All in January...

*let the pictures do the talking*

Shogun on 6th:: Gathering; venue suggested by our class monitor; planned through fb by mw, surprisingly the thread got revived just recently since qx finished her exams!
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the ones who reached earlier to accomplish our "special mission", guess we kinda succeeded ;P

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what Shogun's food did to us!! though it's being exaggerated.. but seriously, it's not even worth giving a try there, unless you're too bored of good-tasting food ._.

despite the food.. we had fun out of giving not-so-pleasant comments to the food and taking group pictures! :D

Alina's 19th:: Dinner at Fullhouse, Ara Damansara; beautiful interior; sexay birthday girl; py the outstanding organiser.

isn't this cake just lovely? heart shaped with two strawberries on top! nice pick hw & ql.

making full use of what they have there?

surprised to see choong hern there, friends since standard one wei. glad to see dorie, my best partner during prema's class! happy to see everyone actually...

followed Alina back to her place and was surprised by another bunch of her church friends who were already there. being friendly, Alina introduced us to each other and we literally said "Hiiiiiiii" again & again in the same tone.

headed to the Murni at Aman Suria later on to continue chatting. discovered that they have such cute drinks called 'i love you' & 'i miss you'. strange enough, one of us actually didn't know what a french kiss was, while the other didn't know what creature a hedgehog was.

pleased that Alina managed to make it that night although she's busy.

Jyy Yee's 19th:: party in the house; guests of a combination of primary + secondary + college buddies; planned exactly the day before; PINK birthday girl.

as early as 10am, i finally saw my calista! witnessed cali's amazing parking skill at 1u. went on a search for our dear jy's pressie with cali & hw.
funnily, jy was at 1u too! hence, a mini H.A. reunion there and then. ♥

hw attempted to push her shift earlier so she could attend the party, but it was not allowed :(

many many pink & white balloons were put up by the time we reached jy's house. thanks to her sisters who helped with the decorations and maids who prepared the nasi lemak their best at cooking.

her sister suggested we played a game. everyone was supposed to write a verb, a noun & an adverb on three pieces of paper, placed them into the three respective cups. took turns to pick the papers and had to act whatever was on the paper for others to guess. x)

birthday cake #1

birthday cake #2

the beautiful balloons! and everybody...

the girlsss

Xgroup lacking wk. when will we get to see you wk?

left: bobo, thanks for driving us back; middle: us ♥; right: jy's name, made it for her last year.. so aaaw to see it again.

jay why why why eee.

pressie from us! earrings, a plant that grows crystals (is it growing yet jy??) and...

tadaa!

the beautiful colourful lights, we purposely turned all the lights off, sat in a big circle with music on, and stared at it spin...

oh, hw actually came right after her work! :)

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January has been a rather happy month,
will February be even better?

What A Dream

*blows away the thick dust & cobwebs on my blog*

It was this evening when we were feeding our bouncy bunny Ador, my younger sister told me she had a dream last night. And this is how it goes...

One day, my family went to McDonald's (my sister must be craving for McD in her dream). The funny thing was, we took Ador along! Of all things on earth why him right?? Not like he can possibly munch on a set of Happy Meal -.-

Anyways, we headed to the upper floor and started eating. Out of no where, we realised Ador's MISSING! *panic* Then out of no where again, came a waitress running towards us. She said, "I'm so sorry, we took your rabbit away. It was causing too much trouble!"

and of course we questioned her back, curious of what mess Ador could have done...

Nope, he neither gnawed on Ronald McDonald's clown shoes nor chewed on the lettuce for the burgers.

My favourite part of the dream... She replied, "It was toooooooo lovable, all the customers were crowding around it until they didn't want to continue eating!" (now Ador better not be perasan if he happens to read this)

Though in fact he's not thaaaaat lovable, at least nobody would come crowding around it to the extent that they quit eating, but it's still cute in its own way :)

There, the bunnay...

baby him, shuppper cute that time.

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grown-up him in a flower pot, naughty!

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My First Ice Skating Experience...

5th Jan '10

after much contemplation and persuasion, finally decided to give ice skating a try! now i wouldn't say i regret cause it was really quite interesting, especially for a first timer like me. 

the whole process was similar to a kid learning how to walk all over again. every step was out of my control, looking at how some of them could skate so gracefully, i was there moving slowly (i wouldn't even say i was skating) and carefully in case i fall... 

something to be happy about is that i actually managed to learn to 'skate' very slowly without holding onto the sides after a couple of times of falling down. that's a considerable achievement for me already... must thank audrey, huei-wen, qing lin, chee hung, and 2 of chee hung's college friends (cheng yie & samantha).

come to think of it, everyone of them helped me a lot, probably because i was the most handicapped one there. felt a lil bad though when they had to skate so slowly to teach me, they could actually skate like pro already! but that's what made me feel good, to have friends by my side helping me when everything seemed like impossible. (it was really veryyy slippery!)


they're all being very encouraging... with all the "see, you are doing better", "surely can one, come try to not hold the wall anymore", "i'll stay near you, don't worry, just skate..." very nice to hear those words you know :)

another thing i appreciated was when a stranger helped me up. there was this time i fell down in the middle of nowhere, this girl immediately helped me up. i witnessed a lot of this happening around the skating rink, people who never knew each other but automatically helped one another. isn't that just pleasant? 

enough of the nice things i realised. apart from those, i almost couldn't feel my feet towards the end. was thinking if it's because i didn't skate in the proper way or what. it was worse for huei-wen, she had a blister that was bleeding without her knowing until she removed the skates and saw one big red patch on her white socks! ouchouch.


i never never felt so great to be in slippers before... it's exactly like i lost my feet previously and just got them back!

too bad we didn't take any pictures that day. 

later, we headed back to one u. 7 people (including the driver) in the car! *thanks chee hung for driving us* played an interesting game of continuing the story with only three words when we were stuck in the jam. everyone was too tired, so we just sat somewhere and talked... 

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*treasure every moment like it'll never happen again.*

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when everything's all mixed up.

so... there goes another year of a 365 days.

coming to this last day of such a special year, all the different feelings of what has happened and what was supposed to happen but did not are pouring in at once.

i would call this a special year because it was the first time in my life i got separated from my closest friends, in a conscious state. the transition from kindergarten to primary, or that of primary to secondary were never that big an impact to me.

while leaving high school, and going on our separate ways really wasn't too easy for me. probably because i was too used to seeing them 5 days in a week, back in the same classroom, at the same seats, doing the same routine.

why is it so easy to get used to doing certain things, but never as easy to withdraw ourselves from it? i even remembered how i ended up in tears when i called huei-wen on the orientation day itself at college. that was funny, but it definitely made me feel better.

then i eventually got used to my life as a pre-u student, and slowly found a group of friends whom i feel comfortable with... started to enjoy myself more at college as i got even closer to them. by spending more time together, doing various tasks together, i got to understand each of them better, knowing what's different and what's nice about each of them.

well, i'm truly glad i've met them and i too hope i've played my part well enough as a friend to them.

since most of us have moved on to different colleges, gatherings became something i longed for. any outings, or short catch up sessions were equally meaningful. as people always say, it's only when you lose something, you understand its true value. i agree.

i kinda think a big part of my life revolves around my friends. cause i guess besides family, they're the ones i care most. both family & friends, being the ones who would affect my emotions.

sometimes, it's hard to believe that i'm 18 already. i've always thought 18 was an age where i would be matured in every sense, knowing very well about these and that. which is pretty not right, there are so much more for me to learn to better myself.

a new year means a new beginning? basically it just marks another year of our lives. whether or not it would be a whole new beginning, it's still all up to us. not merely a new year resolution but enough determination to fulfil those promises we've made to ourselves.

2010 will be a better year ahead for me, you and everyone else...

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Christmas Eve at Curve :)

it's pretty amazing how our plans changed at the last minutes. from going to Sepang Goldcoast for sunset and have a picnic there, to watching sunrise, to having a pot luck at tse wei's place and play with Gopi, until we've ultimately decided to just go to the curve and countdown to Christmas.

the only valid reason i could think of behind all these is that the people who are planning the outings are a big part of the people who could actually make it for the plans. so it's not exactly an act of being inconsiderate...


Since most of our Christian friends have already been occupied with their own activities, plus some who are not around or busy with parties, we were the only ones left :)


it was nice how we were greeted by lots of white white snow at curve, artificial snow of course which looked very foamy.

a beautiful sight to see~

tse wei & qing lin for us to test the correct camera mode to use, but the pictures are still either blur or dark, bad camera :P

huei-wen and i, can't see the snow though :)

after playing around with the snow for a while, it was time for us to choose where to have dinner. quite a difficult task for us beacuse we're always okay with anything. glad that we finally decided to eat at Thai Express as recommended by huei-wen :)

it was really not bad, except the food comes in rather large portion. you see, especially we were laughing sooooooo much, i was full of laughing already. BUT! there was nothing to fear at all! because, we had......

DUSTBIN MAN!

we made a song specially for our superhero, the Dustbin Man. it was sooo funny, laughing too much can be quite torturing. in the process, all we did was laugh while he never stopped devouring every single bit of the food left in our plates, mum mum mum...

at 9pm, our gift hunting game began! original idea was from qing lin, to each bring a gift so we could exchange them.

after little modification, it turned into a game where we went separate ways to search for a gift worth rm10-15, and reunited in half an hour's time.

seriously enjoyed the process. went from shop to shop, in search of something nice and at the same time within budget. halfway through when i was still looking a bit lost, coincidentally bumped into Dorie!! :D

i, who personally have a very bad sense of direction managed to find my way back to the starting point. phew! we waited for a while before huei-wen who was waiting at another floor made her way up to find us X) now, everyone was each holding a pressie. i got quite excited thinking it would be my first and probably only Christmas gift.

then tse wei brought us to Cupcake Chic (to Yanz or Hh if you ever see this, our IC3 is still the best! heeh) since we needed a place to exchange the gifts. we ordered half a dozen, and we all tried the six different flavours :) very sweeeeet.

from pretty cupcakes to nothing left! :D

the long waited moment! haha, we spent such a long time drawing the numbers, as we promised to keep drawing until none of us got our own number, the probability of it happening was so not high! 

then when i finally got hw's; hw got mine; ql got tw's; tw got ql's. we thought it wasn't a satisfactory result, since hw knew the gift she bought wouldn't be what i like, and i thought what i bought was funny for hw too.

so we switched, and tada...

this was what i got from tw! the aromatic doughnut keychain we saw earlier and an educational toy. haha some colourful puzzle thingy. ♥

hw's gift from ql, which he got at a discounted price x) Domokun! ♥

a very thick story book for ql from hw. it's good ql reads this kinda book ♥

and lastly, tw's. the twin bears from Little Heaven, a shop that sells baby products XD and the chair cushion from Daiso, everything was rm5 there. i never knew. ♥

the gifts~ :D

we all liked Domokun a lot cause it has such a big mouth to bite everything, eats 'grass' too! X)

went to ikea after that to quech our thirst. just when we wanted to refill our coffee, a man came saying goodnight to us, shooing us away.

tw said something which made us laugh soooo much again! i better not write it here, in case he sees it, dustbin man's gonna eat me up.

for making us laugh so much, and for how we've always mistreated him. we made him Miss World Queen :D pretty leh.

then, we waited at the hotel's lobby for the clock to strike 12. finally, merry christmas! though it was all crowded, with many people wearing santa's hat, we didn't quite feel the Christmas spirit somehow. 

many of them were enjoying themselves with the sprayer (not sure what it's called), while we had a hard time squeezing our way out, avoiding them. went to hw's house and chatted till 1.30am in her purple study room. all ears was on tse wei ;)

if laughing was the best medicine, i think we were all in the pink that night x)

*it's impossible to be happy when people around you are not, let's make sure that we play our part well as a good friend.

A Gastronomic Adventure. really!

i can't exactly remember the sequence now, but we went from petaling street, to a hawker stall, to time square, to low yat plaza, to sungei wang, and finally took the free shuttle bus back to ikano. from there. we walked back to OneU to meet up with Qing Xian :)

uugh, this was actually on a sunny 10th Dec.
but since i've already uploaded the pics some time ago, i shall just write a little about this wonderful trip to KL :D 
we were halfway chatting through msn when tse wei suggested he could bring us to Petaling Street, and the next day we really made our way there :)

the bus at OneU...

the result of blogging so long after the day itself, i'm having a hard time recalling. the pictures shall do the talking. 

it was almost as if the moment we stepped out of the lrt itself, we started eating... and we never stopped till we left the place .

this open-air barber shop was really something to see :)

watched Mulan,as recommended by qing xian's sister. it was indeed a nice movie which made all of us cry. 

This post is here just so that i would remember there was this fine day, we went on a gastronomic adventure. :D [a more detailed post by Huei-Wen]