Darling Attempting to Fly a Kite

When we were back in Penang, Darling and I brought mommy and lil nephew out for dinner and a walk around the ever popular Gurney Drive.

We walked around after dinner and saw one of the stalls selling the super cute tiny kite and I was definitely tempted to buy it for my lil nephew to play with!

Darling: Let the man do the tough part. (his hand reaching for the kite)

A few minutes later.....

Darling was frantically pulling and tugging at the tiny kite

Sigh...The kite just wouldn't listen to the man

ARGH.....the man shall NOT give up!

A good 15 minutes later.....

SIGH.

Poor lil nephew was so desperate he nearly resorted to fly the kite while riding behind my Darling's car. *shakes head*

New Year Resolutions

I don't actually think this is the full list because I am one forgetful person and you know how things just flickered through your mind and then you siad "Yes, I 'll do it" but you just plain forget after that? Anyway, here are the few that I could come up with at the moment.

1. To spill my guts and go after the things I really want in life.
I have been really quite sick of myself for not doing the things I've always wanted to do, giving nonsensical reasons. I realised that reasons and excuses will always be there but it is down here in your heart, on whether you want to acknowledge its presence.

2. To socialise more
I know, I know. You will be saying " What is this girl trying to say?Is she mocking me?". I have always appeared to be a social butterfly (which I think I am not) but I do agree that I need people around me. People that can be called friends. And I do think my social circle here is very small and sometimes I do feel.... suffocated... like you know, I am in the middle of the circle of friends and the circle is really small... hahahahah..no, I am not joking.

3. To be nicer to the people around me
It's no point making friends and not keeping them. Then you shouldn't make friends at all to begin with. I wish to not participate in any bitching but I do realise there is a fine line between giving opinions and bitching, darn. Oh, I would also like to be warmer towards strangers, say, the cleaners, the food sellers etc.

4. To work hard and not slack........too much...ehehheeh
I tend to slack at times and when I slack... gosh I am like a pro in it. Procrastinating every single little thing!

5. To take care of my family more
I do feel like I am the "son" of the family at times :) and I would want to meet my dad again. No matter how angry I was towards him, sins can be forgiven, wounds can be healed. It leaves scars of course but a dad's always a dad. I do not want to regret for certain things I didn't do now later in life. Yeah, I do miss him.

6. To exercise more for health reasons
I have been getting aches recently and I believe I need a healthy heart. Everyone needs a healthy heart, what am I talking?

7. To join an outreach programme
I talked to a friend recently who ignited and reminded my passion towards helping others and I wonder why I havent been doing it all this while. I wanted to join the Red Cross here but just because they might take up my holiday time as well, I didn't bother to question further. ARGH. But he just gave me a number, someone whom I can ring up if I want to join a programme as such. I want to do it but at the same time, I think what's holding me back is the time that is needed. We'll see.

8. To save money
This is something challenging to me. :) I need to freaking save! Darling and I moving out from hostel soon! Please please please let us find a studio apartment........that is cheap, nice AND furnished! wakakakak

9. To learn cooking
It's not that I don't want to cook but cooking in hostel IS really a hassle. For one, the kitchen is damn far from my room. And sometimes you get people pouring noodles or what nonsense all over the place. I promise I will do better in our own house k hon?

ok. Thats all for now!

Pictures according to the row from left to right:

1. My bro in law with my second cheeky niece in a nice cosy cafe eating tonnes of wan than mee in Yau Ma Tei

2. We spent 1000 dollars on lunch in the posh restaurant in Victoria's Peak. Darn expensive but nice.

3. EA games simulator in Victoria's Peak.

4. The famous Disney train!

5. Tai Yu Shan aka Lantau Island viewing the World's Largest Seated Buddha

6. Upclose.

7. Tai-O, a homely fishing village where you can just buy the fishes from the fishermen and bring the live fish into a restaurant.

8. "Ham Yu" or famous salty fishes

9. Fishermen's Wharf in Macau. Beautiful achitecture, a mix of Portugese and Chinese

10. The popular Sands Casino, by Las Vegas, one of the 28 casinos in Macau.

11. The coliseum look alike

12. Fishermen's Wharf still.

13. Avenue of Stars

HAhahah i know this is a lousy update of HK trip but I dont have the pics with me now. Just these few sad ones :)



And my beloved nieces and nephew with their favourite foot..... they insisted on taking individual pics with Mr.Foot Reflexology *smiles*

26th of December 2006

Particularly a memorable day. A day lof little births :) This mother Minnie here (the name's sounds corny but was given by my niece and nephew..poor things...) gave birth to 4 little babies!

One of the tiny little adorable hairless pinkish baby

upclose picture of the tiny little adorable hairless pinkish baby

a week later....tiny little adorable hairless pinkish babies with blackheads

And the not so little, cute baby delivered by mother Miko (see that clump of black hair next to her?). Born on the same day too!

Cheers to the little ones!

Twists of Fate

I've had enough. Smiles. Enough of bad luck for this year!!! And the funny thing is, it is not entirely bad luck, you see.

1. My darling and I got back from Singapore to Penang and we sort of crashed head on into somebody's car. (Not entirely bad luck because: We both escaped unhurt though our car was moving freaking fast)

2. Came back to Penang again and had food poisoning and was admittted to hospital. To top that up, I had to go to 2 hospitals before they had the ONLY bed for me with 7 other wheezing grandmothers. (Not entirely bad luck because: I found a bed to pass the night :P)

3. Came back Penang the third time AND got poisioned again. (Not entirely bad luck because: I wasn't admitted to hospital this time thanks to my nursing darling but had a sore shot right at the butt *pouts*)

4. I lost 100 over bucks to slot machines in casino the FIRST time I went in (Not entirely bad luck because: I cannot find a reason to this... I didn't lose more than that maybe?? )

5. On my way back to Penang recently when I met with an accident and I mean.... a roller coaster and bumper car ride, that sort of thing. And that's at freaking 2 am in the morning. 70 km away from Penang and in the middle of a dark highway. (Not entirely bad luck because: I am still in one piece with no bruises or whatsover... just a bit shaken)

6. This one in happened in Singapore. My hostel room was broken into and my poor handphone and wallet got stolen along with my ID, driving license and such. And the stupid thief had to do this to me in the midst of my finals. (Not entirely bad luck because: My laptop was left untouched. And I got new fantastic phone and a red hot wallet. *prances around*)

7. This one just happened today. I took the only car (huge noisy exhaust and non-see through, black windows) that's left at home to go to the hair salon to dye my hair in the afternoon and got freaking stopped by policemen right after I made a turn. And had to be right after I dyed my hair (cos I think I look look more punk in it and the policemen here love it when u look punk). AND all my brother in law's friends have been driving that catch-me-if-u-can-car at night to clubs and discos and NOBODY stopped them :(. (Not entirely bad luck because: For some funny reasons, the 2 policemen let me off without a scratch. HAHAHHAHA! They talked to me and realised that I was telling the truth after all about it being not my car. *wriggels eyebrows*)

Okay. That's IT for this year. No more. Today's the LAST one!!!!!!!!!!!!

DANCE!

Mit and I have talked and yes, I will be doing the choreography with him. I am going to put my heart and soul inside this, I WILL. And it will NOT lose out to the others. :) It feels so good to have a vision again.

A Day Out

In front of VivoCity


Yes, I went to VivoCity again. Can't help it! I like that place! They have everything! They have above average clothes like Guess, MNG, Zara and down to the casual affordable clothes like Fox, Giordano, Baleno..... which is really normal stuff, found all over Singapore but what makes it special is ....






the beautiful scenery outside Vivo..That's Sentosa by the way


On the roof top of Vivo








And the pet shop! Yes! Pet shop in Vivo! This chow chow is only 5 months old.... with microchip implanted so would not get lost.







This is the Japanese something something... adorable little one



And the lazy little bum ... hahahah











It is also so much nearer than Orchard for jungle people like me from Boon Lay! *smiles*

Post Exam

Nothing much, except that I have gotten myself a new phone! Due to circumstances on which I shall not elaborate. Presenting my new phone, Sony Ericsson W810i and I am so in love with it! It is the kind of phone which you have got to lay your eyes on itlong enough to say it is truly nice! Viv commented that it looks like a Mickey Mouse *gruffs* and the rest just nodded their heads when I jumped around pointing the phone to them. HMPH! But I love it! Great camera and it has a blasting good mp3 player too! So nice!

And I have been terribly sick too :( and have been postponing my visit to VivoCity to watch Open Season and I guess I have missed Step Up. ARGH! But I want to pay my deepest gratitude to my doctor cum nurse cum babysitter cum boyfriend during my sick nights...

Amazing man, this one.

Adelie penguins

I forgot these! The Adelie penguins! I love them because they just simply love to have fun and party and they are so darn cute! They are only about 70cm... 2 long rulers put together..hahaha and and they peck you like mad and try to hang on to you when they thought you are attacking them! heheheh use pebbles to make their nest and they lay poo all over the place... and they sing really well! =)

Poor Adelie chick...Bad hair day and strongly suspected he fell into the mud (don't know why they have mud but yeah they do).. hahahahahaha

" Do I look like an owl now???!"

Mambo Happy Feet

Little did I know watching a movie of penguins last night would thought me so many things in life! I thought it was just penguin-singing and this little tap dancer would have somehow attracted a female penguin though he tap dances. But it turned out to be so much more meaningful than that! That Mambo boy bought across the message of daring to be different and of all the things you do, having faith in yourself, is the top-most of your list of "most precious gifts in life". Having inspired by a little penguin (yes, I know but I get insprired at the weirdest things on earth), I wanted to know more about Antarctica ( always have been very intrigued by all these places; Artic, Antarctica, Galapagos, papua new guiney...) and their extremely hard-core way of living. And WOW. That's all I can say.

These are the Emperor penguins, featured in the movie. Stately and elegant (hence, the name), they are the tallest penguins around! 1.15m! That's more than half of me! nearly three quarters! Oh oh, that's the little kid! Chubby eh? I feel like pinching it! They can walk up to 280 km with their non-existent knees while we are... Us humans are urgh *shameful* ...

Ah! The march of the penguins! Look at that! They are heading south towards their breeding ground! Coldest of all times when all the other penguins head north! After mating, they brave the temperature of -20 to -50 degrees and the wind of 200 kmph! And that's the male penguins too you know, not the females. Females get to go into the sea to catch fishes while the males kept the babies between their legs and not eat for 3 months! hehehehehe sounds good eh? Male humans should take a leaf out of the penguin books. heheheheheheh

Awwww.... that little penguin trying to keep warm between papa's feet....










And there they are! The males waiting loyally for the return of the females (get the hint? hehehe) witht their offsprings... and these penguins can swim damn fast! Outswim the seals all the time unless that they are sick and weak.









I want to go Antarctica! I want to work with saving animals!!!

dreamy me

a gush of midnight dew smell, a lil' sprinkle of stardust with the softest sea breeze blowing, a dash of salty air flooded by the dancing moonlight......

that's how i feel right now. mmmmm.......

drained

what I feel right at this second:

1. my poor brain is flooded with information that it doesn't really remember and understand (you poor thing aawww)

2. i want to eat laksa and tonnes and TONNES of crabs

3. want to just DRIVE endlessly and i mean drive and not WALK

4. want to feast my eyes at the calm blue sea and listen to the crashing waves at the shore (thats when my mind is totally zonked)

5. would like to sit at Gurney Drive and just stare at the people walking by and at the dirty sea (zonked too, this one)

6. would like to sip my magharitas while smiling stupidly into the space (wondrous feeling, i tell you)

7. would like to down chivas and white wine while also smiling stupidly into the space

8. also want to just club, club and club (only on ladies' night heheheh)

9. and also to dance my heart out *prances around*

aaaaahhhh..........................

"Most Malaysians are convinced that the eyes of the world are on their country and that their leaders are world figures. This is thanks to Malaysia's tame media and the bravado of former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. The truth is, few people on the streets of London or New York could point to Malaysia on a map much less name its prime minister or capital city."


"It is time to move on, time to prepare the economy for life after oil. But, like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, the Malaysian Government is more interested in stunts like sending a Malaysian into space when Malaysia's inadequate schools could have done with the cash, and arguing about wealth distribution using transparently ridiculous statistics."

qouted from "While Malaysia fiddles, its opportunities are running dry" Michael BackmanNovember 15, 2006 - Australia

How sad can it go? I always said that Malaysian government has been very successful in achieving the objectives of the education system: to instill the sense of pride in us. But there is always this knawing feeling inside me, this little voice that tells me that, success is not everyone's, victory is only on the government's side and that we have blatantly been blinded by it all these years. So blinded that sometimes we are so used to it that we don't even know that it is NOT normal! I don't know about others but the countless times I have replied, " What to do, it is an Islamic country." or " Aiiyyyaahh, they are always like this." ; it is just too many a time! I realised that we are taught to respect or in other words, keep our mouths shut up tight! And the best part is, we have been doing it all this while without us knowing it ourselves!Gosh! We never question why they never respect OUR RIGHTS, why Chinese are always and I mean ALWAYS marginalised, why the Chinese can never progress in the government sector....

And to a lot of people from all over the world, they always wonder why the Chinese in Malaysia never say anything about it ..... Bangsa bersatu?

indulgences

I do think it is true when they say that grads and undergrads are splurging their money. I thought it was only me! It's so comforting that almost all of us are erm... spending so much! I thought I was plain terrible and wasting money with no financial management whatsoever. PHEW! We love indulging in (at least me)....

Nice food *slurpz*

sometimes we combine exquisite taste with luxurious settings....

and of course with exquisite taste comes expensive looks

but you don't wear these all the time! you need laidback clothes as well

and sometimes you got tired of it all and just want to relax....

and see the world maybe?

I don't think I can survive with my salary next time! And I haven't even mentioned the whole tonnes of things I want to buy for myself! *sob*

.....

I have spent the entire night trying to figure out a new blogskin and I gave up. That's it! I am going to study my heart out morrow! *ROAR*

new layout!

There! This is the best that I can do at this moment! Just finished my superb paper neurobiology!!! And I have 5 more papers to go! and here I am, lazing around for the whole day already! DARN... I am such a sloth...

Mary's Birthday

DAMN sick of studying.... (not that I have been studying a lot; that's one big problem too) so I uploaded pictures on Mary's birthday! We went out to Vivo City, a newly opened mall in Harbour Front (one of the biggest too, I think) and it was freaking crowded! And I mean freaking crowded! But nice place though...

Birthday girl Mary and I and see the weird man?? Vivo City hired all these entertainers standing on platforms and making weird moves with the "shop" sign..not a bad idea..

Outside Vivo City near the sea.... Big snowman there

A closer pic of Mary and I.

And I haven't bought her a present yet!

harrowed up

I have just received a text message from Mit today. And he asked me to help him to choreograph his item for upcoming biannual concert - Dancetitude (in August next year). And it has been preying on my mind ever since and I can't freaking study!
I know you all would have asked me to jump and grab the offer but ... I am not too sure about it and yes it bothers me! I am also well aware that Mit doesn't want to do it alone because Rizal bailed on him (Rizal is his original partner but apparently he doesn't want to do with Mit cos he thinks Mit is lazy)!!!

Why I am not too sure about it:

1. I have always thought Pat(my dance instructor) has certain doubts in me when it comes to dance. Somehow, I think that I am not good enough for him hence when he and the current committee were planning the concert and listing the choreographers, my name wasn't brought up. I don't blame anyone for that because I haven't REALLY done any choreography here cos SOMEONE will always stand up and offer himself (which I am pretty impressed by his guts cos I dont have that)

2. I am not sure of myself. I am 50-50 when it comes to confidence level. I think that I might be able to do it... but then again I do think that I lack certain skills.

3. What if people think I am not good enough???

4. Mit WILL let me do all the work (that lazy bugger!!)

5. It is such a big scale event (to me, at least)!!!! Who am I kidding thinking I can do it????? It gives me such shivers recalling what the previous choreographers did in the last concert! Bbbbrrrrrrr.....

Why I want to do it:

1. I LOVE choreography and I want people to see what I am capable of doing. I miss choreographing, something I haven't been doing for a long long time. (but then again, there is always a difference between LOVE and being ABLE to do it) and I LOVE teaching dance! And I do want to believe that I can do it!

2. HECK what people think (especially Pat)!! I am sick of living by people's standards and yes, I do want to spill the guts cos I think I've rejected so many oppurtunities that if "it" comes jumping and waving in front of me, I wouldn't have recognised it!

3. There is this weird part inside me that says that I don't mind if Mit let me do most of it! (Hmmm....but I am pretty sure I won't let him do that)

4. I don't think I am that bad....at least I know that I would be better than ONE choreographer. HAHHAHAHAAHHAAA (but damn, she has Rizal to help!)

5. Yes! I admit! Marie plays a role in spurring me to do this! Though a very very small role... Serious! It is not a practical reason, I know it myself! ( do not roll eyes at me! =P) hahhahaha


THERE! I feel better now that I have said what I wanted to say! I have always hold on to certain principles in life (yeah, conservative me) and one of it is to have no regrets when I look back next time! I think.....that I might regret if I don't do this and let it slip right out of my fingertips...