Barbie world or not...

Midnight Beast

2010-01-25T02:34:00.002Z

No one has a sense of humor anymore.. at least not similar to mine anyway. Came across this parody of Down.. the Jay Sean song where he looked to ying in the mv but the moves were quite boyband-ish la. Seriously, I thought the parody by Midnight Beast was hilarious!! But then, every single person I showed it to had, like, no reaction -.-

Come on.. the dance moves and rapping parts are totally awesome!! Oh.. and you probably gotta watch it in hq if it doesn't load.. Anyone out there find this video funny?? Anyone??

Gifts and Shopping and NYResolutions

2010-01-24T01:01:00.005Z

Ok ok... probably a whole lot of posts at one go ain't gonna make for.. what.. 4-5 months?? Can't really remember.. but I just wanna show my appreciation for all the little things in life which mean so much when given by the right people =)

From Jieyang: piglet (2008) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (2009)

Shi thinks I'm an alcoholic!!

Ohh... what's this from Steph Ong?

Tada! Haha.. Damn funny.. She just gave it to me last week I think.. and it was for Christmas!

From Steph Yen: Guess Gold.. kinda reminds me of Benefit's Maybe Baby.

From Wen-Jei: A whole bunch of perfume samples from Victoria's Secret, USA.

I'll be the first to say I was crabby and emo on my birthday coz, in my opinion, I'm OLD and that's no cause to celebrate. I mean.. I just turned 21 and what have I accomplished.. nothing. And then the matter of being single keeps popping up again and again and again.. Anyway, the point is everyone was so nice to me and it really made me feel better at the end of the day =)

The day started out with cake and ice cream at Yichieh's place with the ex-Lodgians which was really fun.. I'll always remember Leonard was the only guy and Joanne had this awesome beanie with a smiley face when she pulled it all the way down!! And Shih Yang couldn't make it coz he fell on the stairs and sprained his ankle.. what made this so memorable was that the exact same thing happened to Feng and Yichieh!! Then Feng and I joined Shi, Jieyang and Lilian for Sherlock Holmes and Korean food!!

The necklace is from Lilian and the bag's from Steph Ong, Shi, Jieyang and Ben (I think that's all of them.. )

This was the super-belated presents from Xin Ying and Jie-Ying when we met up with Jiun Siang for Middle Eastern food and "The Road".

My mom likes to think that's the key to my freedom but, in actual fact, it's a collar!!

Should have known my dad always send me a new notebook and calendar from the Sarawak Forestry every year..

My belated Boxing Day/ New Year/ early CNY shopping! Found out it's really fast to go to Westfield using London overground.. Omg.. I think Steph Yen and I went there at least 3 times last week =P

Aiyarrr!!! New Year resolutions ah: Number one: stop eating so much!!! Later cannot fit into my (new) clothes.. haha.. Damn annoying la.. stress makes me eat, get gastric and constipation.. My inital number one was to buy no new clothes until I lost some weight but... it got really cold and I needed more layers (of clothes, not adipose tissue!!).. Errmmm.. the rest are kinda standard every year: study, study, study.. get work experience.. go gym.. bla bla bla bla bla..

M to the I to the A

2010-01-24T00:05:00.007Z

Missing In Action for months!! *guilty guilty* Sooo much has happened since last summer.. Well.. maybe not that much.. but there were some highlights.. and downfalls!!

1) Went for ONE ee lecture and meeting only to run away to Mech Eng coz it totally freaked me out in a baaad way.. So far 3rd year is ok la.. except the project. Damn celaka.. It's a design, MANUFACTURE and testing project for goodness sake.. 2 out of the 3 members in my group failed the manufacturing workshop in second year so they won't let us use the workshop. Takkan one person only do the entire manufacturing!!

2) I've moved to an awesome house near Fulham Broadway. Have to take a bus to uni now but it's ok.. and it's much closer to Steph Ong's place in Tooting Broadway too. We had an awesome housewarming where we (us girls and Steph Yen's boyf) cooked like crazy.. Oh.. it was also to celebrate Brian's birthday.

Did a ridiculous amount of chopping that day.

End product =)

3) Watched Jersey Boys with Paul!!! Hahaha... Didn't know he enjoyed musicals.. Was supposed to go with Steph but she fell really ill on that day.. Anyway, loved it so much, I downloaded the entire soundtrack the moment I got back.. Jersey Boys is highly recommended.. as awesome as Wicked!!! Love "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Ragdoll".

That's for 2 tickets =)

4) Went to Venice, Pisa and Rome with Feng, Berps and Shih Yang over Christmas. Most of my photos (which is not much is not much since my battery died and I didn't bring a charger) are already on FB.. these are just my favs..

Kuching!!

Kuching!!

Lovely scenery in Venice..

And I mean lovely!!

THE most adorable little dog in the train ^^

Ultra-wet day to visit the leaning tower of Pisa.

No awesome pictures of food (the memories will be in my heart and Shih Yang's map forever) but here's a photo of the colosseum ..

5) Have gone a little crazy with the baking.. there's like 3 different types of sugar (icing, granulated and caster), 3 different types of flour (bread, plain and self-rising), baking soda, baking powder and a whole lot of other stuff in my kitchen.. So far, I've made banana cake (coz the bananas were waaay too black), Jamie Oliver's bloomin' brilliant brownies, tiramisu, red velvet (fail!!! except for the icing!!) and, most recently, carrot cake... just finished the last of it just now.. no pics =(

I guess there really isn't much HAPPENING in my life if I can list them out like that.. haha.. well.. nothing else I can think of at the moment.. It takes so much more effort to upload photos now coz I can't get the bluetooth on my idiot phone to function. This means I use the camera, upload it and resize them.. you would think it would be easier with technology these days..

Blog on hold

2009-09-17T16:39:00.006+01:00

It's not that I don't wanna update.. I have, in fact, tried several times. Unfortunately, everything is on hold due to the sucky internet connection which keeps getting interrupted.. every single day. What is going on here??? So... I can't upload photos.. can't do nothing.. =(

50% alcohol

2009-09-15T07:43:00.003+01:00

I knew I missed out something.. Lookie what I found in my camera: Cap Apek. And if you look really carefully near the bottom of the bottle, it says 50% alcohol. Came across this while I was in Lundu late last month.. I never knew alcohol levels (drinks wise) could go that high.

Achy breaky heart

2009-09-15T07:30:00.003+01:00

Q: Who's the latest man to make my little heart flutter??
A: Roger Federer

I was watching a replay of the US Open final between Federer and Del Potro. Of course, I didn't know the results yet. And for some inexplicable reason, my heart did a little flutter as I watched Federer play.. I mean.. I grew up watching this guy win so many tennis competitions on tv and I just wanted him to keep on winning.

Ten minutes later, during a commercial, I switched the channel to CNN.. which reported that Federer lost to Del Potro!!! My heart just dropped. It was already 3 hours into the game!! He was THIS close to winning.. Why? How?

Ah.. couldn't bring myself to watch the rest of the game.. =(

Damai - Gunung Gading - Pandan Beach

2009-08-31T10:47:00.005+01:00

I have been driving sooo much... last weekend alone, I drove to Damai on Saturday and Lundu on Sunday. Ok.. I'll be the first to admit my driving needs to be improved.. but I got everyone there and back safely on both days. Not sure what my passengers would say though..

On Saturday, all the Imperial people in Kuching went to Damai to see the beach. First, I had to pick up Chee Chung and Kuo Jian at Jalan Song.. Omg.. took me forever to find their house. Then I went past Phoebe's house and had to turn around. We proceeded to Chong Choon for laksa and I kinda took a wrong turning.. No matter.. we made it to Damai, ate lunch at Buntal, went to Song Kheng Hai for sugarcane and coconut.. too bad Sunny Hill was closed so no ice cream.

Sadly, I don't have any photos from Damai.. and my photos from Lundu are quite sucky.. this is what happens when you're too lazy to use a camera.. or when no one wants to take charge.. Anyway, it's supposed to take 3 hours to reach the peak of Gunung Gading. Since it was a family trip, we made it as far as the first waterfall only which took about 30 minutes.

Wth.. no photo of the waterfall itself..

Just chilling on a rock.

The family minus me.

Just in case.. park rescue team contact: 735144

Rafflesia- not in bloom this time of the year.

Sweaty, sunny afternoon.

Well.. that was it.. went to Pandan beach after.. again no pictures at the beach. Celaka. I was the only one who swam since I brought extra clothes and a towel. Brother read a book, Dad just walked around and Mom sat in the car in front of the air-con. Sighz.. I feel so unfulfilled... and inspired to return to Gunung Gading and reach the peak!!! If not this year, then next summer because people are leaving already..

Miaw..

2009-08-30T15:36:00.003+01:00

For all you people in Kuching.. have you ever realised that the drain covers in Kuching are embossed with cats?? I'm serious... A bunch of us went to Chong Choon the other day and Bernie, being the genius he is, parked all the way at Secret Recipe.. Anyway, along the way were all these drain covers with cats on them and I thought they were totally adorable!!! Don't you think so??

Japanese cucumbers

2009-08-30T15:29:00.003+01:00

The first time I heard about Japanese cucumbers were in Sabah when Steph Yen said she loved them and that they were cheaper than your average cucumber... It tasted alright... I guess.. not a huge fan of cucumbers.. Anyway, for anyone who's curious, I came across some at Boulevard hypermarket the other day so this is how they look like.. *nothing special* =P

Fish spa parts 1 & 2

2009-08-30T15:08:00.005+01:00

There's this place in town where Tao used to be.. it's been replaced by 175 and a bunch of us went there for drinks.. and to experience the "free" fish spa there (you gotta buy a drink first). Ok.. remember when I mentioned taking photos of photos.. this is it..

This is everyone (including me!) who went the first time.. I think that was the only time I met Stella apart from Damai and Boulevard.

Bernie goes in first..

Surprisingly, the guys enjoyed themselves.. all the girls (including me) had trouble getting used to the idea of fish eating dead skin off our feet =S

I have no idea whose feet these are..

Omg.. it's a free buffet for the fish..

Second time round for Amy, Bernie and I.

Ok.. that's Shih Yang's friend, Chern Wei, from KL.. Look at him look at Shih Yang =P

Awww... he's having fun...

Seems a bit alang alang to end with that last photo.. Anyway, has anyone else tried the fish spa?? Waddya think?? Personally, I highly doubt I'll be sticking my feet into that pool anytime soon.. it's just waay too gilik for me..

Up the mountain and down the sea in Kota Kinabalu

2009-08-30T14:21:00.007+01:00

One of the main reasons why I've been gone so long was because I spent 10 days in KK, Sabah. It included the whole bunch of Malaysian Bio-eng-ers: Steph Yen (our hostess), Brian, Voon Yuan, Ken and I. We went diving (my parents allowed me to go but they weren't too happy bout letting me.. bleh) and climbed Mount K!!

Darn! I thought this was a nice group pic.. then I realised Brian wasn't in it *ditcher* =P

There we go: VY, Ken, me, Brian and Steph in front.

Us, girls..

That's gonna be the picture on my diving license.

Unlike some people, it's easy to recognise me underwater by the colour of my shorts.

Diving is tiring..

Is it so fun to disturb a tired person??

Monitor lizard on the island..

So fun to bury people in sand =)

Spreading the sleeping aura to Steph Yen -_-

Mount K!!

At the peak!!

To see the sunrise!!!

Is that pretty or what??!!

I cannot believe VY brought a bottle of Guinness all the way up.. or that I posed with it..

I have no idea how these people can achieve those times.. O.o

Break-dancing on the mountain??

This girl did not climb Mount K with the rest of us but she was certainly there to sambut us when we came down..

Muahaha.. more sleepiness..

The happiest girl in the world =D

Stephanie Yen.. thank you so sooo much for everything.. this trip would never have happened without you.. I had tons of fun.. apart from the part where I nearly missed my flight back to Kuching but all's good. Hehe.

Oh, yeah.. I also met up with Shih Yang and Adrian on the last two days.. No pictures though.. but I don't need pictures to remember a good time, right?! ^^

One month hiatus

2009-08-30T13:50:00.003+01:00

Apologies for not updating this blog in over a month.. been busy and stuff. My phone also kind of died-ed. Stupid Sony Ericsson... now I can't use it to take photos anymore.. It was so convenient because I didn't have to resize all those pictures to post them.. now that's gone.. and I lost all my contacts which really sucks.

This is my second Sony Ericsson phone to die on me after less than a year.

I am now using a Nokia N97.. so far, so good but it has yet to pass the test of time.

Unfortunately, I just found out my new phone and the bluetooth thingy on my laptop are "incompatible". This is totally ridiculous. "Receiving device does not support this image format." Due to unforseen circumstances, I have been forced to use my camera to take photos of the photos in my phone for subsequent entries otherwise all those pictures will go to waste. Hope the quality won't be too bad..

Cut off from the world

2009-07-27T06:39:00.002+01:00

It was just a few hours ago when I was happily having a video conversation with Jieyang and Muffin. Now, MSN refuses to sign me in, my phone's not working and even Facebook is pms-ing!! I'm on the road to becoming anti-social of the year.

Results release

2009-07-24T06:26:00.003+01:00

Yesterday, the breakdown of the results were released. Talked to Voon Yuan about it.. so far, he's the only person I know who made it to the 4 year MEng course. Looks like next year is gonna be my final year in Imperial. Aargh.. I just wanna get things over and done with. I so hate my course. I would change it if I could but after investing 2 years in it... what choice do I have..

The release of results plus the Aussie people leaving got me thinking of uni life again.. exam stress... sleeping in classes.. house hunting last year.. that was horrible!! Realised I didn't even take a photo of my room at Chamberlain before moving out.. I did, however come across a photo of my future housemates.

Haha.. Wen-Jei would probably ask me to remove this post because of the photo.. but I doubt she knows about my blog.. I think I'll tell her though.. just to see her reaction.. I'm so evil. I look forward to staying with you guys in out "dream house" next year. =)

Kevin's (second) last day

2009-07-24T06:19:00.002+01:00

Two days before Kevin left.. ie two days ago, Kevin, Shih Yang, Bernie and I went out for breakfast at Yeow Kee in 101 Premiere. The roti kahwin there is supposed to be really good coz they use bread from aloha, pandan kaya and charcoal. It was so-so I guess..

I prefer the food from our first breakfast at Foody Goody after sending Joon Hui off. We had laksa, yew char kueh, yew char kueh with butter and kaya, ham ching peng and oh kueh.. woosh.. the calories!!!

Anyway, ngam ngam that morning, three of us wore traffic light colours unintentionally and we didn't even realise it till Bernie mentioned it.

As always, the time spent together with old friends is priceless.

Lionel's last day

2009-07-24T05:43:00.006+01:00

Friends have come and gone from Kuching in the recent weeks.. Some without even my knowing. I'm really glad I managed to spend time with old friends. It's funny how it's so easy to speak to some people I haven't met since Form 5. Example: Lionel Lam aka How I Met Your Mother freak. Hehe... This is what we did the day before he left..

Bernie, Lionel and Gilbert went swimming.

They played Marco Polo.

Bernie calling out "Marco" to Lionel.

Lionel's turn to be Marco.

Lionel still as Marco while Bernie and Gilbert watch on.

Gilbert in the small pool and Bernie in the bushes. If you're reading this Lionel, now you know why you couldn't catch them.

Us girls just enjoyed dipping our feet and watching the fun going on.

At least until this guy came over to pinch our toes!

Our fav class genius and paramount of beauty!

Just look at the beautiful blue water..

Oh no, Lionel's got a cramp!

The medic is here to help! =)

Lionel.. I enjoyed climbing Santubong with you and being around all your craziness. Have fun in Perth and all the best in your hunt for your significant other!

Joon Hui's 21st

2009-07-15T05:20:00.005+01:00

Joon Hui's birthday was exactly a week ago but I'm only getting round to posting the photos now.. I haven't seen Joon Hui since Form 5 ended.. practically dinosaur AGES ago..

This was kinda at the end of the meal already..

A little dark.. I blame the camera.

Haven't seen Thai Hui since... Concord??

Thai Hui and Kim have not changed since Lodge =)

Neither have these two..

Clearer picture of Yichieh and Lionel..

Another lovely picture of Shih Yang =P

Kev, Berps and Kim

Lionel's obsession with the pineapple incident from How I Met Your Mother.

Anti-social betul.. reading during dinner.

Group photo! =)

Awww... the cat fell asleep on Bernie's foot.. after he tripped over it earlier on..

AWWWWWW.....

Hope you enjoyed your birthday, Joon.. It was really fun... good company, good food and great occasion to celebrate =)

Mount Santubong and Damai

2009-07-09T06:39:00.008+01:00

Day 1: Wake up at 6.30am. Do some last minute packing. Wait for Lionel to arrive at 7.30am.

Our gracious driver... Dopey..

Feng, Yichieh, Lionel, Calvin, Bernie and Shih Yang.

Shih Yang and Bernie at the mini waterfall.

Glorious food!

The most important drink EVER!!

Kevin didn't climb; Shaun turned back; The rest of us parted ways at the fork between Santubong peak and Bukit Putri. Shih Yang, Bernie and Lionel took the 45 minutes trail to Bukit Putri while Feng, Lionel, Calvin and I took the 3 hour trek to Santubong peak!

Success!!

View from the peak.

Evil monkey which stalked us up AND down!!

See what we had to go through!!

2 cans per person upon reaching the base.. *dies*

Bashful

Happy

Sleepy

Day 2: Bodyache, eat, sleep, play on the beach. Unfortunately, Yichieh left and Gabriel took her place. More drinking at night.

Like, yo!

Same people, same pose.

You can't tell but Shih Yang and Bernie are under Lionel and Shaun.

Sneezy

Grumpy

Monalisa

Doc

Day 3: Back to Kuching and that's the end of that. Hope I got the names of all the 7 dwarfs correct.. =P

I passed! I passed! I passed!

2009-07-09T06:13:00.002+01:00

Omg.. I can't believe I passed.. Just got back from Damai yesterday (I'll get back to this later) and I'm dead tired. Just checked my email earlier on and there's this one email from Martin Holloway titled "Results" and another one with "Results link". I was sooo freakin' scared!! I was expecting to resit at least one paper.. I was expecting to fail!!

Dear Melissa Ying

Congratulations, you have passed the year and now progress to the next year of the degree course.

Your actual marks should be available in a week or two from Student Self-service.
Registry will contact you when the results are ready.

That's what the email said... Now that the high is over.. I'm gonna face reality and remember that I hate every single part of my course.. and that I probably passed by the tips of my fingers. =(

Back in Malaysia..

2009-06-28T08:18:00.010+01:00

Wheee... back in Malaysia but no pics here.. Instead, I'm gonna post photos from Lake District. It's like one thousand and one things have happened and Lake District was ages ago.. Been back in Kuching for almost a week already and I still haven't got a new sim card yet.. Ah.. Anyway...

Ken

Brian.. so happy and innocent..

Voon Yuan

Xuhua

Steph Yen

Me!

Our first of many calorie-loaded meals to come

At the hostel..

Emo note on a bench... wonder if it's real.. it'll be tragic if it were..

A bit cloudy on the first day.

Day 2

Our grand cycling adventure

Lost

Casualty number 1

Casualty number 2

Group photo!!

Steph, I promise not to post the other photo.. you know what I mean =P

'89 babies playing

Day 3: Kayaking

Roar!!

Xuhua actually did a split before that..

Feeding the swan

Feeding the ducklings

Picking a fight with the goose

Day 4: back to London..

Steph and Ken didn't get sunburnt..

This noob did..

Putera lilin also kena sunburnt.

I got sunburnt real bad..

Guess who missed the train..

My sunburnt arm..

and my sunburnt legs.. scary..

Pre-Lake District

2009-06-12T05:04:00.004+01:00

Am supposed to be going to Lake District today. Train at 10.30am. It's 5am now. I need to pack. More importantly, I need to sleep.. Bleh.. Bernie came over again later on last night to borrow my sleeping bag since he's going to Oxford and Reading to visit Amy and Joanne. I bought Ben's cookies for him to try. Talk about overeating..

Anyway, I'm supposed to pack for the LD trip but.. I got a bit distracted. Well.. not really la.. I had to fold my laundry before I could pack so...

All my neatly folded clothes which I have yet to put away.

THEN I got distracted.. I packed up my books and notes which I plan to store... tidied the dining area up a bit... and sorted out the recyclables..

Loads of paper, glass bottles, Red Bull cans, plastic bottles and old clothes..

And I'm still not yet packed for Lake District. Gonna be doing a lot of hiking and stuff.. And it's supposed to be cold.. My whole body still aches from playing badminton on Wednesday and I'm gonna go hiking. Fantastic. I'll be lucky to get back alive.. On the bright side, I'm missing lab today!! =)

Bernie in London... again!! =)

2009-06-12T04:50:00.006+01:00

Seems I become a tourist everytime Berps comes to London.. It's good in a way that I would never bother to see parts of London that are usually out of my way.. Worse part was travelling yet again because of the tube strike.

We actually had lunch at Abeno Too before walking to Trafalgar Square and on to the river.

Bernie's idea to take this photo.

The oracle knows all..

Some of the street performers by the riverside were actually quite cool..

Some weird Dali sculpture.

My face sooo round!!! T_T

More Dali stuff..

Can you spot Bernie's head? He insisted I took the entire building so I did..

Then we had Haagan Daaz after a really, really long walk. Caramel cream and biscuit, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate midnight cookie, macadamian nut brittle, waffle and strawberries!! Yum! No wonder la.. face getting rounder and rounder!!

Then I had to face the trouble of getting back to Earl's Court. Stupid, tulan, pms bus driver.. first he show sour face. Then he complain someone keeps pressing the bell. THEN he terminated the bus at freaking Hyde Park! Had to take no. 52 to High Street Kensington and walked back... Strike should be over by now thank goodness..

Oliver, Oliver..

2009-06-12T04:31:00.004+01:00

Exams have come and gone... Oh, how I dread the thought of resits.. For now, I'm just enjoying what little time I have left in London. Boy, I'm so not gonna miss this place when I go back to Kuching. 10 more days till I fly back! Yay!

So... been quite busy lately.. I actually had to write down what I was gonna do each day otherwise I'll lose track and forget what I've done and what I've yet to do.. Basically, I've been going to the gym but.. eating out alot too.. hehe.. am still not cooking due to the previous disaster.

Best of all, I went to watch another musical!! Oliver!! I saw Rowan Atkinson acting as Fagin!! It was hell getting to the theatre because of the tube strike. Made it with 10 minutes to spare!!

I thought the theatre was really grand.. I got away with only two photos before being told off not to take any pictures in the theatre..

Rowan Atkinson was really funny and all but my 2 fav songs don't include the ones he sang.. This song was in the second half.. and I really, really like it..

This one was actually earlier on in the first half.. it was a pretty cute song ^^

Mmmm.. I love musicals and all the theatre stuff.. my parents will kill me if/ when they find out how many I've watched already this year.. but I swear, I have a good reason to watch every single one of them.. my excuse for Oliver being that I just had to see Rowan Atkinson..

Journey to the Center of Richmond Park

2009-06-01T11:52:00.010+01:00

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, 6 friends decided to venture out to Richmond Park in Zone 4.. First thing we did upon reaching the park..

We needed ice cream!!! Even Ken who hates sweet stuff!!

We settled down for a picnic..

Steph and her hand sanitizer.

Wen-Jei loves her ice cream..

Yes, she does =)

I love the sun..

Feeding grapes.. don't shove it all down, Ken.

Us girls and our sunnies..

Very, very good weather..

Time to find the center of the park.. hmm.. which way??

Supposedly, there should be wildlife around.

Somewhere in this photo, there are 3 deers...

Steph in a hollow tree..

Pokok

Bunga

Paku pakis

Left, right, left, right, left!

Kaki

Tangan

Kepala

Xuhua playing monkey!

Would have been a perfect day if I didn't get a massive headache after and left earlier.. Slept from 9pm till 9am.. Was supposed to go Beceister with Shi today but.. too tired.. Somemore need to go uni tomorrow for lab..

3 girls, 1 guy and Leong's Legend

2009-06-01T11:44:00.004+01:00

Actually, I haven't had internet since after exams when I logged on to Facebook.. that was it.. after that, the wireless went completely bonkers.. Anyway, we had a little get-together.. belated birthday dinner for Yichieh.. Shih Yang, Yichieh and I just finished our exams while Steph still has another month to go before her exams begin!!

Obviously, the birthday girl was a bit distracted..

Look at her glow!!

Shih Yang's head looks pretty cool, no..

Sadly, forgot to take a photo of Yichieh's present.. pjs from La Senza.. Hehe.. *snicker snicker*.. Kidding.. Happy Belated Birthday, Yichieh!

Post-exams shopping

2009-06-01T11:37:00.004+01:00

Despite no sleep for 24 hours, I managed to go shopping the very afternoon after exams ended at High Street Kensington.. As well as the next day in Knightsbridge with Shi and Lilian.. They were looking for birthday presents for God knows how many people so I wondered around after buying my own stuff.. and came across this in Pets Kingdom..

I don't wanna come across as a creepy person taking photos of random people but... she had 3 chihuahuas all dolled up and the fact that her jeans are from Rock and Republic are.. well..

And then I received this in the mail the day after I went to Harrods.. I don't even remember applying for this card.. The letter which came with it said I was "selected".. sighz..

Happy happy joy joy

2009-05-23T00:43:00.005+01:00

I am sooo happy right now. Am in a good mood because I just went to watch Lord of the Dance which was fantastic!!! I loved the part when the lord of the dance was fighting the dark lord.. and when the little spirit was rescued.. aaaaahhhh!! I feel so happy just thinking about it!!

Front (almost) row seats, good price, fantastic view.

HMV Hammersmith Apollo

Decided to list out all the other things that are making me happy at the moment.. Went to Shi's room to chit chat with her so, obviously, I'm loving my friends.. not that I don't love them other times.. just especially more so today.. not just her but all my other friends as well =)

Hmmm... what else..

Twilight of course!!

Vampire Knight (anime, manga AND soundtrack)

La Corda Doro.. yet another random anime..

Maybe Baby from Benefit

The prospect of going shopping after exams is just killing me!!! Am in desperate need for shoes.. Plus, jeans just became my worst enemy. I almost died coz it was so freakin hot while wearing them. Looks like it's gonna be shorts, track pants and skirts from now on..

Can't wait for the next episode of BGT too! With Gossip Girl, House, One Tree Hill and 90210 over, there's nothing else to watch.. Oh wellz.. next season..

And I love Lord of the Dance! No regrets going before exams are over. Not like I'll study on a Friday night anyway.. And the darkness of reality descends upon me.. Computing and Signals left.. last 2 papers..

Animal love

2009-05-21T01:49:00.003+01:00

Ok.. I know this is a bit weird.. sometimes I don't blog for over a week and then suddenly 3 entries pop out of nowhere. I'm tired ok.. I need some form of distraction even though I already cannot finish studying but my brain is seriously on the verge of breaking down..

So.. I came across a bunch of my fav videos on youtube..

Aaaawwww.. is all I can say..

Cool.. but somewhat sadistic..

Did I mention I like monkeys?? They're sooo cute!!! Especially orang utans!! You can see more photos on www.zooborns.com =)

Woooowww!!!

Baby give mommy a kiss..

Muakz!!!

I DON'T WANNA SIT FOR MEDICAL SCIENCE!!!!!

Med Sci

2009-05-21T01:32:00.002+01:00

I'm so depressed bout Medical Science on Friday.. Neuroscience, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, integumentary and reproductive systems. Not even Basement Jaxx can cheer me up =(

Those of you who know me are aware that I never liked Bio since SPM, I didn't take Bio for A Levels and I absolutely hate my course. Hello, 2nd year.. again! I don't wanna turn into my brother. Kill me now..

So far this week..

2009-05-21T01:04:00.003+01:00

So far this week, I have had...

countless cups of coffee..

a LOT of Red Bull..

and very little sleep.

On the brighter side,

Steph Yen and I made chicken rice one day..

I discovered Alexander Rybak, 2009 Eurovision winner...

Dima Bilan, 2008 Eurovision winner..

I also found out that the most comfortable way to wear a shirt with itchy labels at the side and back is to wear it inside out! =P

Kiss

2009-05-13T03:26:00.003+01:00

It's waaaay too late in the night... or waaaaay too early in the morning to be listening to emo songs!! Initially, I was listening to the song Edine posted on her blog: The Chain by Ingrid Michaelson. A few derivations later, I found myself listening to Because I'm a Girl by Kiss.. Omg.. Cried like a baby.. I think I slept too much yesterday which is why I'm still awake at this godforsaken hour of 3.30am. Emo emo emo.. Joanne having her last paper already and I still have 6 to go, including Heat and Mass at 2pm later today =(

Life's Brief Candle

2009-05-12T14:26:00.003+01:00

Remember the poems we did for English Literature back in high school?? Life's Brief Candle was the most memorable one in my opinion.. or the most depressing.. I remember reading it over and over and over again till it got stuck in my head.

Life's Brief Candle

by William Shakespeare

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Come to think of it, most of the stories/ poems were quite depressing.. There was a poem about a funeral.. err.. a short story about some guy planning live in the Isle of Capri till his money ran out and then he would kill himself.. but then he didn't have the guts to do it so... There was also a story but children being sacrificed to a "rain god"..

Man.. I actually miss those days when we had to study English Literature.. classic stuff like Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, White Fang, The Gifts and other stories, The Good Earth, Great Expectations... Even sastera was interesting.. especially Timulak Kapal Perang (think Paduka Mat Salleh, Andayu and Sabah!)..

Now I have to put up with Fick's Law, small signal equivalents, Michaelis-Menten kinetics etc etc etc... All I can say is.. bleh!

Working on the bed

2009-05-10T18:01:00.003+01:00

After 3 papers, I still don't know where is the best place for me to work. My chair kind of sucks so I can't sit on it for too long otherwise I'll get restless.. I'll swing around, jump around (with the chair!) and get up constantly.. plus my desk isn't big enough for everything I need.

The dining table is filled with all kinds of junk so that's out. My only other choice: the bed. Ok.. maybe the bed is a bit big.. Everytime I leave something on it, I forget where.. I'll put some papers here, some notes there.. and poof!! It's gone! Especially my phone. Whenever anyone sends me a text, the message tone ends before I can find my phone. I've been using my housemate's phone to call mine so I can find it for the past few days.

Now I've got inkstains on my hands, my bed, even my knee.. that's how much writing I've been doing.. maths, maths, maths.. One problem with doing work on the bed. There's no place to sleep when it's bedtime! Sighz.. -_-

BGT

2009-05-08T14:10:00.002+01:00

Ok.. this video is dedicated to Bernie and whoever else following Britain's Got Talent. I've posted this on Facebook already so I apologize if anyone's seen it already. It's just sooo cute.. >_<

Back to studying now.. I think I've been distracted long enough.. bleh..

Sorry If I Love You

2009-05-08T13:41:00.005+01:00

I finally got the English subtitles for Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore aka Sorry If I Love You. It's this random Italian film I watched on one of those long flights back home from UK.. Anyway, I thought it was a really sweet and romantic film.. a bit "wrong" at some parts maybe.. like the fact that the guy (Alex) is way waay older than the girl (Niki) but.. it's good for the most part.

Sugarfree sang a song of the same title for the movie.. One of my fav songs. Hehe.. Maybe you'll get what I mean after listening to it..

Here's the English translation:

Excuse me for calling you my love
I don’t know what else to say
excuse me for having given you a name
I only say it’s you
you re-shape my destiny
and put colour in the desire within my eyes
I’m not cold now
as I’ve learnt to cry
and I’m not afraid when
I feel like I’m being reborn
now I play along
I let my heart rush towards you
names come in my pocket too late
now I’ve got freedom
you can take it away whenever you want

A life to be re-written
inside your one thousand page heart
I’ll tear the poems which speak of us
of an ageless love

Excuse me for calling you my love
and I can’t say anything else
excuse me for not being able to have
the same years as you do
but I still have that instinct
to fly like a free kite
love is not conventional
it’s got no limits
it flows in our hearts now

A life to be re-written
inside your one thousand page heart
I’ll speak of a love which
surpasses the distance and never stops
never stops

I’ve got a life to be re-written
inside your one thousand page heart
I’ll tear the poems which speak of us
of an ageless love

Excuse me for calling you my love
I don’t know what else to say
excuse me for having given you a name
now you can call me too.

Not a good day

2009-05-02T12:17:00.004+01:00

AAAaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!! I can't wait to move out of this dump!! Bloody h***!!! Last night, Brian's destructive aura destroyed the light in my room so I was plunged into darkness for the night with nothing but the desklamp for light.

This morning, while making breakfast, Echo decided to cook noodles. She left the kettle near the eggs and I got burnt while reaching for the eggs without looking. Then after I fried an egg for Stephanie, I got burnt by the frying pan while turning off the stove. The blister may look small but it hurts and annoys me like h***!

I proceeded to buy a bulb at the small household appliances shop behind my place but they didn't have it.. so I had to walk to Sainsbury's to get it. Once there, I spent God knows how long trying to find the correct one. Being the genius I am, I forgot to bring the bulb AND my phone!! Simply bought one in the end.. 15W instead of 18W but who cares..

Ok.. so I got the bulb.. screwed it in after a lot of swearing and cursing.. Then, while I was putting the cover back on, the cover slipped, broke and glass was everywhere. One thousand swear words later, I gathered the pieces together and got tiny cuts all over my hands.

Geez... I'm so pissed and annoyed with everyone and everything at the moment.. Everytime I look at the ceiling, I feel like strangling/ punching/ beating up someone.

Random-nia

2009-04-30T16:57:00.005+01:00

2 papers down, 8 to go.. Just went to the gym after lecture today. Omg.. my work out time got halved because I've been a lazy pig for the past 2 months!!! Oink oink =(

Anyway.. found a few random photos in my phone.. some of past birthdays this year.. I totally missed Shih Yang's birthday though.. =( So many sad faces in this entry..

Shi's belated birthday

Wen-Jei's birthday.. there's a really good video which I need to get from Voon Yuan.. For now, suffice to say, Wen-Jei will never forget the word "oops".. hehe..

Ken thinking the chair is a harp..

During one of our Selkirk lunches, Xin Ying and I realised Jiun Siang's hair was damn long.. we need to cut it =P

What did I tell you.. super random.. So lonely in my room now. Steph Yen and Wen-Jei went to do their hair and Echo went shopping. Sob sob.. I'm still so depressed bout the time I spent in the gym T_T

Freak out!

2009-04-26T18:08:00.002+01:00

Time to spread the love! For those of you haven't seen it yet, check out this trailer:

Ohh.. I just figured out how to embed stuff. Was wondering how to do that last time.. I know, I know.. I'm quite kuno... Sighz..

But but butt entry

2009-04-25T21:55:00.007+01:00

Ah.. Full and satisfying dinner.. Blog a bit before sitting down to work.. In a much better mood compared to earlier on today.. Picking up from the Amsterdam photos, here are the some photos from Brussels. The very first thing we saw upon reaching Brussels was this:

Garnier BUTT advert

BUTT recycling advert

Comic strip BUTT

Ok ok.. there's more to it than just butts.. Brussels also had a whole lot of peeing statues.. seriously..

Peeing boy

Peeing girl

Peeing dog

Enough bout that now.. Brussels won't be Brussels without chocolate..

Easter eggs!

More Easter eggs!

Chocolate fountain!!

MORE chocolate!!

The chick is just so adorable!!

Seafood was good too.. good food, good beer and good company.. the weather was nice and sunny too.. sighz.. *dreamy look on face*

Escargots in a scrumptious garlic butter sauce..

Raw oysters

Mussels with white wine

Ken (whose face is red), Voon Yuan, Aiwoon, me and Emily.

End of Easter vacation.

2 more days till exams.

ROARRRRRRRR!!!!!!

2009-04-25T16:02:00.004+01:00

I. Am. So. PISSED. Right. Now. Just wasted 2 hours trying to help my parents get online with the webcam and stuff so I can talk to them.

Been a long time since I saw them so I thought I'll chat with them awhile. Mana tahu... too long never use messenger or skype or whatever so they don't remember how to do it. And there's only so much I can do to help them from here.

Why is that lousy "brother" of mine not helping them???!! My mom tells me he's too busy watching tv. WTH and WTF!!!

I'll just bet he hasn't changed one bit since I left! GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Amsterdam photos

2009-04-14T17:49:00.007+01:00

Ok.. time to take a break from studying. Neuroscience is driving me mad.. so.. here are some of my photos from Amsterdam..

Can you see all that whipped cream and ice cream on my blueberry pancake?? Yumz!

Day 1 breakfast at The Pancake Bakery

Some crazy fella wants to push the vehicle into the water

Poor exhausted Aiwoon and Voon Yuan on the first day

Random boob on the ground

Seems we can't escape from studies even in Amsterdam.. Laplace transform anyone?

I think this was supposed to be in Oceans 12 or something..

Creepy green baby in a cage

Day 2: Anne Frank museum. I would tag myself in the reflection if this were FB =)

At Keukenhof.. celaka.. photo kena spoilt by someone in the background.

Aiwoon getting bullied by Ken and Voon Yuan on the haystack

As promised, a windmill...

... a clog...

... and tulips!!

Flower girl

Day 3: The Heineken experience

Beer, beer, beer

How many arms can you see?? Hehe... this was taken directly after the Heineken experience!

Who's HIGH and who's not?? Again after the Heineken experience.

One final group pic on day 4 before leaving Amsterdam: Voon Yuan, Emily, Aiwoon, me and Ken

Damn.. my neck really aches now.. and I'm hungry.. Guess I'll have an early dinner before going back to studying. More photos from Brussels next time!

One other thing..

2009-04-06T01:20:00.003+01:00

There's just one more thing I forgot to mention.. I really, really hate Chamberlain.. especially the sink and the WASHING MACHINE in my flat. I complained bout the washing machine to Amir when I paid the rent the other day and the guy came to fix it the next day.. at least he claimed to have fixed it.. so we decided to test it out with Voon Yuan's laundry.

Everything was ok at first so I went to my room to do my own stuff. Suddenly, I hear sounds coming from the kitchen so I immediately went to investigate. Damn celaka!! The washing machine was leaking again. Luckily, I called Voon Yuan to bring up the pail and managed to mop up the mess before it reached the carpet.. (my place still STINKS from the first leak!)

We had to change the mode to spin to drain the water and look what happened after that. Water started spewing out from the detergent compartment like a freaking waterfall.. Seriously, wth man!!! I wanted to take a video to show Amir coz he kept claiming I put too much clothes inside which I definitely did NOT do.

Everything happened so fast so I had no time to change the mode on my phone. Lucky I didn't take video also lar.. Later can hear all the foul language coming out from my mouth. Bleh. Stupid machine.

Amster-DAMN

2009-04-06T00:56:00.005+01:00

Will be leaving in about an hour for Victoria-Stansted-Amsterdam. Why why why am I going to Amsterdam when I'm pretty much screwed for exams which start immediately after Easter break???!!!! The amount of stuff I need to revise.. OMG!!! Gonna have to bring some stuff to study.. but whether or not I will have the time or energy to study is another issue altogether!

I'm going to the land of tulips, windmills, clogs and cheese.. Unfortunately, the guys look at it as the land of "magic mushrooms" and red light districts. And they are determined to drag me into a *** museum.. similar to how I drag them into watching horror movies. Oh, help!

Speaking of horror movies.. do watch Into the Mirror.. the Korean one!! It's really, really good. Sh*t.. I'm freaking myself out with the picture now. I'm all alone in my flat.. Echo went back to China and Steph Yen's in Swansea.. omg omg omg omg!!!

For something scary/ funny/ emo, the Eye 10 is not bad really.. I'm freaking myself out now. Scary scary scary. Screw.. I think it's best if I stick to normal movies.. Twilight: New Moon on Nov 20.. Yeah...

Be back on Friday. Have a good week, all =)

A lion called Christian

2009-04-05T11:12:00.006+01:00

At first, I was just looking at pictures of baby animals like..

... this baby pygmy marmoset here.. basically, one of the smallest monkeys ever!

Adorable red panda cubs..

.. which eventually grow into this..

A baby lemur.. think King Julian from Madagascar =P

Then things got a bit more emo. I came across Christian the lion. Apparently, Harrods dealt with exotic animals back in the 60s. In 1969, 2 hippies, John Rendall and Ace Bourke, bought a lion cub from there. The lion was called Christian and he lived with them in a Chelsea flat, hung out in a furniture shop and exercised in a graveyard. There are videoes on youtube of Christian playing with his owners on the beach, in the country etc..

John and Ace decided to release Christian back to the wild in Africa because he was a wild animal, too wild for London despite being domesticated. It's really funny because their first night in Africa, Christian still slept on a bed with pillows and just accepted the other wild animals as part of the landscape.

Christian was introduced to another lion and a cub so they could start their own pride. What I really wanna highlight is that a year later, John and Ace returned to visit Christian and he still recognised them!! He went up to them, hugged them and nuzzled them.. Tears just flowed from my eyes when I watched this video.. it's really, really touching so I just wanna share this with y'all out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiGKWoJi5qM&feature=related

Interesting links can be found here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452820/Christian-lion-lived-London-living-room.html

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1888529,00.html

OED

2009-04-02T21:27:00.009+01:00

OED.. and I am definitely not referring to the Oxford English Dictionary.. Instead, OED really stands for Obsessive Edward Disorder!!! Aaaaaahhhhhh!!! I can't stand it. I've got this "thing" for anything Twilight, a certain Edward Cullen in particular. I've had phases before: Star Wars, horror flicks... but this... Twilight is like.. on a totally different level.. in a good way.. or not.. I need to study!! It's madness I tell you!! Madness!!!

My current wallpaper =D

My fav parts in the movie... Loved the part when Bella's in the cafeteria and the Cullens make their entrance. Alice is just sooo cute. And also the part when Edward brings Bella to meet his family.. The music was so cute (quirky?) when Alice jumped off the tree to meet Bella. Edward then brings Bella to tour the rest of the house. His expression was hilarious because he thought his entire family was weird to Bella.

The Cullens: Emmett, Rosalie, Esme, Edward, Carlisle, Alice and Jasper

Then there was the part when Charlie was cleaning his gun and Bella tells him that Edward wants to meet him.. officially. Charlie then proceeds to cock the gun and tells her to bring him in.. That was totally hilarious. She had to tell him to be nice to which he responds by drawing a halo above his head..

"Bella, you are my life now." Awwww...

Ok.. I know I'm all over the place now but I'm just saying my fav parts as they come to my head. Who can forget the part when Edward rescues Bella from those guys at Port Angeles. And at the restaurant, Bella's asking Edward for answers and he tells her, "yes, no, to get to the other side, 1.77245.." The funny thing was she knew that 1.77245 was the square root of pi..

Random photo from Vanity Fair.. good looking people..

Of course we can't forget the baseball scene either.. omg.. that was soo cool. And the song Supermassive Black Hole was totally perfect for that scene. Yes, yes.. I know I'm beginning to sound obsessive. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than last summer when I was counting down the days til Breaking Dawn hit the shelves in the bookstores. Speaking of countdowns.. the next movie (New Moon) is set to be released on November 20 this year..

Ashley Greene and Rachelle Lefevre aka Alice and Victoria.

Guys, they're hot, right?

Girls, aren't the dresses pretty?

Ok ok.. time to study.. I'll rant more about Twilight another time =)

At the beginning

2009-03-24T22:24:00.004Z

At last, after months of torture, we're gonna demonstrate the prototype for the "fake knee" tomorrow. This is pretty much how our meetings were like back in December:

Jingzhi and Kate doing calculations; Terry notices me being jobless

Poser Ken

John sleeping (for once, it's not me!)

I wasn't sleeping coz I was too busy fooling around =P

The prototype was finally completed today. I was totally UN-involved in the manufacturing part. I did help out with the hundred-over-page-report (which I need to read through tonight) that we finished last Wednesday and it was sooo freakin' rushed. I never wanna go through it again.

As if that's not bad enough, I've got another presentation immediately after that. Mechanics Design and Heat & Mass back-to-back. Fantastic..

Right now, I've got the song "At The Beginning" from Anastasia stuck in my head and my ipod. Think it was one of the many songs we sang during Steph's birthday/ karaoke session.

And life is a road I want to keep going,

Love is a river I want to keep going,

Life is a road now and forever,

A wonderful journey.

I'll be there when the world stops turning,

I'll be there when the storm is through,

In the end I wanna be standing,

At the beginning with you.

The morning (afternoon) after..

2009-03-22T16:50:00.004Z

After all the "egg"-tion (action) last night, I KO-ed til 12 noon. Woke up with a headache but decided to get on with the day. Loaded the washing maching with clothes... only to have Echo come into my room later to tell me the washing machine was leaking. Sure enough, the kitchen was flooded and there was water everywhere!!! So I took my stuff out and started mopping up the kitchen. An hour later, the kitchen floor is dry but I couldn't do anything bout the soaked carpet.

Damn the washing machine!!

Every single pair of jeans I own are now soaking wet.. what to wear to uni tomorrow ah??

Somemore I defrosted a box of chicken thighs last night. All three pieces were stuck together so I had no choice but to defrost all of them. It's not like I can eat all three by myself and I didn't want it to go bad by leaving it in the fridge. Since I'm coughing, I thought I'll make some chicken soup. I ended up making 2 different types..

Top: Han Guo Ren Fei; Bottom: plain chicken soup with wolfberries

Stressed lar.. one thousand and one things to think about and not enough time to do anything about all of it.. Where to stay next year? Maths test this Thursday. TWO presentations on Wednesday. Matlab report on Thursday? More report deadlines on Friday. Swan lake on Monday. Aaarrrghhh!! T_T

Voon Yuan's birthday BASH!!!

2009-03-22T16:17:00.003Z

The day after Ben's birthday, Voon Yuan turned 20. Old liaw. First digit change liaw. Haha. I felt that way 3 months ago also.. Sighz.. Anyway, because I felt like it, I made a cheesecake for him. One of Steph Ong's friend made a cheesecake for her and it tasted so good I couldn't stop thinking about it. I searched for a recipe online and got it!!

First attempt at cheesecake and it was a wonderful success!! =)

Brian Chong reading GLAMOUR magazine!!

Later that night, we went to Kappa for dinner. We had this huge master plan to bash up Voon Yuan on the way back. We even got Li Feng and Khai Ming from Flat 1 to help us out with water and eggs. I just loved the fact that Steph Yen, Wen-Jei and I had eggs, flour, custard and whipped cream in our handbags throughout the entire dinner, just waiting for the moment we could hand them out =D

Group photo!! Notice what I'm doing?? *evil laugh*

Aighz.. there would be more photos but Brian took them with a Sony camera and he doesn't wanna look for the card reader for me. Hmph!

The afterparty

2009-03-22T16:03:00.003Z

After dinner ended.. Paul went home like a good boy =) We actually bought Hummingbird (again!) cupcakes for Ben and Paul to share. Since Paul left first, he took the entire box.. Hehe.. And Ben had to settle with a bunch of people trying to get him drunk.

6 shots: Slippery Nipple, BabyGuiness, ???, Barbed Wire, C**k Sucking Cowboy and B52

Don't worry, he's not drunk..

He's just turning red =D

Chill.. this guy's alcohol tolerance damn high.. 6 shots + beer + sips of random drinks + godfather (another drink) and he's still sober. Salute!

Ben and Paul's joint celebration

2009-03-22T15:42:00.006Z

Ben turned 21 last Friday and Paul's gonna turn 21 this coming Wednesday. We had this huge dinner at Four Seasons on Friday. 15 people came!! Dinner was planned for 6.30pm but we told people around 6pm because.. well.. Malaysian timing and all that.

Funny thing was.. Shi Lin and I left Earl's Court with plenty of time to reach Leceister Square. Mana tahu.. at Knightsbridge, we realised we forgot to bring the birthday cake!! OMG!! It was 7pm by the time we reached the restaurant and surprise, surprise, they just finished ordering!

Aiyor.. so sweet.. the birthday boys!!

Paul, Adrian and Jon Gan

Amy, Stella, Steph and Ben

Shih Yang got everyone including Aruna to do this survery on AIDS and STIs

Happy Birthday to Ben and Paul...

Happy Birthday, to youuuuu...

Awwww... don't be shy, Ben..

Paul's turn to be shy.. hehe..

Ben heroically saving Paul from a fate worse than death (nah.. just removing the candles)

All the best to both the birthday boys.. Can't believe they've reached the big 2-1 already.. Time really flies..

Steph's 21st birthday

2009-03-18T18:55:00.005Z

Steph turned 21 last Saturday. Shi Lin and I went to find her in Tooting Broadway bearing gifts for the birthday girl!!

Hummingbird goodies!!

Red velvet, vanilla, rocky road and nutella (clockwise from top left) >_<

You only turn 21 once, ya know..

Thanking the many people who contributed to this beautiful little bag =)

Another charming little present from Sheela

Steph and Sheela

Shi Lin trying to steal Steph's precious bag =P

Yours truly with the birthday girl

Steph is one lucky girl.. She celebrated her birthday 3 days in a row: Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fantastic! On her request, I have not included the video of her reaction when she opened the gift. Oh, wellz...

My 3 best friends..

2009-03-18T18:40:00.004Z

It's been almost 2 weeks since I last updated this blog.. the reason?? The crazy Fake Knee Project. O-M-G! The deadline was at 5pm today and we were rushing like mad. Stress stress stress.. know who my 3 best friends were during this period of madness??

Haagen-Daaz

Ben & Jerry's

Cornetto

All this plus lack of sleep = itchy throat. No wonder lar, I'm coughing like mad now.. Sighz..

London Fashion Week

2009-03-05T00:46:00.005Z

From my very first year in Imperial, I have seen London Fashion Week come and go in front of the Natural History Museum. When my friends invited me to go, I thought why not?? Even if I don't buy anything, at least I get to experience it..

As it was, I didn't buy much. Bought a few shirts just for the sake of it, of which one couldn't fit (because I didn't bother trying it) so I gave that one away. And my friend gave me one skirt which couldn't fit her (she didn't try it either).

The catwalk was pretty cool..

Here are some of my fav shots:

Dilemmaaaaaa...

2009-03-05T00:37:00.005Z

These days, I find myself stressing over what to eat.. or what NOT to eat... bleh. I went to develop photos yesterday and opposite the shop was Hummingbird Bakery. How could I resist??

The sweet goodness from Hummingbird bakery or...

.. what my friends fondly call "hamster food" aka Ryvita..

I ought to divert my attention by searching for Mr Happy instead.. maybe I'll feel less troubled then.. didn't buy the shirt though.. no size =S

Amour = Musim Memburu

2009-03-02T23:27:00.004Z

Haha.. I just realised my posts aren't in chronological order. It's just that it's so much easier to upload photos from my phone instead of my camera.. still need to resize etc etc again. Sorry lar.. I lazy.. actually, I'm busy with work work work.. But, somehow, still got time to update blog. Hehe.. my way to de-stress..

Amy in the club (Funky Buddha)..

Amy, Amy... the hunt is on!!

Sorry no pictures of us la, Amy.. Didn't pass board of censorship =P

I dedicate this post to you, Amy.. semua gambar pun ada kamu. Haha..

I have changed so much since Lodge. Not the poser I used to be..

If she dies..

2009-03-02T21:11:00.008Z

A father who is struggling with the imminent death of his daughter is visited by the ghost of a young girl..

Now lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

And if I should die before I wake,

I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Is this my daugher? Or is it Sarah? I do not care.

She died before she woke.

The Lord did not her soul take.

He gave her to ME.

What do you think happened??

MNight water girl

2009-03-01T23:05:00.005Z

That's me with 4 x 2 litres of water in my bagpack and carrying a 5 litre "baby" in my arms. No one ever sees the people doing welfare.. Well.. I did some ushering duties on Saturday night.. had a few seconds of glory up on the stage during the curtain call.. and that was it. MNight was over just like that. It's back to work, work, work and no play...

Kuching gang dinner

2009-03-01T22:50:00.004Z

Ah.. two weeks after having Korean food at Arang, we decided to have dinner together once again. This time, Thai food at Addie's in Earl's Court.. and it was oh, so delicious!! Just ask any of them.

Waa.. long time never see Paul.. and.. what else do you expect from Amy =P

Peek-a-boo.. I see you, Steph Ong!!

All the girls minus me...

All the guys minus Paul.. Kiong Kong ditched us last minute.. hmph!

The only picture of the food I got that night: Cod fish with kangkung..

I know there were plenty other good dishes like "weeping tiger" or.. I don't know what.. can't for the life of me think of all the other incredible dishes we had that night because I'm so so so tired right now =(

Looking forward to the next meal, people.. provided it doesn't clash with my project meetings.. oh, wait.. maybe I do want them to clash so I can cabut and lari from all the crazy-ass meetings I've been having lately..

Beddy bye time in the lecture hall..

2009-03-01T22:34:00.003Z

Need I say more.. it's called Sleeping 101...

Steph Yen and Ken.

Jerry

Prasanna

Michael

Just another day in Bioeng lectures...

Happy Birthday, Steph Yen (and happy belated birthday to someone else)

2009-03-01T22:22:00.003Z

Haven't blogged for AGES!! Mainly because of work, MNight (which is now over) and friends visiting from Warwick. So a bunch of belated posts are coming up. Firstly, there was Steph Yen's birthday..

The big 2-0..

Yummy tiramisu from Patisserie Valerie..

Speaking of birthdays.. it was my brother's birthday (ugh) two days ago I think. I kinda missed it with all the hustle and bustle (not on purpose contrary to popular belief). Texted my mom to help me wish him but she didn't reply me.. Sighz.. Time to buy belated birthday card...

LOTDance

2009-02-23T21:21:00.004Z

Anyone remember the time I did a speech/ presentation about Michael Flatley?? It was back in Form 4 if I'm not mistaken.. This is THE man responsible for Riverdance, Feet of Flames and Lord of the Dance. I remember I had a January 1991 issue of National Geographic declaring him as a "living treasure".. I say he's the original poser of his time.. take a look at his posters.. damn cool lar..

SOOOO.. I actually wanted to watch Riverdance last Saturday because it was on its farewell tour in London.. but it clashed with many things and it was too late to book the tickets (this was about a month ago I think). Anyway, I figured it's ok since I watched it before in.. KL or Singapore.. I can't remember..

NOW, I wanna watch Lord of the Dance which is showing on May 22. The thing is my exams might not be over yet.. Then again, it's on a Friday.. and I found 2 tickets for really really really good seats at really really really good prices. The thing is... I can't make up my mind la... and who would go with me?? Actually, I did ask a friend but no confirmation yet.. how to concentrate on work like this???

No more chicken rice!!!

2009-02-23T21:13:00.002Z

Last Saturday night/ Sunday morning is the last time I'm cooking chicken rice for a long, long, LONG time. It took Khai Ming and I the entire soundtrack of Les Miserables and half of Lion King to prepare all the ingredients below:

That's ginger, chillies, garlic, cucumber and spring onions.

Not funny, man!! My whole body ached after standing for so long just chopping and chopping and chopping... It felt like we were never EVER gonna finish.. Don't you dare say it doesn't look like much. You try preparing food for 50 people.. 40 + 10 = 50 f.y.i.

The chicken rice looked exactly the same as the week before so no point showing photos. As if tiada quality control this time round because we cooked the rice 5 times and each time was different.. either too oily, not oily enough or not enough ginger etc etc..

I swear my flat still smelt like chicken rice this morning.. ugh.. won't be making that particular dish for a while...

V-day and chicken rice

2009-02-15T06:18:00.003Z

Happy belated Valentine's Day, all. Sadly, both my housemates are gone: one off to her boyfriend in Swansea and the other to Coventry to meet friends. Well.. all that matters is that I'm happily single and I joined the Hyde Park Relay on V-day. I almost died!! 5.1km in 28 minutes.. I didn't really train much because, like I said, I've been busy with coursework all week. Also, I finished most of the CNY goodies from my mom *fatty*

4th runner of the 99th team.

After that, I was busy busy busy cooking. Thank goodness for Voon Yuan, Brian and Tian Siong!! I've no idea how I would've managed cooking enough chicken rice for 40 people without them!!!! That's 20 cups of rice and 4 whole chickens!!! Do you have any idea how much garlic and ginger I chopped??!!! Not to mention the number of times we had to boil the chicken and cook the rice!! OMG.. how (and why) do I always get myself into this kinda situations..

The most authentic homemade chicken rice garnished with cucumber and coriander (yuck.. don't like this but my friends insisted on putting it).

That's right.. 40 packs of chicken rice..

Packed into boxes and ready to go for MNight rehearsals..

Never again.. should have never volunteered to help out in welfare. It's crazy.. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I'm still up at this ghastly hour of about 6.30am now..

Post Chap Goh Mei

2009-02-15T05:49:00.003Z

Steph finished her exams after Chap Goh Mei so we all had a Kuching dinner together at the Korean restaurant Arang in Picadilly Circus.. Ben was like.. why not Four Seasons??!! Honestly, the duck is good but there's only so much duck one can eat.. Unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures.. but when we all parted ways to go back, Shih Yang, Ben and I came across this interesting looking car which reminded us of Bernie for some reason.. Ya think?

Bernie's not so wild night out in London

2009-02-15T05:36:00.003Z

Ok.. super late post here.. only because I've been so busy with coursework and TRYING to catch up with work (fail!!). What has happened since my last post... Bernie has come and gone, I've discovered the wonders of caffeine and... hmmm.. a bit hard to think considering it's almost 6am now. Bleh..

Anyway, some photos from Bernie's not so wild night out..

Chilling at Yates after getting turned away from Voulezvous.

With Kok Ming, happening person this guy =P

Cocktails: a Mojito and a Cosmo.

It's good to hang out with old friends *grinz*

Come back to London sometime soon, Berps.. you know you'll have a good time =)

Les Miserables

2009-02-06T01:37:00.003Z

Les Miserables is a damn good show. In fact, I'm listening to the soundtrack while doing an assignment now.. last minute assignment la.. just found out yesterday afternoon it's supposed to be handed in today. That's why I'm still awake. Bleh.

Anyway, as I was saying about Les Mis... It's seriously very good. Omg.. when little Cossete sings "Castle on a Cloud", my heart just melted and tears ran down my eyes.. Somemore Bernie still say it wasn't tragic enough. How much more tragic can it be?? It's sad enough as it is la T_T

Illegal photo inside Queens Theatre.

Bleh.. kena caught by security after taking this photo.

The Company of Wolves

2009-02-03T23:38:00.005Z

Little girls, it seems to say

Never stop upon your way

Never trust a stranger friend

No one knows how it will end

As you're pretty, so be wise

Wolves may lurk in every guise

Now as then 'tis simple truth

Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth

Let it snow!!

2009-02-03T22:55:00.009Z

Waddya know.. it snowed on Sunday.. nearly froze to death in Trafalgar Square that morning.. so much for watching the CNY festivities. It snowed so much that we were playing in the snow outside Chamberlain at 12 midnight.. siaw.. still wake up to go uni at 9am..

Bioeng snowfight while awaiting word on whether lectures would be cancelled on Day 1..

I'm dreaming of a white CNY in Hyde Park *trails off*

Sitting atop one of the many snowballs (and snowmen) in Hyde Park.. picture courtesy of Stefan!

Free day today again. Unfortunately, everything's back to normal tomorrow. On a brighter note, gonna be going on a musical frenzy this week:

Les Miserables on Wednesday with Bernie and Yichieh..

& Sound of Music on Thursday with Stella and Yun Mei.

Tourist in London

2009-02-01T01:21:00.007Z

Like I said before, Bernie's in London.. Met up with him on Friday after he got lost in the Natural History Museum. Haha.. He seemed to like my uni.. considering the kind of fees I'm paying...

We had kebabs for dinner.. Then Shih Yang came along and we went for gelato at Oddono's and frozen yogurt at Snog..

Today was crazy.. we went to so many places:

Portobello Market.. with Stella and Shih Yang.. loved the cupcakes from Hummingbird Bakery.

King's Cross Station.. Not as glamorous as in the Harry Potter books/ movies but still pretty cool..

There was also the market in Camden Town. It was down to Stella, Bernie and I by now. It was pretty cool but the most interesting part was this shop called Cyberdog which sold super funky stuff. Think gothic like Marilyn Manson and futuristic like the Jetsons..

Hung out at Stella's place in Canada Water. Amy arrived in time to help cook *cough*burn the garlic*cough* dinner.. haha.. joking only Amy. I KO-ed on the couch soon after while they camwhored in Stella's room.. tired mar.. what to do..

In any case, I trust Bernie has tons of pictures to share so I won't bother. I need to zzz.. gonna brave the crowds in Chinatown to catch a glimpse of the lion dance and other CNY festivities in a matter of hours. Wish us luck..

CNY goodies!!

2009-01-31T01:26:00.006Z

Before I call it a night.. Here's some of the stuff my friends and I baked for CNY:

Michael taking photo of our peanut cookies.. the dark ones were made in the first round while the lighter ones were from the second round. Strangely enough, people seemed to like the slightly blackened ones though.

Pineapple tarts fresh from the oven.. couldn't fit enough jam into the tarts and the tarts kept tearing.. turned out so so lar.. no match for the stuff my mom bought from Aloha bakery back home..

Top: crispy white thingy with pork floss in it and fried ikan bilis.

Bottom: sunflower seed cookies, peanut cookies and pineapple tarts.

Kuih kapit

Bak-kua and pork floss also got.

No wonder la.. when I went to the gym on Wednesday, every step I jogged, every stomach crunch I did... I could feel every single cookie I ate through out the week.. tsk tsk... =S

You are not alone...

2009-01-31T01:14:00.004Z

As expected, I fell asleep like the dead in class only to have Voon Yuan hit my head countless times like it was a drum or something.. still.. things looked up during the Maths study group at the end of the day. Muahahaha... Looks to me I'm not the only who mastered the art of sleeping in class!! Introducing.. Ken!!!

Screw sleep

2009-01-30T04:25:00.007Z

That's right.. screw sleep.. with less than 5 hours til the Solid Mechanics lecture, there ain't no point in sleeping anymore is there.. coz if I do sleep, I'm so not gonna get up in time.. I've been snoozing the alarm all week. Scratch that. My alarm doesn't have the snooze function. That means I've been turning off my alarm and oversleeping all week! This will have to keep me awake in class:

Somehow, I think things are gonna take a turn in this direction:

Back from the dead

2009-01-30T02:36:00.001Z

Ok.. I've decided to bring my blog "back from the dead" as the title says..

It's almost 3am now and I'm not asleep. I've screwed up my feeding and sleeping times. I can't do the calculations for my damn-ed project. There's some Maths test coming up soon. I'm sleeping in lectures. I'm going crazy... EMO

On a brighter note, Bernie's in London and we're gonna go out and have fun this weekend!! Visit the markets, do some visiting, CNY festivities on Sunday, maybe a musical =) Yay!! Yet another Lodgian reunion!!

Just because I have this sudden inspiration to blog... I just feel like mentioning a bunch of quotes I came across:

"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten." - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet.

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." - Samuel Johnson, he wrote a freakin' dictionary of the English language!!

"Hold a true friend with both hands." - Nigerian proverb.

The first one, I came across randomly.. the second and third, I read in books. And just for the fun of it, here's a fourth:

"To know the light, you must see the dark." - So obviously from Star Wars!!