I've finally found time to personalize my blog's header.

Snowy Christmas is not what I've imagined it to be. Not the beautiful pure white Christmas day that I've always dreamed of. Actually turns out to be the direct opposite. 

(work in progress)

A little something something that I designed and make while I was buried at home under the snow

31st October, Halloween, everyone is out either in weird funky costumes or just plain everyday clothes, who cares but everyone is out and so were we. It was fun watching people in costumes. Those costumes ranges from really cool Wonder Woman outfit to a brown paper bag from the grocery stores with 2 holes :D ...But I really have to apologize here cause I was too busy "people watching" that I forgot to bust out my bulky camera from my bag to snap some pictures for you. Oh! In case you're wondering if I dress up, yes I did dress up but in a dress and not a costume. I was too lazy to go shop for one and I guess I wasn't particularly feeling adventurous that night.

We hung out at a lounge called Ohana so we can have drinks and music while we "people watch". When we decided to hop to another lounge, we were greeted with part of the road being sealed off by the police outside the bar. Apparently there were some shooting going on right outside the bar on the road. Wow! Ohana must have been really loud and we must've been too busy checking out the costumes that we didn't even hear the gunshots. A woman was shot in the face and a man was shot in the leg near the groin area (Ouch!). Both are listed in critical conditions. http://www.komonews.com/news/33692329.html.
That's not all, a 61 yo man set himself on fire on the same night in UW and another shooting at the same time near Garfield HS. That sure was one hell of a Halloween and good thing I was sitting comfortably in Ohana while the shooting happened and not bar hopping, else I might have been the one shot in the face *shivers*.

That's our future room and DIY renovation is in progress. We have been working on it for a month now and hopefully it'll be completed in another 3 weeks time. I can't wait to move in because I love love love to have my own bathroom. The little wooden door in the 1st picture is the door to my own little bathroom. :D. We have another wooden door that leads to the rest of the house and a glass panel sliding door that opens up to the backyard. Cool huh?

Anyway here's the work we've accomplished so far:

1. Scraping off the "Popcorn" ceiling
2. Filling up cracks on the ceiling
3. Painting the ceiling. We chose pale yellow to go with the new wall colors
4. Removing the old wall edging strips/wall trims
5. Replacing the old wall with new ones. As you can see from the 2nd picture, the old wall is the white area in the picture with small little holes texture. We thought it looks kinda weird and painting it would be a toughie
6. Painting the walls. We chose bright orange and dark chocolate for the walls to create a little bright and dark contrast as we didn't want the room to be too bright nor too dark
7. Fixing the new little edging strips from hell!!! Man, taking them out was so easy but putting them back was tough as hell. The toughest part is getting the angles and measurements right. So next time, when your contractor charges you a little more for the edges, don't complain
8. Painted the edging strips from hell white

And that's all for now.

Stay tuned for more info as we progress further in the makeover project.

11th of Oct 2008 -We are finally pronounced as husband and wife in a beautiful court room on a bright and sunny day :D

It was a joyful day joined by my mother-in-law, father-in-law and 2 little brothers. Though my own family couldn't be with me, I know I have their blessings and love with me.

The Judge who performed our marriage registration ceremony is wonderful. She shared with us some very beautiful poems. It was so touching, it brought tears to my eyes. Our little ceremony was accompanied with bubbles and yummy Hershey's Kisses, all thanks to the Judge.

It was a beautiful day and I have my husband to thank for making it all happen and for bringing me such wonderful joys.

This past few days I've finally learn the lesson to never over indulged...the hard way >< ... and still learning it, the HARD WAY. YES! INDIGESTION, from OVEREATING! WTF right? The day right after my little Raya dinner: Tummy a little bloated but I thought I should be fine. Probably just a little indigestion since I always have the tendency to overeat and suffers a little indigestion. So I eat more and more and more. The result: NOT GOOD...diarrhea, nausea and so much gas I swear I would explode! Took some medicine and applied some ointment then go to bed.

Next day: Wokie dokie, I think I feel a little better today and I'll continue to be better plus I'm a little hungry. There you go, I eat again and again (rice, chips, bread, grapes, lotsa soy milk and many more, I can't remember) and as expected I'M DOOMED!

Till today: No longer overeats but yet still suffering. I even had to cancel my shopping trip in Oregon. That's the worst of all. Shopping -> price to pay for overeating -> definitely not worth it! I learn the lesson alright.

p/s: I can't even write right >< . Please pray that I get better....sobsobsob

First of all thousands of apologies for my MIA. Reason being, I was too busy preparing to visit Vietnam and move to Seattle and then got too busy trying to get settled down in Seattle. Now still busy with renovating my future room which will be highlighted in my later post. Now I bunk in MoofMoof's old room.

Okay a quick update of me here before I move on to my main topic:

Sept 02 : Flew to Saigon, Vietnam to visit MoofMoof's relatives
Sept 08 : Flew home to Seattle (new home lo)
Currently : Still in Seattle la, abo then >< :D
Oct 11 : Shall be my wedding registration day in King County Court House, 3rd Ave Downtown Seattle

Aite, back to my cerita:

Have been bising-bising hinting to MoofMoof for the past 2 days that Raya is here and I'm not home to go to all my dad's friends rumah terbuka for all those yummy kuih-muih, rendang, lemang and ketupat. So today MoofMoof suddenly messaged me on MSN while he was at work saying "Hey, lets have Malaysian food for dinner". I was obviously trying to hide my overexcited-ness by just saying "Really?" but padahal I was jumping like crazy in my room already. KK fast forward to dinner time.

Do not attempt to strike up a conversation on Skype, Live Messenger, Google Talk or any other IM application OR sign on your Facebook to scan through everyone's new pictures just glance at the updates while you're cooking, else you risk eating "Me + IM + Facebook + Cooking Pasta = Soggy UglyTasting Pasta". Urghhhhhhhh, what a BIG ewwwwwwwwww!

It's just toooooooooo ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww-ey that my camera won't even "chik chak" when I press the snap button. Can you imagine how ugly that marsh looking pasta is? You still want pictures? Tough Nougies! No pictures! Camera won't budge.

Lesson learned.

p/s: It is not the first time this has happened. There was another shrimpy incident (Shrimpy was meant for MoofMoof - he laughed so much he nearly wet his pants).

The wedding bells were ringing loud and clear (not mine yet) for Jo and Dave.

I've been to a number of weddings and seen a number of wedding pictures but I've not seen anything like Jo's. They have the sweetest and most adorable wackiest wedding ceremony I've ever seen. Here's why :

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(picture courtesy of Jo - edited by me)
Cheers to the most creative wedding costumes, The Bathrobes! And a matchy matchy pink scrunchie too :D...

Here I sincerely wish the newly wed a wonderful marriage and may they fall in love with each other many many times and always for the rest of their life.

For more of their wedding stories, you may swing by toothbrush42

~ This post is dedicated to my good friend Jo and her hubby Dave ~

Yesterday, 19th of July 2008, Penang celebrated O-Bon (Japanese Buddhist tradition to honor the departed soul of one's ancestor) in Esplanade. Bon Odori (Bon dance) festival, the brain child of the Japanese Expatriate & Immigrant's Society in Malaysia is a yearly event held in both Esplanade, Penang and Matsushita Corp Stadium, Selangor in conjunction with O-Bon.

Bon Odori Fest takes you on a ride of Japanese arts & dance with the plus bonus of yummo Japanese food and drinks (tako yaki being my personal favorite :D *drools*). People were swarming each and every stall (especially tako yaki stall!) heightening the risk of getting separated from M@rs and Yuki at the pizza stall your friends. Aside from buying, eating, and watching performances, youngs and olds are encouraged to join in the Bon Dance. Having the tummy filled and "saturday night fever" "Bon dance fever" quenched, everyone winds down to watch the spectacular fireworks display that marks the end of the Bon Odori Fest.

Here are some less spectacular pictures I took during the festival (starring MC, Yuki, Zeemi, M@rs and last but not least ME! only half my face is in the picture *sob*) :






This might be my last time enjoying the Bon Odori Festival in Malaysia...I wonder if they have it in Seattle...hmmm...

Words of him have been spreading far and wide. Every time I walk by, I peer into the glass searching for him. As always and without fail, he sits there looking as hot as ever. He makes my heart flutter, like a teenage girl falling in love. At the sight of him, I'm reduced to a mass of quivering jelly. The more I hear about him, the more I look at him, the more I long for him.

Today I ain't gonna run no more. I'm gonna make him mine and bring him home with me.

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I can't believe it! He's mine now and he's home with me. He's sitting in front of me, warm and ready. His nearness and the sweet-hot scent of him completely weakened my knees. I brought my lips close to him. Slowly parting my lips, bringing my mouth over him. As soon as we touched, my lust for him took over me. Losing self-control and losing all my senses, I grew more and more greedy as I tasted him. He explodes into a burst of sweetness and juiciness as I lick and bite. His crisps alone is overpowering. The world began to spiral around me, and I whirled around it, lost to the present, riding a timeless wave of utter satisfaction. Before long...


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I've come to completely devoured him,

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my Bo Lo Baau (Mr. Pineapple Bun)

(image courtesy of Jo Lynn)
Eh hamsap people (translation:perverts) , I was not screwing some random hunk I found in a store okay? I was just talking about me enjoying my favorite food, the Bo Lo Bauu. So shake those perverse thoughts out of your brain! =p

p/s: Wish I can feed on it as often as I want to but sadly it is just as fat as McFatty >.<

In conjunction with "Monika Wants To Know Your Favourite Food"

There are enough goodness to go around for everyone in life. Though most of the time we are too caught up in the buzz of life. Piles and piles of work and trains after trains of traffic engulfed all the goodness in us and around us. Day in and day out we complain, we whine of how pathetic our life is and how life is so unfair, how unfortunate we are and how lonely we are. Getting too preoccupied with our own emotional mumbo jumbo we forget about so many millions out there who are so much more unfortunate. Drowned by modernity and propagation of urban beliefs we lost our way. Gratitude and being blessed becomes an ancient feeling. I don't blame you for not seeing it. We all need to be reminded once in a while of the good things that are around us and of the good things we have in us. Whenever you feel less fortunate, picture the victims of Cyclone in Myanmar, Earthquake in Si Chuan and war infested countries. So many homeless and starving, striving hard to make by and yet feeling thankful each day for they are still alive.

It's time for us to go hand in hand and spread some love and kindness all around the world. You can always drop a kind contribution (it does not always has to be money, it can be in the form of support, skills or kind encouraging words as long as it brings a certain kind of comfort for the people in need) at http://www.tzuchi.org/global/ or any other voluntary foundation you believe in.

LETS LOVE AND BE LOVE!

Acknowledge it, embrace it and allow it to stream out steadily. Before you know it, you'll to be strong again. You can't be strong without being weak. Just like a snake, it's strong, agile and vicious but to grow stronger and bigger it has to shed it's skin. When it does, it goes limp, motionless and lifeless for some time. But once it recovers and once new skin comes around it becomes stronger and more powerful than ever before. Same goes to you and I and everyone else around the world.

So don't fret when you fall. See it, feel it and learn from it. Recover you will and better you will be.

Heya! I'm home! Miss me ke? Phew I'm brought back home by AirAsia.


Was so afraid they'll leave me in Singapore and separate me from my Mama and I'll go "Wa wa waaaaaaaaa bring me back to my Mama. I want my Mama" *stomping my feet on the ground*...Hehehe I'm just being dramatic. You know me, I get very drama when I'm over excited. Why? Because I went with an empty luggage and came back with an excess baggage =O ...I didn't only buy things I wanted to buy but I bought stuff that I accidentally stumble upon. Here's how it went...

On our way searching our way to Clark Quay
Me : Hey which way should we go?
Gaz : I think we should go...*trails off*
Sue : Hey I know, instead of taking the traffic lights, lets get across through that store and go straight...
All of Us: Wokie!

So there we go, trotting hastily towards the store hoping to get to Clark Quay ASAP BUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuT

Me : Wait wait wait! *Droools. Staring wide-eyed at the pretty red thing in front of me...Oooh come to mama, baby!*

Our mission to Clark Quay came to a halt! Sue and I began prancing in the store in green, red, pink, blue you name it we tried it shoes. A shoe lover like me can't resist slipping my feet into those gorgeous heels, can I? Orh lovely lovely shoes...I'm sure the store assistants would have chopped us, grind us into small little pieces and throw us into the river of Clark Quay to feed the fishes if we didn't end up buying something from the store. But of course a shoe hoarder can never come out from a shoe store empty handed right? teeheehee. So here's what mi got for miself :

looky looky me grinning so happily in my new red peep toes? and YES! I wore it immediately after I purchased it ^^. Ain't it adorable? Matches my dress perfectly :D

and ORH, look at that sexy green thing. Seriously, how can anyone not buy them?Arh the question mark? It's something I got for MoofMoof. He doesn't know what I got him yet so I shall not reveal it here either. Answers might be revealed in a month time, so stay tuned.Alrighty I didn't get the red hot pants (not hot enuff but didn't dare get any shorter pants since my legs *ahem* not that hot la yer) from the same store but I cannot not post it up here when it's such a great buy and oh so cute! too...only cost me SGD10...great buy kan?

I bought tons of other stuffs, mainly clothing. There are just too many of them that one page can hardly fit them all so am not gonna post it all up here ^^...Conclusion = I burn a big hole in my purse once again (erm...more like MoofMoof's pocket ehehehe =p) *wink wink...flashing my innocent kitty smile*

p/s: Thanks baby! (have to show gratitude la kan?)

Teehehehe , not exactly gone with the wind but more like gone with AirAsia. I'll be flying down to Singapore day after today to be with my God-Family and to meet my friends. This would be my last visit...well at least the last for the near few years. I can't just hop back and forth from Seattle to Singapore now, can I? While I'm still in Penang, I wanna make good use of the time I have to visit friends and family near and a little far from home.

As this little trip is meant for visiting, I might not be able to pop in here as often to scribble down my nonsensicality. All the same I'll still attempt to creep in once in a while ^^ ... Wish me a great weekend! See ya!

I don't know about you, but the click-clacking sound of me typing furiously on my keyboard, word after word, phrase after phrase and sentence after sentence is kind of sedative and keeps me addicted to blogging. The sheer excitement of receiving comments (good or bad) and replying them just heightens my addiction ecstatically. Most importantly having the freedom to write about my thoughts freely is really what keeps me going. Lately I've found yet another reason that drives me to blog more actively, SocialSpark. The review of SocialSpark on Perky's blog triggers my interest to find out more about it. After some googling and poking around the search engine, I find SocialSpark to be quite amusing and thus decided to get my hands dirty on it and finding myself hooked!


SocialSpark is the creative new baby of IZEA (those of you who has come across PayPerPost, Zookoda, Bloggers Choice Awards and RockStartup might be familiar with the name, IZEA). The craze of social networking is now taken up one notch by SocialSpark with the infusion of the marketing element. Besides allowing bloggers to build networks, it now allows the intuitive interactions between bloggers and advertisers. Bloggers-advertisers relationship brought closer. Isn't this refreshing?

(the marketplace)
(elaborated details on an opportunity)
What appeals to me most is the abundance of opportunities on SocialSpark. It provides me with lots of ideas and materials to write about. Selecting and streamlining opportunities in the marketplace is a breeze. You can tell instantly whether an opportunity is open and if you're qualified to write about it. With a click of mouse, you'll get an elaborated details and guidelines on writing about the opportunity. Besides that, there's a section called Spark which is basically a pool of ideas for bloggers who are drained out of ideas. This comes in handy for me from time to time when I have a major brain-clog.

(detailed demographic of blog's traffic)
Another interesting feature of SocialSpark has to be the detailed demographic of your blog's traffic. It displays the statistic of the traffic to your blog by country, shows the top referrers and top outgoing links and even the breakdown of your readers' gender. Simply amazing huh?

Oh, if you're good at what you do, you get paid additional bonuses each month but of course you got to be one of the BEST. That said, it still does give you more motivation to write better, doesn't it? Just be sure to be true in what you do and go by the SocialSpark Code Of Ethnics:
- 100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
- 100% Transparency
- 100% Real Opinions
- 100% Search Engine Friendly

So guys what are you waiting for? Hurry up and click HERE to sign yourself up with SocialSpark.

Today I read the most beautifully written post it made me cry. It was written by MoofMoof. It's his first post in his first blog. It definitely isn't a bias opinion. It was written so sincerely it truly reflects his reflections. I'm so touched, I'm utterly speechless...

Have you ever had someone saying to you, "I don't know how to tell him/her but I really don't think it's gonna work out between me and him/her anymore. Is there a way I can tell him/her without hurting him/her?".

Dear lord, every time someone pops that question, I am so ever tempted to pull my baseball bat out of the secret compartment from my evil head and swing it right at his/her face and scream at his/her face; "What are you dumb or retarded?! What kinda fxckshit question are you asking?". Seriously there is no where in hell that you'll find a way to break up with someone without hurting them. Only way to not hurt them is suck whatever misery you have in the relationship out of your dumb brain and chuck it up your ass and hold his/her hands and pretend everything is peachy perfect. Yes, you're dumb the minute that question pops into your head and you're just about to spill it right out in your bestie's face.

That being said, I do not think all breakups have to be bad or ugly up to the point where you can't even be distant friends. Of course it's gonna hurt no matter how you lay it out but at least bring out some honesty and tell him/her how you really feel. Don't be fake in whatever you do. Try to break it off honestly and maturely so both of you can move on with your life until someone better suited comes along. If he/she has questions, do answer them fairly without engaging in any form of blame-finding game. Oftentimes there are faults in both sides that wrecks the relationship. Just remember to be kind and compassionate. The sooner you do it, the sooner he or she can heal and move on with their life. Good luck to those of you who are plotting a breakup plan. *I'm no professor in the game of love. In all the trips and rides of my life, I took some wrong turns and lost my way. I found my way back but I cannot be certain that I'll never get lost. However, lessons will be learned and life shall move on.*

To those of you jerks out there who are too much of a chicken to do it yourself and hoping silently that he/she will hit the road, and fast. You can now hope out loud. Here's a couple of tips I gather from magazines and websites (well I tweak them a little and I sprinkled some of my dark evil spices into the soon-to-be-breakup potion for more intense flavor) that you might consider useful:

1. When you're taking a crap or a leak, purposely leave the door open and Work It Baby! Do it like you mean it! Make a good show out of it and make sure he/she hears them good.
2. Pee repeatedly on the seat and do not flush - it usually only works if you're a guy
3. Pick your nose on a date and proceed with feeding him/her that prawn you peel specially for.
4. Tell your partner that he/she reminds you of your high school sweetheart. Do not forget to throw in some juicy details that what they both have in common throws you off your chair and turns you on in rocket time.
5. Ask her to get a breast enlargement or ask him to get a dick enlargement.

Those are my top 5 favorites and I kinda think it might actually work if you really wanna try it out but I truly do not recommend it unless you're really out of choices. They are purely just for laughs. Hope you guys enjoy it.

The little baby girl, dressed in a white sleeveless top, a white little shorts, flashing her bright innocent smile and her tiny little hands reaching out excitedly, sitting in between her proud parents. She's their little angel sent from heaven. She's their pride, their first-born, their hope, who shall realize the dream they never had a chance to make come true. They took care of her with much love and commitment, giving her the best they could provide. Buying her the most expensive dresses they can afford even if it meant no new clothes for them. Always providing her with the best quality healthy food they can find even when it comes to junkies. No chick-a-dees for her, it's bad for her. She must have good quality junkies. She is their precious little girl after all. She loves to snuggle close to her mommy and daddy especially daddy and make them play with her. She loves to sleep between them in the middle of the night. That way she feels safe and away from the scary monsters that in reality only lurks around in nightmare.

But the girl was not strong enough. She's always sick, always down with high fever and stomach flu. That makes mommy and daddy worry all the time. Every time they see their little baby girl lying frailly on her bed, it pains them so much tears well up in their eyes. When the girl was crying with pain, they wish they could take the pain onto themselves and make hers go away. They take turn to stay up at night to make sure little baby girl is fine and gets her medicine on time and pray for her to get better soon. Mommy and daddy always check on her and tug her in her blankie so she doesn't get a cold.

They love her so much they bring her along wherever they go. Although they were not well-off, they try to save up as much as they could of their meager income just so they can bring her out of country on a vacation. Furthest they've gone is to Bangkok. It was a bumpy 12 hours long train ride. Daddy had to sleep on the upper bunk where his head was found bruised the next morning from the endless bumping on the train wall. Nevertheless it was a very happy and memorable trip for the 3 of them.

From all the love and care they gave her, she grows really fast, day after day, years after years. Soon she's grown into a strong active teenage girl. Now she pains them more. Not because she's ill again but because she has transform into a little monster from her little angel form. Now she thinks their love is a prison, their words an awful song, their advices full of bullshits and their everything are just painstakingly annoying. She resent everything they say or do. She goes against everything that they say or warn. She secretly skip school, secretly goes to party and she secretly dates a guy and secretly bring him to her house when they are not around. Secretly had her first kiss with her first boyfriend and secretly break it off without them knowing he ever existed. She threatened them by running away from home. Cause so much pain that her father cried out loud for the first time in fear of losing her daughter forever. That was the first time she made him cried so hard.

Then a few years later, despite all her spitefulness and playfulness she manage to graduate from high school and was accepted into the national University which had her parents brimming with pride every time they tell someone about it. But those grad school years was not smooth sailing. She left a good boy for some jackass whom she thought was an angel at the time. This time around she caused her mommy and daddy to cry real hard for the second time because her stupid decisions nearly caused her life following the worse breakup ever in her life. She refused to eat, to go out, she just stays at home and do nothing all the time. Whenever they look into her eyes, the lights grew dimmer and dimmer. She no longer cry, she no longer speak, she just sits and stare. The sight of her sitting lifelessly staring into blank space brought a tremendous pain and sadness in their heart. They drop everything at hand, rushed over to hug her, to tell her that everything is going to be alright, that no matter what happen they will always be the one who will support her and love her and care for her. Even when everyone has left her, they will not, for her, they will always be around. That little gesture finally brought tears into her eyes again. They were gushing out freely. A sense of warmth and hope embraced her and once again she can feel safe cause no matter what, she knows her family will always be there to back her up. With their support, she managed to go back to school and graduate remarkably.

Now the girl is a grown woman. She has a lot to thank her wonderful parents for. For giving her a wonderful life, for teaching her life lessons she'll never get to learn elsewhere, for teaching her to love, to respect and to care for people all around. Most of all she wants to thank her mommy and daddy for loving her all her life and for not giving up on her when she was clearly a pain in the ass. It is now time for her to move on into a new chapter of her life, to leave home, to travel thousands of miles away to be with her one true love, to start her own family and to someday pass down to her children what her great parents had taught her. Here she sits with tears brimming in her eyes looking into the picture of the little baby girl with her white sleeveless top and white shorts sitting in between her mommy and daddy who were smiling proudly into the camera. She will truly miss them, miss all those wonderful years that they had together. She will miss talking to them, miss them nagging her all the time, miss arguing with them and most of all she simply miss spending time with them. What more can she ask, they were the most wonderful gift that is bestow on her.

"Daddy, mommy, thanks for everything you've given me. Sorry for all the pain I've caused you time after time and thank you for forgiving me each and every time. I love you very much and I will always miss you both."

First of all, thousands of apologies for not having updated my bloggie for centuries. Been real busy collecting various documents for my visa application which fortunately and with much reliefs are finally almost done.

Anyway, I was down in Kay-EL last Thursday to collect my final piece of paper. My stay there extended for another 3 days for the sole purpose of blowing a humongous hole in my savings to the point of having to squeeze every last bit of the juices left in my savings. What can I say, I'm an impulse shopper after all. When I don't shop, I don't spend a penny but when I do shop, expect a catastrophic impact to my financial status >.< ... ok, here goes my transactions history by order:
Thursday, 19/06/2008, Butterworth
MYR82 - Gas at Caltex + 1 bottle of 100Plus (100Plus is a must on each and every one of my long distance drive, it keeps me going *ooh I wonder if F&N will pay me for this hehehe*)
MYR100 - Reload my Touch 'n Go
Thursday, 19/06/2008, 1 Utama
MYR29.90 - A white heel from Vincci (more stories to come on this)
MYR.IDK(I Don't Know aka I can't remember) - Boneless chicken in lemon cream sauce in Dave's Deli (ate everything except for the coleslaw and some peas I guess. Had to ask Mangkuk to wallop them all)
MYR199 - A summer trench coat from Forever21 (a tad too expensive though but I didn't regret it cause I've been eyeing it for a week)

Friday, 20/06/2008, Putrajaya (Wisma Putra)
MYR10 - Fee for the Foreign Ministry's stamp on my Letter Of Single Status (Why would I need that? Well I need to prove that I'm single and available to be married to MoofMoof in US)
Friday, 20/06/2008, The Curve
MYR29 - Lunchie at Sakae Sushi
MYR144 - 1 Slim Fit Jeans + 1 Cardigan from MNG aka Mango (HOT HOT HOT, They are real HOT and I do hope I look HOT in them too tehehe)
MYR19.80 - 2 Spaghetti Straps from Nichii (cheap and awesome ~ good buy, good quality and best of all MoofMoof thinks they are sexy!)
MYR.FOC - Pancakes with nuts, honey, strawberry and chocolate honeycomb butter in Paddington House of Pancakes (they were yummylicious, makes me wanna make some *debating whether I should head to Carrefour for some pancakes ingredients later. Pergi ke tak pergi yer?*)
Friday, 20/06/2008, Power Centre Ikano
MYR45 - Another sandal (a very comfortable pair) from Vincci (was wearing the new one I bought the day before and my feet was beginning to peel off >.<)
Friday, 20/06/2008, Back to The Curve
MYR24 - Caeser Salad and Giant Seafood Platter in Manhattan FishMarket (finger licking good but the 4 of us couldn't finish it)
MYR29 - 4 tube tops (3blacks and 1white. The MakCik tells Magpie that "Kite mesti percaya diri. MakCik pun pakai tube tu. Ingat tau, mesti percaya diri" when Magpie was doubting if she could fit into the tube tops. Man the makcik is real cool. She was wearing a baju kurung at that time and I was wondering how would she look in those tube tops o.O. Probably I can spot her in tubes in Laundry Bar later at night)
MYR.IDK - 1 Cosmopolitan in Laundry Bar (1 is never enough. Wish I had more but we had to head home soon since all of us were burned from too much shopping)

Saturday, 21/06/2008, Balakong's JayaJusco
MYR.IDK - HongKong style fried beef spaghetti + Cold honey lemon juice in Food&Tea (I don't even know if I remember the name of the food joint correctly)
MYR70++ - Thai massage in Thai Odyssey (Masseuse: Ok na? Me: No!no!no! not ok, no hard.Gentle,gentle pleaseeee *sweats*)
MYR54.50 - Jacket from PDI (it was on sale for half the price and I bought it just for the sake of going to a movie since I was wearing my spaghetti strap at the time and I don't enjoy freezing to death in the cinema *a very good excuse to shop more eh?*)
Saturday, 21/06/2008, The Mines
MYR.IDK - KungFu Panda in TGV (it was hella hilarious. was laughing throughout the whole movie. Tears even came out from excessive laughing)
MYR.IDK - Dinner Set in Esquire Chicken (Lou Wong Kua soup, Stir Fry French Beans, Fa Kuin aka plain Pou, pork in ginger vinegar soy sauce gravy and another pork dishes with veges. It was unbelievable cause the two of us manage to finish all of it O.o)

Sunday, 22/06/2008, Balakong
MYR30 - Reload Phone credit in 7-11
MYR42 - Gas at Shell + 1 bottle of 100Plus (see, I told you, I need a bottle of 100Plus for each and every one of my long journey drive)
Sunday, 22/06/2008, Restoran Jambatan Sungai Buloh
MYR9 - 1 Zinger value meal (that's my lunch before heading back to Butterworth and I had to eat them in my car cause all my valuables are in my car including my laptop and the stuff that I shopped. Luckily MoofMoof was there to talk to me on the phone so lunch in the car wasn't that bad after all)

ESTIMATED TOTAL EXPENDITURE ~ about MYR1000 = MAN I'M SO SO SO DEAD AND BROKE. KERING SO KERING!!!

By the way it was a great pleasure to meet up with Perky and Bibik Nyonya on Thursday, thanks to BigFatWitch. They are a lot of fun to hang out with.

Looking forward to another awesome weekend! I hear it's gonna be FUEL this round.

You know, I've been trying to write these couple of days. There are so many things I wanna write about, it's not like I couldn't crack anything out of my mind but I just didn't have the heart to do so. So many things have been boggling me, boggling me deep into the core of my brain. So many questions I need answers to and yet none answered. At times I just feel like running away from all of these but rationally and logically I know that running away isn't going to solve anything in the long run and I have to be brave and upfront in facing the reality or whatever it is that is laid down perfectly in front of me with the irresistible life dressing. True enough but yet I couldn't rid off the temptation of running from reality and thus I ended up anesthetizing myself with lots and lots of sleep that I no longer know which is day or which is night.

I don't know if it's anyone's fault anymore or is it just mea culpa. Is life suppose to be like this, I ask myself quite often. One tragic event after another? I'd like to think that I'm scrappy. I used to think I am but now I'm not too sure anymore. I'm beginning to doubt my spirit in life, to doubt everything. Has the life in me slipping slowly away, draining me dry? Yet, at times I feel so alive! Orh darn, LIFE is so complicated! I hate it and yet I love it. Geez I wish I can just melt and dissolve into the ground into nothingness. Vanished from the face of earth, the most brutal battling arena in the whole universe. Period.

This post is specially dedicated to Mangkuk because it's Mangkuk's much loved topic of all time. It is bound to surface in each and every conversation you have with her. Big Fat Witch will definitely agree with me. Don't you?

Was writing a post for my blog (the one i posted up before this) when suddenly I heard mom shouting from outside my room:

"OMG! OMG! Roccio is running like mad, fleeing for life! Come look at this! Hurry up everyone come look! This is so unusual! OMG!"

Panicked, afraid that something bad has happened to Roccio, I dropped everything at hand and ran out of my room to see what was all the commotion about.

As soon as I reached the crime scene, guess what I saw?

For those faint-hearted please read no further.

For those who can barely take a second helping of your food at the mere mention of maggots, lizards, roaches and the likes please venture no further.

But for those of you who thinks you're brave enough to challenge your guts, be my guest
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(first thing that came to my mind when I saw this ~ "I need my camera" *ewwwww* Mom said "Drop it will ya, you're one disgusting idiot!" Muahaha I guess I am and a very sick one too)

(2nd thing that came to my mind ~ "Only the thang in the pic isn't gonna prove anything. Hmmm...so maybe a bowl will do" *grabs the nearest bowl I can get and snap snap snap*)

(My lil bro, Dorky says "I think a ruler would be better. At least it's measurable". For the first time in my life, I said "Damn, you're smart after all!" *grabs a ruler, place it there and snaps the picture happily, beaming with pride thinking it's the accomplishment of the day!*)

What a piece of shyt huh? But still I bet it's not long enough to beat someone else's piece of shyt (you know who you are when you see this)

Okay, I admit this post is disgusting but heck that's what you get when a person is jobless and has too much time at hands.

15th of May 2008 was a memorable date. It's the 1st Anniversary for MoofMoof and I. However we didn't officially became an item on that day. We chose to celebrate on that day because :-

1. Neither of us can recall when was the very day we finally hooked up (don't ask me why, it's a long long story)
2. It's mom's birthday so it's easier on our scatty brain.

Although he's halfway around the world, that didn't stop us from celebrating the day two souls united in love bonded in destiny.

That very morning, MoofMoof blew my heart and took my breath away. Just when I thought things can't get any sweeter or any more romantic than that, he would just whoop something right up to sweep me off the ground again. Yea, he sent me a parcel of love. Right then I know I'm the luckiest girl to have found the sweetest guy <3.


(The most wonderful parcel I've ever received)

(Isn't this adorable? A handmade necklace and bracelet and 2 of his most loved cutie keychains which he bought from Vietnam. Piggy keychain-->Me and Doggy keychain-->MoofMoof. Oh by the way he has the same exact bracelet except that it reads "I (LOVE) SAMANTHA" and he wears it everyday. *Melts my heart away*)

(A box full of handmade stars)

(I've received lots of handmade stars in the past but none like these ~ stars with hand-drawn pictures, they are uber cute. He sent 3 superheroes to protect me ~ Superman, Spiderman and Batman, can you spot them? Orh girls {you know who you are when it comes to Foster} if you're reading this can you spot a Foster star he sent, specially for all of us? *squeals excitedly*. Did any of you notice the piece of doodoo? I notice lotsa guys love to draw doodoo. Wonder why? Anyone?)

(The words say it all. Makes me cry when I read them. *rolls eyes*. Well don't look at me like that, I can't help it. I tend to have a soft spot for touchy stuffs like that. *rolls eyes again*)

(He was debating whether to give me lotsa kisses or just one kiss. There, he decided to give me a huge ass kiss!)

(MoofMoof's most fav moomoo or so he says. MoofMoof won it from the fair. He's a freaky froggy-like moomoo ~ "Hun, don't debate it cause you know it's freaky, even Ryan says so". But I still think it's super duper cute, just like you, freaky but super duper adorable *Runs for life before I get tickled to death*)

(And last but not least, how can a card not accompany so many loveable goodies. Not 1 but 2 CARDS! And they are handmade too! *Awwwww melts habis-habisan* , translation - fully melted, I think...hmm... *scratching head*)

See, how can I not say I'm the luckiest girl when a guy does so many many uber sweet confections? We spent the rest of the day babbling away ~ <3.

Omigosh! I kena usha today, WTF! Now I feel so dirty and depressed and I wanna slit my wrist and die. LOLZ okok I'm just kidding okay? I'm not suicidal and it's not so serious okay? If I am, I won't be sitting here posting this up okay? I'll be six feet under ground oledi! Or maybe still in the hospital waiting for the forensic fella to do a post-mortem.

Anihoo, back to the story ~ it was just 2 bugger on a bike took over me while I was cruising down the freeway in my hot chicka mini Ferrari...yea it's Ferrari okay? Don't pray pray ar! The passenger of the bike usha me lo. How sure am I that he is usha-ing me and not my car? Of course la, cause I'm definitely hotter than my car. According to my dear Big Fat Witch, I'm a Hot MAMA soon to be Hot Auntie. Okay, scrap the last part, I don't like Hot Auntie, Hot MAMA sounds nicer. Anyway the hamsap passenger usha me and tak cukup lagi, he tugged on his buddy's shirt and ask him to usha together-gether. Wah I was farking furious. I honked and honked and gave him the "Apa usha usha har, nak kena korek mate ke" look and he got so scared and peed in his pants. Hmm...Maybe I over exaggerate. Hehe me ain't so evil and fierce like a lioness okay? Although once in a while I can be lo so you better be careful ya. But this time I just gave them a smile before I cut into the right lane and sped off.

Well, I know la I cun and hot and anggun but please la wei, cherish your life okay? If not also, cherish others' life. Fixed your eyes on the road so you don't run your motor kerepot into the poor innocent car in front of you and I would definitely not fancy running over you two poor hamsap bugger either. I don't want to have sleepless nights just cause you both make headlines on the front page like "Nahas Akibat Si Anggun" or "Beauty and 2 Dead Buggers"..wah man that's a heavy guilt to bear okay? Guilty of being a beauty and then I'll have to pay gazillion dollars for a plastic surgery just to make me look ugly...eh but come to think of it, to make myself look ugly is not that hard after all hor? Just place my face on a waffle maker and forever I'll carry a waffle head lo...

Lesson of the day ~ Don't Stare and Drive (I mean focus on the road and drive and not something else okay?)

Weekend was one hell of a roller coaster ride. So many things had happen with so much emotion involved. Happy, sad, nervous, fear, worries, you name it I have it. Except for anger I guess.

May 10th 2008, woke up from my nap and as usual the first thing I do when I got up is to switch on my lappy. Login to Facebook and my email, saw nothing on Facebook but something in my mailbox caught my attention. It read “CRIS” which means it’s something from USCIS. Getting all jiggly and nervous I clicked open the email with my trembling hand and there it was sitting on my mailbox reading "On May 9, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)". I can’t believe what I saw. I had to rub my eyes twice and pinched myself a couple of times before I go ~ “Wuhoo! It’s real, it’s real! It is so so real! It’s finally happening!!!!!!!!!!”. Gotta tell Denny immediately, dialed his number so many times but that baka hubby of mine didn’t pick up his phone, so I had to call the house number. My sleepy Mama picked it up. Felt so sorry for waking her up but I had to get the happy news to Denny. It was the best news of the day. We talked happily about all the exciting things we’re gonna do when I’m there but then as sudden as the happy news came, I broke into tears. Overwhelmed by the sudden gush of sadness for having to leave my family behind I just couldn’t stop crying. It was a good thing that Denny was around assuring me that everything is going to be fine and we will come home to Penang often to visit my family and friends. Denny, thank you for your assuring words, for you love and care.

The following day, I was worried sick. Mom was admitted to the hospital with the docs not knowing what was wrong. They perform and ultrasound scan on mom and said it might be an inflation on her fallopian tube or a cyst or an inflation on her intestine but they couldn’t be sure until they perform a surgery on mom. I had to seek few doctors’ opinions and do so much research in a day to help my mom and dad decide which was the best option for her. I was able to convinced dad to ask the doctor to perform a laparoscopy on mom to inspect the affected area for the real culprit and removing the affected area using the same method and told the doctor to only opt for a more extensive surgery if the problem area is too complicated for laparoscopy. Mom went through the laparoscopy procedure late afternoon yesterday. What they found was a heavy cyst twisting the end of the right fallopian tube. The twisted fallopian tube was the culprit of the massive pain. They removed the cyst and the bad end of the fallopian tube and now mommy is better and recovering. Thank goodness!

As I was chatting with Denny, we stumbled upon what he ate for the day and 2% milk was mentioned. Hmm…was scratching my head, wondering what’s a 2% milk. Is it some kinda new dairy product with some fancy new milk-making technology? Does the milk contain only 2% milk? Then, what would the other 98% be? I’ve never heard of a 2% milk before, never ever in my life until then. It’s either that the term isn’t being used in Malaysia or I’m too ignorance to notice such a thing existed.

Okay to those who are just as lost as I am when it comes to what’s a 2% milk, here’s a little fact about it that I’ve googled up from the web.

The 2% refers to the percentage of fat by weight that the milk contains while normal full cream milk contains about 3.5% fat. 2% milk is often mistaken for low fat milk but in fact it can only be referred to as reduced-fat milk. 1 serving of 2% milk still contains 5g of fat that derives close to 35% of its’ calories from fat but to qualify as low fat milk, its’ total fat content must be 3g or less. So if you’re serious about eating a low fat diet, 2% milk isn’t gonna cut it, you’ll have to opt for 1% or best of all, go for fat free milk.

Well hopefully this tiny piece of information helps make you a smarter milk-shopper and not a dumb milk-shopper that I used to be. Does the milk contain only 2% milk? Duh! What a silly question to ask >.< …I’m such a DORK…

SEX is the passion of my life. I love SEX, I adore SEX and I crave for SEX. The mere mention of “SEX” sends a thrilling sensation down my spine. SEX not only makes me a happier person but it never failed to bust away all the nerve wrecking stress. SEX embraces my life with love and gives me the ultimate satisfaction in life. SEX injects warmth and comfort in my life, making me feel pampered and nice and makes my life so much more worth living for. OH! SEX is so orgasmic, it makes me feel like I’m high up in the sky, which is why it is so addictive. If I can, I’d love to have SEX all day long especially in the comfort of my room. Though I’ll have to admit that it’s not always carried out in the room.

What would be my best recipe or ingredients in my SEX life? Not too much and not too complicated I would say. Well here goes…all that I need to get me going at SEX are:

1. A firm bed or a mat big enough
2. Chocolates or ice cream
3. Good music.

It’s as simple as that. I’m absolutely sure that everyone loves a good SEX. No? You don’t agree? You’ll be lying if you say no.

By this time your brain must be working overtime thinking that I’m some slutty whore perv. If you’re actually thinking about that, then obviously your brain is darn murky, massively polluted by years of pornography and dirty little jokes that you throw at each other in your little toilet talks. Muahaha…alright it’s time to shed some lights, I’m talking bout SEX not sex. SEX is the abbreviation of Sleep, Eat, Xcercise. Further explanation of what I do for SEX:

1. A firm bed (to sleep) or a mat big enough (for pilates)
2. Chocolates or ice cream (isn’t it obvious?)
3. Good music. (for all, S, E and X)

That’s all I have for now and before I end I just wanna wish everyone, “Have a GOOD SEX!”

After a series of flake off for the past 3weeks or so, I told myself it's time to go hang out again. Sorry guys, I just had a very long downtime and productions just has to be shutdown...phew! luckily no millions were lost. Anyway we all agreed to hang out in Starbucks at the ever so famous AutoCity (btw, that's the only available so called "chic" place in town). Predictably there'll be at least one camera on hand during each outing. We minum kopi setarbak, chitty chatty and last but not least "chiak chiak chiak". What's "chiak chiak chiak"? o.O? It's not makan okay? It's the sound of our cameras trying really hard to do the Fatal Frames and the Zero Shots.

As meaty as I am, I still try my very best to strike my best pose that hides all those extras gained through constant consumption of McFatty. Below is the comment from one of my peeps:

"Eh don't try so hard la. It's a fact ok. No matter how hard you try to hide it, what camera tricks you pull, outcome still the same la"

Well here's the best shot for the night:

Urghhh! FAT!
Andddddddddddd NOW, I'm gonna prove than MiniVin is wrong! By pulling of some genius camera tricks and by trying extra extra SUPER hard with lotsa believe in yourself ~ "I Can Dooooo Ittttttttttttt" then by all means you'll definitely definitely be able to achieve your wanted super slim shot.


TADA!

Everytime I look at this picture I gasp like "OMG, I so look like one of those super models". Look at the high cheekbones! See MiniVin, See! See! See! It fxcking work!

Sorry dude, if the supermodel picture above scare the crap out of you and you shit in your pants, I'm so so sorry. Thousands of apologies. I've watched my series over and over again and I'm bored out of my head so I've decided to do things differently this time. Instead of posting up my ala ala best shots, I've decided to make lawak bodoh of myself by putting up something more repulsive and see how would I feel about it the next day.

There’s a little habit of my mom that I found rather bizarre. Below is a conversation between me and my mom that clearly demonstrates the bizarreness of her habit:-

Me : Hello
Mom : Hey dad and I are on our way back home. Do you need me to grab some food for you and Matthew?
Me : No, thanks mom. We are too full from gobbling down McFatty so yea we don’t need any more food.
Mom : Are you sure? You really don’t want anything?
Me : Yes, I’m sure mom. Absolutely and positively sure.
Mom : Okay then, I won’t buy anything. Bye
Me : Bye

Half an hour later…Front door opened. Mom came in happily chirping:

Mom : Hey guys, I bought you some fried chicken!
Me : I thought I told you we don’t need anything.

She just smiled and walked away. Seriously that wasn’t the first time. Not the second nor the third but she freaking does that ALL THE TIME (yes pardon me but I just can’t help emphasizing that). Why the hell should she bother calling and ask when she’s gonna buy them anyway. I truly couldn’t relate to it. I thought my mom is the only one behaving that way but little did I know that moms of my friends carry the same disease too. I guess that’s just a piece of the unconditional motherly love that every mothers has ~ always caring, always giving and always loving. Though she crawls up my nerves at times but I greatly appreciate her for being there for me through thick and thin. I LOVE MI MOM

p/s: I wonder if I’m gonna carry the exact replicate of the disease when my time comes…*ponders*

It’s not that bizarre after all!

The official name is QingMing Jie but it is also widely known as Clear Bright Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day or All Souls Day by some English paper. It's a day celebrated by the Chinese community on the 15th day from the Spring Equinox to honor past ancestors. The ceremony comprises of cleaning and sweeping the graves, offering of food to deceased and burning of joss-sticks and joss papers.

This year my eldest uncle, dad, mom and I went to perform our duty and pay our respect to Grandpa on the 28th of March. We started of as early as 5am in the morning to avoid the traffic jam and to avoid fussing over parking space. We are gradually phasing out the burning of joss-sticks and joss papers because we are aware of the inflating pollution that is sweeping us throughout the world. We can't discontinue it abruptly as we do not want to distress Granny either. Anyway it's a good thing that we are slowly scrapping off the harmful burning ritual. We started the service early and thus we finished early too. We left the ground at about 8.30am for some "Chou Cha" before heading home