If you know me well enough.

If you know me well enough, you would know I'm not a consistent blogger. I blog when I'm too happy or too sad - which I think is a good and a bad thing. Good is that, readers (if there were any) would be able to keep up with the drama of my life (like any reality shows). Bad would be, when I look back into my life, I don't see myself living a NORMAL/AVERAGE life. Pheww! Life is just so full of drama. Anyways, life don't. There's so much of normal things that goes about in my life, currently. IE: the clock on my table is ticking every seconds like it supposed to be, the coffee is wafting its smell across my room, and the ants are slowly crawling into my sugary plate of biscuit. Yes, should I ever looked back into my life, I have to remember the part of my life that is normal. (What i mean normal here is that, I don't always do outrageous stuffs, travel to exotic countries, and party, or fall into depressed mood)

Yes, I didn't update you about my life after my 22nd entry, as promise. I know, and you have all the right to be angry of me. But you see, the world don't revolve around me. :]

Anyway, here's a picture about a Burmese girl whom I met during my last trip to Myanmar [the yellow thing on her face supposed to be some traditional herbs that reduces heat from our body - none of the Burmese people have acne!]. At the age of 3 or so, she has to help at her mom's shop to sell coconut drinks at less than RM2. What were we doing when we're 3? Crying on the crib? Snatching your brother's LEGOs? This country has really touched my heart alot during my visitation. I'd forgotten how happiness can be so simple, it seem as if, the lesser you have, the happier you are. Maybe it's time for us to be gratitude of what we have, even the smallest and littlelest things in life.

My 22nd Birthday!

Finally Mel turns 22, last month. I know, I know.... I'd been neglecting this blog awhile, but you see, I'm really busy for the month of March. Alot of exciting and happy stuff happened, which I would summarize in the next entry. Back to topic, I am 22 years old this year.

Looking back, time has really passed very fast. I still remember, 10 years ago, I was wondering what my life would be ahead of me. I thought I would be a little more slender and sexy and Zhao Wei, from Hwang Zhu Ge Ge, after watching too much Ugly Duckling that I would turn into a beautiful swan. I thought I would become a doctor, doing medics in UK/US. And well, life didn't turn out as what I thought I would be. But, that doesn't mean it got worse. I'm a psychology student now and I enjoyed the course and studying at KL alot. Despite the fact that didn't become a beautiful swan, I did become a pretty duckling. I do not have distorted feature and body, which I appreciate alot. I'm leading a healthy life, blessed with many loving friends and family. All in all, I'm contend right now although I didn't grew up becoming what I thought I would 10 years back.

So, on my birthday, Yuna organized a birthday night out for me. To be honest, I was happy and glad they celebrated for me. The food was good and we went to KLPac later on to play guitar and take pictures. One thing that I felt uneasy on my birthday is that someone else is paying for my meal. :[ I'm jz not use to that weird feelings. And yeah, they gave me money as what I told them to, though small amount which I will use to fund my new camera lens.

The Basil Pasta from Plan B, Bangsar Village. Highly recommended!

Pocci, Yenny named cat. I love her adorable eyes...

The tipsy lady!

Back in hometown the next day, Mom, Ms. Yap and Yani brought me to Swiss Garden Kuantan for buffet dinner. We had lotsa fun filled with crazy dares and joke. We ate till we the place was almost close. We were so full that night that we could barely walk. But, the food was really good and I enjoyed it alot. =D

Look at the food art they have at Swiss Garden Hotel, Kuantan

Chinese New Year 2011

Aside from getting fat around Chinese New Year because you can't resist the temptations of the-every-year-also-same or every-house-also-have-the-same cookies and keropok, there's so much more to talk about this auspicious CNY :D

Now, I'm here to update the happenings back in Kuantan. Laughter, Fatt Choy and Reunion was inevitable and oh.. oh... red packets.

If you think they're holding real money, then you're wrong! It's actually a money-like angpow that I bought from TTDI pasar malam during Hari Raya

Didn't receive much thou this year, cz didn't do alot of visit to friend's place. These days, when Yi Won wasn't around to initiate all those gatherings with other gangs, I rarely see them anymore. But, that doesn't mean meeting up with my old gang wasn't fun and significant at all. It was actually, the other way round! We gambled alot, laughed and joke about each other. And, I learned how to play 8+6 too!

Initially, I thought, it would be an awkward gathering since all of us has almost lost touch with each other ever since we moved on to further our studies. Though some of them do stay in touch from time to time (ie: Jin Han and CM ; the obvious SOo n Sam). However, without consciously knowing it, we clicked straight away! You could imagine Soo starts gossiping loudly, and Sam getting lost in conversation, while JH and Chuan Meng being blur and funny, and the rest laughing like nobody's business.

That could've explain why we're good buddies in the 1st place and also our personality hasn't changed (um, I'm not sure if that's a good thing).

On the Fatt Choy part, I didn't really Fatt Choy much. Few of us decided to burn the midnight oil - to play mahjong. Everyone slept very early that day, 5am. I didn't stay on with them, cz I'm a 12-o-clock-auto-shutdown person, so I died halfway, but I can still hear the mahjong clanking even while I'm dreaming. Hahaha, those people-really gangho sial!

Managed to learn some mahjong tricks from Mommy while playing. Afterall, mahjong is not 100% luck, it's about you being attentive to the cards that people discard and the stuff that people looking for. So you need kinda brain thing to become a good player.

The mahjong gurus.

And lastly, the reunion part, it wasn't as bad as mychonny's family reunion parody [watch youtube below]. My mommy didn't embarrass me in front of my cousins. My uncle didn't suggest Mommy to sell me away to China. Hahaha. Maybe it was like that for others aunties and uncle (mind you, I really heard very bad stories from my friend's aunties/uncle), but mine is good and I'm grateful to have them.

MACC Internal Affairs CNY Edition REVIEW

Recently attended one of the stand-ups at PJLA in Jaya One by Douglas Lim, Kuah Jenhan and Phoon Chi Ho.
Some of the many aethetic design they have over there

Thanks to Jeun Yan, who had been posting up their spoofs on his facebook, I get to know about this event. I thought, it would be nice to have a good laugh prior to Chinese New Year.

MACC BLOOPER #1 OFFICE

MACC BLOOPER #2 4D RESULTS

MACC BLOOPER #3 COOKING


Somehow, I got to agree with MACC that most Chinese New Year advertisement are stereotyped. Stories would usually have the same plot about saddening-family-togetherness story. But we all Chinese know that New Year isn't only about all this. There are many more, it's about new beginning, a new cycle, prosperity and many more (happy stuffs).

And so the question is, why it has to only advertisements about chinese new year/any other celebrations in general deal with all these sad emotions? For an example, remember the Merdeka advertisement they show an Indian woman who fight with her Malay friend and then many years later end up finding out the friend is dead? It's Merdeka, and why it has to do with misery and death, and worst, promoting racial grief.



Don't these will eventually lead us to think that celebrations are always bad and sad. No wonder we hear our friends these days complain about how Chinese new year songs give then headaches. Tell me about classical conditioning....



Sometimes, though it's funny to laugh over, but come to think of it, it's true. They also did brought up some issues on are our racial getting more and more sensitive about the remarks from others? I'm not trying to comment about our racial issue here in Malaysia, not to mention that I don't read newspaper, but sometimes we should see things more lightly especially bad remarks for others. When you see things from the other POV, perhaps it's no longer bad, or even better - laughable. Minimize racial issues and magnify racial harmony and unity is what should leaders who believe in country peace do. But it seems it's the other way round these days, don't they? Somehow, I think politician create more of these issues than

This stand up was actually a sequel to their previous Internal Affairs last year which they claimed had almost all the tickets sold out.

Likewise, this year, all the nice seats were all taken a week prior to their show, and both Elizabeth and I ended up sitting separately.



I must tell you, though we were sitting at the side, we did enjoy every bits of the. It's witty/political/insightful and funny Kudos you trio! Look forward for more.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! MAY YOU HAVE A PROSPEROUS AND AUSPICIOUS CHINESE NEW YEAR!

You made my day!

It was Thaipusam, there was barely any cars around Pusat Bandar Damansara. It was usually quiet here. Unlike the busy days, where we barely noticed the person sharing the same lift with you or sitting next to you in the bus, people happen to stop and look awhile their surroundings. It was the day where most people have no classes to rush to, no assignments to pass up. Ok, perhaps I has exaggerated that holiday, but the point is, that Thursday, was like to other Thursdays...

Since it was Thursday, while everyone (well, most) girls at my floor were still asleep, I was busy peeling potatoes and cutting pita bread. Why so irony? It was because I'd had another agenda for the day. I was going for a potluck-picnic with the monkeys! (Haha... SHould have made some bananas then.)Yenny did some marcoroni cheese and salad. While I made the hearty potato salad and pita bread. But mine has alot of leftover. Know why? Ok. Keep quiet!

Around 4pm we all left in Alden's Waja to Taman Tasik Titiwangsa. It was located not far from Help Residence. We did have a enjoyable ride and sung lots of pop songs over the radio. Once reached there, we spotted a shady place near the lake we built our nest there. I would say, it wasn't a very private place, since we're actually we're picnicking next to the lake and the jogging track. Trust me, we're just so lazy to walk further for a better spot (if there's one), so we joked over how our 'beautiful place' gonna end up become some jogger's pit stop for some pita bread/kfc.

After that, we went for some crazy shots around that place. We posed, we squatted and we jumped. But guess what, those people there are too tired (of jogging) to care about us. Hah! I did experiment some shots with Yenny and Elizabeth. Luckily they were patient with this amateur photographer who ask them to hold their pose while she fiddles with functions. Nevertheless, I did manage to get some awesome shots.

Girl power!

Meet our stunt man, Alden

We did gather later on and managed to sing some songs. But then, it RAINED. So sucky. It supposed to be the moment you get so hyped up and start jamming. Then, it rained.

But that didn't stop our spirit. We walked another 1km to a shelter and continue to sing admist the darkness. Looks a little creepy here but think back it's a little funny.

p/s: So looking forward tmr's MACC - promise to blog about it soon Night.