end of year 2007~

In a blink of an eye, year 2007 is coming to an end. this christmas break was quite fruitful. haha.. i received lotz of presents and cards for both christmas and my birthday. thank you everyone! a heartfelt thanx to all those who remembered and all your wishes!=]

all the gifts. thanx so much!=]

birthday celebration at Food Diam, S2.

the trip of the year --> to melaka once again! even though this was our 2nd trip to melaka, i still enjoyed every moment.

we set out in chee kian's car, running a lil' late, or maybe shong lap's car was just early. first stop was donald&lily's nyonya food. i ordered rojak this time while getting to taste the nyonya chicken rice and laksa. of course, we could never go there without eating their nyonya cendol! ^^

at Donald's and Lily's

after eating lunch, we had to rush to the century mahkota hotel to check in. while half of them were busy checking in, we the other half amused ourselves taking photos. haha..

me and kee san

me and boon koon

the famous clocktower for picture taking

finally a picture with francis where i don't look weird. haha..

a replica of the church of melaka in a-famosa

a real cookie house we found

a blow-up of it

me at my favourite spot

三朵金花 ;p

the apartment was smaller than King's but still 'boleh tahan' la. we took turns bathing, then we went to eat 'lok lok' before going to visit the portugese settlement. wow, the houses there were really pretty, all decorated with lights and christmas decorations. we even saw a santa with his troop of singing carolers. and we bought santa hats!^^ i love mine. hehe..

chilling in the hotel room before going out for lok-lok

me and lin hui

alap's picture taking skills are just what we wanted if not better.=]

lok-lok - 149 sticks this time ;p

the house in the portugese village - looks so nice!!

the portugese people's christmas gift to Tenaga Nasional

my favourite christmas tree ^^

boogie eyes

brotherhood? mafias? partners in crime? haha..

christmas cheer ^^

more christmas cheer! ;p

on our way back, we stopped by to grab some junk food before heading back to eat them all! buahaha.. we thought of various creative ways of what you can do to pass time with a deck of cards. basically, it was just '大小', mafia, in between (i didn't play that, i was busy.;p), 杀手。oh ya, before that, we stopped at dataran pahlawan for a breath of fresh air. the atmosphere there was very nice and peaceful. just the ideal place to lie back on the grass and gaze at the stars. or to have a romantic stroll.

stopping by dataran pahlawan's christmas deco before going up to the field above

this is shong lap's chance to show how creative he is posing at the same spot for changing people. haha..

the next day, we went for breakfast at the hotel, with a surprise 'discount' thanks to the blurness of the hotel workers. haha.. after checking out, the afternoon was spent in dataran pahlawan and mahkota parade (we just chillied in McDonald). we had dinner at Newton since the nyonya restorant we were supposed to go wasn't open yet. Finally, we went to jonker's street before heading back to seremban.

Graffiti can be nice too !

friends 4eva! hugzz.

Jonker's street at night

we didn't really eat a lot of melaka food or visit any historical sites, but i really enjoyed the company, which is the whole point of the trip after all. the time we spent together, there really is no words to describe the feeling we got. the funniest moments were i think when lin hui did her sexy butt twisting move so unexpectedly and naturally. she really got talent man. haha.. and also shong lap's creative alarm clock which goes like this: tit.. tit tit tit.. tit tit tit tit.. tit tit tit tit tit... increasingly louder. not forgetting the way chee kian always gets J or K when trying to increase his numbers during 大小。 thanx guys, for making this lovely trip possible with your presence and 'sakai'ness. =]

friends are the people you turn to for advice,

the people you know you can lean on in turbulent times;

the people who teach you how to laugh, at each other or at times, at yourself.

a fragile line linking all of us

a trust, a relationship,

slowly built over years of time shared together,

reinforced by tears shed together,

and laughter leading on to stitching sides,

or even silly antics done to pass time,

headed by our three jokers: francis, shong lap and suat yee.

to become what we are now.

a family.

hope our circle of friendship goes on and on.

without an end.

even until we are so old

that we have to guess how many of our teeth have dropped out

instead of how many sticks of lok-lok we've eaten.;p

- friendship forever -

友情真脆弱

做人，为什么这么难？如果不这样做，不是很自私吗？但这么做，却惹了别人生气。处在两难的情况下，有什么是我能做得更好，更对？有的，只是一时没想到。为了这么小的事，无端端受气，这么久以来的友情，承得住吗？我应该记得自己每次讲的话。别去想别人是怎么看我。清着自清。反正不管我怎么做，都会有人有意见。

谢谢你，shu yin & pui leng.因为告诉我... ‘big girls don't cry...'
我心里难受时你们在我身边，谢谢。。=]

princess' 22nd birthday!=]

on friday after going to pc fair, me, shu yin and kelvin went to find perfume for leng leng. we even established a routine. first, shu yin will smell, then she will pass the test strips to me, and i will pass them all to kelvin, who would have his hands full of all sorts of smells. we came across some quite nice ones, like.. umm.. estee lauder's beautiful love? can't really remember the name. then ralph lauren the orange coloured one. very fruity. quite nice. ck's pink colour one also not bad. in the end, we bought ck's summer, since it was a limited edition. it smells nice too, leng leng wore it today. hehe.. so, now, that's just the present. we had much more planned for her. buahahaha..

monday. day before the big day. we went to fusion haven to eat lunch. they still had the offer where you could buy a dish for rm3.90 after odering a drink of at least rm3. i tried the vietnamese chicken rice this time. i sampled shu yin's pepperocino and pui leng's carbonara too. both were nice, but in different ways. mine was nice too! hehe.. i ordered apple tea this time round. we had a nice lunch before rushing back to listen to Dr. Ong's sexy voice for an hour and a half.

vietnamese chicken rice - with a taste of lemon grass

-Apple tea-

crispy fish fillet rice

Pepperocino spaghetti

Carbonara spaghetti

Japanese style chicken ramen

Tomato sauce cabbage spaghetti

birthday gal~

birthday cake

me & shu yin

all of us at the birthday celebration

today. haha.. leng's birthday. we told her we were going to pasar malam. chris told her he was bringing her out to eat. actually.. we were there to surprise her, along with her high school friends. i could vaguely remember the way. been there once. got lost in the process. but finally managed to find our way there. it was so funny. she was like walking by (we were hiding in the side garden) saying 'hi uncle' to some uncle, then she saw us and was just simply stunned. touched too i think. haha.. feel very happy for her too.

me and shu yin while waiting for the birthday gal to 'ban leng leng' =]

the surprise 'choir' group

after eating!

just us gals

shu yin, leng, me

the last photo before leaving, taken with leng's parents

so now.. here i am at home dy. back to school tomorrow! i must really follow the time table iggy made me do.

christmas deco everywhere..

first, we went to start karen's car. it was a bit jerky, so i pressed the accelerator to pump in some oil or something. then, oops! it was actually the brake. nothing happened, so don't worry. we just sorta locked ourselves in, without understanding the mechanisms of opening the auto-lock via a certain secret button located in some secluded spot. lol.

then we went to the store to buy christmas presents for orphans. it was quite fun reliving our childhood. but it's a pity the box is too small to fit the big box of building blocks which i'm sure the kids would have liked very much.

we went to midvalley quite unexpectedly. just that i suddenly wanted to find something, which i couldn't find in klcc yesterday. and i actually found it in metrojaya!! quite nice and cheap and not too '0ld'-looking. hope it will be put to good use. i will always keep B.U.M. in mind now.=]

then horror of horrors, i don't know what came over me, just that i was suddenly very much 'broker' due to something which i normally wouldn't have even considered. what has happened to me?! but i really like it very much. =] and it did give me two vouchers to use on the thing which i was buying anyway. but don't envy me.;p

we actually lined up to get a free sample of korean spicy mee and japanese bread. the bread was simply delicious and buttery. next time when i'm rich.. i will buy and eat it for breakfast. buahaha.. we went to the jusco selection of japanese food and were really lost for choice. i wanted to try the japanese set meals of rice or noodles, but yet the sushi called to me. in the end, sushi won. i forgot to take a picture of it until it was half eaten though. but i still like octopus the best! yum yum!!

there's another unagi sushi which was already in my stomach. even the octopus sushi is 'borrowed' from fiona. and i ate one of the tiny cucumber sushi already. the whole thing cost rm7.88 the variety was much much more than what i could find in jusco seremban. wow..

my dear roommate - fiona

-me-

my mood.. not very good actually. since last night, certain words keep ringing in my head. uncertainties. heavy clouds threatening to overwhelm the blue sky. sometimes i don't know when i'm thinking too much of nothing, and when i'm ignoring clear signs of something. the minute i stepped into midvalley.. i saw throngs of people rushing into shops, passing me by, yet i have never felt more alone. so now, here i am home again, with my posology report awaiting me, and the time ticking away ever so fast, and me gloomy as ever. if i was in africa earlier, well, now i'm thrown into the antartica. so cold.. was it something i said? either way, i suppose i brought it on to myself. yesterday and today, what with my rash fingers poking my phone and my stupid expectations. now i feel like the nut frozen in ice in ice-age. oh well, i'm just in a super crappy mood now, so ignore me. and i'll be ok tomorrow. i must. now, i just feel like i wanna dissolve into the sea or disperse into a million particles so that i can exist without existing, and escape from despairing over the miseries that must befall us.

fish and chips!

thursday me and fiona suddenly had a bright idea to make a western meal instead. so we made coleslaw, mashed potatoes, fried fish, eggs and sausages. i know it doesn't look nice. haha.. but it sure was delicious. the fish were quite a problem though. the oil kept splattering, hot oil mind you. then the fish didn't look cooked even though it was turning the shade of black.

then yesterday, i went to pc fair with shu yin and kelvin. we had fish and chips in the klcc food court. it was very nice!! it costs rm10.40 after tax.

a quote from francis' msn shoutout~

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

sweet sour craze!

me, being crazy over the imu canteen's sweet & sour dishes, have finally been able to recreate my own to satisfy my craving for it, albeit the two being in totally different levels of taste, with mine being the lower class. hah.. but well.. here is my very own concoction. easy to make, not too bad to eat.

1. marinate minced meat with soy sauce and pepper.

2. make into ball shapes and 'gulung' in flour.

3. deep fry.

4. scope out into bowl lined with tissue paper.

now for the sauce..

1. cut big onions, tomato, garlic and cucumber, throw into oil and fry.

2. add lotz and lotz of sweet and sour sauce. haha! (that's how it's edible, since the seasoning is not by me!;p)

3. throw in the balls and stir together.

tadaa.. ready to eat!

Tagged!!

Name one person who made you laugh last night?
kee san =]

What were you doing at 0800?
getting ready to go to church.

What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
facebooking. hehe..

What happened to you in 2006?
so much has happened in between that i can't really remember already. haha.. gosh, it is already the end of year 2007 after all.

What was the last thing you said out loud?
huh? i can't remember already. probably something to my roommate who just went to bathe.

How many beverages did you have today?
water.. barli.. cincau..

What color is your hairbrush?
umm.. green?

What was the last thing you paid for?
bio essence eye mask.. i'm super broke now!!

Where were you last night?
sleepin at home. home sweet home. dunno why, but i sleep better at home. feels like the sheets are smoother, the bed softer, the pillows lumpier..

What colour is your front door?
gray

Where do you keep your change?
in my wallet

What's the weather like today?
very sunny very hot. phew!

What's the best ice-cream flavour?
vanilla!!

What excites you?
pretty much anything. i'm hyper all the time.. except when it's time to study though..

Do you want to cut your hair?
i've booked an appointment for january just before chinese new year. just the thought of letting someone new cut my hair gives me the shudders, but well, hey, people pay 200sth for a hair cut by him, so he should be good. i'm talking bout a senior hairstylist from tony and guy who's cutting hair to raise funds for city harvest building fund. so it's cheaper than cutting it in the shop itself.

Are you over the age of 25?
no.

Do you talk a lot?
it depends.. haha.. sometimes i talk super a lot, sometimes i'm just quiet and prefer to let others do the talking.

Do you watch the O.C.?
yeah! i love watching marissa. think she's very pretty!

Do you know anyone named Steven?
Yes.

Do you make up your own words?
yup. constantly.

Are you a jealous person?
sometimes.. hehee..

Name a friend whose name starts with the letter 'A'.
Adam

Name a friend whose name starts with the letter 'K'.
Kelvin.

Who's the first person on your received call list?
somebody who dialled the wrong number.

What does the last text message you received say?
it was about our upcoming melaka trip.

Do you chew on your straw?
no.

Do you have curly hair?
no. should i? am still thinking bout it, but i don't think i will curl my hair anywhere in the near future.

Where's the next place you’re going to?
imu.. for class.. so depressing..

Who's the rudest person in your life?
umm.. all the people who cut ques.. simply can't stand people like that.

What was the last thing you ate?
chicken pei from tong kei!!

Will you get married in the future?
i hope so..=]

What's the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks?
haven't been to see any movies recently. simply can't find the time. haha.. yeah right, like i'm that busy..

When was the last time you did the dishes?
just now?

Are you currently depressed?
when i think about pharmacokinetics.. yes! very depressed! when i think about penang.. i just can't wait!! haha..

Did you cry today?
no.

Why did you answer and post this?
if not i will be skinned alive by pui leng. haha..

i'm too lazy to tag anyone. so.. anybody who is interested, just tag yourself la ya!;)

BIG APPLE IN JUSCO SEREMBAN!!

what a delightful surprise! haha.. now i can eat it anytime.. buahahaha..;p

my favourite?? --> peanut butter, oreo and almond, in that order!;p

sunway here we come!=]

today we three gals got together again. hehe.. this time to sunway pyramid.

before that, we went to fusion haven (previously taste walking) for lunch. they had this quite attractive promotion where you can buy a lunch dish for rm3.90 as long as you buy any drink above rm3. and the rm3.90 dishes were good! it included carbonara, teriyaki omelette and etc. i ordered ramen. quite nice and tasty for a ramen. i've eaten worst before for more expensive prices. i like the vietnamese chicken rice the best - ordered by kee san. it has a taste of lemon grass. we even shared a desert, the melting chocolate over ice cream dish.

Our food

my food - ramen and mango lassi

me and boon koon

the delicious and famous mouth-watering desert -
hot chocolate oozing out over cold ice cream

after filling all our stomachs, we set out for sunway! yay!

parking was hard to find, but we managed to get a space in the end. we went crazy when we saw the square full of christmas decorations. after that, we couldn't stop taking pictures. we used kee san's camera - nikon S200 with anti-shake. after that, we walked around, going crazy periodically at the sight of cute stuff. haha.. i've finally found people with similar interest. =P

all in all, we had a good time.=] we went back to my apartment first so that i could get my hands on the pictures we took today. buahahaha.. then they went home by lrt. surprisingly, kee san is now beside me. haha.. coz she missed the train. i think recently the komuter has been having a lot of problems like breaking down and being delayed and stuff. anyway, so here we are! yay! can chat all night oredy. hehee..

girls outing! yay!=]

i went out with kee san and boon koon today. it was such a nice outing. hehe..

me and kee san bought stuff like mad. we kept going into shops and spotting nice and cheap outfits. then boon koon will confirm that they are nice and me and kee san will be even 'broker'. then we also 'boria' with each other in so many items. now, all of us have the same bag, or have different colours of the same clothes. haha.. i guess we are bad influences on each other, if we want to save money. good thing the stuff we bought weren't that expensive, as in like we only bought tops ranging from rm9-12.

then i found this shop with lotz of nice dresses from silky material and with ribbons, rm25 each but no trying. the shop's formal wear was also very nice, albeit you still needed to pay 30sth for a top. i'll keep that in mind when i need to buy formal clothes next time.

of course, my outing could not be complete without bringing home 2 tiny cute furry soft-toys. =] kawaii~

look at the head.. it's so ROUND!! i think this is the cutest thingy i've ever seen for something to be hung in the car. it's the first thing i've bought to hang in my car just because it's cute. of course, now that i've seen it in detail, i think it's too precious to be hung in the sun all day long. hehe.. ;p

i've thought this was cute since i saw it in sunway. cute.. somemore can use to bash people's head up when they are naughty. hehe.. of course, the real one is too ex, so i just bought a tiny replica worth rm5 to remind myself of the big one. buahahaha..