Tuesday, March 09, 2010

You Animal

In school, I knew a friend who was constantly bullied.

They did awful things to her, called her names that I thought were funny, scribbled on her desk and messed up her books. We weren't in the same class and I wasn't a very close friend of hers so I felt it wasn't' relevant for me to stick up for her. More like I didn't feel the need to as a 13 year old girl.

At a recent reunion we talked about the same girl again. Laughing at our own mistakes, I have a feeling we do feel sorry for doing so somewhere inside. Although I didn't directly participate in the bullying, I did witness all their little dirty tricks.

Some made fun of her bra size, while some other girls put a used sanitary pad on her table. Sometimes I've always wondered, how would it be like to be in her shoe as the subject of humiliation. I never thought of her feelings back then. I didn't feel it was right of those people to do such things to her, but I didn't do anything.

Today, seven years later I realize that she has been very strong. She shifted schools in junior high. We won't know if it was because of all the drama. I doubt so. A few months back I bumped into a relative of hers and found out that she has been working very hard to support her own tertiary education. Apparently the family has been suffering from a financial crisis for a while now, and it has always been her whose been supporting them by dropping out from studies and working.

Most teenagers our age would have thought of working part time as a source for additional pocket money. Yet, this girl had to work hard as if her life depended on it from a young age. She stood by all the crisis and snickers. Well, I remember her crying once or twice but after a few tricks she learnt to stand up and walk away with a tough front. She didn't have many close friends because whoever was close to her turned into laughing stocks as well .As freshmen in junior high, I guess nobody wanted to be left out.


Today I chanced upon her Facebook and see that she's attending a fine college leading a happy life. These people do inspire me sometimes. I can't say I won't laugh at the pranks played at her if I was given a chance once again, but if she really was earning her way to college by herself - it is something to look up to.

It does seem like a Cinderella kind of story, and I'm just writing this post because I'm somewhat proud of knowing someone like her and I hope that the kids that appear in my life in future are half as strong because the world is turning into a horrible place to survive in :)


:)


Friday, March 05, 2010

Cup Stacking


Nick came back with some cups and started playing with it.
It is a recognized sport/game.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

[Illustration] Big Problem

Recently the problem is starting to kick back again. It's like I'm indirectly not allowed to act accordingly to my own moral values. /emo/

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THEN,
THIS HAPPENS TOO!


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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

The Vampire


stolen from Fran

Sunday, February 28, 2010

오후 2시 다신 없다

Where: Noble Bouquet, Bukit Bintang KL
When: 22-02-2010
What: Wo Lai Yeah Anniversary + Ju Koons Parent's Anniversary + Birthday
With: The Gardeners [tsk]

I would like to this as more of a Sri Garden reunion, like a meet and greet session with the long time no see's.


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Lion Dance
Damn semangat. It felt like they were dancing the whole night.

I think I have lately developed a fear for these big lion heads, which is depressing because I remember liking them alot. Well, I cannot deny it IS scary when they start dancing infront of you face and their head is a thousand times bigger. I'm still amazed at how both the dancers can sync so well.


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Dengan kakak fishball Vivien who I swear is alot crazier than I am, why can anybody see!
Why my smile so fake pfft


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Habis with the red head lions, the yellow ONG ones start. Wo Lai Yeah memang suka ong!
Lucky they have their own group of lion dancers, kalau tidak hire also others dont wanna dance!


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Ini adalah Sabrina Loh who always looks like she's 10 CM taller than me. Same height ok! YAYA i must mention everywhere.
/angry/


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Kami berduduk also berstress see all the uniformed staff tapi got food then its a whole new world.

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Wan Wei and Lie Peh who had a good time being entertained by the performers POWER GIRLS! [teehee] Popopopopopopopoker face~
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Ini adalah Ju Koon yang berinvitation kami tapi sangat busy the whole night entertaining. Tak apa lah, semua happy happy sudah baik!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

지못미

Where: Cameron Highlands (again)
When: 19th-21st February
What: CNY Family Getaway II
With: Chai Family


We went to Cameron yet once again because we loved the cottage so much. Nothing special from the trip, just a few pictures for you to see. This is turning into a very pictorial blog, no? Me gonna gets a better camera. S90 S90, here I come!

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Unintentionally blurred out, but beautiful nonetheless.


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The only reason why I love Cameron Highlands - strawberries are everywhere selling cheap!


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These brinjals reminded me of cockroaches. Aren't they a little to fat to be brinjals teehee.


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Red Chilli Peppers The aunty was trying to place a bet, if we can eat the whole thing she'd give us RM 50 on the spot. We understood that it was very spicy so we ranaway pfft. (After buying without knowing beforehand FOL)



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Ze Mom's Artwork
How come I never thought of it T________T
By the way looking at this, I just remembered. I
dreamt of my shadow
harming me the night before pfft.


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Dinner at 0800PM We had the housekeeper prepare dinner for us so there was (almost) bottomless food. Having steamboat under the cold weather is ze bomb. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
After dinner, we decided to fly the Ming Dang's
(no this isn't an excerpt from the post below pfft)

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Stripe love?



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Over at the Tea Farm, which was astounding to witness.
The green was too overwhelming I felt like I was in a box pfft.

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Upon exploration of the teafarm
Walking up the slopes reminded me of the times when I was in Seoul, I had to walk up long steep slopes everyday pfft.

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Cute caterpillar



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Ze emperess Grandmama with her Dynasty cover teehee



You know, everything about Cameron Highlands is good. Fresh air, fresh trees, fresh corn, fresh fruit. But if there was one thing that I find (a little) scary in Cameron, its the flowers. Flowers are everywhere and they are available in all types of colours! I used to find them pretty because I've never seen turqouise roses pfft but now its so stressfull to look at them. It's like a flower overrated area pfft.


But guess what was staring at me the whole journey back down KL?

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OH HAI IZ ME!
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좋아하는 연예인은 지겨주지못해서 기분이 묘하다.
보이컷을 반대하신분들 ,이제서야 알면 늦었다. 모든게 확정되였으며 누구탓이라 할수없다. 이렇게 감상하는 연예인 없었는데 다시 올순없어서 안타깝다.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Recalculation

Where: Ginny's Uncle's House, Cheras
When: 17th February 2010
What: Ginny's 20th Birthday
With : Fishball Clan + Boyfriends (-2), Sri Gardeners


EmoGirl's birthday falls on the 18th officially but because dear Sean had to leave for Aussieland the same day so we had it brought forward. Not that it was any use anyway, since he never made it for the whole day and I only got to see him for 5 seconds while leaving a little past midnight on the 18th at the shisha place.

Buts its okay Sean, we still sayang you.


Anyways, EmoGirl came kidnap me from the beginning of the day. We caught Percy Jackson after having a scrumptious meal in Sushi King (which is apparently the only nice Sushi King in town, is that true?). I like to ask and comment during movies but stupid EmoGirl was leaning towards boyfriend so much it felt like I was sitting next to no one pfft. Turn my head then can see PDA only.

After the movie we were just in time for our karaoke session that we booked for. Finally came dinner time in Ulu Klang. Thai food it is and the journey descending to the restaurant was a freaky one (despite the number of times I've been there) because Jess and EmoGirl claimed they saw things at the same time. The place is kind of hollowish and dark with no lights but if it leads to good food, we can't help it!

We then wrapped the day up by letting the Ming Dangs (translation: lanterns pfft) off at the Look Out Point but there wasn't a spot for us to do it so we adjourned to EmoGirl's uncle's place. For those who doesnt know, Ming Dang's are usually lanterns that floats up the sky and we usually like to write our wishes on in hoping that it'll come true.

I've only got pictures from that night so here are some!

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Emo Girl

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Fishball Clan : EmoGirl, Hsin Ye, Vivien, Nat

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The rest of the lot (minus Arthur, EmoGirl's VIP)

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Hsio Hua and Eric waiting for the lantern to get filled



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So sad : I wrote my wish only on the yellow one and guess what happened
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The [only] one I wrote on didn't make it up to the sky /emo/





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We had 3 lanterns, one didn't make it up and landed at the neighbours house.
We spent so much time contemplatin if we should go collect it incase it starts burning the neighbours area. Apparently by the time we got down the neighbour was already awake and splashing the fire with water pfft

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1/2 of Fishball Clan, Eric, EmoGirl's VIP Arthur
I skipped the next one and it flew high high up le sigh


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Sad Taufu :(


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Skinny Jess wt Hsiao Hua (Small Flower)

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Running Up Escalators


Where: Pavillion, KL
When: 9th February 2010
What: CNY Gathering
With: Unbalanced Community

was out with the college people on the third day of CNY in KL - which was quite rare. just a quick lunch and brief introductory of the Yee Sang to our Zharif Nisar!


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(L-R) Amanda, Ivy, Jackie
(L-R) Francisca, Nat, Eric, Zhaf


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Yee Sang


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Got to take picture of special moment, minus my face pfft.


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Skipped over to BR31 for some tooth sweetening


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Zhaf, Jeremy and Francisca


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Francisca holding on to leaving Ivy, whom she adores to death.




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Finally a group picture, this time additionally with Keith (in orange) who came later with an unindentified "cousin"

On the Mountains

Hello!

The internet was down before I left for Cameron Highlands (again!) two days ago, but it magically came back. I have a few pending posts and most probably going to update later.

Cameron was reaaaaaaaaally cold by the way

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Gong Hee Fatt Choi : CNY #1

Hello hello.

First day of CNY kicked off with so much food, noise and most of all : HEAT!

but finally I have some photos up and coming from the day, if not all I could've blogged about was my meals. Truthfully, if there was only one thing that I'd be in envy of the smart-phone users would be the fact that they can Tweet Pic instantly! I have so many Tweet Pic moments but I come home and forget all about it. Well, actually even if I do - there pretty much not as exciting as when it first happened to tweet about after all.

Le sigh.


Anyways this is going to be a decent post, from before CNY until today (Chor 1)


::RANDOM BACKDATED PHOTOS::

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Over at EmoGirl's playing with 2/4 of her overprotective dogs.
Note overprotective not overprotected. Whenever EmoGirl goes to bed, her dogs will stand guard outside her door and attack any interferer. /Horror/



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Korean Kimchi Soup for breakfast one fine Saturday.
I normally like to put in a layer of cheese but the mom and brother never wants to try it.
trust me, kimchi+cheese are meant for each other.

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Panda Candy : Aren't you amazed at the fabulous design!
It's sold at the night markets, credits to the one who came up with this.
For those who didnt notice, the wrapper's just printed with the features of the panda, the white candy itself makes up for the rest of its body.

Crazily smart, no?


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Where: Dynasty, Renaissance Hotel
When: 14th February 2010 (CNY Eve)
What: Family Reunion Dinner
With : Chai Family

It's funny cause I never really took any pictures that night! Just my face, a dish, my face again thats all! /shocking/ Then again it must be the room's temperature that made all of us just want to leave the place asap. But the food was good no doubt.


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Gambar tipu.
Takda photoshop la, but I think I don't normally look so normal and.....calm pfft.


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Nick's creativity, which surprisingly is to my liking

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Sweet and Sour fish : One of the best dishes for the night :))



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Where: Gramma's, Taman Midah
When: 15th February 2010, CNY Day 1
What: CNY Meet Up
With: Extended family members

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All about CNY : Red, Gold, Oranges, Incense Sticks

1. Gramma's table setting for the ancestors with crazy Lucky as kelefeh pfft.
I'm tellling you, its the only pet dog in the world that nobody should go near pfft. But one thing special about it is that it can hand gesture Gong Xi Fa Cai! It's the only thing it does!

2. HUGE pot of crysanthemum we were all surprised to be welcomed by at the entrance.

3. Just to show you around Gramma's house : It's always has this CNY vibe pfft

4. Dui mian de Alien kan guo lai



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Oleng so ke ai, bukan?


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All of us preparing before everybody comes.
I just love the extended table at my Gramma's because its so family oriented!
I grew up with this table (because I used to live here!)

And this very kitchen is the scene of my ear loss fall. I think I haven't talked about this!
I illustrated a comic about it but thought it was too ugly I dumped everything pfft.

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I love Gramma's star fetish


ANYWAYS, guess what is it that almost EVERYBODY is looking forward to in general during festive seasons like Chinese New Year?!


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Kaching : The only thing that we see the moment we walk in $_$
My Gramma's mahjong container so vintage ya?


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Charlieyea, Dad, Emily and I playing.
I won three games so far woohoo but sedihnya didn't bring any extra kaching home because I lost more than I won pfft.


Look at how we play Mahjong!
Suek Mei first started by fengshui attacking us by drawing some fork shaped thing in order to 'fork us down', so Yumei drew this fengshui bachi thing teehee.


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Chai Yu Mei bermodel sendiri.
I bet she was the last person who slept on the precious squeaky white tiles because it all cracked at the end of the reunion, after 80% of the poeple left! I suppose the heat was really getting to it.

Yes, the tiles all cracked and burst pfft.
Show you gambar nanti kat bawah.


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While waiting for more food
Something wrong with your eyes ah, Gardener Nat?



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credits : SuekMei's Twitter

Lo and behold itu cracked tilefloor.
It has now all burst and cracked, the whole floor plan. This picture was taken at the 2nd session.
The first happened when we were all over at Ju Koon's.


A good few years back I was sleeping in this very living room alone on the chair, when I suddenly heard weird eerie noises below me. I thought it was a cat I didn't dare breath or move because I thought it'd attack me. Just before I wanted to cry for help it started cracking bilibalabilibala with tile bits running all over underneath my chair and it spread to where I could see.

My mom thought I broke something she came up sudah bergear untuk berlessonkan saya, until she saw the tragedy pfft.



This is so 2012.


/gulp/