Since I have so many things that happened over the past few weeks, i would just summarize everything.. (photo updates please go check FB.. felt its double work to be posting lotsa photos that people have seen already)

Hmm.. Lets start with exams’ week. Completed three papers in the spread of three working days excluding the weekends… Hopefully results would be ok. haha.. Didn’t want to waste the already short term break, I flew to Norway the night after my last paper. Was my first time to Norway and also the first time I did not do any research about the city that I was visiting. Thought Mr. Tall would be there to be the tour guide (which he did) and all the studying for exam paper just left no extra space in the mind for holiday notes.. haha

Off I went to this foreign land where I knew 1 person out of the whole population.. Reaching bout 10-ish 11pm didn’t worry me because I was told the Express to the city only takes 20 minutes and last train leaves past midnight. Happily I went on the train ride looking forward to see Mr. Tall in the train station as arranged earlier but but but the nature of the industry we are in just likes surprises. Work took longer than expected and I was waiting in the station like some clueless lost kid with no sense of directions and bearing… It was cold and dark outside, the station has so many exits. I was instructed to wait at where i got down from the train and he will FIND me… sounds like its a big place that I might get lost. So I sat and read the novel i brought along till he sneak out from work to get me (Which was like three minutes walking distance) I could have managed to get there myself if i were slightly more into getting to know the basic directions haha… For once I was a lil scared waiting alone… Learned my lesson.. hehe…

The following days spend in the humble city of Oslo was superb. The city gives a warm impression and I would say its a nice city to live in. Its a city but practiced quality lifestyle (through my observation that is) Did my sight seeing, and met new friends that further extend their Norwegian hospitality to the small Asian girl. Overall, it was a good trip on my mid sem break. Two albums of filtered photos already in uploaded in FB , so go check there and i will only put up a few that I like here—>

A Church in near Greenland metro station that I walked past everyday to get my 7-Eleven Cappuccino.  Don’t know why but this is my favorite among all..

Visit to the Sculpture Park

The evening view from the fortress overlooking the main sea passage to Oslo.

The port where that have nice yacht, boats of all kinds…

And of course one with the friendly host..

The short one week was a good getaway from my daily stress from school.. Enjoyed it very much..–> Thanks to my awesome host, Mr. Tall.

So that was the first trip out of Switzerland. I came back for a week of classes and off again to the Queen’s Land, where I have expected to be drinking English tea everyday but my oh my how wrong I was.. I was fed with Chinese , Korean , Japanese, Malaysian cuisines throughout my stay.. And I felt like I was back in Petaling Street when I was in China Town.

The main purpose of the visit was to meet up my ex classmates who were there for many years now (damn that sounds old).. Managed to get  a good flight price but the timing was rather short though.. Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself so much and am very happy seeing the faces that I’ve not seen in years after college days… Not so much of sight seeing and my biggest regret was not able to manage the time and visit Madame Tussauds..  Again, photos were uploaded in FB—> *click* so here are the few highlighted ones—>

The 6’s in China Town

The daughter that came to meet up..

Fellow KDU-ians (missing Justin)

While waiting for the metro and just being us.. 38!!!

The little sight seeing that I did (never mentioned shopping hahaha)

And  my two host, Kiki & Aik that not only provided shelter for me, but also fed me well throughout my stay..(Thats how i get those extra KILOS)

Thank you so much for the wonderful weekend!!! Truly enjoyed it and look forward to the next meet up.

JUNE/ JULY ‘10??

I wana go on with the events that happened but guessed its a lil too long to go on so will leave it to the next post.. Stay tuned.. (no promises of the publishing dates though hahaha )

OkBai

Its a monthly thing here. Random updates monthly haha.

Over the past 4 weeks, major assignments were due, finalizing a few subjects, relaxing, partying and getting myself confused I don’t know how, seriously.

So many things happened over the past one month. I don’t even know where to start or how to start. Classes as usual Mondays to Fridays with assignments here and there. And my classmates sometimes amazed me with their capabilities. I truly understand the diversity now and working my way around it or maybe through it. Its frustrating at times but thats one of the reason I’m here. To take up the challenge and strengthen my mental capabilities. Its piling up, building the intensity of stresssss.. (oh god help!!!)

Apart from all the workload I have to manage, I also entertained a few guest that stop by Lucern. First was Mr. Gjerde that I’ve met during the China Olympics ‘08. Was on his way to Poland and stopped by Lucern.

Had almost a week of wonderful days with him. Strolling by the lake, walking aimlessly around was some of the things that took my mind off school work. Only managed to be tour guide for a day around Lucern town on Saturday. (Friday was our first Student Bar and dragged Haakon along and luckily he went caused I passed out after certain mixture of I Don’t Know What. ) Went to Blue Balls Fest, spend a nice Sunday by the lake and had good Nasi Lemak dinner prepared by Chef Sira. The weekdays passed by so quickly as I went to school and my guest went sight seeing on his own haha.. Spend most of the evenings cooking at home as I always had some readings. Managed to go out the night before his departure to meet Micheal and Roman. Time spent wisely overall. Departure is always my weakness, so I ended up with a quiet weekend. Some photos during Haakon’s visit–>

The tourist-must-have photo-spot!

Cute Red we saw by Kappel Brucke

Blue Ball Festival with the girls.

One of the outing days. He is so tall I find it hard to get a picture without him bending down and me tipping on my toes.. Si Panjang!!!

So thats my first guest in Lucern and thats not the end of my guest list. haha. Just few days ago, My piglets from Frankfurt came to visit before continuing on their Euro Trip. I remembered when we had a reunion dinner just before they left  end of January and now its time for them to go home. How time flies. Had a few days full of laughter I never had in almost 4 months now. Same thing, had a few nights a home for home cooked food plus its cost effective haha…

Here are some photos of them, –>

First picture taken upon arrival.

Swiss Dinner with a few others.

How can I not miss this two???  (KC: da sei le ar!!/ Wilson: Sot jor??)

The company of the nite. Good food, music and most importantly good company!!

Sunny day out to town!!

On the morning they had to leave.. Sob Sob

Ok thats all for now.. Sleepy and thinks the post is running too long.. hahah excuses..

Ok Bai!!

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Only last week i celebrated my quarter century bench mark. Feels age is like a skipping number going uphill, never go backwards and each stage it goes up there should be more that we have experienced. (sounds so pro kan?) This year like any other year, its the day of the year that i really looked forward for. I guess its the tradition/ practice  at home that build up the anticipation for small happenings like this. My family celebrates all the small little annual events, birthdays, anniversaries, CNY, etc etc. What my mom said was, ‘all these things are motivation to make us move forward and in the mean time build memories’

This year, I had one of the best birthday ever. All in all i had 7, SEVEN birthday cakes. Felt happy definitely, not because of the cakes i had but knowing the people around me actually would spend time planning. The effort that they put in to make MY day different was really sweet. I’m really blessed to have these people around me.

To top of the already great day, my buddies, soulmates, girlfriends, sisters or whatever u can describe very near to heart people, flew to town for a short visit. We had so much fun hanging out and catching up. Feels like i’m YOUNG again.. (Damn that sounded OLD and corny..)

This is supposed to be a THANK YOU post.. haha.. so no photos for the time being. Don’s ask me why but I’m trying my best to come up with some soon.

Ok BAIII>>> for now!!!

Cryst of course was faster in updating and i will just link it here —> *Click* and i’m also gonna curi her photos cos i was camera-less that nite. It might take centuries till i get hold of the photos from Justin and Yunny.

Two group shots from Cryst. (for more crazy pics visit cryst’s site please, i shall not steal so many)

These two adventurous people is having a blast really. Traveling half way round the globe to chase dreams that seems impossible for others. A spirit i admired so much. Its been a long long time since the last time i saw them what more sit down nicely and have a long chat. It was a night full of gossips (as usual) and updates of life from each other.

It was really shocking how we can still be as crazy as how we used to be when we were in college years. We conquered the whole section and had the waiters and waitresses turn of some lights and started cleaning the floor before we finally stood up and chao. (they must be cursing whole nite with the amount of noise jus the four of us could generate)
We (missing Fong) were the proud few to be representatives of the faculty for the annual *leng chai leng lui* contest (MDG outbeat us la now) Its not easy to have so many to come from the same school and even harder to get so many from the same class *ahem lots of potential people from my class kan?* We had our happy times, our shopping times and also our teary times together and thats how we bonded.

Lets recall, Justin was and still is the most adventurous one. Yunny being the soft spoken one. Cryst was always the creative one. And me the forever noisy one. It was like yesteryear we went thru all the hassle to get things ready as we were first years students and very semangat la konon. ( we were all conned into it and missed out first semester break, damn..) Meeting up with these people reminds me of my years in college (cheh sound so old) how much fun we can create out of thin air. Definitely missing every bit of it.

Never ever thought the little soft spoken Yunny would be in the body combat thingy but yes she is now a qualified instructor.. so yeng.. and on top of that she is leaving for OXFORD ok.. me one damn proud frien i tell you…

And Justin, leading a very colourful and adventurous life in London. His traveling routine is something i would always envy. The passion to travel and to try out everything i really admire.One hell of a down to earth guy.

All the best mates!!! Come back often ok.. really only minority left in KL..

ps: Ivan, if you are reading this, please dont take Cryst away from me k.. Please spare us another 5 or 10 years to go shopping in Bangsar alot of weekends before u kidnap her to Kuantan.. *wink wink*

Well i’m trying my best to sit to blog at least once a week but even that is so much of a difficult task.. isk isk.. Nth i could say to be exact but here is the recap for the happenings last two months i guess. Lets hope i get a little diligent and would be disciplined and also motivated enough to be updating frequently.. Cryst, Est & Lek are my motivation caused they damn rajin updating all the time..

So i’m hoping to get back into the blogging mode again..need motivation, not complaints ok people. I shall start with a full of photos recap to lessen the mountain high back dated piles of events that took place. (I shall just forget about those small mini mini stuff)

Reading Est & Lek’s updates, they always have smth happening with their colleagues made me think of how happening my own work place is. Well not that bad that till we only come to work and off we go. Every month we have staff’s birthday celebration, a get together session and also a ponteng/curi tulang broad daylight.

So far i only brought my camera out once during the celebration days (and for my own month, i didnt snap.. )

For The April Babies..

At the back of the office in our MINI Pantry…

Those orange plastic bags are bags filled with food we catered from one of Ms. Puteri’s contact. We cant afford to have buffet lunch as most of us have different schedule for classe, so best is to have food for all even when they have to rush back to classes after the cut cake session..

Selamat ‘Belated’ Birthdays!!!!

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Apart from colleagues that brighten up my days, the best part of my job is to get all the wonderful ‘daughters and sons’ along the way. Following is a day out with my ‘huang nu er(s)’

In MFM with Ann

Jenny and Rachel.

Its fun to hang out with them cos it makes me get grip of fun & crazy things that i’ve kinda stop doing except when i’m out with Cryst or Winnie.

See…

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Apart from hanging out, the past months I did not forget to pamper myself.. From shopping to traveling.. thats not something I would forget though haha.. but there are different things that i’ve tried—> (please be advice the picture below might be highly addictive, viewers discretion is highly recommended)

My SEXY legs.. (Kenko Fish Spa in Pavillion)

Fat People’s Fat Leg with alot of ‘Garra Rufa’. See the difference, one alot of fishes and the other less.. We were told that the fishes will nibble away dead skin so the more fishes nibbling your feet means alot of dead skin larr..

My friends and I recently came across this topic about Pedicure and Fish Spa. Its really very subjective to conclude which is better than the other. I believe both contribute to a certain positivity. I think its fun and natural way without much stress to the skin. Here a link if you wana find out more about it —–> *click*

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Winnie’s birthday simple lunch meet up.

Simple isnt it? Our table was filled with FOOD!!

I sacrificed half day leave to make this gurl happy. We went to Kura, in One World Hotel for lunch. I rushed my daily tasks and joined Winnie and CCL for this scrumptious meal.

Me and my ex-roomie..

Its a hearty meal but only three of us.. really miss the time when we used to celebrate with that group of friends who are now all in SINGAPORE (and now Winnie oso leaving.. *sob sob*)

No cake for her but i bought her a ? bag as pressie. Nice?? Pretty similar to the one she chose for me on my birthday haha..

Thats the once awhile short lunch meet up that we can afford out of our Stressful & Busy schedule.. haha.. damn pathetic right???

As per mentioned earlier, my job created opportunity for me to meet great people but also every few months, it would be emotional time cos have to bid farewell to graduating students. Everytime you know them better, thats the time they would be waving bye bye and saying ‘ I’m stepping into another level in my life.’

This semester i went to my first Farewell dinner of the year, CULA 7. This class i could remember the sweet girl, Stella who always around the photocopy machine in the office. The very small class and friendly people. The time here and there we would bump into the others around college and exchange nods and smiles. And now they are all off into the industry..

All the best people!!

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KDU 25th Anniversary- In conjunction of the 25th anniversary celebration, this year our annual dinner was held in One World Hotel (mentioning OWH twice dy, like no other place to go rite??) and the theme of the night is VIVA SILVER. Well we are to dress up as silverish as possible but not many actually understood the colour. Silver is not a normal colour i would wear or have in my wardrobe. Searching for a decent enough dress was pretty difficult and much to my disappointment, many didnt even bother to follow the theme.. Where la the team effort?? @!#!~!@~

I was seated together with all the bosses of my department and being one of the naughty ones its not easy to pass the two hour event okay.. and all the time my camera was nicely seated in my ’silver’ clutch. No Pictures from Annual Dinner?? I dont know what to say to myself.

Only managed to snap 4 pics at the end of the night before we departed to Long Bar. Out of 4, 3 was taken with Don same place and time just different brightness and clarity. Duh…

The best out of 3.. which is still not good… haih…

Don got a coffee machine from Lucky draw. Everyone of us got this photo album as door gifts. We were each given a box with an album inside with an individual photo but you wont get your own photo unless you are damn lucky. In order to get yours, everyone was asked to run around the ballroom doing ’system-barter’. Well a good ice breaker i would say..

Last one with Kenneth.

Thats about all on the annual dinner.

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The rest of the photos are from meet ups and Friday nite out. Lazy dy, read captions la…

During Salah’s visit, we went to Redbox. Me n Mama Jee

Me and Izzo

Photographer wannabe.

Rest of the people either smoking like a chimney or discussing worldwide politics.

Crazy two in Laundry.

Pee-Ka-Boo in Decanter Hartamas

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Thats all.. phew.. i’m tidying up so that i can start on the past long ago S’pore Trip. hhaha..

Ade!!!

We started very very early, despite of the not enough sleep the night before. Was to gather in McD TheCurve at 7am for breakfast but but but…. we dress

1. like goin for wedding…

2. like never go home from clubbing the night before…

how la to go out to the public??? So we sat in the car with a camera each in hand… That spells C.A.M.W.H.O.R.E. T.I.M.E.

Wahahah… Expressive kan kan kan??

Well after photographers were done with their nice McD Breakfast which we smartly skipped, we drove six cars in a row to an isolated no man land for our photography session. (actually its jus by some roadside near Ara Damansara)

Started with casual walk-stop-snap with Cryst..and see what happened to mine —>

Only the hand plus the so much talked about ‘black rose ring’…*!@#@#$@!*

Then we did some sitting by the roadside shots and i have this as my best shot..

Cryst–>

So Sweet kan?? Very stress….  arghhhhh–>

(either the (oo) too big or the waist alil out of shape..)

Then we did smth together to eliminate my not so cute and cryst’s too cute posts.

Broadday light oso we gossip in the middle of the road… and if that is not clear enough,

Check out our expression.. real ‘kepoh-chees’ kinda look..

The photographers  cannot tahan us anymore so they gave us our prop the umbrella and we did—> see the expression…

then cos we so cheeky, we were to cover our cheeky faces with the umbrella so we wouldnt interupt the session..

Even behind the umbrella we held our ‘peace’ sign.. they totally speechless..

Then came the part where we do the ‘cool’ pose but….

Cannot.. Smilling…

So to make it ada feel, they used Black & White. Nice kan??

Then while they were checking the photos…I got two seconds on my own, i ended up jumping la.. hopping la.. dancing with the umbrella la.. till they hav to take it away…  and we–>

Did some real serious shots… and Cryst on the other hand was complaining of the burning temperature, started flipping her dress, they got a ‘Marilyn Monroe’ shot.–>

So professional la…

Ada ump!!

Lastly we went in to some ‘full of lalang’ land to get some emo shots and we…

Cant stop being us…

See their expressions??? S-P-E-E-C-H-L-E-S-S!!!

p/s: despite of the cheekiness and siao-ness under the hot melting sun, we got some marvelous shots thanks to six very nice photographers. Thank you ppl…!! Please pardon our sampat-ness hahaha….

Well this is a seconded post as Cryst posted up before me. The Sleepover Weekend or can also be The Total Camwhore Weekend. Whichever rings your bell ok.

As MOST of OUR FRIENDS ventured to SINGAPORE leaving the two miserable back here in isolated KL, we have no choice but to meet up occasionally and make each other happy somehow.. (aiyah.. not like some ppl in SINGAPORE always can meet up and go SHOPPING la…*jeles jeles*)

We normally meet up on weekends to catch up and most importantly, SHOP, that’s why after every outing we would stay home and eat roti for a week. Last weekend was nothing extra ordinary except we had this BIG BIG photoshoot the next morning which leads to Cryst sleeping over in my place.

Cryst brave through the routes that she never remembered travelling to reach my residence to pick me and off we go. (btw I stay near where we used to study and she told me ‘I dunnoo laaaaaa.. WHERE???’ pengsan-ness)

First destination, The Curve to visit the Flea Market that we didn’t managed to visit the last trip we went. Happily we walk and spend money like noone’s business. After hours or walking round and round under the hot sun, we then decided to go over One Utama as she need to COD smth.

Picture stolen from Cryst’s Friendster.

The photo tells everything.. we went in to shops and tried dresses, tops, pants, short & whatever that caught our attention but ended up not buying anything cos all sizes either too big or too small.

Saddened by the truth we didn’t get any clothing we proceed to footwear shopping. And less than an hour later, we were both carrying two boxes of new heels and sandals each. *faint*

And then we remembered we were not utilizing our cameras that much. Cryst with her ‘bedazzled’ snap snap everywhere and we went to the place we like the most… LADIES where the lighting are always superb. I sometimes wonder why..

Comparing the lighting??Toilets always better okaiiiii…. (check out my siao siao while waiting for Cryst in the fitting room?? speechless rite?? me too…)

Then we continue walking till our ‘knight in shining armor’, Ram called up to remind us of the meet up later that night. Check our watches, nope not enough time to go home and try on the new dress and so we went straight AGAIN to The Curve to meet up with the rest.

Notice the only two siao-ded ones??

Met up with our ex college mates. Had a drink (ice lemon teas, ice mocha latte, lime juice & etc) strictly no alcohol which was very weird with these people. Then we knew that these ppl all ‘trying’ to quit drinking <say only, nex round straight to Scarlet.. speechless>

Photo from Cryst again.

By the time we finished yakking and yakking for hours, it was nearly 12am and so we rushed home to get our beauty sleep for our nex day. But but but.. we dont do this ’sleepover’ that often so we talked talked talked till kingdom almost came. I passed my bedtime and too ‘kan cheong’ mayb, ended up watching that siao po sleeping soundly..*isk isk*

Hmm both of us concluded smth by the end of the day,

The Curve à One Utama à The Curve = SIAO-NESS

Nevertheless it was a fun day!!

Psssstttt.. next up–> Angel & Devil Day

Their simple wedding dinner was held in Tsui Village in Low Yat Plaza. The newly wed was smiling from ear to ear the whole nite. Only a table of us managed to turn up and it was more like a small gathering for 4M class of 2000. It was some time ago since we met up and to my great suprise, all of us are still so GILA when seated together. Reminds me very much of the good ‘ol memories in high school. We were always the noisiest bunch of students in the whole Form and last nite just prove that we will always be noisy if put together.

Anyway, photos are not ready yet so i will copy those available from Shu Ying.

Congratulations to KEET WAN & FAMILY.. Joy and Laughter waits ahead!! 

Its nice cathing up with old mates. Reminishing the good ‘ol days.

Me, Sheau, K.Shin & Vi

Sheau, Esther & Winnie

Then smth caught our attention…

Sheau, we cant see la……

Sheau: OKOK.. i’ll show u what i’m looking at…be prepared!

We: So. aiyah.. its just Esther’s bag.

Sheau: Wait la.

We: Then???

Sheau: TADAAAAAAAA Guess what is it…

Everyone started laughing their lungs out.

Esther: Aiya, just in case maaaa.. Dont laugh la…

So now you guys know why gurls take big and bulky bags. One of the reason is to stuffed it full with sanitary pads. Haha

After the bag, we presented Sheau with her B’day pressie..See she is so happy, another happy woman living. We enjoyed our food and tried to be Ms. Nandos.

But we failed. The photos all turned out blurred cos noone can sit still for even a single photo.

and of course must put my vain photo.. hehe

After we were satisfied occupying the seats for an hour or so, we move on to do some shopping and we bump into PekSee. We took a few shots and kept our cameras away for the rest of the day to concentrate on our next mission. SHOPPING!!!

Then we noticed from the photo..WhicH is YouR FAvouriTe??

Well so much for the week, obviously the weekend will be for rest and relax. Friday nite was my ex-school mates gathering. It was the first gathering after our graduation that so many turn up. As per ’some’ ppl’s request we end up in KLCC on fri *thinkin of the crowd still scare the hell out of me* (when u hang out so often in 1U and the Curve, i advice u not to go KLCC..its totally different) As most of us were really 1U fans goin to KLcc on LRT really almost suffocated most of us. But for the gurls.. its ok la..(Tan WuYing, plz sacrifice the next gathering ok..)

Most of the good restaurant were full, we innitially planned to go to Chillis but hav to wait for at least 40mins. We ended up in Madame Kwan. Food was good but a bit pricey. Didnt get to take any photos of the food as everyone were really starving by the time we got a table to be seated so, i guess better let the photos do the rest of the talking.

Sampai sampai they started d..

Best buds since secondary..

Bestie color scheme..*winks*

Group Photo. Wheeee whens the nex gathering??? huh huh huh???

Then we went outside for some KLCC feel.

I like this..

Camwhoring….

More…

And more…

And more with CinaWoods wannabes..

Half the group.

Then when Judy started doin ‘her thing’, we all decided to..

take a final shot and GET OUT OF THAT PLACE.. (malufying nyaaaa)

After camwhoring for more than an hour, we decided to head to PJ for our second round. We visited Laundry bar. Among all only one got really drunk..Look at the photos and see if you can guess who was the special one.. hehe..

Really glad we meet up and looking forward for the nex trip that might take a few donkey years for it to happen hehhe…