中秋节

中秋节就这样过了。。。

雨还在下到不停。。。
想和朋友一路吃月饼喝茶，一路欣赏月亮星星，但是不行。。。
跟朋友去了OXO Cafe 喝茶聊天。。。
有点想念我的家人。。。

床前明月光，
疑是地上霜，
举头望明月，
低头思故乡。

上的 sem 学的。。。
中秋节快乐！！！

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Mid-Autumn Festival just come and go in a blink of an eye. Due to the pouring rain, we can't find a spot to eat mooncake and enjoy the beauty of the moon. Hence, we went to OXO Cafe to hang out and talk.

Since it's Mid-Autumn Fetival where families reunions are important, there's a bit of homesickness but I just came back to uni barely a week ago, so I didn't go back during this Chinese festival.

The Chinese poem I learnt last semester, I had no idea how to translate, so, I'll just leave it there. Anyway, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Love Is In The Air!

It's that time of the year again where all the couples in the world go parading their loves while the singles are left alone miserably, wondering what wrong with them. Well, not all of them la...some choose to be alone one. Me? I think my other half still M.I.A. Hopefully...

Life's without the special someone is rather sad. Somehow, you'll feel that there's a void inside your heart that can only be filled by him/her. I've been longing to experience what it's like to be in loved...like the great words from Moulin Rouge, "The greatest thing you'll ever learned is just to love, and be loved in return."

I wanna share with you guys what my friend said the other day. We were heading for dinner after our class finished. Our topic of conversation was, well, love and Valentine's and stuff. She was asking me why I'm still single given that in USM, almost 80% of the students here were females. Out of the 80%, can't I find the one? Then, she followed up with this:

"Here, men are like some rare species. It's so hard to find a nice guy. And when you do find one, it's either that the guy is attached to another person or he's gay."

It was so funny...

Anyhow, Happy Valentine's, people! 情人节快乐！

A New Year, A New Beginning!

It's Chinese New Year. Wishes all people prosperity and happiness in the year of ox.

People, ANG POWS!!!!!!
The more the merrier. And please, make sure it's loaded! Not empty.
恭喜发财！！！

新的一年，新的开始。

我朋友叫我用华语来写一个post。她还要我用最少一百个字。So, 我尝试看能不能 lo。

新年要到了！我在这里祝大家。。。

• 一帆风顺
• 心想事成
• 龙马近精神
• 吉祥安康 万事如意
• 和气生财 合家平安
• 事事顺利 步步高升
• 生意兴隆
• 财源广进
• 新年快乐

哈哈。。。不知道我写的对不对。。。不管了。。。

Anyhow, Happy CNY...

My Grandpa's 80th Birthday

My sister so cute right?

Today, we went to celebrated my grandpa's 80th birthday at Restaurant Kok Thai opposite Kinta City Shopping Complex. 80th birthday! Imagine what my grandpa had seen and experienced throughout his life. Wonder if I can live long enough to experience my 80th birthday?

All my grandpa's sons and daughters (4 sons and 3 daughters), son-in-laws and daughter-in-law (3 son-in-laws), grandsons and granddaughters (2 grandsons and 5 granddaughters) and granddaughter-in-law and potential grandson-in-laws were all there to celebrate his big day.

My family
My auntie's family
the Birthday Boy Man(seated, 2nd from right)
My aunties, uncles, cousins and their boyfriends
Grandpa wanna sleep already...

And boy, we had a blast. My dad brought his Johnny Walker scotch whiskey to the dinner and kinda forced everyone to drink with him. Well, not to say forced, but more like a saleman sweet-talking you into buying his products. But his skill might had been bit rusty cause only few entertained him. I myself was one of them (I'm not entertaining him...more like I want to drink myself...hehe...).

At first, the taste itself was no that nice to drink. My first cup was a bit diluted since it was mixed with water and ice (like what everybody was having) since it contain 40-46% of alcohol. My second and subsequent cups were just whiskey and ice as I wanna try it without water. Surprisingly, it's much more bearable and nicer in taste. According to my dad, the more you drink, the less the taste gonna budge you (more or less of what he said). Therefore, I had 5 cups, I think, before we even sang birthday song. Even after the fifth one, I'm still OK (I guess I had rather high tolerance of alcohol?). Or so I thought. When I try to stand up to sing the birthday song, I suffered from SLIGHT DIZZINESS. Haha. Luckily, just SLIGHTLY dizzy. Not yet drunk.

My no-idea-how-many-I-had cup

Anyhow, I still prefer beer. Hehe.

The cake

When we finished singing the song...

After the dinner, we went to my auntie's house to continue our chit chat. My grandpa was tired already, therefore, was taken back home. You guys must know that our houses (my family, grandpa's and my aunties) are all clustered together. All are located within walking distances. Yet, whenever we go to visit them, we (as in only my family) would drive to their houses! Haha. By this time, my 'hangover' was long gone already.

We went back around 11+ pm.

Oh yea. The food. OMG, it's so delicious. Some pics are missing (not sure how as I took all of them!) but I'll find them. Posted here are the order of appearance. Haha.

Longevity bun

Chicken
Steamed cod fish
Sea cucumber, broccoli, mushroom all mixed together
Yam basket
Yin Yang Prawn

Longevity noodle
Dessert

Another song I love right now.

ここにいるよ=koko ni iru yo - SoulJa.feat.青山テルマ aoyama thelma

Welcome, 2009!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, PEOPLE!!!

We had stepped our feet into a new beginning! And what's better to celebrate the occasion that to enjoy it with dear friends.

The last day of 2008 went away rather good, I think. We went to Queensbay around 4 something in the afternoon and came back before 12.00am (yes, AGAIN we did not really count down to the last second of 2008! I blame it on the girls!). By we, I means me, Xin Hao, Chi Fang and Mei Ling, my fellow coursemates.

We went there early just to have a glimpse of Bosco Wong, a TVB actor. Both the girls were quite crazy about him. We were on the backstage getting ready to go up (the escalator was near the central court) for better view when he passed by us! We were technically unprepared, therefore didn't manage to take any picture of him at that moment.

He was quite on time, just late for few minutes, unlike some other singers or artists who appearances usually 1/2 hours late or more. Like every TVB artists these days, he was here to promote his EP. Throughout the sing-and-autograph session which only lasted for 1/2 hour, he was very playful and funny. His game session was also rather interesting. He only sang one song from his EP before resigned to giving autographs.

Him entertaining the crowd

Bosco singing from his EP

After that, we went to have our dinner. Initially we thought of going Kim Gary Restaurant whom Bosco is their spokeperson, but it was crowded with people. There was a long queue just to eat at the restaurant. Therefore, we shifted to Wong Kok Restaurant, another restaurant with a TVB artist as their spokeperson (Roger Kwok). There I ordered a set, fried fish cutlet with fried rice in black pepper sauce, i think.

Me and Chi Fang outside Wong Kok

My dinner

How stupid were we not to stick to Kim Gary for Bosco was having dinner there! When we passed by the restaurant after we had our dinner, we saw a HUGE crowd outside the restaurant, and being a smart person I am, I immediately guessed it. Hell, we have to cramp with the crowd just to see him eating! Those eating at that moment were so bloody lucky, dining along with the star!

LOOK AT THE CROWD!
Him eating
Those eating beside him...

If you can't take with the real one, poster will do!

Then, we went out for the countdown concert. At first, it was very boring. The opening act was so-so, the first few singers who took the stage were all local (Henley, Farah Asykin, Athena-who is she?). We were rather bored by it. Somemore, the atmosphere was pitiful. Not much hype about it. One word, sian.

The stage

Opening act
Henley and Athena backstage

After we had enough of the concert, we went to Baskin Robbins for some dessert (it's 31st!). Again, there was a lot of people lining up for ice-cream. Spent RM 18.50 for ice-cream! While I was eating, I remembered back what my father had said last Saturday or Sunday when we went to Tesco. He was looking at the Mat Kool ice-cream box and said, and I quote, " This one, RM 6.00 for 1.5 litres, worth it!" Wonder what my father will say if he knew about the ice-cream?

The crowd!
I ordered Mad About Chocolate & Espresso Shelbert
Delicious!!!

We sat there, chatting and savouring our deliciously expensive ice-creams before heading back home. There were no bus already at that hour therefore we have to resort to taxi. We thought of doing count down and later walk back to campus if there no taxi available but the thought of walking scared the girls. Therefore, when we saw a cab, we quickly nabbed it and headed home.

When the clock stroke 12.00am, I was taking my bath. That's how I spent my last day of 2008!

Photos courtesy of Chi Fang and me (mostly me!). The blurry pictures are all by me, though. Video is also by me.

Christmas...Penang Style!

Just came back from Gurney Road counting down to the minute before Christmas (OK, we did not really stay there till midnight, but it still close to 12.00am) with my fellow coursemates. And boys, Penangnites really know how to celebrate Christmas.

Before I went to Gurney Road, we went to a steamboat restaurant which name I forgot in Burma Road (I believe) called Golden BBQ Steamboat Restaurant located at Jalan Nagore. The five of us really applied the 'All You Can Eat' motto and took LOTS of food, till we technically stuffing ourselves just to avoid the fine. When we stepped out of the shop, we were all 5kg heavier (or maybe more!).

This is the restaurant...

...look how crowded it is!

The choices...

Just look at the food on our table!

Me and my coursemates in the restaurant...

...and in front of Gurney Plaza

Then, we went to Gurney Drive to experience the spirit of Christmas. It was crowded with people, mostly teenagers and those in their 20s like us. They were snow spraying each other, wearing Santa caps and devil horns hairbands (what Devil got to do with Christmas?), couples cuddling each other. Just plain crowded. There was even a fire dance performance called 'Semerah Api' (if I remembered correctly).

All four videos are about people snow spraying each other.

Aftermath of snow spray!

Fire dance performance.

We sat near at the roundabout there chatting away in Mandarin, Hokkien, and Cantonese all muddled up. The atmosphere there was very lively, unlike back home in Ipoh where Christmas just comes and goes. After experiencing the way festivals are being celebrated here, I'm going to spend my New Year Eve here in Penang too.

Look at the people and the traffic!

Human or statue?
Tortoise!

Photos are courtesy of Qi Fang, Chai Ying and of course, myself. Videos are all from my phone. All those background voices are mostly from me and my friends.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!