HOME!

Home is a wonderful place to be. Especially in times of celebrations such as Chinese New Year. This trip back was wonderfully surprising and I'm so glad my plan worked out just fine. I surprised me mommy, and all me other relatives.

Especially my grandparents. Weee...! My grandpa came in the door, I hugged him and said "Kiong Hee Huat Zhai!". He hugged back, then suddenly jerked back and went "EH???!!". So hilarious. Then came my gramma who was a little behind my grampa and she started pointing and skipping, saying "Eh zhi kiok zha bo to lo ui chut lai eh?" (translated to: this girl came out from where?).

So kiut la the both of them. Then I have other relatives, who were a bit less bewildered, but surprised with my presence anyway. But I must say, my mom's reaction was the funniest of all.

You see, Sheng and Boy went to the airport to fetch me home. Then when I was outside the gate and I called my mom.
Me: Hello mama!
Mom: Harlo.
Me: Ni zhai na li? (Where are you?)
Mom: Ma zhai jia loh, hai zhai na li? (At home la, where else?)
Me: Oh, zhe yang jiu hao, chu lai kai men gei wo. (Oh that's good, come out and open the door for me.)
Mom: Kai she me men? (Open what door?)
Me: Kai jia de men lah! (Open the house door lah!)
Mom: Ni bu yao kai wan siao la, kai she me jia men? (Don't joke lah, open what house door?)
Me: Wo mei you kai wan siao, ni chu lai kan! (I'm not joking, you come out and have a look!)
Mom comes out to the door, I wave, Mom opens door.
Mom: Ni zhen yang hui lai de? Ha? Zhen yang hui lai de?? (How did you come back? How?)
Then she starts whacking me for not telling her, complaining bout how I didn't tell her earlier so she could plan such and such.

Hee hee hee...Stage 1 completed, then I pakated with her to not tell anyone else, and the next day surprised my brother, and the day after my godmother and my uncle and the day day after every other relative. =)

Anyway, surprise story aside, Chinese New Year this year is full of puns. Yes, puns. Like Happy NIU (Cow) Year to replace the Happy NEW Year lah. Have an OXpicious new year, instead of the regular AUSpicious lah. Wah...all these puns these days. Very creative I must say.

Anywho, collected my share of ang pows, enjoying the holidays and the food back home. Hahaha...I tell you I must be sooo accustomed to the Aussie food prices that everything seems super cheap when I come back! First day back we went to this upper class coffee shop to have some noodles and tea. The bill came up to RM19.95 which is fairly expensive for a light lunch for two, but I converted it, and it turned out to be AUD6+ and I was laughing my head off at how ridiculously cheap it was.

Anyhow, it's been great to be home. And I will sorely miss it for a good eight months or so when I leave in ten days. =( I don't want to leave, I don't want to be away from me mommy, I don't want to be away from family, I don't want to be away from the friends that I've gotten so close to in the past few years. But for my future's sake, I've got to. Good thing is, I still have close friends there, who I can call "family" too. =)

Tomorrow...

is a very different day...

Or rather today, actually, since it's 4.15am now.

=)

I can't wait!

It is now 6:21am.

I am awake. And if you know me well enough, yes I haven't slept yet. No, I wasn't emo-ing. I was playing a game, on my computer, on my own. The rest of the group of humans have gone home as early as 12:30am.

And because I suddenly felt like my hair was greasy and needed washing or else I would just keep fussing over my greasy hair and not be able to sleep, I took a shower.

And now because I took a shower, because my hair was greasy, my hair is wet and thus I can't sleep either.

And today will be a busy day. I think. There's loads of food lined up for today, as far as I know. There'll be two lunches - Hot Mama and Phua Quoc Kang. Then Zeffis for dinner with the whole jinggang. In between, the two other humans will be busy closing bank accounts, sending stuff to DHL, uni stuff, and other stuff tak tau apa la.

Then tomorrow, at this time they will be awake, carrying their luggage either to catch the AirLiner or waiting for someone who kindly offered to bring them to the airport. And I hope to be there. Maybe I should AirLiner with them. Then emo on my own on the way back.

Hmmm...how? Aiyah leave it till tomorrow to decide lah. After typing all these, I think I exhausted whatever mental freshness from the shower and thus am going to sleep. Wet hair and all. Night!

Hee hee hoo hoo haa haa....

AHAHAHAHAH!! Got it off failblog.org. Go have a look! =)

Wishful thinking.

The past few weeks have been spent idly.

Board games.
Sleep.
Internet.
Shopping.
Internet shopping.
Occassional work.

And then yesterday (technically two days ago - Friday to be exact) we travelled down to Sydney. Ah Boy (now forth known as Ah Man), Faith and I.

Ah Man went for tennis tournament. Faith and I went as persuaded kids who were unknowingly forced into it. =P No lah. Wanted to go also la. Time to go visit Cheok and spend time with her.

So we left on the Friday afternoon bus and reached Friday evening. Reach liao, go makan, makan liao go back Cheok's place. Then sit for lima minit then go play Laser Tag. I must say it's a fun first time. I was never the best, but I was consistently doing averagely good. Being 6th then 5th then 5th, out of about 9-10 in 3 games. I did pull my muscle at the start of the final game and had trouble "killing" more people. But still it was fun. =) Play Laser Tag at least once in my life, check!

And then head home, berbonding session, slept at like 4/5 am. Details of bonding session are undisclosed.

Then few hours later, wake up, go city kai kai, eat lunch, drink Lindt, kai kai, buy stuff, head home. Short, sweet, very-emo-towards-the-end trip. Ah Man and Faith spent time on the journey back thinking of the good times with Cheok. We all had loads of fun together. Them and Cheok, Cheok and I, Cheok and all of us.

We were a fivesome, then a sixsome (plus you Shuey), then now down to a threesome (still with you Shuey). One fine day, we will all be together again. This is just a temporary parting of ways. We will all move on to better lives, great jobs and then one day we can super conference call and meet like in New York or something. Or London. Or Paris. Or even Czechoslovakia. Once Cheok finds a job. =P Wah she will keeel me if she reads this. Heeheeeheeee...

Good times, great taste, at McDonalds.

Love you people loads and bunches and aeons and whatever else adjectives that fit. You have definitely changed my uni life, from...whatever it was before...to how it is now - unemployed, addicted to board games and eBay. How can I even begin to thank you.

Anyhooha, whenever any of you (who won't be in Aus) earn enough money to travel here, give me a heads up and I will guarantee to still be the ATM that I am now, then. Only this time, your names won't be appearing in my Excel spreadsheets as owing. It's all on me. Cause I intend to be boss of at least 5 successfully running Easyway branches by then.

Make me proud-er, my loves. Because I already am.

Random fact of the day: I have friggin noisy drunks outside my room now, blasting music and mumbling stuff to each other. At least I think they're drunk. too lazy/scared to take a peek out my window lest I find someone peeing in the bushes again.

Addicted.

If you ever get bored of staying home alone, whilst your friends are doing way more productive things like working or studying, and you have exhausted your wants of sleeping and show-watching and OCDing, I have a proposition for you.

Get yourself out (even for just 10 minutes) and go to the nearest game store and purchase yourself a Bop It. Any version of it can do. The original, the extreme, the extreme II, the blast...whichever lah.


It's hours of fun which tests your reflexes, your hearing and your ability to respond to instructions. You can play it alone or you can play it with others.

And guess what? It's addictive. Everytime you hear "Game Over" there's just the part of you that wants to restart it all over again.

Shuey, get home and I'll let you try it. Hahahah...who knows, maybe I'll bring it home, and then I can amuse myself with it at home. Weeeeeeeeee! =)

A stepping stone.

Today is a special day. It marks a milestone in my life.

I officially deleted WebCT as my bookmark.

Goodbye WebCT.
Goodbye rush to sign up for tutorials.
Goodbye decisions to NOT attend classes.
Goodbye last minute studying for quizzes.
Goodbye exams (university level ones).

Wow.

*WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~~!!!!*

My own joke!

Says the toilet bowl: People shove crap into me everyday, and force it in but there's zilch I can do bout it so I just suck it all up.

Now, that's obedience.

Nuu yerrrrr!

HAPPEE NUU YEERRRRRR 2009!!!

'Twas a great celebration in Canberra. Definitely NOT comparable to that of Sydney or KL, but it was my very very very first New Year NOT spent at home. You see, for the past 20/21 years, New Year's Day has been spent at home: watching the TV, watching shows on my laptop, reading a book, playing games or sleeping. Not once have mommy and I (and other family members) ventured out (well, maybe my brothers, I don't know) to join in with the KLCC or other celebrations. It's just cause it's too crowded. We'd have to be kissing people's hair and having our bodies being (hopefully) innocently touched by those around us.

And you see, that's another great thing bout Canberra, there's not enough people to be (innocently or purposely) touching you. So there we were, at Civic Square. We being Diong, Boy, Hong Yin and Will (plus Brandall, Corina, Wen Sern, Willy and mom who were there too). We heard this band called Enormous Horns, we waited for the countdown, the countdown board tersalah showed the time, then the Powerpoint slide became "Happy New Year 2009" and we went "Eh? New Year already?" and everyone got confused and started kissing hugging when suddenly the countdown board came back alive with someone on a mic going 20, 19, 18...

Then we ahahahhahahahah board also spoil, what lah. Then we 17,16,.....10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1....and the fireworks started!!! And as per usual Canberran style it synced with the music. So we watched, wah lau, we were so near I could smell them fireworks remnants. Then watch watch after bout 10 minutes then over then we went back to continue our half-played game of Manila.

Tell you ah, we all super no life now, except Ah Boy of course, who still has a job.

After having Hong Yin and Will spending bout 24 hours in my room, like really - they came to my place like late last night after fireworks and games, stayed over, woke up this morning, played more games, and just left - I finally caught up on my Amazing Race.

Wah lau, to watch this show you cannot have a weak heart. Cause right, I feel for the people, especially those that I want to win la of course. And they did...win! Woooot... Hot chicks and hot guys rule! But right, I feel bad for Toni and Dallas, cause right, they lose their passports, and they weren't at the final mat!

I mean, Phil shouldn't be so evil la. Unless of course, they couldn't leave Russia, so they're still stuck there. But then right, if the cameraman noticed it, shouldn't they try to stop that cab and help retrieve their things? I mean, confiscate it lah, cause they lost it, but return it to them after ma. And then let them go on the mat so that there can be further advancements on the Starr and Dallas story ma! Aishhh...

But I tell you. I'm totally smitten with that guy now. The more he played, the more he was composed throughout, the more supportive he was, gosh I want that in a man. Calm, patient, loving....oh I missed out hot.

Ahahahha...anyway. There you go. Post for you hungryboy86 and winter11.

And yes yes I won't forget also: pictures for you winter11 and PR APPLICATION as a reminder for myself. =P

Like so coool!

The one thing that I really found interesting and memorable about Christchurch, aside from the stunning views would have to be...

it's power saving pedestrian crossing lights. [It really is cool to me okay, don't laugh.]

For one, it would save all current and future tenants of room 105 (and many other rooms as well) in Academie House to sleep in peace whilst having their windows open, as it wouldn't teketeketeketeke all through the night.

For two, it's green! Saves electricity, saves energy, saves the environment, saves the world!

Okay, more when I get back!