this is my first year celebrating CNY somewhere else besides in Penang and ive got to say its d quietest celebration ive had so far.
last thurs was Chap Goh Meh and i didnt even noe til today. Oh well.....
Family is important during CNY. i just didnt realise how much til now.
last nite my uni had a function to celebrate CNY. haha better late than never eh?
anyway it made me realise that we chinese have a very rich cultural history. i knew that but i thought that was all in the past. teenagers nowadays rather be gaming online than to go for training for some sport that has not much future but i was surprised yesterday. there are still a handful of people who are willing to sacrifice their afternoons for years to perfect an art that some teenagers arent even AWARE of its existance!
last night for the first time i witnessed 8 drummers perform a piece. its not easy. the discipline involved might put the army to shame. they were so synchronized and in-time.
it was also my first time seeing smth that looks like a gasing(yes ,yes im one of those ignorant chinese kids who grew up wid Looney Tunes and Disney) but is bigger and u dont spin it on d ground. u manipulate it wid smth like a skipping rope. the guys were throwing it up on d air, spinning it around, up and around their body, between their legs....and many more tricks while not dropping it at all. the thing( which looks like an hourglass shape) just keeps spinning and spinning and spinning. the best part of it is that its not tied to the rope. its just being balanced. amazing.
the performers are all teenagers. the oldest is about 22 while the youngest couldve been 12yrs old. facinating. the lion dance performers and the drummers were equally young.
guess our chinese heritage still has a chance to survive long enough for our kids to witness with their own eyes like i did last nite.
midterm tmr! AHHH!!
cant wait for it to be OVER!!!
planning to go to A Famosa after it to celebrate
ok, once in awhile when i get on my car,i give it a once over. yesterday before driving my car out i was looking at it, thinking that ill wash it today(which i totally forgot cos im so tired). then i stayed home all day til it was evening i went home to bath,change and buy howards dinner. his housemates are cooking dinner(delicious! and only rm20 for 8ppl to eat) so i had to go back to his house anyway.after dinner i went to my car to get smth when i noticed smth different about my car. the space between my driver side back door and the back lights theres a dent. a huge dent. some SOB knocked my car and just left!!!
its not a very terrible one la....sumbody will jz hafto get a hammer n pop it out only( like when u press the plastic bottle a little too hard so it dents in n then u push fr the inside and it will pop out like normal ady) but it still bugs me. my car.....my baby.....sakit hati lo!!!!
i hope whoever responsible will burn in hell for it.for awhile la.its not exp to fix it wat bloody hell.... just apologize la! ish ish ish.
i noe it isnt my habit to post two blogs in a day bt.....ish!!!!!
i had to or ill take sum1s head off
grr.......
its one thing to wreck my own car,its another when someone else does it
ok, once in awhile when i get on my car,i give it a once over. yesterday before driving my car out i was looking at it, thinking that ill wash it today(which i totally forgot cos im so tired). then i stayed home all day til it was evening i went home to bath,change and buy howards dinner. his housemates are cooking dinner(delicious! and only rm20 for 8ppl to eat) so i had to go back to his house anyway.after dinner i went to my car to get smth when i noticed smth different about my car. the space between my driver side back door and the back lights theres a dent. a huge dent. some SOB knocked my car and just left!!!
its not a very terrible one la....sumbody will jz hafto get a hammer n pop it out only( like when u press the plastic bottle a little too hard so it dents in n then u push fr the inside and it will pop out like normal ady) but it still bugs me. my car.....my baby.....sakit hati lo!!!!
i hope whoever responsible will burn in hell for it.for awhile la.its not exp to fix it wat bloody hell.... just apologize la! ish ish ish.
i noe it isnt my habit to post two blogs in a day bt.....ish!!!!!
i had to or ill take sum1s head off
grr.......
its one thing to wreck my own car,its another when someone else does it
ok peeps(lolz) Valentine's Day has just passed. I hope u enjoyed urs bcause mine was the best. not dat i haf any to compare to bt so far its been the best la! haha. but as u all noe, good things dont come alone. it alwiz comes hand in hand wid smth bad. life's prerogative i guess.....anyway
after dinner we went to play fireworks by the beach haahaa. i was so into the fireworks(was experimenting wid various combinations) that i didnt notice the port hole.....its actually an uncovered drain. just big enough for a fool like me to fall into haha. thank god i fell halfway only so only my right palm n elbow was injured. its now scabbing ady so....it only hurts when i forget its there and rub it again smth painful like my jeans buckle n zip(OUCH!!!! $*%#)
that was thursday. friday howard was feeling under the weather. i thought it was just the usual CNY la. i was on d bed the whole of wed too. only got up to go to an important lab nia.
i didnt think much of his illness cos i assumed that it was a 24hr bug like mine...he had very high fever by nightfall....i was worried bt thats it. the next morning he woke up n it hasnt improved. i was gonna take him to c d doc ady. when he changed into a new shirt, we all noticed spots all over his torso. d clinic cudnt be sure of wat he had bcos its a saturday, the labs closed so i had to rush him to d hospital to get his bloodwork done. we waited for an hr. when it was his turn the doctor didnt deem him sick enough to do a bloodwork so he gave him panadol and sent him home. we went home,he took his meds and slept. when he woke up 5hrs later all his spots n fever disappeared. i was so thankful. i went to buy us both dinner. when i got back at 8 his fever and spots cameback twofold. i panicked. his housemate suspected dengue(it is at its worse at night) so again i took him to the hospital. THIS time they took him in to do bloodtest to confirm the disease. the bloodwork took THREE hours!!!!(*^$%E%!!)
luckily got TV3 to keep me company. ive not watched tv in abt....8months so it was a nice opportunity to catch up wid an old fren haha. they were showing a modern malay show. 6hari 5malam. i actually enjoyed it. then there was the news at midnight....more politics(throws up) then they showed Honey! starring Jessica Alba (drools) in a hip hop dance theme show (gets a mop to clean up the drool). shes so hawt in that movie.....lucky whoever shes with right now.... damn dat chick can move!
anyway...i didnt managed to finish the show cos howard was finally! done ady.....he had....MEASLES!!! i had mine ady thankfully so its okay la. its the best among all the possible viral infections....i took him home n crashed at his place. his housemates were kind enough to offer to share her mattress....dun la simply think! haha
for someone who never goes to a hospital( rarely even to visit others) i just spent 5-6hours in one on two separate trips on the same day. life. funny how u wake up like its just another day in malacca and it turns out to be.......AHHHHHHHH! haha.
i was brought up never to trust GH but after yesterday........theyre not dat bad ady. maybe its malacca GH or just the improvement of standard in local facilities la bt im thankful the got my darling straighten out. yesterday he was lying on the bed,half dead with no will to live. today he is up and about like usual.with the exception of a billion red spots covering ever inch of his body surface.
everyday i thank god i have my other baby(its blue with wheels as legs) to help me thru my days. if not.......i dont even want to go down that road
exams are coming!!!!!!!! WHEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the faster they come, they faster they end, the faster i get to go home to PENANG!!!!!!!
tho i am loving malacca more and more la. when i leave there will be certain things that ill miss forever
we always think that we are young because we act young. we dont feel the years go by because hey! wat difference does it make if ur 20 or 21 rite?oh ya u get to vote.big deal. anyway,it takes smth to make us realise that we arent children anymore. that we are grown up adults responsible for our own actions. that it is time for us to start making a mark on the world.to start contributing smth of value to society besides the population count. for me it was entering university. it made me realise that im now an undergrad.dat im really in uni ady. no longer in sec sch where we hafto wear uniforms and follow strict rules. not that uni got no rules bt in uni we have a bigger room to breath ma. moving to malacca has taught me to grow up too. taught me independence that cant be learnt no matter how i try by living close to home. it came wid a big price tho. everytime i come home and return to malacca i get very homesick for at least a week. it sucks.big time.but wat ye gonna do? suck it up lor.....
anyway,up til last year my life has been pretty blessed. y i suddenly say dat?cos no one has really left me. up until i was 19 the only people who passed away were both my grandpas and my greatgrandma. one of my grandpa died when i was 2months old. he remembers me bt i dont. he seemed like a really great guy n i regret not getting to noe him but i cant miss wat i never had. my other grandpa died when i was abt....std2. i vaguely knew him only bcos he was never home much. only come home in the wee hours to sleep n left the house really early.even cny i rarely see him. i dont have much memories from that period of my life so...again it doesnt affect me much. my great grandma was around for much longer. i remember her. i see her everyday. unfortunately she hadnt been well for a very long time ady. she cudnt talk or move eversince i cud remember. she was jz sumone in the house.so when she died i was sad bt in my mind she has gone to a better place. lying bedridden unable to speak or do anything isnt really living out ur golden years in comfort
after that no one died ady and i was quite ignorant of that aspect of life. death was just something that happens to other people's lives. not mine. i sympathise bt dats abt it.until last year.
it was very unexpected. its not even somebody that i see in everyday in real life. bt at one point i saw him online everyday. its somebody i met online while playing online games. he was a v nice dude. we had a lot of laughs n good times together. his death was unexpected. again i felt his lost because i know that ill never speak to him again, never listen to his crap n his witty comebacks anymore.after the initial shock i was okay ady
then see khoons dad came as a shock too. i was in school rushing for my projects last minute things when i got the msg from tri. i was soo stunned i just dropped everything and sat there for a moment. a car accident. such a simple common thing.bt the result is one of the most terrible thing in the world. i suddenly had the urge to hug my dad. to make sure that he is okay. that he hasnt been involved in anything that might take him away.i called him immediately. of all the times he didnt pick up his hp tis was one of them. it scared the shit outta me. dozens of horrible images went thru my head, each ,more gruesome than the other. finally he called me back. i cudnt be more relieved. to lose my dad when i havent even had a chance to repay him.....it wud b like if i got robbed.
when i found out that heath ledger died i was devastated. trhem being superstars u dont really think of them as mere mortals. they seem to be able to do wonderful things, make u feel various emotions thru their craft and...it blows me away whenever i watch or read smth extraordinary. he was sooo young, so handsome when he passed away. i was smitten by him since the first time i saw him in A Knights Tale.to waste such a talented pretty face over drugs is....a crime against mankind haha.
then last week i got the shocking news abt pn Ong's daughter. i dont know her personally bt ive met her once in sch. she came looking for her mum. seems like a very pleasant gal. im not affected personally bt it did came as a shock.to think of a mother having to bury ur own daughter....its so sad. makes me wana cry. so real....so scary.
todays CNY eve.happy times. yet y am i talking abt the sad side of life?
because i just received another shocking news. one of my juniors was in New Zealand. there u are allowed to drive once u hit 16yrs old. he was driving wid 2 frens when he crashed into another car.he died on the spot n his frens died on d way to the hospital.this is somebody i know. somebody i once gave advice to. a fren.he was in my daily life. we werent close bt still....hes only 16. so young.
when i was given this piece of news it made me realise: im not a kid anymore.ive grown up. i cant be fooling ard anymore.it doesnt mean im gonna start to b boring n serious all the time bt i gotta start making my life mean smth ady i guess. life isnt jz abt waking up, go to sch n try to score. i gotta....start acting like an adult. dat kinda scares me.
last nite i had a all-girls nite out dinnering at mizi's. it reminded me of old times where we sit ard n bitch abt those who werent around(haha) and joking ard having a ball taking pics. as we are bitching i suddenly realise that all of us are really goin on our own path. there were 10 of us and none of us were doin the same thing. 10 ppl,10 diff paths. soon all of us will be moved to diff parts of the globe ady.....wow
wow wow wow
im an adult now. haha
age has ntg to do wid growing up.
well its 2.15pm here and im stuck in school. today i have a total of 8hrs of labs and lectures. aih.....
the earliest was 8am. my lecturer is away in Japan so another lecturer is just covering for todays lesson then we wont be having lessons for the next 2 weeks. as we dragged ourselves out from the bed and trudge our way to class, we were comforted at the thought of the next two thursday mornings sleeping in. 845am arrived and still no lecturer. when we called her she told us that she thought the lesson was at 2.30pm. since we have another class at that time she decided that this weeks class will be forwarded to next week. WTH!!!!!!!
so we fools had to find something to do til 10am(our next class). we have been slithering from one class to another since then. my last class is at 4pm-6pm. average working hour is only 9-5 but us students have to endure 8-6. somedays poor howard even has to endure 8am classes all the way til 11pm. with only 2 hrs of break in the day for lunch and dinner.
...
who says we students have it easy?
aih......
A productive day always put me in a good mood. it makes me feel like im useful ya noe? I hate going to bed thinking that im jz taking up space in this world.
I woke up around 9am. Since its Saturday, I decided to take advantage of it and laze around abit. My plan was to get to the library by 1030am bt I only managed to get out of the house around 1045am. Oops. Got to the library around 11am. Gosh there were so many people!!! The car park’s were full and all the good tables were taken. Fortunately I managed to share a table wid another malay student who was der to on9 n study. The library has free wifi and its FAST!! My streamyx wud give me maximum 60kbps bt so did the library today! Haha. I was feeling lucky already. I settled down and started to update my things…blogs, friendster, email. Then I set my deluge to work and went to work myself. Since there’s a lot of people today my butt didn’t freeze like it usually does. As the library was closing at 2pm I finished my revision and my laptop battery was jz about to finish. Perfect timing.
Eversince I saw the preview of Warlords on the first week of dec I have been dying to see it. I suddenly envisioned the best lunch to make my day a better one than it already is. I closed my laptop drove to Mahkota Parade ( kinda like the Gurney Plaza of Malacca) and went up to GCS as quick as I can. I got there just in time. At 210pm I bought a ticket to the movie Warlords which is at 230pm. I went down to buy myself a large Diet Coke and a large CURLY FRIES!!!(dun u just love them curly deepfried gonna-kill-u-softly-sumday yummy potatoes??). the movie turned out to be quite good. I noticed at the end of the show that every movie that Jet Li does, he dies at the end of it. Be it the villain or the hero, he ALWAYS dies (hell freezes over if he didn’t!)
Its my first Takashi movie and I cant help but think he’s damn goodlooking! Acting not so good la…. Or maybe its just the part that he played la.
Anyhoo….. after the movie I went to the loo. There was a long que and this malay girl was standing behind me. Just as I was goin into a stall I heard her tell her friend “ Ya Allah bagilah aku kekuatan untuk bertahan”
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I mean, what u gonna do, pee in ur pants?
Now for those unfortunate souls that have been dragged by me to go looking for that pillow-cum-blanket thingy, im sorry. I saw my fren Mei Lin who has this nice fluffy pillow that doubles as a blanket in her car. I remember that my darling alwiz freezes in the cinema and I really liked hugging that pillow. So I vowed to get one for my own car. On my bday I dragged both my frens to hunting for it( thanks u guys. That was a great! Day) and I dragged my mum n my not so feeling well bro hunting for it too. There were plenty of really nice ones bt I didn’t buy any cos I had found THE ONE. The one pillow that I wanted to put in my car. To hug while my darling drives. To use as a blanket when im cold.
Cute eh?
I found one in Prangin Mall but it was old. It had a hole. And it was dirty. U cant expect me to pay the exact same price for smth new that looks like wat it shud after 3yrs of purchase. Imagine how itll look like in 3yrs! Its skin colour bt the one I saw was closer to light brown. I cant hug dat! When I cudnt find a decent one in penang I decided to try Malacca. On the first try I didn’t managed to find it. Howard said give it up, im never gonna find it.
Today after the movie I decided to give it another try. I haven’t tried this mall yet cos howard said dat wudnt have wat I wanted. HAH! The first soft toy shop I walked in had 4. FOUR!!! All in perfect condition. They even had other designs but this piggy was wat I wanted. There were only 8 left in total. Now 7. Haha. After that I decided it was time for me to go home. Twas around 530pm. If I hurry I cud be in time for a hike behind my hostel. The que to pay the parking ticket was SO long dat it cost me an xtra 1.50 by the time I got to my turn. Twas rather embarrassing cos I only had 2 bucks wid me and the total was 3.50. the rest was all 10s. I knew if I inserted rm10 itll return my change in 50cents. Embarrassing!!!!!! Luckily the machine don’t accept rm10 bills and a lady was kind enough to lend me. I went into a shop to xchange my 10 for smaller bills. The gal took out a rm5 bill n 5 rm1 bills but only gave me 9bucks. Do I look gullible to u? when I asked her, she sheepishly handed me my rm1. Nah! Anyway, I returned
dat kind lady n went on my way.
this is just half the line.....
Took a nice drive home and went for my hike!
My darling was busy so I went alone bt the hike trail is usually swamped wif people. Families…. Couples….ppl fr my hostel…..today was no different. The usual 1.5hr hike took me 40mins only today. Guess without company u do travel faster! Haha. It was just me, my mp4 and a stick that I picked up along the way. It’s a nice big stick. I kept it wid me for future hikes. Since I was early I decided to get to know my neighbourhood. Turns out I was living in a Chinese neighbourhood. There was even an Bungaraya MCA house! Hahaha! All this while I never knew. Parking was kinda expensive so I wanted to even my budget out by eating at home. I wanted to eat sum fruit n vegetables too. Conclusion: salad!!!!!! Hahaha.
Who knew 2 apples, a carrot n baby tomatoes cud turn out such a big volume of food?
Took me an hour to finish( was watching Everybody Loves Raymond while eating)
Went to pick Howard up from his frens place after that dat concludes my day!
Haha
Talk about productivity.
So, did I had a good day? U bet I had a GREAT day!
~Independence is the key to happiness~
Is wat I always say.
Make urself happy first before u can even consider making others happy. Cos u cant exactly be the best anything if u urself are miserable. =)
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