We went to the pumpkin patch & the corn maze for the first time today at the Craven Farm. I gotta say I never thought that going to a farm full of pumpkins and corns could be so much fun.

To get our money's worth from the corn maze, we decided to take on the Wild Hare Route (the harder one, obviously) relative to the Bunny Route, thinking it would be a peace of cake. Boy, were we wrong! We were going round and round in the corn maze, from one loop to another. It was crazy! However, we eventually made it out alive after HOURS of being stuck in the maze. Note to self - don't ever underestimate the corn mazes again.

We then move on to pumpkin hunting. It felt like playing the Harvest Moon game in real life. How awesome is that, huh? I got to push the wheelbarrow, walked in the patch and marvelled over the farm that is full of adorable pumpkins. Don't ask me why, but I've always thought that pumpkins are adorable, big or small.


We were having so much fun finding that perfect pumpkin for Halloween until we realized that we dropped our camera, my tiny Canon SD780is. We spent the next 45 minutes walking back and forth in the pumpkin patch looking for that tiny black camera telling myself the whole time that we'll definitely find it. Finally, we asked the lady at the cashier if there was a Lost and Found, and she looked but there was no camera. We went back to the pumpkin patch for another round of searching. No luck. Just when things seemed bleak, we held on to the positive thought more and more, and we went back to the Lost and Found booth again, and surely enough someone had found the camera and had returned it. To the one who found it and to the lady at the booth, we thank you very much and may you and your family always be blessed and we wish you many happy returns. It is delightful to know that in our world of decreasing morals and values, there are still good samaritans out there.

Ahhh...what a day! So much fun and so many wonderful things to be discovered. Thanks to our lovely friends for inviting us.

I always believe that having a DREAM is the key to the path of success. Simply because of the saying:

"watch your thoughts, for they become words.
watch your words, for they become actions.
watch your actions, for they become habits.
watch your habits, for they become character.
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

MoofMoof and I both have a DREAM. We want to be financially independent and retire by the age of 35. Yes, it sounds difficult but it is not impossible. WHY do we place ourselves with such a difficult challenge? The answer to that is very simple: TIME is GOLD. We don't want to have to spend the rest of our life working our ass off for someone else and missing out on life. Life is not about the expensive and luxury things that the world has to offer but simple things like watching our children grow, sitting down for dinners with friends and family laughing over silly things and being able to take in what the world has to offer and see how beautiful it actually is.

These simple things in life are very dear to us, thus we will do whatever it takes to make our DREAM come true. We are truly grateful to have wonderful friends and family who stand by us and cheer us on while we embark on our journey to reach our DREAM. Thank you people, we love you!

Everyone is in the picture except for the photog, Jenn
(picture courtesy of Jennifer Tai)

That day was the first time I saw so many Malaysians since I moved to Seattle. I didn't know most of the people at the party but was told by a friend about the existence of that party and so we joined her. I'm really glad that we decided to go cause it was simply AWESOME! Fun people, finger-licking-good Malaysian food(I couldn't separate myself from the keropok ikan[fish crackers] bowl) and a place buzzing with real Bahasa Malaysia (Malay language) not Bahasa Indonesia. Before I was always excited whenever I hear people around me speaks Bahasa Indonesia cause that's the closest thing to home...HAHAHA


Keropok Ikan
(picture courtesy of Jennifer Tai)

That day I felt at home. I can't wait for the next event! :D

Sunny, windy, chilly, fun, crazy, hot dogs, cheese burgers, chicken wings, salad, beers, delicious, tiring - those are words to summarize our barbeque party in Golden Garden. 

YOU CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO ME ON NEW YEAR'S EVE! A FREAKING LAUNDRY MISHAP !!!! After putting my washed clothes into the dryer, I left the laundromat to go home for a bite only to come back 30 minutes too late. It's only 3.30pm and I'm 30 minutes late. Place closed for New Year's Eve. Back in Malaysia, I've never seen places close early for New Year's Eve. That's a first for me....sigh...

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*.

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...

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!

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...

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.