where am i?

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taking a verrrryyyy long break~

Life Continues in Clarksville

Okay, so I haven't been updating my blog regularly! Besides being caught up in doing my work, catching up on whatever sleep I can get, or turning friggin 20, i've been spending my time being addicted to Grey's Anatomy, which by the way, i just finished all the episodes i got..and now, i'm bone-dry on GA! =(

Beginning with what I could not celebrate with my family..or friends.. or anybody i truly wanted to celebrate with..

CHINESE NEW YEAR '08!

(not that i didn't like celebrating with my new found malaysians..but they could not gimme ang pau also..cis)

As usual, we cooked what we hopefully wished was a good version of chinese food.. Alicia and i (yes! i did cook..stop thinking i pushed it all to alicia!) cooked Hainanese chicken rice! seriously! Other than the food, there wasn't much to it..

and then came Valentine's day..and surprisingly..I got alot of gifts *blushes* ~ but most of em' from friends.. o well~ I get what i can!

Be jealous~ be very jealous

Blablabla.. in between was tons of exams and papers.. ..and life continues..

My New Guitar!

My Poster on one of my speeches... Lol cool topic huh

Ah....& then, there was the turning of the big "2" "0".. damn.. I didn't really expect anything on that day..seeing as it was on a wednesday..and i kinda was all upset over ending my teenhood (although in mind, i'm far more matured).. LoL! I spent most of my time watching grey's anatomy, and amazingly, i didn't get any homework that day..honestly! I didn't have to do anything that day!

Around 9 sumthin..alicia asked me to follow her to the library to print out some stuff..and i did.. waddya know.. Surprise party!

Wanted to stab the cake... stoopid alicia..didn't need to emphasize the age!

My weirdest present! Two catfishes and 3 shrimps (one died already)..

Finally.. there was the Snow day on Friday (7th march!) ..ahaha school got called off...and a bunch of us went shopping (not me obviously) with a lovely 1 1/2 hr drive each way! lol! O..and I found out today that the opposition team against BN won some states, which i'm guessing is pretty good huh ;) w00t! Go DAP!

ALSO! I just lost an hour... to Daylight savings...crapz.. less time to enjoy my long weekend...sheesh.. which means, for all of you back home... that we are only 13 hours apart! not 14 anymore!

Well.. ciaoz =P

More pictures posted in my multiply site (mommy, click here!)

Reminiscing

Since i hadn't blogged since I got back after Summer'07, I decided to leave a trail of pictures to tell of my journey since then (although i dun have pictures while i was in Mlsia)! Bwahahaha~ Enjoy~

AFTER THE SUMMER:

Amy and I chilling on the way to Louisiana (to see alicia at work!)~

The Coney Dog served at Sonic! MMMMmmmm (explains my current physical state)


At the lake~

Bunch of animals!

My, Oh my! Read in between the lines

How we celebrated Independence day for Malaysia!

RoAr! Yea..at one of the mlsian gatherings

El-Parian night! (Free mexican food from the Uni)

Thanksgiving at Dustin's! Super awesome food!

Nearing to finals = finding excuses to not study!

ON THE WAY BACK in DEC! (haihhhh)

Bunch of asians waiting at San Fran airport to go to HK!

AFTER THE WINTER HOLIDAYS:

Back in US = COLDDDDD!!! and missing home =(

While it was snowing, we stayed in completing our.. MASTERPIECE!

Kacangian Revival!!!

Yeah, haven't exactly been updating my blog~

Anyway, I don't have much to write about, onli some stuff about yesterday!

BINGO NIGHT:

CAB (Campus Activities Board) held Bingo Night last night, which is held every semester i think! Anyway, I didn't win anything last semester, sad but true.. AND TRUST ME, if you saw the prizes sometimes, you will WANT to win! Screw the others! Some of the prizes are like brand new television sets, DVD players with surround sound systems, DVDs, 24 pack soft drink, new comforters, $15-$20 giftcards, etc..!

So, last night I won a DVD called nanny *something* starring scarlet johanson, but since i wasn't really into it, I swapped it with one of the other winners for a $20 pizza hut giftcard! WOOHOO!!! Which happened to be used for my dinner tonight! haha!

Gift Card

Not many people were there, thats probably why I won something in the first place...

ABOUT ME NOW:
I gain a friggin alot of weight! *sigh!*


Homework is killing me (as usual).. but the fun part of doing projects is:

HaHa! It was for a World Civilization class; choose a commodity, and trace its origins.. AND i had alicia in my group..which explains the choice of commodity.. LoL!!

Other than that, papers, exams, so on and so forth..

WEATHER:

FREAKING COLD! It snowed recently, not really long tho... the lowest the temperature ever got to was negative 6 celsius.. So my mom would be happy to know that i finally used the Long Johns she got me..just the pants tho.. haha! I do not know how the northern parts of the world can stand it!

Once, alicia, kristina, amy, and i had to go to Fort Smith (a city about an hour and a half away), and it got REAL slippery on a hill.. alicia lost control of her car! really..we were going like less than 10 miles per hour (16 km/h) already..but the back part of the car kept swaying! long story short, a car got turned over...but not alicia's.. some truck fell into a ditch~


Thats about it lah! Gonna leave some pictures~


MY ROOM:

Alicia's Desk/Room

Our living room~

My staircase to Heaven~

My haven for social isolation

My new iSound! Bought it during Black Friday (day after thanksgiving)!

My new phone!

MY CAR:

My baby 2000 Nissan Sentra GXE

Ok.. I'm done so far! More pics later ler~

Full Moon in Singapore

Yup, we survived the Singpore trip without MUCH planning (especially transportation)! Unfortunately though, my cousins were too nice..they offered to send us practically everywhere and they kept on feeding us!!! I'm telling you, I had a bloated stomach throughout the whole trip! So it wasn't really an independent trip... but we tried rite? =P

Weirdos on the bus

What i was sleeping next too..... scary!!

The first day wasn't really much to brag about... By the time we reached Lavender Street (our bus stops there) it was in the late afternoon! And we got lost! Our phones couldn't call out, and it was like NO one in singapore knew their own country code (i was so..WTH!). Finally, thanks to some cab driver and his "accurate" directions (rite..turn left my arse) we found our way to my cousin's place!

Our first meal (Singapore Duck Rice)

And from all the rumors i've been hearing from my relatives, the house IS really like in those magazines! Totally stylish, sleek and duh..mansion-looking!

***I won't post up specific pictures of the house and the address for security reasons****


Hokei, places we went included:
a) Shopping areas

- Orchard Rd

- Vivo City

- Raffles City

- Bugis


b) Suburban areas

- Holland Village


The best part is.... the Shopping we did: NONE (hahahaha!)

Orchard Road

HaHa! Immature me..

Us..lepaking in Vivo City

Yup, every kids' dream to get a half-naked Sin Chan

Anyway, thanks to the ever-welcomed rain... Sentosa island got kicked off the list (brutally).

Bye bye sentosa!

We did alot of eating though... like i mentioned before. My cousin's wife even put out snacks for us at night!!

surprisingly though, we didn't finish it!

This is just breakfast man!

Oh, I wouldn't say that this trip didn't bring me some benefits~ I got to spend time with friends, my nephews and niece (they are little devils!), and drink my first ever cocktail (it wasn't just one!)!!

My cousin treating us to a seafood buffet (chilli crabs)!

My first-ever Cosmopolitan

Martini Paradise they called it!

I'll definitely bring this memory over to the states, which is ... NEXT SUNDAY! I'm screwed! It was so shocking to find out I have so little time left...feel like just chaining myself up to my room and go on a hunger strike!! *takes a long long looooooooooonggggg sigh*

Stoopid sign brought me back to reality

(For more pictures, head over to my multiply site!)

Blue skies~ Nothing but Blue Skies!~

Let's see,

I called Expedia.com using Skype (it was suppose to be a toll-free number) to see whether I can change my flight date. Blardy buggers, took away Euro $2.00 from my Skype credit and I'm still stuck with the same flight! Bah! I tried all the dates, 13th to the 20th! None of them had any Air India flights except on the 14th... which by the way, would have brought an extra charge of U$3000 for a one way ticket! Wuttha! So, 45 mins and a failed-American-accent later, I gave up and told the young-cute-voice girl (in the most pityful and disappointed manner possible) that I guess I had no other choice but to fly with Air India on the 12th and survive through the 11-hour transit from Los Angeles to Houston! ARGH!

You just wait and see...

Also, I've been planning the routes and transport in Singapore to save time from getting lost. What I learned from my "planning", is that I would make a horrible tour guide. I give up! I am now putting my hopes on my two Malaysian-yet-Singaporean-frequentters friends of mine! PLan plan plan plan! Plan where to eat, visit, eat, play, eat, shop, eat, shop...etc...eat!



Today:

Ben had an urge for KFC since forever, so he sms-ed Joel and Harold like at 4 in the morning?! LoL! Anyway, we went for lunch (DUH! KFC!) and had a good time spoiling Harry Potter for Harold! HaHa! I really really tried my best to speak "code", but Joel and Ben couldn't be bothered, so...Wot the Heck lah! (gg!) Poor Korea-boi... no need to read already~ heheh



Unfortunately for me, I was with guys who could only think about computer games. So, DOTA was inevitable. O well, it wasn't like I had anything else to do...



FYI: I'm kind of sick... A runny nose and sore throat = soon-to-be fever! Gosh..sick!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"Neither can live while the other survives..."

Harry Potter is at an end! After waiting several years for the final book to be within my grasp, I cannot help but feel abit (Just abit, mind you!) aimless! What other book do I have to patiently wait for, to keep my mind running rather than just focus on the "muggle" world around me?! Nah, I'm not obsessed about Harry Potter, but I certainly do feel sad there will be no more tales of magic from the awesome author, J.K. Rowling.

The Deathly Hallows is, without a doubt, a book you cannot put down until you have read its contents thoroughly. (Maybe I'm abit blinded to the fact that I have been waiting for this book since forever!). I can't really say much, seeing as many people haven't read the book yet, but I can tell you, it's totally not what was expected! The idiotic rumours that people spread around kind of sets you off guard about what really happens, so it'll actually maybe benefit you or just confuse you further (like it did me).

I open at the close; "I am about to die"

One thing that really touched a nerve on the day I was suppose to be enjoying my book, was the daring stunt pulled by Tesco and Carrefour. How is it possible that previous Harry Potter books (e.g. The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Pheonix, The Half-Blood Prince) are more expensive than the FINAL book?! How could they set a price, lower than the MAJOR book sellers like MPH and Popular, without properly notifying the public (a few advertisments a few days/weeks before is not counted!) seeing as MPH has been taking pre-orders since GOSH-knows when! I don't really care about the fact I paid RM39.00 extra buying from MPH, but it's the audicity of having the grand opening of the most-awaited book sold at a price and at places that just does not seem right! Good then, for those people who are typical asians of wanting to hold on to every single penny and not see the bigger picture of anything except the "bargain" they had just accomplished.

Earlier, Penguin managing director Eddy Teo urged the hypermarkets to practise good business sense and fair trade.
“The public must understand that bookstores don’t make much profit because their source of income is only books while the range is diversified for hypermarkets,” he said.

*** Taken from an article from The Star***

However, MPH and the other bookshops made a mistake of taking the Deathly Hallows of the shelves because customers (who did not pre-order) had no other choice but to resort to buy from those defiling booths that have the RM69.90 posters plastered basically everywhere. Good to know, that MPH and the other bookshops have finally stopped their boycott though!

Alas, for those individuals that just don't see the reason of wanting to buy any Harry Potter book because of stupid excuses like "You're just making J.K. Rowling richer!", I am appreciative of good and creative work. If YOU had written a book that took all your blood and tears, that you had to constantly focus on for years, creating backgrounds, plots, themes and characters from nothing BUT scratch, and at the end of it, not be paid...how the effing would you feel?! DUH, so what if she's the richest author in the world! So what if she's laughing in our faces as we line up with money in our hands to purchase her books! It's not like we're just handing over our hard-earned cash to her you know!

LoL This is a pretty long post on just a book... But it's a good way to let-slip my opinions without people telling me to shut up about Harry Potter haha!

Singapore singapore singapore Singapore singapore singapore is still on! w00t! Hoping it will be an awesome trip, and a trip that I could hold on in dear memory while I'm stuck in the States. *Sobs* a few weeks left.. hating the knowledge of having to return to packed rooms and shared-toilets.

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"