Dear Ian the "giraffe"

When you visited KL some 20 years ago, you bullied me... & i bit you...you know you probably deserved it right? heh :p

~the bully & the biter~

20 years later, i took you around KL & you taught me how to play poker...i guess now we're almost even...except you're still so tall & i'm stil like a "hobbit" next to you.

~the giraffe & the hobbit~

Happy Birthday Ian!!!

Make more money & take me for a holiday come back to KL soon :p

Tong Tong Tong Chang (part 2)

Just wanna wish everyone

GONG XI FA CHAI!!

May this year of the doggy bring everyone good health, wealth & prosperity. & may the unmarried ones get loads of angpows & get married soon so you can give me angpows :)

Happy Chinese New Year ya all & enjoy the holidays...i know i will :)

*Tong Tong Tong Chang (part 1)

Victoria Victoria

Early this morning my phone beeped

*beep*beep*

"Victoria Choo Wei Qi is born to Marcia and
Ben on 27 January 2006, weighing 3.05kg."

Lo & behold, a new addition to the family!!

Heartiest congratulations to the new parents on the birth of their lil princess!!

Just a few weeks ago, the cousins, Pei Ling, Pei Chern & me went baby stuff shopping with Ben.It was an amusing scene to watch this father-to-be shop.

"Can i help you sir?" a salesgirl chimed as we walked into Hallmark

"yeah, i'm looking for a smellie pillow" replied Ben

".................erm, a smellie pillow?.........erm we have a few pillows?"

*LOL* The cousins couldn't help but laugh at Ben cos it was just so him to do something like that.

"erm....Ben, babies USUALLY choose their own smellie pillows?" i said

"hmmm, oh well...i think i'll buy these 3 then & let her choose!"

*LOL*

& while he continued shopping for more last minute baby stuff....

the cousins "tested" the "durability" of the baby goods & toys....

^Pei Ling & I creating havoc in a toy shop window^

(note:Ben in the background shopping)

^Pei Chern & I Enacting our own "Star Wars" battle"^

Tong Tong Tong Chang (part 1)

Pre-*tong tong tong chang* inventory:

• Spring cleaning- check

• CNY deco- check
  

^ fyi, i made that red ball thing :) ^

• Mandarin Oranges- check

• CNY biscuits and goodies- check
  
• Liquids- *hic* :p

• CNY clothes- check

I don't wanna grow up... or sideways for that matter

Like any lil kid, i love festive seasons...except...i'm far from being anywhere near lil :(

I was having dinner with Nish in BSC during X'mas season one night & in the middle of her telling me something, i suddenly heard bells ringing....

*ring ring ring*

My eyes & ears immediately scanned the premises & found him within seconds...

Nish noticing that i was not paying her any attention screamed at me...

"ASH!! stop staring!!"

"but it's Santa...& he has 2 santarinas..."

"All the kids around us aren't even looking up...even the two 5 year olds at the next table are more engrossed in their dinner like how a 23 year old should be!!"

".....awww they're no fun" *sulks* & proceed to stick out my tongue at the 5 year olds who were at that moment eyeing my curiously.

When "santa" reached our table, one of the santarinas asked us...

"would you like some sweets?"

i put on my, urgh i'm-NOT-3-years-old-&-not-interested face, but Nish burst my bubble & told her while pointing at me...

"you better give her or she'll cry"

after they left our table, i asked Nish...

"i got a barbie sweet & mini mentos...what did u get?"

"...........*my best friend is embarrassing*..........."

Now that CNY is just around the corner, the festivities are up in full force :)

Last night while shopping with mummy in 1U... i heard...

*tong tong tong chang*

i saw a herd of parents carrying their children, pushing prams, rushing towards a certain direction...excited & as if in a trance, i followed while bopping my head to the *tong tong tong chang*

The 2 lions were an ugly dirty orange colour...quite dissapointed that they were only walking around & not doing some funky lion dance moves....oh well, there'll be more to come.

*tong tong tong chang* :)

When Deepavali comes around, i always imagine what it would be like to jump into one of those kolam (coloured riced decorations) especially those in shopping malls which boast to be the biggest in the world, south east Asia, Malaysia or wherever; lie down & make a snow angel smack right in the middle...*lol* i think i'll be barred by all shopping malls *gulp*

Lizard Tales

I hate lizards, my mum hates lizards & my Dad's the only one in the house whom the lizards cleverly hide from to avoid being whacked. Last week while i was watching tv, i felt something bump the side of my foot... to my horror, a stupid lizard was running around the floor & bumped against my foot!!! eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww.....

Lizards are a really nasty buggers too. Just yesterday the papers reported that a monitor lizard caused a fatal accident. Apparently the monitor lizard jumped from a tree and landed on a motorcyclist's back & startled him. He rammed into a pedestrian while tryin to shake the lizard off his back.

Here are more lizard tales...

"Did you know that Aunty so & so is so brave that she can catch a lizard & breaks the fella into 2 with her hands?", Mummy


"My friend was watching football one night when he felt something swimming in his mouthful of coke...he spat it out & saw a baby lizard running away. He must have left his coke can on the floor & the lizard crawled in", Grambo


"When i was in Kuantan, i used to chop lizards' tails off with those music tape covers", Wee


"My cousin used to pour spirit on lizards and light them up" , Chia Ee


"When i was 12, i woke up & found a lizard in my pajama pants" Ee-yer-laine


My mum & i now have new strategy to combat lizards...*drum roll* RAT GLUE!!! We successfully caught 7 buggers already in a span of 3 weeks :)

Friday the 13th

Exactly a year ago, KL blacked out for a couple of hours , our classes got cancelled & a whole bunch of us went for happy hour to celebrate Brandon's 21st . *pics here*

22 years ago, a certain someone was born to wreck havoc in lecture halls...erm liven up boring lectures with interesting gossips.

meet Brandon...

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oops, sorry that's Angel

this is Brandon...

^don't ask me what he was up to^

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDY BOY!!!

(i know you're reading this on your spanking new 3G phone...show off!!! )

Have a good one :p

Pee-Nang

I spent my last week of 2005 in the land where i'll never die of hunger....Penang...the island of glorious food.

It was bright & sunny when we reached Penang bridge (i'm sorry it doesn't look so with my lousy camera phone pic)

this is my Grandma's front door :)

When some people heard i was goin to Penang...this was what they told me...

Wilson said, "Spare no char kuey teow stalls!!!"

My cousin Pei Ling who was in Penang the week before told me, " tapau back some char kuey teow with BIG BIG prawns for me!!!"

FYI, Penang is not all about char kuey teow alone!!! but for the sake of you char kuey teow freaks...

Here's a plate of Lorong Selamat's Char Kuey Teow with BIG BIG prawns

Swattow Lane's Ice Kacang can cool me down anyday :) they are pretty generous with the atapche

u haven't eaten popiah until u have tried Padang's famous crab meat popiah...i went 4 times in one week!!!

I gobbled the rest of the food faster than i could take a pic...but here's a list of recommended Penang food...(i ate them all by the way *burp*)

• Padang's Lok Lok
• Anson Road's Duck Meat Kuey teow
• Kampung Malabar's lobak
• New Lane's Oh Jien (fried oyster)
• Ayer Itam's Mee Rebus
• Fettes Park's Sirloin Steak
• Burmah Road's Sar Hor Fun
• Pulau Tikus' Nyonya style Nasi Lemak

& while my Dad was away at his meeting, my Grandmother insisted that she drove me & my mum around...

at 80, my Grandmother drives faster than most people i know!!! My Grandma is one mean driver!! How fast does your Grandma drive??

beautiful view from my aunt's apartment...those are sampans afloat (not rubbish like how my phone depicts them)

Visited relatives. this is Kwai Po...she's really good at cooking.

this antique spiral staircase i saw in a temple along Anson Road is really pretty. it's 2 storeys high & there was an identical one at the other end of the hall.

if sightseeing & food isn't your thing, how bout cheap ( i think cheap maybe an understatement!) dvds? they range from Breakfast in Tiffany's to Saturday Night Fever to King Kong.

I spent my new years with family. A quiet one after so many years, it was nice. We all went out for dinner, drove around, watched the fireworks & managed to avoid the mad traffic jams thankfully.

It was a blissfully relaxing week in Penang among family & good food. What more could i have asked for? :)

(Claire, me, Andrea & Shiau Yun)

this pic was taken when i met up with my Tar college friends on x'mas eve before i left for Penang. So good to catch up with u girls...we'll meet up again ya!

+1, -1

630am...
woke up to annoyin alarm ringin & it was rainin.
"grrreeeaaattt.....just nice to continue sleepin but i have to bloody get up for my 8am class" :(

725am...
was secretly hoping that i missed the bus so i can go home to sleep

740am...
"mummy, if the bus isn't here in 5 minutes i'm not goin for class. i probably missed the bus today"

741am...
Fark O_o the bus is here
bus driver: "sorry ar....traffic jam jus now"
*sulks*

830am...
walk into class half an hour late .... Menon (my lecturer) stares at me, while i give her the "ampun"(sorry) with hand clasped sign

1130am...
phone beeps...Pat says, he has fixed my comp but it needs a new network card.
Tempted to do multiple cartwheels around college with that news.... but can't do cartwheels for nuts ...i'll probably jus fall flat on my ass.

6pm...
i start sneezin like a mad jumpy person O_o fark

1030pm...
Pat brought my "baby" back,
*sniffs*
"wahlau...you just woke up or have u been crying for the past 3 hours?"
O_o tempted to whack him but he was carryin my computer & he has been such a dear to fix it for me.


My comp is good for now, BUT my nose is not...

i haven't read up for tomorrow's class, my comp clock reads 10pm...BUT all other clocks read 230am...fark

i feel damn stoned now, but at least i'm comfy in my new sweater :) (ellen, i found flaws in the buttons...maybe we shud have just picked on the other sweater for another hour :p)

i should go to sleep... i'll blog when i'm not so stoned.

btw, PATRICK IS DA BOMB!!!! & he's no softy*

*softy : a computer person who's good with software & not hardware

2006

Happy New Year people!!!

i'm back in kl with my comp down, 5 bloody hours class to "look forward" to tomorrow, an extremely messy room....what a start for 2006.

will blog bout penang later.

so how was everyone's new years?