The birth of Xiu Wei.

This post is dedicated to my niece, the new born baby girl who arrived to this world only this morning. Not quite sure about the accurate time, 'cause I wasn't there with my sister, brother-in-law and stepmom. Actually, I was still sleeping at home. They did try to call me to tag along, but they failed to wake me up in the early morning. Sigh. How could I miss the whole process? Nevertheless, visited my sister at about 3.00p.m. She looked exhausted. But I was content to see the smile on her face. All the hard work for the past 10 months paid off. Her baby is a lovely angel. Congratulations to both my sister and brother-in-law. May God bless each and everyone of us living under the same roof. By the way, if you guyz are wondering about her name, she doesn't have one yet. Hehe...

She's amazingly adorable!

P/S: Update on trip to Genting will be done when I'm free. Been a bit busy lately.

Back to school....

Gosh, long time no see mates. By the way I'm sure you people have noticed that there is a small self pic at the left of this post. Yeap, exactly like my previous blog, I'll continue with my philosophy "a self-pic a day keeps the monkey around all the way---". However, this time around, the actual size of the picture can only be viewed if there are to be any special requests.

Fortune-telling

It is the first time I get my readings directly from a professional fortune teller all the way from Singapore. She was here appointed by my mom's friends, and had some time to spare with me for 2 lunches in Chilli Padi, Kuchai Lama. Touching a bit on that "cafe & cuisine", there are a few scrumptious delicacies. For instance, one should try the deep fried lobster salad, the fish head tom yam and the nasi lemak. On top of those, their fried chicken is absolutely crispy!

Enough of that, I'm gonna talk about my reading now. Well firstly, she commented on my hair telling my mom that it should be shorter for my own good. I will never take that advice, as I think my hair is short enough already. According to the chinese culture, guys should clearly show their foreheads so that luck is on their side I think. Sadly, I'm not superstitious enough to subcribe to that view. Moving on, she then commented on the moles on my face and ordered me to go for mole removal. Apparently, it seems that particular mole on my face will carry bad luck to me and my family in the future. It is reasonable to remove it, although I don't believe in that. What I'm concern is that, without the mole, I might look better???

After that, we talked and talked and then my mom touched on a sensitive issue, which is marriage. She is so eager to find out when will I get married. Not so young, mom. Even the fortune teller told her not to worry about this because I'm still an adolescent (although 2006 will be my last year being one). She said at this point of my life, completing my studies is a priority. Most probably my mom's a bit worried 'cause until today I have not found myself a girlfriend yet. To counter that, the FT told her that as long as I'm brave enough to say 'hello' to my unimates, it will be rather easy for me to get one. Hmm, let's see about that. I ain't the sociable type, everyone knows. Besides, I love being around my bitches. It's more comfortable that way. Okay, that's just a small part of what she told my mom, and so far what I know. I bet she told a lot of other things to her, which is left unknown to me.

I.U. Day 06 - SSG, Saturday, July 01

Nothing much to say about this one. Was really thrilled to meet back some of my old former schoolmates and teachers. They include:
1) Ms. Khoo - The first person Kel and I met when we reached SSG. She's still looking young and definitely still a good economics teacher. Indeed, the best I'd ever had! Thank you Ms. Khoo.
2) Pn. Rossinah, En. Zul and En. Jeffrey - Those are my primary teachers for science, malay language and music. I miss the times when I used to be really, really young.
3) Pn. Rokiah - My BM teacher back in Form 5! She has never changed since the day I left school! Aw... suddenly I miss the times when she used to char me in class. I can still remember the beg that was up for bidding...
4) Pn. Munap - It was cool to bump into her in the Food Fiesta area. When I meant bumped, I really bumped into her by surprise. Damn, how nice if she still teaches me sports. She's a great teacher and has lots to teach.
5) Pn. Dina - One of my favorite teacher for Mathematics. She made me love that subject even more. Arigatou!
6) Friends - There are too many to be fully mentioned here! My ass is lazy!

Cheer 2006 - Stadium Putra, Sunday, July 02

Champion: Titans
1st Runner-Up: Dynamitez
2nd Runner-Up: Sellors
Best Sportsmanship: Blitzers
Best Costume: Adele
Best Merit: Xavier

Was there with Kel, Ju and Amb from 10.00a.m. to roughly 5.00p.m. A freaking 7 hours long event. At times, some of the teams failed to entertain, but a few did spice the atmosphere up. The listed teams above are the examples. Other than that, Queenz, as a new comer wasn't entirely bad, and was rather good. The team even scored higher than their sister, Shewanaz. Then, I think the Stunners was great too! Go Kimberley! Haha. It was definitely a devastating day for both Shirtliff and Xavier. After the close competitions between both participating teams, it seems that the underdogs won the spotlight today. Sellors was great, Dynamitez did their best although there was a slight malfunction, and Titans was almost perfect compared to others. Other performances of the day includes special guest star performance by Daniel Lee, the Malaysian Idol for 2nd season and a moment for the All Stars, Charm, a cheerleading team for those above 18 of age. What a tiring day it was.

Football

Okay I love World Cup this year. My predictions came true. All European teams advanced to the next round. I was flattered to see the Germans kicking the Argentinians' asses. It is true that the game was manipulated and all, but heck, Germany won, and I don't give a damn about being fair. Later on, Ukraine ost to Italy. That's predictable, right? Then, the disappointment continues for the supporters of England and Brazil. England has been a favorite amongst the Malaysians, guess the match yesterday delivered devastation to all of 'em as they lost to Portugal during the penalties. Nevertheless, the biggest fiasco was the match at 3 o'clock in the morning. Finally, Brazil, the overrated team was defeated by France by a margin of 1 score. Cool! When I checked the results this morning, I couldn't be more than just joyful. At last, there is a start of something new. Yeah!

Transformation.

WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGES

Since there isn't much to do today, I went to have a haircut. Besides, my hair has been out of shape for quite some time, and a bit too long until the fringe annoyed me at the eyes area. So, I decided to go to Times Square to have my hair done. And here's the process, as explained by pictures.

BEFORE

First time cam-whoring in the car alone! I hope nobody saw me doing it, cause it's way too embarassing.


Look!! It's one of the cutest monkey that I have. Bought this the other day. Kawaii-ne~


Alright, fixed my hair a little for a better shot before the transformation process started.

THE PROCESS

Of course I didn't take pictures when the stylist was cutting my hair. Who would do that. But there are 2 procedures that I'm allowed to do so, hiddenly of course.

Here, it is showing the coloring process...


And here, time for treatment babe!

THE RESULT

TA-da! The new lala monkey!

I was so tired after that. The whole process took me about 3 hours!!! I didn't have lunch before going, which I regretted doing so 'cause I was extremely hungry after that!

BACK AT HOME
Another 2 pictures for the day... hehe...

HANGOUT WITH PEEPS (AGAIN)
Was out with Orang Utan, King Kong, Cow and Bitchy Bitch. We went to pasar malam and Halo Cafe. It was really fun to hangout with 'em. We had so much joy insulting each other as usual, and singing along to Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On and Paris Hilton's Star Are Blind (ARRRRRGGHH).

Friends and games.

All about hanging out with friends & games:

1. Friday, 23rd June 2006. For the first time this year, Fantastic Four, made up of Monkey, Donkey, Piggy, and King Kong had an outing together during the holidays. Not to forget, Kelly (the orang utan), Derrick (piggy's cuddle) and Amber (the cow) were there too. Venue: Yuenz steamboat. I've been there many, many times since I was intorduced to the shop. The food there is average, but the ice cream and the bbq chicken are irresistably luscious! The service is fairly good. And the price is reasonable. To the readers, check the shop out. (Sorry, I don't know the address...)

Well we had so much fun in there. Criticism and sarcasm is our best tool to communicate with each other to produce jokes, puns and burns. It has been a long time since all of us sat down and talk things other than university related topics and issues. Anyway, after an hour or so, we saw a group of Taylorians coming in. The King was the first to notice, and then all in a sudden everyone was looking at their table. How embarrassing ti was if they were to turn and look at us staring at 'em.

Anyway, after the dinner, we headed to Asia Cafe for pool and foosball. All I gotta say is, it was a night when Monkey challenged the Cow in both games! First up, it was pool! After winning the first round (cause she entered the black ball at the wrong time), I had a losing streak of... one! After that, I succeeded cracking her head in the game! Too bad! Haha... Then, it was time for foosball. Both of us are newbies, but was tutored (shortly) by the intermediate player, Helena a.k.a. Piggy. Slowly, I was able to master the beginner tactics in order to win. And guess what, with Piggy's help, I succeeded! It was a close call, as there was little difference in score. Then, we played another 2 or 3 matches, and I never lost. Well well... could it be luck?? (P.S. external locus of control?!) Soon, everyone made their ways home and that's when the fun stopped.

2. Saturday, 24th June 2006. Venue: Station 1, Cheras. Attendants: Zheng Hong, "unknown gyal", Zero, NN, King Kong, Cow, Monkey, Orang Utan, Sab, Jess, Eric (shark). It was sorta a gathering for Zheng Hong or Scott, who is temporarily back from Australia for his holidays. Let's talk about the food and the ambience at the place first. French fries = average, buffalo fries = great, drinks = fairly good, fried sotong = absolutely crispy, overall 3/5. Since it's football fever, there's nothing much to say about the ambience. Just prepare for noise.

Game #1: CHEAT. An interesting that tests honesty, acting skills, friendship and bonds between bitches. Wahaha. Noothing much to say, as we only played twice since everyone got fed up with cheating. But it was cool to find out that King Kong was cheating. It's just somewhat difficult for her to cheat with me around. Lol.

Game #2: CHOR DI (I have no idea of what it is called in English). A classic game. The Lees seemed to be the winner of the game. Jess won, followed by King Kong, then by Monkey. What can I say, the Lee family roxx in that game.

Game #3: GO FISH? It's wrong to call the game go fish I think as the traditional way the game is carried out is totally different from the way we played. Anyway, there seems to be a favored loser of the game >> "Loh-ho", or translated as old whore (you know who you are!). We cheated a little here, and the "we" here refers to Cow, Orang Utan, Monkey and Sab. It was really fun. Everyone played in the end, making the deck of cards grew from 51 to 103, and the number of playes soared from 6 to 11. Loved the game.

Sidekick: GERMANY VS SWEDEN - the match which was on during the hang out session. It was great to see Germany scoring 2 early goals which settled them into the quarter-finals of World Cup '06. Bravo! Way to go! I hope to see 'em in the finals actually. Hope Brasil will lose some time soon. They are overrated for quite some time, and to seeing 'em losing is great happiness.

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Music updates: Jessica Simpson released her new single called Public Affair that cause controversy as it sounded like Madonna's popular track, Holiday (source). Personally, I think the background tune of both tracks are similar. Nevertheless, both will make a great summer hit then and now.

Movie updates: Adam Sandler's latest offer called Click was released during the past week, and it entered the US box office at no.1 (source). I would love to catch that movie some time soon with my bitches. In Malaysia, Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift seems to be Malaysian's favorite at the moment for it is the #1 movie in GSC (15 June 2006-21 June 2006).

14 hours in Redbox Karaoke!

I had been pretty occupied for the past few weeks, so I didn't have time to update this space that I used to go to every now and then before this. But heck, I'm finally back to pen down everything that had happened to me these days.

First up, Valentine's Day. Was invited to Julia's house for a dinner. Felt weird there actually, since it was Valentine's Day, and I should be celebrating with a lover instead. Anyway, great food was served, although I had trouble with the fish bone by accident. After the dinner, it was time for photo session before I left the place for Pandan Indah. Stayed there until 2 something, before heading home again to rest. It was the first time I was in Taman Saga eating mamak that night. The nightview of the whole city was mesmerizing. It's definitely another hotspot for couples to go to.

Since then, nothing much that I can possibly mention here had been happening. So let me just jump to the orientation week for my uni.

The orientation done by Monash University was way better than Taylor's Business School. Why do I say that? Even though the first day was packed with boring speeches that bored me down, 2nd day was able to balance things off with fun and interesting ice breaking games. Frankly, Monash isn't such a bad place afterall. However, there is lack of choices for food and entertainment. Also, lack of a condusive environment for study purposes. The place is also kinda warm compared to TBS, which is over ac-ed at times. At the end of the day, I'm just gonna stay in this campus for another year only, before stepping on the new campus next year. Everything will be new, that's what I'm looking forward too.

Award presentation ceremony that I attended was short and nice. It barely lasted for 2 hours. And I love the prize that was awarded, since they weren't vouchers at all. Kelly was jumped over the moon when she knew what was in the envelope...

Just last week, I was in Redbox for a total 14 hours! On Thursday, Kel, Ju and I was there from 1-8. Well we sang from 1-5, abo was joined by the heng daiz after that. On Friday, my family threw a small advance party for me in Redbox again, from 8-12. Then on Saturday, went to Redbox Sunway to join this farewell party for Anthony who's leaving us soon for Italy on the 18th of March. All the best and good luck! I bet he's gonna do great over there.

After that particular Redbox session, I had to rush home because there's a wedding dinner in Kuala Kubu that I have to go to with my family. Wow, Kuala Kubu is such a far place. Just to travel to and back from there, I took us above 2 hours. The food wasn't great though, some of them... I odn't want to really comment. Well, it was actually my cousin sister's wedding dinner. But, throughout the whole time, we didn't even say hi to each other and I didn't even congratulate her or so. Actually, I don't even know her... Well, I'll just take this opportunity to wish her um... best of luck.

Alright, Uni-Life will officially start tomorrow. Outta here.

Life's a bore.

Orientation for university is approaching, but I still don't quite feel like starting my uni life that quickly. It's only a week left until orientation, and 2 weeks more till the official start of living hell.
Talking about university, there was a course advice session on Wednesday that I had to attend. Was a bit late due to some unforeseen circumstances, but in the end everything went aight. Got to meet back my members of the infamous F4 gang, Steph and two of my best pals, Kel and Jul. As we entered the hall, we noticed that quite a large number of the students present were from Taylors, let it be TCSJ or TBS. Hm, quite a surprise because I was expecting a total new environment in Monash later. After the whole session that lasted for less than half an hour, we went to Sunway for lunch before setting our feet probably for the last time in TBS. Then, headed back to Monash to get my car, before dropping off Kelly in Sunway again. Cool day it was.

Hm, what else had been happening huh. Since the last time updated, I had quite some time to watch a few movies. Saw 3 movies of different genres, while each of them deserve to be appreciated thoroughly, only 2 of em' actually caught my attention for more than 90 percent during the runtime. Firstly, The Descent. Although after reading the reviews and recommendations from my peeps, I wasn't impressed by the movie at all. The only word to describe the movie on a whole would be boring. Boring, boring and boring. Maybe because the ambience at home wasn't right for the movie, so I couldn't really enjoy it. Anyhow, I was too distracted since I was chatting while watching that particular movie. But that shouldn't be the factor that pulled the my ratings for the movie down, which happen to measure to only **.
Boredom soon was killed by a great masterpiece called the 'Cinderella Man'. Even though the starting was a bit draggy, the fights were amazing. The movie was shot beautifully, thumbs up for the director. Besides, the main actor, Russell did a great job in my opinion. Renee on the other hand didn't surprise me with her usual acting in this movie since I expected somethign different from her since I last seen her in 'Chicago'. Nonetheless, the storyline was simple and heart capturing. Bravo. A stellar **** for this type of movie.

Lastly, I bet minority would know about the next movie I watched. It is called 'Are We There Yet'. Fresh faces in the movie would have lessen the potential audience while the title wouldn't have grasped much attention from the public. I certainly think that this movie is a crossover between The Pacifier and The Perfect Man, with new and twisted elements being blended in together as well. The ironic scene of the movie was predictable, and would disappoint audience with 'great' minds. Wholly, I view it as a heart warming family picture that would make a business in the home market, but maybe not the big screens. Overall, it falls into the *** category in my movie database.

Oh yea, talking about university earlier on reminds me of my timetable that has been drafted out by the uni. Basically, I'm not satisfied with it at all. For Christ's sake I would have to attend uni EVERYDAY according to that timetable. Right now, I'm waiting for the allocation to open to students again for changes to be made later on. I'm fine with the schedule from Monday to Wednesday, but on Thursday, there's only 1 class that I have to attend which will last for 2 hours only. Relevant to that, there's only 1 lecture on Friday, but worse still, it's only an hour which is from 8 to 9 in the morning. Damn. I'm not over it yet, as I'm still furious.
There was a small fuss over Grammys on the 8th, and I should take this chance to send my congrats to the following artists who were named winners in their nominated categories this year!!!1) Shakira - Best Latin Alternative/Rock Album2) Kelly Clarkson - Best Pop Album, Best Female Pop Artist3) Beyonce - Best RnB Duet (can't really remember the category for that)
Alright, that's all from me now. Outta here!

CNY 2007

It was a rather busy week that kept me away from making an entry in my blog. Some days were miraculously boring, while the rest were exhilarating at first, before turning exhaustive by the end of the day.

The first few days of CNY were nothing much. Stayed at home all the time, waiting for my relatives and my parents' friends to pay us a visit, or in cantonese, it's simply known as 'pai lin', a tradition that has been passed down to the younger generations for long. While most of the time I will just stay quiet in the living room, fully concentrating on the conversations that was going on, sometimes I will think about the future where I would be doing the same, which is visiting my friends during this festive season in 5, 10 or 20 years time, where we would have been long separated since graduation. It would definitely be the time when we're able to relive the moments of our youth, or the golden times we had in college/uni or so.

On Thursday, I was able to reunite with my friends that I've known since primary. She was the first friend of mine to have a ride on my car. Haha... Had a plesant time with both of them in Mid Valley. We went to the cinema to watch a chinese flick called 'My Kung Fu Sweetheart'. Although the show was 'dumb', I will still give it a ***. Anyway, Cecilia is pretty. With a good characteristics, I think she would make a pretty fantastic girlfriend. After the picture, we spent time shopping around. I got some magz, while they shopped for clothes. It was fun, but it fell short, as Eve had to leave already since her boyfriend was there.

Friday, the 6th day of CNY wasn't exactly boring afterall. Joined Julia and Jess in Joyie's house. Wow, 3 J's. The time in Joyie's house passed very quickly, as we did quite a few things, such as watching her dog having sex with the plushies, and trying on the message chair. After hanging out in her house for a while, we went for late lunch (it was about 3 o'clock at that time) in a curry house near her place (and mine too of course). Then, we headed back to my house instead. Had quite a fun time with 'em around. Overall, I'm just grateful that the day turned out that way, as I wouldn't want to be bored to death just like any other days.

Saturday had to be the most tiring day of all. After playing mahjong the night before (for the first time I won about a hundred and ten), had to wake up early to visit my grandma's house in the afternoon. After 2 hours in my grandma's house, we had to go to my uncle's house which is located a few kilometres away. 10-20 minutes drive is required to reach there I guess. Anyway, in my uncle's house, there was nothing much for us to do, so by then we decided to go to Leisure Mall instead for an hour or so just to fill up the empty slots of our schedule before going to my Aunt's restaurant for dinner.

Right after the dinner, I had to go to Julia's house for her open house. It was my first time driving to her house, and I had doubts about the right ways to her house, but luckily, I made the right turnings successfully. I had a great time at her house, although due to my fatigue that day, I yawned a few times when the atmosphere got all boring. Nevertheless, Julia kept things going, and I just have to thank her for having me there as I was given the chance to know a different side of her. And Tammy and Joyie, both of them are just cool people, very open minded and crazy most of the time.

Now that CNY's coming to an end, all the fun will be gone soon. And of course the plessure of receiving the red pockets will be gone too.

Now for some movie updates, I've seen The Transporter 2 and 40 Year Old Virgin. I wouldn't categorise both movies under the bad section, but both weren't impressive at all. The Transporter 2 was only nice because of the jam packed actions, whereas I give my thumbs-up for 40 year Old Virgin for it's unique concept and idea. However, I liked The Transporter 2 a little bit more as the latter film turned out to be boring occasionally. Overall, I would give ***1/4 to TT2 and *** to 40YOV.

There are a few things that struck my mind these days. I just realised that I can't communicate well with each and every one, unless we share the same characteristics or interests. I just envy those who can bring themselves around well, ya know... those social elites. So strangers, boredom is definitely written on my face. No matter how many times I tried to be friendly to someone that I just met, I would normally fail miserably. My jokes or humor wouldn't work at all. I gess its time for me to get a book or two from MPH on that issue. :)