Almost there...

Almost...

Just right... :)

  I've never met a gang that was more accepting than them.

  It was like, first day at camp, I was determined not to be the one that faded into the background, I wanted to be out there and like, make friends. But I never thought it would happen so easily and fast.

  Just like that *snap* I was hanging out with them like I've been friends with them for ages. It's the way they accepted me into their group, no conditions. I'm so corny and sentimental today… Why ah?

  Haha. You know what? Thanks guys, you really made my year. And I would abseil down the canyon a hundred times over for you guys. 

  Its already 2009.

  I'm almost eighteen, ugh.

Eugene and me during the countdown. We're not going to go to school together anymore. *sniff*

Eve, Chia, Niesha, Evonne, Me, SkinnySandra, Fatty. XD

  I don't like growing old. Its something that bothers me very much. I can't run around doing random stuff no more, I can't act like a kid, I have to be serious and start doing stuff with my life. Start thinking ahead, about where I want to be ten years from now.

  Twenty eight. ARGH.

  My college starts on the fifth of January, I've registered for Taylors, my campus is the Sunway Mentari one, with Samantha and Edwin, Julian too I think. :)

Meowrr. Mr. Lawrence's cat. Niesha kept grabbing at her so roughly I was afraid she was going to turn around and swipe her.

  My mom totally tricked me.

  She made me throw out all my clothes, ala "Out with the old and in with the new."

  But its more like "Out with the old." Fullstop.

  Now I really have no clothes to wear, and when I went and bought some the other day, she confiscated them and said they were for Chinese New Year. Even though I used my own money.

PS: Stupid PLKN office people won't pick up my phone so I can't scold them for making me wait so long for my letter because I wanna get a blood test so I don't have to go to stupid NS.

PPS: I also need to buy new clothes and hide them from my mom. =.=

  My internet is slow.

  I can't remember it being anything but slow.

Gloria on the haunted train ride. XD

  Seriously, when was the last time YOU had fast internet?

  We have this way of realizing things only when they're bad. Like when the internet is fast, does anyone ever say "Hey, internet is fast today! Thank you Streamyx!"

   I've opened two tabs, one loading Facebook, the other my Hotmail account about ten minutes ago, both are still blank. =.=

  I was at Genting two days ago with the gang.

  I have so many gangs, I should be more specific. I was with Simon, Michelle, Evonne, Gloria, Jia Liang, Kevin and Eugene, my schoolmates (And girlfriend of schoolmate.)

Me and Kevin at Marrybrown.

  We stayed at Genting View Resort with his parents.

  Simon's parents are sooo nice. We got like two houses, one house goes for about six hundred bucks a night, but they didn't ask us to pay, not a single cent.

   And they kept feeding us, they made fried rice and buttered prawns, then mutton steak, about five rounds of mutton steak. Five rounds of juicy mutton steak, probably the best I've had in ages, I had about three of those. Then Asam Laksa for supper, all cooked by Simon's aunty who is a chef.

Mutton~ *Drools*

Asam laksa.

Jia Liang, Gloria and Eugene.

  We were split into two. Simon, Michelle, Jia Liang and Eugene then me, Evonne, Gloria and Kevin. All Simon's gang wanted to do was hang out at the arcade, but I wanted to go on all the rides.

  It was too foggy so we decided to hang out in the indoor theme park the first day then the outdoor the next. But we sort of overslept the next day so we didn't go outdoors at all. I was kinda rallied up to go on all the rides.

In line for the Euro Express.

I think this was for bumper cars.

While we were on the ride.

Bumper cars. No handling at all.

  It was too crowded. Wasn't fun at all. We had to stand in line for ages for each ride. We stood for about half an hour for the Euro Express and it wasn't even scary. There was so many people, walking was hard. The next time I go, it'll be on a school day.

  Gloria was so sleepy she was sleeping on the rides, and by nine she was knocked out on Kevin's bed. (Okay, that sounded very wrong, hands out of pants people.) While the rest of us played cards and walked around outside.

Ugly gondola man.

We look very weirded out.

The whale~

Breakfast, the one on my right is Simon's great aunt.

Group photo before leaving.

Simon's super adorable sister.

Dinner at Kenny Rogers~

My mouth is stuffed.  =X

Kevin took this photo. I like it, reminds me of lady in the water. Evonne is hovering in the background looking like a ghost.

"Cynicism doesn't suit you." He drawled, "You're not intelligent enough to use cynicism creatively."

PS: I find myself thinking too much about the life and death when I'm alone or in bed. It makes for a depressing subject. But I AM bent on being a non-depressed nihilist, at least when it comes to religion.

PPS: Will update tomorrow. Got lots to update about.

  *AHHHCHOOO*

  Some guy looked at me. O.o"

  *AAAAAHHHHHCHOOOOO*

  More people turned and stared.

  "You know what this is?!?!" I yelled waving my fist, "MURPHY'S *%&$*# LAW!!!"

  That's right.

  I'm sick. On bloody Christmas day.

  Actually, I was sick on Christmas Eve too, and the few days before. It started with the Christmas cards. I worked from morning to night on them, I get engrossed in work easily, especially when it's enjoyable, so I forgot to drink the required daily amount of liquids I guess, and I got a sore throat.

Mess after my Christmas card making.

  No biggie. Everyone gets sore throats all the time~

  I decided to do a spot of Christmas shopping with the gang. We watched Yesman- good show btw, and hung out around Midvalley. That was when I started to lose my voice.

  I thought it was adorable! I could only alternate between a low rumbling tenor or a high pitched squeak. So I sang all the way home with everyone in the car. Ruptured my voice box and lost my voice completely by dinnertime. Perfect!

  From all the "Thank you!" messages I received. I'm going to assume that most of you have received my cards. Cept for Sabrina of course, who was holiday-ing in Cambodia I think.

  It's not my own idea, but the design is. I googled "Christmas Cards" on Google Image and saw some cool stuff, so I stole their ideas. Enjoy!

Christmas gift from Eugene~ The candy canes, not the necklaces.

  Thanks to recession, our generation is going to grow up a bunch of illiterate yobs.

  Everything is so expensive, dinner, movie, then I'm strapped for cash to buy books and I'm sooo sick of reading the same books over and over again.

It's PRADA!

Topshop =) I've always wanted one of these...

  I'm reading the Life of Pi again. I like the book, very original, very well written, I'm blown away by the language.

"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."- Author's Note, Life of PI.

  I can't relate to people without imagination, they have no passion, none at all for anything they're doing. They do things they do because someone made them, not because they like it, or because they want to.

  I find it a real waste of talent, if I had half their talent…

Christmas photos.

Big apples~

Heineken.  Shhh...

Indian Poker. Alvin kept cheating.

Boxing on the Wii~

Evonne has a good boyfriend.

Cheating bastard. XD He kept checking his reflection...

Blur. But like I said, I like blur photos. :D Evonne left, me right.

"Today I found your fingertips,

they were stained red from your lips..." 

PS: I still haven't finished my Kiwani's article! But I will! Soon. =/

PPS: Note, Sims 2 will kill almost all computers and CPU's. Especially if you try and install all existing expansion packs.

  I hate this.

  Give me an hour on Word and I can spew non-stop random crap like some magical crap vomiting being. But give me a set topic and a week and I go *blank*

Me and some of the gang at Red Box, The Curve.

   I keep procrastinating and there's so much to blog about.

  My new car, KYC camp, karaoke-ing with the gang, my granddad's birthday AND Angel stole a sandwich from this man and it was bloody hilarious at first but now its lost its adorable-ness. So you all will probably never hear about how my adorable dog stole a sandwich from this man who keeps wandering around the house for no apparent reason.

Thats my baby. I was lazy to blur out the number plate so I just used my finger.

The back~ Its in Medalion Grey.

  I think he's the carpenter and I see him wandering around the garden almost everyday but I'm not sure what he's doing. He was building the pagoda on the second floor garden but now he's done, but he's still hanging about. =/

Sonel and Sabrina dirrrty dancing~

  I need to go shoe-shopping.

  I want some nice proper high heels.

  I stopped buying heels ages ago. Like, I used to buy any pair I fancied, until I got up to 40+ heels then my dad wasn't very happy so I went cold-turkey.

  Absolutely. No. Shoes.

Me and Vina. I personally like blurred photos, like clear enough to show the persons expressions but not enough to show the details.

  Cept for when I need them of course, haha! Like when I have a party, or going on a holiday. UGG's are effing cheap in China, I know, fake brands are sooo tacky, but when you're talking savings up to four hundred bucks, its really tempting.

  I want to design my very own line of shoes one day. I can't stand the local brands, they never go pass three inches. Only the European or American brands like Zara and Guess make the kind of shoes I like- crazy high sexy stilettos. But it often comes with a very big price tag, I want to make sexy shoes affordable and comfortable. I scoff in the face of cheap two inch heels!

I used ISO for this shot. The result: I look like something from Ju-Onn and Qian Qian looks like the Blob.

  People like Vivian can wear six inch platforms and no one gives her a second look. But I wear six inch platforms and all the girls are bitchin'… =/

  I'm not calling Vivian short or anything, but its so prejudiced!

  I always see these petite girls tottering around on four inch heels and no one seems to notice. But I put them on and suddenly everyone is whispering "Hey, check out her ridiculous shoes, vot a bimbo." =/

The whole gang~

  But of course~ Sticks and stones may break my bones… but words will hurt forever. O.o"

Kiwani's Youth Camp Photos!

I was trying to carry him. XD

My favorite pboto!

Our day chart.

The drum circle. Very empowering...

G.Y, Me, Freddie, Ken and Aileen in the mail room.

Christian, first thing I said to him was "Did you get braces?" His teeth are like, perfect.

Freddie joining in our discussion circle.

Campfire night! This was Barney as Joker.

The slow dance.

Its a bad shot but I like my legs... =X

Leading the disco dance.

Haha. I like this shot. What perfect timing... XD

Ken posing in Joseph's car.

Innocent Sabrina...

Titans!! Led by the ever-clashing, Keith and Me. We're like brother and sister, bring us together and we argue like mad, pull us apart and we miss each other. For some weird reason, everyone thinks we're together, cause of all the "lovers spat."

Keith and me again.

United Survivors~

Me and Sabrina, a favorite pastime of ours....

Dumbest statement of the week.

  "How do you stand going to these public schools?" She says with her usual air of snobbishness. "Nobody goes to them."

  She then added with an unsurprising lack of logic "I hear they're terribly overcrowded."

PS: Addicted to the word game on Facebook AND the Sims 2.

PPS: Registered for Taylors today! :D I got a scholarship too~

PPPS: Don't you hate it when people steal photos of your artwork or images from your blog? And you find them strewn all over the internet without the author bothering to credit you, letting other people assume its their artworks? =.= 

  I believe there are 4 stages to recovering from camp.

Me and KH's nametag...

  First there’s the cleansing stage, where you get to use a clean bathroom all to yourself and put your bum on the toilet seat without fear of getting STD’s. You get to wash your face without tadpoles coming out of the tap and wash your hair for as long as you want and just… enjoy the warm water, soaking in it till it’s completely muddy and brown.

Me, Sabby and Aileen all piled up in one bed to camwhore.

  Second is the sleeping stage, where exhaustion takes over and you are found sleeping in all possible places. The couch, the garden, the office, on top of the bar counter. I was knocked out for fifteen hours on the couch the day I got home, I just took a bath then went downstairs to watch TV, I fell asleep, woke up and it was morning.

The slow dance during campfire night.

  Third is the pigging out stage, where you eat everything and anything you can get your hands on, chips, chocolates, tubs and tubs of ice-creams, marshmallows etc etc. I had a breakfast of bread and chicken floss, then immediately moved on to spaghetti for lunch, and polished everything off with a bag of Famous Amos and a Mars bar.

Singing "Hey Jude"

  Finally the last stage, is to get in touch with your former city brat lifestyle. You get the computer all to yourself again and just do nothing but stone and poke people on facebook, use your mobile to gloat “I wasn’t scared at all abseiling three stories down the side of a waterfall.” – I was screaming and screaming hysterically cause I was stuck halfway down and I was too light for the ropes to go through the hook thingy so I dangled there trying not to lose my grip.

Aileen and Ken trying to be sexy. Lol.

  In the end camp was fun. I don’t think I’ll blog about it here as I’m in charge of writing the article on the official KYC website so when I’m done I’ll just put a link and link you all there. Bigger update next time. Pinky promise!

Gone to camp.

Will be back on  Tuesday.

(Don't even expect updates then.)

  There's something to be said about laughing hysterically in the face of a metrosexual guy you barely know while staring at him upside down and he doesn't share your amusement and doesn't know what's amusing you to that extent.

  I'm talking about getting my hair washed of course.

A before shot. Long and wavy... boring...

  I'm absolutely ticklish about having people run their fingers through my hair- Wait. The hair is okay, just not the scalp. I used to be super self-conscious about my ticklish-ness but screw it now, it tickles so I'm going to laugh my head off.

  He turned to the girl folding towels at the corner and said in cantonese, "The pretty ones are always nutty." 

  Pffft. Yeah, so ugly people are very sane la!

I kinda wished my hair would come out in those nineteen twenties sorta short curls.

Evonne~

  I had my hair re-permed.

  I don't like getting my hair done, you sit there in the freezing salon for ages while you bum is screaming silently for help but you can't move, nooooooo, because your hair is all set up in curlers and there are wires sticking out from your head like you've got some artificial brain that requires charging so you can't move your head

.

  Doesn't help that there's a bunch of la-la guys snapping photos of you with their hand phones outside the salon. NEVER SEE PEOPLE PERM HAIR AH!?

The after. Poodle-like, I know, but it looks better now that I've brushed it out.

  Poo.

  Speaking of la-la's…

  They have their own friggin bouncer.

  I was at Timesquare the other day, and there was this really really la-la costume shop. All the gothic clothing with chains and the leather strappy boots that are about fourteen inches high.

  You know whats the requirements to enter that shop?

  An IQ lower than your foot size and the incapability to dress yourself like a living human being.

The front.

The back.

  They actually had a bouncer determining who can go in and can't! BLEH! Okay, maybe I really really wanted to go in. =/

  Do you see us putting bouncers at our shops?! Do you see bouncers in front of LV and Juicy Couture telling people with bad taste to stay out?

  Okay, maybe not a bouncer, but LV has a doorman that looks at you in this really condescending way like "You sure you're rich enough to come in? Don't waste my time you know? Buy something if you're going to enter."

  But of course, I'm more of an MNG girl. The closest thing I have to designer clothing is this Gucci perfume my aunty got for me, and it smells so posh I feel pretentious when I use it.

 

  Sleepover, bah.

  Tired and cranky after almost no sleep and a diet of nothing but sugar. Just enjoy the photos.

Evonne, Gloria, me and Vivian.

Me and Vivian~

Bullying Vivian.

Zhenyu heart Gloria~

Freddie Mercury and Gloria's spotty nutty neurotic dog...

Vivian eats cereal out of beer mugs.

Breakfast at one in the afternoon.

My gift to Evonne.

Angel is adorable~

Never too early for alkies~

Shawns back, blonder and more bimbotic. Ask him to show you his rock-climbing pants, you'd die laughing.

"I'm not deep, I know I seem deep. But deep down inside, I'm really shallow."

PS: I managed to screw up my PDA somehow and now I can't upload books into it. Bah…

PPS: I've got KYC camp soon. =/

  Suzen turns 16!

Chee Yern, Suzen and Kevin.

  My neighbor who can play the piano, guitar, violin, gu zheng, sing and compose music. Not enough? Damn hot also, with nice fun attitude. Any takers?

  Went to her BBQ party at the top of our hill.

  Took a long time to start the fire though. We were all fanning and poking the fire like mad trying to start a fire. I never did realize this but BBQ-ing involves a lot of innuendo, at least it does the way we do it.

  "Zac! Use your big stick to poke the long black one, and blow harder!"

  XD. Maybe we're all just dirty-minded.

Purple flames.

I didn't realize Eugene had a haircut until I took this photo. Lol.

Norman, masterballer.

  We tried to have a water balloon fight, five on five.

  But the balloons we got were sucky, they kept bursting before we threw them. So we just ended up splashing water on each other with bottles, cups, hoses, plastic bags, anything we could find. I managed to stay dry by "supervising".

  Helps to keep your phone and camera in front of you too.

Sandra and King Kong.

Jin Rui is going to kill me for posting this.

Off-centre group photo.

Birthday cakes~

Zac pretending to play the violin.

Me and Tiny Zac~

  I've been swimming!

  I've had membership with the country club for ages but I've never set foot in the club in years. My membership card is sooo fugly, its like my mom went and got the worst possible photo of me in my geek years. Gigantic lopsided glasses, double chin, acne, oily face, blur expression.

  Horrible.

  I plan to swim more often, its supposed to be healthy isn't it? But Vivian and Evonne can't swim. Vivian can doggy paddle and somewhat do the froggy-style and Evonne almost drowned once so now she's scared to dunk her head under the water.

Vivian thinks she looks fat when she looks just fine... =/

The guys were playing basketball at the court... My hair is looooong~

Ethan's room.

  Ethan's room is all nice and done up now.

  My dad painted it.  Nice noh?

Shawn's room has a hammock.

...and no bed...

  Now we all have our own rooms. Shawn's coming back from Australia tomorrow too, with books by one of my favorite authors, Rose Wilkins and that funny book Santa Vs Satan by Jake Kalish.

New sink...  O.o

  I got a new sink too. But if this one falls on me, its not going to be only my shoulder that's sprained. This one is capable of taking my bloody arm off.

Burnt my palm. =C

Norman was flicking matches, so I followed and the lighted match burnt me.

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."  ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus

PS: Give your old school books to goodwill! The first Sunday of every month, it's a van in front of Old Town, they pick stuff up. Clothing, newspapers, books, anything you want to discard.

PPS: Christmas sleepover on Tuesday! :D:D So excited.

PPPS: I play Maple now! Lame, I know. But I have no life after SPM. I'm in Cassiopeia, I've got a mage, Elegie and an archer, Aragonaise, both songs by composer Jul;es Massenet. Not exactly my favorite songs but I was stuck for names and spotted my piano scores.

 

  Total anti-climax.

  Yesterday I was screaming and singing Mika's song at the top of my lungs with Eugene, today I'm just stoning around. Its like "SPM is over, what next… … …?"

We synchronize unintentionally... =D

Haha. I like this photo, Eugene looks terrified.

Me, Amy and Jia Liang.

Yi Xuan (Who sat next to me through Standard 5 and 6), me and Elayne.

Jia Liang... ... ...

  Yeah, classes. I wanna finish my piano classes, learn Spanish or French, and continue dancing. Latin probably, Angeline is pretty excited about them, we need to find latin partners. (Pffft. Easy for her to say.)

The wheat grass grows pretty fast.

  Now I have time to read my books, I've been stuck to books since I've dug up the old PDA. But I tend to get really lethargic from reading because the only time I can read is when I'm in bed or lying around somewhere, so I end up lying on the couch for hours and end up a fat lazy pig.

They're really pretty but they stink.

  I don't get people who sit in their gardens and read. Friggin sun kills you, and my grass is this crazy Taiwan grass that's like mini nails sticking out of the ground poking your arse. Plus, there's these black fuzzy caterpillars on the first floor garden so I'm limited to the second floor garden where all the neighbors stare at me.

  Last fifty pages of Pillars of the Earth. I have no idea how I got through the book, its all detailed gory rape and killings, and they use PAGES to describe a church. *Dies*

  I totally decorated our Christmas tree!

  Bloody thing is eight feet tall, and I almost convinced my parents to buy a twelve feet one. O.o

Ethan and Esther kacau-ing...

Half-finished tree.

Undecorated tree...

  I love Christmas! Who doesn't?

  Plus the annual sleepover is during Christmas, we've had that since Form Two. All the girls piled up at my house with all sorts of junk food and a really good, sappy-heart-wrenching romance.

Angel~

Full tree...

  I love my girlfriends, they're my besties. I don't get some other girl gangs, all the bitching and the mean fighting, yet they hang out with each other like everything is okay. =X Its so fake…

There was a smiley face in the sky~

"You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess..."

PS: The Malaysian Dream Girl is back and the prizes are bloody tempting. =/ I could use a laptop, I wanna play the Sims 3.

Photo taken right before EST 2, Angeline's last paper. From left, Evonne, Vivian, Angeline, me.

  So our school life together is over…

  We're going to go our separate ways now.

  I know it doesn't mean we're not going to see each other ever. But then we might grow apart, and that's something I don't ever want to happen.

  We went to watch Twilight.

I sketched this while waiting in between papers. Couldn't make Edward look pissed. =/

  At first it was me and Evonne hyperventilating while clutching each other in the cinema. But then Angeline and Vivian were looking pretty lost on the other side (Non-Twilight-ers. Tsk.) so we took pity on them and switched places so we could explain what was going on.

  They're so ignorant, its hilarious. At the start of the movie, Angeline went "Why his head so square wun?" Stabbing the hearts of all the teeny boppers below. XD At the cafeteria scene, Vivian went "How come all of them so fair?" You can't even pretend to ignore the dirty stares.

  Very badly edited, like… the whole movie was lagging. I had no idea what was going on, first it was this scene, then it was another. It lasted two hours but there were so little substance. proper ones put in. The information you can pass through the screen is very limited. So when it ended early, I was thinking… What. The. Fug?

  AND THEY CUT OUT THE KISSING SCENE!!!!!!!!!

  Bella's Lullaby isn't that nice either. I think it sounds like a bad bad grade three piece, the left hand was all chords. I thought it was going to be another… a song of Yiruma's was the rumor… =/

  I like Debussy though, I got the sheet music for Claire De Lune as soon as I read the book. I fell in love with the song when it was first used in the Chanel 05 advertisement with Nicole Kidman.

  My all time favorite advertisement…

  All beautiful couture gowns, romantic scenes, hot brazillian guy, the very classy, very beautiful Nicole Kidman. The advertisement itself can take your breath away.

  My dad's new phone...

  The HTC Pro. Its such a chick-phone! XD

The keypards.

  It's good though, you can read books on the phone. I'm in support of E-books, I read all my books on my PDA now, its cheaper, sooo much more environmentally friendly and easier than lugging books around 24/7.

  I studied for English Literature on the PDA.

I had painted nails throughout SPM. 

 

Studyng Accounts.

Taken by Eugene.

Vivian was on the phone 80% of the time yet she scores higher marks than me... =/

Real orchids.

The nails are a dead giveaway. I know.

               

"Though lightly worn, a crown may leave a scar."