Funny thing is that these people knew of each other’s existence from way back but the friendship somehow only managed to blossom when they are much much older (now). 

I just find it interesting and rather peculiar that so very different people can now have so much in common!

Of course people grow up and develop interests only to cross paths with these other people who too grew up to find themselves having something in common with an old stranger from school. I just think it is amazing how everyone links up. Facebook would be so proud.

It just makes you think if the friends you consider your closest now were to exist in your life over ten years ago, meaning the uni mates or colleagues you have now existed back then as primary school mates. Would you still be such great pals?

I too realized that the friends I ‘grew’ up with are friends I usually call “my high school friends”. But truth is, about half of them were from my primary school and I usually forget that we were primary school mates. I was invisible to them and they were too advanced for me (my mum didn’t allow me to go hang out at Pyramid to catch a movie or go ice skating in 1998) so we never really knew each other.

In a way, the only friends I have back home are my high school friends. There are only ever three bunches I see:

1) The Dahlings and the Hunnies
The Dahlings are the bunch of girls from my year who were not all my classmates but we grew close because of Interact and Volleyball which sustained our friendship. We were initially pulled together because of a few like Chien and Sush. Then there was Mel and me. I think form2 was a rather crucial year. 

Chien, Sush, Mun Teng and Li Peng were all in a clique back in primary school where they played tali getah (a famous game among malaysian school girls involving a really long jump rope made out of rubber bands. I made one too, but I had nobody to teach me and play with.) So it was only natural that they stuck together when they entered the same high school. We didn’t talk in primary school but only said hello in high school because the other person was familiar.

Mel and I befriended each other when we were boy crazy form1 librarians stalking morning session boys. I was fond of a particular prefect in his white tight pants and she was busy fending off many suitors from the third form. Over Bliss magazines and the introduction of a world of furry and glittery girly things, Mel and I became best friends and attended Interact meetings together. I introduced her to her first real boyfriend too. (Wave hello, Vern Yang!)

In form2, the dahlings were technically split into only two classes: 2 Budi and 2 Cekap. In 2 Budi, Sush, Mel, Esther, Amanda and V-ng Yan were there. In 2 Cekap, I was there with Chien, Mun Teng, Melissa and Li Peng. These two bunch of girls formed cliques in their own class and because of the existing bonds between some of the girls, the entire bunch gelled together and became one. 

We were not The Dahlings until form3. I know it sounds like a super lame name but it was Amanda who came up with the cheesy name in form3 when she drew a picture of all of us.  

Oh, 2 Azam was Abby’s class, but she was the new hot girl in school and it was only towards the end of form2 where she joined us. And as for Min Dee, she was the new girl from Assunta and she only came to our school in form3. She started hanging out with us more in form4, thanks to Chien!

The Hunnies are the bunch of guy friends who were mostly pals of Chien from primary school (Kwo Kuang, Chun Guan, Kevin, Barry, Yijin..) but they also consist of a few from other primary schools such as Nigel, E Guy, Marcus, Adrian and Kay Hong . Come to think of it almost the entire bunch of “hunnies” are from my primary school. Hunnies were formed because they were jealous of the “Leng Chai Gang”. I would say that the “Leng Chai Gang” is a subsidiary of the Hunnies.

“Leng Chai Gang” is a name for the bunch of guys from 4 Omega. They consist of Barry, Adrian, Kay Hong, Kevin and Yijin. Barry is Leng Lui LengChai, Kay Hong is Lala LengChai, Yijin is BabyLengChai, Adrian is NerdLengChai and Kevin is Emo Lengchai. The Leng Chai gang take trips away together where they get wasted in hotel rooms and come home with funny drunken stories. 

The Hunnies were the left over boys from the bunch who were not in the same class back in Form 4 and thus have no special name. So out of spite, they called themselves the Hunnies. Also to mock The Dahlings I think. 

Yeah, long story short, these are the people whom I still hang out with because most of us went to Taylor’s College together. They were my primary school friends, high school friends AND my college friends. Such is life in the education hub of Malaysia = Subang Jaya, where you need not travel far for an education. I bet I could claim to be in the same kindergarten as them if I was born in 1986. 

I’m glad we make it a point to hang out on a very regular basis what with everybody working now. I’m the only student left in the group btw. Oh Chien and Adrian too as they are both doing medicine. LONG COURSES SUCK BALLS. 
 

2) The Interact Seniors/Volleyball Gang. 

Dennis, Joshua and Vern Yang are the ones whom we usually see as compared to the rest of the senior guys we hung out with back in school. (When they graduated from high school, we were like, “We don’t have anymore guy friends.”.

The Dahlings and this bunch of seniors were really close because of the Interact Club and being on the volleyball team. We were still in the Under-15′s girls’ team and they were in the Under-18 boys’ team. Of course other bonds were because a few of them were interested in some of the girls (not me) and some of us were interested in them (HEY JOSH WASSAP). 

Funny, didn’t really hang out much with the senior girls in that year except for a few whom we still see when there is a chance like Evelyn and Rosalyn. But here’s a really good example of what I meant by getting along with others at different times of your life. I was quite scared of Rosalyn back in high school coz she was all about tough love but in recent years when we do meet up, the conservation just flows and is filled to the brim with gossips!

I can actually remember my very first ICQ chat with Dennis. That was the first time we spoke. I already knew that he was the popular head prefect from my primary school (I was 9, he was 12). When I added him on ICQ, I was in form1 and he was in form3. I don’t know why I remember the chat also, maybe because I had a penchant to reread my ICQ chat histories back in the day when going online did not involve stalking blogs, updating blogs, selling things, stalking friends on facebook and basically you had a lot more time on your hands when you were online. 

I remember it was something along the lines of getting to know each other. The memory is a little vague but I do remember him telling me that he is a really eccentric character (No shit, KKB*). The 12 year old me nodded wisely and typed back, “You must be really rich then.”

Having not had enough of English classes at 12 years old, I assumed eccentric meant being rich. 

Can’t believe it is also my 10th year of friendship with those guys. All getting ancient this year at 26!

*KKB stands for Korkorbear. Dennis is the leader of the Bear family. Not gonna go into details, too corny. 

3) The Leo Gang/Chee Kiang’s Gang

Being the president of the Leo Club back in high school, Chee Kiang grew close to Daryl and Justin. He was already close to Gaya who was his Form One classmate and Gaya was best friends with Nadine. Justin was my primary school mate so I had already known him for many years, but we never really acknowledged each other in primary school and as for Daryl we got along really well the moment he stepped into my class in Form2 as the new boy with the x-men hair cut. He taught me what cock teaser meant!

Because of ‘things brewing’ between Chee Kiang and myself back in Form3-5, I’d go along when they hung out. I had my first shisha with them in form3 at Pyramid and stayed out till midnight for the first time in Form4 when they celebrated the Leo Club election results, also in Pyramid. I don’t think we’ll ever grow out of Sunway Pyramid. Any Subang kid would tell you that the setting of the beginnings of their social life started with Sunway Pyramid. 

It was also with them when I had my first party with alcohol! This was in Form 4 and I think it was during the World Cup Season in 2002, and the Drunken Daryl Stories (DDS) still lives to this day. Butt slapping, shouting down the road when some random dude cheered from his house at some Turkey goal, puking, Chee Kiang mopping the floor, dancing Dance Dance Revolution on the floor without the mat……. good times, good times. Oh yeah!! It was Chee Kiang’s 16th birthday party and when he blew the candles they asked me to kiss him on the cheek. I declined coz shy.

After high school, people like Jon and Joshua (another Joshua) started hanging out more with the group and now Chee Kiang’s best friends at home include people he hardly talked to back in school. They bonded at different times of their lives.

So yeah. Sorry, I got carried away. These are the few people whom I usually see when I am home. 

What I am trying to say is that my friendships were bonded because of similar wavelengths I shared with these people at a certain point in my life. Today, I am not 12 anymore hoping to make more friends in high school. Um, if you’ve seen my facebook friends list, it’s just people I know.. but it is really difficult to find friends you can sit down and have a long laugh with. Too many of them are just superficial acquaintances. But who knows. Maybe when we are 78, in a nursing home, we’ll talk happily about our grandkids and our unfilial children for putting us in this pathetic home. 

Like my classmates and some of my juniors in dentistry (some, because it’s quite difficult to bond when you’re from different years with different schedules). It’s just great when you meet someone whom you get along so well with. Some people whom you meet on that first day of school and talk damn alot with just because you have so much in common, could very well be almost like strangers to you by the end of the course.

I never knew my closest friend here would be the girl who sat quietly in front of the teacher back in A-levels, whom I wasn’t all that close with back in college. Lie Yuen and I have been classmates for 7 years now and we’re like family. Living together for almost five years already.

Would I have been able to befriend Zhu Zen if I had met her at that Interact Conference in Shah Alam back in 2001? 

Despite the language barrier in the early years, I didn’t think I would be able to connect as much as I wanted with my classmates but now I can laugh along and not wait for someone to translate the mandarin jokes for me. At least most of the time. I can do a fair bit of mandarin now. Some days I can actually carry a conversation in mandarin for quite a bit!

I grew to be comfortable with them and they with me, despite my constant need for translations.

Outside of my circles, aside from Chee Kiang who is my best everything rolled in one, I have two guy friends whom I can tell anything and everything to. Weng Lum and Calvin. Our mutual friends are plenty, but I would go for mutual acquaintances, it is more apt. Nobody would guess that we are actually friends because we simply don’t have enough of mutual friends to form a clique. I can’t possibly leave Soon Seng out if I am to mention guy friends. I truly enjoy all our long chats in the car down to any blogger event. You are my bridge between my high school-Subang friends and the blogger friends. Soon Seng and I met at an Interact Club event in 2002 and he was already very friendly to begin with. Definitely someone who can bond with anyone at any point in time of their lives.

Here at uni, my closest guy buddy is definitely Jimmy. We think we are cousins because of the shared surname, oh and the shared religion too – he is also a Soka Gakai member. But I’m thankful for someone with the same twisted sense of humour because I seriously need a good laugh all the time. You know how it is when you’re on the same wavelength, you don’t really have to explain why you think something is funny, you both just snigger snigger/laugh like hyenas. This connection I also share with Brenda. Most of the girls here and I do, but with Brenda, she gets it more. Like her mind is just as dirty as mine. Heehee don’t deny it, babes.

I have always wondered how would it be if I met all these people back in high school. Or in kindergarten for that matter. 

Sometimes, I get a little crazier and even think about what would it be like if I were to travel back in time to be friends with my parents! Would my mum and dad be best friends with me? Can they connect with me? Sometimes it gets even more crazy, I think about being buddies of the same generation with my great grandparents. What would it be like?

Alright, I’m done with the mildly interesting thoughts I had floating around my head for a bit. Time to go back to the books. 
Oh, before I go, just one little bit more: And some friends, you just lose touch with when you grow up.

Different wavelengths at different times of our lives.

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Pity I can’t go for this one. Would really love to go for one of Douglas’ comedies. This is the matured Jolene Lai who can’t afford to shift her schedule around anymore as compared to the immature 16 year old Jolene who cried and cried when her school magazine teacher didn’t allow her to interview him for the yearbook. (I went ahead with it anyway and it got published!)

Not many people can claim to have met their celebrity crushes before. I’ve seen Douglas Lim on tv since I was 11 years old and at that time he was the skinny hairdresser who owned the Stylo-Milo hair salon on Kopitiam. Didn’t think much of him until Homecoming came on Astro in 2002!!

 There he was, one of the sons of that typical malaysian chinese family who just came back from uni and was unable to speak chinese well… what’s not to like?! I was in love straight away.

I became the Homecoming + Douglas Lim evangelist. That’s what everyone at school knew me as.

I managed to get in contact with Vision New Media, the company that produced Kopitiam and Homecoming and was allowed to conduct an interview with him for my school magazine. So that was the first time I met Douglas Lim. Amanda, Esther and my mum came with me and I was feeling nauseous all the way down to Section 14, PJ. It was surreal, meeting Douglas Lim for the first time.

I saw him a few times after that, once bumping into him at KLCC and for the first time discovering that he had a girlfriend (who is now his wife. ). I remember ducking into Kinokuniya after saying hello to him and smsed the girls and screeched about my chance encounter. Amanda and I also saw him another time at  the Kopitiam 5th Anniversary party and we both won some contest and were supposed to be guest actors for an episode which never materialized. LOL.

It wasn’t till three years later that I got to see Douglas again. It was at the musical he starred in called Broken Bridges. I went up to him and he saw me and called my name! He actually remembered my name and he shook my hand!! I was all fluttery and we talked about his new home, his dogs, etc. 

After that first musical, Douglas continued to perform in a few other productions. After coming out of Broadway Parodies Lah, he saw me approaching him and he gave me a hug to say hello. I had to go home and tell the whole world. Hahaha.

So yeah, I have been very lucky. I got to meet my celebrity crush and actually talk to him on a personal level.

So I wish this won’t be the only time that MACC will be holding a comedy show. 
 

As for Chi Ho, I met him when I was the make-up artist for Hip Hopera, a musical by Taylor’s College Society of Performing Arts! It was probably the most elaborate student production I’ve ever had the chance to participate in. I dragged Chien with me to be my co-makeup artist and we did all the girls’ faces and hair, including the boys’ as well. Chi Ho was a senior at college at that time and was part of the comedy group The Come Back Kings which consists of a few of the other college mates. They did short skits as fillers during the intermission and their most memorable skit would be The Cockroach Dance. It trumps the Evolution of Dance video ANYTIME. Wish someone uploaded their dance on video, can laugh until you die. 

As for Jen Han, the other member of “MACC”, he appears to be a name that I think I remember hearing since my high school days. A friend of Amanda’s perhaps? I can’t remember now and I *think* I remember reading about him in the papers? Am I remembering clearly?

Anyway, here’s the press release Chi Ho sent me. It’s already very funny, so there’s no need for me to quote from it. I’ll just do a copy and paste.  

“M.A.C.C.

Malaysian Association of Chinese Comedians 

1st Easy Going Meeting

Douglas Lim had a dream. A dream to bring laughter to the world. A dream to spread joy across the land. Unfortunately, fate conspired against him. He was born Chinese and was not eligible for Raja Lawak.

But Douglas Lim never gave up. Convinced that the Chinese can be funny, he scoured the country for like-minded (and like-coloured) people. He searched high and low, far and wide and upside down. After 3 years, the search has ended. For behold, he is tired AND he has found 2 other jokers.

Together they are M.A.C.C. – the Malaysian Association of Chinese Comedians and this is their first E.G.M. (Easy Going Meeting). On the agenda are funny observations, song parodies, impersonations and witty revelations from the founding members of M.A.C.C – Douglas Lim, Jenhan and Chi Ho. 

No stone is left unturned. Nothing is sacred – well except for sacred things which MUST NEVER be questioned by ALL Malaysians. M.A.C.C.’s first E.G.M. promises to be a laugh-out-loud affair for the whole family providing that your family is:

-English speaking

->easily amused

-at the show

M.A.C.C.’s first E.G.M. will commence at the PJ Live Arts Centre, Jaya ONE, on the following days:-

Saturday, 17 October @ 9pm

Sunday,   18 October @ 3pm – Matinee

Sunday,   18 October @ 9pm

Saturday, 24 October @ 9pm

Sunday,   25 October @ 3pm – Matinee

Sunday,   25 October @ 9pm

ALL SHOWS AT ONLY RM 33.88

Tickets available at TICKETCHARGE (603) 2241 9999 OR visit www.ticketcharge.com.my

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Douglas Lim

Douglas Lim is now primarily a STAND-UP COMEDIAN. But due to his greed, he is also many things. For example, he is an ACTOR on both screen and stage (1957 – Hati Malaya, Los & Faun, TenTenTen, Kopitiam, Homecoming, P.Ramlee the Musical, Tunku the Musical, Broken Bridges, etc…). He is also a COMPOSER, LYRICIST for tv and stage (Kopitiam, Reality, Ghost, Cuci the Musical, etc…).

His stand-up comedy performances include “Eh, Got Free Ticket Ah?” at Actors Studio Bangsar, Comedy Club KL, Comedy Club Singapore, Lake Club Comedy Night, Harith Iskander’s Nationwide Tour, “The June 4th Show” at No Black Tie and numeourous corporate events.   Douglas Lim was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy at the Asian TV Awards. He lost to Gurmit Singh (Phua Chu Kang)!

Kuah Jenhan 

Having performed on stage since secondary school, Kuah Jenhan is a natural in the performing arts scene. He began his career in stand-up Comedy in The Actors Studio Bangsar’s Freeflow and went on to win the Bond Stand-up Comedy Competition in 2006.

Now an actor, emcee and fresh from his recent appearance for Comedy Club KL alongside international starts Paul Chowdhry and Garry Who, he has performed in countless skits and plays over the years, from school, to college and now in Malaysian theatre including Rose Rose I Love You, No Limits and Ismail – The Last Days. Dubbed as “The Funniest Gravy (Kuah) of Malaysia”, he can be found regularly performing his mix of locally inspired comedy at Time Out KL’s Comedy Thursday and other YCOM shows around the city. 

Phoon Chi Ho

 
A comedian, actor, director and producer; the multitalented Chi Ho has been in performing arts since he discovered his love for it in high school and have directed and acted in several plays during his college life. Upon graduating, he chose to delve into theatre management by becoming the theatre supervisor of The Actors Studio Bangsar.  He now is a member of the skit-based The ComeBackKings, written, acted and directed 15 webisodes for gua.com and launched a successful stand-up comedy career in 2008. 

He now performs regularly around the Klang Valley, organising and performing in comedy shows for the Young Comedians of Malaysia (YCOM), a local comedy support group. Cheeky and very original, his stand-up routine sees him putting on a facade that is more familiar to his Chinese heritage.”

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Princess Jewelry – Gem Stickers At Their Finest

Psychadelic Shimmer and Puffy Stickers

Bling Strips – Pretty Blings At A Lower Price

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In the entire 15 days that Streamyx has been down, I have racked up a high phone bill (due to 15 minutes phone calls to Streamyx/TM and surfing with my hotlink prepaid as well), made a Tmnet customer service lady close to tears, cried on the phone embarrassingly to freaked out boyfriend in Singapore regarding Internet problems and became a Celcom and Digi customer. For the sake of the internet.

Long long story.

As you all know (not sure if you care, clearly you haven’t been including my streamyx in your bed time prayers!), the DSL light has been blinking since the 9th of March and I’ve been calling them every single day. On the dates (see, plural.) that my reports (plural again) were supposed to be solved, I would call them a minimum of twice a day. You can imagine my frustration.

A classmate mentioned that Celcom Broadband works pretty well in Bandar Laguna Merbok, the township which is populated by half of AIMST University, where I live. So I thought to myself, “hm. We’ll see if Streamyx is working today or not. It’s supposed to be fixed today.” This was after the streamyx people diagnosed my second problem as “Frequent Disconnections”

So I excitedly went home after receiving a call from the Streamyx technician that some wirings have been fixed. Went home, to my horror, the landline was DEAD. Zero dial tone. It was the most deafening silence ever. To say that my world came crashing down around me is obviously an exaggeration.

My anger and depression levels build up to a critical lever and in a fit of rage I drove straight to the nearest Celcom branch and after a few enquiries, I plopped RM500 on the table and got myself a USB modem plus the D98 Celcom Broadband package.

Shut up, I am still reeling from the RM500 damage. It was one of the topics discussed in that tearful phone call with Chee Kiang.

If it was a package deal with Celcom, I would not have departed with my RM500 but it was a RM399 ZTE USB Modem and the RM98 was for that so called 3.4Mbps broadband package. The download speed was pretty  good but what good is a broadband connection when you cannot SEND EMAILS, GO INTO MSN OR UPLOAD ANYTHING?

I was like an observer  of the internet. Youtube was loading faster than I was watching it. But I couldn’t even send a simple email or upload ANY photo for that matter. I was dying.

At one point I really regretted buying the modem plus the broadband package. When I enquired about capping, the stupid lady who sold me the package said “No, no capping”. I felt totally ripped off when I came home to read in the forums that once you download up to 5GB of data, they would throttle your speed.

I was really really upset.But I consoled myself that this modem is mine and it is without a contract. I can use it with any SIM card, just like that! I could use it for years! Pass down to my kids who probably need it and maybe even amaze my grandchildren with this gadget from the noughties.

It will last for a looong loong time. *self denial*

After going crazy with totally zero upload speed, I found myself standing at the Digi concept store and the moment I saw the dealer log on to MSN and sending emails with a Digi Edge enabled simcard, I passed RM66 to him without skipping a beat. You cannot imagine my happiness when I saw a Youtube video load with this SIM card. The package I’m using is solely for Data and it’s Rm66 per month. It’s quite cost efficient as I surf online with my hotlink when I’m bored at uni. I don’t even dare think how many times I top up in a month.

I’ve always thought of the EDGE network as something inferior like who the hell uses gprs and edge these days. But apparently desperate measures call for different circumstances and surprise surprise.. EDGE is actually faster than your average dial-up modem.

It’s the best that I can do. Can’t be spending all my time at Starbucks can I?

We spent Friday night at Starbucks satiating our net hunger pangs. This is Lie Yuen’s new hairstyle btw!

I actually rambled quite a bit last Sunday night and I’m too lazy to put it in a new post as it doesn’t really belong anywhere so here goes:

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15th March 2009:

As I breeze pass my last remaining years at university, I barely have more than a couple of lectures per week. When we do have classes, we have it in a classroom that we share with the second years next to this air conditioning control room. Or at least I think that’s what it is.

It’s a cement flooring kind of room, something dingy with a staircase that leads down to the second floor where the toilets we use are situated at. In other words, it is a shortcut we use to get to the loo.  There are a couple of steps that lead up to a tiny alcove where the complex looking controls are and I said to Poh Yee the other day, “You know, if this was high school, this would be a great make out spot.”

Make out spots have become obscure once you’re at university, far away from home with your own room. (minus religious-minded security guards) It’s just silly to have a make out spot when you have honest to goodness privacy! Unless fresh couples at uni are into these kind of things, then maybe I’m wrong. I mean, what do I know, I’ve been one halve of an old married couple since my college days.

I know my high school had a block of classes which were pretty isolated from the rest of the school. Couples who made out there (and a pair even when all the way!) became legends. Well, among those who graduated in 2002-2005 at least. There were two couples who made out together (not with each other, we’re not THAT open). Both boys were the two most tormented and disturbed boys in our year. One was a tortured artist, a rebel since birth, genius type and the other one was the school’s crazy. To top it off, it was in form2. Chee Kiang and I were still obsessing about boybands (he 911, me Moffatts. HAHA DEAR DON’T KILL ME) and were only friends back then, so we didn’t do any of those stuff back in school. Most I did was sit on his lap and got into trouble with the biology teacher in form4. We skipped bio class that week out of fear.

As you all know, the lack of an internet connection has been going on for too long. I really thought I was matured enough to let myself have some zen time without the net, catch up on some sleep but I find myself calling Streamyx every single day. My tactic is to basically be a bitch saying things like, “Two days ago you said it would be done on the 13th. And yesterday you told me that it’ll be done on the 17th. So what’s the next date you’re going to give me? 21st? I don’t believe you anymore!” or  “You SAID your men would give me a call on Friday. There was NO phone call. WHY did they NOT call me?”

I think my next tactic would be to cry. Streamyx technicians are guys right? Guys can’t stand it when women cry. That should get the job done. Might be fun to cry hysterically over the phone, “I WANT MY INTERNET. I NEED MY INTERNET. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?? I WANNNT MY INTERNETT!!!!”

That would totally be used in their “this conversation will be recorded for training purposes”. Streamyx Customer Service Training School Chapter 5: How To Deal With Crying Customers.

I reluctantly went clubbing a few nights ago. So reluctant that the only photos I snapped was of myself and Brenda in the car, on the way to Penang. I seriously think I’m done with clubbing. At least done with clubbing in Penang. Apologies to my classmate and juniors (and that’s all three of you boys, one to represent each year below me) for being such a bore. Some uni mates were brought in to the mix and introduced amidst the DOOSH DOOSH DOOSH stupid beats of Mois. I asked Chee Wen if that’s the best club in Penang and he nodded sadly. The crowd was bad, the music was bad.. there are better people than these in Penang. Why can’t they come up with a nicer place, with nicer music?  I don’t like meeting new people in clubs because I feel it’s stupid bending down to scream your name and no one ever gets your name the first time. But most people are old pros at this and just pretend they got it. So they never really get to know you.

Which is why I preferred to sit outside playing with my handphone instead of grinding up to people I barely know. I already have issues grinding with people I know.  It’s not that they are unworthy to be friends with or anything, nice boys actually whom I had fun talking to over drinks and lok-lok post-clubbing. You get more details that way..course, hometown.. all the better to stalk with, my dear. I kid.

Either I’m getting old or the reason why I’m always a cranky bitch midway through a clubbing session is because of painful shoes. I can never be comfortable in whatever shoes I wear to club. Yer, I make it sound as if I club a lot. Okay, all four times in a year that I do hit the dance floor, I swear I drew blood from my feet.

Gaya told me that wedges might solve the trick. Does it? My last clubbing outfit (oh there I go again) was a tube top, a pair of satin shorts with pink tights underneath… and gold wedges from Vincci. Sounds garish but it was quite okay, really. OH! I had a long pearl necklace to boot. Some of you who actually bother to read my every post would remember this long RM17 fake pearl necklace I got from Forever21? Yeahhh I wore that. It totally made the look! So yeah, about the outfit, the tights was a relatively new idea. Something very fresh from me. After much encouragement from Lie Yuen and influence from Blair’s Army (too much Gossip Girl now that there’s no internet to keep me sane.. and also if you detect a certain familiar dramatic flair to my writing, now you know why), I thought that the tights were a good idea.

I love tights, I really do. But long legs are not a blessing when it comes to tights sold in Malaysia, presumably made in China, Taiwan, wherever. My legs are LONG, I get crucified for it. My waist is thick, I can’t buy pre-order clothes. My boobs and side boobs (don’t ask) don’t allow me to pull shirts from local boutiques past my neck .. UGH.

Before I end this post, I’d like to write about my spontaneous trip to Batu Feringghi today with the girls. (As Chee Kiang calls it, the Dental Dahlings.. haha wtf) It was a trip to the touristy area of that part of Penang to get some floats for the upcoming Redang trip!  Major class trip in April after much drama about hotels, cheaper hotels, agreeing on the same freaking hotel, AND THEN cheaper or more expensive hotel rooms. Gahhh. But at least we’re all going together as one happy class.

Batu Feringghi is like a mini Petaling Street with their knick-knacks and fake stuff. I’m not one to gush about designer bags but I was *this* close to buying a RM90 Louis Vuitton hand carry. The guy said it was real leather and out of nowhere and for no good reason whatsoever, took out a lighter and tried to burn the bag. I was shocked and amused because why on earth would that be a good demonstration for a lady who wants to buy a bag? I’m not going to be setting my bag on flames on a daily basis! As beautiful as the material was, I was turned off because it had the word Louis Vuitton there.

I’m not above fake stuff but I just don’t like to buy things that scream, “FAKE”. “Inspired by” is okay. But not outright copying some super well known name. Vaguely fake is okay to me. Like I own an Agnes B. (I’m sure she’s some designer from somewhere) wallet that is of a poorer quality then my toiletry bag which was a free gift from Watsons, and that’s okay! As long as the designers are not well known and I adore the design, I’d pick it up right away!

I know Jimmy Choo is famous and all but I saw some of his bags (okay, knock-offs) at the stalls and they were SO gorgeous! They were of superb quality too! I never knew he made bags and I’m pretty sure I represent a pretty huge majority of girls who are not part of the super fashion savvy girls who make up 5% of the population. So if a lot of girls don’t know that he makes bags and what I’m carrying is just another gorgeous bag, a good bargain, I’m all for it. Which means… I can’t wait to go back to Batu Feringghi to go bag shopping! You should too! At the same time you could pick up RM4 dvds, RM10 Paris Hilton-esque sunglasses, hugging salt and pepper figurines for RM5 (I got conned. Paid RM12 for my first pair, then thought it was a bargain at the next stall for RM7…then saw a whole box of it further on for RM5 EACH.) and of course, parrios! Great place to stock up on beach stuff before you head to the real beach on the east coast. 

Ooh.. my period just arrived as I typed the last paragraph. Shall finish up the rest of the Gossip Girl episode and pop a Panadol before going to bed.

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Here are two things that I am very very proud of!

Once upon a time, I used to think that blogger name cards are for people who are a little full of themselves. But notice how I don’t put “blogger” anywhere on the card? It’s more like a personal name card I will give out when I attend blogger events. I’ve been to more than a few events where people have passed me name cards (official ones, not blogger ones) and I’ll have to give them the whole I’m-only-a-pitiful-dental-student-who-is-not-worthy-of-name-cards-yet routine.

Now THESE cards are totally necessary. Been giving out a lot of these.

Like about a million years ago in Internet time, Choo Ki passed me a ticket to watch the Wall E. Premier. When I decided to whip out my camera for some necessary snapshots, she was no where in sight. This is her colleague, Evelyn from TNB! TNB organized this event to raise funds for charity. Thank you Choo Ki for thinking of me.

She called a few other bloggers along too! On my left would be Ireneq and  Zewt! Both of them are part of the dying breed of bloggers who actually write beautiful beautiful accounts of their thoughts.

Suanie’s nephew Ryan was there! Lucky little boy gets invited along to movie premiers too!

He was totally turned off by the monster behind him.

It was one of those rare times when I get to meet blogger friends. Here’s Peter who is one of my very first few blogger friends from way back in 2005. The man who introduced me to the world of blogger meets. He was previously based in Penang and is now permanently in KL!

Suanie and myself. She needs no further introduction. Her blog is one of the few blogs that I actually bother to read these days.

This is Wuan, Peter’s wife! Back then, I introduced her in my blog posts as ‘Peter’s Girlfriend’. They got married not too long ago.

The long postponed A-levels reunion took place a few weeks back with a measely attendance of only myself, Barry, Rudi and Fong! Having not seen Rudi since I dropped him off at My Place (the apartments where most students in SS15 stay at) after our year end class party back in June 2005, it’s been way too long and we’ve been missing each other since. Right, Rudi?

This is Fong who MIA-ed after A-Levels. He now has a girlfriend and is studying in Birmingham. Had us worried back there, what with all his funny last minute studying on the DAY of our Chemistry A2 paper. I remember he said he couldn’t finish the other half of the textbook..hahaha.

Dinner was at Sakae Sushi in Pavillion as Rudi(on the left) was staying at a hotel nearby. He’s from Sarawak and has just completed his law degree! I also promised him that I will promote his blog as it is really very different from your conventional ones. You’ll see!

Desserts were so-so. High class hawker food always taste bad. Why ar?

Barry and his wrong choice of dessert. Mine was better!

Speaking of Rudi, something really embarrassing happened.

fong, Barry and I arrived at Pavillion and were waiting for Rudi to show up. To our left, a bunch of girls shouted, “JULIAN FONG!” and Fong went over to say hello to them before two girls from the same group cried out, “JOLENE LAI!”.

It was Ming Choi and Kathleen Tan, all grown up, and lawyery. The entire group of girls were decked out in black and white, looking every bit the young laywers that they are. Naturally when you see old friends, you jump up and down and get all excited and animated, a hug or two here and there.

I felt a cold draft brush past my chest and poo-poohed it till after all the hellos were being said. It’s not right to adjust your top when you’re talking to old friends, more so when they have a bunch of friends who are standing around. One of Kat and Ming Choi’s friend was staring at my chest and I was thinking, “Ah biasalaa…”

So we said our goodbyes but the next moment, Rudi wanted to hug (he just arrived) so I turned around…and reached up to hug him. My right forearm brushed past my chest and I felt a sickeningly familiar silicon-ish smoothness – when my tube dress is supposed to be more rayon than silicon in texture. I realized, OH FUCK, the entire right boob has popped out of the dress! You know, like, PLOP. I quickly put it back in and gaped in horror. Thank god for long hair as the boys didn’t realize anything. Barry was laughing like a hyena though.

That must be the reason why that girl was staring at me. :\ It only happens to Jolene.

After one of our many attempts to get Barry to give a biiiiig bright smile.

We adjourned back to Rudi’s hotel room to catch up on old times and watched a movie together (Babel).

Just doing what one is supposed to do when there’s a mirror.

He was sharing a room with two of his friends, Evelyn and another guy whose name totally escaped me. So sorry!

Barry found a torch light.

And made good use of it.

The boy who is lying on the bed is Keat.. a person who has TONS of mutual friends with me. I can tell the others (Adrian, Kwo Kuang, E-Guy etc) that I met Keat in a hotel room.
l-r: Barry, Fong, Me, SORRY!!, Keat, Evelyn and Rudi

Three Saturdays ago, my best girlfriends and I went clubbing together for the first time ever. Seems like we’ve made many different friends ever since high school and thus have not had the chance to go together. Whenever we headed to the clubs, it was never together. Not like there were many clubbing moments in my life. I prefer to shake my naked bootay after a warm shower in the confines of my room, but bootay shaking on the dance floor can be extremely fun too given the right company.

top l-r: Elaine, Mel, Sush
bottom: Mun Teng, Me

It was at Velvet and it was FREE! Thanks to Mun Teng who has very kind friends.

Sush and I. She has gone back to the UK already to start her new life at KPMG.

Mun Teng! Can we have more decent photos ah!

Elaine is the answer to the Dahlings’ lack of girlfriends. She is Mun Teng, Sush’s and my ex-primary school mate and a friend whom Mel met through another friend. In Subang, there’s no escaping each other. Everyone will know each other. Realizing that the lot of us do not have many(or in some of our cases, ANY) girlfriends to call out at the drop of a hat, we were very grateful for Elaine’s company. I only have four bunch of friends whom I can call out to yamcha (back in Subang) like in a matter of minutes. That’ll be Dennis, Josh and Vern.. then there’s Kwo Kuang, E-Guy, Yijin etc and Daryl, Justin whom I only see more of if Chee Kiang’s around. And of course, Mun Teng and Mel. No 5 minutes plane flights yet, so too bad for the rest of the Dahlings who are all over the world.

All of us with our good angles.

Meet Amar! He is Sush’s friend from uni and when he dances, he puts us to shame. He has the FLUIDITY!

That jug of Long Island Tea which we shared.

Looking totally innocent while sipping on our drink.

Poor Mun Teng ain’t got no straw.

I think Mun Teng and I sesated here as we were supposed to ‘Do The Sush’. To ‘Do The Sush’, one would need to purse her lips.

Mel and I

Another one of Sush and I.

It was actually quite hot on the dance floor. I like very few things about clubbing. One of them is dressing up. Hate hate hate the crowds.

Mel was smart enough to bring her own fan. She was dancing and fanning herself, sort of like incorporating some chinese dance elements into the usual random grooving on the dance floor.

Oh yes, the other thing I like about clubbing is all the photo taking.

This was also my first taste of the much talked about SNL held every Saturday at Velvet.

Sush looks like she was blowing on Amar’s ear.

Wah Sush damn glam here.

This photo opens the door to many many inappropriate comments. Mel’s all like, “FOUND IT!” and Amar’s facial expression makes it very very very wrong.

One jug of Long Island Tea shared among five girls is hardly considered alcohol.

The boys came a little later..so late that we were already planning on leaving the venue.

Hey E-Guy! I think I found your look-older angle! Nice!

Adrian was pretty red when we found him.

Chin Ju was there too!

A group photo before we called it a night. We’re sorry that we had to leave early. I was driving and I didn’t want to get grilled by my parents for coming home too late too many nights in a row.

E-Guy and Mel’s couply looking photo.

Vern Yang was there with his friends too.

This is the last photo taken with my Pink Blinged Lumix before Vern Yang accidentally hit my hand and the camera flew off my hand and fell to the floor. I actually had to scurry around to find my camera. When I found it, it would not focus and the lens could no longer be retracted. Devastated, I went out and bought myself a Canon Ixus 80 IS two days later. Review will be up later!

My second time at the Chics Closet bazaar was a little more of a let down than the first one. The weather was being such a bitch. It ruined my boxes but thankfully my stickers come in tiny little plastic envelops and were spared the wrath of the rain. Due to the weather, the crowd was bad as well and our customers were each other. Pity though about the crowd. The sellers had such cute wares! Such a waste.

These are pixels from Miut Miut! Of all the pixel making online shops out there, I think Miut Miut has the best designs.

They even make Sesame Street pixels! Gotta love their choice of colours. Such HAPPY colours!

I bought two from them – a heart and a rainbow.

Limau Elmo Satu, Bang!

Some accessories that a neighbouring stall was selling.

Innovative ways to display accessories.

Organic nail polishes that can be removed with warm water.

Some cute polymer clay accessories!

More of it! (Makes me miss April’s creations..)

The two pixels that I bought from Miut Miut! This is also one of the first few photos that I’ve taken with the Canon IXUS 80 IS.

Grant me a month long holiday and I’ll make it a point to go down to Singapore!

Jon being upset at the paltry amount of fried rice left for him to eat.

Chee Kiang sapu-ing the rest of the crispy noodles at Din Tai Fung. My greatest wish is to have trays and trays of Siu Long Paus to eat until I get sick of it. That is my only greatest wish at the moment.

Dessert was at Hogs Breath Cafe in Holland Village.

Some apple crumble thing that Jon and Chee Kiang were raving about.

I like my desserts to be served with ice-cream!

Playing with some glasses at Guardian. To those of you froggies who live under coconut shells, these ‘glasses’ have perforated plastic lenses which improves your eyesight if you have astigmatism. Apparently, unnecessary light gets blocked out and one would automatically focus at an object through one of the tiny holes on the lens. It has something to do with how light appears more refracted to a person with astigmatism.

Knowing how much I love astronomy, Chee Kiang said that I could sit in with him during his astronomy class. Every sem, he gets to choose a subject that is irrelevant to his course and this sem, he took astronomy. How interesting right?

I’ve never had the priviledge to take my laptop in to a lecture theatre. I was totally jakuning!

The photo I used as my wallpaper was taken with my new Canon IXUS 80 IS. I love it soooooooo much.

And so we learned about eclipses. We were shown a video of NASA’s first exploration of the moon. Somewhat interesting….but I was looking forward to more deep space stuff! The only thing that stands in the way of me becoming an astronaut is physics.

My diligent boyfriend taking down notes about the moon.

At 3am, we suddenly felt quite hungry and headed out to the Prata shop for a bite. The Prata Shop is a 24 hours mamak where most NUS students go to fill their tummies.

Me and my favourite Mutton Nasi Briyanni! One of the few spicy dishes that I can take. I usually need two glasses of milo ais to finish one plate of mutton Nasi Briyanni.

Chee Kiang and his Nasi Lemak.

Chee Kiang shifted from his old room to another room which shares a balcony with five other guys! They put the silliest things around, like a giant papier marche fish, a tyre swing and the best of them all – a hammock!

Lying there, swaying left to right, with the sea breeze gently caressing your skin and looking up into the sky, I could lay there forever.

As he had a pathology paper a few days later, he was trying his best to cram as much as he could before entertaining me.

I had my laptop, so I was all right.

I could busy myself with some photo editing.

He took half day off from class and accompanied me to China Town to search for more cheongsams. I got too fat for my old one. (ripped the seams)

Anybody want to buy for me?  SGD69? Anybody?

I prefer the sluttier first one.

Found some huge ass windmills! Are these called windmills too?

Met up with Chee Kiang’s Radiopulze friends for supper later that day. They are all extremely funny people who can make you laugh till you pee in your pants. Especially Razia(far left)! OH MY GOD, she is so funny. She pointed out that my eyeshadow was nice and shimmery and I exclaimed excitedly, “OOo!! Damn cheap only, RM4.50!” and she was all, “Awww, but I don’t look good in eyeshadow” To which I said, “But you’re having some on and it looks nice!” and she went, “OH!! That’s RIGHHT!” … Okay, might not be so funny when I type it out. You’ll have to see it in person.

Here I am wearing a hat that Chee Kiang brought back from Romania. This hat is apparent worn by virgin boys before marriage. They get a bigger hat once they are married. GIrls wear a string of beads around their neck to signify their purity. Me thinks they can wham bam thank you maam and then put the beads back on after some hot passionate loving. -_-

Chee Kiang’s Tigger was violating the poor Kangaroo.

Stuff Toy Porn.

Met up with Abby the next day and she treated me to this! I’m bad with names so I can’t remember the restaurant’s name. It’s just outside Wisma Atria.

Not a fan of the authentic chocolates. I’m a Cadsbury girl.

Thank you Abby! She damn bad you know, treated me to a chocolate dish but only drank a pot of rose tea as her ‘dessert’. What is this!

Abby was trying to tell me something.

It was raining cats and dogs, as you can see from the mosquitto netting behind her. She was partially soaked too.

Myself and my grown up BBypers.

Later that night, Jon brought us to this super atas restaurant(my pockets are still bleeding). This is Samuel! He is also from Sheares Hall, Chee Kiang’s hostel.

Chee Kiang looks a little frazzled here as it was after a long day at the Pharmacy Students’ AGM where Eng Hooi won and is now the Vice President of the NUS Pharmacy Students Society.

L-r: Samuel, Jon and Eng Hooi

L-r: Me, Chee Kiang, Karthik(go Hong Kong okay? HONG KONG HONG KONG!!)

Some of the atas food we had.

More of the atas food.

While walking through Plaza Singapura, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a The Body Shop warehouse sale! SGD10 for five bottles of lotion and body shampoo!

Karthik having a word with my fake bun as we waited for the MRT.

This fake bun is damn cute okay! Abby tricked a lot of her colleagues with the fake bun. One of her colleagues even tried cutting it with a knife. Her boyfriend licked it. Nothing beats my victims… my brother bit into it, my mother wanted to put it in the fridge and Joshua, who wanted to tear a piece and actually tore it. -_-

But it ain’t fooling no one in Singapore. Couldn’t trick any of them with it.

Jon trying to put the bun as close as possible to Karthik’s head.

This picture is dman cute because Karthik’s all blurry and the sharpest image is that of the fake bun.

l-r: Jon, Fake Bun, Eng Hooi and Karthik.

Chee Kiang and myself looking very tired after a long day.

When we got back to hall, it was time for Sheares Hall Merdeka celebration. Here’s one of Karthik giving a short speech about himself.

Everyone shouting Merdeka together.

It was Chee Kiang’s duty to membaca ikrar.

And just like last year, they had a birthday cake and the Malaysians all stood around to celebrate the 51st birthday of our homeland.

As with most of our times together, this one was just as brief and short. Saying our goodbyes through the bus window as he stood in the pouring rain.

Totally spoil the whole emo-drama mood right?

Playing with my camera’s macro function.

He’ll be coming up to see me in three weeks’ time. Can’t wait! I plan to go down again in October. If we keep this up, this would SO not be a long distance relationship.

When I got home, Angel tried to help me clean my suitcase.

She pulled one side and I pulled the other.

Poor dear was very tired after that. I was playing with my camera’s Color Accent function. See how only the pink colour part of my make up bag is seen?

This dog really knows how to make herself comfortable. Lying on my new blue dress somemore. Cis!

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So tomorrow is the last day of year3 for all of us here! Everybody passed their exams, like last year. However, if you’re to be dubious about how my uni is so lenient as to let us just pass like that well I shouldn’t mention this but a few people from the current 1st year and 2nd year might have to repeat an entire year as they have failed too much. An ex classmate failed second year, we’re wondering if she will repeat second year. If so, it would be the second time she repeats an entire year. A student gets only two chances to repeat, but if he/she fails for a third year(different academic year) then it’s bye bye dentistry and a minimum of RM80k(four years spent at Uni. tsk.). Or worse, if the student fails at the end of the 5th year. Maximum profit for the uni. RM140k at least! Crazy.

I’ll be back for the entire month of August before going back to Uni on the 1st of September as a wiser, more matured, more diligent Year 4 senior. But that probably won’t happen. Maybe for the 1st week where my make up is on and hair is blow dried then I’m back to being my bare face self with rags for hair. Just another day in the life of Jolene who can never wake up early enough to prepare for the entire day ahead. Will working life change me or will I still revert back to my don’t-give-a-fuck day in day out look?

Okay, on to the photos!

During my 5 weeks’ break, I met up with Evon Terng who brought her roommate Raynie along. I brought my entire sticker collection to meet her and the two of them spent hours poring through my collection.

L-r: Evon, Me, Raynie

The girls knew how important it was to touch the stickers. It helps with the I-HAVE-to-have-it process.

See all my stickers! My goodness. Evon and Raynie are my biggggest customers to date. Both of them spent Rm130 collectively on stickers. Hours after receiving their moolah, I found myself at my suppliers stocking up. -_-

Since we’re on the topic of stickers, I shall not waste the opportunity to promote, publicize, pimp, peddle my sticky wares!

Back in Subang, I had a small stickers photoshoot. These are my Sandylion stickers which I have yet to put up on the blog.

These were up on the blog before! Here’s the link.

My pride and joy!! Some are up, some are not yet up!

Deco tapes! I’ve not sold any, and am still trying to work out a code system to keep an inventory of these stickers.

Stickooo!! Almost sold out already. But I’ve already put in an order for 40+ Sticko stickers. Should be arriving in Subang in about a weeks’ time! I’m also importing A Touch Of Jolee’s and Sandylion Essentials. Those who are in the know will know how to squeal at the mention of those names.

Not up yet as well.

Here’s the link for this one.

Link.

I don’t think I’ve blogged about these yet. But almost all are sold out as it’s a hot favourite when I bring my sticker collection to meet other crazy sticker lovers. About three pieces left only.

When I came back from my 5 weeks’ break, the June babies (Maxis, Jimmy, Xin Yi and Josiah) celebrated their birthday. They do it together every year. This is Josiah and Angela by the way.

It was nice to see all of them after 5 weeks. L-r: Zhu Zen, Lie Yuen, Cze-Yin.

l-r: Ee Chean, Ah Thong, Chwan Horng, Sett.

A very nice photo of the loving couple.

Who da birthday boy!
l-r: Andy, Maxis, Jimmy

l-r: Sock Nee and Nien

Chee Wen has a new toy! I didn’t think that he would enjoy wielding a camera.

All the couples in my class got together in year 1 and they are still together and going strong!

Since nobody wanted to take a picture with me, I went solo.

Jimmy, Xin Yi and Josiah are 1986 babies. Maxis is the old man here at 23 years old.

I felt loved.

Of course, a group photo is always compulsory. But then, how many is too many?

I thought this was a pretty cool idea! The floating flower really does give a touch of class. Used here are ugly plastic/clothe flowers. Imagine if it’s a beautiful fresh rose in full bloom. Such a beautiful romantic glass of wine.

This photo can be used for the restaurants’ promotional brochures. Heh.

After our dentistry final paper, we went to Sunway Carnival in Penang for a movie. We had to kill some time before the movie (Get Smart! YES SEE HOW FAR BEHIND I AM WITH MY BLOG!!) and somehow ended up at the arcade. Brenda, Lie Yuen and I got separated from the rest but we had a smashing good time anyway!

Daytona back then was fun because “wahhhhhHhhH you so good at driving lah…wahhhhhhhhh I can’t wait to drive laa wei!! Damnn kau funnn!”.. and three girls who have been driving for about five years put RM1 into the slots and seriously, really played Daytona. It was quite fun lah.

And I managed to persuade Lie Yuen to play air hockey with me! The last time I played air hockey was when I was 11 years old with dad and the place was closing. Felt so sad because my game was cut short.

Orang tua tak sedar diri.

But they still look pretty in a car meant for kids.

Here I am doing my thang at one of the arcade thingies. I’m not pretending to be detached from arcades as I SWEAR I don’t frequent arcades. This was something like Dance Dance Revolution but with hands. That arcade in Sunway Carnival didn’t have DDR, can you believe it?!?!?!

I’ve always wanted to play DDR in public but I’ve never dared to do it. Over the years, I grew taller and now if I do pursue this unfinished dream of mine, I’ll only end up looking idiotic. “Wah why that Aunty so not shy go bounce bounce like that. eeeyer.” Yeap, most probable comment. Did I mention that when I went jogging at the park near my place, two kids who were clinging on to their gate called me “AuntYyyyy!!” ? Didn’t really do much for the ego. It also didn’t help that I was running circles around that park and had to pass their house each round and got called AUNTYYyyYy every single time. Lie Yuen also got called Aunty. Wahahahaha.

I am actually quite good!

Another group pic. Our year book at the end of 5th year will be damn awesome.

I know we’re kinda Standard Six for always going out in a big group but that’s how it is in a university that is faaaar away from home. We’re each others’ family.

During one of our classes, Dr. Brindha made us do some exercises as a few of us were falling asleep.

Another random photo. That’s milk, cornflakes and sugar for you. Over a dusty dusty floor. One can even get Audrey’s bad luck just by reading her blog!(which I was doing at the time of the incident.)

During one of our day offs, we headed to Penang and besides the usual like Queensbay, we drove all the way to Batu Feringghi! As for the clothes on sale, to each her own. =\

There were toys for sale as well.

Such a nice photo of Brenda, Lie Yuen and Narjit.

Then when it comes to me, I don’t get a nice clear one. Why like that!

It’s like I’m wearing bubble goggles.

Some of the toys were kinda cute.

Many thongs for sale.

DVD galore!! Batu Feringghi is well known far and wide for being DVD heaven! RM4 per DVD!

Whereever there are stalls, there are sure to be accessories.

Brenda said that the stretch is the Petaling Street of Penang. Really..

salt and pepper shakes doing ballroom dancing.

These are one of those dangerous purchases which just entice you at the beginning and then you go home with a bunch of balls with light bulbs inside and go, “Wtf?!” Most of the time it’ll sit at the top of your cupboard with your stock of tissue rolls. True story.

Whale fuck dolphin fuck whale fuck dolphin fuck crocodile. Must say it out loud and damn fast. Brenda and I were laughing so hard.

The turtle looks really happy.

Crocodile then fucked loopy float that fucked whale who fucked crocodile jr who fucked sealion.

Colourful loopy doodoo. How lah to float with that?? And the heart is for protection.

so huggable!

Lie Yuen in the doodoo.

Only RM80! Three seasons of Family Guy (1,2 and 3) and five seasons of Sex and The City!! I’m so happy!! Each season has like 3-4 DVDs inside. The amount of shows that the pirates have is really astounding. You name ANY obscure TV series also sure got one.

Alright, time for bed. 5am now.

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I packed two runny eggs and a mountain of stir fried vegetables and rice(which I later found out was enough to feed two hungry dogs. I know nuts about estimation.) and came home, all ready to go to sleep before waking up to study for an hour or two (LOL LET’S LAUGH! HAHAHAHAHA!!) and then maybe heat up my delicious chap fan and then consume that for dinner while watching the latest episode of Greek. (will do that after this blog post.) So I put my Styrofoam box inside the wok and closed it, in case it might get invaded by ants. THEN I went up to bed.

But we all know that I now have four more days to finish whatever I have left of my surgery notes so YAYY. (throws books aside for the day).

Lie Yuen went out to the mall to tapau a bowl of Laksa while I fiddled with the computer, waiting for her to get home so we can eat together. We really sound like an old married couple, don’t we? Cze-Yin went out with the rest of the classmates to play badminton. I’m just not in the mood.

When she got back, I went downstairs and excitedly opened my Styrofoam box to see the beautiful soggy rice with yellow yolk trickling through the gaps between each piece of rice and the emerald green vegetable glistening with oil.. ahhh.. just heavenly. I used a spoon to scoop everything out into a metal plate so that I could heat it up. Decided to clean the bits of rice stuck on the spoon with my tongue. Did it taste just a tad bit sour? Hm. Bet it’s just coz my tongue’s too weird from all that sleep.

Is that garbage I smell? I looked at the plastic bag hanging from the window and only saw my empty nescafe tin and Lie Yuen’s half eaten giant pear. Nothing that resembles the smell of 5 days old rice with side dishes. I took a great big whiff of my meal (which was starting to look more like dog food than human dinner) and couldn’t smell anything. Decided it was the garbage since they were in such close proximity. Or maybe my nose is problematic. (clogged with booger.)

I put it in the wok to steam. Decided that the smell was slightly overbearing and due to my great big love of chap fan with runny eggs and stir fried veggie, I stuck my spoon in and scooped a spoonful into my mouth. I swallowed it and screamed, “ARRGGHHH IT’S GONE BAD!!!!!!!!”

Honestly, the taste is still in my mouth. It’s sour and bland. Just thinking of it makes me want to puke. Do you all want to know how garbage taste like? Just leave your chap fan cooped up in a wok for a few hours. Fucking gross. Gross gross gross.

Feeling rather upset that I do not have any dinner to eat, I decided to make my ketchup+oyster sauce maggi mee instead. Yay! Went into the garden to pluck some tapioca leaves and boiled them. You know, as veggie for my pathetic dinner.

There’s a Grace who commented in my Life Is Shitty post about wanting the recipe to my ketchup+oyster sauce maggi mee and I did promise her a pictorial. So here it is:

I boiled the veggie from my little vegetable patch in the garden. (I’m not even THIS domesticated back home in Subang. Unless bougainvillea is actually a type of vegetable..?)

Then I dumped the maggi mee in and wait for it to soften, but not too soft till it has lost its springiness.

And a dash of oyster sauce and ketchup. You should estimate it yourself. Ideally it should be just enough to coat every stand of maggi mee. Too much and it just overwhelms. Also, equal amounts of both sauces. You don’t want it to be too sour or too salty.

Take the maggi mee out of the pot and start mixing it around in your plate!

There you have it, instant dinner. And stop staring at the amount okay. I’m a depressed girl. Move along nothing to see.

So if any of you try this recipe out, do let me know how it turned out for you. Would be nice to know that the recipe is enjoyed by others as well.

While having my dinner and watching 27 Dresses with Lie Yuen, the putrid stench of stale economy rice was still lingering on my tongue. I decided to wash it down with chocolate. By the way, a trip to Langkawi equals infinity chocolate in the fridge. I still have more than half of what I have left from my chocolate buying frenzy in Langkawi back in December. I still had tons left over like half a box of Guylian (the best chocolates EVER! Fell in love with them when I was seven years old!) and some random brands.

Lie Yuen wanted to help me take the Tango Almond chocolates but ended up tipping my Guylian box and seven pieces of milky brown seashells rolled all over the floor, collecting dusts and strands of hair in their tragic journey.

“OH NO!!!” my heart broke. Guylian chocolates! GUYLIAN! Guylian chocolates all over the floor! I can buy a prepaid card with a box of Guylian chocolates!

“Can wash and eat la,” said Lie Yuen as she picked the chocolates off the floor and passed them to me. I’m not too sure. Chocolate under running water? But I did it anyway.

Imagine having to put dripping wet chocolate in your mouth and biting it only to find that there is a watery middle. But the thought of little dust particles sticking all over the chocolate just seems too horrible. There’s only so much washing you can do for your chocolates right? The whole damn thing is sticky and some might be embedded in.

I finished all seven pieces anyway. Will see how I feel later.

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Wow I can even press enter while writing this. This is my first time blogging properly from a phone. It’s taking me forever though, but i’ll get there!

Oh my god, i pressed enter again.

Woohoo i did it again!!

Here’s a tiny beginning to kick start my one month long phone review! Updates with photos later! I’m not made of money!

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For the whole of January and a small part of February, I’ve been meeting a lot of my old high school friends. Funny that it’s always the high school friends that you make an effort to catch up with the most.

l-r: Ada, Justin, Daryl, Chee Kiang and me
It was a rainy Christmas day. My family was away in Vietnam. Remember the Malacca-PD post? Yeah. Very strange of me to forgo a holiday out of the country.

l-r: Evelyn, Joshua and Abby.
We went to Swensens because Abby was back from Melbourne and would be going off to work in Singapore! These photos are SO old that Abby has even come back for Chinese New Year after working for one month down south. I’m SO behind. My Chinese new year resolution would be to blog more often.

l-r: Sush, Jiun Jeh and Esther.

L-r: Dennis, Karen, Myself

In this one, Dennis looks like he’s saying, “Makan lagi…..” (in reference to me in the background).

Abby and Sush. The two of them have not seen each other since three years ago when Abby left for Australia. She was the first among us to leave. I remember we were crying buckets at the airport. When everyone started leaving soon after, we were already numb by then.

l-r: Esther, Sush, Abby, Liss, Me.
We adjourned to Melur in SS19 soon after! Melissa here is SUPER funny. Wait, Abby was too. After we left Swensens, Abby leaned in to whisper, “Hey, Dennis is with karen ar?” and I was like, “Wtf? You were sitting in front of them for so long and you didn’t know?” We thought that was bad lah, but nothing beats what happened next.

We went to Melur and Dennis and Karen were already there with Liss(who came later). They were talking merrily, perhaps catching up on old times. After awhile, I told Dennis and Karen about Abby’s adorable mistake. The expression on Liss’ face was priceless, “THE BOTH OF YOU ARE TOGETHER?!”. A revelation after sitting in front of them for about 15 minutes without us there.

A bit of history: Dennis is our really really good friend, almost brother like to us girls because of Interact Club and Volleyball back in school. Karen is another good friend of mine, Esther and Mun Teng. We knew her through tuition classes and stuff. It was only recently that the two met and got together, much to all our delights. Though Melissa’s and Abby’s delights were a tad bit delayed. -__- So what’s new huh? ;P

Elaine came by on New Year’s Day with a thank you gift from her friend Karen Marie, whose cupcakes website I pimped. So sweet of her. Just a mention of the website and I get such a generous gift!

So beautiful! I think the stars are made of Marzipan! Is it even called Marzipan? Correct spelling ar?

It wasn’t too sweet.. though I scraped off the icing for a few of the over the top ones…but they all tasted so fluffy with a hint of vanilla essence. Mmmm.

Sometime you wish that cupcakes are not meant to be eaten. They should be kept as mini decorative items.

On the 2nd of January, it was another night of catching up with the gang before everyone gets too busy with work/goes back to uni.
l-r: Sush, Mun Teng, Esther.

Chee Kiang in a tough position.
L-r: Me, Chee Kiang, Min Dee. Damnit, Min Dee! I still haven’t returned your mum’s tray! Sorry!! I will okay? Even if you’ve gone back to Brisbane!

I think this was Sake or something.

Mun Teng bought all of us a fan each! Chee Kiang’s just accompanying me to act demure. ;D

l-r: Nigel and Ji Yang looking smart!

A view of the overpriced Japanese food.

l-r: Ji Yang, Kwo Kuang, E-Guy, Nigel, Sush, Mun Teng, Esther, Me, Chee Kiang, Min Dee, Su-Chien, Mel and Tim.

Now this is quite ancient too. From a time when all of us were still wishing each other “happy new year”, a few of us old hags met up with our Interact juniors. So big boys and girls lah now. All second year of uni now. Sigh. *wipes tear from eyes*

Gotta love this photo of Mel and Tim. So nice and bright!

Mmmm! Medium rare beef! Just a tad bit bloody.

l-r: Sze-Ping, Amanda, Me and Wai Ping.

Esther with the young ones.

Myself and Kah Kit, another board of director who came into office when the lot of us shrugged off our blazers and red ties in favour of the upcoming SPM examinations. Those were the days eh? Wonder what state is the club in now. Good? Bad?

Li Ming. President of the 04/05 fiscal year. Fascinated by my gorilla pod. It’s actually a very good conversation starter. Hehe.

Myself and my assistant secretary, Jean Ee. She was under me in the 02/03 Interact Club Board Of Directors. Brilliant little assistant she was, always enthusiastic about her job. Remember Valentine’s Day 03? Mad mad mad..

Hahahhahaha, Gaya’s hands move really fast. This was from the so called 5 Zeta reunion. We wanted to gather as many old classmates as possible to come for a drink at Old Town Kopitiam, Taipan. It was too early in the year and everyone else were tied down with internships and the stuff. People are growing up. There were only a few of us..not deviating too far from the usual bunch. Me, Gaya, Chee Kiang, Li Peng(and Edison, who was practically our classmate anyway..until our class teacher thought he was in our class. Edison was in the same class with Liss, Abby, Chien etc.). Justin who is Esther, Mun Teng, Mel, V-ng Yan, Chung Lern, Teng Choon, Huini, Afiq’s etc etc’s classmate dropped by too.

Just throwing in names that are frequently on my blog. Love namedropping.

Us demonstrating how we kiss. Kinda spastic!

L-r: Chee Kiang, Gaya, Li Peng, Edison.

Some lanci bitch decides to spoil the photo.

This photo is really pretty.

L-r: Me, Gaya, Li Peng and Edison. Hahahhaa, damn adorable la the lovebirds.

Erm these two lovebirds not adorable. Bleh. Satu burung saya ok!

Gotta love Justin’s shirt.

Pictures from the sad Ice-Cream deprived night(aka The Night Melody Collected Enough Chops To Get The Starbucks Organizer(TNMCECTGTSO)).
l-r: Li Peng, Edison, Esther, Sush.

l-r: Mel, Chee Kiang, Myself and Mun Teng.

I love Su-Hsien.

I love Esther.

I love Lipengandedison. Faster get married okay!

I love Chee Kiang! Duh..

I love Melody.

I press Mun Teng.

Ah, the fish spa. Here’s a photo of me scrubbing Chee Kiang’s shin before we dipped our feet into the aquariums for our fish spa. The fish spa is located at The Pavillion, if you’re wondering.

He returns the favour soon after so don’t look down on me just because I wash feet. I used to get paid Rm3 per hour at Nail Artz Sunway Pyramid to scrub feet. Damn sad right? It’s true. They only allowed me to do the first half of the pedicure. I think they were taking advantage of me..hmm. Less than minimum wage AND given such degrading work.

My boy and I while fishes nibble at our tootsies.

It takes a little getting used to.

Maybe the fishes thought his hair was seaweed.

When a lot of fishes are nibbling your legs, it feels like you’re enjoying an Osim massage. Constant vibration!

Now the world knows where I don’t wash.

It’s only RM38 for a half hour fish spa.

These were the smaller fishes. We didn’t realise that the other tank had BIGGER fishes. It was quite scary as they were more aggressive.

Us trying to withstand the ticklishness.

I salute whoever who came up with the business idea. Just have a pond, throw a few fishes in and ta-da, the money rolls in.

After a few self declared holidays post-New Year’s Day, I made my way back to Sungai Petani. This was on Jan 10, Andy’s Birthday. Haiyo so many faces, okay, I’ll patiently name all of them.
l-r: Lie Yuen, Cze-Yin, Brenda, Ee Chean, Thong, Chwan Horng, Andy, Xin Yi, Chee Wen, Pei Zhi, Sett, Jimmy, Ken, Maxis, Me, Poh Yee and Zhu Zen!

On the 25th of January(yes it was a sad day too as Nian Ning passed away on that day. ), I came back from Sungai Petani after finishing my Sem 1 dentistry paper. Rushed to Sunway Pyramid because I was supposed to meet up with the usual bunch. Had Sakae Sushi before the lot of them surprised me with a cute cubic-shaped strawberry cake. Awww..two birthday cakes this year! So sweet of them.
l-r: Dennis, Ben Shyen, Myself.

I made a wish this time

l-r: Vern Yang, Karen, Gloria, Manda.

Ohmygod, the flash was so strong.
L-r: Liss, Mun Teng, Shawn and Esther! Shawn is Esther’s boyfriend from Singapore.

l-r: Vern Yang, Gloria, Manda, Dennis, 1/7th of Ben Shyen, Myself.

Did I mention that I now have hamsters? I’ll arrange for a hamster photoshoot soon and also a *gasp* Nintendo DS Lite one as well!

Mounting the hamster on Angel.

Angel and the hamster shares a light moment.

Angel’s so cute. She stood on her hind legs and went towards the cage. She tapped it wit her paw, took a few steps back(with only her hind legs!) and put her two paws together, and ching-chinged!(front legs in begging motion – her trademark trick). She either respects the hamsters or wants to eat them.

Went for Mambo the other day with Amanda, Yijin and Nigel. There were a few others there too.

l-r: Adrian, Mervin(I always accidentally call him and scold him about coming home soon, buying lunch etc.. and the poor guy would be like, “Huh?”. After awhile he got used to it and he would then say, “Eh, calling your brother again ar!”), Cheryl.

l-r: Cheryl, Arvind, Nigel and Manda.

Cheers!

Me looking happy!

Manda and I before I had the amount of alcohol needed to prevent me from smiling properly at the camera.

l-r: Nigel, Yijin, Arvind.

Here’s one of me with the green clutch my juniors bought for me for my birthday!

Manda showing Nigel and Yijin some photos.

Aiyoh so cute:)

l-r: Adrian, Ming Wei(i think), Mervin, Manda and myself.

Okay, had one too many from here on.=

Can you see my smile, looks different right?! Sign of the alcohol taking effect. Haha. No crying this time around, thank god no puking.
L-r: Nigel Me, Manda, Chun Min.

l-r: Me, Jed Chai(is that how your name is spelt?), Nigel, Manda.

l-r: Junee, Myself and Manda.

As Manda stayed over at my place, she followed me down to KL the next day to source for a few things. (Working on a secret! Shh!)

Was walking around the older parts of KL and came across this. Wtf…so unethical. Unlicensed dentists from the Malayan days are scary.

A spontaneous mini SU reunion! It was really really nice catching up with these people. At least something different compared to the usual faces we see every other day!
top l-r: Chung Lern, Me, Tze Leet, Wen Bin, Teng Choon, Pui Min, Pui Gin, Esther
bottom l-r: Justin, Ada, Huini, Krystle, Afiq, David.

Towards Chinese New Year, a few of us met up at KTZ SS2 for some tong sui!

Mel and Esther. Love mel’s hair colour!

Chee Kiang plays hard to get. -_- A little too late now, dear.

Nick, Sush’s boyfriend came along! It’s cool when you can hang out with your friend’s boyfriend. It was as if Sush sent a rep to the meet up that she’s missing out on.

LOL. The boy at the back has a strange expression on.

No trip to SS2 is complete without the Claypot Lou Shi Fun at Murni.
My tofu tissue box came along because some of us needed to wipe our hands.

Me being happy about Liss wanting a tissue. Can see that she’s slightly weirded out by me.

The curry can spell!

All of us were amazed with that strange letter B formation in the curry dish.

L-r: esther, Mun Teng, Mel, Liss and myself.

Okay, great, I look monsterish here. However, that aside, Liss shows her true blurness once more. She thought that my Nintendo DS lite is a mini laptop. RIGHT LIss!!

I was embarrassed when I called a friend from a far and it wasn’t her.

Since their car was pretty far, I decided to send them to their car. 7 people in a Myvi! Quite a feat don’t you think?

Okay! I’m up to date now! This was on Saturday night.
L-r: Sue Ann, Me, Kwo Kuang.

L-r: kay Hong, Nigel, Myself and Kwo Kuang.

In this photo we look like some mafia family. A good poster for a new TVB drama!
top row l-r: Kwo Kuang, Nigel Me, Marcus, Kevin
bottom row l-r: Abby, Kay Hong, Ji Yang, Yijin and Manda.

My darling Amanda and Abby.

My darling Chee Kiang of course.

l-r: Jon, me, Nadine!

Daryl was there but since he doesn’t have facebook, I didn’t take his photo. Hahaha.

I’ll reply the comments tomorrow. My eyes are so heavy now.

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But let’s put that behind us on this blog for now.

Who here agrees that I haven’t been blogging as much as I should be?

It’s scary to note that I have like 10-12 albums of photos not up on my blog yet. And we all know how terrible even ONE album of mine is not up yet.

I can’t believe the photos date back to way before Christmas. Here are some photos from before and during my December holidays. So sorry for the bandwidth overdose but do bear with me!

In this post there are stupid photos but with nice lighting from our first trip to Starbucks at Village Mall. It is a mile stone for this sleepy town that we call our temporary home. A touch of the city to brighten up our mundane lives here in Sungai Petani.

There are photos from that long drive back from Sungai Petani, courtesy of Lie Yuen’s brother, Yan Chuan. Thanks Yan Chuan!! Now only I put the photos up!!

In December, my cousin Mian Yong and his wife Pearl came home from the States to have a small little makan session cum tea session for the relatives here. They already had their wedding in California last September and this was just a small gesture for the relatives who couldn’t fly over there.

I’m even too embarrassed to say this… I have Christmas photos that I have yet to put up. Photos from the traditional Christmas dinner that I have my Kaima’s place, photos from the spontaneous Christmas Eve Mini Gathering at my place and photos of me making new friends at TGIF!

I haven’t been blogging for SO long that I’m having a hard time trying to remember why I took this photo or that photo.

I plan to blog till I’m like really old. So imagine this: I’m stricken by alzheimers yet I still maintain a blog with the aid of my long sighted spectacles.

I’d probably do something like this:

Lei hai ping gor? (Who are u?)
Hahaha. That’s what my grandfather said to us last time. It was damn sad. This is Lie Yuen with a white moustache by the way.

Zhu Zen looking so demure with the sunlight bouncing off her hair and shirt.

I love this photo of Nien! So cute and absolutely promoting Starbucks.

Yi gor yau ping kor jor ar? (this one who already ah?)

Emo Starbucker.

Bride before her wedding day. Haha.

We were having so much fun taking portraits of each other. Have to make good use of the sunlight to replenish the old stocks in our facebook accounts.

Cze-Yin and part of Lie Yuen.

brenda stoning with her green tea frapp. I think.

Here we are at a petrol station in Ipoh.

While Yan Chuan was filling the tank, we decided to take some bodoh photos.

Doing some stretching for the next jump.

Going into spring mode.

Great success!

Yan Chuan so yau yeng in his sunnies right.

l-r: Yan Chuan, Me, Lie Yuen.
I had the whole backseat to myself!

In December, my cousin brother Mian Yong and his wife Pearl had a small makan session in conjunction with the tea ceremony held at Malacca for us local relaties. That’s my Aunty Ping!

Jacqie and I.

Paparazzi hard at work.

So we hope that my grandma can soon become a great grandmother again!

L-r: Aunty Ping, Me, Jacqie and her boyfriend Woon Tian.

12th Uncle and my three 12th aunties. Their family is really big too (9 uncles and aunties on that side!). But since most of them were in KL, didn’t want to trouble them to come all the way to Malacca.

Aunt Jenny and Uncle Yew Hee with the happy couple.

Aunty Doreen and Uncle Yew Pun with the happy couple. I’m soo creative right. -__-

This is my ancient uncle Yew Leong. Eldest son of my third 12th aunty resulting in him being younger than my cousin Mian Yong who is like 31 this year.

A cousinly photo.
l-r: Hong Weng, Derek, Jacqie, Woon Tian, Me, Mervyn

The delicious catered food. There was siu yok too! *stomach juices rumble at the moemory*

Soon it will be Hong Weng’s turn…soon..

Jacqie soon also. Hahaha.

Derek also soon.

Mervyn still young. Haha.

Uncle Yew Leong also must be soon okay. *stern kepo relative expression*
Poor Yew Leong.. his mother was like, “Yalah, your cousin already got children somemore..”(referring to Ethan’s dad, Hong Fei) and he was like, “OKaaaaay.. byebye.” and ran out of the house to another wedding dinner somewhere in Malacca.

A fraction of the super huge Ho family. The number goes up to three digits when everyone is gathered at one place.

This photo damn cute. Everyone’s so random!

l-r: Jacqie, Yew Leong, Hong Weng and myself.

Sigh, it’s the reunion dinner tonight. My mum don’t want to cook. I’m currently at Starbucks with Chee Kiang while blogging this and my duty is to buy KFC later for tonight’s dinner. :*( FAMILY BUCKET FOR REUNION DINNER. SO SAD!!

My duty on that day was to light up the place with tealights.

My Aunty Ping was pushing alcohol to us as well. Woon Tian is the older cousin brother we never had, teaching us how to burn alcohol and very recently, how to stuff a fire cracker into a mandarin orange.

Wah… *small kid jaw gape*

Strangely, we’re maroon on one side and black on one side!

Aunty Ping had one too many and dad was complaining that she was getting loud.

Me looking at the moon.

There was also a karaoke session, just like a real chinese wedding!

Everyone damn layan.

Grandma was showing us this hand rubbing technique which can generate heat to your thighs and make you sway when you place your heated palms on your thighs.

Gotta love the amount of sunlight that pours into the seating room.

Christmas photos at my Kaima’s. -_-. And to think that it’s already Chinese New Year tomorrow.

Shevie drew this adorable christmas tree into her trademark mash potato!

When I was younger I would stone in front of the christmas tree at my Kaima’s place for the longest time. I’d stare at the christmas presents trying to guess what I’d get for christmas.

We have a relatively small family on my dad’s side. Aunty Judy who is in the UK was feeling rather home sick so we put her on webcam while we enjoyed chinese tea and wine before opening the presents.

Aunty Judy missing home.

She was showing us the blizzard outside her window.

Never knew we’d communicate this way for Christmas! In previous years it was always a phone call and the phone would be passed around.

Oh look! Angel has a christmas present too!

Some bow wow white snacks and a reindeer! Damn cutee! She brings the Reindeer everywhere she goes.(everywhere around the house la).

Aunty Adelin bought mum and my Kaima g-strings. Us younger ones were all “Lalalalala..not listening…..!”

Kaima getting a g-string!

There was a Christmas present for Chazzy as well. Chazzy is Angel’s sister. She will be coming tonight for the reunion dinner as well.

Shevie and I.

More super super outdated photos from the yesteryears.
Esther looking gorgeous with maximum sunlight at TGIF One Utama.

Nick and Sush.

I made a few new friends!
l-r: Tim, Mel, Esther, Cheryl, Foong, Me, Nick, Sush and omg so sorry I forgot his name!

Ah, that depressing Christmas eve gathering at my place. My dog was diagnosed with a growth in her chest(which has resolved now, thank god!) and was staying at the vet’s that night.
L-r: Gaya, Daryl, Karen, Dennis, Tim, Mel, Min Dee(damn girl I’m still having your noodle tray!), Ck and Hsin!

With me in the photo. Notice how Dennis’ smile is brighter in this one?

L-r: Ck, Me, Gaya, E-Guy, Daryl, Kwo Kuang, Hsin, Mel and Tim.

*wipes sweat* Okay, moving on to part 2.

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While at the registration booth, I saw the list of bloggers. It took me awhile to figure out which (real) name belonged to which blogger. It was very interesting how they derived their monikers from their real names!

Chee Kiang and I wandered off for grubs.

Check out the door gift! I’m also very proud of my media tag. My very first!

And I finally got to see the beautiful Christmas decorations at Midvalley! Everyone’s raving about how beautifully orange it was this year.

To kill time, a few of us chilled at Starbucks before the event!
l-r: Josephine, Daryl, Kok/Keong?, Melvin and Chee Kiang(so proud of his media tag!)

That was where the action was! So beautifully lit!

You can even have your picture taken with fake mist.

Eng Hooi, Eng Hooi’s sister(omg I’m sorry sorry sorry your name slipped my mind. Shireen? Kristen? ARGH~!!! I’m sorry!!!!), Chee Kiang. Eng Hooi’s sister is an intern at the Sun hence she had two tickets and decided to bring Eng Hooi along. So kind of her.

And then that’s me, with the wrong flash function.

There were dancers up on the podiums to get the crowd going. A bit too agressive for me.

Me posing nervously next to the dancer.

There were more girls

Chee Kiang purposely stood in the middle of the crowd so I could get this shot of a grandma who came for the event. She was staring at the sexy dancers doing their thang.

The Dj-ing area.

The crowd was slowly heating up but it was still about an hour away from midnight.

Another shot of the stage!

A really pimped up Smart Car! It is a Smart car right?

We went back into Starbucks again and camwhored.

We were still being proud of our media tags.

Good reasons to take photos with!

The coolest part for me was probably walking in the rain towards the green laser lights. The photo does no justice to what I saw with my own eyes. It was like walking through millions of tiny green diamonds. Yolu can make out a little sparkle at the top of the photo.

The people started taking to the stage.

The both of us making through the sea of wet ravers.

Since I’m such a noob, I was totally blown away when the big rubber balloons were released! Everyone hit it up and it would float in the air for a bit and come back down to the eager crowd.

Team effort!

What a party!

And the clock finally strikes 12.  Happy New Year everyone! Happy 2008!

The laser effects were too cool for words.

The big white balloon continues to entertain the crowd.

A few minutes after midnight, the highly anticipated choreographed fireworks shot up into the sky.

It was the longest fireworks I’ve ever had the chance to see. Usually it would end before I’m satisfied.

This time around, my neck even started to ache as the fireworks didn’t seem to end.

A liondance lion in the crowd.

Raining sparkles! This was damn cool! At one point, fireworks were released from the top of the bridge(which was behind me) and it hit the corner of a nearby building and launched into the sky. DAMN DAMN AWESOME!

Daryl and Chee Kiang!

Group photo.
l-r: Oops can’t remember his name, Daryl, Chee Kiang, Me, Josephine, Melvin, Keong/Kok

Kim and i! Out of nowhere she grabbed me and screamed, “HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!” Such a happy woman!

l-r: Skyler, Jen, Myself. We were supposed to hang out a bit more but due to network problems, I couldn’t seem to contact them.

I quite like this shot!

OMG It’s Dabido! I didn’t know he was down! This dude is Australian yet he’s famous in the Malaysian blogosphere for posting long ass comments. Very wise comments at that too!

l-r: Shaolintiger, Earl-Ku, Me, Jack, Dabido/David.

For a moment there I thought I was watching some animation on stage. It was actually a real human being in a special suit under the laser lights. SO chun!!

Check that out. I’ve never seen anything like that before.

On the way out, we spotted this poor giant balloon dying away.

Apparently this event will be an annual thing. I’ll be looking forward to the next one. Me want to watch long ass fireworks yo!

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