JoyJoy =)

Words

2010-08-21T22:19:00.007+10:00

We are all exposed to tons of words everyday, just to name a few off... words said in blogs, ppl's comments on your blog or facebook wall, things that ppl say to you on msn, or public/private conversations in uni/phone/skype, etc, words are everywhere. It's a good 'invention' which allows us to express ourselves, converse with each other, to basically communicate. Imagine a world without words, we'd be pro in charades. No words, just songs without lyrics. Thank God for words.

Yet, I can't help but to notice, that some of us are really proud creatures. Why I say that, I think that some of us would use words to manipulate, to lie, bring someone else down, puff ourselves up, make ourselves look or sound good, make others look bad or sound bad.. mostly for the sake of our pride! We might not be aware of it, but if we slow things down and take a moment to listen what some of the words others and ourselves utter, we might be surprise how true this is.

Some do it consciously, others.. unconsciously. I find it pretty common that we always try to boast, to make ourselves look and sound better and to have people thinking highly about us, we're cautious about what people think about us. There's defintiely room to genuinely and honestly say good stuff about ourselves, eg when someone asks us something about ourselves. What I really can't stand is when we lie to make ourselves look and sound good. I was in a weird position when my friend was making up stuff to another to boast and in another case to protect his pride, I knew the truth but the other person didn't. I really can't believe it, didnt just happened once but.. yeah one too many. Why do we do it? We value what people think about us. We're proud creatures. It's so much easier to come up with something than to admit the truth and feel ashamed, embarassed. It becomes our natural response once we do it one too many times.

Scary. What people truly are. We can't tell people's true nature just by the words they utter, or posted on fb/msn and stuff. We can't tell what people have been doing behind our backs, and all we see in front of us could all just be disguised, made up by empty words.

If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all

We should be careful about the things we say about someone else or something. How would you feel if people are talking bad stuff about you? To make things worse, what if they weren't true but people are making it up, or they misunderstood some things or had insufficient facts and evidence eg. gossips. And it happens sooooo often as well, for some.. more often than others, and we could be doing it unconsciously, over an msn chat, on the phone, daily convo's, etc etc. Get the facts right, if you're not sure about something go find out about it before spreading rumors about how it might be true or that it IS true when it's actually not. To put it simply, just avoid saying anything bad about others, regardless if it's true or not.

Having said all that, I feel there's room to critic, but it has to be constructive. If you and your friend wanna critic about another friend, you should at least tell that friend his/her shortcomings in hope that he/she'll learn from it, instead of leaving it at that. That's what a true friend would do. That's what I would want my friends to be doing anyways, to correct me where I'm wrong. Having said that, we shouldn't be going all out and pinpointing every single tiny bit of shortcomings. It's not like we are perfect ourselves, judging others about things we fall short in ourselves... sigh, self-check self-check.. please..

And then there's words we say when we're pissified (angry). I feel that the best thing to do when we're angry is to distant ourselves from the person we're angry at, until we've chilled. Words we say when we're angry will be words we'll definitely, definitely regret saying later... trust me, been there done that never wanna do it again. Harsh words that stab the heart like a dagger, they leave a really lasting pain. And as much as you wanna take back your words, you can't.. the damage's been done. You'll say things you don't mean, you'll hurt those who you love, there'll be this awkward feeling between you and that person even though things have resolved... I just don't see anything good coming from speaking when we're in an angry state. We can't get a hold of ourselves, we aren't thinking rationally, all we want to do is to express all that hatred and anxiety, let it all out cos it'll make us feel better after that.

It's easier to let go and throw a punch then to hold one back, which one is more natural? which one makes you feel superior, makes you feel good momentarily? but, which one is true strength found in

Having said that, there is such a thing as a 'good anger'. But it should be one where it's controlled. Scolding in order to correct one where one has did a mistake is what I would call 'good anger', and it is definitely something that has to be done sometimes, no doubt about it. Sometimes you just have to be stern and let out some bombings to make sure the message gets across, but this would be the rare case that we'd wanna avoid at all cause. Evaluate the seriousness of the issue, and act accordingly, if it's nothing biggie we shouldn't go all stressed out about it, the 'defender' probably didn't mean to do it in most of the cases as well.

I think I wrote a lot of the negative aspects that words bring, it's just things that I observe and think about, but there is the positive aspect to it as well. We can use words to encourage, to motivate, to inspire, to give thanks, in song lyrics to serenade haha, heaps of good uses. It brings joy, it's uplifting, it's encouraging, motivating to have someone say something good about you, or something that you did, or compliments you. It's something we should all do more often. If the world was filled with people like that, beautiful, but that's a big IF, sad to say, this world is lacking optimistic, positive people, that's what I think, and apparently things get worse once you take a step into the working world.

People around us have much influence in the words that we say, we tend to follow after some of the words that our friends use, I know that as fact and it's not even funny. But if you make a conscious effort not to succumb to the peer pressure, we should be able to fend off all the negative words and comments that others might use and not follow after them, it's definitely doable, and it's definitely something we should all make a conscious effort to do.

What are some of the words we say, how often do we put others down, indirectly or directly. When was the last time someone put us down, made a negative comment, left us feeling slightly hurt, it's not something we wanna hear too often. When was the last time we genuinely praised or said something good about another. When was the last time someone said something nice about you, it's something we'd like to hear more often don't we.

I think we just need to be more mindful bout the words that we say and the impact it has on others. If we have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all. But... there's still room for jokes between friends =)

Down and Bad Romance Guitar Cover

2010-08-13T19:28:00.000+10:00

Family, friends

2010-03-20T23:40:00.001+11:00

It's been a while since I've blogged, always wanted to blog about all the random things that pops out in my head since the last entry, that would be November? Haha, sorry didnt blog. I guess for me it's kinda nice to be able to write out my thoughts and see it in words rather than just picturing it in my head. Also, I guess it's nice to share and let others and myself know more about myself heh.

Ah, ALOT happened during the summer break. Hols started on 1st Dec all the way to middle-ish Feb. I think to sum it all up... I got to spend super quality time with my family and friends. I definitely got closer with my family and friends during the hols, had such a such a such a great time back in Msia. So close.. to the point that I was really sad leaving and returning back to Sydney.

For my family, am just really thankful to be able to finally have everyone back together, everyone in the family plus Aaron back under one roof, although it was only for 3 weeks, it was great. Just to be able to sit in Old Town for lunch while chattin, it's great, I can't ask for more. Just really, really glad for the reunion and that all of us are doing well, healthy. Some families aren't doing too well, some are havin missing members, some rich but unsatisfied, some poor but are still able to laugh and smile day in day out. Whatever the family's circumstance/background it's probably beyond our control... stuff happened in the past that's beyond our control. Well I think the majority of us are fortunate enough to have dads and mums, bros' n sis, but I guess the question we've to keep asking is how much do we treasure them, do we treasure them enough, heh I think I can still do a better job. Haha, and man, Wii is so much fun. Loved it, love playin it with my bro. Even mum and dad are having fun playin it. Ah.. am looking forward to the day we'll meet up again, hope you guys stay healthy and do take of yourselves, enjoy! ;)

"You don't know what you got, till it's gone". It's a popular phrase, it's even a line in the song Big Yellow Taxi. I think sometimes we tend to take our families for granted. Sometimes we can ask questions like 'why mummy dun let me do this dun let me do that, always ground me ban me from comp or handphone or psp or whatever other consoles', or like 'ish my sister/bro is so annoying, wat an annoying habit! so messy! can't stand his/her mess! can't stand his/her attitude!'. Hah, but sometimes it's great to see despite the fights and arguments, we always do stay as a family, connected by blood at the end of the day. I'm sure there's some malay simpulan bahasa for this, bagai something dibelah dua etc etc, right? You do start to treasure your loved ones more... once you've seen some of the unfortunate ones. Having said all that, I think at the end of the day... whatever the circumstance is, if you have a dad to love, just love him, a mum to love, just love her, bros and sis to love, just love them.. just be grateful for what we have, expressing it while we can, isn't that right.

And for my friends, I think I've got a extremely fun bunch of friends haha, love them. Ppl with different personalities and yet still get along really well. There's the crazy ones, innocent ones, dumb ones, smart ones, noobs! cute noobs! players! caged! impure ones! sarcastic ones, serious ones, playful ones, patient ones, emotional ones, robots! pretty/handsome/hot ones, and the not so... hahah just jk =), looks shouldn't matter. Despite our flaws we still put up with one another, hoping to help each other through life whether it's just having someone to be with when you need someone, to spend time with, or some love advise (BIG part isn't it?), helpin to correct each other, to encourage, to inspire, to motivate, to console, I just hope I can do all that for my friends. It's awesome to have friends that you can spend unforgettable moments with, to have fun with, whether's is doing dumb stuff or not, friends that you can trust and be open to, friends that you know will be there for you if you need them. Hah, I'm just very glad to have met all of you, never regretted it at all. I just hope we'll not lose contact in the future, but we'll continue to keep in contact and get closer still =D

I think my next post is just gonna be pics of my last hols. It's gonna take a while to upload them aww =( . Don't like uploading pics cos they take a whle. But anyway, it should be good, to look at back and see what happened during hols =D Well.. that's all from me. Till next time, chow chow.

C'mon C'mon Few Days More!

2009-11-21T00:31:00.002+11:00

I feel so happy that I've finally started the dreaded exams. After hearing all the wonderful comments from friends who have already finished theirs, I can't wait for mine to finish as well man. Another.. 10 days more, commonnnn. It sounds short but I have a feeling these 10 days is gonna feel really, really slowww. Everything ends at 12.30pm 30th Nov

That'll be the end of 2nd year... and only 1 year left to go till I graduate, so quick! I might do an extra year, to do my part 2's, I don't wanna be moving in to the working world before all my friends.

Anyways, I just wanna say that I really, really miss everyone and everything in Msia now. From family to friends to food to.. scorching sweating hot weather? I'm currently thinkin about all the things that I'll be doing back in Msia, haven't got a chance to plan it out yet, will hope to do so once exams are all over! But yeah, I miss every1 in Msia, really lookin forward to meeting and catchin up wit you guys again. Although bit sadden by some that have left Msia for overseas studyin, won't be able to meet you when I'm back =(

If anyone's interested to know, I'm doing fine =) Don't feel as stressed out as compared to last sem. Hope to meet every1 soon!! To those whose exams are over, congrats n enjoy =) to those still have exams comin up/havin exams now, all the best, hope you'll do well and get good rest and not fall sick like some1 I know haha

Kayak pics

2009-10-09T22:55:00.005+11:00

This is 1 of the pics when the sandstorm was around

Updates

2009-09-27T05:38:00.003+10:00

Ah, can't sleep. Spend the last 4 hours tossing and turning in bed. Don't really enjoy these sleepless nights, I get it every now and then. During the day I'll be all tired, maybe a lil grouchy, but mostly zombiefied, and unable to function properly. Starting to become like my mum di, light sleeper, oh nos!

First of all, thx to Kar Kien for clarifying that my previous post about Stanford is NOT TRUE. Have a look at this. Got it from http://www.stanford.edu/about/history/. Here's a part of it:

Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Legend has it that the grieving couple said to one another after their son's death, "the children of California shall be our children," and they quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.

The Stanfords visited several great universities of the East to gather ideas. An urban legend, widely circulated on the Internet but untrue, describes the couple as poorly-dressed country bumpkins who decided to found their own university only after being rebuffed in their offer to endow a building at Harvard. They did visit Harvard's president but were well-received and given advice on starting a new university in California. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing "cultured and useful citizens" when most were concerned only with the former.

Just click go to that site if you wanna know more and the context of it. Sorry everyone, I did not intend to spread rumours. Gonna delete the post the later.

Uhm, yep, I'm having my 2-weeks mid-sem break now. 1st week is over, heading on to the 2nd week di. I didn't, or rather couldn't update much cos I had major tests and other assesment that were due just be4 this break. Overall, 1st sem was not too bad, EXCEPT, for my Stats test, might've failed it, we all found it tough, Im just hoping it'll be scaled up, PLS be scaled up. The lecturer was just urgh, she set such a touch and long paper, we only had 45mins and the test was like 10 pages long. Was definitely way harder than expected. It was really depressing that day, cos well, I did prepared thoroughly for it but as most of you would know, anything can happen during an exam, like some unfortunate nervous breakdown cos of the difficulty, or affected by the weather, or pen ran out of ink, or some hot/cute chiq/guy sitting next to you, etc etc. Gotta work harder for the 2nd half of the sem.

Thought I'd get rid of the sad news first, now on to some good juicy news. I did kayak-ing for the first time! It was last Sat with Aaron and my church's pastor, Richard at Brooklyn River. Yes, his name is Richard, funny cos my youth pastor back in Msia is also Richard, and they're both angmoh. Anyways, kayaking is really, really tiring! For me at least, cos I was new at it, Aaron did it before and Richard is an old timer. Paddled for at least 4 hours, spent like the 1st 2hours just getting the technic right, but after that it was pretty natural, except that I was so tired due to improper technic in the first 2hours. But besides that, it was really, really awesome. Just enjoying the peace and the wonders of nature, very very refreshing, loved it ALOT! River was mostly calm, but was choppy for a moment. Oh, scariest thing was seeing the jellyfishes, saw bout 6 of them with the size of a basketball, they were MASSIVE compare to the ones in the Sydney Aquarium, fuh, think I knocked bout 2 of them with the oar, oops. If you want some of the pics it might be up later. But yeah, really thankful and fortunate to have such good weather that day, just to enjoy the some of the great wonders of God's masterpiece.

Before the tests and assesment etc etc were due, uni mates and I joined a basketball competition organized by the actuarial society (ASSOC) of my uni (Macquarie Uni) and University of New South Wales (UNSW). Kok Ken was in the team as well hah, when do you wanna cut hair dude. It was more for fun, nothing competitive cos we didn't really expect much ah, we were OK, not great, but we had fun, well at least I did. 4 groups with 4 teams in each of them, top team of each group qualifies to semis straight away, there wasn't any quarter finals. We were 3rd in our group, not bad ahhhh, won 1 lost 2. We were in the same group as last years champion, sobs, our first match was against them, hah! They took it easy on us, and we just played along ler, but we can prouldy say we scored bout 6 points against the champions! It's 1 point for each basket, 2 points for 3 pointers. They went ahead and won this year's comp as well. Quite a fun day ah, get to catch up with Ken and had pizzas, woohoo! Any socials with pizzas, definitely a plus!

During this break, am just slowly catching up on what I've fallen behind and gotta revise/study for a couple of major tests. I think my uni mates are planning for some outing to theme park, bit of mini golf and archery. That's gonna be sometime this week.

Hurm, I think that's about it. Heh, problem with not updating often is that you tend to forget what's happened. Bit of a wordy post but there you go. Now Pearly, Wei Liang, Wei Chye n Joseph are at UK di, hah, pray that you all will enjoy your stay there, and omgosh is it so, so very weird chatting with 9 hours of time difference ah!! Imagine if its 2.30am and on msn someone tells you 'k i gtg di, frens call me go jogging', you'll be like, WAT?? NOW?? Then you go like, oh ya, 9 hours diff. But, it just feels so weird, don't know if anyone can relate haha.

Hurm hurm, what am I gonna do for 2.5 hours before going for badminton.

Korean songs are awesome, haha, go Wonder Girls!!!

Happy Burfday Pooty =P

2009-08-26T00:31:00.006+10:00

Happy 15th Birthday!

Hope this year's one is great

San Francisco Steakhouse eh, chun enough la

Went Penang some more, eat all the yummy+cheap food without me

Miss you and family,

can't wait till the end of year when I'm sure we'll have a blast again

God Bless Ya!

Ivan and myself

Ivan, Aaron and myself

I'm the odd one, both of them look like my dad, I'm more like my mum

That's what everyone says anyway, heh, comments?

Yeah, starting to miss the family alot di, ah, 3 more months, common, have to tahan. heh

Those were some of the pics from Aaron's graduation here in Sydney University, don't know why they turn out blur when I post it

Family came too Aus that time, it was April this year, had such a great time wit the fam

Can't wait can't wait

Some updates, it's approaching Spring!

It's getting hotter n hotter, Brisbane was up to 30 degrees today! here it's about 25 on average

Noo, can't wear my long sleeve tshirts =(

I'm starting week 4 of uni, about 1 or 2 weeks behind other uni's, so sad, everyone else is like in week 5 or 6, so I'm gonna have shorter summer break compared to others, aww, my sem ends much later.

Well, 2nd year 2nd sem, so so tough, already struggling and quite behind my studies, really can't imagine myself going through 3rd year, so gonna struggle hard, urgh =(

Econs is so hard to read atm, I read abit, I fall asleep. Hmmm... push on push on

Got myself a haircut, hah, bought one of those crocodile scissors, bro helped me with the back part of my hair, and I did the rest. At first I tried cutting the back, after a while decided to just ask my bro for help, was just too hard trying to cut the back part

But yeah, turned out all right =D phew lucky

Happy and proud of cutting my own hair, this way I get to save money and I get to cut the way I like

Asked my bro if he wanted me to cut his hair for him, he ended up going to barber instead hah, think he's worried it'll look really bad, I don't blame him, I'd be worried bout me too, who wouldn't.

Wait till I cut a few more times, I'm sure I'll be able to cut for other ppl di =D

Any1 wan a haircut?

Basketball competition is coming, 2 weeks time, am looking forward to it

Kok Ken is in the team as well, hah, we'll see how far we can go yeah

Go go go

Finished watching a korean drama "My Girl", hah thx Hafia for the vids

Not bad, was really funny, love the main actress, she's so funny and acts really well

It's my first korean drama that I've ever watch, so I can't really say that korean drama's are good in general. But this one's really good, really liked it, gave me lots of laugh, hah, thx Hafiz

Uhm, had a bbq lunch last Sunday to celebrate aunt's birthday
Was amazing, we bbq-ed sausages and some lamb cutlets
Had other stuff as well, smoked salmon is awesome, did you know that?
But best of all was the company, was great to have a meal with every1 gathered together, aunt uncle cousins were all there. Nieces too! Alyssa is growing cuter and cuter and so is baby Caitlin.

Overall, I'm all right, just bit of a struggle getting through this sem
Am missing Msia quite a bit now, Kit Yi's back di, hah, jealousnyer
Aite, I'm done here

10 Star Restaurant Dishes

2009-08-16T00:02:00.000+10:00

After Mel, Ken, Fang, Kim and Eve left, Gene was still around cos his return flight is a week later

Having been wonderfully inspired by our dear master chef friend, and due to some lack of professional chefs to cook for us, Gene and I had to show off our skills in the kitchen

Starting with the first day of cooking..

Ta-da

Some awesomely cooked dishes for 4 (Bro, Seiko, Gene, myself)

Didn't take too long, unless you call 2 hours as long

We cooked it with tender loving care k, that explains the 2 hours hmph!

1st in the menu:

ABC Soup
Rating: 6/5!

Comments: Too good!

We call this one,

Bok Choyster

(Stir Fried Bok Choy in deep Oyster Sauce)

Sounds cool right, yeah I know..

Rating: 3/5

Comments: It's veggie, enough said =P

Name: Chiccroli

(chicken with broccoli)

Rating: 5/5!

Comments: Too good!!

Name: Potaken
(Potato + chicken)

Rating: 5/5!

Comments: Just too good!

2nd time cooking

Name: Sunshine Egg !
(Egg with carrots, onions)

Start your day with some Sunshine Egg to give you that healthy and fresh start to your day!
Intended to be pieced up together, ended up being scrambled cos we didn't have a proper frying pan, I wanna try some flipping when I get my hands on some proper pans, it looks real fun

Gotta have some healthy veggies too

Although it became not too healthy due to the overflowing oyster sauce, haha
Gene and I,"Too tasteful!"

Food critic on the left, master chef on the right

On 1 of the nights, we were quite hungry,
so we cooked ourselves some supper!
This dish is da bomb!!

Name: Super Duper Egg Wrapped Cheesy Chicken Supreme!

Err, meant to be wrapped in egg, but blame the wok

We didn't have a proper frying pan, that's why, ended up scrambled.. again,

This was my most favourite dish! Cos it has cheese in it, loved it!

The cheese is inside the chicken, ahhhh, so loving it, yum

Rating: 7/5!!

And also, this..

Name: Nutrimite Chicken

(Marmite chicken with nutrigrain) =)

Didn't have marmite, so used vegemite instead,

and the nutrigrain is meant to bring out the taste in the chicken as well as to give a sweet smelling aroma

Rating: 5/5 man!

Haha, seriously the taste is pretty good, we're pretty proud of what we achieved

If you wanna know the recipe, feel free to ask, we know you're begging for it, don't have to be shy =D

Sydney hols with the gang =D

2009-08-01T17:14:00.003+10:00

Finally I'm gonna get this done, there were 7 of us who stayed in my apartment
Fang, Mel, Kim and Eve came from Melbourne, Gene from Brisbane, and Ken from Msia (who passed the demon guard!)

They all stayed for just over a week, it was still winter hols for all of us
Sorry but the pics are not according to order
Had loads n loads of fun together with all of them, fun bunch!
Apparently our next stop would be Gold Coast and there'll be more people this time!
Hah, can't wait to meet up once again over there and go for theme park(s)!

Here are the pics

(From left to right)

Top row: Me, Fang, Melissa

Bottom: Eugene, Kok Ken, Evelyn, Kim Yi

A home cook meal for 8 (7 + my cousin Sophia)

The girls did all the cooking n Eve was our self proclaimed master chef

Their cooking was awesome, loved it loved it!

Gene with his Linda street haha

Hoho, suppose to be some bad sign language?

At the seal show in Taronga zoo

Fang, Mel, Kim, Eve

Darling Harbour

Playing around with angle shots to make it look like their hooking the fish's tail and mouth =D

The cousins

In front of the Opera House

At the Royal Botanical gardens

Went to Bondi Beach as well

Eve, Kim, Mel

All 3 letters

Top: Me, Kim, Fang, Ken, Gene

Bot: Mel, Eve

The guys

Who're you lookin at Gene?

Sj-ians

5/8 of the BKT gang

Dinner at home

I can't rmb who clip my hair

Another home cook meal

Thx you for the meal

We know you all really hard in that tiny kitchen, hope you all had fun in there

Heading towards the zoo on ferry....

... and cable car

On the ferry on our way back

Cool pic of the Opera House

walked around circular quay at night and chilled from all the walking

Queen Victoria Building

At the Sydney Fish Market

Ahhhhhhhhh, I miss it so much

Ken, when do you wanna go?

Also went to the Sydney Aquarium

Fooled around a bit at its souvenir shop =P

Botanical gardens

Also went to Lindt Chocolate Cafe

Choc lava cake, Da bomb! said it before

Also, waffle was awesome too !

Pork ribs at the Hurricanes

Loved it, best ribs ever!

Thank you all for the treat, thank you!

At Chinatown, we called up Sarah Penguin in Msia for recommendations

And ended up having errr, poo loh pau?? polo bun??
Thx Sarah, it was yummy, n sorry for the sudden call lol

Had dim sum there in chinatown =D

Krispey Kreme doughnuts
Yum

At Bondi beach, had fish and chips for lunch

Gene doing some girly pose =O

Step 1: Planning

Step 2: Execute plan

Fly!

and again!

In the end,
all my coins dropped out =(

Hoho, who took this pic wan, must be the girls, can't be the guys right

Another home cook meal

So so love the baked bean chicken

Thank you master chef and her assistants!

Fang getting kick

Eugene got caught

Fang: Gotcha!

Oh sleeping arangement, the 3 girls had to share 1 bed in the master bedroom

2 guys slept in the other room which had 2 single beds

2 more guys slept in the living room on the lazy chair, you can recline ur seat and it has a leg rest so it's almost a bed

Fang enjoing your Calippo?
It's obvious from that look on your face =D

For the Koala lovers

Gosh, let's go Ken

Everytime I see the pics it makes me wanna return to that place

Gene pee-ing in the Royal Botanical Garden?
Gotcha again!

Hyeh, posing

Yo hotstuff, too hot till you need to take your shirt off eh

Gene and Ken went surfing, but with wrong attires?

Ada gaya ah Ken

Hoho, and who took this pic?

Must be the girls =P

Last group pic of the trip

Also went to IMAX theatre to watch Transformers 2!! Too good. On the first night, went to Loong Cheong chinese restaurant. Also, had a pizza night on the night the girls got their results, good reason to be celebrating, and had Jack Daniel's wit it, I quite like Jack Daniel's =D but Eve was sayin it was too sweet. Also watched the 6th movie of Harry Potter

Phew, what a long post

Well, thank you all so much for everything, had a great time with all you guys!

Sadden that all of you left, but overjoyed for the fun we had =D

See you all once again in Gold Coast! Looking forward to it

Next post: Cooking with gene

Day 4 - Paddy,Chinatown,Garden,Aquarium,Casino

2009-07-29T20:32:00.000+10:00

Hiya, could only blog today since we reached our download quota for the month, and hence our internet speed was too slow for me to upload pics, it'd take too long. Shall be posting more often from now.

Everyone left already, sadness =(

But felt that the holidays was very well spent with my friends, had loads of fun, thanks to all for the fun I had with you guys, looking forward till when we can hang out again =D

First things first, here's the last day of the outing with Wei Liang, bro and bro's fren Nicholas
Enjoy

1st stop was Paddy's Market

Haha Wei Liang, i'll just put it here

Next stop: Chinatown

Next, the Chinese Garden

Nicholas and bro
It was a candid shot

Some cool creamy waterfall effect

photo taken by bro

And then, went to the Sydney Aquarium =D

Haven't been to the one in KL, but Sydney's one is really good

Monster

We found Nemo

Sharks and everthing were swimming right above our heads =D

Pretty cool sight

We were so near to them

Heh, I've actually never seen any episode of sponge bob be4

And then we head for the casino
Star City Casino

We just went and watch... reallyy.. didn't play =D

We weren't allowed to take any photo
but Wei Liang accidentally took some

I don't think it'll do harm so I'll post them anyway

First time seeing a live limousine, heh

I wanna ride in one someday

We saw fireworks on the way as well

Was cool man, we so happened were walkin on the Pyrmont bridge

Perfect timing, perfect spot

Lasted for a good 15 mins or so

Thank you

And finally back at home

A bit sad that it's over, but am overjoyed that it happened.

Thanks for coming Wei Liang, hope you had a good Sydney experience. Lookin forward for our next outing together. Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

Take care, try learning some new recipe for me to taste k =D

Day 3 - Fish Market, Lindt Cafe, Hurricane's

2009-07-09T18:09:00.000+10:00

Started the day late cos of the shocking news of MJ's death.
We just sat and watched the news for about an hour plus, saddening.

Well, here's day 3 =)

Arriving at Central Station.

Oh, you'll notice that the weather was just perfect once again

Could take excellent pics of the harbour, really thankful

Tumbalong park

Park

Still the park

Yep, park ^^

At Darling Harbour (DH), beautiful sky

Perfect weather, couldn't ask for more

Love the sky and everything, pretty-ful-ness

IMAX theatre

We didn't watch any movie there FYI

But I wanna watch transformers in there!

Fuh, nice sky, nice person, nice pic

On Pyrmont bridge at DH

..and finally reached Fish Market for lunch

Seafood platter with chips and lobster

Fuh, one of the best seafood ever tasted

Lindt Chocolate Cafe

The bomb, really

Chocolate lava cake

Highly recommended

Hurricane's

Was such a long queue cos it was a Friday night

Famous pork ribs, pretty good

Bit burned =(

If not, would've been super tasty

Watched a street performer after dinner

He was really good in attracting and entertaining the crowd

Wasn't really a full day, but still really tired from alll the walking

Wei Liang, really have to be thankful of the weather man, cos the outing with Lam, drizzled whole day, and then a heavy rain, after looking back at this pics again, I think you were really lucky haha.

End of day 3, 1 more day to go, hopefully it'll be up by tonight

Oh, Kok Ken arrived safely, just so everyone know. He's been sleeping the whole afternoon, just so tired cos he didn't get any sleep on the plane. He finally passed the demon guard in KLIA!

One of the first thing he said to me when I met him at the train station, "Freaking cold ah! How can you tahan? I'm wearing jacket some more!". From the station all the way to the apartment he was complaining how cold it was, he picked the perfect time of the year to come to aus, and I was complaining how hot it was, hah.

Gene, Fang, Mel and her 2 frens (the gang) are coming over tmr.

Gene, I seriously hope you will NOT get lost, and end up in kings cross or something.

Can't wait till tmr! Mini sj-ians gathering

2009-07-04T02:33:00.002+10:00

Uhm Day 3 might only be up next week, so sorry. It's cos another college fren, Nicholas Lam, is staying at our apartment till next Wednesday. He just arrived on Friday morning. Will be busy 'layan-ing' him till then, sorry

Day 2

2009-07-03T03:48:00.001+10:00

Here are the pics for day 2. Think I had 200+ pics for day 2, and that's like after I've edited. Wei Liang, how did we take so many photos I still don't get it. Anyway, today's itinerary, Taronga Zoo and Pancakes on the Rocks. Took a train to Circular Quay and went to the dock.

At the dock

On the ferry

Wei Liang: Find the sunlight cos your face is dark!

Omgosh Wei Liang, haha.

"Why the crocodile out of its cage wan???"

See that red dot thingy, that's a Joey

Koala's baby is called a Joey too
And see that face there, that's the full grown Joey ^^

Crazy monster??

Lol, click to enlarge to see the words

it's...... interesting

This was really frightening

cos the lion was walkin toward us
had a glass window but man,

live full grown lion walkin towards you lookin like that..
niceee, was one of the best

One of the cutest animals we saw

Timon without his Pumba

Is that how u spell it?

Red panda

Was also really cute

The Bird Show
Simply amazing, I don't know how you can train birds to do stunts

But they did.. nicee, good performance

It looked as if it was shot at its chest, but yeah, that's how they do look like
Can't rmb what it's called... Birdgotshot

The pic didn't do justice here, it's actually really huge and really scary
Heh, alot of them, seeing it live is way better then just the pics

The Seal Show

Now...Seal will always remind me of Mel

I wonder if that's a good thing or not
Hmmm...

Wei Liang: Eh, It's smiling!

Dunno if you can see it, so funny

My father mother brother sisters cousins etc etc.....

(kangaroos)

The kangaroo was like hugging them, we didn't get a shot of it

Hmm, I think that's my mom, I've got her looks

It's refering to the Tasmanian Devils =)

Heading back with the cable car...

and back with the ferry..

And then we went to Pancakes on the Rock

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good:

That's the Blueberry Heaven

We didn't quite like it, I wouldn't recommend it

But this was the bomb!!!!

Chocolate Jewel

I wanna go back there again, heh

Opera house at night, bit blur, and slanted haha

Well that's about it. Had to get back early cos I had a bible study group at my church fren's place. Came home and Wei Liang cooked stew for us. Omgoshh, was sooooooooooo good. Wei Liang seriously, it was so, so good. Uhm, there's still some leftovers of it in the fridge ^^ Shud I finish it?

End of day 2.

Day 1

2009-07-02T13:09:00.012+10:00

Wei Liang came over to Sydney for a visit, had heaps of fun. Thanks so much for coming Wei Liang, truly appreciate your effort into coming and all, hope you had a great time and a safe journey back to Msia from Melb. These are some of the pics taken by him on our first day.

Went to Town Hall to watch Transformers, fuhh, I wanna watch it again, loved it a lot, except the last battle between optimus and the fallen, thought it should've been more epic, other than that, loved it. This was together with my uni mates, bout 8 of us went to watch the show. After the movie went to play pool, gosh, played so badly but still was fun.

Well, didn't do much on the first day, just some of the pics nearby Town Hall, have the Queen Victoria's Building (QVB), Martin's Pl., Apple buildling, Sydney Tower, and just the city streets.

Went back home after playing pool, bro cooked us fried rice, he's still working on getting the more taste into it, he should be a specialist pretty soon I'm sure. Ah, then Wei Liang intro to me a facebook game, spot the difference, we spend quite a lot of time playing that man, haha, was good fun. Also found another game called typing maniac, haha, quite nice.

That's day 1, not much.

Tag

2009-06-28T04:13:00.003+10:00

1. Besides your lips , where is the favorite spot to get kissed ?
-cheeks

2. How did you feel when you woke up this morning ?
-tired,sleepy cos am not reli a morning person,but excited cos we were gonna go visit many places in Sydney city

3. Who was the last person / people you took a photo with ?
-Wei Liang

4. Would you consider yourself spoiled?
-spoiled ah? hmm.. *brainstorming* nahh, don't think I am

5. Will you ever donate blood ?
-yep

6. Have you ever had a best friend who was of the opposite sex ?
-nope, am very gender bias ;)

7. Do you want someone to be dead ?
-NO,hmmm..I want swine flu dead though but it's not someone

8. What does your last text message say ?
-what the? must tell? here goes, for fun: "Hi joey, we're going to play squash on Sunday from 2.30 till 3 at maash marsfield. Let me know if you're in".

9. What are you thinking right now ?
-finishing this post and going to sleep haha

1o. Do you want someone to be with you right now ?
-yes! i want all my frens to be here in Sydney asap!

11. What was the time you went to bed last night ?
-err around 2am

12. Where did you buy the tee you are wearing now ?
-body glove shop in sunway pyramid

13. Is someone on your mind right now ?
-no not really, unless sleep is someone then yes.

14. Who was the last person who text you ?
-jimmy

TEN Lucky Person to do this quiz...
1.Emily
2.Fang
3.Jessica
4.Kar Kien
5.Ling mui
6.Melissaker
7.Pearly
8.Rachel
9.Su-Ann
10.Terence Tan
(Btw, you guys don't have to do it, I really don't expect any of you to do it)

15. Who is no.2 having a relationship with ?
- HAHA, I want to know myself but I don't, I'm gonna find out.. I don't care

16. Is no.3 a male or a female ?
-female................ kua =D

17. If no.7 and no.1 get together , would it be a good?
-no, not good, not good at all

18. What is no.1 studying about ?
-how to find the perfect guy haha... jk =D

19. When was the last time you chatted with them ?
on average a week

20.Is no.4 single ?
-I hope not, I'm very interested, but from what I know, he is

21. Say something about no.2.
-he's hotstuff! irresistible, tall dark handsome. heh, he's really fun to be around with, really fun, and his friend joey is lucky to have him as a friend

22. What do you think about no.3 & no.6 being together ?
-also not good, not good at all

23. Describe no.9 .
-very talented musician, gifted, mature personality, knowledgeable, unique

24. What will you do if no.6 and no.7 fight ?
-haha, nah, no.6 never fights, she just laughs, and makes people laugh

25. Do you like 8 ?
-yep...she is fun to be with, very loud and crazy

Done, yay sleep

Oh Beautiful Hols

2009-06-23T07:04:00.003+10:00

Ah, finally, exams are all over, it's such a wonderful feeling. Finished exams this afternoon and felt like it was a Saturday, so care-free and all. Today's stats paper was really hard, I took comfort in knowing that others found it hard as well, so there's a high chance that we'll get scaled up. Man, I stayed up the whole night just studying for it and yes it was as hard as I expected, haha, oh stats you're such a killer, you make us die prematurely. But honestly, I could easily say that it was the toughest paper I've sat for in my life, thus, I was really worried if I could even get a credit for it.

Worry, the word itself just seems like a sin already, I think that worry should be a taboo. It comes naturally as part of our natural reaction to things in life, exams (eg. driving exams haha, congrats Nat), money (more for adults), loved ones (a mum's worry for her chidlren is able to keep them awake the whole night), interviews, job, list goes on.. Crazy!

We should take worry merely as a trigger. It tells us that we ought to do something in our part to get rid of it, eg. if you're worried bout the coming exams, study and prepare. That being said, there's only to a certain extent we can do in our part, sometimes we can't even do anything about it. except to worry I guess. "I've done all I can, but I'm still worried!" And I'll go like, "Dude, you've done all you can already, what are you worrying about?". If you've done all you can, or if there's not even a thing you can do about it, please don't worry. No amount of worrying is then gonna make things better, instead, I think it does the opposite.

"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own"

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work" Robert Frost

"How much pain have worries cost us that have never happened?"

3rd US president

"To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries"

"Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period"

"Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery"

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble"

1st US president

(Haha! actuarial coursemates I know you love this quote)

"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom

to do and dare but freedom from worry and care"

James Truslow Adams

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who

has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever"

Mahatma Ghandhi

"Why worry when you can pray?"

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind,

and has given up worrying once and for all"

I shall strive to not worry and not to use the word worry anymore haha. That aside, slept about 5 hours from 2-7pm when I got back after the stats exam. Bro woke me up for pizza. Seiko was here when I got up as well, she cooked us corn soup and garlic bread. Ah pizza~ bestest food in the world. It was supposedly to celebrate the end of my exams, that's what they said haha, how true izzit? Or izzit just a reason for Seiko to come? Ngeh, jk, thx a lot! =D Watched "Million Dollar Baby", very sad. And then went online! Finally! But didn't last long, ended up in bed at like 12.30am cos I was just tired. And cos of all that sleeping I woke up so early (5am), so thought I'll go blog.

Wei Liang is coming to Sydney tmr! Ah, haven't met since I left Msia, looking forward to meeting up with him, will be taking him around Sydney. He's staying for a week at our apartment. I think I'll really enjoy this hols.

June:
Wei Liang stays from 23rd till 29th

July:
Nicholas stays from 2nd till 7th
Fang, Mel and her 2 frens stays from 10th till 18th
Gene stays from 10th till 22nd
Kok Ken stays after 22nd for about a week

I wonder what grandparents will think when they find out about it, they went back to Msia to escape the winter and are now staying with my parents and Ivan. I'm amazed that none of their stays clashes, but that also means that I might be going to some of the places in Sydney more than once. Money ='( Not complaining, it'll be money spend well. I might be a professional tour guide once Gene they all come haha.

Joyness =D Oh beautiful hols
To those who are still sitting for exams, all the best!
Do your best and we shall all strive to not worry and just be happy =)

Pasta pasta pasta!

2009-06-02T00:03:00.006+10:00

Exams are so close!
BERSTRESS
Fuh I love the videos Fang, made my stress level decrease
Probably won't be going online or blogging till the end of exams
20 days more, I can't wait

As some would know, grandparents went back to Msia so bro and I are alone at the apartment..
Went grocery shopping in Woolworth for the first time since they left cos food is running out..
We thought of having spaghetti, fried rice, porridge, sandwich and some veggie dishes with rice

So, first attempt at cooking, spaghetti!
We also thought of just cooking for 1 whole week all at once, saves our time

Should've took a pic while we were cooking it, only thought of snapping a pic after we finish, sorry!
Anyway, I loved it!

Italian food are simply our favourite,
I think I'm beginning to understand how some can like cooking although it takes ages compare to the time you take to eat it
It's like.. you cook for 30-60mins, and you finish it in 5 mins!
That was what I thought, but cooking is actually quite fun, some of my guy friends should try it at least once, hahaha

It's the satisfaction of cooking up something for yourself that actually taste good when you eat it for yourself,
also I like the part where we get to put in anything you like, hahaha, yesh, anything =)
Could make a super duper spicy dish, or a super salty one or a super sweet one it's your preference, and you can put in only the veggies that you like

If I have more free time in the hols, I think I'll try cooking up something more adventurous haha, oooooh, someone give me a pizza recipe please

Random stuff - Just yesterday we were making fun of Mel of how a bird gave her a beautiful present on top of her head, and today, I stepped on poo! Aihh, took me like 20 minutes to get it cleaned up and wow awesome smell. It was at night and for some reason Australian streets at night are really really dark, they don't have many street lights and so you can barely see what you're stepping on. I didn't even realise I stepped on it till I got back and saw a leaf stuck to my shoe.

Ahh, sorry la Mel, next time I won't laugh at you di, after you'll pray again that something bad happens to me =(

It's officially winter!
Ah yesterday and today, woke up shivering cos it was raining,
and it's only gonna get colder from now on haha
Oooo cold winter nights
I think 4 seasons does make the year more interesting, with different flowers blossoming in different seasons and for other reasons as well

See everyone in 3 weeks time,
all the best for everyone who're having exams soon
Do your best, study as hard as you can, and we'll have no regrets knowing we did our best
Let's all have fun after exams!

Pics

2009-05-28T21:22:00.011+10:00

Hahaha! Who can guess who's that?

I miss driving in Msia yo!

To Meli and Gene,

that is aeroplane girl!

Gene, here are the pics from fish market

Hahaha huge and cheap!

All that for 14.90
There's a lot more pics but I think this will do

It's just a preview before you come!

So cutee

Take me to China with you all next time!

Ooff Gene and Fits

Fits!

Mui being innocent and cute with Jeff
2 years later..

Still innocent right

Free hugs!

Wait for the people in Aus..

then we shall do it in Dec!

Sadness, Man U lost in the finals..

They didn't play well and lost to the better team,

Messi played really well though, Ronaldo....

Hope we'll get it next year!

Jeff called me from msia.. he was watchin the match with the gang.. thx Jeff, your call was very 'encouraging'

FINISHED ALL ASSIGNMENTS IN THIS SEM!

Random fun =)

2009-05-22T23:12:00.006+10:00

Picture this scenario:

Say you're really, really good in badminton, tennis, squash, or say table tennis..
and you're playing against your friend(s) just for fun k..
Your friend(s) is an average player, say skilled enough to return shots..

So,
Do you play your best with your friend(s) or do you give chance to him?

Or put it this way.. say you're the average player, would you prefer if your friend play at his/her best or give you some chance?

Haha, sounds silly right =D, it's something I thought about when I couldn't sleep last night haha =D

See... if you play your best... your friend might say, "Oi, give some chance la!!"
He might think.. "whoa this guy don't give any chance also, playing for fun only mah.."

But, by playing at your best.. your friend might get better (debatable, might not make any difference to some of us right, we still don't get any better ^^)
Also, your friend might feel good that you're not toying with him or taking it easy and giving him chance haha (don't you feel bad when your friend is just taking it easy on you while you're furiously running around the court, and then he/she's hardly putting any effort and smirks at you =D ooof the pain)

But say you do give your friend a chance.. he/she might think you're toying with them..
but some people will prefer that you give them some chance la right, play for fun only after all..

So how so how?
Haha, use your left hand and play your best =D
or do some funny and weird shots like between the legs shot or backwards shot just to make it more fun (fuh I like doing those funny stuff)
Aiyah, don't think about it, whatever it is just make sure you have fun..
and if you're the chun player, don't go bullying others for the sake of self-satisfaction laa k, all people wanna do is have fun after all so chill bros n sis =D
Don't be selfish oi! And just have FUN

Kris Allen won woohoo

I'm starting to miss Malaysian food =(
wanna go to murni and williams and have those HUGE portion of servings, wanna eat ramly burger, wanna eat nasi lemak and fried koay teow and.. too many to list
saliva dropping out already.. ooff

Always look forward to Mondays,Fridays and Sundays
Mondays get to play pool and basketball
Fridays and Sundays get to play badminton
and every alternate Sundays we get to play music for the church
Syok~

For gamers, check out this energy drink
http://www.manapotions.com/
It's super cool =D

Eugene and Jeffrey's mum came to Sydney to visit Melvin,
haha had quite a fun time with them,
Last night, brought them to Loong Cheong Chinese Restaurant, has got good reviews,
Wah, Gene seriously your mum's crazy over seafood, nonstop talking about it cos they went to fish market, don't worry I'll take you guys there as well, sure rox wan trust me

And then this morning went to DFO to shop for some cheap clothes,
Wah, they bought a lot of stuff for their children...
they called me up just now to ask for some help, "Eh Joey ah, got any extra hand carry bag or not, auntie ran out of space to pack our things lah"
HAHA! rockers, super funny man
Sad... they're leaving tomorrow, can't wait to see you all again in December =)

Man U match coming up!
Can't wait to watch ah

Futsal Competition 2009

2009-05-21T00:11:00.009+10:00

Played futsal during the last mid-sem break in April,
thought I should post about it =D
This is an annual competition organized by the Actuarial Students SOCiety (ASSOC)
We entered last year as well, as some of you know, we did badly hahaha
Last year, we didn't make it pass the group stages,
1st match loss 4-6
2nd match drew 0-0
3rd match loss 0-6
After that, we planned that we'll reach the quarters in the 2nd year, reach the semis in the 3rd year, and reach the finals in the 4th year and hope to win it!
So then came this year.....

Strategy planning... or not...(Ked: eh check out that chick )

We had an extra member this year, Hafiz, the Malay dude in the pic above
He made a difference, he's really good, he played defender/sweeper.
Last year I was defender, but after Hafiz took my spot I got to be STRIKER!!
Yes, it's my favourite position, love playing striker
Other than that, the team was the same from last year, and our team name this year is

TEAM TAM!!

Some of you might know that Australia has a chocolate biscuit called Tim Tam,

so yeah, our team is named after that... although, our opponents didn't get it... =(

Our opponents were in the toilet and 1 of my teammates was there too,

1 of them asked, "Who're we playing against next?"

1 of them replied, "Hurmm.. we're playing against... TAM"

OMGOSH!

Daryl, me, Alan, Ked, Bo, Hafiz

That's our full team

Keeper: Alan

Defender: Hafiz, Bo

Midfielder: Daryl, Ked

Striker: me

There were so many rules, some of which are kinda weird:

1) 4 players for 1 team on the court, 1 keeper and 3 other players (had to do so much RUNNING, I'm getting old)

2) Keeper can't come out of his semi-circle (there was this small-ish semi-circle), if not a penalty's awarded
3) No players can enter the keeper's semi-circle except the keeper himself, if not, penalty awarded

4) Keeper can't throw the ball pass the half way line

5) NO SLIDING (I got penalised for that, deng)
6) No clinging on to the side nets

7) If a girl scores a goal, that team is awarded 2 goals instead of 1 (AND A GIRL ACTUALLY SCORED AGAINST US)

1st match: THRASHED, HAMMERED, TAU PAU-ED 3-10

HAHA, these guys were graduates, they were taller, MUCH fitter,

we were stunned.

I manage to score 3 consolation goals

2nd match: Won 4-2

Ok, this was a bit embarrassing, cos a girl scored against us in the most fashionable way

So.. game just started, and their team gets the kick-off at the halfway line...

the girl starts the kick-off by SHOOTING straight...

ball passes through and in between 3 of us...

and beats the keeper.... STUNNED.. and they were 2-0 up!

that girl was REALLY good, seriously...

lesson learned: never underestimate a girl in futsal... even the referee was laughing.... deng

Anyway, scored back and won 4-2

Scored 3 of the 4 goals

3rd match: Won 7-3

This was the deciding match, had to win, and we did

No girl drama/issue (thankfully)

Scored 4 of the 7 goals

And by that victory, our plan came through! We qualified for quarterfinals =D

Quarterfinal: Lost 4-6

Ah well, we did our best...

we gave the excuse that we had to stick to our plan that this year was to get to quarters and we'll leave semis for next year... haha

But nah, we did our best
Scored the 4 goals

Next year, we're gonna import my bro Aaron, and aim for the semis!!

Tomorrow, grandparents are leaving to Malaysia
This means bro and I will have the unit to ourselves
This means... we have to cook our own meals now
I'm never a big fan of cooking, HUGE fan of eating, need to find a cooking wife
Eh Mel, don't forget to cook for Gene and I your mee goreng k

Random stuff:

1) Can't stop myself from eating chips and chocolates (tim tam), every now and then I'll just grab some and start munching, sorry bro, the choc's gone cos of me =D

2) Wanna learn violin man, check this girl out on youtube, Sue Son, violinist... Ken we learn violin together k

3) Going crazy over stats at the moment, it's just so hard to understand, words can't describe how frustrating I am with its complexity, ahh.. God help me

4) Miss playing futsal with my college mates, S7, our team rox then yeah =D can't wait to play again once I get back to Msia

We are the champions =D

2009-05-17T21:45:00.006+10:00

Manchester United Won!

Yay, am happy for them, I think they deserve to win, don't you? =D

All that's left is to win the Champions League, gogo

To Amanda and Mel, continue supporting man u ok =D

I'll support your Kris Allen, I hope he wins

Was watching the Man U - Arsenal match at a nearby club with Aaron, loud music, lots of drinks, people dancing, playing pool..

halfway during the game, there was fire at the club, didn't see it but we could smell it,

saw few people running to get the extinguisher and put the fire out,

nothing big, Aaron and I just remained in our seat and watch the match

One of the security came to me and took my cap off, I'm not sure why they don't allow caps in clubs..

Other than that, nothin much as been happening, just catching up on my uni work..

Exam is in 3 weeks time!!! so soon =(

Probably start my hardcore studying from tomorrow onwards (deng, say only, hope I do it haha)

Ahhh! Stress time =(

Oh well, here comes winter break!!

Belgian Beer Cafe

2009-05-14T22:58:00.009+10:00

We had an outing on Wednesday night,
it was with my friends from church, it was for 'young adults' (dengg adult di, but still young yay =D)
Went to this place called the Belgian Beer Cafe at The Rocks

It's pretty big, we were seating upstairs

Alcohol on the left =D haha

Specialty is mussels!

There was an offer that day, all mussel dishes are half priced =D

So you pay 13 dollars for that big pot of mussels plus chips haha

Bro didn't have mussels cos he's just not much of a seafood fan

I ordered escargot mussels, which was mussels with cheese

Everyone's mussels came with huge pots but mine just came with a plate

and it was small portion as well, I got cheated, grrr =(

My plate is the one on the left of the red shirt girl, my mussels were TINY

I was a bit confused, I thought escargot were snails

Was a fun night, some of them went for some coffee after dinner, bro and I didn't go, head back home instead cos we were tired

I didn't have any alcohol, Joey is a good boy right, haha, I know =D

actually.. I should have had some, aww

Leg cramped today =(

played badminton at uni for 2hours straight nonstop, no rest at all

fuh, damn tired, went for lectures after that, lecture finished early today

so we played basketball, played for about an hour and my leg just gave in haha

we were having a friendly match with another team, had to stop the match cos of me haha

Movie Outing

2009-05-13T00:29:00.009+10:00

Went to watch StarTrek today and it was awesem!!!!
Never watch the series before, but after the movie it makes me wanna watch it
Didnt get to watch xmen origins though, but i've already seen it before, althought the one I saw was the unedited version, hilarious, you can see people with the harness flying around~
and all those unedited computer graphics without its colour, dummies flying here and there~
and I set a personal record, finished a mcd's cheeseburger regular meal in 5 mins =D
indigestion~ oh well, couldn't afford to miss trailers for TRANSFORMERS 2!!

I've already booked my flight tickets back to msia end of the year
gonna go to Brisbane first and stay there for bout 4 days with Eugenius
then we're flying together to Bali, Indonesia and sleep in the airport (God please keep us safe ty!) a night, then fly back to kl reaching on the 10th dec
Mum said that people might think we're gay couples, nice one mum, very funny

Let me share some more joyful pictures I just received from my cousin =D
My beautiful and super cute nieces

Ahhhh~ left is Caitlin! And on the right is Alyssa
Caitlin’s just a few months old, they’re sisters btw.
The mum’s doing fine, said that every day with them is such a joy =D
and why wouldn't it?? Alyssa's a really smart girl, hardly cries, instead smiles often!
Don't worry Mel, I'll definitely let you all meet up with her when you guys get here

Gonna be doing a lot of thinking tonight
have to make a big decision in this point of my life, it's been so many years and it all comes down to this, heh..
it'll be interesting to see what happens next
the future is so unpredictable, which just makes it exciting ain't it
I'll let some of you know the conclusion, privately =D

My stats assignment is such a killer, please stats don't kill me prematurely
and accounting, you are officially my bedtime story book that puts me to sleep

Aite, I am off to sleep
All the best for your exam mui, do your bestest best! =D

Happy Mother's Day!

2009-05-10T22:13:00.011+10:00

Happy Mother's Day!

First and foremost, Happy Mother's Day to my dearest mommy back in Msia, love you loads mum. Gave her a call to just wish her, didn't do anything special. She was just telling me her wonderful trip to Cambodia and how it was an interesting experience for her. Ivan made something great for mum, I was stunned, good job Ivan *pats back*, ask him what he made for mum.

Apparently there were a lot of asians especially koreans and japanese, so one of the guy over there greeted mum 'konichiwa' (good afternoon in japanese), mum was blur when she heard it and turn to dad who told her what it was, that guy thought my mum was korean, so that's where I get my korean look as well. So many aussies thought that I was korean, saying it's my eyes o.O wahaha, I'm msian!!

Since today's a special day, Aaron and I went over to our aunt's place for lunch, our cousins and nieces (ahhhh cute Alyssa) were there as well. Had 1 of my favourite dish for lunch, pasta! I have to show Alyssa's pic

Fuf (pronounced as foof), I personally like the 2nd pic, she has a future in modelling. Some guy adult called the house through the phone looking for my aunt, I suspect he's an asian by the way he speaks, anyway, I was the one who picked up the phone and while I went looking for my aunt, Alyssa picked up the phone and started talking, she said "Harlo, how are you??", haha I got back and picked it back up and apologised, he was laughing, haha, and I just told him to call back cos my aunt was asleep =P alyssa's so cute

Anyway, I'm happy I finally started a blog, been wanting to start one in a while. Got 2 assignments due this week, and my uni friends want to go watch xmen origin and startrek this Tuesday, I heard startrek is good according to Kf and cousin Elvin, 2 movies in 1 day, it's hard for me to say no to movies, I love it =) So I've to work on my assignments quick! Ah, stats, you're such a killer =(