Amanda Panda

Happy Eve of Chinese New Year's Eve! =D

2012-01-21T12:10:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Here's me and 5 very cute Chinese New Year dog cookies wishing you a very happy eve of CNY eve!!! :D

Bring on the Chinese new year goodies! :)

I'm home!!!! So is koko!!! Missing Niko though :(

Reunion dinner tonight with daddy's side of the family! Happy spending-time-with-the-family!!!! =D

Beauy spot dog cookie!!! xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Back to the Old Grindstone!

2012-01-06T00:30:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!

So there ends my holidays, and instead, here starts a new year! I've been back here in Cheras for about 3 days, and lectures have already started! My 3rd and final foundation semester has started! *gasp*

My glamourous Cheras life greeted me with finding out that I didn't bring any beddings, and I didn't have any extra bedsheets! So...

At least I have a thick mattress to put my sleeping bag on! xD

I know, glamourous right? It's actually quite nice sleeping like that. I mean, last time, in BB, we used to sleep in sleeping bags on the ground! This is considered a nice improvement, I would say! Oh, and I found a pillowcase in one of my bags, so at least I could use that too! Yay sleeping bag! :D I have a soft spot for sleeping bags, which might explain why I would have one lying around somewhere in my room here xD

Another thing that greeted me back to this place is the amzing views of the sky. I mean, I know the sky is the sky, and it's the same everywhere (well, sort of, anyway), but here, man, the sky just looks awesome almost all the time! I'll be walking back from uni or just be walking around, and I'll literally stop in my tracks to snap a photo of the view!

Maybe it's just me. Maybe since I don't get any kind of view (unless you consider the corridor and the rubbish room a view) from my room window, I make up for it by being extra attentive to what the sky looks like. Or maybe it's just that I love seeing God's little-little reminders that He is awesome, and He can put together nice-nice sky views to make me happy or to make my day :)

Love how the sunlight shines out the bottom of the clouds on the left side of the photo,

as though God is showing His favour upon we people :)

This is one of those photos!

I'm walking, I see something, I stop walking,

I dig around my bag for my camera (or I take out my phone), and I snap :)

I realise that the pictures I've posted aren't of the World's most spectacular views, but then again, they are made by the same creator, and I think they are pretty cool =D And another thing is, the camera I'm using is a bit on the cacat side, so the actual views are actually a lot nicer than in the photos I have xD

Oh! And I've only been back here for not too long a period of time, but already I've had dinner at McD twice xD Two of my housemates (Hong Ling and Karen) and I went there for our first dinner here for this year, sort of to comfort ourselves since we have to start a new sem and our holidays have ended xP

Family Dinner Box, actually =.=

They probably didn't have any more of the boxes for the Family Dinner set, that's why we got the box that says "Family Breakfast Box" instead =.= For some reason, we brought the empty box back to our unit with us when we left too! xDDD

Walking back towards our condo complex from McD, there was this girl walking in front of us who was carrying a small bag on her left shoulder and a small poodle in her arms. When she was about to go through the place where they check our residents' cards, she stuffed her dog into her bag and zipped the bag up! Awww the poor poodle :( We were saying that we should dog-nap the dog and put it in our McD box, which was A LOT bigger than the girl's bag! Put the box to good use! xD

After passing that part, the girl unzipped the bag a little bit, and the dog stuck its head out. It was soooo cuteeeee!!!! :D The dog didn't even make a sound! It was so well-behaved! hahahahaha it was such a cute sight to see that the three of us kept following the girl and the dog right until they went to their block's lift lobby. Since we aren't from the same block, we just kept on watching the dog from afar while they were waiting for the lift xD

Hahahahahaha that sounded so stalker-ish! And maybe even a little bit romantic? *In a deep, soulful voice* Watching from afar.......

"How is stalking a dog romantic?"
"It is! It's about putting effort into trying to be part of the dog's life, even if the dog doesn't know it! That's romantic, isn't it?"
"But it's a dog! A DOG! You're talking about 3 girls watching an unknowing dog in the lift lobby! How is that even close to being romantic?"
"But... but.... but... It was a really really REALLY cute dog!"

Uh-oh, I think the start of this new sem and the going back to classes is really doing my brain some damage. Correction: A LOT of damage :S (And oh no! I just realised how much I sound like a stalker!!! I promise you, I'm usually not like this!)

Ooh and one more thing! I think the barin damage isn't just affecting me xD Today I went with Karen to McD again, and after dinner, we were both feeling a bit too full, so we decided to take a walk around our condo complex. So we were walking around and we ended up at the playgound. We were talking and joking around when I thought I heard someone call "Amanda!"

So I turned around to see where the voice came from. I didn't see anyone familiar, so I ignored it. I probably didn't hear correctly. Then I heard my name a second time as Karen and I were walking away from the playground. Again I turned to find whoever it was calling my name, but all I saw was a bunch of kids playing there. And I was sure I heard my name being called!

So I came to the conclusion that there was a kid at the playground, whose name is also Amanda :D I suggested to Karen, "why don't we go to the playground again and see if we can find out which is Amanda?" Just then, I heard my name again. "Amanda!" and then it was followed by a "Karen!"

Having two kids there with our names playing at the playground while we were there? I decided that it was too much of a coincidence. So I turned back to find who the voice belonged to. I turned and again, saw nobody familiar. So I tilted my head upwards, my eyes moving along the windows of the block where Karen's and my unit is. Then I see it! There it was, a hand waving from a window with lots of clothes hung on the grill to dry xD

Apparently Pey Yann and her housemates spotted us from their window, and so they yelled down to us from their unit on the 8th floor!!! It's nice to know the start of this new semester (or is it the start of this new year?) is making everyone a little bit crazy! :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Back from Korea and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2011-12-27T17:55:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Please brace yourselves for a loooong post with lots of photos! :)

So some relatives and I went to Korea for a few days. HOLIDAYYY!!! 12 of us went altogether, but we eat and talk like we're 100 people xD

Anywayyyy, we took a near-midnight flight on the 18th, and reached Korea very early in the morning on the 19th. From the airport, the 12 of us were split into 2 taxis (a "jumbo taxi" and a normal one, the jumbo one being a Starex) that brought us to our hotel.

View from the taxi

It felt weird that the cars in Korea are all on the "wrong" side of the road! People in Korea drive on the right side of the road, which is the "wrong" side of the road, since people here in Malaysia drive on the left side of the road, which I refer to as the "right" side of the road. Yes? No? What? Whatever lah, you know what I mean xP

So anyway, we reached the hotel, checked in, and we all went to explore the place. And look for food, as always :D

Right outside the hotel doors

Somewhere near our hotel

Overlooking a really nice river? Longkang? I don't know xS

We were all so hungry (we had only had a little bit of pre-ordered food on our Air Asia X flight), and so we all just went around searching and searching for food. Finally we ended up in the building that had a food court on its fifth floor. So there we went for breakfast/lunch/brunch/whatever it was :)

So, there, we had our first meal in Korea. Since we couldn't speak Korean, and the people there couldn't speak English, we did a lot of pointing at pictures and ordering stuff we didn't know what they were xD Some things came out quite nice, but for me, all I concluded from that meal is that I am definitely not a Kimchi person o.O

A beef dish with kimchi as one of its side dishes

A fish dish with at least 2 kimchi-based side dishes

A fried I-don't-know-what dish with plenty of kimchi all over

Kimchi, anyone?

Ughh definitely not for me! The first few bites of overpowering kimchi taste was actually fine with me. But after that, yucks. A person can only take that much kimchi in one meal! But then again, maybe that's just me. And my family. And my extended family xD If you like kimchi, though, you would have enjoyed that meal a lot!

After that meal, we continued walking around, checking the place out. We saw on a map somewhere that there was this palace or something, within walking distance from where we were, which is apparently a tourist attraction. So, we headed there. And then, to my amazement, we saw......

Tadaa!!! A nice, big... picture?!?!?!

Anti-climactic! The palace (or whatever it is supposed to be) was closed for renovation =.=

Anyway, we walked around some more and ended up getting more stuff to satisfy our taste buds and stomachs ;)

A cold latte in winter. Nice! :D

Ah Teow and Daddy with cold lattes, sitting out in winter =D

And we also found some street food.

Something that tastes like tau kee

Ooh! This one's interesting!

It's a hotdog in flour and breadcrumbs or french fries, and it's deep fried.

Then it's coated in sugar. Then ketchup is poured all over it. Then it's eaten.

That night, we went for a Korean barbeque buffet for dinner :D

Some of the many things we had ;)

The barbeque buffet was pretty awesome, but the thing is, we all stinked to high heavens when we came out of that place :S

The next day, we learned to use their subway! Struggled through it, more like it xD Everything was in the Korean language, and we couldn't understand a thing!

Uncle Woon and Ah Yee Teng2 trying to figure out how to use the machine to buy the cards

And while all of us were there, so lost, trying to figure out how to do whatever we were supposed to do, a lady came to ask me for directions! Well, at least that's what I think she was trying to ask me, since I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She was speaking to me pretty rapidly in Korean, and I kept going "uhh.. ahhh... erm... S...sorry", but the lady just kept going on and on and pointing here and there. Finally, when she stopped talking, I said, "Sorry" while shaking my head, shrugging my shoulders slightly, and giving here a completely lost expression. I think she finally got that I wasn't local because she gave me an irritated sigh and went off!

When I was telling mummy and the rest about it, I asked them, "Does my face not say that I am lost?" hahahaha, apparently I looked very local. I can fit in!!! :D

Anyway, we finally got our cards for the subway and then we were on our way!

In one of the stations somewhere. l-r: Me, Joyce, Jayne

My 3 kuchi brats cousins :) l-r: Faith, Joyce, Jayne

There were some stations that had names that sounded a lot like Malay names. For example:

Gemuk? We refused to get down at this station that says we're fat! xD

Masuk? They say masuk, so we masuk the train loh!

Come to think of it, maybe we were just a little to homesick for Malaysia xD

That day, we went to Nami Island, where the Korean drama "Winter Sonata" was filmed. I've never watched that drama, but people said that the island was supposed to be really pretty! :D

We had to take a ferry to the island itself, so we took a cab from the subway station to the jetty, where, upon reaching, I saw...

...this!

Okay, okay, I know you're thinking, What? What's that? What so cool about that?

Well the thing about it is, what I saw when I arrived there wasn't JUST that yellow and green kotak-kotak thingy there. What I saw was someone JUMPING OFF that yellow and green kotak-kotak thingy there!

No no no, before you get any ideas about me having suicidal thoughts, I saw someone BUNGEE JUMPING! :D :D :DDD

I've always wanted to bungee jump. Always! Mummy too! So mummy, myself and my cousin Joyce went to buy tickets! =D However, my Ah Yee Lee Hua was talking about retina detachment or something like that, or something scary that could go bad at bungee jumps. In the end, Ah Yee Lee Hua got the guy to return mummy's money so mummy didn't get to bungee jump :( Only Joyce and I.

Myself and Joyce up there somewhere in the yellow and green kotak-kotak thingy

(can it be considered a building?), where we got geared up :)

For those of you who have never tried bungee jumping, YOU SHOULD!!! It's really really fun! We were supposed to count down from 5, and then jump, and so I did. I was like, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, eh? Where's the ground? WWWHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was like nothing I've ever done before! Even at the Space Shot ride in Genting Highlands, you know there's a seat under you, but this, this was nothing! The only thing under you was... well, nothing!Oh, except for water a long, long way down xD It. Was. Awesome! Hahaha and when it was almost over, I yelled jokingly to the whole gin gang at the side there, watching me, "This thing can support my weight ar! Not bad!" hahahaha! My cousin Faith was saying that it was a little too late in the jump to be talking about the thing supporting my weight xD Oh, and hey! I even got a cert for bungee jumping! :D

Proof that I've bungee jumped!!! =)

Lunch that day was nice. Right after Joyce and I bungee jumped, we went to the convenience store to buy our lunch! :D

Microwavable rice and instant ramen!

It was a great lunch :D

A microwavable box-set meal

It was a nice meal to have in Korea :) After lunch, we took the ferry to Nami Island. The ferry had a big Malaysian flag beside the Korean flag, which made me feel so proud! :D

Malaysian flag up there! Oh YEAHHHH!!!

Looking back from the ferry. I bungee jumped off that thing!

We spent quite a lot of time on Nami Island, the oh-so-beautiful island.

l-r: Mum, Dad and I

LOMPATTT!!!!

l-r: Me, Joyce, Jayne

To tell you the truth, I wasn't impressed by Nami Island. In fact, I wasn't impressed at all. Maybe it's because it was winter and all the trees were botak, or maybe I expected something very very very breathtakingly beautiful, but anyway, I wasn't impressed.

There were, however, couples who probably found the romantic side of the island that was supposedly portrayed in "Winter Sonata".

In case you can't see them, the couple is somewhere near the middle of the picture, towards the right side xD

Wait, I just want to clarify that I wasn't stalking couples there! They just happened to appear in my photographs of the scenes and trees in Nami Island! x)

Okay, so even though the trees and the scenery there didn't impress me, the toilets did xD

The toilets had books in them!!! Wahhh!!!

Hahahaha, we went around looking at the place and taking more photos (of things other than toilets) like the celaka tourists that we were though :)

A random statue that wanted to give me a feet high 5

l-r: Mummy, Jayne, me

We caught a ferry back to the jetty and went back to the hotel. Day 2 in Korea spent on bungee jumping and Nami Island :)

Oh, and seeing Malaysia flags :D

Daddy proudly holding the Jalur Gemilang!

We spent our 3rd day in Korea at a snow mountain.

Sadly, some of the snow there didn't occur naturally :( It was still nice and pretty to look at, though :)

I teman-ed Faith who wanted to go sledging while Joyce and Jayne went skiing.

Faith and I with our vests that look like they're from kindergarten xD

We soon realised that the sledging there was meant for little kids and parents who had little kids. Soooo, in the end, we went skiing :D

Newbies at skiing! l-r: Faith, me, mummy

Skiing was fun :) I helped daddy cross that off his Bucket List by going skiing for him xD

Day 4, we just went around Seoul in the Seoul Tour Bus.

Yes, the bus came with headphones and information about the different stops and places :)

I can't remember the names of the places we stopped at, sorry! xD

l-r: Faith, random owl-looking statue, me, mummy, Jayne

Half-botak trees, not-so-botak trees, land, the sun =)

Myself and Faith

It was really really cold that day, and Joyce had an idea to put her hands inside her jacket and not the sleeves. However, with this, there came the problem of how she was supposed to carry her bag? So...

I used the empty jacket sleeves to tie her bag to her back! You're welcome, Joyce! xP

Before heading back to the hotel and then to the airport and then home, we met Colonel Sanders! If you don't know who that is, all I can say is shame on you!!!

He is...

The KFC guy!!! :D This is a cuter version of him, though xD

More of the dressed-up people at the KFC we were at, with mummy and I :)

Oh, and of course, somewhere in the trip, we at least managed to get a complete group shot!!!

Top l-r: Daddy, Mummy, Ah Teow, Ah Yee Lee Hua, Uncle Woon.

Bottom l-r: Me, Gracie, Ah Yee Teng2, Faith, Jayne, Joyce, Ming Ming.

We were welcomed back home to Malaysia by the hot and humid weather here. Yay =.= Sweating wasn't something I missed on the trip xD

Fast foward a few days from there, and rewind a little bit from today, right now...

I want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas!!! I hope everyone experiences the love of God this year :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! =)

I spent Christmas around my family and loads of food, so yeah, it was merry, alright! :)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Of Reunions :)

2011-12-15T23:12:00.003+08:00

Soooo, one thing I haven't mentioned...

1st BP Boy's Brigade Company had a reunion some time back :) It wasn't really a big thing, but I still thought it was nice! I got to see some people I haven't met in ages! And my 2 senior buddies to the day our company ended were there, so that was cool! Sze Yee and Jayn!!! Pure awesomeness! :D

We all spent a lot of time just looking through old pictures, which might sound boring, but was actually quite fun =) It's amazing what old pictures and photographs can do! They can bring you back to the days the pictures were taken, helping you remember nice memories you might have already kept in a tiny little box deep, deep inside your brain's memory box xD

Reunion! :)

1st BP BB is honestly one of the best thing that has ever happened to me! It has blessed me tremendously and I really really really do miss it. A LOT! It helped me grow in more ways than one, and I have learnt soooo much from BB. Sir Alexander Smith - a genius! A genius whom I really respect!

Welllll, other than ex-1stBPBB members, I also met up with most of my '09 TIGS Debating Team teammates. It's always fun meeting up with this group of crazy people xD And the thing is, we always meet up in McD and make sooo much noise that I always half-expect the manager to ban us from the place!

l-r: Me, Anlynn, Sarah, Becky

We, as usual, went on and on, talking about anything and everything, laughing like hyenas, teasing each other, ganging up against each other just for the fun of it, and generally just making everyone stare at us because of the noise we make xS Sometimes I really wonder why I'm friends with these weird, noisy, crazy bunch of people xDDD

Oh! And I also had a reunion with..........

TIGS Tangga!!! The rehat spot for my rehat buddies and I!

Awesome, no? hahahaha, this picture seriously shows my upper-form rehat territory xD

When I was in Form 4, the table and benches on the right side of the photo weren't there yet, and my rehat buddies and I used to sit on the stairs. We'd block the path up and we acted as though we owned the stairs xDDD

Then in Form 5, the table and chairs got shifted there, beside the stairs, with a fan right above it, so that became the new rehat spot! :D

I had a reunion with my rehat spots in TIGS. Don't be jealous (especially my rehat buddies) xDD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

...and That Ends My 2nd Sem!

2011-12-14T14:52:00.005+08:00

I'm done with my 2nd semester! I thought my 1st sem passed really fast, but this 2nd sem felt even faster!!! Well, anyway, here are some of the more not-so-ordinary things that happened in my 2nd sem (other than some friends visiting, which was my last post) xS

Well, my old housemate who transferred to AIMST in Kedah, Chia Yee, came back to visit us at our unit! :D

Top l-r: Niki, Hong Ling, me. Bottom l-r: Karen, Felicia, Chia Yee

I went to Secret Recipe with my housemates after an exam that was quite ughhh xD We actually also went there to celebrate Hong Ling's and Niki's birthdays :) Felicia wasn't feeling well, so she left as soon as she reached Secret Recipe :(

l-r: Me, Hong Ling, Niki, Karen

A healthy cheesecake which name I can't remember :S

I also forgot this one's name but IT'S AWESOME!!!

I also went to Mid Valley with my housemates (except Hong Ling, who went home)

Waiting for the KTM.

l-r: Felicia, Karen, Me, Niki

Sitting in an MPH somewhere

We ate at a place called "Delicious", where the food really was delicious :D Money well-spent ;)

My chicken burger! :D

Niki's green thingy xS

We just happened to meet some friends both on the way to Mid Valley and coming back from Mid Valley :)

The weird homeless-looking people sitting at the side of the road xP

Andddddd, one fine day Hong Ling drove Karen and myself to SS20 to try the famous SS20 Fish Head Noodles Hong Ling and Niki told us so much about =D

Karen and me doing a Celaka Tourist with the shop's signboard xD

All of us none-fish-with-bones eaters ordered fish paste ones instead :D

Cendol! :DDD

And the last thing is.......

I MET JAYESSLEEEEEEEEE =D =D =DDDDDDDDD

If you're asking "Who's that???"

First I'm going to answer with a very big GASP!!!
Then I'm gonna whack your head *boink*

Then I'm gonna say, watch/listen to this, it's them!!! :D

And that's one of their many covers posted on YouTube :)

They were in Malaysia and I got to see them!!! :D :D :DDD

Not only that, but I have a photo to prove it!!!!!

I got mummy and daddy to take the photo with me xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

It's all about the company! :)

2011-10-18T23:03:00.005+08:00

Hey guys!!!

So, well, this is kind of long overdue, but I still want to blog about it, because it's not everyday I get BP friends visiting me in Cheras!!! =D

Well, on the 1st of this month, Zhi Qing (or Ah Pao), E-Chuen and Shin Lei came to visit Pey Yann, Ruby and I here in Cheras!!!

It was on a Saturday, so Ruby, Pey Yann and myself had IELTS class from 9am-1pm (which I still think is crazy long!) and Ruby and I had a replacement lecture that evening. Anyway, the three of them came with Jeremy Neo (who gave them a ride here =D) and they reached just in time for lunch :)

Ruby and I didn't have much time before our replacement lecture, so we didn't really get to enjoy our food slowly before having to rush off for our class. Since there was nothing better to do, and since they were a bit curious as to what UCSI is like, the whole gang came for the lecture xD (Trying to pretend they're so hardworking =.=)

Pey Yann was a bit nervous about going for the replacement lecture because hers was supposed to be the week after Ruby's and mine! Anyway, we all still went into the lecture hall together :D Shin Lei even found an ex-classmate in Taylor's who's now sort of my classmate! haha!

l-r: Shin Lei, Zhi Qing, E-Chuen, Pey Yann

The four of them walked out around three minutes into the lecture xD So much for being hardworking! haha

After our lecture, Ruby and I joined the rest of them (plus Dickson and Jeremy) at Georgetown-Something-Something (One of those cafes that looks like it got its idea from Old Town)

l-r: Jeremy, Dickson, Zhi Qing, E-Chuen, Pey Yann, Shin Lei

We just sat there and chit-chatted until we thought we had overstayed our welcome, and then we (without the 2 guys) went to Giant to buy some supplies for our Spaghetti dinner and our breakfast the following morning! :)

Surprise!!! Wait, I mean, supplies!!! =P

Yeah, we bought some sparkling wine too, just for good measure ;D And no, everyone, it isn't alchoholic! At all. It's just carbonated juice =.=

We went back to my unit and started to work on our dinner :) We used Ruby's unit's coil heater, and pots from either Ruby's or Pey Yann's unit, and plates and forks and spoons from their units as well. (Oops now it's clear to everyone that nobody in my unit cooks xD)

All 6 of us put in a lot of sweat (literally xP) into preparing our dinner, and I guess it turned out quite okay (After all our efforrt, even if not nice also must say nice ;P) Our dinner was shared with Dickson, Jeremy and 2 of Pey Yann's housemates as well =) Sharing is caring!

We had a spaghetti dinner together! :)

Pey Yann's housemates were so cute xD They felt a bit our of place in my unit with all the BP people all over, so they took their bowls of spaghetti and went back up to their unit. They really just held a bowl (not even a container) of spaghetti each in their hands and took the lift back to their floor! hahaha so cute! I kept imagining if someone happens to take the same lift as them! If I did, I'd probably snatch the food from them and finish it up right there and then! LOL!

That night, after dinner and after clearing up, we Skyped Charmaine :) We were all so exhausted and yet we all went on and on and on, Skyping her! It was fun, though xD I think by then we were all not right in the head! I wonder what my neighbours were thinking about us making so much noise when we were supposed to be sleeping!

Well anyway, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, we managed to get a group photo with Charmaine! Or at least her face on the screen with the rest of us xS

PEACE! =D

The next morning, between the 6 of us, we managed to finish 2 big loaves of Gardenia bread, one can of tuna, one can of sardine, about three quarter tub of ice-cream, as well as some other lebih-lebih stuff like cucumbers and peanut butter xD

Before Ruby and I had to leave for church (we both went to GEPC :D), we sempat take another group shot:

The 6 of us after our really really heavy breakfast! Note that Shin Lei is still in her pajamas xP

I had a great time with these people around! It felt really good to have old friends gather together. It was nice! :) It's like we're all in a different phase of life now, no longer in secondary school, and still we can all just get together and just enjoy each other's company (while trying to get the spaghetti to turn out ok xD) That weekend gave me a dose of BP-ness, a dose of home, a dose of 2-big-loaves-of-bread-in-one-morning x) It. Was. Awesome. =D

A non-alchoholic toast to friendship! =)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Stuck in the Lift!!!

2011-09-21T15:18:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Something happened to my housemates and I this morning that I thought only happened in movies! Looking at the title of this post, it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out what it was that happened xD We were stuck in a lift, just the 5 of us, between the 27^th and the 28^thfloors!!!

We had a 9.30 a.m. Computing Essentials lecture, and we left our condo unit quite early this morning - at 9 a.m.. Usually it’s quite impossible to get a lift that has enough space for the 5 of us, going down, at around that time. So my housemates pressed both the up and the down buttons.

Awesome timing would have it that two lift doors side by side opened at the same time only a few seconds after the buttons were pressed. The left one was going down and the right one was going up. The left one was quite full, so after hesitating for around a second, we went into the lift on the right side, the one going up. We figured we’d go up to go down in the lift xD

We had the whole lift to ourselves, just the 5 of us! I was thinking how unusually cool it is that we could actually enter an empty lift, and go up straight to the highest floor without stopping first at any floors in between, before going down again!

The lift in our condominium here is such that if it’s going up to stop at the 28th floor, the indicator will indicate the 27th floor for quite some time, before indicating the 28th floor when it is really already on the 28th floor. That’s what happened just now in the lift.

The 27th floor was indicated, but we could feel and knew that the lift was going up to the 28th floor (the highest floor). Suddenly there was this “BANGGG!!!”, like something hitting the top/side/wherever of the lift or something. Then the lift stopped, like it was just suspended there.

The 5 of us kind of just stared at each other without saying anything for a moment, then we all just sort of started talking at once. “What happened?”, “Why like that one?”, “Please lah, don’t like that leh!”, “NNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”, “Really stuck ar?!?!?!?”, “AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”

The indicator showed 27. Then suddenly…

Out of Service?!?!?!?

THE LIFT WENT OUT OF SERVICE WITH US IN IT!!!

We immediately pressed the help button (or whatever it’s called – the one that looks like a bell and the one that looks like a phone =.=), but nothing seemed to be happening! We pressed and pressed and pressed and still nothing happened! A thought came to my head, but I didn’t want to say it out, in case I created more panic xD I was thinking that there was probably only a few metal thingies holding the lift with the 5 of us up. If anything were to happen to the things holding the lift up…….

Well, anyway, I now think it was very very wise of me not to say that out loud just now, in the lift! Haha, it wouldn’t have brought any good at all! It would probably have made everyone else even more panicky xD

I was uttering little prayers to God, and I can say that I actually didn’t panic at all! I felt completely calm, certain nothing bad, well, nothing really bad would happen to me! God was with me, and I knew it :) In fact, I actually thought the whole thing was kind of fun! An adventure or a sort, an experience to be remembered, something not everyone can say they have experienced =D

I even took out my camera to take pictures! In ten years time, I’ll look at the pictures and smile to myself, while everyone around me think I’ve gone crazy, smiling at myself xD That may just be the point I get sent into a mental hospital! Hahahaha!!!

Oops, ter-cut Felicia out :S Sorry Felicia!

Perhaps it was laughing the panic away, or perhaps everyone rationalised that laughing is better than crying, but the 5 of us were laughing! Look at us in the picture! Yes, we look like we had just woken up (which is true), but we don’t exactly look sad, do we? Come to think of it, it was a good way to kick-start our day! I sure did feel a lot more awake after being stuck in the lift! xD

Thank God Hong Ling’s phone had signal (Woots! Maxis!!! =D), and she called the number pasted in the lift, for use of emergencies. We also called another friend who we knew didn’t have any lectures on this morning, to ask her to look for help for us xD THANK YOU XUE NI!!!!! You’re awesome!!! :)

Talking to Xue Ni on the phone was kind of funny! Imagine being called early in the morning, being told that some of your friends are stuck in a lift, asking you to go look for help for them! Wouldn’t you think that you’re being tricked or something? Haha, anyway, Xue Ni believed we really were stuck in the lift, and she sounded very “cemas” for us! Awwww, thanks again, Xue Ni!!!!! =)

Trying to explain our situation to Xue Ni x)

By that time, we had already been stuck in the lift for some time, and Niki was already sitting on the floor xD

Her facial expression so cute xD

After being stuck in the lift for nearly half an hour (seriously, it was that long! But it didn’t really feel that long :D), Spiderman, Superman, Batman and Cicakman came to save us! =D

Spiderman, with his webs helped to make sure the lift wouldn’t drop 27½ floors down by spider-webbing the bottom of the lift to the side of the lift-space-wall (lift-space-wall?!?!?!? =.=).

Superman, with his super-strength pushed the lift doors apart so that we could get out of the lift.

Batman held the lift up from the top, helping Spiderman make sure the lift wouldn’t drop all the way down.

And as for Cicakman, he was just there to entertain us, and remind us that we have a local superhero xD

Okay, okay, maybe all these superheroes weren’t REALLY there to help us out, but a girl can make her being rescued from a lift sound a little more dramatic, can’t she? Wait, she can’t? Cheh, no fun lah :P

What really happened was that someone (a representative of Superman, perhaps xD) did come and push the lift doors apart. We then climbed out of the lift, one by one, up to the 28th floor. Yes, we had to climb up, since the 28th floor was around our waist level xD

When all 5 of us were out, we were then treated like VIPs, being ushered into another lift that was held purposely for us! The lift was just there, waiting for us! The 5 of us were ushered into the lift, a guy, and another guy came with us (maybe the representative of Cicakman? There to make sure everything goes on okay and to make us feel more at ease? xD). The lift went straight down to P5 (the floor we were headed to, sort of like the Ground floor).

The lift door opened and we saw yet another guy there to usher us out, like a welcoming committee!!! :D We felt like VIPs, oh-so-important! =D

The anti-climactic end to the story is that the 5 of us said our thanks, and rushed off for our Computing Essentials lecture, already late for the lecture! xD

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Buh-bye, people!!!
P/S: Thank You, Lord, for getting us out of there safely :)

My First Sem Break.... Overrrr!!! ='(

2011-09-04T21:41:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I WANT MORE HOLIDAYSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED MORE HOLIDAYSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! I DEMAND I GET MORE HOLIDAYSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

Not like I will get any more holidays :(

Well anyway.... I had quite a nice holiday =) Then again, when are holidays ever not nice? xD Other than watching TV all day, I did some other not-so-anti-social activities!

I went to Port Dickson with Niko, Thai Kue and Sarm Kue (two of my aunties from my dad's side). We stayed a night in Thistle hotel, which I think is an awesome hotel!!!

Lompatttt!!! You can see a bit of the hotel pool behind Niko and myself in the picture x)

I also celebrated Mama's birthday in Muar :) She is seriously the cutest grandmother the world has ever known! =) The celebration dinner was kind of cool because I got to see all my relatives together :)

The cousins!!! Minus a few xD

I just realised that Mama isn't even in the picture I posted! :S

Now, that's better =)

The family with Mama =)

I also got to meet up with some friends =)

A bunch of ex-schoolmates at Dagan

We were really noisy, but who cares? We were busy catching up with each other to remember to keep our voices down xD

Oooh ooh oohhhhh!!!! And I got to meet up with my SUSOM friends as well!!! Jasmine and Jia Wen didn't join us, but at least I got to meet up with 3 out of the 5 of my fellow SUSOMites from this year. Jennifer joined us too =D Jun Yi was supposed to, but tak jadi :( That monkey! haha

Top l-r: Samuel, Derrick; Bottom l-r: Samantha, me

Jennifer left early, so we didn't take a picture with her :( She actually bought 9 supposedly "crunchy and delicious" green apples and tumpang-ed my bag, and then she left without the apples! So I untung 9 apples loh!!! hahaha, thank you jie2 Jen loh!!! I'm supposed to think of her every time I eat an apple xD

Well, so now it's back to the old grindstone! Ughhh, I have a lecture at 8 am tomorrow! EIGHT IN THE MORNING!!! Nobody should be up so early in the morning! That's crazy and unhealthy and siao and simply not for any decent human being!

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Holidayssss!!! :)

2011-08-26T01:33:00.005+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I've finished one semester in UCSI!!! So fast right? hahaha, anyway, I finished my last final exam paper (for the 1st sem) on the 11th of August and so my holidays started then! =)

It has been one semester! One whole semester!!! Granted, yes, I started later than the actual May intake, but still, it all seems like such a short time ago!!! Anyway, of course, who cares about anything when they can care about holidays? hahaha, nobody!!!

So this holiday, as usual, I've been spending most of my time watching TV =D But but but... At least I've been out a few times instead of JUST watching TV in my room! Trust me, it's an improvement! xD

Well, the first meet-up I had when I got back to BP was with a bunch of ex-schoolmates :) It was mostly a farewell for Jing, who is leaving for Poland this Sunday!

l-r: Anna, Ajie, me, Evonne, Liting, Jing, Joanne

We went to Juz Waffle, and I went upstairs for the first time!!! hahaha jakun xD (Upstairs and downstairs look the same only oneeeee :S)

It was fun seeing them again, especially Ajie! I think hadn't seen her since Form 2 or so before that!!! She's still as crazy as ever, though xD She and Joanne were kicking each other, shaking the tables and embarassing all of us in the process xP Oh, and AJIE BIT ME!!! Yes, bit as in past tense of bite!!! A few times!!! Ughhhhhhh, I'm feeling all geli just thinking about it =S hahaha

It was fun seeing her again, though, despite the biting xD

After that, Evonne, Joanne and myself met up with Joshua and jie2 Ee Hsin and we went to BP Mall (and ended up in Char Chan Teng). You know how some people like to put their handphones on the table when they go out to makan? Well, I've never been one of those people. But, that night, my handphone was too cool for me to keep in my pocket! It demanded attention. It demanded that it be left on the table for everyone to admire. It wanted to be seen, to be the centre of attention, to be hao-lian-ed!!!

So put it on top of the table I did, with the other handphones there. Guess which one was the one I brought? I'll give you a hint, it's the ABC-est (awesomest, bestest, coolest) one there:

Well? Which one do you think is the one I brought?

Well, since I said awesomest, bestest and coolest, I'm sure you managed to guess correctly! It's the third one!!! Yay!!!!! The blue/orange/green/pink one!!!! Awesome right??? Now now, don't get too jealous of me just because my handphone is so much more awesome than yours okay? =P

Hahahahahahahahaha!!! I actually found it in jie2 Ee Hsin's car on the way to BP Mall, and thought that I just couldn't live without it! It's actually jie2 Ee Hsin's niece, LeLe's xD I hijacked it for the night just to show-off ;) You know, I'm actually thinking of buying myself one of those colourful toy handphones too, just to bring around for fun xD

Had another kind-of-farewell for Jing in BP Mall :)

l-r: Joshua, me, Jing, Jayn, Joanna

Camera-shy Evonne took the photo for us since she mati-mati also didn't want to take photo with us. She was still recovering from the picture we took earlier in Juz Waffle xD haha

Come to think of it, I shouldn't have been in the picture as well! I just realised that I took a picture with all the J-people!!! Right now I feel like such the odd one out!!! JJJJJoshua lah, JJJJJing lah, JJJJJayn lah, JJJJJoanna lah, all J's! I think just for that, I shall be referred to as Jamanda in this picture!!! Hahahaha!!! xD

Ooh! Also managed to see Ying at another meet-up, but sadly, I forgot to take a group picture :( The closest photo I have to a photo of Ying from that day is her handphone =.= Sad, but true.

Oh! You can see a bit of her hand there too! haha

The point of the photo was actually the 8th and 9th high-score placing of 0 marks! hahaha, the names typed there are Jing and Joshua! Tsk tsk tsk, malu only, get 0 marks!!! 0 marks also dare to type their names in?!?!?!? Tsk tsk tsk! (Shhhh... Don't tell anyone I told you, but I was the one who got the 0 marks, and typed their names in ;P)

Well, I guess I won't be seeing Jing again before she leaves for Poland, so Jing, if you see this...

ALL THE BEST IN KILAT-LAND!!!!! Semoga you get Polished until you kilat-kilat, like your awesome tiara!!! Oh ya, that reminds me, remember to bring your tiara there ya, Princess Jing? ;P Just wear it there if you're afraid it might take up too much luggage space! Go spread the princess-ness!!! Lol!!!

So cute right? I mean the tiara xP

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

I'm Homeeeee! :D

2011-07-23T20:27:00.001+08:00

Hey guys! I'm home! In BP! Breathing BP air, eating BP food, seeing BP people, enjoying BP! Yesssss!!! Haha, I really haven't been home for too long xD Anyway, whatever it is, BP IS STILL THE BEST!!! I'm actually blogging on my phone while waiting for my dinner! I'm bad at blogging with my phone =.= Me needs laptop or computer! hahaha, buh-bye for now! I don't want to be anti-social at the dinner table! xD

Meet the Housemates!!! :)

2011-07-04T21:47:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I've been meaning to do this for quite some time now, and now I finally have to pictures to do it! So, introducing..... The Housemates!!!!! :D

So since all the photos in the collage were taken on the same night, I shall introduce them in terms of the clothes they're wearing in the pictures xD

The one in the red shirt (the one lying down in the bottom picture) is Hong Ling :)
The one in the black shirt is Nikita :)
The one in white is Karen :)
The one in the red and white shirt is Felicia :)
The one in pink is Chia Yee :)

Some little things about the housemates:
Hong Ling is the not-so-banana, though like me, people always seem to think she is! She is also a super-fan of Fruit Ninja, which she is always seen playing on her white iPhone4! She

Nikita is the crazy/weird flagella I often pretend not to know so as to salvage whatever is left of my reputation (if I even have one) xP She can also be really cutely random sometimes! (example: whacking the hand of a guy she knows, though not very very well, when he's sitting in the seat behind her with his hand hanging on the backrest of the seat beside her)

Karen is the other Johorean in the house! JOHORRHRRR!!!! :D :D :D She's also my human alarm clock and seriously, if not for her, I'll never be up in time for any of my morning lectures! xD THANKS AGAIN, KARENNNN!!!!!! =)

Felicia is the baby of the house, the one whom I'm sure will always be able to get anything she wants out of you as soon as she goes all "pleaseeeeee" while looking at you with her big eyes :) She is also sometimes known as "Omnom" xD

Chia Yee is the one who does most of the work around the unit. She's the one everyone waits for to open the grill every morning we have to go to UCSI, and she's the reason our unit isn't overflowing with rubbish as she is usually the one who throws the rubbish out xD Thank Chia Yeeeee!!!!! =)

They are all a bunch of really great people and I really thank God that He gave me such great housemates! =) And it so happens that all of us got the scholarship to study medicine!

Chia Yee and Nikita actually applied for dentistry but were given medicine instead. Not too long ago, Chia Yee appealed to JPA and she was given the offer to study dentistry in Kedah! Though we're all happy for her because she got what she wanted, of course all of us are a bit sad she won't be here to suffer, erm, I mean, study in UCSI with us and we'll miss her a lot!

So, Chia Yee, I've been your housemate long enough for me to know how much of a stalker you are (stalking even un-stalk-worthy people like me =.=), and so I'm sure you'll see this xP
It has been a pleasure knowing you and being your housemate, even if it was just for a little over a month! Thanks for being such a great housemate, doing all the things the other 5 of us are always forgetting to do or are just too lazy to do xD

It has been great sharing the table with you when we can get out of prison (hahaha ;)) and it has been great going to makan whatever we want on Tuesdays with you! It truly has been great knowing you! Hope everything goes well for you in AIMST (AIMST? Correct or not? I know it's something like that lah xD)!!! Hope you enjoy life there, and hope you get along well with all the new people you'll meet there (especially the 10 you-know-whos you'll meet there :P)!

Soooo, CHIA YEE, ALL THE BEST!!!!!! =) Come visit us back at the unit before our foundation course finishes and we all have to move out!!! xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

My Sister is BACKKKK!!!! xD

2011-06-15T20:50:00.002+08:00

NIKO IS BACKKKKKKKKK!!!!! =D =D =DDDDD

Once again, I have a sister!!! :D It only happens once in a blue moon, when he hasn't been home for a very long time and has long hair xD His hair is longer than mine now, and I haven't had my hair-cut in ages!!!

It's great to have Niko back again!!!! And mummy keeps calling him "Girl" xD So fun for me! hahahaha! What I always wanted growing up, an older sister ;D

NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK NIKO IS BACK =D

I've started uni and I can't go makan with him all over BP :( I have a list of makan places to make sure Niko eats at this trip round!!! ='(

I wants me some holidays and I wants them right now! In fact, I don't just want "some" holidays, I want plenty of holidays! You know what? Don't need to study already I lagi syiok xD

Oh yeah, and today after my Bio quiz (yes, I had a Bio quiz earlier today! Who on Earth invented such a thing as tests and quizzes? tsk tsk tsk!!! Oh, it was the Chinese =.=) all the JPA scholars taking Foundation in Science had to stay back for a meeting or something and we were told that for all of us planning to take Medicine, we have to get a minimum CGPA of 3.7 as well as go through an interview before we can be accepted into the UCSI medical programme!!! Oh, and the best part is, there are already 58 JPA scholars taking Foundation in Science (my batch) and we have to compete with another 30-over A-Levels students for spots in the medical programme next year! And get this, there are only 50 places in the medical programme! So the rest of us will either have to try to get into another programme or give up and be beach bums or something!!! Beach bum... beach bum... Hey, doesn't sound too bad, does it? xD My dream ambition! xDDD

For those of you who do not know what a beach bum is, it is defined as "A person who habitually loafs or idles on beaches". Pretty cool, huh? xD

Well, anyway, I guess I'll just have to snap out of my holiday/watch-TV-all-day/sleep-for-more-than-half-the-day-everyday/a-lazy-pig's-life mode, and real soon too! =.=

Oh oh ohhh!!! I wrestled with one of the UCSI elevator/lift doors just now! hahahahaha!!! Felicia, Chia Yee, Karen (3 out of the 5 of my housemates) and myself were in the lift with a bunch of other people from our batch after our Bio quiz. When we reached the floor we were going to, Felicia and Chia Yee walked out first, followed by Karen and then me.

When Karen was walking out, the lift door closed on her and hit her from the left side before she managed to get out of the lift, and the lift door opened again slightly after hitting poor Karen. I was behind her and I stepped out of the lift as soon as the door opened again.

As I was stepping out, the lift door closed again and at that time, around half my body was already out of the lift (and yes, half of my body was still in the lift =.=) The lift door banged into me while I was halfway out of the lift. So, like any normal person would, I started to push the lift door the direction it would open. However, unlike the usual normal person, something struck my funny bone and I started laughing really hard!

I was laughing and laughing and the three of my housemates had already went ahead (not too far ahead, but they weren't exactly trying to save me from the lift door situation either xD). So there I was, laughing like a mad woman, trying to push the stubborn lift door open with my left hand and left leg sticking out of the lift awkwardly! Don't ask me why both my left hand and leg, because I really don't know how that happened! So half my body was in the lift while the other half of my body was out of the lift, and the lift door was half open and trying to close, but all I could do was laugh and laugh and laugh while everyone else in the lift must have been thinking I'm some kind of mental patient (but nobody was gentlemanly enough to offer a finger to help press the open button! Maybe nobody wanted to be associated with the girl laughing away while the lift door as trying to shut on her)! xD

Well, I was wrestling with the lift door and losing miserably because I was laughing too hard and all my energy went into my laughter xD So when I was almost squished at the end of the lift door, I stepped back and thought, "bye housemates!!!" as I saw the lift door close right before my eyes. I was still laughing uncontrollably then! Then then then, another girl who was in the lift pressed the open button just in time and the lift door opened again just as it touched the other end where the lift door closes unto!

All I could do was stumble out of the lift, trying not to laugh too hard and trying to walk straight! I can't even remember whether I thanked the girl who pressed the "open" button for me!!!

That. was. embarrassing.

I demand a rematch against the lift door!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

I'm 18!!!

2011-06-11T23:22:00.002+08:00

Jeng jeng jenggggg!!!

I'M OFFICIALLY AN ADULT!!!!
I'm 18!!! EIGHTEEN!!!

An adult!!! AN ADULT!!!!!!!!!

FULAMAKATAKKKKK!!!!!! xD

I took loads of photos, but I don't have the camera connector thingy to upload them :(

Anywayyyyy, I had a great 18th birthday!!!

Had a great day with daddy, mummy and koko...

I think today was the first birthday I celebrated without Niko around!!! :(

And it's the first time in a long time I spent my birthday without kakak as well!!! =(

Anywayyyyyy, I'll try to upload some photos as soon as I can!

I've been wanting to upload some photos of the place I'm staying at in Cheras and some other pictures, but my laptop cacat and is being repaired in Kluang...

And I don't have the connetor to transfer the photos into the laptop as well!

I'll upload them as soon as I can!!!

Anywayyyy, thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday!!!

Thanks, everyone who remembered my birthday!!!

And to those who forgot my birthday, hmphhhh!!!!! haha, justtttt kidding... I forgive you!!! xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....

Buh-bye, people!!!

Still surviving here! xD

2011-06-01T16:49:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

So I'm now sort of in the middle of my second week as a UCSI student :) My first week here was.... okayyyy, I guess xD I think I still haven't gotten used to the idea of me not being able to just laze around the house and watch TV all day!

Well, anyway, I went back home on Friday night :D Koko and I took a cab from outside the condo I'm staying at to somewhere near the bus station. We reached the station at around 5.30 pm and we couldn't get any tickets to go back to BP! The next bus going to BP was at 7 pm and I couldn't take that because I had to rush back to BP for koko Sern Wang's wedding rehearsal!

Koko and I asked all over and in the end we took a 6 pm bus to Yong Peng, and daddy and mmmy came to fetch us home from Yong Peng. BEE PEE!!!! There's no place like BP! I was sooooooo happy when we reached BP! I don't know why, but I had never missed home as much as I did last week!

Anyway, I went home, got my violin, and rushed straight to church. I was already very very late and the proper rehearsal was, I think, already over xD Joshua and I practised a few times (I hadn't touched my violin for such a loooonnnnngggggg time before that!) and then we had to let the other people use the piano.

Koko Sern Wang and Eik Hien jie finally got married on Saturday xDDD I think Joshua and I did quite a good job for the wedding song? Bridal walk? march? thingy. At least I thought our timing was pretty decent :D We finished right as Eik Hien jie reached koko Sern Wang! =D What to say? We had two prayers in a row right before we had to play x)

It was so nice to be back in BP and seeing so many old friends at the same place, at the same time! It seemed as if everyone was there at the wedding! =D That as just what I needed :) The wedding dinner was fun too. It was fun catching up with everyone!

Oh ya!

CONGRATULATIONS KOKO SERN WANG AND EIK HIEN JIE!!!!!! :) :) :)

I can't wait to play with all the future Sern Wang juniors and mini Eik Hiens! =D

I think I'm slowly getting used to the fact that I've started my foundation course and I no longer get to live the life of a total and utter couch potato! :( I WANT THAT LIFE!!! I LOVE THAT LIFE!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
P.S.: I went for the CF meeting last Friday and it was awesomeeeee!!!! Too bad I can't go for any more :( Why did my BCOM lecture have to be changed to the exact same time as CF?!?!?!? :'(

First Day, First Lecture in UCSI =]

2011-05-23T21:35:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I had my first lecture in UCSI today, my first official day as a student there! :) It was a Moral Studies lecture (of all subjects =.=) and it was from 2-5 pm.

Only two other girls (Karen and Chia Yee) and myself stayed in our new "home" last night while the other three came in this morning itself =D

We walked from our unit to UCSI and I think that was my exercise for the day xD There were sooo many people there for the Moral Studies lecture and it did shock me a little (so jakun!!! xD) My stomach was growling halfway through the lecture (we had bread and my awesome Peter Pan peanut butter for breakfast and we skipped lunch), I was soooo hungry!!!

Anyway, the lecture kind of ended early, and my housemates and I ate at Old Town. It may not be the usual students' choie, but we were really hungry, and that was the second food place we saw (after Georgetown White Coffee =.=)!!! haha

Oh oh oh!!! And while waiting for the lecture to start, I was waiting outside the hall, in front of a room where there were around 5 students and a teacher, and two of the students were playing the flute!!! I was so jealous xD It looked like so much fun! One of my housemates, Hong Ling, and myself were contemplating whether or not to go crash their class, going into their classroom and saying "Oops, sorry, wrong classroom!" just so we could go see what the class is like! haha

There were so many music studios and stuff, making my fingers itch like crazy to touch a piano, even if it was just to play "Chopsticks" or something :( haha! I can just imagine myself sitting in one of the practice rooms, hearing the beautiful music all around me - Mozrt, Lizst, Beethoven - while I sit there at the grand piano, concentrating hard on playing... CHOPSTICKS!!!! Yay!!!!

Speaking about practice rooms, Ruby did ask about them because she wants to practice the piano for her piano exam later this year. Apparently the practice rooms are reserved for the music students in the afternoons, but she can practise there at night if she wants to. So nice, right? I'm planning to tag along when she does go and practise there! =)

Oh, and this is the first time since I got here that I'm using the internet! :) Celcom broadband is my friend now! (It wasn't really my friend just now when it wasn't really working xD) Ooh! And my housemates and I had frozen kiwi fruits just now, thanks to the super low temperature fridge! It tasted good, though xD

Ruby found a 90 cents roti canai place in this condo compound itself. SUPPER!!!! She's going to be my new supper buddy =D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
P.S.: My desk is out to get me! I've scraped my knee on it a million and one times! Ouch :(

Off to the next phase...

2011-05-21T22:53:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

As of right now, I am considered a student of UCSI! Registration was this morning and in UCSI itself and I have to say, I am impressed with the place :) I even got to pass by the music studios and so on and they all looked awesome! I wonder if I'm allowed to use those rooms even though I'm not a music student there :S haha

Anyway, first thing we had to do there was register by giving our names to the people-in-charge there. So I queued up for my turn and when it was my turn, the lady who was in charge asked for my name and this happened:
Lady : What's your name?
Me : Amanda Chong.
Lady : *type type type* Your name isn't here.
Me : huhhhh???

Apparently my name wasn't in the system, so I had to write my name and particulars down before I was asked to go into the auditorium. I saw a few familiar faces in there belonging to people from BP :)

I ended up sitting beside a girl from KL, Felicia all throughout the whole programme in the auditorium =) Felicia and myself were both "abandoned people", what we used to refer to the people whose names weren't in the system. There was a whole bunch of us, so at least we didn't feel that bad xD

After the briefings an Q&A sessions and eveything, all of us JPA scholars were brought to where we will be staying throughout our foundation course, which will be 12 months long. Felicia, myself and 4 other "abandoned people" were assigned to the same unit :D

The accomodation is way way wayyyy better than I expected! 6 scholars are assigned to each unit, and each unit has 3 rooms. One master bedroom, one deluxe room and one single room. 3 people share the master bedroom, 2 the deluxe and of course 1 the single =]

I actually drew one of the master bedroom key while the new housemate of mine that was standing beside me drew the single room key. She wasn't too keen on it so I exchanged rooms with her :D Yay! Win-win! =)

All 3 rooms have air-conds! Mwahaha! And yes, they do work!!! That was totally unexpected! I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it :D

On the not-so-up side, though, there goes my freedom, my holidays, my completely beach-bum-like lifestyle, my days of watching the TV the whole day! I start classes this Monday!

I have to change my entire current lifestyle :S

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
Thank You, God, for answering yet another one of my prayers! :)

Gotch ya! ;)

2011-05-17T19:44:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

On Sunday, after church, daddy, mummy and myself went down to JB. We were to have a celebratory dinner that night with the extended family there :)

When we reached my Ah Yee Lee Hua's house, I used the internet line there to get into the JPA website to finish up everything I was supposed to download and whatnot. I don' t know whether it was the internet connection or what, but it was awesome! Back at home I had to refresh sooooo many times before I could do anything at all on the JPA website.

In my aunty's house, though, all I had to do was click once and I would be where I was trying to access. Well, anyway, when I reached the 5th and final page of my JPA account, there was this line that said something about the dress-code and then there was a link beside it. I clicked it and a blank page except for the words "Gotch ya!;)" came out.

I'm not kidding! It really did that! Right in the middle of a totally serious, no nonsense page there was link to a page with white background and the words Gotch ya!;)in black words at the top left hand corner of the otherwise blank page! Those exact words in those exact spelling with the wink as well!!!

My first reaction to it was "huh?", and then I went "what?" then I went "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

I showed it to daddy, who was sitting beside me and he laughed out loud too xD I went out of the page (I X-ed the page) and clicked the link again and got the same thing! I showed it to mummy, Ah Yee Lee Hua (my aunty) and Ah Teow (my uncle), who were also there, and we all cracked up and started laughing! xD

Mummy said, "At least someone in JPA still has a sense of humour!"

Hahahahahahaha!!! It was so weird and so unexpected, yet so cute at the same time!!! xD

And then yesterday when I tried the page again, I got the correct page telling me I have to dress in formal clothing and so on. I guess somebody finally changed the Gotch ya!;) away! When I saw that the page had been changed, I told mummy and she asked, "To what? A frog leaping out of the page?"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! It would have be very very very awesome if the page was really changed to that!!! LOL!!!

Well, anyway, I had a nice dinner with my maternal extended family on Sunday :)

A group shot of some of the ladies in the family. There are 3 generation of ladies in this picture! =D

To tell you all the truth, though, I NEED ME MY HOLIDAYSSSSS!!!!!!!

I could do well with more time before going off to further my studies!!! I still have a lot of shows I haven't had the chance to watch!!! Oh, and I haven't even started packing!!! Oops!

On the other hand, I'm starting college!!! University? University college? What is it I'm starting again?!?!? Oops, I really don't know! Am I supposed to know this?!?!?!? haha! Whatever it is, it should be fun! I'm quite excited about it!

Well, I better go enjoy my final few days of freedom!!! Oh, and maybe start packing =.=

mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
P.S.: I miss Niko :( Wish he were here. Praying that all is good where he is! =)

Thank You, Lord :)

2011-05-14T01:23:00.002+08:00

JPA results are out!!!

After refreshing and refreshing the page for a loooonnng time, I finally managed to see my offer letter =D

The site was and probably is still jammed up by all the students from my batch plus their entire families trying to check out the scholarship statuses xD

Anyway, THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!

You are wonderful, You are the best, and You know what's best for me!

Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU!!!!!!

Thank You, Lord!!! :) :) :)

I got the course I applied for, which is medicine :)
I got UCSI, which, in case you didn't know, stands for University College Sedaya International :)

Local? Yes! But come to think of it, I'd rather study medicine in the country that I love and am used to, my own country, my home, rather than the other countries offered for this course (which come to think of it, aren't all that appealing... Malaysia is still the best!!!!)!

I am so so sooooo grateful that God is behind everything and He has everything under control. He has an awesome plan for me, for all of us! So to all of you who didn't get the scholarship or didn't get the courses/countries you wanted, don't worry! Trust the Lord! He knows what He's doing, He has everything under control! He has a plan just for you, a great one, and awesome one, one that He has just for you.

Oh, I'm supposed to register on th 21st of this month, which is not too long from now! I'm still in lazy mode!!! Oops xDDD

There's something a bit confusing about a course I don't know whether I'm supposed to attend from the 23rd to the 25th of this month, so I don't really know how that's supposed to work out =.=

Daddy and mummy are now waiting to bring me out for to celebrate God's goodness in granting me the scolarship!!!

Fatten me up even more before I go and starve myself living the college life xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
P/S: Yay! I get to be near koko!!!! Can embarrass him in front of his friends gao-gao! xDDD

THANK YOU LORD, FOR EVERYTHING :)

Licenced to Drive... people up the wall xD

2011-05-10T13:42:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

So, I finally took my driving test!!! I had to wake up early yesterday morning to be at the driving school by 8.30 in the morning before being fetched to the JPJ Test Centre. I think yesterday morning was the earliest I've woken up since SPM!!! haha, such an accomplishment!!! xD

Anyway, daddy woke up early too just to fetch me to the driving school. We were supposed to go for breakfast first but I didn't feel like eating, so we went straight to the driving school. I was prepared for a loooonnngggg, boring day alone where I'd be bored stiff with no one to talk to because I didn't know of anybody else taking their driving test the same day as me. However, when I reached the driving school, I saw...... Xiao Tong!!!!!! =D We waved like mad at each other when we saw each other xD

Some time later, the two of us and another girl were brought to the test centre where we each were given a jersey-like thingy with numbers on them. I got 9, Xiao Tong 10, and the other girl 11 :) Then, as expected, we were told to wait for our turns.

Myself and Xiao Tong. You can see a bit of the blue jersey thingy we both are wearing =)

The Bahagian 2 test (the one done in the test centre compound itself) was pretty quick. I think out of all the blue jersey people (LOL, blue jersey people =.=), only one person failed it. Poor lady, though. She was 2nd to get tested from our group and she was in the car for hardly a minute before she was failed :(

Well, anyway, all three of us passed that test and went to wait for the Bahagian 3 test, the one where we have to drive on the roads outside the test centre. There were so many people still waiting for their turns! We had to wait until all the maroon jersey people finished their tests, followed by the blue jersey people in front of us xD

While waiting for our turns, the other girl Xiao Tong and I went with asked us to help choose her an "English name" (Christian name). So that helped us pass our time more quickly :) Xiao Tong and myself both agreed that she looked like a Stephanie but she thought that it was a bit difficult to call.

So we went on picking names (sounds like mothers choosing names for their newborn babies xD) for her and some of the other names we came up with that we thought suited her are Zoe, Katherine, Audrey... There were a lot more but my memory fails me xDDD I still think Stephanie was the most suitable of the lot! =D

While we were waiting, we saw the lady who failed the Bahagian 2 test fail her Bahagian 5 test as well =( She only drove the car for about half a complete rotation of the tyres before she stopped and got out of the car. Poor thing =(

Another guy pula drove the car for a slightly longer time than the lady did before he too, stopped the car and got out. When another guy asked him about it, he said that he failed because he forgot to wear his safety-belt.

Finally, it was my turn to take the test and I went into the small little Kancil waiting for me xD The examiner didn't say much to me during the test and so I just did what I was taught to do :) I wasn't as nervous as I was afraid I was going to be, because I knew that God was with me =)

At the end of the test, after I had stopped back at the test centre, I was asked to sign something and then I was given the sheet of paper that had my test results. It showed 18/20, signifying that I PASSED!!!!! =D

Taking a closer look at the paper, I saw that I got one mark deducted because I wasn't in free gear when I started the engine. I thought and thought about it and concluded that it didn't make sense! I didn't have to start the engine because it wasn't off when I went into the car, and the gear was already free! I made sure of that! I thought that maybe I was expected to switch the engine off then back on again. Well, who cares, right? As long as I passed! xD

Anyway, I waited for Xiao Tong to get back and when she did, we both were all smiles :) She passed with 18 marks as well!!!

Showing off our results :D

We were both super-duper excited that we passed and Xiao Tong was even dancing around for everyone there to see xD So cute lah, that girl! haha

It was when we were waiting for the other girl (I vote her name be Stephanie! In fact, that's what I'm gonna call her from now on! xD) when I saw something that made me think of something. "Xiao Tong!" I said and whacked her on her arm, "wo mei you check wiper he signal na xie!" (I didn't check the wiper and signals)

Then only I realised that the examiner X-ed the wrong box! He was supposed to "X" the box below the free-gear-when-start-engine one to deduct one mark because I didn't check those things! xD

Stephanie came back some time later with a 17 marks pass =D Yay we all passed!!!! :D

We were happy people, showing off our results :D

The JPA results were supposed to be out at 5 pm, but it was stated in the website that the results would be out sometime this week instead...

That night, daddy, mummy and myself went to Secret Recipe to celebrate God's goodness in helping me through my driving exam =)

Note to self: Don't ever order the Green Tea Cheesecake. It's disgusting xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Happy Mothers' Day!!!

2011-05-08T13:21:00.002+08:00

To all the mothers in the world and especially to my mummy, the greatest, awesomest, bestest mother in the whole, wide world...

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of hugs, kisses and love to all the mommies out there :)

Mummy, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Team '09 McD Madness xD

2011-05-01T14:28:00.004+08:00

Hey guys!

Koko is back for the long weekend and yesterday we all went to BP Mall. After just staying at home doing nothing for such a long time, I felt a bit out of place seeing so many people in one building, all at the same time xD

I saw so many familiar faces there, and I was so happy to see so many people I haven't met in ages! I went a bit crazy every single time I saw someone I know xD

And then last night, I had the chance to go even crazier when I met up with Anlynn, Becky and Sarah at McDonald's =D Sofiya was supposed to join us too but couldn't because she had to study :( Well anyway, the four of us had a really good time talking and laughing about nothing and everything xD

We actually planned to have dinner in McD and then catch a movie after that. In the end, though, we decided to just skip the movie so that we could have more time to catch up :) I think everyone else that was there in McD when we were there was probably very annoyed with the four of us. We were SO LOUD!

I kind of wonder how the teachers could tahan being around us when we had to go for all the debate competitions and all back in '09! I feel for them, having to be around us for days and days in a row, especially when we had to go to Kedah. It must have been hard for them to tahan, being trapped in the same bus (no, coach =.=) as us for what, 15 hours straight, followed by so many days of us jumping and talking and shouting and laughing and going all hyper around them! Come to think of it, the day we all had Livita must have been a cruel day to the teachers xD

Well anywayyyyyy, I had a great time with the three of them last night :) As usual, we talked and laughed about nothing, anything and everything =D There was this one point where Anlynn was laughing so hard while eating her ice-cream that her tears (and saliva xS) were dripping off her face xD Yes, it was as, if not more disgusting than it sounds xP

The slightly cooled down Anlynn. I think you can still see the tears that ran down her cheeks xD

Come to think of it, the things that we were laughing about weren't even funny! Everything triggered our laughter, which might sound ridiculous, but let me tell you... is actually quite ridiculous! hahahaha, all I can say is I have crazy friends :D

Oh, and Anlynn had just had something done with her teeth/braces/whatever (I was too grossed out to remember the details xD) and so she couldn't really chew. Well, the smart girl that she is got an ice-cream cone and was happily enjoying it until she realised that she couldn't eat the cone! She pusing the cone here, pusing the cone there, still tak dapat eat the cone.

In the end, she used a spoon to eat the ice-cream and then gave up on the cone. Of course, that was after she tried a million and one ways to eat the cone but failing miserably each time =P She even managed to have a huge piece of cone stuck halfway in her mouth while she desperately tried to push the rest of it into her mouth! hahahaha

The rest of Anlynn's cone after she gave up eating it =.=

Anlynn looked like she was drunk.
Sarah and Becky looked like they were tipsy.
I was perfectly normal.
Why are they my friends again? hahaha xP

Maybe the ice-cream was what made everyone high xD All kena sugar rush =.= Whatever it is, we still managed to get a few decent, sane-looking pictures taken :)

Sarah and Becky

Anlynn and myself with our cones! (Thanks Sarah! xD)

And then the group photo of us four =)

We rock, we stone, we pebble, we sand :D
Anyone wanna help me photoshop Sofiya in? xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Interview!

2011-04-25T15:37:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

I'll be going to KL later today. I was short-listed for the Axiata Scholarship interview, so please do pray for me! I really have no idea as to how the interview will be like, but according to the letter I received, the interview will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and this to me sounds scary enough xD

A whole-day-long interview? haha, I guess I'll just have to wait and find out what's it's like! Oh, and the attire is supposed to be "smart casual" and I don't really know what that means xD So what I'll do is I'll just find something presentable to wear and pray that it isn't too smart or too casual, but just right!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Happy Birthday, Niko!!!!!! =)

2011-04-16T02:07:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

So, it's Niko's 21st birthday today!!! :) It is also his first birthday that I (and the rest of the family) won't get to celebrate with him in person :(

Well, anyway, for his 21st birthday, I made a birthday video!!! YAY!!!!!! I'm kind of new to Windows Movie Maker, so although the video didn't come out perfectly, I am proud of it!!! =] I'm just a little bit sad that I can't see Niko's face when he watches the video :(

Anywayyyyyyy...

Niko, HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! :)

Hope you like the video =D (And even if you don't, please pretend that you do because I really did spend a lot of time on it xD) HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYY!!!!!!! :) Hope you have a great birthday and a very very good year ahead. God bless!!! :)

Oh, and also to the other two people I know who share the same birthday as Niko (Aunty Soh Guat and Yeh Shan), HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY as well :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

JPA Interview!

2011-04-12T12:07:00.006+08:00

Hey guys!

This is gonna be a loooonnngggggg post, but it has been a requested one, so here goes :) Hope it is of help to those who haven't gone for their JPA interviews!

So my JPA interview was this morning. It was in UTHM and I was supposed to be there by 7.30 (half an hour before the time of the interview). Each batch of interview is estimated to take around 45 minutes and the first batch starts at 8.00 a.m.. There are 4 panels so that means 4 batches of 5 people each start their interviews at the same time in different locations.

Mine was panel 1, and the first batch of the estimated time of 8.00 - 8.45 a.m.. And since today was the first day of the JPA interviews, I think mine was one of the first of the first of the first!!! xD

Mummy and koko went to UTHM with me and we were one of the first ones to reach there. The guard at the UTHM gate actually told us to just drive straight and the building in front of us was the building where the interview was going to be held. So we just followed his directions and lo and behold, he was wrong =X

There were signs showing that the interview was being held at another building (we had to turn right and the building was oon our right) and so we followed the signs and got there. On the glass doors/wall?/whatever-that-is-called of the building itself were some papers with the names of the people being interviewed today. So what we had to do was to search for my name =D

Mana tu nama Amanda?!?!?

My name was under the panel 1, 8.00-8.45 a.m. batch so all I had to do was to sign there :) Right now I am going to hao lian and say:
I WAS THE FIRST ONE AMONG ALL THE UTHM INTERVIEWEES TO SIGN ON ON THE PAPER!!!!! :D :D :D

hahahaha, I was I was!!! I signed my name before anyone else did this morning and since today was the first day of interviews in UTHM, I can only conclude that I really was the first!!!!! And no, I do not know why I'm so happy and proud about it, but I am and I can't help it xDD

Anywayyyyy, we saw Joshua Ong and his dad there as well so after some chatting and this and that, we all prayed together (more like we were being prayed for =])before Joshua (his interview was the same time as mine, different panel) and I headed into the building.

We went up one floor and were led into a room on the left side of the stairs (the waiting room?), where we had to sign once again on the papers that looked like copies of the ones we had to sign on downstairs. Then we were told to leave our folders of documents on the tables in there. (There were different tables for different panels) In the room I got to know the other girls that were in my group (all the interviewees in my group were girls! GIRL POWERRRR xD)

After some time, we were asked to sign once again on another sheet of paper that once again looked like a copy of the previous papers we had to sign xD We were then given name tags, or more precisely number-tags =.= The numbers were given according to the list. My number was 4 :)

At 8 (I think we started on time), the other 4 girls from my group and myself were led into the interview room. Two ladies and a man (the interviewers) were already sitting in there and we were asked to sit on the chairs in there. The five chairs were arranged in a straight line facing the three interviewers who were sitting behind a row of tables joined together.

My group wasn't asked to introduce ourselves. Instead, one of the interviewers just started reading out our names one by one and we just responded with a nod or a "yes" or a "ya, saya" when we heard our names being called.

The interviewers told us that our interview was going to be held as a group, as in we were given the questions as a group but we were supposed to give our answers individually. We were told that we could discuss if we wanted to. The first question for my group was asked in English. It was something about the characteristics of a good citizen or something like that. I turned to discuss with the others but realised that they had already started jotting some things down using the stationary that they brought with them (oh ya! Bring your own pens and paper, they don't give you anything!) and they didn't show any sign of wanting to discuss anything. So I thought "Oh, well," and took my own pencil and paper out xD (Thank God I brought my own testpad in!)

Meanwhile, the interviewers were expecting an answer and everyone was busy scribbling on their papers so I answered first. Everyone was given a chance to answer that question and the second one too, which was a BM question - something about pandangan anda tentang Wawasan 2020 dan adakah wawasan tersebut akan tercapai - or something like that xD

Starting from the third question, the interviewers more or less chose who to answer their questions. For example, they went "Nombor satu, apakah pandangan anda tentang....." or "Nombor dua, kenapa......". I felt like a dog being called like that xD

Oh! And there was this less formal part where we were asked to ask the names of the others in our group as well as get to know their favourite food xD

Nothing crazy about the full names of our prime ministers or Sultans or anything like that was asked, so I really thank God for that! =)

After the interview, we had to go back to the waiting room to get our documents back. I saw a few other familiar faces there :D I even lent Ah Mei my pen and pencil because she didn't bring anything =.= I donated papers to Jessie, Zhi Wei and Ah Mei too! haha xD Jessie was there sooooo early for her interview xDDDD

All in all the interview was quite an interesting one, borderline fun even xDDD Oh and girls, wear baju kurung!!! Most girls do that! :) And besides, it's awesome if you're the type who feels cold when you're nervous! xD And guys biasalah, wear lah slacks and proper shirt! =D

Oh, and one more thing! Different panels might have different interview styles, so don't be shocked if your interviews aren't like mine!

Thank you God for being with me throughout the interview! =D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

2011-04-11T17:10:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

I went for SU Peninsular Malaysia's 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday and it was awesome! Finally got to see some people I hadn't seen since SUSOM! All the SU staff were looking good in their green batiks (which I think is really useful for camouflaging purposes if they ever need to hide from hunters in jungles xD) Anyway, I thought it was a great celebration :)

Oh, and I was called for the JPA interview and I think mine will be one of the first! It's tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at UTHM. 8 in the morning to be exact (if no Malaysian timing is involved xD). I'm praying everything will go on smoothly :) And being one of the first has it's advantage too! I can get it over with faster and then I won't have to think about it anymore! xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

New Toy! :)

2011-04-07T13:32:00.005+08:00

Hey guys!

So right now I'm blogging from daddy's office, where I am now sitting in front of....

My new laptop!!!

It's mine it's mine it's mineeeeee!!!!!!! :D :D :D

It's an Acer Aspire 4750G and this is the very first time I'm using it!

So now that I have my own laptop, I no longer have to sit around daddy's and mummy's office doing nothing feeling bored... I HAVE A LAPTOP!!!!! =D

Thanks mum, thanks dad! :)

Oh, and last Saturday I went to Taylor's College with daddy, mummy and koko to make some enquiries and to just check things out...

We were told that if I wanted to join the March intake, I still could, but I'd have to start college on Monday!!!

So it was supposed to be like this:

Saturday - Find out about March intake

Sunday - Register

Monday - Start college

Doesn't that sound crazy? I mean, who does that?!?!?!?

Well, I almost did! But I didn't (obviously, or I wouldn't be sitting in daddy's office right now xD) because... well, just because!

Anyway, I'm still not too sure abut what I want to study in the future and this and that, but I know that God has a plan for me. A good plan. An awesome plan. So I'm not too scared about it, I'm praying about it =)

Oh, and I've FINALLY dragged my lazy backside to driving lessons (more like mummy has finally managed to make me start)!

My third lesson is today!

So far I've managed to mati enjin a few times, but then again, what are driving lessons without mati enjin-ing at least a few times right? Right! haha!

Oh, and just so you guys know, the driving instructor said that I drive quite well for a beginner!

And I even managed to discuss badminton with the driving instructor while driving xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

God is Awesome!!!

2011-04-01T15:51:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

This post was supposed to be done a lot sooner, but I couldn't find the connector for daddy's camera (the one that I've been using a lot xD)

So anyway, I really have A LOT to thank God for recently :)

I mentioned in the post before this that at the time of the blog post, mama was being operated on...

Well, just to clear some things up, my Mama is my maternal grandmother, not my mum :) A lot of people thought that it was my mum being operated on. So I just thought that I should clear this up! My Mama is my maternal grandmother and my Ah Chiah is my paternal grandmother. My mummy is my, well, mummy xD

Thanks to all those who sent me messages of concern about my mama (some thinking it was my mother, but well, it's the thought that counts! =])

Mama in the hospital bed before her operation

Well, mama's surgery was a success and the doctor even said that her bones were really strong, like the bones of a person 15 years younger than her. This is awesome as my mama hates milk and doesn't like anything with milk in it! So anyway, mama is now back in her house and she has already started walking!!! Praise the Lord!!! :D

Then there's the thing about my SPM results. I did quite well, and I know it was all by God's grace. As mummy keeps saying about my results, "This one really all God's grace one! If really by her own work, she cannot get such good results one! You see the amount of work she put in ah, haiyo, really make me worry ah! This girl ah, never study one! All God's grace lah, she can get this type of results!"

Though I hate to admit it, what mummy says is quite true. I didn't really work hard. In fact, compared to the rest of the world, what I studied probably was considered not studying at all! If it were by my own ability, I would've achieved nothing, I would've done very very very badly. Come to think of it, it is kind of scary. But anyway, God is good. He is awesome. If not for Him, I wouldn't have gotten the straight A's that I did. You know what? I serve an awesome God :) No way I could have gotten any results even a bit worth talking about if not for God, but He is good, and he blessed me with straight A's. Thank you, God!!! I am deeply humbled by Your grace.

The straight A's students on stage for a group picture =)

And just in case you're wondering, my straight A's consist of 8 A-pluses and 2 A's. The 2 A's for Sejarah (no surprise there xD) and Biology (a bit of surprise there xS). All 10 A's definitely by God's grace, though :)

It was nice to finally get to take my government exam results the same time as all everyone else! My UPSR results were taken for me by my parents because I wasn't around that day, and my PMR results were taken late in the evening, after everyone had long left the school because that day, my family and I had just arrived in Malaysia from I-can't-remember-where xD

Anyway, it was great seeing the people I hadn't seen for a long time again. In fact, that night, I was ajak-ed out by Shin Lei to meet up with some friends whom I later found out was actually quite a lot of people from the different-different planets in our school xD (The classes in my secondary school are named after planets; I was in 5 Neptune!) I had a great time with everyone who was there (although a lot of other people invited couldn't make it xD I think Shin Lei invited everyone that was in her handphone contact list! haha!)

Oh oh oh!!! And one uninvited (but was very much welcomed by me, but definitely not by the restaurant waitress) guest joined us! Cookie!!! Wendy's very cute sugar glider who actually peed in front of my eyes xD It even looked cute while it peed!!! hahaha, I was sooooo excited I finally had the chance to meet Cookie! :D

l-r: Xin Yue, Wen Qi, me, Ah Mei, Wendy, Shin Lei, Miss Pao Zhi Qing, Nelly, Ruby.

Three days after getting my SPM results, I had to go to school again to get.....money!!! Ka-ching Ka-ching!!! hahaha, it was actually our reward for doing well in our SPM examination.

l-r: Wendy, me, Shin Lei, Wen Qi

Everybody talked most of the time while the teachers tried to quieten us down, but we were just to happy to see each other again and everyone just had to keep talking and chatting and sharing stories and squealing xD

Anyway, after the majlis, daddy, mummy, koko, Ah Chiah (she was around in BP :D) and myself went for a sort-of-celebration xD We went for lunch in Landmark hotel!!! =]

Times like this I miss my Niko (my second brother) especially much =( Well, thank God for Skype! ;)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
P/S: My God loves me, and He loves you too!!! :)

Princess Hospital xD

2011-03-22T14:37:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

I'm now sitting in a room in Hospital Puteri (or something like that, making everyone feel like princesses xD) and in the same room as me now are Ah Yee Lily, Ah Yee Teng2, Ah Kim, Uncle Woon, Ming2, Jon and koko. I think mummy and Ah Yee Lee Hua are somewhere in this hospital, but right now I don't see them!

Mama is now being operated on, she's having a partial hip replacement after having a fall caused by a person described as "gila". Apparently mama was walking with Ah Yee Lee Hua when the "gila" person pushed them and mama fell. The guy then ran off as mama fell to the ground. If I were to catch that guy... Hmphh!!! Anyway, thank God ah yee didn't fall or as my mama says, thank God Ah Yee Lee Hua didn't fall on her, if not sure "si kiao kiao". My mama is so cute! :)

So anyway, while mama is having her operation, the rest of us are waiting in her room. There were only three chairs in here and so another chair was stolen from somewhere else in this hospital into the room xD Even so, there aren't enough chairs in here and everyone keeps fighting for them! haha, those who managed to grab a chair won't stand up unless they absolutely have to in fear that the chair will be taken by someone else xD Oh, and yes, I am now sitting in one of the 4 chairs :D Koko is standing in front of me and I refuse to let him sit :P

I pakat with mama already, she said that she wanted the operation because after the operation, she is supposed to be able to walk again within 3 days. So I've pakat-ed with mama, and once she's OK, we will go makan syiok-syiok, go makan crab! =D Hospital food looks disgusting! Poor mama :(

Oh, and my SPM results will be out tomorrow! :) Oops, haven't finished writing all the autograph papers! Aaaahhh!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

YF Camp? Kisasuland? xD

2011-03-18T14:04:00.005+08:00

Hey guys!!!

YF Camp was quite an interesting experience for me this year! It was the first YF camp I've been to that I started out not knowing so many people xD I guess that's what I get for being an after-form-5 camper at a YF camp! And yes, at times I felt... erm... I wouldn't say OLD, just maybe... mature! hahaha! It was fun anyway, and I had an awesome group with an awesome group advisor and an awesome group leader! :D Awesome! I used three "awesome"s in one setence! xD

I think it was also the first YF camp I've been to where I wasn't really in charge of anything! The new committee did a really good job and I really could just relax and enjoy joining in and playing the games (something I never really could do before, seeing as I would usually be one of those people organising the games!) It was fun =D Good job, new committee! I am proud of you guys!!! :)

Anyway, I'm now in Singapore again, and I forgot to bring the camp pictures to be uploaded, so I shall upload the pictures some other time =.= Since the camp was until Tuesday, I changed my piano lesson to today (Friday) and so I had lesson this morning and then I'll have another lesson this coming Monday xD After that only I can go home to BP :D

Results are coming out soon!!! I haven't finished writing all the papers and stuff for friends! There are so many to be written, I don't even know where to start! I have to really start working on it, though, if I want to get it all done in time to return to all the people who are waiting for them xD

Ooh! And my cousins (Faith and Jayne) said they want to bake cookies later today so I think I'll go help them finish eating the cookies before they can even touch them ;P

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

YF Camp... Tomorrow!

2011-03-12T17:37:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I'm going for the YF Camp tomorrow!!! (Thanks, Ah Yee Teng2!!! :D :D :D)

This is the first time I registered so late for a camp!

The camp starts tomorrow and this afternoon, I didn't even know if I was going or could go!

This is actually one thing I dislike - signing up so late for camps- and I've always thought the people who do so are tsk-tsk-tsk-worthy, but today, I became one of them xD

Well anyway, the camp is from tomorrow until Tuesday, at NUBE in Port Dickson =]

It may well be the last YF GGBP camp I'll be able to join, so I plan to enjoy it a lot :D

This feels so weird xD I'm leaving for a camp tomorrow morning and it was just not long ago that I found out I can go!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Of TIGS and birthdays =)

2011-03-08T23:31:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!

So last Wednesday, Michelle and myself went back to our secondary school to go check the place out, see if the place was still there xD Nah, I actually had some things that I wanted to do, and Michelle was just there to teman me (Thanks, Michelle! =D)

It felt quite different, going back to TIGS as no longer a student there, but as a what, visitor? I don't know what to call myself there =.= It was quite nice to see the teachers and juniors there again after all this time :) Bumped into a bunch of teachers and other people we know, and we had some interesting chats :D Michelle and I went in through the back gate and I was surprised when I saw the new canteen, already operating! I was so excited I was literally jumping up and down and wearing a silly grin on my face. Come to think of it, that was quite embarrassing... Oh, well! xD

I brought daddy's camera to school with me, but I didn't really use it much. Did get a couple of shots though! :)

With some of the teachers we saw

It felt a bit odd walking around school and seeing those familiar stuff like...

The corridor leading to my Form 5 classroom

The don't-know-what-that's-called-but-we-used-to-hang-out-there place right outside my Form 4 classroom

The staircase and the table where I spent most of my recess times in Forms 4 and 5

A place I spent some recesses when our table was taken by other people... Hmphhh!!! xD

The familiar red Myvi that is almost always messy inside, belonging to the one and only Mishong!

Of course, many things have changed as well but the thing that surprised me the most is the oldest building in TIGS where my Form 4 classroom was being changed into a hall of some kind! They joined 3 classrooms (my Form 4 classroom included) into...

It's not fair!

It's not fair!!! The walls are so much whiter now! They weren't this white when I was there! hahaha xD

Oh, and it was mummy's birthday on the 5th and Ah Yee Teng2's on the 7th :) Some photographs from the celebrations:

HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY, MUMMY!!!
HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY, AH YEE TENG2!!!

A collage I made for mummy's birthday :)

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Awesome Dinner at Ocean! =D

2011-03-01T23:58:00.002+08:00

Ooooh! I had an awesome dinner with mummy, daddy, koko, mama, Ah Teow, Ah Yee Lee Hua, Gracie, Ah Ku and Ah Kim just now!!! We ate at Ocean Restaurant and the food we had just now was amazing!!! The whole dinner was just great! Well, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but I dare say the food was better than they look in the pictures! hahaha =D

The only decent photos of people I managed to photograph as I was too absorbed with the food the rest of the time! xD

The rest of my photos are of food, and even that, I didn't really want to spend much time taking really nice-nice photos because I was more interested in eating them! Ooh, and I would name the dishes if I could, but all the dishes were named in Chinese, each dish name has exactly 6 Chinese characters, and I really don't know what the names are in Chinese (Some words I can't read, and even if I can, I don't understand it!) or in English =.= Sorry!

I can feel myself salivating again just by looking at the pictures, that's how good the food was! I think all 10 of us left the restaurant full and very very satisfied. I know I was very pleased with the dinner!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Mouse on Leg!

2011-03-01T13:35:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

So right now, the computer mouse is resting on my leg, and it's not because I want to put it there. I just have no choice =.=

Usually my computer mouse is on the phone table in my house, which is located in one of the corners of the living room. Anyway, my computer is placed at quite strategically weird position. It is strategic because it's in the living room, where the TV is, and so I can actually use the computer and watch TV at the same time. That's how I get so good at multitasking! xD

You know the type of table/tray/whatever-you-call-it that people usually put Chinese New Year cookies? Or the type that sometimes some restaurants use for the customers to put their drinks? My computer us placed on one of those things. Is what I just explained understandable? Well, I wouldn't understand what I'm saying if I were you, so I'll just go ahead and show you a photograph ;P

My computer on the double-layered table/tray/whatever-you-call-it xD

The mouse is usually on the small telephone table on the right side of the computer, which as you can see from the picture above, is not there =.= This morning (afternoon, actually xD) when I woke up and went to my computer, I was shocked to see that the table wasn't there! There was this empty space greeting me instead of the usual messy table!

After getting over my shock, I finally found my mouse and used it by putting it on my leg. That didn't work as the mouse wouldn't move properly without the mouse pad. So then I found my mouse pad on the sofa and that went under the mouse on my leg too.

That felt a bit uncomfortable and so I tried sitting on one of the sofas and using the chair to put my mouse:

The chair. With the mouse. And mouse pad. And my phone. And my headphones xD
And yes, my mouse pad has a chicken or a duck or a whatever-that-is on it!

That was OK for a little while, until I realised that the sofa was too low and I had to strain my my neck and eyes to see the screen. Great. So I went back to having the mouse and mouse pad on my leg, and that's how it is like now.

I'm still not sure why the table suddenly disappeared, by it might have something to do with the fact that it needs some repairing done?

I WANT MY MESSY TABLE TO PUT MY MOUSE BACKKKKK!!!!!!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Banjir Fashion?!?!?

2011-02-27T23:59:00.000+08:00

Hey guys!

So I'm now in Singapore, and I'll be heading home right after my piano lesson tomorrow morning :) Anyway, just now mummy and Ah Yee Teng2 wanted to go shopping, so daddy and I went along, rather than just staying home and doing nothing =.=

We went to Vivocity, which was quite crowded. Of course, as usual, we spent most of our time there eating xD But anyway, we did walk around window shopping as well. As we passed by a shop selling clothes, I noticed one of the male mannequin dressed in a pretty cool looking shirt and a pair of long jeans. The pair of jeans was folded up to halfway between the ankle and the knees so that the new length of the jeans is like the length of a "3-quarter pants". I thought it looked quite strange, but then I thought maybe they just forgot to fold it back down or something!

We continued walking around Vivocity and I kept getting more and more amused as I kept seeing guys in jeans folded up the same way! I was telling daddy about it and we were referring to it as "Banjir Trousers" because it looks as if the wearer is trying to keep the bottom part of the jeans dry during the floods =.=

Seriously, every time I saw someone with "Banjir Trousers", the image of the people wading through ankle-deep flood water came to mind! hahahaha xD Of course, this style of wearing jeans come with some advantages. I mean, it should feel much cooler than long jeans right? Since it's shorter? And then there is it's most advantageous advantage (I should think it's the whole point of "Banjir Trousers")... If banjir (got flood) then the jeans would be very convenient, don't need to try to quickly fold the jeans up to avoid it getting wet =.=

I have never been one to understand fashion, but if this is the new fashion for men, I would find it quite quite quite absurd! Imagine the front cover of some fashion magazine with a random dude in "Banjir Trousers" posing there, trying to look cool. And then in huge, bold words: "Banjir Fashion! It's convenient and literally cool!"

Ooh ooh ooh!!! Maybe the "Banjir Trousers" should be worn with Phua Chu Kang boots, the bright yellow ones, to complete the Banjir Fashion ;D hahahaha, then everyone would be always ready for the floods xD

Hey! I think people should hire me to be some fashion designer or something! At least the fashions I come up with would be useful! Maybe I can come up with handbags that double as inflatable air rafts or something for the ladies!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Kiaaaasulandddd xD

2011-02-26T01:59:00.003+08:00

Hey guys! :)

So I have had two piano lessons with Miss Sim so far (this year) and so I've been in Singapore the past two weekends. The first week mum and dad fetched me in and I took a cab out while on the second, koko and I took a bus in and flew out to KL.

The flight from Singapore to KL was so weird! Hahahaha, koko and I had to wait in the airport for a longer time than the flight time! The flight was seriously so short! It was supposed to be an hour or something but I think we arrived in KL in half the amount of time! hahaha!

Daddy helped us pre-order some food for our flight so when I was in the plane, after taking off, I got my food which came with teh tarik :) I finished my meal and took a sip of my drink and then straightaway I heard the announcement that all passengers were supposed to prepare for landing! I was so shocked! My cup was still at least 3/4 full! My drink was still hot! That was most definitely the shortest flight I've ever been on! hahaha!

I wonder what it'll be like if they have a flight from Senai to Singapore xD That would take, what, 10 minutes? hahaha! It'll be so weird, though! Go wait in the airport for 2 hours only to take a 10 minutes flight =.=

Anyway, I'm going to Singapore again tomorrow (today? I mean Saturday xD) Daddy is driving us all in (Sorry dad! xD) We'll probably attend New Creation church on Sunday, which is a serious plus point for me! I enjoy the sermons there. A lot :D We'll be coming back on Monday after my piano lesson, I think :)

I HATE MOSQUITOES!!!!!!! And I hate that they love me!!!! :'( It's not fun being loved by them! This love is one-sided I tell ya, ONE SIDED!!!!!!! xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

The Hairbrush Song xD

2011-02-17T01:43:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

I'm back home in BP and you know what?

I think I need a new hairbrush xD (Yeah, I use a hairbrush instead of a comb, so what? :P)

Anyway, this reminds me of a song I learnt from SUSOM :)

It's really cute and celaka stuckable!

hahahahaha!

The Hairbrush Song (Veggie Tales)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

A Piano-ish V Day in Singapore :)

2011-02-14T15:39:00.007+08:00

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! :)

I had my piano lesson with Miss Sim this morning. It was kind of nerve-wrecking, seeing as from the scale of one to ten, my piano-playing technique is probably a negative something =.= I was so bad that Miss Sim decided to change one of the pieces I was supposed to play to a shorter piece xD

Everything I played felt and sounded so flat compared to whatever Miss Sim played! Just any single note sounded different when Ms Sim was playing it! She's a genius, I tell you, a genius! She knows exactly what each note should sound like and exactly how to play it and what props to use to get the feel of how to play the different techniques!

Yes, I said props, because I don't know what other word to use xD For example, rubber bands, erasers, glue, and actually I think that Miss Sim can use anything within her reach to teach her students (especially the really really cacat ones like me =.=) to feel the different techniques.

Today was the first time I had to think before playing every note because every note and every phrase and everything is supposed to be played differently, so that the sound that comes out of it is full of colour and doesn't sound flat, which is, sadly, how a lot of people (including me, I now realise) always play (especially for exam pieces!). I'm really glad I finally decided to go ahead with the lessons because I just know I'm going to learn so much under Miss Sim!

There's this one problem, though. I was trying to figure out how to register for the diploma exam and so I visited the ABRSM (The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) website. I was checking whether I can register online and then I saw that I can't register for diploma exams online. Only the graded music exams registrations can be done online.

So I clicked and clicked and clicked until I found the page where I can download the diploma entry forms. I was thinking that I was pretty smart for finding the way to register for my exam and then I realised that I do not have the slightest clue about what diploma exam I'm going to take =.= There's a "Music Direction", a "Music Performance" and a "Instrumental/Vocal Teaching". So which one? Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! Diploma is so confusing!

Ok! Ok! Enough about the serious stuff! haha, I had a nice lunch with my cousin Ming-Ming :) At first we couldn't decide where to eat (Indecisive me to be blamed xD) and so Ming-Ming brought me to Siglap and we ended up eating at The Cafe' Cartel :) The food was quite good. Ordered 2 set meals to be shared among the two of us. The set came with free flow of bread, which was really nice, especially with the mushroom soup :D Too bad I didn't bring my camera, the mushroom soup was presented quite nicely! xD

Hmmm, what else? Oh, yeah! I don't know if it's my imagination, but I keep smelling Flurry (the dog)!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Update from Kiasuland!

2011-02-13T23:14:00.006+08:00

Hey guys!

I'm now in Singapore, sitting in my cousin Joyce's room, blogging from her old laptop :)

I'll be going for my piano lesson (under the awesome Ms. Sim! Yay!!!) tomorrow morning!

I'm a bit scared and I'm definitely nervous, though!

The songs are soooooo looonnnnnggggggg and they look really difficult!

If not for the fact that Miss Sim is the one that's going to teach me, I wouldn't even dare to think of taking diploma!

Yes, it is that scary!

And yes, Miss Sim is that good!

Nah, actually, she's the best! :D

I'm quite excited to learn under her again!

I think I'm going to have to really work hard at this, though!

It's definitely not going to be easy!

Please keep me in prayer! Thankewwww!!! :D

Oh, and to all of you out there, HAPPY be-earlied VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!

Let's remember to think about Jesus, our first love, ok? :)

Oh, one more thing, I at least try to LOVE YOU!!! (whoever it is reading this =D)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
P/S: I've never eaten as much as I did this CNY! haha
P/P/S: Daddy, mummy, koko, niko, I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! :) I'm fine here in kiasuland xD

2011-02-03T13:22:00.001+08:00

Just want to say...
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONEEEEEE :D

I shall update properly some time soon! :)

Hello from Indonesiaaaa =D

2011-01-21T08:02:00.002+08:00

Hi guys! I'm blogging from the SU office in Jakarta, Indonesia. I'm the first one to arrive at the office today, even before the office opened! So my foster parents here (who are very very nice, if I may add) brought me to turn round in circles before coming back 15 minutes later to see that kak Wilsa had arrived and the office was opened xD

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying SUSOM so far and I've learnt soooooo much! I'm having lots and lots of fun! So to all of you who are worried about me, thanks, but I am fine :)

I have loads and loads of photos, so thanks koko for lending me your precious camera! :D

Oh oh oh!!! I almost forgot! I'll be on air later!!! (If everything goes as planned lah)! On air as in not in aeroplane or helicopter or hot air balloon or whatever things of that kind, but we'll be going to a Christian radio station later, and we SUSOMites will be on air! I'm really excited about it!!!

Hahaha, you guys back in Malaysia won't be able to hear it and laugh at me afterwards! Too bad! :P

Ne-ne-ne-boo-boo :P :P :P

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

At SUSOMMMMM :D

2011-01-13T14:37:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Right now I'm at the SU office, and we're leaving for Temerloh later...

Looking forward to it!

SUSOM has been great so far!

I'm learning so much and the other SUSOMites are great!

There are 3 from BP, 2 from Alor Star and 1 from Subang Jaya :)

So anyway, I've cooked my own dinner (with Samantha, one of the Kedahans) and hand-washed my own clothes (with Jia Wen and Samantha, both the Kedahans) with style!

Have to study quite a chim book also, so my brain is quite fried as well xD

Anyway, I really am looking forward to the Orang Asli trip we're going for later!

We'll be there for 4 days :)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

There I go again!

2010-12-31T17:35:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

Quick post here before I go pack my clothes and stuff...

I'll be leaving for KL later this evening and I'll be starting SUSOM on the 2nd of January...

I can't believe 2010 is almost up!

Can't believe also must believe lah, hor? xD

Anyway, in case you don't know, SUSOM stands for Scripture Union Students On Mission...

I'll be joining SUSOM 2011 from 2-29 January, so I won't be home for around one whole month!!!

I think I'll be bringing a laptop along, though, so you just might see traces of me here and there on the net even while I'm at SUSOM :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

I'll also be going for a mission exposure trip to Indonesia the last week of SUSOM or something :)

I'm hijacking koko's digital camera for the whole duration of SUSOM so I'll be able to capture parts of this and that for you guys (and myself) to see :D

Oops, better go start packing or I'll never be ready in time...

Please pray for me and the other 5 joining SUSOM!!!

And also for all the people who will have to handle us xD

Thank you guys!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
PS: How am I going to find formal clothes?!?!?!?!?

Give Me Oil!

2010-12-31T00:59:00.002+08:00

There was this song I used to sing in Sunday School when I was (a lot) younger...

The lyrics are something like:
Give me oil in my lamp,
keep me burning, burning burning,
give me oil in my lamp,
I pray I pray,
Give me oil in my lamp,
keep me burning, burning, burning,
keep me burning 'til the break of day.

It's a nice song. Simple, yes, but nice...

Well, anyway, we went to El Sanctuary for our committee retreat in a van and a car...

On the way back from the committee retreat, the people who sat in the car which were Caleen, Kimberly, jie2 Ee Hsin, Kai Ling jie and myself, had a fun time singing songs (mostly Sunday School songs xD) because the guitar was in the car with us...

Suddenly koko Sern Wang called Kai Ling jie, telling her that the van ran out of petrol...

Ran out, as in not totally kering already, but the indicator was pointing at "E", which stands for Empty...

The van actually went quite a distance with the indicator at that position and we (the people in the car) were really praying very hard that the van would be able to reach a petrol station without any problems...

Then we started to sing to the tune of Give Me Oil in my Lamp, but with different lyrics...

We sang:
Give us oil in the van,
keep us going, going, going,
Give us oil in the van,
I pray, I pray,
Give us oil in the van,
keep us going, going, going,
keep us going to the petrol station!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Then Kai Ling jie called You Shen, who was in the van, put her call on loudspeaker and asked You Shen to do the same...

She then asked us to sing our version of the song for the people in the van (especially koko SernWang) to hear...

When we were at one of the "going, going, going"...............

You Shen hung up =.=

We all went, "Whattt? He hung upppp?!?!?!? Whyyyyyy?!?!?!?"

And we were all singing so enthusiastically!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Anyway, after that, we tried calling Regine instead and did the same thing...

After finishing our little performance, we were all so happy that she didn't hang up on us...

We were so excited and then Regine asked, "Can I hand up now? We want to sleep"

At that time, I heard, a sound of something breaking inside me - my heart!

Prrraaaannngggggggggggggg!!!

"O...Okay... " I said and we hung up :'(

Thank God the van managed to reach the petrol station without breaking down on the way :)

Our little prayer / song to God worked! haha

Thank you, God! =)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

My legs acheeeee =X

2010-12-31T00:38:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Got back from El Sanctuary this evening...

The YF Committee Retreat was interesting xD

It was fun climbing up all those steps and trying hard not to end up in the piles of dog poo!

hahahahahahahahahahaha...

My legs don't ache because of that, though, although I think it might have added to the pain xD

Let me tell you that playing captain ball without warming up and running and sliding (that was the killer xD) around trying get the ball isn't very smart, exactly if you're not the slim kind or anywhere near there for that matter xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

And then we used a hall called the "Long Suffering Hall", named that way because we have to climb a lonngggggg way up to reach it, not to mention trying to elakkan all the land mines (aka dog poo!)... We really do have to suffer to reach the hall xD

Man, I feel old! I can't even sit down on the floor without feeling pain! haha

All in all though, I thought it was a good retreat :)

Group photo! :)

I reached home at about 4.30 pm just now...

And then I had worship practice at 6.15 for the YF Thanksgiving dinner that was supposed to start at 7.30...

I've said it before and I'll say it again:
I'm a busy woman. A very busy woman xD

I have another million and one things to do tomorrow before leaving for about a month...

I... need... to... catch my breath!

Heeeeee... hooooooo... Done! :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

I'm a busy woman. A very busy woman xD

2010-12-28T23:46:00.004+08:00

It's mineeee!!! Thanks mum, thanks dad, I love you guys!!! :)

Hey guys!

The picture on top shows my Christmas present this year from daddy and mummy :)

Thankew mummy and daddy!!!!! :D :D :D

Anyway, I went for a reunion just now...

Got the chance to meet up with my primary school classmates, which was great :D

It was an interesting night, and it was great that I could see so many of my ex-classmates :)

Oh, and I'll be going for YF Committee Retreat tomorrow, and I'll be coming back the day after tomorrow...

Time for us to work together, planning and fixing stuff for our YF :D

We really do pray that God's will will be done and His name glorified through our YF and everyone involved :)

Let's go, new committee!!! :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Makan Trip! Part 3 - Cameron Highlands

2010-12-28T23:13:00.002+08:00

Continued from here, this is the third and final post for the makan trip :D

Cameron Highlands was our last stop before we went home :)

Mum and I

Cameron lompat :D Couldn't find Jayn :'(

Dad and I

Our bus!!! :)

While daddy and all the other uncles (except one) went to play golf, the rest of us went for more food! Nothing fancy, though, just normal food. Wasn't that great lah. Actually, quite teruk lah xD After eating, we went to a flower part or something, I'm not sure xD

The best dish of the meal, methinks

Mum and I

That night, we all had dinner at...

Hong Kong Restaurant

We had steamboat that night! And then we ate at the same place the next day before leaving Cameron Highlands :)

This dish came free :D

And the makan trip came to an end :(
I overheard someone saying in the bus that she won't weigh herself until much, much later later... Very wise! xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Makan Trip! Part 2 - Penang / Ipoh

2010-12-28T01:00:00.002+08:00

Okayyy, so continued from here, the next day was filled with more food :D

Yes, yes, we really did eat all of those. How do you think I get to be and maintain my size? xD

Anyway, we went to Ipoh after leaving Penang.

Mum and I

Dad and I

Jayn and I

l-r: Me, Jayn, Patricia

Tasik Don't-know-what lompattt :D

Daddy!!!

Mum, Ben, Pat and myself

Jayn and I

Some fruit which name escapes me... I think it's name has something to do with fingers or something? haha

I was too lazy and too busy defending my food to get up to get a proper shot of the signboard xD

Chicken feet

Taugeh

Some meat balls

Chicken :D

Mummy, Jayn and I were talking about opening our own chicken rice shop xD I mean, we might really make some serious money if our chicken rice shop is famous! hahaha :D

Anyway, we didn't stay very long in Ipoh. We left for Cameron Highlands only after a night in Ipoh. That I will blog about in part 3 :) More food!!!!!!!! So until then :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Makan Trip! Part 1 - Penang

2010-12-27T01:07:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!! Man, I have a lot of pictures to show you guys!!! I have to break the post up into a few posts or my blog and me will go loco xD

I'll start with the makan trip :) I don't really know exactly where we were most of the time, so if you are interested in finding out the places I went to, let me know, and I can ask someone less blur @.@ hahaha! We left BP on the 15th of December at night, to reach Penang early in the morning on the 16th. When I say early, I mean early! We had breakfast before the sun woke up! Oh, and the bus was so cold my first few pictures were blur as the lens kept fogging up =.=

We ate at... erm... Sorry, I really don't know, I was too blur to know what was going on xD All I know is that from the bus, we just walked and walked pass a wet market, we had to cross a small bridge and walk though more pasar malam stalls before reaching the place :D

After finishing our very early breakfast, we walked back towards the bus. That was around 6 or 6-something in the morning, way way way too early to be awake, especially during the holidays!

Taken while we were hanging out outside the bus, in the middle of the road xD

Anyway, we were told that we could only check in at the hotel at 4.30 in the evening, so we had to just trying to entertain ourselves until then! We walked up to Kek Lok Si Temple, more to walk off our heavy breakfast than anything else xD

l-r: Aunty Siew Woon, Jayn, me, mummy, Pat, Aunty San2

So, what? We jump into the tong sampah?!?!?

Found new lompat-buddies for the trip :D

Jayn and I

l-r: Small Boy, Jayn, me, Pat

Oh, and by Small Boy I mean Benjamin, who used to join BB. He's really cute, and he took the job of kacau-ing Jayn and I throughout the trip xD Halfway through the trip he said he wasn't a small boy anymore. I thought about it, and since he wasn't a big boy (the big boys are the adults =.=), I gave him the name Medium Boy :D

After Jayn and I started calling him "Medium Boy" for some time, he told us really seriously that we should change the name back to "Small Boy". Hahahaha! So cute lah, small boy xD

Anyway, after leaving Kek Lok Si Temple (more like after we used the toilet there), we went to the Penang Botanical Garden. There was a pesta bunga or something... I didn't think it was particularly interesting or anything, but after coming out from the place, we saw this tree:

It's trunk has thorns! Or whatever those are called =.=

Oh, and then after that, we went to eat... Again xD

Go to Penang, must eat... Penang Laksa!!! =)

Prawn Mee

Fried Kuey Teow Mee

Some fried stuff

Since the trip was a makan trip anyway, we really did spend the rest of the day mainly eating and eating and eating xD

We went to another shop that was supposed to have the best laksa :) Well, personally, I thought it was better than all the other laksas I tried in Penang :D

Something we ordered from another shop xD

Jeng jeng jeng!!! More pekat than the rest, more oomph!

The hotel we stayed in when we were in Penang, I have to say, is really strategically placed! All we had to do was walk out of the hotel and we get a whole row of FOOD!!!!! So that's where we had our dinner =D

Quite nice porridge

Duck Thigh Mee Sua (not that great lah)

Wan Tan Mee (quite good :D)

Oh, we sat in...

We sat down there and ordered our drinks from them and our food from all the stalls around. After eating, we ordered some desserts

The shop owner wanted to charge us an extra 50 cents for each of those bowls of dessert! We were all, "WHATTTTT?!?!?!?!? You serious ah?!?!?"

Anyway, after dinner, popo Alice, Uncle Michael Tham, Aunty Bee Wah, Aunty Bee Lay and Aunty Bee Ai came to pick dad, mum and myself up from the hotel, just to meet up and chit-chat and stuff :)

Lompat in front of big Christmas tree =)

l-r: Daddy, Aunty Bee Ai, mummy, popo Alice, Uncle Michael Tham (top), Aunty Bee Wah, Aunty Bee Lay

We were all exhausted and so I'm guessing everyone slept well that night. I know I did! But then again, I always do xD

Anddddd.... I'm off for now! Will be back with more pictures and stuff from the Makan Trip!!! :D

mwahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

And... I'm off :)

2010-12-15T21:22:00.000+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I'm actually waiting for the bus to come...

I'm going for a makan trip!

hahahahaha, I know, again xD

Anyway, we're going to Penang, Ipoh and Cameron Highlands...

I'll be sure to take loads and loads of pictures!!!

Going with a bunch of family friends...

It's gonna be awesome!!!

FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

KL Trip Dec 11-12 :)

2010-12-13T23:11:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I had an awesome time in KL!!!

My first post-merdeka trip :D

Be ready for picturessssss =]

Well, on Saturday, Sarm Kue came to join us and as usual, when the Chong family meet, we do what we do best, that is - MAKAN!!!

So we went to makan at a restaurant which till this day I don't know the name...

But but but, there is another makan place the same row as that restaurant called "Vargina"...

It'e true it's true!!! I'm not lying!!! That really is the name of the makan place!!!

I've never eaten there, and I don't think I want to xD

Anyway, at the place NEAR TO Vargina, we had:

Curry

Sotong and prawns... Nice!!!

Vege...

More vege...

Steamed chicken with a lot a lot a lot a lot of ginger xD

Pieces of fried fish

After lunch, we went to the area near Tasik Titiwangsa...

The BB companies from KL organised "An Evening of Christmas Music and Songs" at Stadium Titiwangsa...

It was supposed to start at 4, and we were very early, so we went to look around some stalls there...

There was a "car boot sale" concept going on there, and it was quite interesting...

And then there was this guy selling batik...

You can paint your own batik and all for RM 10!

Mummy went ahead and not only painted, but also drew her own batik creation :D

After mummy finished drawing it

Painting it :)

Mummy's timing was perfect...

She finished painting it just in time for us to go enjoy the performance...

One small problem, though, the batik painting wasn't dry yet...

Sooooooo, we left it with the batik cikgu and promised to come again the next day :D

And then we headed to Stadium Titiwangsa...

There was a band performance by 4th KL

Then 1st KL

And then the performance by KL State BB and the PJ Philharmonic Orchestra

It was great! The KL state BB boys and the orchestra worked well together and sounded great!

After that, we went over to meet up with Thai Kue and the Taman Sea Chongs for more FOOD!!!

We ate at a restaurant called Ang Kee...

Daddy with a hairband Thai Kue bought and his specs upside down xD

See that? The middle one is the only normal one!!!
l-r: Justine, me, koko

Erm... yeah.. The middle one is still the most normal!!! xD

Sarm Kue with another hairband Thai Kue bought :D

Then our food came...

I only managed to take photos of some of the dishes as the food really disappeared very fast, before I even knew they had arrived xD

Typical Chong Clan!

If niko and Julian were there, lagi teruk, don't need to even dream about taking any photos of food at all xD

Sotong...and other stuff...

Prawns... Made Justine squeal in delight when it reached out table :D

"han zi hiok"... What is it called in English again?!?!?

mee sua

Mixed vege

Fish

And the rest I tak sempat take photo of...

And all that were left behind were...

An empty bowl

The poor fish's head

erm... You want chili?

Anyway, after that, we were off to Luther Centre for "The Christmas Dazzles Charity Concert"...

It featured the Philharmonic Society of Selangor, including my very own cousin, jeng jeng jeng, JESSICA!!!!!! :D

There! There's her name!!!

I see her! She's the one right in the middle of the picture! The one with straight, long hair!

Tadaa!

...the stars are brightly shining...

The band... The pianist is seriously seriously geng! Very very very good! And she was using 3 keyboards xD

She even has a really cool name, which Jess told me after the concert :D

Oh, and if you were wondering, "she?"

Yeah, she's a girl :)

Jess in action

After the concert ended, before we ate even more xD
l-r: Jessica, Justine, pak mei, ah pak

The banner for the awesome concert :)

After that, we went for supper...

Again I say, typical Chong Clan :D

MUST makan one xD

Some more makan never mind, must makan A LOT!

We went to this place called Kayu Nasi Kandar...

Roti Tisu #1

SO LONG!!!!!!!

I was so jakun when I saw this, but it's not my fault!

4 plates just for it to lie down on the table!!!

BP TAK ADA SO PANJANG ONE!!!!!!! xP

Gone before anyone could say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

By the way, just so you know, I googled "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" to spell it out here and still I don't know if it's spelt correctly xD

Roti Tisu #2

We really are like a bunch of vultures when it comes to food!

Roti Tisu #3

Pretending to be civilised, but when we started on it, it was gone in seconds xD

Roti Tisu #4

The fourth and last Roti Tisu we had that night

Oh, we weren't done with that! Not satisfying enough...

So, the 4 roti tissues were followed by...

2 Paper Toseis or whatever they are called

Another thing I don't think I've ever came across in BP!

hahahaha, the waiter that there saw me with my camera, so he kept posing with the food xD

I didn't even ask! xP

Anyway, that night, Sarm Kue, koko and I slept very early (in the morning) watching Leverage :D

The next morning, we went to CDPC...

As usual, saw many other Batu Pahatians there...

So we went to makan after service...

Daddy, mummy, koko, sarm kue, Aunty Soh Guat, chea2 Sharon, Euan (super cuteeee!!!!! :DDDDD), Samuel, Joshua and myself went to KFC to makan...

EUAN IS SOOOOOOOO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Is he cute or is he cute? I know!!! So cute right?!?!?!?

The mummy and the baby :D

AAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

FOODDDD!!!!! :D

Plus drink xD

Plus even more (junk) food!

Euan fell asleep with mummy carrying him... SO CUTE!!!!

Anyway, after that, we went back to the batik place to collect mummy's batik painting...

Mummy also did another one...

She drew hers and went off to paint it...

While she was painting it, sarm kue, koko, daddy and I shared to do one as well...

We divided the cloth into 4 quarters and did our respective quarters each...

We drew and finished painting our whole batik painting before anyone else could finish painting even 1/8 of their paintings! haha

That's how fast we did it, and how impatient we were xD

My quarter was terrible, really really terrible, so no, I'm not showing any pictures of it :P

I thought daddy's quarter was nice...

It was a BB logo, nicely drawn but the colours were... erm... hahahaha, no comment xP

The batik cikgu saw ours and said, "ini... erm... ini..."

After a lot of urging from us, he finally said, "boleh... boleh pass lah"

hahaha, anyway, I need to get my pride back, I think koko, sarm kue and I all needed to, so we decided to do another painting xD

We were a bit more patient this time...

We managed to get a better painting this time...

Of course, in abstract art, tak cantik also cantik right?

But ours betul-betul cantik lahhh...

See see see?

NICE RIGHTTTT??????

The triangle on the left is done my sarm kue, the one in the middle/on top by koko, and the right by me!

I know, my part nicest right?!?!?!?

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Not true also say yes lah, please?!?!? xP

The three proud artists

Our masterpiece!

Anyway, after finishing our batik paintings, we went back and tidur puas puas before going to makan dinner...

FOOD!!!!! again xD

We ate at I-forgot-what-it's-called restaurant...

hahahahahahahaha, I really forgot, sorry xD

All I know is that the place sells really cheap crab! :D

Vegetables

Tofu

Lala

Intestines or something I don't eat xD

More vege

CRAB!!! Black pepper!!!

And more crab!!!! Salted egg crab, if I'm not mistaked =]

Daddy, mummy and myself came back to BP with a very very filled stomach :D

How not to my size when I eat like this?!?!?!?

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Food!!! :D

2010-12-10T19:04:00.003+08:00

Hello!!!

The free-as-a-bird Amanda is now happily sitting in front of the computer, which is also very near to the TV...

And both the computer and the TV are turned on most of the time now xD

Anyway...

What's better than watching TV and playing computer, sleeping and eating the whole day, right?

Well, I'm sure you already know that I've been spending a lot of my time just sitting where I'm sitting now, which I have already described 4 sentences before this xD

And sleeping lost out to the computer last night and I had far too little sleep as mummy woke me up at 10-something this morning =.=

And now here I am with some photos of FOODDDDD!!!!!! :D

Today is Aunty Tin2's birthday, so mummy, daddy and I took her out for dinner last night...

We went to Teochew Restaurant (or whatever the real name is called xD)

We went quite early (around 6) as that place is known for being slow =.=

Still, I went there hungry, reached there hungry, waiting until I could no longer feel my stomach, then felt hungry again as the food came out :D

We had:

Vegetables

Sotong... NICE!!!

Fish

Whoever wants to be the head of something has to eat fish head :D

"Yam kok" crab... Salt wasn't even, some parts were much too salty, some parts weren't salty

Daddy said the salt on the crab made his lips and tongue numb...

hahahahahahaha!!!

I told him that like that good what, because can preserve his lips and tongue xD

Spicy Butter Curry Leaf Prawn

And then today, on her real birthday, we went to Daddy Village for lunch with Aunty Tin2's 2 sons and daughter-in-laws :)

Fried chicken

Kapitan Chicken - Mummy's favourite!

Daddy Village Special Fish :D

Kerabu!!! Me likey :)

And then of course, when go makan, must take...

GROUP SHOT!!! Wait, where is Amanda?!?!?

Group shot!!! hehe

Oh, and today is also Miss Pao Zhi Qing's birthday...

So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTY TIN2 AND PAO ZHI QING!!!!!!!!! :)

Oh, and happy birthday to Derrick, Jason Ng, Jerrel Boo and Zi Pong, whose birthdays were all yesterday :D

4 people on the same day!!!

So cool! :)

I have to go now!!!

Going to KL, and I think I'll be back on Sunday night or something...

Going to watch some really awesome stuff tomorrow...

Including my own cousin Jessica performing!!!

Really excited about it!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

WHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

2010-12-09T17:28:00.002+08:00

WWWWWWHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that's about the only thing I can say now!!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY done with SPM!!!

Can burn all my books and stuff already!

Oh, wait! Cannot burn!!! Bad for environment xD

Whatever it is, I can get them out of my sight FOREVER!!!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been in my Christmas mood since late November, haha!

Now I can REALLY REALLY REALLY go all out in being Christmassy!

hahahahaha

Oh, and to all the people who have been praying for me, THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!

God has really been great to me :)

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!! <3

I'm too excited to sit still now, so BYE FOR NOW!!!!!!!!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

It's Almost Here!

2010-11-04T18:52:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

I'm blogging from Daddy Village...

Koko is back and so we're having dinner with Aunty Tin Tin...

I'm pleased to say that the internet connection here is really quite fast!

Anyway, I probably won't be updating my blog very often since mum and dad are already worried enough with me keep on being stuck on the TV without me getting stuck on the computer too!

Hahahahahahaha...

And besides, I'm going to try to study more!

I want to do well for my SPM!

I'm praying that I will! :)

And I'm trying not to fall asleep every single time I open my books to study!

It's not as easy as it seems! Especially Sejarah xD

Mwahahahahahaha!

Anyway, I really have to start trying my best!

Please keep me in prayers! Thank you! :D

Buh-bye, people!!!

Bananas in UTHM

2010-10-02T18:02:00.002+08:00

Some pictures from our UTHM performance...

We all didn't know where to go or what to do, so we sat down and took a picture xD

After performing, we went into the hall and we got FREEBIES!!!

Joanna looking amused, the rest of them looking bored =.=

While some of the other bananas went crazy over a guy on a motorbike, we three bananas took non-crazy photo together =]

Some of the instruments that we put in one the rooms we wouldn't normally be able to enter

CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!! Madi and Joanna, STEALING?!?!?

All in all, I think this was the most relaxing band performance so far!

We just played until the VIP arrived, and we didn't even have to march around!

Oh, and we could even sit, AND we got freebies!!!

This type of performance I don't mind xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

YYYYEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-09-25T11:01:00.002+08:00

Feeling awesome!

Really really really awesome!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Just got home from my undang exam, and I passed!!!

YAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Had Anlynn and E-Chuen chatting with me about this test last night (early early this morning? xD)

I was asking them if I could pass without studying and stuff ;D

Woke Joanna up this morning (sorry!) to get a programme from her which really helped, seeing as I really didn't study for my test =.=

THANKS GUYSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

And mummy and daddy have the bestestestest ideas ever...

Why are they always right?

hahahahahahahahahaha <3

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have an awesome God :D

Buh-bye, people!!!

Juz Waffle, Prawn-Prawn and Banana xD

2010-09-25T00:33:00.003+08:00

Hello everyone!!!

Just finished a very ridiculous test 4 in school xD

We had our Raya holidays sandwiched between trials and test 4!

Anyway, I still managed to meet up with friends during the holidays :)

Went to Juz Waffle with jie2 Ee Hsin, Jayn, Joshua and Joanne the day before Joanne was going to leave BP again...

All the J's, so I was saying that I have to change my name to Jamanda also xD

Had a great time talking and laughing really loudly...

But then again, I don't think we're ever not loud :D

Anyway, after Joanne, Joshua and Jayn left, baru Evonne came back...

So the night Evonne reached BP, my CG went to Juz Waffle again...

Once again, we were really noisy...

But we were having so much fun, we really didn't really notice or care!

I'm going to take my undang test tomorrow (FINALLY!)...

My prawn-prawn test (udang-udang) xD

Oh, and I'm going to be a banana on Sunday :D

My school band is going to play in UTHM this Sunday...

In other words, go memper-siasui-kan diri...

And guess what? I'm joining too!!!

If you don't know, we are also known as the bananas because of our band uniform =.=

The shirt is yellow in colour with sort of blue colour and the buttons...

The pants is blue in colour with a yellow stripe down the sides...

In conclusion, we look like like Bananas in Pajamas xD

Oh, I have a photo of Joanna and I in Banana uniform from some time back!

Bananas in Pajamas with musical instruments :D

Oh, and depending on my mood, I might memper-siasui-kan diri even more this Sunday by playing the Bananas in Pajamas theme song as well as Mr. Bean's...

And I'll get help from Husna, Anggun and Joanna to teman me memper-siasui-kan diri as well! ;D

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

I am surrounded by crazy people!!!

2010-09-09T23:27:00.002+08:00

Seriously, I am surrounded by crazy people!

I don't know why these people are still my friends!!! xD

Yesterday, I went to McD to meet up with some friends...

Actually it was more like a "2009 Rehat Buddies Reunion"...

We (well, at least most of us that met up) used to rehat at the staircase in school, where Mr. Temenggong Ibrahim had the perfect view of all of us and our food :D

He may even have salivated, I don't know! haha!!!

Anyway, Joanne, Jayn, Jing, Ying, Becky, Anlynn, Mei Yi, Xiang Ting, Yee Jia and myself arranged to meet in McD at 1...

As I walked into McD, I saw... erm... many people!

I first saw Yee Jia sitting with koko Sern Wang, and then I saw Anlynn at another table...

Since Yee Jia and koko Sern Wang were nearer to where I was, I decided to go and greet them first...

On my way to their table, I saw Li Yuan at yet another table and I waved at her...

After greeting Yee Jia and koko Sern Wang, we started talking and I sat down with them, and that's when I saw Eunice Ter sitting at yet another table!

As I was talking to the Yee Jia and koko Sern Wang, Jayn came in and joined us...

After some time, Xiang Ting came in and joined Anlynn...

After some time, Joanne came in and joined us...

And then Mei Yi came in and Jayn, Joanne and I shouted, "MEI YIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!"

She turned and went out again xD

And then I saw Becky, who was right behind her and I shouted, "BECKYYYYY!!!!!!!!"

She too, went back out... Oh well!

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

After some time, they came back in and joined Anlynn and Xiang Ting at their table...

After even more time, we were told that the table Anlynn was sitting at would never be big enough for us, so we said goodbye to koko Sern Wang and ran over to book a big table as soon as the 3 people (one adult, one small kid, one baby) occupying the table left...

I went over to get the people at the table with Anlynn and we all noisily made our way to the big table...

After some time, (yup, totaled up, we spent quite a lot of time in McD!), Ying and Jing arrived!

Together we all made as much noise as humanly possible and I think that everyone was staring at us and hating us...

But what can I say? We hadn't met up for ages!

Honestly, though, I think that if I wasn't part of the group I was with, I would hate us for making so much noise and acting as if we owned the place xD

Anyway, I managed to take a few shots some of the people making all the noise :P

Xiang Ting showing us her ability to roll her tongue :@

Becky and Anlynn: WHATTTT????

Jayn trying hard to get a good picture of Yee Jia

I tried too, but all I could get was this "speak to the hand" picture

Mei Yi licking her ice-cream... So cute! haha

After I finished my food, Karyn Ter came up to me and asked me an add maths question xD

Add maths! During the holidays!

Anyway, while a few of us were trying to help her out, some others went to go check out the movies that were being shown...

Ying, Joanne, Jayn, Xiang Ting and I stayed back in McD...

Ying's ice-cream... YING KENA CONNED!!!!! :P

Love this shot xD

Joanne trying to hijack some of the kena-conned ice-cream xP

Jayn still trying to capture bits and pieces of... everything :)

Says Xiang Ting, "It looks like a bowl of Xiang Ting!". Well, she might have said "something" instead of "Xiang Ting" xD

Jayn trying to get a picture of Joanne, and Joanne hiding her face behind papers

"HEYYYY!!!!" Another picture I like xD

They brought stuff to STUDY!!! Ugh!

Xiang Ting's got white hair... See it?

See that? Crazy I tell ya, CRAZIEEE!!!

Jayn bored by the boring, studying people xD

And then we all went to join the rest in Square One, where we talked and laughed and made even more noise :D

That night, Anlynn ponteng-ed PA tuition...

For what? For Crystal Inn's buffet dinner =.=

CRAZY MONGREL! xD

Oh oh oh!!! She promised to belanja me (and only me) makan buffet next year!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Thanks Anlynn!!!

And then today, at BM tuition, we were given some exercise on the most annoying prosa tradisional ever created - the Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat one =.=

Anyway, halfway through doing that, I became really blur and looked up from my paper...

At that exact moment, Ah Pao (Zhi Qing), who sits beside me, just happened to look up too and we caught each others' eyes...

Immediately we burst out in laughter just like that!

And then Anlynn, who sits in front of Ah Pao turned slightly towards us and started laughing as well and the E-Chuen, who sits beside Anlynn in front of me, also started laughing...

I don't know what the two in front were laughing at, all I know is that they were laughing...

These three crazy people I sit with at BM tuition really make everything seem... crazier xD

And then I had Physics tuition tonight and Wendy usually sits in front of me...

Well, today she didn't show up...

Instead she left me there alone to be absolutely sleepy and freezing to death...

As soon as tuition was out, I sent her a message calling her a PONTENG-ER!!! and asking her what lousy excuse was she going to give this time...

And she said... Brace yourselves...

She said that she forgot that she had tuition!!!

Seriously ar, that girl ar....

I've got nothing to say...

Why do I befriend all the craziest people?!?!?!?

Trust me, these are just a few of the crazy people that I know, there are loads more where they came from!

Hopefully craziness isn't contagious, because if it is, I should be very afraid right now xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Trials? Done! :D

2010-09-03T13:20:00.002+08:00

Woots!!!

Just finished trials, blogging from Ming Castle using my handphone =]

Good news, finish trials already...

Bad news, Niko going back 2 Canada soon already =(

That's why we're eating out for all our meals these few day, going 2 all Niko's favourite makan places...

"Wei! Dun finish all the food! I wanna eat!"

Well, food's here, I have 2 fight for my food!

Hahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

National Service!

2010-07-15T19:04:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Everyone was talking about PLKN (NS) today!!!

We were trying to check in school, but usual lah, school computer, tak jadi =.=

Anyway, after school, I tried getting into the PLKN website but failed miserably...

About a thousand four hundred and fifty six times!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahaha...

Anyway, so mum sent the SMS to see if I was chosen...

And she hasn't gotten the reply yet even though the SMS was sent more than 3 hours ago!!!

While I was at tuition though, mum and dad managed to get through the website and managed to check whether I was chosen or not...

And...

I wasn't!!! :)

I think many people tak kena this year!!!

Every other person wasn't chosen!!!

And I'm kind of glad I wasn't chosen too...

Mum and dad would worry soooooo much if I kena!!!

Especially mummy, who has been praying that I won't be chosen!!!

Her prayers are super powerful :D

Praise the Lord!!!!! :)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Youth Sunday 2010!!!

2010-07-11T23:53:00.003+08:00

Youth Sunday was today!!!

For the sake of those people who weren't here (you know who you guys are), and especially for the sake of the person who asked me to do this (ehem ehem), here is a kind of detailed account of what happened at Youth Sunday today!!! :)

Everything started with a skit 1, where Jason Low, Rachael, Dawn were introduced as members of the same church...

Then we went into the normal prelude, call to worship, opening hymn, opening prayer and then Gloria Patri...

The Gloria Patri wasn't exactly Gloria Patri, though...

Why? Because the pianist played the wrong song xD

Alright, because I played the wrong song :P

Instead of Gloria Patri, I played Doxology =.=

OUCHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually didn't notice my mistake until I was nudged and told by Derrick and koko Sern Wang...

When koko Sern Wang came to me at the piano, I turned to see some church members starting at me, their expressions sort of a cross between angry and shocked xD

The poor congregation, though...

First they sing Doxology with Gloria Patri's lyrics shown on the screen, and just when everyone syiok-syiok singing Doxology, then I changed the song to Gloria Patri...

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The bad thing about that was that it was probably the most embarrassing moment for me in my many, many years in church, but the good thing is that it was the probably the biggest hiccup we had this morning, which means that everything else went relatively well!!!

THANK YOU GOD!!!!!!! :)

Anyway, Youth Sunday had no choice but to continue xD

Instead of our usual reciting of the Apostle's Creed, we sang it today...

Not the exact words that we usually recite, but it memang is a song...

It's an interesting song to play with any instrumen, I imagine (except maybe percussion), because the chord changes on every other note...

So by the time you're done playing the song, you probably have sore arms!

Thank God my arms were fine today :D

The youths on stage, singing the Apostle's Creed for the first time in Sunday service (I think)

After that was skit 2, which was about Jason Ng, whose car tire punctured on his way to church...

After trying to do something about it, Jerrel, a church member passes him...

Jason asks Jerrel for help but he says that he is in charge of beverages in church, and he already is late...

Jerrel says that he really has to go to church first, but Jason shouldn't worry to much as he's sure there will be other church members passing by later, and maybe he can tumpang them...

"If no me, later no beverages!"

Shortly after Jerrel leaves, Rachel appears and Jason asks for help...

Rachael says that she might not know how to help with the tire, and she has to get to church quickly because she's the usher...

She tells Jason not to worry, she'll go to church first and ask the church members to pray for him!

After she leaves, Jason tries again to fix his problem...

While he's doing that, Edrik appears on a weird vehicle that can rotate 360 degrees (biasalah, Edrik, whole life doing these weird-weird things xD)

Being entertained by the skit

Edrik stops and offers to help Jason, saying that he can fetch him to church and then later, his friend's friend, a mechanic, can help with Jason's car...

With that, Jason gets a ride to church :)

After that, Joanna led us in a time of worship...

Joanna and the back-up singers

The musicians

After that, as usual, was the offering with the offertory hymn, followed by the REAL Doxology and prayer xD

Then skit 3 pula starts...

A boss in a company wants to see one of the managers, Jason Low, so his assistant calls Jason...

Jason has made many grammatical errors in his report, costing the company a large sum of money...

Apparently it wasn't the first time too, but after Jason's pleading, the boss forgives him and gives him 2 weeks to work on the report...

Jason goes back to his office and sees a worker working under him, Deric pass by...

Jason calls him and scolds him for some other mistake that Deric has made in his report, costing the company a sum of money not more than what Jason's errors cost the company...

Jason fires Deric :(

All these, however, are seen by the boss's assistant and he tells the boss about it...

The boss fires Jason once he has heard about this...

Youth Sunday continued with the concerns of the church followed by prayer...

Then skit 4 started...

Dawn and Krystal are shopping when they come across an old lady selling tissue paper...

Dawn is very very rich and so she makes the whole world clear that she is being very generous as she wants to buy all the tissue papers that the old lady is selling for RM 50, when actually all those tissue papers cost RM 52...

Dawn takes a photo with the old lady and contacts her friends, all so that people will know about her "generous" deed...

They then go to town for lunch and coincidentally meet Kimberly and Caleen at the restaurant...

She tells them the "amazing story" about her "very generous deed"...

After that, when the food arrives, she offers to pray out loud in case any of the church leaders are around...

She stands up and prays out loud.... VERY LOUDLY, thanking God for the sun, the moon..................................ZZZzzZzZzzzzzz

After the skit was the song presentation...

The youths sang out theme song this year, From The Inside Out...

Hui Yee was worried about her solos earlier on, but thank God everything went well :D

After that was the sermon by Derrick...

And after the message, skit 5 started...

It's about the transformation that Jason Low, Dawn and Rachel experienced...

And then there was another song presentation - Power of Your Love, which was also our closing song...

With the Benediction and the Three-fold Amen, service was over :D

After a few group photos, we left for Ocean for our buffet lunch!

Group shot 1

Group shot 2

Group shot 3

Group shot 4

At Ocean pula, we all just ate and had fun together :D

Oh, and then we celebrated Fiona's birthday, which reminds me...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIONAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

And finally...

The other photos!!!!!!!!

Lazy to upload one by one, so they're all in a........

COLLAGE!!!!!!!

All the best in looking at the photos xP

And that's a wrap!!!!!!!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Hmmm....

2010-07-09T20:58:00.003+08:00

I just realised that I actually make relatively short posts look quite long because of my double-spacing after every other line...

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Oh, and because of my mwahahahahas and wakakakakakakas xD

And because quite a lot of people complained to me that they hurt their finger scrolling down my posts last time, I really cut down a lot on the things I post here...

So, my point is...

I have been contemplating whether or not to stop the double-spacing and go for a more structured paragraphed approach to blogging...

But then I thought, double-spacing also not bad mah, then people can exercise their fingers xD

So what I've come up with is that.........

I still like my double-spacing xD

I started blogging this way, and I like doing it this way!!!

Can release tension, pressing the "Enter" button many many times!!!

wakakakakakakakakakakakakaka...

Same for the laughs, can transfer all the stress and tension into slamming the keyboards with the......

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAs
and the
WAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAs

And maybe now I'm starting to sound a bit mental xD

Ok, maybe I'll have some posts paragraphed cantik-cantik once in a blue moon...

But DOUBLE-SPACING FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!
(The way I sign off is another thing I forgot to mention, so.....)
P/S: I like my Buh-byes too xD

Youth Sunday this Sunday!!!

2010-07-09T20:34:00.003+08:00

Hey guys!!!

YF GGBP's Youth Sunday will be this Sunday!!!

Derrick will be the speaker, Joanna the worship leader, Jonathan the chairman...

Me? I'll be the pianist and I was sort of put in charge of the song presentations too :)

After the service, the YFers involved will go out for lunch!!!

And since it'll be a buffet lunch, I'm going to eat until I can no longer walk and have to roll out of the restaurant xD

Hopefully Youth Sunday will go on smoothly, and we will be able to glorify God's name...

Click here for more details on our Youth Sunday!!! :)

JAYN, EVONNE, JOANNE, JOSHUA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys have been awesome CG mates!!!

Hope you guys continue to love and serve God in whatever you guys do and hope to see you guys again soon!!!

Let me know if or when you guys are back in BP!!!

Hope everything goes well for you guys!!!

Will keep you guys in prayer!!!

Oh, and Huei Xing, all the best for your competition!!!

You really do have a good voice and sing well, I mean it!!!

It's a pleasure to hear you sing!!!

Hope you do well and will be praying for you!!! :)

I think now is a good time for me to get started on my tonnes of homework...

Or at least pretend to get started on them while waiting for my studying mood to come ;)

Oh, and I almost forgot!!!

I WENT UP THE NEW SCHOOL BLOCK TODAY!!!!!!!

Up to the top!!!

It was after the first period, while the Muslim students and teachers were still in the hall and the rest of us were just having nothing to do...

Anyway, after sitting in class for some time, Shin Lei, Wen Qi and I decided to go and explore the new block...

There isn't anything there anymore to say that students are not allowed to go there, so we climbed the stairs up the new block for the first time...

We climbed the stairs right to the top and walked along the corridor to the other side to take the stairs the other side down...

The moment we turned the corner towards the stairs, I saw a whole cloud of white - the tudungs and baju kurungs of the Muslim students...

You know, it wasn't until then that I realised that I have pretty quick reflexes as before the other two with me could say anything, I sort of went, "Whoaaa, cannot! TURN BACK!!!" and turned towards the corridor again, hidden by the walls of the new classrooms there...

And then we hurried, or more accurately, flew down the same flights of stairs we climbed up earlier on to the safety of ground floor!!!

We were all laughing like hyenas and high-ten-ing each other as we rushed away from that new building :D

It's not like we broke the rules or anything right? I mean, there isn't anything that says we aren't allowed up there right? But maybe because our Chinese animal thingy is a chicken, we all really are chickens?

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

The Stars and the Moon and Life =.=

2010-07-07T17:48:00.002+08:00

Finished with all the Star Mag Inc 2010 thingy :)

A lot of hard work went into the magazine and the video...

I would post the video here, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to...

Of course, if I have time, I will make a video of all the shots that we screwed up and post it here so that the whole world can laugh at us xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Oh, and just asking, does anyone know who invented the graphs we have to learn in chapter 5 of Form 5 Add. Maths?

I'd love to kill the person who invented it if he/she/IT hasn't died yet!

That person/it(?) is making my life very miserable!

I think drawing those graphs did something to my brain, because I think I cracked when I had to do it...

I was literally shouting in class and stamping my feet in frustration while sketching those annoying graphs...

And then after lessons, before we had to go for our co-curricular activities, I was trying really hard to finish sketching all the graphs that I was supposed to, and a classmate of mine, Shahifah started trying to disturb/annoy me even further...

I was at the very last graph of mine, and since we have to sketch our graphs quite big, the chances of getting a graph that doesn't look like a graph is quite high xD

wakakakakakakakakakakakaka...

Anyway, I was holding my breath while sketching the last graph, afraid that I might do something wrong somewhere and wind up having to sketch the whole thing all over again...

While I was doing that, Shahifah, seeing that I was doing what I was doing, kept calling my name...

"Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda............"

I continued to hold me breath, concentrating on the graph.

"Amanda! Is Miss Ong coming to our class during BM period tomorrow?" Shahifah asked in BM...

Still, I ignored her. I didn't want to ruin my graph now, did I?

"Amanda! Eh, Amanda!"

Ignore... Ignore... I didn't even wipe my sweat!

"Eh, Amanda looks like she's angry! Amanda!"

Ignore... Ignore... Ig-"WEI SHAHIFAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! KACAU BETUL LAH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And you know what she does? She laughs! Honestly, that girl is going to pay for that!

I told her that I hope she gets disturbed when she's sketching her graphs at home xD

I said that I hope her sisters, brothers, parents, neighbours, everybody wants to disturb her when she's doing her homework!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Balas dendam ;D

And then Shahifah says, "I don't have any older brothers"

And so I did the only thing I could do, "AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH, JAGA KAUUUUU!!!!!!" and then I started rubbing off the graph that tak jadi :(

wakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakaka...

I'm kind of convinced that Shahifah won't dare to do her homework today :P

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KORRR!!!!! :)

2010-07-02T00:00:00.000+08:00

Hey guys!!!

2nd of July, that's my oldest brother's birthday!!!

And it's awesome that he's home so we can celebrate his birthday with him!!!

Anyway, koko!!!

Happy 20th...21st...erm...22nd... 23rd birthday!!!!

Sorry lah, number too big, very hard to count :P

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Seriously, though, kor, thanks for being the best koko in the whole, wide world!

You are who you are, and kor, who you are is already plenty awesome!!!

Love you, kor!

Happy birthday koko!!!

Buh-bye, people!!!

Me likey :)

2010-06-17T00:11:00.003+08:00

Thanks to the awesome friends and family I have, I had a great 17th birthday :)

All of you who remembered my birthday (you know who you are), thanks again!

I love you all!!!

I really really really am glad to know each and every single one of you!!!

You guys really are awesome!!!

And those of you who forgot...

It's... it's... it's okay *sniff* *sniff*...

I'm sure you remembered my birthday, just for got to wish me right? Right? Right?

And those of you who forgot totally, i...i...you...it's...never mind, I...i...I still l..love you *sniff* *sniff* *sniff*

hahahahahahahahahaha xD

Anyway, this year, I had not one, but two surprise birthday celebrations...

One was done by some schoolmates, and another by my CG (care group from YF)...

top(l-r): Zhi Qing (Ah Pao), Ruby, Jing Xin, E-Chuen, Pey Yann, Joanna, me
bottom(l-r): Anlynn, Charmaine, Wan Yi, Zhi Wei, Vivian, Susin

I met up with these people thinking that we were going to celebrate Wan Yi's and Susin's birthdays, which happen to be on the 10th and 2nd of June respectively...

We met up and had breakfast in McD, and then we celebrated Wan Yi's birthday there...

After that she left because she had to meet up with her family or something...

Then after that we went to watch The Karate Kid, which I thought was pretty cute :)

Jessie joined us during the movie...

After the movie, I while I was watching the credits (I always watch at least a part of the credits in case there are some extra-extra stuff), suddenly I heard voices singing "Happy Birthday to you"...

Voices as in familiar voices...

And then came the cake, and the people singing and holding the cake (and cameras) were walking to me...

With cameras, with a cake...

A cake! In the cinema!!!

I went into a total state of WWWHHHAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??????

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

I seriously seriously seriously wasn't expecting that. At all.

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

After that only we went to celebrate Susin's birthday at Tea Station...

I actually want to post our group photo there, but the waitress took a very blur picture. Two very blur group photos, actually =.=

Anyway, thanks, guys, for the complete and utter WHATTTT?!?!??? moment :)

And then there is the surprise my CG did...

top(l-r): Ah War, Li Yuan, Joanna, Caleen, Edrik. Bottom(l-r): me, Jie2 Ee Hsin, Joanne, Evonne, Jayn, Regine

The "point there!" post xD

These people got my maid to trick me!!!

It was on Thursday night, the eve of my birthday, and I had tuition...

After tuition, when I reached home, kakak told me that I left the air-cond in my study room on...

I went, "How can that be? I didn't even go there today! Cannot be lah!"

At that time I sort of thought something is fishy, but nothing really came out of that fishiness xD

And then kakak said that she didn't turn the air-cond off in case I left it on on purpose...

So, being ever the "SAVE THE EARTH! SAVE ELECTRICITY!!!" person that I am, I rushed to the room and opened the door and SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was my whole care group, being squeezed into that tiny room with the light off (I don't know about the fan, but I sincerely hope that it was on, for their sake xD), singing the birthday song to me...

Let me tell you this, my whole family, including kakak, who is now more or less considered family, have great acting skills...

They all can go be professional actors and actresses!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Anyway, I took pity on the sardines that were supposedly my care group mates, and so they un-sardine-ed themselves and came out of the room =D

We also celebrated Edrik's birthday (belated birthday) with the same cute Doraemon cake xD

We yum-seng-ed with cake and then it was really like a CG reunion for us...

Most from our CG was there, and Joshua, who though wasn't here, was on the phone with us anyway :D

Anyway, thanks, guys, for being the awesomest CG, you guys are family :)

And then, of course, my family celebrated my birthday with me as well...

It was really great as dad, mum, niko and I left for Malacca at around 6 pm on my birthday, and koko met us in Malacca...

So I got to celebrate my birthday with the whole family in Malacca in Old Town, where I did my last post =]

Koko purposely took a bus down to Malacca that night so that he could celebrate my birthday with me, and not celebrate my "boxing birthday" the next day...

Awww, ain't that sweet? hahahahaha

Thanks kor!!!

Oh and kor, thanks for the present, you know, the... that one lah! Aiya, the... that one... you know lah, hor? (Sorry if you don't understand, inside joke)

Anyway, thanks, daddy, mummy, niko, koko, for being the best family in the whole wide world...

Nothing I can write in this blog of mine will ever be able to show how awesome you all are and how much I love you guys...

You guys are the ones who have known and loved me since the day I was born, (slightly more than) 17 years ago...

You guys have been with me through all of my joy, my pain, my sorrow, my temper tantrums, my tears, my crazy unstoppable laughs, and every single part of my life...

I know you all love me very much, and I know you guys know that I love you all very very very much too...

Thanks for always being there for me, and for always having my back. I know I can always count on you guys :)

Thank youuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, enough of my birthday (which was pretty cool)!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Here's a video that I watched some time back and suddenly thought of again:

Laughter is contagious. Agreed?

You Tube is awesome...

I know I keep saying "awesome", but that's only because it's an awesome word to use xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Pomplamoose. If you have never heard of them, it's time to go check them out!

Here's the first video of theirs that I watched. Niko showed it to me and I've been addicted ever since :) Thanks niko! haha

She has great vocals and can really sing so many different parts while he can play so many instruments well! All their videos are really cute too! Weird, but nice and cute =) They are cute people always doing very cute and creative things :D

It's actually because of their cover that I no longer change to other radio stations every time I hear this song on the radio, like I initially did...

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Then then niko introduced me (as in on You Tube lah) to this pair of twins from Australia...

They are actually Korean-Australians and they too are very cute people, always sounding so bubbly :)

Here's one of their videos and I'm warning you, it's very very very stuckable!!!

Hear one time already enough for the song to get stuck!!!

If the song is now stuck or get stuck later, you're welcome :P

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Before It's Over

2010-06-11T23:51:00.006+08:00

A few minutes left of my 17th birthday, and I'm in an Old Town in Malacca with the rest of my family. Anyway, just wanted to thank everyone who remembered my birthday and for everything! My food is evaporating real fast, so that's all for now. Thanks again to all who remembered!

Sixteen Going On Seventeen :)

2010-06-09T23:50:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!!!

Have been busy with exams and koko Lawrence's wedding (congrats koko Lawrence and chea2 Shini!) followed by the ASEAN scholarship test, followed by my YF camp...

Anyway, since I only have quite little time to be telling the world that I'm sixteen going on seventeen, I'll make it a point to keep singing it until I no longer can sing that without it being a lie xD

In case you're one of the kesian people who have never watched The Sound of Music, here's a video of the song from the movie :)

I like the song, but maybe we can just ignore the whole exchanging saliva part at the end of the video ya?

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Oh, and lyrics!

Rolf and Liesl - Sixteen Going on Seventeen Lyrics

[Rolf:]
You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on

[Liesl:]
To write on

[Rolf:]
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink

You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and rogues and cads
Will offer you food and wine

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

You need someone older an wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I'll take care of you

[Liesl:]
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those

Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken

I need someone older and wiser
Telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I'll depend on you

It's nice song, yes? Yes!

I AM SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNN =D

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Penang for Popo Alice's 80th Birthday Dinner!!!

2010-04-24T13:19:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

Last week at this time, I was in Penang :D

Our Penang trip was awesome...

We were there to celebrate Popo Alice's 80th birthday...

I explain banyak-banyak also no use, so here are some pictures from our trip to Penang!

Popo Alice :)

l-r: Derrick, Cassandra, me, koko

koko, mummy and I

The birthday cake

l-r: Popo Alice's birthday flowers, my violin, koko's violin

Oh, and Popo Alice got conned into presenting a song for her own birthday dinner... So cute!!!!!

Popo Alice with her dozen of roses

l-r(top): Mummy, daddy, koko, me
l-r(bottom): Aunty Bee Wah, Uncle Michael Tham, Derrick, Cass :)

Beatrice and I

l-r: Mummy, Beatrice, Cass, me, koko

Koko and I, and the wet tissue thingy is supposed to be Niko xD

l-r: mummy, popo Alice, daddy

Popo Alice and mummy

Dad, mum, koko and I with Popo Alice

Popo Alice and I :)

We headed back to KL and then the BP the next day...

But of course, we had a meal with the Thams and Uncle Hoe Peng's family first...

Most of "the kids": Derrick, Cass, Melissa, koko, me

Melissa :)

And then we went to see popo Alice and the rest of the gang before leaving...

Melissa and Cass came with us in our car...

Melissa, me and Cass

Cass and I

Mum, Melissa and Dad

When we reached the church, though, the other two little kids (Ivan and Stephanie) made daddy's car the "Children's car"...

And that's how we got.........:

Koko half dead with Stephanie lying down on him and Melissa on her, plus me, Ivan and Cassandra :D

Another shot of us 6 in the backseat of the car

Kids love funny faces xD

The others who were not crammed in the backseat of daddy's car :)

And with that, we left for home with Cass promising to help us bring popo Alice to Nando's on the next day for her birthday...

We nearly kidnapped Cass and Melissa home, but we didn't :(

But don't worry, once Niko comes home, I'm sure he'll want to go see the Penangites too, so that time, I can stuff Cass in my bag and bring her home xD

Oh, that reminds me...

NIKO IS COMING HOMEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When?

Real soon!!!!!!

And I'm thinking about ponteng-ing school AND tuitions to welcome him home!!!!! :D

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Buh-bye, people!!!

Saved!!!! :D

2010-04-15T23:40:00.002+08:00

YAYYYY!!!!!!!!

Done with test 2 in school :D

Anyway, my camera's CF card went cuckoo a few days ago and everything went cacat...

And then ALL MY PHOTOS HILANG-ED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But thennnnnnnn...

Daddy brought it to a a shop to see what they could do with it and thank God some of the photos could be recovered :)

So, I was looking through some of the photos that were recovered and these are a few of the pictures I found:

Jie2 Ee Hsin's niece, so cute!!! :D

Pure awesomeness xD

What's in there? Pearls, milk, tea, barley, barley water, lime, cincau, and ice!!!
How did it taste? Good!
Really? Yes, really!
Did anybody lao sai after drinking it? Nope!

There was tau suan there, but I thought that would be an overkill xD

And that would make the whole thing just plain disgusting!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

I didn't get to get a picture of Koko Sern Wang drinking it though, but I've got another very cute picture of him...

Flower?

BLOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!

wakakakakakakakakakakakakakaka...

In case you're wondering what the "BLOOM" thing is about...

That day we all went loco...

One person (Jayn or Evonne) would go "BOOM!" while holding up a balloon sword as if it were a gun...

And then I'd go "BLOOM!!!!" and hold the flower up!

We kept doing that to people all around us...

BOOM! BLOOM! BOOM! BLOOM! BOOM! BLOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

The poor people around us didn't know whether to laugh or to cry, or to do both! :')

Oh, I also found some group photos from different-different places:

CG!!! It was kind of like a farewell CG for those who left :(

l-r: Me, Joanne, Jayn

At Sofiya's house. Sarah, Eunice Ter, Anlynn, Sofiya, me, Karyn

Too bad Becky couldn't make it :(

She wasn't feeling well...

Oh, ya!!!

I'll be in Penang for the weekend to celebrate Po-po Alice's birthday!!! :)

Looking forward to seeing the whole Penang gang again!!!

And Cassandra is still as blur as ever @.@

And Cass, koko and myself are supposed to be playing an instrument each the whole night or so during the dinner...

And guess what?

We haven't thought of any songs to play yet, and we probably won't have much time or even no time at all to practice...

One word: erm......

I have nothing to say, sorry!!!

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

April!

2010-04-03T17:13:00.001+08:00

Hello!!!

I trust everybody had a great April Fools' Day?

I know I did xD

mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

The feeling is awesome when people are fooled with a simple:
Hey, your shoelaces are undone!
I used this a lot in the past, and this year I used it a lot again :D
Soooo many people kena =.=
And the best thing is, somebody, I forgot who, looked down at her VELCRO SHOES when I said that to her!
Pure awesomeness xD

And then there was the "what's with your socks today?" and the "did you walk in mud or something today? Why are your shoes so muddy?"

My classmate, Sharon was so cute on April Fools' Day xD
We were in class, and I suddenly turned to look at her and then at her shoes and I asked her if she walked on a muddy road because her shoes were soooo muddy.
She looked down and I went "HAPPY APRIL FOOLS' DAY!!!" and started laughing like a hyena with a few others (sorry Sharon!)
And then Sharon, so cutely, went to get the broom and started sweeping the floor where her place is, saying "no wonder I was thinking why it felt so sandy under my feet!"
SOOOO CUTE!!!!!! hahahaha
And she even thanked me!!!
A really cute person, that Sharon is :D

And then there was another very cute classmate, Han Yun.
She was walking along the corridor and I used the most common "Han Yun, your shoelaces are undone!" and she looked down and I started laughing and saying "Happy April fools' day!".
Then she looked up at me and said, "Amanda, your skirt is dropping down!"
That was impossible as I was wearing a pinafore and the skirt is not exactly a skirt and can never drop down unless the whole thing got separated from the top part!
Anyway, I played along and said, "Oh, aiyo, I better pull it up quickly!"
And then I looked at her again and said, "Han Yun! Your wig is falling off! Quickly put it properly!"
And that is how Han Yun got her wig xD

The highlight of the day was of course, when I fooled a teacher (a sporting one, of course! I'm not that bodoh xD) in class and everyone was laughing, including myself.
It was during BM period with En. Nordin, and we were all in the room where we always have our BM lessons, and we were discussing some literature stuff.
When we were at the synopsis of one of the many irritating prosa tradisionals we have to do, teacher called a few people to stand up and answer some questions about the synopsis and a few characters.
I was one of them called. So I simply answered something and it was let's just say, erm, 60% correct xD
While En. Nordin was correcting my 40% that was wrong, I pointed at his shoulder (I have a front row seat in BM class) and asked "Cikgu, kenapa baju cikgu koyak?" (teacher, why is your shirt torn?)
He turned to look at where I was pointing and the whole class started laughing. The spot I was pointing to was so on his shoulder, so he had to make a weird pose to check the hole out, which made me laugh very hard, and plus the fact that I fooled a teacher and everyone was laughing him, made me laugh till there were tears in my eyes x'D
The thing about En Nordin is he has a wooden baton that he always holds and so when he realized it was an April Fools' joke he took held the baton as if he was going to hit me.
Still laughing, I escaped to the second row, and that's how I survived that :D

You know what? I think that if I were a teacher, I'd pull a trick on the whole class, it'd be so much fun! hahahahaha!
Like that day, my Chemistry teacher was telling us about this motivational talk she went for and that the speaker taught them how to calculate some stuff from their birth dates.
She wanted to teach us that just for fun, so she asked us to write our birth dates down and add some numbers and then add some more numbers and then add even more numbers. If I were her, I'd go something like "Class, that was all a trick. Now take your workbook out and do pages 10 to 50" right after everybody had finished counting the numbers xD
wakakakakakakakakakakakakaka...

EH GUYSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

My YF is having an Easter Drama in the church sanctuary tonight!

Come come come!!!

More details here :)

See ya tonight! ;)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!

Earth Hour 2010

2010-03-27T20:54:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

Earth hour? Earth hour!

Mwahahahahahahaha...

I'm actually in JB now, and how do I support Earth Hour here?

I mean, it won't be very appropriate to ask ah yee and ah teow to turn the lights off right?

So, what we did is very cool...

We went out to makan!

So that means technically, the lights are off :D

wakakakakakakakakakakakakaka...

Vote Earth!!!

Ok, I have to get to my food :)

Am blogging from mummy's handphone!

So modern!

Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!

2010-03-20T00:25:00.000+08:00

YF GGBP Fund Raising Carnival 2010

2010-03-20T00:07:00.003+08:00

Hello everyone!!!

My YF is having our fund-raising carnival this Sunday...

Wanna come?

It'll be awesome with loads of food, drinks, games and other stuff!

Don't worry if you don't have any coupons, you can buy them there on the day itself!

You can just go there to check everything out then only decide whether to buy coupons or not :)

Check out our YF blog for more information on this carnival!

Go ar, go ar, go ar!!!

I'll be waiting for you guys!!!! ;)

mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

Buh-bye, people!!!