Sugar Quill

First Week of Training

2010-05-16T23:15:00.001+08:00

I started my industrial training/internship last Monday at Asahi Chemical Research Lab, which is near Amy’s house! Very near, in fact. My workplace is just behind Hillcity Hotel if anyone wants to visit (yeah, right…it’s so far) The training lasts for 2 months…and I get minimal pay (RM15 per day if you’re curious) Yeah it’s not that much, but still, better than nothing! And the people there are pretty nice… So I’ll just summarize up my first week…

Day 1:
Feeling super sluggish, I dragged myself to work…working hour’s from 8am to 5.30pm. (I thought companies were supposed to start at 9am??) So anyway, I was told to sit at the mini pantry area cos the workers are in a meeting. I later found out that they have a meeting every morning…and there’s usually more random meetings later in the day. The lady from the accounting department explained that the company makes soldering paste and all, and then took me on a tour around the place. The company’s small, so there’s not that many people.

I’m under the R&D department, and was told to treat some copper plates with acid to remove the oxidized layer. I bet most of you have done that somewhere during school. There wasn’t really much to do that day so I sat around feeling sleepy lol. Not good…oh, and I also washed some beakers and stuff. Pretty uneventful day. There’s also a Malay girl doing her training there from UTM Johor, but she’s already been there for 2 weeks, so she’s pretty much an expert at everything. So that’s it for my pretty uneventful day.

Day 2:
Was sent to do some stock checking in the R&D lab…basically it’s just jotting down names of all the chemicals in the cabinets. Unfortunately, all the cabinets were located under the counter and poor me had to squat to list all the chemicals. And there was a lot of it. I did 4 cabinets worth of listing. T.T My thighs started to ache later in the day…ugh. Later in the afternoon, I was taught how to do an E-Type test with the viscometer. It measures the viscosity of their flux medium, you see. Soldering paste is made of 2 things: flux medium aka. yellow gunk and powder (which contains lead and stannum) Also observed how to use the auto titration machine, which can measure the halide content etc of the flux medium. It looked fun, once you get the hang of it lol.

Day 3:
Was given a mini project/assignment…I was to carry out a stability test on their yellow gunk. There’s 18 samples divided into groups of 3. One group’s placed at room temperature, the other in the powder room (aka air conditioned room…dunno why they call it powder room though) and the other’s placed in the cold room (it's soo cold in there, like those freezer things you find in kitchens of restaurants). I was to measure their viscosity and stuff every 2 days for the room temp. ones, and after 2 weeks for the ones placed in the powder and cold rooms. I also used the auto titration machine on my own, yay! And I can now proudly say I’m a pro at using it :D Also learned how to do a copper wetting test, solder ball test, slump test…I just observed it though. Yeaa it was a blur though…cos I was so tired and feeling sleepy through the day. And by the time I get back, I usually just pass out on the couch. =/

Day 4:
Tried doing the slump test…it was an epic fail. Basically it’s just using a template and a metal scraper…and you put some solder paste in the scraper and then scrape it HARD along the plastic board thing so that the pattern from the template will be printed on it. Looked easy enough, but lol it’s actually harder than it looks. Mine had gaps and some were half printed on the board *facepalm* Also made some solder paste today…basically it’s just mixing their flux medium and powder. I fear for my health…though we’re told to wear a mask while pouring the powder, it’s still kinda dangerous. It contains LEAD!!! And inhaling lead isn’t good for one’s health…lead poisoning and all O_O Eeek! The quality control lab reeks of isopropyl alcohol/rubbing alcohol, too…I wonder if inhaling too much can lead to unwanted side effects. I mean, they use the alcohol to clean everything…unlike in school where we just use water. Also observed how to do printing…it’s just putting solder paste onto those electrical boards using a much larger template. And it has to be super precise and you have to drag the scraper REALLY HARD.

Day 5:
Ooh turns out on Fridays they have longer lunch breaks cos of prayers! Went out to Simpang Pulai with the other workers for some Indian curry rice. Apparently it was the boss’s idea to go there. Didn’t really feel like going cos it’d be awkward o_O Oh and we paid for our meals ourselves…when I told my parents, they were like ‘Huh? The boss didn’t pay meh? So stingy one!’ hahahahahaha Normally I just have bread for lunch…and sit and read the papers in the pantry area.

Not much work to do today…went around asking the senior workers if they had any work for me, but most of them were busy with their own stuff. At the last minute, like 15mins before 5.30, I was asked to do continuous printing. It’s a test to see how long before the soldering paste starts to dry up, they use paper for it…I was asked to do 15 pieces…and by the time I finished, it was like 5.45pm.

I didn’t really leave at 5.30pm every day…sometimes I left around 6pm cos I couldn’t finish some stuff. The workers there actually do a lot of overtime work, some of them are used to going back late cos there’s not enough people in the company. One of them went back at 11pm the other day O_O Crazy huh?? All in all, it was an interesting (and veeery tiring) week…but I learned some useful stuff. Some of my coursemates mentioned they had nothing much to do, and even had time to go online to Facebook, MSN etc etc!

Ugh tomorrow’s a brand new week already…I’m laaaazy. Can we just fast forward to the weekend already?? Now, I can definitely say that studying is much, MUCH better than going to work. Sorry if I put you to sleep with all the chemistry jargon…lol

Hell-O!

2010-04-30T23:25:00.000+08:00

Yes, yes have no updated this place in awhile…Twitter is addictive hah. Plus, I’ve been busy, as usual…

I really should start studying Physical Chem…since I have not touched it at all, not even during the study break, was occupied with other subjects >.<

Soo I have 2 more finals to go, and then I’ve got industrial training starting on the 10th. I thought today’s Unit Operations paper was gonna be nasty, but it went much better than I expected O_O, much better than crappy Physics. I dunno if I can even pass that one. So that’s the little update about what’s going on…

I’m sure most of y’all know the hit television series, Glee! It’s super addictive…it’s about a high school glee club made of some misfits and now some popular cheerleaders and jocks! A glee club’s a musical group, they’re like show choir groups :)

Anyway, I looove this week’s episode…even after the epicness of The Power of Madonna episode. It was all about emotions this week, and the fabulous Kristin Chenoweth returned to guest star! I just love it when she’s on…she’s just so perky and she’s got such a BIG voice! This week’s episode’s titled ‘Home’ btw…

WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILER AHEAD!

Where was I? Oh Kurt has this master plan to get his dad and Finn’s mom to start dating and have them fall in love just so he’ll get to room with Finn somewhere in the near future. It worked, but Finn’s not too happy about that…and when his mom starts selling his dad’s furniture, it’s the last straw for him!

Kurt gave this amazingly moving performance of ‘A House Is Not A Home’…I can’t believe Chris Colfer hasn’t done any Broadway shows…he just sounds sooo good, and that range, whoa! (We saw that in Defying Gravity).

Meanwhile, Sue wants Mercedes (and Kurt =O who, according to Sue has hips like a pear) to lose some pounds in a week cos a representative from Splits magazine who’s coming to McKinley High to interview her and do a feature on her, or Mercedes will be off the Cheerios. According to the other Cheerios, they stay skinny cos all they drink is Sue Sylvester Master Cleanse, which contains a vomiting agent (EW.) and cayenne pepper among other things.

'You think this is hard?! I’m passing a gallstone as we speak, THAT’S HARD!’

Another hilarious Brittany one liner in this episode…’Sometimes I add a teaspoon of sand’ (to Sue’s Master Cleanse drink) ROTFL! All this made normally confident Mercedes down and soon she faints due to not eating anything and after saying she wants to eat Artie and Tina lol. And Quinn was so nice to Mercedes in the nurse’s office ^_^

LOL!

During the pep rally, Mercedes along with the other Cheerios does a performance of Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful’. Originally when I first listened to it, I thought it was an alright version, but still preferred the original. BUT, after watching the episode, wow…that part was very moving…with all the kids standing up and joining in towards the end. Oh, and Mr Schue looked soooo proud of her ♥ Take that, Sue!

One of the things about Glee that I love is how it celebrates the differences, and being yourself is always enough. Last week in the Madonna special, Mr Schue mentioned how the guys weren’t treating the ladies like they should been treated and respecting them enough, even bordering on being misogynistic, and that her songs are about being strong confident and equality. Looove all the guys singing ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ except that Puck just HAD to ruin it at the end =_=” Jerk.

I’m so sleepy now…ugh think I’m gonna go faint on my bed. Til then,

Whateveryouwannacallit

2010-01-19T00:12:00.001+08:00

Gosh, this semester is so jam packed…for Physical Chem, instead of one tutorial/assignment sheet per week, we have two! Oh joy. All thanks to the fact that they decided to teach us thermodynamics 2 days in a week, and for the remaining day, Electrochemistry. @_@ *head spinning* Not to mention nasty Unit Operation…ugh. And Physics…which looks like gibberish to me. >.< Put them altogether and what do I get? 4 assignments per week…*slumps on the desk* and that’s not counting quizzes. That sounds bad. I MUST study more since I’m the queen of procrastination!

And I had hives during the weekend =/ Still recovering from it, actually…they have now faded to pale red marks on me skin. Oh, and I took some meds this morning for it, and whoaa within an hour or so, I was trying so hard not to fall asleep during class, but I dozed off now and then anyway. I dozed off during Analytical Chem, then in Physics and finally in Phys. Chem… >.< Note to self: Never take meds that make you drowsy before class.

Oh, today just before class ended, my professor showed us this slide about problem solving, which is totally hilarious! And he stressed that in industry, there’s no room for mistakes. Zero defect, he says…eek! Considering that I’ll most probably forget everything I’ve learned throughout my 6 semesters, how the heck will I get a job??? O_O

Notice that, if you fail to find someone else to take the blame, you’re stuck in an endless loop being the poor, poor idiot LOL!!!

Oh, oh Glee won a Golden Globe for Best Televison Series, Comedy or Musical today!! Woot!! I was expecting 30 Rock to win cos they ALWAYS seem to win everything (Hmmph!) and cos Glee’s a brand new series. True Blood didn’t win though =/ oh well, maybe next year…Alexander Skarsgård too, ~~cos he’s hot~~ cos he’s the perfect Eric Nelsan Ellis should’ve gotten a nomination…he’s brilliant as Lafayette!! Jim Parsons too from The Big Bang Theory…he rocks every episode! Hopefully the SAG awards will be much better…

This is ‘Granger Danger’ from ‘A Very Potter Musical’. It’s totally awesome!! It’s originally sung by Ron and Draco (who is played by a girl, but totally rocks the part). It’s infectious lol. Guy on the left’s Darren Criss. He plays Harry in the musical and I found out that he played Chad’s brother in Eastwick which got cancelled (Boo…). And they can SING! Like, really, really SING!! Sooo y’all should check it out, the full thing’s here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/StarKidPotter

They have the soundtrack up at their site, if anyone’s interested!

http://www.teamstarkid.com/verypottermusical.html

Obligatory New Year’s post

2010-01-01T14:21:00.000+08:00

Happy 2010 people!!

Here’re my resolutions for this year:

1. Procrastinate less (Hopefully…)
2. Study harder…as always (With crap subjects this semester, how do I do that??)
3. Spend less time on Facebook and Twitter ~~(Oh good gosh, is this even possible?)~~
4. Exercise more and hopefully shed some pounds (Hmmm…)
5. Make a larger dent in my reading list
6. Acquire a new skill hopefully?

lol let’s hope I actually manage to fulfill at least 2 of those resolutions.

On another note, my birthday’s just 2 weeks away. Oh noooo I’m getting OLD!!!!!!!!

T____T Can I just hit the pause button now? =/

Randomness…I’m addicted to the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris. I’m already on the 6th book now lol unfortunately I’m missing book 7. I’ll have to read the ebook next if I’m desperate enough lol

And ‘Empire State of Mind’ by Jay-Z & Alicia Keys has been playing in my head for days now…it might’ve been out for quite sometime now, but I only just discovered the song like a week or two ago lol. And it makes me really, really want to go to New York all over again. =/ One day…one day…

It’s the middle of the day but I’m getting sleepy again. Oy. Guess I’m signing off now! Happy New Year again! ^_^

Gumbo, gumbo in the Pot…

2009-12-15T20:05:00.000+08:00

Forgot to post this the other day… =_=”

Disney has been churning out digitally animated movies for quite awhile now with the help of Pixar. They’re great and all but there’s hardly any 2D animated movies these days. Disney’s latest offering, ‘The Princess & the Frog’ brings back the lovely handdrawn animation of classic Disney movies and it did not disappoint at all despite my friends and I getting 3rd row seats of the cinema lol!

The Princess & the Frog is a modern twist of the classic fairytale, The Frog Prince where the frog turns into handsome prince after the princess kisses him. Tiana’s a hardworking waitress who’s saving every penny she makes for her own restaurant, which is her father’s dream. In this movie, however the heroine, Tiana turns into a frog after kissing Prince Naveen, a penniless prince (after tampering with voodoo and The Shadow Man) who mistakes her for a princess. Together, they set off on a trip down the bayou with Louis (a trumpet playing alligator) and Ray (a Cajun firefly) to look for Mama Odie, a 197 year old blind voodoo priestess with a pet snake named JuJu so that they return to their human form.

The story is set in the city of New Orleans in the 1920’s and the drawings of the buildings, mansions and the bayou are simply stunning. Below is one of the artist’s concept for the streets of New Orleans:

It’s simply breathtaking, isn’t it?? I love how the sunlight filters through windows and down to the pavement below. And look at the amount of detail on the buildings. Beautiful…the artists are so talented! I particularly loved the scene with the fireflies…their light looked so magical <3 Oh and I didn’t know voodoo was practiced in New Orleans.. No wonder they chose NOLA as the setting for the movie, it has such rich history!

I just had to post this. The art is sooooo gorgeous! The fireflies hovering around the trees and flower petals drifting softly to the ground…so purdy. They rarely make movies like this anymore…

Loved the songs in the movie as well! They’re very catchy and fun…and they really have that New Orleans and swampy feel to them lol.

If you haven’t seen it yet, go catch it in a cinema near you! It’s certainly worth every penny :D

Louis louis! :D

2009-12-10T15:39:00.001+08:00

Yesterday, I stopped by Audrey’s place yesterday before we headed to Jusco…and look who came over to play!

~~This is Louise! (pronounced like Louis)~~ His name’s Louis like King Louis the XVI (?). He belongs to Audrey’s gran ^_^ No idea what breed he is but he looks like one of those sheepdogs lol a huge ball of white fluff!

How adorable is that?? :D He looooves to play lol he jumped and started licking my hand when I came in…and soon my jeans had doggie saliva all over lol

Audrey and Louis ^_^

Louis and moi…

Later, we headed to Jusco to have lunch at Cafe Takahashi with Ann Li, Stef and Seng Aik. Hmm..the portion of chicken chop with wasabi mayonnaise sauce that I had looked smaller compared to what Ann Li had a few weeks ago. And it cost RM12.90! I hate it when restaurants shrink portions of food after they’ve been open for quite awhile. =_=” Oh, and I tasted Kimchi for the very first time yesterday! It smelled funny… =S Poor Ann Li’s mouth was practically on fire from the Kimchi she ordered. After lunch, we went for another karaoke session before making our way back home. Hehe I must stop by Aud’s house more often during the next semester break ^_^ How could anyone NOT love that big bundle of fur that is Louis??? :D

Oh, the Things We Do for Knowledge…

2009-12-01T23:41:00.000+08:00

As some of you may know, the Big Bad Wolf book sale has arrived again! It was from 26th November til 2nd December. According to their site, there were promises of super cheap books for all ages, and I just could not pass up the opportunity to buy cheap stuff lols especially books. Since Amy was only free on Sundays cos of work, we went up to KL on that day. We traveled to KL free of charge, thanks to Amy’s aunt who was heading to KL as well, albeit for a different reason. And cramped in the backseat were Amy, her mom, cousin and I. My waist felt a bit sore after the trip =/ lol

We finally arrived around 11.30am after Amy’s relatives stopped for brunch along the way and headed to the nearest LRT station to get to Amcorp Mall. During the LRT ride, Amy pointed out that not a single person in the train was reading unlike the people in London and Singapore. LOL. We reached the book fair around lunchtime and luckily there wasn’t a queue outside the entrance like other days. There were boxes provided for those who didn’t bring their own shopping bags etc…and Amy and I pushed and carried the box along the venue as it became loaded with tons of books in no time XD

There’s a picture Amy took of our box before the selection process as there were just too many…will upload it when I get the pic from Amy. My stash comprised of just 8 books (the other 7 was with Ling Sim)…adding up to a grand total of RM120 worth of damage to my wallet, while Amy’s stash totaled to ~RM160. Fiction books were just RM8 each which was such a steal considering they were brand new and some of them were of the hardcover variety while cookbooks were RM10 – RM20 each though there wasn’t much to choose from.

I managed to get 8 out of the 9 books from the Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris, mostly thanks to LING SIM!!! What a bargain! I was starting to get desperate and wanted to get the boxed set shipped by Amazon. It’s cheaper but shipping costs were pricey. >.<

Finally took pics of my mini book haul ^_^

Oh joy! 7 out of the current 9 book ‘Southern Vampire Mysteries’ series aka. the Sookie Stackhouse series were obtained with Ling Sim’s help! And I found the 2nd book when I went on Sunday!! Wish I could’ve gotten ‘All Together Dead’ too to complete the collection, but oh well I’m still happy with these!! The hardcover one looks out of place though…but it was a HARDCOVER for RM8!!

Met up with Anne and Justine as well during the book fair ^_^ It was so nice to see them and we managed to take a picture or two before leaving as it was starting to rain.

The moment we decided to leave, it started raining cats and dogs. =_=” and we got drenched though we had an umbrella. Plus there was a pretty strong wind along with the rain and my umbrella threatened to turn inside out. NOT FUN. And Amy was laughing away watching me struggle with the umbrella. =_=” Hmmph!

Quoting Amy: ‘The things we do for knowledge / cheap books!’

We finally made it the LRT station and Amy decided to take a pic of us looking all haggard from the rain and wind. Weird… From there, we proceeded to Mid Valley to have a very late lunch / early dinner. Oh, and the commuters in KL are so rude. As we were trying to get off the super packed train, people from the outside kept rushing in and ignoring those who wanted to get off. So annoying…and it’s even worse when you have tons of stuff to carry. Bravo to Amy who told those rude people off! Hehe and I might have purposely rammed some people on the way out. That’ll teach them to rush in next time. >:( Uncivilized humans.

We went to Manhattan Fish Market! We tried the salmon chowder if I’m not mistaken…it was quite yummy but it contained lots of Ajinomoto in it lol

Mmmm…salmon chowder! ^_^

My Manhattan Fish & Chips (Had Alaskan Pollock cos I couldn’t afford Swordfish T.T)

Amy enjoying the salmon chowder…

Amy’s ‘Flaming Platter for One’

After our hearty meal, we burnt some calories carrying Amy’s huge bag filled with books around the shopping mall while doing a bit of shopping. Later, we headed to the bus station for the bus back to Ipoh. All in all, it was such a fun day…got to meet up with some very sweet friends and to spend some time with Amy. Even though I woke up the next day feeling sore all over from carrying Amy’s stuff, I had such a lovely time annoying Amy on purpose…keke hope the feeling’s mutual!

Oh, and Amy…you owe me some Krispy Kremes for helping you carry that bag around KL!! :D

An Afternoon Soiree

2009-11-22T23:35:00.001+08:00

It’s been sooo long since I last saw Ann Li so we went for a lepak-ing session today at the usual place lol Amy came along as well! ^_^ We wanted to watch 2012 originally but found out it was sold out for the entire day…(that’s what the lady said though the movie’s been out for almost 2 weeks now???) In the end, we decided to go watch Disney’s latest offering: ‘A Christmas Carol’.

Jim Carrey plays so many characters that I’ve lost track of which ones he was lol. He was the voice for Ebenezer Scrooge, the ghosts of Christmas past, present and Christmas yet to come if I’m not mistaken…and some other character as well lol. I’ve never read Charles Dickens’ novel, but I knew what it was about anyway. The gist of it is Mr Scrooge, who’s a stingy, grumpy old man gets visited by the ghost of his partner, Mr Marley, who warns him that his soul will bear heavy chains for eternity if he does not change his stingy and greedy ways. This is followed by 3 spirits visiting him on Christmas Eve who show him visions of the past, present and future. After the particularly scary images of the future, Oh you probably know what happens in the end anyway lol. I really must read the book one of these days!

The movie was pretty good…love the animation. Ann Li said it was a horror Christmas movie lol it’s definitely not for little kids haha as it’s a teeny bit scary at parts…particularly the ghost of Christmas yet to come, who is popularly known as the Grim Reaper. Chilling image indeed…compared to the ghost of Christmas past which resembles a candle and the ghost of Christmas present who looks ever so jolly sitting on a pile of food lol!

We went to the new (sort of) place, Cafe Takahashi for lunch…I had the Chicken Curry Katsu rice (again) which came as a set with mushroom soup and steamed egg which was so yummy! I forgot to bring my camera, so…

I do not own the following pictures! Credit goes to j2kfm.com

The chicken curry rice I had…though it had less pieces of vege and more curry

The wasabi mayonnaise chicken chop that Ann Li had…I must try it next time! Looks delicious ^_^

Amy had some sort of Udon which came with a giant ladle lol. And for an additional RM3.90 for each set ordered, we get to have 2 scoops of Haagen-Daazs ice cream. I’ve never tried Haagen-Daazs ice cream before and Amy and I shared the mango flavored one…and ohmygosh that was like tasting a tiny piece of heaven right there. (I’m just a poor student and therefore can’t afford expensive ice cream T.T) It was kinda better than Baskin Robbins’ ice cream! It was so smooth…and there’s small chunks of mango. Ahhh…I want some more!

Amyyyy get me a pint of Haagen-Daazs for my birthday, pretty pleaaaase? :D :D :D

It was so nice to see y’all again ^_^ we should do it again sometime! Do let us know when you’ll be coming back for the weekend Ann Li!

Eye Candy (Muahaha!)

2009-11-18T02:59:00.001+08:00

Finals are officially over…though I think I managed to screw up a few papers. I just HOPE I’ll be able to pass Anal. Chem. >.< My brain can’t process instrumentation, dang it!

Anyways, I discovered this little store in Queensbay Mall last weekend while wandering aimlessly. It’s called ‘Just Muffins’ and the place is just super cute! The whole store is bright pink and there’s a cute koala on its logo too ^_^ And through the glass display were the most adorable little muffins! They’re quite small, and I succumbed to its cuteness and bought 4 for RM6. Each costs RM1.60 btw.

I tried Holland Fries too the other day…the sauce was yummy though it was a bit pricey for fries…RM5.90 for the BBQ Meat Sauce and the cheaper ones were the normal flavors such as mayo and honey mustard.

Went again today with my parents to Queensbay after everything was all packed up. Bought 8 muffins for RM11 just to try out more flavors and stuff and cos my parents wanted to try them as well. Hehe I have pictures this time!! Do click on them for super ginormous size and major eye candy!! :)

I messed around in Photoshop and created this effect…lol what do you think? Hideous?

Non Photoshoped version haha. From left: Oats, Oreo and Chocolate Almond flavored muffins

This one here’s the orange flavored one…had a fancy name which I couldn’t remember

Yes, I’m alternating between Photoshoped and non Photoshoped pictures lol the one on the left is White Chocolate Cheese I think. Cheese wasn’t very fresh though? It was sort of hard when I touched it.

My favorite…the Snowy White Chocolate Chips flavor! ^_^

Lalalaaaa…please comment on which of the pics you like best (as in the Photoshoped one or non Photoshoped one) Again, click on the pics to view them in all their glory! :D :D

For the Dreamers…

2009-10-06T00:05:00.001+08:00

I stumbled upon this while browsing for random stuff…it’s beautiful and I thought I’d share it with y’all :)

“For the ones who look to the sky and imagine the possibilities. To the ones who look at a pile of discarded garbage on the side of the road, and see art. To the ones who often feel overwhelmed by the beauty of other people. To the ones who write, and paint, and think. To the ones who hate humanity, yet love it to death. To the ones who feel too strongly and love too deeply. To the ones who stay up late with heads filled and minds yearning. To the ones who drink life in and spit it out. To the ones who see the opportunity to create something new, where others see just another blank canvas. To the ones who cry and laugh and scream and rejoice. To the ones who hope and the ones who hold on.
Never stop dreaming. Never stop hoping and wishing. Never stop creating and never stop loving. Never stop screaming. Never stop feeling. Never stop searching. Never stop looking at the sky and marveling at beauty. Never stop holding on.
For when we do, the world will surely collapse.”

Random Tidbits

2009-10-03T01:41:00.001+08:00

I’ve been lazy lately…lol

My Raya break just ended. Boo…more tests to come, more assignments and finals are in a month’s time. Eeek! I’m so unprepared… >.< I’ll be super thankful if I manage to maintain last semester’s CGPA. But I have a feeling my CGPA will slip cos of my nasty Analytical Chemistry course, where all we learn is machines, components of spectrometers and all that crap. Oh, and the abbreviation for Analytical Chem is Anal. Chem. LOL!!!! It IS anal…a constant pain in the behind.

During the short one week break, I went out with Stef, Seng Aik and Nava who I haven’t seen in a loooooong time. A year I think. He still looks the same…like a stick =P Indon doesn’t seem to have any effect on him? lol Audrey and Ann Li were supposed to come, but Audrey was busy and Ann Li had her exams. :(

The lot of us went to catch a movie, The Ugly Truth starring Katherine Heigl and that dude from 300, Gerard Butler.

The movie was alright, it’s supposed to be a romantic comedy I think…Katherine Heigl aka. Dr. Isobel @ Izzie Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy plays this successful TV producer, Abby in Sacramento and she’s the controlling type and seems to have trouble in the dating department. Gerard Butler plays Mike Chadway who runs a television show called ‘The Ugly Truth’. Abby comes home from a disastrous date one night and happens to see Mike’s show and she then calls in to argue with him about how the perfect guy exists and that he’s out there somewhere and he calls her ugly lol. To her surprise, she discovers Mike at her tv station and he has been hired to improve ratings to which she objects.

She soon meets her new neighbor, Colin, who’s a doctor while fetching her cat from above a tree and then falling out of it lol. She’s convinced that he’s the man of her dreams and made a deal with Mike. Mike persuades her to follow his advice, and if she manages to get Colin, she’ll work with him. And if he fails, he’ll quit.

That’s the gist of it…I thought it was an alright movie. It has some really funny bits…and plenty of crude jokes from Gerard Butler. This isn’t your average fluffy rom. com. and I think that guys might actually enjoy this more. Heard Seng Aik laughing away at some parts…not sure about Stick though. I couldn’t hear the laughter, probably drowned out by some other noise?

After the movie, we waited for ~~Her Royal Highness~~ Stef to arrive so we could go karaoke. Oh, and we tried so hard to persuade Stick to sing along…he only sang a bit though =/ Wish you were here Auds! ^_^ Btw, we noticed no one brought us the bill like they normally would halfway through the session, and after our 2 hours was up, they decided to walk right out the exit without paying!! According to the others, it was their fault that they didn’t bring us the bill. But then a little later, Seng Aik got a call from the karaoke people telling him to foot the bill lol. Seems we didn’t quite manage to get away after all haha

Me, Myself and a Flying Cockroach

2009-09-08T15:09:00.001+08:00

I hate insects. Well, maybe not ants, but…others. Especially when they fly. I especially loathe FLYING cockroaches. o_O Last Thursday, another cockroach flew in through the window in my room. *facepalm* Seriously, the cockroaches I’ve encountered at home just crawl about and I’ll just ignore it. But when they fly, that’s another story. It’s been twice that a cockroach has entered my room through the window and I don’t even open the windows that wide, more like just a 1cm gap or so… =_=”

Soo it started flying around the room and I quickly grabbed something to shield my head lest it land in *gasp* my hair. =O That would be beyond gross, not to mention severely traumatizing. Then, I grabbed a Sunday copy of the newspaper (nice and fat, see?) and proceeded to roll it up. I’ve never actually had to kill a roach…I didn’t know you were supposed to just fold the paper in half and whack it. Yeaa so I spent like 15 minutes watching it and where it would decide to crawl and fly to. Ewww and it crawled up the wall near my bed. I was so worried it would land on my bed. GERMS!!!

That was when it went over to the other side of the room and I attempted to whack it when it was on the leg of a chair. Didn’t work. It got away…leaving me shaking. And it’s not even dead yet. Ugh. It went to hide behind something and I grabbed my roommate’s Ambi Pur spray hoping it’d be a substitute for insect repellant…(I don’t have any) and proceeded to spray it, hoping the chemicals would kill it. Gross…Oh, it was wriggling. *gelinya* O____O And then I grabbed a broom and whacked the hardest I could. It was still moving though. Ahhhh…*whacks it a few more times* Still moving. Grrrr…and I swept it outside hoping it’d die a slow death. After a minute or so, I peeked outside and saw it had flipped and was now moving once again. By then, I was getting frustrated. Why won’t it just keel over??? Grabbed the broom again and started hitting it multiple times til my arm hurt. Still moving a TEENY bit. GAH!! I swept it out and accidentally swept it under a block of wood lying around near the exit of my hostel. Bet you can guess what I did next. I stepped on the block of wood, making sure I was putting a fair amount of pressure on it, and there came the oh so sickening crunching sound. O____O By then, I was red-faced, shaking like a leaf and so traumatized emotionally as I walked by to my room.

I hate those things. I wish they would just go extinct and leave us in peace. They don’t contribute to the environment or anything, so no one would mind!

Ooh, I bought a can of insect repellent yesterday! Muahahahahahahahahaha

Up, Up and Away!

2009-09-02T19:59:00.001+08:00

Adventure is out there!

Took awhile for UP, the latest movie by Pixar to get here…it was released in MAY in the US and I’ve been itching to see it since I saw the trailer. Well, it’s finally reached our miniscule shores and I went to catch it on Sunday with Seng Aik. Wanted to watch it in 3D in the beginning, but it was already fully booked and the only seats left were like, the 2 rows in the front. >.< Gosh, and we waited sooooo long at the bus stop for the bus to Gurney Plaza…over an hour! Over the course of an hour, I watched the weather turn from cloudy to sunny to cloudy again to a slight drizzle and a combo of them. And since The Chuah didn’t get any sleep last night, he fell asleep at the bus stop, in the bus…you get the idea..tsk tsk

Anyways, back to UP. Here’s the poster:

Hmm…does it make you want to watch it now? Well, one of my friends thought the poster put her off (no idea why) and that the idea of a flying house with balloons tied to it just wasn’t appealing and didn’t want to watch it. Hehe you know who you are… But thankfully, she changed her mind after watching it on Monday (I think…) I told you Pixar movies aren’t your average animated film, right???

And I shall resist the temptation to say ‘I told you so’

~~I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!~~ Pixar = FTW!!!! :D

I thought the movie was absolutely brilliant! Overall, it’s about this old man, Carl Fredricksen who sells balloons for a living and has a passion for adventure. His dream was to travel to Paradise Falls in South America with his wife, Ellie. He met Ellie when he was a kid and she has the same passion for adventure too…they both have the same idol, Charles Muntz who’s an adventurer. However, the money they saved up was always used for some other necessity, be it to repair the damaged roof and other things. Time passed and Ellie passed away due to old age, leaving Mr Fredricksen grumpy cos he misses her so much.

Mr Fredricksen soon gets a letter of eviction and when the people from an old folks’ home came to pick him up, he tricked them and went off in the air with his house tied to a bunch of balloons to South America for the adventure he never had and to fulfill Ellie’s dream of having a house near the waterfall in Paradise Falls . Russell, a sweet kid who’s a Wilderness Explorer accidentally ends up on Mr Fredericksen's porch when the house went up in the air comes along for the trip as well.

After landing in Paradise Falls, they soon discover a colorful bird which loves chocolate. Russell names it Kevin (when it’s actually a female bird haha) and a dog named Dug with a collar that enables humans to understand dogs and what they’re saying. And together, they have the adventure of their lives. I’ll leave it at that, otherwise it’ll go on for pages.

Now YOU can own this collar too! Isn’t Dug cute??? And the Kevin bird too…so kawaii! ^_^

It’s Pixar’s 10th film if I’m not mistaken, and so far none of them are disappointing. They’re all awesome in their own way…and there’s something about Pixar films. They have that special something that no other animated films made by other film studios have. Perhaps it’s their stellar storyline mixed with a good amount of humor that keeps people coming back to watch it again and again. And Pixar really knows how to tug at one’s heartstrings. Some bits were just so touching and sad…it also tells of how important friendship is and also family. My favorite part in the movie was when Kevin was dragged (and got squished) along the window surface of Charles Muntz’s blimp and it made this hilaaaarious squeaking sound that left me in stitches! XD Oh, and the Alpha dog’s voice from the collar was so funny loll

Oh, and Pixar usually has a short film right before their movies. This time, it’s called ‘Partly Cloudy’, a cute story about storks and how they send human babies and baby animals to homes everywhere. This cloudy cloud has a tendency to create particularly not-so-fluffy baby animals (crocodiles, porcupines, baby sharks lol) and the poor stork has to deliver them and with each trip, the stork would get more and more beaten up lol It tells a tale of friendship…really sweet…you have to see it!

After the movie, we wanted to go to Chili's but there was already a waiting list and gosh the prices were O_O when I flipped through the menu. Hmm…but still, I HAVE to try it someday! Ended up going to the Manhattan Fish Market instead. I had the grilled catch of the day…yum! Love the garlic sauce they had…

This is so cool! It’s the Ellie grape soda badge…a little Googling told me that only 300 of those were made and were sold out way back in June at Disney’s Soda Fountain and Studio Store at Disneyland. T.T

Btw I love those vintage looking posters of UP…created by the amazing Paul Conrad. <--- Check out his blog…pretty interesting stuff. And he has a Wilderness Explorer cap and an Ellie grape soda badge!!! So cool!!!!!!

Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging

2009-08-28T10:48:00.000+08:00

Anyone heard of this movie? It’s totally fabbity-fab! It’s a British movie, directed by Gurinder Chadha who also directed Bend It Like Beckham. (Perhaps you’ve heard of that one instead…) The movie’s based on the books: ‘Confessions of Georgia NIcolson’ series by Louise Renison; Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging and It’s OK, I’m Wearing Really Big Knickers.

It’s about the life of 14 year old Georgia Nicolson, along with adventures she has with the Ace Gang, aka her best friends Jas, Ellen and Rosie. It revolves around how Georgia tries to get a boyfriend, trying to get her parents to throw her the best birthday party ever (in a club, with a DJ) and dealing with her parents who she claims are from the Stone Age/Middle Ages (aka. the 70’s) along with her kid sister, basoomas, and her beloved cat, Angus. (Yes, Angus is a cat, not a boy lol)

Movie poster

It’s such an entertaining movie…really funny too! My fave line:

”Honestly, Jas…sometimes I think you’re half girl, half turnip!” ~Georgia

LOL!!! I highly recommend this movie if you’re going for a sleepover or something ^_^ Did I mention it’s a British movie? Lovely accents ^_^ and if that isn’t enough to grab your attention…

Cute boys! lols That one’s Robbie…

The one on the left’s Tom

Oh, and Georgia’s sister, Libby loves dressing Angus up in everything,..XD

lol!!

Oh dear…hahaha…and sometimes she sticks Angus in the fridge!

From left: Ellen, Jas, Georgia and Rosie (The Ace Gang)

The music’s really good as well! In the movie, Robbie’s in a band called The Stiff Dylans (which are a real band)…love this song by them called ‘Ultraviolet’. Added it to my music player there ---> but I put it on shuffle haha so you might have to refresh a couple of times if you wanna listen to it :)

Alright, I seriously need to get some sleep. I’ve got bloodshot eyes. And these horrible dark circles. Brilliant, just brilliant. =_=” I look like a zombie. T.T

The Warlord of Terror - A Michaelian Production

2009-08-19T01:22:00.022+08:00

The annual Michaelian drama tradition continues with the 57th drama; this year it's The Warlord of Terror...inspired by the myths whispered from the dusts of the Tang Dynasty according to the folder I bought. It tells a tale of a vicious leopard who turns into a warlord, who needs human blood to maintain its human form. I went on Sunday, which was the last day of the screening, with Stefanie and Seng Aik. This year's drama was directed by Timothy Chee, who directed numerous Michaelian productions for years and the original screenplay was written by his son.

This was my first time going to a drama even though I was part of the stage crew in 2006...we did The Hunchback of Notre Dame back then, directed by Ms Corrine Mah. Ah...those fond memories...hmm, I still recall being yelled at by Ms Corrine about something that wasn't really a big of a deal =_="

Anyways, The Warlord of Terror was a refreshing change from the Disney based dramas Ms Corrine chose...it was very Chinese-y, good news for those aunties and uncles who came to watch. The narrator throughout the show was an old monk...who looked very convincing, though at times I could not catch what he was saying. Actually, I was quite blur about the storyline...but the gist of it is that the main character, a young master by the name of Kuo along with his faithful servant saves the damsel in distress, Yuen from clutches of the evil warlord and his minions.

I must say, the artwork and the costumes were stunning visually...well, tons better than the ones for The Hunchback of Notre Dame anyway...like Seng Aik pointed out, the 3 gargoyles were wearing cardboard boxes lol

Oh, and the warlord was very convincing...with his evil laugh and all...until he started rapping that is. The audience burst into laughter the moment he started rapping and his demons danced along in the background XD All in all, it was pretty good...though it was a bit boring at some bits and I couldn't really hear what they were saying. We weren't exactly sitting near the front cos someone arrived late.

Sorry there aren't that many pics...people kept blocking my view :( Ah, the disadvantages of being short >.<

The narrator (an old monk) not sure if it's visible...

They even had a lion dance bit at the beginning and ending!

The costumes are so lovely...

After the drama, we decided to have a walk around school as we haven't been there in so long...and proceeded to take some pics around the grounds. Stef wanted a pic of her and the whole school...but unfortunately, none of our cameras could fit the whole school into the tiny digital frames. Stef's brother was so kind to help us take the pics ^_^

Sorry we couldn't take a pic of you and the entire school, Stef. Here's a bit of it though :)

Near the entrance to the hall (*sigh* I look so short -_-)

At the parlour...

Photogenic Stef posing with a lion's head

Our beloved alma mater

Looks nice doesn't it at night?

Stef pointing at something...

More pointing lol

Not sure what this is supposed to be, there's more pointing though lol

Ah, the good ol' days when we would just chatter nonstop with the gang...we were the uh, noisiest in the class and I remember the head prefect would sometimes glare in our direction lol. I do hope I'll get to go to another Michaelian production in the future...

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

2009-08-16T02:31:00.001+08:00

Hmm…so now the sound and modem drivers are working fine on my laptop thanks to my *ahem* superior Googling skills after spending a couple hours at the library on Thursday. lols The volume icon’s missing though on the taskbar…and unfortunately, I don’t have the Windows CD to restore it…I MUST get one one of these days! Oh, and that pesky illegal DLL relocation is still there >.<

So I was browsing some sites looking for the stuff the other day…and I got infected by some viruses…(hence the blog title) that won’t go away! They are:

Braviax.exe
wisdstr.exe

And some Install [n],exe files that keep spawning everytime I connect to the Internet! There’s not just one of them, but multiple Install [1].exe, Install [2].exe….you get the idea. Oh woe is meeee, woe is meee…and after I quarantine/try to delete them, they appear yet again after each reboot, like mushrooms sprouting after a rainy day really…

Looks like my laptop will be paying yet another visit to the shop…gah! *bangs head on desk* I vow to get a Macbook when I have enough money!

Oh, on another note, I got myself a pair of SonicGear headphones along with an external HDD from the PC Fair in Penang last weekend! It’s a 320GB Seagate FreeAgent Go, and it’s prettyyyy…they actually come in 10 colors, but they only had like 3 there :(

I saw the other colors online, and I wanted orange:

Nice, isn’t it? ORANGE!!! :D

They even have it in PINK! For crazy people who love pink like *cough*Ling Sim*cough* lol

Mine’s silver! The surface is brushed metal and I thought the dots were just for show lol but look what it does when it’s plugged in ^_^

It lights up! And it’s supposed to have this fading light pattern when it’s doing its job, but I haven’t installed it yet cos of the stupid DLL error…I can’t install Photoshop either! Grr…

Lalalaaaa…look at the lights!

:D

Song of the Day: Good Girls Go Bad – Cobra Starship (feat. Leighton Meester)

It’s catchy…lol and oh noes, that new Miley Cyrus song, Party in the U.S.A is kind of growing on me??

Sick Laptop T.T

2009-08-12T21:48:00.001+08:00

Sorry I haven’t been updating recently…>.< my beloved laptop has been sent to the hospital and back, though it has not fully recovered. You see, I accidentally deleted this super important system file, ntdetect.com . I’d mistaken it for a virus in the beginning and accidentally hit the delete button. And no, I could not restore the file, for it was nowhere to be seen in the Recycling Bin. *sigh* So now, it has been reformatted…and it’s missing 2 drivers for sound and modem. Cos apparently the tech ppl at the computer centre said they couldn’t find the drivers my laptop needed nor did they have the CD’s to install them. And my laptop has been sitting in their shop since last Thursday…all it needed was a simple reformat =_=”

Ugh…and now there’s some sort of weird error I keep getting…an illegal system DLL relocation error. Googling has shown that it’s caused by some error while updating components of Windows…always hated that automatic Windows update thing. Sooo…guess it’s back to the shop where I bought my laptop from… T.T

My laptop’s all screwy now…*sigh* ~~I can’t seem to install custom themes…the default Windows blue theme thing just hurts my eyes. It’s UGLY.~~

Edit: Fixed the problem with the theme…seems I’ve got SP 3 installed and all I needed was another patch to get custom themes to work. Now my laptop’s looking like its old self again ^_^

And I shall leave you off with these amusing/interesting/beautiful pics I stumbled upon online…

lol! Get it? Sugar daddy! XD

Haha I like this one…if you’re a Potter fan, you’ll know what horcruxes are :)

Something Wicked This Way Comes…

2009-07-30T23:21:00.001+08:00

I know my review of Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince should’ve been up what, around 2 weeks ago? Okay I’m FINALLY posting it…after crawling my way out of the mountain of assignments and lab reports and well, procrastination. I’ve been looking forward to this movie for awhile now…and for those of you living under a rock, Harry Potter’s now in his sixth year at Hogwarts and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is out in the open once again wreaking havoc with his minions aka. the Death Eaters. Here’s the movie poster…you can tell that the movie’s darker than the previous one…

Overall, as a movie it was really good! Casual movie goers are bound to enjoy this installment of the Harry Potter series…it has action, drama, a bit of romance and humor that is guaranteed to entertain one for two and a half hours. This time round, Harry gets to have private lessons with Professor Dumbledore. Hoping to learn some advanced magic to defend him against Voldemort, Harry soon finds out that Dumbledore plans to take him down memory lane through his trusty pensieve, showing Harry Voldemort’s past…before he became the dark wizard the magical world has come to fear. The movie left out several memories collected by Dumbledore from others, such as the one from a Ministry of Magic officer. The memory in question was about the Gaunt family…consisting of Marvolo, Merope and Morfin (Marvolo’s children) Does the name Marvolo ring a bell? Yes? It’s Voldemort’s previous middle name (Tom Marvolo Riddle). The Gaunts are a very old wizarding family and are the last descendants of Salazar Slytherin. Merope was Voldemort’s mother and his father was an ordinary Muggle whom Merope fell in love with. Her love was unrequited, and therefore, she slipped him a love potion til she could not bear it any longer. Tom Riddle left her and she died not long after Voldemort was born. That’s basically a bit of Voldemort’s past. I could go on and on, but I think I’ll leave it at that haha. Anyway, I know they can’t fit everything from the book in, but it’d be nice to see that memory come to life on the silver screen.

The movie showed bits from Voldemort’s childhood at the orphanage as well…

The child actor was really, really good. He managed to capture the darkness that is Voldemort…think ‘The Omen’. Incidentally, the boy’s Ralph Fiennes’ nephew (the actor who plays Voldemort)

There were some very funny bits in the movie…most of them coming from Rupert Grint who plays ~~Roonil Wazlib~~ ~~Won-Won~~ Ron Weasley. And he has a girlfriend in this sixth installment of the series. Lavender Brown’s her name…lol and haha she’s really uh…something. Most of the time she just ogles at him, or well, snogging him. I must say, when Gryffindor won the Quidditch tournament, Harry was supposed to snog Ginny…instead Ron was shown snogging Lavender Brown. And Harry and Ginny did NOT snog in the Room of Requirement!! They changed that bit too… And gosh, the Weasley twins’ shop was beyond amazing!! Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes has so much cool stuff…no wonder they’re raking in Galleons in these dark times…everyone needs a laugh as they say…

Bellatrix Lestrange who was looking every bit the madwoman she is was great as well. Helena Bonham Carter did a good job as always…and Evanna Lynch (who plays Luna Lovegood) was brilliant as well! She was destined to play Luna…she’s exactly how I pictured Luna to be from the books… ^_^ Notice her turnip earrings lol

Haha here she is with a pair of Spectrespecs…free with an issue of The Quibbler (her dad’s the editor of The Quibbler, see…) Those are some cool looking specs…I’d like a pair as well…haha. She was the one who found Harry under his Invisibility Cloak when she apparently saw some wrackspurts around Harry’s head. In the book however, Nymphadora Tonks was the one who found Harry after he got beaten up by stupid Malfoy.

Ah, and the highlight of the movie must be the part where Dumbledore took Harry along to the mysterious cave which was suspected to house a Horcrux. (magical object in which one’s soul is kept in and hidden somewhere. You’d have to split your soul first, of course…) I’ll skip the details, but wow the scene where Dumbledore conjured the ring of fire to ward off Inferi was amazing!

Little did casual movie goers know, but that would be the very last time Dumbledore would save Harry. *sniff sniff* He got Avada Kedavra-ed by Snape…cos Malfoy was too chicken to finish the task given to him by Voldemort and cos Snape made the Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa Malfoy. And towards the end, Fawkes, Dumbledore’s phoenix was seen circling the sky… T.T in the book, there was the phoenix lament and the chapter called The White Tomb which was really depressing…none of that was in the movie though :( The funeral in the book was very beautiful…Dumbledore was the best!! His words of ‘Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!’ always comes to mind. And Dumbledore was particularly fond of the Muggle sweet, Sherbet Lemon ^_^ so fond he made it a password to his office..

All in all, despite the changes made from the book, it was a pretty good movie…and I can’t wait to watch the remaining 2 halves of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. I read that the battle of Hogwarts scene will last for 30mins…woot!

Song of the Day: Fireflies by Owl City

Edit: Whoaaaa this is one of the longest posts I’ve ever written…haha see how much I can blab and go on and on about all things Harry Potter? lol *taps map* Mischief Managed! ^_^ Oh how I wish I had a Marauder’s Map…

Bon-Odori

2009-07-21T00:43:00.000+08:00

So sorry for not updating in awhile…been busy and well, there wasn’t much to blog about, really. So, anyway, I went to Bon-Odori last Saturday with Seng Aik. For those of you wondering what Bon Odori’s all about, it’s supposed to be this event in Japan honoring one’s ancestors…to put it simply, it’s a Japanese version of the Hungry Ghost Festival. But you wouldn’t have guessed it anyway ‘cos the atmosphere there is anything but sombre.

>.< I was supposed to bring my camera back with me, but I forgot…and my phone’s camera is craptastic. =/ All pictures are ~~borrowed from Senget’s blog~~ courtesy of Seng Aik.

Bon Odori’s held every year in Penang and also in KL. It was held at the Esplanade here in Penang…and gosh, the place was so packed! Especially the road where all the food stalls were situated. Got there around I dunno, 6-ish? And I saw some Japanese families enjoying the evening, they look like they were having a picnic there! Oh, and not to mention a gazillion shutterbugs, some of which went to take pics of the Japanese families.

Family picnic

I wonder if they asked the families if they could take pics of them. They’re not some exhibition on display!

Ooh look at these adorable Japanese dolls! I wanted to get them, but they cost RM28 for a set of three. T.T

Oh, and this was some fish catching thing they had…

Something for the kids…

Oh, see this fan? They gave it out for free in KL. They sold it for RM5 in Penang…what a rip off! Pic thanks to Anne :)

There were performances as well, including drum performances and dances…

The bit towards the ending I think…the audience was encouraged to join in the dance but only a handful joined in lol

There was even a photo taking place where one could try on a yukata (Japanese garment) and have their picture taken with a parasol for RM20 O_O It was so expensive…or I would’ve gone…there was even a ghost house there lol RM8 for adults…the prices are insane! The fireworks display at the end was lovely though…that was the highlight of the event. Most people were hanging around til 10pm to watch it…

Well, it was quite fun…I’d like to go to the KL one some day…they have tons of food there! Sushi King even brought along their conveyor belt! There wasn’t a lot of authentic Japanese food here though…

Look! They have Japanese ice cream!!! (Pic thanks to Anne again ^_^)

Looks like I’ll have to end this post…it’s getting so late…and I’m sure I’ll look like a zombie in the morning… >.< Oh joy, I have to sit through one last Ethnic Relations course tomorrow. I’ll prolly fall asleep anyway…hate 8am classes…will update with more stuff real soon…goodnight folks!

Cupcakes ^_^

2009-07-03T15:24:00.002+08:00

Had a bake session over at Audrey’s place the other day with Seng Aik to bake some cupcakes and hang out before the semester starts. Oh, and also to visit Sunshine, Audrey’s plump and spoiled kitteh which I haven’t seen in such a long time lol. We followed Nigella’s cupcake recipe with royal icing by the way…

Doesn’t look too pretty yet, does it?

This is the final product…the batter. Look how smooth it is now ^_^

lol the mathematician in charge of measuring out the ingredients

Two thumbs up from Chef Percival (okay just one thumb up in this case)

A kitchen timer in the shape of a cooking pot! So cute..

The batter going into the mould…

Please note that Chef Percival does not specifically endorse any brand of flour whatsoever

~~lolololololol~~ Ooh look! Audrey uses Ubuntu!

Aspiring domestic goddess doing the honor of inserting the cupcake tray into the awaiting oven ^_^

Wheee…you can see the cupcakes rising already! ^_^ And the smell is so lovely..

Perfect cupcakes after 15-20 minutes! Yum!

In goes the icing sugar, egg whites and lemon juice for the icing…ooh shiny!

Don’t they look lovely? And the dripping icing…lol

Icing overload lol

La pièce de résistance! 100% edible, yummy cupcakes… (Sugar high?)

Semi-high on cupcakes and sugar lol (Stef, wish you were here! Curious to see how high you can get on sugar keke)

Sunshiiiiiiiiiine :D

Awwww…cute kitteh

After cleaning up and all that, we headed off to lunch and picked Stef up at her house along the way…we decided to head off to David’s Diner, located in the Greentown area and it claims to have ‘Truly American food’. Lovely place…the prices are affordable and with a decent serving size. Oh, and it has Mexican food!

This is the Mexican Burritos which Audrey had I think…with some Mexican rice by the side.

Stef’s Mexican Tacos with Minced Chicken Filling…she claims that burritos, tacos and quesadillas are all the same lol

Seng Aik’s Seafood Alfredo

I had the Roasted Chicken Quesadillas set with 2 side dishes; Italian Roasted Potatoes and Mac & Cheese. The quesadillas and potatoes were so delicious…those were 4 BIG pieces of quesadillas. Gosh and I’m feeling hungry now..

After all that, we decided to go for a karaoke session…again. lol Stef tried to get out of it, but we made her come along anyway. Tsk tsk excuses…she said she was sleepy after that hearty meal…but she was anything BUT sleepy during karaoke lol We did a bunch of MJ songs…too bad they didn’t have Man in the Mirror…love that one. Audrey went crazy during Thriller lol and started doing ‘ow’s’ and ‘whoo-hoos’ hahaha should’ve recorded that. >.< And Stef toned down her rapping and went for more mellow songs instead. We missed Stef’s rapper self… Oh, and Audrey did her signature theme song, Whitney Houston’s The Greatest Love of All…and it was…both hilarious and uh memorable XD lol what a nice way to end our holidays…eurgh I don’t want to go back T.T Will be counting down the 6 weeks til the mid-semester break!

Jalan-jalan Cari Makan with Amy!

2009-07-01T02:45:00.001+08:00

Last Friday, I hung out with Amy and also to exchange DVD’s lol my Hugh movie collection for her numerous Brit series/random tidbits. Somehow, she managed to persuade me to have lunch at Kizuna Japanese Restaurant…located near Medan Ipoh or rather the drive-thru McDonalds. She suggested Korean food initially but I wasn’t too keen on that.

The interior of the restaurant was kind of nice…but the waiters were hovering about closely, which I find weird. o_o Oh yes, I should probably mention that this is my first time going to a real Japanese restaurant…normally I just buy sushi or California rolls from the Jusco supermarket lol Amy did all of the ordering, except for my dish of course…me being completely clueless about Japanese names for food.

This is steamed baby soybeans/edamame if I’m not mistaken. Furry little beans…they tasted alright. A very healthy alternative as a snack I must say…

Oh yes, and I tried sashimi aka. raw fish. Wasn’t too keen on trying it, but I had to admit I was pretty curious after hearing how wonderful and fresh it is from Amy. She ordered I dunno, 5/6 slices of raw fish (a mixture of salmon and something they call white tuna/butterfish???) for RM20

Raw fish…they sliced it rather thickly I think

I chose the white tuna slice as Amy said the salmon has a slight fish smell to it. I attempted to nibble a bit off the edge, but to no avail. I couldn’t even bite it off no matter how hard I tried as it was uncooked meat. Hence, I shoved the whole piece in my mouth and chewed and chewed and chewed for what seemed like eternity. Um…it tasted sort of odd. Amy, on the other hand was making these sounds like she was eating little slices of heaven itself lol and I swallowed the remaining chunk of fish in my mouth using what I’d ordered for lunch and cold green tea…

Some beef thing Amy had…the set came with rice, miso soup and slices of fruit for RM20++ I think?

Potatoes munching on edamame happily…

Time to dig in! Rawr!!! *Amy attacks food* Heehee!

*watches Amy attacking food* =P

Had the Chicken Katsu Curry which also comes with miso soup and fruit slices (I think that’s what the name is?). I loooove Japanese curry. It’s so thick..yum! Cost me RM18 though. I’m broke T.T

After a hearty meal, we decided to go to Ipoh Parade for awhile, and on the way there Amy decided to stop at Canning Garden to pick up her favorite (according to her, THE best) Yau Char Kwai (Chinese Crullers) and banana fritters. Got some fried sweet potato slices (or was it tapioca) for my parents too…but it was kind of oily according to my parents. The store is situated in a coffee shop around the corner of Canning Garden if anyone wants to know…it’s along the main road. I’m sure everyone knows where it is anyway…

Oh yes, and somehow after a walk and a snack at Kopitiam Junction in Parade, Amy whisked us off to Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah. It’s situated near Foh San restaurant at Osbourne Street (Jalan Tahwil Azar). A bowl of tau fu fah only costs RM0.80 and you can even have them bring it in a bowl to your car like a drive-in delivery service! It is served steaming hot and it has a very smooth texture. Very yummy…turns out this place is quite popular despite its modest appearance.

Haha how we ended up driving all over town for a jalan-jalan cari makan trip I do not know…I was so stuffed I ended up skipping dinner. o_o But it was a blast, nonetheless. Hehe thanks Amy for driving around…we should do it again sometime ^_^

Monsters vs. Aliens + Karaoke Session

2009-06-12T02:46:00.001+08:00

Finally got to see Monsters vs. Aliens today…after hearing all the hype and the excitement from Audrey and Ann Li (who absolutely loves Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. lol)

Ipoh doesn’t have 3D unfortunately =/

Well, like the title says, it’s about a bunch of monsters versus some aliens in order to save Earth. I thought it was really funny…especially B.O.B! (short for Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate) He’s a brainless gelatinous mass (that blue thing above) that is indestructible and eats everything lol haha and somehow falls in love for some green Jell-O in the end XD Then there’s Ginormica aka. Suuuuuuuuusan who’s a human hit by a meteorite and has somehow grown 100 times taller and stronger, Dr. Cockroach Ph.D; a mad scientist who ended up being a cockroach after an experiment gone wrong and The Missing Link, a fish-ape thingy who’s rather out of shape lol

Oh, and my favorite: The Insectosaurus!

RAWR. Isn’t it cuuute? (It’s actually a grub, but it has fur somehow lol)

It looks a bit deranged actually…haha and it seems attracted to bright lights XD and in the end, somehow THIS ^^ sprouts wings and becomes a pretty butterfly lol I thought the movie was pretty funny! But it’s not Pixar movie…I’m not biased, it’s the truth! Stories by Pixar have this magical quality about them and the tales are heartwarming. And they always outdo themselves with every movie…I can’t wait to see UP! (currently has a whopping 98% freshness on RottenTomatoes.com)

Oh, and after meeting up with Audrey and Stef, we went karaoke-ing. Turns out Stef has this alter-ego in her that she’s been hiding! You know, like Beyonce has Sasha Fierce…lol today, Stef unleashed her inner rapper! She needs a rapper name…suggestions, anyone? XD haha I have to say…she was actually pretty good! But Stef + hip hop lyrics don’t really go well together…we ended up laughing non stop everytime an inappropriate sounding lyric came up which I shall not mention for fear of incurring the wrath of Stevie.

Stef with huge sunglasses cos she thinks she looked weird in almost every pic =_=” lol

The bored and slightly fed-up look on everyone’s face 529405131 pictures later

Karaoke queen in action

Haha I had a nice time today XD Am tempted to post the video, but I’ll probably get chased all over town by Stef with a pitchfork or some pointy things…

Diary of A Working Girl

2009-06-10T02:27:00.001+08:00

Finally got the Bluetooth to work on my laptop. Turns out the free, Bluetooth dongle is a piece of crap. No wonder it was given to us free. Anyways, I’ve been working at the Popular Book Fair at Yuk Choy primary school from Friday to Sundays for 2 weeks. Not much interesting stuff going on…I was supposed to be promoting Spritzer’s new flavored drink, Tinge (not sure how new it actually is lol), give out samples to the people passing by and sell mineral water and Spritzer stuff. Oh, and I was drowning in shirt on the first day. The salesman for Spritzer came by to drop off a huge pack of ice and 2 hideous and oversized shirts. The first one (hideous purple one) had the sleeves coming down to my elbows (=_=)”. I was drowning in shirt. Literally. I shall not post the picture here…

Audrey and Ann Li came to visit on the first day…and but they started laughing like mad when they saw me. (-_-) And then, one of them snapped a pic of me. Ishhhhhh. On my last day of work, Amy came with her sister. Again, more laughs. This time, from Amy. *glares* Went around with her searching for interior design books while Angelyn kept reminding her to hurry up lol Anyways, here’s a couple of pics…

Audrey and me ^.^

Me, Audrey & Seng Aik. Still drowning in shirt, but not as horrible as the ze hideous purple one… (-_-) Picture courtesy of Audrey.

Empty boxes…lol

And what would a book fair be without purchasing some books? There goes a chunk of my salary…the books were so unbelievably cheap that no book lover could walk away empty handed! There were books with 50%, 70% and 90% off…and I noticed people buying at least a few bags worth of books. lol here’s my haul… I got 2 Adrian Mole books! I’ve always wanted to read them…oh, and 3 Meg Cabot books lol

Lalala…my lovely pile of books! One or two were like RM1 lol

Pretty stack of books ^_^

This one right here’s a real steal…only RM6.20 and it’s brand new! Original price was RM62

And this is why it’s only RM6.20 lol other than that, it’s in mint condition

Total damage: ~RM144

I am officially broke.

Song of the Day: Zero Gravity by David Archuleta

Taggety tag!

2009-06-08T23:43:00.001+08:00

Yes, another tag. Sorry I haven’t been updating regularly…I’ve been working during the weekend. Will post about it as soon as I upload the pics from my phone. Well, my laptop doesn’t have built in Bluetooth and I installed this Bluetooth application using a CD that I had for my desktop. And when I plugged in the Bluetooth thing, it doesn’t work at all like it does for my desktop. Soooo I have to transfer the pics from my phone to my desktop, and transfer the pics to a pen drive and then to my laptop. Oh. I just realized I have zero pen drives now. >.< Have to get them back soon. Well, the worst case scenario is use a floppy drive lol if I can find one XD

Oh, and I’m supposed to this tag. Here goes…

Once you’ve been tagged, you have to answer this and tag at least 15 people, including the person who tagged you.
Tagged by: Anne

1. What color is your toothbrush?
White and red

2. Name one person who made you smile today.
Amy when I asked about her 8 month financial emergency fund ^.^

3. What were you doing at 8 am this morning:
Sleeping like a log

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?
Online? Or in the kitchen…

5. Favorite Candy Bars?
Hmm…anything with chocolate :D

6. Have you ever been to a strip club?
Noo…

7. What is the last thing you said aloud?
Huh?

8. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
I’m fond of sorbet stuff…I like Rum Raisin! I hate minty stuff though..

9. What was the last thing you had to drink?
Water

10. Do you like your wallet?
Maybe? It’s just plain ol’ black really…

11. What was the last thing you ate?
Chicken rice

12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?
No

13. The last sporting event you watched?
I…don’t know. Not really a sports fan..

14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn?
The regular one I guess

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to and what did it say?
Jacyn..about registering courses for next semester

16. Ever go camping?
Nope

17. Do you take vitamins daily?
I’m supposed to take 6…but I’ve been lazy? lol

18. Do you go to church every Sunday?
Nope…I’m a Buddhist

19. Do you have a tan?
Yes. T.T

20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza?
Sometimes? I like steamed and pan fried dumplings!

21. Do you drink your soda with a straw?
Nope except at McD lol

22. What did your last text message say that someone sent you?
Hi! Pui Yee! Shun Chin here! Just want to ask you if you’re taking minor/elective ?

23. What are you doing tomorrow?
Go online. Continue reading Meg Cabot’s All American Girl.

25. Look to your left, what do you see?
A couch and a wooden telephone stand with a bunch of past Reader’s Digest issues near the bottom.

26. What color is your watch?
Don’t really wear a watch except during exams lol

27. What do you think of when you hear Australia
G’day, mate! Kangaroos! Australia (the movie) and uh, Hugh Jackman XD

28. What is your birthstone?
i think it’s garnet?

29. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?
Um I’ve only been through the McD drive through like, I dunno twice so far??? lol

30. What is your favorite number?
8

31. Who’s the last person you talked to on the phone?
My daddy ^.^

32. Any plans today?
Continue reading…and then go to sleep.

33. How many states have you lived in?
2

34. Biggest annoyance right now?
My cough… =/

35. Last song listened to?
What Do You Do with a B.A. in English? / It Sucks to Be Me from the musical, Avenue Q

36. Can you say the alphabet backwards?
When it’s written out lol

37. Do you have a maid service clean your house?
Nope…

38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
My white and pink Nikes ^_^

39. Are you jealous of anyone?
i envy people sometimes…

40. Is anyone jealous of you?
Don’t think so?? Not that I know of…

41. Do you love anyone?
Yes…I’m not a robot.

42. Do any of your friends have children?
Nope. Not yet anyway…lol unless you count Audrey and her I dunno how many adopted children, eg. me + my friends XD Momma hen!!!

43. What do you usually do during the day?
I go to classes, go online, tweet, read a book, eat, sleep…lol

44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now?
Gosh no! Make music, not war! (lol I saw that saying on a shirt)

45. Do you use the word ‘hello’ daily?
i think so…haha

46. What color is your car?
My imaginary one you mean? Oh then it’ll be I dunno, silver! Or maybe black…

47. Do you like cats?
Yess! (Not as much as dogs and horses though) but they’re adorable!!!

48. Are you thinking about someone right now?
Yes

49. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
I haven’t even been to the US…

50. How did you get your worst scar?
Hmm…it’s barely visible, but I crashed into a flower pot on my bike I think when I was little XD I think I had stitches lol

I tag: Ann Li, Seng Aik, Ling Sim, Angelyn, Justine and uh, anyone who wants to revive their blog lol

KL Trip

2009-05-22T10:50:00.001+08:00

Went to KL for a one day trip yesterday with Seng Aik by train…met up with Stef and Audrey at UM. Stef said she was going to meet us at the bus stop in front of her college. Well, she was nowhere to be found when we got there. No warm welcome :( We ended up wandering around her college as she got ready. Will upload the pic of Stef posing in front of her college tomorrow. She took us on a tour around her campus and then to the Science faculty where Audrey was waiting where we tried to find out what grade she got in one of her courses lol

Then, we took a taxi to 1 Utama where Ann Li was waiting. Had lunch at The Garden cafe. Lovely place…the food was really good, too! And the place was so pretty…though it was mostly surrounded by fake plants lol WARNING: IMAGE HEAVY!

Lovely grand piano near the entrance…

Audrey, Ann Li & Seng Aik at the entrance

The menu! It’s like a hardcover book with some description along the sides…prettyyy. Saw one page about the flowers according to the month you were born

The dessert page! Click to enlarge the pics.

Stef getting ready to dig in! She had the Black Pepper Chicken Chop…

Audrey insisted on taking pics of everyone with their food…I love the roast potatoes by the side!

Audrey + I <3 Jesus shirt + Spaghetti Carbonara with shrimp (I think that was the name?)

Seng Aik had the Butter Garlic Dory Fish…(Ann Li already had lunch with her family at the spot and is grinning happily lol)

Orange Mango Sorbet…yum! The texture was so smooth…and it looks so adorable too! :D

I think that’s a fountain?

The pretty fake plants around the cafe…

Group photo in front the grand piano…picture taken by the lovely waitress who also loves Jesus like Audrey

No idea what they’re doing with the plushies…

Then, we walked around 1U…that’s when Stef claimed she had this power over the touch screen directory where she could operate it without touching the screen lol Oh, and Stef wanted to go the Jeans shop so badly. We went searching for it with her leading the way but ended up going the wrong way or something…while Stef was on her quest to the Jeans shop, Aud and I went to get some gelato and a bagel lol and Stef couldn’t find us after she was done looking at jeans even though we were quite near. After that, we decided to walk to The Curve…we went to Cineleisure where we found this…and Stef started going on and on about Yasmin Ahmad and how she was going to be the star in one of her future movies (???) I wanna try Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. at The Curve one day! (Sound familiar? Bubba Gump’s inspired by the movie, Forrest Gump!) It’s a seafood place ^_^

Mike & Sully from Monsters Inc!

That white line down the middle of the glass spoils the pic… =_=”

I think they were trying to imitate Mike and Sully haha

Cineleisure area…they even had the captain’s chair from Star Trek up for auction! That’s when Stef said something that sounded so funny but wrong at the same time…lol she’d kill me if I posted it here XD

2 Zac Efron fangirls ~~groping~~ wanting a piece of Zac for themselves

Coming soon to a theatre near you: Stefanie vs. Audrey!

There was this lovely pet place in one of the shopping centers. Can’t remember which…it was Ikano I think?? The funniest thing happened: we were looking at this cute golden retriever and poodle in the grooming area and the excited poodle pounced near the door. Stef screamed and ran away…and we collapsed in fits of laughter lol Oh, and on the way back we couldn’t find any transport…no bus stops and the taxi driver wanted to rip us off. –_- We ended up going back and forth to Ikea or something and finally decided to walk back to 1 Utama to catch a bus back to KL Central, but soon discovered that the drivers were resting til 9.15pm. Our train was leaving at 9.45pm and we finally took a taxi back to Central, making it just in time to catch the train back to Ipoh. So exhausted after I got back…I slept through part of the American Idol finale lol and woke up to find Kris Allen singing the coronation song. Yay Kris!!! Okay think that sums it up for the trip…click on the pics for a bigger version! :)

Pictures courtesy of Audrey ^_^
Editing done by me :D

Of Feedback Forms & Wolverine…

2009-05-02T18:27:00.003+08:00

It’s been ages since I last saw ~~Potatoes~~ Amy…so I met up with her, her sister, Angelyn and Dee Dee aka. Ling Sim on Thursday. While waiting for Amy, Ling Sim and I had lunch and stuff…and then she mentioned that she wanted to fill in the feedback form at the booth near the supermarket at JJ. lol like Dee Dee said, we did a meaningful thing! XD She asked for suggestions on how to write it and I was under the impression that it should sound polite and sophisticated or something. Turns out she wanted it to sound rude and angry lol it’s about their newly implemented AutoPay ticketing/parking system in case you were wondering. I suggested that Jaya Jusco should be more considerate to the elderly and the disabled, cos you need to pay if you want to enter Jusco now. So that makes dropping passengers off difficult. She thinks I was trying to write an essay… =_=” She did all the writing haha

Picture courtesy of Ling Sim. Haha and then we noticed the little area at the bottom which required our name, contact number and all. We didn’t really want to put in our details, so we decided to use Amy’s. XD She wasn’t there yet…haha *shifty eyes* But Ling Sim told her about it later, I think. Um, so Amy…feel free to use our name next time XD hehehe

Went to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine too. Amy doesn’t like comic book movies…I dunno why, haha so she went and watched it cos of Hugh Jackman. (Why, Amy? They’re entertaining!) Here’s the movie poster:

I thought it was really, really good! Action packed, awesome explosions, eye candy…hahahaha what more could one ask for? A must watch for those comic book fans out there, what a great movie to kick off the summer blockbusters… Even though a handful of the mutants were only on screen for like maybe less than half of the movie (they got killed by Victor Creed/Sabretooth) some scenes were really memorable. Loved that sword sequence that Wade Wilson/Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds) did. He’s real funny in the movie, too and I thought that was some special effects, but apparently it’s not! Oh, and that fight scene towards the end where Victor and Logan teamed up against Deadpool (who didn’t have a mouth, it was creepy) was so cool… Haha I remember during the movie, Logan got pinned to the ground by a tree trunk, and Amy was like ‘How come he didn’t become a pancake?’ LOL! Ooh forgot to mention the breathtaking scenery...the Canadian rockies are beautiful...the sunsets are so lovely...

Can’t wait for Transformers 2! Angels & Demons looks promising, too…the book was fantastic! Here’s a new movie trailer called Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. It looks like it’s going to be a great movie…

Procrastination

2009-04-26T19:32:00.004+08:00

It’s true. I’ve been abandoning my blog for Twitter. It’s so addictive…and easier to update as well. Just 140 characters! For those of you who don’t have the slightest clue what Twitter is, it’s a social networking thing like Facebook (well nothing like Facebook actually) It’s like a microblogging site where you update your status or whatever you want to say using just 140 characters. It’s very interesting, lots of interesting people are on it as well. John Mayer always has the most interesting (sometimes weird) tweets lol and recently there was this Twitter war between CNN and Ashton Kutcher, it was the race to a million followers. And both parties have pledged to donate mosquito nets to Malaria No More, win or lose. Go get Twitter, people! www.twitter.com is the link. For those of you who’re ~~feeling stalkerish~~ interested, this site has a list of celebs who’re on Twitter. http://celebritytweet.com/ It also shows their updates. Cool stuff. Ooh, and Grant Imahara and Adam Savage from the Mythbusters are on it too! They have some great pics from the set and stuff haha

Finals are finally over. Not sure how I did…

Physical Chemistry – Brutal. Horrible. I think I failed it. Tons of careless mistakes. T.T

Elementary Statistics – Um…not sure. Not too good cos there were a few I didn’t know what to do, and when I did know how to do it, halfway through the answer, I made a mistake. Oy.

Chinese – Alright I guess?
TITAS – ………. Last minute thing. Fate not sure.

Organic – Not sure either. Didn’t know how to do some parts.

English – It was fine. Merahn gave me an A- for my coursework, yay!

Expecting the worse for my CGPA. I’m not the brightest. *sigh* There goes that Dean’s List out the window. *crawls into a hole and hides*

Song of the Day: Know Your Enemy – Green Day

Awesome song from Green Day. Their new album, 21st Century Breakdown is coming out on May 15th. Sounds amazing! Hope it was as good as their American Idiot album.

Random Rants

2009-04-07T12:21:00.001+08:00

Randomness.

Just came back from town…my dad was driving and there was this Malay guy on the side of the street and suddenly he knocked the side mirror of the car. Then, he turned around and started saying all kinds of stuff bout how we ‘tak tahu memandu’ bla bla bla ‘tak tengok’ bla bla bla along with an array of hand gestures. What the heck…he was the one who didn’t look where he was walking. It’s a street! You should’ve known better than to walk towards the middle of the road where there’s tons of cars that can knock you down. Aih…

My room smells. I came back last Thursday and after I switched on the AC in my room, I noticed a strange stench…it was like, 2am at that time. Yeah, so I tried to sleep but the smell was just unbearable…turns out a lizard died in the AC and when I turned it on, the smell gets worse. I spent 2 days sleeping in my parents’ room…on the floor haha

Since then, my dad’s removed the dead lizard but there’s still the faint smell of it whenever the AC’s on. Ick.

Just a short update…finals are next week. So unprepared. Ahhhhh… I’m the queen of procrastination. Must. Not. Procrastinate.

I’ve just discovered the magic that is Twitter haha and there’s celebs on it too! Taylor Swift, Adam Savage & Grant Imahara (from the Mythbusters), SP’s Chuck Comeau…just to name a few. It’s pretty interesting! Go check out Twitter if you haven’t already…

Random pic: Found this over at I Can Has Cheezburger (awesome site). Hahahahaha @ the kitteh! Reminds me of the snobbish aristocrats or royalty or something lol It’s an explosion of fluffiness! I want a kitteh like that!

Oooh, I got credited at SnarkyArchies.com! ^_^

Daaaaaaaaaavid…

2009-04-01T01:59:00.001+08:00

Ain’t that the sweetest thing ever??? Gah!!! Daaaaaaaaaaavid!!! I wanna go soooo bad but I can’t… T.T

Stupid finals… I wanna go I wanna go I wanna goooooo…

*Picture credit to Archuleta Avenue*

Darkness

2009-03-28T21:34:00.001+08:00

Am now sitting in the dark…it IS Earth Hour right now…switch off your lights people!!!

Haha I was doing my laundry cos it’s too dark to study anyway, and after like, 5 minutes I heard this announcement:

‘Perhatian penduduk Aman! Sila tutup lampu sekarang!!!’ LOL!!! Last I checked, no one really switched off the lights. Then after 10 minutes, there was the announcement again cos some ignored the announcement earlier…thankfully I switched off the lights before that…

I did my part to save the Earth…did you do yours?

Locked Out 2.0

2009-03-28T15:08:00.001+08:00

I got locked out of my room today…not fun. Second time in history.

Well, this is how it happened…I went out to take a shower and I normally stuff all the clothes into a plastic bag since the horrible hostel bathrooms don’t have hooks or anything behind the doors, and the thought of just draping the clothes and towel over the filthy door just makes my skin crawl. Who knows what’s been there??? So, after showering, I noticed my shorts felt unusually light. That’s when I realized…I FORGOT MY KEYS!!! And I rushed back to my room, which is just around the corner, hoping that my roommate was still in the room.

But she was not.

So, I just hung around the corridor, walked about…even went downstairs for a walk. And I couldn’t make a phone call cos my phone was in my room!!! So that sucked. And it didn’t help either that my vision was blurry and my glasses were in my room. If not, I would’ve walked to look for Jacyn or something lol since she lives the nearest from my place. I continued hanging around in front of my door…even tried to pick the lock but failed miserably with my modified hanger (which I use to hang the plastic bag when I go for a shower) That’s when this Malay girl who passed by several times came up and asked if I forgot my keys. I said yeah, and she mentioned that there’s quite a lot of rooms that have the same keys. I didn’t know that! Gosh, I’d better stash my laptop every time I leave the room when no one’s around. So she tried her keys and it didn’t work, and coincidentally, a girl living opposite her room was going out that time, and she asked if she could borrow her keys. And it was a perfect fit! If it weren’t for her, I would have to camp outside my room with my bucket and towel slung over my shoulder for hours (possibly!)

Note to self: NEVER FORGET KEYS. ~~If it happens again, I can borrow someone else’s keys.~~

On another note, I found this really interesting video from a blog. The speaker’s name is David Pogue. He spoke at the ‘08 EG conference, and he’s a tech critic/columnist for the New York Times. You HAVE to watch the video below!! He’s just hilarious… Well, the video’s like 27 minutes long? If you’re not willing to sit through 27 minutes/do not have 27 minutes to spare, y’all can just let it load and go to 24:15 mark. It’s just priceless… (I DO recommend watching the whole thing…it’s just plain awesome lol) Let me know what you think haha

Woe…

2009-03-27T00:11:00.001+08:00

Eurgh…woe is me…I feel like the epitome of darkness and despair…just leading onto nowhere…

Thermodynamics + Chemical Kinetics exam tomorrow…actually it’s today…

So unprepared…oh woe is meeeeeeeee…that would explain the lack of updates.

Lab test – Saturday (Less than 24 hours to prepare for it)
Organic chem test – Next Wednesday

All that plus the ongoing struggle with KFT 131… T.T

I seriously need to my brain run faster or something…and not sleep…

iPhone!!!

2009-03-15T21:03:00.001+08:00

The iPhone is finally here!!

I was like this when I read the news from TheStar.com.my:

Then, the turned into this:

Like all other countries, it comes with a contract with a local telco…in Malaysia, Maxis has sealed the deal. And they sure know how to put holes in our pockets and wallets…they have contracts ranging from 6 months to 2 years…basically the longer you stay bonded to the contract, the less you pay for the phone but you pay MORE for the monthly subscription charges. Horrible, sucky plans IMHO. RM3000++ for the phone…oh dear, I really do wish money grew on trees.

RM100 is pretty steep, is it not? Plus, I don’t think I’d use that much for calls…aihz…still RM 3690 after 12 months for the 16GB model

Whoa!!! That makes it a total of RM 11, 260 after 24 months for the 16GB model!!! O__O

Forget about it…RM3440 after 6 months *faints* for Value Plus 80

*sigh* Those Maxis people are out to get us poor folk…recession some more!!! Let’s pray DiGi or some other telco will come to compete with Maxis in the coming months. Go DiGi go!!! I’m broke… =( I’ll need to use the money from my PTPTN loan if I want it really, really bad lol that’s the worst case scenario…not exactly a wise way to spend money… Plus, there’s rumors floating around that Apple’s planning to launch the 3rd generation of iPhones very soon…

…

I will follow youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…if you make the iPhone cheaper

Prettyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…I want it I want it I want it I WANT IT!!! Touch screen, iPod, phone…all in one! Looks super cool…

Time to save up and get out that dusty piggy bank…might get a job or something…

Dear kind, generous, awesome, *insert word(s) of choice here* friends, do take note. This item will be at the top of my wishlist for my birthday next year… =D

Downloading Spree

2009-03-09T12:38:00.001+08:00

Just a short post today…been so busy the past couple of days…with a test and assignments and stuff…the Stats test went alright…well, USM has this habit of recycling questions. Unfortunately, I don’t have a senior so I don’t have all the test papers…but my friend told me after the test, quite a lot of people were very happy. The questions that came out were an exact copy of the ones their seniors sat for!!! No surprises there…that happened with a course I took last semester which recycled questions too…

Since I came back, I’ve been on this crazy downloading spree XD To be specific, Broadway musicals lol and this amazing movie called Australia! =D

~~Hugh! Hugh! Hugh!~~

Currently attempting to download Vicky Cristina Barcelona…it seems interesting…

Eurgh I’ve been having this stomachache since yesterday…hope it goes away soon. =( Not sure what junk I ate the other day that triggered this.

Oh, and Amy, if you’re reading…thanks for that Jason Mraz cellcast on Wednesday night!!! He sounds amazing live!! Still wish he could’ve done ‘Wordplay’ though…my favorite! ^_^

Random Ramblings

2009-02-25T20:59:00.003+08:00

I’m sleepy. So so sleepy…and it’s only around 8.30pm. Tons of stuff to do…oh woe is meeee…woe is meeeeeee…equations to derive, stats test next week, catch up on Organic Chemistry and the list goes on… And just when I thought the oral test for English is over…Mr. Merann told us there would be a job interview thingy that we have to do that’s like 15% of the grade. *bangs head on desk* Isn’t the presentation thing enough??? Stupid syllabus…next week we’ll be starting on non linear passages or something. It means getting information from histograms, pie charts, bar charts and graphs. Mundane stuff. And this is the English for Scientific Purposes course. I’m completely terrified of Mr. Merann’s unpredictable mood swings. O___O One minute he’s all nice and funny, and the next he’s super scary. My friend was talking when he was about to let us off for the day, and then suddenly, Mr. Merann looked mad and said “………………You can finish your conversation later. Have an ounce of respect, how ‘bout that.” O_O

On another note, the weather’s lovely today. ^_^ Cloudy and drizzling on and off…such a nice change from the scorching heat.

Didn’t get a chance to watch the Oscars, which was on Monday. =( I heard and read that Hugh Jackman did a splendid job with the opening number and that little musical section he did with Beyonce, Amanda Seyfried and Zanessa… The Oscar winners were pretty predictable this year…with Slumdog snagging 8 awards. I really wanna hear the award winning song, ‘Jai Ho’ though…tried downloading it but the Internet was just plain crappy. Boo. Benjamin Button didn’t win anything, save for 3 awards in the technical area out of the 13 nominations it received. I thought the movie was pretty touching…though it was a bit slow at times. Tilda Swinton managed to end up on the Worst Dressed List again, in my opinion. She may be a good actress, but her outfits are just plain weird!

PS: Anyone know where to find The Boy From Oz soundtrack, starring Hugh Jackman? I’ve been searching everywhere for it…

Super Late Chap Goh Meh Post

2009-02-21T02:03:00.005+08:00

Yes, yes…Chap Goh Meh was like 2/3 weeks ago?? And I’m only posting this now? I’ve been busy for the past 2 weeks…tests, assignments…I’m drowning in them. So, anyways, I went to Gurney Drive (think that’s what the area’s called) for Chap Goh Meh to watch people throw oranges into the sea. Orange throwing’s normally done by single girls if I’m not mistaken, who hope to wed/get a good partner. They would write their name, telephone number and stuff on the orange and throw it out to sea and the oranges would be scooped out by boys in boats. According to my aunt, there’s a competition where the boat with the most oranges would be declared the winner lol but we didn’t get to see that. It was still too early I guess…

There were performances by the Persatuan Peranakan Cina…they had this Dondang Sayang thing going on where there’s singing and dancing. We didn’t stay there too long though…there were quite a lot of people, lots of foreigners…but then again, the Gurney area always has a high concentration of foreigners compared to the rest of the island…

Anyways, I took some pics of the place ^_^

These are some kind of cardboard cutouts floating in the sea…lol

Oranges floating in the water…there’s not that many yet as it was still early…

Horrible shot…this fella’s head is in the way…as you can see, there’s people in boats in the background and again, the cardboard cutouts floating…

Random shot of the atmosphere

The Dondang Sayang bus…they had another one where they took tourists out around the area sightseeing or something…

Sorry for the horrible quality of some of the pics...it was hard to take pics in the dark...had to digitally edit it to make it brighter...

For something completely random, somehow I find this amusing…(maybe it’s cos I’m easily amused lol) It’s from my Organic Chemistry book btw (which is falling apart as we speak…stupid book) Read the part highlighted in blue...haha vampires!

That’s all for today I guess…have a great weekend y’all while I answer the call that is thermodynamics…eurgh T.T

Oh, and this is a really good song. Amy recommended it to me. It’s called Danny’s Song by Anne Murray & Martina McBride.

v2.0!

2009-02-19T02:40:00.001+08:00

I’m sick of my previous layout loading halfway and being all weird. Did a revamp and here we are! Sugar Quill v2.0 ^_^ I really hope this loads much faster than the previous one…I’ve gotten so many complaints about how slow it is… =_=”

I really should be sleeping…instead I’m procrastinating…*sigh* Mr. Merann wants us to write a short essay about at least 2 successful people and compare their success stories, similarities and differences (I have no idea how to do that part!) and also the causes and factors of their success… Oh joy. I have decided to choose the great JK Rowling and the 2nd one I’m really not sure…so I cincai picked one and ended up choosing Jennifer Hudson. Winning an Academy Award on her first movie and winning a Grammy’s considered successful, no? Gosh, I’d feel really stupid if everyone else ends up picking some scientist or something that I’ve never heard of…but oh well, JKR rules!

Yay for v2.0! =D

Another Tag…

2009-02-14T19:38:00.001+08:00

I got tagged again…this time by Seng Aik… Seriously, the number of undone tags are adding up…

1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they got tagged and to ask them to play and read your blog.

Starting time : 1859
Name : Pui Yee/kpy/Potato/Fan shu (by Kah Meng) =_=”
Sisters : -
Brothers : -
Shoe size : I think it’s a 5?
Height : 153 cm ?? Around there I think…
Where do you live : Somewhere in Ipoh
Favourite drinks : Fruit juice…I quite like that Strawberry + Aloe Vera drink from Kim Gary’s
Favourite breakfast : Bread
Have you ever been on a plane : Not yet
Swam in the ocean : No…I can’t swim =/
Fallen asleep in school : Who hasn’t? lol
Broken someone’s heart : Don’t think so
Fell off your chair : Yesss…lol
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call : No one will call me…not during midnight or something anyway…it’s sad
Saved e-mails : Tons…my inbox is very messy
What is your room like : Um…I have a bedside table, bed, piles of stacked books on the floor, a window, a tiny rack for books…
What's right beside you : A fan and the bed
What is the last thing you ate : Tuna spread with crackers
Ever had chicken pox : Yess…not fun…it was 2 years ago I think
Sore throat : Throat feels fine today..
Stitches : Uh yeah…crashed into a flower pot while on my bicycle when I was little lol XD
Broken nose : Nope
Do you believe in love at first sight : Maybe…maybe not…
Like picnics : Never gone on one before…
Who was the last person you danced with : I can’t dance…XD
Last made you smile : The comments on Stef’s ‘25 Random Things’ notes
You last yelled at : I can’t remember…

TODAY DID YOU
Talk to someone you like : What kind of like?
Kissed anyone : No
Get sick : No
Talked to an ex : Don’t have one
Miss someone : No
Do you sleep with stuffed animals : Nope..
What's under your bed : Dust
Who do you really hate : People who smoke like chimneys
What time is it now : 1908

RANDOMS
Q :Is there a person who is on your mind right now : I’m doing a tag…I’m not thinking of other stuff
Q : Do you have any siblings : Refer above
Q : Do you want children : Maybe some day?
Q : Do you smile often : Not sure…? I don’t go around with a permagrin if that’s what you’re asking
Q : Do you like your hand-writing : Yessss…I think it’s lovely ^_^
Q : Are your toenails painted : Um no…
Q : Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in : …………….what kind of question is this??
Q : What colour shirt are you wearing : Black…
Q: What were you doing at 7:00pm yesterday : No idea…studying?
Q: I can't wait to : Go home and get some decent Internet connection
Q: When did you cry last : While reading Marley & Me
Q: Are you a friendly person: I’d like to think that I am…lol
Q: Do you have any pets : Nope…I have some fish at home though…
Q: Where is the person you have feelings for right now : ……………………
Q:Did the last person you held hands with you mean anything to you now : Irrelevant question
Q:Do you sleep with the TV on? : I fall asleep watching it sometimes lol
Q:What are you doing right now? : Duh…doing this tag
Q:Can you handle the truth? : Sure…
Q:Are you closer to your mother or father? : Both?
Q:How many people can you say you've really loved? : 2
Q:Do you eat healthy? : I attempt to…or I think I do? Doesn’t go as well as I’d want it to though…the vege in the hostel canteen has a funny smell to it o_O
Q:Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you : Can’t remember?
Q:How often do you go to church? : I’m not a Christian..
Q:If you're having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to : It depends…
Q:Are you loud or quiet most of the time? : Quiet I guess…I’m better once you get to know me.. =)
Q:Are you confident?: Don’t think so…?

THINGS YOU DID 10 YEARS AGO.
1. Play the piano
2. Read books

THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST TODAY.
1. Finish studying Statistics and do the tutorial questions..
2. Study Organic Chem
3. Study some more!!!

5 SNACKS I ENJOY.
1. Honey coated sunflower kernels
2. Chocolate
3. Biscuits
4. Gold kiwifruit…it’s so yummy!
5. Ice cream

5 THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WERE A BILLIONAIRE
1. Share the money with family
2. I don’t have much money, but boy if I did…I’d buy a big house!
3. Give some of it to charity
4. Travel the world…
5. Buy tons of books and build a library and an entertainment centre in my house

5 PLACES I HAVE LIVED IN
1. My house in Ipoh Garden
2. My current house in Meru
3. My aunt’s place in KL
4. Stuffy hostel in USM
5. Forgot where else…

5 PEOPLE I TAG
1. Justine
2. Isma
3. Angelyn
4. Ann Li
5. Ling Sim

Oh, and Happy Single Awareness Day/Valentines Day people…I’m alone…again…this year. Just me and my trusty laptop and books…lovely.

Haha…picture courtesy of FansofDavid.com. Adorable, isn’t it? lol

Forgetfulness…not?

2009-02-03T22:14:00.001+08:00

I have forgotten my Streamyx password…and I had to ask Audrey what my Skype ID was. Gosh. No, I don’t think I’m OLD.

I always had Windows save the password for me for Streamyx, so after my laptop got reformatted (yes, it’s back!) everything was gone. And somehow I couldn’t go online using my desktop cos the modem was being PMS-y…hmmph

>.<

And now for something completely different (lol this line was inspired by Angelyn) the diagnosis for my laptop was a blocked partition. What’s that??? It says ‘blocked partition, need reformat’ on the bill. Cost my dad RM60…cos it wasn’t a hardware problem and therefore wasn’t eligible for the warranty thing… T.T at least I don’t have to send it to the factory which will take aeons…

I have been tagged as a bowl of dessert on Facebook by the lovely Lee Huey Ying. Haha

That’s all for today I guess…I need to get started on my assignment…it’s like a thorn in my side. And I feel guilty going online right now…

I have the finale medley from Moulin Rouge stuck in my head…it won’t go away!

Reunion Dinner

2009-01-26T00:54:00.002+08:00

Went to Hotel Excelsior for the reunion dinner at this place called The Palace Restaurant (if I'm not mistaken)...it was boring I guess...? XD The food was alright...we had Yee Sang (Raw Fish Salad), Shark Fin's Soup, Roasted Kampung Chicken, Steamed Pomfret, Fried Prawns in Soy Sauce, some sort of mushroom dish, some sort of rice dish with waxed sausage and waxed duck (that's what it says on the paper thing) which I've always hated, a platter of Chinese pastry and the dessert, which had sea coconut and longans in it.

Here are the pics!!!

Yee Sang...lol I was busy trying to snap a good pic I didn't get to mix it...

Shark Fin's Soup...I doubt it's 100% authentic...my uncle brought wine and put some in the shark fin's soup...yummy!

Roasted Kampung Chicken...Audrey, this pic may be too traumatic, so I guess you should look away.. XD

Prawns...my favorite!

lol the "God of Prosperity" with my aunt haha...he gave out angpows containing papers with lucky numbers on them

That's my grandmother ^_^

I saw Kobuta (Li Shen) walk into the restaurant with her family earlier...and I texted her saying 'I see you!' and she claimed I was following her or something lol Took a pic with her before she left...she asked her brother to snap a pic of us and her brother just snapped it in an instant! No '1, 2, 3...' and all that lol and the pic turned out to be horrible...I looked astonished and she wasn't looking at the camera XD Haha we had to take it ourselves as her family left the restaurant already lol as usual, she couldn't stop laughing...haha here's a somewhat decent shot...I still think I look weird...I was the photographer XD people

新年快乐 people!

Fried Hard Disk

2009-01-25T13:28:00.002+08:00

My laptop's hard disk is officially fried. It'll take a month (at least) after I send it to the factory this coming Friday. It doesn't help that it's almost Chinese New Year either. I'll be laptop-less when I get back to uni. I have no other form of entertainment. T.T Except my mp3 player that is...all my movies and tv shows are gone. Poof! T.T This sucks.

No idea what caused the fried hard disk drive, but the person at the shop said it was a virus?? O__O

Other possible causes:

Defective hard disk drive (Of all people, WHY ME?? What did I do to deserve this???)

Long hours of use

I'm stuck with my desktop now...it ain't bad...except that its pace is equivalent to a snail. Gets stuck a whole lot. And it doesn't have Windows SP 2 installed on it...and I can't download the latest version of iTunes or Windows Live Messenger. *will attempt to download episodes of Gossip Girl and Grey's Anatomy nonetheless* I hope the computer won't go KABOOM!

I probably won't be updating as much after next week cos I'm laptopless...will try to update as much as the situation will allow.

Oh, and HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR people...will update later with photos and stuff...

Note to Amy: You cannot compare Malaysian unis with Singapore unis. =_=" Everyone knows how this country is going backwards. Meh...all that money the government wastes on useless stuff should've been used to upgrade our local unis...cos we live in such deplorable conditions *sob sob* And that attempted ban on Rihanna's concert is just ridiculous. Thank goodness they didn't try to ban Jason Mraz. Or Amy would literally be jumping on a bus to Singapore. How's it intentionally crippling the economy? No one forced anyone to go watch her concert! If you don't have the money, then don't go!! Aiyoor...

Mood: Laptop withdrawal syndrome
Currently Listening To: My Life Would Suck Without You by Kelly Clarkson (I'm addicted to it)

Hazardous Chocolate

2009-01-21T20:09:00.001+08:00

Dang it. My throat feels like a desert. My friend gave me this packet of chocolates from Famous Amos last week, and I couldn’t stop munching on them during the weekend… >.< They had filling in the centre, too! Gosh…strawberry, hazelnut, chocolate (white chocolate ones). How can one resist that kind of chocolate? I need more snacks in my room…junk…SUNFLOWER SEEDS! ~~I want more chocolate!~~

Me + Chocolate = Dangerous =/

Audrey’s Newspaper Debut

2009-01-18T01:12:00.001+08:00

Okay, so this is Audrey’s ~~Chickaaaahn~~ newspaper debut…okay well not really, this is her proper debut lol the last time she appeared in the papers, she was dressed up as ~~Quasima~~ a gypsy for SMI’s annual play, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She organized a blood donation drive in Ipoh last week along with her entourage of UM students. Great job on the blood donation drive! ^_^ So Audrey, here’s free publicity! lol and congrats on your newspaper debut!

Here’s the newspaper clipping:

Photo courtesy of Mr. Percival

Birthday Post

2009-01-17T18:31:00.001+08:00

Thanks for the birthday wishes people! ^_^ Amy, you’re crazy…I suggest you go get therapy or something lol

Went to Queensbay Mall with a friend on Thursday after class to have dinner…3 other people were supposed to come originally lol but Choy Fong’s always busy in the evenings these days, Seng Aik had class and my other friend forgot at the last minute lol So it was just me and Yeoh haha

We went to Kim Gary’s for dinner…love that place…I must try their cheese baked assorted mushrooms one of these days! Kah Meng’s little spore emitting friends…beware!! Muahahaha…here’s some pics from Thursday. No pics of me ~~cos my fringe looks weird at the moment~~ cos I was lazy and only wanted to take food pics.

Yeoh had some kind of fried rice…couldn’t remember the exact name though

lol I had to make her look at the camera…she says she has no idea why but somehow Ipoh people love taking pictures of food haha

Strawberry + Aloe Vera drink…I’m sure that’s not the exact name of the drink but it does contain strawberry bits and aloe vera bits at the bottom

Looks delicious, no? I MUST try it next time I go there…didn’t order any drinks for myself or I won’t be able to finish the main course…

Cheese baked rice with fish fillet with white sauce (I think it’s fish fillet…oh well, it’s definitely FISH something) Hmm…I dunno, but I think the cheese baked rice with signature twin sauce I had at the T-Bowl Concept Restaurant upstairs was better…the rice near the surface was slightly burnt/hard.

Yeoh made this lovely card for me ^_^ She’s talented in the arts and crafts department…she’s good at like, everything. It must’ve taken her hours to make this…oh, and that bit in the middle is glass!

Audrey, Stef, Seng Aik, Kah Meng, Yaso and Ann Li, thanks for the book!!!

Choy Fong, thanks for the super adorable handphone holder and 2 pens!!! ^_^

Thanks to Shun Chin for the inspirational frame! (Is that what this is called?) It’s lovely…

lol my friends kept telling me to squish this gift during class…I had no idea what it was that time…thank goodness I didn’t…or the class will be filled with sounds of Happy Birthday coming from Pooh’s belly…and not just once, but 3 rounds of the Happy Birthday song! lol Thanks Ida for the gift XD

Oh, and thanks to everyone for the wishes!!! ^_^

Randomness Part Deux

2009-01-12T17:03:00.003+08:00

It’s been a pretty uneventful day…so here’s a short picture post…I thought I’d show y’all my room…yes, I live in very deplorable conditions in uni, with horrible Internet connection. As you can see, it’s very, VERY old. The floor’s not even tiled. I wear shoes inside. I don’t mop it, ever. It’ll just get dirty again anyway… See those dangling clothes? lol I dry the clothes inside, they dry pretty fast considering it’s indoors. Boring stuff, I know…

For something a little more interesting, here’s my roommate’s side of the room. I took this pic while she was gone…so…she has no idea.

Ahem…notice that my side looks more organized…~~I don’t have clothes piled everywhere~~ Btw…when my Internet’s better or something (I doubt it) or when I have better Internet access, I’ll make those pics clickable to bigger sized versions…

On a side note, I finally found that song, By the Boab Tree by Ophelia of the Spirits…it’s lovely!! Hehe I stole it directly from YouTube cos I couldn’t find it anywhere else. I have no idea how to add the song to my music player at the bottom, ‘cos they don’t have it in the database. And there’s another option, that is…add the song through a link. I tried uploading it to Mediafire and other places and using that direct link, but it won’t work…*sigh* For now, I’ve put it in a mini player here…

Current Mood: Frustrated about stupid Gas Law calculations
Currently Listening To: By the Boab Tree by Ophelia of the Spirits

Randomness

2009-01-08T19:21:00.001+08:00

Randomness…

My English teacher told us that in his mind, we Chemistry students are a bunch of science nerds who wear our goggles (usually worn in the lab) EVERYWHERE. LOL. He says we wear them 24/7 and that’s how we um, “court” other Chemistry people? That’s so weird…lol o_O I hate wearing goggles…I can’t even see clearly in them cos mine has so many scratches in them… The previous week, he asked if anyone of us here had the whole Periodic Table memorized haha

My place still has horrible Internet connection…it just won’t connect… T.T It connected for like a few minutes, or rather, seconds yesterday, and then it wouldn’t work. *bangs head on desk*

I’m hungry again…I need foooooooood…I’m craving for:

Twister fries and a prosperity burger from McD (I think that’s what they’re called?)
A Subway sandwich
Tom Yum noodles
Really, really good bread…
Sunflower seeds
Barbecued meat

New Year’s Odds and Ends

2009-01-03T22:13:00.000+08:00

New Year’s Resolutions (Better late than never…)

1. Get some sleep (I always seem to stay up later than I should…not good…I need those blindfold-like things they use on airplanes)
2. Get on the Dean’s List
3. Read more books (I hardly have time to read anymore…*sigh* that’s sad. A book takes me ages to finish right now…)
4. Spend less time online (I hope?)
5. Less procrastination (I’m good at procrastinating apparently…I’m lazy…)

Ah well…lets hope I get to fulfill at least 1/2 of those resolutions

I went to watch Australia the other day…it stars Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman. Here’s the movie poster:

The movie’s directed by Baz Luhrmann who directed Moulin Rouge a couple of years back. Ooh, I read that he’ll be directing the movie adaptation for the musical, Wicked and also The Great Gatsby. Can’t wait for Wicked! I haven’t seen Moulin Rouge yet…but Seng Aik said he preferred Moulin Rouge to Australia. The movie’s narrated by Nullah, a half-caste aboriginal boy. It’s about Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) who journeys to the land down under from England to make her husband sell the land called Faraway Downs. She also suspects him of having an affair there, too. Her husband sent a rough-hewn cattle drover, simply called ‘Drover’ (Hugh Jackman) to bring her to Faraway Downs where she discovers something else instead (I won’t say what). Not long after arriving at Faraway Downs, Nullah tells Lady Sarah that he’s seen her cattle driven to Carney land (King Carney owns most of the land in northern Australia, except Faraway Downs). Because of this, Fletcher, station manager for Faraway Downs mistreats Nullah and Lady Sarah dismisses him. Without a station manager, Lady Sarah persuades Drover to drive the cattle to Darwin to be sold and together with a few others, they drove the 1500 cattle across the unrelenting landscape. Along the way, she finds herself responsible and somewhat captivated by Nullah and falls in love with Drover too. Well, that’s the basic gist of the movie. I thought the movie was pretty good though it was long (almost 3 hours!). Kidman and Jackman have great chemistry on-screen…and I have to say, the cinematography is just amazing! The rugged landscape is so beautiful…it made me wanna jump on a plane to Australia. A really effective tourism campaign, I must say! I’ve been searching high and low for the song played during the end credits, but no luck so far…it’s called By the Boab Tree by Ophelia of the Spirits. I read that it MIGHT be nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars this February. If anyone’s managed to download it, kindly let me know. The soundtrack’s not released yet, except for an EP on iTunes, which I’m desperate to have.

Kah Meng, I’ll come to Australia to find you one day! You’d better ~~provide lodging…and chocolates~~ be a good hostess…

Pocketful of Holes

2009-01-02T18:27:00.006+08:00

Holidays are damaging. To the wallet, at least...

Lets review the amount of damage done.

1. Starbucks' Dark Cherry Mocha Frappuccino (Grande) - RM8 (less painful than the original RM14 or so I think if they didn't have the buy 1 free 1 promotion. The drink was really delicious though...lots of chocolate chips at the bottom..)

2. Movie Ticket - RM10

3. Dinner - RM6.90 (for 6 fried wantons, but they were yummy) + RM15 (I applied for their lifetime membership card, since they had a 50% voucher for your birthday!)

Total Damage: RM39.90

Oh well, I took some pics of the lovely Chinese New Year decorations in Queensbay Mall...

Click on the pics to make them bigger!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T22:50:00.002+08:00

Happy New Year!!!

Well, what's left of the day anyways...will update with more stuff later on...Statistics is calling my name right now...

Hope everyone had a great New Year's! And remember to stick to those resolutions... =)

Great...I just looked in the mirror and oh my gosh, one of my eyes is bloodshot... =S Meep! That's not good...that's not good AT ALL. Nooooooooooooooo...

New Year's Resolutions
1. GET SOME SLEEP.

Will add more later in maybe another post. I...need...to...get...some...sleep...

Straight No Chaser

2008-12-29T14:39:00.003+08:00

I know Christmas is over, but I recently discovered this amazing acapella group comprising of 10 guys called Straight No Chaser from iTunes. Every week, iTunes offers free downloads of songs, exclusive movie clips and stuff. They're called Discovery Downloads if I'm not mistaken...but you'll need an iTunes account for the US store first. Well, the previous week, they offered Auld Lang Syne by Straight No Chaser, Stephen Colbert's Another Christmas among other stuff...I got a Mythbusters Christmas Special episode too!!! Oh, and they also had episode 1 of The Secret Life of the American Teenager for free, too.

Anyways, to those of you who have not seen this, check it out (be sure to watch it in HQ)...Straight No Chaser's really good! They're so precise, and I love the way they mixed different Christmas songs into 12 Days of Christmas!!! After listening to the whole album titled Holiday Spirits, even though it's acapella, I don't miss the instruments at all.

And if you're searching for their videos on YouTube, you'll notice that there's 2 different groups for Straight No Chaser...the 12 Days of Christmas guys are the original lineup, and the others are the present members (I think) from Indiana University. The original members sound waaaaay better IMO...

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T11:20:00.004+08:00

It's that time of year again...

Merry Christmas, folks!!!

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Let your heart be light

From now on your troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Make the Yuletide gay

From now on your troubles will be miles away

Here we are as in olden days

Happy golden days of yore

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us once more

Through the years we all will be together and

If the fates allow

Hang a shining star upon the highest bow

And have yourself a merry little Christmas now

Oh, and if anyone's looking for a good song, might I suggest Snow by Amie Miriello...it's lovely...

Mood: Blah...
Currently watching: Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Ant Invasion!

2008-12-24T19:14:00.003+08:00

Great. I have an invasion in the form of red ants in my room...

They got into the place where I kept my store of bread for the week T.T had to throw away one of the buns cos they were inside the plastic bag as well... O__O And one went under one of the keys on my laptop's keyboard...*sigh* must bring back some ant poison next week...

Ant bites so far: 2
Score so far:

Ant: 1
Me: 0

Music Meme

2008-12-23T22:38:00.005+08:00

I dug up this old meme...I think Ann Li tagged me last time or something...I'm bored...

The Rules :

1. Put your music player on with all your music, then shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. With the answers, give your own comments on how it relates to the questions.

Results

1. How are you feeling today ?
Song : Quando, Quando, Quando by Michael Buble
??? When, when, when?? Inappropriate...

2. Will you get far in life ?
Song : Something by Katharine McPhee
What does that even mean?

3. How do your friends see you ?
Song : Over My Head by The Fray
Huh?? Does that mean I’m short or something???

4. Will you get married ?
Song : Sally’s Song by Amy Lee
Weiiiiiiiiiird…

5. What is your best friend’s theme song ?
Song : Desperate Housewives Theme by Danny Elfman
HAHAHAHAHA…

6. What is the story of your life ?
Song : I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden
Weird…that’s not my life story!

7. What was high school like ?
Song : Forever Love by Wang Lee Hom
Irrelevant.. =_=”

8. How can you get ahead in life ?
Song : Get Back by Demi Lovato
Huh?? I don’t even like this song…why’s it in my music library???

9. What is the best thing about your friends ?
Song : Decode by Paramore
Uh…they’re hard to decode? lol ‘My thoughts you can’t decode…’

10. What is in store for this weekend ?
Song : Angels by Robbie Williams
Doesn’t make sense…?

11. To describe your grandparents ?
Song : I Gotta Go My Own Way by Vanessa Hudgens
Erm irrelevant?

12. How is your life going ?
Song : Someday We’ll Know by Mandy Moore & Jonathan Foreman
lol we’ll know…someday…

13. What song will they play at your funeral ?
Song : When You’re Looking Like That
An upbeat song???

14. How does the world see you ?
Song : There You Are by Martina McBride
I…don’t get it?

15. Will you have a happy life ?
Song : I’m Not That Girl by Kristin Chenoweth from the musical Wicked
Judging from the lyrics, it’s not exactly a happily ever after song eh?

16. What do your friends really think of you ?
Song : La Despedida by Shakira
Farewell???

17. Do people secretly lust after you ?
Song : Cosy in the Rocket by PSAPP
???

18. How can I make myself happy ?
Song : My Love by Westlife
Er ookaaaay…

19. What should you do with your life ?
Song : Travellin’ Thru by Jason Castro
Travel eh?

20. Will you ever have children ?
Song : Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood
???

21. What song would you strip to ?
Song : Mr Bojangles
Who even comes up with these questions??

22. If a man in a van offered you candy, what would you do ?
Song : I Wanna Hold Your Hand by The Beatles
O_O I like the song though…

23. What does your mum think of you ?
Song : The Way You Make Me Feel by Ronan Keating
Irrelevant song??

24. What is your deep dark secret ?
Song : Taking Chances by Celine Dion
Huh? Interesting song choice…

25. What is your mortal enemy’s theme song ?
Song : La Traviata by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Well that’s just hilarious XD It’s opera-ish…but it’s a good song

26. What’s your personality like ?
Song : O Holy Night by Jessica Simpson
*doesn’t get it* I love Christmas songs though…I listen to them whenever I feel like it, even in the middle of say, May lol

27. Which song will be played at your wedding ?
Song : Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day
A rock song?? =_=” No way…

I'm tagging:
Isma
Seng Aik
Fiona
Justine

Muahaha...anyone got any nice memes?

Wifi Sucks...

2008-12-22T23:59:00.000+08:00

The wifi here is driving me up the wall...I get online for a few minutes and next thing I know, it's disconnected...grrrrrr...which sucks...

I've resorted to reading my brand new (and super heavy) Organic Chem book to pass the time, believe it or not...no pics this time though...maybe later (meaning the weekend)

PS: The Deputy Dean is cold. Her favorite word seems to be non-negotiable. Thanks a lot. You screwed up my schedule.

Good news - There IS no good news
Bad news - She's a lecturer for one of my classes...Physical Chem to be exact =_="

Mood: Bored, *attempts to stick a pin into the Deputy Dean voodoo dollie*

Song of the Day: Barriers by David Archuleta

The 100 ¥ Shop

2008-12-21T00:36:00.005+08:00

Went to this shop called the 100¥ shop that's in front of Ipoh Parade the other day...everything in the shop's RM4.90 and the stuff ain't bad! The stuff comes from Japan and there's everything from cool looking lunch boxes to plates and stuff...they sell food too! I was really fascinated by the stuff lol

Bought a couple of things from there...

I think it's spaghetti or something...or noodles...looks like spaghetti though from the packet haha It comes with noodles and a packet of seasoning or something. It looks yummy from the illustrations haha

They're soooo cute! They had a frog too, but the seal and the duck looked much more adorable. The frog's eyes were too small...it kinda looked eyeless or something haha And they're just RM4.90!!!

I'll definitely be visiting this shop again in the future ^_^ They have everything!

Massive Layout Revamp!

2008-12-20T02:00:00.004+08:00

I didn't really notice that my old layout loaded THAT slow...so I decided to revamp the whole thing...there wasn't enough space anyway, and everything (pics, embedded videos, etc.) had to be resized to miniature. Plus, all the resizing takes sooo much time...okay not really, but the tweaking does!

Anyways, I wanted to go to Aberdeen cafe with a couple of friends but it was closed. So we ended up going to Black Canyon instead...and ended up sitting there for I dunno quite long...3 hours according to Seng Aik...love the food there...it's really good! Somehow I order either Spaghetti/Fusilli with Chicken Ham Sauce every single time...was tempted to order Pad-Thai though that day lol I wasn't sure if it was spicy, so...yeah...I must try that Pad-Thai someday! It looks yummy from the illustrations on the menu.

Took a couple of pics...here they are:

Chee Hoe's Fettucini with Green Chicken Curry...he said it was delicious

Greeeeeeeeeen curryyyyyyyyyyy

Spicy Stir-friend Fettucini with Seafood and Hot Basil for Ann Li...it was really good! But spicy...

Hot Cappuccino for Seng Aik...looks pretty, doesn't it? Haha with the Jasmine Tea and biscuits at the side

Audrey's purple laptop and Seng Aik with his semangat blogging on the spot thing while Chee Hoe looks on

Weird shot...ignore the tissues...hi Ann Li!

Aud took this random pic with me and Ann Li in it

Btw...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN LI!!!

I hope you'll get your Sephiroth Playart Figure soon! ^_^

Ouran High School Host Club

2008-11-25T16:15:00.007+08:00

I'm addicted to this anime! It's called Ouran High School Host Club...you might have heard of it. It's about a scholarship student, Haruhi who accidentally stumbled upon the infamous Ouran Host Club in the Third Music Room while searching for a quiet place to study...

While she was there, she accidentally broke an 8 million yen vase lol and since she can't pay for it, she has to work off her debts by being a host club member... Oh, and she was mistaken for being a guy in the beginning, (she's actually a girl) I didn't notice it until the end of the first episode...

=_=" Y'all can stop laughing now...

Love this character, Tamaki...he's the host club king and he's both silly and blur... XD Oh, and Tamaki does this lonely pose whenever someone insults him or says something unexpected lol

He also thinks he's Haruhi's father and that Kyouya's the mother...here's the happy family below lol and they're anything but poor

This is Honey-senpai! He's super kawaii...he loves cakes, cute plushies and sweet things ^_^ Don't be fooled...he's very good at martial arts...

The theme song's super catchy too...it's called Sakura Kiss by Kawabe Chieco if I'm not mistaken. Anyways, here's the song... ^_^

Wonderful Amy ^_^

2008-11-14T20:33:00.005+08:00

Lol...look what Amy drew on Msn yesterday...haha amazing drawing skills!!! In case you're squinting to see what's written on the shirt...it says Archie Is Life haha...that's cos I was looking for definitions of construction jargon for her, the purposes of sanitation in dwelling units and requirements of sanitation and stuff for her assignment lol

Not really sure who that is in the pic...*wonders if it's Jason Mraz* Anyways, got a bit of free time now til the new semester begins...eurgh...I wish the break was longer... =( Not even til Christmas...

Mood: Sluggish

Currently listening:

David Archuleta

YouTube Testing...

2008-10-31T01:52:00.006+08:00

Hmm...does this work? Anyway, this is a hilarious video of David! Go watch it =D

Loved the cereal part...and he expects people to know the type of cereal by showing us the uh shape of the box? Hahaha...

And oooh he knows who Westlife are!

Testing 1, 2, 3?

2008-10-31T01:20:00.002+08:00

Soooo...I stumbled upon this lovely layout today...and created this to see what it would look like haha

No guarantees on frequent updates though...

Oh, and before I forget...

Happy Halloween!!!