Bits of Life

When Typhoon 18 Comes..

2009-10-09T20:49:00.004+08:00

Everyone get to stay at home and no need to go for classes! yey~ *get slapped*
So being a good girl, I stayed indoors throughout the morning when the typhoon come passing by. I won't dare to go out in case some flying roof tiles hit me or some tree branch come crashing on me. You'd never know how lucky I am on this kind of things..

So I stared at the strong wind swaying and rocking the trees from my window, of which the tightly locked glass was clattering like it's gonna break off any minute. Here's the view from my window, though it's kinda hard to see if the tree's were swaying or not.

But then you can see the effects of the tremendously strong wind on the tree branches here.
See? that thick branch was broken off the tree. What if it hit me when it was torn off? Scary..

Luckily the buildings are all intact. The big bad wolf can't blow away the concrete house!

But sadly if you look closely, some other things got blown off their position.

Yup. the bicycles all look damn pityful..

Even mine fell to the side due to domino effect, under the bicycle shelter, which is at bottom left of the picture. That's me in the reflection with GACC shirt XD I took the pictures indoors so don't mind it :p

Then when it's about noon, the typhoon was said to have pass over to the tohoku area, which is in the north so it should be safe to go out. So I went over to my lab to set up my desktop (provided by the lab woot!) using Ubuntu. It took me very long cos after setting up the pc, me and my tutor found out that the DVD drive slot just won't budge.. So in the end I have to set up another one with working DVD drive. It's only pentium 4 my goodness.. oh well. Not that I'm complaining.

So after much frustration, I managed to set up half of the settings needed, and then a lab mate of mine, who's a really nice japanese girl showed me the best scene ever during sunset! we went to the roof top and saw this amazing view of Mt. Fuji!!
Isn't it cool? I din expect to see it from here, but she told me that it's only about 200km away so it can be seen when the clouds are gone, thanks to typhoon 18!

And here's the Mt. Fuji with the huge ass antenna dish on the left which is always revolving.

My frustration was blown off completely thanks to this beautiful scenery. Really hope to be able to go climb Mt. Fuji someday!

And so this is the end of the report on typhoon 18!

HELLO JAPAN!!

2009-10-05T18:30:00.007+08:00

Hello everyone! I've safely arrived in narita airport on 3rd of October (Friday) 7 o'clock in the morning. All of us went our separate ways in the airport too quickly before a group picture can be taken. Anyhow wish all of us will enjoy our new adventure in Japan!

GuangYi, Eka (a new friend from Indonesia who's in the teacher's program) and I were then guided all the way to Tsukuba University by the uni's agents. Thanks to Ms. Matsumi at the airport for purchasing bus ticket to Tsukuba Center, and Ms Yuriko and Ms Ayumi for hailing taxi for us to get to the university dormitory, we were able to reach our destinations respectively before 12pm.

Then Yik Chia, a fellow Malaysian Mext Scholar who came to Japan in April helped me to do registration for my dormitory. My room is on the 4th floor and we carried my 40+kg luggages up by stairs.. But that's nothing compared to when I saw my room.. It's really like empty, except for a window (no curtain!), table, a swivel chair, a bed and a basin. OMG not even a closet to begin with.. So being too tired to care, we just dumped everything into my room and think about the things I need to buy later. damn pek chek (exasperated) I tell you.

But the worse is yet to come. It's raining and i was drenched on the way to the dorm. So I'd think of bathing but then, there's only the public bath available! and it's not open until 5pm! *faint* Luckily Yik Chia let me used her bathroom (damn sad mine does not come with one) and then off we went for lunch.

I'm super grateful that we have Yik Chia and Radzian who brought us to go shop for stuff. There's plenty of convenient shops which are seriously convenient, cos I can get almost everything I need from one place, if i don't want to compare prices. But I do, so we went to several shops to get all the necessary things for basic survival. Here's some pictures for you to see what my room is like.

Do remember that everything besides table, chair, bed and the window is self bought. seen a white pole across the room? well it's used as below.

I don't have a balcony so I have to hang dry my clothes on the pole.

Here's the other end of the room. My LAN cable is connected to the port on top of my door. how greatly "convenient" is that? In the end I had to get another 10M LAN cable cos mine was simply too short for this.

This is where I wash and drink from.

The good thing about my room is that it's clean and has got a nice view over looking the greens and a tennis court, which is too dark to be seen now, though it's just about 6pm when I took the photo.

Well, all in all the dormitory has toilet on all 4 floors (my room's on the highest floor) and has kitchen and washing machine on alternate floors. Best of all, I found that my dormitory block has 2 enclosed shower places! Omg it's like a god bless so I don't need to go naked in front of others. Even if it needs 100 yen for just 10 mins of shower time, I'd go for it even if I'm broke XD

So that's all for now! I'll upload more soon!

*edit* here's my window view at 12pm.

This is the straight out view from my window. the road goes out of campus and there's many convenient shops there. The tennis court is actually blocked by the tree leaves.

The right view. The road ahead (opposite direction of the cyclist) leads to my Dormitory Living Center, where the management office, public bath, some convenient shops are at.

This is the left view. the red/pinkish building is Oikoshi dormitory block 13, right beside mine.

That's all about my room now. I'll be going to do my ALIEN REGISTRATION *I'm not prawn!* later at the city hall so stay tune for pictures!

Time to say...

2009-09-30T14:24:00.003+08:00

Two more days before moving into a new phase of my life. I've been waiting for this ever since completing my last semester in MMU, yearning for time to wind up faster. Yet now that it's just 2 days before departure, I feel nervous over this from head to toe.

So many people I love will be left behind, family, friends, and all the familiarity which I've taken for granted for so long. For the past few months I've been getting closer to my family members, getting updated with my friends and highschool mates, so that I could burn their image in my mind and recall when I'm there.

I'm really thankful to have met good and sincere friends all along the years in highschool and university life. You guys have painted my canvas of life with vivid colors. I won't forget the times we had as classmates, hostelmates, housemates, club and event committees, movie kaki, makan trip kaki, bday party goers, exam crammer and many more. Thank you especially, to Kristine, Loo Mun, Weiyong, Shin Dee, June and William for being there for me always.

But time flies, and there's so little time left when I realized that there's so many things that I could have done for my close friends and family. All I can do now is to pray and hope that people I love dearly will be well and healthy while I'm away.

Even though I'll be venturing into a completely new and strange place, starting over again, like the start of MMU life, just that now it's in a different country all together, please don't worry about me, because I'll be alright with kind people there lending a hand to help me settle down.

I'll be updating once I am connected to the internet. So for now I won't say farewell this time, but see you again soon!!

Under The Roof

2009-09-17T21:24:00.004+08:00

Literally. Have you ever wonder how the space between the ceiling and the roof of your house looks like? When I was a kid, I used to stare up at the ventilation hole and think that if I stare long enough I'd see the monster living up there.

"Boogie man lives up there!!" ...Too bad kids nowadays are too smart for that already, sigh.

Well last Sunday after returning home early from a grocery shopping in Tesco (sadly the only 'in' place with air-con in Taiping) with parents, we decided not to go out anymore due to laziness. So dad decided to fix our telephone line at home. It became problematic when the phone line is connected to the phone upstairs (my house is a double-storey) and disrupts the internet connection without fail. So dad, the super handy-man came to the rescue!

Dad's the coolest when it comes to fixing stuff XD

He went into the master room and slid a piece of the ceiling board off the side and went up the boogie man's hideout. I follow suit, and here's a picture on the way up.

The lamp is so dusty, and everything else too up there.

Once I'm at the top of the ladder, I can't help looking down.

Ooohh.. getting dizzy.. not! haha. I'm not afraid of heights, but more of falling down and kissing the tiles. painful.. *wobble*

So turning my head up away from the scary sight, the arc of the roof came into view.

That's a fluorescent light at the bottom left which my dad installed so that boogieman can't lurk in the dark here.

Walking gingerly on the wood, dad reached the hub of telephone lines and start working on them, basically just rewiring and clamping them up with terminal caps.

I didn't dare to walk up there, knowing my own clumsiness. one wrong step and off i go plundering down to my death. noo way. So I've only taken pictures standing on the ladder.

Here's a wooden support of the roof, with the blue-ish metal thing fixing the wood together.

And this is the water tank. I hope no rats or cockroaches are swimming in there.. nope I'd suppose that's out of the question. *gulps*

And this is the wires connecting to the tv aerial, which is not in use ever since we installed Astro XD

My exploring up there was cut short when dad had wrapped up his work. So we came down safely and successfully have the phone upstairs ringing with the internet connection intact. Mission accomplished!

So that's all about the adventures of exposing the truth behind boogieman's hideout! Now that we are done with that, I feel more insecure knowing rats and cockroaches would easily take boogieman's place up there... >__<

Fixed the 'Read More' function!

2009-09-11T00:19:00.003+08:00

I've had this function where i can hide/show my long-winded grandma story posts in just a click after discovering the javascript to do it last time, but it was malfunctioning somehow since a few weeks ago.

So today after googling for new codes for it, I've got to this page which has what I needed. Delighted, with some more copy-pasting along the way, I managed to get it right again! It seems that the only problem it was not working earlier is that the web hosting of the source code was down.. *Grumble grumble*

Anyway it works now so try it!

Ok. I don't feel so good today and been sitting on the same chair for the whole day staring at the screen trying to fix it. I wanted to do the singapore trip post instead of this actually.. *sigh*

Guess I'll have to keep it for the next post~

Peanut!

2009-09-08T18:55:00.004+08:00

Do you all remember the peanut plant back in my older post? Here's a reminder of how the peanut leaves are.

So last week my uncle had harvested most of them, while I was still in Singapore (will blog about it later!) and left only a few plants. My auntie had aired the peanuts, and served them steamed. Nothing beats organic peanut and steamed without that eeky yellow dye! Yet I really wanted to see the peanuts with roots attached, so today uncle pulled out a few of the remaining plants and show me. The whole plant is pulled out of the soil and the peanuts are revealed! See if you can count how many peanut pods are there in the picture below!

It takes about 3-4 months after the seeds are planted for the peanuts to ripen. So how do you plant a peanut plant? get the packets of peanut from kacang putih store and scatter them on the soil? well, of course the only thing that is gonna grow in number are ants :P

Each of the peanut pod as shown above has about 1-4 nuts. So in order to make them as seeds for the next round of planting, the pods are plucked off from the roots and will be aired/sun dried for a few days. This is to make sure it's harden and less susceptible to ants. Then the pods are cracked open to take out the nuts within. After that the dried nuts will be mixed with a layer of ant powder to prevent further attacks of ants when they are soiled. This is done like how you shake fries and pepper in a paper bag. Finally it's ready to be planted in the soil!

Here's a closer look of the peanuts.

So this is the end of the 2nd round of botanical show and tell from my backyard!

B4 Convo~

2009-08-08T16:36:00.008+08:00

It's been a few days since I've arrived in KL. The haze is horrible and I get even more horrified when I see people wearing masks. sigh.

On Thursday I reached Hang Tuah station on the afternoon and met up with Weiyong to go collect our robes and do the registration stuff together in MMU Cyberjaya. We reached there at about half pass two, and got everything done by three. Lucky us for there's no queue required at all. Then the trip back to KL took around 2 hours due to the long wait for bus and KLIA transit. That's why I hate traveling in KL. It takes longer to travel than doing the thing you want to.

On Friday, I finished up the translating task, ate lunch then went to Sungai Wang to meet up with Loomun, June and William. They were buying presents for Suj and Cyc in Pavilion after lunch there, so I walked to join them too. well, again traveling took 1 hour before I get to see them. After browsing around and getting the right present, we went off to see G.I. Joe. It was really packed with CG actions but with kinda cheesy dramatic plot. But I'm really awed by the would be technology in the movie. 3D interactive hologram, the accelerator and even the cool spectacle Ana wore really got me high. As for real world progress, we have touchable holography now in Tokyo seriously, where there are ultrasonic waves shoots out to create pressure sensation on you when you touch the hologram. Here's the video from pink tentacle.

So after the movie, we had dinner with suj in the foodcourt, where i had this spicy mini beef steamboat from the little taiwan store. It's really good with meatballs, lean beef, corns, some greens and Cellophane noodles or called 冬粉(dong fen). Loo Mun ate Vietnam vege-salad-ish kind of dish, which is totally not her kind of choice at all usually. She was afraid of getting sick, that's why she sacrificed the tomyam she wanted for the greens lol.

Then we went to Lowyat to scout for digicam and prices. Nothing much except everyone got what they wanted there. Then we parted and I went back on monorail, and took bus to return to my aunt's house after one hour plus.

Saturday = lazying around waiting for parents day. I was so free that I typed several emails to my friends in Japan, one usually takes up an hour or so due to my poor japanese grammar. and by the way, I got my TOEFL results from the online website today. Well although I didn't get full marks, it's more than enough to qualify for the entrance requirement for Tsukuba University haha. So who wants the TOEFL guide book to score I bought earlier? It's as good as new and moreover it really helped to score! *wink wink*

Now there's only one day left to convo! Some how I dread the draggy event and can't wait for it to be over soon enough. I'm only interested in taking pictures with friends and family so why can't we skip right to that part instead? lol.

Anyway, I hope to see you all if you manage to be there!

Recently...

2009-08-02T23:27:00.005+08:00

Many great people had passed away, like the king of pop, Michael Jackson, the first female president of Philippines (in fact, first in Asia), Corazon Aquino, and also our great local commercial/movie director, Yasmin Ahmad. All these people will be greatly missed, as 80's babies practically grew up listening to MJ's songs and watching the moonwalk dance. Meanwhile Aquino made a huge impact by having an amazingly peaceful transition to democracy in her country from years of authoritarian ruling, after which her husband, the opposition leader was assassinated. But then it was Yasmin Ahmad's death that sank my heart the most. I have seen all the commercials she made for Petronas and others, most focusing on the diversity of our society in Malaysia, and how it doesn't really matter as long as we understand and make peace with one another.

From what I saw on tv, she was said to have been educated in a Chinese primary school before, thus the more she is able to relate on living with different races, and integrated that in her commercials and most of her movies like sepet, gubra and other later movies. It can be said that her life is just like her movies, as she was married with a Chinese too.

Some rumors has been going on saying that Yasmin Ahmad is a trans-gender, or an intersexual (IS). Well I was wary that someone out there just wanted to defame her, but then there seem to be some facts behind the gossip if you google around for pictures. Anyhow, Yasmin Ahmad is a really respectful director for portraying the values and virtues that we Malaysians should treasure and so, the surface doesn't matter at all as long as what we see within her touches our hearts. Moreover, her spoken English was perfect! I was very impressed indeed when I see the 'Yasmin's Muallaf Q&A Session at Picturehouse, Singapore' on youtube, which the link was found in Kristine's blog.

In conclusion, I should really start watching all her movies and re-watch all the commercials on youtube. She would have done more amazing things with her pending movies, but then it's fated that we wouldn't see anymore of her new movies then... May she rest in peace and we will miss her very much, especially for the CNY and other festive commercials.

Pain in the Back

2009-08-01T16:43:00.005+08:00

I've just updated the last post with more pictures after coming back from the clinic in town. My back has been having this annoying bruising pain since I came back from MMU at the end of May. I've been doing stretching, jogging and a little thigh exercise to hopefully shake off some weight, but instead I guess I've strained my back spine/muscle. Nice move, Lisa. Sigh.

My Godmother had tried to massage the pain off my back but to no avail. So I went to the doc's this morning to get a number, return in the afternoon, waited again for about 40 minutes for my turn (the most popular doctor in town) and got out after 5 minutes of diagnosis. Bought with RM25, these are the colorful candies I have to eat 3 times a day for 2 weeks to hopefully cure the ache.

And here's Hiro feeling as dead as I do, cos my Godmother had went to KL without him.

Greens in my backyard

2009-08-01T01:16:00.007+08:00

In this post I'm going to have a show-and-tell on my backyard sowed and plodded by my uncle. Tada!

It is actually a stretch of land covered with weeds, which the government owns but have nothing better to do with it than letting it rot. Far behind it would be the vast jungle with a really nice waterfall recreation area called Burmese Pool.

When I was little, my grandfather had a tool shed built out of zinc roof and wooden planks there. then around the shed were a lot of Durian trees. Our family used to eat durians from our backyard during its season, but then the municipal ppl came and chopped off and demolished everything there to make way for a so called new housing area but end up suspended instead.

So when my uncle and godmother come and live with us, he started clearing the weeds and make a small vege haven there, planting chilies, pandan leaves, xiu pak choi, bayam, long beans, lady's finger and others.

Let's start off and see the cute chilies plants!

And there's purple ones too which are super hot!

Here's my uncle watering the plants. Every evening after work he would dedicate his time to his babies in the backyard. On the left is long beans plants, the right is my fave, peanut plants!

The long bean plant. creeping plant it is~

I like peanuts.. but no peanuts growing yet. Even if there's peanut it'd be underground :p

Then we will move on to the hairy plant! who would have thought this is the plant that produces smooth crunchy timun?

Timun (Cucumber) is also a type of creeping plant. The spiral tendrils are clinging on the strings hanging from above.

There's a special guest in our backyard, ladybug on timun flower! I've actually made this into my wallie lol.

And the Timun Finale, Baby Cucumber~

I've been searching high and low for this baby timun but I never knew that it looked so spiky in the first place?! so in the end uncle have to point it out for me. btw cucumber is scientifically considered a fruit! woot!

Planted near the cucumber plants is this, called Mali leaves in Hokkien. the leaves are served along with the famous egg-noodle called Ban Mee or Mee Hun Kuey in Chinese.

Walking towards the right, there's this bunch of wild blue flowers and wines hanging on the fence of my backyard. This is used to make the blue food dye for the nyonya kuih (a kind of dessert).

Further then, I've seen something in the garden for the first time in my life...
Aloe Vera flower blossom!!

You'd think What? does aloe vera even have flowers? got tipu me or not...
So here's the whole pic, with the flower stemming from the aloe vera plant

See? It's real! here's a close up on the aloe vera flower.

Nature is amazing right? Well I've found so many little wonders in my own backyard, let alone the whole world! And that's all for now. Go explore your own backyard today! XD

*edit* I've missed out the papaya cos it's technically not in my backyard, but anyway for those who are curious, here's the mighty green papaya trees!

And here's the close-up. they take ages to get ripen, but will quicken when there's more rain. Still it's quite long until this batch shows any sign of mellowing.

That all for now! :D

Hetalia!

2009-07-02T14:24:00.008+08:00

There's been a craze for 'Axis Power Hetalia' which is a 5 minutes anime series anthropomorphizing countries like Italy, German, America, Japan and others. It's mainly on Italy, a good for nothing, pasta loving softy, who joined force with German and Japan to become the Axis Powers. So after reading from one of the anime blogpost my sister decided to make the paper cut out hetalia characters too XD and here it is, Doitsu (Germany)!

so cute XD *blame house printer for the sucky color*

anyway do you think it will sell in Daicon? :p

And newly added, Nihon (Japan) too!!

*update*

Nihon and Doitsu was given away during DAICON by my sister *wave goodbye* but good news is she had made another two! and here's our long awaited North Italy!

I love his expression saying 'pasta~~' XD it comes with his baka antenna too!

And another one here which is Norway~

the one hidden behind is Italy XD

I've got a job!

2009-06-24T19:42:00.003+08:00

Yup that's right. No more Neet for me *cries*
It was a short but fun time *wave hanky*

But still there's not much changes in my current lifestyle.. wearing pajamas whole day at home, hugging my lappie in the living room and playing with Hiro once in a while, besides making lunch delivery to my parents in the afternoon, doing some chores and jogging for a bit in the evening.

It's practically the same mundane routine but yeah. I've gotten a work-from-home job! Specifically it's a manga translation job. The job scope is to translate the original manga from Japanese to English and apply them on the manga conversation bubbles. Sounds easy but it's a really time consuming and brain squashing job. Well at least I am forced to learn new japanese vocabularies and at the same time getting paid!

Thanks to my lil' sister's help, I've manage to finish the first assignment in 2 days. There's about 20 pages of gag doujin with fair amount of conversation bubbles lol. Then I have to re-learn the font setting and sound effect wordings, since last time in alpha years the only scanlation practice I had was in Chinese. so I went to The Idiot's Guide to Editing Manga to get all the fonts needed and some basic know-hows. Neat~

Anyway I've got my pay! It's only 15USD but what the heck. It's still my first pay from a job I really enjoy. So hopefully there will be much more to come! Ganbarimasu!

Hiro!!

2009-06-18T23:39:00.011+08:00

It's been a few days since the last post, because I've been busy playing RO2 and lazying at home lol. This post will be about my dog named Hiro.

Unlikely as it seems, I suggested the name after Hiro Nakamura in Heroes lol.

He first came to our house in June 2007 looking very tiny and uncared for, with his fur all patchy. Then my auntie aka godmother took care of him like a precious baby.

My godmother's holding Tiny Hiro. Notice the paws are all black except one at the right leg? cute right XD

then after a month his fur become smooth and nice under my godmother's loving care *got jealous abit back then*

Hiro likes tapiocas and couldn't sleep without them. So we had to buy a bagful as his pillow :p.

Then when he got bigger a little bit, we gave him a collar with bells and a pillow too, but he likes to sleep on his back, paws facing up.

Hiro likes car rides too. whenever we go out on our kancil, there's a special seat for him on the dashboard. Later as he got too big for it, the rear seat became his throne.

Not to mention bucket ride too lol. This time around his ears are not droopy anymore. We'd hope his ears would be like the Labrador type but apparently not T.T

It's bathing time! My godmother bath him there with hot shower then later dry him using hairdryer. Both luxuries are not even available for my 5 years in Melaka *bites handkerchief*

So Hiro grew longer and not taller in time, but he still likes to sleep on his back, just that his limbs became too heavy to lift up so it become like this.

One hotdog playing dead there lol

Did I mention that Hiro is a poser? when we say 美美(meimei), meaning pretty in chinese, he will keep still and look at the camera. no kidding! Hiro and his vanity lol. the weird blue thingie is his favourite squeky soft toy.

He have a lot of them actually. small baby soft toys and teddy too.

Hiro is feigning a depressed look. I din torment him with multiple shoots ok?

And so Hiro has been the king of the house ever since he came, leaving the other dog Coco in the shadow, sad and neglected.. No la. Just kidding. But yea the love is halved di..

Coco is chained outside our house with a pethouse of his own while Hiro roam free in our house. It can't be help cos Coco would pee in our house if we let him in >.<

And so this is our Hiro for whom we'll be buying a bday cake to celebrate his upcoming 2nd birthday this month!

Happy Birthday Hiro!

P.S. No animals were harmed during the production of the photo shots in this blogpost. maybe just mildly annoyed :D

P.P.S in response to sherwin's question, here's a pic taken today lol.

Hekinan City + other pics

2009-06-13T15:10:00.008+08:00

As promised, more Japan pictures spam! Today we will focus on pictures taken in 碧南市(Hekinan City) in 愛知県(Aichi Prefecture), of which the munipal council had co-organized the homestay program I participated.

This is the Hekinan-shi Highschool, taken from the highest building in town, the 市役所(shiyakusho), Municipal office. They have their own swimming pool leh, everyone one of those highschools, even though they only use it for like 2 months each year, june and september nia, according to the 4 seasons. I do wonder why we don't even have a pool in university, let alone highschools when we having sunny weather all year round over here. *grumbles*

and these are the houses in the town looking all cramped up. Did I mention that the roads in the housing area are super sempit too? It's like only 1 lane and you have to stop at the side letting the opposite way's car to pass barely. That's why car license is so expensive and hard to get in Japan.. I won't even dare to drive there!

The Hekinan city's flower is 花しょうぶ(Hana shoubu) or commonly known as Iris. This is the iris garden with different species of colorful Iris flowers.

Close up on the Iris flowers. it grows on muddy field and shoot up on a green stalk. since the 2nd part of the name "shoubu" sounds the same as the kanji 勝負, meaning victory/defeat match, I was like "flower fighto~" all the while in the garden annoying our homestay organizers lol.

Oh yeah. Here's another manhole in Hekinan city. the pattern is of the city flower, Iris instead if you notice.

After the walk in the iris garden, we went to a traditional teahouse to drink 抹茶(maccha) which is the powdered green tea prepared by the owner. It's abit bitter but has rich green tea flavour. the もち(mochi) at the side is suppose to be eaten before drinking the tea, so that you will savour the maccha's richness fully.

A quarter of Hekinan City is covered by paddy fields and other plantations, so we went to a farm, in which we are standing in the corn field.

We even get to harvest the humongous onions! Not to mention potatoes too! we were struggling to pull and dig them off the ground and rose victorious XD

That's about it for the tour pictures in Hekinan City~
So next up will be random pics!

This is Makudonarudo. If you say Mc Donald there no one will understand you. Anyway most importantly it's the menu!! got Bacon Burger aka Pork! XD in case you din notice it's the 4th from the top left. Besides there's Cheese Katsu too, on the bottom left, aka Pork!! *bliss* btw the Prawn burger is nice too lol. the cashier was nice enuf to hold up the menu for me to take pic *sampat* XD

And do you know they use bullet train to deliver your sushi in 回転寿司 (kaitensushi) shop? very efficient. and not to mention you use touch screen to order too, but that's available in msia so I won't show the pic la.

Oh and this was what my host family fed me for Welcoming party on the first night. XD Seriously very fresh and nice. No more Sushi King for me, ever. oh the gold covered container are 茶碗蒸し(chawanmushi) which was bought from the cold storage department. you can eat it cold too apparently :p

Speaking of train, here's the 普通電車(futsuu-densha)'s track. It's the normal railway for travelling within the city. Speed's like KTM nia lo but unlike KTM, very on time.

While travelling on highway to see mount fuji, I was lucky enough to see the wellknown 鯉幟(koi nobori) or the carp banner/windsock, which is traditionally hung up for the boy's day (5th of May), signifying energy and strength as the carp 'swims' upstream. Each carp represents a boy, with the upper and biggest carp as the eldest son.

And on the way to see Fuji-san, we detoured to this 由比桜えび通り(Yui Sakura Ebi Toori). the Street is famous for prawns which are pink when they're still alive, hence the name sakura ebi XD

And this is me eating the sakura ebi tempura set XDD The restaurant we went to was called 海の庭 (Umi no Niwa), with surrounding glasswalls overlooking the sea and the mountain side by side.

Well erm cos I like food so I apologize if there's too many food pic lol.
Let me know if you got other things you wanna see so i'll upload more of them instead!

Kyoto Pictures!

2009-06-11T19:53:00.012+08:00

2nd round of Japan homestay picture spam!
Beware of plenty pictures coming through!

Here I'll show some of the infamous tourist spots which you might seen or heard of from anime and manga, in which the main chara go there for school trips and touring XD

No I'm not going to stick this on my forehead like a zombie in Chinese horror movies :p It is in fact the entrance ticket to 金閣寺 (Kinkaku-ji), the Golden Pavilion Temple, located in Kyoto.

Which is this Golden castle, with its wall all tinned with gold foils. Note that the bird there is not an ornament. It's very picturesque right?

Japan is the land of vending machines. so it's not unusual to have ice cream vending machine.

If you can have anything sold using vending machine, it is just logical to be able to get おみくじ (omikuji) or fortune paper from there too.

Next off is the super popular 清水寺 (Kiyomizutera), one of the amazing architectures in japan where the temple is built on wooden scaffolding with no nails or screws.

If the temple is not cool enough, this is the more frenzied spots called 音羽の滝 (Otowa no Taki) meaning otowa's waterfall. It is said that if you drink from the streams you will get either longevity, beauty or success in studies, from left to right respectively. if you drink all it will lead to misfortune due to your greediness lol.

And this is another must go place for young people, called 地主神社 (Jishu-jinja), a love shrine :p this is the place where there's a pair of rocks 60 feet apart and if you managed to walk from one to another blindfolded then you will find your true love. Too bad we din get to go there due to time constraint *cries*

After getting my share of お守り (omamori) or charm amulets for souvenirs, we went ahead to the 東大寺 (Toudai-ji) in Nara, and yes it's where there's alot of deers waiting to chew off any paper material from you.

This is the entrance, with deers among the crowd behind me if you noticed XD.

And we of course would take picture of them like mad, but they had gotten used to it.

Omg it only has one horn nia! and yes it's giving us the "Where's my 100 yen biscuit? go get me my biscuit from the vendor machine dammit!" look.

So after being chased by the deers, we seek refuge in the temple, which is the largest wooden building in the world, and having the worlds biggest great buddha statue in it. *thank buddha*

It seems that in order to get good fortune we have to go through the hole at a pillar behind the buddha which is said to be the same size as the statue's nostril. I din wan't to get stuck inbetween it so I'll pass ^^;

After Nara we went back to Heikinan city and so this is it for the visiting trip around Kyoto. Will upload more pics of homestay in Japan on next post!

For previous homestay picture post click here.

NEET is Fun

2009-06-10T16:12:00.010+08:00

NEET is an acronym for the government classification "Not currently engaged in Employment, Education or Training". It was first used in the United Kingdom but its use has spread to other countries, including Japan, China and South Korea.

In Japan, the classification comprises people aged between 15 and 34 who are unemployed, unmarried, not enrolled in school or engaged in housework, and not seeking work or the technical training needed for work. The ‘NEET group’ is not a uniform set of individuals but consists of those who will be NEET for a short time while essentially testing out a variety of opportunities and those who have major and often multiple issues and are at long term risk of remaining disengaged.

As plucked from Wikipedia.

After finishing my last paper, I am proud to say that I now fit the bill to be called a NEET! It's been two weeks (or was it three? time flies) since my last paper had ended, and you bet I've been having fun through and through until now.

To recall back, right after exam on Tuesday I had dinner with Shuyin and Lynn in kokiya, leaving poor loomun at home cracking her brains for her final paper on thursday. Then Wednesday we had a class gathering in Seoul garden, about 16 of us there which was alot of fun where we kinda make signature gestures of our lecturers throughout our course and guess who it was. The next day we had a close fren's bbq gathering in Alan's house and that's cool too while busy writing/signing Anne's and jon's sigma books. Then Friday whole day is spent in Muar, with William, Jun, CP, Weiyong, Loomun and Suj. The food was really great there, where we went to the famous street of hawker food for otak-otaks and half way to yong peng for the mouth watering yam ring basket. Photos will be uploaded when I get them, hopefully *stares at someone*

The night on sat we had our EMiNA Gang Last Gathering in Wazen, where we have 11 of us there making silly poses at the facade of the restaurant *haven't grown up*

there's Qj, Kristine, LooMun, me and Lynn on the left, and Khurshid, Nazrin, Edo, Shuyin and Dexter on the right. Jin's snapping the pic lol.

My best friends and housemates ever.

On Sunday, it's the House Moving day. In the morning I went out for branch with Motor uncle and his family at the Shun Fat Bak Kut Teh restaurant in town.

The motor uncle had been helping me uncountable times throughout my years in Melaka, although he's abit on the rough side and always pulling my leg whenever I see him.

I'll really miss his 2 kids Ah Hock and Ah Pei too. Before we parted I gave them all the GACC sponsor stuffs leftovers.

Then after clearing the house completely (took several hours to move our boxes of stuff accumulated for 4 years @.@) and getting back our deposits from the agent, Mr. Sanjay, who is going to be married end of june *super busy*, we went around the house once more time, and left our home for 4 years. So goodbye, our Melaka home!

Before Loomun and I went to the bus sentral, we had dinner in Sakura House, which was not really that splendid after all. Wat you pay is wat you get i suppose. Won't really recommend it to people but hey, i'll leaving melaka di so nvm!

After 6-7 hours of bus trip *backache* I'm back to my beloved raintown. It was 3.30am when i reached but yey the HoShin (raingod in hokkien) who always triggers the 'rain' switch whenever she wash her clothes is finally back to her hometown.
Home sweet home~

To everyone I know throughout the past 5 years, I'm glad to have you as my classmates/friends during my life in MMU. I will treasure the moments we have together and will miss you all dearly. Even if our paths may not cross again, the times we had always hold true to me. Good luck in all your future headings and see you at MMU convocation in August!

Cool Robot Videos

2009-05-24T11:00:00.003+08:00

Hey I'm suppose to be still studying but here's some cool videos I've watched on other websites.

Humanoid Robot Battle

Sumo robot competitions

And my fav currently, Manoi Robot Break Dancing. Damn cute makes me want one T.T

I sure hope that i can afford a robot when i'm in japan.. akihabara is just 45 minutes away from tsukuba XDD

*edit* if you are on to some funny videos check out my sister's blogpost XD

Heise Artbook Sale in Daicon!

2009-05-23T00:08:00.001+08:00

With the high demand on the finger licking, smexy 2d guys drawn by heise, I'm glad to announce that Heise artbook Booth will be opened again. Those who are interested can pre-order from me first so that you won't miss any of them! We have added in a new artbook too, called Songs of Darkness shown below.

The previous artbooks will be sold as well~ please refer to my previous post for the cover pictures. Each of the artbook will be priced at RM48 for your information. The artbook sales will be commencing in Daicon, an ACG event to be held in MMU Cyberjaya. It is a 2 days event on 11th and 12th of coming July. The highlights of the event, besides having my heise booth *bricked* is that the seiyuu/singer Chihara Midori will be having a concert there too. I'm sure the otakus are going nuts all over already. Please visit the official DAICON website for more information.

I'll be waiting for your pre-orders!!

P.S please leave a reply here or at the shoutbox to order or if you have any inquiries. Thanks!

Random Homestay Pictures

2009-05-22T22:03:00.009+08:00

I've updated a little bit on the blog layout again, swept my room as well as learning up on batch processing my photos using Photoshop. Despite the disrupted internet connection which is driving me nuts, I still have yet to study *kills self*

So I have decided to upload some random photos taken during my homestay trip in Japan last June. Photos spamming ahead!

Dango, which is the very first food eaten after touching down in Japan Chubu Airport, Nagoya.

After licking my fingers clean, i dunno which hole to throw the stick.

The legendary Melon. go figure the price. see the apple beside? it's larger than my fist 0.o

GPS system inbuilt one leh! It's in my host father's proud Lexus car.

Let's spot the mount Fuji. Saw it? that's the best i could see that day nia T.T

Nameko mushrooms. super expensive one. usually used in miso soup and stew.

Yuri XD not being able to see fuji-san, we went to the lily park instead. abundant of beutiful lilies in a wide meadow.

Super Cute White fluffy thingy on the Nagoya Subway train deco.

鯱(shachihoko), The Gold Fish Ornament/gargoyle on the Rooftop of Nagoya Castle.

The Cute version of the gold fish, shachimaru-kun Kyaa~

Even the manhole also more cantik than ours one.

*cute stuff overdosed*

Erm. Ferris wheel on building XD

I swear I would have barged in there if it's not closed T.T it's a manga/anime shop with lots of doujin btw xD

MOS Burger aaa.. I din know about it then, if not I would have eaten there instead of the horrible fast food inside the themepark.

Erm, Yeah. This is the themepark, Universal Studio Japan XD

I guess I better go study first. the Guilt has finally kicked in. Stay tune for more picture spams! If there's any part of the trip you are interested in let me know~ then i'll post more pictures on that. still got tons to go haha.

Blog Layout done + Sakura pics!

2009-05-21T16:48:00.011+08:00

Phew, after hours of clicking around, the sidebar widgets are done, except the picture slideshow. I am abit lazy to upload pictures from my pc to picasa or photobucket or even flickr so I'll leave the sidebar as it is now.

Among the widgets which I'm most satisfied with are the blog archive calendar and the label cloud. Those were the applications that I had always wanted in my blog since last time but dun have the know how to realize them. *happy*

It was very tedious tagging all of my blog post, wasting like 2-3 hours just by doing it. Looking back on all my blog post since 2005, I notice that:

1. I have put on alot of weight
2. My command of english has deteriorated exponentially
3. Most of my posts are rants, if not about exams then it's about assignments =_=
4. I can rant on so much petty stuffs that I feel like killing myself reading them
5. I miss CG-ing
6. My mom looks so young 3 years ago *reminds self to bear-hug her when home*
7. It brings back memory when looking back on outings and birthday parties
8. Feels old when reading the genki posts by my younger self.
9. Makes me want to get back to the people i used to be very close with but got drifted apart in time.
10. When was my last YamCha session!?

It's kinda sad if we just go off our own separate path before having a last gathering. My last semester is all about fyp and assignments and exams only. Moreover I had only 2 subjects so the time i spend in the campus was so little, let alone meeting friends or visiting their events. Hopefully will get to gather with everyone before I leave man!

Anyhow, off to a lighter topic! I've uploaded Sakura pictures taken in Japan courtesy of my host family as well as a new friend, who is a super senior in Tsukuba University, the one i'll be going to this october XD!

This is taken by Ms Yap, who's doing her doctorate there, around Tsukuba University.
I wanna walk under the sakura trees everyday!! XD

Then the following are taken by my host family in Nishio city, Aichi Prefecture.
They went to a park there for 花見 (Hanami), which is a tradition to appreciate the cherry blossom.

Close up on the cherry blossoms~

This is my Host mother, Naoko-san and her husband holding their cute granddaughter Nat-chan. She's getting cuter and cuter now. Makes me wanna hug her again so much XD

The woman in this pic would be nat-chan's mother, Tomoko-san, daughter of Naoko-san.
She brought me to 2nd-hand manga shop during one of the weekend and it was where i get my awesome hardcover tsubasa volumes for only 100yen each *woot*

And soon I will be seeing sakura for myself!! yey~ don't worry cos I'll take pictures when I do k XD hopefully won't be too dead preparing for the entrance exam for the master course by then *swt*

Back on Blogging

2009-05-20T23:45:00.012+08:00

Anyone missed me?

I know it's been too long since I last blogged, hiatus for one year already! time flies eh. Actually I got tired cos of my long winded style of writing, and the inertia snowballed every time when I attempt to update. So now I'll start off again with shorter posts so that I don't get tired of it that soon.

The main updates on my life, picking up from the last post, is that I am going to graduate from MMU in less than a week's time! That's a huge leap of update there lol, but I'm kinda lazy to recount everything that had happened up until now.

So some major events would be applying for the Japanese Government aka monbusho scholarship for postgraduate studies, leading to the mind-wrecking long wait for results of written test, interviews and replies from japan universities. Meanwhile I did my internship in an automation company in Melaka, learning not much on automation ironically, but more on PIC microchip programming. None the least I learn something about working life, where you will be totally exhausted for any entertainment after work and you'll ask why it isn't a saturday everyday.

After 3 months of training I got off the hook and continue on for my final year project, which is to design a humanoid robot structure. Not to mention skipping almost 80% of the lecture/tutorial classes. *proud* Of course everyone else does about the same.. maybe just abit less compared to mine. Well at least I didn't get barred, which is the main point.

With all the toiling done, I've finally gotten the scholarship! I will be studying in Japan this coming October, so dun envy me k XD It's one of the reasons why I am blogging again, to make you all drool on my stay there lol. Anyway, somebody should start a blog too since it's Toudai she's going *stares*.

And the other thing is that my robot is ALIVE!!! well, at least it can do movement pre-programmed. It's called Frog.E, name courtesy of Thye Shin. See the robot video below! Too bad i can't make it to dance hare-hare yukai or do any significant anime pose. no time >_<"

So I'll stop here. I am suppose to study for my final finals in MMU. Now that I've finish watching Fringe except the finale, I had to somehow start reading orz. Stay tuned for Sakura pictures from Japan next post! XD

*edit* I've posted the Frog.E video~~ XD

WIP Done!

2008-02-17T18:03:00.005+08:00

tada!
do comment :)

Heise Artbook Sale in GACC '08

2008-02-04T00:13:00.016+08:00

Me and Loo Mun will be having a booth during gacc, which will be held on 1st (my birthday!) and 2nd of March.

So here's a pic of Heise's old A5 artbook i'm selling:

As well as the newer A4 artbook:

the price will be set around RM35-45 per book, depends on the number of orders i get now haha. the more order it is, the lesser the mailing cost is per book. so if anyone interested do pre-order from me k? do leave a comment here to order, or just leave a message at the chatter box on the side panel k? thanks a million XD

*update* Due to the heavy snow in China, i'm afraid that the artbooks will not arrive in time for GACC. If this really happen, i will have to ask you guys who preordered from me to bank in the money to me (when i receive the artbooks) and then i'll have to post the artbooks to you guys on a later date. There's no promises whether the artbook will arrive during GACC but let us all hope for the best k? FYI, i might need to charge you guys extra for the mailing.. sorry for all these inconveniences.. and let's pray the snow will stop and make all our lives easier.

*update again* Since there's no further pre-order, i am shipping over 8 old artbooks and 22 new artbooks. so for those who who are interested to buy the old artbook please hurry cos there's only 1 left for sale as shown in the list below.

Current order list:
1. sky pegasus- 1 OLD n 1 NEW
2. mystical angel- 1 OLD n 1 NEW
3. iluna- 1 NEW
4. lacrymosa- 2 OLD n 2 NEW
5. chibineko- 1 NEW
6. cholic- 1 OLD 1 NEW
7. rouhui- 2 OLD 2 NEW
8. lime- 1 OLD

artbooks preordered: 8 OLD 9 NEW

artbooks left: 0 OLD 13 NEW

*latest update* the 3rd artbook from Heise!

and we will show a sample of this during GACC :p do come and preorder for it during gacc k? see you guys then!

*More Updates*
The parcel finally arrived!! I will share a booth with Kidchan in GACC so do come and collect your artbooks! See you all then!

*GACC DAY 1*
thank you all for supporting our booth! we have managed to finish selling all the artbooks thanks to you guys :) for those who din have a chance to buy do leave me a comment here and i will tend to your order asap :). the price for the artbooks are as below:
1st book - RM38
2nd book - RM45
3rd book - RM47

As for you all who have ordered the 2nd batch of artbooks, do check your details and name if they are correct or are missing from the list, because my computer crashed during GACC and I lost partial of the names >.< sorry!! please tell others who have ordered from me about this too and reconfirmed with me the ordering asap! thank you and have a nice day!

do check the order list below:
1. Ng Meng Lin - ONE 1st book (deposit RM20)
2. Ngoh Pey Peng - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
3. Yvonne Kew - ONE 1st book n ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
4. Valerie - ONE 1st book n ONE 2nd book (deposit RM82)
5. Joanna Tan - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
6. Foo Toon Hun - ONE 3rd book (deposit RM47)
7. Yoshiki John Ng - ONE 1st book n ONE 2nd book (deposit RM83)
8. Muhd. Yusri - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
9. Aimi Hana Rosli - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM20)
10.Boon Ying - ONE 1st book n ONE 3rd book (deposit RM85)
11.Lee Yann Mei - ONE 2nd book n ONE 3rd book (deposit RM46)
12.Faradila - ONE 3rd book (deposit RM20)
13.Patricia aka Naoko - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM25)
14.Chin Wei Ling - THREE 2nd book n ONE 3rd book(deposit RM95)
15.Wee Shwu Jiun - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
16.Nur Nasuha - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
17.Lydia Ooi Shu Lin - ONE 2nd book n ONE 3rd book (deposit RM92)
18.Lowies Chew - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM45)
19.Wong Chia Hao - ONE 2nd book (deposit RM20)
20.Will Lee - ONE 1st book ONE 2nd book ONE 3rd book (deposit RM60)
21.Florence - ONE 1st book ONE 2nd book ONE 3rd book (deposit RM60)
22.Hannan Khairil Amir - ONE 2nd book n ONE 3rd book (deposit RM45)
23.Melissa Ho - ONE 3rd book (deposit RM20)
24.Rou Hui - ONE 3rd book
25.Chan Mun Mun - ONE 3nd book n ONE 3rd book
26.Michelle Way - ONE 2nd book
27.Elaine Choong - ONE 1st book ONE 2nd book ONE 3rd book (deposit RM60)

for those who have received their orders we hope that you like what you see *cough* xD but there's still ONE 2nd book and ONE 1st book which aren't collected on GACC, as shown below:
1. Iluna - 1 NEW (2nd book)
2. Lime - 1 OLD (1st book)

so do contact me asap to confirm if you still want the book. thanks alot!

Japanese homestay Yatta!

2007-12-20T10:11:00.002+08:00

Sometime during 2nd trimester i've applied for the japanese homestay program organized by JLS and somehow i managed to get through the interview. I guess they really wanted bubbly and talkative applicant cos my alter ego which takes place during any interviews apparently suited their criteria :p Loo Mun applied too but during that time she was abit cranky and tired (since she came back from KL right after work jz to have this interview) and thus she din managed to get a place.

That day after the interview, i sent loo mun to EP early in the morning to catch the Bus Wira. As we were reaching the bus stop, we were half shocked as the Blue & White bus flew pass in front of us. With half a brain awake, I recklessly accelerated to trail the bus. Loo Mun apparently was still shocked and doesn't really know my intention of doing that. When we arrived at the traffic junction, the red light was on and i zig zag through the long queue of cars, getting nearer and nearer to the bus. And there, right beside the bus, i knocked frantically on the glass pane of the bus's door. Time was running out as the Traffic light timer goes down to 1X seconds. Luckily the driver opened up the door and without ado, i shouted at loomun (she's half dazed) and ushered her to jump off the bike onto the bus. she threw back the helmet at me and at that time the count down is less than 3 seconds. Seeing her on the bus, i was relieved but then the game's not over yet. The green light turned on and at that critical moment, my bike's engine died. the bus started moving forwards and i'm sandwiched between a car and a bus. It was really terrifying as i kept restarting the bike while praying that the cars behind won't bang into me. Well, the sleepiness in me earlier was definitely gone at that time, replaced by icy fear. In the nick of time, the engine roared to life and off i go! Thank god that i din get injured at all. Loo Mun sms me later on and asked if i'm still alive because the bus turned to another road and she lost track of me as i was still stuck at the traffic junction. So moral of the story: never do any stunts when you are half awake :p

back to the homestay program. Well, it is one of the reason why i started working in Coffee Bean, and why i am still working now even if i have 5 subjects this trimester. Besides, During GACC, i'll be setting up a doujin booth to sell Heise's Artbook to earn some extra bucks. For those who are interested, I'll post about it later after i finish writing about the homestay.

So we will be going to stay in hekinan, a small town in aichi prefecture. Apparently we have to cook sth for a welcome party over there as well as doing some performances. well knowing how good my skills in cooking, the best is jz to do some drinks or dessert haha. besides i dun think we can get any necessary ingredient conveniently over there. knowing the ingredient name in japanese will be the biggest challenge haha. As for performances.. we'll come out with something soon i hope. i really don't want to bring my Er Hu over there and embarrass myself with my rusted skills :p

Although we have to do these stuff, what i'm interested in is to visit Toyota's manufacturing site :) really hope we will go to see the partner robot which can play a trumpet using its lips. we will be going to alot of places considerably interesting for engin students, and besides that, we will be going to visit a highschool too. this is the tricky part.. we have to do a study on our own country cos the students there will be asking us about our homeland *gulp* like wat's the population of your hometown etc. so before going to japan i have to brush up not only my japanese, but also general knowledge about Msia orz.

This time we won't be going to Tokyo most probably because it's really far from hekinan and time consuming for us to travel using the cheapest available trasportation, which is bus. so no Akihabara for us *sob* anyway comiket is in August so we won't be able to make it too. Instead, we will be going to osaka and kyoto. so not bad too la. i can take snapshots of beautiful sceneries and traditional building.

Anyway, i'll be bringing a laptop (yes i own one now muahahahha) to japan and then if luck's with me, i might be able to update my blog over there about the trip :p but for now, money money come! XD

Back from KL

2007-12-19T12:16:00.002+08:00

It's been very eventful and hectic last weekend. As i said in last post, the robotics club were promoting their event named Robotics Challenge Week in mid valley, courtesy of Play!Ex's organizer who gave us a free booth slot there.

Well, i skipped alot of classes this sem, so i dun mind skipping more :p Lilo, Ziqi and I went to KL with Mohan, my classmate + the driver, on Thursday night. The whole Savvy was packed with robots, boxes, and alot more other stuffs and luggages that we can hardly fit in the car :p It was tiring because i have just left work at 5pm and i had to go borrow batteries and redo circuit for the electromaze and stuff until 7pm, when Mohan came to pick me up. I barely packed and later on i found out i forgot to bring my hp charger *dies*

When we reached Midvalley around 10.15pm, The area was jammed with cars going out of the shopping mall. This is the first time for us to go to a shopping mall after closing hour so it's kinda fun to see shops all closed and cleaners in work uniform all over the place. Oh not to mention all the cleaners are foreign labors too. seems like Malaysians are all too good for menial jobs :p

Anyway we went to 3rd floor, and the exhibition site is beside the Lilian Too Feng Shui shop. Some of the booths were being set up and decorated at that moment so it looked bleak and run down. Our booth was free of charge, so we got the furthest corner slot from the main entrance. Despite that, We felt lost and awkward and most of all embarrassed to be there at all when we compare our own random n incomplete polystyrene with color paper cut-outs wordings and A4 monotone print outs with their printed colourful posters, eye-catching banners, buntings and attractive flyers. We were the only student booth around so we felt tensed. After much swearing and complaining with good reason, we start planning how to decorate with whatever limited resources we had. In the end, due to insufficient color papers and other stationeries we gave up and went back to Mohan's house after midnight.

The next day things were getting a little better as we fill the empty space with our pitiful amount of exhibition items: 2 mobile robots, one of which can't function, and 2 other electronic project from our lecturers. Our booth was still pathetic, having Celcom's huge purple site right opposite our booth and blocking all the view. Not to mention the killer sound system from the DJ booth which was stationed near the Celcom site. Since the Savvy couldn't take in anymore stuff, our mini games were left for those who will come in the evening. So all in all, it was bleak and uneventful for our booth, and sadly it applies to the whole event too, since there's not much crowd to begin with. On the lighter side, i finally went to Kim Gary HK restaurant to eat. The soup noodle is very good and the side vege is delicious XD Though it's abit too expensive for a simple meal like that, i think it's worth a try (for Muslims, sorry guys cos it's non halal >.<)

The other committees finally came around 5pm with more stationeries and robots the mini games. The games were set up and then i started to fix the robots up and charge batteries. the exhibition site looked abit more crowded, which was a good sign. All the booth around us are selling Toys, Anime merchandise, promoting Online Games, magazines and the very prominent Celcom Xpax prepaid card. And again, we looked so out of place orz. I think we should have moved to the edu fair at the other exhibition site beside ours :p

That night i stayed in my aunt's house, who fetched me from Midvalley after the event was closed for the day. Found out that my 2nd auntie was around too, with her 2 kids as well. It was the first time i saw the 2 kids so i was quite amazed how they looked like their parents, as well as my other auntie's kid haha. My sister were with them too, and had suffered long enuf to call them akuma-tachi. hahah.. well they were loud and always hungry for attention and they cry alot. all these i got to know in mere 2 hours >.<

For the 2nd day it was more crowded and better still, i managed to promote my mini game electromaze (where you are to hold a loop and go through a metal wire frame without touching them together) to the crowd and many tried their hands on it as it looked ultra simple. It tests the stability of your hands and your concentration power so luckily only 2 person of the whole 3 days won the game and each walking away with a prize of 1GB Kingston pendrive *ouch! the sales of keychains at our booth was ok too, despite the fact that we lost 6 sets of them when we left the items overnight on the site. In conclusion, we earn only a little sponsor money and a lot more of fatigue during the event.

Near evening, both my sisters came over to meet me up. My youngest sister, Li Li went to Comic Fiesta in Timesquare and hauled a lot of bookmarks and small badges for herself while she got me Kidchan's artbook 0.o with her signature on. It was damn expensive but hey, there's a signature on so nvm la hahaha *shoot self* after browsing her harvest, I went off early with them and our Auntie came to fetch us for a sort of reunion dinner in a Steamboat Restaurant. My 2nd auntie from singapore was there too, with her 2 cute akumas around. Anyhow, the steamboat with hot porridge is very nice indeed after adding in all the ingredients plus a raw egg xD

Sunday was my off duty day so I was able to go shopping with Loo Mun and the others doing training in KL. After light breakfast at my aunt's house, me and my younger sister went to Mid Valley to set up stuff, and then we went our different ways at the Monorail station as she will go on for the 2nd day of CF while i will go to Lot10 to meet LooMun up. It was around 12pm when Loo Mun, William, HR and CYC turned up so we walked to Pavilion together after that. It was huge and the White Christmas deco inside was really nice. We went to eat at a jap restaurant at the Lower Ground, where J.Co and the Cream Puff are located too. Then we went shopping as there were alot of mega sales and year end sales going on. Surprisingly and not without Loomun's influence, I got myself a slack from Element and a white shirt from MnG. they looked nice on me and so byebye to my pitiful amount of cash and hello to ATM machine :p

After that, we went off to Coffee Bean and i treated everyone with the RM10 vouchers i got from my aunt. And i finally get a chance to properly drink those ice-blends and food that i make and serve almost everyday hahaha. Then we move on to Timesquare as Loomun wanted to try on evening gowns. Too bad she can't get the ideal dress after alot of try out. At around 6pm, since it's free entrance by then, we went up to the 6th floor in timesquare for a glance of CF. the site looks abit run down but once we get inside, Fuh! it's packed with cosplayers and doujin booths. not bad la i can say haha. And i din know that Ce yi was involved in CF too! I saw alot of familiar faces and doujin booths. There are so many figurines on display. And there was a person cosplaying PACMAN. how cool is that XD Should really ask for photos from those who's been there for 2 days *stare at sis* I din buy anything though i wanted to, and too bad the moyashimons badges are no where to be seen T.T

Before we went back, Loo Mun and I had a haircut for RM13 at the speedcut shop in the pedestrian bridge across timesquare. Before it was our turn, there's an indian almost bald customer who had been in there for ages. We were waiting and cursing as he kept on requesting the hair stylist to cut a little here and there off his already hair-less head. When he was finally done, which was around half and hour later (hey old man it's suppose to be speedy cut! which part of speedy do you not understand?!) the stylist told us that the Indian baldy was picky cos his hair curled up after the cut and requested to cut it off. He even mention how the Pakistanis barber would do an easy job on that. man why can't he jz go for a barber then?! Never mind i hope his hair won't grow long any sooner *evil*. When it was our turn, we had some fun while talking to the metro sexual hair stylist and Loo Mun and her stylist were unable to stop laughing at our conversation :p haha.

and that's about it for the trip now. I'm now broke and did not get any oryzae fanart/badges.. *cries

WIP n working life orz

2007-12-09T01:27:00.001+08:00

here's a pic i colored recently.. not done yet tho. pencil art by Wounds as usual.

Damn I'm getting worse at work. wonder if it's the fault of my short term memory loss every time i go to work. it's like all the measurements and ingredient formulas vanish after i finish work, ie. volatile RAM data blank after reboot computer. It's the disappointed look that i get whenever i got sth wrong. sigh. i should really buck up or all the new trainees will look down on me..

Fight!! Li Sa!! Fight!! i will survive in this dog eat dog world!!

did i mentioned club activity that's taking a toll on me? sigh. wonder why i get into so much trouble.

Kamosuzo! (let's brew!)

2007-12-05T23:36:00.002+08:00

YES. Lisa finally kicked her own lazy @ss and started blogging after 1 year of hiatus XD hurray for the world!

Alright. so i'm currently obsessed with moyashimon, as seen on the blog header. Moyashimon is actually an october anime series. it is also called Tale of agriculture. The main character Sawaki is a guy who can see microbes looking bigheaded and cute. The series has quite a fresh storyline and interesting info about microbes, which are too cute to not love them, don't you agree? XD Even though Dexter reminded me that they are really Micro-organism, which make us sick and get food poisoning and bad for hygiene, still, moyashimons are too cute, especially Oryzae, which is the yellow one with dreadlocks. It is a yeast for making bread so it's a good microbe XD.

Well, my desktop has 5 of those microbes floating and swirling around. There's one big oryzae there too! if you are interested to get them, do go to this japanese website where you can find a flash game for you to play gashapon for 5 microbes a day. My sister is currently addicted to it too XD and the oryzae desktop toy can only be obtained if you gathered all 30 types of microbes, which i finally did 2 days ago, after gashapon-ing for a week :p I can stare at them for minutes doing nothing XD here's a screenshot of my desktop:

Hmm.. so i think that's enough about moyashimon. Let's get back to Life, shall we? :p actually that's a TV series that i'm currently watching too. Now I'm having my Delta year 2nd trimester, and unfortunately(?) i have only 1 subject to study, so to kill the free time, I am working part time in Coffee Bean. I got this part time through my aunt, who's from the higher ups in the company. I am working for 3 weeks now, and that's why most of the time you don't see my in campus. It was hell for my flat feet for the first few times i go to work, but i'm getting used to it now, i hope.

Besides, i got myself involved in Robocon previously, but then finding that i can't have both the cake and eat it, i decided to pull out since it's too time consuming and tiring for me. Last week we (robocon ppl) went to KL for the Robofest. It was super stressful and nerve breaking as we kept on servicing out robots, which are very unstable and due to my terrible negligance, i can say that its fatal consequence is one of the many reasons that caused us to lose the match badly. So UTM and UniTEN got first and 2nd place (if i'm not mistaken, was too upset to take note that time) and we went back to Melaka drained and disappointed. I really hope those robocon guys can make it next year. I'm sure to go and support them if it doesn't clash with my finals.

As for this weekend, I'll still be working in Coffee Bean and I'm gonna wear a santa hat! XD we have a new part-timer so i have to buck up even more to set a good example for her, though i think i already screwed my image as i kept on forgetting the ingredients and measurements for the drinks *ouch*. Next weekend I'm going to KL for early Christmas celebration haha. Since Robotics club is going to have a booth in Midvalley next week, as the exhibition head i had to present the fyi projects from our university at the booth. 3 Days there at the Play!exhibition, so no way I'll stick there whole day long! Loo Mun, June and William they all are going to meet me up at Pavilion then we'll have fun for once after they went industrial training.

And Comic Fiesta.. hmm. I dun think I'll be going this year. Since both my sisters are going there, for sure they would sweep back home all the nice artwork they can afford, so i will go to other places and have fun XD

Till then, blogging will become a habit of mine once more, i swear! XD

i'm half dead XD

2006-12-04T21:59:00.001+08:00

erm. i jz finish jap test yesterday and all of us who took the test felt like shit until now. my eyes hurt, no mood for studying even tho my test is on tomorrow night, and only have the strength to keep on procrastinating. so dun mind me not updating for so long k? i thought no one's reading so.. :p

really, i feel like i'm sick already. i've got a nose block, and my body temperature is as hot as burning charcoal while the weather is not helping at all :p here's loomun floating around so i guess she's feeling the same.

my keyboard is officially dead. someone go buy for me k? i'm using my old yellowish geli keyboard currently and i dun even feel like typing anymore with it >___< so i'll end it here *bricked* and i want a dvd burner too thankyou *runs*

anyway, i'm supposed to be studying di.. i think my life is jz for the sake of exams... why?!?!?!?!1111 orz

me want cg... me want to draw.. me want to eat.. me dun want fat.. orz

so this is my current updates. lynn dun come and molest for more k? XDDDD
and we certainly dun need camera man now having me looking like shit >__< i can't get myself to see the video taht i was caught red handed acting damn silly and not cool. orz. yeah, loomun.. pictures too ok? happy now? orz...

k la.. i write later when i'm feeling better *cries*

rainy hometown

2006-10-22T17:40:00.001+08:00

I was back in my hometown, which is also known as the rainy town. Without fail, it has been raining everyday since i've arrived last week. My friend in Brazil said it must be one heck of a weird weather to rain everyday, but i was assuring her that it'd be totally weird otherwise, not only because it is the monsoon season currently.

Let me explain abit about the geography of my hometown. On the west it is surrounded by the Titiwangsa mountain range, or more specifically, by Maxwell Hill. And far off the east will be the melacca straits, so the wind blown in from the sea will be trapped by the hills and thus the clouds carried along it. Then condensation happens so often that we could have rainfall at any moment of the day, even in the afternoon, when the sun is shinning perfectly bright.

It was even a sport, or i should say a gamble, to guess how much rainfall for the moment of the day and of course the one with the closest bet will hit the jackpot. I dun know if it is still on now that we have Toto, Magnum and other lottery games but the probability of winning is about the same for any of them, because though it is almost guaranteed to rain, the range of time and the amount of rainfall is unpredictable, as in, you can have rainfall out of the blue and then clears off in a blink of an eye.

Anyway, it is really nice having some rain each day, be it a light drizzle in the morning, passing raindrops in the afternoon or even a heavy downpour that last for a whole day. The haze will clear off too after a rainpour, tho altogether it was not as bad as in Malacca or KL. Maybe it's just that i've gotten used to rainny weather, since i've been living here for my past 19 years. That's why raindrops splattering on the roof proved to be my lullaby while killing off my roommate's sleepiness in Malacca.

It was not until a few days after that i've gotten myself soaking wet under the rain. In the afternoon, i was running an errand for my Mom, to run round the other shop lot behind Mom's shop to photostat some papers. Just when i was reaching the photostat shop it poured cats and dogs. some of the papers were splattered with raindrops but not too bad. After getting the papers done and putting them in a plastic bag, i started running back, and i was soaked thoroughly. But what got me cursing was that as soon as i hit home base, the sky was crystal blue and the sun shone mildly, as if it never rained a few minutes ago. I should have waited but who could predict its lifespan? At least i get to go home instead of staying back for more work :p *bricked*

Well, This morning it was mildly drizzling, and i slept till it was almost 8am. Yes, for those who thought that i had a typo in the last sentance, trust me. I've been waking up at abit off 7am everyday to go jogging with my aunt. damn everyone said i've gain weight.. orz. Have to jog some of the pounds off before i engage myself in more eating. I really hope that the rate of exercizing can burn off more calories at the rate that i'm eating now :p

So lets sum up my 1 week of holiday/laziness: i've finished reading Angels and Demons, as well as When the Wind Blows. I've downloaded more of the new series of animes, naming a few: Dgrayman, PumkinScissors, Red Garden, HatarakiMan, Black Lagoon, Bartender, Chevalier, NHK, Nighthead Genesis. I haven't really touched my jap pass year papers, or mangas that i've downloaded long time ago. But i got to watch my sis playing DoC and Vincent really need some hair treatment cos his strains of hair are poking out and resemble some deadly harpoons XD *killed by vincent fans*

And that's it. will be catching up with long lost hometown frens next week and also get some jap homework done. Gambarimasu! I will try not to look fat when i come back *bang wall*

十月新番! XD

2006-10-05T21:31:00.003+08:00

Yes we are in the mid of finals and here i am downloading this month's new anime series. So here are the ones that i downloaded:

D.Gray-Man
Kyaaaa.. have been waiting for this for so long >w< saving it for the last exam XD watched the op tho. jz ok. the anime style not much different from the manga which is a good thing XD ALLEN!!!! *bricked*

Deathnote
hmm.. the op looks creepy. haven't watched it yet but i hope it's better than the live action movie :p

Red Garden
the style is really different and my sis dun like it XD it's about a suspicious suicide of a girl while 4 other girls in the same school, yet hangs out with different gangs were mysteriously kidnapped and return back home with no single memory of where they were the night before. seems like a scifi mystery thriller series from Gonzo.

Pumkin Scissors
I'm really taken aback by the name (and the logo), thinking it must be some stupid anime at first but the story is really interesting. Settings in post war and the story is about a military troup lead by a girl (who reminds me alot of saber orz) and this mysterious scar-face hulky guy fighting against ex-soldier villains who used to be in troup 901XXX which is formed secretly by the government last time. That huge guy who looks meek and quiet is an ex-solder from that troup too, and he's a killing machine when he lights up his eerie blue lantern. Must watch XD

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
or better known as Perfect Girl Revolution. I was laughing so hard when i watch the first epi. A must follow for comedy and shoujo romance XD

Shounen Onmyouji
i dunno from which this anime is adapted from, novel or manga. anyway i din read any of them so cant' say much. the art looks ok and i've always heard of this title before the anime comes out, so will watch it after finals.

Ghost Hunt
This one is a Horror story. that's all i know XD the first story is about some haunted mansion. will watch it in daytime i think XD

La Corda D`Oro ~primo passo~
Bishi alert!! Bishi alert!! XDDD 7 guys! 1 girl. tough choice. (no one ask you to choose la) *bricked* its setting is in a music school. So those who like classic music and bishis shouldn't miss this i guess :p

Marginal Prince
I am not against BL but this is jz too... my sis said the guys there are low quality bishis and that coming from her, i guess i wont be watching XD
*rants* that green head guy jz sing in the middle of no where, expressing his sorrow, and suddenly he's in white shirt all wet and sexy, seen/stalked by that main chara who got so touched by the song and upset.. wat's this? urgh. it's over dramatic and fake. will not say anything more about it >_<

Lovely Idol
the girls are all moe. happy? i dun like it tho i'd like to have its OST. insert songs are nice XD

And that's about it. I will download black lagoon 2 too, but since i haven't finish watching the first series, i'll go home then watch watever my sisters had downloaded. So anything else you guys wanna intro? :D

*edit* today's line is sucky. will upload pics soon..
oh. i jz change my blog to beta version.. google is indeed dominating everything now :p

We are crazy enuf to..

2006-09-22T18:49:00.001+08:00

wat? spot a ufo near jusco? Not! XD

try again.

yes. your eyes are perfectly fine.

see? we are nutz XD Let's go fly a kite on Jusco rooftop!! XDDD

*credits:
evidences by Loomun
culprits: William, Jun, Li Sa

p.s believe it or not, it's the first time i ever flew a kite.

Best Project Ever!!

2006-09-19T20:32:00.001+08:00

Yesterday's project presentation was probably the next best thing i've ever accomplished after GACC. Why? well, i have to roll back to a week ago.

In short, for our project we had to program a microcontroller and fix it with hardware circuits to produce a basic memory game, where a random sequence of notes is played and player is required to repeat it in order to proceed to the next level, with longer sequences of notes. During that time, we were troubled, because the progress was not encouraging at all. We fixed the circuit and reconnect it multiple times, to no avail. even when it works at first, something would go wrong and our effort down the drain in less then 10 mins. We tried it on breadboard, and then on pcb board, which our lecturer later claim that he did not ask us to use, and lastly on project board. The grueling process involved poking in and plugging out wires while breaking a few of the components' legs/pins, soldering on and off board and scorching it black on the way and also tons of teeth gritting with intermittent cursing.

Things become even more gnawing when it was Sunday, a day before our presentation. Yes, to our dismay, the circuit connection on the project board done by kristine was still not working. There were no response, despite the annoying loud buzzing from the buzzer. Numerous checkings of the circuit were resulted with no apparent mistake found. I felt like being cheated as we had put in so much labour and time. Half giving up, we started to rebuilt another circuit back on the breadboard, hoping for a miracle to happen. All this while, Weiyong, our team leader was checking the project board again, though i was not giving much hope to it.

Anyhow, i kept an eye on her, praying that she could find out the problem. Several times she reconfirmed with Kristine about the connection. Suddenly, After checking with Kristine again, she found out an error! Seems like one of the connection was loose and thus not connected. Kristine resoldered the wire while we waited. And it's time for rechecking. All of us held our breath, and the battery was snapped on.

Silence.

We stared at each other. The buzzing was not emanated. It was a good sign. Still quiet, i cautiously press the initiation button. All LEDs lit up. And the game begins! Afraid that this might end up to be false alarm, i continued playing the game, and could hardly suppress my euphoric expression with every button i pressed as the game proceeds.

No errors.
No hanging of the programme.
Absolutely perfect.

YES! We have finally made it! IT'S ALIVE!! OMG i can't believe my eyes. i almost cried in that instant. Now i know what it feels like to have all your effort paid off in the end. The blissful happiness was more than i can describe. Overjoyed, i calmed myself down. Not so soon. We can't be totally relieved now, as we won't know wat would happen the day after, when the real test was to be conducted. I jz hope that everything will last at least till after the project presentation. We loaded in our latest amended program on the chip, and after some adjustment done for the cover, which was made using kristine's cardboard harddisk box, it was ready for D big day.

Our presentation whizzed thru smoothly, with me crapping alot while not forgetting the main points. The lecturer seem to be very interested with our presentation, which made me and Weiyong relax. He was being very supportive and i responded back to him quite willingly, as if we were having a friendly chatting instead of a presentation *bricked*. Anyway, he did not ask us all the technical questions, which all of us feared so much.

Thus, before long, the presentation ended and then started the project demo. I played the memory game, showing the features we added in. He was quite particular about our notes being harmonious, and we assure him that ours are, by showing him the 2nd mode of our program-- Simple Piano mode. I pressed the 8 buttons one at a time, making the buzzer go 'do' 're' 'mi' 'fa' 'so'.. till the higher octive 'Do'. then i fumbled and played part of 'jingle bell' and he was satisfied. Everyone heave a sigh of relief as he said well done, and indicating the end of the demo.

Well, it may not seem so earth-shakingly excellent, but it meant alot to us. I would not stop smiling the whole day, while wishing other groups goodluck and recounting about our own experience to them XD We were indeed proud of wat we have accomplished and the feeling will be etched in my head for a long time. This was the best day of my gamma 1st trimester. Victory is ours!! Muahahahahaha.... *bricked*

When we getback our project i'd sure will take a pic with our precious creation and post it up here. till then! XD

new id

2006-09-03T02:23:00.001+08:00

hehe.. how's that? drew and color it in photoshop within 2 days :p it's my new id in deviantart. comments n critiques are welcomed.

Yining's last bday in teens XD

2006-09-01T16:11:00.001+08:00

Well, yesterday was merdeka day (Malaysia's national day for those who don't know) but instead of celebrating it, we threw yining, my roomate, a surprise bday dinner. Yining's bday was on 30th august (the day before), but since we all had classes that night we postponed it to the next day. Our perfect rendezvous was none other than the one and only Korean Restaurant in melaka, a cozy oriental restaurant called Tok Su Gong.

As it is called a surprise bday dinner, we din tell yining where we were heading, tho i guess she'd had some idea, it's fun to play along until dexter brought us there. As we arrived, the interior was warm with the soft yellow lighting. there's a few tables and chairs arranged near the entrance, with the cashier at the left. then further on there's a tradition korean sitting, where there's a raised up wooden platform and low tables, of which underneath were hollow pits for us to put down our legs.

We were impressed by the setting, and while waiting for our table to be cleared, we stare at the big flatscreen tv showing some korean gameshow. The owner was a petite korean woman with sharp features. When she cleared the table for us, she smiled and usher us there. We were seated at the traditional table, which was near the kitchen outlet. As we waited for our orders, we saw alot of korean food brought out which pricked our curiosity. we even took pictures of them before the waitress served them out. We ate grilled meat, and the red hot kimchi soup :D The food was really nice, tho a little bit expensive. But then, if you go in a group, the price will be ok if you share out.

Then come the cake, bought by Dexter from Yee's bakery. It was jz nice and not too sweet for dessert :D happy 19th bday to yining! *stares at cake*

After devouring the sponge cake, we waited for our watermelon slices, which we observe that every table will be served with after the main course. We have been waiting for a long time already, and once, the waitress brought out watermelon slices, but she din know which table to serve, thus went back in the kitchen again, leaving us crestfallen. We nudged Loomun to make the move, since she's easily pass off as a child and it won't be too embarrassing to let a child ask for our dessert *bricked* So, after much nudging, we got her to ask for it and had our watermelon in no time.

After the bloating dinner, we went to pantai kundur for a walk. it was breezy and nice. we took pictures, fool around and do silly stuff that doesn't match our age. Dexter must be having fun watching and joining in too :D and i found out another bad thing about wearing heels. you can't walk on beach with them :p so we took them off and run around barefooted.

We had much fun in the beach for about an hour i think. then we go around melaka and only when back home at about 11pm. so that's how we spend our merdeka the fun way. and i'm broke again :p until next month then! XD

blank mind..

2006-08-28T14:57:00.002+08:00

After having 3 tests in a row, and a whole week of frantic studying, doing nothing except stuffing my mind with formulae and equations even when i'm eating, the eraser debris on my desk and papers scribbled and thrown were more than what i can produce in 2 months. All my free time was used up and classes were sacrificed for the sake of the tests. Even to the extend that after the test were all over, i forgot how it was like to be free, and to procrastinate. Like for instance, now, after my monday 4 hours classes (which i din go for the first 2) i felt empty. i don't know wat i should do to kill the rest of the free time. But before the tests, i would think of so many things that i'd glad to indulge in and so many tasks to get involved with. Hope i'll get rid of this emptyness by reading novels. trying to finish off angels and demons so that i can get back to my old rhythm.

merdeka's coming and my roommate's birthday's a day before.. got to get present for her!! >_< and i have a meeting tonight. Well, i guess it's all coming back. i'm going to be really busy after all. *bricked*

for those who had ym-ed or msn-ed me during my study period, i'm so sorry that i din really answer back nicely (mainly use emoticons to reply) this is because my keyboard is on my monitor and i only have my computer table [without keyboard desk] to study >__< so do forgive me and dun think me as being cold k? *puppy eyes*

guess that's it. even if you see me in campus or out, i might be blurry and probably won't notice anyone due to overconsumption of brain capacity so.. do give my a pat on the back or wave at me frantically to get my attention *Bricked*

still alive

2006-08-21T13:31:00.001+08:00

Google is going for world domination! *shot dead*

yea. i'm fried up there due to overstudying. 3 core midterms in a row is not sth you want to mess with, trust me. i still have 3 days more to study 3 subjects, tests covering 2 horribly unintelligible chapters each. so far i've jz finish 1 chapter of math, and haven done others yet. i will see the grim ripper waving at me on thurs.. if not fri, or even sat, which are my test days. orz. enuf ranting already, if not i'll be slapped and wringled by you guys before my tests XD

why is it public school holiday now?! this is jz so unfair *bricked* yea yea.. i have my share of holidays already.. but that's not considered holiday if you have test after that! TT_TT i'm cracked. ignore me pls k thx bye! Shoot me XD

which one?

2006-08-10T15:13:00.001+08:00

given a situation, when you are granted a week long holiday, you'd rather..

A: be sick and forced to rest in your home
B: really study for the midterm tests and assignment deadlines after your holiday

well, i got option C, which is all of the above. Sweet. I lost my voice after conducting a meeting on sunday in a really noisy room where the other end can hardly hear what I said, unless 1 knows how to read my lips. After that, my throat felt uncomfortable and got worst on thurs, when we went back home. Just my luck. After seeing the doctor at hometown, i had to fight tremendously against my overwhelming sleepiness so that i can study abit more before i drop dead due to the medication.
so.. i've finished/scanned 3 chapters of micro-p and still 2 more subjects to go. i guess i'm a failure. sigh.

Another situation: if you are diagnosed with terminal disease, would you..

A: sulk at your pitious fate and be in denial
B: recheck to confirm it/get rid of the dreadful uncertainty

for me it's abit of both.

Last time i posted about me going to donate blood in my hometown, and the GH had sent me a letter regarding some problem about my blood. Well, that's half a year ago and i was pronounced clear after doing a retest. Then, overjoyed, i donate blood again, before this trimester started. Again, a letter came to me after that, stating the same issue. I felt like a convict imposed with death sentance. Uncertainty and depression engulfed me, for good. I was diagnosed with Hepetitis C.

"How could this happen to me?!", the very same question asked by those who are declared having left 3 months to live or suddenly caught AIDS. That was a few week before midterm break when i was helplessly asking around for blood test center around melaka. End up, i din go to any of them, because i dun want to spend so much money when i can do the test halfpriced in my hometown (mom got a voucher for Pathlab in Fajah supermarket). It doesn't help if i do the test sooner or later if i really had that virus right, since there's no cure for it. So i force myself to be optimistic and life goes on pretty much.

The few days in between the trip to pathlab and the results announcement was anything but cheerful, tho my throat was getting better. I can't study, and i can't really enjoy reading manga or watching anime at all. All the time i was recalling about the infos about hepetitis C written online and wonder how much the medication for it cost. Well, i'm not really that pessimistic but you really have to be prepared if the worst befalls on you. So.. it's not my fault that i can't finish reading that stupid incomprehendable Electromagnetic. heh.

After days of suspense and uneasiness, today, the result was finally out. There's sth wrong with my liver's enzymes, and i have a bit of urea acid, but.. I'm Cleared of Hepetitis C! YEAH!!! my worst nightmare was gone with the wind. I heaved with great relief, as well as my dad, who went to the gent's straight after the news. Guess his really really worried and i'm so glad i'm ok. the uncertainty and depression vanished in thin air. I'm healthy! tho i've been taking it for granted before this happened, This statement became so precious to me now. So, guys, do care about your health cos it really is the only thing you can have in order to gain other things. So stop taking for granted about your health and start maintaining it! XDDD

Moral of the day: be happy for being healthy and disease free, and work for it!

ok. shit. i have to start studying now if i want to finish my assignment on time. >__< see you guys back in campus! XD

Happy Bday, Shin Dee!!

2006-07-15T00:30:00.001+08:00

yes. we are celebrating you getting older XD *bricked*

It was so much fun during shindee's party in Witchery Idel, which is a cafe newly open in U centre. most of the ppl in the party are shindee's coursemates, and me, loomun, weiyong, benny, kristine n qj there too. In the cafe, besides us there were several ppl having their bday celebrations. so being invited many times, we finally pushed shin dee near the music podium and sang bday song together for a long draggy time :p

Shin dee unwrap all her presents eagerly while we watched. got really nice bunch of presents, lucky you XD here's pics of them :D

The fun begins when the cake arrived. XD it was a secret recipe chocolate cake *heavenly* and lucky i din eat a very big piece cos it's very creamy and filling :D

after tat, Shin dee started to cut a smaller cake brought by Benny :D

then came the cake smearing time!! Kristine strikes yet again! XD and here's the priceless pic of the year:

Just that, this was not the only time she got smeared with cream. the vicious cycle went on and on, everytime after she wash her face, she'll be creamed again without fail. *pats Shin Dee*

Well.. this din not go on for long, as shindee strikes back with a full blow! jz that QJ was the biggest victim xD Loomun took a video of the process. Shin Dee cornered QJ who was protecting Kristine, and end up being smeared in the face :D hope you can wash off the new chocolate dye on your sideburns XD

After all the fun and excitement, we had to clean up the place abit *guilty for messing up the place with cream* and we went back, not before taking group pictures:

more pics.. but lazy now XD can't wait to go bon odori!! XD

Happy Birthday again, Shindee! *hugs*

Maths test postponed

2006-07-12T22:19:00.001+08:00

urgh. jz when i thought i can finally get over it. Been reading/doing maths since monday (some ppl even earlier *shudders*) and i even skip class today to do math! *bricked* yea yea.. excuse to play truant XD but that's beside my point. The thing is that when we were few meters away from our house biking to campus, weiyong, behind me, received a call saying the test was postponed.

i was like huh?! wth?! while stabling the bike steering xD It'd be bad to have accident before we even get to campus (tho last time i did had an accident before exam and surprisingly scored pretty well for it :p)

so still putting on an incredulous face, we decided to go take a look and see if it's for real. We've been cursing all the way till exam hall, where we saw tones of ppl walking in the opposite direction. guess the rumour's true. but wat caught my curiousity most was the reason behind it all. Viola!

THERE WERE NOT EVEN A TABLE AND CHAIR IN THE HALL!! @__@ @$%$@#$!#!#@ XDXD

It seemed that there's a discommunication (i wonder if there's a word like that) between the lecs and FMD (facility management department or sth) so when the event previously held at exam hall finished, FMD ppl din send any staff to rearrange back the exam tables and chairs. So, unless we bring our own tables and chairs (of which weiyong was eager to do) we gotta postpone our test. That goes for cyber ppl too. oh well.

the lecs in charge, Dr. Lim -he despices us for calling him anything other than Dr Lim. No Sir, No Mr.Lim, No nothing and he wont response to any of us, seriously if we dun call him wat he wants XD- was extremely pissed off and stared at the space, arms crossed as usual. Dr. Gan, who is my current math lec and tutor, was nonchalently explaining about the postponement and the reason, breaking off into a smile or craking jokes with students now and then. Difference of hell and heaven right? XD and they (both the docs) get along pretty well. opposite attracts? *not going to think any further than tat* :p

So one of the students ask if we can sit on the floor for the test XD i was hoping we can and Dr.Lim came butting it "what? you have to sit for 1 hour!" and look all disapprovingly at us. man, can't you take a joke? i shot back "really?! i dun mind!!" and he was startled and looked away into space again. Dr. Gan was laughing and all cheery as usual (heard he jz got so amiable recently, seniors said last time he was very strict) so having seen what i came for, me and weiyong bike back, somewhat frustrated. no. make it Very Frustrated. Now i have to study for maths all over again!! urgh.

on a lighter/not so angst note, EMiNA AGM 06/07 was quite a sight to behold, at least at the first hour XD. There were tons of ppl in there crowding up A1, our biggest lecture hall in CLC @_@. Preparation on the computer was a mess, but somehow we pulled thru, somehow ^^;; running to and fro to fix things, getting wires/cable, transfering slides/videos, and forgetting things on the way. Anyway, we got alot of enthusiastic ppl as working committee for both our club and GACC07 so i'm quite happy all and all. Must be my presentation that dragged them in XD *bricked* oh and thx to Khurshid too of course >w< too bad all the girls came to gacc rather than club's working comm XDD jkjk

so that's about it. Bon Odori here we come! XD *get camera ready to shoot yukata gals* XD

Loomun's near death exp + random stuff

2006-07-09T02:03:00.001+08:00

below are scribbles i drew while chatting with loomun in msn. We thought it's funny so loo mun let me blog about it XD sorry if they burnt your eyes :p

last time during Alpha, loo mun was as white as paper when she donated blood (not even half a blood pack..) and shocked everyone including the trainee nurses. Face pale and lips purple-ish white.. damn scary 0.o|||

On last friday (before khurshid's bday dinner XD), we went hiking up bukit bukit beruang. Not actually hiking cos we jz walk up the path, which at some points are really steep. then when we were halfway up, loomun became short of breath, and started to turn pale and flop on the ground. i was 0.0 and thus ask her to stop and do deep breathing. Everytime when she tried to get up, her lips will turn from purple to white..>__< wat if she pass out or sth.. *bit nails* Before long she lied/sprawled on the path, me scared stiff and helplessly stared at her, until kristine they all reach up there. We had to escort/support poor loomun downhill unless we want her guling down till the end of the slope XD

Now, on to sth very cute XD ouran host club episode 14 has the cutest tamaki in doggie form >w< i can't tahan.. felt like hugging tamaki with the puppy eye and "wang wang" yelping. btw it's also how you read the word in my banner doggie's bubble XD
here's the adorable tamaki-chan!

at the end of the show we have both tamaki and haruhi doggie mode! XD

for those who are not familiar with this anime, you should go watch it! it's really a nice comedy+bit of fake BL XD dun mind if you dun understand wat i said XD even my roommate who dun watch much anime had this in her watching list XD

to khurshid, glad you like your gift *grin*. btw, we were jz joking about the opening the present after 12am thing XD. me and loo mun had fun bullying you ^w^ *bricked*

Color by request xD

2006-06-30T13:14:00.001+08:00

Sandy, my online fren in brazil asked me to color her webpage banner.. so i did as she requested.. TADA~

so how's it? do see the larger reso pic. i've spent too much time on the small details :p lineart by Sandy Chu color by me XD

here's another one i did during the hols.. but it's not pretty so i wont put a pic here *brick* i suck at clothes shading..*hide in a corner*
Lineart by my sis, Liz and color/ruined by me. Click here to see and bled your eye..

well, again, i slept thru morning classes, and i'm dreading them more and more by the day. Weather's uber hot and it's even sweltering and only cooling off during the wee hours.. sigh. I WANT AIRCON!!! *bang wall*

Going to IT fair later.. hope i can get a DVD burner with a good price. then i'll start coloring a new pic. here's a sneak preview :D

New Start

2006-06-20T16:22:00.001+08:00

I'm in Gamma now. The thought slapped me in the face even harder when i see alot of freshies walking around in campus, suit up, carrying MMu-branded bags and hanging their laminated student card around their neck. Besides, there are new changes everywhere; fresh new hair style+hair color on frens, different classes and schedule, and unfamiliar faces for classmates. >.< this never fail to make me feel lost, intimidated, yet at the same time i'm brimming with excitement and anticipation. A whole new year to start my Uni life once more! YEAH!

It's the 2nd day of my 2nd year in degree, and i nearly overslept for my maths class today. Did i mention that i slept through my first 8am class on the first day? Really hope i can get up before 8am for the rest of my morning classes or i'll be desperate and dead for having poor attendance again XD

i'm supposed to start studying bit by bit daily, but i'm jz too addicted to a SNES game called "terranigma". The original name of the game in japanese is Tenchi Souzou, which mean The Creation of the World. I finished playing it when i was form 2, so you can imagine how old that game was. In spite of that, it's done by ENIX, before they become Square Enix, so you can expect it to be good :D the story was about resurrecting the world, and killing monsters n bosses. it's really easy to play, since there's not much combo skills and the battle system is like the Megaman series type, jz hit them on the right rhythm. I'm the type who go more for story instead of gameplay, so it's fair enuf for me *grin* Oh yeah! i can even use cheat on the simulator XD it's so cool *get bricked* if anyone's interested you can get the simulator and game from me!! my sister downloaded it jz before the hol's ended and i was delighted to be able to replay it again ^__^

here's some snapshot of the game:

so.. dubious as it seems, i'll try to do my best kicking start in everything. Everthing which includes making the next GACC another round of success, while not screwing up my studies, better my personality and interpersonal skills, and get closer to frens :D *hugs* guess that's not that hard right? *fingers crossed*

P.S. 1/3 of my harddisk died on me, and all my downloads are there. *sob*
P.P.S Upgraded my com to 1Gb RAM~ now i can use photoshop without lag/crash.
P.P.P.S I'm Broke.

New Blog Layout Duh

2006-06-13T01:37:00.001+08:00

so yeah.. after like 1 year plus since i last edited the layout, here's something cute for a change >w< it's almost done, save for the annoying white fonts on my doggie banner.. anyone knows how to hide it? do tell me cos i'm clueless XD later i'm going to customize the font size+color, an maybe some icons. Now i'm going to get a good night's sleep.. been doing the layout for a whole day (totally no idea wat to do) and another to solve the ever so confusing codes >__<

credits to my sis, liz for drawing the kawaii doggie for me.. saw my name in the doggie pic? it's meant to be our signature pics >w< mine's a doggie, hers' a lizard (i guess u know why XD)and my younger sis's a sheep. this is her DA page. do pay her a visit sometime :D *end advertisement*

that trip tat i was suppose to go after last post got postponed, so i'm off to penang tomorrow.. so tata for now! XD

holiday= overwhelming laziness XD

2006-06-08T09:49:00.001+08:00

i've been apologizing for not updating for the last few posts.. so i'm not gonna do so this time XD

On Monday, right after the last subject, which i've given up already since friday's subject, we went to watch Da Vinci Code. In the cinema there's tons of MMU students, which almost filled the whole cinema XD the movie was good, even for us who had read the book, but kinda missed out some plot which i wanted to see. like how grand the library mentioned was, how sophie threatened the guard by attempt of wrecking a painting.. and how sophie's bro being so handsome with the green eyes (they din even mention him.hmmph..). It'd be nice too if langdon is abit more handsome and sophie not looking so old. *runs away*

Back in room, packed everything and even managed to finish off 6 vols of fruit basket cos my com's already been dissembled and cpu sent to Dex for safekeeping. the next morning gatta wake up at 6sth cos we are going to KL at 7am *shocked to see it's already 3am after reading those manga*

June and William reach our house around that time in the morning, and we stuff our luggages and all the Gempak leftovers in the car. Had breakfast in Seremban (nice Wan Tan Mee. Mmmm...) I slept thru out the journey with piles of comic beside me, occasionally tilting towards me and squeezing me now and then :p we reached Gempak Office around 10am, and stucked there not until 12 sth. they have to check the stock.. do the accounts.. and then pay us 2k cash *WoOt!!* We were awed and it was my first time seeing so much cash in hand \0.0/

so we headed straight to KLCC, and ventured to the Bumiputra Commerce to bank in those terrifying piles of cash (yes i'm exaggerating :P, but it's still alot) by using the ATM machine. We were wondering how it counts the money after we put them in the money slot and joking about the machine saying "Thank you. Your cash is being shredded. Please come again." it was silly but we had a good laugh over it XD

Then we went to Aquaria KLCC, and we were there for 2 hours. there's side exhibitions of insects(i can spot every one of them in camouflage XD) besides the fishes and sharks n a big bloated poo-in-your-face-over-the-glass-tunnel fish. We were really shocked as we first stepped in the glass underwater tunnel, that huge dark fish jz swam across and poo. it was trailing along the fish, longer and longer it became.. Disgusting. Did i mention that we posed with scorpion on our palms? i even got 1 on my shoulder XD i felt this tingling feeling where it stood on your skin.. and posed very awkwardly. Loomun was screaming at me to take the photo quickly as it was crawling on her hand. Some experience we had.. sure worth the money :D

After walking back to KLCC and had our late lunch, we went to Sungai Wang via Putra, Komuter n monorail.. kinda lost abit but we managed to get there after some time *sweat* at that time we were kinda in a rush, so we jz go straight to Low Yat. i bought a card reader, and some games for my sisters and myself XD June's sister came and pick us up at the hang tuah monorail station. We were still in time for the bus home, so i thought we might as well go to her hostel room to freshen up before going to pudu station. June's sister was so cool XD she had handsome and sexy bishis in her
art file and i was immediately drawn. wish i could draw tat well >.< *drools* before long we parted and went for the bus home.

When mom and dad came to fetch me, i was half asleep. Dad suddenly said i looked taller and blew all my sleepiness away. XD i said "what? really?" then he said "must be cos of your long hair" and i was awed. so hairstyle DO affect how you look. *lesson learnt* so i was eager to have my hair cut and was thinking of changing my look. On Friday mom took me to this saloon, which charge quite expensively and i have my hair cut and restyled. it looks nice and i was surprised even to see my reflection in the mirror.. it's so feminine and Not ME. hell yeah i'm happy so i din dared to flinch abit fearing that it'd ruin the hair XD. Well, it eventually turn back the way it was and i had to stick some crystal hair oil on it to make it stay. few strains of hair will poke upwards now n then.. but it'll look better in time.. i hope >w<

Mom and aunt and uncle went to Bangkok and Pattaya for 5 days after that, and 3 of us (me and my sisters) were practically home alone for tat interval cos dad went work early and back home late. We did all the chores and yeah.. i'm an irresponsible big sister who slept till late in the afternoon and does not do much work except eating, daydreaming, n driving. But.. but I did bathe my dog coco and do some other petty stuff.. *gets squeeky and small*

Anyway, i get to meet up my frens and form 5 classmates. it's fun to meet up and see how they had change/remain the same over the years. it's been a year since i last saw them, and it's a relief that we were still joking and laughing like the old days. I'd really hate to see friendship bonded over several years flush down the drain by distance.

Besides, i've got a new phone! yey!! XD it's a Sony Ericsson P800. Tho it's not a new model, i got it free from my cousin *grateful eyes shining in tears* He was back from London, and last time he said he had a phone which he's not using and was willing to give me if i wanted. So.. it's the first ever pda phone by SE, and it is bulky and big but i'm not complaining.. it had touchscreen, camera, mp3 player, bluetooth, MMS, and games and softwares that i can download and install and so many other stuff that i previously dun. I was searching for softwares and firmware upgrades the first few days like mad XD and it paid off. i can write chinese characters, play games, listen to my mp3s n show off too *shot* XD i'm jz too happy with my new toy. Hope i won't spoil it or sth cos i've got this jinx with hp.. *touchwood*

so that's about it.. my first half of my hols XD going to penang again tomorrow to visit my fren Ahmoi and sharon will be there too. will make sure to enjoy myself :D so dun expect me to do updates any sooner k? *runs*

Good luck in finals!

2006-05-13T00:22:00.001+08:00

well.. everyone's probably studying like hell now.. at least i do.. and yet i can't seem to finish even 1 subject.. this sucks.. which lead me to watching auran host club 6 jz now.. *guilty striken*

anyway, good luck to everyone who are taking finals next week. *dreads*

tick.. tick.. tick...

ARGH.. i can't take it any longer!! Shit man. hope this ends soon before i say adieu to my sanity.. orz

いるいるなあった

2006-05-07T16:24:00.001+08:00

heh. sorry about not updating for so long XD

Around that previous post, there's so many events that i'm too lazy to post. for example, we had Loo Mun's birthday party (13.4.06), GACC appreciation dinner (15.4.06), maths n electronic exam, rushing of assignments n presentation... phew. wonder how we made it being so hectic.

And yesterday we have EMiNA Ad-Hoc Meeting (>Edo: yea i know, now that you said it i find it weird to have AGM meeting so many times XD) and YES! i'm OFF THE STAGE! no more president of EMiNA!! nyakakakakakka *bang wall*

Anyway, congrats EDO! You Hold The FUTURE of EMiNA now! Feel the wrath of 5th KaiCho of EMiNA (which is me) if you ever think of screwing up *fiery eyes n flame blowing*

Ehem. Hope that all the new hicomms will put in their efforts relentlessly and bring EMiNA up to a higher stage! Tanomu yo! we lay our trust on you now. ^_^

That said, i'm still one of the hicomm and.. BEHOLD! The Director for GACC07! yes! We are still having it next year! And hopefully larger scale and more eventful! can't imagine why i've gotten myself into deep shit again.. well, since i'm in it now, i better make it even more successful or else XD

Saa.. te. Later we are going to Shibaraku for our Hicomm appreciation dinner so i'm very looking forward to it ^^. next update will be full of pictures.. i swear! XD

The Long Awaited.. GACC Post!

2006-04-16T18:24:00.001+08:00

sorry i have to drag this post so long. :p

for anyone who does not know, GACC stands for Games, Anime, Comic Circle. Our event was held on 18th of March 2006, in Exam hall, MMU Malacca campus. It is the biggest ACG event and the first to be organized in Malaysia too!

GACC - Turning Point of History

Being the president of EMiNA for about a year now, I have always felt that i want to do something great, or anything that is different, exciting, and worthy of being called an achievement. But being the usual blur and undecided self, i can never do anything right on time, let alone realizing such great achievement. I was afraid to step forward, further recoiling at the thought of failure. In my dreams, i would laugh myself off.

But the idea of having a national anime event change it all.

We formed a team with what we have, and march on. EMiNA hicomms, all 18 of us gathered and discuss. We are very excited about this idea, doing something different and out of ordinary for our club, which was alleged a half dead one. A change. But, a difficult one. Being complete rookies, we have much obstacles to overcome and problems more than we could ever imagine to haunt us throughout day and night.

First, it's the decision on our event name, venue and time. We could not proceed without this, the most important decision of all. Time was slowly slipping away as we went into futile argument, with problems on the booking of our venue, indecisive stand of ground, and conflicting oppinions. Time is money- that was the situation that this saying applies most to. the more time we wasted, the slimmer our chance of getting sponsors became. Everyone was stressed and frustrated, blaming each other and holding grudges for our own incompetence.

When our event proposal was finally out, with all the 3 elements all gradually readied, more than 2 months had passed. We delayed everything in our schedule. Frantically, we scour every nook and corner for sponsors. We approach almost everyone, or so we thought. Most of them were doubtful about our event, as the concept was new and we were the first to do such event. We were frustrated. But we stood up, again and again, all for the sake of the club. Phone calls, emails, applications; we tried all of them. It was nerve-breakingly tensed that time.

At the start of our 3rd semester, things started to brighten up. Our toiling efforts had somehow brought back some rewards. Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, or refered as JFKL, had answered our call of distress. YES! Finally we have a sponsor! We jumped for joy and was in bliss, before another good news came. Kurnia Insurance, thanks to Shin Dee, had decided to sponsor our event too! the capital worth even more than wat JFKL promised! All of us were in euphoria by then, only to be greeting by more challenges and problems ahead. Life was not a bed of roses, and will never be.

Now having gathered most of the capitals we need, another headache came. Publicity. Being the pioneer of such event, we need as much promotion as possible. What's an event without a crowd? A Failure. No one wanted that, after all the effort we had put into it. So? promote lah! With WHAT?? banners? buntings? posters? All these don't drop down from the sky. We need the designs immediately. Yet, things were not going well, if not worse. Design team was in trouble for not coming out with designs, or even a floorplan for our venue. Things got uglier as time passed, with only a few of the comms multitasking all the task which was supposed to be shared equally among all. finally we have to cut the gordian knot by force. Friendship between us tensed up and went dangerously near the verge of breaking.

That was not the only problem we had. Vendors, Doujin sellers, food, transportations for CF ppl, sound system setup, venue floorplan, rental of stage n tables, Decoration. All these problems landed on us without a warning, mainly because of our bad planning and indecisiveness. It was jz a week before event that we got to hang our banners and buntings, finally designed, altered and printed. The process was gruesome, and i swear i don't want any part of it a second time. Publicity done. 1 down, more to go. jz great. My sanity was slipping away, day by day, until the day itself.

With the efforts of all the dedicated hicoms and working comms, the venue was set up perfectly, throughout the night before. It was lovely with white and blue cloth hanging across the ceiling, accompanied with blue ribbons and balloons. The stage deco was decently good, with partition boards stick with painted anime mascots and japanese sliding doors at the sides. Even our event mascot, Elio was dry and painted white. Delighted, but still not letting my guard down, we proceed on preparation on saturday early morning.

Things were messy and we were like cat on hot brick as we forgot to print the registration papers, as well as other necessaries. Things were not looking good as time ticked away, drawing nearer and nearer to the opening of the event. Vendors were late, so were the CF ppl. Preparation and set up were delayed and early crowds got in the hall, having high anticipation, only to be let down. CALM DOWN!! That was the only thing we could do.

We waited and YES! Things finally went back on track and in time, Ms. Kugai and Mr.Shimada, representatives of JFKL came. Thus started my job, to tour them around. we went around the already setup venue, with various merchandises on display, doujins n artworks adorning the otherwise forlorn partition boards n booths. They were amazed and impressed by what we have done, eyeing the setting, the vendors and also the sea of crowds. We were awed ourselves! the previously spacious walkway was now pack filled with posing cosplayers of all kinds, overwhelmed visitors snapping photos, as well as curious school kids and parents. I could choked myself to death with happiness and relief but i had no time for that.

Then came the Opening Ceremony. Khurshid, you were great! That's the best EMCEE skills i've seen since dunno when. All the formality went and thus let our event BEGIN! Me and Hsia-Liang entertained the JFKL representative summore along with Mr Syukor, our VIP of the event. It was all praises and good comments from the representatives, with Mr. Syukor smiling throughout our talk. Then i was finally free to walk around myself xD

During the event i neglected my sisters. *bang wall, shoot self* Really hope they enjoy themselves. You guys grown up di so can go walk around yourselves la *get bricked* Seriously, i felt bad about it T_T we met in the hall several times, walked around together a few moments and went apart. i'm a bad sister. orz

There were alot of Cosplayers, but too bad i could not take photo with them cos i had lent my camera to the photographer team. I was mainly walking around, keeping an eye for trouble or difficulty faced by vendors, cosplayers and working comms. When the competitions kick start, the crowd was overwhelming. Not an inch was spared between you and the crowd. all the seats were taken, ppl standing around the stage and even sat on the floor, cheering for and taking photos of the cosplay contestants. Responds for the PS2 competition as well as drawing competition were good too. Things were better than expected, with this multitude of crowd.

But one or two slight hiccups occur everytime, which were enuf to send our nerve wrecking. Theft caused the whole security division as well as all the hicoms panicked. Besides, Sales team had ran out of small changes, despite the dire need of coins. I rushed back home to get my pouch of coins worth RM30 to settle the sales team's problem. Luckily when i got back, the missing items were found out to be in another fren's hand. Case closed. Phew.

I was feeble and tired after that. The rest of the event went pass like a gust of wind, and ended before i realized it. Prizes were won, Photos taken, and there it went. Months of preparation and the one day event ended in a blast. A few problems arise again after the event, but was settled quickly. I was too tired to do anything else already, so was everyone else. Visitors and Cosplayers went back with a smile on their face, which paid off all our hard work and bloodshed.

I'm grateful that i'm not doing all this alone. Without you guys, i would have suffocated to death, or would have hung myself before that. Loo Mun, Kristine, Shin Dee, and the rest (you know who you are :D) i sincerely thank everyone, hicomms and working comms alike, who helped out in the preparation for GACC, the coolest and biggest event in the history of EMiNA.

Really, I'm proud of having such a big event, and i will never forget all the joy and sorrow that we had went through together. Everyone of us had make the impossible a reality, with aspiring perseverence and selfless sacrifices. Thank you to all the supporters too, who came to our event, especially my sisters. *hug*

I'm so glad that... i finished this post that i'd cry in joy. *get bricked*
jkjk, photos will be up soon :D

SUSHI Saturday!

2006-04-08T22:18:00.007+08:00

yup. at about 7pm today me and my roommate yining had a 2nd try on making sushi. the first attempt was.. er.. you dun want to know, so this time, we got ready all the essential ingredients: Seaweed, Japanese rice, Japanese Cucumber, Carrot, Crab stick and Egg. So.. first we cook the rice, wash and rinse and the veges, skin the veges (it sounds horrible, but it's not xD) and fry the eggs. Attracted by the commotion in the kitchen, our inquisitive housemate Loo Mun came out of her room. We were busy cutting vege and boiling the crab stick while Loo Mun floated here and there looking and poking around XD

Cameo Appearance :D
**Proudly present to you LooMun's first ever blog entry and even using lisa's blog...kekekeke...not even using tagboard...buahahaha...

KONshid!!! buahahahahaha

Lisa is getting better at cooking. Err..wait...listening to directions for chopping & clearing up stuffs.

Lisa & Yining still trying to fix the pictures of the sushi making as I was here typing this entry. *hijack PC*

What should I type ne? So much to say and also so lazy to type. Gahhhhh!!!

really lazy already....

Tata minna-san. *waves hand*

*end of transmission*

oh btw, this is truly LooMun typing. No joke. typing with my two fingers.

/back to lisa

ehem. so here's the process of our sushi making!! XDD

credits: pics captured by Loo Mun XD
animation by Yining :D

so.. here it is! *runs away before Kid come and demand for GACC post*

New post? ..not

2006-04-08T21:50:00.002+08:00

new style of coloring.. nice a? XD
as usual. lineart by Wounds. color by me *runs to do a new post*

Time Warp!

2006-04-01T21:46:00.002+08:00

#listening Hakasama No Chou, by SNoW
#studying Instrumentation (supposedly)

Seriously i think there is a time warp.. time flew with such velocity faster than lightspeed that i'd think i've jz gone thru some crazy roller coaster ride. It's like i'm sucked into a vortex and tossed and whirled in there until i was spat off it, all groggy and umpteen times blur.

Now it's already 1st of April. and oh yeah! it was decided that Kid will be our next EMiNA president! Hurraahh!! Let's ask him for a speech! *clap clap* :D
*runs away from kid*

ok.. i'm jz joking.. it's suppose to be a joke. so laugh! XD and happy april's fool to everyone!

back to blogging.. er.. the GACC post.. i swear i'm goign to post it later because i have exam!! *lame excuse but it's the sad truth orz* for now, i'll jz report my monotonous life after the event.. better than no updates right? XD

19th march- send my sisters to melaka central. Tumpang lynn's car *thx lynn.. hug* waved goodbye to them *tears* and went back home. Later, cleaned the venue, returned the long tables, and ate the leftover icecream. went home and back again to exam hall doing nothing, until dinner time.

20th march- went to exam hall early in the morning to return F&N fridge n leftover can drinks, the stage was already removed earlier by the MBMB ppl. Stayed in exam hall doing nothing again, oh, yeah. we printed pics on glossy photo papers using the Canon printer. Nice pics i got >w< Saber n Byakuya *kyaaaaa* later on was slaved by FMD ppl cos they din come and arrange back the exam tables n chairs until we have done most of it. felt frustrated and glared at them =_=+ After the icecream fridge was taken back, we kept all our stuff in our operation room n went back home.

21st march.. and following days- after event blurness+empty memory span. XD

24th-26th march- studying for Intro to Machines. study freak mode activated.

27th march- skipped all classes n test at night. everything went smoothly, i guess.

28th march- realized that i'm broke and i owe alot of ppl alot of money for meals. orz. waiting for refunds from club cos account money is squeezed out until the last drop, and will be dry as desert for another 2 weeks.

29th march- overslept. seems that i've got good results for previous test, cos my name was mentioned in class, while i was sleeping at home. great timing. well, i jz hope that the lecturer won't remember my name. pls spare me those extra attention cos i dun want to be in the candidate list of students called out to solve problems, thankyou :D

30th march- got money from kristine, who can't put up with my whining anymore and we ate in Heritage, my first proper meal since the event. Screening was delayed for 30mins because the connection of the harddisk was very unstable for file transfer. end up we use Jin's laptop to screen, Gomen ne.. m(_ _)m think we will have to burn into cds now that the hd is not working well..

31th march- 31% discount at Baskin Robins! yey! After Dexter had finished his lab, he drove me, kristine n Yining to MP and we watched ICE AGE 2, Melting Down. Before that, we ate baskin robin Ice cream!! XDD was damn happy. we ordered the 2 scoop pint, having rasberry cheesecake n citrus ice. the latter was damn sour! >w< Kristine bought another pint and sneaked it in to the cinema. hahah. i'd rather not eat anything cos the show was really funny and eating would take most of my attention away :p Later Dex went back home, n we took bus to Jusco for shopping. the bus ride was long and chilly, as the rain pelted down heavily. Luckily it was jz drizzling when we alight the bus. We shopped uber fast and was paying up before 4pm, which was jz in time to call dexter for a ride home XD

1st april- am supposedly studying for Instrumentation, but end up dawdling n watching dragon zakura which i got from jin's hd. Then 11am we did spring cleaning in our house until about 2pm, with our living room and porch sparkling clean n tidy XD the sense of achievement was great everytime i come back to a debris free porch, and squeaky clean living room XD

so.. i've finished about half of the money i got from kristine, paying bills, debts, proper meals n groceries. ahh.. wat a relief to not owing anyone money again... i still owe ppl blog entries tho... *ignore*

hurray for KONshid!! *runs with lightspeed*

Thankyou so much!! XD

2006-03-03T22:20:00.002+08:00

I've had the best birthday parties, thx to you guys! yeah.. it's 'parties'. Plural form. *jumps with joy* I had one with my wacky classmates *hugs* and another one with my buddies in EMiNA club. This means, this year, my 20th birthday, i had 2 cakes of my choice! It was really fantastic to celebrate with all my frens, 2 days party in a row. The hang over on thursday was undoubtedly worth it XD

On Tuesday, before it strikes 12, my classmates (Anne, and her koibito Ee Jin *XD*, Jon, Mohan, Kai, CM, Lilo, Alex, Chen Li, Dexter) and my housemates celebrated my birthday in our house. It was hilarious at the part where i had to bite out the pushed-in-the-cake-deep candle, while Mohan, sharing my birthday cake, got the other one XD The cake was delicious, which was a strawberry flavoured moose cake. It was such a long time since we've 'played' the cake smearing game that i got my guards down easily after finishing my piece of cake >__< I din know that kristine was aiming all this while. Out of the blue, i felt a sudden touch and Argh! cold cream on my cheeks and there was a gleeful kristine. After recovering from the shock, we chatted more and then when out for yamcha in Cahaya Dinar. Then, the best part was that we get to ride back home in Ee Jin's new BMW! that's way cool XD

On my birthday night, after attending our japanese class (Yeo-san gave me a magazine for birthday present XD) we meet up with shu yin and lynn, who had all the posters and buntings and banners in her car. Shu yin gave me a DVD filled with the stuff i wanted (thx, shu yin *hug*) before we went to cahaya dinar for the party.

Almost all the EMiNA hicomms are there, and i'm so happy that i can't stop grinning like an idiot. Benee gave me a handmade present as the day before i was jokingly nagging him for a present. I was really glad XD Then, my next present was from QJ... and i can't suppress my delight as i unwrapped the gift.. it's a novel! and wat's more.. it's the latest by Sophie Kinsella!! *screams* i jz can't believe QJ bought this for me. Thank you so so much! i promise i'll lend it to you once i've finished reading it ^__^

After going thru the birthday ritual, i had to bite the candles out again. *that's the only bad part about having 2 cakes for 1 birthday XD* Got mocha cream on my nose, but that's not the worst yet. after everyone had their share, the cake smearing game roar back to life. Kristine hits, and i striked back, and on and on the war went.. on video. Edo was recording all this in his new N90! urgh.. it even got the part when i chase kristine off the table and ran like cat and mouse for afew meters >__<

later in the party i got sms and phone calls from frens as well as those back in hometown wishing me happy birthday.. 1 even sang to me thru phone! XDDD it was such a delightful surprise.

Our yamcha session+party ended at around 2am, with me and kristine smelling like cake and was as sticky as 1 too XD. It was fun and memorable.. hope i can celebrate like this every year to come ^__^

P.S. Mom gave me extra allowance! weee~~~ too bad mah sisters got exam on my birthday :p kid!! i'm waiting for the present XDDD Thanks everyone, for being there for me *hugs*

GACC BBQ!!

2006-02-27T00:47:00.001+08:00

this really cheer me up alot ^__^
it's the long await break i've wanted. thx guys. i'm feeling ok now. will upload more pictures after my beauty sleep :D

here's more pic..

between life and death

2006-02-22T02:23:00.001+08:00

well, things have been getting wildly out of hand, i barely survived the pressure of having all these problems that had been piled up and landed with a sudden thump on us. think i'm getting gastric because of all this pressure.. dunno. And my health status is still unconfirmed. Before CNY i've donated blood, out of boredness. then when the semester reopened, a letter came and said i've had to go do check up on my blood. This freaked my parents and myself out so much, that i went back home straight away on friday, a long 6 hours journey.

Home, and saw my uncle (mom's older bro) and his wife, all with pure white hair and fair complexion. Was trying to have fun during the grand feast with them, cos they hardly come back to M'sia, and it was 13 years since i last seen him, not that i can remember much. It was because my grandma passed away, only they were back. This time, they are back for renewal of their passports. So, hungry and not exactly in the mood to talk, i jz eat my way thru.

Did check up on Monday, cos they dun work on Saturday anymore. They promised to call me up when report's out, but i haven't got a whisper about my condition till now. It's thrown to the back of my mind tho, cos i've more things to worry about once i get back to campus. shit happens. things jz won't go smoothly as planned. Things got dragged, and everyone dread the workload, tho some dun even have much to do, while we jz took the lion's share of all of them, working our ass off.

Can't even study, as i planned to, now that i've screwed my results for 2nd sem, i dun think i want to dilly dally until the last moment, but i jz can't help it. things are getting too complicated. I need a rest from all these. so you'll see me shutting off my brain, and jz do watever i'm told. practically a zombie. God, i pray that i can get over this.

i'm lucky to have frens like you guys.. you know who you are. can't make it without you all. you're rare gems and i've never regretted being a fren for you all.

we'll overcome this, and laugh over these problems when everything is over.

新年快乐！

2006-01-28T09:56:00.001+08:00

*happy chinese new year!*
erm.. sorry for the late update.. was being a cooking baking slave+driver+slacker for the pass few weeks :p anyway, i'm going to KL later today and i'm busy packing now. going to spend the rest of my holiday there, without internet connection *scream and cries*

yestereday mom brought us to Fajah Kamunting for last minute shopping at about 11pm. Bought a few clothes for myself.. and met up with a few long lost frens in secondary school. the whole place was pack like sardin can, and the worse case was queuing up to pay.. can't imagine it's such a long line before my turn. I waited for like half an hour before mom came back from another counter. this is so screwed. the casher had sum problem with the credit card machine and everyone in the line jz stuck there, grumbling and cursing. after paying, there's another corner with alot of goods, which you can purchase only when you present receipt for clothes of certain amount. well, after 'slaugtering' everyone about 100 ringgit above, they still want to 'cheat' ppl to buy those goods with prices 1-2 ringgit below the market price. sigh. in the end, after buying some cookies n body foams from that counter, we went back home at 1am.

At home, found out that i can convert rmvb to avi successfully using WinAVI video converter 7.1 (i'm slow.. i know) cos last time my dad use other programs and failed to do so. too bad the quality loss is quite obvious (pixelated) but then again, at least i found out sth can be done to convert rmvb to avi :p

mom's gonna come back anytime soon so i better start packing.. see ya in campus then! and Happy chinese new year! gonna bring back my cookies XDD

2006-01-09T18:34:00.000+08:00

erm.. did this for loo mun.. hope she likes it cos she's very picky *get bricked by her* jz compile this so artwork dun belong to me ^^;

2 days to finals.. i'm dead oTz

New year pic

2006-01-06T00:54:00.001+08:00

did this in 3 days on and off.. first day sketch+basecolor, 2nd skin+hair shading, 3rd more hair shading+cloth+background. conclusion, i'm dead for not studying. Not to mention i suddenly got flu attack.. Oh joy...

for the pic.. click for details >__< spend kinda long to try new style of coloring..but end up sticking to old one.. haiz

Happy new year!

2006-01-01T01:13:00.001+08:00

Happy new year!!! it's already 2006 T_T
hope everyone will have a wonderful year ahead!
for students, SCORE!!! XD
for working ppl, Prosperity!! *echo* Burger!! XD
for my family and frens, my love for you for another year! ^__^

that's it! cos i've lost my previous post, i'll try to retype in next post *sob*
good nite and sleep tight! *muaks*

kittie!

2005-12-29T17:24:00.001+08:00

ain't they cute? XD
*get brick for not posting 'bout the christmas trip*

CG pics..

2005-12-27T00:50:00.002+08:00

before i write about the trip to singapore.. i'll jz post my coloring here first..

i can't make up my mind between the 2 so wat you guys think? it's a pic of my online fren Ufo. she drew it and i jz color~ pls zoom in for details.. me spent so much time on the hair and folding until i felt like vomitting XD

here's another one which is done in about half an hour's time.. jz took the ori pic and modify into wallie :p

enjoy :p.. gonna post more pics next time.. ^__^;;

CF~ finally XD

2005-12-26T18:22:00.001+08:00

erm.. sorry for not posting for quite a while cos i'm jz too lazy *get spanking*
so i'll jz quickly give you guys a run thru of what had happen for the past few weeks ^_^

After running to and fro between STAD and our emina booth the week before CF to settle the transportation n payments, we finally got up our MMU bus on Saturday morning(17th ofDecember) and headed to Sunway, where Sri Sedaya is located (FYI, CF, Comic Fiesta is held in that international school hall). When we reached sunway at 11sth, our bus driver got lost and end up we went around Sunway searching for the school. Plus the congested traffic, it took us about 1 hour jz to get to the right place. All the way i was worried that we would be late and miss out stuff, while the drivers kept on mumbling complaints, which spiced up my frustration even more.

At last, we were there, not to mention shit happens when we were walking towards the school entrance. The poor victim was Adib, while Kid was jz on time to avoid it. Nikki was warning them, but it's jz too late for adib >__< *sorry adib.. i cant stop laughing* After he'd clean up abit, we went to the hall situated on the 2nd floor of the building. The school dun really look like one, but more like a bureau office. Furthermore, it stood right in the heart of industrial area, which was one of the reason we got lost :p. After buying 20 one-day-tickets from the counter (the receptionist practically gawked at me when i said "20 tickets pls") we went into the hall, which looked like a different world altogether.

The 6-badminton-court hall was lighted with warm yellow overhead light as we walked in, staring at the huge amount of ppl as well as cosplayers. Momentarily i've forgotten wat i was here for and stood gawking at all the blazing colorful attires and makeups of the cosplayers XD. Can't blame me cos it's the first time i've been to CF. So, i'm as excited as a noob xD. Further in, I see rows of doujin and art booths, which is really crowded with ppl. All hyped up, me and kristine and others went from 1 booth to the other staring at the artworks like posters, postcards, bookmark and etc. Some were jz so-so but the other's were superb! summore a few had really high quality printing and the packing alone makes ppl buy it XD. There were about 60 booths and i'm so happy that i found some of the online artist i really admired! there's Kidchan, Kaizeru, Aramaki, Too, as well as other new found great artists like Ciel!

After buying stuffs from the booths, we went hunting for cosplayers to take their pics. They said this year had alot of cosplayers in numbers, but last time the quality of cosplayers were better. Since i'm new, i practically run all over the place searching for characters i recognized. There were alot of bleach cosplayers, As well as FMA. I saw about 2 persons as Byakuya while 3 as Edward Elric. The large amount of characters from various anime like Rozen Maiden, Gundam, Trinity Blood, Gravitation, FF7, D greyman, Air Gear, POT, Rave, Yugioh and other unknown anime jz sprung up in front of my eyes. It was fun hunting around for pictures >w<. All the while, there's a art competition going on while performances are on stage, where later on we got to hear kidchan's voice! hehe.. damn cute when she really go "Nyaa.." there ^^;

here's some pics:

bleach~

FMA~

Trinity Blood~

POT n Rozen maiden~

Us cosplaying ourselves XD~

Lynn as tsunade :p n poor benee XD n random RO guy xD

The streams of ppl never ceased until it's almost 4pm. At that time we were finished with our shopping spree as well as photo snapping. Besides that, me, Kid and nikki even got some contacts from the doujin groups as well as the sponsors for our event's sake. hehe.. so when it was about 5pm, we gathered and left for Sunway Pyramid. Some already left CF and walked there, while a few others left with their frens.

In Pyramid, the first thing we do was eating dinner. We had been starving since morning as there were no food provided in CF >__<. Finally we decided to eat in Ichiban Ramen, where i had a big bowl of beef ramen (Japanese beef noodle..Oishii!) and also extra veges Lynn gave to me xD. After feasting, we went walking around the shops. I got myself a Santa Hat while Kristine bought some nice pairs of earings. Later on, after browsing for a long time, i finally got my mom a nice photo frame for present ^_^. Before that, Kristine bought a small n cute softtoy turtle for herself as well as shin dee. damn Kawaii leh! and it was soft n cuddley to hold too.

While walking aimlessly, we saw Kid, Hsia Liang, nikki and also Lisa in the ice skating ring. Nikki and Lisa were holding on to each other while Kid n Gen were skating stiffly around XD. We wanted to skate too, but it's jz too much having to pay RM5 for each glove and socks. So we jz stare at the skating ring for about 20 mins. There's a really slender girl in the ring wearing fluorescent green pants skating very gracefully, not to mention her long slim legs.. wow. it really take all kinds to make the world ^^; Aside that, we almost saw Kid fell as he was losing balance at a point. Too bad there's a pillar in between us and i lost sight of him as he fell.. Why is there a pillar blocking the millenium view?! haha... jz joking XD

At about 8.45pm, we went out of pyramid and gathered under the Lion's head (there's a huge lion sculpture which kid called Aslan on top of the main entrance). We took pics as we wait for our bus to come. We boarded the bus at about 9 and then reached Melaka at about half past 10. @__@ the bus must be speeding.. but i'm not complaining for getting home sooner XD. so there's the end of our CF trip. I really enjoyed it, and really hope others do too! ^__^

that's about it then.. phew~ next will be Singapore Trip! XD

*edit* i forgot to give credit to lynn and khurshid for the pictures used here.. sorry >__< and anyone's interested to see more, you can always visit here. ^^

大変です～

2005-12-03T13:35:00.001+08:00

tomorrow's D day for our japanese test! i'm suppose to study now but jz dun feel like it :p. It feels like i'm going KL for fun tomorrow, instead of sitting for exam. hahaha.. anyway the test starts at 3pm (i think) and we are going to depart from mmu at 10am. The bus fare was 10ringgit only cos it was organized by JLS. So all of us booked our seats asap before 2 of the buses were all filled up. for those who were not fast enuf, they had to join the level 3 students, who will depart at 5am cos their test starts at 8 in the morning. lucky i'm not one of those cos i'd not be able to wake up >_< and i'd be so bored after reaching UPM with nothing to do.

things to bring for the test tomorrow:

-test voucher
-IC
-2B pencil
-eraser

think i'll pack these stuff tonight cos i'd be dead blur tomorrow when i wake up ^__^; that's it then.. as for the assignments, well, they'd had to wait until i've finished the test! yey~ XD

*edit*
the jap test turn out quite easy cos most of the questions are similar to passyears :p. There's electronics assignment and lab report to be completed after that, but we'd managed to do it, by hook or by crook *evil grin*. Besides that, my Digital Logic test turn out to be super easy and abit low standard compared to pass year's midterm exams.. well, i'm satisfied with my results, which mattered most. not much going on until Comic Fiesta.. Next post!! XDD

いそがしいです...

2005-11-25T00:42:00.001+08:00

Currently
- reading Da Vinci Code
- Watching Black Cat
- Chatting online
- Browsing Deviantart
- Looking blur (XD)

well, it's like a dead blog here for the past few days, if not consider weeks :p cos when i came back to melaka, the Modem was rosak. think it was struck by lightning, cos we were so smart that we left the telephone line plugged to it >__< so 1 week pass without internet connection, which is such a pain! Luckily i've saved some anime at home and had tons of manga unread. so that's practically how i spend my first week back here, reading long-saved manga and anime and clean the house painstakingly besides going to Yeo-san's extra japanese class. Thx thx so much to dex for giving us free ride there >w<. The jap exam date is 4th of December, which is drawing nearer and nearer.. hope i stay calm and do well ^__^;

classes were as usual, jz that i'm always anticipating the new lecturers and dreading them when they were incomprehendable, especially their accent.. can really die in the mid of guessing wat alphabet or word the lec had jz said.. *sigh* and they said local students won't have much language barrier problem.. There's always tutorial lec to look forword to tho i dun really have high hope about it. Why can't i get into Alan Tan's tutorial group? he's the best of all the lec man.. his classes were interesting and fun to listen to, and the most important thing is that he made difficult things easy. so love him last sem when we were allowed to go to his tutorial TT_TT

as for our modem, i'm really grateful that CY lent us his telekom modem cos if not, our suffering days with no connection would be prolonged. It seem that telekom, now known as TMNet was so brilliant as to go short on their modem supply. Well, if we dun bug them again and again, they won't even come and check our line. Now that i've got a modem from CY, i doubt that the TM ppl would come and replace ours cos i've not made a noise since then. Very efficient they are~ can't imagine how i'd work there after i've graduated.. *shivers* let's hope that they can't find a job for me there and i'm free to go XD.

On friday, Dex brought us to MP to watch Harry Potter GOF, along with shin dee, hsia liang, nikki, radikah, n adib. Before this we ate hurriedly in Burger King cos shin dee got the special offer coupons. Buy 1 wooper get a free 1~ yey. it was really nice to eat but too bad we dun have much time for softdrink refill >"< Before long we were already in the cinema searching for our seats. Actually the movie was kinda ok compared to the last one, but still missed out alot of plots, like usual. The Veela were not as beautiful as described in the book, the Quidditch match was pitifully short with much interesting parts cut off, Emma's acting was abit off, and the worse thing is that dumbledore is like so OOC!first he's shouting, then shaking harry, then running! can't believe it.. it's so not Dumbledore.. wonder wat happen to the director.. might have hit his head or sth to let dumbledore looking so uncomposed. haiz.. at least it's jz 5 bucks. if you guys haven't watch it, jz go download la~ no need waste money unless you wanna go for the special effects XD

After that, we ate steamboat! after buying all the ingredients, we went back home and started cooking with the utensils dexter brought over. it was fun and lynn later joined in too, tho she jz took pics for us. here's some of them:

hehe... oishii desu ne~ XD

Say Ahhh... Nyam nyam..

My piece of grilled meat dropped while i was grining at the camera and everyone's laughing as it fell into the bowl of uncooked meat >__<

so that's it for first week back in melaka~ will try to update as often as possible, as i suddenly got lots of studying to catch up yet tones of anime and manga haven't watch X__X until then, ja ne~ *runs away*

this the pic i missed~ did some editing tho ^__^

Kittens!!

2005-11-02T14:55:00.001+08:00

There's a cat from my back alley which comes regularly for food in the evening. Yesterday she din come, and this morning she amazing squeezed thru my back grill door into our kitchen, with a big belly @__@ my aunt put her back out and later only found out that she's finding a place to give birth! wow.. at the end my uncle saw her having kittens already near the backyard few houses away. the babies are so cute XD altogether 3 of them i think >w< kya~~~ so wanna hug them.. but i can't even have a second look at them cos uncle said i'm born in the year of tiger so i shouldn't see them or else the mama cat will eat up all the kittens.. >"< superstitions are bad... so my sis, who's born in the dragon year took the pic and let me see.. wonder why dragons are not harmful to the kitties.. not fair T_T

oh yea.. i've added a background to the previous pic i coloured.. take a look here.. btw, my results are ok XD. can't asked for any better *dance around* thx for calming me down when i'm nervous and anxious for it XD

that's it for today.. me going to KL tomorrow so am busy helping my aunt to do cake. ^__^ Selamat hari raya to all and enjoy yourself during the remaining holidays!!

==|||

2005-10-30T11:53:00.001+08:00

Damn.. was so nervous on friday cos i thought results are coming out, as the bulletin stated.. starting from 2pm my hands've been dripping cold sweat as i check the student info again and again and again.. damn.. the achievement jz displayed until Alpha third sem's results.. ok.. the bulletin said latest by 5pm, so i calm myself down, and resume coloring in Photoshop CS2 with mah sis's Tablet.. damn nice.. the previous 2 pics are colored using that too.. i can do much much better than using a mouse >"< too bad can't bring back to melaka *stare at kristine's*

Anyway, at 4.55pm, i started to click on the achievement part again, and nothing came out. I was fuming when i retried at 5.30pm, and saw the bulletin about Engin and IT's results are being delayed until Monday! that's so irresponsible.. making me wait for about 3 hours and this is wat i get.. screw ERU

putting that aside, i've finished coloring the pic i mentioned.. jz lacks the background, which my sis suggested a night scene with moonlight.. erm.. as for the character, it's mana from negima and dun blame me if it's too revealing XD i'm jz coloring it *la la la..*

will add a background soon...

Youruicchi!

2005-10-26T17:35:00.001+08:00

hehe.. said wanna do some coloring practise, so here's one.. spent 4 hours on and off coloring the characters and 3 hours to decide on the background.. i'm so lame *bang wall*
the original sketch is by Wounds.. i still can't draw *whines* click here to see. pls comment.. *runs away*

Completed..

2005-10-25T14:52:00.001+08:00

Finally i've finished colouring Alex's pic which i've owed him since last semester break.. *sweat*
can't believe that my skills had dropped standard so much since my last colouring attempt.. *kills myself* Alex.. sorry for screwing up the pic >"< will give you the one without background too when i see you..

Cont.. Beijing journal

2005-10-24T11:39:00.001+08:00

Day 5~

starting now i'm writing this after the trip, cos on that fateful day, i got really 'lucky'. remember the mongolian style buffet? i think because of that, my tummy started to rumble non stop and ached now and then. yes.. i got myself an attack of diarrhea! die la.. i din know how i managed to survive without shooting off to toilet every 10 minutes OTZ the first tourist spot of the day was the emperors' tomb from qing dynasty. There, i will run to every available toilets and then come out relieved, for 1-2 hours before i dash again.. haiz.

As if this is not bad enuf, i got even luckier when i was trying to snap the monument below.. i walked on the marble steps with my camera standby to snap any second, and suddenly i felt unbalanced and the gravity force pulled me head first and made me kiss the dusty ground. ==||| Mom was behind running towards me obviously worried. All the while Mom was asking about my knees or ankles or elbows if they're injured but i jz told her i'm ok. i was more worried about the camera, which knocked the ground along with me!! summore the len's on!! Arrrggh! I tried to fix the camera, which now had irreversible scratches. After a few anxious fumbling, it finally functioned normally. Phew.. I was too worried about the camera to notice the pain in my knees.. Later on then only i realized as we had to walk down to the basement in order to see the tomb... Ittai yo!! totally had no mood to look at the ancient ornaments in the tomb as i was limping all the way up to ground again.

The worse has yet to come, cos our next stop was the China Wall *faints* why? cos we had to climb on that steep mountain high wall. Urgh.. i can't refuse not to, cos all the old ppl went up.. i'd feel damn useless if i don't, so i begin my teeth gritting journey up the great wall. It was damn hard, as the height of the steps are uneven, but all mostly knee height, which was a pain to my bleding scratched knees. After about an hour, me and mom were up on one of the high towers and call it quits. Damn satisfied as i look afar at the mountainous view. We snapped pics, rested our poor legs, only then we went down carefully. it'd be fatal if i trip there *shivers*. then when it's time, we went up the bus and from there, we headed to datong (大同), one of the city in shanxi (山西) province. The bus journey took more than 7 hours, cos of the stupid congestion on the highway, which was all clogged up with lorries and other heavy vehicles. At 8pm only we reached datong, and we ate dinner there before going to our hotel. having tommy ache and knee injury, me dropped dead instantly on the hotel bed that night :p

Day 6~

Dun have much appetite for the following days cos of the diarrhea but then i felt a wee bit better after taking some medicine mom bought along. We went to 2 places only during our stay in Datong, and both of them require walking alot. haiz... so we go see the cavern of buddhas there and then the hanging temple situated in the middle of a moutain, thus having the name. luckily my injuries weren't that bad anymore, so i was able to climb the stairs up to the temple without much difficulty and pain. and that's it for our sight seeing cos we have to head back to beijing, and yey~ another 6-8 hours of bus ride. wat joy it was... *sweat* in the end we reached beijing at 8.30pm and jz in time before the restaurant close up for the day. still having diarrhea that time, so din eat much.. can't even eat fruits TT_TT

Day 7~

Felt better cos my tummy's not grumbling that much already, and we went to beijing's underground tunnel for a visit. it was like an underground maze, with tunnels going here and there and practically we can reach every prominent places using the tunnel. seems that it's for military use and to hide from bombing in President Mao's time. The tunnel was only open up for public recently so we get to visit only parts of it. they have factory, hospitals, place for ammunition, residental area and even schools! @__@ imagine it's like an underground city there.. and the tunnel was dug by manpower.. it's really impressive. too bad i can't take pic cos of military reasons. we went around the tunnels led by a tour guide there and later on we were brought to a underground shop selling silk products. there they started promoting and stuff and i wasn't interested to listen cos i've known since last visit to shanghai. they all talk about the same thing. so me and mom walk around the souvenir corner and pick some handy gifts for frens. Before long, after most of us had bought enuf stuffs, we went up to ground again.

we ate lunch before travelling to tian jin (天津) which took about 3 hours. there we jz go shopping cos there's not much historical stuff there. bought alot of traditional biscuit and nuts and even scallops, which tian jin is famous for. after dinner, we return to beijing without staying overnight in tian jin. starting to get sick of bus ride, especially those more than 3 hours ones.. haiz.

Last day. wee~

was forced to wake up at 5am, and checked out at 5.45am as we board the bus towards airport. the trip to airport was 1 hour so we ate our doggy bag breakfast and slept in bus. our air flight was due on 8.45am, so we had to be there 2 hours earlier, which's 6.45am. we reached there jz in time so we linger in the duty free area until we board the plane. on the plane i watched 3 movies, the first one was a korean comedy "she's on duty", 2nd was Jay Chou's "Initial D" and the third one which i can't finish was a japanese science fiction drama called "Hinokio". the first one was so hilarious that i had to eat my fist to stop bursting into laughter. Jay's was ok, but the third one was really touching and thought provoking. now trying to search for its download XD. Once in singapore, we din stop long cos our next flight was due in an hour's time when we touched down.

Then as we arrived in Penang, Mom was busy buying DOM and cigarettes while i go pick up some chocolates XD. Loaded with stuffs, we pass the customs and went up our tour company's bus back to taiping. Yeah~ Home Sweet Home!

Beijing journal

2005-10-23T23:00:00.001+08:00

Beijing trip~ day 1 & 2

the first day was uneventful as we travelled from taiping to penang by bus, flew to singapore from there, then only to beijing. Seems that this trip only consisted of 15 tourists, who are mostly senior citizens excluding me and Mom. haiz.. I was the youngest among all, but i dun feel particularly happy about it TT_TT cos was thinking i might get to know some cute guys in town. bleh.. now all i got is old married couples and uncles old enuf to be my grandpa. ish.. our tour guide called Kumar Loh, was surprisingly a Chinese, cos judging by the name, anyone would have thought he's a mix or an Indian :p. He's short and stout, (i'm taller than him XD) and funny. Later found out that he's my Driving Instructor's big bro and i should have noticed earlier cos they had the same features :p Mr. Loh briefed us thoroughly about stuff to take note like our passport n money during the bus ride.

then when we reached penang airport, we went into the duty free area and bought chocolate. i got a tube of toblerone dark chocolate and daim sweets. happily we walked to the gate to wait for our flight. we departed and after 45 mins or so, we touched down in changi airport, which, to my delight, had free internet access! XD we had to wait there for 3 hours cos it was still 11pm, and our next flight to beijing is not until 1am. So i hogged over a com there as long as i could. Mom was browsing around the duty free shops aimlessly (sorry mom >"<) while i read manga, chatted using e-messenger and checked my mails. haha.. the connection was damn fast summore. After chatting with my taiwanese fren using online translator (yes, i'm too free XD) Mom came around, so i started to chat with my younger sis at home, to Mom's amazement. Mom asked if Dad's around, but the answer's no cos he's still repairing fridge in the shop. later on Mom went to the waiting lounge nearby and i continued browsing net until it's time to board the plane. [some kid at the com beside: Bro, that girl had been using the com for so long.. and she's giggling to the screen.. bro: ...]

In the plane, guess wat i watched? Densha Otoko the movie! hehe.. it was really good and i liked the densha here better than yamada-san. i can't believed that i saw jinkama-san in the show as a cameo! At the end i dun quite get it but yamada-san appeared, as well as Aoyama-san in the train scene, with the densha in movie as the cool guy hand locking the drunkard *_* Then i dropped dead at 3am after finishing the movie. Jz when i was starting to sleep better, i was waken up by the stewardess cos it's time for breakfast.. i check the time, and it's jz freakin 5am! it was the first time ever i'd eat breakfast this early. While eating and half sleeping, my flu came back! I can't believe that before reaching beijing i'm already like this. This is baaaaad.. Trying to get rid of the flu as i breathe in the hot steam from my tea, i saw the sun rising up amidst the cloud of melting red and yellow.. It was nice, with a wide spread of orange on the horizon, getting brighter and brighter. But before long the sun was glaring at us and i pity the passangers sitting near the side window ==|||

25 mins later we touched down in China Capital Airport (中国首都机场). the outside temperature was 16 degree Celsius, which was freezingly cold to us at first. my lips started to get really dry, and was forced to use lip gloss Mom brought along. Once we passed all the customs we were greeted by our beijing tour guide, Mr. Wang. He's a middle-aged guy and looked slightly plump cos of the thick jacket he's wearing. After everyone'd gathered, he led us to our bus. On the bus, i was busy trying to snap a pic of the airport but failed >"< *curse the moving bus* while our tour guide started to intro himself and then briefed us again about our belongings' as well as our own's safety. The drone goes on as i became more and more groggy with sleepiness. Before we proceed to our first tourist spot, we went for a light breakfast in the urban city. It was really good and of course after some food i've rejuvenated and ever ready to go XD. After this, we went to Tian An Square (天安广场) which was a vast clearing filled with sea of heads. At the square's south is president Mao's Memorial Hall (毛泽东纪念馆) which we din visit as the queue was from one corner to the other of the square =_=|||. To the West is a government building used by president mao before, and the North is the Emperor's palace (紫禁城), where we are heading after this. In the square we took a group picture, and were persuaded to buy it from the photographer as well as the album with beautiful scenic pictures. the tour guide was really persistant about this so we jz had to buy it to stop him nagging :p. [Mom: cincai la.. me: ...]

We were then given 10 minutes to walk around the square and snap pics. From the square there is this subway path for pedestrians to cross under the deadly highway in order to reach the palace's entrance, which is called suzuka door (朱雀门). Said that last time it's only the Emporor and higher rank officers can go pass it. others have to go in thru the side doors; on the left is the white tiger door (白虎门)for criminals, on the right is the dragon door（青龙门）, which is for the lower rank officers. Once inside the vicinity, i was awed. it was so wide and vast that i can't imagine how long it took to build the whole palace.. Now i know how filthy rich the emperor is, and how well he knew to enjoy life to the fullest. by jz looking at the ground, it was laid with almost hundred layers of stone bricks jz to prevent ppl digging a tunnel up the palace precinct. then there's numerous regal palaces in it, until there's an enormous palace, bigger than my whole house plus backyard jz for the emperor to change his clothes... *faints* See the pics, you'll be cursing him for wasting so much material+man power. This is the palace that all the emperor in Qing and Ming dynasty lived in. Besides, those HK movies also take their scenes here. At the end there's a garden with coral rocks piled up artistically as a back drop for the scenic view. it was really beautiful but my camera jz have to die on me at that moment.*grr..* grudgingly, we exited the palace through the genbu door （玄武门） on the south. We walked back to the bus, and felt like dying. I've never walked that long (3 hours of walking >"<) ever since my last visit to Shanghai. So when we were on the bus going towards lunch, i was dozing on and off, only remembering Mr. Wang emphasizing a zillion time about Beijing being a city full of Fengshui buildings and ornaments.

After lunch, which was only so-so, we were taken to shi cha hai(什刹海), one of the huge lakes in beijing. We sat on trishaw and went along the lakeside, which was said the olden part of beijing. it was very soothing, with the chilly wind blowing towards us and the weeping willows swaying gently along the lake. Luckily an uncle from our group help me and mom took a few pics. along the narrow paths called hu tong, there were shop lots with their ancient facade turned into pubs to attract foreigners. Before long, the ride ended, and we headed to our next destination, which was a shopping mall! haha.. there, Mom had fun bargaining and choosing branded imitations for dad and her frens. She bought 2 polo shirts and 4 tommy, at a total price of 280RMB (140 ringgit, so about 25 each @_@). After shedding blood and sweat over the bargain, we move on and it's my turn XD. i saw some really cool pants and tried them on. Suddenly i heard a loud Thump. Mom dropped the camera from my pouch, which i handed over to her! shit!! i was so dumbstruck that i almost forgot to put on my pants, and i broke my nail while buttoning up >"<. When we were told of the price, Mom practically glared at the salesgirl. 700RMB for imitation?! sial a? so we went off, after failing to bargain them into 100 RMB. Anyway, my mind was full of worry about the camera. Dad's gonna kill me if it's broken >_<|||

We went back to the bus and again i slept until we arrived in a restaurant for dinner, which was awful. So i jz stuff myself with rice and some vege and off we go to see Kung Fu performance at the cultural Opera. The performance was really impressive and i was in awe all the while, as the performers are using real Kung Fu 0_0||| they did really cool stunts like fly kicking, extreme break dancing, breaking wooden plank and metal sticks with their head and even swirling around in the air clinging on to nothing but jz a long piece of cloth hanging at the top. I'd never ever underestimate these ppl doing martial arts on TV again, cos it's so real.. and the performers are all teens and even primary school kids! sugoi desu!! Not to mention the lighting effects on stage was superb too. All in all it was worth us spending 90 ringgit for the ticket.

Day 3~

i was waken up by mom at 7am and washed up groggily. As we went down the hotel room for breakfast, mom told me that when she woke up at 6sth, she was shocked cos it's too late to prepare to work, and then mystified when she saw she's not on her own bedroom. then only she remembers she's in beijing. what can i say.. like mother like daughter? :p So i told her about the incident the other day when Dex came to our house. He slept until evening after test, and thought it's morning already, and rush up to my room asking me why i din wake him up for the night to study. Me was equally blur at that time and din know wat dex was talking about. so in the end, i realized that he'd thought like i did when i first woke up in the evening too, thinking it's already the next day XD. Anyway, back to breakfast. i can't believe that the buffet had nothing much left for us, even though it's jz 7.40am! Damn.. hungrily i jz grabbed some edible leftovers and gobbled them down with a cup of diluted milk.

Our first destination for the day was Beijing's underwater world. Thought it'd be some awesome place but it proved me wrong. If you have been to the one in Singapore Sentosa Island, what awaited me will be sheer disappointment. There is this underwater tunnel no doubt, with the escalator along, but there isn't much underwater creature to behold, which should be the main attraction! haiz.. so we went out of the tunnel and see colourful fishes in aquariums instead. there's even penguins! kinda cute and energetic they were. Before the scheduled time, we've already finish sightseeing. So we walked back to our bus, but before that, we saw some hawkers selling fruits, to be exact, fresh dates (the dried up ones we use to cook soup). Curious, Mom bought half a kilo of it and we munched all teh way in the bus. They were very crispy and crunchy, like a limau sized apple. XD

We finished the dates before reaching our next spot, which is heaven's palace (天坛). It is a place there the emperor used to held prayers and ceremony to the heaven god. Around the palace the precinct was made into a garden for public, where we can see old ppl exercising and even playing music like flute and erhu. It was a really pleasant place to take walks, among the pine trees, willows and other greenary. The weather was cooling and refreshing too. Later on we went into the compounds of the palace and listen to the historical stuff told by Mr. Wang. Took a few pics and then we went back into the warm bus. It was jz 11.15am, so before lunch, our tour guide brought us to the official shop selling enamel ornaments that are really famous in ancient Beijing, and even now. We were briefed about the process of making it and then led to the stall. Mom chose the souvenirs for her friends and i jz looked around with her, feeling kinda bored cos the ornaments are old fashioned.

Finally when she got wat she wanted, we left for lunch. although the food was jz ok, the restaurant was situated at a really scenic spot, at the bei hai（北海） lakeside. At about 2pm, we went to another shopping mall selling fake stuff. There we search around for dad's backpack and we found it, only after asking one of the stall owners. They din dare to display it cos that time there were raids going on. Dad wanted North Face brand and they have them, so mom bargain again, for about 20 minutes i guess @__@ at the end, we got 2 backpacks plus a genuine leather purse for 340RMB. If i'm in my mom's place, i'd die of embarrassment. After the great haul, we headed to an official tea selling shop near the outskirt of town. The tea was nice with soothing fragrant to warm our dry cold throats. yet, after the salesgirl had done promoting all the famous types of tea and finished letting us taste a couple of cups, mom din budge to even approach the samples. At the end almost all our ppl bought, except us cos Mom had bought tons of them when she last visited Yun Nam.^_^;

By then i can't wait for dinner, which was really delicious and i swear my judgement is not misleaded by hunger. When we were heading back to hotel, the traffic was congested with buses moving bumper to bumper, cos it's friday and everyone's heading home. Wasted an hour on the road but i've slept thru it again.. think i'm getting more like a pig everyday... *shivers*

Day 4~

After waking up at 7am, we went down quite early compared to yesterday, but the food was already scarce... damn. Same old food and was awful as yesterday's. Oily and super salty fried mee, fried rice, boiled egg and a cup of milk. getting sick of them =_=

Before long we were in our bus ready to go to our first stop- pearls breading & selling shop. The promoter there led us to an aquarium of clamps, and then fished out one while explaining how pearls are formed. Then she open up one for us to see. I can't believe that inside the palmsized 5-year-old clamp were 29 tiny pearls! @__@ Amazing.. Hence we browsed around looking at the pearl accessories and products. Bought the pearl daily facial cream, pearl bracelets for souvenirs and a ring for Mom.

Satisfied, off we went to the Summer palace (颐和园). Seems that the emperor came here during summer to get away from the heat. the weather was kinda warm (21oC actually) and the sun was glaring down on us when we went in the garden. Ignoring the shine, we followed our tour guide closed as the garden was seething with tourists of different races.. It wasn't quite enjoyable having to jostle and push against others jz to get a closer look at the antiques in the palaces. After awhile, We reached the longest corridor stretching along the lake side in the garden. it was about 1000 Meters, which leads us to the marble boat built by the emperor to spend time in. Too bad it's too far and we din walk until there. But the corridor itself proved to be very interesting with all the paintings etched inside the rooftop and pillars, which depicts all the legends and stories told in china.

After the long walk, we went back to bus and move to a 貔貅 museum (pronounced pi xiu). It is a mystical animal which looked like a lion without it's mane, but with a horn and wings instead. The manager of the museum who's a fengshui sensei too, explained about the immense influence of Fengshui in Beijing, until the whole city is built up according to Fengshui potisions. Most of the time we can hardly understand wat he's saying but we jz know he's good. every sentence he speaks was like poem. =_=||| Then he showed us a 貔貅 of a size of a real lion, and taught us how to 'touch' it to bring on good luck XD. First we hold the horn and ears, then move down to its beard, then it's front paws, its wings, then at last, its bottom... >"< have to rub it in circle for 3 times, cos supposedly we are gathering all the good luck doing that and keep the 'luck' in our pockets. It was hilarious seeing ppl doing it and me following suit.. bunch of pervs.. :p

At noon, we ate buffet, Mongolian style. there's grill mutton, lamp stick, grilled beef as well as other western and eastern cuisine. There's even performances on stage near the dining room but honestly i was doing more eating than looking XD. Damn repleted as i tried to stuff myself with scoops of icecream for dessert. In the bus, we were told that it cost about 100 ringgit per person for the meal 0_0||| At that time, little that i know the meal's going to be a nightmare to me afterwards...

In the afternoon, we went shopping again (our schedule's arranged like that so that we'll not feel tired, said Mr. Wang). We went to a famous place called 老番街, which means alien street in english.0_0||| it's actually a mall hosting stalls selling fake stuffs again. There were alot of branded shoes and so i got myself a nike sports and a Timberland Hiking shoes for dad. and guess wat? each of them jz cost 30 ringgit XD. We were really glad when we gather back with our group, and were perplexed as everyone's laughing at some kind of joke. Later on Mr. Loh told us that while we were shopping our one of our group mates were insulted behind their back by the salesgirls, thinking that we din know mandarin. They said that we can only afford to window shop cos we are stone broke fellows not having a penny to our names... haiz, so surprised that they'd discriminate their potential income bearers.

Anyway, our groupmates were sporting and took it as a joke, and off we went to 王府井街 (wang fu jin street) and 东华门夜市 (donghuamen market), which are really busy streets seething with tourists. In the latter, there's jz stalls at the roadside welling weird food like grilled larva, animal intestines, starfish (wtf?!), sea urchins and some other unheard of stuff with absurdly high price.
Actually i've seen the pics of that market on internet and already knew its notorious name. So we moved on to wang fu jin street and bought alot of souvenirs there. After that, we ate dinner and then return to hotel. It was jz 7pm when we reached, so mom and I along with some other groupmates went walking around the shop lots near our hotel. saw a internet cafe but din go in *sob* cos mom said it's late already TT_TT. saw the rate.. 3RMB for an hour?! that's so cheap man. haiz..

next post~

Holiday!! and updates!! XD

2005-10-09T16:24:00.001+08:00

*currently in dad's shop awaiting his command to do stuff XD*

minna san genki desuka? after a few days of lingering around kristine's place, i'm finally back to my beloved home. It's jz good to be in Taiping again, with the smell of rain ever present and the cooling wind blowing, well, not always, but this is how i felt XD. Home is always jz better.

Before i went on blabbering about wat's happened between the interval of my last blog update, I've got to tell you guys about this cool thing.. I've been watching anime on TV! ...You guys must think that i've lost it but I'm telling you.. i watched the avi files animes we download all so frequently ON TELEVISION!!! @___@ *gone mad* really.. at first i thought me dad was kidding me when he told me to watch anime on TV.. but then when he insert Trinity Blood--i borrowed from kristine--in the DVD player, i was awed. It is playing as in monitor!! i practically gawked at the tv screen as abel nightroad and other characters appeared during the OP. and wat's more, the visual's supperb, better than in monitor cos the size is big XD.. i'm so gonna love the dvd player during the hols XD too bad i can't bring back to melaka haha.. orz

so, we'll first wind back the clock to the week during we had our FF screening.. In my engin math class on monday night, my helmet got stolen, blatenly in mmu campus!! damn the thief. i mean.. my old rusty bike was not the only one with helmet casually put on, and i won't have done it if everyone's taking their helmet to class! why me?! urgh.. when i got out of the boring class walking towards my bike, Kristine was the first one to notice about it. "Where's your helmet?" was wat she said when she was holding hers. That smacked me out of my usual blurness and onto woeful anxiety. Fishball was around by that time, and i told him about my stolen helmet. He was such an @$$ as he told me to take other bike's helmet in a-matter-of-fact way. I refused, as this is like stealing and the viscious cycle will repeat itself. I paced around hoping the thief would somehow be conscience striken and come back to return my helmet, but in vain. At last, i gave up and ride home. The guards stopped me and asked about, so i grudgingly told them that i've lost my helmet. Even so, they can't do anything about it. No point doing a report cos i won't be getting my helmet back.. haiz. All i had to blame is the stupid thief and my naive trust towards the security of mmu.

Had been whining about my lost helmet until the day of our FF screening but got ignored as expected XD. Before the screening, there's alot of commotion about whether to screen it publicly or jz for members. Kinda had headache over the issue and to add to it, i've got test on the day after screening. In the end, i kinda have it my way, and hoped for the best. Well, at first we had venue problem. the audio in B2 (the room we booked for screening) won't work and the CITS ppl confirmed it. So, a day before the screening i emailed the alpha lecturer having B1(the room beside ours) to swap classes with us, since they are not using audio. she agreed, and so we've solve one matter. But then, more problems arise as we went to our swapped room (B1). the lecturer from the previous class at 6pm was still in the room, with stupid class presentations summore! i told him politely that we have to prepare the screening before 8pm, but no.. he wont' get out of the room. He said his class will finish the damn presentations in half an hour's time.. it looked doubtful that he'd finish in time, but i let him, since he promised. we waited until 7.30pm, and yet he's not finished. I went to him again, and again he said it's gonna finish.. i saw that there's still like 4-5 groups to go, so i asked him if he wanna change venue, since Loo Mun had booked A1 as backup. I felt like stranggling him to death as he kept on insisting that he's gonna finish in 15 more minutes' time.

At last, at 7.50pm, our members started to come in the room, which made us feel like cats on hot brick. Desperate, we let the members in first, until the lec and his students finally clear the room. then, as we were setting up the video and audio (kinda had problem with the projector), i was called, and found out that it's the alpha lec. My face turn white as she told me that my original venue was used by another stupid lec, which is impossible. By then, the alpha lec's students were crowding all over the place as I ran to the class beside to asked the lec there for clarification. He glaringly told me that he had booked the place! This is outrageous! Loo Mun had booked the venue like weeks ago and now you tell me you've booked it?! Imbecile! I was trying hard not to shout at him, and there he was, saying he had got proof and went out to his office to get his paper. I'm so in deep shit at that moment, and suddenly Loo Mun said that they can use our backup class. Brilliant! so i went to the guards to ask them to open up our the class for them. After much hassle, the room was opened and i ushered the alpha lec in while apologising for the trouble caused. She was kind relieved, and did not scold me or anything, which i was grateful of. Still, i was really mad at the stupid lec who stole my room, as he came back to clc, smilingly telling he'd mistaken about the room he booked. I refrained from killing him, and told, no.. actually more like warned him not to do it ever again. so.. Case Solved, with the stupid lec as the culprit.

Back in our screening room, i cooled off in the air con and told gen and dex and others about the incident. Later on dex said he's going to get bentou for dinner so we all tumpang buy XD. At the show starts, i was readily sitting at the back, with kristine beside, while loo mun and jin were at the far end, chatting very noisily. *glares* they had watch it dunno how many times and were discussing about it. I haven't, so was kristine, so we hushed them, several times.. =__=||| the show was great, even more as we watch it on big screen XD the audio sucked abit, but that's the least of my worry. Practically throughout the show i was gawking at the chuned graphics and Tifa!! she's damn beautiful.. perfect combination of Rinoa and Yuna..*drool* Jin said she'd make a gay straight and a girl into les.. i agree vehemently. And then there's Vincent! he's so kakooii!!! him along with his blood red cape was such a killer! ish.. the only thing is that cloud's hair looked so fake.. but i've nothing against him, especially his swords.. damn cool! 6 of them all on the bike like kitchen knives arranged nicely.. summore can combine 6 of them into one big sword! no wonder it weighs 45kg! wonder how Cloud managed to hold it, let alone swinging it at enemy on bike..*shrugs*

Somewhere during the show, our bentou arrived as Dex came in the room distributing to us hungry souls.. It was dark and i can't see wat i'm eating but then it was delicious. I watched the battle scene between cloud and the Bahamut while eating fried prawn. Oishii desu (delicious)! was sipping last drops of my yakult drink as cloud was fighting with Yazoo and the other guy (forgot his name XD) in the tunnel on bike. hehe.. din think that sephiroth would appear at the end tho.. can't take my eyes off the screen as they were bashing each other up. Erm.. am i giving out too much spoilers? well, i think most ppl had watched it so nvm la~ XD After the show had ended, i thanked everyone for coming and then we hicomms lingered around the room until like 11 sth. We were screening the raw Last Order while chatting merrily. Can't believe that the screening ended so successfully, as our audience filled the whole room. And i can't believe that there's one international student was desperate enough to use his digital camera to record the show! of course i stopped him, but i forgot to tell him that he can get the show from us later :p. *felt sorry for that guy*

After the screening, we went back and i started revising my electronics.. luckily it's not on friday morning or i'd die. after studying as much as possible, we went in for test that night, and it turned out quite straight forward, jz that i din know how to do cos i din cover the last chapter so much :p. After the midterm test, we were rid of 1 more burden on our shoulder. Though we had to pass up our electronics assignment on the following monday, we were jz glad that the midterms were finally over.

On Saturday night, Dex, Gen, Kristine, Loo Mun and me went for dinner near muara in a village. Yes!! Seafood!! We got ourselves butter prawns, ikan bakar (grilled fish), clamps and the bamboo-stick-like clamp, which was blissfully yummy. There was a specially mixed soya sauce to go along with the dishes, and as dex said, it's really good. We sat near the river, where there were some mangrove forest on the opposite bank. It was a fullmoon, which explained the high tide. Needless to say, we were eating with utmost pleasure in the moonlight XD. *still drooling as i think back about the food* Well, we expected to pay at a higher price for the luxurious meal, but din expect it to reach 80 bucks.. found out that it's the prawn which top the bills.. 30 bucks for half a kilo! that's a real killer. can't deny it that it's fresh and lip-smacking good, but it's jz too expensive for us. Having learnt our lesson not to order prawns again next time, we paid through our nose and drove back to town. Since it's a weekend, we thought that maybe we can go kacau kid cos he always goes back to his house in ujong pasir. We went in Dex's car, but the house was dark. Kristine phoned him but too bad he was still in BBU. darn.. Our plan failed, so we headed to town for food XD. We parked near Fajah supermarket, and walked to the nearby food court. there, we ordered the Hong kong styled 猪肠粉 (ju cheong fun in canto, which looked like this jz that the one we ate dun have the red sweet sauce but instead we had prawns in the white) We chatted for a long time there, wat with FF, PS2 games, cooking stuff(me n gen can only listen blankly XD) and other stuff. It was fun, going out with frens like that and chatting and laughing without having to worry about curfew. We only went back home at about 12 midnight cos the food court was closing. All in all, it was really enjoyable and really hope we can come out like this more often XD

*dad want me to do the excel sheets.. will continue in next post XD*

Finals..Urgh!

2005-09-23T20:58:00.001+08:00

well, it's jz 3 days away... i've wanted to blog about so many things that had happened the pass weeks, but damn finals had to lurk around on the back of my mind everytime and end up studying or doing other stuff.. haiz..
jz a reminder to myself:

have to blog after exams about my lost helmet.. FF7 screening.. eat out in muara.. hk style ju cheong fun.. assignment frenzy.. mee rebus stall.. Olimpia beach.. root beer float.. and so on :p

so.. to those having finals too, good luck man.. and wish me good luck too.. need lots and lots of them.. hehe.

hehe.. Killing time again :p

2005-09-10T22:25:00.001+08:00

this whole morning was doing nothing except reading fictions after giving up on my circuit theory assignment. later on i watched shrek 2 in my com cos my eyes hurt from staring at too much words. When the movie finished, felt bored again and then started to play around with photoshop :p. did another wallie as i took the character from Erementar Gerad 2 manga and do a bit color balancing and tada~ here it is:

took like 2-3 hours to tune the colors.. but i still think the previous one was nicer. haiz. think my skills are getting bad...

Buzzing around =___= ;;

2005-09-09T22:22:00.001+08:00

I woke up grudgingly this morning at about 11 as Mom had picked the best time around to call me *sweat*. I was modifying my programming codes until 3am in the morning, but after mom had hung up telling me to continue sleeping, i hardly did. Washed my face, and it's about 12. The japanese class is about to start and i heard a loud clang as Kristine closed the gate. So without breakfast i went out to campus too. The japanese class was boring, as expected. those newbies can't really catch up so sensei have to slow down for their sake. So we oldies (me not that old la >"<) have to tag along with them. What to do. But during the class, sensei played Utada Hikaru's First Love, which i liked very much. Too bad that time i had a worsen sore throat, if not i'd sing out loud XD.

Later on, me and kristine and loo mun went for lunch in PS. While we were eating we saw Kidrock flying pass us towards the chicken rice shop. he din notice us as i think he's in a hurry. He ta pao-ed and then went off quickly. I was worried about my project cos my .exe file can't open without using Tclite, tho Adeline said her fren said it's ok. I asked her to let me pass up the project, as i wanted to ask the lecturer. She told me that it's with my other groupmate, Hui Ting. So i rushed over to the lecturer's room, only to see hui ting on the verge of passing up the project. I took over, and she went to class. To my dismay, The lec, Ammar told me to go over to the computer lab to recompile it using Rhide (another IDE). So i did that, after waiting impatiently for the technician to open up the lab. Again, horror stricken, there were errors in my codes, which was not to be found when i used tclite to compile it. It was about 3pm, which is 2 hours before deadline. I was really helpless and told Adeline about it. She said i can go see the guy who did the codes for solution, so i went off breathlessly. I practically sped with my old bike over to his office, only to find out that the error part is actually unneeded. So, thanking him profusely, i flew to Adeline's house to reprint the codes.

In the mid, i was testing the codes again, but the output result was really weird, and got me worried sick. She suggested that i go see our saviour again, and so i dashed off, with my poor over-abused bike. After seeing him again, he assured me that the codes are ok, and he told me the output is weird because the input i keyed in was not very suitable XD. I was so embarrassed, as i barged into his office and then only to come out knowing there's nothing wrong at all with the codes. He's working sommore, and i felt so imprudent. He was jz smiling benignly as i said sorry for the umpteenth times. Wat a nice guy...

When i got out of the office, i saw an old lady was trying to use the pay phone, but to no avail. She told me that the phone ate her coins, after i've asked her politely, trying to hid my urgency to rush over to campus. so i jz took out my handphone and pressed the number in her address book. she looked so happy, as i pass her my handphone. When the line connects, she spoke in a different dialect, which i think is tio chew or sth, as i can only understand abit of wat she said. Shortly, she returned me the hp, and insisted on paying me. I was out of time, so hastenly i told her it's unnecessary. Regardless of my refusal, she got out her small pouch and handed me 50 sens while i declined it politely, before giving up shortly. haiz.. She thanked me again, and i jz smiled and nodded before i jumped on my bike and hurried off.

In the Computer lab, i saw alex and his frens are in there too, after he'd yelled my name and gave me a heart attack. With no time to lose, i switch on a com, and straight away compile my exercute file, and thank God, without anymore problems. It was half and hour before 5, so i shot out to the lec's room, and slit the project (paper and diskette together) under his door because he's not in. Urgh. Wat a relief. After all this, i felt like i can drop dead anytime. This can really kill me off if i do this everyday. Haiz. Tired, i went back to my room to stick to my beloved computer XD. Then only i go take bath.

At night, after dinner, Mom called again, and she asked me when is my hols starting. I said starting Oct, so she told me her plans. To my delight, she said she's longing to go to Gui Ling, a really scenic tourist spot in China. And yes! she's bringing me there along~ yey! one more thing to look forward to after the killer finals *sobs*

After Test and Cosplay!

2005-09-04T10:42:00.001+08:00

On thursday night, i've finished my second last paper, which is engin math quite easily. But the thing that bugged me more was not my careless mistakes, but that my id and name was jotted down by the invigilator, as well as my 3 other fren's names. I swear i din cheat! Nor did i try to let other ppl see my answer. Well, i was really pressured before the test, and was thinking of cheating, but i din, after seeing the questions, which was really easier than i expected. Or is it my evil thought earlier that had oozed out attracted the invigilator? Anyhow, when we approach him for the reasons doing so, he said that we talked during exam, so have to see if our answers are similar, then only can 'sentence' us for cheating. Damn. I've a hunch that it's me that he suspected, who's giving out answers to my fren, as i stupidly sat bias to my frens, whom he thought must have copied my answers. Anyway, my frens din copy my answers, which was such a relief. So, there's only possibility for 4 of us having the same answers is 1 to a billion. haha. Not that i cared, cos i'm innocent. *Make faces at the invigilator*

On friday, we went to Tesco to refill our food stock, as well as to get the water filter tube, as ours were really muddy and disgusting since a week ago *nauseated*. We were lucky as Loo Mun's fren, Jun and her bf had offered us a ride there. So, we waited patiently in the house until their arrival. I was thinking of asking them to stop by the General Hospital, because i had to get my second dose of hepatitis B injection. But it was lunch time by then, so i thought better of it. As we were shopping, I jz walk around aimlessly, getting stuff that i saw and i wanted to eat XD. I'm an odd ball cos unlike the other gals, i dun cook and i dun really know wat to buy whenever i'm in a shopping mall. I jz tag along my mom everytime we went shopping, looking at random stuff and giving vague replies when my mom asked my opinions. Haha.. i never gave much thought about wat i should eat for the next few days. Maybe i'm jz plain thoughtless and blur.

Nevertheless, i've bought some foodstuff, and suddenly remember that my wallet's almost empty. After dumping a packet of milo i've gotten earlier, i strolled over to the atm machine, thinking about how much i should withdraw. It's time to pay the rentals, so i decided to get about three hundred as i keyed in the amount of withdrawal. Transaction Rejected. What the hell? Dun tell me mom forgot to bank in money... and it proved that she did. Heaving a sigh, I re-entered a lesser amount and went to pay up. lucky i din buy much, if not i'd be so dead. Before long, we went home, the red kancil loaded with our loots.xD

At home, we stuffed the fridge and no later i'm on my way out again, this time on my trusty rusty bike (hey, it's a pun XD). I biked over to the photoshop nearby, thinking of collecting the EMiNA membership cards from there. Yet it was not ready yet, and the auntie who's in charge wasn't there too. So i went off to the GH. It was a scorcher, and i was sweating profusely as i rode in the heat. Luckily, all the traffic light turned green as soon as i went near. Before long, i arrive in the compound of the hospital, not knowing which building to go. Anyhow, i parked my bike, and asked for directions. Feeling lucky again as i was not far away from the blood bank, i walked there and got my injection in a jiffy.

About half past 9 at night, Dex came for our cosplay planningXD. Lynn brought others along later and we started discussing which character to cosplay. I got mine settled quite early, while the rest were still in a confusion. haha.. At the end, everyone's finally satisfied with wat we have decided. FYI, we were invited to go to Melacca High School to cosplay while i'd have to give a speech about Anime. I was really anxious as i was still in the mid of preparing the script. And it's my first time to give a speech! damn nervous la~

In the morning, I woke up at 8am, took a bath and got myself into my costume excitedly. Then i went down, with over-knee dark blue skirt, and 3quarters long sleeve shirt with a red tie. Loo Mun said i looked really formal without the tie *shrugs* as i was in the kitchen getting my cereal drink. Later on, Dex drove here, and carried some clothes with him, not to mention hair wax. Then Genny came alone, followed by lynn, with Jin and Nikki in the car. Everyone was abit clueless on wat to do, especially Dex. After a while, Kristine brought down a pair of goggles, and Nikki in her schoolgirl costume, started to style dex's hair with hair gel. It was fun watching them messing around, with Dex looking helpless like a white mice XD. The end result was not bad at all, see this:

when everything's set, we drove off to the school, with a detour to Jin's place first to get some really cool black gloves. In about 20mins, we were there in the school, but it looked really quiet. We went around asking about the venue of the anime fest, and then parked near the hall. When we got out of the car, we change into our full costume (before it was hot so we decided not to wear fully XD) and trod off to the main hall. Shu Yin told us not to expect much, but it's jz so empty that it's not even worth being called an anime fest. Near the entrance there's some colorful rice artwork on the sides, while pathetically few partition boards with some drawings (i bet it's all from Shu Yin) were located at the back corner of the hall..

besides having the audience seats half filled with primary school kids, the hall is practically empty. We were like "huh? this's it?" as i looked (or i thought) incredulously at the supposed Anime Fest. Then as i approach The organizer, who's Shu Yin's little bro, he said i can start my speech anytime by then. I was shocked, As i expected some VIPs to be present and have some speech before my non so important one, moreover the event's sponsored by Celcom. But it seemed that there's only little kids around. So, after everyone's ready, I went up the stage. After the organizer had finished his speech, it's my turn.

Even if they're little kids, i felt abit nervous and stuttered quite a while before i got used. The kids were obviously not paying much attention, but they do give response whenever i ask if they know the anime titles i mentioned, hehe.. so nice of them to tag along XD. Then, my speech was cut short, as i felt that all the facts about anime were unnecessasary. On the later part of my speech, i introduced Cosplay to them, and Lynn they all got the cue and came up on stage. They received a resounding applause as they pose on stage, especially Nikky XD. It was fun seeing some of their bored faces turning bright and excited.

Before i knew it, we're done. They started to screen Hikaru no Go in the hall, while we went out to take photos. here's some of them:

Then, we went off to MP, of course after taking off our costumes XD. we had lunch in McDonald's, and then walked around to kill time. someone suggested to go bowling, and everyone agreed. i was really excited cos it's the first time i go bowling :p we played 1 round, i've really enjoyed it, tho being a noob in this. Kristine striked, which was really impressive. Although Hsia Liang striked 2 times, he messed up the last round and fall second to kristine XD. no need to say, i'd secure the last, but i'd had my share of beginner's luck. haha.. After that, we went for merchandise hunt and that lead us to Jonker Street. We ate cendol there, but the gula melaka was too sticky, and the quality dropped since we came last time. haiz.. this is wat happen when the food got publicity, which is a real pity. We walked around the street after our tea break, and instead went looking for katana XD. we saw afew in the antique shops, but they were really expensive. Looks really cool tho, if you carry it while wearing a shinigami costume! We were chatting about cosplaying as shinigami for the coming Comic Fiesta, which sounds really fun. Hope we can get costumes :p

so that day ended with me damn exhausted. It's been a while since i've walked so long, especially in the day. haha.. should get some exercise nowadays >v<

tests and random stuff..

2005-08-27T15:53:00.003+08:00

I've finished my Computer Programming and Design test yesterday. Before the test, i was really anxious and somehow terrified, as previously a lecturer posted an announcement implying that we'd fail the subject because of our inability to write a simple program. I think it's not true, for my case, because i really put my heart into learning programming everytime during tutorial, jz that i dun have any idea wat to do with the tutorial questions, thus as the lecturer said, we copied the solutions wholly during tut. He said that's not learning, but it's wrong. I do learn from what i copied. Ignoring his condescending announcement, i studied and practised the programming part as much as possible. Yet, in a corner of my mind, i still think that the exam will not be that hard, and i'd surely do well. I can't afford to let this thought put off my determination to study, because i know it'd be worse if i dun, even if the test is easy. Perhaps this is my way of studying, assuming the test won't be so hard, so that i can study without extra stress from myself. I read the pass years questions, and a part of me was betting on the test being as easy as the previous years, if not easier. Yet I did not show it out, instead i looked worried, trying to make myself less over-confident. Hehe.. i'm such a hypocrite.

Once in the exam hall, the questions in the sheet proved that i've hit the jackpot. I felt so relieved once i saw all 4 of the questions. it's not as hard as i imagined, or as i wanted myself to imagine. In fact, i answered the 3 questions in my mind before the test started. then i wrote them down, and finished all of them in about 1 hour, including checking for careless mistakes. It felt so good to be out of the exam early, as i walked back from campus. The sky was dark, but i can see darker clouds lurking. It's gonna rain, i thought, and sure enough, when i reached home, the wind blowed really hard, with trees swaying and leaves rustling. In no time, it poured. phew.. lucky i went out early.

As Loo Mun's com was sent to repair (its warrenty is still valid! what a surprise for a 2nd hand laptop) she went over to kristine's com to do her assignment. Then she asked me to come over, which i did, to see some stuff. Before long, it sent me straight back to my room blushing, with them laughing at my innocence.. damn. Me no like that kind of stuff, k? let alone seeing it... gives me the shivers. Trying to forget wat i saw, i resume reading my chinese fic, which was much much better and interesting. I spent few hours reading it, until about 3am in the morning, then only i was too tired to continue on.

This morning i woke up at 12am. haha. so nice being able to sleep until my heart's content. But then still have to study for the monday electronics test. haiz.. this is so tiring. Can't we jz finish them once and for all?! Assignment deadlines are drawing near too. Felt like running away from all those stuff and jz read and do cg from day until night. Sigh. well, i guess this is the life of a uni student, eh? Really hope that my uni life wont be filled solely with exams and assignments..

每日依然盼望着什么，将这一成不变的循环打破..

Bad Hair Day..

2005-08-23T23:16:00.001+08:00

I had a really nice weekend, as we went phototaking, shopping, and then cooking at home. but today everything seemed so bleak...

At first it's really refreshing, the weather cooling as it jz stopped drizzling as i walk to class. then the class dismissed earlier, which was a nice surprise. I went home, and after passing dex some stuff, he went home and i as usual stuck myself at my com until 3pm. Yining came back and then we went to the sundry shop by bike to buy rice and other miscellanious stuff. Well, the first bomb came when i was home again, checking the announcements by my lecturers. Guess wat? i'm going to be barred if i dun see the lecturer and give him a valid reason. damn.. I did go for class every week! jz that i went for other lecturer's class, cos he's incomprehendable when he speaks. Damn MMU for bringing in those damn foreigners who can't even speak english with correct accent.. Damn! so i have to go see that lec tomorrow to stare at him imploring while giving my made up half-truth reasons.. shit.

When i wanted to go class at 6pm, i went out with my bike with Kristine coming along too. Suddenly, as we were jz few houses away, i felt that my bike's back tyre was abnormal. Shit. it's punctured! Damn! How could it get any worse?! so grudgingly, i have to drag it back home and walk to campus. Damn it.

Was really discouraged during class, as i dun have notes, but copied down everything on the slides nontheless. Then after class we went testing laptops for screening. Kristine was teaching Dex how to use Photoshop while i sat there staring with hollow eyes.. I can't get my mind off being barred.

Went back home for dinner at about 8pm, and i ate my meal in total silence.. sorry for making you guys feeling awkward cos me wasn't in a good mood that time >"<

Later on, i tried to shrug off the bleakness. Am still trying now.. Loo Mun was having major problem with her laptop.. well, at least my com's still ok. Hope that things will work well tomorrow..

因为背负着过去，因此期待着明天，更美好的到来。

dying...

2005-08-19T00:48:00.001+08:00

Damn.. tomorrow have to passup my lab assignment yet here i am, clueless and frustrated. I dunno wat to do with the stupid discussion part!! Damn!!! >"<

Besides, next week i have computer midterm on friday, and possibly saturday i'm going to have my Electronics, if not it's gonna be on monday!! i'm Doomed...

not to mention the mountain of assignment i have to do, some in groups while some individual.. i'm deadmeat. i can't even understand wat the questions in the assignment wanted. all i saw was the deadlines threatening me. how can i survive?! aaaaarrrrggghh.

扭曲的世界里.. 无尽的黑暗蔓延着, 吞噬人心, 散播绝望...

Bleh...

2005-08-16T01:23:00.001+08:00

jz asked vox to scanned it (thx again XD) and did some cleaning.. but obviously it's still very dirty.. :p nvm~ i'd still have to brush up my drawing skills >__<

Damn.. killing time

2005-08-15T01:28:00.001+08:00

here's a wallie i made using the character from erementar gerad 2. din do much except tuning the color and fixing here and there. this is the original here. And this is wat turn out to be my destop wallie now >w<

hehe.. how's it? later on i tried changing the color of the clothes, but turned out worse i think.. here's the link if you wanna see..

btw, during the evening after i came back from meeting, yining saw monkeys rummaging the trash, and later i saw them too... jz hope they won't disturb ours.. *sweat*

Not studying :P

2005-08-14T02:12:00.001+08:00

Was telling myself that i have to study in case that the electronic test would come back early, but i jz can't. I was doing trivial stuff like taking photos of my anime posters, and photoshop-ing them abit before uploading them here and here. After that, it seem that i was so inspired that i decided to use the uploaded pics to do my blog sig. so the whole day i was playing with filters and textures in photoshop, and came out with this:

special thx to yining for adjusting the color with me cos i was too blinded to do that after few hours of staring at the same pic >"<. Hmm.. Wat do you guys think? hehe.. going to fix it in this blog later, when i have time XD
btw, the chinese characters means 'Can you hear the melody of Nature?' which i suddenly thought of, as i went pass my room's balcony looking at the clear blue sky. XD

Free!

2005-08-14T02:09:00.001+08:00

Since i've reconfirmed that our electronics test has been postponed, my mood jumped from depression to joyous delirium. My failure in field theory test was instantly thrown to the back of my mind as me and kristine were comtemplating about going to mahkota for a movie. So, on Friday, we decided to go after our lab session, which was chaotic but we finally scrapped through it at 12.30pm, though half an hour later than scheduled :p.

We went to the seaworld for lunch, but found out that it was under renovation. Surprised and slightly disappointed, we went for the economic rice next door. it was ok, and after that we were back home, feeling lazy to do anything else other than lying on the bed. hehehe... we were so free and felt relaxed cos for once in this hectic week we were not in a hurry to do sth. It's such a nice feeling, being able to indulge in laziness fully.

At 2pm, we went out to board the bus to bus station. we waited quite long for it, as the first bus we saw--it's a bus wira-- was going other route and left us there, dumbstruck. On the bus ride, we were still in a slumber mood and fell asleep on the way. When we reached the bus station, We were kinda stuck there for about 30 mins because the town bus to mahkota was no where to be seen. hmm.. Come to think of it, it's the first time that we were stuck in the bus central. still in a light mood, we browse around the station and ended up browsing magazines in a small bookstore.

A town bus finally arrived in a while, so we went aboard. It was kind of packed, so me and kristine went to the back seats. there's an old man sitting at the other corner, but it was not until the indian girls giggled and turned to look at the man frequently that i notice he's mentally illed. And then i realize the passangers sitting in front of him will eventually move to other seats, as he was singing and nonchalantly nudging the unlucky passangers' hair. Well, i was pretending to ignore all this as i think he is harmless, if i dun pay any attention to him. later on a malay couple came in between me and the man, and the malay guy was sitting with his back to the old man, kinda protecting his gf, but i think it's unnecessary and rude to the ah pek, even though he's not right in his mind.

In a jiffy, we arrived mahkota and so we went to buy movie tickets first. On the way to GSC, we saw the pikom pc fair on the top floor, which was a let down compared to penang's, let alone KL's. the site was small and packed, but with only afew computer companies. We browse around the make shift store after buying the tickets for 'bewitched' and found that the stuff were not that cheap at all. I did not see a store selling wacom tablet, which was half-expected, since my dad can't find any in Penang too. Then, Kristine went in to Ausino, which was having sales. She was really excited cos there were like 50%-70% discount for the towels. she bought one happily and then we go to Mc D and indulged in our strawberry sundae. This is bliss.

Before long, it's time for our movie and so we went up to the theater again. We bought soft drink, which i ordered 100 plus. When i drank it, it tasted weird, kinda like carbonated water. Kristine agreed too, so we went to the counter to change it. I was jz stupid to choose ice lemon tea cos it tasted weird and diluted, but at least better than carbonated water... so lesson of the day, dun order not-that-hot-selling soft drinks in GSC. Nontheless, we went into the theater and enjoyed the love comedy. Nothing big or spectacular, and it felt like a fairy tale in the whole movie, with the 'and they live happily ever after' type of feeling.

When the movie ended, it was about 7 o'clock. we window shopped a while, and had fun trying out clothes in the retail shops. By the time we finished, we decided to go eat in pizza hut, in which kristine can get 34% discount, an offer from Maxis, for a certain set pizza. we went in and got our seats, when we saw an old couple finding seats too, and finally sat at the small table beside ours and they looked not that comfortable at it. As Kristine went to take her mushroom soup, i offered them to combine our tables together, so that they'd be more at ease. Before long, we were chatting with the pleasant couple, whom i later found out stay quite near our housing area. wat a coincidence XD. They were really cheerful and we were charmed with their presence.

After our satisfying meal, we shot out of mahkota to catch the bus back to the bus central. It was quite late, but all the way i was chatting with kristine, so we din feel the pain of waiting at all. Then, when we finally came back to bus central, we found out that we were stranded in the place again, as the last bus back to bukit beruang had gone off. Restless, we went around searching for buses going back to our place. Yet the nearest the other town bus would go was Jaya Jusco, so we jz boarded it without much ado. We sat on the bus for a long time, before the bus engine finally roared and convulsed, moving slowing and later picking up speed.

Upon reaching JJ, i was jokingly telling kristine that we might as well try our luck to see if the sushi is still being sold by then, which was 15 past 10 o'clock. To our delight, it was! and so was all other food product! so we went in to the food department and grabbed watever necessities that crossed our mind. It was fun, rushing against time to get watever we need, while some other couples were strolling leisurely while browsing the goods. In no time, we hauled our grabbings and paid at the counter.

By then sweating and tired, we took taxi home and was glad that we dun have to carry all our tons of precious food in bus XD. So that's how i spend the whole day, which was filled with fun and miraculously no haze in sight. hehe.

Haze...

2005-08-11T11:48:00.001+08:00

*currently having runny nose due to the hazey condition*

Here are some tips to avoid diseases from the haze:

1. Masks need to be used by all motorcyclists, outdoor workers,those who are exposed to dusty places and those who are in the high-risk group.

2. The public is advised to stay indoors as much as possible.

3. Reduce outdoor activities.

4. Those who are in the high risk group (Children, Elderly, Smokers, Workers in open areas, those who have; Asthma, Bronchitis,Lungs inflammations, Chronic lungs problems, Heart and Allergy) are advised to continue medication as prescribed and take care of their health at all times.

5. The public is advised to wash their hands, face and bathe
regularly.

6. Those who are having cough, flu, asthma, eye irritation, chronic lung infection are required to go to the clinic as soon as possible if symptoms persists.

7. Those who are driving in an air-conditioned vehicle need to
start the air-conditioner and close all windows when driving.

8. The public is advised to drink as much water as possible at all
times.

9. Those who have children, elderly and relatives who are sick in
the house, please do not smoke.

10. Smokers are advised to stop smoking during hours where API is
higher than 101.

11. Those who are in the high risk category are advised to stay
indoors if API exceeds 201.

12. Please tune in to the radio, TV and major newspaper to get an
update on the haze conditions and heed the advice given by Ministry of Health and Department of Environment.

Jz read this in the mmu bulletin board. Later on someone gave me the link to the API (Air Pollutant Index) for all the states here. Well, the condition in melaka is bad enough, having the smokey white sky and blurry visibility. Yet, if we compare the condition here and those in Port Klang or Kuala Selangor, here's nothing. Over there, it's like going back to the time during 1997, when the air pollution was so bad. Click here for pics.Many schools in KL area were shut down for today and tomorrow and this includes Cyber campus as well. For more info read this.

Why the hell this happen to us? Why can't the indonesian government do sth about this annual occurrence? It's damn stupid jz apologizing every year and not doing anything to stop the recurrance. If the excuse is about money, it's lame. I seriously dun think that indonesians are so poor that they can't afford to put off the fire. Hey, wait, why do they burn the forest in the first place? Is it for the sake of agriculture? so that they can have fertilized land to plan their potatos? then why can't they seek a better way of doing it? We dun mind you being poor and having so much racism problem as long as we are not affected over here. but No... you have to cross the line, or perhaps i should say you have to cross the straits and give us this haze siege every year.

ASEAN should really look into this matter and provide good solutions, for our 'caring' neighbour's forest burning is getting from bad to worse. Why does the damn humans only care for their own selfish, short-term gains when the consequences are so obviously bad for others, as well as themselves in the present and future? The earth is already polluted enough! Maybe talking about saving the earth is too much for us puny humans. let's narrow down to our own place. Everywhere is too, polluted, in terms of air, water and others. you see rubbish everywhere, air filled with smoke and other dangerous gases, water only drinkable after being filtered so many times. At this rate of destruction, we are jz digging our own graves, at a faster rate.

Maybe it's not obvious enough, for those ppl have their eyes plastered with $$ and being 6 feet under was such a far away thought, which might not even occur to some ppl. They shunt off all the possibilities that they are in hazardous situations and their family and ppl they care will not be affected at all, because they are going to be rich. why do they even bother after they got all the capital they ever wanted? This is hopeless. Maybe it's better for earth to have only plants and animals...

Anyway, going to get a mask later for outdoors activity...

*edit* here's the newest API :click me:. sorry if i sounded kinda anguish up there.. was very tension cos jz finish my field theory, which i think i flung, and supposedly got test at sat. But then due to the haze, the test was postpone. hehe... at least sth good from the bad condition.. *sweat*

Getting packed..

2005-08-05T16:05:00.001+08:00

Thank goodness that i'd recovered that day i posted the last entry.. white blood cells rulez! anyway, the first thing i did after getting well was to read manga XD. finished reading ashiteruze baby which was burned from Loo Mun's computer on Wednesday night, then me and my parents went out for a ride~ actually we went out to check whether YTM had banked in my scholarship money. Found out that they had (i'm not going to tell you how much i get :p) and we went home talking about investing the money in AIA insurance thingie, which might give quite alot interest compared to keeping in a bank saving account.

Oh, forgot to mention that before i went sick, i was obsessed with a neopet game called typing terror. it was damn challenging at the last stage, which i can't beat however i try. It's the first time that made me felt bad about my typing speed.. and yet there's ppl getting high scores which is apparently thousand points higher than mine. Felt like banging the wall. Vox should really try this, cos i have faith in your typing speed XD. anyone with a neopet account can go play it.. it sends my fist clenching and teeth gritting after the umpteenth time of failure >"<. Click here if you're so kind as to avenge me XD

On Thursday i spend most of the time reading chinese fiction, though was trying very hard to get my attention shifted to my japanese class homework. In the end i did, but not until after dinner, that is... did the vocabulary paper, was kinda hard in the end cos most of the vocab dun ring a bell in my pee brain. When i move on to the grammar part, most of it were familiar to me after reading through the exercises we did during class last time. >v< Finally some confidence sprung up as i continue answering the questions.

By the time i finished everything, it's about midnight so i scramble to the computer room and continue reading my fics. I can't resist cos they're so much more interesting than doing homework XD All this while my Mom had fallen asleep while reading the news paper (she told me that's the best lullaby for her besides television ^^;) in the living room. after finishing the fics, i gently nudged her and she woke up in a start, in turn freaking me out too at the same time >"<. Well, if i was sleepy before, i'm certain that all the sleepiness had flew away.

And then it's Friday. NOoooo...... i dun wanna go back! i wanna stay home and do nothing. I dun wanna go back and study for the test >"< Wuuaaaaa.... *bang the wall*
sob... but strange enough, throughout the week i'm home, there wasn't a single drop of rain during the day, and not much too at night. Weird. even the Taiping lake gardens are becoming taiping 'desert' garden... At first i was thinking of going out and take some pics of the scenic spot, but it was jz too hideous at the moment. Damn. Taiping's no more the rain town.. it's so hot even at home i can feel the heat. haiz. still, i wanna stay here! me dun want exam!! *cries again*

Anyway gatta go pack my bags.. bringing along my er hu after abandoning it for so long *guilt struck*

Virus Attack!!

2005-08-02T13:28:00.001+08:00

Well, it's not my computer that's infected with virus, but me. On monday morning, i went to the general hospital for hepatitis B vaccine, which i can get for free after donating blood more than 2 times. It was ok, my left arm jz felt numb during the injection. Not really as scary as it looks, having the syringe penetrate into your flesh, then millions and millions of virus released into your bloodstream, doing some minor damage before being encountered by the white blood cells. Well, after that, i went home feeling happy that i can get the doses for free, while normally it cos about 80 bucks to get vaccined.

I started feeling weird in the evening. My head was throbbing and was getting heaty. My whole body ached all over, but i can still withstand it. I ignore the pain and carried on reading Harry Potter, which i borrowed from Dexter. Then i started to get dizzy and was force to lay down. Before long i was asleep and the pain got no better when i woke up. It's been so long since i last felt sick. The sensation was horrible, until i've lost my appetite. My aunt was really disappointed cos she'd cooked alot of vege for me but i din manage to finish. haiz.. i'd swallow all of them if i din get sick so easily. Damn virus cost me my veges... *sobsob*

Then, this morning, I woke up several times, once every hour cos i was suffocating. Before going back to sleep i'd drink some water to put off the fire in my throat. This is getting from bad to worse, i thought. Well, at last at 8am, i decided not to sleep anymore, since it wasn't doing any good. I saw uncle and auntie eating breakfast, so i'd try to stuff sth down my throat. I ate an egg tart and some milk. that was the best i can do.. normally i'd eat more than this >"<. After that, still ignoring the aggravating pain, i finished reading harry potter with much difficulty. why does dumbledore have to die? ish... really hope the last book will come out soon, to get over with this once and for all. >"<

After finishing it, i slept summore, until my sister came and woke me up to send her to school. I dun think i looked too good as she kept on asking if i can drive. My mood was so bad that i din quite answer her but jz drove her to school. damn.. the car was blazing hot and the air con was not working well to counter the heat. Felt the headache coming again while i drove back, and so i went to bathe immediately after reaching home. The cold chilling water proved to be a relief, but the dizziness still prevails, until i lost grip on the soap and off it went down the toilet. *sweat*

Come on now, my army of white blood cells!! wake up and do your job! damn.. i dun wanna feel sick anymore...

Wee~ a break finally!

2005-07-31T01:00:00.001+08:00

After tones of studying and class skipping.. opps ^^; the torturing week was finally coming to an end. From monday onwards i was studying in the library for circuit theory. I spend most of the day in the library, though it was the first time i'd visited there since the beginning of the sem XD

The guards there seemed to tighten the security in the library, most probably as the result of some dumbass who said during the OMS that the guards are too lenient, until most ppl go to library to sleep and talk. Damn.. wat's wrong with sleeping? it's not that it's obstructing other ppl or making other ppl unable to study as well. Anyway, i went up to the third floor to search for familiar faces, if any. There i studied with Lilo, and Chenli and Nadin on the first day, then i join Joanne for the following days XD. Her lil' bro, William taught us alot about circuit, for which i was really grateful. It's much better after reading the notes again and i understand what i'm supposed to do for the tutorial and past year questions.

For the exam, it was ok, but i did a stupid careless mistake as i was counting the voltage of my nicely simplified circuit. damn.. really do hope that the lecturers practice the 'error carried forward' marking system. If not, i'd be doomed. After the circuit theory test was over, me and Kristine went to Cahaya Dinar for dinner, as well as to return the comics we borrowed from HQ. The mango juice was damn nice, as it was really thick though abit too sweet. I ate 2 pieces of roti canai while Kristine ordered murtabak daging. When we went back home, I was suppose to study for Engine Maths, but instead was running up and down the stairs getting Loo Mun to burn manga for my auntie XD. I only managed to take a bath at 11 sth, after finished doing all the trivial stuff.

For the second test, i was reading 2nd chapter, with much difficulty understanding it at 8.30am in the library again, along with Joanne and William. He's damn good.. and was awed that he can understand so well about the maths... was damn glad that he's around to guide us and not letting us grope in darkness. I practically skipped all the classes on Thursday cos i know i'd not be able to finish studying if i go for classes. At night, the test ended not too horribly to me, as i think most of the questions i managed to calculate and get answers. Yey!! Holidays here i come!

After the test, Dexter drove me to my house to get my cpu, as i planned to leave mine with him so if any robbery happens *touch wood* i'd not lose my precious animes and data files in my harddisk >w<. Then, we went back to the campus for screening XD. We watched ROD tv and the members were laughing out loud during it, which was a good sign. *relieved* When the screening was almost finishing, Khurshid came in the room with Mc Donald's !! Kyaaaa~ i grabbed the frenchfries and ate some, before passing around to ppl. It's so nice of you la, Khurshid! thx again ^_^

Back at home again, i started to pack stuff into my bag and then some stuff came up that gave me a shock. It's personal so i'd not reveal it here. But in the end thing's settled and everyone's back to normal, or at least i was XD. All five of us in the house gathered in my (and my roomie's) room to have our girl talk, which was really fun, despite making me damn embarassed.. why only me kept on being bullied? *sobs*

The next day, me and Sharon walk out towards mmu entrance to get taxi. there was one and we got into it. everything was fine, with us getting to the bus station, aboarding the bus and me sleeping in it almost instantly. but then little did we know that the bus was not actually a direct express bus. damn. Guess wat? the air con in the bus wasn't working really well, making me sweating like hell during the whole journey. Due to the heat, i had a headache and also felt nauseated thoughout the ride. The bus stopped in KL, Ipoh, Kuala Kangsar and then finally only i can get out of the bus after 7 long tormenting hours. Felt like killing ppl at that time. The painful lesson of the story is that never ever travel in daytime without functioning air con and never buy tickets from Star-mart company ever again. it's jz plain horrible for me. Regrettably, i was too sick to read harry potter much on the journey, if not i'd be finished with it by now :P

So now i'd enjoy my short holiday reading manga, harry potter, anime and... nothing much la.. except studying for ECT1026 *tumble down on floor* Why me....

OMS and Doodles...

2005-07-25T23:14:00.001+08:00

Last Saturday i've taken my Lab induction programme test. It was at 10am, but i've got myself half drenched in the campus at 8am.In this kind of weather I'm supposed to be sleeping soundly in my cozy bed, but no... i've got to attend this seminar for clubs organizing thingie. haiz. So for the first few hours i was studying my lab test and waiting for them to finish their speech. 15mins to 10 we went out for breakfast, but i jz grabbed a cup of tea and ran off to exam hall, while it was still raining.. damn.. my tea diluted with sky juice XD Summore on the way to the hall, my sport shoes which had to use glue to stick the soles on (it's like a crocodile's mouth opening XD) had finally became beyond repair... the soles on my right shoe got off as i was brisk walking in the rain. and i was cursing it all the way until i reach the entrance of the hall. Well, i'm a really environmental type of person so i took the soles and threw it in the dustbin before entering the exam hall. Yey.. i can buy a pair of new sport shoes now XD

After the exam, which i really hope that i can pass, we went back in to the seminar, walking under dex's huge umbrella all the way there. Well, the seminar was boring, as usual, so i started drawing... and came out with this few unknown objects...

Unknown character #1

Was trying to try practise drawing hair but turn out to be a disaster.. looks like karasuma in School Rumble.. was initially trying to draw sousuke in FMP... damn

here's another one... Character#2
Was thinking of drawing natsume in gakuen alice, but failure at the start (can't draw the hair..orz) so became an unknown guy.. kinda ok i think...*sweat*

The last one.. hehehe

This is jz how i felt after being stuck in the seminar for a whole day doing nothing but sketching and day dreaming (kena hit by loo mun and kristine) XD

After the seminar i was so damn bored, so finished drawing a pic for alex in Photoshop. Gonna color it during the mid term break, hopefully...|||

Glad that Alex liked it XD.. was first drawn out while i was stressed out with the lab test the day before .. hehehe

Well, On sunday i was kinda blur and was having headache.. so can't study. so i draw. (kena hantam by Loo Mun and Kristine again) so this came out XD

Most of the time i'd be staring at the monitor doing nothing, but then this time, i was staring at my destop for a good reason.. drawing syaoran!! >v< this is drawn base on my wallie got from the net XD

This is it.. all in all, my drawing still sucks.. i want my graphire 3... Wuaaaa....*cont sobbing*

Bon Odori Trip!

2005-07-19T16:06:00.001+08:00

After much preparation, we are finally going for Bon Odori on saturday morning. Dex drove to our house to take all the boxes of mineral water to campus and also gave me and yining a ride there. There were jz a few members around, cos it's jz 8.15am. I roughly took attendance of the members and then went off to withdraw money from ATM machine in Plaza Siswa. I was so excited cos i planned to get a Wacom tablet from Low Yat, with the 100 bucks i earned from assignment ^^. When i came back to the main entrance, someone(i forgot who ^^;) told me the buses had arrived and they were moving in the campus. So, we asked the members to queue up in 2 lines, divided into bus 1 and bus 2. There were some complication but we settled it without much delay. And guess wat? Khurshid is finally coming with us!! yey~~ good for you! ^_^ Din know why he wanted to go to bus two, leaving edo, the only AKM member in the bus predominated by KFC members, not to mention leaders too.. *grin*

In the bus, i was munching the sausage bun after finish taking attendance again for bus 1. Then only i notice that there were 2 pairs of lovebirds in the front row of my seat. wow.. I felt like a double lampost, so do kristine and loo mun, but not that we mind XD. During the journey to KL, i read the comic we rent the day before (ish, loo mun forgot to bring the first book, making me read the second book onwards with much confusion...) and chatted a little. But then the most interesting thing of course is to see ppl's cute sleepy faces! Kristine was at first chatting with Shu yin and Lynn, but ended up taking pictures of the ppl sleeping in bus XD. she caught the kawaii lovebirds as they were dozing (so cute...) and as well as loo mun's. hehehe.. it was so much fun seeing her taking pics of them stealthily. On the way we saw MMU bus!! Damn! and they told us we can't book the mmu bus cos the buses are going to Johor! It was no where near Johor, and instead was most probably going to kl. Gotta kill the bus manager...

About 2 hours later, we alighted in front of Time Square, and thus off we go to our first stop--Low Yat Plaza!! We were browsing around on the 2nd floor while i went over to the ps2 game stall to get some rpg games for my sis. Dex was accompanying me and he recommanded some games for me ^^. Before long, i've bought Tales of Destiny 2 and also Atelier Iris, which are quite interesting. I hope my sis would like it but dun think she'd have that much time to play nowadays ^^; Loo Mun was planning to get a mouse and also a pendrive, while i went in to Sri Computer to get my Wacom XD. As i walked into the tablet section, my eyes poped out and my jaws dropped. Damn! it's 330 bucks for a graphire 3! Last time it was jz around 200 bucks!! Waaaaa.... *sobsobsob* damn heartfallen. After all the anticipation, my hope of drawing and coloring digitally had gone to drain...

Abit dishearted, we went around the higher floor to search for cheaper tablet, but to no avail. Seems like they've got new stock for the tablet and thus selling them at a higher price. Damn! After Genny had got his dvd writer, we went down to ground floor to proceed to Sungai Wang. Jin wanted to withdraw money, so we went to the Lower Ground. Everyone was browsing around while waiting for him, but i was too tempted by non other than the Papa Roti's Mexico Bun!! My mood rose up again as i was happily munching the hot crispy bun, while Kristine explained to lynn and others that without fail, i'd go to the bread shop to get D bun every time i visit Low Yat Plaza. They were kinda fascinated by my craze, and after i've finished mine, Lynn treated me another one!! *eyes turned into heart shape* This is so great!! Thx, Lynn! >w< Of course, i shared mine with shu yin and yuhi, and shu yin said that it reminded her of Yakitate Japan XD. We joked about how the buns glow and how heavenly and exaggeratingly it was depicted in the series as we were munching on the way to Sungai Wang.

In the second shopping mall, we went up and browsed thru the ps2 shops, dvd shops as well as manga shops. Most of the time there were ppl who had to wait for the others who in turn are obsessed with the various anime or game merchandises or mangas XD. At last, we arrive in the teppanyaki shop for lunch. It was the first time that i'd been to a japanese restaurant so i was kinda awed by the setting of the shop. We sat down around a table, where the chef fries our food in the middle of the table. There were red and white strips of cloth hanging over the tables, giving it the Nihon look XD. We started to order and i chose the niku soba (beef noodle). We waited for our food patiently as we savour our occha (green tea) and some other dig in their japanese styled ice kacang (not much difference actually ^^). When our food arrived one by one, me started eating my soba. Found out that it was kinda delicious, especially the sauce XD. there's this saucer that contained 2 different sauce, one like soya sauce, another one is sour chili sauce. I ate the soba contentedly, besides taking bits of salmon from Jin and also Lynn's bean sprouts.

We left the restaurant at about 2pm after paying up our bills. Then, we went to browse anime shops. Later, As Jin wanted to see Gundam figurines, we gals parted with them and went to browse other stuffs. At the end, everyone separated, leaving me and kristine browsing handphones. I was in a dilemma whether to trade in my motorola phone cos it lags when i type sms. The trade in price was 170 bucks and that saleman can't guarantee that the price won't drop summore.. so in the end, i made up my mind to trade in and get another phone. I bought Nokia 1100 with an addition of 90 bucks. Many ppl were shocked that i 'down graded' my phone cos i dun think normal ppl does that XD. Well, i'm jz stingy i guess XD and i dun think there is a necessity for color screen. hehe.. but then i was buying it in a rush, and din check that the phone's vibrator can't work until i've got up the bus going to the matsushita sport stadium >"<. I'd have to fix it in melacca then...

At about 5pm, we reached the sport stadium, seeing alot of other buses, including another mmu bus there, which we found out later that was from cyber. we went in and got our fans, and then saw Yeo-san, our japanese class teacher over there too. We greeted him, but he was so blur that he can't recognize us >"< After that, we went off to the site with japanese food stalls. there were so many types of snacks that i dunno wat to eat XD. there's takoyaki, origiri, unagi bentou, soba, kakigouri...*drools* In the end i bought some sushi and origiri, while Kristine bought the 10 bucks unagi bentou. Loo Mun was crazy enough to get the bbq corn jz to satisfy her craze. Then we shared a kakigouri (ice kacang, without kacang XD).

After buying the snacks, we went around the field stalking ppl. ahhaha.. we had fun trying to take photos with little kids, and in the end kena stalked by shuyin XD. she's a better stalker than us >"<. Besides that, i took picture with Edo's Lisa, D lisa other than me XD. We wanted to take pic with Lina, the president of EMiNA Cyber too, but din have the chance as it started to drizzle when i was introducing myself to her. Too bad la.. and she's wearing a really nice yukata >"<. if not we'd have three 'Li's together in a pic. The place was too huge and too filled with ppl that we can't really had a chance to get group picture. In fact, all our emina members were scattered over the field that we can hardly find each other XD. Well, if Loo Mun's lost, we can always go over to the lost and found counter to get her back XD. Talking about being lost, there were a few cosplayers in the field too..*sweatdrops* it's like they are doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. i remember last year's bon odori there was a girl cosplaying as Rikku, from FF10. Now there's Kikkyo from Inu Yasha and another unknown character =_=|||. Haiz, ppl nowadays...

At about 7pm, We got to the spectator seats and started munching our food XD. The japanese organizer gave his speech in crisp english, while later on another local guy gave one super long-winded one *sweat* and of course no one was listening XD. Then the event starts with the first part of dancing. Everyone got down the field and gather round the stage in the middle, with lanterns hanging on it. Then the ppl in yukata standing on stage started to dance as the traditional song was played, along with the rhythmic drum beats. So ppl down there follow suit and it was a really nice view to behold. We joined in the fun during the later part and enjoyed doing the movements along with everyone else...

When we went back to the spectator seats, there were 2 kiddos in yukata sitting beside me. I tried hard not to look like a peadophile but they were so damn cute XD Yet when they were talking to each other (omg.. their voices are soo kawaii...) i can hardly catch up with wat they said. haiz.. wat to do.. i jz learnt japanese a few months only wat >"<. During the break, i was mustering up courage to talk to them. Anything will do.. maybe wanna ask them 'is bon odori fun' or sth. But in the end they went off, when i was jz going to open my cowardly mouth... Well then, I've gotta brush up my jap!! *resoluted for a while and totally forgot about it after 10 mins*

After going down and dancing for the 2nd round in the moonlight, we decided that it's time to go 'bargain for goods' XD. First we went to the Yakult drink (sth like vitagen) stall and queued up for our free drink. it took kinda long as the salesperson was patiently introducing and promoting the drink to the thirsty ppl. Think they cared more about getting the drink than its history ^^; Before long, it was our turn to quench our thirst. Actually it was not bad, not too sweet, but hard to say, since when ppl are hungry or thirsty, anything can be blissfully delicious. Jin, me, Yining and Loo Mun walked around the site hunting for cheap drinks. I got apple and plum green tea with 5 bucks, while Jin got 2 bottles of alcohol for 10. We exchanged one of ours and then waited for Kristine to get her favourite Asahi XD. She was really slow and when we went over the asahi stall, she was waiting for the price to drop. A can was sold at the price of 6 bucks, but she insisted on waiting for the last ones. At last, there were only a few cans left, so she gave up and bought 3 cans. haha.. when Hsia Liang came over the stall, there was only 1 left in the salesman's hands and he got it for 5 bucks XD.

At about 9.45pm, we went out of the stadium and headed towards the junction where all were suppose to gather. Was really blur cos we dunno where the bus's exact location, and i had to lead a bunch of members towards it *sweat*. In the end we found it, far away from the junction. so everyone got up the buses safe and sound~ phew. All the way back, we were chatting about stuffs and laughing and sharing the joke. Kristine was drinking her asahi already and ppl kept saying she's drunk, tho she's not XD. In the middle of the highway, we stopped at a rest station for ppl to 'release tension'. When i got back to the bus, there was a commotion in the bus. After asking around, found out that Edo was 'washing' the window glass by sticking his face and body there... The passanger in the JLs bus beside was horrified and drew the curtains over. Imagine it was that disgusting. ewwww.. Unsatisfied, he later on did more visual harassment to the next passenger. Lol..

Finally, we returned to MMU at about 12 sth. Kristine paid the bus drivers and then we left for home. Phew... that's the end of this post then.. took me so long to finish it >"<.. Anyway, gonna link the pics here later on so dun worry XD

Feel the pressure...

2005-07-13T23:59:00.001+08:00

hmm.. my frequency of updating my blog has been decreasing drastically... *drop dead*

Since becoming the president of Emina, i've felt the pressure of being one more and more with the passing days. I've never experience such huge burden upon my shoulders as i've always been the not-so-important-and-if-possible-can-be-forgotten type of person my whole life... i may have exaggerated but at least back then i dun feel so much pressure as i'm feeling right now. It might be nothing, or it might be jz me, but i think i'm stressed out. I'm worried about how well i should carry myself, how i should change myself to be worthy of the post, about my every decision for the club, about my mentality... there is so much to worry about, and so few solutions coming into mind.

I've always believed that i'd be able to take care of my academic pursue no matter what, but my conviction began to falter, as the beta course subjects get harder and more confusing as we go on further. For once, I'm afraid that i might fail even one of the papers. Everytime i put aside my tutorials and books and busy myself with club activities, the fear of not being able to catch up with my studies lurches deep in my thoughts. I started to think back about my club presidents during secondary school, who almost failed their exams though they were really excellent students before holding the posts. I'm scared.

Things might go well, or at least i hope they did, but i still can't help feeling so useless and frustrated. Maybe i'm not used to it yet, i'd console myself. But when will my adaptation kick in? 1 month? 2? I really doubt that i can change that fast, at least i know my inersia towords changing is really big. The momentum of changing might be huge, but it dies down relatively fast. One day i'd be so eager and full of enthusiasm to change, and might even succeeded, but i'd jz change back to my old self on another day. i'm jz too stuck with my lame personality. I try to be cheerful, i try to be positive, and not so blur at times, but it jz cant stay for long. Before you can say 'blur sotong' i'd be back to my lazy-assed, pessimistic, undecisive and blurry self. I'm jz too unworthy to become ppl's leader. But i've became one, and there's no turning back. Sink or float, i'd have to do wat i'm here for.

To ppl reading this blog, pls dun worry about me. I'm not going to suicide or anything close to that :p. I jz need to sort out my thoughts and to reassess myself for the betterment. It's time to change. But will it last? I'll keep on trying until it does. God, pls help me... i'm like a lost lamb, misled into the cross road of thousand choices...