Take A Walk..

While i was doing some stuff in my room mum came in and said the air was really cooling tonight.. then i didn't really bother about her and she dozed off in my room.. -.- ...

Then bro came in and said "Go take a walk!" ..

I checked the time and it was about 1am... and he kept asking me to take a walk... then i kept telling him stuff like "why you wanna take a walk? it's 1am lehh.. how to walk? you want me to accompany you to walk is it??"

see bro doesn't like taking walks -.- ... whenever we go for an evening stroll bro never joins us... but i assumed that mum must've said all that "the air is very cooling" stuff to him and he suddenly felt like taking a walk...

but i was wrong... coz then he said "When i say take a walk, i meant.. *types kongregate.com on browser* "

Then i saw.. ohh.. it's a game called take a walk -.- ...

But anyways.. the game is pretty cute.. very short and easy game.. 3 levels only.. it's a music game :) .. try it out :D

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i've got two left feet..

but this is one of those songs that have that feel good feeling that makes me just wanna get up and dance XD ..





i laughed at bro for liking this song at first but now it's stuck in my head ._. ..

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one of the happiest and then the most frustrating day...

Beware Malaysian road users... a new P driver will be terrorising your roads soon! ;)

The hill, parking and 3 point turn went by really fast..

So on the road... first thing is always the few things that we need to do.. seat, mirror, safety belt, wiper, signal.. i dunno if checking if it was free gear or not had any significance since the engine was already running.. and off we (JPJ dude and me) went..

Embarassingly i mixed up the wiper and signal -.- .. i think the people that grade your driving are trained to be extra fierce to try and scare you..

There was one part where a vehicle was coming out on my left and he asked me to honk.. but the honk didn't honk ._. .. so even after i passed that obstacle he went and press press on the honk a few times.. and said "takde hon ah? tadi saya tekan ada la.."

And i dunno if he did this on purpose but somewhere along the way i was ready to switch gear but he went and fiddle with something.. i think the radio? blocking me from switching to 3rd gear -.- ..

But anyways.. i managed to pass :) ..

Then came the ultra frustrating part.. it's so frustrating that i can't be arsed to type it out.. but long story short.. i finished my exam at around 10am.. i went home at 4pm.. and when i went home it wasn't the driving place guy who sent me back :/ .. so frustrated until i didn't really feel like "YES!!! I PASSED..WOOOTS!!" now i feel more like "oh.. i passed..ok.."

hopefully a shower and a nap can lift my spirits -.-

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after much contemplation .. i don't think it's time to shut down yet..
mainly because something funny happened today and i like to share nice stories -.-

So... i met up with Xing Leng at one U.. and she has been looking forward to watching Eclipse for quite some time..
I already watched it once and i didn't think it was a good movie.. but i watched it again with Xing Leng anyways...

There was a part where Edward and Bella shared one of their long kisses.. and then suddenly a kid from the back said "YERR..." XD ...

And then there was the part where Bella asked Jacob to kiss her..

Bella: JACOB! kiss me
little kid from the back : NOOOOOOO........!!

that kid made my 2nd time watching eclipse a more entertaining experience XD ..


though i wouldn't say no to watching Inception for the 2nd time!


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triggered..

while i was brushing my teeth i decided to go blog viewing.. and i read that post by synjoe.. and then i started to think...

i did think about shutting down this blog some time ago and just when i decided i wouldn't do it, that very thought has been triggered once again.... but everytime i think about how long it's been alive i couldn't do it..

but i wondered too.. why did i start blogging..?

then i went and looked back on some of the very first posts i made here.. i haven't gotten very far but i started to get mixed feelings...

some of the posts made me feel like slapping myself for telling a long story of my day (and i think i still do that now :/ *edit* ok i checked and yea i still do that -.- ).. but some of it made me remember a particular day and how much i enjoyed myself with all the details of the day included...i was quite surprised by how much i'd already forgotten..

maybe it was the mindset i had back then.. that nobody reads and nobody will read this blog so i can just blabber whatever i want.. and shouldn't that be the way it is? typing what you want because it is your blog? or should you care what other people think about the stuff you blog about?


dilemma aside..i checked back on my very first post.. and it was on 25 July 2006 ..

The date today is 25 July 2010..

i never remind myself of my blog's birthday..but it just so happens that 4 years ago the 14 year old me decided to start this blog to chronicle my day to day life.. "random things" was what i said 4 years ago..
and i think i didn't let my 14 year old self down since there is a whole load of random stuff in this blog -.- ..

but if i were to shut it down.. wouldn't it be nice to shut it down on the same date as when it was created X years ago?

i still have a decision to make..

shut it down or let it live?

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on this lovely saturday night...

did I..

A) Read a book
B) Listen to music
C) Catch a lizard
D) Tidy up my room







The answer is C!

It all started after an evening walk with mum.. I went to my room and switched on the smaller light and did some exercises in the room.. after all that i decided i should take a shower before dinner.. but then i saw something on top of my mirror.. it was an eye... a head.. it looked like a lizard's head....and because i didn't turn on the big light i wasn't sure so i took my eyes away from the mirror, switched on the big light and when i turned back.. it was gone... and then it was dinner time already...

So after dinner i went to my room again coz i still hadn't showered.. and as i walked to the toilet... there was a piece of lizard poo! hrmph.....!!!!

since i couldn't see the lizard at that time i thought i'd just dump the poo.. i used a receipt to scoop it and threw it into the toilet bowl.. so i had to get rid of the now tainted receipt and as soon as i approached the dustbin.. there it was.. the creature that decided to poo in front of my toilet..

both the lizard and i knew that the lizard was doomed...

but it helped me to doomify it.. oh yes it did... it was silly enough to crawl into the toilet.. the toilet where i could close the door and minimise my target's running area... the toilet where i have weapons (broom, bucket, hose) ..

I must admit i had a more interesting time with this fella... i tried using only the bucket but it was fast... then i used the broom.. but it didn't receive critical damage.. then when i used the hose.. oh ho ho...

long story short.. in the end i caught it with a plastic bag.. and showed my victim to my parents and once again.. they were so proud of my lizard catching skill XD ..

i think now i truly believe that each and every one of us has a special talent...

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tired....

uggh... i think i'm sick of driving even before i take my exam...

but first... today the world became smaller again XD ..

i took my driving trial exam today.. the guy picked me up and we went all the way to southern park so i thought we must be picking someone else up... and that someone else turned out to be Lay Yi..haha... maybe Klang is just too small lah -.- ...

Anyways.. i think the guy who conducted my trial took a lot of shortcuts.. he didn't even let me do the hill, the side parking and the 3 point turn.. just on the road..
but after my trial the guy who teaches me driving (sadly having the same name as my bro so i call him uncle instead of his name though he is not very old and HE WORE A CHELSEA JERSEY ON THE FIRST DAY hrmph..) told me to stay on and we'll have our lesson..

so it has been a very long and tiring day.. a day of dehydration.. a day of very many turns.. and i think i'm quite a careless driver -.- ..

i'm just saying.. if i had the chance to plan the roads of an area i will minimise the number of roundabouts... hmph! .. i hate roundabouts.. i hate roundabouts with very many lorries.. i hate impatient and not understanding drivers and i hate motorcycles that creep up by my side :( ..

i think i fail as a driver too D: ...

but i'm not giving up that easily, not on driving!! *roarrr!!*


-llen-

and the world gets even smaller....

When i first started taking piano lessons it was at a music school.. Bro made a few friends coz they were all boys and i would just watch and listen to them chatter.. there was Cai Yi but i rarely saw her and i only knew her coz our mums are friends...

Then one day a brother and a sister joined our time slot.. i wouldn't say class coz the system works like someone will play first while the rest do theory and we take turns like that.. but we're not exactly at the same pace in our lessons...

The guy was Jia Kai and i never knew his sister's name -.- .. his sis and i were the only girls in that time slot so i at least had a female friend..back then bro and i weren't good buddies yet anyway..

So our time slot now consisted of 3 pairs of siblings.. Bro and me, Sheng Fei and his bro, Jia Kai and sis.. though not long after that we all went our separate ways.. the rest of them left the music school much earlier and we lost contact..

but here's how small the world would become...

First day of Form 1 i spotted Cai Yi...
In Form 3 i was in the same class as Sheng Fei -.- ...
And then i found out Jia Kai was in kwang hua too...

Fast forward to today... I was at piano class but today's was a bit special.. teacher gathered the grade 5 to grade 8 students and we had aural class..

I've heard teacher call a girl Jia Xuan before but i never looked at her properly.. it never crossed my mind that Jia Kai's sis was Jia Xuan.. and this Jia Xuan person sat beside me today..
when i got home i wondered.. could it be???? and i checked on facebook and *gasp* it was her... O.O ...

i wonder how all this works.. coincidence? or is it like how in those tv series when you think a certain character is out of the main character's life but suddenly they come back! XD ...


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Starbucks..

now open at Setia Alam! Drive -thru style...

I love Coffee Bean.. i really do.. to me, they're better than Starbucks... it's all about the oomph factor! Coz Coffee Bean is the real deal! you can taste the coffee in a mocha latte whereas starbucks has less of that coffee flavour -.- .. but not everyone likes their mocha full of coffee flavour so maybe that's why the general population like Starbucks *shrug* .. but i'm just saying.. for the real coffee experience, go for Coffee Bean!!

But since Starbucks is all around i've gotten used to settling for Starbucks.. and since it was new at Setia we went :) ..

It's more spacious than the other Starbucks i've seen.. and their counter top is made of reclaimed railroad something...sorry i forgot :/ ..
I asked bro to go through the drive thru but he doesn't like drive thrus.. Even if he wanted to get something from McD and he's alone he won't go for the drive thru coz he said "I don't wanna be talking to a machine" ... -.-.. ughh.. weirdo..

Anyways..it was one of the ok Starbucks experiences i suppose.. coz i've had really happy Starbucks moments and really horrible ones before.. and since it's so near we won't have to go all the way to Centro to get Starbucks anymore :D ..

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MBO..

now open at Harbour Place!! :)

I've never been to an MBO cinema before and i didn't know they'd be open at Harbour Place so soon..

Since bro's best buds are over at the other side of Klang and MBO was open they went there for a movie and bro came home so happy..
He was just saying the other day that the 3D technology we have in Malaysia is not really worth paying that extra bit to watch..apparently he did some research before making that statement.. BUT.. after he watched Despicable Me at MBO he told me to watch there.. he didn't know if it was because the screen is new but he just said he liked the experience..

So.. cousin CK, bro and i went to harbour place yesterday :) ..

As you go up the parking there are pictures of whales and fishes on the wall.. haha.. and we are quite a childish lot so we started...

Me: Fishy!!
CK: Whale!!
Me: Fishy!!
CK: Whale!!

and then bro was feeling kinda sad coz he said when he came with his friends and started to say fish and whale aloud his friends gave him the -.- look and called him childish..hehe.. i went with the right crowd :D ..

At the moment there's nothing at harbour place except for the cinema on the 7th floor.. ohh wait, there is a cafe on the ground floor called Geylang something.. :/ ..erm.. Geylang famous for food meh? ._.

Anyways.. back to MBO.. it's so new it has that new place smell..and it's so new that the 3 of us were the only people watching Despicable Me at the time -.- .. their ticketing counter is nicer than gsc or tgv.. their popcorn is not nicer than tgv or gsc though.. and i wish they'd clean their 3D glasses coz when i put mine on it was quite blurry due to dirt..

So back to the 3D experience... i've only watched Avatar and Despicable Me in 3D.. and i don't know if it will be fair for me to make the comparison because when i watched Avatar i was at the row furthest from the screen .. when i watched Despicable Me i was right at the center..
so unless it is proven that distance does not affect the 3D experience, MBO at harbour place wins ! coz when i watched avatar i didn't feel much of the 3D-ness..

And something to remember.. if you normally wear glasses but have a pair of contact lens.. do remember to wear the contact lens coz 3D glasses aren't like lab goggles that fit nicely over your glasses -.- .. haih.. now i even fail as a 3D movie watcher..

And how was Despicable Me? It was adorable :3 .. so adorable that i feel the need to get a unicorn toy..a big fluffy one! or or.. an Agnes toy.. XD ..

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Gua Ma, le ho bo?

That means, " grandma, how are you?"

I'm not really close to my grandma as in we don't say much to each other. Mostly because I don't understand what she says and she doesn't speak anything other than hokkien. Nonetheless, i realise it's important to pay her a visit now and then because she's family and i know she likes me very much :) .. I'm not being "perasan" here but i KNOW she likes me..haha.. and how do i know?

When we were very much younger everytime we visit her she'd grab my hand and stroke it and say "ah ge..." And she doesn't do that to my brother and for all i know my cousins don't get that kinda treatment -.- .. She stopped doing that when i cut my hair super short i think..haha.. I found it kinda creepy for her to do that but i wasn't going to stop her from showing her affection the only way she knew how so i just let her stroke my hand...

And another proof is she used to go to the market and buy a lot of things that aren't necessary.. Like she'd buy a whole lot of towels and a whole lot of scissors of varying sizes.. And she'd keep them in her room..
So one day there were termites or something and my mum and her sisters went back to grandma's house to clear up her stuff and when they found all that stuff they were thinking "oh gosh.. why did she buy all this stuff??" And when mum wanted to take it home grandma was kinda reluctant to give it up but when mum told her she'd bring it back for me..grandma let mum take back a whole lot of stuff.. -.- ...

Anyways, this year the last time i paid her a visit was during chinese new year so i thought it's about time to go see how she's doing.. And what she did today was even more freaky :S ..

She came out from her room and i put her stool there for her to sit.. Then she just sat there and stared at me... even when mum talked to her she didn't really pay attention but she just stared... then when i looked at her she looked like she was gonna smile.. then suddenly looked like she was gonna cry.. o.O .. i was wondering "what in the world did i do wrong???"

So i told mum : "ask her if it's because i look like you?"

Then mum asked and grandma kinda laughed and said i became prettier and also because i look like my mum ._. .. although that was very nice of her to say...


But it's still very freaky for her to stare up and down >< ..

But after saying all this.. she's the only grandparent i have left and she's already 90 :O .. so i should just be a good grandaughter and let her stare at me -.- ..

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holidays are meant for sleeping late..

Or so i thought -.- ..

I've been sleeping pretty late and waking up late also and i assume i have the right to do that since it's the holidays..

BUT I WAS WRONG...

sleeping at 4 and waking up around 12 is apparently unacceptable behaviour.. thus i get lectured day in day out...*sigh* .. and i've been told i should get 8 hours of sleep -.- ..



Apart from that i seem to be off track from my holiday missions... :/ .. and and.. it's almost mid-july!?!?!?

When i graduated i was thinking "hah!.. i have such a long holiday i'll definitely be able to finish my holiday goals before my results are out *feeling pumped*... "

but now it seems after all my slacking and getting side-tracked from my holiday goals i seem to have very little time to complete my goals :/ .. it's time for a change!!



after world cup lah (though i haven't been watching much.. i dunno why the football fever didn't really hit me hard) ... XD .. after the final match i will sleep early and wake early :)

ooh.. and i realised i still have penang-langkawi left over to blog about :p ...


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why i fail as a pianist..

These failure posts may become a regular feature here XD..

My teacher organised a trial exam today coz her friend who is a music lecturer in UK is back here in Malaysia..

I was a little late and while i was in the car i thought "hey, i'm not nervous this time!"

But as soon as i went in, my hands froze up even though the air conditioner was off.. and i started getting stuck here stuck there... fingers seem to tangle.. and i don't understand why i still can't get used to my teacher's piano.. urghh... add all those onto the unprepared-ness and you have yourself an earsore..

If i'm lucky my nervouseness will lessen when it comes to the 2nd song..
but today, the nervousness didn't stop until i walked out of the room... :/ ..

I think he was very kind and patient coz he didn't stop me even with all my mistakes and getting stuck..

Piano exams have always been this way for me.. except one year which i was very prepared for.. it's best that i memorise the songs totally coz i can't think when i play... the times when i can play smoothly are when my mind is a COMPLETE blank while i'm playing...

So until i get over my stage fright i'm always gonna be a failed pianist ._. ..

And the funny thing was, i went straight to my piano when i got home and tried my exam pieces and i could play them just fine -.- ... pif..


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why i fail as a girl...

1/7/2010..
Sales are going on in most places now and since bro and dad were away, mum suggested i go with her to midvalley..

Managed to get quite a bit of stuff.. :)

Today is the first time i managed to get something from Nichii.. when i first saw it on the rack i thought : "Hey.. this looks like a pretty cool long top.. and it's on a 10% discount!..."

Then i tried it on and i thought : "ooh... it fits quite well and the structure of it hides my fats..yay :D "

Then it was bought.. and when i went home and re-tried it for mum to see..she said : "ehh...i think that's a minidress lahhhh"


and then i realised it most probably is because.... it was on the same rack as other minidresses... D: ..

and that's why i fail as a girl -.- ..



but screw labels!! i'm still gonna wear it with trousers and call it a long top :P

-llen-

*GASP*

July already????



bro won't be able to end his age with the suffix "-teen" anymore starting this month XD..

and damn it.. his birthday falls on bon odori.. the only year i will have time to go and people to go with :/ ...

i smell gatherings this month!! since there's people coming back and people on holiday :D

may July be a better month than June..
not that June wasn't great but these past few days i've been feeling unexplainably down...

July means being closer to August... may July pass in a flash so i can finally clear some uncertainty out of my life...


"I hate all this uncertainty" -Rex the Dinosaur
:P


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