CNY

had a blast this CNY :)

im stil suffering from post cny-withdrawal syndrome.

kinda depressed for awhile missing my sweet family and friendzz.

nyways..

this is the "post-mortem"

11 feb 10

had this lou-sang cum karaoke cum gathering session with ex-prefects

damn i so love them.... wouldnt get tired talkin bout those great old-days

of us bullyin students and etc.

joseph organized this gathering n many of us actually turned up :)!

by the way, photos pls!!!

had my 1st cny lou-sang there at klang. dunno why we need to go so far

but it's FUN :) was toasted lotsa red wine plus white wine.

went bit of tipsy.. but that's not all,

later that night , joined dorothys and her friends for our 2nd round @ zouk

cleaned my houz during the last few days before CNY

and i made pineapple tarts!!! for the effin 1st time of my life!

it doesnt look nice, but it taste GREAT!

yao can be the judge. (cos i purposely saved a tiny box of "the best of the best "cookies for him. lucky man!

13 feb 10 .

went shoppin with didi to buy my contact lenses.

lost my contacts on cny eve. what a joke.

losta shops were closed.. thank god i found it in parismiki, midvalley.

14 feb 10

mummy's birthday! and sadly it's V day.

yao's in penang thus we celebrated it earlier.

nyway, went grandma and ah-gu's house for 2nd lou-sang :)

will post bout V day later

15 feb 10

went TANGKAK with family plus didi mel's gorgeous gf, to my grandpa's brother's houz.

neva seen my biological grandpa in person before, neva had the chance to when he's alive,

they told me my shu-gong looks exactly the same like him, charming and sporting!

came back that night to join 5s1 's gathering :)

the last time i eva see them was freakin 8 years ago. time flies.

18 feb 10

went ah-yi's house and gambled.

nyahahah. won like 30 bucks??

19 feb 10

yao's parents came over for dinner.

my mighty mummy cooked for us!

then went straight to visit yao's relative's here in damansara

20 feb 10

u6b2's house-hoppin! bai nian tuan!

great great fun. we visited more than 10 houses in a single day!

tired but very very "rewarding"

photos in random order:

dentist cze-yin's houz


my humble hut!
yih horng's houz

wan sia's houz
hui xin's houz
dim sum lunch near ..? forgot where dy

the unofficial yum-sheng

yea yunn's houz ( we're on low batt mode dy)
suk kun's houz2suk kun's houz 1
jessica alba's oppssy.. shu woan's houz

pei leing's houzz
Lecturer-yi shion's houzz..

21 feb 10

movie true legend with my beloved family members and didi's gal @mid valley

dinner after that..

22 feb 10

extremely depress and unwilling to start working T-T lll

24 feb 10

lousang with utar psy gang!!

26 feb 10

shop shop n breakfast with dear yunyun

27 feb 10

k session with shuwoan, yeayunn, yishion, dorothys, yih horng.

shun bian celebrate horng's birthday on 28th.

**********************************til next year's cny*********

the dragon's backbone, tabur hill

zchen asked, wanna climb hill?

not trekkin, is climbin.

he's actually goin with his friend and his friend's friends,

anyway, dorothys ' going too... might as well join too i thought.

we crazy ppl are sick of city life ..and im broke with pre-cny shoppin n stuffs,

and yet the thirst for some activities are so unbearable ( rottin at home is the last thing i wanna do) so.... a special getaway to be near to mother nature wont hurt the pocket i suppose?

and here it goes, my 1st hill-climbin @ tabur hill.

imma lazy today, so let the pics do all the talkin... teeheehee~

love at 1st sight. this thing is right in the middle of our vision view when we reach 2nd or 3rd lil peak.. forgot dy.

doesnt look anywhere like kl right? this is the left side of our view, the right side, on the contrary, is a charmin concrete jungle, you wil be able to see klcc n kl tower and stuffs like that.

so, it's an amazing combination of nature and man-made world.

dunno for what reason, my stupid butt looked effin huge here.. hmmmpppfff.. must climb climb climb more and shake those disturbin fats off me!

some relevant info bout this special hill as requested by some friends: i cut n paste from some website. what? you expect me to know these by maself? ya kiddin.

Worlds longest Crystal Quartz-Rich ridge- Crystal walk

The Dragon's Backbone, Tabur Hill ( Recorded 16KM Long)"This Tabur Ridge is a long and narrow series of karst hills with a high content of Quartz crystals. The ridge itself, averaging 200 feet high, runs in a semi circle bordering the eastern edge of Kuala Lumpur city. The Tabur Hill Ridge is rated the Longest Quartz-Rich Ridge in the world. Quartz is one of the three common components in the formation of rocks. Quartz-Rich Ridge - as the names implies, the trails and surfaces around the Ridge is littered with Quartz crystals (Individually or in clusters, large and small). The Quartz here varies from totally transparent to semi opaque, with most of them whitish in colour. You can see them shimmering on the ground reflected by sunlight as like mirror reflections.The trail is a narrow path on top of the Ridge with some stretches only allowing a single trekker to pass through. The trail passes through stretches where the left and right side have vertical drops of up to 200 feet, leaving the trekker with not much room for any other alternatives. The trail is dotted with low vegetation, made up mostly of small trees and shrubs (affectionately known amongst the trekkers as “Bonsai”). This low vegetation enables you to see and gauge the distance between one peak to another." article by endemicguides.com

great friends i got to know that day
breath-taking view
some slightly dangerous spot.. some spot are quite challengin for a-moi like me..

haha.. friends assume i have no problems because my limbs are long ( like apes i suppose)

happy me!

after the strenuous climb, we indulged in holy food food food... here>

happy seasons restaurant, which consists of 4 areas, summer/autumn/spring/winter.

we went to winter part. freezin cold there :)

does this picture look familiar to you??? hahaha.. guess!!

happy!

i felt so contended and excited.. imma shouting this out loud!

i managed to convinced papa and mama

to let lil bro shawn learn saxophone.

reason:

i believe child who plays musical instrument are unique!

i just couldnt describe .. but like it or not , WE ARE SOMEWHAT SPECIAL!

i play the piano ( and a tiny bit of violin),

bro christopher plays the violin,

and now lil bro is gonna play SAX!!!!!

cool to the maxx..

by the way, if bro melvin is reading this... you play dotA too..

.haha wtf fair nuff.

alright..

this has been dragged for so long.

daddy and mummy took eons to agree ..

though they both agree that they need to let didi shawn take up some music classes.

they doubt whether SAX will be the right option.

at 1st didi wanna learn drums. (but mum strongly oppose)

then she wanted him to learn something like piano/violin cos we have piano at home ( which i strongly oppose.... cos i believe it's better for us to learn DIFFERENT musical instrument.

so as to be unique { i wouldnt want anyone to put my siblings into unhealthy comparisons.. saying who plays better than who}...

and one day while i was you-tube-ing... i suddenly heard a jap artist playing Sax... it was way too cool! and i thought to myself.... if didi shawn can play that during my wedding ( alright.. i've thought too far... but hey, that's me) how nice on earth could it be?!

thus i started to search for qualified teacher ( a good teacher is damn important ; pls refer to my previous post HERE )

my violin teacher then recommended this young ( but experienced) teacher for me.

i've took some time to talk to my parents.

they were excited at 1st, too..

but later dampened by the fact that..

it's not as simple as we thought.

you know why?

after surveying the fees of the lessons and the price of the instrument..

we almost CHOKED.

simply because saxophone lessons were SO EXPENSIVE .

and the instrument costs a fortune. the one his teacher recommends costs bout 4.6k

and mind you, we're not from a rich family.

after serious consideration ( thanks to my persuasion skills and psycho strategies.. haha kiddin) , parents finally say " OK"

we shared out our part.

daddy mummy both shares the cost of the instrument.

mummy and i both sponsoring 50-50 of the lesson fees.

daddy responsible for fetching bro to and fro music school.

didi shawn responsible for practicing hard and learning with dedication and make us proud.

so TODAY : MONUMENTAL EVENT >> didi shawn got his SAX and started his 1st lesson!!!!!

*****clap handss*****

imma big proud sis!! i was so excited...

when we just bought it... and didi is trying to hold it using his tiny hands.... i felt like there's an invisible hand patting my shoulder... im glad. so glad.

by the way, that damn expensive gold-and-silver-plated-thingy is so effin heavy. i think it's heavier than my bro.

daddy said " so here's a motorbike ( the price) " let's see why:

*************CUT & PASTE FROM WIKIPEDIA********( you may skip this if you're not as interested like me)********The saxophone was developed in the 1840s by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian-born instrument-maker, flautist and clarinetist working in Paris. While still working at his father's instrument shop in Brussels, Sax began developing an instrument which had the projection of a brass instrument with the agility of a woodwind. Another priority was to invent an instrument which would overblow at the octave, unlike the clarinet, which rises in pitch by a twelfth when overblown; an instrument which overblew at the octave would have identical fingering for both registers. Most saxophones, both past and present, are made from brass. Despite this, they are categorized as woodwind instruments rather than brass because the sound waves are produced by an oscillating reed, not the player's lips against a mouthpiece as in a brass instrument, and because different pitches are produced by opening and closing keys. Brass is used to make the body of the instrument; the pad cups; the rods that connect the pads to the keys; the keys themselves and the posts that hold the rods and keys in place. The screw pins that connect the rods to the posts, and the needle springs and leaf springs that cause the keys to return to their rest position after being released, are generally made of blued or stainless steel. Since 1920, most saxophones have 'key touches' (smooth decorative pieces placed where the fingers touch the instrument) made from either plastic or mother of pearl.

Other materials have been tried with varying degrees of success, such as the 1950s Grafton plastic alto saxophone. A few companies, such as Yanagisawa^[10] and Bauhaus Walstein, have made some saxophone models fromphosphor bronze because of its slightly different tonal qualities^[11]. For example, although their designs are identical apart from the metal used, the bronze Yanagisawa A992^[12] saxophones are said to sound "darker" than the brass versions. Yanagisawa and other manufacturers, starting with the King Super 20 around 1950, have made saxophone necks, bells, or entire instruments from sterling silver.^[13] Keilwerth and Paul Mauriat have made saxes with a nickel silver body like that of a flute^[14][15]. The effect of material on sound is controversial among sax players, and little solid research has been published.

After completing the instrument, manufacturers usually apply a thin coating of clear or colored acrylic lacquer, or silverplate, over the bare brass. The lacquer or plating serves to protect the brass from oxidation, and maintains its shiny appearance. Several different types and colors of surface finish have been used over the years.^[16] It is also possible to plate the instrument with nickel or gold, and a number of gold-plated saxophones have been produced.^[16] Plating saxophones with gold is an expensive process because gold will not stick directly to brass. As a result, the brass is first coated with silver (which will stick to it) and then gold-plated on top.

Some argue that the type of lacquer or plating, or absence thereof, may enhance an instrument's tone quality. The possible effects of different finishes on tone is a hotly debated topic, not least because other variables may affect an instrument's tone colors e.g. mouthpiece design and physical characteristics of the player. In any case, what constitutes a pleasing tone is a matter of personal preference and tastes vary*************************************

so it's didi's 1st lesson.. imma so kepochi i asked permission from the kind teacher so that i can be there in the room to accompany didi (only for the 1st class... sigh)

i wish i could be there every class.. but i know i wouldnt wanna disturb them by doing thus didi christopher and i joined the 1st class as naive observer to have our curiosity feeded.

it's not easy to learn how to produce 'sound' by blowing.

i know didi is learning attentively and trying hard.

teacher teaching didi to blow the mouthpiece

didi's new property below.

so..

ending my post here full of hope..

i wish 'one of my dream' will come true.

didi shawn and didi christopher playing duet on stage during my wedding dinner.

i dun care whether it's 'mary had a lil lamb' or 'twinkle twinkle lil star' or etc.

any song would please me :) im waiting for the day. i know it wont be long.

2010-resolutions

i know im abit late.

yet. it's better than none

1 week past, and i havent really set my goals for 2010?

believe it or not, i took one week thinkin seriously into it and here it goes,

my 2010's resolutions:

1. control my expenditure and save up!

aahh.... i know how impossible it sounds but hey, being aware of my dangerous shoppin habits

is the FIRST step, and a big one. blame it on my fashion sense... i (think im) getting better and

better taste each year and my style grows with time :) but this put a pinch in my pocket too.. i

rejected low quality garments and lookin into more classy ones, which usually cost a lot more higher than what you can get from sg.wang etc etc..

damn.. a good dress doesnt match with so-so shoes.... so when you have a good dress and a pair of stilettos, ya low quality ciplak bag stands out!. and when you have the full set of nice garments, ya fugly nails or ya bad hair irritates ya... gettin pretty is never an easy task!!

it comes holistically... that means more effort and $$$...

cinderella wont look nice if any single part of her turns to pumpkin...

glad that i do have nice tshirts and shorts that can go with easy breezy sandals... that saves for other not-so-glam days. i do enjoy dressing down sometimes..( stil the quality of shirts and shorts counts !)

alright 2. no more impulsive buys from now!!! which is my 2nd resolution.

i know i can refrain from " wow.. this dress looks damn damn exquisite on me." " another must-have!!" " it totally brings out my attitude /sexiness/ feminity/ qi4 zhi2 etc" " see how gorgeous the color of the dress matches with my brown hair??!!"

mom once told me, you can never have enough shirts/dresses/etc

every piece will just look pretty and nice on you, because you have nice ( alright, she said perfect, because to her, her daughther is perfect... im replacing it with the word nice, because it's more acceptable by norm) body figure.. if every dresses you try look nice on ya.. you'll be buyin the whole store .. ( agak -agak like that la... i can remember the exact sentence, but the meaning is there)neva really realized till i was packing (for moving to the new place), i bought too many stuffss. maybe she's right.

and thinkin bout how hard she work to earn money... im pretty much determined to achieve this goal. ( im not that selfish as you thought. i did contribute a tiny part financially to my beloved family too!) and mama was saying that because she wanted me to save more for the future.

neva realized how much i've wasted money on unwanted stuffs TIL i was packing last year's december, before movin to the new place...

i was flooded by zillions

bottles of unused/ half-used beauty care products (thank god i found a product that suits me, thus end all those silly purchases of ineffective products), hair care products including curl cream, conditioner, leave-in oil etc which i never bother to use... body lotions and hand lotions and whitening lotions and moisturizing lotions ...wtf... nail polishes (thanks to my violin classes, couldnt keep my nails long, thus im starting to save for nail polishes too!! ), magazines ( im pretty occupied with work and some other good reads like harry potter and stuffs, thus this can be scratched off my shoppin list too!)

damn im guilty now. gals out there, please tell me you're in the same condition so that i'll feel better bout myself.. puhleaseee...

wow..

now i found ways to really cut down my expenses.... hmmm cleva me... lets see, what else..

ohya... 3. i pledge to take college bus everyday from the 2nd week of 2010 onwards!!!!

simple maths.

taking college bus to work: rm 0.60 per ticket

to & fro: rm 0.60 x 2 = rm 1.20

taking metrobus to work: rm 1.00 per ticket

to & fro: rm 1.00 x 2 = rm 2.00

taking taxi to work : rm 6.50 (sometimes 5 something. depends on different metres)

to & fro: enough said.

im not that stupid, i know how to compare transport fares... it's just that...

the reason im taking taxis would be --- > over-slept

---> rushing etc. (alright you knew me well)

and occasionally, on rainy days/ scorching sun/ mood swing / period.

after tabulating , i think i can save up A LOT! if im willing to wake up early/take/wait for college bus every day.

exceptions: when im not well etc la... i can come up with endless excuses de. haha

4. work harder / no more procrastination!!

im now intended to change one of my most prominent characteristics.

i am efficient. and im proud of being efficient, in the sense that i can work fast within short period of time (usually during last minutes..) and produce good quality work nevertheless...

but feeling threaten by the thought that im gettin older ( 25-to-be).. and not having any major achievement etc, it's a shame to waste time.

probably, doing things early allows more time to either do more meaningful work/ venture more/learn more/explore more/rest more/play more......

well. i just need to get rid of my lazy worm and start to be more serious in stuffs im doing.

who knows, i might just perform so well and achieve greater heights?

and before 30 i'll be rich and successful! ( alright, i know i sure will. trust me)

4.2 Practise harder on my violin.

that day before class, i reached the music school early. upon entering, i heard BEAUTIFUL melodies...... ( went breathless.... im pretty much swayed by it... )my violin teacher was playing piano/violin duet with another teacher (who conducts our junior chamber practises) and they looked as if the world out there no longer exist.. they're in their own pandora. great .. great .. great music. and im blessed to have heard it LIVE.

so there i was standing outside the door, neva wanna disturb them, not wanting to let him know that i've reached because i know.. if he knew, he would just stop ( and there goes the "feelings" and .. arrgghh .. im running outta words to describe. ) they're playing with such precious mo4 qi4 ( those who're good in eng. please help me translate)

so.. it's like 10-15 minutes standing outside listening to them playing ( i know im abit psycho)

i was so envious, if not jealous bout them..... sigh.. what m i doing when i was young.. and now that im 25, oopss.. 24 to be exact... i couldnt do that...

so when i finally pressed on the door bell and they stopped and my teacher came to greet me and open the door for me... he asked " what did you put on ya face?" ( silly him, i was sweating heavily.... it's so hot outside £$&*^%) ... and while he's carrying the book stand ( i dunno what it's called) into the room and preparing the room for our lesson to start, he is humming the unfinished song they played.. hmm.. hmmm.. hmm..

gosh. i wish i were not there.

wish i neva interrupted them playing.

i felt that im so "extra" at that moment. such a killjoy .

argghh.. i'll practice hard so that i wont let him down.

*** he's one of the best teacher you could eva find. serious.

without him, i would have given up violin quite a long time ago.

and everytime i felt so guilty to him because i dint practice well.

so .. this year onwards, may i practise more and more..

violin is such a beautiful instrument. argghh..

i wish i can play as nice as how i look in the photo above. ( refer to the image of my header)

5. to be more independant

it's not that im not able to... im just used to be pampered by yao yao ( of course, i wont trade anything for this) when we're stil housemates back in ss2 and in block B.... i get so pampered by him.... TIL we live separately now ( he's back in p.j, i moved to block A) it's been sooooooooo long since i last CHARGE MY Handphone. ( he did this everytime, til i forgot that our hp needs to be charged) He used to filled up my water bottle ( now i need to LEARN to do it on my own).. suddenly i felt so handicapped without him.

and i miss him alot... ( and the stuffs he did for me while he's near)

now i can only wait for weekends to be with him

( and we're both busy sometimes during weekend : work/ family and stuffs)

argghh. i wish our weekends are longer.. like 9 days a week? or 8?

6. eat/sleep/shit/ healthily.

dont need any reasons for that. basically because healthy = beauty too!!

promised myself to drink more water. ( guess you'll wonder where got ppl set this kinda resolutions 1? ) for those who knew me well, they've observed that i rarely consumed water during the day, as well for the nights. when yao's here, he's always upset not because of my temper/demands/etc.... he's usually upset when i dint drink enough water / dint take good care of myself. mummy does the same. so from now onwards, i'll make sure my body is replenished and hydrated by the Great H20!!

others:

6.2 sleep early ( sounds impossible... hmmm i dun believe i can too.. scratch this?)

6.3 eat more healthy food :)

6.4 swim at least once per week? ( i can imagine potato pei nodding vigorously when she heard this)

7. NO MORE TEARS

okay. i know i can do this.

i cried too often all these while.

on average once per month.

(usually PMS)

im a big big cry baby. i can cry for big/small things.

family/relationship/work/dreams/

and once i start, i find it effin difficult to stop.

and i felt good bout crying .. haha

thus, for bringin peace to yao's life.

i hope i can make myself happy this year and perhaps... no more tears accept happy moments/ touchy touchy things

8. try my very BEST to achieve my dreams

i know it's a bumpy journey. but thins would be meaningless if there's no challenges/ obstacles.

so . i'll do whateva it takes to bring myself closer to IT. i know i 'll be there soon.

-nuf said-

9. buy my very 1st gucci/chanel

***** there goes no. 1 and 2.

10. i'll save it later... there must be sumthing.. i just couldnt think of it now.

shall end this post now. (refer to no. 6.2)

bless me with strong will and faith and perseverance that i can achieve the above.

lotsa love.

sweet pussy~~

some of ya noticed im a fan of this >>>>because..?

it comes in pink and white ( fav colours)

it's adorable

girly and sweeeeettt...

hmm.. and it doesnt has a mouth.

means no bitching haha..

nyways, while i was shoppin with yao yesterday in

wangsa walk mall (near my place).

i was glued to these....

hello kitty parfum! ^^

call me act cute/bimbotic/childish/princess wannabe/watsoeva.

"im so gonna have this" i said to myself.

comes in 3 different types, all with different tones and scents.

1st bottle:

verdict: a bit too strong for my liking

like the packaging nyways..

2nd.

verdict: erm.. okay okay ler... nothing special... smells quite similar to my overdue

bodyshop EDT

3rd.

Verdict: AAAAAAAHHHHHHH ( orgasmic)

the second i sniff it, it awakens the baby princess-y in me!!!

oh... it was mild. it was so pure and soft.

hate those perfum that have very strong connotation and strong existence.

unlike those catchy and attention-grabbing scents, this one is very subtle and innocent.

kept me sniffing for more, as if it comes from a soundly asleep baby.

~ very very natural ~

i can totally be comfortable in it. as if im born with this mild and sweet scent.

this 3rd bottle is alcohol-free. that means it's gentle enough to our skin and according to

the salesgal, even babies and toddlers can use it.

if i have a baby, wouldnt think of spraying expensive perfum on him/her lo,

not because it's a waste of money. it's unhealthy. (though some perfum is safe to be used on babies) i stil wont do it....

cos all the while to me, baby smells good, they smells just fine.

( i kinda addicted to their natural milky/powdery-scent dunno why, thus explained how much i enjoy sniffing my 2 younger bros when they're still babies)

hmm... i wonder why human were not born having nice smells...

imagine when we poops, it smells good. when we sweat, it smells good.

when we pick our ears, the earwax smells like rose..

or etc.

the world will be a better place.

suddenly reminds me of ppl in lrt/bus with strong B.O

or ppl in the lift on saturday afternoon that smells like the just woke up from 100 years sleep

. .. i can totally imagine how their bed and old rugged jeans and dirty t-shirts smell.

i dun understand. at least you should bathe 1st before coming out from ya house and haunt others.

OMG. they stinks.

or. other option. pls invest in deodorant or etc. it's definately another form of pollution too, mind you.

nyways... i always tell baby yao he smells great. i like his natural B.O. dunno why... haha

i heard that if couples like each other's scent it means their genes are compatible with each another's...... wonder if he likes my smell too.

*** some students said my hair smells good. kinda funny and weird they were standing close to me asking bout assignments and all of a sudden, tells me that my hair smells good.. -.-lll****

alright back to my kitty parfum, comes in 3 sizes too.. of course i chose the largest one. value for money ma:) as im a big fan of perfums and EDTs, i found this relatively affordable compared to other mega brands like paco rabanne ( dun correct my spelling), jean paul gaultier, j'adore' dkny bedelicious, burberry etc. thus if you're looking for something girly and sweet, and affordable... choose this...>>>>

i dint notice this til i post this pic... saw silly yao yao invading my sweet picture. hmmmpppfff..

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i know it's kinda irrelevant here, but i think i should post what yao bought on the same day too.. i think it looks like my brother christopher.. sorry didi... haha, this is cute too ( in a totally opposite way in comparison to my kitty)

that's for now. bye my dearest blogdersss!!! :*