weekend

met up with Tho Wei on saturday...one of my A level friends. Eugene came along too. i was the organiser of the outing, and i really did quite a bad job this time. i went ahead to plan the outing on friday night, totally forgetting that i was supposed to stay at home and wait for a courier on saturday. so, the plan changed, from a movie plus lunch, to lunch only, then finally ended up meeting at dinner time..and i didnt think about watching a movie at dinner time, so i didnt check the movie show times. but i couldnt resist the urge to watch a movie after i reached Mid Valley. so we went to the cinema to check out the movies before our dinner. these 2 guys were just so nice....we were already half way through the long long queue (the cinema queue is forever super duper long during weekends...), but i gave up on the horror movie that i suggested to watch..becos the movie already started during the time we were just half way in the queue. they didnt even utter a single bad word, after i suggested to give up on the movie, just followed what i said. i am so sorry...we went to Kim Gary for dinner (yes it was my idea again, becos i wanted to try the nice baked rice there again, and they just said yes too...see how nice they are..just so nice la..) the dinner was great, food was good, the chatting was the best, it is always nice to just catching up and talking about some good old experience and memories we shared in the past. best joke of the night, provided by Eugene: [question: what is the biggest city in malaysia?]....[answer: siti nurhaliza].... Good one! hahahaa..laughed so hard. the outing turned out good, despite the lousy planning done by me. wonder whether we can still meet again like this next year...


tho wei, me and eugene (at Kim Gary, Mid Valley. but to me it looks as if we took the picture in some night clubs hahaa..dont know whats wrong with my camera flash, or maybe we picked the wrong waitress who turned out to be a bad photographer :p )

always like the july-august period of the year..those in UK and in Singapore will be back to KL for holidays, since they are having the 3-month break, and we will always meet up. usually will have plenty of very nice and enjoyable outings this period. last year i did wonder whether i would be able to make it for these outings this year, and i did make it this year. how about next year? who knows right...life is so unpredictable

have been thinking a bit too much these few days...no good..well anyway, just hope that this week will be a good one with things going well. hope you will have a good one :)

love it too much

came across this music video on tv lately...eventhough i have watched the movie for 3 times, i still find the robots SO COOL. not to mention, the hot girl in the movie, Megan Fox, who is just SO HOT, with her beautiful eyes and dark coloured hair. (erm ya...i do talk about hot girls more than hot guys hahaa..there are just no hot guys ma, not my fault right :p )

hope you like the video and the song :)

umbrella

hmm....things have been going quite well this week. finally got the details for the project. should be working on it. as for the honours part, i am still not sure whether i can do the project as a job and also as my honours project..if the company is nice enough to help me with my fees, then it will be a definite yes for honours. if not..then dont know la. currently i am waiting for their reply. see how it goes. but i am really glad that finally i have some details for the project. at least now i can be quite sure that i have some thing to work on, not just living aimlessly in worry everyday hahahaa..hope things will go well and turn clearer next week :)

came across this when i was reading one of my friends' blog:

"what about you? have you had anyone who got half wet holding an umbrella for you? or you are the same as me and ah kor? which role are you playing and which role do you like to play?"

well..it makes me think for a while. hmmm ya. my mum is one of the people who used to get half wet holding an umbrella for me. those days when i was still in secondary school and my mum would always be waiting together with me for the school bus to come and pick me up. if it was raining, then she would cover me with the umbrella up to the bus...i had 2 friends who got wet becos holding umbrella for me. one was during my A level times, a group of us were going out for lunch or something..and i was sharing unbrella with this friend who was quite tall, so it was more convenient for him to cover me eventhough i owned the umbrella. the rain was quite heavy and he got half wet while i was still quite dry. i remember i only realised that he was getting wet when i saw our reflection when we walked pass a building with a glass door/wall. the other one was during an outing for A level friends when i am already in KL for uni. it was raining very heavily, and one of my friends covered me to get into the car when we were leaving. he got wet and i was dry...

sometimes i do hold umbrella for people too..becos usually i am the owner of the umbrella, and usually owner is the holder hahaa. another thing is i feel more comfortable walking when covering people instead of being covered. well...of course it feels nice when someone is covering you, but it always makes me feel bad when the person covering me get wet becos he/she is trying to keep me dry...it really makes me realise how kind they are, and makes me remember for long what they have done for me. i guess i would rather let myself get wet than to see them get wet becos of me. thanks for keeping me dry :)

thats all for now

better day

life is just so funny...it will only have something nice to make me feel better, after i feel extremely terrible. today is supposed to be a stay-home-and-looking-for-jobs day, but in the morning got a message from Hui En, my ex-roommate in Singapore, asking me whether i want to join her and her sister to watch Transformers. apparently she and her younger sis were in Mid Valley at that moment. first happy thing of the day! :) havent met her for about 1 year or more. she did mention to me that she would be in KL this week..but the message was just so sudden and the movie was supposed to start after one hour's time! hahaha..well i have watched transformers twice, but it was her that i wanted to meet, so it didnt matter what movie we would be watching..friends is one of the reasons that can make me rewatch a movie that i have watched already. so i rushed to Mid Valley and did make it for the movie :D had quite a nice time chatting with her while i was having lunch. missing her now.. :( hope we can meet again soon..


hui en's younger sis, me and hui en :)

during the movie...got a call from my lecturer asking me to go for a meeting tomorrow. should be about the project. second happy thing of the day!! :D just too bad for the 2 guys who were sitting at the same row as me. my lecturer called me twice, and for both the calls i ran out of the movie theatre to answer them. and i had to get through the 2 guys, passing right in front of them since i was sitting at the middle of the row, while they were sitting near the aisle. how am i supposed to listen to the details that my lecturer was going to tell me when the Decepticons (the bad transformers, if you have never watched transformers) were attacking people with all the bombings and fightings going on? sorry la...you are just too lucky to join me for the movie today :p

third happy thing of the day, is to see all those lovely messages on my chatbox wishing me good luck and be happy :) thanks so much....really touched

hope tomorrow things will go well...cross my fingers

today

there was no miracles...no scholarship for my honours.

there were also no news...for my interview and the project. and this...has further intensified the already intense job pressure on me. instead of comfort and support, all i received over the phone were questionings, blames. you know...i do feel bad enough and very worried too about my current status. can i have a little more time and some understandings?

i am very tired with this job pressure thing....seriously hope that things will get better soon.

please get better

my life now

totally boring and aimless!!!!!! ARGHHH!!!!!!

all i can do is waiting for news...until now there is still no reply for the interview, no details for the project..

when i go out and spend money, i feel bad. because i am supposed to earn money, not to spend money. when i stay at home, i am either with my com, or in front of the tv...not in the mood to chat, not in the mood to go out. not in the mood to do ANYTHING. what kind of life is this????

well..at least tomorrow i will have some news for my honours thingy. got a call yesterday, asking me to collect my honours offer package. will there be any miracles?? we will see tomorrow...

wish me good luck for tomorrow

job

the interview on monday wasnt too well...i felt. had a feeling that i didnt really give the interviewers a good impression. and i realise it is really true that every interview is a learning experience. for this interview i learnt how to answer certain standard questions...well, at least next time i will know what to say. they said they would give me a reply within this week...

after the interview, i went back to uni to certify more documents. met my friend Marcella who is still doing her double degree, one more year for her..so glad to see her. on my way home, i received a call from my lecturer....was quite surprised to see her name on my phone, who would expect a call from a lecturer? i bumped into her in uni, so i thought maybe i accidentally left some important documents with her. but actually she called me to ask whether i am interested to take up a project, which is a job!!! thats the happiest news that i have received so far for these few weeks! a job offer without me doing anything to get it you know! it drops from the sky just like that! i was so happy hahaaa..but for a while la. after some time later at night i started to think about it and was wondering whether i should take up the job or continue waiting for the reply from the interview, because i found out that the project actually lasts for about 1 year..not just a few weeks but one year...quite long and it is not a long term thing, what should i do after 1 year?? but still, i need a job urgently, because of the intense job pressure that really makes me worry..and i am lack of a project experience, i have not done any research based projects and have never written thesis before. so finally decided to go for it and thank god my mum wasnt really against it! it is a job anyway, and i feel like taking it up. these few days my lecturer has been trying her best to get the details of the project for me...and she is trying very hard to make it into an honours project for me....god, i really feel like emphazing to her that without the scholarship i wont be able to do my honours, i would feel so bad if after all her hard work i am still unable to get the scholarship and thus cant do honours. so far i feel bad enough already, she is doing all the hard work while me just waiting by the phone for news...how can i ever repay her kindness?...anyway will definitely get more details by friday...shall see how then

just now went for Transformers for the second time. STILL SO COOL!!! go watch it if you havent watched yet..amazing transformations and the fightings between the robots were fantastic! to me la hahaaaa..i am a transformer supporter since i was still a little girl. so feel like watching the cartoon i watched last time..

fate is such a funny thing...without much effort, i am back to kl again, and now it is leading me back to uni again because of the project. life is so unpredictable

back

have a job interview tomorrow. and thats the reason why i am back to KL so soon..

my results are sufficient to qualify me for the honours course, but they are insufficient for me to get the scholarship, unless there is a miracle. no scholarship, no honours.

last week i was really overwhelmed by the job pressure at home. towards the end of the week, the external pressure together with my own worries for the last set of results drove me crazy. REALLY CRAZY. thank god for giving me this chance to be back to kl again. thank you so much...

today was quite a lovely day. me and my cousin managed to find the location of my interview tomorrow..he was really so nice, drove me all the way to Klang just to check out the place..eventhough it was raining. really glad to know that the building is within walking distance from the ktm station, so there will be no problem for me to get there by myself. please wish me good luck for the interview tomorrow..i really need to secure a job so as to free me from the intense job pressure. wish me good luck...and now only i realise that to read maps is actually not an easy thing. one whole book of maps for Klang, and i am just amazed by how people can actually organize it in such a neat way. i was supposed to read the map and be the navigator, while he was driving the car..but i did quite a bad job, didnt really make his life easier...he still had to stop sometimes to read the map, becos i was still kind of blur about it hahaha..so sorry about that. after today, i do know how to appreciate the book of maps better. new skills obtained

today bumped into a senior at the Mc Donalds near my housing area when me and my cousin went there for lunch before our search for the place. i knew him since the first day i stepped into monash, even before i started my course there..he was the one who brought me around for the campus tour during the open day. after about 3 years of knowing him, now only i know he lives really close to me hahaaa..quite a pleasant surprise of the day for bumping into him

i should really go to bed. do wish me good luck for tomorrow :)

malacca

went to Malacca the next day after my last paper, which was on 27/6 . a trip organised by another group of uni friends. left for Malacca on wednesday evening, as some of us had their final paper on wednesday morning. spent a night there, back to KL on thursday night

view from the suite we stayed in..it was around 3pm plus 4pm when we reached Malacca

view from my room. i shared a room with another 3 girls. there were 3 rooms in the suite for 14 of us

twilight at the place where we stayed

our first meal. all the people in the trip. i am holding the camera

all the 7 guys

all the 7 girls

before we settled down for our first meal, actually we had spent quite a lot of time searching for this shop famous for its satay celup. went round and round the malacca city for at least half an hour and when we finally found it, it was actually closed that day....... at the end we decided to stay in Malacca for dinner on thursday just becos we wanted to try the satay celup in this shop

a few of us started to take the picture of this shop becos of the wonderful effort we put it to locate it but ended up looking at a sign saying 'closed today'. and nicole always knows i am taking photo from the back...she will always turn back and give me a perfect smile whenever i try to take a pic from behind quietly hahhaaa. just like this one. i wonder how she knows i am taking photo hehe

our third meal of the night. the second one was a noodle shop, this one is a cha siew fan shop. a moment when everyone was chatting happily..

"how much how much??"

after the third meal we went back to the hotel for a while before we came out again. one of us, Jun Jie, decided to treat everyone of us McD ice cream. he was just so nice..trying to get all of us going out together again :)

the lounge in the hotel which we stopped by for just a few minutes before McD. it was closing and nothing much also..

midnight ice cream treat at McD

slurrrppss...

walking back (very bad lighting...too bad)

the mosque somewhere far which could be seen from the suite we stayed in

midnight empty street

Thursday early morning. i woke up around 7.15am plus..usually no matter where i go, i wont be able to sleep too good during the first night at the place where i stay. so the next morning i will always wake up quite early, no matter how late i sleep the night before

i like the reflection on the water. oh thats the mosque which i mentioned previously

yueh wen and nicole. 3 of us had a morning walk around the malacca town area while others still in their dreamland

i like the flowery pattern. this is the entrance for a shopping centre at Dataran Pahlawan

one corner of Dataran Pahlawan

interesting stairs. the picture on every step is a part of a big drawing. if you combine all the steps together, you will see a very nice drawing.

lovely ladies. lovely stairs.

chien wen. yueh wen. (this reminded me of a funy incident nicole told me. my name and yueh wen's name both have a 'wen' and usually people call her wen. during the trip, there was once nicole wanted to call me, but she just pressed 'call' when she saw the name 'wen' in her phone number list, which actually stands for yueh wen, not chien wen..hahaha)

Geronimo!

just at the doorstep. didnt climb up to the famosa though

on our way back to the hotel

the cloud arrangement on the sky looks kind of fake...but it is real

somewhere in the hotel

some time before we checked out of the room

the famous chicken rice balls. they are really VERY DELICIOUS..

after the nice lunch we went to Jonker Street before watching Transformers later in the afternoon. this shop is the Orang Utan House, a shop selling the art work by Charles Cham. quite like some of his T shirt designs, but couldnt make myself to pay for them..the price is just a little too high

the entrance

the T shirt designs. actually i was told that i wasnt supposed to take any photos in the shop. but the shopkeeper still didnt really stop me though after he told me not to take photos. so ya loh..dont care. just take :p

'i love chicken rice!'

'to lah or not to lah'....lah lah lah

another corner of the shop. hmm to think about it now, i am quite glad that the shopkeeper didnt chase me out of the shop becos of illegal photo taking hehe

nice building

after spending some time at the Jonker Street, we finally made our way to our ultimate goal before the movie: the nice chendol shop. a very special shop with very unique tradisional decorations. felt as if i went back in time to another era

a staircase showcasing antique fans, antique phones, antique irons..

lost in time

old posters

overview of the shop

a memory captured in time

another lovely building

the ship which houses a museum. it looked really beautiful at night..but still we didnt have a chance to stop by to take a nice photo of it. took this while we were on our way for the movie.

TRANSFORMERS! many of us wanted to watch it so badly and we tried to buy the tickets for the preview when we arrived on wednesday. but there was no previews and would only be released on thursday. so on thursday, few of us went to grab the tickets. the line was quite long, eventhough it was only 11.30am...but being a movie bug, i didnt want to give up just becos of the long queue. so i insisted to queue. and in the end we did manage to get the tickets hehehe..THANK GOD. the movie was REALLY GREAT!! it just brought back all the wonderful childhood memories..i loved transformers SO MUCH when i was still a little girl. and now i am watching them yet again, with all the amazing transformations. last time they just transform in simple 2 or 3 steps, but in the movie, every single detail transforms and it is just so fasinating!!!! i love that movie..

after the movie, we went for the satay celup that we missed out the night before. and that brings us to the end of the trip..

time to say goodbye

life in Malacca carries on. and each of our lives carry on too..lovely trip. lovely memory.

back to KL