Busy-busy Year End!

I have not been updating for a short (long?!) while because I'm so so so busy! Never thought that I would be so busy during the year end, lots and lots of consecutive outings and gatherings everyday and for once I felt tired. But somehow I truly enjoyed the moment I'm tired due to too much of gatherings. I love :)

I'm gonna update all in one post, separating each day with few photos and few sentences to end that post, doesn't make any difference by updating all in one. So I prefer one-post-says-it-all, so I think this would be a long post, hopefully! If I'm not too lazy to type.

We had a small post birthday celebration for Alvin on 23 Dec which I would say definitely surprised him! When the waitress brought up the cake, he was still confusing with whose birthday was that and even asked us, "Why is it my name there?" Cool respond we got from him. :D

Happy Belated Birthday Alvin!

Peini Cyntee Adrian Alvin Me Hua Jeann

We hardly could have everyone in town to meet up, so as this time. Too bad Samantha couldn't make it. We shall meet again some other time!

I thought my Christmas eve would be nothing this year and luckily I have Xinyun and ChingHai to ring me up, together with DengYan and Neo. Chihuahua that night! Xinyun, I still remember how were you in the cinema, non-stop talking and asking someone to talk with you instead of enjoying the show. :D

St. Anne next, before sending Xinyun home, and we met Arthur there. We hardly could get one shot of this picture, this was terrible. We asked a guy to took us a photo, and the only WORD he said was, "CANNOT!"


3 of us went for movie again on 25th, Bedtime Stories. I am pleased that I didn't spend the time watching dramas and series on bed on my Christmas and Eve. :D Instead, I watched in cinema with Xinyun and ChingHai!

Continue meeting up with Xinyun again on 26th, for the olahraga gathering. Not a big one, but with the usual guys.

At first we were at Segafredo but we really couldn't stand with the thick smoke kindly contributed by those ultimate smokers which make us felt like puking and barely could breathe, and we moved to Old Town instead. We began to talk and laugh like nobody around and the waiter beside couldn't stop himself from laughing at us. I guess we were really loud =p

I found this candid shot in my camera and this is seriously very horrible looking. Great facial expression we have to show how funny that scene was :D although I don't remember what was that.

F*fu Bee post birthday celebration on 27th. Again, this year we had steamboat but we made it our own instead of having it outside. Happy belated birthday Bee :)

Absents are excused, so we shall have a full F*fus for our next one, the Fondue! 

 

A Night With Fun and Laughter!! @ 28th - I was invited by Phey Shan and omg we really laughed a lot, thanks to the newly introduced poker game, the losers were punished by drinking water, water and water! Waterfall, Big Fish Small Fish, Rhyme, Thumb Master, Question Master, Categories, Exemption, Toilet Card, Make A Rule, Break A Rule......... This is really fun! And the sing k session of the oldies songs, hey we youngsters seldom listen or sing those oldies songs but it's not a bad idea to have this special sing k, this is really fun! Sometimes we need to 怀旧 :D

Rushed to Autocity's McD to meet up with this bunch of friends, I was late yet not too late ;) Thank God  CongHong failed to make it on time for the show so I wasn't really the ruiner then.

Anyone spot a guy at the back there, right on top of me! Is that a real human or just the portrait of somebody at the wall and was so coincidence to be captured due to the angle?

I insisted to take this picture with me on the far behind due to my big round face. CongHong, I saved you! You're well known with big head, aren't you!? :D

Another day for my girls on 30th, the last one in '08, and also the last one in Penang. We shall have our July'09 dream comes true, and we shall meet in Melbourne! Finally I got the pictures from Herng, and here's the update!

It's a must to take picture in my bedroom's mirror before our girls' outing, the latest to the earliest:

I guess I'm going to repost these photos again and again whenever we have a new shot taken, just to remind us how many we've taken and maybe how much we changed? ;) Simple yet meaningful.
We treasure the time we spent together and it's getting harder and harder, each of us are apart even we will be in the same country. But I believe we will have our dream come true, with the soul we have, we will never be separated no matter what.

Headed to school at night for the band 50th Anniversary and we made a big big mistake! We didn't take any picture at all, how silly is that! Anyway I guess everyone of us were truly indulged in our own world, with our chatting and the interesting topics started by ChinHou! Oh well well, we didn't even pay attention to what's going on for the whole ceremony, instead we were busying with ourselves at the back. Hey, JSPO'05 : Irreplaceable! Okay? ;)

I know this post is belated, but I insist to have this long post with so may outings to end my 2008 blog posts, who cares! My end of 2008 is really worth tiring, as long as I am GLAD, PLEASED, HAPPY, ENJOYED AND OVERWHELMED WITH JOYFULNESS!

JSPO'05 : Irreplaceable

I hardly can meet up with the band buddies because every time they have gatherings, I'm always the one absent. Absent with guilt sometimes :) 

We never mind how ugly looking actions we have in front of each other. I took off my shoes and sit with cross legs for once, and the guys laughed, and said, we only can do such things in front of us people, we used to see how terrible we were last time. Heheheh. :D

And we used to shout instead of talk, or maybe talking in a high pitch with each other, this creates more "highness"! It has been a long time since I talked like this, I feel so satisfied! And I felt tired after the night of chatting and shouting, stamina of shouting has gone down tremendously, I need more training :D :D

We appreciate each other, our friendship.

 

It's hard to gather everyone with a time slot that fits each other the best. But at least we manage to make it with 13 of us, and we never forget those who are not around. 

We even tag those absents in Facebook, they've never been left out :) 

We use ♥ heart ♥

八年友谊  谈何容易

Maybe we shall have a big one for our 10th Anniversary? 

Mon, Tues and Wed.

Finally it's the girls' day, we went for Twilight, and it's........... . I've no comment.  

Can spot 4 different cameras in the picture? Hahaha, it's mainly because we're lazy to send/receive pictures from each other. Just use our own camera will do, and you get what you snapped for. How lazy we're! 
There is one more mirror we must take picture with, right? :) 

We chat, we talk, we gossip and kaypo a lot, until everyone is tired. We shall see, when's our next outing?! Until someone comes back from Beijing, or someone comes back from KL? Duhhh.. I'm always the one waiting!

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The clarinetists :D

There should be 4 of us, batch by batch - Shin Ying, Me, Wei Zhou and Sock Chin! But WZ was too shy to meet us :(  :(  :(  We used to be together when we were in the band, and we stayed together during national competition in Kedah. None of them changes much, same laughters, same talking style, same pattern, and the style of walking still the same. Hahahha. Okay, cut the crap.

There are pros and cons eating buffet style steamboat, I will tend to eat a lot until I'm so full stuffed with food. We actually ate from 1.30 until 4.30pm, and yes I managed to skip my dinner! I thought SC will eat a lot because she suggested that and she looks like a big eater though, who knows actually SY is really a big eater! :D

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OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD friends!

13 or 14 years? SO OLD!! 

This picture is precious :D

These are super old friends, with never ending topics! We talked in McD from 2.30 until 8pm! It's incredible!!! I didn't realise how thirsty I'm until they suggested to refill the Coke! Hahahaha :D :D 

Omg. How could we talk for so long? Hahahhaha. I just feel like laughing now, so happy!! We talked from primary to secondary school, and to university, including societies and uniform bodies. Blablablablabla. We mentioned everyone in 6M, I hope we didn't miss out anyone, he/she would be so pity if we did =p Mii Tze's memory is so awesome! She can remember every single bit in the past and retrieved our memories! Salute salute ;)

More :D :D :D :D :D and more :D :D :D :D :D Shall we continue with Part 2? Call me anytime, I'm free to the max! 

Mom's Birthday

We celebrated mom's birthday at Sake Room and I was so full stuffed with the dishes!

There was actually a gathering with the olahraga buddies at Autocity's McD, I remembered I told Liyin that it's my mom's birthday celebration that night, and so I couldn't make it to the gathering. And the first respond she gave me was, "your mom's birthday AGAIN?"

Hey, AGAIN?! "I remember it was your mom's birthday not long ago, and now it's again!"

NOT LONG AGO was ONE YEAR ago, how fast time flies!

Scary man, we're getting 21st next year. OMG. 

So old okay!

Back at home my mom got to cut another cake, proudly made and presented by me :) Dad must be jealous I think, wahahhah, because I won't be around on his birthday. 

Superly-homemade-tiramisu-cheesecake!
Making this cake took me 3 hours, and too much unexpectations. Half way whisking the batter, the mixer spoilt! I've to borrow it from my mom's friend. Continue, and before baking, I'm pretty sure there are enough eggs for me in the fridge. I NEVER expect the maid will use up and fried eggs for lunch!  I've to buy eggs from the nearest grocery shop. *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* So damn frustrated. 

It looks so homemade-ly! Everyone, aunties-uncles, say it's nice. Wooohoo~ :D 

Oh, back to the topic.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! :)

Lame Baker, I'm.

Because I've some egg yolks left the days before after baking the chocolate macarons, I end up finishing the egg yolks on baking bread pudding for breakfast using Kev's recipe. 

I ruined it again, that's why it is not good looking at all :D

And then, this is my matcha macarons. I said that I might not be baking macarons again because the failing probability is damn high for me to bake anything. But I did again, and this time it took super long time for me to finish the whole baking process! I spent my whole afternoon in the kitchen. Sigh. Lame.

At this stage I was so happy because the top layer looks shiny, I thought there's a hope of getting the shiny shell! How I wish the outcome can be as nice as this, or even better, can eat it straight away without baking with this beautiful outlook, because baking slight spoilt my hope again.

Sometimes I memang very celaka, the recipe says 15 to 20mins, but for the first batch, by around 7mins I saw the 'feet' appears and I was jumping for joy, because this is what it supposed to be, shiny shells with feet! I am so dumb and crazy, I don't know what else can be used to describe me, I took it out from the oven at around 12mins. What's more? It wasn't cooked enough and the shiny shells cracked and.. condemned. =="

I took this picture as fast as I could right I took it out from the oven, I was so scared that the shells would crack in few seconds time. Hehehe but they didn't.

I made the green tea butter cream, which was one more failure. There is still a lot left in the fridge now, I have to make something that can be used with the cream. Hmm. 

Anyway, they look so fragile :o The macarons that I see from other sites look so solid but mine were like there's a need of sticking a note saying "Fragile, handle with care." 

I brought some for my bro and people in Sake Room and the last question he asked me before I left was

"Sugar's price drops recently?" :o

So you know why I failed again. 

I realised that no matter how excellent the recipe you give me, and others can make it to perfect, once I'm the baker for the recipe, it never turns out right. :)

Me.. the recipe-ruiner. I can fail any recipe for you! 

Cool not? WAHhahahaha.. :D :D :D

Two days in One

Mengkuang run early in the morning with few fellows. It wasn't a run, a walk to be accurate. More appropriately, chatting more than walking. And for those who know, some shout instead of talk. You know who you're, ruined the peaceful morning at Mengkuang. :D 

Transporter 3 in the afternoon with more peeps because guys objected Twilight. Hmm. 

My ugly looking chocolate macarons. No shells, not shiny and no feet, fail miserably. I wonder will I make it again, I know, practice makes perfect, but this sounds so risky to me. AHHhh.. maybe not anymore. :) I give up easily. Heheheh.

They look terrible. Omg.

A Day With Something

Finally I spent a day doing something meaningful, at least it's meaningful to me. :) I could say this is the first day ever that I'm busy, not to say busy but at least I'm occupied, with something since I'm back. Yes yes I'm so pleased now! 

For the first time I wandered in Qbay mall alone, walking here and there aimlessly. I don't really know what's the feeling of loitering alone in the mall, but it wasn't too bad, probably I will be doing that again in the near future. Wanted to buy some food for Xinyun, Momo and Eric but only Xinyun placed me order. I know I'm so good =D 

I had a lunch at the Paddington House of Pancake with Gee and Pung before heading to PC Fair. 

PC Fair, as usual, was so crowded. Hehehe other than those three that I know they're working there, I met some jit sin people unexpectedly. =) 

 External hard disk 160gb RM169, 250gb RM199, 320gb RM229. If you're not as insane as me, definitely you will buy 250gb or 320gb. So I'm the insane one. ;)

My leg is pain but I'm happy. As long as I'm pleased, it's worthwhile after all. :D

So what's next? Maybe straight n-days for series again, then I'm going to :( for the n-days.

Costume Changed

Finally I did something here. The previous blog template XML code went cacat for few months and I chose to ignore it until now. I swear I did not screw up the code and it collapsed itself. Not my fault :) 

I don't really fancy this template either, I am loyal to the previous template but just maybe it hates me?! If I am kind enough I may spend some time in the near future in changing its costume again but who knows when will it be. Hmm.

I am bored to death.

1 is going to Singapore. 1 is working in PC fair. 1 is busy packing stuffs in KL. 1 is going to Beijing. 1 is going to KL. 

Anyone wanna be in the list? I am way too generous to add more.

Everyone around me seems to be so busy with their life and I am bored to death. How ironic is that. 

These Few Days

I've been back in Penang for 5 days yet I'm not updating anything here. What have I been up to? Nothing, seriously nothing. I know I'm enjoying the life now, a meaningless life. Well perhaps I shouldn't say it's a meaningless life to me, if I'm enjoying the life I'm having now, it doesn't seem to be meaningless to me right. I do nothing except watching series other than those daily routines. Useless. 

I thought of doing a lot of things when I'm back but none of them I've made a move. I happened to expect how would be my holidays, what would I be doing and perhaps how meaningful my holidays would be. People always say that we don't tend to expect too much because things don't always go as we wished. 

Skip. This is not a place to crap too much. 

Back to the past tense. I had a brunch at Beaumont St on the 26th with Hua, Jim, Petrina, Shih Yan and Jun Shoong.

I'm supposed to appear in this photo but Jim's face is way too big and he blocked me, the whole me. This ended with no sign of me in this photo. 

I hope I keep on track with what I planned to do.

My days are so boring and I enjoy the boredom.

人就是这样犯贱 :D

I'm awake

Finally I'm awake, hopefully there is no more hibernation until.... until when it's time to hibernate again. Who cares?

AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW~~~~~!!!!!

*jumping here and there for joy*

This is my life.

Starting from today, and it's going to last for 3 months!

Still Hibernating

It's so dead here, even me myself doesn't feel like visiting this eerie land, too quiet and peace.

LALALALLALALALLALAL.......

ANYBODY HOME?!?!

I suppose no. HHEHEHEHHEHEHE :D :D 

LLlaAaLLAaALlIiIiLiIiIlLlAAllIiiIiLOoollOoO~~

chao. 

End of Semester

EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:(

AYA Dream Malaysia Awards 2008

AYA, which stands for Asian Youth Ambassadors,is a non-profit organisation founded in Malaysia for the primary purpose of “inviting, inspiring, instructing and involving young people to dare to dream and be responsible in fulfilling those dreams for the good of all”. (Oh well, I just quote it from AYA Awards website.)

And so here is our friend, Michael, proudly a Penangite whom is now one of the 7 finalists, is going for this outstanding award in few days time!

Michael Teoh Su Lim (Michael)
A small town boy from Penang who was ridiculed by and rejected in school for being ‘weak’, he persevered through the odds that were against him - winning and representing the country in two international competitions.

Currently pursuing a major in Marketing and International Business in Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand, he raises the Malaysian flag proudly being hand-picked to the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) business conference. Aside from topping the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) competition twice, he continues impacting the lives of many through global youth and leadership conferences, and community projects.

He appeared in the press for maybe not thousands, probably hundreds but for sure tens times in New Zealand and Malaysia. People who have his Facebook account know this for sure! He has a photo album with the title "Michael Teoh in the Press"! How cool is that huh? But yeah this shows how cool is he! Perhaps you might think that he is just showing off of how many times he was pictured by the media and how proud is he for being addressed as "overachiever of the year" like below. But hey if you were him.. haha I couldn't imagine that on me.

Make his dream comes true. He needs your support, he needs everyone's support. Only 30% of the final decision is based on public votes, so it's unlike those competitions like Superstar and Malaysian Idol that based fully on public votes. I buy you more credits, what you need to do is just keep pressing "Send". 

So I've made my move through my bro. It's your turn!
Step 1:
Type: AYA [space] Y [space] 4

Step 2:
Send to: 36828

Submit your vote by or before 2 November 11.59pm! There are only 2 days left!!

I actually feel pressured when I'm blogging this, not that I'm unwilling to do, but I wish I could write even better that helps, and I've no much readers here. So what can I say? He is a Penangite, he is from Chai Leng Park, he is a Chinese, and he is my friend. These reasons sounds so personally? Check it out at  http://www.ayaawards.com/ then.

Good luck Michael! :)

do re mi. mi re do.

I'm a lil bit addicted to Dr. House recently and I'm controlling well :)

Last Wed and Thurs I thought I was in winter with 10˚C ++ and I feel I'm summering today. 33˚C.

How is spring sound/look/feel like? Except that there will be obviously more flowers seen along the streets. Sigh. Weather is so unpredictable and got cheated by weather forecast always. Well it is just a forecast, I shouldn't say I got cheated I guess. 

I shall not start counting down the days to go home, the number looks unfavorable to me now. When it turns single digit, I will. 

Study mood? The weather says it all.

So stupidly random.

Birthdays..are we getting older or elder?

This photo was taken during my grandma's birthday few days ago. Apparently not all the family members were there, lots of them were not around, including me :( When I say lots, I really mean that!

My parents look so young in the photo! This is the main reason why I have this photo enlarged here. :D :D :D I'm not boasting but it's true :) because my dear cousin TongWooi jiejie told me so too! Hehhehehe

You see, my ahma is laughing so happily!

Happy 93/94th Birthday ahma :D stay healthy!

OHHH..It's Wen's birthday today! :D The girl who loves chicken wings! Hahaha, this comes into my mind because of the chicken wings in the picture =p She really loves eating chicken wings. I remember for once we went to Hongkie Restaurant @ E-Gate and she ordered the chicken wings baked rice. The serve comes with 6 or 7 chicken wings!! And she loves it although it took a long time for her to finish up those wings :D 

Happy 20th Birthday Wen!

All the best for you in everything and take care in the US! 

:) 

My Landlady

Weeks ago the landlady came and told that she and her husband will work out something for us to place our stuffs when we are away during the summer break. How nice is she right? 

Last week we received an email from our beloved landlady and here it goes:- 

Hi girls

Morten and I have spoken and tried to work out a way you can store your things but we have not come up with anything that works. You can store your things under the house at 14 Lee but we cannot guarantee their safety. I understand this might not be much of an option. However, it is dry under the house.

Can you please let me know if anyone is planning on staying next year. I need to think about new leases now and maintenance to be done during the break.

Thanks

Ooooiiii.. Under the house!! !@#$%^&*()(*&^%$#@! UNDER THE HOUSE YOU KNOW!! Who knows what animals will be hiding under the house.. cats, dogs, lizards, spiders........ Toot! (FYI, I'm living in an atap house.) 

Nevermind we have Mei Zhi and Sandra offer us :) Thanks in advance. Hehe.  

8 Oct @ Gold Coast - The Last Day

Kev, we spotted this for you.

The journey to the Brisbane airport from Gold Coast was extremely rush. We missed the bus that we were supposed to take, and we missed the train, and yet we did not miss the flight =p Luckily we managed to check in 30mins before the departure.




To Kev, Ernest and Ken:

for the stay and all the great food we had in Brisbane.

Hopefully we didn't bring too much troubles to you guys :D

and the route + time table prepared for us.

And brought us around in Brisbane, here and there,

everywhere.

The guys 

THANK YOU!

WHAT'S MORE?!

A big shout out to my dearest papa mama,

♥ THANK YOU ♥