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2012!

2012-01-02T17:52:00.000+08:00

It's funny how I used to be super excited over new year. NY Eve celebration meant a whole lot to me and it was extremely essential to have new years resolutions back then. Now, I just wanna live my life without being tied up with resolutions. If I feel like being productive, I'll do something productive. If I feel like spending my whole day browsing 9Gag, I will spend my whole day browsing 9Gag.

In 2012, my ultimate resolution is to live life for myself and to the fullest, as goddamn cliché as it sounds.

PIKNIK!

2011-12-20T16:46:00.000+08:00

Photos taken a month ago (hence, the hair) at Piknik Cafe. Made use of the glorious sunlight by taking lots of pictures cos I usually visit at night. Don't you love how colourful and lovely the whole atmosphere is :)

Gotta Love Mundane Days

2011-12-17T02:32:00.001+08:00

At Gyeongbokgung Palace. Love them to bits and pieces. :)

Final's over and the past few days have been really nice and relaxing. On Wednesday night, I had dinner with Junor, Kidult and Jolyn, followed by supper which turned out to be another meal cos everyone ordered pasta, soups and whatnot instead of snacks! Crazy eaters lol. Won't be seeing them so often anymore until April. Gonna miss you guys so much!!! :(

Thursday, I slept till noon, spent the rest of the day paying my internet surfing debt, read blogs, cooked lunch and made Nathan's Christmas present. *grins*

And yesterday morning, I attended the Chief's Original Bootcamp tryout and I almost diedddddd. If that's the way they're gonna persuade people to join, it's not gonna work. Haha. Waking up at 5 am is torturous enough, but intensive exercises? In the dark??? No thanks I'm still faithful to my bed thank you very much. After Bootcamp, I was surprisingly not sleepy so I cleaned the entire house. God bless me. Followed by an awesome 2 hour nap.

Sometimes, you just gotta love days like this. Days when you can do whatever you want. Won't be long before all these become a scarcity.

New Hair!

2011-12-01T23:10:00.001+08:00

After contemplating for what felt like a lifetime, I decided to chop off my hair. Chop chop chop, off you go split ends and leftover curls! I have been having long, curled hair for about two years and even if I had haircuts they were just normal trimming. After getting sick of curly hair, I stopped taking care of it and the curls went super out of place. Since then, my neither-straight-nor-wavy hair really bothered me a lot.

A lot of my friends were really against it :( Kept telling me that I'll regret it, but I can't really remember when was the last time I regretted over something I did. Hmmm..okay, digressed.

TA DA!

I want a personal hairstylist to blowdry my hair everyday can?

Feels so good to be able to run my hands through my hair effortlessly and not get stuck wtf. It definitely looks healthier and sleeker now. A good thing perhaps since internship is just a month away?:P

Oh and I just bought the highly raved Moroccan Oil Treatment. Fingers crossed that it lives up to its hype because it's so darn expensive!!!

Night at Gangnam

2011-11-27T13:58:00.001+08:00

Doubt that I will complete my whole Korea trip but nonetheless here are some pictures :) Taken on a Saturday, the night after sis's wedding ceremony. Initially, everyone planned to just stay in and call it a night but I refused to waste time by sleeping! So I persuaded and dragged everyone (except dad who had headache) with me to explore the streets of Gangnam. Hello it was a Saturday night!!!!

All dressed up, hair tied up cos I didn't wash my hair =X

Blazer : Queen La Moss
Long sleeve shirt : Mango
Shorts : DIY from old jeans
Bag : Romwe
Scarf : ASOS
Tights : Bercham market wtf

Cute grandma! She said her blazer used to fit her perfectly but now..lol. If you noticed, she was actually wearing her pyjamas underneath cos when we decided to go out, she was already preparing to sleep :P

Mum and I at the place where we dined / the mascot looks exactly like the owner of the restaurant!

Nom noms. We expected food to be mediocre but they were surprisingly good, and cheap!!! And the waitress spoke Mandarin :D

Gangnam's underground shopping mall. Clothes here are not dirt cheap like Bangkok or China, but still cheap. Racks of clothes placed outside the shop as you can see from the photo ranged from only RM17-RM35. That's crazyyy cheap given Korea's high QC. And Malaysians are selling the same clothes at such a hiked up price, just because there's a Made In Korea tag. Oh well, business.

Didn't buy much though cos most were winter apparels.

Get off Gangnam subway station at Exit 5 and you'll be greeted by a lively atmosphere with colourful LED lights, fashionable young people, a lot of restaurants and underground bars. Grandma looked very out of place here :P

So freaking hungry right now :( Sis just ordered Dominos and just right when she submitted her order, it started pouring. F delivery man's L. Looking forward to my chocolate lava cake!

You, Nasty, Nasty Gal

2011-11-22T20:57:00.001+08:00

The fact that it's almost the end of the year terrifies me whenever I think about it. I mean, there are moments when I feel that time passes really fast but at the same time I don't really remember what I did 6 months ago. It's such a mixed up feeling. I'm such a difficult bitch.

Anyway, I'm still pretty excited about the holiday season :D Nathan is coming back in two weeks time, I'm gonna sit for my finals a week after that and then it's three weeks of pure relaxation and catching up with loved ones followed by internship next year! Can't wait!!!

I'm not too sure why but as of late, whenever I window shopped for clothes online, I'd always find myself gravitating towards glittery and shimmery sequins. I highly reckon it's an early holiday spirit! :D Loving some of the November arrivals of Nasty Gal, one of my favourite online store. So many gorgeous pieces that I wanna shove into my dying wardrobe that I haven't filled for months.

Oh my sequins.

How cute is the red dress! So apt for Christmas or picnic. Super adore the Aztec print dress.

Those sequin lapels on the otherwise normal black blazer make all the difference in the world.

Immediately went into my Christmas wish list at first sight.

My inner materialism is dying to come out!!! #selfcontrol

Saturday

2011-11-21T16:47:00.001+08:00

Some photos taken on a random Saturday night out, few weeks ago. Unless you're totally obsessed with us, by the time you scrolled for the 5th time, you'll question your decision to view this blog in the first place, thinking you might as well use the time wasted to do something meaningful like..scraping dirt out of your nails. :P

Travel post takes longer time and I only have an hour to spare, so :)

Settled for the newly opened Fullhouse in PG Times Square for dinner. I was just suggesting to Rohan few days after our Korea trip that he should open a lifestyle cafe in Penang, selling Korean products etc without even knowing that Fullhouse will be launching soon lol.

Anyway, the Fullhouse here totally shares the same concept as the one in NZS, except the one in PG has a freaking hair saloon upstairs HAHAHA. And I highly doubt that their clothes are really made in Korea, judging from the quality. This ''made in Korea'' thing is so overrated, a lot of boutiques I visited nowadays ALWAYS claim that their clothes are from Korea but with a China/Thailand price tags.

Junor and I.

Kidult!

Food was so-so, nothing to shout about.

Went to Picnik Cafe for a second round of nomming! :) I love that place but the music at night wasn't really to my liking.Prefer going there during daytime when they play all the awesome soft indie music. Will blog a different post about that place some other time.

Yummy salmon roll!

Stuffed mushrooms.

Behold an avalanche of self-obsessed pictures in different camera modes! I almost never switch my camera to manual so this is the furthest I can go in terms of experimenting :P

This photo freaks me out a little. O.O

I think I just found my favourite colour.

Have a nice day. x

Autumn in Nami Island

2011-11-10T23:47:00.001+08:00

I had a teeny weeny bit of trouble filtering out photos I took at Nami Island on my previous trip to Korea. There are close to 400 pictures taken on that day itself, some of which are more or less of the same thing – rows and rows of towering pine trees in the most gorgeous hues of brown, red and yellow. I can't help it, it's my first time experiencing autumn! I was so in awe the whole time you can't really blame me for snapping away uncontrollably :)

So.

We left Seoul on the fifth day of our trip to Chuncheon, northeast of South Korea where Nami Island is located. If my memory serves me right, I think it was approximately an hour and 20 minutes drive from Seoul. I slept so well on our journey there :D

We met up with sis's colleagues who were there for the wedding as well. Traveled on a mini tour bus together with them and that's our tour guide right there. lol

Mini Eiffel Tower!

Leather blazer : Temp, Australia
Top with scalloped collars in leopard print : Korea
Shorts: Temp, Australia
Suspender tights : Henry Holland
Boots : G Market

Ajuma selling roasted potatoes and fries. Those roasted potatoes were mad yummy!!!

Stopped at this random supermarket for toilet break.

Look at those trees! Sigh so pretty. Stopped at this place for lunch. Not sure where was it but it was somewhere near the Nami Island jetty. Lots of tour buses.

Restaurant overlooking the lake.

Tourist in action while waiting for food.

Don't look at the food, focus on my hair! I wish my hair is like that everyday. I didn't even do anything to it, was it the weather???

Neng myun.

Grandma & mummy.

At the island's mock immigration gate hahaha. Nami Island has declared itself as an 'culturally independent country' in 2006 so it was reborn as Naminara Republic. They have their own flag, anthem, passport, currency etc. So you can pretty much say that I visited two countries.

Two ways to go to Nami Island – Zip-wire or ferry. You have to pay for the Zip-wire through, around 30,000 won.

Ferry which brought us across. I wish Penang's ferry is as fast as this.

Autumn is the peak season of Nami Island.

Maple <3

That dog was wearing a varsity jacket! Super cuteeeee.

I saw a couple sunbathing somewhere along here and I remember burning in jealously childishly :P

Hello Mr Squirrel what you finding for?

Mom thought she was in Winter Sonata or something T.T

Not easy to ride a tandem bicycle at all!

Park Yongha, one of the actors from Winter Sonata committed suicide last year.

Bicycle used in Winter Sonata Those little strip of papers were well wishes or something.

Storybooks for viewing pleasure in the toilet lol.

Soju bottles as decoration.

Director of Winter Sonata, if I am not mistaken.

This was exactly where the Winter Sonata's first kiss scene was filmed :)

This gorgeous piece of land used to be a deserted and dirty island. There was only one caretaker who single-handedly planted all those trees many years ago. However, fortune came and things changed after Winter Sonata was filmed here in 2002. The caretaker is currently the CEO of this island and is one of the richest man in Korea who has given a lot to charity and is very supportive of the creative culture and art. Artists from all around the world have come to this island to work and seek inspirations with free meals and accommodation provided by the island.

I never really got the chance to explore the whole island despite being there for about four hours. There's just too much to see and absorb. Too much of art and culture to immerse yourself in. But cycling alone to the deserted side of the island near the lake was one of the best experience I've ever encountered throughout the entire trip. No photos will be able to justify the beauty I witnessed :) It was beautiful, extremely liberating and personal. Glad I did it alone.

There is just something very enchanting about this place, I couldn't pinpoint what. It's such a happy place to be :)

Fuzehhh

2011-11-09T23:04:00.000+08:00

Just got back my laptop! Technician came and pick it up last week to replace its faulty LCD panel. I initially got it back two days ago but I returned it the next day cos the screen is slightly fuzzy, as in pictures are not that clear as compared to last time.

Now that it's being fixed twice, you would have thought the notebook will come back in tip toe condition. I would've thought that too, but it came back still the same. All fuzzy :(
A friend said, "no point returning cos it's the quality problem. You get what you paid for." Now I understand why Dell is charging so high to replace that damn thing.

Oh wells.

Blogging about Nami Island next. That place could easily pass as one of the most beautiful places in Korea :)

Of Receipts and Vouchers

2011-11-06T01:26:00.000+08:00

OMG just did the funniest and siasui-est thing in QB car park just now. It was J Card Day, so sis, bro in law and I went there to do some grocery shopping after checking out eyewear. The reason why J Card Day is so hyped up is because when you spend RM100 you get RM5 voucher.

So worth it, it's like the best deal ever in the history of hypermarkets.

So later on, when we unloaded our groceries into the car, we saw a receipt in the trolley left by a previous user, but the amount was not enough to claim the voucher. Miraculously, this sister of mine saw another receipt on the floor nearby. Picked it up, added the amount of two receipts, enough to claim RM5. YAY!

That was when her brilliant idea came in. She asked Rohan to drive around the car park and we found two more receipts! But the amount accumulated by those two was still not enough to claim another RM5. However, problem was solved when I saw another one on the floor quite a distance from our car! I ran to it like a mad girl, picked it up and ran back to the car as if I just murdered someone.

The whole process was ridiculous, we were laughing like maniacs. It wasn't the money...I don't know why we did that. I guess it was a boring Saturday and doing sampat things like this excite us. LOL.

After everything, sis took all the receipts and went back in again to claim those vouchers while Rohan and I waited in the car. We noticed a security guard standing there doing nothing and we actually scoffed at the guard for being not productive, just standing there when he could have collected those receipts and claim vouchers like how we did. HAHAHA!

But alas, you cannot possibly outsmart a multi-billion dollar organisation who probably faces people like us every single day because they wouldn't allow us to redeem the voucher if they don't have the same J Card number. Cilaka.

Effort wasted for nothing. Luckily the paid parking ticket was still valid. If not really cilaka x2.

Moral of the story : Security guards aren't really dumb. They probably tried. And if you think you're smart, think again. #wisewords

Korea Day 1 & 2

2011-10-25T22:04:00.001+08:00

For some reason, I'm feeling super positive and energized of late! I always get this kind of feeling whenever I get back to college after a long break. I guess I just love being on-the-go and having things to do. Mum came over to Penang so I'm currently at my sis's place. Finally met Deji after so long, he isn't angry at me for sending him to board :') He's so different from Tasha, our dog back in Ipoh. If you hit that one, she'll remember it till the next day and ignores you until you sayang her back. Woman.

Pictures taken on the first and second day of our trip! First day wasn't really counted because by the time we reached it was almost midnight and we did nothing much except eating delivery food and going to bed after that.

First! A hugeass picture of myself on the Yoyo bus. Words cannot explain how much I hate travelling from Ipoh or any other states without a proper airport. 3 hours to the airport, another God-knows-how-many-hours more to your destination.

Another one. #shameless

Annoying sis who was 'coincidentally' in blazer and black tank top. I really think she secretly admires the way I dress and sees me as a style icon! HAHA

Fast forward to Seoul! ♥

Lucky airport customs who get to meet celebrities! What kind of job privilege is that??!

After reaching Incheon Airport, we had to travel another 40 minutes to reach our serviced apartment in Gangnam. The driver who picked us from the airport and drove us there was crazy. He placed his phone next to the GPS and BROWSED VIDEOS, KEYED IN SONGS' NAMES, WATCH MUSIC VIDEOS and do all sorts of nonsense on this phone, all while driving. I swear his eyes wasn't even looking in front. I bet he even played Fruit Ninja when he's driving alone. I hate reckless driving! :(

Molestation going on at Seocho-Coop Residence HAHA! In case you were wondering, dad was actually supporting Rohan's body because he had to fix the air conditioner flap. Super dodgy lol.

One bed downstairs..

...another one upstairs.

Ordered food from this menu. Got it from the reception. Everything looked so good!

TA DA! Ja-chiang mian, jap-chae, some spicy noodle soup and some clear seafood noodle soup hahaha. i suck at remembering names.

Side dishes that came along - pickled radish and kimchi.

Attack!!!

I like how they don't deliver their food in paper plates or polystyrene boxes. A black plastic bag is given to you so after finishing your food, just chuck all the dirty tableware into the plastic and place it at your doorstep. They'll collect it in a few hours.

Hot noodles on a cold, autumn night. Shiokness. Check out Rohan's expression.

Mummy and second aunty who came along with us! :)

The second day was spent exploring COEX Mall, Asia's largest underground shopping mall. I woke up pretty late and took my own sweet time getting ready so by the time everyone was done, it was almost lunch time. :P

Wore my mustard cardigan from G Market! I'm obsessed with this colour already. I used to think that it's one of the most unappealing colour ever cause it looks like shit hahaha but I'm slowly loving it :)

Dad photobombing us in the elevator.

Streets of Gangnam on a rainy afternoon. Walking to Exit No 4 to take the subway to COEX.

Took touristy pictures by the roadside while getting stares from working people walking out to grab lunch. :P

Finding for a place to eat! Most of the restaurants were full cause it was lunchtime. I forgot to adjust my watch so I thought it was only 11 something and kept wondering what's wrong with these Korean people, why are they having lunch so early LOL.

After awhile, we settled for one which didn't have much customer, yet. Because the crowd was pouring in right after we were seated.

Mom and Dad.

There weren't any long tables so we had to sit separately :(

I don't know how they grow their rice until so round and defined. After having Korean rice for days, I totally dislike the rice we have back here now. #pampered

Mum posing with the marinated raw crab nobody dared to try.

Free tong sui!:D Censored sis's face with a heart shape cause I am damn lazy to photoshop her double chin hahahaha. And she just got married, so I thought the heart shape was quite apt.

Changed currency and window-shopped because everything is motherfcking expensive. Was trying to save money to shop at Myeongdong but ended up didn't have enough time to shop there also! Kanasai.

Went to COEX Aquarium after that.

I don't know why kindergarten decided to declare that day to be Let's-Go-To-Aquarium Day. There were at least five groups of kids wearing different colours. The yellow one above was the group with the most kids!!! It was crazy in there with all that screaming and running around.

Does anyone knows any Korean words that sound similar to PUKIMA? Cos I kept hearing those kindy teachers calling the kids that! It wasn't me alone, even my dad and aunt heard the same thing. We asked Rohan and he told us there's no such word so we thought alright, maybe that kid's name sounds similar to PUKIMA or maybe that kid's name IS PUKIMA. HAHA F the kid's L in Malaysia or Singapore.

BUT! A few days after that, I heard an ajuma (aunty) calling her friend that in a public toilet. So it must be a Korean phrase right? Sigh this is still a question in our family till this day.

Mega excited kids.

Grandma ♥

Fish in a vending machine and excited fingers.

Fish in a toilet bowl. Sucks to be you, fishy.

Prairie dog!

Mirror which totally elongates my legs. But the thing is, my legs look pretty normal. Which sadly means after elongation, my legs are still at an acceptable length. I don't wanna live in this world anymore.

This is me, with fishes in the bed's headboard.

These are the kids, with fishes in the bed's headboard.

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Fish spa! The holes are for you to put your hands in.

Diamond piranha. They have glittery scales!:D How can something so gorgeous be so dangerous? Actually a lot of gorgeous stuff are dangerous...like me. HAHAHA #buaypaiseh

Obligatory touristy picture of myself pointing at inanimate objects.

Mummy dearest with Paul's sister.

Most beautiful sight in the whole aquarium :)

Swarms of sardines..they just go round and round non stop.

Hi crab your legs look yummy.

I took hundreds of pictures but it's impossible to upload so many. Plus, some photos are not of the best qualities because most are taken under low light and I'm not exactly a ''manual mode'' user :P

COEX Aquarium is really a fun place to be at with your family, especially with kids but if you're travelling with your friends, just skip this place. I reckon you use the time to shop or explore the city. Afterall, you don't go all the way to Korea to see some fishes right! Haha.

After COEX Aquarium, we went to the Kimchi Museum located in COEX itself. No captions cause I'm getting sleepy and there's nothing much in the museum except educational stuff like how kimchi is made, history behind it, its nutritional values, bla bla *yawns

Grandma likes pickles.

After Kimchi Museum, my camera died on me. But above pretty much sums up Day 1 and 2. After the museum, we got back to our apartment, ate and slept REALLY early for the wedding the next day. Super early as in I had enough sleep and woke up naturally but it was only 3am.
I wanna blog about the wedding but I think I should wait for pictures from the official photographer.

Day 4 and 5 next but the amount of pictures taken freak me out a little bit.

Happy Deepavali, people! I miss going over to my Indian friend's house on Deepavali for curry feast :(

Back to School

2011-10-23T21:22:00.001+08:00

Disclaimer: The post below was written last night when my eyes were half-closed. Internet was down so I had to type everything on Notepad fts.

I'm actually typing this on Notepad right now because the internet is down for the night. I'm heading back to Penang tomorrow :( My self-proclaimed extra one week holiday is over too soon haha but it's good to be back on track, at least I feel like I'm actually doing something productive everyday. #lifeless

My Seoul trip was awesome!:D I finally have a brother (in law) and apart from that, I loved everything about Korea! I love their coffee drinking culture. I love how minimalistic and chic Korean fashion are compared to Japanese. Clean cut, delicate and not OTT :) Super enjoyed people watching in the subway too! Some Korean men have the best fashion sense ever.

We lived in an area called Gangnam, where plastic surgery clinics, gorgeous cafes and clubs are aplenty. There's so much to see and explore in that particular district itself! Saturday night is when all the stylist super chio people with perfect noses come out to club.

Met the in-laws for the first time cos I was in Perth when they visited a few months back. They were super polite homaigod. Which I believed made mum particularly sensitive whenever I slightly raise my voice when talking to her after the trip hahaha. She'll go like, ''I hate you talking to me like this. So rude, can you learn from the Koreans?'' They Koreans have the utmost respect for their parents, I bet kids will really get kicked out from the house if they ever raise their voice. O.O

I can't wait to blog about the trip, took around two thousand photos which is considered alright I guess for a six day trip? But it's almost the end of the semester and final assignments are kicking in so I'm not too sure where on earth am I going to find the time. But I'll edit the pics quick before the 'semangat' dies off which happens once too often whenever I slacked :P

Sorry for the words vomit and mindless ramblings, I can't help it.

Stay tuned! Happy Monday and be nice! X

Stepping Back

2011-10-07T21:43:00.001+08:00

Khuntai Thai Food!

2011-10-04T22:34:00.003+08:00

Memories of my first trip to Khuntai many, many years ago with the family was unbelievably still etched at the back of my mind. I still remember we went there extremely hungry and ordered food enough to feed a village. Glorious food though! But too much of Thai food did no good to our already acidic tummies. My younger sis and I spent the next day vomiting everywhere. At home, a few times in the clinic and at the streets. Haha. But I thought to myself that it was all worth it. I've never had better tomyam elsewhere. Not even in Thailand.

My tummy and I have come a long way since then. Stronger and better WTF

Last Sunday, I went there again with two friends!:D I was having super terrible flu and cough at that time, totally not appropriate to have Thai food so I said no to them. But the devil in me decided to come out and said it's not all the time that we're driving all the way to Butterworth so screw it eat first, cough later hahahaha.

Happy gluttonny sick girl!

This Thai appetizer is called ''mieng kam''. Just realized in Hokkien it means ''don't need to close'' hahaha. You eat this dish by wrapping the various condiments with the leaf. Super yummy!!! Whole lot of different flavours and textures in one bite.

Steamed sour and spicy kepah. Super sour, don't ever eat with empty stomach.

Omelette with Thai vegetables. It's written like that on the menu hahaha.

Deep fried kangkung. Pretty mediocre.

And no visit to Khuntai is ever complete without their signature Tomyam Gong!

Super gao, just the right level of spiciness and sourness. Awesome!!! I wanna tapao the leftover soup and bring back to cook Maggi hahaha.

Kakak scooping rice for us :P

Burp ~
Awesome food, awesome companies!

And later on they came over to my sis's place and we ended up hanging out till late night watching Stephen Chow's old movies. Good times. X

daily rules to live by

2011-09-25T23:36:00.002+08:00

A few hours ago, I was web browsing in my quiet hostel room after dinner, doing the usual things I'll do on a Sunday night, reading blogs, finding inspirations to get me through the long week, updating my to-do list, feasting my eyes on the gorgeous stuff people own on The Coveteur *drools and I came across these few words of wisdom by Bobbi Brown which I thought was(and still is!) very apt to be everyone's daily little reminders :)

Each reminder is no more than four words but I think they bring so much of impact if we actually practice them. I guess rule number 4 is put to good use? Haha.

Here's my extra two little reminders.

11. Be forgiving.
12. Count your blessings!

Here's to an awesome week! XO

*picture from matchbookmag's instagram

2011-09-14T13:09:00.000+08:00

These few weeks have somehow been rough for me emotionally.

& thanks to this emotional turbulence, I am gradually learning to recognize people who treat me with genuine care and love,

and differentiate them from people who just don't bother to give a damn but still choose to involve me in their life because after all, we're friends.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather lose friends like this than having them around hiding behind their pretentious masks.

I used to tell myself not to get attached to people, cos I thought it's all gonna end up the same way.

Conflicts and disagreements occur when people get too close and it will somehow leads to all that drama if it's left unresolved.

It's inevitable.

But when people are being real to you, it's okay to be attached and close as much as you can get.

And rest assured you won't get hurt.

Because when you love somebody, you will do anything to protect the person from being hurt.

It's a painful realization, but it's all worth it :)

Withdrawal

2011-09-09T15:29:00.002+08:00

I've neglected my blog for so longggggggg. It's not like I'm exceptionally busy though, I just somehow lost my writing mojo :( I still read a lot online, and glad to say I'm happy that way, just reading and not having any obligations to write.

College is kind of so-so for this semester. I'm taking mostly theory subjects and I don't like theory lectures! So I really don't blame myself for the massive burnout feeling that I have for the past few weeks.

....

Can I just abruptly stop here? :( I really don't know what to write. I miss my boy and I miss everyone I somehow lost contact with.
GAHHH so not looking forward to anything AT ALLLLLL.

Global Village

2011-07-31T22:44:00.001+08:00

Somewhere around two months ago, about twenty AIESEC international interns from all over the world came to Malaysia, Penang specifically with two projects in hand : cultural understanding and spreading HIV/AIDS awareness.

So throughout the whole of last two months they had educational booths in college, HIV blood test, sharing sessions between HIV patients, free huggers going around, language classes, just to name a few of the many things they did. And they took part in our students' PR projects. so I guessed that's how some of us bonded with them. :)

Anyway, the Global Village was sort of a finale of their project. Exchanging stories about respective country's culture, dancing and singing to Jai Ho, taking pictures, fellowship all that jazz. T'was a good night, ended with supper at Safi with college mates where we gossiped till there's no end ♥

Few pictures.

Joseph's super cina top!:D Told him to wear Ip Man costume but he didn't have it so this will have to suffice.

Craziest gay I've ever met.

Ryugene, Jia Li & I. My awesome shopping partners ♥

With Phuong, who taught me Vietnamese. She's super nice and I love her bright coloured modernised ao dai!

Marylene from Belgium who taught us French. Don't play play okay we FB chat in French! Bonjour, co mo sa va? Hahahaha wtf. I still remember there was this time she was talking about how waffles in Belgium are so awesome and made the puking gesture when she saw those self-proclaimed Belgian waffles in Gurney LOLOLOL

Alexa and Theng.

Us with the gorgeous Ajar from Kyrgyzstan. Till this day, I still don't know how to pronounce her country's name.

Them with Altynai from Kazakhstan.

Till then! Off to do some seriously slow therapeutic packing. I hate packing in a rush.

Solely Food!

2011-07-31T02:10:00.007+08:00

Yesterday marked the very first day of semester break and man, being unproductive felt SO GOOD. Went all the way to the Immigration Department to renew my passport but it was closed for two days due to Ramadhan.

I was like ''WHAAAT? It's not even puasa month yet why are they having holidays so early." It's like having Christmas holidays on October.

After that it was pure slacking at home, watching several movies consecutively without worrying what to do next. I can live like this for a very long time. ^^

Anyway just a quick post consisting photos of food we had last Saturday during sis's housewarming party. Most food were super easy to prepare and required almost no complicated cooking steps except simply grilling and frying. Do not expect hard-to-cook food from IT people like....pies. Yeah pies are hard to make.

Stacks of seasoned salmon, ready for the grill. *YUMS

Mashed potatoes which were not entirely mashed, you can still bite into small bits of potatoes here and there but they were good. Speaking about mashed potatoes, the best that I've ever tasted was those from TGIF. Super orgasmic, they make your eyes roll 360 degrees.

Vienna sausages. Told you everything was a no-brainer.

Devil's eggs which I MADE!:D The parsley made them looked so good.

There's a story on how I got my hands on those gorgeous looking English parsleys. I don't eat them but they sure look good for decoration, no?

For those who didn't follow me on Twitter, I KIND OF stole those parsley from an aunty. I was in Tesco with sis getting last minute groceries and at that time, I already had my hands on a packet of dried parsley which is of really ugly dull green. So when we walked to the wet supermarket area, I saw this curly haired aunty with really fresh BRIGHT GREEN English parsley in her basket. And I thought to myself, ''Hey! Those will make better decoration. The colour is so much nicer.''

I walked around the whole wet area looking for those but they were nowhere to be found. :( Asked the worker, he said ''tadi sudah ada satu perempuan ambil. sekarang sudah habis.'' I think God saw my determination or something cos after a few minutes, said aunty put her basket a few feets away from me and went to the next few alleys to grab something, I presumed. In a lightning speed, I TOOK HER FRESH PARSLEYS and PUT MY PACKET OF DRIED PARSLEYS INTO HER BASKET.

Hahahaha can you imagine her shock upon seeing the transformation of her parsley? Man, that sounds weird. Transformation of parsley wtf. Okay end of story. I'm a parsley thief.

Yummy grilled salmon with just enough pinkness :D :D :D

Clockwise : nachos, salsa dip, tuna & cream cheese dip, avocado dip. Using plastic spoons cos not enough cutlery hahaha.

Crooked looking sandwiches. Not involved in making them, so these were none of my business. :P

What else..chicken wings, butter corns, Caesar salad, celery with ranch dressing and what was supposed to be aglio olio pasta LOL. Not bad huh!

a disgruntled + domesticated male dish washer :P

Milli crepe from Humble Beginnings!

Quoted from the site,

''Humble Beginnings' Creations are essentially Mille Crepes. A Mille Crepe is a French Cake with "mille" meaning a thousand. In our creations, there are 20 layers of crepes with a delightful combination of fresh cream and vanilla custard between each layer. The topmost layer is caramelized to give it a nice smoky sugary flavour. Everything is hand-made and hand-layered; a true labour of love.''

Whatever the description says, these are to-die-for. Beats any normal cakes in the world. We had two of these that night! ♥

Later that night, Rohan brought out a fondant cake to celebrate sis's birthday which was WEEKS AGO and also their housewarming. The beginning of two lives together in a nest they call H-O-M-E :)

Cake was from Sugar, Straits Quay.

Deji's leg broke otw back to the house! :(

CONGRATULATIONS!

Man, this post turned out to be not so 'quick.' My eyes are drooping. =.=

G'night, world! Xx

These Are Roots

2011-07-21T00:56:00.001+08:00

I'm spending my one week study break in sis's new place. They just moved into a new apartment and it was so nice with the Smart TV and everything hahaha. Planned to go back to Ipoh today but let's just say the menu for the housewarming this coming Saturday was too good to be missed.

My family was here on the first day they moved in and my parents 'performed' some funny rituals, to sorta bring luck and prosperity to the house owners. I've never seen people doing this before! So superstitious yet unique at the same time. At first, I thought they were gonna hire lion dance or something.

Rice, tea leaves, green beans, red beans, yellow beans(?) and something that resembles kuaci..that's all I think. Each item carries its own symbolic values which I don't bother finding out.

All mixed in a bowl..

..to be scattered to EVERY CORNER of the house for three days. If you wet those beans, they'll germinate by then :D

NEXT.

Rolling mandarin oranges (symbolises gold) and coins from the entrance to the center of the living room to bring in wealth and so that the prosperity and wealth aura will spread evenly to every part of the house. Okay I just made that up but it's more or less the same, those Chinese rituals.

In the future when I move into my own house, I'll have MORE rituals. Lions dance (notice the S?), dragon dance and have somebody dressed as Choy Sun :D

Hahaha attention-seeking max.

See You Soon, Love

2011-07-15T15:14:00.005+08:00

My blogging pace is so inconsistent. Sometimes I can have all the semangat in the world and churn out one post per day, occasionally two for a few days in a row rambling about nothing but nonsense or I can go hiatus for more than a month just because.

The only class I have today was cancelled. Yay for that! Spent the whole morning catching up on movies, tumblr, blogs and internet stalking hahaha. Life's gooood. I haven't spent my Friday mornings like this in a while. It's scary how time flies, no matter how cliché it sounds. It's already the end of the semester which means I haven't seen the boyfriend for almost six months! SIX. FREAKING. MONTHS. Feels like 6 years already. Longest we did was around 9 months when I was in high school. We are quite an awesome pair I have to admit, doing this LDR thing like a pro now :D It's still not easy, but things are definitely smoother compared with how things were like two years ago.

So eager to complete my few final papers and fly off to down under immediately. Two more weeks till we reunite and everything will just be the same again. Err except for the weather. Why do I always visit at dreadful seasons.

See you soon! ♥ Xx

2011-06-21T01:23:00.000+08:00

This is just one of those very rare midnight moments where I suddenly feel the urge to write down my thoughts. Moments like this are extremely sporadic. Most of the time, I just shrug them off and go to bed but tonight, I feel extremely peaceful and optimistic that I begin counting my blessings one by one and can't stop doing so! How silly but I'm really grateful for so many things in life.

I'm grateful for the fact that even though I grow up among high/over achievers whom I can't really relate to, it does not deter me from being who I am and doing what I loved most. I'm glad that I get to fulfill my passion and gradually realizing my dream, regardless successful or not. No one measures your own success but yourself anyway :)

I'm also thankful for the continuous support and affection I get from the people I love.(I have no demanding parents!:D but of course not just that.) It's really sad to see some people doing what they are fond of but without the support of those who matter. I'm relieved I have nothing of those and fingers crossed, none in the future.

Another blessing in disguise would be the fact that the lower half of my body still hurts like fuck after a vigorous toning session at the gym last two days. I'm secretly glad that it hurts, cos it means my body is working perfectly well and I'm alive, at least. There are people who wake up to find out that they can't feel their lower half of the body, y'know?

Damn, I'm the most optimistic person I know. OK I'm sounding like a psychotic zombie who doesn't make sense.

Time to sleep. count your blessings, people! xx

아자아자화이팅!!!

2011-06-20T11:12:00.007+08:00

Last two weeks, I woke up really early on a Saturday (go ahead,gasp) to accompany sis and Rohan to PG Times Square for the AXN Big Challenge preliminary round. If I don't tag along I will have to make my own lunch which is not very ideal on my Saturdays.

So off I went with them, in my tight baby tee, high waisted shorts and hair let loose, sticking out like a sore thumb amongst sea of people in sports attire. Great, just enough to channel the bimbo aura -.-

Now, AXN Big Challenge..we all know how it's gonna end up alright. But didn't your mommy tell you not to break people's spirit? HAHA.
They didn't qualify themselves to the finals (as expected :P), but we had so much of syiok sendiri fun! Seize the moment, they say. Taking countless pictures, joining minor competitions held throughout the whole event, running up the stage to answer AXN related quiz. We were acting like total nuts! Sis reckoned that we woke up so early for this, so we're not going to go home empty handed.

Kiasuism level 110%.

Things people do for 15K - queue up on a Saturday morning.

after the preliminary round.. acting like they just won -.-

"eh you must take the pic as if i'm climbing to the top..don't take my legs".

-____________________-

Xbox..IN THE PUBLIC. God save him.

We took home around 5 AXN notebooks plus other nonsensical goodies, only to realise at the end of the day, they were EXPIRED.

The calendar at the last page showed 2008/09 T.T

How I Gained 3 KGs

2011-06-05T23:49:00.002+08:00

Gonna put up random pictures taken here and there to make up for my lack of posts. These few weeks have been crazy! I actually miss the luxury of stoning and doing nothing at home :P I have an assignment I haven't started at all due in a couple of days and also my first ever PR project which will be on Wednesday.(it's an amazing race sort of thing, sounds easy but there's so much to do!) Fingers crossed that everything turns out AMAZING :)

[ pictures totally unedited which explains the poor quality hahaha excuses and not in chronological order]

at Manhattan Fish Market many many weeks ago with a couple of friends / remembered clearly that it was a Friday / watched a movie i don't remembered but had a good time / h&m cream blazer from mom, a bit loose though.

best mushroom pie in a cup everrrrrr in penang!/ not gonna tell where is it hahahaha.

heaven in a cup.

random day in toys r us / fyi, my nickname in college is 'ziraffi' so my friend reckoned i should pose with the giraffe toy -.- / do i really look like one? i don't, right?!LOL

friends at dinner.

dinner at barbq plaza / chunks of pork fats used to grase the pan / i ate them after that :D

we had two plates of these and still wasn't enough. my friends are cannibals.

dessert at haagen-dasz so damn long ago i don't even remember when!

dessert treater! ♥

dinner with friends at dao rae cos the steamboat place we wanted to eat at was closed./ they don't really fancy korean food :(

once a week bak kut teh session!:D/ this is all it takes to make my day / man looking at this pic makes me so happy i think this should go on tumblr.

my garlic! all mine!!!!

waiting for friends at the fitting room/ i was broke so this pretty much explains why i'm outside hahahaha

ipoh dao rae again last night. the crowd was madness! i've never seen a korean restaurant this busy before / we were talking about how rohan should really open another franchise over here.

mommy dearest and i :) / she was bugging me to photoshop away her crow's feet just now hahaha this is why you should never let your mum know the magic of photoshop.

stoned.

okay la enough of random pictures. last one.

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DO YOU LIKE MY AMAZON FOREST? :D sigh judging from my behaviour in public i will never be an english princess lololol

Indebted

2011-05-27T02:18:00.005+08:00

I just realised that it's going to be midyear in a couple of days and every single midyear without fail, I still ask myself the same question, where did the last 6 months go? Haha. But overall, the first half of twenty eleven has been nothing short of fulfilling and fun. I told myself in January I'll take up challenges and do things I never thought I will, I did. I told myself to absorb and learn as much as I can, I kept my words :) But there is this one thing I always forgot to remind myself - to stop and smell the flowers. Whenever I do, my day turns out better, and all my sleepless-causing troubles don't seem to really matter that much. Sounds too good to be true, but that's just how things work. Big plans are great, but it's the small, delicate details amongst bigger things that matter.

It's funny how I used to be so weak and easily shaken by people who are constantly trying to bring me down in totally absurd ways. My insecurity level was totally insane back then. I am loved, that's all i need to remember. And people who matters are going to protect and stand by me no matter what.

Glad i'm stronger now.

2011-05-11T18:53:00.001+08:00

Besides weekends, Wednesday is the best day of the week for this semester cos it's the only day where class ends before noon and I have nothing important to do for the rest of the day ^^ Planned to be productive and spend the whole afternoon doing assignments or coming up with the sponsorship proposal for upcoming project but ended up sleeping and watching TVB bwahahaha :D

Humans are silly like that. When I was so free last semester, I wished to be busy so that at least I don't feel underachieved. Now I just want to watch TVB whole day and not do anything else +.+

Dying to hit the beach!!! I can hear the jet ski calling out my name wtf

I still have a bit of kan cheong scenes to watch before I go off and write at least 4 out of 7 pages of papers by tonight. *promise to self.

Proper post coming up! Till then xx

Amelie Cafe

2011-04-19T14:34:00.006+08:00

I had brunch with a couple of friends last Saturday at this quaint little cafe along Armenian Street, one of the historical streets in Georgetown. And when I say little, I mean it. Think it can only occupy 15 customers max >.< It's so easy to miss if you're driving cos the cafe is really small and it kinda blends in with the surrounding old shophouses so you gotta really slow down if you're searching for it. Anyway it's called Amelie Cafe. I've heard so much about this place, mostly in Penang food blogs raving about its decorations and whatnot so I decided to check it out (:

The unique thing about this particular cafe is none other than the decoration concept - the owner only uses recycled and vintage items to decorate the whole place, kinda like Fat Spoon from PJ but obviously that one is much bigger. Amelie Cafe is definitely cosier, everything is so misplaced and old it reminds me so much of grandma's place <3

Wearing a vintage pleated skirt my aunty passed down to me. It's probably older than me but it looks like new. Clothes back then always have such amazing quality.

Entrance is so small we felt like we were entering a tree hole hehehe

Menu was limited though..cos only a couple is operating that place.

Beverage menu on the other side of the cards :)

Namecard..sho cuteee.

Those drawings are actually for sale. The middle one with the chicken was sold for RM200 to a lady sitting next to our table.

I love the mismatched stools and chairs :) Everything looks so effortless but so much thoughts and details are being put into the decorations.

Pasta mushroom in sundried tomato + feta cheese. I LOVE feta cheese.

My aglio olio. Food was really mediocre. I can get better pasta elsewhere for less than what I'm paying for.

The one who owns the cafe is a skinny man who reminds me SO MUCH of Mark Lee from Mediacorp HAHAHA.

Sweating like mad after walking quite a distance under the sweltering heat..I was actually very grumpy at that time :P

It's a nice place, but I wouldn't go there for meals. Afternoon tea when the weather is less torturing maybe.

First Two Weeks

2011-04-13T17:40:00.004+08:00

So! What's happening as of late..college started a week ago and works are slowly pilling up but currently at a steady pace, thank god. I would be eternally grateful if it remains this way for the rest of..my studying life. Deadlines are such a pain in the ass, they make my hair fall -.- All those aside, it's great to realize that I'm beginning to see a clear path ahead of me and get the drift of where things are leading AND most importantly, of what my true passions are ;)

Oh & I took up Hangeul! Never in my wildest dream would I thought of taking Korean as my first foreign language. I never liked the sound of it, to me it's totally noisy and un-exotic hahaha and I was never a fan of k-pop(which is one of the main reasons why people learn it). But Mom reckoned that it might do me good in the future and there's no harm in picking up another language, so yeah (:

I've already attended three lessons and am supposed to know how to read by now but you know, I'm so busy with college and stuff so it's quite impossible to find the time to revise #refusetoadmitstupidity. Tomorrow's the fourth lesson and we are gonna have SPELLING. Spelling is SO HARDDDDD. Can't believe I just said that.

Random pics from dinner on Sunday night.

Dao Rae's service sucks to the very max but the stew over there is undeniably the best around town. Why can't we have the best of both worlds? :/

Looking forward to dinner later and the weekend. EXCITED WEEKEND AHEAD! xx

SUNDAY

2011-04-03T22:07:00.002+08:00

Wearing my current favourite shorts from Jay Jays. I call them my lazy shorts ; tend to wear them when I don't bother to dress up.

Self-obsessed moments.

Spent the whole day with the family in PG. Visited sis's new place, shopped a little, ate too much, laughed a tad bit excessively. Times like this will get rare when lessons commence in two days :( But I can't wait to get my hands busy with college and assignments. This underachieved feeling due to long holidays needs to stop.

xx

Just Feel Like Updating

2011-03-28T14:10:00.003+08:00

Woke up at six something yesterday morning (by myself!) and visited grandpa together with family members who came back to Ipoh for Cheng Meng :) The weather was unusually awesome, mainly because we reached there early and grandpa's grave was somewhere at the top of the hill, didn't kena sunlight. No hot sun = happy me!

That's my eldest uncle using coins to ask grandpa whether has he finished eating yet -__- Funny things we do.

As you can see all everyone did was just chillaxing around, hanging out with grandpa LOL!

A few pictures of Deji I'd like to share :) It was truly a rare and hilarious moment. He was playing with his toys very intensely and when he saw that I was holding a camera, he immediately stopped what he was doing and stare at it for at least 2 minutes! Poser much?

And when I said smile, he gave me this....

LOL just joking.

This is his signature you-don't-give-me-food-i'm-gonna-cry face.

What Came In My Mail

2011-03-25T20:08:00.002+08:00

I've been refraining myself from spending impulsively online since the beginning of this year. And may I add, quite successfully ;) I know it's only March now but it's not easy alright! I don't know whether is it just me but I tend to consider more during shopping when it comes to dealing with cash. Do I need that? Will I wear this often? Does it even look good on me or I'm just living in denial wtf? All these questions will never come across my mind when I shopped online. Put into cart, checkout, pay. Balance shrinking? Whatever, after all they're just numbers.

And all these habits are just SO BAD.

I used to live by ''spend now, think later'' and that sorta brought some troublesome consequences - asking for extra allowance etc. I don't like that. Even my friends shaked their heads at the sight of parcels coming every few days lol.

I still have parcels coming every now and then but baby steps alright! :P I'm trying my best to be sensible but sometimes you just can't help it whenever you see something so gorgeous it's almost sinful not to get it hehe. So whenever I shop in the mall nowadays I try to just bring sufficient cash and leave the card at home :)

On a very ironic note, two parcels came today HAHAHA.One of them was a leather case for my S95 bought from a HK Ebay seller. This is neccesity, totally not impulsive.

Super ♥ the vintage look of it :) However I would prefer the strap buckles to be of brass instead of black plastic.

Local Tourist Part 2

2011-03-21T20:33:00.007+08:00

The second day, we thought of bringing Jack(yeah that's his name Jack n Jill wtf) to a Thai restaurant located at some mountain peak with really awesome view for lunch but we got lost -.- So we ate at random kopitiam and settled ourselves at a durian stall by the roadside ^^

I couldn't understand why would people hate my favourite fruit :(

Finished one whole durian by myself and off we went for a 2 hours full body massage session. It was my first time :P The extent of massage I went before were just facial with shoulder massage and reflexology.

We drove back to Ipoh later that night and visited the Gua Tempurung next morning, all geared up (wore sneakers!), ready to cave but were unfortunately greeted by crazy pouring rain. We thought the rain was gonna make things more adventurous hahaha but turns out we couldn't do the wet tour cos the tour guide asked us to jangan buang nyawa and jangan mati di gua tempurung. -_________-

Spot Deji! :D It's a wool felt puppy ordered from Nekomeow. Adorable max!!! Check out the site! (:

Heart shape!!!!

The pictures I took really don't do justice to the beautiful interior of the cave. You know how sucky my old Ixus is.

For those who haven't been there, you should really do so, at least once. It's funny how something so beautiful is just a stone's throw away (: I'd never thought of going there if it wasn't because of Jack's visit and our obligation to bring him to tourist spots.

Next!

Kellie's Castle & Kek Lok Tong. No pictures cos my camera died which gives me more reason to hate it now. -.- But I managed to get some from Jack's iPhone.

Kek Lok Toong, posing like poyo tourists.

Next day, we visited the Sam Poh Toong and that marked the end of our Ipoh tour wtf.

Check out my sleepy face and crooked legs. Must be all those years of ballet practicing HAHAHAHA!

Now bow to the Queen of Limestone wtf

Although it was all quite dodgy, I mean, touring your own hometown? Seriously? :P, but it all comes back to the famous 'it's the company that matters' phrase. In this case, la familia :) ♥

Local Tourist Part 1

2011-03-18T18:48:00.006+08:00

I've been staying in Penang Island for almost a year(exactly a year come next semester) but ironically never have I thought of taking a few days off to explore the copious number of tourist attractions there. For the past four days, I was living as a tourist cos Rohan's (should I start addressing him as BIL?:P Ok I think I should) brother came to visit from Korea so we had to bring him around.

The first day he was here, BIL (HAHA!) had to work so I'm assigned to the task of bringing him around to as many places as possible. I thought we could cover the whole core zone of Georgetown Unesco World Heritage Site in a day. Read more about the core zone here, it's really big. Well, I guess I underestimated the size of the place and overestimated our stamina :P

View from the Kek Lok Si pagoda.

Penang downtown, overlooking Air Itam area.

CASPER wtf

In the elevator going up to the Guan Yin bronze statue.

Cuteness overload!

His first time trying laksa :D

Passed by the Teochew Ancestral Temple on our way to Khoo Kongsi. The stupid bus driver dropped us at the wrong place so we had to walk for quite a distance >:( "I will never forget Khoo Kongsi!" - his exact words when we almost ran out of breath walking lololol

Finally!!! :D

Face all sweaty and oily.

So I brought him to Kek Lok Si, Khoo Kongsi and Little India. Only 3 places but we felt like we just ended a 20km marathon at the end of the day. The trip back home on a cab with blasting air con was HEAVEN.

My Day in Five Photos

2011-03-09T20:07:00.003+08:00

1) Had lunch at this place called Village something in Prangin Mall with my two girlfriends after our last paper. The waitress brought us Chinese magazines to read while waiting for our meal hahaha. Was really weird, thought I was in a saloon or something but it was a nice gesture. Except that moment when she didn't know where to place our food cos the magazines occupied the whole table.

2) My cheese baked rice. Was good.

3) Had snow ice dessert for the first time. Yes first time, no laughing! It was so niceeeee, so velvety and soft the ice. I foresee many more snow ice dessert in the future.

4) Us in First Avenue elevator. Walked there. It was my first time there as well hahahaha god where have I been. Never bothered to check them out last time cos my friends said there's nothing there. There's really nothing there!

5) Bought cheap bangles. That much for about 26 bucks? Plus they are smaller than standard size bangles so I can fit into them. Those string of fake pearls come together with those bangles and I actually thought they're quite useful to sorta 'soften' up the look? But my friend Yenyee loathed them and keep urging me to cut it haha.

All pics taken with my old Canon Ixus T.T

x

I iz awesome chef

2011-03-09T12:19:00.004+08:00

When I went to visit Nathan last year, I thought I'd play the good wife material, y'know? Make hearty breakfast every morning, whip up awesome meals et cetera. Cos after all they said the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. But I can sorta assure you that it's total bullshit. I can't cook to save my life yet he still loves me so much ahaha :P

So I decided that it would be nice to make roast lamb for dinner on Christmas Day. I already had an image of us and a couple of friends at the back of my head, sipping wine and feasting on thick juicy slabs of roast lamb...wayyyyyyyyy before Christmas. But that day never came, for I forgot to defrost the lamb leg in the morning wtf. Okay I digressed.

What I made precisely was garlic and rosemary slow cooked roast lamb, recipe taken from Kimba's Kitchen.

This was what I attempted to make....

*wipes drools of the corner of mouth

crispy skin, check. juicy meat, check.

This was what came out from the oven...

@.@

Dry and tough meat, check. Burnt juice, check. Lamb Y U NO COOK NICELY???

We didn't get to eat it for Christmas dinner. Cos I thought that lamb leg only takes like 1 hour to defrost? It took freaking 3 hours or something -.- So we ended up having steamboat dinner at a friend's place and had this for supper.

Till today, I still didn't know what I did wrong. I think I set the oven on a wrong ''mode'' or something. Recipe required the oven to be fan forced. I was like, whaaat the hell is fan forced. So I turned the oven knob thingy to the fan picture wtf.

Lesson learnt : Refrain from cooking 'difficult' meals alone and stick to my signature dish, maggi with two eggs.

Listen Up Shop Owners

2011-03-04T01:24:00.006+08:00

I always think of myself as a person of considerable patience. I still talk to annoying people/kids nicely. I can forgive you when you're late for our lunch date. In fact, did that too many times.

But there is one major pet peeve that constantly ticked me off; the attitude of shop owners or workers once they found out that you're not interested in buying their stuff or, when they think you're not. Especially in boutiques or other clothes and shoes retail store.

When you come out from the fitting room and hand them back the clothes you tried saying no, you can literally see the changes in their expressions, in split seconds. From glistening hope and all smiles to crushed disappointment with jeruk face. I really understand the disappointment part but do they really have to show their sour face in front of the customers? Is it really that hard to say "it's okay?" or ''nevermind, check out other clothes?'' Is it really THAT hard to smile? What's with that fucking face? Kinda reminds me of the expression I gave my mum when she refused to buy me stuff when I was young. There was once I tried on only TWO pairs of shoes in Vincci I ended up not buying because they were really not nice and the stupid sales assistant freaking SIGHED. I was like, whaaaattt? As if her life depended on my purchases.

I've worked in a boutique which is constantly patronized by tai tais who shop according to their mood. MOST of them try on clothes 10-20 pieces at one go. Sometimes they can spend their own sweet time trying on clothes for an hour plus and buy NOTHING in the end. Do I freaking give them the sour face? NO, despite having to hang all of them back in their respective places later. Cos I do not freaking know them. For all I know, those people might be my biggest customers ever in the future. Give them the freaking sour face and see whether they'll come back. You're not Microsoft, people can choose.

And I've learnt not to judge. I've seen too many shop owners judging their potential customers! Some even gave the top to toe scan, and do it obviously. What's with that kind of service? Who are you to judge, really.

You know how did I get this lesson? When I was working in Gurney, there was this lady who was quite underdressed for a Sunday afternoon. No handbag, just a cellphone in a case. She didn't intend to come in, but a dress from the mannequin caught her attention and she wanted to try it so I took it down. I scanned through her jeans pocket (guilty as charged!), no bumps, no signs of wallet. After that she ended up trying more clothes and walked away with 3K of purchase from the shop I worked at, paid with a platinum card kept in her cellphone case. Yes she went shopping with just a cellphone and a card. HOW COOL. She was really, really underdressed. I was quite sure she was wearing a sleeping boxer.

So? Don't judge.

When I went shopping in Perth, I loved how most of the shop assistants are so passionate in their jobs. At least they tried to look like they do. Most of them greeted every customers which is something really, really rare in Malaysia. Some complimented you...like how this gay assistant in Jayjays said he loved my polka dot dress. Heck, those western people greet everyone. Here, when I enter shops and greet the owner they gave me the O.o look. Funny isn't.

I didn't know how to summarise this post. It's like a whole bunch of complaints based on my shopping experiences :P Oh wells.

Anthropologie ♥

2011-03-02T20:27:00.006+08:00

Final's in a few days time and I've been trying to stuff my brain with as many facts as possible from stacks of clean, unread notes. Consequences of pure slacking for the past 2 months.

For the lack of inspiration despite the need to fill my page with another post plus the fact that sis took away my camera to China for ONE month, I think it might be apt for me to upload images of few of my favourite stuffs from Anthropologie. I'm not a fan of their clothes and shoes but more to the home collection. They carry some of the quirkiest items ever!! ♥ I can totally imagine myself decorating my future house with all these.*housewife mode

What I like about their home collection is that each and every object seems to have a story of their own. Put them all in the same house and people are gonna think they come from all nooks and crannies of the world. Can't wait to own a place I call my own and decorate it however I want but so not looking forward to the mortgage part :S

2011-02-25T14:33:00.000+08:00

Hungry shit. I wish we had healthy food delivery here.

Skincare Haul

2011-02-24T16:52:00.002+08:00

Somewhere around two weeks ago, I sent sis an email regarding skincare stuff that I want her to bring back from Korea. All from Skin Food :D I never buy Skin Food products in Malaysia (except nail polishes) cos they're way pricier here. You can get it from Korea at half the price sold in Malaysia. HALF. Sometimes more than half. Awesome possum ^__^

Two tubs of Papaya Yogurt Mask, Peach Sake Toner, Peach Sake Sun Lotion, Peach Sake BB Cream (yeah I like that range a lot), Fresh Juice C Serum with numerous samples of skincare ranges not even available in Malaysia yet + tax = less than MYR 150. How's that for a good deal? I planned to get the Omija series when I go there myself.

Sis's stuff from the saem. Mostly anti-aging stuff, lifting serum, spot corrector, collagen mask HAHAHA. Okay don't laugh cos I foresee myself using all these in a few years time. Afterall, prevention is better than cure.
Two packs of masks and the spot corrector placed on top are bought, the rest below are free stuff :O

Whole pre-testing set for free. Not those typical miniature bottles, about 20ml each.

Crazy. Don't know how they do business like that. Sure cannot work in Malaysia or Singapore.

2011-02-23T10:46:00.000+08:00

“May you never steal, lie or cheat. But if you have to steal, then steal away my sorrows. If you have to lie, then lie with me all the nights of our life. If you have to cheat, then cheat death because I don’t want to live a day without you”. Anonymous

Snippets of CNY

2011-02-19T20:33:00.002+08:00

CNY officially ended a couple of days ago. It's all the same every year, collecting red packets, gambling, countless visitations and of course, those daily feasting. Truth be told, I'm getting kind of sick of all those festive meals. It's all meat, meat and MORE meat.

One or two dishes of meat is alright per meal, but when you have at least two chicken dishes, loads of pork, whole pig trotter/ knuckles, meat loafs, vege dishes WITH meat on the table in ONE meal, it can get pretty overwhelming.

Sis and boyfriend ( soon to be brother-in-law!) came back on CNY eve evening and they brought back lots of pork from the Korean mart in Penang. So Mom handed the kitchen over to them..Rohan made his own version of daeji-golgi while sis whipped out jap chae, the Korean glass noodles. Slurp.

plus other Mom's Chinese dishes = lots of yummy ♥♥♥.

Girly Alienware

2011-02-17T14:28:00.003+08:00

I, for one, do not understand the need to spend so much on gadgets. Especially gaming gadgets. Total waste of money. Unfortunately, Nathan thinks otherwise. He think it is completely logical of him to spend huge sum of money on a gaming laptop that has an ugly alien head on it and said that my 100 bucks dress is expensive.

Hate that thing so much I tell you. Its favourite pastime include stealing Nathan from me at ungodly hours and taking away my happiness. Occasionally it likes to make us argue. Its partner-in-crime? Jeremy, Nathan's best friend / gaming partner.

Ignores the supper I LOVINGLY made for him FML. Passed him the jug to pour water and he held it in that position for at least 5 minutes. T.T

But the other day, I realized something which kinda took away a LITTLE TEENY WEENY bit of hatred towards that thing..

which is the keyboard LED light. ADJUSTABLE so very naturally I made him adjust it to PINK HAHA. Notice the gradient? That's because you are able to set 3 different tones to the keyboard. Quite amazing. Even the alien head is pink in colour MUAHAHA.

So whenever I get really pissed at him for staring at the screen for too long, all I have to do is look at his keyboard and go like.. awww so chio,don't change the colour okay? and continue minding my own business WTF. I am so easily pleased.

Three

2011-02-06T17:47:00.003+08:00

Today marks the third year that I've been together with Baby N :)

Three years, and I'm thankful for every second of it. That guy, he completes my life. As independent as I would like to be, I can't help but to constantly feel lost without his presence. Through him and his unconditional love, I grew up and learnt so much.

We've gone through countless rough paths in these three years and I couldn't be more grateful for his faith in me.

To Baby N, I love you. More as time goes by. Thank you for all the unlimited shower of love and care :) ♥♥♥

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Today also marks the first time Baby N and I had our first polaroid pic taken.

And I had to look at least 10 years older, pregnant with almost non-existent eyebrows T.T But cut me some slack, barely had any sleep from last night.

Here's to more anniversaries ♥

p/s : He looks prettier than me wtf

Sympathique

2011-02-02T00:04:00.004+08:00

Pictures from yesterday's dinner at Secret Garden with Han, SZ, Gwyneth, Baby N and Jeremy (Nathan's friend). Service sucks ttm, average food but ambiance was good. They played my favourite French song by Pink Martini so all is well ~
Plus, I get to see Gwyneth after F O R E V E R.

My so-called Italian Pork Chop which means TOUGH deep fried pork drenched in tomato puree T.T

Lamb was alright. Nothing to brag about.

4 Seasons Sandwich. The one with the egg is definitely summer. Not sure about the others. Boyf said this was nice.

Gwyneth, totally fascinated with what Suzhou is studying right now HAHAHA

Honey ♥

Finalleh !!! ♥♥♥ We didn't have enough time to talk! We should totally have sleepovers and talk about all the girl stuff and dirty words only we understand hehe.
On another note, I look quite plump in this dress.

Hehe.

No picture with Peng Han cos she went back for a while to attend reunion dinner at home. Talk about multi-tasking, that woman!

Camwhoring at baby's place.

Photobombed :P

3 more weeks till the seeing-each-other-24/7 ends :(

Ending this post with a buay paiseh picture taken at the study room. Good lighting, there.

Don't vomit la, give face a bit.

Sam gyup sal for tomorrow's reunion dinner! :D Everyone's coming back!!! Can't wait, really.

Half-hearted post(more like quarter-hearted) cos I'm so excited about tmrw! Ok night everyone HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR GONG XI FA CAI hope you guys win a lot during gambling. HUAT AHHHH!!!

Fun Fact

2011-02-01T00:58:00.002+08:00

When you make Milo, it is normal that you'll get matte brown colour drink. Boring ol' Milo colour.

But DO YOU KNOW(kata kunci wtf) that when you drop some chocolate chips or a bar of chocolate into your hot Milo, it turns shimmery.

"Hi, my Milo has more shimmer than yours.''

Eyshadow language, so to speak.

Here n' T H E R E

2011-01-27T22:25:00.001+08:00

Mei xiu tu tu's lomo effects, quite cool I must say. Used to think of it as dodgy. Who wouldn't when come across a software with that kind of name? Haha.

Hitting the sack early tonight, got a date tmrw!:P

Good night, world. Much love and peace xx

Tea Time Snack

2011-01-26T23:58:00.000+08:00

I'm getting so many days of break this short semester. Thanks to my super awesome schedule :D If I'm willing to work during my breaks, I might be rich by the end of next month. MIGHT.

If you've been following me on Twitter, you'd know that I lost my make up pouch last week. Together with all my everyday make up essentials. >:(

Still mad pissed off at myself. I suck so much at taking care of my things! First was the dent on my camera. Then the lost make up pouch. And today, I accidentally bleached my new college bag T.T Mou tak gau, seriously.

Spot the patch =.= It doesn't look obvious in the picture cos I used flash. Looks much worse in real life :(
This afternoon I wanted the remove the black stain off the bag so I applied some detergent powder on the spot. Turns out that the powder is for white clothes which means bleaching properties FML. It's only 2 days old. Sorry patchy pink bag :(

I know all these may sound petty but it seriously bothers me! I get so upset when Windows does not provide Helvetica and I had to settle for Arial in my poster(there's a difference!) what makes you think this wouldn't upset me? Omg I sound so shallow. *thinks of intelligent things to say* *nothing*

SIGH.

I used to be so carefree. Wonder where did that part of me go.

BLAH whatever. Couple of snapshots of my teatime snack.

Found some marshmallows in the fridge. Immediately melted a handful of chocolate chips bought from Margaret River chocolate factory shop in Swan Valley.

Warm chocolate + cold marshmallows = NOMS ♥

A Year of Grudge Within Me

2011-01-21T01:35:00.001+08:00

If there is one person that I want dead in this world, it is the girl who sleeps above me every single night in the hostel. Yes, literally above me cos we share the same bunker bed FML to the max. The girl whom I don't even speak to more than 2 sentences a day. Sometimes we don't even speak at all. (cos it's such a waste of my breath and energy and voice) I'd always thought that the only person that I want dead in this world is my boyf's ex girlfriend cos she's damn bitchy and hiao but NO! I don't want her dead yet cos I wanna invite her to our wedding and make her sit at the back table next to the dustbin. Oh and I'll ask the banquet waiters to deliberately pour leftover food on her. MUAHAHAHA take that bitch!*delusional

Okay back to my room mate.

Seriously, I've never come across anyone as inconsiderate, gross, lazy and stupid and (insert more negative adjectives) as her. She's a disgrace to all women in the world!!!! Even guys shake their head and scoff in disgust when they see her table! It's full of rubbish you can't even guess the table's surface colour. Her junk food plastics that she ate one month ago is still on the table amongst other leftover tidbits, I swear! She waits till her leftover tea bags turn BLACK before she wants to throw them away. What kind of girl is this! Gross is such an understatement.

I've never seen her sweep the floor or even TOUCH the broomstick. Neither have I seen her study. But that's altogether not my business. and I really don't remember when is the last time she changes her bed sheet. Probably never. But I like to think that she did at least ONCE in a freaking year(!) to make myself feel better cos, she's just right above me. Whatever dirt and bed mites she has on her bed might fall onto mine.

I've already tolerated her dirty habits for almost a year cos I'm not usually in my room except to sleep so it's pretty okay. But something that got on my nerves are her ACTIVITIES at night.

She.don't.fucking.sleep.at.night.

She sleeps at daytime(which means skipping classes often) , do her idiotic stuff at night when everyone's asleep. Idiotic stuff include :

Phone sex (Yes)
Talking on the phone as if nobody's in the room(with all that hiao cute voice) and LAUGHING OUT LOUD.
Tidy up her wardrobe.
Boil water and make tea.
Shower at the attached bathroom and dropping everything.
Climbing up and down the bunker bed.
Inviting friends(who doesn't sleep at night as well) over.

Kill me already.

All those above, I tolerate.

Last three days, I forgot my room keys. She was definitely awake in the room cos I heard her talking and laughing on the phone from outside. I knocked on the door and SHE WENT SILENT. I am 100% positive that she's pretending to be asleep cos she was just laughing miliseconds ago! I knocked again, no answer. Continued knocking hard for at least 2 mins on the door before she comes down from her bed to open it.

The night before, I told her to shut up at around two in the morning cos I was very tired and she wouldn't stop talking on the phone. After A FEW TIMES asking her to keep her voices down, she unwillingly get out from the room.

So I think it's her little revenge or something. Cute.

From that moment onwards, I really,really want her to die. Or at least disappear from my sight. I don't care if she dies in her bed above me. I JUST WANT HER DEAD.

I'm not cruel, really. If you were in my position, you would've stabbed and chopped her 18 pieces ala Mona Fendi already.

Why do people get nice room mate who ended up becoming their best friend and I get shit like that?

2011-01-19T16:22:00.000+08:00

Had catch up session with both my sistazzzz at Berlin's Bier Houz. Food sucked which was kind of expected, I have yet to find a proper place that serves good (other than Chinese) food in Ipoh. Spent the night yakking and gossiping away, as usual.

My connector ring reads GOSSIP. Vowed to wear them out everytime with friends HEHE.

2011-01-18T23:29:00.000+08:00

Try to be quiet for a day, sit back and just listen to your friends' conversations. As you watch and listen, you'll soon begin to see quite a number of things you never came to realize last time.

Cos' that is the time you're listening as a stranger.

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2011-01-15T05:21:00.000+08:00

I refuse to sleep cos it's already 4am and I have to wake up at 8 for breakfast with my momma. Confirm cannot wake up if I sleep now and I don't wanna disappoint her. Haih where to get this kind of daughter.

So to kill time I shall blabber whatever that comes into my mind, cos that's what I'm good at. plus one of my NY resolutions is to find out what I'm good at, and work hard on it. so I guess you'll see more of my blabbering posts in the future.

But my brain is kinda stuck right now.

Do you like making lists? Cos I loveeeeeee doing it. My desktop is filled with sticky notes full of lists. Mostly to-buy list and it's always the longest which is a really bad thing. Whenever I see something online or anywhere, it's so convenient to just type it down onto the sticky notes without really thinking twice cos as always, the urge overcomes everything. And when it goes onto the sticky notes, a 'want' somehow has its way to convince you that it's actually a 'need'. I don't know how to put this but as long as something is on the list, it automatically becomes a necessity. Or maybe because it's just me. I have difficulties distinguishing them.

But making lists also helps in organizing my life.so yupp :)

I'm ruining my skin and body already in the beginning of the year. Violated the skin care resolution. I'm trying very hard not to fall asleep now and hopefully the rest of the day so I can go to bed early and fix back my biological clock.

Dying to go Krabi or just SOMEWHERE for Valentines Day. but pray tell, how is it gonna happen with all that college and uni things going on? :( I like going to places with currency smaller than MYR. Damn pek cek going to western countries when you have to multiple 3 and above okay! Oh, accessories everything 5 dollars is it? RM15, still expensive! Can get cheaper in BKK you know?! and I ALWAYS prefer Asian countries don't know why. Guess I like familiar environment.

I wanna go India can? I wanna buy cheap bangles and silk scarf. and eat authentic palak paneer.

Mr N is not gonna be pleased reading this post and finding out that I'm still awake at this hour. I still love you,baby! ♥ Can we go Krabi?

Time passes so freaking slow ohmaigod.

Words Vomit

2011-01-13T00:59:00.009+08:00

I just realised Blogger updated their post editor since 2008. I've been using the old, sucky one since 2007 until today. TODAY! 2011! After 3 years! I have no idea why I never came to know about this, seriously. No notification, nothing. None that I can remember of. This is the most absurd and stupidest thing that has ever happened in my life. It's like I've been using this tai ko tai for many years, complaining about the reception and its inconvenience..

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and then one day people came telling me that mobile phones already existed many years ago.you don't know meh?

I used to make fun of people who reply slow, saying that their world is 3 seconds slower than mine. Now you can make fun of me and say that my world is 3 YEARS slower than yours WTF. You know how I got to know about this? I was bored so I played around with the settings and there it was, the magical ''select post editor'' option. =.=

I have so many shallow things to talk about la! Like how I regretted not buying the mullet dress from Sportsgirl. It was on sales but it's still AUD60 so convert back it's like RM180, quite expensive. But now when I come to think of it, it's not THAT expensive especially for something you can't get back here. Plus, it was so gorgeous and at that time there was UK6! Do you know how hard is it to find UK6 among sales stuff ! Almost impossible. Consider yourself very lucky if you can find nice stuff in that size.

But it's okay! Because I'm gonna invest RM180 in something better which is the...

JENG JENG JENG!

...legendary Urban Decay Naked Palette! It was released last Fall and it's still VERY IN DEMAND till today. Out of stock in Sephora.com and practically everywhere. People are selling this on Ebay at ridiculous prices, just like what they did on Lanvin x H&M collection. Hate these people, really. Not interested in the item itself, but the price it brings when the item is high in demand.

It is said that new stocks are arriving in Sephora, SG next week and I'm on the waiting list :D Not quite sure whether the Malaysian seller I'm ordering from can get it, but fingers crossed :)

On another note, this particular short semester rocks BIG TIME because I only have classes on the whole of Monday and Tuesday :D Not quite sure whether should I get a job cos this is a 2-month-sem. Next one is gonna be hell hectic judging from the courses.

I kind of like blogging like this with filtering.

I'm gonna upload lots of rubbish pics cos I can do it conveniently now! *checks photo archives

She looked so much younger and prettier in bangs! I've been thinking of getting blunt bangs but I seriously cannot afford to have break outs on my forehead one more time. That particular break out period when I had bangs was truly an agonizing time, I even cried at the sight of it. Tea tree oil was my best friend during that time wtf. However, one pro of having bangs like this is that you no longer have to give a damn about your eyebrows LOLOLOL

So it has been quite an in and out dilemma for sometime..until I see these.

and I was like okay long fringe is still the best. I still looked better with long fringe, they looked good in long fringe so yeah long fringe it is T.T I actually put myself on par with Kim Kardashian and Lauren Conrad.

*checks archives again

I fell in love with these earrings when I saw them on Tumblr. I ADORE dream catcher stuff. Imagine how glad I was when I spotted the same(almost) pair in Diva when I was in Perth. But it was HUGEEE! I want earrings that looked like dream catcher, not a whole dream catcher on my ear! There were so big until the feathers were like resting on my shoulders..which made me look like I had feathers growing out from there LOL.

So nope, didn't get them. Let's just hope that one day I get to find one, in the right size.

Nuff talk. Gotta run a few errands tmrw, so g'night world ♥

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I take back my words. The new photo uploader somehow fucked up my whole post arrangement. I'm very anal when it comes to paragraph spacings and stuff like that and it somehow screwed that up. Photos take forever to load as well. I'm using Flickr again.

Guess some things are better left unchanged.

Till Then

2011-01-08T17:45:00.006+08:00

I'm leaving in approximately 6 hours time! :( Actual plan today was to Fremantle for fish and chips at Cicerello's but we overslept. Guess that has to wait for next time :/

At Hog's Breath Cafe, Northbridge yesterday for omfg awesome steak!

will edit this post when I have the time. Gotta bath and pack!

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Reached Penang this morning and just woke up from my 5 hours much needed sleep. Definitely can sleep nowhere other than the bed. I'm still so sleepy I might just doze off again after this.

this is what I call the orgasmic-after-having-super-good-mash face.

Traditional cut for my big tummy! Super tender and good even without any sauce

Lite cut for the small eater boyfriend LOL! Nah he was actually saving his tummy space for Tony Romas which we ended up not going :X

Mad love my camera's super vivid mode! Don't need to adjust contrast etc anymore.

Random shots of Northbridge..

see you in two weeks ♥

Then off to city jalan-jalan. Wind was so strong I felt so stupid for wearing a dress.

Nostalgia mode. Sorry couldn't stop playing around with the modes LOL!

Street performer doing his thing. Quite lame but people were so entertained.

ok cannot tahan have to sleep.

2011 Resolutions

2011-01-06T23:57:00.008+08:00

Just for fun, not like I take them seriously every year. Most of them are quite shallow and superficial, but WHATEVERRRRR. Superficial resolutions are easier to achieve. Cut all that self-discovering/improvement crap some slack.

1) I'm gonna be extra hardworking this year. Get a job and earn enough to fulfill my shopaholic ~~wants~~ needs :D Got to make sure I get that Speedy 30 I want for Christmas this year ♥

2) I'm gonna take extra extra care of my skin. Remove every traces of make up every night. Follow my skin care routine without skipping a step or two. (God this is so difficult to achieve) Provide skin with sufficient SPF which means stop getting lazy to slab on sunscreen. Use a mask at least twice a week. Go facial often. Yada yada yada.

3) I forgot when was the last time I actually exercised. Ahhh forget about exercising I'll never do it.

4) Buy more shoes and make an effort to wear every shoes I bought equally. I actually like buying shoes which goes well with most of my outfits so I ALWAYS wear the same freaking shoes which get in my sight. MUST SHUFFLE wtf can't find a more suitable word.

5) Treat my loved ones better and try not to shout and be rude to them when I'm pissed. Put their needs and wants before mine everytime. There, one which isn't about me.

6) Make an effort to connect with friends I haven't met for such a longggggggg time. But sometimes I'll get real lazy...that's why I said make effort LOL!

7) Make use of my 8364364 eyeshadow palettes before they get spoiled. Nuff said.

8) Drive often and make sure I don't forget how to. Must make use of my license. HAHAHA! Ok this is fairly important, most of my friends are driving here and there already so I cannot be the loser with license who doesn't drive.

Only 8 simple resolutions, nothing about saving the world or the kids in Africa and they already seem so hard to achieve :(

I ought to write them down on a manila card and paste it on my wall.

I'm serious. No laughing. I hate ya'll.

Rainy Summer

2011-01-05T23:48:00.001+08:00

I've been here in Perth for 2 weeks and it finally rained today. TWICE. Once in the morning and another in the evening. You have no idea how glad am I! So excited and happy I even woke up in the wee hours to draw up the curtain and look at the rain wtf. Even woke the boyf up to tell him that it's raining. Haha. I'm acting like it's snow,really.

The thing is, I am so not used to this kind of summer heat after staying in Penang for almost a year. The weather in PG is always so pleasant ( esp to the skin). Even when it's hot and humid, there is always sea breeze and I LOVED it. I'm proud to say that I stopped having breakout problems altogether in PG.

My face breaks out like mad even after two days staying here. But I'm not complaining. Besides the weather and the fact that we had to drive out quite far to get food, I loved it here. I love the summer sales, the supermarkets and the canned soup. I love how small takeaway shops always serve the best food compared to big restaurants. I love waking up to see my lover beside me every morning. I love how we're doing every single thing together. I love how everything here is so slow-paced. Even the cars brake all the time wtf.

I really wanted to go to Rottnest Island but judging from the weather, perhaps next time at a better season. Went to Swan Valley yesterday and the weather is driving us nuts albeit the gorgeous countryside and vineyard sceneries. Guildford is beautiful but I didn't manage to get any pictures cos we were just passing by. With that heat, I refused to get down from the car as well. Will definitely return there next time if I come at a colder season.

Going back on Sunday. Boyfriend will be back to Malaysia a few days before CNY so all is good :)

2011 is definitely treating me well so far.

Super Lagged

2010-12-22T13:01:00.008+08:00

Last two days was such a crazy packing day. Packed for my trip, vacuumed the whole house, out to get Christmas goodies for 65 Salvation Army orphans who will be visiting Intel today. I'm not even a part of Intel but because I'm being fed by 2 Intel-ians (ehem) so naturally I'm obliged to help out. Pfft.

SO.

Before shopping for stuff, we had dinner at The Palace of India. Food was good, service was awesome. There was once I turned my body and happened to look at the waiter. He IMMEDIATELY approached me and ask "Ma'am is everything fine?" o.O I hardly get this kind of service in Indian restaurants okay. There's a reason they call it The Palace of India LOL okay bad pun.

not empty la. a few occupied tables not in the photo.

briyani was served in this balang thing.so cute!

the conventional tandoori chicken.

palak paneer, as always. served with soft buttery tofu, yums

somemore got performance. they played Christmas songs and even Sway using those instruments. Angmoh customers damn pleased.

Traffic view of Bolehland.

after that it's shopping time.

bought 66 socks for the price of 65. stupid workers miscounted.

no thanks to Rohan who slept right away after we reached home.

packing up the goodie socks. My laptop heat melted some marshmallows nearby :P

hi i haz yellow hair nao!

all in the name of Christmas and love :)

p/s : This post was half written in the airport and I forgot to post it up until today :P I'm in Perth now btw, where shops close at 5 so I'm pretty free after dinner time. Will keep up with my blogging pace, although it's really a hassle to travel + documenting every single thing.

I'd rather live in the moment :)

Ride Back to the Past

2010-12-20T15:04:00.003+08:00

On Saturday, sis picked me up from hostel and said that we're heading back to Ipoh for a day to surprise mum. o.O Due to all that last minute planning, we didn't manage to order mille crepe from Humble Beginnings as orders need to be done 2 days in advance but they distribute to Austin Chase so we had to get it there for more than TWICE the price of those sold by H.Beginnings. Such awesome daughters she has. ehem.

But the barista was kind enough to let us choose another two slices of mille crepe for free. I don't think its in their policy cos at first he said choose one but sis was like, dua tak boleh ke? and he said okay okay dua dua.=.= should've said tiga right.

and he even asked, nak makan sini ke bungkus? I LOL-ed literally when he said bungkus cos he made the place sounds like ramli stall or something. Can you imagine Starbucks baristas asking you nak makan ke bungkus?

On the same day before leaving to Ipoh, I got a new camera as well :D Got it for a really good price from a small shop near Komtar, famous for offering the lowest price for cameras in Penang. We went there twice ( couldn't get it the first time cos they ran out of stock) and it was ALWAYS crowded with professional photographers, judging from their gadgets la. Even met a couple of college mates there getting sidekicks for their dSLRs.

My Canon s95 is amazing so far. Was wondering why didn't I get it earlier. It was a far cry from my stupid Ixus especially in low light and video performances. Still learning how to deal with the functions and all that aperture, shutter speed crap though. Why can't I just point and shoot awesome photos? -.- Hate all that.

One thing lacking from the camera is the soft skin function, the one that takes away all your pimples and breakouts :P like hello? it's available in so many new cameras now! and the fish eye mode is more to taking landscape and building pics, camwhore and you'll end up looking distorted. Haih I was expecting the lomo kind of fish eye effect.

this morning in Intel tshirt. Only at home you can see me pairing blue shirt with pink shorts :D

We had the cake in grandma's place. Didn't really come off as a surprise, Mom saw the cake. Like where else are we gonna put it besides the fridge -.-

vanilla mille crepe :) those stupid candles cost me 10 bucks and they don't even lit up well! look at the blue 'Y'! and they melt off so quickly -.-

Mummy dearest, not dressed up well for the surprise :P she's not gonna like me posting this on the net.

And then randomly, my youngest uncle took out a drawer full of old photographs. Like reallyyy old, sepia and b&w kind of old. Sharing session it seems LOL!

literally a drawer wtf

old wedding photos

my grandparents. grandpa was so handsome OMG!

do you feel like dating him wtf

grandparents wedding photo preserved till today!a few dressing up like Ip Man behind muahahaha

i think these are my grandaunts, idk. check out the matching handbags and pearls LOL

my aunt. 9 out 10 wedding dresses last time had puffy sleeves ala Enchanted hahahaha

and this is a photo of a family friend (I think)

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with eyeliners drawn on the lid..so this was how people last time created double eyelids!HAHA!

can't believe couture makeup already started back then.

Pretty

2010-12-10T14:04:00.004+08:00

I was in QB the other day to watch Rapunzel and I can't help but to be awed by the decorations at the center atrium in conjunction with some Barbie events.

How can you not love those purple velvet curtains!

so gorgeous!!! somemore got hanging fairies!

SIGH.

I've been back in Ipoh for a couple of days and I swear some parts of me are decomposing.

p/s : I just realised I actually professed my love for curtains. Velvet curtains. What's up with me?

2010-12-07T19:15:00.005+08:00

A few of my favourite pieces from NastyGal. Have you ever browse through an online shopping site to find out that you practically LOVE every single clothes they have?

That's what I feel about NastyGal. They have tonnes of sheer and edgy clothings which I loveeeee deeply!

all my favourites. I WANT.

Granny Love

2010-11-30T16:50:00.012+08:00

I think I am mentally turning old! I have SO little enthusiasm for every.single.thing nowadays. I used to get so excited when it comes to dinner time and I'll make everyone contribute their suggestions on what's for dinner wtf but now i'll just go like you all tapao for me la I wanna sleep. =.= and I used to be the one who asked for mamak supper session. now they had to literally dragged me out of bed. why liddis! :(

I haven't even watch HP for gods sake! and I don't even feel the slightest urge to watch it.(can't believe i will say this) last time i used to watch movies alone all the time when everyone was busy! somebody really gotta slap some sense into me.

anyway! last Saturday was grandma's birthday. We decided not to celebrate it in restaurants(too little freedom for the crazy family), so we had a little get-together at grandma's place. Had BBQ and whatnot at the compound. I really appreciate gatherings like that because we don't see each other very often besides CNY. so all these moments are really precious to me, even though it lasted only for a night.

oh and I had my hair permed that afternoon itself which explains my really curly hair(even resembling locks) in the photos. it's much better now though :) photos not in order.

unleashing my inner lala-ness with THE duckface.

mummy dearest :)

ohana..

i forgot what we were laughing about but this photo is epic la!

one of my favourite uncle and aunt :)

I didn't edit this photo cos I wanna show my cheeks HAHA. I was using Benetint and now I'm a convert! Only applied a lil and it lasted whole night! Despite all that crazy sweating and running around.

A little overdressed with the tutu and whatnot for BBQ but that doesn't deter me from cooking my favourite meat ok! I don't mean to overdress but grandma likes to see her granddaughters dressed up all prim and proper, even for BBQ or morning market. tested and proven, she was telling everyone how come other granddaughters don't dress like me MUAHAHAHA *scores point wtf

heehee my grandma is the funnest person ever!

Dad and I. now you know where did I get my eating manners from. i love how this photo looks like it's being taken by a lomo cam.

we ALWAYS use aluminium foil to avoid burn.

Mr N where are you?:(

aunt, me, mom.

i might look like I'm posing but I'm not okayyyy

youngest uncle, eldest uncle, mom.

hehe got flower somemore

glad she was happy that night :] may God bless her with a healthy long life!

p/s : used CinemaScope effect from Picnik to edit mua photos. got cinema effect or not?LOL

Drools

2010-11-22T14:50:00.007+08:00

I know I should be doing my assignments instead of typing nonsense here. But I can't help but to share some of my favourite pieces from Lanvin for H&M collection. they're all so whimsical and GORGEOUSSSSS! * AHHHH tears hair apart*

those are what people should be queueing up for, not some UNIQLO crap. Queuing for UNIQLO? Seriously?

i don't really like yellow but BRIGHT yellow is an exception! somehow reminds me of Carrie Bradshaw, but anything Carrie Bradshaw-related is good, so yeah.

love the details on the T shirt esp the lace on the neckline, the sheer cover up, the shoes. LOVE EVERYTHING.

I LOVEEEE sheer stuff, i've lots of sheer top, but the boyf hates them. "You do not wear them with your bra", he commands. then what's the point? pfft.

i adore the messy ruffles on the skirt.

more ruffles! i'm turning girly! hahaha!

but all these are nothing compared to this :

THIS, is love at first sight. It's also available in red but I think I like this a lot more. I can never bring my love for tulle into words.

My wedding dress will have 1000 layers of tulle.muahahaha! then i'll turn into a giant size flamingo wtf

Rumi from fashiontoast pulls it off better though.

So,

early Christmas present, anyone? :P

2010-11-14T21:55:00.003+08:00

Whenever life treats me good, deep down inside there's always a sinking feeling buried within my heart and a voice that constantly tells me that all these will end one day.

They might last long, but they'll end someday.

Because nothing is permanent. Nothing. And it saddens me a lot.

I was playing happily with Deji hours ago and within seconds after we stopped, I begin to realise that I might not have the chance to play with him like this in years to come. He'll grow old, and one day he'll leave us all. The thought of him leaving depresses me a lot. Or maybe in years to come, I might not even have the time to spend with him. I am extremely terrified of the fact that my pets will leave me one day. I will not know what to do.

Even at the end of a happy shopping day with mum, I will be constantly reminding myself to treat her better because...she won't be staying by my side forever.

I hate that nothing is permanent, and people(or pets) I love will eventually leave me one day.

Have you ever felt this way after something good happens to you? Be it after playing with your pets or having a wonderful dinner with people you love? Cos I feel like this ALL THE TIME.

This type of pessimism is so negative and it haunts me all the time.

Maybe I am just afraid of death. Perhaps not maybe, I AM afraid of death.

What's Up?

2010-11-13T10:06:00.006+08:00

Currently, my life is revolving around :

1) assignments. I'm trying my utmost best best best to sit still in front of my laptop, trying to finish off 10 fucking g.design tutorials and at least have the slightest idea on what to do on my final assignment. Failed max. Same goes to my advertising one. Already have an idea, but it is just so freaking hard to open the softwares and move the mouse!

2) TVBs. Self-explanatory.

From next week onwards, it's gonna be hectic hectic hectic! Due dates coming all at once and exam starts next month :S Gotta appreciate all the free time I have now. Can't wait for this semester to end! Will be flying off to Perth in Dec to see the Mister for 3 weeks :D

Haha this photo is so old i forgot what he was doing at that time.

p/s I left my camera cable in Ipoh, so pictures will have to wait.

p/p/s I am so good when it comes to writing nonsense and call it a post.

Fashion Designer Me

2010-11-01T15:55:00.003+08:00

On my way to college today, I chanced upon a billboard with NST advertisement.

I see their ads very often, something about asking people to see both side of the stories. They came out with statements like "zebra,black with white strips or white with black strips" (cliche) or picture of a football player with words like "reckless defense, or strong opponents" something along the line la, you get the drift. they change it all the time.

today they had a new one. its "LAZY DECORATOR,or MINIMALIST DESIGN." i actually rose up from my slouchy position to look at it clearly. i was like, that is so ME! i just did the same thing last week.

the thing was, i was really inspiration-less and lazy to come out with a creative design for my Graphic Design assignment, and we're supposed to write a report on why we did this, why we chose this design all that shit.

so i simply came out with some simple stuff ( REALLYYYY simple) and in my report i stated that i'm doing the minimalist theme with minimalist design. everything minimum. HAHA.

my friend was like "oh,really?minimalist huhhh?PUIK" when she read my report :P

oh,oh and guess what I found when I was cleaning up my closet last weekend?>:P

jeng jeng jeng! a blouse I made when i was 14! for that stupid Kemahiran Hidup subject pfftt. I don't see this being any part of my living skills =.=

i always know there's a designer in me. look at the immaculate workmanship! the gorgeous embroidery! oh that cute little red button! HAHAHA

if you think my blouse looks like crap, you should've seen others. i remembered my teacher took mine and showed it to the whole class ok!!!

p/s : ok la i took it to the tailor ( haha tailor did my homework wtf) cos i think i screwed up halfway but i swear i did the button and embroidery myself!

* this post was written two days ago, i fell asleep half way and woke up feeling EXTREMELYYYY lazehh and was busy yesterday.so yeah.

2010-10-23T22:29:00.004+08:00

Sociology test in 2 days. 15 marks. Very important. 2 girls in a room, minding own business.

Pay Leng : Oi you said you're gonna start studying.

Alice : Yeah, okay.

5 mins..

Pay Leng : Study!!!

Alice : Ok...

10 mins..

Pay Leng : Oi study!!!

Alice : You start first or else i cant!

Pay Leng : You start first! Take out your notes!

Alice : I'm not gonna start until you do.

Pay Leng : I can't start unless you start.

*repeat above for 10 times

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2010-10-16T21:49:00.009+08:00

The other day,my OCD mode kicked in so I reorganized my make-up pouch which was quite futile actually cos it will soon be messy again in no time but that's a story for another day. For now, all my eyeliners,mascaras,eyeshadows etc are nicely arranged...cos I haven't touch them since then LOL!

FYI, I really hate to stuff all my cosmetics into a pouch cos it's so hard to find the items I want! esp when you're in a rush and you have to dig DEEEEEEP =.= i even considered getting a makeup kit ala Kevyn Aucoin haha but it's even troublesome to bring it back and forth PG and Ipoh. Mum suggested that I get a mini drawer and place all my cosmetics in it nicely and only bring the essentials back to hometown.

but define ESSENTIAL. everything is essential to me okay. what if I suddenly wake up one day and decided to use the green eyeshadow which I thought wasn't essential ?! *bimbo mode

When I was reorganising my stuff, I realised that I haven't been using a lot of make up particularly this year. It's always concealer,eyeliner,BB cream,blusher and I'm off to go. So many colourful palettes left untouched...I'm getting so lazy :(

So I guess make up is like going to work/school. Once you stop doing it for some time, the laziness kicks in and you won't feel like doing it ever again..until you take a MAJOR big initiative to start doing it and get the mojo back, which is quite unlikely in my case. I even forget that I have certain cosmetics in my pouch okay! tsk tsk

It's Saturday night and I'm back in my hostel when there's a big family dinner back home in Ipoh :/ I'm back a day earlier cos I thought that my Graphic Design assignment is due this Monday and I have to get things done but it's not! it's on Friday fml. But sis is fetching me later to her place to stay for a night.

at least i get to play with Deji :)

that's a socks he's not letting go of :D he's a socks maniac i tell you. can leave his food untouched just to play with socks. and you know how pugs prioritize their food right.

A Cupcake Related Post

2010-10-15T11:24:00.012+08:00

Last two years, this happened. We actually put the blame on Peng Han's oven. but two days ago, the oven proved us wrong wtf.

So the thing was two days ago, Janna and I went for a sleepover at Han's place and we baked velvet cupcakes :) they turned out super,super gorgeous my mother in law would be so proud of me hahaha. nothing burnt okay!!!

gorgeous colour.if you think the colouring is bad, then stop eating McD altogether.

cream cheese frosting which was the best part of the entire cupcake,albeit a little bit ugly. not a fan of swirls, i prefer my frosting to be spread onto cakes.

craving for it right now :S

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miss them girls already!:( sigh god knows when will we ever have the time to do this again.

last pic to end this brief post,

my girlfriend, Peng Han certainly has the best parking skill around town.

over all these years, i've come to realise that i don't actually need people whom i can talk a lot with to be my best friends ; i just need people who has the ability to make me feel comfortable in silence.
same goes to the boyfriend and I. he calls everyday and we might not have so much of things to talk about, but its his presence over the line that matters.
but again, that's just me.

Eat That

2010-10-07T17:30:00.001+08:00

"Life is too short for rumours, blending in and financial planning." - Pay Leng

Half Of My Heart

2010-09-21T17:31:00.009+08:00

I still have an hour left before I'm off to dinner with friends at...don't know where. Location still undecided. But I suddenly have this urge to blog about nothing in particular. Forget about the birthday post, college already took up most of my time, and let's not dwell into my daily assignments alright.

Sorry for the dearth of photos but recently I am so used to not having a camera with me whenever I'm out and about. At times my friends bring out their dSLRs so I couldn't be bothered to bring out my little pink Canon, but sometimes even if I bring it out I really don't see the point in taking pictures of anything and everything, wonder how people do that. Or maybe I'm just bored of my Canon haha.

I guess things would be different if this replaces my lame ol' Ixus hehe :P

so I was rummaging through my folders and I found pictures of yummy desserts my friends and I had at this little cottage along Gurney Drive the night before my birthday. they treated and it was so sweet of them,really. they just practically dragged me into that place without saying a word and after settling down they asked me to order whatever i want :D of course i didn't order impulsively lahhh cos we're all broke students like that :( plus the fact that i'm such a considerate friend.ehem

the conventional banana split.

fried cinnamon apple with ice cream wrapped in crepe.forgot the fancy name la lol

espresso crepe,eaten lol

chicken cubes,mushrooms,onions (and whatnot) wrapped in crepe and topped with generous amount of parmesan.NOMS

we must haz meat!

mad love them!
dinner time

2010-09-14T21:19:00.003+08:00

Had a blessed birthday :) Birthday really has its way to make someone feel special and appreciated huh.

When I have the time, I'll blog about every single details and all those lovely gestures I received yesterday. And when I say in details, I mean it.

When I have the time, of course.

2010-09-07T19:30:00.008+08:00

I long for the day when I no longer have to please anyone but myself.

I long for the day when there's no restriction in whatever I do.

I long for the day I truly LIVE life.

2010-09-02T21:05:00.002+08:00

Going back to Ipoh on Saturday!:D Haven't been back for a month plus already.

Ipoh to-do list:

1)Noms on Buntong ngar choy kai.Beats Old Town hands down!
2)Noms on fish head meehoon near the Bercham market.but have to wake up early sigh things i do for food.
3)Fix my hair. Planning to dye it a lighter colour. Colour undecided.
4)Wake up and ask ''what's for breakfast?''
5)Catch up with people,I think. cos I don't know whose gonna be there.
6)Drink sibeh kao chinese soup :( the closest I can get here is bak kut teh.

can't wait can't wait wtf

2010-09-02T15:02:00.003+08:00

Apparently,when you're under 18 you can't withdraw money over-the-counter without your parents. No fund transfer no online banking no withdrawal. Whatever happens to banks' policies in making life easier?

If there is one place in this world that can make my life a living hell, it is the BANK. at least banks in Malaysia. they make me want to keep all my money in a Milo tin.

Fucking looking forward to my birthday.*grumpy

Ello

2010-09-01T11:52:00.004+08:00

HAI.I IZ SICK.

ROFL.

Yesterday was my last day working. Currently waiting for my pay cheque $$$ hehe. you know when i was working ytd, I suddenly realised that I can always go to the bank and withdraw my money over the counter. FML TO THE MAX lor why didn't I realise this earlier. Asked my friends and they said they know about it but didn't thought of it T.T

so glad that the mega sales is still on. gonna withdraw money later and catch up with the sales after Advertising class.

baibai.

My Boy Turns 21 Today

2010-08-27T10:02:00.009+08:00

HAPPY 21 TO THE MAN I LOVED MOST IN THE WORLD :D
HAVE A GREAT ONE WITH YOUR FRIENDS, AND WE SHALL HAVE OUR OWN POST-BDAY 'CELEBRATION' aite?;P
LOVE YOU MANY MANY and have fun on this amazing day :)

//

Its a holiday today but I woke up automatically around 8. this i have to blame the hostel's a/c which auto shuts at 4am sharp T.T how to fucking sleep in the stupid heat. semester 2 started this week, everything was good so far except the fact that i lost my ATM card AGAIN. its not even 3 months yet since the last time i made a new one.

apparently i'm under 18 ma so if i wanna make a new one have to bring a parent along. WTFWTF. sometimes it feels so damn ridiculous to see IMTEEN ACCOUNT printed across my bank statement. i don't intend to unnecessarily tell mum about this, so i guess i would make a new one myself after my birthday which is SO LONGGGG from now :( really looking forward to pay day right now or else god knows how am i gonna survive without the card.

SIGH. why all the misfortunes ah.

i have quite a number of photos to upload but i'm just damn lazy, have to work at 2 so i think i'll nap instead.

ok lah a photo of my torn leggings wtf.
accidentally pulled a long thread out of it which resulted in a damn big hole.

2010-08-21T11:03:00.002+08:00

One day,we'll reunite. For real, and forever :]

2010-08-11T21:15:00.005+08:00

Sem break started about 1 week ago but I'm still here in this island. cos on the last day of exam, a college mate was asking around for people who wants to work part time for the boutique she is working in and asked whether i'm up for it.
and i was like,why not. so i went to the interview on that day itself -so much for being spontaneous before watching Inception ( so thought-provoking i get headache watching it.lol). i don't consider that an interview,cos they really needed part time workers DESPERATELYYY so it's more like a time arrangement. and the supervisor was like, ok you can come to work tomorrow. O.O exam today,work tomorrow. my friends even thought i didn't have enough money to use, haha. but it's not like i have anything better to do in the hostel so yeah. the downside of it is the fact that those sleepovers and yumcha session etc with my ipoh babes have to be postponed :(

the pay isn't that high compared to working in those high-end or international brand stores but i get to have so much freedom ; other friends who work in those stores can't even sit for god's sake. think of the potential premature varicose veins! haha.

ok about my job. the boutique sells apparels from Korea and Japan, no Taiwan nonsense which explains the higher-than-normal price. Not many 'ordinary' buyers can afford them, so our customers are mostly rich tais tais who spend a few Ks in one go or tourists ( not many though,mostly Chinese Indonesians who are so fucking rich they don't need to look at price tags).

my job is damn relaxing la during weekdays. When it's quiet, all I do is eat and read ViVi Mag the whole day - boss has stacks of them. When there are new stocks I label price tags, steam them and hang em up. sometimes try them on :P shiok la. but the biggest problem with working in the mall is that you spend more than you earn every single day. i hope this doesn't apply to me alone :(

it's my off day today so i get to blog, reorganised my wardrobe and wash my mountain pile of clothes. wanted to mop the floor but decided to do it next week.

EARRRRRRLY Birthday Present

2010-07-21T22:03:00.006+08:00

Nate bought me a new cellphone as an early birthday present :D

TADA!~ wtf

sleek and simple,i like. nobody wanna rob wtf.

Finally a new phone after using my old SE K550i for almost 3 years. My college mates have been bugging me to get myself a new one cos apparently the old one was really an eyesore for them. (think sticking lots of rhinestones on handphone using strong adhesive glue and being scraped out using penknife)
This Yari is damn canggih for me la. The most I will make out of a phone is to call and text, nothing else. I hardly use the camera (too sucky) or the mp3 ( i've my iPod to save the day) so I don't actually give a damn when the seller was explaining about 3G and some gesture-controlled gaming. It seems that the gaming thingy is what Yari is all about. I don't know, will try it after my finals. gadget-fail la me.

ok back to studying :(
and lots of love to the one down under :]]]