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Oh Hi There

2012-02-10T06:19:00.003+08:00

My last post was two months ago, if you exclude the post i deleted from my blog thanks to the biggest jerk on earth who's really unworthy of anyone's knowledge and curiosity and my frustration. I have the biggest heart in the world :')

Was too lazy to update about my life and everything simply because too much has been going on and I'm still lazy to update.

If you haven't known already I'm the biggest procrastinator on earth and to distract myself from eating when I do procrastinate instead of studying, and also to eternalise the rare-but-not-so-rare moments I feel somewhat pretty, I succumb to Photobooth. Oh how I love Photobooth! :')

Everyone's telling me my hair's grown really long. Okay what!

Oh yes see I've been procrastinating so much I even left my bed unmade.

How am i? I'm good I'm good, same old same old, I'll survive. As I'm typing now it's snowing for the second time for London. Not looking forward to the next morning when the grounds get really slippery. Oh and did i mention I turned 20?

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME YOU'RE LIKE A 20-YEAR-OLD OLD HAG NOW BUT YOU WERE STILL THE YOUNG 19-YEAR-OLD JUST TWO MONTHS AGO!!

I can't wait for winter to just end and spring! Oh glorious spring! Please make me happy by coming sooner <3

Okay that's it! The only update I have is : I have a test tomorrow which I, if am still procrastinating at this rate, am going to fail and I CANNOT afford to fail!

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-10T06:38:00.011+08:00

Old hair in my room at home

Current hair in my room at hall

Thank goodness my auntie waves tamed down!

I think when I go back Msia during summer, I shall go back to silky straight hair. What do you think? Should I?

Daddy was in came to London from Frankfurt few weeks back to visit me :)

Sippin' hot chocolate with mint, complemented by sandwich at Costa at Camden Town

Daddy and his beer belly

So happy that he brought me Manuka honey, red bean, barli, milo etc to cure my homesickness! :D

Malaysian dinner at Sarah's hall at Linstead Hall, Imperial College London

My Singaporean ex-hallmates moved out into their own flat and we had a small gathering at Jia Le's lovely flat!

Yummy desserts! in my bowl from Chinatown lol

Chow mein and ABC soup!

Jia Le, I, Siyu and Chhavi

London has this really festive vibe even months before Christmas. Every year, a themepark is set up at Hyde Park - 'Winter Wonderland'. It's a really big themepark, not those small-scaled, plastic-made funfairs like we have in Carrefour, Kota Kemuning. And those decorations! I felt like a little girl all over again!

Went to Winter Wonderland with my coursemates :)

Candy floss with Payal

Brits call it candy floss instead of cotton candy

Isn't this breathtaking :')

With huge ass snowman with kids jumping around inside it.

Coursemates Payal and Sohaila infront of Marble Arch

In my course, well actually all other courses, we were assigned mentors who are second-years/third-years to help us through our fresher's year from anything academic to personal issues. My mentors, Radu and Prav are really nice and brilliant biochemists. They helped us alot in our tutorials, giving us tips about taking notes, lecturers and stuff.

Since it's Christmas month, Radu was awesome enough to have organised an ice-skating outing for my mentor group!

Somerset House just right beside King's College London

Radu, coursemates Julie and Lukasz

coursemates Sohaila and Sherry

By the time we're finished it was 4.30pm-ish so it's almost dark already =.=

It wasn't really cheap to ice-skate, albeit gorgeous view. I paid £9.60 for an hour session with an additional of 50 pence for bag deposit. So that's RM50.50 for an hour of ice-skating. Comparing to Pyramid, we pay below RM20 for a whole day of ice-skating lol.

But it was really fun! Since we're biochemists, I called ourselves individual amino acids and when we joined hands to help each other, I call us dipeptides/tripeptides!

One thing about studying in UK, or at least in UCL, is that the seniors put in alot of effort organising social outings. Almost every club organise clubbing sessions, lecturers expect us to get drunk and go clubbing. UCL has a weekly clubbing event held on every Monday at Piccadilly Circus ; Sports night on Wednesdays when all the sports societies gather at the UCLUnion bar to drink after their respective trainings, and everyone heads to a bar club, Roxy afterwards.

Of course I couldn't afford to party every week, but as a member of UCLU Cheerleading Society, I did attend a couple of sport's nights.

At Roxy's with Lightning.

Cecilia and Lissa

Robyn, Angela, I, Cecelia and president Chloe

And of course we had a Christmas dinner!

Cheermas dinner at Spaghetti House just by Goodge Street station

I was tremendously intrigued by the brown things with ribbons- 'crackers' on the table. Apparently we wait until everyone's at the table, everyone holds a cracker with their neighbours, and pulls them. The crackers contained a slip with quotes and jokes, paper crown and if you're lucky enough, small ornaments! The best prize was a cheese grater! Lucky! I got a wooden dice :D

The other table. We had nearly 30 people showed up! Talk about cheer spirit.

My roast Norfolk turkey, braised cabbage, pancetta, chestnuts & sage stuffing

Ellie and I

Dessert! chocolate, caramel and amaretti pot

It was a really nice dinner, I had a great time! :) Before rushing to Malaysian Night practice lol.

It was UCL Malaysian Society's annual clubbing event! Arabian themed 'A Thousand and One Nights' at The Valmont Club on Fulham Road.

These people are mental! They set the bar on fire!!

The seniors really went all out. They got a fire performer! A sexy fire performer!!

They even got a snake into the club! Had they gone nuts??

Anyone wants to replace the snake with themselves? lol

With Elaine

The dudes

Snuck into the private booths for a picture with E Yang and Philip!

'I'm Ms. Lifestyle over rich and famous' hahaha

Chem eng people

With Nazran and Anas at the Christmassy UCL Main Quad after MNight practice

Dear 2011, you've been cruel and long and dreadful for the first half of the year. You gave me terrible eyebags and stress and anti-socialness. But oh dear 2011, how amazing have you been since my last A2 paper ended on 6th June. I've been having wonderful days everyday since. In a blink of an eye, I've worked for 2 wonderful months; I've been in London for two and a half exciting months. I've never felt so much love from my friends and family.

I thank you for all the precious memories, you're the best epitome of 'hardship first, yield afterwards'. I've achieved one of my biggest goals in life this year <3

Till 2012.

A November to Remember

2011-11-16T06:13:00.011+08:00

Merry Early Christmas!

In case you're wondering what those cute things are, they're hand-knitted bottle-cap covers! One comes with every bottle of Innocent smoothies you buy in support of AGE UK! Innocent smoothies are my absolute favourite! :) What's better than indulging in your favourite fruit smoothies, staying healthy while supporting a good cause?! UK's full of win-win situation opportunities like this :) not like Msia dont have la okeh lol

In convention to Deepavali, though everyone else here calls it Diwali, the UCL Malaysian Society organised an Indian buffet feast! The society subsidised part of the cost so each of us only had to pay £5! For a buffet!

Here's my plate omgosh first time eating so full since I came here. Though it's a vegetarian restaurant, the food was pretty satisfying!

EeLynne and I outside the restaurant- Diwana

Unfortunately it was raining that night, and freeeeezing!

Tiffany and I :)

Yummy mango ice-cream dessert! Very indulging :)

Oxford Street shopping!

Anxin and i, also with YanGen and Joey

The UCL Music Society Symphony Orchestra rehearsing at Holy Trinity Church at Sloane Street.

I performed in this church singing in the Symphony Chorus with the orchestra. We performed Haydn's Harmonimesse. The feeling of singing such a classical piece in the traditional church is just magnificent!

Long, pink limo near the church

Maggie came and watch Jia Ern and I sing!

Ki Yip, EeRen, Tiff, Xie Yin came to watch too!

with Jia Ern and Steph before performance

Hallmates Jean and Sam came too! Great support <3

Piccadilly Circus on Halloween weekend

During reading week, I visited my babe Tze Yee at Warwick. I went on a Thursday because my class finished at 12pm and I don't have classes on Friday!

Dinner at a nice bar restaurant at Coventry

My steak with scampi!

Birthday boy Jun Yi gets a picture with all the girls

The boys

Tze Yee has a hotel-like bedroom with hotel-like en suite bathroom :((

Camwhoring after waking up while babe's gone to lecture lol

Babe's hall Jack Martin I. So pleasant!

In the bus to city centre!

It took me an hour and a half to arrive at Coventry but it took me 3 whole hours to get back to London after my 3D2N stay at Warwick!!

I was exhausted when i finally arrived home. Everyone was waiting for me to come back because we promised Chhavi a belated birthday dinner!

So frustrated with all the train terminations and halfway-stops and delays :((

Indian food at Masala Zone :)

My prawn thali!

Dinner with hallmates Chhavi, Thea, Kelvin and Jia Le :)

Jia Le, Chhavi and I having pizza for breakfast by the river at Camden Market!

Check out the seats

The UCL Malaysian freshers bunch had a dinner session at my hall :)

Our food! I cooked the ABC soup and herbal tea eggs :D

Proud anot??!

Waiting to dig in

Part of the dishes waiting to be washed thanks to some pampered boys lol

Alyssa, Chhavi whom I invited to have a taste of our food :D, me, EeLynne and Elaine

End of reading week:

Went to Nottingham for the annual Nottingham Malaysian Games!

The UCLU badminton team :)

Tharman, Anxin, Chee Yong, Philip and I

Yes, I was in the badminton team =.=

I only signed up less than one week before the day so i only trained once!

And I have NEVER competed badminton before!

I've always played doubles and i had to compete in singles T.T

I felt pressured to have my first competitive badminton game in the Notts games. The Notts games is a pretty big event, and the standard of badminton players there is just insane. The matches were no less exciting than the Lin Dan vs Lee Chong Wei matches we see on TV!

But everyone's been so encouraging and supportive of me joining the women's singles, probably because there wasn't anyone else eligible enough (not like I'm eligible anyway). And since I get £3 off transportation for going as a player compared to going as a 'spectator', I decided to take up this opportunity and valuable experience.

True enough, I lost my first match, barely close to being a tough game. But overall I found the experience eye-opening. I felt really honoured to be able to represent my university (or the Malaysians in my university) to compete in a highly popular sport among Malaysians.

When the MSoc sports captain gave his accrediting speech in the bus, he said my opponent praised me for being sporting. I felt really undeserving and yet flattered by the credits I was given, but I do felt that I should keep improving my skills, and try again next year :)

Picturesque scenery in the University of Nottingham

Another thing I loved about the Notts Games is there was a Malaysian Food Festival in the University of Nottingham!!

All kinds of Malaysian food were sold at reasonable price (relatively to UK prices) to satisfy the homesickness and tastebuds of Malaysian students from all around UK.

Being an all-time Assam Laksa fan, I couldnt stop myself from indulging in a bowl of the yummy Malaysian delicacy consisting of springy rice noodles, soaked in the sour, tangy and rich fish broth with fish chunks, sweet pineapple cubes, crunchy onion rings, refreshing cucumber strips and aromatic mint leaves, with a touch of lime juice.

As I describe, I can feel myself salivating already :'( In fact, I was so obsessed with Assam Laksa, I had two bowls of it and didn't bother trying any other Malaysian food sold at the festival. £5 for a bowl, so £10 for two bowls. That's RM50 for two bowls of Assam Laksa.

...

Well...I know it's bad :( But i was like '5 pounds, 10 pounds I also pay already lah for Assam Laksa!!!'

It didn't quite taste the same as what we have in Malaysia, but it was so much better than what i had at Malaysian Night at Trafalgar Square for the same price. So i was really satisfied!

Some of the stalls selling various Malaysian delicacies

Watching an action-packed basketball game. Imperial College London vs. University of Warwick!

One of the very exciting matches of badminton

Probably one of the best thing about Notts games is the opportunity to catch up with old friends :)

Jessica and I! Though she's at Imperial, which is quite near UCL =.=

Reunite with quite a number of college friends, high school friends and even a primary school friend!

Sean bringing pride to UCL by snatching Scrabble Champion gold medal with much ease.

Being an international scrabble champion, he replied that it was a pretty easy game when I asked him about the difficulty at Notts games. Way to go, Sean! :)

Till then,

if I survive winter.

London - The Vibrant City

2011-10-22T04:49:00.006+08:00

Hello! Make you hungry with a picture of dinner I cooked today :D

My signature 'dump-it-all' soup, chicken (marinated with oyster sauce) and spaghetti. A low fat, balanced and hearty dinner! Who wants to hire me as personal chef hahaha

My parents must be delighted because I eat super healthily now, and i rarely eat out. So i save LOADS of money. Eating out at London is certainly not the best option around. The relatively cheap options are mostly not very satisfying in terms of the quality of taste. And did I mention that the Japanese fast food here sucks??

An interesting view at the park infront of Euston Station

Someone got UCL statues some clothes haha!

keeping them warm maybe

On the bridge overlooking River Thames with my housemates after watching an orchestra!

London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall, Waterloo

The orchestra was really good! We paid 4pounds each and the seats were pretty good! What a bargain! The suckiest and cheapest seats (those behind the orchestra) were said to cost 9 pounds! :) Being a student is awesome

At Equinox, an event organised by King's College London's Malaysian and Singaporean Society, at Funky Buddha Club, Mayfair

Rahman and I in the bus with trenchcoat and blazer looking like mafia! jeng jeng jeng :P

Party animals

M&M's store at Leicester Square. Those are ALL M&Ms haha.

Went IKEA-shopping with Tiffany and Rahman! Our buys.

What? Of course I had IKEA's meatballs!!! :D

Wembley Park Stadium. Dream destination of most, if not all, football fans.

Shopping at Primark! The items were crazy cheap!! Even after convertinggggg :DD

Chinatown with housemates, being cliche and bought fortune cookies haha.

After Four Seasons for dinner

Fresher's Ball with housemates at Ministry of Sound Club, Elephant and Castle.

My babe Tze Yee came down to London from Warwick over the weekend and spent a night at my place! Kelly came from Cardiff too! :) We had Four Seasons at Chinatown (yes again haha). I had Four Seasons for four times already since I'm here. Yes the roast duck was that good. But duck fat occupied i think 95% of the amount of fat I've consumed since I came to London. No joke!! LOL

I myself am going to Warwick in two weeks to unwind from the city buzz! :)

Looking forward to it

Till my next post (when I'm bored and semangat)

Hello from London!

2011-09-27T05:33:00.003+08:00

Greetings from Camden, London!

Yes I am now officially a UCL undergraduate student, studying Bsc Biochemistry.

I departed and arrived on 21st September after an excruciating 13-hour long direct flight from KLIA to Heathrow airport. I loved long flights because that means I can have plane food because eating plane food feels posh. Hahaha doesnt make any sense. But I HAVE to admit - 13 hours of sitting in the plane is way too torturing, especially when you're not sitting beside the aisle. I had to wait until my bladder was going to burst before guiltily ask the lady sitting beside me if I could get out.

Dear sky, please pour money-rain for me so I can afford business/first class seats next time, thank you very much.

It was a Wednesday morning when I flew, so few managed to come to send me off. Of those who were sweet enough to come were Jerry, Frank and Emirul :) Emirul even gave me a Malaysian Airline teddy bear because he's an aspiring pilot and because he's got into MAS! *Proud. Next time I shall have free flight tickets from Captain Emirul :D

My room's pretty good actually. And because my hall is in Camden which is a bit far from UCL and I'm self-catering, my rent is relatively cheaper than most of my friends. Although Camden can be a bit dodgy and it's highly populated by goths and foreigners from Eastern Europe, it's very much a self-contained town. I can basically find everything i need here, with cheaper prices.

My room does not have an attached toilet. But there's a basin, wardrobe, bookshelf, sofa, desk, cabinet and a polystyrene board for sticking notes with thumbtacks. So it's quite well-furnished and cosy. The kitchen's quite pleasant too, although the fridge is over-stored with food like milk, frozen food, cereal etc. My mum was more pampered than I am LOL. She entered the room and started complaining when I was just like 'Oh, this is okay'. She stayed with me for 6 days, cooking, cleaning and unpacking for me :D Then I sent her off at Heathrow.

Gosh I have so much to tell! I havent been updating my blog the past month or so because I was so busy with buying clothes and other necessities. I was also very occupied with hanging out with friends and having farewell meals with them. Miss all my friends so much! <3

I have loads to say but I'm not a person who blogs alot unless there is something worth writing about for memory. So, do follow me on Twitter www.twitter.com/khaichengk for daily updates and I assure you I will flood your timeline with my face and my tweets ;)

On with the pictures!

I know, what's with the hair. LOL. I know my old hair looks much nicer but I don't care. My current hairstyle requires really low maintenance and it's gonna last me a year before i go back Msia for cheap haircuts again.

So, behind me are my fellow Msian freshers and senior. We had an on-foot tour from UCL to Chinatown. Of course, I was blur and didn't know where everywhere was, but I am now starting to get myself familiarised with the UK transportation system and where the famous spots like Chinatown, Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square are.

This is not a museum. This is UCL's main library. UCL has 12 libraries if I'm not mistaken. And yes, they have a statue IN the library. UCL is such a historical place, it's almost like a museum itself. It feels amazing to know that I'm a junior of great people like Mahatma Ghandhi, Alexander Graham Bell, Coldplay and loads more.

UCL is like a fusion of history and modernisation, because although the university is historical, they educate their students with a modern mind and culture.

Malaysian Night at Trafalgar Square. There were stalls selling Malaysian food like the famous nasi lemak, roti canai, teh tarik, curry laksa and so on! Behind me are people enjoying our Malaysian cuisine in front of the National Gallery.

I couldn't resist, I'm too huge of an assam laksa fan to pass this. This assam laksa costed me 5 pounds, about 5 times more expensive than it costs in Msia. But you know, just to satisfy my craving for my own home cuisine ;)

Behind me is the famous Buckingham Palace! Just nearly half a year ago this place was crowded with people witnessing the Royal Wedding uniting Prince William and Kate Middleton. My mum is a terrible photographer, i was suppose to jump but I like the failed attempt picture here! :)

Mum and I shopping for souvenirs near Trafalgar Square. Of course, the Royal Wedding is one of the best souvenirs for this year.

Had roasted duck rice at the famous Four Seasons at Chinatown! The soymilk is orgasmic omgosh...

Inverness Market at Camden Town, opposite Camden Town Market. Not that exciting, the clothes are mostly vintage or gothic LOL

Buckingham Palace!

Till my next entry.

(Brits' way of signing off LOL)

A Levels results OUT!

2011-08-17T22:24:00.000+08:00

Oh yes! A Levels results have been released last Thursday via online.

I wasn't thinking too much of my results prior to the release. I was occupied and contented and busy with working. Everyday, I wake up at 7.10am, go to work, reach home at 5.30, and go on FB/Twitter/ watch Gossip Girl. This is my current routine and I'm very contented. So I didn't have too much free time to worry over my results.

To be honest I sort of had a somewhat 99% confidence in obtaining straight As, unless things came out of the ordinary. The real question was how many A* would I have gotten.

Still, it could not stop me from not sleeping well a night before. Knowing the results will be released 7am Malaysian time, I woke up constantly in the middle of the night hoping it was already 7am in the morning. I put my laptop on hibernate mode and beside my bed so that I can log in the moment I wake up. When it finally hit 7am, I checked my results without even brushing teeth first.

As expected, the website had crashed. I continued checking until 8am when I was supposed to be at office already. Eventually I gave up and rushed to work and decided to check at work instead.

I reached work, ate breakfast, and attempted to check again. I couldnt load the website because apparently i typed the website address incorrectly =.= talk about being blur.

Finally at about 9.30am, I got it. And here it is

Chemistry A* 96

Biology A* 94

Psychology A* 92

Mathematics A 85

Figures are percentile, not score.

So yes! I've gotten 3A* and 1A! I was overjoyed. I was hoping for 2A* 2A with A* being Psychology and Maths. I had no idea my Chem and Bio would be my best subjects. Oh well, proves I made the right choice doing Biochemistry! :D

I'm a little unsatisfied about my Maths being A. I was almost confident in getting an A*! But it doesnt really matter since I'm doing Biochem :) How nice would it have been if it had followed the trend- Maths A* 90% lol. Just saying.

So UCL it is!

Excited ♥

How I spent my weekends!

2011-08-16T19:46:00.006+08:00

Yup, another fully booked weekend with great companion, great food and great ambiance :D

Friday night! Eu Gene, Tze Hao, Sabrina, Sam and YokePei came to my house for a colourful-themed potluck party!

Eu Gene and Tze Hao cooked the lasagna while YokePei chipped in because the ingredients costed them over RM100!! Super semangat :D

Sam did spaghetti bolognese, Sab made Chickpea salad (which I love!) and lemon yoghurt cupcakes (which I also love!!). I made garden salad, mango juice and contributed a bottle of wine :)

Definitely a successful potluck! We had appetisers, main course, dessert and beverages! And we got to practise our cooking skills for uni life in the future LOL

Sabrina wearing my blue top! (supposedly dress but I guess she's too tall for it to be a dress haha) and my jeans! Hahaha

YP sleptover at my house :D

The next morning, WenZhi came to learn to bake ROFLMAO.

WenZhi and YP

products of our sweat and tears ♥

The least creative ones are WenZhi's hahaha

Moist chocolate cupcakes topped with white cream and decorated with piping jelly.

I'm a proud baking teacher! :D

Later in the afternoon, YP and I set off to our weekend getaway spot ♥

In the car. I drove us to Gold Coast Resort, Pantai Morib at Banting. I had printed directions of Google Maps because YP is a terrible navigator haha! Turns out it wasn't necessary! I didn't get lost even a single bit! Thanks to mummy for briefing me on how to look at signboards prior to our trip :) She was surprised that I arrived so early and without getting lost when I called to tell her we're safe lol.

Spot my bolster!! ♥ ♥ Brought laptop to watch movies/Gossip Girl incase we got bored :D

Arrived!!

Headed to Tanjung Sepat for early dinner after cleaning our room

Yau Mak with Lam Yue

TeoChew-style steamed fish

The restaurant's delicacy- Tofu soup. I'm surprised I didn't get lost finding this restaurant too! Been here a few times with the family

Took a walk on The Lover's Bridge just adjacent to the restaurant

Awesome possum!! haha

We took alot more pictures actually, obviously. haha. A good 300+ pictures of just the two of us, in two days :D

The bathtub! Jacuzzi for two!

Changed into our bikinis! Headed for the beach to watch the sunset!

We sat in the shallow water, watching the bright reddish yellow sun set into the horizon. Before we could see the sun set fully, our tranquility was disturbed by a bunch of young adults yelling at us 'Leng Lui!!' First, we super perasan-ly thought they were teasing at us or something. Turned out our clothes and slippers had almost been swept away by the gentle waves!

Felt quite embarrassing, but helped them took a group photo to repay their kindness haha.

The pantry, we bought some bread for breakfast and mee cup for supper. Mum stocked some milo, cups and bowls and cereal the last time she came :)

The room!

In the morning, we woke up and went to the beach! I brought us Cleo and Glamour magazines to glamourously read by the beach, enjoying the scenery

A small water themepark built with charge. It looks like a mini Sunway Lagoon.

YP bathed and changed!

Me too! :)

Drove back to Kota Kemuning for duck drumstick noodles at PunChun for late lunch! ♥

The trip was perfect. I had a great time driving on the road because the roads weren't like the busy roads I drive on everyday. It was almost like I was in another country. The roads were clear, the weather cloudy, trees along the road. Even the sky's brighter. I think this is the furthest destination I've ever driven too thusfar! haha

Our room was really comfortable. We had a really good night sleep. We watched Gossip Girl episodes back to back! While sipping milo and eating mee cup :D *bliss!!!!!!!

It was very very low budget too! We only paid for food, we paid about RM30 each for the entire trip.

The only price we paid for the resort, however, was having to endure the itch from sandfly bites. I'm not talking about one or two bites, I have about 20 bites on each of my legs. And they itch excruciatingly every single day a few days after the trip. My legs look pretty damn terrible. (I posted a couple of pictures of my legs on FB lol)

Our hypothesis was that the resort had added artificial sand onto the beach, causing sandflies to breed. Can I sue the resort?? I mean, they must know of the presence of sandflies! They could have warned the guests!

But it was a price worth paying :) I had a great time with the BFF!

Boy's Night Out

2011-07-30T14:57:00.005+08:00

It was my 'boy's night out'. Ben recommended us to this place : Betty Midwest Kitchen at Aman Suria, Damansara. I was reluctant at first because Ben has the worst taste in the world (most of the time) haha. And I wasn't fond of fatty, artery-clogging American cuisine.

So Kel drove Lex, Ben, Ed and I when I met them after work.

A plethora of framed posters of pigs on the wall of the laid-back, warm and inviting restaurant. I was surprised the restaurant was full when we got there around 6.30pm.

Kel and Lex had Pork Chop in Country Gravy. It was orgasmic!! The gravy and the juicy pork and oh my gosh.. the creamy mashed potatoes!!

Apple crumble with vanilla ice cream. This is also very good!

Opted for a less fattening (comparatively) dish, Bacon and Tomato Spaghetti. It doesn't look very promising but it tasted great! It's very homey and its definitely something my mum would cook! Yummy :)

Didn't take a picture of Ed and Ben's cheeseburger! But the pork was good

We then drove to Jaya One for a couple pints of Hoegaarden at Brussels.

Headed back to Subang and called it a day.

I drove and parked my car at Matt's, Nicholas and Daniel picked us up to hang out!

Matt, Daniel and Nicholas

Beer Factory at Sunway Giza.

Does lemon help in recovering soberness? haha!

Most beer I've ever drunk thus far. LOL. Four of us drained a tower of Tiger and 6 pints of Kilkenny down our stomachs. And that was the exact dose we needed to kick some ass upstairs!

I didn't know Beer Factory had a 'club' upstairs haha. I had a great time introducing the boys to random girls while pestering them to dance with random girls. I still can't believe I danced in my sports shoes (I forgot to bring my heels, and Nicholas had gave me a short notice of the hang out lol)

Boys gone wild and childish haha!

What a night! So much for 'hanging out'.

Had late supper at McD's and headed home with my hair smelling like ciggy smoke.

Dilemma

2011-07-25T18:20:00.003+08:00

I'm currently facing some dilemma on my university applications. I believe this is good information for those applying to overseas universities in the future.

First, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to boast or anything, just you know, this is my blog and I want to record all my opinions and experiences, so I'm not writing to be judged.

So far I've applied to these universities:

* University College London (Firm choice, conditional)

* University of Bristol (Insurance choice, conditional)

* University of Sheffield

* King's College London

* University of Nottingham

* University of Melbourne (Conditional offer)

* University of Hong Kong (Unconditional offer)

* National University Singapore (Unknown yet)

I've declined those unbolded, because UCAS (for UK universities) limits you to accept one firm and one insurance choices.

So far, all but NUS have given me offers. Or maybe NUS did? But received no emails from them up to date. I don't expect an offer from NUS because I did badly in SAT I, though quite well in SAT II. I needed to take SATs for my application to NUS because I had applied with forecast results. If i were to wait for actual results, my intake would be a year later.

My first choice is definitely UCL. Despite Bristol being a tremendously beautiful town, with serenity and yet happening-ness, security yet freedom, I couldn't let my ambitiousness give UCL up. This is just me, I cannot let myself do things I will regret. Sure, I'll be happy and contented with life in Bristol, but I know I will live with a sense of regret of rejecting the best I could have gotten. Besides, I know I'm a city girl. London seems like a place I can get everything I need.

The dilemma I'm facing now is, I've just received and email from HongKongU offering me an unconditional offer with an entrance scholarship of HKD 90k, equivalent to about RM34.4k. Deducting my scholarship from tuition fee, my total tuition fee at HKU would be far less than half of my UCL tuition fee. Not taking living costs into calculation yet. UCL's in London, you can imagine how much the living expenses can cost.

So when I've done with work today, I popped into Daddy's office to tell him the 'good' news. He convinced me to reconsider my decision, stressing that I should not include the fact that I've bought my airtickets to London into consideration. I told Daddy, I'm already mentally prepared for London, not even anywhere else. I can't convince myself to settle for anything less than what I'm aiming for, especially I have total confidence in achieving UCL's offer grade requirements, which is AAA at least. But throughout our conversation, he couldnt hide his proud smile :) When I got home and told Mummy the news, she knew I'm determined and ambitious, so she said, just decline if I knew I would regret it in the future.

I probably would reconsider and be less ambitious if my family had been less financially supportive of my education overseas. I would reconsider if I hadn't gotten such good grades in AS (my grades were good to me at least). I would definitely reconsider if I hadn't been so ambitious to get the best I could get. I would definitely reconsider if I hadn't taken my parents' support of my education as a loan which I'll repay in terms of supporting my brother's education in the future. I would seriously reconsider if I had done a different and more expensive course like medicine or dentistry which neither am I interested in (my parents should be grateful of that, I constantly reminded them of it).

Though I'm determined to enter UCL, I have Plan B, Plan C, Plan D and all other plans to ensure I can still pursue my education at one of the top universities in the world. My Melbourne U offer lasts till October, so plenty of time. Even so, I can still easily get myself admitted to other universities in New Zealand and Aussie in case my results don't come out as expected, plenty of time.

Why not the US? I'm afraid the US is too far for my parents' liking. Besides, applying to top US universities is one of the biggest hassles in the world! (Exaggerating maybe). You have to take SATs, get reference letters from peers/mentors, write essays and all sorts of shit. I didn't score well in SAT I so I know I wouldnt stand a chance. And besides, I like the sophisticated UK better.

To prove how much I like UK over US, if you realise, I always spelled my words the UK way, instead of the usual US spelling. For an example, I always type 'realise' instead of 'realize', despite the red zigzag-ish line underneath my UK-spelled words. No zigzag-ish lines! I'll stick to the UK way! Maybe it's because I had studied English at Cambridge English For Life Centre.

One more reason why I choose UK over US is, US education system requires students to take elective subjects totally unrelated to the course you're taking. Like if you're doing Engineering, you can take Music or Business or something like that. I understand that it's a good system, or else US won't have more universities in the TOP 10 World University Ranking than any other nations. It's also useful because you can't be stuck doing the same job your whole life, you need to venture into other fields and be a multi-tasker to succeed in your career. But to me, I would see these electives as a waste of time and money. I mean, if I have the interest in doing Music, I wouldnt want to have to study for it, to sit for an exam and stuff. I can just join a Music Club, you get what I mean? So, I like the old-fashioned UK system better. But that's just me. I have juniors telling me ' I'm love science but I'm more of an art person', so she switched to American Degree Programme from A Levels. Good for her!

Conclusion is, everyone has different needs and opinions. Only you know yourself best. Know what you want and strive towards it. People can advise you and provide you knowledge on your options, but ultimately you should be the one making the decision because you're gonna be stuck in that course and that university for 3 years at least. Of course, if you can afford it financially.

The Long Goodbye

2011-07-24T16:00:00.004+08:00

Last night, I sang to 'The Long Goodbye' by Ronan Keating when we were at KLIA, sending dear Justin off to cold Melbourne.

I didn't send him when he first left earlier this year, so this is the second time everyone else in HairWhip bid Justin farewell. This is the first time I have sent someone off at the airport too!

Us with Justin and Kenn, who is also returning to MelU. We were glad because Justin had a companion to keep him entertained on board :)

Hair Whip.

I miss Justin already! :(

I had disappointed the group by missing out on their Genting-Serendah holiday, and a drinking session Friday night. Actually, more than that i think lol. I'm truly indebted to Justin, I haven't been a good friend as he has always been.

Went to the Chelsea game on Thursday. Wasn't enthusiastic about it, what is so exciting about the roaring crowd, sweaty and stuffy air, over-enthusiastic and noisy supporters anyway?

I was not entirely incorrect. Worse, kids sitting infront of me smoking their way to shortening their lifespan, influencing their younger brothers/cousins/friends admiring them aside.

Of course, more people came in blue than in yellow, showing an obvious phenomenon that more people supported Chelsea over Malaysia team.

But no! People were cheering 'Malaysia!' throughout the game. They constantly boo-ed at Chelsea players when they were about to goal, or when they hurted Malaysia team players. People cheered when Malaysia team goalkeeper failed Chelsea's attempts to goal, one after another. I was surprised at the audience's patriotisme, despite most of them wearing blue, waving Chelsea flags.

Game going on, with player in white being Chelsea's goalkeeper.

Behind me, the Bukit Jalil Outdoor Stadium with full audience capacity. An overwhelming crowd. Even the stairways were crowded with people!

My brother was excited about the experience! A total of 3 Chelsea flags on him haha.

Daddy! It seems he had enjoyed it too!

I, on the other hand, burnt some calories by fanning myself with newspaper because I couldn't stand second-hand smoke and the heat. I was also tired of work and didn't have a proper dinner.

All in all, it was worth it, considering we didn't spend a single cent that night because my sister got our tickets free!

Malaysia lost with a score of 1-0. A proud achievement compared relatively to game scores with Liverpool and Arsenal prior to this match.

We exited immediately after the match to avoid the jam. People had parked their cars along the highway, all the way up until the plaza toll! It was crazy! How in the world did they manage to walk all the way to the stadium??

Anyway, a once-in-a-lifetime experience for sure.

Friday

hung out with Matt and Mitchell after work

Mummy liked the way I dressed that day to work!

Mitchell! super adorable :)

He is 6. He had to sleepover at Matt's that night

had drinks with two friends of Matt's. Ended up playing Tumbling Tower haha. Mitchell spanked Matt because he had lost.

When Mitchell lost, I made him kiss me on my cheek. He immediately sat in his chair, speechless. Too embarrassed! hahaha cute :)

Another Weekend of Happeningness!

2011-07-18T21:49:00.004+08:00

Nowadays, my weekends are like fully-booked by the week before LOL. Super jual mahal right hahaha shit don't hate me please.

Jia Jian's 19th birthday at Opera, Sunway Pyramid. One week delay due to the stupid roadblocks due to Bersih. According to the gang, cars get stuck in the jam at KESAS the moment they exit Kota Kemuning. In other words, we wouldnt be able to get out of KK.

Opera's relatively decent and mature. They play songs like Grease and Mambo No.5. Also, it's not so filled with scandalous people doing scandalous stuff, not too crazy.

The party animals LOL

(I'm not in the picture because I'm not a party animal hahaha)

Yoke Pei said I have an alter ego, she named it Casey (derived from KC, my initials) HAHAHA

Nonetheless, had a fun night. I was even surprised when we had to leave lol.

It was SMK Seafield, my high school's carnival on an extremely sunny day. We were roaming around under the scorching sun, desperate for shade and refreshing drinks our juniors were selling. Brought back loads of wonderful high school memories while I bumped into old friends whom I've never seen in a very long while.

Desmo, Angie, San, I, Ben and Kel!

Some of my BFFs! YinKuan, Sook and Zheng Ling. We had crazy and valuable moments back then when we were still blooming teens of 13 and 14 :)

Drove to Subang Parade to watch Seafield Choir compete in Patriotic Choir Competition organised by Subang Parade annually. When I was still in high school with Des, Ben, Kel and Ed, we had won Champion twice consecutively :)

The choir doing their thing! Felt good to be able to contribute some moral support to the juniors. I felt that it had helped because they sang much better than during practice earlier! But of course, many factors can contribute to it haha.

They won 1st runner-up, but I'm proud of them :) They had done their best

With Ed, and Rachel (ex-president and coach for SMK DJ choir, who won champion!)

Ed and I then met up with YokePei, Justin, Frank, Su Vien and Jerry at Starbucks! initial plan to Sunway Pyramid for Sushi Zanmai failed because Pyramid was crazy packed (luckily YP informed before I drove there LOL) for god-knows-what reason. People parked their cars along the flyover into the parkings, again! Some event must have taken place.

A final catch-up with Justin before they left for Genting and Serendah for holiday this morning. Yep, I didn't follow because I have work :/ So it's the Hair Whip, with me being excepted.

Pizza Uno for dinner!

Apparently the boys are not full at all so we went to Sri Melur lol.

Justin took my sister's scout scarf!

You know you are loved when your friends hurray-ed when you agreed to go Melur after an initial reluctance :)

Ahh I love my friends. They are the best in the world. ALL OF THEM!!! :)

It's funny how I always feel my life is forever getting better. I'm not a person who dwells over the past. I am always looking forward to something, be it starting college, graduating college, starting uni, starting work. Whenever I think back, I felt like I had a great, great year. But the years keep getting better for me. My life keeps getting better. And I've achieved great personal goals each year.

I have finally reached the point where I think my life is at its most perfect moment. I have loving parents, great family, awesome friends, great job, amazing education prospect, the right amount of freedom, no money problems cos I work, and I am absolutely happy with my body. I no longer see myself fat in the mirror anymore, only in my own perception though hahaha!

I know starting something is never easy in the beginning. But I tell myself that this is only temporary, you'll get used to your new life and you will learn to love it. The best way to learn, I've come to realise, is to learn things the hard way. I totally believe in everything I do.

Life is freaking amazing!

Busy Week

2011-07-07T22:43:00.006+08:00

I had a busy week! and a busier weekend apparently.

I've been very satisfied with my life. I found balance between working, maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising every week, reading my books, watching my Three Kingdom series and spending time with my ever-so-cool friends :) Family's great too! Had more bonding time with daddy cos we work at the same place :)

Westside Story at high school SMK Seafield on Friday

Went to watch the school Choir's 4th production, pretty sure it was going to be much better than the previous three when I was still in choir.

Ed and I posed infront of our Form 4 class project :) Eye-catchingly brought life to the school on the canteen wall! Oh, how I miss the 5 Amanahians :(

I can still recall how our teachers told us that they were being told our class has a genius aura they could sense the moment they enter our class. Truth is, nonsense happened in our class everyday! Peeping into nextdoor class, the guys cheating during exam all other not-so-genius-behaviour. LOL.

Ben!

No doubt the Westside Story casts did a fantastic job, whom all possessed strong vocal and acting skills. Best vocals among all productions I had to say. I was quite disappointed the fact that the entire choir didnt perform a medley like how we used to always do. I was starting to think 'Hmm they hid the choir pretty well' and had to realise there wasnt going to be any choir at all. And so the atmosphere felt very empty.

Apparently a family with little kids left in the middle of the show because the scenes were getting 'wrong'. I can see why Pn. Wang didnt allow us to do this musical previous years. The musical had alot of fighting and killing scenes and a bed scene.

Overall it was good, considering the acting and singing. I'm not a fond of the Romeo-Juliet imitated story.

Went for dinner and a few drinks at Curve with the Hair Whip, brought Kel and Des too!

Dinner at Tony Roma's. My yummy shrimp scampi pasta! Super alot of shrimps. I love shrimps!

Justin back from Melbourne :)

SuVien and YokePei

Kel acting boss because he claims 007's signature drink was the martini haha! His martini looks pathetic by the way

Dont think i wanna go back to Laundry Bar ever again, sucky.

Sunday, day trip to Malacca!!

lucky/poor Des got the boot :D hahaha!

started our awesome-food hunt with yummy beef noodles!

With Ben, Des, Lex and Kel. 4 of us wore blue and white coincidentally! HAHAHA

With EeLeen!

Having durian cendol while queuing for chicken rice balls. Yummy!!

Super awesome chicken rice balls for lunch

Ended up playing Cluedo at A&W. Cluedo is nice!!

Uncle Ben

We had awesome Nyonya assam laksa for dinner. *salivates

Awesome day trip! ♥

Sawadeekha!

2011-06-26T21:37:00.004+08:00

So last month or so, my parents urged me to buy 6 deals for a 4D3N trip to Bangkok for RM300+. After adding airport tax and everything, we were to pay rm600+ per person for our air ticket and hotel for 4D3N. Which is a good deal right?!

We had quite a blast engaging ourselves in crazy shopping spree. Can't blame us: I saw tank tops selling for RM2 and denim shorts RM5. CRAZY CHEAP!!

I literally got sick of shopping because clothes were everywhere and everything looks kind of the same. Every corner with space to hang clothes, the locals will set up a stall. I lost count as to how many stalls were there at the market and the malls we went. The market and the malls are like endless mazes!

We went Bangkok with half empty baggages and we came back with almost-bursting bags and luggage.

Some temple across Menam Chao Phraya

Mommy's new garnet necklace! I saw the pendant and thought it was really special. Rarely can you see stones carved in shapes like this. The colour of the stone is really nice too. The salesperson said people borned in January match with garnet best. I love garnet's deep red colour! So being a January baby, I guess I'll borrow it once in a while ;D

I have awesome taste I know ♥

Buffet dinner at Baiyoke hotel, tallest hotel in Thailand, with the awesome-est view of Bangkok ever! The above picture shows my appetiser. Appetiser only!!

Uncle Bunyi (i think that's how his name is spelt lol), my dad's agent from work and his family treated us to the dinner and welcomed us with great hospitality.

The variety of food was overwhelming. I had so much food I was still reluctant to stop eating when my stomach was already on the verge of exploding! From grilled dory fish to salmon sashimi, the traditional, my all-time favourite Tom Yam Goong, and my living necessity- Caesar salad. The list goes on until I ended my meal with fruit fondue and a scoop of durian ice cream and raspberry ice cream each!

I was in dining heaven ♥

The floating market experience was definitely the most memorable moment of the entire trip. I enjoyed it so much! It was a totally fresh experience, very enjoyable. My parents had a great time buying ornaments from wooden stalls along the river. And I happily bought local desserts from boats across the river like my favourite mango with glutinous rice with sweet coconut milk!!

It was nice to be stuck in the 'traffic' too because we had a chat with some Macau-ians.

We stopped by a local restaurant for lunch on our way walking to shopping heaven- Platinum shopping mall. The cooks selling char siew wanton mee has stylish hair HAHAHA! Look closely at the three of them :D I had braised pork rice with pickled vegetables and it was delicious!

Us at the cultural theatre. Apparently Siam Niramit's stage holds a Guinness World Record (no idea for what). It's no wonder, because the stage has a river!! They brought elephants and goats onto the stage. The props were so beautiful and ingeniously made. The stage was huge! No pictures of the theatre because we had to deposit our cameras at their counters, pictures and recording were strictly prohibited.

Oh well, daddy as usual, always want his children to 'experience' local cultures :)

buffet at Baiyoke Hotel. Happy because of the awesome food and fantastic view!

With Pink, Uncle Bunyi's 22-year-old daughter. She looks really Chinese although she is really Thai.

Sawadeekha! :)

Sexuality: Nature vs Nurture

2011-06-16T21:27:00.003+08:00

Before explaining my title, I want to express how depressed and guilty I am for disappointing my bestfriends constantly. Before/during exams, I always rejected most of the hang-out invitations from my peeps, with the excuse of exams of course.

Now the fact that we're all free, I have so kiasu-ly started working two days after prom. So I have only rested for 6 days after my final paper before going into another routine life again. That sort of frustrated my friends I think, they thought I would be 24-hours on-call after my exams. That has just intensified my image as the always-busy-no-time-for-friends friend i guess

The thing is I'll be off to Bangkok next week and it has totally slipped off my mind till today when I was reminded by my colleague about me taking leave for the trip. And I had confirmed a drinking session with a bunch of my bestfriends, and Ed has changed his IELTS date solely for the drinking session. Totally killing me. Sighh....

Back to the topic!

So uh, I have started blogging more frequently again, and of course to attract more readers I need to contribute something right? (Not a bribe) hahaha!

Usually bloggers bribe you with prizes to win from contests, or details of their super colourful social life. I, forever so noble, decided I shall contribute some knowledge I find interesting and of less awareness, for this post at least. (No guarantee this is continuing but I'll do whatever I can)

My blog is 'science' themed, so we shall talk about science! I love watching all the documentary channels like 'Science Discovery Channel' etc. I find myself particularly interested in documentaries filming living things, like this documentary show 'In The Womb'. It basically gives a very in depth knowledge about pregnancy from human to animals like cats. It's amazing, the footage they show. They include footage of real foetus in mothers' wombs using foetoscope.

So, have you ever wonder whether there are identical twins with one of them being straight and the other gay/lesbian? They do exist. fact.

If so, do you think it is caused by nature (genetic)? or nurture (situational)?

If you think it is in their genes, theoretically, identical twins are well, identical. They are formed from one single fertilisation of one egg and one sperm. Thus, they would have the exact same copies of genes. Hence if sexuality is determined by genes, the twins should be either both straight, or both gay. This theory is therefore rejected.

If you think its determined by how they're brought up, theoretically, twins under the same influence and environment should have the same sexuality too. That is apparently not the case. So the theory is rejected too.

I, have the answer to aaaaall this mysteries!

Erm..if you already studied or read this somewhere somehow then pardon me la okay, not trying to act smart here lol.

So from what I learned in 'In The Womb', they proposed this theory that seemed to have explained the scenarios, more specifically, gay and straight male twins.

Foetuses release testosterone in the mother's womb. Testosterone is known for regulating the development of male sexual characteristics. So according to the documentary, foetus' brain can absorb testosterone. If sufficient testosterone is absorbed, the baby will have normal male sexual development, hence it is straight.

But in some cases, methylation of DNA occurs. Methyl groups can bind to DNA, thus stopping transcription and somehow inhibits the enzymes stimulating testosterone production by the foetus or absorption of testosterone by the foetus' brain. If the foetus absorbs insufficient amount of testosterone, it will lack normal male sexual characteristics. Thus, the baby will either be gay, or sissy.

So mystery solved! :D

One more question worth pondering. If this theory is proven true, which side of the 'Nature vs. Nurture' debate wins?

What I meant is, is methylation of DNA due to genetics or environment?

Science is awesome ♥

I'm a working rat!

2011-06-14T21:59:00.005+08:00

Hello! I've started working as a lab assistant at Shah Alam yesterday! So that makes today my second day :) So far, so good!

Working, now, is like I'm being paid to learn how to do a biotech degree holder's job, when I'm supposed to be only qualified for entry level jobs! Entry level jobs like data entry, junior clerks, kindergarden teachers, receptionists, salesgirl, waitress etc. Oh well, I begged my dad to ask if his company (which he doesn't own, he just works there) would have me to work at the lab. Coincidentally, one of his lab staffs is on maternity leave for another two months from now! Perfect! I started working one week after my last A Levels paper, which is two days after my prom. ♥ I am such an active individual ♥

So right now I'm learning how to measure pH of samples using pH meter (not litmus paper peeps), measure redox (something like Eᶿcell I think, grr so hard to find the small theta sign) using redox meter, making agar medium for bacteria/fungal cultures, and of course, wash bottles hahaha. It's okay, everyone has to start from the bottom. I don't think I really did but I would happily wash them anyway!

You think washing bottles so easy isit? All the bottles have foul odour and slimy fungal layer and solid agar medium! Today I washed like 60 of 'em. LOL.

I'm so lucky to have landed a job relevant to my future career, plus I'm doing what I like. I love being in labs! I love doing my own work without anyone talking (unless we have to)! Most of the time my colleagues speak quite softly anyways. My resume is going to be so pretty, what an advantage to those starting uni with me without working experience yet!

*On a side-note, a mosquito is feasting on my blood under the table now. I hope the caffeine overdose today has nothing to do with this. You know, caffeine increases heart rate hence my body temperature hence maybe making me more susceptible to mosquito bites?*

*Killed it*

Coming back to what I was saying... Ahh! Time pass so fast while I was working in the lab. A moment I was measuring pH, the next moment, it was time for lunch. Then after lunch, continued my work a bit, washed the bottles, it was already 10 minutes past five, which was time to go home! Then after that I have so much time to do my own stuff like going to the gym, BLOGGING, eat chocolate despite all the fats I have still yet to get rid of.. My life can be so contented! Oh well maybe I spoke too soon, but I am only going to work for two and a half months, three max, how sick of my current life can I be?? :)

This is definitely a good change of lifestyle after college, I can't express how grateful I am to have started work. And I'll tell you why!

I have an extra hour to sleep now compared to going to college! So i can wake up at 7.05am now ♥ Yeah yeah still very early but sun has already risen when I rose!

* I have 6 mosquito bites now on both legs added. I hate mosquitoes and I always have this sense of accomplishment whenever I kill one (I have my own way of killing 'em)*

So I happily have my breakfast at home, I get to drive calmly without having to rush to avoid jam cos there is no jam on my way to work, I park nicely in one of the company's parking lots cos there is always parking at work as long as you're punctual which I always am, I walk a few steps (instead of 1987394 steps walking into college) into the lab without having to pay for parking, arms free because I don't have to bring any books, put down my stuff and walk to the pantry to make a drink to start my day and get started with work!

Frankly lab job is kind of carefree, at least for now. We don't really have deadlines to meet, or quotas to fulfill. We can always sit down and stone a bit in between tasks cos some tasks require some waiting time to complete. Our company has 3 High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) units! Crazy! One costs a few hundred thousand Ringgit by the way.

Hmm.. I was going to reveal a random fact of myself but I forgot what was it.

*Nosebleeding due to caffeine overdose this morning. I had scooped too much coffee powder since I didn't know it was THIS strong! Haha the company's tactic for keeping its employees awake. *

I'll blog more often from now on! If my love towards my new job hasn't already bored anyone yet hah.

♥ I love science.

p.s.- Grr.. How come I can't change my text colour??

p.p.s- Oh I remember now. I want to be a food critic :D

College Prom!

2011-06-12T21:04:00.005+08:00

I is graduated!!

Attended Cambridge A Levels Senior Night at JW Marriot Hotel, KL

Rhenu got ready at my house, then I drove us and Estee to SS15 where the lovely Noah Wong Eu Gene picked us up to prom :) Oh my sister drove my car home cos she had dance at college.

Was stuck in KL for quite long, despite Eu Gene having taken the fast (and expensive since need to pay toll) route using NPE highway. We departed from SS15 at 5pm and reached just before 7pm? I was pretty surprised to find many fellow coursemates already roaming around at the hotel lobby!

The hotel is fab ♥ so many branded outlets inside. The ballroom's great too! the foyer outside the ballroom's so beautiful, any pictures we took were simply perfect because of the lighting. I forgot to pay attention to the chandelier! :(

I felt awkward when i stepped into the lobby, seeing how everyone's so dressed up. The guys all looked dashing and the girls so pretty! It's like a free fashion show there, lots of nice dresses to see!

I myself spent RM200+ for my dress plus alterations. Which was not bad! Anyone looking for prom dresses should go to the shop lots near Sunway Giza Mall. So many variety of gorgeous dresses to choose from! And they are quite reasonably priced. Apparently no one from my college bought their dresses from there ( I think ), so I didnt have to worry about wearing the same dress as someone else! especially when she's much hotter and wears the dress much more attractive than I do! haha

My Psychology lecturer. You'd never thought she's a lecturer right? haha!

The lovely Ms. Elaine Low and Ms. Shirley from Extra Curricular Activities department. I had to see them and discuss stuff with them quite often for Choir Club and Music Club but they've been great help :) Thank you!

Mushroom soup as starters. Not too bad, at least not the powdery form. A bit under-seasoned though. (trying to mimick Top Chef judges). One plus factor was the soup was hot when it was served.

Main Course, Chicken breast with gratin potatoes and citrus jus. I like this! I never eat chicken breast (only thigh) but this one is juicy and not overcooked!

Dessert: Passion fruit cheesecake and passion fruit coulis

this is okay

It was weird that they served coffee or tea for the last course. I mean, it was already 10pm plus and you serve coffee or tea? I didnt even want to have any cos I won't be able to sleep! (lesson learnt after drinking teh limau at mamak after clubbing)

Didnt pay much attention to performances lol. was busy snapping pictures! Here's only a few pictures, Facebook has everything ♥

My date Tze Yee ♥ She is so gorgeous!

Seafieldians!

PM8 classmates :)

PM8 with Mr. Peter, our Biology lecturer ♥

After prom, being such a good girl, I headed home :) no drinking sessions, no after party no nothing! haha

All in all, prom was really awesome. I was devastated when it all ended, time passed so fast when we were all having fun and lost in photo snapping sessions.

A night not to be forgotten ♥

Life is Awesome

2011-06-06T16:04:00.002+08:00

The boring and excruciatingly suffering part of this year has just passed half an hour ago. The awesome half of this year just started!

I just finished my last paper half an hour ago and graduated college. ILML

I bought my air ticket to London cheap, flying with mommy. ILML

I'm starting work next Monday. ILML

My dad let me drove his car that day after dinner at Kinpachi. ILML

I reactivated my Facebook. ILML

Going prom-dress hunting tomorrow. ILML

An uncle gave me two vouchers at Starbucks so yesterday i get around rm25 worth of Starbucks beverages free because I have a tumbler because yesterday was World Environment Day. ILML

I can read all my ebooks, watch my movies, Three Kingdoms now. ILML

I spent just over rm250 last month. ILML

I'm so extremely happy I don't know what to say. I've been counting down months, days, hours and minutes and now I'm free!!!!

I love my life

Desperately in need of freedom

2011-05-23T21:23:00.004+08:00

OMG OMG OMG IN EXACTLY TWO WEEKS I'M GOING TO BE FREE! from A Levels at least.

I've survived this what-seemed-like-forever-lasting semester, barely though. Many times I ask myself: Have I tried my best to prepare for my exams? I fear my lack of hardwork's going to cost me my results, I always have. So I always self-motivate by telling myself that patience will earn me what I desire for. So far, it has worked, so I pray hard hard it will work this time too!!

I feel like I still can work harder, but frankly, I can't really take it emotionally any longer. It's like, if I make myself study any harder, I'll become Sybil (the woman who suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder with 16 different personalities, also a book title-best book I've read in my whole life), major breakdown. Oh well, I've always thought I had high stress tolerance, considering I'd never actually thought I'd experienced any stress academically until A Levels. Nop, not really stressed even for SPM.

So after A2, I'm hoping to get a job, preferably teaching- to teach at Lick Hung or other schools if they fail to hire me (I've proposed to work at Lick Hung that day), or private SPM tutor. Better still, to work at daddy's company as lab assistant. But he doesnt own the company so it's not really up to him to decide.

I am now halfway through A2, 4 out of 7 papers done with so that's good progress. I'm left with Chemistry and Biology paper 4, and Psychology lastly on 6th June. So far so good I guess, except for Pure Maths. I didnt have enough time to confidently submit my answers like how I always do. I'm usually a fast writer, most of the time I had 15 minutes to check my answers. :( If I fail to get the grades I want then I'll just go Monash U or smth and live a boring uni life. At least Monash looks boring to me from the outside! But Kel and Lex are there so not so bad. It's just that I feel like I need a change, and to live independently in another country sounds like a pretty hard, challenging but rewarding change for me.

With utmost reluctance, I have to regretfully return to my studying. Promise you'll wait <3

I need motivation

2011-04-24T22:47:00.004+08:00

Hello.. I've deactivated Facebook last weekend again, temporarily until 6th of June.

OMG I CAN'T WAIT

Around 42 days to freedom- graduation from college, exactly three weeks to first day of A2. I'm so bored of studying I'm counting down days. zzz...

Looking back at how motivated I was last year, this year I feel, dead. AS used up my motivation. This year I'm so lazy to be kiasu already. Getting straight A*s isnt going to earn me a scholarship to University College London anyways, although I have FaMa Scholarship. Wait, it isnt even a scholarship- it's a LOAN. I'm expected to fund my 9-year-old brother's education 9 years later. Hopefully I'd be earning big bucks then lol.

My productivity is pathetically low. Nowadays I feel like just bumming at home. Bumming at home makes time past so fast. One moment I was browsing for iPad apps on Installous to prepare me for my 3 years in London, another moment later when I looked at the clock, an hour had passed. I stopped going to Starbucks because I'm so awfully broke now. I overspent on the first week of this month, and I had a rather bad month generally.

But Taylor's Choir Club Charity Concert on Friday was the highlight of the month! As ex-president a.k.a co-founder I helped out plus performed at the concert. All ticket sales profit goes to 'Make A Wish Foundation', granting wishes to unfortunate kids to give them hope and happiness in the middle of their battle with chronic diseases. Nandini and I did 'With Or Without You' by U2 and 'Sweet Dreams' by Beyonce. We duet-ed and I played the piano. The concert day was the second day we practised the first song, but we sounded pretty good on Kel's iPhone :)

Kel, Des, Tsing Wei and Vincent surprised me with their presence. Kel had called to 'ask me out' and when i asked if he could come, he said he'd forgottened and was busy that night. They showed up just when I was frustrated about preparation. Happys!

I am soooooo ssaaaddddd.............. I ate the last chocolate-coated marzipan my dad bought from the airport today :( I just realised how much I love marzipans. They are awesome!

Chocolate-coated marzipan *loves.

marzipan: almond paste with sugar syrup

Few like marzipan because of the almond taste. But I love it so much, it's so fragrant!! I'm addicted..........

Oh.. erm.. my trial results came out. Wasn't good, but wasn't really bad either.

Chemistry 70 B

Biology 71 B

Psychology 81 A

Mathematics 87 A

Er..sad because I expected Chem to be a bit better than a 70... surprised that my Mathematics got quite high, unexpected. Biology was so hard I felt relieved I got a low B, at least. I think I could have firmly got the grades to enter UCL if my trials and AS results combined. I think A2 finals will be less difficult than trials, so hope nothing comes out of the ordinary.

Back to doing my past-years...zzz... I'm in such a dull mood.

Someone make my day please :(

P.S.- Ah! I'm 48.5kg now! :D Been on diet for months and I've lost about 5 kg since my heaviest moments? Something to celebrate woohoo!

Updates!

2011-03-28T00:19:00.000+08:00

Since I deactivated FB and young people like me can't say they have a life unless they sit infront of a screen looking like they have no life, I decided to blog a bit more la.

Young Choral Academy's grand opening at Taipan (Above Thai Corner). Us ex-Seafieldians with the fantastic Ms.Susanna Saw and a Japanese guest.

Ben's open house with Des, Lex and Ed. Ed being photographer

Chemistry workshop at Taylor's Lakeside with classmates and Ms.Chan

Matt's birthday celebration at Library

Tommy and Jing Yi

At Mist. with Matt and Denise

Some of us

The Whippers and Whimps consisting of me, YokePei, SuVien, Justin, Frank and Jerry, plus Sarah at my house for a day of craziness

Cousin Lulu who went to Perth.

Ling Ben's birthday! with his classmates

ex-Seafieldians

Science Discovery Day! at Taylor's Lakeside
Eu Gene with candy 'E'!

See i'm so inspired by science haha

I made my initial out of candy! Yes i cut my shirt haha. Mr Peter gave me a 'L' so I had to 'modify' a bit ;D

I made an 'E' for Ed too!

Electrophoresis

Synthesised paracetamol, leaving ethanoic acid. Should've brought back some, save medical cost hahaha!

Ed went for urine analysis hahahah!

blood test too. All free mah!

EngKean testing my blood pressure lol

Headed to PlanB, Bangsar Village 1 for Sarah's birthday dinner!

Ed and Yi Zhe, so adorable!

so funny!

Knickers #1 Ed and I got Sarah from Peacocks London

Knickers #@ a fuchsia thong!

Knickers #3 hahaha

notice how I had to tiptoe =.=

the 'working' females lol

Okay bye.

Trials start the day after tomorrow. die.

Can I Sue Subway?

2011-03-27T00:39:00.004+08:00

Hello :) Finally a more updated face of mine.

Just yesterday I fell sick. I went to college as usual, thought I just hadn't gotten enough sleep (I had slept for 6 and a half hours at least). I looked terrible and I had gotten double eyelids when i woke up. Usually a sign of tiredness or sickness. I looked like a zombie. *Not like i'd look any different if I had slept 10 hours anyway. So I went to college as usual, barely staying conscious while driving. I realised I was feeling really nauseous. Jun and Nadiya came really early and joined me. Nadiya told me I was unusually pale and white. Then I felt a sudden acidity on the both sides of my mouth, I recognised that this was an obvious symptom of pre-vomitting. I headed to the toilet at the cafeteria, and started vomitting bitter bile juice and semi-digested salad I had the previous night. Disgusting I know lol.

I was starting to wonder whether i ate anything wrong, but i didn't really. I told them I had Subway's breakfast strip and white coffee. Jun told me that she and Tze Yee had white coffee a couple weeks ago and it made them nauseous too. I couldnt study anything so I went home, slept from 9am till 6pm, had my 'breakfast' at 6pm cos I didnt feel like eating anything, and slept again till 7am the next morning.

I was so angry! Subway wasted 24 hours of my time! I could have studied so much in a day! Trials are around the corner and I had one day of studying wasted just because I thought i'd opt for a nearer and seemingly healthier takeaway lunch option! Today I managed to study a bit, but still feel so drained. I almost starved myself to getting gastric because I didn't feel like eating anything! Depressed :(

In addition to my depression,
the best green tea ice cream i've ever tasted at XenRi, a fine Japanese dining restaurant with the best Japanese food I've ever tasted yet. No more XenRi for me for a while I guess :( XenRi imports their ingredients from Japan twice every week.

Oh in case anyone hasn't realised, haha, I've changed my blog title to 'Science'. I realised I've never blogged about music anyways, other than my choir stuff. I've been inspired by classical music, possibly two years ago. But I've been inspired more by science than music as I age. And I really think science is a form of art.

Well, not that i'm totally not inspired by music.

Nandini and I

On March 12, we participated in First Baptist Church's 'Who's Got Talent' Competition, well just for fun. She was asking for an accompanist on FB so I said I didn't mind trying. We clicked musically and our practices were all very productive. I was awed by her unique voice when I was OC for Acoustic Night- she was one of the performers. So I was honoured when I could play for her haha. Apparently she was impressed by my musical qualities too lah so even more honoured! :)

The auditorium

We passed the first round singing 'Firework' by Katy Perry. She sang, while I played the piano and harmonised. We did a slower and more mellow version of it. We thought it was okay.

Then we did 'Sweet Dreams' by Beyonce. Unfortunately we didnt make it through like we thought we might have had. We were expecting to make it to the finale partly because we received quite a few positive feedbacks from a very awesome trio band(in fact the best singing band competiting) and the crews after the second round . Also partly because we felt we put in more effort and emotions into performing it. I felt more energetic while playing too. Oh well, maybe we werent good enough, or it's generally hard to compare singing bands, which are really common, to dance or instrumental groups.

Anyways we had a great experience!

Building My Own Pathway

2011-03-24T19:14:00.002+08:00

A new blog template for a change, since what, Form 3? Revealing the 'artsy' and more feminine side of me hahaha!

YokePei commented about me skipping class last week for the first time this year: 'Khai Cheng you are normal'. Indeed, notoriously known for being kiasu and nerdy, I've never found any point in skipping (college) classes, especially when we were still covering the syllabus. Now that I am clear about the syllabus, I study best on my own.

I nearly stopped saying 'I'm bored' these two weeks. The main reason for this is that I am gradually getting the hang of what is expected of me from the examiners. My self-efficacy is increased! :)

Yesterday I was at Casamia, just finished my lunch with my college peeps when I decided to call Lei to ask about her SPM results. She was extremely high and she told me she had gotten straight A's. I hung up the phone with disbelief. Haha! Not being a bad sister but I honestly only expected her to get 8As, not 11! Please, she feels the same way too. I told all my friends I was sour at her obtaining such exceptional results because I didn't get an A in Chinese or awarded the title 'Straight A's student' like she did! But frankly, I'm thrilled for her. She had proven everyone wrong. She had definitely impressed my parents and I think after yesterday, they should consider sending her overseas for her tertiary education, that's if she can do as well for her SAM.

Unfortunately, she isn't eligible for any of the Taylor's College's Tan Sri Loy Hean Heong partial scholarships- She had gotten 3A+3A5A-. The very stingy TCSJ offers scholarship only to students with 7A/A+s above, starting from RM1000. But I hope she manages to get other scholarships. I was looking for all types of loans, from PTPTN to corporate loans in hoping my parents won't have to pay so much for my education, and that they have money to support my siblings. Never had much luck in applying for scholarships or loans despite much effort made - my family's considered relatively well off. Anyways, when my brother goes into college, I'm expected to support the rest of his education.

Despite the excitement of going into an oversea university life, I feel quite reluctant to leave college. I mean, I blended so well with my collegemates. Not to praise myself, but my high school peeps called me 'social butterfly' because I was always saying hi to everyone I saw back in high school. And here in college, I find myself making quite a number of valuable friendships, in addition to my network of close high school BFFs. However, I realised all my close friends are actually pretty anti-social. Maybe that's why I find them more available for me to rely on. Haha. Oh gosh, I miss them now that I haven't spoken to them since I deactivated my FB. Wait for me darlings, in about 10 weeks I will be able to reconnect with you again.

The first thing I want to do after my A2 is to reactivate my FB, shop for my prom dress and continue watching China's biggest series production yet-'Three Kingdoms'. It's about the Chinese history, mainly consists of war, fighting for land, strategies, allies and enemies. I think this is the only production where the most boring parts are the war scenes. I find their conversations extremely interesting. My parents are both addicted. They even started using ancient Chinese phrases. My mum was scolding me about something when she was watching one episode, she took one of the characters as an example. Hilarious.

I've been on diet for a couple of months now and it has proven effective! I'm still fat, but everyone could see that I've slimmed down. I stick to salad for dinner everyday, eliminating rice from my diet. I still eat meat. My dinner dishes are steamed instead of fried almost all the time. My mum almost stopped buying pork and bought more fish instead. She bakes bread everyday instead of buying. So I eat really healthy and delicious (in fact, the most delicious I've ever tasted) bread for breakfast every morning. Bread sold outside has alot of shortening agent for soft texture and preservatives. I eat normally for lunch, opting for cheap and less oily food nowadays. Even during Chinese New Year I refused to eat ba gua and keropok because this strategy has worked well for the previous CNY. I've learnt to love my new diet, I feel happy and healthy. I refuse to eat out most of the time, especially with family.

I used to feel insecure, too. Everyone calls me fat and my mum always reminded me of me looking fat in some garments (not mean of her, I have to thank my mum haha). Not until last year I finally got rid of my 'sparetyres' and elephant thighs. I always felt like my belt was going to burst back in primary school. Lately, I started to have more confidence in wearing a wider variety of clothes. My college classmates never saw me in shorts until this year. I found my own style and my mum sometimes commented that I have good taste in buying my clothes. This is the main reason, apart from saving cost, why I opt to self-cater when I go to London- I want to take care of my own diet and learn to be more independent. Besides, my friends said the catered food sucks. The food I love to eat are very simple to cook. Salad, steamed potatos, boiled eggs, steamed chicken, fish etc. Yes all steamed, boring but healthy! One thing I have have HAVE to bring with me there is - soy sauce. Totally can't live without it because I don't take salt.

Repaired my laptop RM220 for replacing hard disc (500GB). The guy even installed antivirus for me (even if I declined his offer of the Kaspersky promotion) free, although valid for half a year only, but still!! He even cleaned my laptop, installed stuff for me like Skype. So worth it! Apparently my old hard disc can't be detected anymore so all my stuff inside are gone :( Anyways, getting a new one- still thinking about Dell XPS or Macbook Pro, giving this to my mum when I leave.

I was overwhelmed by the Japan disaster. Never in history have I heard/ seen a catastrophe as massive as this. All types of worst disasters happened to Japan at once - Tsunami, earthquake, flood, fire and nuclear explosion. Either one of them alone happening to a country is disastrous enough. I can't imagine how would I survive such cruel conditions. If what I heard, that it was man-made by the USA, was true, I hope the culprits suffer their whole lives. No punishment can forgive them for killing 24,000 lives and jeopardising millions others. Some say this is karma to punish Japan for killing the Chinese around 100 years ago. But no one should be punished for someone else's sins.

These few years disasters happen all around the world. First SzeChuan earthquake, then Haiti earthquake, the Middle-East war and now Japan disaster. People say these are signs that the world is coming to an end now that 2012 is approaching. I think the nature is taking revenge, in physical ways. The Earth's overpopulated with homo sapiens and other spesies are extincting. But human population is still increasing exponentially. Human development costs too, too much. Although awareness is increasingly prominent now, I hope everyone realises the impact of their actions on others.

I'm bored

2011-03-16T17:38:00.003+08:00

I have deactivated Facebook for about two weeks now, what an achievement! Didn't know I would even click that 'deactivate' button. I feel guilty for deactivating though, those pictures my friends were tagged in wouldn't exist anymore (for now). Imagine you loved a picture so much but suddenly it disappeared and you don't even know when your pathetic friend's going to reactivated his/her Facebook again.

I deactivated it because Facebook was a major distraction, for me. Normally when i go home after college, expecting I would continue studying so that my day wouldn't be unproductive, I log into Facebook. I don't understand- I don't even do anything on Facebook, but it can waste so much of my time. Now i sometimes study at night (good improvement right?!).

I've been MIA from blogging lately. My laptop's down, so I use only my iPad, or college's computer. iPad doesn't support blogging, god knows why....... And doing personal stuff like this at college just doesn't feel right for me.

So lately, my most-said-phrase is 'I'M SO BORED'. Seriously, I'm so bored of studying, I'm counting down the days left to trials and to completion of A Levels. Officially a week and 6 days to trial, less than 3 months to my last paper of A2. Sounds pretty soon to me! But yet so much more to study. I'm not even half ready

I think what makes me so bored compared to AS ( I was so motivated last year) is low self-efficacy. PureMaths 2 is so hard, when i did past year trial papers, I gave up cos I was nearly stuck at every question. I believed i couldnt do anything about it, hence low self-efficacy, so i gave up, and so i'm bored the fact I have so much to study but I can't handle it.

Type A personality people don't usually complain about boredom! They are usually motivated! I am a super type A person! sigh weird.

Oh on the bright side, I am pretty sure I'm going to London in September to study!! Or else, Bristol, that's if I can't get even AAAB to go to UCL, or if I can't even get AABB to study in Bristol, i'm doomed. But no worries i guess, I've applied to so many places like HKU, NUS and MelU. Not planning to stay in Msia, they don't even have any unis offering courses as common as Biochemistry!!

I was worrying about not having my own private toilet in London when Tze Yee got me super excited by reminding me a forgotten fact that next year, there will be Olympics at London! OMG I AM SO EXCITED!! THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE THERE! Celebrities, royalties, sportsmen, sportswomen! I can easily find a job there and be in the middle of all happenings! If i'm lucky i might even volunteer to be involved in the Olympics itself! HOW COOL IS THAT??

I am not worried about having to be independent, i know i can handle things myself. I am not worried about having to cook or do laundry by myself. I am not so worried about not making friends. I am not that worried about not doing good in uni, nor lose interest in what i want to pursue. I'm worried I will miss my friends and my family so much that I'll be crying to come back :(

My mom asked me not to come back during December break, so I'll probably only come back next year July (or if Olympics are still going on, later :DD). But Tze Yee and I have planned to visit Paris together in December!! I can't wait.

Hope everyone doesn't feel weird if I come back with a British slang haha.

AS Results

2011-01-24T21:24:00.002+08:00

Yet again a series of anticipation, anxiousness, butterflies in the stomach and then relief.

Oh yes, my AS results are out!!

According to the official announcement, the results were supposed to be released 8.01am Malaysian time. So there I was, at least 45 minutes before the release time, sitting infront of the computer in the library, already logged into my account so I'll get first to know and not get stuck in the crash.

Apparently there were too many people more kiasu then I am, in spite of my kiasuness, I could only log into my account (because it has timed-out) again at 8.09am and the screen still reads 'results are yet to be released'. I finally won another battle against the online traffic and successfully logged in and had a preview of my results before the college gives out the official printed version of it. I was covering my face (except for eyes) with my hands when I saw the results while everyone else around me gather beside me were scanning through my results.

Figures shown are percentiles with comparison to candidates around the world.

Thinking Skills A 93
Psychology A 93
Biology A 93
Chemistry A 91
Mathematics A 90

My percentiles are scarily consistent haha! Apparently AS results doesn't show A*. But if they had, I think I would have all A*s except Maths. So yes! I am happy! :)

I thought my SPM results were just pure luck. I can't remember myself working hard at all, compared to last year, for AS. I was afraid 'whoever up there' was going to let me pay my debt by giving me Bs for my AS. But I guess hardwork does pay off, and that is something no one can take away from you.

I think I've been incredibly blessed all my life so far. I have never faced disappointment for major examinations like these. Sometimes I question myself whether do I deserve all the As I've gotten. LOL.

Nonetheless, I will work hard for A2 for straight A*s :)

Wish me luck!

What Is Perfect?

2011-01-15T15:32:00.003+08:00

I've always had issues with my body, my face, my skin and stuff. It's not uncommon for me, and i'm sure to alot others, to see a beautiful girl on FB, browse through her photos and can't help but leave her page with utmost awe and admiration.

Being perfect is somewhat overrated. Of course I didn't say that just because I think I'm imperfect, in fact in my opinion everyone is imperfect. But what exactly is the true definition of being perfect? Having the killer body? Angel face? Brilliant mind? Then again, define 'killer body' or 'angel face' or 'brilliant mind'.

What I'm trying to say is, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Some people think girls with lean body is beautiful, some others, curvy figure. I realise the definition of 'beautiful' among people nowadays is getting narrower. The word beautiful no longer defines a variety of characteristics, but certain type of traits. So girls with big, sparkling eyes, extremely fair skin, thick, pouty lips, long, wavy hair and slender figure are more attractive than others? What happens to the girl with small eyes, tanned skin, thin lips, ordinary straight hair and chubby figure then? I guess this is one of the social consequences of rapid globalisation.

On a side note, how many pictures of extremely beautiful girls have you seen and not telling yourself she looks fake? And how many girls have you suspected having undergone plastic surgery? How many girls really let their face go bare and naked all the time? How many girls do not photoshop their pictures at all? I'm not saying people who wear cosmetics or photoshop photos are fake. I am simply stating a fact that many people nowadays are worshipping the idea of 'perfectness' and 'flawless'.

Guys should partly be at fault too. Girls dress to impress guys, so guys are one of the biggest culprits. If they hadn't worshipped Megan Fox, Jessica Alba so much we wouldn't be such perfectionists. LOL

I'm 19!

2011-01-13T18:26:00.004+08:00

I'm 19! :) Oh yesh, that sounds so old.

Describe your age.

'Oh, er, I am one year to two decades old'

'I'm half way to being 38 (sampat)'

'I'm one year older than the legal age'

'I am in my last teen year'

So I went Langkawi with my beloved friends YokePei, SuVien, Justin, Jerry and Frank from 3rd to 6th Jan. Before the trip, YP and I had doubts about whether we should go. Actually, I think I had a really irrational, sentimental and impatient month after the AS. I wasn't thinking right about alot of things. I blame everything to AS. But we went anyway, and it turned out to be a priceless experience for all of us.

It was my first time going on a vacation with friends. Justin settled the flights and hotel. We paid only RM90 for our 3-night's stay at Berjaya Langawi Resort per person because Justin's dad works for the Berjaya group! To add on to the luxury, Frank's driver drove us to the LCCT and drove me home. To compare with my sister, who went to Penang on the same day, my vacation was far more luxurious and enjoyable.

We rented a car to drive around, went for massages and had seafood. We bought booze and junk food and indulged ourselves on the beach at night everyday. I've always loved beaches.

When we got back, we dined at a restaurant near my house. Sarah surprised me with her presence and a lovely birthday cake :) apparently Justin had planned an early birthday surprise with Sarah for me <3>

On my birthday, had lunch with Nick at Chili's, Empire. He treated me but he was lucky I only ate Caesar salad and mushroom soup! haha. Then I spend the evening at Starbucks researching for my University of Hong Kong interview alone. A girl and a guy came up to me to ask for donations for the spastic children homes. It was my birthday, but I thought no one should make it special for me, I should make it special for myself. So I made sure they were reliable, and made a small donation.

At night, I had dinner with Sook (whose shares the same birthday as I), YinKuan, YenLin, Yan Ting and Hau Yue. Hau Yue had also surprised me and Sook with a lovely chocolate cake and her presence! <3>

Pei bought me two tops, Lei bought me a cute fondue set with marshmallows and chocolate.

True enough, I had a special and memorable birthday :)

SAT II

2010-12-30T23:34:00.004+08:00

On December 4th I took my SAT 2, the Subject Test. Subjects I took were Biology, Mathematics Level 2 and Chemistry. I'm not applying to any of the US universities but National University Singapore requires me to do both SATs if I were to apply with my forecast results.

So why not SAT 1 first? That's the usual trend. But I had just ended AS then, the knowledge would still be fresh in my mind and moreover, I thought I needed more time to study for SAT Reasoning Test, since it's something new and unfamiliar.

So I just got my results online. The score ranges from 200 to 800 for each subject. Percentile is national

Mathematics score: 700 percentile: 62% okay average
Biology score: 710 percentile: 70% thought I screwed it up but turns out okay
Chemistry score: 800 percentile: 93% WTH?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

hahahahahaha! okay I should totally do biomedical sciences. I'm decided on biochemistry more than ever now hah!

Unbelievable.

Updates

2010-12-19T18:19:00.006+08:00

Figured that this blog lack newer pictures lol. Though, they're not exactly in sequence according to dates.

11 Dec, SkyTrex-ing with Kel, Alex, Desmo, Vincent, Ann Gee and her boyfriend and my sisters at Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya

Dinner near my house with Ben, Des, Alex and sisters when Ben came back :D

10 Sept, Lei's birthday spent on Pangkor Island

Pangkor :) Very awesome trip!

Murni, USJ9 with Ed, Ben, Rushan, Des and Kel when Ben was back, after Lowyat with Kel

My babes! Train station before Time Square shopping with Jun, Nadiya and Andrea :)

Best shopping experience ever!! Why? I spent RM133 on 3 dresses, a belt and a bag. Crazy cheap!!!

The Library with Yoke Pei, Tze Yee, Andrea, Rhenu, Tommy and Jien

Before The Library, dinner at The Apartment. Here with Rhenu!

And before The Apartment, ECA (Extra Curricular Activities) Recognition Day with Yoke Pei!

Me going as Choir Club president, Yoke Pei as Choir Club Publicity Director and Music Club treasurer.

PM8 2010

only 3 men in the class lol

Dad's company dinner at Sunway Resort and Spa

The day AS ended, Harry Potter 7 part 1 at OneU with..lotsa people lol. Almost everyone from A Levels were there

Murni SS2 with Kel, Ed, Des, Vincent and Jolene

At Shiva's house before breakfast on a Saturday with Va, San, Angie and Ed

Melur usj18 for breakfast!

October 5, Yoke Pei's birthday! Cupcakes i made for celebration in classroom :)

I WON AN iPad! At Western Austrailia Education Fair, KLCC

Went with Kel, Ed and Puteri. This is a pre-lottery-winning moment.

Off to Turkey :)

Feliznavidad

2010-12-14T15:23:00.002+08:00

Holidays are finally here!!!

Honestly, college after AS has been really boring. Although I know that A2 is actually not far away, despite the fact that it starts May next year, it is obvious that most of us are not feeling the immediate effect of it yet. You know how you only start to study seriously when you feel the exam's just around the corner? I was a very last minute person. I don't stress myself to study until the day, or 2 days before exams, at least that was me back in high school.

1 month holiday is actually very short. My dad wanted me to work at his company as a lab technician, which i thought is a very good opportunity to get some experience and see whether i'm sure of pursuing a career in biochemistry or similar field or not. As much as i wanted it, I don't exactly have the time. 1 week of 'zen' time for my mind, then its vacation till next year. Before i can even withdraw myself from the holiday mood, college would have already started. Soon after it would be a week holiday for CNY, then trials, then study leave and then poof- A2. So as you can see i'm not entirely being kiasu when i say i'm gonna study during the holidays (which i haven't got round to do yet, too busy being couch potato) There is actually very little time.

What i mean about 'zen' week is a week of mind-relaxing for myself. My ideal 'zen' day would be spending a whole day sleeping until i feel like waking up, read some books, telly, healthy and light food at home, and then watch movies. Not just any movies like erm Transformers or those typical action movies. My favourite movies are the kind that makes you reflect on your own lives. They must have a long-lasting impact on my emotions for at least a week and they would make me feel like watching it again, just to find myself more emotionally attached to the movie the second time. Examples of these movies are 'The Painted Veil', 'The Notebook', 'Hachiko' etc. Yeah, all emotional and romance movies lol. True, they might be boring movies but they reflect the truth and insecurities within humans. Or dogs.

For the first time, I participated in carolling. I'm not a christian, but it was an activity involving Christian Fellowship and Choir Club of Taylor's. I must say, that Thursday of last week of college lightened up my boring college life after AS. It was really enjoyable. For some reason I didn't feel like going to college that day, but I'm thankful that i went. Ms. Elaine even appointed Sarah and I to duet a part while performing at the staff's luncheon. Learning songs about the birth of Christ was rewarding too, although we had to stay back until past 7pm to learn them. I can understand why christians can willingly dedicate their weekends to go to church. For some of them, it might be a weekend getaway. To sing with your loved ones is just a very rewarding thing to do. You feel stronger spiritually, and that's how i felt after the carolling session.

Recently my blog has been all words. Desmond Lee KiamSiap can't complain that my blog has so many pictures that it made his computer lag again. I think I have grown out of the idea that I have to update my blog with all the happenings in my recent life. Maybe it's Facebook, maybe its maturity. I feel unnecessary to 'showcase' all the events of my life using pictures now. Well, you can do that, if many people read your blog. Sometimes you tell yourself alot of things. You evaluate your experiences and comment on them, silently. Blogging, to me now, is to record them down. So you know more clearly, the way you think. Sometimes you don't discover something to say, and then blog. You discover things while blogging. With blogging, or writing, you realise how mature you've learned to be, compared to last year, for example.

In a blink of an eye, it's December already. I had a great year :)

p.s.- Feliznavidad, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

AS over and done with

2010-11-25T22:49:00.002+08:00

Finals are over! Of course, there's another round of A2 next year May but i'm just glad AS is over. I threw all my papers, notes, assignments, tests, exam papers away. Though relieved, I felt reluctant to throw my exam papers away, especially Psychology. It's not everyday you write 4 pages full of essays in approximately an hour, excluding the 15 short answer questions that I had to do in half an hour. I remember how my right arm was 'paralysed' after Psycho paper semester 1 exam. I literally couldnt drive- I drove with my left hand.

Classes just resumed. Having class on Monday when you finish your last paper on Friday sucks. But it keeps the studying momentum going lol. Actually I don't mind, I hate the idea of slacking. Almost everyone that i asked doesn't plan to apply to Singapore because of the extreme kiasu-ness. I would reply: 'Har?? But I apply there for the kiasu-ness'. I am applying there for the kiasu-ness. I know, I'm being so Cina. Shit, how?

Classes are so boring, for me. The idea that I have to absorb all the information without knowing what form will the questions be in exam bores me. I'm the kind that does better in finals. I would prefer to have had all the information learned, familiarise with exam formats and tackle exam questions. Which is why A Levels, i think, suits me best. Which is also why, I usually do shits during tests. I realise that perhaps I'm the kind of person who can really focus during exams. My mind doesn't go blank during exams, with AS Psychology paper 1 being excepted- I was panicked to death and I screwed up :(

I'm not exactly a 100% nerd. I go out all the time. I usually disappear during weekends, not all the time but I do sometimes. Friday nights are my favourite! I usually go shopping, meet up with the dudes i've known since form1, have dinner, movies, etc etc. And i'm usually the one being enthusiastic about going places like clubs and pubs hahah!

Oh yes! I've been on diet. I take care of my diet rather closely. I sometimes let myself indulge during lunchtime but I eat little during dinner. Weeks ago everyone was calling me fat :( Although I know most of them are trying to tease me and fool around lol. But even Ms Tan, my Psychology lecturer asked me if i put on weight :( so i was motivated and started going on a more strict diet. No, I don't exercise much. But swimming does help. The most effective way is still to control my diet lol. The effects are quite obvious.

2 more weeks to holiday! :)

Random Things Bout Me

2010-10-30T00:35:00.002+08:00

1. The main reason i love driving is i can sing in the car where no one can hear me :D I love trying to harmonise songs they play on the radio. Sometimes i even sing old choir songs, just to remind myself how i loved singing in Seafield Choir :) Even if i go off-pitch no one would be there to make me feel embarassed and make judgements of my singing ability. Some people just love to sing even if they can't sing you know? lol. I find inspirations to try to learn how to play a song through hearing mostly listening to radio in the car.

2. Since college started this year I have never ever, never ever, ever ever eaten rice for lunch breaks. It's always, always always noodles. On rare occasions i eat Subway. I just find noodles more appetizing for me.

3. I don't eat rice for dinner at home, even when eating out. Of course, I eat the chicken, fish, vege everything, but not rice. This is one of my diet plans, reducing carbs intake especially at night. They will sediment and become fats! I suggest eat early like 6pm if you're gonna eat rice. Please, it is logical in every single way. You produce less ATP at night, so using less glucose, so excess carbs will be stored as fats. Friends think i'm a maniac, but besides, i dont really find the need of eating rice too!

4. I won an iPad from South Austrailian Education Fair at KLCC early this month Sunday! My parents went to the HomeDec exhibition and suggested me to go with them but I insisted to go on Sunday with Kel, Ed and Puteri. It was a survey we filled in with questions like :' Who is the famous Hollywood actor who graduated from South Austrailian Academy of Performing Arts?' I particularly remember this because i was quite sure it was HUGH JACKMAN!! But Kel googled using his iPhone4 anyways and we completed few other questions with some googling and brochure-browsing, then it was just up to luck - it was a lucky draw too.

Meanwhile, Put and Ed were calling me and Kel losers but look who are the losers now muahahahaha! After filling in Ed and Put went back while I drove Kel and myself to Hilton KL for US Education Fair, which was super small and quite useless (all unknown private institutes). Parking of 1 hour and 2 minutes costed me rm10!!! Pissed, i was driving out of the carpark when the lady from the Aussie fair called me and told me I won an iPad and she was hugging it.

I swear I had adrenalin rush. Dangerous, having a P-licensed driver with predispositional aggressive driving skills with adrenalin rush. I literally U-turned at double white line without signaling and prior sign to anyone including Kel beside me while cursing me 'F You' the whole time from Hilton to KLCC. Of course I couldnt have died, I need my life to go claim that iPad! So i drove all the way back to KLCC, claimed my prize from two Aussie fellahs, demanding for scholarship when they asked me to apply to University of West Austrailia, and got 'You already got an iPad, so don't push the limit'. Jokingly of course. It was a good talk with them.

Then we went Machines and I bought a rm339 cover and protective layer, so total costed me rm398. I did not calm down after a week or two after the luckiest day of my life. I was that high. Never knew lottery would hit me. Free lottery, no investment needed like Toto.

Phew.

Okay it's late so continue some other time

Caution: Some other time may mean some other millenium later.

Stress.

2010-10-28T18:45:00.003+08:00

Stress is not a word i used often. In fact, I hardly even say 'I feel stressed'. Everytime i say it, it means i am really really stressed, and after saying it i'll be filling myself with guilt and ask myself 'are you reaaaaally feeling stressed?'. Then, I'll feel like i'm just being LOA, which i don't think that's what i say im stressed for. But that happens. Everytime.

I'm in the middle of my finals now. Of course, it would be reasonable for me to say that i'm stressed. But 'stress' is so subjective. You can't measure stress, at least not in any 100% valid way. When you say you're stress, how sure are you? How intense is your stress?

You might think 'what the hell, is this even important?'

For all you know, mastering the knowledge of 'stress' is going to be extremely helpful to you, especially when you're a student with big exams or projects coming up.

First things first, what i learned from Psychology A Levels is if you have appropriate explanation to your physiological arousal (don't think dirty arousal!), you will not experience emotion, by Schachter and Jerome Singer. So, if you feel headache after studying too much and you know that you're having headache because you feel stressed, you won't feel stressed.

Secondly, environmental cues and physiological are BOTH essential for experience of emotion. So, if you do not experience headache or whatsoever due to overwork, don't say you're stressed 'cause you're not.

Thirdly, when we do not have appropriate explanation to our physiological arousal, we tend to look for environmental cues to label our emotion. So when you are studying and you feel headache, you should know you have been studying too intensely or too long or if neither, some other causes.

See now people won't think Psychology's useless. It does tell you something useful and something you can relate to in everyday life.

I know, what the hell, I've been using what i learned in A Levels to apply to everything. I sound like a total nerd!!! In addition to my mania, I always scrutinise the things my friends eat like sweets, bottled juices, chips, everything. Please, if people like me don't exist, how are you going to realise Sugus and Fruitella has edible gelatin from beef??!! hah, caught-yah Hindus and some Buddhists.

I remember back then going online everyday used to be so vital for me, for everyone. I feel like its a really big leap from being 17 and being 18. Within a year i aged mentally so quickly. I find myself eccentric in some things i do like I don't particularly like sweets or junkfood like how i used to. I prefer tong sui nowadays, and they must be hot. I go starbucks and i drink tea now. I dislike fried food. And i realise i'm naggy to my siblings, just like how naggy my parents were to me and i often thought it was annoying.

Now my parents arent so naggy to me anymore. They know that I know what i'm doing and they have full trust in me, thats what i think. My parents even thought of not spending money for my undergraduate education last year 'cause i was in a relationship and i would just stop studying and run off to marry someone, however i reassured them i wasn't going to.

Now i spend my everyday going through the same routine, which i quite enjoy. Everyday my plan would be to study. Even a few moments of slacking makes me feel guilty and 'karma' might hit me and give me Bs in my exams for slacking. So now i go college everyday, even there are no papers, or starbucks to study everyday from early morning till evening. I can't study at home. I tell people that that's cause i have a mirror infront me and i simply couldnt resist myself. But its actually because when i'm at home i feel like i should be pampered and i should relax. And that's what i do, after studying for nearly half a day at college, i go home and i dont study.

Besides, I have a bunch of really close friends who will be at library everyday with me too. It just feels awesome going to college where you have different circles of friends to talk too and to laugh with, or laugh at lol.

Nowadays it just seem unnecessary for me to update my blog about details of my life with lots of pictures anymore. Recent stuff like me winning iPad from Aussie Education Fair (!!!!!!!!!!!), my awesome, rejuvenating Pangkor trip, outings with my awesome friends... Ahh...too lazy to upload the pictures. Uploading pictures to blog and FB is just troublesome.

Besides, I always had to sound excited when i blog bout those, just like my previous blog posts, and sometimes it's not always that happy.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy now. I feel contented and i genuinely don't want exams to past so fast. 3 weeks of college and a short 1-month break before college starts again just don't sound appealing to me.

I feel like a weirdo. A kiasu weirdo.

Like i said, I'm aging prematurely so bear with my dull philosophies.

DULL COLOURS

Energy Profile Diagrams

2010-10-02T10:29:00.002+08:00

Here comes the nerdy side of me again- I know right.

But this time it isn't bout talking about chemical reactions alone. Everything in this world can implicate something else. Even science can be used to explain our soul-searching process.

Let the potential energy be unhappiness and reaction pathway, time.

In an endothermic reaction, level of unhappiness is low. When you're in a relationship, you were happy and all you want to do is to be the one you love, thus the low level of unhappiness. Unconsciously, problems appear in the relationship and your loved one decided to painfully bring the relationship to an end. You get depressed. The activation energy needed to bring you to happiness again is so high, you think it might not be possible for you to be happy again. You feel extremely unhappy and thus, high level of unhappiness.

In this exothermic reaction, unhappiness level is relatively high. You feel so depressed and helpless in the relationship you were confused about whether or not to make a change. The unhappiness accumulated and with the help of some energy, in this case, courage, you yield products. Surprisingly, the products have such low energy value, you feel happier again. The activation energy here is much lower, of course. And that's what everyone would think. The process of exothermic reaction is much easier than the process of endothermic reaction. That's what everyone would think too. However, it doesn't mean that exothermic reactions do not need a single Joule of energy for the reaction to happen. For all you know, exothermic reactions may require the same amount of time to occur as endothermic reactions do.

In our life the energy level is never constant. Exothermic and endothermic reactions happen all the time. But it doesn't mean that you will only experience endothermic reactions throughout your life. If people can make you sad, you definitely can make people sad too. But deep down, you feel sad yourself when you make people sad too. Its just a matter of level of sadness. Even so, sadness is subjective and impossible to be measured.

Maybe some would think exothermic reactions are selfish. I confess I am selfish. Maybe it could have been better if i'm a more clingy person, or i'm a less ambitious person, or i'm a more settled person. But it occured to me that if changes could be made, neither the exothermic nor endothermic reactions would happen. We could be an unstable ionic compound but we would still, remain an an ionic compound. Of course, nothing's impossible, so some says. But it is not like we hadn't given chances to the ionic bond. If the bond's unstable, it can't just stay like that. One of the atoms will eventually seek for a more stable condition, even if it means remaining as a single atom.

I look out to the window into the after-rain scenery and ponder: What is the purpose of my life? Maybe it wouldn't matter if i had found my purpose of life, as long as i feel comfortable as who i am now.

A Night of 'Euphoria'

2010-09-21T20:51:00.012+08:00

back from clubbing :)

went IKEA with Rach, Kel and Ed for breakfast and this is my pathetic-looking-but-rather-awesome kid's spaghetti :D

Rach amazed cos all three of us were (were cos Kel's now using iPhone4! ) using Samsung Jet

wanted to put the cropped jacket on for the day but feeling too bulky

anyways was at Kel's house recording and jamming the previous day!

anything's possible with Mac, so we managed to record a song, but sounds rather lousy lol.

okay coming back,

went karaoke after breakfast, considering all of us being ex-choir freaks! but conned rm150+ lor..

nonetheless, it was great :)

Kel: 'Your hair looks ''sad''! ' LOL

went to watch 'Devil' which is kind of a disappointment, and waited blindly to enter the club

supposed to be my single shots lor..

Kel fooling around =.=

omg pervert looking guy on the left

my feet were awfully painful after all the dancing lol. so went mamak after dropping Ed off.

We were in the club super early so we just had to wait and chill while we gossip and exchange cheesy pick-up lines. I hardly drank alcohol at all cos i was the driver of the day, and i don't drink alcohol, at least not for now :) Kel, Jien and Ed were my bodyguards on the dancefloor! People probably think i was some tycoon's daughter or something haha

Oh btw my maths is 93!!!!!! woohoo. Mr. Kumar counted 2 marks less. Fine i kiasu okaaay, but 2 marks' ALOT!

Alright finals in 2 weeks, i probably should be anti-social starting from now :/

Trial results

2010-09-15T13:19:00.004+08:00

My trial results are out!

well, comparing to my semester 1 results,

a slight improvement :)

though, obviously my bio and psycho has gone down a bit. Psycho trial papers were hard, so my decline in marks is reasonable, hopefully finals would be less difficult. While bio i think, needs more hard work so i'm gonna start paying more attention to bio now, considering i'm going to study biochem. Whereas for thinking skills, ahh...i wish i could do something about it but there's not much studying i can do, answer schemes are basically subjective, and it more or less uses my IQ so if i have low IQ then i can't do much about it can i? lol

Okay that's about it :D

Blogging

2010-09-05T21:54:00.003+08:00

What were blogs originally created for?

Some people blog as a cyber way for writing a diary or a journal. Some blog out of peer pressure. Some just have too much words for their picture captions for Facebook to fit that they had to have more space for words.

I haven't been forgetting about blogging. I 'talk' to myself all the time. Everytime, I'd be preparing a script to blog by talking to myself, silently of course, what do you think i am? A psycho? But after finishing what i had to say, it didnt feel like blogging it matters so much anymore. It's just a matter of expressing how you feel to someone, or at least to something.

Most people blog about stuff they would like people to know about them. Its natural. That's how humans, as social beings, are. If people only wanted a platform to express themselves un-attention-seekingly, blog wouldnt exist. Or at least, blogs wouldnt even be public to people.

I don't know bout others, but I consider myself as a person who thinks alot. Maybe that explains why i'm such a reserved person. I don't usually tell people, friends however close, how i feel. Especially when i'm feeling really bad. I guess its my own problem, not others. I enjoy my own privacy alot- definitely inherited from my dad.

Trials just ended and i'm rotting myself out at home. I love going college, unlike high school, because attending every class at college is so crucial for your exam. It feels like no time can be wasted. A day not spent on studying feels like a day wasted. Well, at least that's how i feel, especially after returning to being single, studies are my first priority now.

I hate to be thought as a nerd but I still have to say I love having exam fever. Lol. My life feels more contented this way, knowing that your hardwork is going to be judged, giving you an opportunity to realise where you stand and whether there's room for improvement. Can't wait for results to come out, whether good or bad :)

Sometimes you feel so bad you just want to lie on the bed and let time pass, so tomorrow will be sooner and you can start over new. Sometimes you just wish someone was there to listen to you and then you wish you were alone, at the same time, because you couldnt afford to care how people think of you when they see you being sad. Sometimes you just want to be alone simply because you wouldnt know what to say to someone else about how you feel. Sometimes you couldnt even think of somebody who could truly understand how you feel.

Nonetheless, I have awesome friends who do understand me :) But under depressing circumstances, you just can't stop being a pessimist. You just feel like the whole world wouldnt understand you.

Sometimes, i would get so imaginative and questioned myself if all these were fake. It could be that you are the only one who exist as a real being in this world. All other people, creatures are just characters in a play. All the things that happened or is going to happen to you are all planned out, just like a stageplay. It's a very self-centred thought though. If this hypothesis is real, nothing would matter anymore. But we can't be this selfish because there're too many things to be cared about. We cannot afford to be ignorant to the world.

I would imagine me when i die: It's quite impossible to believe how is it possible that you won't have any senses when you're dead. The world will change with or without you. But we can make a change.

I wanna make a change :)

Hi, I'm New :)

2010-08-14T22:38:00.003+08:00

Facebook has rendered blogs irrelevant. Thus, lost will to blog. lol

Blogging less frequent doesn't necessarily mean that it is a bad thing :)

I've been hanging out with people i longed to hang out with, been doing things i've craving to do, been giving myself time and space to do thing i've always loved doing and im happy :)

I feel like i'm a whole new person, a better one, a person who feels better :)

Trials are just around the corner! Pray that the universities i'm applying to will approve of my application so i can fly to UK next year!! But of course, first, satisfactory A Levels results :)

Am excited :D

More pictures: Genting

2010-07-25T21:10:00.008+08:00

i looked happy.. :)

Double Date at Genting :)

2010-07-15T17:01:00.016+08:00

I think this was like 19th December 2009 haha.. few days after Chinese Paper!

Yup it took me that long to get the pictures..almost 7 months!

Hottie and i, Hui Ting and Jin Onn went on a double date, it was the most perfect day ever :) although Tingy and Chai Lala ended a couple of months after that..

My dream date with my loved one has always been like, a day at the amusement park. After SPM i thought i really deserved a good trip with Hottie because i was so bound by the date-only-after-SPM nags from my parents, regardlessly whether my results were satisfying or not. To make the day more enjoyable, and also not to let my parents criticise me about going dating, i invited the then-couple. We didnt even spend a night at Genting cos parents would definitely disapprove of it, in fact they WILL still disapprove of it. Hello? Even my younger sister spent 2 days and 1 night at Genting with her friends, mostly GUYfriends. So i consider myself a rational, obedient and responsible daughter.

So back to the trip, i know 1U offers a cheap package that comes with free buffet lunch etc. but i wanted a less rushing trip so i called up Uncle Andy and he says he drives an 11-passenger van, so it would be impractical for 4 of us to hire him but we did it anyways :) with discount! summore get to watch the Meatball cartoon!

see got hot guy giving foot massage summore! hah!!

finished the movie halfway, say bye bye to Uncle Andy and off we went for the cable car station!

loading the post with lots of us x)

hmm..i look so different with my 100% natural hair. Feels so unfamiliar! cant imagine my life without wavy hair x)

sweet :)

i hate Genting signboards. They are actually unimaginably misleading. At the end of the day when we were already exhausted, cold and starving, we were walking from the Convention Centre to the indoor themepark for dinner. We went up and down, escalators after escalators, following the signboards wondering we might not be far from heaven, until i realised there is a very very very VERY VERY VERY shortcut from the centre to the themepark, which is like an escalator apart. I was so pisseddddd!!!!!!!!

hey, nice ass. hahaha!

who's this? I think its Lala

its me!! I am clearly not 153cm lol

Tingy and Lala

I love going amusement parks with Hottie cos i get to hug him all the time! x)

omg..Lala brought a BIG bottle of water..how thoughtful!

I may have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) haha!

sorry lor..can't help it ma..

muahaha..Tingy and i!

boys being jealous and decided to take revenge lol

A shot with the dine-in London bus :)

Tingy and Lala are the timid and relax type, while Hottie and i were more of the jumpy and energetic type lol..

The two were tired so we took an hour rest at the lounge and i got to nap very comfortably for a while :) until Tingy starts to kacau haha

i look like i have short hair, like how i used to have it when i was 10 or 11..not nice!!

Going for Antique Car, my favourite relaxing ride :)

showing off his manlihood............lol

spy spy people in front

got LEGO man!

Have you ever noticed this weird phenomenon?

Is one of them feeding the other or they're just kissing when one of them are eating? gross..

My Tingy looks so hot! and she's retarded cos she wore like she was going to the beach lol..poor Lala had to sacrifice himself! aww~

view from caterpillar ride

Lala..always looking blur

i love you! muahaha

Looking all tired lol..

Then we went to have dinner at KFC, Hottie and i shared a dinner plate and the attendant was either too kind or too blur that he had given us a large potato wedges for free! spent less than rm20 for a really hearty dinner :)

I'm not short..he's just tall

group :) hottie looks like a top supermodel x)

and that's the end of one of the most perfect days :)

Love.

Cheng :)

Money-versary

2010-06-27T14:17:00.010+08:00

it was our 17th monthly-versary! so explains my title la heh..almost the same pronunciation..

and the Jun-Bel couple were given the privilege of spending this day with us! haha they must be so honoured

My honey pie!

and her beau lol

was concentrating on his mackerel fish all the time

me and hottie!

June took revenge~

hi-ing to Wei Mund

slut seducing me

hahahahhahaa!

awwww~

my slut x)

waiting for Toy Story 3D!

heh sweet

MR.LOML

<3>goofy!!

my first 3D movie lol

sadly no 3D effects from Toy Story 3!

and got special sound effects from immature malay girls whom i thought were a bunch of 13-year-olds but turned out they were 20+s ooohing and ahhh-ing all the way!!!

was furious but not as furious as my hottie haha

excited =D

must-have la okay

especially with the camwhore queen lol

i love my woman!

The two went home and we had Manhattan :)

looking dashing in formal :)

took us forever to eat..

we even had to da pao the fries!
this is what happens when your beloved boyfriend has a small tummy lol

hahah!

ugly pose..but i still love :)

college has started! *in a not-so-happy tone*

dad went and meet my lecturers and of course no complaints la.. what is there to complain bout me muahahhaha i am such a decent and diligent student ;D

Love.

Cheng

Exam Results!

2010-06-21T22:48:00.004+08:00

I just got my results!!

I think its a fairly good start and my results are overall satisfactory.

I think i manage to maintain my scholarship afterall lol..

I am delighted that Thinking Skills has the lowest marks of all so there is nothing to be frustrated and complained about! Overall i think the results are reasonable..except for maths which i could have gotten worse than i had thought because i had screwed up Paper one and i don't think i deserve that 'Very good work' from Mr. Kumar lol

Half a year flew by in light speed. And i havent practically done any college work..and i wouldnt be surprised if on Tuesday when i get back to college i had been informed that i had totally forgotten about doing my work..cos i dont remember having and dont want to remember to have any holiday work!

i love waking up when my internal alarm rings instead of an electronic, irritating alarm rings. I love being a lazy bum, rolling on my queen-sized bed for an hour after being awake. I love rotting at home and have no plans on my mind, and to spontaneously watch my long awaited pirated dvds one after another, hugging my big bolster. I love reading books at home and to daydream as long as i want.

I have exactly a week more to do that! But then again..who wouldnt like to do all those things..eventually people will just have to stop being a potato couch and start getting on with work for their future's sake again.

Before going to Bali i had caught up with Estee and the girls which is great!! and shopping spree with Sab and Jean..not to mention dates with Hottieeeee...

The day before i went off to Bali he said he wanted to take me out for dinner at chinese stalls near my house..so i wore like a sakai..but he had brought me to Sunway Pyramid for Zanmai Sushi!!! I was extremely embarrassed, frustrated and overjoyed at the same time. I was hoping that i wont bump into anyone familiar but i had bumped into Jean and her Astroboy! and Sam! Despite all the humiliation.. Hottie has been real sweet as usual :)

Love.

Cheng

2010-06-21T17:19:00.002+08:00

I'm back from Bali!!

My honeymoon WILL be at BALI!!!

god..now i can see why its such a popular place for weddings and honeymoons..

Being in Bali's so relaxing that i have never been into sightseeing so much in any other places i've been on vacations. And i would always gradually enter my dreams while sightseeing in the car.

Every corner of Bali is a state of art. Every sight of Bali is so pleasant!

Anyways..update with photos soon la..

OH! I got an A for Biology!!

Wee...82%.. okay la i guess but there're people getting 92%!

Shall be more kiasu from now on

Loves!

Cheng.

Contradiction

2010-05-29T21:44:00.004+08:00

Those days when Friendster was 'in' and hadn't been replaced by the all-of-a-sudden-so-famous Facebook, posting surveys were in trend.

One would read his/her friend's newly posted surveys on the Bulletin Board, backspace friend's answers and filled the surveys with their own answers. It would be like shitting halfway if they (or at least i) didn't repost ALL the different surveys on the Bulletin Board.

So occasionally, actually quite occasionally, one of the annoying questions i would wish they'd stopped asking would be: 'Will you get back with your ex?'

Before that they would often ask: 'Do you have an ex?' or 'Who is/are your ex/exes?'

To that question i would answer normally, 'Lim Kuok Wei' or 'You don't have to know'.

Yes, my form 2 ex is my now boyfriend.........................................

So 'Will you get back with your ex?'

The answer was always 'hell no!' or 'nowayy, he's a jerk' bla bla...

But look at me now: I've been in love with this childlike, silly, handsome (at least i think he is la okay) creature for 15 months now.

He always reminded me that Darren, who was close to both of us, had made a statement that we would both one day be together again and now i wonder whether the fella's a prophet or not. No, prophets do not dance to Girl Generation. HAHAHHAHAHA

I was so so so happy that day, so happy i could not possibly describe my euphoria in words, because hottie had came to have lunch with me that day :)

The sad and touching part is, he walked from Sunway College to Taylors College. The walk lasted for 50 minutes, and 10 minutes waiting for me outside the campus gate.

For an hour i was feeling really happy, just walking with hottie because he would do all sorts of silly things making me laugh and frustrated at the same time. Actually we had so many of these kind of times and all of them i was feeling no less happier than this. Its just that just because i hadn't wrote or recorded about them doesn't mean i didn't appreciate them.

The day was not ALL happy la 'cause Fern's leaving for JPA! Ms Lena's definitely right about how the standard deviation of the class's academics will be decreased after Fern's departure because Fern's such a smartass (in a good way!)

Yesterday i went Genting with family, and everywhere i went reminded me of the day when Hottie, Jin Onn, Huiting and i had had a double date there. The day was so perfect and our poverty made the day even better 'cause i felt like we were so depending on each other! lol..

I hope i'll have the pictures soon when Huiting finally pass them to me :)

I am currently reading 'Sybil'! A book about a woman possessed with 16 personalities- a multiple-personality-disordered patient. It made me feel that i have really limited vocabulary range lol...i should have read a dictionary before flipping the pages. The little book costed me rm44.90!! But its worth it cos its rare and i've been wanting to read it for ages :) And hottie and found it when we were searching through the racks in MPH! More reasons to appreciate the book :)

The movie really fascinated me and i didn't realise how enthusiastic i was about multiple personality disorder until i watched the movie on Youtube. Moreover, i had found 'Tell me Your Dreams' by Sidney Sheldon from the campus library!! Another multiple personality disorder novel lol...despite sem exams being extremely near..

Helllooo at least i'm not playing Maple for hours like how i normally would on weekends righttt??

I can't wait when we study bout multiple personality disorder in Psychology class x)

Loves!

Cheng

Blood Donation!

2010-05-07T20:24:00.004+08:00

For the first time in my life, i've donated blood!

Hmm..dont know whats with my life lately...all so 'bloody' and bio-ish lol..

Anyways i was the last to ever knew the existence of this event held at college..and right in between the interval of Bio and Thinking Skills, Yoke Pei and Jun successfully persuaded me to skip Thinking Skills to give it a try.. 'it's for a good cause!' the exact phrase that got me into the donation.

So it was pretty spontaneous for me, and we got downstairs, filled up forms and waited for their parents' form to 'arrive' because they were underaged still and i was the only legal one! lol..waited and waited but thanks to MEEEE i went in and enquired bout the forms for them or else we would have waited for sunrise.

One of the main reason i made this decision was to get to know my blood type cause my parents didnt know either! During the blood-pressure-checking, the officer said i have good blood pressure! =D and i FINALLY got to know that i have blood type A lol..

Yoke Pei, having low blood pressure cause of inherited factors. Poor thing..she was the one who suggested and the enthusiastic one but ended up being wimpy! and she only donated 150cc cos the blood wouldnt come out! lol

Nadia, after us =)

me and Yoke Pei! me being extremely happy knowing im healthy and laughing at YP lol

She had to use an ice block cos her wound was swollen haha

Jun candid!

the next day, which is today, YP's arm looked like this:

haha..not to mention i had to send her home yesterday cos i scared she faint from walking home! she had 3 girls escorting her and holding her stuff to my car lol!

hottie came to have lunch with me today! =))

on the Awards Ceremony day

me receiving 5k Tan Sri Loy Hean Heong Scholarship

could have gotten full scholarship if the 2A-s were granted a few more marks!! nvm nvm...

Loves!

Cheng =)