Sunday, December 19, 2010

The mall, the other mall and the other mall

Day 2.

Beh's stupid phone alarm woke all of us in the living room at 6am. We were supposed to be up only at 7 am. So we went back to sleep and then woke up again in an hour. Our breakfast became dinner for the night before so we have nothing to eat, at all. I had half a cup of milo. That's it.

We packed our stuff and waited for the van. He was late. Anyways, we eft Bukit Tinggi and went to kl to have branch. All of us were starving. There was no way we would left ourselves suffer like this anymore. It was Bak Ku Teh time. 11 of us spent about Rm180 and it was definitely satisfying.

After that we left our luggages at Citrus Hotel. We were supposed go for the hop-on-and-off bus tour. Though the bus did not stop for us. Damn. I don't know if we were waiting at the wrong spot or was the bus driver just ignoring us. Anyway, we couldn't wait another hour for then next bus so we were on our own. We took Monorail and LRT to Bukit Bintang and ended up at Sungai Wey mall. Jia En and I walked together. We bought the same shirt from Hang Ten, same size some more.

Then we walked to Farenheit 88 which was just about 10 minutes of walking distance. I went to Uniqlo! The only Uniqlo in the whole Malaysia. My father asked me to buy a wool shirt for him and my mum as they were on sale. Of course I bought something for myself too, a purple (or violet) long sleeve sweat shirt. Later that night I found out that I bought the wrong size.



Enjoying the choir while my body oxidises all the lactic acid in my legs.



Farenheit wasn't open for a long tim so most of the shops weren't even opened. We went to Pavillion which was just next to Farenheit. It's probably the most luxurious shopping complex in kl. Zara, Mont Blanc, Coach, and all those shops that has a glass door. I was so tempted into buying an orange sweater from Topman, though I didn't. Calvin Klein was having a 70% storewide sale. Wow! And when we went there, the cheapest item I saw was probably RM90+. That awesome bag that I saw, after 70% discount, was RM200+. Great.

Jeremy was upset with himself. Cause throughout the few hours he was like ' I like this! Ohh I like that!! Wow Zara!! Oh my god this is so nice!!!'. In the end he bought nothing. So he went back empty handed while the rest of us who shopped with him were holding plastic bags with shirts, sweaters, wallets etc.


Awesome atmosphere



At night, it rained again. Jia Min didn't brought her sweater this time round so she had mine. We had 煮炒 for dinner at Jalan Alor. The O jian, fried oyster was delightful. Vastly different from jb's. Oh we passed by a few rows of shops with girls sitting by the side. Only after that they told there were prostitutes. Yeap, hookers. I seldom go to kl so I wasn't aware of that. They were ugly.

We went back to Citrus and checked in. Beh, Wei Bin, Jake and I roomed together. Everyone gathered at our room and we played memory game with two decks of cards. Haha, it was fun. I guess no one could really remember the position of any card for more than three rounds. Our night ended early about 11 -12pm.

Ah beh said he couldn't sleep cause he heard sighing sounds. I heard them too but it was the exact same sound everytime so I though it was probably the wind or something. At night, Wei Bin somehow slept on the carpetted floor and Beh squeezed me to the side of the bed. Not too awesome.









*That sound was coming from the elevator as our room was right opposite to it.*

The hill

If only Malaysian villages are like this



Colmar d' Tropica, or something like that, aka French Village was the main attraction of the hill. It wasn't really big, it wasn't big at all, it was small, actually really small, so small it'll probably take about 3 minutes to walk from the front to the back. It started to rain. So we were basically stuck there. We had lunch at a restaurant, the menu's somewhat similar to Kenny Roger's, with the chicken, side dishes and muffin.

Oh and Hall of Fame, a three-man-accoustic-band, came to our table and asked for a song request. For some reason I don't know why, I said Bad Romance by Lady Gaga. I was trying to pick something that I haven't before on the guitar. Hell they did well, really really well. Needless to say I filmed it.

We got so bored that we played pool, or was it billiard, or was it snooker. I never knew the difference. Then we took the shuttle bus to Japanese Tea Garden. It was still raining. We walked up the so-called Japanese Tea Garden, where I saw no tea at all, you have to buy them at the shop that is, and you have to rent a kimono for RM20just to take a picture in it.

Clever people remember to bring their sweaters on a rainy day.



We decided to sacrifice our breakfast (cup noodlees + two loaves of bread + two cans of tuna) for dinner because it was too bored to stay at Colmar till night time to have dinne there. So we checked in our apartment at around 5pm. Bathed and rested for a while. The girls, Jia En and I were supposed to be rooming in one of the apartments while the rest stayed in the other. Though we freaking moved two queen size bed from my apartment to theirs so we could sleep together. Sweet right.

Dinner was pathetic, food was scarce. After that, we had our ghost story session. Wei Ming's not really up to it, he kept covering his ears although the whole session ended at only 9pm. Then we gossiped. Digging everyone's secret. We practically analysed everyone's rumours. We called it a night. Hau Kit, Wei Ming, Jeremy, Jia En, Jake (sofa) and I slept in the living room, yea on the two queen size beds. The girls slept in the room, and Wei Bin and Beh slept in the other.





*Wei Ming and Jia En saw some 'thing', till now none of us were quite sure of it.*

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Plans that crash like planes


Miss you much


I had a great morning jogging with some friends and having breakfast with them. Listening to their stories can be quite interesting. It's very true that you can learn a lot about a person from listening to what they have to say. I would love to do that again some other time.

In other news, I'll be leaving for kl tonight! Year end trip with my friends. Altogether 11 of us. 4 days 3 night. I'll be back on the 19th at night. I'll be back in action on the 21th I think, considering that I have to spend the day after I return doing my 4 day laundry.

We'll be going to Bukit Tinggi, Sunway Lagoon, and some other popular spots... that I'm not too sure of. There'll be ice skating, roller coaster rides, and shopping! Definitey looking forward to the fun, the craziness and all that jazz.

Hm come to think of it, I haven't been to kl in a few years already. My hometown's not in kl, nor anywhere near there, so I don't get to go there often. This is going to be one hell of a trip. It's going to be insane-whacked-mad-awesome-radical-fun. Oh am I excited.

I have yet to pack. Clothes, decks, phone, ipod, towel, toiletry, what else. Oh videocam, and multi-charging-adapters! I bet everyone's going to be charging their phones, ipods and cameras. They're so gonna thank me for this. Of course, cash. I'm hoping to get a bag there. Just a casual one for outing purposes.

So for the next few days you won't be seeing me. Not on facebook (not often at least), not on msn, not here. Yea if there's anything important, feel free to text or call me.

Oh, I changed my blog song. This one is Sticky Sweet by Erin McCarley. Have fun listening to it while I'm out to partying. I say that in a non-sarcastic tone.

Bon voyage to me, adios to you.







* Today was going to be bigger. *

Feels like vacuum on the inside


You've been by my side all this while



Hey, whatizup!

Yeap, I'm proud to annouce that we're officially free from the torment and the pain brought by the evil lord SPM. Super-Pedofile-Maniac? Super-pacman-mario? Sexy-pacman-mario? Solo-practice-magic? Seven-pickled-mangoes? Ah and they landed on Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia. Borinnnnggggg.

Um I don't plan to go too detail into it, but here's my review anyway.

BM - Hard. Slightly worried that my karangan is off the topic. Expecting B+/A-.

BI - I wrote a boring essay. 1119 probably a B or C. SPM A+/A

SJ - Ish this time is difficult. A/A-/B+.

MM - Silly mistakes, overall easy. A+

MT - Same as the above. A+ / A (if something goes wrong)

PM - Tough. I'm satisfied with an A-. Please..... *fingers crossed*

FZ - Fatal mistakes. A/ A-.

KM - Not that hard, A+. A at the very least.

BIO - A/A-. Hopefully.

BC - Impossibly impossible. I'm expecting B+, hoping for A-.

So that's about it I guess. Ah I'm so relieved now that it's over. Seriously I felt like 10000Pa of pressure lifed of my body when the invigilator said "Masa anda untuk menjawab sudah pun tamat." I didn't said anything or scream out loud. I just gave a hugh sigh of relief.

Haaaaaaaaaaa.......

Oh yea there's this somewhat-kinda-could-be-said-as-pretty invigilator teacher throughout the exam season. It's some sort of a consolation I guess. I mean having to study 6 to 10 hours a day is enough disgusting, and if the teachers there look like shhiii... uh I mean aren't too attractive, that would really take away our mood to do anything at all. So exam wasn't that boring after all. Other than the exam, she's the hot topic of these few weeks I think, not literally.

I would not say that she's diva gorgeous. Let's just say she's sweet and decent looking. Above average compared to any teacher in our school. She's better looking than anyone of them any day. Some of the guys, Hau Kit, Jia En, Amin, Termit, just to name a few, went slightly crazy over her, just slightly. For sure they would deny that, but they're definitely smitten by her looks.

They wanted to take pictures with her, and Jia En got what he wanted after all. I think he must've printed out their picture and make it a poster or something like that. Yea sure she looks good but until that extent that you have a plan to take pictures with her and to talk to her? I mean have you really not seen a pretty girl in such a loooooong time? Just me, just saying.

Okay fine I won't be mean. She's probably the second prettiest teacher that I've seen. Behind Pn Aina, yea that mixed malay who used to teach in our school like a year or two ago. It's a fact.

More posts to come. So look up!






*Kexin sent my ji nian ce to my house, how nice of her. It came with a bun with sugar icing, is eating it now.*

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Well neither should I

13 short



So I'm almost done with spm. Left with chinese. And I don't wanna screw up. Ah who am I kidding, that's like asking me to cut ties with cards. Anyways, it'll be over soon. I know. I'm psyched. So are you. I'll talk about that in my next post.

Hmm so... what else. Um I went to an education fair today at Persada. You know, the usual, crowds, talking, and heavy 'tote' bag full of papers and stuff. I don't really felt like going but my parents wanted me to so I did. I went there with two things in mind.

1. To collect 52 name cards to form a deck. In the end I got only 39, so that was a fail.

2. To visit the booths that no one wants to visit. It's a nice guy thing.

I did get a lot of information about this and that. Though I'm not exactly sure of my future path after graduating secondary school. Technically I don't even have a graduation, we don't. Gosh that's just depressing. Anyhow at least I know I'll be dealing with some engineering stuff so at least I'm not too lost.

Oh side note : Soon Ming went with me.

Oh yea I bumped into Lee Yong Hing. My primary school classmate. We haven't seen each other in 5 years so it was definitely nice seeing him. He seems to be doing well. He even has a girlfriend. Good for him. I saw Ke Xin and her beau as well. And Hui Gi too.

Here's the crazy part. I SAW CHOO FANG YI!!! Haha! She was this little girl, literally, who sat beside me in class for 3 years since primary 3. She changed. Her looks, her style. She had a cap on, with the hip hop flavour going on. I liked it. Haha. Though when we spoke I then realised that she's really just the same. I think. I mean she sounds the same, and she speaks the same way she did 5 years ago. It was really a surprise.

And I thought of how everyone thought that we were together just because we sat together for 3 whole years. Haha we were good friends back then. I still remember how we would compete to see who could finish writing our 生字 first. And that she would always win, yet her writings were always neater than mine. Good times.

Don't you find it weird that all the good times are the old times. And it just makes you feel that times just get worse as it goes. It's that what it is? I'm deviating. Ish.

Oh anyways, it's getting late. It's actually 2.28 am in the morning. Just in time for some sleep. I'm getting dizzy, fuzzy, wuzzy, whatever.





*Osteria. You know who are you, lady from Swin Burn. Hah. *

Sunday, November 14, 2010

I shouldn't be here

Was. Is. Will be.


Hi.

This blog has been in coma for about three weeks now. So here I am, giving life to thee. Right now you all must be like "Oh my god Khai Xiang shouldn't you be freaking studying ?! ". I know, I know. But hey, I know you're glad to see me here.

So I would like to thank each and everyone of you who wrote on my sayonara papers. They mean a lot to me and I'll treasure them for the rest of my life. And of course for the few others who are not done writing, take your time. However you my friend, whom by the way requested for me to write this post, has probaby forgotten all about it. Haha.

Um yea today I went for my last bm tuition. Probably my last tuition in 2010 as well. A million thanks to Cikgu Radzi. Hands down the best bm teacher in my 17 years of life. If I ever score an A in bm I'd owe it all to him. It was kinda sad that he couldn't say his favourite "Kita jumpa lagi pada minggu depan" like he did after every single class. Oh well, good things must come to an end. This is one of them. I'm also extremely proud to say that I'm survived a whole year of non-sleep-in-Sundays. Waking up 6.45am every Sunday is a major sacrifice to me. I'm glad that it's over.

Oh, I'm having my driving test tomorrow. Cool huh, one week before spm. Not. Well I wouldn't say that I'll fail for sure, yet I'm not that confident. I didn't post it on facebook or anything. If I do so, I know there'll be "good luck", "you can do it", and occasionally "let me know when you fail" which all translates into "Damn I better pass", which translates into pressure, which translates into me getting really nervous, which translates into a higher chance of failing. Right now I feel nothing. Though I'm sure that when I see people sliding down the bukit, I'll start to shake. Well, I still have one last practice session at 6.30am later. Better make the best of it. Uncle, I'll do my best!

Hm what else can I talk about other than the hottest topic nowadays? Vampire Diaries! SPM! So we're about one week away from it. This is the last lap guys. Our one last shot so show everyone what we've got. So let's give it our all. 今天的努力是为了减少明天的遗憾. This line really woke me up. Good luck people!

So I guess this is my last post as a schooling (as in earthling). Um no biggy there. I'm sad to leave my friends, not my school. Ah no worries, I'll continue to harp on how I'll miss you guys and girls in another post.

I changed my blog song by the way. It's All we'd ever need by Lady Antebellum. The version that you are listening to in my opinion is far better than the original. There's just so much soul in this one. I know I'm not into mainstream music and all. Still, I don't label myself as one who only listens to alternative, indie or any specific genre. I'm one who go for what I think is good music. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

It's 1.40am. I'ma get some sleep. And I'll see you guys soon.



*Or maybe not so soon.*

Friday, October 15, 2010

Flatter letter


Dear love, could you be true for once?




What's up.

So my study-one-month-plus-earlier-so-that-I-can-finish-every-page-of-the-books-and-have-time-for-myself-plan isn't going too well. I tried to study. The mood wasn't there. I guess I'll only start rushing when I feel the heat. I hate to force myself but I really have to.

So Jeslene's birthday was a few days ago. Happy 16th Hainanese! Yea I finished what I started. And a smile made it all worthwhile. Relieved in a way. And I think I found out what could be the truth, that plato was right but I was wrong.

Umm school was fine. I went to school on and off. Oh yea I got an A+ for my gerak gempur sejarah. Confident boosted? No. I am pretty much confused. I literally did zero preparation for it. I guess the standard was overlenient. Class was boring. And at some point meaningless. No teacher, no study, no fun, no point.

I won a glass chess set from the lucky draw during Mesyuarat Koperasi earlier today. Lucky me. My number was 57, which is also my house number. What are the odds?

Tomorrow I'll be travelling to INTI Nilai and Subang Jaya. Hopefully I'll get a clearer vision of what I want my future to be. Time's running out. Sooner or later I'll have to come to a decision. I better make my choice and make it good.

Wait, that also means I won't get to shower for more that 12 hours. Oh god let's hope I don't sweat too much. Ugh I can't stand the stick-sticky-feeling. Not that I have 洁癖 or anything. I'm a messy person who likes to keep things clean.

I have yet to start my 纪念册. I actually have no idea what is it called in english. Yearbook? Autograph book? Whatever. I ought to do it fast or else everyone will be busy with SPM and they'll just write like two lines. I mean summing up our friendship in just a few sentences? That would really really suck big time.

Already the form 4 are having their exams, I guess I'll have to wait till it's over. Oh yea shout out to all form 4 students, do your best in this final exam and make us seniors proud!

Peace & out.







*Skipping school can be extremely addictive. Do try this at home.*

Sunday, October 10, 2010

You're my perfect ten

Is this your card?




44 more days to go. Time's up for fun. So from now on, I'll blog less.

Blogging consume too much of my time. Yes I could just write any boring old post and repeat that everyday but that's not me. I want each of my posts to be unique. That's why I spend lots of time thinking about what to post post before I actually start typing.

Thinking = 30 minutes
Typing = 15 to 40 minutes
Ammending = 10 minutes

Lately I've started this card-picture-of-the-day idea. I literally ponder for hours what fresh-creative-innovative-out-of-the-box pictures to take for that day. And if I don't come up with anything I like, I get slightly upset at myself. It's totally unecessary pressure but I'd like to call it my kind of challenge.

Thinking = 2 hours
Shooting = 30 minutes
Thinking of caption = 1 to 20 minutes

Yea so cutting down my blog time hopefully will boost my studies. Of course I don't mean to quit blogging or anything, I'll still come by once in a while and leave a post or two. Once or twice I week I reckon.


Look at the time. 10.10pm 10.10.10.


Ta.







*Miss you much*

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Imagine

Happy birthday John Lennon





Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one



One of the greatest song written by one of the greatest songwriter.






*Big shout out to Chentel, happy 16th! It's been a great pleasure knowing you.*

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Access denied

Always put on a good show





I was thinking of skipping a post today. Still, here I am. I wish I could study as much as I blog.

I had a slight headache yesterday night. And it got worse when I woke up today morning. And I was having my pre-L lesson, so today wasn't a great day. The pre-L lesson was alright, the penceramah lady, Miss Hazlizan, was pretty funny. She was also the one who conducted the kpp (undang) class I attended last year.

After 3 hours of theory, it was time to go fast and furious, or not. The headahce really made the whole session uncomfortable. I can't concentrate well and I got frustrated. I died fire like three times.

Then uncle brought to drive on the sutera main roads, then he brought cj to take his undang test. He faced the same fingerprint problem. Ahhh it was such a hassle to go all the way back to berjaya to get him a smartcard. Stupid fingerprint sensor.

I drove around layang and panglin for a while. I had trouble getting things right, wasn't in my best shape. Well it's my first time driving a Viva, take it easy. I'll do better next time though!

Hm what else, oh geram gempur sejarah tomorrow. I'm totally unprepared. I wanna see how I'll do under 0 revision. Hopefully I'll pass.








*Oh yea I kinda forgot to say thanks to senior Brian for driving me to Berjaya today, so thanks!*