OrangeClover

Humphrey, we're leavin'...!

2008-04-10T07:25:00.001-07:00

Um..yea...so you heard huh? Yea, I won't be doin' A-levels anymore. Don't say drop out!! That sounds so future-rockstar-ish....lulz..jokin' jokin'...

I made a decision to further my studies in art or in the advertising line because that has been my dream since I was...what..12 years old? I don't know if I'll regret this decision one day, but heck, we never know what's gonna happen in the future! At least I'm pretty sure that I'm following my heart when I do this.

I won't be attending classes at Taylor's anymore unless I'm required to while the office deals with my..um..departure...I'll probably go up to Subang during the holidays to collect the rest of my luggage and stuff soon. I'm also getting a par-time job while waiting for the semester at my art college(The One Academy or IACT) to start.

I'm sorry if this is too sudden, it was pretty sudden for me too when my parents suddenly offered me a chance to study art. I don't know if it might come as a surprise to those of you who are reading this blog..but I didn't want to do A-levels initially. I really didn't want to. It wasn't so bad to take when I started though, cause everyone in class is real friendly, and the lecturers are real nice. But I still struggled..haha..weird huh?

Anyway, to anyone from PM1 who is reading this blog, I'm really glad I met you. I'm sure we'll meet again, and thank you for making my days in Taylors so memorable. I'm also sorry that orangeclover has to "shut down" now that I'm leaving Taylors. If you guys are still interested you can check out on me and Betsy on our separate blogs!

Mine: http://www.toxicforest.blogspot.com
Betsy's: http://www.rhythm-of-the-heart.blogspot.com

Oh yes, and thank you for reading this entry! I think it'll be my last..on orangeclover. Haha. Thank you for yer support all this while, people! We sincerely appreciate it!!

The End

2008-04-10T05:46:00.001-07:00

Well, Pei is dropping out of A Levels. So, we won't be sharing this blog anymore. Thanks anyone that had watched or viewed this blog for the past 3 months!

My new blog URL --> rhythm-of-the-heart.blogspot.com

And Pei's --> toxicforest.blogspot.com

Betsy

We love Melaka! <3

2008-04-06T13:39:00.000-07:00

As a citizen of Melaka, I'm sad to say that I'd never been to any of the historical sites, mainly the A'famosa Fort.. I have no rights to call myself a Malaccan. Well, all that changed yesterday ^____^ For the first time, I set foot on the Melaka Fort with my friends!!! *sense of accomplishment*

We saw a Melaka Tree and took a pic with it!!! A nice shady tree where Melaka existed because of it. Imagine if the tree weren't there where Parameswara sat and he sat under a Durian tree instead, Melaka might be named Durian instead *swt*

We guessed it's a Melaka tree actually, no idea whether it is or not...

Next, we saw lots of trishaws lavishly decorated with plastic flowers of all colours. Tempted to take a picture with it, we asked a nice trishaw 'pak cik' for permission.. Turned out we had to pay RM1 per picture for it, so we shrugged off the idea. And move on to an alternative, taking picture of a wagon, which was once the carriage for kereta lembu.

It's an enlarged version of the real thing for the sake of tourist to take pictures, no cow will be able to pull this wagon.

For those people that were M'sian and studied History, you all would had known that Melaka was a place of war many many years ago and definietly canon were used in the battles.

Jee Hui was forced to take this picture with me and Sher Minn *evil grin*

More pictures of the cannon, cause erm.. we love the cannon?

Our whole group

*happy* Well, how often you get a chance to take picture of a cannon?

And now begin our voyage up the A'famosa fort.. many many flight of stairs to climb.

A view of the whole Melaka Fort

Up up and away we go... Climb climb climb *chant hundred times*

Going up

One of my favourite picture is the one below, cause of the 'struggle' to take it. We asked a mid-age lady to help take it.. *afraid of young hyper youngster that might run off with the camera*, we thought, we wanted someone to not be able to run fast XD
She had no idea how to use the camera and held it backwards, nearly taking a picture of her instead of us. In the end, her young daughter helped us to take it *laughs*

Jee Hui, Me, Sher Minn and Melissa^^

Oh ya, forgot to mention. Jee Hui was more interested in a cat than she was with the historical site *throw tomatoes at her*

A cat person

When we almost reached the top, we raced up! Yeah.. second childhood! At the top was the Melaka Fort located looking as strong as it was hundreds of years ago where it managed to help prevent Melaka from being taken over easily.

One of the windows in the fort

We see nothing, hear nothing, speak nothing at Melaka Fort...

The view on top of A'famosa was magnificient, overlooking a nice scenery of Melaka and with a constant breeze. *enjoying the moment* A great place to go to relax and get things off your mind. And we were lucky, the weather during that time was perfect, not sunny, but cloudy^^

The Melaka Tower is in the background, our faces all black =.=

All of you might had known that the hibiscus is our national flower. Well, if you do not know that, you failed as a M'sian or you had been living in Mars for the rest of your lives.

Here's a really pretty white hibiscus we saw

Well, we're proud to be a Malaccan *laughs*

We LOVE Melaka!
We forced Jee Hui to take this picture, she was REALLY unwilling to take it. A nice uncle selling souvenirs on the peak took this for us. A really nice and friendly guy, sorry we didn't bought anything from your stall >_<

Our last picture before making our way down from the peak.

Hehe, I like this picture a lot!! ^____^

We decided to make our way down when we realised the sky's turning darker and it might rain. None of us had an umbrella with us. While making our way down, I reminded all of them don't be too fast until slip. At the moment I said that, I slipped *how ironic*.. While I slipped, Melissa being the unlucky one was grabbed by me to regain my footing. Thank god her feet had a firm grip on the stairs that moment, or both of us might came tubbling down. *imagine the ruckus and chaos we might had cost*

Soon, we reached ground and gained shelter in Dataran Pahlawan, also another historical site where Tunku Abdul Rahman announced the independence of Malaysia. Now instead of a field, it's a big shopping mall with a large field right on top of it^^ A great place to visit if you ever come to Melaka.
There's a beautiful fountain right on the premise, with cravings of the scene about Malaysia, national flag, Tunku Abdul Rahman, hibiscus and etc.

Well, that concluded our trip to the A'famosa. A nice but memorable day I will always remember^^

Betsy

Random Tests

2008-04-04T01:44:00.000-07:00

Well, procastination is addictive. That explains why the blog been so inactive these few days. Some updates.. I'm currently back in Melaka and going to spend two glorious week back here! Anyway... here's a lazy update >_<
Been feeling rather sluggish, spending time in front of the computer doing random tests.

Free-IQTest.net - Free IQ Test
Haha, I'm a genius *gets whacked by rotten tomatoes*

Am-I-Dumb.com - Intelligence Test
er... lol? Go do the test before some of you want chop me apart, maybe you will do better than me ><

HumanForSale.com - Fun Quizzes
Anyone want to buy me? O_O

NameThatDrug.com - The Drug Test
Thank god I never got drug addict XD

Impossible-Quiz.com - Impossible Quiz 2
This test makes Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Add Maths Test seem like a walk in the park =.= This is seriously the hardest test I'd ever done in my life. Go try!

Well, that's all. Yup, I have too much free time. >_<

Betsy

Exploring Science

2008-03-29T07:22:00.000-07:00

Last Friday, we had a trip to PetroSAINS, for outstation students that were interested. My eyes literally light up when I first heard of it, cause
1. You only need to pay RM7 for trip to KLCC n back.
2. I can sneak to Kinokuniya if I'm bored of PetroSAINS.
3. I can miss Chemistry period.
Enough said.

Well, total only 15 of us went.. 6 were from my class (PM1).
The first 'attraction' in Petrosains is we'll be entering the place by a 'train-like-round-black-blob' thingy.
And then, we saw something that let you experience the speed of the wind in an enclosed place, starting form 0km/h reaching until 160km/h!
Things still look calm for me, Adelynn and Pei

At this point, our hair literally 'rise'

Moving on!

The transparent tube suppose to be vacuum, look at the colourful patterns form when our hands touch the tube haha.

And things aren't always what they seems... The thing is there, but when we touched it, it disappeared.

It's seems to be there but actually it's not there.. Reminds me of my allowance. Sometimes I could had sworn I had at least RM50 left, but when I look in my purse, it's not there... *sighs*

Look at Pei, see her pose...*swt*... We are on top a mini jeep!

Next, here’s a picture of our class with the T-rex. Everyone agreed to take a group pic here... well, T-rex is lovable right?

The T-rex seemed want to bite my head off...*scare*

Next section, we entered our second childhood. The section mainly dedicate to kids as most of it are quite ‘un-science’ related.

Here’s Pei and Xin Wei racing dinosaurs *swt*

By now, most of you probably think I’m lazy to blog as more to pictures and only a few words to describe each of it. Well, that’s true^^ *gets thrown rotten tomatoes*
Haha, continue.. The next picture is at the ‘more to teenagers’ section. We had the most fun here!!
This device is really cool. When you stand on it and press ‘GO’, it will start to tilt until you fall... thank god got soft protection to break your fall..

Xin Wei and Esteban competing to see who will fall first... the device meant for one person at a time... >_>

Here’s something that was really fun. A skiing stimulator. You have to bend your body forward to see yourself skiing at the screen, and there were also wind blowing at your face to make it seemed more real life.

Looks nice?^^

There were also a device where it can measured the speed of your karate chop!! Haha.. *sorry no pictures for it*

And present to you, the most amazing mind game in the world. Involve two players at a time. Both of them have to wear a headband. In the middle of the two players, there will be a ball... If you relax your mind, the brain waves generated can move the ball towards your opponent.

Esteban and Xin Wei competing again... *swt*.. lasted a freaking long ten minutes... both of them must be genius.....

Something that caught my attention.

Cute colourful balls floating and moving at the ceiling^^

The last game I managed to play before had to leave PetroSAINS. Suppose to meet up with the teachers already. The Slide Of Doom.

I scraped my hand while playing this, but it’s worth it!

As we were leaving the science centre, we were suppose to sit back the ‘'train-like-round-black-blob' thingy again. At this point, we were already ten minutes late... During the ride, we were quite ‘jakun’.. we keep going ‘waaahhhh’. We were surrounded by the dark and the ceiling was a night scenery showing stars. To remember the moment, we decided to took a picture.. We weren’t allow to take a picture on the train ride, but rules are made to be broken right?

It was quite difficult to take it as the train has limited space and it was rotating and moving. Aabhi (the photographer) had to lean on the edge to snap the picture.
After taking, we realised there was a CCTV. All of us waved to it haha. We really gave a bad impression for Taylor's students >_<

When we finally reached the exit, we found out we weren’t the last! Well *camera out*, time to take pictures again!

The boys can pose better than the girls O_O

Needless to say, I really enjoyed the trip. Gained tons of fun.. *ahem*.. I mean tons of knowledge.

[Note: Blogger is retarded, the second time I have to retype the whole thing cause suddenly auto delete... GIVE BACK MY TIME!]

Betsy

Permanent classroom, Birthdays and Practical jokes

2008-03-27T23:55:00.000-07:00

Hello people! From yesterday onwards, we were required to stay in a permanent classroom- C13,because the other students are in the middle of their exams now. So, every morning, we have to walk/climb/crawl up to the third floor. It's high school all over again. But, it's not that bad, I guess...we don't have to walk so much anymore (if that's a good thing), and the air conditioner here is only half working, so we don't have to bring our jackets! Yay! XD

Anyway, today we celebrated our classmate, Eshrina's birthday! She turns 18 this year! Happy Birthday, girl! Our classmates bought her a cake as a surprise, and everyone got a slice of it, how thoughtful of them! XD

Also, today, the boys in class played a practical joke on Dhassareth(a tall boy from our class). They took his Thinking Skills book and gave him one clue how to find it.

"You can hear your book."

I was like " Huh??" So Dhass sat down stared forward , and suddenly without warning, he smacked his forehead and said "Holy shit!!" The boys in the class started laughing like mad. Apparently, he found his book...somebody in class slotted his book behind the speaker on the top right corner of the classroom. It was pretty obvious but we didn't notice it up there at all. Lame~

Dhass is pretty darn tall but he still couldn't reach the book. In the end, Aabhi(the tallest boy and youngest student in our class) had to get it down for him. I suspect Aabhi put it up there in the first place. LOL

Aabhi to the rescue!

Pei

Shopping vow!

2008-03-27T09:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, our housemate brought us for a short visit to 'The Curve' after we had dinner. And the only thing I can say is.. WOW!
The place looks amazing at night, mainly cause it doesn't seem Malaysia at all XD Too bad it was late already, most of the shops started to close.
Well, my favourite part of the place, actually maybe the only part I went to =.=.. An open air place and have restaurants on both your sides while you take a walk down. The beauty is overwhelming, food is so tempting O_____O

The Streets

No idea what this is, but looks nice right?

One of the restaurants along 'The Street' that caught my eye. Looks so country home style, somehow nostalgic.. reminds me of a place I been before!

Something for Transformer fans. There's a robot on display, Optimus Prime. And with it, a sign that showed 'the world's biggest something something'

*not a robot fan*

End. This is a very short post to remind me that I must go back to 'The Curve' soon!!! *shopping fever starting*

Betsy

Muahahah!! We love freebies~!!!

2008-03-26T11:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, Seventeen magazine had a sort of roadshow in Taylors. Seems that we get that a lot in college, compared to the Vitagen truck and Milo truck that we wait for during our primary and secondary school years...ah..so nostalgic..!

Anyway, they set up a few booths to promote Seventeen magazine, Fresh Kon contact lenses, Dutch Lady yogurt drink, Lip Ice and some new Adidas products, including their new range of Shampoo and deodorant products. So, you can imagine the kind of response they had from the students...When Betsy and I saw the roadshow going on during the break period, we were temporarily relieved of all forms of fatigue and hunger as we joined the flock of students at the booths.

The first booth that caught our eyes was the Seventeen Booth, they were giving out the January 2008 issue , a Seventeen booklet and little Seventeen Post-Its(These were adorable!)! I've only read Seventeen twice my whole life but they had some article about emo-ness and that made a happy human for awhile! =D

After that, we moved on to the Lipice booth, this was probably the most crowded booth because they were giving out FREE LIPICE PRODUCTS!! Yes!! Serious!! All you had to do is play a game and if you win, you get to spin this little wheel(like the one you see in Wheel of Fortune) and you get whatever product(each product is represented by a different colour)that matches the colour on the side of the wheel. Evidently, there were a lot of girls who cheated...the poor girl at the stand was too busy to eye all three sets of games that were going on at the same time, so when she was looking to the left, people on the right cheated and vice versa. Haiyoh..even we cheated la....=__=" So, Betsy spun the wheel and got a water lip balm..it's a pretty cool thing! We even went back for round 2 after the break period..XDD and each of us won a bottle of roll-on deadorant...lolz...oh well...

The next booth we went to was the Adidas booth, you also had to play a game to win a prize. The guy at the booth probably explained what I could win but I wasn't listening....cuz' the game that I was required to win in was a Nintendo Wii boxing game! All I was thinking was "OMG OMG OMG..A NINTENDO WII~~!!" Lolz..so I registered and put on the Boxing gloves. I had to destroy at least 18 punching bags in one minute to qualify to win a prize. Honestly, that was my first time playing a Nintendo Wii, I was so excited that I didn't care that there were people watching me!! XDD...So the game started and I was punching too slow to win in time, but I got the hang of it after a while. Up till now, I still don't know if you had to hit harder to break the punching bag or if you were supposed to hit the critical point to break it faster... but I was punching so hard near the end of one minute that I was panting away later. XD

By the way, I only got 13 out of 18, haha, better luck next time!!

Look! Betsy secretly took some pictures..argh..I guess it's a good thing that she did..

Ooh~Nintendo Wii~

Take that!!

Haha, I didn't wear the gloves properly so I hurt my hand...a bit of the skin got scraped off...

OUCH

Lolz..today my hands and back are aching all over..this is the result of lack of exercise...Please remind me never to do something lke that without streching first...><

Here are some of the freebies we got!! XD I hope they'll be having more roadshows in the near future!!

I lost my Post-Its somewhere along the way...T_T

Pei

Ah Long Pte Ltd Movie Review

2008-03-23T23:23:00.000-07:00

Hola people! Today I shall write a review for the Singaporean movie "Ah Long Pte Ltd". This movie is directed by Jack Neo, the man that brought you the "I not stupid", "I not stupid 2" and "Just Follow law". "Ah long Pte Ltd" is probably Jack Neo's first action-comedy movie if I'm not mistaken. Other than that, most of the shooting for the movie took place in Malaysia. The movie is in mandarin, Cantonese, and Hokkien.

Oh yea. This movie is rated 18-PL for some nudity and elements of durian throwin-I mean, VIOLENCE.

This poster makes me go "LULZ" XD

But before I start blabbing, let's read the synopsis of the movie!:

Chen Jun (played by Richard Low) is the leader of Shao He Triad. The story opens with him deciding to “retire” from the triad business. Prior to his retirement, he elects Wang Li Hua (played by Fann Wong), a young but tough girl, as his successor.

Li Hua believes that changes need to be made to the current money lending system. Although Li Hua prioritizes the triad’s success, she is very much against the idea of using violent means to collect debts. Therefore, with the help of some professional consultants, Li Hua and several of her subordinates (played by KK and Daniel Tan) start adopting a series of creative tactics to attract money lenders and practice hilarious methods to pressure the money-lenders to repay in a non-violent way. However, Li Hua’s plan of “restructuring” her triad meets with obstacles and opposition from the majority of the conservative elders in both her own triad and rival triad.

At the brighter end of the world, Mr. Fang (played by Mark Lee) is a kind-hearted dance instructor who is slightly sissy in character. Fate has it that Mr. Fang runs into Li Hua on numerous occasions by chance. Since Li Hua’s mother has been pressuring her to get married, Li Hua decides to force Mr. Fang to marry her. Surprisingly, Mr. Fang agrees to it, wanting to prove his masculinity. Though finding it hard to accept the fact that Li Hua is a triad head, Mr. Fang approves of her effort to minimize the use of violence. Subsequently, he offers to help Li Hua out by introducing creative ways to reduce violent methods of debt collection.

Yes, a very interesting storyline...

Review courtesy of Wikipedia cuz' I'm just too damn lazy to write my own synopsis

Screenshots of the movie:

Okay..now for the review....

I have to say as a person who really enjoyed Jack Neo's previous works, I found this one rather disappointing. Gasp. Yes, it's true. This movie spells "FLOP".

No doubt there were many laugh out loud scenes,(mostly featuring the effeminate Mr. Fang), but there were also the parts that failed to deliver. Dear Mr. Jack Neo, when you're trying to have a funny effeminate character, try not to overdo it. He may just start to get on the audiences' nerves. Also, I found it rather weird that they had to incorporate comedy into the violence, yea, I know it's called slapstick but this isn't like your usual Saturday morning Tom and Jerry cartoon. There was blood, lots of blood, and yet they could still try to make getting hit by a durian in the face for two consecutive times....funny. Isn't that kinda like brit humour? At least I found Shaun of the Dead tolerable, no,wait, bad example-that was a helluva good movie.

Also...they had this weird animation scenes in between the fights. It was probably meant to make the movie look comical, I don't know, I just thought it looked kinda out of place. -_-''

Other than that, I couldn't ignore the computer graphics for the movie, it wasn't BAD but, well, it still looked fake enough to make me twitch in my seat. Another thing I can't stand about a movie is low budget graphics. Sure we can't compare with Hollywood, but at least...I think it's wise to just spend a little bit more money on the computer graphics!! I'm sorry if I'm asking too much from a movie but I would have tolerated the graphics if I found the movie decent enough overall.

On the plus side, the movie's leading lady(Fann Wong) is COOL. Seriously, you should see her whoop some Ah long ass! Lolz, Fann Wong's now my favourite Mediacorp actress!XD Also, you'll see a familiar face from " Just follow law" in the movie. I'm not gonna give out any spoilers, so go find out yourself! XP The action scenes were pretty decently cheorographed too. In the movie, there are also some catchy songs about Ah long's ,in fact, there are enough songs to make the movie a musical! Okay, the show's pretty entertaining, but I still found it disappointing.

That's how I feel anyway, but don't just take my word for it! Go watch the movie for yourself if you doubt my views...haha. I'm sorry if I offended anyone by sounding like a total prick, but this is what I really think about this movie. The good news is, I haven't given up hope in Jack Neo!! Hopefully he'll do better next time.

Here's the trailer, enjoy!:

Pei

Food for thought!

2008-03-20T23:45:00.000-07:00

We decided to go Swensen's recently. In case the name might seem foreign to you, it's a family restaurant that originated from San Francisco. Well, since I moved to college, I wanted to try it since the very first day. Unfortunately, I heard a lot of people saying it's pricey.. **open purse*... doubt I can afford it without blowing my budget.

As yesterday was our housemate's (Tsu Fei) b'day, we decided to splurge for once (well, maybe a lot of times already =.=).

Here's a short review on Swensen's ^^
See the atmosphere of the restaurant..

A nice place for family dining

When I opened the menu, my mind was blown away. Everything looks spectacularly fabulously good. (So is the price). God knows how long I stared at the menu especially the dessert section.

After a long time, I finally decided on what to order...
The first meal to arrive was Tsu Fei's and her boyfriend's.

Chicken Chop / Fish and Chips
Looks scrumptiously good XD

And the next dish was the Hawaiian Pizza me and Pei shared.
I dunno what in the hell me and Pei thinking. We just ate around 2 hours ago. Temptation really kill.

Cost RM 15.90. =.=" The size of 1 personal pizza at Pizza Hut which can get for RM 8.
Here's my opinion on the pizza. I prefer Pizza Hut's one more. Don't be fooled by appearance. It tastes different from usual pizza, cause of the strong cheese smell. Some people might like it, but it definitely doesn't cater to my taste buds. Try it if you like exotic taste I guess...

I can't believed I managed to finish the pizza. My stomach at this point was 95% full. Then I remembered, I ordered dessert... *dies*

Prepare to get all mouth-watering ^^

Coit Tower
The ice cream is Swensen's brand and really creamy, milky and sinfully good *I'm gonna put on at least 5kg after this >_>*. It will be better if I'm not so muddle headed eating it when I'm nearly full. I didn't manage to finish it, and was staggering while leaving the restaurant, bloated beyond limit.

And here's what Pei ordered.

Chocolate Creamy Fudge Sundae

Conclusion: Go Swensen's for the best desserts in town!!!

Tip.. for girls, it's best to go with boyfriends, first you won't overeat on desserts and gain lotsa weight and you can force your boyfriends to eat the remains XD

For any of you want a suggestion on what to order that is economically affordable, here is it..

It's free of charge XD

Betsy

The Otaku's Room

2008-03-20T01:11:00.000-07:00

This blog post is inspired by singaporean blogger, Xia Xue's latest post: "The Princess Room".

Hola, this is Pei speaking! Before I start out with today's post, Betsy and I wanna give a shout out to our housemate-Tsu Fei: "Happy Birthday to you!!!" Yessss, it's her birthday today! We wanna thank her for being so nice to us and for always cooking dinner AND bringing us out AND giving us advice on how to get around KL AND for helping us unlock our door AND etc.!!! She's the best house mate one can hope for. *SNIFF* Everyone please give her a round of applause!!*clap clap clap*

Okay, today I shall rant about my room. Not that it's a good model of an otaku's room, nope, not even close; but I think it's sounds better than "the princess room".

Here's my half of the room!! Since betsy and I are roommates....

My bed

My computer area, after tidying it up,lolz..half my table space is taken up by my computer and my books...

My wardrobe.Yes, I know it's pathetic...T________T, but some of my clothes are in the laundry basket..so I usually have more clothes than this,okay??

The book+anime+manga+artbook cupboard along with Betsy's mini water dispenser, cute le??

My beloved artbooks and Heise's prints(from GACC)!!

My little manga and book collection, and, yes, two rolls of yarn for crocheting..lolz..

My revision book cupboard, most of the books are on my table now...

Stuff in my pencil box,haha, more impressive than my wardrobe for sure...btw, most of the drawing pens are almost dried up, I'm still keeping them in hope that the ink will come back..0_0..

My "exotic pets"

My other stuff

My Asuka gashapon!! I really wanted the Kaworu and Rei one though...><

My portfolios..

Le memo board

My shoes XD...yes Xia Xue..there are people on this earth who survive only on two pairs of shoes..

Okay..these are only stuff that I have in Subang!! Not that I really own so little things!!! Coz' that'd be kinda sad... I've got tons of junk back in Malacca!! i've got a pair of heels back in Malacca!! Hahaha!! Three pairs of shoes!!!!Whahahahh~~!!

AHEM

Right. That's all for today,kids! XD

Pei

After SPM reunion

2008-03-17T18:25:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, we met up with some old Malaccan friends (all ex-ijc students!) ....at "Malacca's Pavilion..": Mahkota Parade...

The ultimate loitering sanctuary for Malaccans..

As usual, I was KIN...DA late for the appointment. However, by 11.45a.m, everyone had arrived.And so,we decided to have lunch at Sushi King! XD

Here are embarrassing evidence of us cam-whoring in Sushi King!! Muahahha!:

Advertising for Yakult 1!!
(From left: Melissa-girl that's taking a leave from her job at Genting, Pui Xiang-my "younger sister" a.k.a. pisang a.k.a stupitgirl, Betsy)

Advertising for Yakult 2!!
(From left: Yoke Wan-my dad, me, Jee Hui-Chinese girl that just returned from NS, now better known as Nurul XD)

No comment.

Yoke Wan thinking about something really deep. (Seems like it anyway...)

After finishing our meals,we QUICKLY left Sushi King. Hopefully the people there won't recognise us the next time we go back..haha...we just have this weird tendency to embarrass ourselves in public whenever we go out in a group...yea, bummer.

Oh, and the cam whoring doesn't end there!!

Betsy and Melissa trying to be models?? (Wah...you can still see the price tags hanging from the glasses...you peoplez are bad influence to little kids...)

Super blur and retarded looking group picture(oops...Betsy's face is not in there...)

We walked all over Mahkota, cracking jokes, taking pictures and sharing our experiences from the past 3 months while we were at it. By 3pm, everyone had said goodbye and went off.

So...here's a message to my dear friends:

I'm not gonna say "friendship forever" cause I hate the cliche-ness of it. >8(
But even if we go onto different paths someday, I hope we can meet again , and be able to put our worries behind us, and hang out together like the good old days. Let this memories forever be in our hearts, and let this star be our guiding light, connecting us always...

~from your eternally random friend, Shwu Pei. (See y'all in April!)

P/S: Is blogger being an idiot or is it just me??? This post took almost two hours for me to post because the photos upload so slowly...#@$%&*....

Pei

Guess What?

2008-03-14T12:28:00.000-07:00

Here's something we discovered.

Well, recently.. we just realised that the 'den of horror' is not the bathroom. Instead.. it's the kitchen.

Isn't it pretty?

Want to know what it is?

Curious?
Try guessing...

Here's a clue/hint to help you out

It's cooked rice in case you're wondering.

So, found out what is the 'colourful thingy'? It's what you get if after you ate rice and never wash the rice cooker. Well, I was suppose to wash it but usually my housemate will take it out and soaked it in water. So, I took for granted my housemate cleaned it when I didn't saw it by the sink. Instead, imagine the horror we discovered when we tried to cook rice a few days later. Anyway, it's kinda pretty in a gross way ^^

Betsy

Fear my randomness!

2008-03-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

Well, be prepare for randomness. This is going to be a really random post.

During Physics class, I realised one of the table has scribbles on it. So, squinting my eyes, I tried to make out the words. Then I discovered the theory...an interesting concept that defies all law!

If Study = No Fail -----1
No Study = Fail -----2

1 + 2:
Study + No Study = No Fail + Fail

Study (1 + No) = Fail (1 + No)

Divide (1 + No):

Study = Fail

Conclusion Accepted!

And recently, me and Pei did some charity. We bought some cupcakes from the Leo Society cause they are for charity. Here are the cupcakes...

Look so goooood

Doing charity feels really good!!! XD

Betsy

Oh...-SNAP!!!

2008-03-11T00:53:00.000-07:00

Yeah, this really happened, it was kinda scary...but at least we managed to get the door to open at last...phew....! All because we were in a rush to buy our groceries...

I never knew that it was so expensive just to get a locksmith to open a door, it costed like RM35!!! 0_o...WTF?! The guy took pretty long to open the door too, probably we were paying him for his patience....hmm...but still....T_____T Bye bye RM17.50....I'll try not to forget to bring my keys out of the room the next time...

By the way,I just discovered that the students who are taking their SPM results and Physics are somehow related...:

Chapter 10 of AS-level Physics-Deformation of Solids

Stress-force per unit cross sectional area / the force acting per unit cross sectional on a student by his/her family, friends, relatives and his/her expectations.

Ultimate tensile strength- the maximum stress a material can withstand before breaking/ the maximum stress a student can withstand before going mental

Yup.

There's gonna be no sleep tonight for a lot of people.

Pei

Pasta and Pudding

2008-03-10T16:18:00.000-07:00

During the weekends, me and Pei decided to cook pasta and pudding. Well, it's our first time actually cooking pasta, so, the results was... (will be revealed at the end)

Here's the ingredients used.

Uncooked Pasta

Herbs and Pasta Sauce (Tesco brand..cause it's the cheapest)

Next, I chopped up onions and garlic to fry with the pasta sauce. It's my first time actually cutting garlic... and peeling it. Damn, my hand reeks of garlic until now =.=

Seems professional? XD

Meanwhile, Pei was draining the cooked pasta.

Does it look cooked?

After frying the onions and garlic, i fried the bacon^^ Yes, we had bacon with pasta!!! Mmmm...

Bacon..

The sauce...PASTA SAUCE!!! Along with the garlic and onion fried to crisp, bacon grilled to perfection, a dash of herbs and all mix with the sauce where it is cooked for a goddamn 10 minutes...seems like forever...my stomach was killing me by then..(Chant: I NEED FOOD!)

Blood red colour sauce...pardon my choice of words.

And the result is *drum roll*...

Tantalizing? Cooked to perfection to arouse your taste buds.

I exaggerated slightly...
Here's the real product.

Doesn't really look much different anyway, right? ^___^ Trust me, it taste better than it looks!!! Seriously!! Sadly, it looks like intestine..*sniff*..but it's really gooooooood

Anyone want the recipe?

And for dessert, we had mango pudding with konyaku jelly. The top layer is konyaku while the bottom is mango pudding XD

We made it... it's not bought!! This is for real!

P/s: Our whole dinner took more than 2 hours to cook...
...but it's worth it!

Betsy

A surprise birthday party!

2008-03-08T23:59:00.000-08:00

The title says it all...

A big thing happened on the 1st of March 2008:

Operation Surprise Birthday party for Sher Minn. Yes Sher Minn, I'm revealing your name here...muahahha

Her real birthday is actually on the 8th of March, we decided to celebrate earlier because we knew that we couldn't come back to Malacca on the 8th. Hnce, operation Surprise Birthday party for Sher Minn was launched.

Phase1:

Betsy and I lied to Sher Minn that we couldn't go back to Malacca for GACC where we were supposed to meet up. Reason? "We have a physics test coming up and Betsy doesn't want to go back because she wants to prepare for the test. And I'm not allowed to go back all alone without proper transport. Oh, but don't worry, we'll be coming back the next weekend (8th of march)."

She fell for it.

(Betsy became the victim of the plan too.)

Phase 2:

We lied to our other friends whom we were supposed to meet back in Malacca too so they all thought we couldn't make it back. Only my sisters and Sher Minn's younger sister knew that we were coming back to surprise Sher Minn. This was all done to ensure that the plan could be carried out perfectly without any suspicsion.

Phase 3:

We went around looking for a present like crazy, and finally, we settled with a watercolour tutorial book for her since we thought it might come in useful. Hope you really like your present Sher Minn. =D

Phase 4:

We went back to Malacca on saturday to surprise her!

Betsy and Shwu Pei: "...Hi~!!"
Sher Minn: '_' ----> 0_0 ----> 0A0" HUH???

LULZ

We got her a cake and her birthday present was wrapped beautifully in newspaper and sealed with love using the lowest quality cellophane tape. Ahh....the things we do for friends....

Reunion!!

Look what we made her do...

A satisfied customer. =D

Pei

Messenger from HELL!

2008-03-07T15:20:00.000-08:00

This message is secretly send to you with the risk of being discovered in hell.

Hell...the place where no one ever comes out alive.
We hope we can.

Ok, enough with the hell thing. I mean, seriously, how bad can it be?

I should be whacked on the head for thinking of the idea in the first place. Man, what was I thinking?

Procrastination really should be the root of all evil, not money...
In college, almost every week got 1-2 tests, so homework had to be put off as we had to study for the tests.
And now, I think it is piled as high as this.

Just by looking at it, already my head feel like swirling and breaking apart.

To prevent the mountain of books to be the next Mount Everest.. I thought up the "Hell Marathon".
Starting the moment where this blog post is posted, it will begin. Do homework and nothing but homework continuously until everything is done. Every three hours of hard work will get 1 hour of leisure time. This will go on until every single homework is done.

And...on top of that,

If I ever get distracted from doing the homework, Pei will confiscate my laptop, my CDs, my books, my knitting stuff, basically anything I can possible have fun with, for a period of FIVE DAYS!! (WHAT WAS I THINKING?)

So, say my prayers and hope I can make it through. For the last 2 weeks, we had a total of 5 tests, so basically my homework really piled up very high... =____="
The lecturers should all be given an award as well for giving the most homework ever I had in my life. Everyday, we have every single subjects at college, so everyday, almost every subject got one homework, AT LEAST!
An award for all our lecturers..

"Give-the-most-homework-and-test" award.

With SPM results just around the corner, I'm almost at my peak stress level..
If stress is heat and I'm liquid, I would had evaporated by now.

Stressed Out!
Betsy

Step up: The Streets movie review

2008-03-06T16:39:00.000-08:00

Just yesterday, we went out with our housemate,Tsu Fei to watch a movie. originally we were supposed to watch Jumper at GSC, but we ended up watching Step up 2: The Streets in TGV instead.

Cool poster right?

Frankly speaking, I haven't seen the first one, but I thought we should give the sequel a try since I've heard pretty good things about it.And I'm a sucka for movies with cool dance scenes. Hehe. ><

Anyway...this is the synopsis of the movie...:

This is the story of 16-year-old street dancer Andie West. After her mother died, she was taken in by her mother's best friend, Sarah . Since West often skips school and spends too much time as member of the notorious dance crew 410, Sarah wants her to go live with her aunt in Texas.

However, her friend and older brother figure, Tyler Gage convinces Sarah to give her another chance: she can audition for the Maryland School of the Arts. Though the director of the school is hesitant to accept Andie, she is still accepted. Due to her school commitments she misses many 410 rehearsals, and they throw her out. She assembles a new crew of classmates that includes Chase Collins , the school's best dancer; they practice clandestinely in the school after school hours, to compete against the 410 in Baltimore's underground dance battle, The Streets.

Synopsis courtesy of wikipedia

At the beginning of the movie, I found the dance scenes pretty bland, it was just the same old stuff. I mean, I respect these guys who really give it a lot to dance like that, but I didn't pay RM 6 (Wednesday discount rate, yayz) to see something that I've seen for the gazillion time.

Good thing it didn't stay that way throughout the whole show, as the movie went on, more interesting characters were introduced, at least the story didn't just revolve around the two main characters.... Other than that, the dance choreography was amazing, I have to say the dancers did an awesome job ! The soundtrack seriously rocks too....it's all about the music, I never thought that anyone could freestyle with Three Days Grace's The diary of jane.

let's take a look at some photos now....

So, the verdict is....don't expect some superb storyline, just watch the movie for the killer dance sequences. In comparison with other dance-themed movies, I liked Take the Lead much better because it had a more solid storyline and better casts. However, Step up 2 is still pretty cool, the last dance sequence was frickin' sexy! So, if you have nothing to do on Wednesday night, go catch the movie..it'll be a well spent RM6....

Here's the trailer...god I'm so nice...:

Crank it up people!

Pei

Lets sing the DOOMSDAY song!!!

2008-03-05T22:30:00.000-08:00

Okay, you probably know what I'm gonna go on about, but in case you haven't heard, SPM RESULTS ARE COMING OUT NEXT WEDNESDAY, on the 12th of March.

The horror.....it's never over until after you receive your results...I dunno if I'll have problem sleeping on Tuesday night...

I haven't been home for a while
I'm sure everything's the same
Mom and Dad both in denial
And only jokes to take the blame

So here's another dilemma: Betsy and I are not sure whether we should go back to Malacca to collect our results. Firstly, our lecturers will still be teaching so even if we go back on Tuesday and come back on Wednesday evening, we'll miss a whole day of lessons. Plus, we're not sure if we can face the reality of our SPM results if we went back to Malacca.

This city's buried in defeat
I walk along these no-name streets
Wave goodbye to home

As I fall...

Anyway, Betsy prefers having her parents collect her results for her and notifying her about it later. I personally prefer collecting my own results, so whether it's good or bad, at least I'd be the first to know. And the prospect of having everyone back in Malacca and all my relatives know my results before I do is just kinda...well, scary...

Our own mission nowhere bound
Inhibitions underground
A shallow grave I
Have dug all by myself

A walking disaster
The son of all bastards
You regret you made me
It's too late to save me
(To save me, to save me, to save me, ...)

So, here's how we made our decision:

Yea, okay, I admit, that was pretty random. I drew that with my tablet just to try out a new manga-blog format... let me know what you think about it. By the way, that's Betsy's avatar and my avatar.

Anyway, because of our horrible coin tossing skills, we had our housemate, Tsu Fei toss the coin for us. (Heads for going back to Malacca and Tails for not going back to Malacca.) Admittedly, she wasn't very good at it either...

No matter what the results were we weren't satisfied.

That is........after much persuasion from Sher Minn, we finally decided to go back to Malacca, partly because Jee Hui, our friend who went for National Service in January will be coming back; and another friend, Melissa, who was working at Genting for the last few months will be coming back too. So, it'll be one heck of a reunion!!! Yay!! Plus, I get to catch up with all my old St. David friends, yea, so I'm goin' home!!!

I will be home in a while
You don't have to say a word
I can't wait to see you smile
Wouldn't miss it for the world

Lyrics(in italics) taken from SUM 41's Walking Disaster. It totally suited the mood at that time. Check out the music video for this awesome song!

Oh yea, now we're trying to get transport home but Betsy can't take the bus....-_-...anyboby wants to go back to Malacca with me..?? o_0

Pei

New Look!!!

2008-03-05T13:36:00.000-08:00

A new month, a new look!
Proudly present to you the happy-go-lucky look...
*get thrown by tomatoes*

The blog header is made by me and Pei..I did the fonts and border while she drew the thing and coloured our 'cartoon form'.

And I made the new layout...so sorry if some of you think it's too bright and glaring for your eyes...cause last month was 'gothic emo layout'..this month should be a bit more cheerful XD Pei supposed to be updating the blog for today! Haiz...she's asleep now. Basically, she sleeps EVERY AFTERNOON. Anyway, signing off. =)

Betsy

Train and Children

2008-03-03T20:40:00.000-08:00

*sarcastic tone* Great! Just great!! There will be a Chemistry test tomorrow and Mathematics test the day after. Can't update much in blog. Anyway, just something I post for the sake of updating. >.>

Hope the title pique your interest. I want to make this post really thought-provoking so hope you all bother to read it finish even if it bores you (I hope not >_<). In thinking skills class, our teacher gave us a situation and asked our opinions regarding it. Let's see if you can figure out the best solution to it!

Story:
There were a railroad track that was diverged into two. One of it is no longer in use. Another was in used. On the used track, five kids were playing on it. On the unused track, only a kid was playing on it by himself. Suddenly a train appeared!

Picture yourself in this situation. You viewed the whole situation and you're near a "track-switching" device that by pulling it, the train will switch track instead. What would you do? Sacrifice a child to save five others? Or sacrifice five to save one?

Think carefully, picture this situation clearly as though it is real. A split-second decisions can cost a lot of people's lives. What would you do?

Think hard!

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Most of you would probably said sacrifice the one child to save five others. You all would probably think that it is better to save five lives than one instead. However, can we view human lives as objects that has a specific value in it? A child's life is as precious as five others, there's no value to it. Should the smart and obedient kid who played in the unused track be sacrificed just for the sake of the other ignorant kids that chose to play at the used track? Sadly, this is the case of the society nowadays. The minority are often sacrificed for the majority's benefits, even if they were in the wrong.

The supposedly correct answer was don't switch the track. As if you do so, the train not only kill the smart child on the unused track, but might kill hundreds other passengers in the train. The track was unused most probably there were something wrong with it and might lead the train to derail. And, there were five kids on the used track. One of them are bound to realise the train was coming and alerted the others to move away quickly. Sadly for the child in the unused track, he will never expect a train will suddenly come and for sure will die.

Don't be afraid to make a decision just because it seems morally wrong but might not be just because majority choose another decision. An unpopular decision might be the correct one. Anyway, human always make mistakes.... that is why, they have eraser on pencil XD

Thought-provoking?

Betsy

Kungfu Dunk

2008-02-28T18:09:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we went to 1 Utama as we wanted to watch Kungfu Dunk at TGV Cinemas. Sadly, the version of Kungfu Dunk still on screening is the Cantonese version, that means we will be unable to hear Jay Chou's real voice. Anyway, we decided to watch it anyway XD

Before the movie began, we had a bit of time, so we went to MPH. And... MPH is HAVING A SALE!!! Only until 2nd of March, members get 15% discount on all books while non-members get 10% discount on all books. Rush over now to get a book you wanted to get for a long time but couldn't afford it!!!

Disclaimer: I'm not paid to advertise for MPH Bookshop.

Now back to talking about Kungfu Dunk.

We missed the beginning of the movie thou as we dawdled a bit too long at MPH. Anyway, the movie is surprisingly better than expected. Jay Chou's voice was dubbed but you'll barely realise it in the movie. The effects weren't too shabby either, pretty convincing and have tons of cool stunts and slam dunks. Enjoyed tons of laugh and heartfelt moments in the movie. The story was about how an orphaned guy played basketball incorporate with his kungfu skills as a way to find his parents. That's all the summary I'll slip out (basically I'm lazy to type it out =__=). You can just search it at wikipedia^^

Some scenes from the movie

Fang Shi Jie(Jay Chou) looking cute XD

First basketball match (Don't be fooled by these pictures, all the basketball scenes were quite fast-paced, sadly it doesn't seem to show in the picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

SLAM DUNK!!!

Another plus point of the movie, the heroin is not the clingy annoying over pretty type which you'll feel like strangling everything she make an appearance (Thank God!). In the movie, the heroin was a nerdy but cute looking girl~

Li-Li(Charlene Choi) with Fang Shi Jie (Jay Chou)

Did I mentioned that me and Pei might had created a new record in saying the most consecutive number of 'cool' in a single movie. Almost every few minutes or even seconds (hehe), we were saying "cool'...cause basically, most of the scenes are really cool with perfectly well choreograph basketball action.

And, mainly...we didn't know until we watched the movie...there are two other uber-cool and cute guys besides Jay Chou in it!!!! Wahahaha (Believe me, I didn't watch the movie to stare at cute guys (=___=)!
T.T Can't find really nice pictures of them, Baron Chen and Chen Bo-Lin to post here..

Anyway, the movie is quite satisfying with plenty of stunts to satisfy die-hard basketball fans yet just enough not to make bore off people that don't really take much interest in basketball. After this movie, I swore I convert myself into a basketball fan cause it's just so COOOOOOOOL!!!!! Mwahahahaha... yes, you can see I loved the movie a lot XD

Betsy

"Paranormal activities " reporting from My Place

2008-02-26T23:48:00.000-08:00

Okay, honestly, this isn't REALLY an entry about paranormal events. This is just a compilation of a bunch of happenings that have put me and Betsy off or are thought provoking to us, in a bad way. Nothing serious here, so, please bear with the undeniable lameness and randomness of this entry.

Case 1:

Sightings of a new species of water-human creatures:

Just when you thought you could spend a nice afternoon doing your homework ,catching up with your studies or just getting some shut-eye, these nightmares appear.

(I don't think the scientists have discovered this guys yet.)

I wonder if they'd feel violated that I took a picture of them...anyway, they're a noisy bunch, consisting mostly of boys who come out during odd hours- usually in the evening but sometimes even at midnight. They enjoy squealing like girls at the most inappropriate times (usually when you're trying to figure out how to do this really difficult maths question, and I mean REALLY difficult...), splashing around in the water REAL loudly and acting gay. WORSE OF ALL, They've been doing this ever since we moved here, probably even before we moved here.

They come in groups, big or small, almost everyday. However, they are not to be mistaken with the other residents of My Place apartment who just go to the pool for relaxation purposes, this new species can be easily identified by their shrill, exotic sounding cries. The people in the groups probably vary but we're not sure. They all sound the same.-_-

Sorry Heath Ledger, hope you're doing well in heaven

Okay, I'm just mad at them cause they're a tad inconsiderate when it comes to preserving a peaceful environment for residents of My Place apartments.

And I thought boys usually play football.

Case 2:

Thinking skills just got even more screwed

Nothing new there. But, seriously, our class did a past year question whereby the answer said that " human society would disintegrate without queuing". How over dramatised is that?? Imagine if mankind failed to queue up one day...

GASP. utter chaos.

Hey. Stuff like this happens all the time in Malaysia but we're still standing.

.......

I meant the not queuing up part.

CASE 3: Boyfriends-they're really just friends

One day when Betsy and I were walking back to our apartment, we saw two boys playing badminton. As a natural reaction, (trust me, it's an even more natural reaction for me) Betsy said "gay" .

Sniggers.

Suddenly, just around the corner, two more boys appeared jogging side by side. Weird. They were followed closely by 2 other boys who were also running together. Betsy and I exchanged looks of astonishment. I started laughing.

But we REALLY started laughing when we saw 2 other boys in the swimming pool, only 2 of them,swimming very closely to each other. And all this happened while we were walking a few metres towards our apartment.Boys running and swimming in pairs?? Very weird to us. But we enjoyed a good laugh although we knew very well they were probably just friends, working out, doing the stuff that guys do. Or were they?

>8D Hehe.

Anyway, that sums up our paranormal activities for this week. Hope this entry didn't bore you too much. I'm off to look for more interesting things to do...ciao.

Pei

Spice spice baby

2008-02-23T20:16:00.000-08:00

Haro, pei here! Have you guys heard of The World Maths day? Those sleeping at home everyday and don't contact their friends probably don't know la...huhu..that's means you pisang *glint*

Anyway, The World Math's Day will be on the 5th of March! Their aim is to make a World Record by having students from all over the world unite, and i mean ALL OVER THE WORLD, to answer mental arithmetic questions on one day! This year they plan to break last year's record by having everyone answer a total of 50 million questions!! Sounds interesting? Be part of this wonderful event (they should pay me for this), it's quite simple actually, the answers are only in 1 or 2 digits, so there aren't really any challenging questions. You have to race against time and others to win!

But first, you have to register here:

Just register yourself and have fun!!! Man, I'm getting frickin' nerdy now, Betsy's addicted to the World Maths Day website....all thanks to our maths teacher, now our whole class is gonna join. >.<

Oh yea, have you guys heard the Spice Girls new song-Headlines (friendship never ends)? It doesn't sound too bad, it's just like the old Spice Girs, but the video sux big time....I advice you to listen to the song before watching the video...here's the youtube link:

The video's sponsored by Victoria's Secret, which explains why Victoria Beckham was flaunting evrything..-_- not a very pleasant sight..

Bluek

Pei

BBQ Party!

2008-02-22T23:00:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, we had our Bio test and Physics test today. Damn, it was really tough... my brain can never go back the same way. After the 'suffering period', we had something to look forward to. Our very first class activity, BBQ! Organised by Denisa and Aabhi, thanks a lot for the great bbq =)

Here is the BBQ stove stocked full of charcoal, ready to be burned!

Was quite 'messy' at certain parts since it was kinda last minute and a lot of stuffs were forgotten. Our classmates were rushing here and there trying to get stuffs for the BBQ (the guys only XD).

Took a long while to get everything into place and the food is ready to be barbequed^^.

Our pro organisers and chefs-to-be:

Denisa

Aabhi
Observe the tasty food on the BBQ stove *drools*

A lot of food were prepared, marinated chicken, got two kinds.. marinated beef, sausage, marinated lamb (Pei claimed it was reallyyyyy good)and abalone mushroom (it's just the name, not really what you thinking =_=). For drinks, they were cold Ribena, weird huh? Not bad, anyway prefer it to carbonated drinks as carbonated drinks + BBQ food = cancer... haha, i don't want to die yet!

Here's the marinated BBQ-ed chicken.. tasty? Taste better than it looks! Seriously! If not, I won't eat until I'm super stuffed...

Our class rep, Harinder was late..fashionably late some might say. And with her...she brought...MARSHMALLOWS! Then, we began putting marshmallows on skewers to roast slowly... and it slowly melts in your mouth once it is done roasted.. slight hard on the outside...but all soft, chewy and gooey on the inside..mmm..

See the glow coming from the marshmallow...really tempting you..

*sigh* I didn't roast marshmallows thou.. scare my contacts melt from the heat >_>

Here's some of our classmates..the most obvious person you can see in the picture is Eshrina (grey shirt) and our class rep, Harinder at the right hand corner.. (it's taken with my phone... can't expect really good quality images)

OMG! Gay!!!! Aabhi and Esteban was trying to act gay together..!

The group of girls sitting at the side tables waiting for food to be BBQ-ed and served. Me and Pei was not one of them, Pei was busy cutting up the meat the guys BBQ-ed, she enjoyed doing that O.O... while... I was....taking the food immediately once Pei done cutting XD

After awhile, everyone was starting to complain about it becoming too dark.. Seng Chao to the rescue! See he lighted a candle for the "girl's table".

Something I must definietly blogged about.. Piau's mushrooms... He 'poked' around 10 mushrooms into a skewer just to experiment for fun at first, with a tiny sprinkle of salt, butter and some 'herbs thingy'. The verdict...REALLY YUMMY! For the mushrooms, me and Ana was standing at the side and tried to be the very first to grab it. The mushrooms were such a big hit that it ran out earlier than all the meat..see... my class, PM1 eats our veggies and have a balance diet XD

Aaaah...mushroom!

Not long, finally I felt tired n gave in (my stomach was stuffed^^) and joined the rest of the girls at the table. There were a lot of girl's casual talk and such..until the part where we heard screams.. turned out..another class (which were also having BBQ at that time) was playing with a outdoor shower thingy. You pull at a string and water come rushing out.. basically, looks and functions exactly the same as the shower we usually have in our bathrooms. There kept screaming liked they never see water in their lives before.. So Mavis (classmate) couldn't resist herself and started saying LOUDLY "Oooooo, H20.. I thought we can only get it in the lab!".. in a really sarcastic tone. Man, we couldn't stop laughing.. most probably it's the you-have-to-be-there-to-laugh-joke.

During that time, almost all the girls were already gathering at the table chatting away. The guys were gathered at another table playing "chor dai di" =_=. Only a few were still left BBQ-ing... especially Aabhi. He was BBQ-ing the whole night away, in the end, he seemed so professional in doing that and flipped the meat like it was the most natural thing in the world. All of us wanted to sign a petition for Aabhi to stop cooking and EAT!

Mouth-watering yet?

Soon, the guys also joined the girl's table and we started to tell lame but funny jokes. Dhas was telling everyone that earlier that day, they (the guys) went to a cyber cafe to play an online game. Suppose to be a team game and Aabhi was in his team. When the game started, Dhas immediately died.. feeling pissed off, Dhas was asking who killed him... that time, Aabhi was so happily waving his hand shouting,"I killed you, I killed you!". Aabhi thought the game was everyone was his enemy. When the game started, he just killed everyone in sight. LOL XD Dhas swore he will never play online games with Aabhi ever again!

Then, we moved on to telling racist jokes (no one in the class minded although we're multi-racial hehe).

Then, another person was asking, what's the difference between falling from the 1st floor and the 15th floor?

1st floor goes "SPLATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!"... 15th floor goes " AHHHHH, SPLATTTTTTT!".
And because of this joke, Michelle(super smart girl) was talking about that when you fall from the 20th floor, you will achieved terminal velocity! LOL, it seemed funny at that moment. Or all of us was attacked by laughing gas, we kept laughing at every simple joke said or even not-funny-stuffs! Miss Lim (physics lecturer) will be so proud to hear what you said Michelle!

Not long, Dhas was suggesting for ghost stories to be told. The girls were mostly the one protesting the idea! Mavis was protesting the most..she was like saying "No way! I'm sleeping alone tonight!". Then Dhas replied her, " You mean you sleep with someone every other night?". XDXD
And Mavis was furious and wanted to kill Dhas!

A picture tells a hundred words

Well, anyway.. all of us certainly had lots of fun! I never had this fun in a party for a really long time or even laughed so much non-stop=) This will be one night I'll never ever want to forget. Million of thanks to Denisa and Aabhi for organising the BBQ!

Pretty soft light glowing from the candles
Night!

Betsy

Near-death experience! GOT BOMB!

2008-02-19T02:52:00.000-08:00

Title caught your attention?!!
First, I must tell you that the title is... TRUE!!!!!

Yesterday at INTI college, right next to Taylor's, a bomb was discovered. Then, this happened

Fine, just joking.

Honestly, there were rumours about a bomb implanted at INTI and circulating that terrorists did it. Before long, police cars and ambulances were at the scene to investigate... created a hell lot of ruckus and chaos. Traffic jam, ambulance sirens and poor INTI students sitting at sidewalks as they're evacuated from the college compound. Anyway, we should be thankful that a bomb weren't discover. Back at our room, me and Pei was laughing about the bomb and our near-death experiece. Little did we knew, we were going to experience almost the same thing today...

Around 2.15PM

At Biology Lab 2

Today we did an experience to investigate the distribution of catalase in a soaked pea and to determine the different temperatures on its activity. Sounds boring? Ya, you're right! Then, that 'incident' changed everything! That near-death 'incident'!

A group was heating water to prepare as a water bath for the peas.

Observe the image below properly.

There's two openings for gas to come out, one with a tube already and attached to the Bunsen burner. Another is unattached. It was supposed to be like that, and gas weren't suppose to leak out from there! However, it did happened O.O

Scary, isn't it?
Fine, I suck at photoshop (=________=)The real fire that time was really big, seemed like can easily burned down the Biology Lab!

I wanted to catch the picture of the real gas leakage fire with my phone, but Pei was panicking. She really thought she going to die as she thought the gas tank would explode! She was muttering loudly "RUN!!!!!". And even pulled me back from the fire to prevent me taking a picture..... At that time, our whole class was stunned, everyone seemed like grew roots from their feet firmly into the ground, except me and Ana (classmate), both of us was trying to take a picture haha.

Before we knew it, the fire suddenly put off by itself...
Turns out the lab assistant off the main gas tank.
And the chaos died down.

After that "near-death" experience, back to the boring experiment. Everyone was taking precautions heating the water bath. While me and Pei was heating, we panicked slightly as well, cause of the strong gas smell. Thank god, wasn't another leakage!

Finally we completed our experiment!

Then, we had egg for lunch.

Tasty?

Nah, it's was actually our results, effervesence of squashed peas when added hydrogen peroxide. Makes you feel hungry all over!

Betsy

YO! Damn expensive punya SUSHI!!!

2008-02-16T23:34:00.000-08:00

How come I have to post again???? 0A0 The last post took so long, Blogger got problem sial..now, we'll make you read more " The Adventures of Shwu Pei and Betsy" or...er..."The Adventures of Betsy and Shwu Pei"!!! Whichever sounds better to you:

On one fine saturday, Betsy's father came up to KL to pass her glasses to her. Mm-hmm. Usually when he comes up, that means more loitering for us, hehe... >.< He's really nice, I feel as though we're always troubling him.Haha. *swt* Yea, that's the truth.

Today, Stephanie and her friend Xia Hui (not sure of spelling), joined us for a day of loitering at Megamall! Not surprisingly, we spent almost 2 hours in MPH, just looking for books. Just as we entered MPH, Stephanie suddenly dissapeared. Eh?? We went around looking for her for a good 10 minutes.(well, it felt that long)Finally, we discovered her at the Fantasy section. She didn't even know we were watching her. Muaha. Time for revenge. I stood close behind her until I could breath down her neck, for about a minute. After some time, Stephanie turned around and "WAHHH!!!" lolz.You should've been there. Soon after that, we all dispersed to look for books of interest.

At the end of the day, I bought a book which I've been longing to buy for sometime: Anne's Rice "A Cry to Heaven", it costed like RM 39.20 or something. Betsy bought a box set consisting of 3 books from Jodi Picoult entitled "Vanishing Acts", "Perfect Match" and "My Sister's Keeper" which only costed RM 69.90. She also got "The Memory Keeper's Daughther" written by Kim Edwards-RM 35.90. So now, we have even more books to read...so many things to do..so little time...

Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

Perfect match by Jodi Picoult

Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Then we went shopping....for jewelery, accessories, more books, and hats. Betsy bought a new glittery strawberry hairclip. It's a seriously glittery thang.Imagine if she stand underneath the sun...*shine~~* and she also got the complete set of NANA the anime from Niko-Niko-Doh. Yea, did she mention that she's caught the NANA fever? after that, we went to this japanese fashion boutique called "Momoe" where we tried 80% of the hats in there and walked out empty handed. XD However, Betsy found what the hat she wanted at "Plastic", they also had this uber cool brown leather-ish bracelet with huge metal rings and chains wound around it. When you put it on your wrist, the chains sorta dangle across your hand. It was so cool..but it costed RM 29.20. So, we left with Betsy's communist-ish hat which costed RM49.90.(see her profile picture)Oh, and next time your wallets feeling stuffed and your wardrobe's feeling empty, just head over to "Miss Whatever". They have the coolest accessories and clothing if you like the rebellious style.

After lepak until cukup, we went for dinner at this place called YOSushi.They have almost the same system as Sushi King except..they have this really cool thing which Sushi King cannot compete with, that is~~~!!!!:

Ta-da~~!! A bell!! If you need anything just press it! "Miss, more ice please!" "Miss, another plate please!" "Miss, your handphone number please!" XDD

Oh yea, they also have this cool menu! Sushi King raise white flag!

Betsy and I ordered Chicken Yakisoba which cost RM 10 cause we had to watch our budget! We had Kimgary for lunch, so...And when they brought the Yakisoba to our table. It was-

really

really

REALLY

SMALL.

Geram or not, but it managed to sustain me till the end of the day. Verdict of the day: Go YOSushi only if you're planning to make yourself broke.

Yay!! Tomodachi!!! left: Xia Hui Right: Stephanie They're just shy...

Oh wait, if it wasn't for the world's best creampuffs that i had for supper, I probably wouldn't be able to stand the next day. Try BeardPapa! They claim to make the world's best cream puffs!! And it's quite good too!

Beardpapa's cream puffs

Food is good.

Pei

Ice cream, mice, mi sedap, and snakes make a yummy day

2008-02-15T22:46:00.000-08:00

Ya..I know I almost never post....so I'm back, for a while! Kay, this is a review of what happened today!! Please read on...

Today, after class, I went straight to the ECA to attend the Newsletter Club meeting because I'll be auditioning to be one of the head graphic designers...(wish me good luck, with no computer,scanner or tablet now... >_<")They'll be forming a whole new team with the 2008 batch of students. The editor and her team seemed nice enough, the meeting went quite well too. By the way,the magazine has 6 issues per year and the theme for the coming issue (MARCH/APRIL) will be "How to", yea, it might be interesting! I can't wait for it to be published! XDDD

After that, I came home exhausted around 2.10 p.m. and I had mi sedap for lunch, yum.( I don't always do this) Then, I had to go for the anime club meeting at 3pm. But Tsu Fei (our housemate) asked if we wanted to follow her to One Utama. Since it's quite rare for her to drive on friday, naturally I went: "Oh, screw the anime club meeting!!!" Soon enough we were leaving for One Utama....

So, we had lunch(again) at Old Town, their chicken ham and cheese polo bun thingy is not bad, sorry, no pictures...XP then..while we were waiting for the food in our stomachs to digest, we came across a nice ice cream shop: DQ Julius. It's a franchise and they sell this ice cream called "Blizzard", cool name...even cooler serving style. It's served upside down! Serious!! They had the poster there, sorry, no pictures again...the guy turned it back real fast k?? We couldn't have taken the picture anyway!!

Mmm...blizzard, just imagine it upsidedown...

Anyway, the ice cream is delicious, it has this creamy and yet smooth texture, it wasn't too milky either. Go try it some time!

Later, while we were loitering around the mall, we came across this counter seling tickets for a repile show. Interesting. Student price was only RM 5.So, we bought tickets hoping to be entertained.
The exhibition contained about 100 different species of reptiles including snakes, lizards and little crocodiles.There were also some spiders, tortoises and mammals.

Here's some pictures that's been SIRIM chopped:

Snake in water

A pretty albino-ish snake

Yellow snake, what d'you expect me to say??

Monitor lizards I think, they're pretty huge

Spider~~!!! Muahahaha!!

Long necked tortoise..freaky..

This is pretty fugly, be thankful you can't see this clearly

A lazy iguana...dunno dead or alive

A white monkey, it looks really human, seriously, poor thing...

A cute red fox...aww...

AWWWW....lazy lizard..!! Squee~~!!XDD

Snake feed ><

Coming out of the closet

Another pretty snake

Two squirrels...

Okay, that's all the pictures for now, there are two videos though, one features a snake eating a rat and another a snake charming act. But we probably won't upload them coz' we don't feel like it ...muahaha...or maybe we will someday..but not for now.

Hold on, there's one more thing before I have to say before I conclude our adventure at the reptile exhibition: PLEASE RESPECT ANIMALS, PEOPLE!If you do, then good for you , but if you don't practice this, please reconsider the effect of your actions!! At the exhibition we saw this middle-aged man and his wife acting like little kids! There was a squirrel sleeping in it's nest in a cage but the man kept tapping on the cage and blowing into the squirrel's nest to annoy it, just for his and his wife's entertainment. They sure had a good time laughing their heads off. I would've told him off if I was more fluent in my chinese or cantonese...grrr....Since people nowadays are better educated on animal rights, please help avoid things like this from happening!

Just to finish this off, here's a funny signboard we saw while eating at the food court in SS/2:

Just in case you don't know, it's upside down. YEA.

Pei

Happy Valentine's Day!

2008-02-14T20:00:00.000-08:00

For Valentine's Day, my class (PM1) decided to want everyone to wear pink. Out of 30 students, only about 50% of them actually wear pink. Here's a pic our class (students wearing pink) took together, along with our Chemistry teacher ^^!

Pretty in Pink??!!

(Late in the afternoon)
Me and Pei was bored so we watched "Secret". A really good movie, quite touching at certain parts. Not exactly your typical love story, as this one is full of twists and mysteries. Watch it, especially if you're a music fan! There are melodious parts that takes you into a musical and magical journey of two dimensions of the impossibly fated couple, acted by Jay Chou and Guey Lun Mei. This film will surely set you pondering a lot, to grab for details that will lead to its true meaning behind it.

Secret

A very nice poem from the movie :

“Follow the notes upon the journey

At first sight marks one's destiny

Once the voyage comes to an end

Return lies within hasty keys”

Nice, isn't it?

Anyway, won't talk much about the summary, cause easily can slip out a spoiler XD!

Betsy

Gathering at Pui Xiang's house

2008-02-09T00:26:00.000-08:00

Pui Xiang organised a 'pot luck' event at her house. 'Pot luck' means everyone supposed to bring along our own food. Connie brought two bottles of sparkling juice and garlic flavoured peanut, doesn't taste half bad. Yoke Wan and Yoke Heng brought a really big tupperware of bihun. I brought nothing, cause really no time to get anything ><. Shwu Pei and her sister, Julia also brought nothing. Pui Xiang provided pizzas.

We played Black Jack for almost two hours I think. We gambled using peanuts. Started with Connie as the banker, ended after she left less than ten peanuts. Then, moved on to Julia as banker cause she was the richest then (with peanuts). After awhile, Julia start going broke as well, then move on to Pui Xiang as banker. Pui Xiang lasted quite long but in the end, she almost ran broke and chuck the cards to Yoke Heng to be banker. Yoke Heng really lucky =_____=. First round as banker and she immediately got 21 with her two cards. Then, second round with her as banker, she got 21 once again with two cards. Man, what are the odds to that? Anyway, we ended Black Jack with Yoke Heng having the most peanuts. And then we ate our winnings. Along with some of Connie's sparkling juice.

Connie was the first to went home. Then, Pui Xiang, Julia and Shwu Pei went on to perform us the 'Lucky Star' dance.
Here's what the 'Lucky Star' dance should be like haha.

Entertaining to watch, but I definietly won't participate in it.

At around 11.30pm, all of us went home and that's the end of the CNY celebration at Pui Xiang's house.

Betsy

Nana Fever!

2008-02-08T16:34:00.000-08:00

Today I watched one of the coolest movie ever, NANA! A brief idea about the movie. Two girls with the same name, nana (means seven in Japanese) coincidentally met at a train on the way to Tokyo. They're of the same age too. One would expect a lot of similiarities between them, however, they have total contrasting personalities. Nana Oosaki is a punk girl struggling to make it big in Tokyo to be a singing sensation. Her dressing are totally gothic in a cool kind of way. Another is Nana Komatsu, a really sweet pretty girl that has a great smile. Went to Tokyo to live with her boyfriend but instead, found out that her boyfriend dumped her for a different girl. As fate lead to it, both Nana stumble upon one another again at Tokyo when finding for an apartment. In the end, they decided to stay together as the rent will be cheaper that way. Throughout the stay, there was many heart-wrenching and touching moments. This movie is really good, and nearly made me cry at one part. Catch it if you're free.

In the movie, there's really a lot of nice ballads and pop songs.
A few to name of :
Glamarous Sky - Mika Nakashima
Journey - Yuna Ito
Endless Story - Yuna Ito
Download the songs if have the time, or just ask me to send you at msn XD

That's all I think, for rest of the plot, find out yourself ^^ Really worth watching.

Betsy

Chinese New Year

2008-02-08T01:53:00.000-08:00

On Chinese New Year Eve, all my relatives, mother-side, came back as usual. However, some of the couples in our family seems to be drifting apart, so can feel some 'cold air' sometimes. Anyway, I still enjoyed my reunion dinner. Sat next to my cousin, Tracy. First dish was the 'Yee Sang'... while all of us trying to 'mix' the thing, Tracy aimed straight for the salmon n took 3-4 slices =.=". There's also was a scallop dish, the kids/teenagers mainly took all the scallops while the adults are left with the asparagus haha. The fish isn't that great this year, seems a bit too cold, maybe left aside for a long time after being cooked. *fast forward to dessert* We had pandan pancakes and coconut pudding... yea, weird combo. Nonetheless, taste pretty good. Me and Tracy was complaining about not being hungry at all after finished all the 9 Chinese dishes... After dessert, both of us was complaining about being too full instead lol.

Chinese New Year SMS greetings ^^

CNY EVE -
2.36PM Sher Minn (1st to wish me =) )
4.44PM Deme (O.O die die die)
5.12PM Mat
8.12PM Melissa (Hope you're doing okay with your work now^^)
8.21PM Jasmine
9.48PM Agnes
11.45PM Marvin
11.47PM Yu Wen
11.49PM Fee
11.59PM Pui Xiang (amazed that you sms at the 'peak moment')

CNY DAY -
12.11AM Kai Li
12.20AM Yoke Wan
12.21AM Hellie
12.22AM MY BROTHER XD
12.35AM Maia
12.40AM Wen Jean
12.57AM Rock
1.35AM Yu Mian
2.52AM Fro
10.14AM Pei (your sms woke me up =______=)
10.45AM Jee Hui
11.05AM Sher Minn ( ^^ thanks, second sms from you)
11.14AM Lavnya

Thanks all that sms-ed me... really appreciate it ^___^ especially my brother.
Long time never contact him since he went to study Medicine, to be a doctor. Damn, I have a lot of expectations to live up to. Anyway, bro, wish you all the best in your studies. Thanks for taking the time to sms me and asked about my progress at Taylor's and even giving me safety tips. Means a lot to me, since I think we never contact one another for almost 6 months >.<. Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Just realised this year angpow money quite a lot O.O. Rm595 so far...wow! Still got time for more angpow, haha, going to reach RM600+ for sure! Btw, this year CNY I played Chor Dai Di with my cousins, Michelle, Tracy and Win Sum. We played very light for entertainment purposes so we bet 10cents. Surprisingly, Michelle can won up to RM4 =___=. Me and Tracy both lost a few cents I think haha. But poor Winsum, lost RM3+...

Reached home around midnight today. Just in time to see Amazing Race Asia, I'm a big fan ^^. Today is semi-final, the last three teams had been chosen, M'sia team is in, 2 girls. Next week is the finals and I'll be back at KL, with no ASTRO. Aaaaargh, hope it'll be posted at YouTube.

Anyway, signing off!

Betsy

Chinese New Year musings and rantings

2008-02-06T00:05:00.000-08:00

Hi people, this is my first post on our blog!!! How exciting!! But I don't know how long I can keeep this up,I'll probably get lazy later and stop posting or sumthing... *receives imaginative evil glare from betsy*

Haha, ah well, so while I'm still feeling genki-ish, i'd like to wish everyone very Happy Chinese New Year!! Are ya'll also slaving away at the kitchen and the house like I am?? That's one reason i don't quite enjoy festive seasons: too-much-work!! But the getting together is fun, and the food is always good,and ahem ahem, so is the money! XD Okay, so the money's a give and take thing, but at the end of the day it's all worth it, eh?

Hmm..come to think of it, this year is the year of the rat...so you can see lots of people putting up pictures of mickey and minnie mouse on their front doors...I can't wait for the year of the horse to come, by then I'd be...what..24 years old? Wow, I'm gonna hit 20 soon, gasp, it's not so bad is it?? To all youngsters, appreciate your youth!!!! Or you'll be caught off guard when you turn 20!! Yahh!! Please consider my warning seriously!!0_0

Okay, it's a new year with new resolutions, unfortunately, I haven't made any yet... so I hope you guys are more prepared with your aims for 2008 compared to me!! *scribbles resolutions on a piece of paper* So...to all the chinese and the others who also tumpang holiday: I hope ya'll will enjoy your new year, eat more kuih..collect more angpau..gain more weight!! Muahaha!! Hope to see ya'll in my next post!! Bye bye!

Pei

2008-02-05T22:56:00.000-08:00

Another Blog Header I made today with Photoshop CS2... guess it's addictive^^. This will be the very first post in this blog by me ( Betsy). This blog is shared between me and Shwu Pei, so there are two owners to the blog. And whoever that post depends on our mood, that is, whenever any of us is free enough to do so. Actually we're planning to make the blog on our first day of college.. unfortunately, due to lack of initiative and no internet line, the idea was postponed. Now it's still not too late I guessed.. Minn, thanks a lot for helping put the Cbox to the blog and also adding the pet blob O.O

Mood: Cheerful but slightly tired
Listening to: Rose by Reira

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve's Eve.. Started the day like usual, on holiday now from college. Btw, I got my first ever set of contacts yesterday. When I tried to wear it this morning, I felt like I almost poked my eye a lot of times. Really scary to wear contacts, don't believe me, get one pair yourself. Now I knew what Minn and Pei meant about never wearing contacts after seeing Jee Hui did it. Anyway, was supposed to go to school and visit the teachers especially Puan. Foo, but turned out... I had a dentist appoinment. *sigh* Missed the days at IJC, especially all the friends that I lost contact with after school ended.
After the horrfying experience at the dentist, I went shopping with my mum at Parkson, really missed the joy of finally buying stuffs without worry about overblowing my budget for expenditure since mum paying ^^.In the end, only bought a pair of ugly but comfy shoes, wanted to post the pic of it, but lazy to take my camera. That's all I think, still not very used to the idea of blogging...yet.

Betsy