it. =) Later on, we went to the Pantai Cenang. My friends bought lots of liquor there. (… and that liquor is soon going to be ‘wasted’ later on XD)

Next it was lunch time. We went here there everywhere. The sun was so burning hot and we couldn’t decide on a place to eat. You know, it’s so difficult finding food around foreign places. There, most of the shops seemed closed or too pricey for us. In the end we settled for some Thai restaurant. The asam laksa there was amazingly spicy. Not bad. Overall, the food wasn’t bad but my ice lemon tea was just terrible. x.x

Oh, on our way here… or perhaps it was on the way back… hmm… not sure. Well, we saw an AWESOME FIGHTER JET up-close! Haha~ Well, i don’t think i’ve ever seen one in action up-close before. My friend told me that place was where the LIMA air show takes place. Oh and nearby, there was a super large police training facility which seemed quite redundant. Haha~

Now, if i’m not mistaken, we went back to the apartment after the late lunch/dinner. And that night… well, i was about to encounter a whole new experience. XD An interesting one that i hope would not happen to me. Haha~ Well, it’s kinda late right now. I guess i’ll continue on with the rest tomorrow. =)