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Bit by bit leading to my farewell in Perth

2011-12-31T22:21:00.016+08:00

#Farewell dinner :( 26 Nov 2011, Sorrento Restaurant - Northbridge

I knew cellies coming and a few close friends like peiwen, but kinda surprised that 20+ of you turned up! I feel veryyyy lovedddd! :)

Many photos from this post are from peiwen's cam! Thankssss.

Weijing, arnold, bryan

The people who came for the dinner, much love ;)

I believe she did a lot of planning with steph, thankyouuuuu! :]

shareen, me and lee mun

hitomi, isabella, me, ivan, ben and colin

Also, didn't expect to be showered all these for my leaving. Love each and everything. And the fujifilm instant cam, must be pw's idea tooo! hee. I secretly read the purple photo book again and again, all the messages so touching:(

24 Nov 2011

Met my cellies right after my last paper @ Utopia, Northbridge, some of them are leaving on that day too

East perth to have tea in The Royale, chcolate drink and cakes, yums

steph, me, venny and yihlim

3 Dec 2011

First wedding in Perth attended - Max and Jacquelyn's from church :) A very interesting ceremony @ Wesley Uniting Church, Perth CBD.

Leonel, me and khang wee

Fei, Yihlim, Felicia, me and Venny

# My last usher serving in church :(

My usher team! :D

when peiwen and me wore the almost same shade for usher :)

Ex-cell photo!

1 Dec 2011

Ex Georges College Mates in Garden City Mall, got a farewell card from them :)

Shan, Debbie and Me

1 Dec 2011

AIESEC Finance team chilling in Bryneleigh bar, Hampden Road!

Ivan, me, Laura, Weigen and Ross

Steph's 21st @ Cafe Valentino, Northbridge!

25 Nov 2011

Breakfast @ Shafto Cafe a day after my final paper with peiwen, stephanie and rachel

Last dinner with Soo Shan & Sheryl @ Matsuri Japanese Restaurant, Perth CBD

Last gathering @ my room in St Georges College, I've forbid them to visit my room for the year, so I made an exception since it's our last night there! :P

They have been great buddies to me, college meals will be soo loner and boring without them :)

Adrian, Me, Ming and Andrew behind

I misss all of youu! Cliche-y but soo great to have known them which made my Perth stay of 2.5 years very memorable. ;)

Jurien Bay 27-30 Nov 2011

2011-12-31T22:20:00.013+08:00

# Day 1

I was very looking forward to this after exams. 16 of us went. Quite a big group but we knew mostly everyone so that's fine. We departed right after church service and lunch in Maccas.

My car mates at the back!

1st Pitstop, they were throwing stones and see who throw the furthest. Back to childhood.

quadruple piggyback

Our holiday home! Some of them helped out to cook dinner while the 'younger' bunch went out to play! Haha. Dedicated Arnold and Christine prepared all the food and ingredients beforehand, masterchefs indeed.

We were running to the beach to catch a glimpse of this amazing creation

peiwen and my room! attached bathroom too!

#Day 2

Since we're just chilling by the sea, the boys decided to dig a hole as self entertainment! And Ivan was buried vertically.

#Day 3

peiwen, me and pauline around Lake Thetis, those you see beside are bacteria formation! Not rocks.

Pinnacles Desert!

Trying to smile like peiwen :P

Me, Arnold, Ivan, Pauline, Khang Wee

The convoy of cars

Loving the jump shot :)

Boys and girls of this roadtrip

Icypoles for dessert after a longgg day

# Day 4

pretty beach

playing with wildflowers

pretty boys? Bryan, Arnold and Ivan

Another beach :)

So we ended our 4 days 3 nights trip wonderfully with the natureee! And the awesome company. I very very love and miss all the roadtrip moments. Wii Just Dance game had become my favourite game now but don't have the gadgets to play here.

So long peeps! :(

Last 3 weeks in Perth!

2011-11-19T18:12:00.005+08:00

I still have 2 more heavy papers to go, Banking Theory Practice & Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets. Procrastinate a bit. So long since I wrote.

Awesome semester actually despite the load of units and work. Enjoyed the new cell group lots, knew quite a few new people. Did fun stuff together.

It'll be sad to leave all of them to go to a whole new environment and study by myself. These 3 weeks will be super precious! Butttt. . . I have so many things after exams to deal with, seriously, A LOT.

Yea, I finally got my University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign letter. That means enrolment from 21 Nov, seeking unit approvals from UWA, visa, flights, shipping my 2.5 years worth of life back to Malaysia, lots of exchange paperwork, travel insurance, etc etc. It's overwhelming.

Grateful to be able to go on exchange, yet it's an absurdly tedious process to withstand.

Update more after exams!

Swooosh! Winter break's over?

2011-08-01T14:40:00.006+08:00

Main Highlight of Winter Break - Roadtrip to Kalbarri, Up North from Perth, 8 hours drive.

My first ever roadtrip! Sleeping with horses! :D Just gonna be a photo post. Me lazy.

Beside the hostel are home to the horses

Some park I forgot the name

Sitting on the 'Nature's Window'

Yay, riding a horse by myself! No trainer leading your horse. We have to learn some methods to turn left/right, stop the horse etc. It lasted an hour, scary experience at one point, my face almost got damaged, true story, no exagerration as the horse decided to go astray the normal path. But was blessed enough to just get cuts on my lips and forehead.

I kinda like this. :P

Untouched beach

Love sunset!

The Roadtrip Gang!

Pink Lake

#2 Shan's belated 22nd - Olivers Restaurant, Northbridge

First pumps I got from the gift card given during my birthday months ago.

I've got mail! Sooo happppy. From my darl peiying. :)

When Would a Mediocre Shine?

2011-07-16T01:12:00.008+08:00

Randoms :

Recently results are out, 2 units are not satisfactory, the other 3 are alright, not as fantastic as those people who can get straight HDs. Just a thought, how can a mediocre like me since like forever, can breakthrough and be as smart as others?

People might say, you can do better, or, you've done your best, or results is not everything. I do agree to all statements, yes results are just a fraction of your life, but it seems that, I don't have an area, which i am specifically good at, for others, they might be mediocre academically, but they excel in piano/guitar/violin/dance/sing/drawing/sports etc etc. I do not have any of those artsy talents.

I am definitely envious of people with these criteria. Then we often heard, don't need to always compare. Sounds familiar, eh? Yet, I would want to keep up to the standards that the world as a whole set, eg. you have good merits, you'll succeed. I think around 2 years back, I saw a video about a graduate from US giving an inspiring speech, it was about 'average is the new exceptional'.

However, in this society made of all sorts of hierarchies, merit based 'cast system' and so forth, would a mediocre ever be appreciated or feeling good when surrounded by elites?

On a side note, God should be the centre of our lives, not what we do, what we achieve and what we have. It is still a barrier for people like me to let go the earthly measures and just focus on Him.

I still need to learn how to. I am not super disheartened, or grieving over it, it is just that being a mediocre, is not good enough.

Heloooo! it's been long. . .

2011-05-15T00:20:00.006+08:00

Random cell pics.

kinda nice eh? :D

acting cold in a warm sunny day, with our winter jackets on

Easter Camp, Hilarys
April 25-27

One of the apple eating game

with eunice

Throughout the easter camp, didn't play any games since I sprained my foot before camp, bad timinggg. Nevertheless, the camp was still awesome with invited pastors and worship sessions. :)

Cellies!
First row: Bryan, Steph, me
Second : Arnold, ivan, weijing, jeremy and shuling

Right after easter camp, the AIESEC work that I've been working on was finally put into the event, INITIATE it is called, that connects around 100 students around perth.

April 27th

the organizing committee with pete and julian from AIESEC Australia

Next day after INITIATE, AIESEC State Conference @ Manjedal Scouts Centre, 1 hour drive away from Perth.

April 28-30

the cool organizing committee pic ;P
Mark, me, Ivan, Derk, Irwin

My leg was still aching, hence the sitting down, haha

End of conference, phewww, at last it's done!

12th May

Hillsong one day conference! It's beyond awesome!! The speakers, hillsong united band, messages, sermons were overwhelming and interesting. It started at 10am and ended at 945 10pm with breaks in between.

wristband for entry

peiwen :D

Shareen, steph, me, arnold

After that we went to northbridge and had a very late dinner, yums, asian food.

......

3 more weeks to the end of semester. Then, exams. It's fast isn't it. And I will be done and proceed to my 3rd year in Aug!

Now, just lots of catching up, lectures, tutorials, and readingssss.

Blessed 21 :)

2011-03-29T22:40:00.009+08:00

It's 28th! hehe. Thanks for all the wishes either from facebook, texts, msn, e-mails. :D It made my day brighter!

XiTing & Wannee gave me an advance gift, shall not reveal, secret. =P Xie xie ni sekteng for your card and pei wo online, muahxx.

Darl peiying gave me an advance 21st gift too, a bag, thanks darling! Wo hen zhen xi.

My sis gave me a very pretty card and my first accesorize earrings!

On the day I felt really lethargic, restless thinking about the workload coming up in uni. At night, dinner with the church kawans and temporary threw away the thought of uni work, for some moment.

Vietnamese food @ Vu's restaurant, South Perth. It was actually not bad, at least the internet reviews are accurate. But the place is like hidden. Eat eat talk talk.

Arnold, steph, leemun
pw, venny, me

i share the same birthday with the third person, angel tong! haha, but this time is same year same date, the other 2 are of different years :]

angel, mao and me

peiwen and the cell leader, jeremy

pretty cake =)

Group pic

Weijing aka XDD (xiaodidi =P) & Nathan
Leemun and steph

Ivan and arnold helping us to cut the cake :)

squinting eyes for our previous cell leader, rachel, haha!
From left: mao, jeremy, yihlim, venny, angel, me, peiwen, steph

Current cell :D
Front: leemun, me, steph
Back: weijing,arnold, nathan, ivan, jeremy

Dearrie! <3

And i really thought it's time to head home since we finished the dinner and cake. Peiwen said she got something to give me so I followed to her room. I was wondering why mao is still inside the car but didn't think much.

Peiwen insisted I opened the pressie so I opened layers after layers of newspapers, hahahah, it's like never ending. Tada! A very cute planner and earrings, inside the planner so colourful and cute, I don't feel like using it, too nice to be written! hehe. Thankewww peiwen :D

Then okay, after taking the pressie I'm going back. But peiwen followed me out, I thought she just wanna sent me to the door. Then I saw mao using his HTC phone stand by and thought something was fishy and bisha boom! Water boms! I'm attacked and wet, haha. The cell peeps were hiding behind ivan's car! After that whipcream time! lol. My face and hair was so ugly and smell of cream. But they prepared towel and water for angel and me, how thoughtful :P

After the funs, they presented me with 3 pressies, i was still skeptical if there's tricks inside the paper coz' again it's layers and layers of papers, haha.

Unwrapped them all and kettle! ( I need this, was going to buy but haven't really go to the city and search for it ), devotional book! ( 90-day, a good way to learn more about God =D), pink ipod shuffle! ( first mp3/apple product in my entire life too, haha) I feel too loved! :)

Many people to thank for all these! Pw, mao, venny, jeremy chia, steph, leemun, ivan, arnold, nathan, weijing, shareen, jason, rachel chia, jeremie, william, dexter, jeremy tan, yihlim, seelik, jiali, shuling! Awesome cellies, * hugs & kisses*

Lastly, peiwen wo ai ni! haha. Thanks for picking all the lovely pressies, the card, the company you gave for 2 years in perth, your thoughtfulness, and you came though you got assignment due! Ahh, *touch*. You're wonderful and awesome to me too. :>

21st

2011-03-29T12:40:00.009+08:00

26th March -Saturday

Haven't meet up together for a longgggg time with the girls. Previous sems we usually meet up in week 1 coz' uni has not been as busy as this year I guess. All of us are doing year 2 year 3 units, tough times ahead. :X But still happy having to meet them up for a meal. :D

Joey picked me and grace up, off we went to edosushi @ Subiaco. Ordered wasabi creamy rice, haha, it was interesting but I don't fancy wasabi much, the spicyness really got into my nose. But still thanks to dearrie pw for the treat. :P

gracey

Next: to San Churros. Mui mui and I share the same day, apparently the date 328 is so common that I share birthdays with many people. As usual mui mui like to do funky faces, hah! Thanks to peiwen, joey, gracey and yihui for the cake and churros! :D Yums. [ fattening :P ]

Mui mui and hui hui :)

1. pw, joey 2. hui, mui 3. yihui, joey, me =]

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In the evening, celebrate with some college mates. I share the same birthday as debbie also.

Mary and her sister claire baked us a black forest cake! So sweet of them. :)

Front: Mary, me, debbie, shan
Back: Claire, badar, sherif, harman and blake

Aww they gave me koko black chocolate drink! The shop just recently opened in claremont, before that it was only available in melbourne! I just went with them the other day to drink the belgium hot choc *mmmmm* They too gave me dotti's gift card, hehehe, expire one year later, I got much time to slowly shop some clothes there, wheeee! Blake gave me lindt chocs, sooooo gooood, the middle soft choc just melt in your mouth. I ate it almost everyday since he gave it to me. Ooops. And mary gave me a card too! =D

After that, we went for a late dinner at Hawkers @ Northbridge. Nice asian food! Marmite chicken, the best!

Outside waiting to dine in Hawkers, we waited 30mins +. While waiting, I'm addicted to harman's iphone angry bird game. :P

After dinner, karaoke @ Utopia. My first karaoke session in my entire life, and I broke the barrier of being shy. =P It was pretty fun, i shall try out malaysia's one when I get back.

In the karaoke

Fun-filled day it was. :]

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27th March Night

Another college mates session + Dilys. :)

We walked to Ti Amo at hampden road for its italian food. Ordered 3 dishes and share among 5. I personally think it's just alright, but the chicken and spaghetti was good and in a humongous portion.

Desserts were reallly tasty though! Cheese cake, chocolate cake! That's andrew and kim on the right and adrian on the left.

Dilys. Me. Andrew

Thank you andrew, dilys, adrian and kim for the treat! :D

Chinese Class & College Happenings

2011-03-19T19:40:00.006+08:00

Thursday 17th March

The class I'm excited about is here! Gong lao shi started introducing different types of tea and which area do they mostly grow at. There are red tea, yellow tea, green tea, white tea etc. Long Jing Cha is the high class tea and Pu Er Cha is the tea that is the exceptional, the longer the tea leaves are left, the higher the value is. The very good tea leaves can be more expensive than gold. He was so nice, he brought 2 luggages of tea utensils just to show us how to make a cup of tea.

The demo began and we all got to try. There were 2 mini cups used to drink each time. The tall one that you see in the picture was to keep the tea warm as the surface area is smaller. Before you drink, you invert the broad-surface-cup, put it above the tall cup and turn it over. Thus, the tea won't leak. Before you have a sip, you need to feel the aroma for a few secs. You musn't gobble all at once, but drink 3 times to finish it. It's only one of the techniques. The other one is those we saw from tv series, the big cup with a lid.

I learnt a lot but it's hard to explain it here, too many procedures, the water temperature and yada yada. Next week, we gonna learn about chinese wine and some alcohol! This class is so cool!! :D

My chinese class go till at 6.45pm and I got the formal function in Georges which started at 630. I rushed back and take 10mins to prepare everything and go down to the quad.

Lavenia, Shan and me

Kim got the scholarship! Congrats to her.

Today the 19th March

We decided to cook curry and had a good lunch instead of the boring college sandwich. Mmm, yum but fattening! Coconut milk in curry, roti prata, oily stuff. Hah.

Fourth Semester

2011-03-14T12:56:00.003+08:00

Well, I'll start off with the room I'm allocated this year in college. Kinda happy with it and it's ensuite most importantly, need not share bathroom with anyone. =D

Currently in week 3, and there are a lot of readings and tutorials to do already! =( My midsem exams are like exactly a month away. Noooo!

I'm doing Investment Analysis (killer unit), International Finance, Microecons level 2, Asia in World Economy and Chinese for business. Of all, I love chinese classes. My lecturers are from taiwan and china. It's so cool! I get to learn sun tzi art of war, chinese business etiquettes and what more, the art of tea this upcoming thursday! *excited* We gonna be taught how to make a good cup of tea with real tea leaves. Haha. Most of the students are from china, since the unit requires native proficiency. I find it challenging with the idioms and stuff. But it's fun.

Last week went ikea with college mates for meatball lunch and they get some stuff from there. I just bought 2 photoframes which cost 95cents each! Cheap right?

Cell group was good too, the new people I met are nice as well. Last friday we had this wii challenge, the losing team will need to wash the dishes, and we're so enthusiastic, until the neighbour asked us to be quiet. It's only 9+, and they're sleeping already. =S

Oh, and I got a job! Kumon again, haha, I'm boring, kept doing the same job, coz' its the easiest compared to waitresses or cashier I think. But kids are quite annoying, they just cry when they don't wanna do work, grrrr. And I need to say 'well done', 'good work', 'good girl/boy', 'excellent' each time they did it correctly. I'm getting numb on those words. Ohwells, they need to be constantly coaxed.

By the way, I go to gym at 7am every mon and wed, so healthy right, hahah! Coz' my college now has free gym membership with the uni, might as well go to the classes. I went with shan and andrew, it was pretty good, not too extreme. ;)

So...It's gonna be a busy semester!

Before I leave

2011-02-28T16:44:00.005+08:00

I got 2 days left to prepare for everything after I came back from damansara. Shopping for toiletries was a must since here you can get the brands you're familiar with and might be cheaper. Thurs I've gotten what I need and Fri just visited a clinic for a tiny toe problem. Guess what, a 5 mins consultation, with 2 hours long wait, cost me a BOMB! It's the Lim Skin Specialist at Abu Siti Lane, some cream and 2 packs of tablets were RM245! I was utterly shocked! Didn't know it can go till so expensive. =(

While waiting, I just went to a random saloon nearby to have a hair cut, it was also very expensive, 30, sighs. And the hairdresser just cut and cut and cut, it became much shorter, while he said he would only cut like 2-3cm. Sheeeesh!

After all this, met up with xiting for only like 2 hours? Since I can't go back too late. Kinda rush. But we managed to grab a quick snack at TGI. I bumped into yeivern as well.

Yeivern's leaving to queensland on the same day as me

chicken fingers and mini desserts :D

mocha, vanilla top with strawberry and snickers treat, they run out of the oreo ones =[

Bye penang, not sure when I'm coming back though, might be end of the year, dec, jan?

On the day when I'm leaving, andrew just flew back from india after a year in the morning, but made the effort to meet up in the airport for like 5 mins before I board. Thanks! :)

Meals n' Places in KL/PJ etc.

2011-02-24T02:02:00.007+08:00

1 month by myself means exploring time! But also thanks to a few friends who stay nearby that brought me to places and drive me around. :)

1. Taman Connaught, Cheras - Longest pasar malam
I had a few snacks, the RM1 icecream you see below, taiwan pancake, dragon beard candy (long sou tong), chinese hamburger, yums. And bought a few stuff for a bargain price too!

2. Pappa rich, Bangsar Village/Jalan telawi

After sourcing for apparels and accesories, I decided to try pappa rich coz' I see it everywhere. The price is something like old town but slightly more expensive. Tried the dry kuay teow with fuchok, RM9.50. It was good apparently with the smooth texture of the thin kuay teow with soft chicken slices. For beverage, I like the hainan cham drink here.

3. Honkee Porridge, Damansara Uptown

Read the reviews on food blogs that praise the porridge here. I walk to this place after work. Had ordered a mix one, fish slices and century egg porridge top with eu cha kuey. As the good reviews said, the porridge in big portion and has a smooth texture with fresh thinly sliced fish. Doesn't need soy sauce to taste better! RM5.50 or RM5.70, can't remember the exact price.

4. Sg. Wang, Times Square
Been there twice each, once with Zhiling and once meet up with a vietnam friend, Scarlett, had my first ever sushi king there too, lol.

scarlett

5. Kenny Uptown restaurant - Damansara Utama

Mince pork noodle, it was really yummy, RM7.50

6. Wondermilk cafe, Damansara Utama

the interior

my irish cream milk and wan nee's macadamia milk - RM6 each

7. Medan Selera Uptown

Dinner, Nasi Ayam - RM5.50, worth the long wait, since it's quite nice

8. PitStop Cafe, Section 17, PJ

Rice set which is yum and reasonable - RM10.90

Comes with free board games too! :D

I lost the reversi to wan nee and won the snake and ladder, lol
reminscence of childhood games

9. Kajang Satay @ Restoran Malaysia

Travelled far and long for this satay ( 7 public transport to and fro, lol), but worth it too, the duck satay was the yummiest satay I've tried so far. Met up with yoke cheng and yingyun for the lunch here.

We tried beef, fish, chicken, duck, mutton satay and the ketupats.

After satay we went to a nearby plaza and discovered the long extinct sundae twist/mix! Choc and vanila icecream, I love it!

10. Lameeya Restaurant - Damansara Utama

Noodle and soya drink set @ rm8.20, tasty as well

11. Batu caves

Climbed up the numerous stairs and had a view in the caves and the Indian God statue.

12. Places that I remembered including

- Sushi Zanmai, always have a long queue, but I do not find it specially delicious, just so-so
- Tutti frutti, expensive but savouring once a while is acceptable =]
- Juice works, refreshing
- Damansara Jaya Pork ball noodle, kinda good
- Section 17 pan mee, nice! But the dessert soup quite diluted but always packed with people
- Chocolate Lounge Dark chocolate drink, sinfully good but expensive
- Tropicana City mall, watched green hornet there
- Sunway giza steamboat
- Village Park Restaurant in Damansara Uptown, tried its nasi dagang and nasi lemak, packed with people during peak hours
- Annie 1 cafe , signature dish is wanton mee, affordable and good
- Beard papa durian puff, *slurpss*

The rest forgotten the cafe names, eating out every day is bad and weight gaining, I don't dare to weigh myself now, lol.

Time Is Up! Adios Cleo.

2011-02-24T01:54:00.007+08:00

22nd 6pm marked my last working day in Cleo magazine, yays, I survived. I am now free of researching and writing on fashion trends and celebrities styles yada yada, which I am not good at. But it's been a different environment and I would not regret working here too. Now I know how it is like, and at least something interesting before I embark a business-y-corporate-job next time.

the table I've been working at

view from my cubicle @ 8th floor, the crowded Damansara Uptown

Merchandise loans that I need to source and return almost every day

Went to malls literally every day, but usually the same ones, namely Midvalley, Gardens, 1U, Pavilion, Bangsar Village 2, Jalan Telawi boutiques. Been to studios quite a few times, m8 studio, songs studio and 360 studio. One is in kepong while the other 2 are in kota damansara. Cabs expenses are crazy, I spent 100 to 200 every week on cabs only, it made me super broke since I do not get back the claims that fast. Having cab almost every day also allow me to meet different types of drivers, some friendly, some really harsh, but mostly had a nice chat with them.

I had also been questioned many times here by cab drivers and make up artist on my nationality. They thought I'm vietnamese or thai, nooooooo way! I am pureeeee chinese.

Oh and liasing with different brands or suppliers can be a pain, as you have to send emails and later call them if they do not reply you, some they would pass you on and on to the correct personnel, some just kept delaying. Forever 21 in 1 U, that's the worse, she delayed since CNY till now, and always tell me next week this, next week that.

However, I got a nice superior, she's really nice compared to others that I heard from other interns, guess I'm quite lucky in a way.

Fun part: the beauty editor asked me to do a makeover shoot, so yea a second free hairdo and make up session :) but they really took a ugly before photo of mine, when I'm still sleepy, haha, ohwells, they need the effects.

i like the hair, high up bun =D

cynthia and rachel, they are both working under Malaysia women's weekly magazine and are mass comm students, still have florence, bazaar intern and carisse, marketing intern, whom I didn't manage to snap a pic with them

There, a summary of my 1 month internship.

Frustrated at first, interesting at the end

2011-01-27T22:02:00.005+08:00

Yesterday night at last i switched to a smoke-free air room, coz' I really can't breathe properly and always have a hard time to sleeep, i hate smokeeee! The lady beside even brought a guy back and don't know what they were doing, laughed so cynically. At least now I can sleep with peace.

This morning wasn't feeling that well, wanted to visit the clinic but canceled the plan. Late 10mins to work and had to go pavilion to source attire in billabong and return some stuff in parkson. Slow employeees, very low efficiency, geram sangat. Cab drivers today were harsh, one con me RM3 for putting the clothes in the boot, one scolded me, 'you tak tau diam diam la!'. Whoa thought I don't know my place , helooooo, I work here, I will know the office area quite well now.

After that, money crisis. But managed to find my way to raja chulan and search for that specific bank. If not, I'll be stranded in bukit bintang and won't be able to resume my work in 1utama. Met up sabrina the superior in 1u and loan clothings again, then to m8 studio.

It started like this, around mon or tues, she asked if I'm interested to be her talent for that column, so I was thinking why not eh? It sounds interesting. Oooh, little did I know I can be pampered with nice make up and hairdo, you just sit there and everything was done for you, how nice, first time on all these. They used natural colour eyeshadow, grey brownish. And plaits for my hair, hehe, I kinda like it. :P The theme was beach casual style, since most of the clothes are from billabong.Necklaces from accesorize, i like them tooo, and the red hot handbag I wantttt, but it's too expensive.

Managed to sneakily take a few when they asked me to change coz' impossible could take while all the people were there.

my very black panda eye is gone! make up wonders :) and the hair behind

After taking off the eyelashes, ahhh, comfortable
I don't like fake eyelashes, like there's a weight sticking on your eye

So yea, my a lot of first times, interesting and tiring 2nd week of work.

CNY coming, woooohoooo!

Cleo Day # 1

2011-01-15T20:58:00.005+08:00

The day before the first day of work, I couldn't sleep, I planned to sleep at 10 11pm but ended 1+ 2am only slept, what more, I kept waking at 4am, then 6am, then 7 thinking it's time to prepare already. Part of the reason was also cause my room has the smoky smell which makes me even harder to sleep. Previous tenant a smoker =(.

Anyways, woke up super early at 7am, the office is just 5 to 6 mins walk away, I got ample time to prepare. I reached the office at 840 and waiting like a fool till 920am before they at last told me which place to sit.

Mean time, I secretly snapped the front desk and entrance before the receptionist arrived.

Tadaa, this is where I work, ACP Magazines.

The firm has various division like women's weekly, bazaar, cosmopolitan, etc. And I'm under the Cleo division. Different division has different partition colours, for cleo, it's pink. I'm under Sabrina, the fashion stylist in Cleo, she has 14 columns in the mag so imagine how much work she has to do, she's only 29!

Her time at the office is limited as she is always on the go, outside sourcing clothes, photoshooting bla bla. She said if she's not in, I may use her computer. If she's in, I can only sit at a tiny place with a stool, pathetic much. Anyways, I do not know what to do so I just asked the people around if they need any help. This step has caused me disaster. The lady, Deborah, 26 told me be careful what you wish for. Indeed, the assignment is a tough one since I'm no writer. She's from the editorial team, has 5 columns in the mag on lifestyle. Banggg, she asked me to research on new ideas on what to write in each of the 5 columns, give her at least 5 ideas for each, meaning 25 ideas.

Around 11am, Sabrina came and asked me to follow her to 1Utama. There she asked me to return the accesories, clothes to the shops that she loaned from. Later, have to sourced from pdi, eclipse and quicksilver. She asked me to pick the watches and blouse from those outlets. My first time to 1Utama, don't even know which shop is at what floor, have to keep asking people around. She told me at 250pm had to meet her in a studio for a photoshoot and sms-ed the address to me.

This is the studio.

Waiting for the model to come and shoot.

Back scene, me doing the job of hanging all the clothes sourced on the rack, placing the accesories nicely at the table. After the shoot, have to keep them all again. They were heavy, soooo many clothes.

The model is only 16! My goodness, she certainly look at least 20s, but she's so pretty and talllllll, russian girl. That day, she wore 4 sets of attire for the shoot, one set needed to pose at least 20+ times or even 30. Therefore, after all the make up, styling of hair, the photoshoot started at 4+ till 7pm.

Dinner-ed with a friend at a malay restaurant, in sunway giza I think.

Interesting 1st day.

Finally Employed

2011-01-10T10:13:00.004+08:00

2011! I must make it a promising year. I have many plans so procrastination, please shoo away and don't overtake meee.

After slacking for 1 month and 3 weeks, finally I opened the word document and make the last amendment in my letter and send to various companies. I did not hope for anything as my duration of employment gonna be so shooooort.

Internship has become a must these days, it's like a prerequisite prior to graduation, not just one, but probably more than one, two perhaps. Therefore students like us have to look out for it to keep up with others.

And I just had so much joy when I received that call, even if they don't pay me, I am super willing to work, i just made a call to accept that offer but forgotten to ask if they give any allowance, I'm too shy to call back again. =X Probably I can email.

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" Jeremiah 29:11

Yesterday I was so worried that I literally searched every website with rental properties in damansara as the room that i found previously might not be that good. I googled high and low, but most of the results are disappointing. Part of the reason coz I need to move in immediately, like this week, that is why it increases my anxiety.

Anyhoooos, I found 2 rooms that are nearby to damansara uptown tower, around 20mins walk, that would be fine since I always walk to the business school in 20 to 25 mins. One is a shoplot but they make it into rooms and rent them out, one is in a double storey terrace. The shoplot one might be cheaper, 550 for 5 weeks including utilities and the person seems friendly as oppose to the landlady at the terrace.

'For no word from God will ever fail.' - Luke 1:37

Ahh, God never fails to help us you see, just like what the pastor said yesterday, Wheeehooo!

CLEO, I am coming!! :D I kept imagine that I would follow the boss around to look for new attire to publish for the next month, ohwells, let's see. I'll definitely write about the experience there.

Wish me luck!

Caversham Wildlife Park

2010-12-01T00:08:00.005+08:00

Last day in Perth yet I still went out, spent the time to the fullest. The night before I was packing the whole room like crazy so I could go to caversham with joey and her bf. ;)

After 1.5 years here, at last, to caversham, it is around 45mins to 50mins away from perth. It was not reachable by bus, luckily joey has a car. Student entrance fee is $15.

Koala on touch duty. They are adorable!

owl

guinea pigs; joey feeding the donkey

Feeding the donkey was fun, you just throw the food and it would open its mouth wideee.

baa baa black sheep! goats and sheep

geese

joey

kangaroos!

can you see the pouch on the kangaroo mummy?

There's other animals that I did not take pictures, different kind of birds, wallabies, snakes, quokka, wild boar, wombat etc.

Back in the evening and they helped me shift my luggage and boxes to the storage room, really thankful! If not, I can't imagine myself carrying one by one to the store room, so heavyyy.

Bye bye perth, see you 27th february.

Various outings

2010-11-30T22:42:00.004+08:00

19th Nov

Farewell to Ross and Finance team bonding at brass monkey. My second time to a bar. I didn't order anything, just sat down, chill and had a chat with my lovely finance team mates. It had been nice knowing all of them. Ivan the director, russian australian, weigen the funny one, malaysian australian, ross the super smart wizard kid singaporean and laura the mauritian australian. And me? Malaysian malaysian, HAHA.

Finance team: from left ivan, wei gen, ross, laura and me =D
So long Aiesec finance 2010!

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20th Nov

Met up with peiwen and mao for lunch. We dined at a korean restaurant called took begi.

dishes we ordered, tasty and reasonable, each around $12

the 180ml little bottle of peach juice

After searching for a few items in the city, I bid goodbye with peiwen and mao. Next, meet up with soo shan.

me, soo shan and peiwen

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23rd Nov

Met up with sherlyn, grace and joey. Bubble tea, gossiping and chatting away, last time until i see them again next year.

graceyyy

In the evening, met up with shan to go burswood for the summer beatz concert. I was lucky enough that shan invited me as she got free tickets, it was $99 each. The concert featuring akon, jay sean, florida, ciara and travvie mccoy. Jay sean more shuai compared to others, =P. The tickets we got had seating, which were good as we can see the whole view without being blocked.

me, shan and bing

crowd in the concert

Akon which was the main character of the day appeared last and said, if you are my real fans, take off your shirt and swing it, lol.

Started at 630, ended 1030. They were very punctual.

My first ever concert, not bad. ;)

Rottnest Island

2010-11-30T20:56:00.009+08:00

A delayed post.

Went to rottnest straight after exams, which is on 18th nov. 5 of us from college depart to rottnest via ferry at fremantle. The so called ferry was an interesting ride, it's considered a boat i guess? The ride was thrilling, enjoyed it the most when it went fast and bumpy. =P We were lucky enough to spot whales on the way to the island, 3 humpback whales!

on the bumpy boat ride with shan

Reaching the island, we rent bikes for a day $28 to ride around the island

Fyi, I'm not a very good biker. =S So I felt super tired going up slopes and some slopes, I just gave up and pushed the bike. It was really tiring as we bike at least maybe 15km? However, the scenery that you see made it all worth it. :)

Little salmon day, i love the clearrrrrr water, it's cold too though it's summer

I just played with water since I can't swim, and there's fishes swimming around too, how serene and beautiful!

lighthouse view; cycling view ( I'm at the back, haha)

up and up the winding stairs, to the peak of the lighthouse

Group: from left andrew, kim, adrian, shan and me

The last ferry back to perth is 4.30pm, so early right? Therefore, we had to cycle back to return the bikes and board on the ferry. Had a quick shower in the public bathroom and off we go.

Dinner at la poretta, italian cuisine.

my salmon pasta; pizza that we all shared

After dinner, we don't feel like going back yet, so we chill at gino's cafe. Munching on cakes and chocolate drink.

shan, cakes and me :D

Totally relaxed day after exams!

Post exams stress-free !

2010-11-19T16:51:00.009+08:00

The night that I finished exams, a few college friends and I went to leedersville for italian food at Siena's. It was just ok, no biggie, the pizzas personally to me were normal and not very tasty. The pasta were slightly better.

college mates:from top, andrew, kim, adrian and sebastian

the mayonara pasta

the bottom one is the san churros fiesta, yums!

different type of chocolate sauce, icecream, caramel, dip with the churros beside

Ended the night by watching the social network in kim's room which i eventually fell asleep as I slept little throughout the exams.

Aku dah balik!

2010-11-19T16:33:00.004+08:00

Helooo peeeps, it's beeeen a long long time since I step in here and I've stop reading blogs too since last semester. It had been a hectic winter break and hectic semester, but it is now over! Overloading units were not fun, don't attempt it, it will drive you nuts with the workload.

I am so happy now that exam's are over and summer break, 3 months! Wooohooooo! I'm going back to penang sooon, the first thing I need to accomplish is to cut down my weight, it is sky rocketing and gone to a stage that I can't believe I'll ever has this weight in my life, it is very serious. =(

Anyways, finished 1.5 years of uni and 1.5 years to go? So fast right?

Will just have a quick update on my LAST winter break. It was fun and tiring and exciting as it was my first time travelling myself and my mum did not oppose, whee, the best thing is you pay for your own holidays, it feels nice. ;)

So I went over to singapore, universal studios, Asia investment banking conference by LSE where I met super smart and cool people all over mainly UK and USA and of course the kiasu singaporeans. I stayed at a hostel as it was so much cheaper, around 20sgd a night, 6 people in a dorm, not bad, just have to share toilet, it's quite fun to stay at budget place once a while. I met an uncle there who talked to us until 3am, met a germany girl who is working as an intern, met backpackers yada yada. After conference, just visited orchard, bugis, smu and marina something.

Then I went over to sydney for a conference and travelled around 5 days. I like sydney better than melbourne though, no offence to melb people. However, melbourne has better restaurants and hang-out places. In sydney, I tried the very yummy hurricane pork ribs and pancakes at darling harbour. The typical places, opera house, bridge, circular quay, market city, sydney fish market...After sydney, 3 days in melbourne which was too short, I didn't get to go anywhere except around the city, I wanna go there again.

After the whole thing, uni reopened for the second semester so there, end of my winter break.

Aiesec Cultural Night

2010-05-25T21:49:00.007+08:00

Tuesday evening was the aiesec cultural night. We ought to wear traditionally, to my dismay, many of them didn't really wear culturally, I felt so overdress. =X I borrowed the baju kurung from andrew's friend. It's so long, I had to lift up the skirt when I'm walking to prevent tripping over. haha

andrew, tony, ivan and me

shannen, vanessa, me, alexandra, josephine and sarah

vanessa

The night started with country presentation by the exchange participants, dinesh is going to ukraine, another one is going to africa i think, and there were 2 aiesec alumni who shared their experiences of exchange, ahh, make me so wanna go to china for exchange,haha.

After the sharing, we had cultural quizzes. I'm glad my group didn't win, =P. Coz' you know what, the grand prize turned out to be 'multicultural' meat, HAHAH, funnnnnyyyy right. It's assorted raw meat with maybe sausages bacon and stuff, lol.

in sue boyd room

christina dressing up as a french

award giving: the meat, lol

sarah christina and me

It was a kinda fun evening. =D

La Galette de France

2010-05-25T13:25:00.006+08:00

Bonjour! Comment cava?

This french pastry shop is reallllyyyyy niceeeee! I remembered peiwen told me before that the croissant is nice. I googled it and a lot of people talked about how good the almond croissant is. So I decided to buy one too and try out.

It's so satisfying even just a few bites. Soft crispy croissant with some custard in the middle top with almonds. Other cakes and little tarts are so inviting but expensive!

the shop

pastries displayed

counter

more pastries

the almond croissant! It looks very yummy in real life, not in the picture =p

I googled all these pictures btw.

Little Caesar's Pizza

2010-05-23T01:50:00.008+08:00

Wednesday night - St George's acoustic concert

In short, I think a lot of people here are musically talented and almost everyone could sing and play the guitar, so envious. Most of them compose their own songs.

Friday noon-

Meet up with peiwen in subiaco, she got the buy one free one gelato coupon, wheee. So we went to il gelato and ordered, I had choc bacio; she had tiramisu, mmm. =D Then we proceed to woolies, coles and the subi market to buy some groceries, I bought 5 kiwis for 2 dollars! And bought coffee and muesli bars for my exam snacks.

with her gelato

Fri night, last cell meeting of this sem. =( So we had little caesar's pizza in leedersville, famous shop and packed with people, we waited kinda long to have the food served.

Inside little caesar's

The 3 main pizzas and one dessert pizza, slurpsss. Each of us paid 9 dollars, kinda alright.

me, peiwen, rachel and venny
yihlim, bwalya and jeremy

After dinner, back to dexter's house for the last cell meeting.3 person lost in the icebreaker game. They are punished to eat salt, sugar and sauce.

Look at yeeling's disgusted face by the sauce, I have no idea what they mixed,hah
And yihlim with her tablespoon of raw sugar

love-paper-sticky notes for us to write for one another

Lunch today(sat) was at nandos. Peiwen's coupon with buy 1 quarter chicken free 1 quarter chicken, so each of us only paid 3.50, worth it eh? =]

Had pizzas for 2 days in a row. Sat night had broadway pizza, peiwen's coupon again, 25 % discount. =D

Things to do:
1. Finance online quizzes
2.Econ tute notes
3. Apps
4. Finals in 2 weeks? *gasp*

Recent happenings

2010-05-17T23:47:00.004+08:00

- I suck at sports
- I suck at kicking and catching balls
- I got at least 24 bites on my leg by mosquitoes even with tights on
- My laptop charger decided to pass away and this led me to a frantic charger search from city to northbridge, google maps in the state library to find the shop, feeling helpless and searching aimlessly, but found the shop 15mins before it closed, bought it for 70 dollars, heart aching =(
- I feel super corpulent
- My hair is thick and ugly now
- The mosquitoes here are scary they fly in seriously big bunch in the air that you can see so vividly, just way too many mosquitoes
- I shivered while i sleep, it's getting cold here
- I need a really thick jacket/coat
- First time buying earrings from ebay
- Had a tough time last 2 weeks, rushing for assignments, having so many sleepless nights, break my previous record, glad it's almost over now
- Left 2 assignments now that is 70% done, i think
- Had bubble tea today
-Exams coming, Uni ending in 2 weeks
- I'm addicted to tea nowadays

Wyalkatchem trip

2010-05-16T22:29:00.007+08:00

Saturday early morning I went to wyalkatchem short form wylie for a mentoring program under st georges, it's 3 hours away from perth, a rural place. There is no network at all, and it's uber cold. Basically just spent time with the kids there and have some fun activities. I don't have a mentee and doesn't wish to have one at that point of time and now I regret, but ohwells, what done is done, haha.

First thing after we reached was doing mosaic/gardening. The mosaic's preparations were smashing new tiles and plate. =X and fill the empty big tyre with sand as foundation. After that create a picture with all the broken pieces of tiles. It was rather pretty.

Then we had some ball games and roller skating, I suck at it big time. =( I can't even balance and fell a few times, my back so pain, tsk tsk. The kids are all good in lotsa sports activities, feel so intimidated being a sports dummy.

BIG chess pieces to play

9 months old joey! so cute!! One of the kids' mum keep it as pet

the completed mosaic

me with shoko's big coat and the trial mosaic

Then we walked to wylie recreation centre. Some of them played soccer, I just watch, don't wanna embarrass myself in the field, lol.

the field of the rec centre

eric, shoko and andrew

shoko and me

At night had bbq as dinner

We slept at the rec centre with mats on the floor, it was super ultimately cold that i shivered half of the night and not having proper sleep though I had 4 layers and 1 blanket on me.

Day 2

Don't really have any activities going on, just waiting for the kids to have hockey match in the afternoon.

passing time in the playground

shoko on the fence

kids playing hockey

I like how vast and wide the land is in the outskirts! So much landddd!

On the way back

I was amazed at how a particular super quiet boy who don't dare to speak up smiles when playing rollerskate and other games it was a good sight to see.

I was also amazed that a girl actually helped me up when i fell during roller skate and told me what to do. It was nice of her. :)

The rural area is seriously a dead city, so much land with so little people, and so far from major cities, they really lack of facilities. Nevertheless, it was a really peaceful place if you wanna escape all the hustle in the city.

Bye bye wylie.

Cell Group - Pyjamas theme

2010-05-16T22:14:00.007+08:00

So every fri night is the cell group, the special thing about this week's was that it had a theme - pyjamas night. Everyone SHOULD wear pyjamas for cell, but gerald was wearing jeans!! grr, not abiding the theme, hah.

gerald and venny

peiwen, me and rachel the cell leader =D

peiwen!

Then icebreaker game. It was a simple random number game and whoever lose shall have their hair tied up funkily, nice right my idea,LOL. But I got my hair tied too, oops.

jeremy, got it twice
dexter, victim #2

yeeling and gerald, so cute right all of 'em =]

all the people who get punished =D
bottom left, me yihlim, rachel,jeremy, gerald
the back dexter and yeeling

final pyjamas group pic

Refreshment was good too, i like rachel's cheese cake!

St George's Car Rally

2010-05-02T01:46:00.008+08:00

Yesterday noon it was st george's car rally or kate's rally,haha. Don't know if some of you notice the facebook group that based on kate's party and stuff like that. Haha. Our challenges were mostly based on kate. There's many to do in order to get points but my team fail badly, since none of us are locals, and don't know the roads here, just follow google maps which died halfway coz' hp battery went off. Haha. Interesting journey nonetheless.

Each team has to dress up funkily with their own set theme, there's soldiers, cows, aladdin, mario, newly weds (all guys), senior citizens, cats, bunny, pirates, lord of the rings bla bla. My team is cowboys cowgirls. Harman loaned his car to us, =].

Our team with shoko, the mario mushroom! =D

the team! i likey my boots, so comfy and warm =P

can you see the cows at the back? (before departure)

senior citizen; shoko with the mushroom, cute!

blake, shan and me

one of the tasks, pump $2.02 fuel, haha

The rest of the journey was driving and finding places. They asked us to buy durian and eat it, it was a joyous challenge since all of us like durians, BUT there's none selling! =( Oh, besides, shan and me stole straws in a fast food outlet, hungry

at the last destination deep down in welsh pool, someone's farm place

Dinner at saigon northbridge!

shan's hot and spicy noodle and my 7meat rice, i don't really like the beef though, but the rice is nice =D super full

written with shaving cream, and a car swoosh! damaged the words =X

in harman's room

decorated blake's head with stolen hungry jack's straws

bammm!

Prosh Uwa

2010-04-21T19:43:00.005+08:00

It's the annual PROSH 21st April! It's one of the major events in Uwa where students wearing funky clothes with their own set theme and flood the city and major suburbs to sell student-made newspapers. It's a charity event and all the money goes to the children foundation. The event officially started at 4am for pre-prosh celebration. Oak lawn in the uni is so packed that we had no space to move around. Kept bumping into each other.

Since I'm going to uni at 3ish, I started preparing around 2ish and that means I don't have sleep! I went to prosh under aiesec again, haha. The theme was angels vs devils. Obviously I don't wanna be a devil. =P

Before prosh rave: in the aiesec office

jen, me ; tony, me

angels!

posers

aiesec president in a wig, lol and kevin in a lady angel wannabe attire

kassy and maija

mark spoiled the nice pic of me and minh! haha

Prosh Rave in oak lawn

group pic

The scene in the uni was so interesting, the biz school group dressed up as avatars, some as the sesame street characters, some in clown suits and lots more that you can think of. Around 6am we got loads of newspapers supply and hunting for buses. All buses passing by the uni were all full and it's like india where everybody is fighting to go up to the bus.

We went as an aiesec group but later on splitted up as we targetted different people to sell our newspapers. At last, my group left minh, wen and me. We roamed around st george's terrace, city, roadside (targetting drivers when they were stopping), northbridge and inside tafe building, Hah. Very interesting and fun and leg-sore experience.

I was so happy when people bought newspaper from me and I received coins from them. Some who are generous gave 5 to 10 dollars, woohooo! Almost every corner there were uwa students and almost every passerby that I saw was holding one copy! One of the people said ' we can't get through if we don't buy!' Lol.

Around 10am everyone was tired, we walked A LOT! Then we proceed to city and managed to bump into a few more aiesec-ers. We then went to Maccas which was full of students for breakfast.

The sesame street and pink panther! =D
wen, nela and me

Tedx Perth April

2010-04-20T11:54:00.004+08:00

Yesterday night which is monday, I attended a Tedx perth event through aiesec. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It's a monthly thing where people, mostly youth and young professionals gather together to watch inspirational ted talks videos from Us etc. I've watched 3 talk videos yesterday and definitely amazed by how the world population engages in the game World of warcraft, the total time for playing the game from the whole world is equivalent to 5.93 million years, crazy ain't it?

After the ted videos, we had two sessions of discussion on various issues in a group. Interesting to know what's happening globally. I think I'll go to tedx May. After the whole workshop, we played around the science tech. So fun!

The things there were interesting, like listening to the stomach sounds, playing with laser harp, cycle to generate power and lots more! Shall play more next time, =D.

steam from water

mark playing the laser harp

x-ray thingy

energy zone

fun part! Distorting mirrors!

aaron, jake, mark, me and andrew

MASCA Meet, UN Rotaract Soiree Night & Dimsum!

2010-04-18T22:15:00.006+08:00

Saturday the 17th. There was a MASCA meet in curtin uni, it stands for malaysian student council. I took a bus and train to bull creek and joey picked me up from there.

Curtin speaker's corner

joey and yanshuang

Supposedly start at 11am, we reached at 1045ish. Guess what, it started at 1140am. =.= Do they need to impose malaysian timing even over here? Haha, typical I guess. There's like officer and a lady from consulate giving us a short speech. Asked us go back and serve the country and realize 1Malaysia and vision 2020, hahaha, ahems.

Then there's food! Free at least, lol. Nasi briyani, mee goreng, chicken etc. =D

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Saturday night, I attend this function called UN rotaract soiree night through aiesec. Everyone would dress up something to represent a nation. I don't have any traditional costume therefore I wore my egypt dress, =].

fooood again, haha

mark and andrew

a real egypt guy,lol
and jen on the right

the drummers performing and later they taught the crowd how to play
very interesting, brazillian drumming and music

There's performances and I personally like the bollywood dance, so graceful and nice, the girls dancing are pretty too, hahah.

the guy won the best dress- dressing up as native american

shannen from albany, she's cute and nice to talk to =)

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Sunday

After church service, I went to dragon palace in northbridge for lunch with grace and nerissa. Ohmymyyy, the dimsum was sooooo sumptious. We waited 30mins or longer before we get a table. Many people lining up and the restaurant is packed. Didn't manage to take a picture of everything we eat. =X There's the bun, lao sa bao, so soft and crispy and nice, inside having a yellow/orange sauce which is so yummmm!

The ha kao is so big and delicious. The cheechong fun is different from the ones in msia, stuffed with char siew, mmm. Fried squid, fried prawn with mayo, eggtarts and the rice thingy. Nicest dimsum ever! =D Thanks to grace and neri for treating me as a belated gift. =D

Aiesec State Conference #2

2010-04-18T16:27:00.015+08:00

The conference has rules like being punctual and not losing your name tag, if not, you'll get punish. Tony stole my name tag! And i got punished. Luckily not too embarrassing and getting punished in a group. Hah coz' eventually they were all stealing each other's name tags.

Day 2 was exchange simulation where we need to find all the answers and procedures of a whole exchange process. It is so tedious, like there's a fake networking, and we really need to talk to the biz leaders yada yada to promote exchange and raise internships. Of course the biz leaders were impersonated by the committee members. Bla bla, i'm lazy t6o recall, I just know this thing went till evening.

At night, there's a skolling competition, my goodness, such big glasses and a few rounds, how can the stomach withstand the beer?hmm But watching it was fun though and cheering for them.

alex,me,denyse, jessica, mira and menglu

Day 3-

Closing plenary and they pass the motion that the organizing president should have his pants off, and unfortunately he must take off, Lol.

Day 3 is about your functional area, so we all are splitted up. I'm in finance so we are discussing about sponsorship. We played an aiesec monopoly game and I won! how good if it's real money, =P.

shaunna from china too, studying in curtin
tony that stole my name tag, lol

wheeee

Got back in the evening of the 3rd day, tired but quite alright, know quite many new people.

Aiesec State Conference #1

2010-04-18T16:27:00.013+08:00

During Easter, I went to a 3day 2 nights aiesec state conference. Starting 5th April. We carpooled to the Bickley campsite.

Early morning, just arrived
denyse and menglu from curtin

scenery around the campsite

the reservoir, menglu is from shandong, china

We are designated to the respective dorms, I'm in dorm C, spot my bed with a yellow blanket?

First day of conference is all about leadership and management talk and aiesec vision stuff like that. I vaguely remember the specific activities but there's station games where we need to pair up and do a three-legged race. We need to do something in the station to get the clue for the location of the next destination. Having the leg tied was tiring and painful coz' of the rope. Nevertheless, it was quite fun. I paired with a korean guy, hyo chan from curtin. I remember one of the station is you must eat sheep's tongue, raw and frozen, ewwwww. But only one person is required to eat so chan ate it of course! =P I'm evil. Another one is build something from spaghetti and marshmallows.

Yay, completed the station games and at night chilling out

mira from kenya and studying in curtin, andrew on the right

irwin from labuan and chan from korea

this is a very sweet drink =P

At night they had loud music and the theme was jocks and cheerleaders. Apparently a lot of people don't have their costume, pheww, luckily.

mark, jake and avinash
cheryl, josephine and me

cheryl from singapore, uwa as well
i'm so old =( a lot of people there are just 19

Interesting night for me to see, all sorts of ahem actions and dances for me to watch, HAHA. From this I can say that they are really wild, tsk tsk.

Easter

2010-04-04T00:03:00.006+08:00

Easter Friday. Cell group activity includes egg hunt and watching the passion of christ. The torture on Jesus by the pharisees was too much, it's just inhumane, but now we know how much pain he endured through to save us. 3 days later He had risen and lives forevermore!

the easter egg chocs

Easter Saturday. Went to subiaco with peiwen. We had lunch in the subi market, the cheapest we can find. 5.50 for a plate of rice with 2 vegetable sides and one papadam. It was just normal.

Subi market sell a lot of things,many variety of eateries, those croissants, buns, interesting pies are so tempting! We gotta go back some other time to buy those and try. :D

Scholarship Presentation Night 31st march

2010-04-03T23:38:00.008+08:00

St George's Scholarship Presentation Night. 25 scholarships in the form of college fees or bursaries are given. Sadly I didn't get. =X Harman did, congrats! :) He deserve it, sooo smart. We had wine and finger food. Everyone dresses up nicely for this formal event.

shoko from japan, she exchange for one year here, studying sociology

andrew,shoko,joanna from canberra, me and harman

andrew and adrian the abc

harman and joanna with their awards

the cute waiter who served lamp chop, it was quite nice

We had prawn, fruit tarts, choc tart, salmon, beef bun etc

ignore my reddie face, i only had one glass of white wine, it is always so red even just a lil' bit

the beef bun

Blake hasn't had dinner so harman drove us to broadway pizza. I had one slice of it since I was quite full from the finger foods.

candid of blake with pizza

andrew and blake

The next morning, we had to gather at 7am for college photo, imagine taking a photo so early with everyone dress in formal, hopefully i look nice in the college photo, haha.

Mela Indian Restaurant and a pleasant night

2010-03-30T15:45:00.010+08:00

28th Sunday

Joey texted me if I wanna go to dinner with her and some ocfers so I went. There's quite many of them apparently. It's Mela indian restaurant in northbridge.

I love the foooood! It's much better and more authentic than m'sian ones
however they are pricey, can you see the small pot of curry? It's 17.90 =X

We had naan, lamb curry, spinach and cheese, potatoes, butter chicken, fish fry. . .nyammm

muimui and me, yea, we have the same birthdays too, hah, her 21st!
The tart cake was awesome too despite a tad bit of sourness

ocfers

funny muimui
she emphasised that shes young and beautiful,haha
her speech was cute too ;)

Back at college, andrew called me urgently. I thought what thing is that, and I was surprised by rachel my cell leader, dexter and peiwen at the back door! I think it's like 11+pm already, so thoughtful of them. ♥ They bought a fruit cake which was very yum. Rach prayed for me as well, definitely a pleasant surprise and a happy day to end with. I need to accept that I'm 20, no longer the teen, may I be wise? Haha.

Peiwen prepared back in malaysia, *heartmelts* so sweeeeeet, lovess♥ the pouch the earrings and everything is nice :) thanks dearrie
pink card from sis, whee, i like the pretty card, haha
surprise card from jerome all the way from hk, =D
and andrew's purple card, whee, purple ;)

inside jerome's card is a cute wooden plate, thankewww, love it! and ahem, im always safe ok =P
this book is the funniest, present from andrew, titled 'you on diet' HAHA
ok, i will read in my free time and try to lose weight, lol =P thanks nonetheless

And i missed darl py's call that night =X i think of you when i use the wallet :)
yeepin sent me an email titled Hui2 meimei, hahah, so cute of her
yyun and xiting sent me smses which brightens up the day as well despite all the room problems faced♥

Matilda Bay in a cold chilly night

2010-03-30T11:46:00.008+08:00

27th March

Debbie organised the celebration since hers fall on the same date as me too. Bbq @ Matilda Bay which is opposite my college. Gahh, don't wanna be 20. =X

debbie and me, the 20 and the 29

from left, akram, shan,harman, me, debbie
at the back is chris, blake and adrian

chris being high

whee they got me a lovely pink shirt and a pair of flower earrings :D

♥

harman, chris, me, debbie, blake and shan

mary made me cupcakes, how sweet of her and the cupcakes are so pretty!

me mary and debbie

After that, watched a movie in debbie's house, i fell asleep since not really in the mood that day, was upset over my room problem. But it's getting better after that.

Korean Food with the Fours :)

2010-03-30T11:45:00.009+08:00

It's friday again. Dearie friends treated me to an advance birthday lunch in northbridge, da chang jin korean restaurant. Thanks to all of 'em. =D I like the rice cake, the seafood pancake, kimchii yada yada. Except the pork slice, which peiwen finished most of it. =P Next time we shall eat the beef. =)

joey!

Walking back to city and we passed by the state library.

They have this interesting fountain which will stop a few mins for you to get in and get out

Then to target to look for some things.

super big size panty and bra! HAHA they look cute and funny

captured by grace i think, lols colourful eh

Last stop, gelare!

They secretly brought a candle and lit it, so sweet of them. *big smile*

wheee, me and my birthday muffin =D

I had rum and raisin gelato too!

grace, neri, me, peiwen, joey <3

Hailstorm in Perth 22-3-2010

2010-03-30T11:44:00.006+08:00

I was working in kumon. All of a sudden, booshhh pik piak. . . Hailstorm attacked perth at around 4+ or 5+ in the evening. Students were all looking through the window, one boy cried, some ducked down, and I managed to peep and see how's the hail outside and saw many hailstones on the ground. I never thought the after effect will be that bad until i went back to college.

Cars are smashed, as in the windows, plus dents all over. Worst part, college south wing has been damaged and ceiling collapsed. There's total blackout for the whole night in perth I think. My uni's engineering building and architecture library were destroyed partly as well. Some are flooded.

st george's college quadrangle

the sad sight =(

leaves were all over the pathway covering the roads

shocked by how damage my room is

from a nice bedroom to this =[

And being a refugee ain't nice, shifting everything from the room and sleeping on a couch, like a nomad, always shifting here and there with no proper place, this makes people depress.

Will only get back my room by 12th April, hope it doesn't delay.

Picnic!

2010-03-21T17:59:00.007+08:00

Fridays have been awesome. Why? Cause all of us don't have class on fridays! wheee. After all the hassle of calling each other whether to have a picnic on fri or sat, it finally happened. Pot luck picnic in Kings Park it is. =) It was good that the weather was not scorching hot, if not we would all get sun burn.

fooooood

we only had cups, therefore, rice in a cup, hah

We had several round of card games including poker and uno, as well as mind blowing games taught by peiwen. Loser need to eat coleslaw and those food that we left. I would say it is an efficient way to clear up all the food. =D It was definitely fun.

Exploring Kings Park:

wooden playground thingy

grace and nerissa

on a dinosaur thingy

swing!!

failed jumping and second pic thanks to grace's bad timing, sooo funnnyyyyy, all squating down

group pic
me, neri, shuntze,peiwen,grace and joey

We also saw a wedding being held in the park. There are many duckies where we feed them we some bread on the way back.

The weekly update

2010-03-13T17:41:00.006+08:00

One week is gone again. Thursday french test. I don't know how to translate 'How old are you?' and 'I'm 20 years old'. Sheeesh, easy yet hard. boooo! =( J'ai vingnt ans, means I'm 20. Now I shall remember for life, Lol.

And another thing, 1 piece of academic transcript, meaning just one sheet of paper cost me 10 dollars!! Annoying right? Soooo expensive!

Unrelated:-
picture of my room =)

view from the entrance door

view from the corner of the room, kinda spacious eh? but no onsuite this time =(

my study table

Somebody use my things in the toilet and didn't put back to the same place, I'll bring in my soap from now on. Not gonna be so generous to let them use as body wash instead of my hand soap.

Friday as in yesterday, I went subiaco with peiwen, rachel and shuntze. They went and dined in jus burgers. I had eaten lunch in my college so i ordered onion rings, the onions rings were niceee BUT oily.

peiwen shuntze

rachel the cell leader :)

After lunch we went to woolsworth. Pw and st were buying groceries to cook while I got myself cadbury hot choc powder and instant soup, wheee. Fattening drink, hah.

At night, cell group.

Today, lunch-ed with dilys, soony and andrew. Pizza shop ain't open, so we had japanese food instead. I like the japanese curry rice, woohooo. =D

I gonna be corpulent again, maybe I should get a weighing scale here to control myself, =P.

Crabbing at Mandurah and a reward dinner

2010-03-06T23:43:00.007+08:00

Influencers church organised a crabbing activity. Friday night around 11+ 12am we reached the crabbing place, Mandurah. The sea was shallow therefore we could walk into it and search for crabs with torches. It ain't easy to find crabs in the dark and dipping into the icy cold water when the surrounding temperature is so low and was quite windy. We managed to find small crabs only unfortunately. =( But I did manage to scoop one or two little crabs up for 2 seconds perhaps and it bounced back into the sea, lol.

This went on for an hour + and decided went back shore. Everyone was freezing! And our sport shoes was filled with cold water and sand/mud/seaweed. By the way, the sky has MANY stars, so pretty! Reached my college around 340am. Quite a distance for the journey to and fro Mandurah. I did not sleep after I get back, already passed the sleeping time.

Next morning, peiwen and me brought shuntze around city to shop. After city, we went to harbour town.

peiwen and shuntze

From harbour town we took a bus back to the city and my day had not ended yet. They went back while I went to northbridge to meet up with crabbing people for dinner. The dinner supposedly have crabs which we caught but all the crabs are not the right sizes. Had our dinner in uncle billy's restaurant, I like the food! Tofu, chicken, vege, softshell crabs, sliced beef (this beef taste different and it's good). All these are included in the 5 dollars we paid for the crabbing, not bad eh? =D

with grace, nerissa and joey

Dessert- utopia. We were also treated to bubble tea. I shared chocolate oreo with joey.

jonathan, yihui, muimui and mei en

i forgot some of their names =X

me, joey, nerissa, grace and sherlyn

Back at night, such a long day since yesterday night. Exhausted.

I have tutorial work to do for next week, ahhh, 1 page to write for globalisation. =(

French test, big meet, and I hate beef !

2010-03-04T23:46:00.004+08:00

Bonsoir! I had my first french dictation test today, phewww, it's over. But there's a different test EVERY THURSDAY. =( The beginners french is quite intensive, finish 50 pages of textbook in 2 weeks? =X Really need to study consistently or you will be lost on the french words, so many different accents and rules. I still can't pronounce the french 'r'.

Big meet careers fair @ perth convention centre. Went along with soony. Too bad, most of them want australian citizens only for the internships, only one of a few provide international students internships but with lots of criteria, ain't easy. Was only inside for an hour and we proceed to the city.

Easy way bubble tea promotion in carillon city! Buy one free one! I got my honey milk tea for 2 instead of 4 dollars. =D Soony got himself the greenapple fruit drink which looks real green.

Then I went to the post office shop to get a 'work with children' form. Apparently, to apply this I need to pay 50! It's like have to pay to work, and it's only once a week, 3-4 hours a day. =.= So many legal stuff to prepare just for a 3-hour work a week.

Evening, beef again for dinner, fed up seriously, I don't like beef with bread. Then andrew and me went to northbridge for dinner. He's also from georges. Went to uncle billy's restaurant. We don't know hows the portion like, our first time. It came out to be super hugeeeeee!

chilli pepper chicken fried rice and roast duck bean curd rice for 23 dollars

Yes, I finished most of it, don't give me that look, I know I ate a lot, but hey don't waste food and the 11.50 dollars I pay, haha.

Next time we will just order one and share out, won't be bloated and gonna be way cheaper.

I hate beef seriously, why do they like beef so much, every alternate days with beef. aarghhh.

Rivercruise in Swan River

2010-03-03T19:26:00.007+08:00

Back to the virtual world after 9 long days! Internet socket was not working and they only repaired it this wednesday, finallyyyyy!

26th feb

Zion praise harvest organised a rivercruise with a theme of masquerade. Each person 15 dollars, still quite alright, not too expensive. Attire for the event is formal wear.

pretty friday evening

peiwen and new friend, shun tze. She's from inti penang too!
emily, me and soony, asked him to come along, hahah, 5 girls and one guy =P

emily, me
peiwen, shuntze, me and joey

on the deck

emily with her sophisticated mask and blue contact lenses

richie and joey
4 of us again

us with handmade masks by richie, haha, not bad right? =P

Nothing much to do at the cruise really besides talking, was just a get-together event. But now we can say that, ' I was in a rivercruise before'. =PP The cruise last for an hour and a half or more.

After the cruise we gathered at a person's house for pizza and charade games. Talking was the main activity actually. So that's about it, a welcome event in my first week of uni.

Byebye penang, Malaysia, tanah airku xP

2010-02-20T19:22:00.004+08:00

So sad, once again, with heavy hearts, I needa leave the food haven, leave my friends and family. Second semester of my first year, here I come. Study again after 3 months of slacking. Morning last meeting with yingyun . . . and she got me indian bangles which I actually wanted to buy in little india but never manage to get there. =))

her ohsofootball eyes, hahaha.
sister-look!

Noon, my departure. =( Xiting made it! She supposedly meet me up with yeepin them but fell sick, ohnoo. Got to see her face just before I go to the departure hall, it's like 10mins before I step in. So dramatic, haaa. Wan nee and yyun came too, wheee. Kokpin and kelvin came along with xiting as well. Byee ama byee mum byee penang byee food byee my lovely bed.

xiting i will miss you muchie!

Chu liu Chu qi

2010-02-20T11:18:00.003+08:00

18/2

Thursday night. Christine asked me over to her house to play cards. Darrel and jonathan came too. Just a short game, say 1 hour plus? And I don't dare to stay too late as well.

The game is new to me, 'wait 10' literal translation from hokkien dan chap, ahaha. I lost quite many rounds. The punishment were bacardi and some lychee alcohol drink, but at least not so bitter. Darrel lost more I think, too bad, lol.

19/2

Next morning we went to kapitan for a drink before my last goodbye with them.

christine and me

After kapitan, met up with yee pin and wan nee. I bought tickets for percy jackson the day before and yesh, at last, got to watch percy, I quite like it personally, just that the woman with snakes was quite creepy.

yeepin and wan nee @ wongkok

Chu si & Chu wu

2010-02-20T11:17:00.006+08:00

Chu si. Date with darl and an de lu. Went out and tried the sticks fire bistro outside queens. Sadly that day did not have the set lunch. We found a voucher that gives 20% off set lunch but could'nt use it anyway.

my sardine thingy pasta and darl's chicken spaghetti, quite nice both of 'em

Wanted to watch percy jackson but the queue was tooooo long. Then we went on to jco and talk for awhile. Nowadays lower secondary school students all hang out with fancy mobile phones and a group of friends, how time changes. tsk tsk.

Andelu treated jco yogurt and chocolate blended drink, yay. =] However the yogurt was a tad sour.

darl and andrew

darl and me wanted to act cute tigers but failed, so this one looks better, hah.

andrew and darl again

Got a long wallet from darl xiting andrew and wei2, thanks!=D Just what I needed. Darl also gave me 2 cute little monks from china and a purple pouch + apollo! Lol. Andrew also gave me a scarf, merci!

=)

Miss you people. Good luck in india an de lu.

Chu san

2010-02-20T11:16:00.017+08:00

Third day of cny was fun! Invited some friends over =DD. Marlina and her niece, zhiling and shyang bin. wheee. They came very early like 9+ 10am in the morning, haha. Marlina made me a super yummy moist choc cake, she's always that thoughtful. =)

marlina me and her cheeky niece who sings cny songs, she can speak mandarin
I don't know how the niece like him so much, maybe he made a spell,LOL

honey zhiling got me a friendship bracelet, sweet right? =P

marlina and shyang bin

self timer group pic

Noon time is byebye time. They were going back and I'm going to watch true legend in queens with my cousins and mum. I like true legend, it's nice, the kungfu stunts were great, some sort like 'fearless' style movie.

Year of the Tiger, Roarrr!

2010-02-20T11:16:00.015+08:00

Roarrrr!

A fierce year? Exciting year? Or what it may be, I hope I would have an interesting uni life and not just the plain old dull eat and study.=X Hope can make a change. =]

Anyway, lucky enough to spend my cny in malaysia, with all the cookies, peanut ones especially and arrowhead chipsss! Yumm. And of course last time eating ama's cooking. This cny is rather quiet, relatives came earlier instead which was 2 weeks ago.

First day- as usual, we went visiting with new attire! More cookies, more packet drinks, more. . . fooooood. OH, and, more red packets. =D My 11 year old cousin brother told me he has a facebook, so interesting kids nowadays.

Back to a few days, met up with wei wei and xiting in college. Had lunch together in hidden recipe cafe.

wei wei

12/2/2010

Yeivern's farewell and early birthday party in Harvest In Cafe. Yay, get to meet a few old friends before I go back to uni too.

darl's almond fish and my honey custard chicken

me, py and yeivern

her surprise cake with birthday song being played

me and darl, me and yeivern

Hope she enjoy her uni in brisbane!

Hammer bay

2010-02-10T22:40:00.005+08:00

Dinner date with marlina, jonathan and gf. Supposedly having dinner at the hammer bay ikan bakar shop, which is at the back of this yellow shop, facing the sea. AND, it's not opened! Grrrr, how disappointing. Dejected, we went to try out the one beside it, haha. Seri anggerik? something like that.

Ordered 4 dishes with rice, the vege was super pathetic, its like a few leaves only, can't they know how to estimate the portion for 4 person. Aduhai. And a jug of apple juice for drinks.

Service: not efficient, super slowwww. And they forgot to serve our fish, we almost finished all the dishes and rice before the fish was served.

the kepa, unsure how to spell
the kai lan

fried sotongs and ikan bakar (siakap)

They were alright, but heard marlina said the one shop which is closed serve much yummy food than these, sigh, don't get to go. =( But at least get to meet them. =] All of these are rm58, quite reasonable.

After dinner, marlina and me lingered around pantai jerejak pasar malam. Shared pins buying with her, 5 pairs for 2.50rm, how cheap is that. And a medium pack of popcorn for rm1 only! Haven't tried if it's nice though, lol.

marlina and me =D

Agong's 82nd

2010-02-09T23:29:00.006+08:00

7th February, Sunday

Most of my relatives couldn't make it and visit penang as usual during cny. Hence, they all came earlier to pre celebrate cny as well as celebrate my agong's 82nd. Starview, crc are all fully booked, so we tried out a new restaurant at abu siti lane- Jade palace. I don't like the jelly fish, coz' I just don't like its slimy nature. Overall is alright, nothing to shout about. The most important thing is the fellowship of family members. =]

Before dinner, got myself a new watch, wheee, at last not watch-less anymore. The old one died.

Back to dinner, photo taking is a must in reunion.

All the cucus
left: audrey-new member(couz bro's gf), chee liang, me, my fat brother, yinchuan koko and the small ones are joshua and sing yee

fatty bro, my mum, me and auntie pitping

Argh, asked him to jian fei but he said there's no need for him to do that, ish ish. Where is my once upon handsome bro gone to? sad, Lol. And i complained about his hair, and he didn't wanna cut it, grrrr.

agong ama and us!
yes i know, i look so much bigger size compared to my mum
my mum is slimmer and looks so small beside me, I'm huge =X

auntie pitping and family with ama
my a zai gu gu and mum

agong having us singing birthday song for him
he blew the candles!! You are 82!=D Hope he will be always healthy

Lastly, a group photo, missing out quite many family members =(, all having work abroad yada yada, nevermind, 2010 will still be a great year!

16

2010-02-04T23:58:00.005+08:00

16 days left. Stopped working since last friday and have been going out everyday since sunday. =X money flowing out.

Well, today at last christine and my movie date was successful. We watched Fame. The storyline is exactly the same as the old version but the new one has some missing parts since it's being cut short. Asked andelu along too.

Before that lunch at kim gary's. The so called fruit milk is the bottled yogurt drink sold in supermarkets. =.=

with mr andrew and miss christine =]

Nothing much in gurney and we went to queens. Andelu and me went to the candy biscuit shop thingy at the lower ground. We tried many types of the snacks sold, feeling funny, guilty and fun. We just ate and went out, HAHA. Without buying anything.

Before going back, I bought beard papa's cream puff, ahhh, how I love the cream, =P.

Foodie Tootie 2

2010-02-02T22:19:00.011+08:00

#1 Ultimaxx cafe beside queens

tomyam fried rice rm4.50, It's goooood, with 3 to 4 prawns, just a tad oily
bx's hk egg noodle, it's actually wan tan mee with mince meat,also rm4.50

#2 Peipa duck rice @ restaurant chew yoke weng, pekaka

Forgot to take a picture, perhaps too hungry, haha. 1/4 duck, tauhu for 2 pax, vege and 2 sugarcane drinks for rm18.50. Not bad eh?

I almost forgot the place until darl py told me the restaurant's name, then I only could find it.

#3 Spicy sour fish bihun soup @ opposite sg ara police station (a corner kopitiam)

More people went for the spicy sour noodle but there are a lot more options like fried rice, char hor fun, and all those zhu cha stuff. rm6 for the noodle, but worth it, I tapao-ed one back and it was 2 big bowls. The soup is indeed satisfying.

#4 Padang brown food court

the famous seafood popiah!yay-rm1.30 per roll
chai kuih rm0.70
kerabu meehoon rm2
yam kuih rm2 (no pic)

#5 Bangkok lane mee goreng

rm4-shared with yoke cheng,mmmm =D

Initially I gave up coz' I can't find the place, when I was going back, yoke asked me to take a shortcut way and the road that I'm turning in coincidentally is bangkok lane! how happy I was, haha.

Big thanks to yoki cheng for accompanying me to eat around and directing me on unfamiliar roads. =D