reminiscence

2009-12-19T22:55:00.001+08:00

it snowweedd!!!!!

Carnival of Binche

2009-02-27T21:49:00.011+08:00

so there was this annual carnival in Binche and i thought, why not go and see it since it's an annual event and i dont see myself coming to Belgium again anytime soon after this semester.

we took a train to Binche and it was about an hour's journey.

when the train reached the station in Binche, almost all the passengers got down from the train ahaha....everyone was going to the carnival.

and then.....i got a glimpse of what the carnival would be like.....this guy was alone walking down the street with a drummer behind him.

then we walked a lil more and reached the street where the parade was going to take place...and boy were there many ppl already there....

and then another group walked pass us....it looked like this carnival was a family/group activity of some sort...

the people in the crowd dressed up for this occation too...the kids look really cute in their suits ahahah.....there was a baby in a bear suit that was really cute but i couldnt get a photo in time :D

this one should do ahaha

although it's not as elaborate....anyways after standing in the crowd for about 2 -3 hours....so tired....all this ppl here dont feel tired for some reasons.....dont they need to go to the toilet or something?
and i got my answer to that question as a breeze blew from behind.....OWWWWwwwww the STENCH!!!

see this street behind me? and there was this group marching through this backstreet.....it's a bar on both sides....AND IT"S THE PLACE WHERE EVERYBODY JUST PEEEEEEEE.....OPENLY...those ppl who step out from the bar just go there to pee against the wall....
see those puddles of water? hooooooo it's anything but water

ok so finally the carnival started...we heard the drums....so we waited....and waited.....and waited still...no sign of them and i wondered why it took them so long just to parade....coz they sounded near....and i could barely see coz they were so tall and there was so many people.

and meanwhile u see everybody putting nets down ALL their windows and doors..... like this

i thought vandalism was so bad here...ppl throwing stones or something.....and then the parade finally reached our spot.

it started with the police riding horses...

and then a group of kids in costumes marched down.....and i was thinking how disappointing....what is so fun watching a group of kids marching in their light blue pyjamas..

and the next group in green polka dots....

and then the next looked like the cast for the sound of music nuns. hehe

then from afar there was a marching band.....and it was then we saw the ppl wearing big bushy feathery onion hats.

apparently this group was doing more than marching and waving to the crowd....hehe the first sign of the ORANGE RAIN was the cheers from the crowd....and then u see ORANGES flying EVERYWHERE.

*since i cant upload the video here i'll upload it in facebook and here is the link.*

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=60322206276

lol my friend who went with me had 1 right in her face lol....look at those speeding oranges :D
worse is when they throw it hard and it bounces off the walls of the building.....juice splattered everywhere....not to mention oranges rebounding from behind....u can never see it coming since it comes from behind lol....and from above. and then soon u see peeled oranges flying from the other side of the crowd....after eating the oranges they throw the skins back haha.

more food

2009-02-21T23:43:00.002+08:00

my 1st attempt at using the oven to bake.

fooooood

2008-12-08T18:32:00.000+08:00

pics

2008-12-07T01:47:00.005+08:00

WHO DA HELL IS KEN LEE?!

2008-03-30T21:34:00.003+08:00

i know this is kinda old but someone just sent it to me through email ahahah

so...NOW u know just who KEN LEE is ;)

translation:

NO ONE KEN TO KEN TO SIVMEN (No I can't forget this evening )
NOR YOU CLEES TOJU MALIVEH (Nor your face as you were leaving)
WHEN I GEZ AJU ZAVATEH NA NALECHOO MORE (But I guess that's just the way The story goes) altho it sounded like the 2nd verse (When I had you there But then I let you go) O.o

NEW YONOOZ TONIGH MOLINIGH (You always smile but in your eyes )
YON SORRA SHOOO (Your sorrow shows )
YES EE SHOO..OOO (Yes it shows )

KEN LEEEEEEE (I can't livee)
TULIBU DIBU DOUCHOO (if living is without youuuu)
KEN LEEEEEEE (can't liveeeee)
KEN LEEE MEJU MOREEEEE ( i can't give anymoreee)

altho...take heart...she IMPROVED!!!
and this is with improvement.

well....at least she didnt get the whole thing wrong.....KEN LEE ROCKS

kah ming's birthday

2008-02-26T13:16:00.004+08:00

i'm back! lol

celebrated kah ming's birthday the other night. For those who missed the celebration either coz u're too busy or already in Australia, these are the few highlights of the night. XD

went to TGIF for dinner. will post the birthday-boy-at-TGIF video as soon as i get my hands on it XD. it will be syok-ing.

after that we adjourned to Skybar.

A high class bar at the top of Traders Hotel.

the view was marvelous.

gone are the days where a simple "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ________" is all you see on a birthday cake. uh..pity the guy/girl who had to put that on the cake. and as usual, everything about km is about

''Honda, the power of dreams."

so u see a "VTEC" there on his cake >.>

after awhile i noticed that it was unusually dark outside. took me a moment to realise that the twin towers had their lights off. i've never seen it off b4. probably trying to save electricity.

a reflective pool in the middle, with seats surrounding it. very cool XD

and finally, the birthday kiss. @.@

AWWWWwwwwwwww

blog revival

2008-02-11T18:57:00.000+08:00

alrights! i think i should be able to start blogging again! revamping soon. XD

back again!

2007-06-27T16:34:00.000+08:00

Well, here I am again. It has been quite awhile since my last serious update of the blog, had many other things on my mind and the days do not seem long enough.

This holiday has been a very happening one - had the choir to coach, had the architecture camp at IIUM, and now supposedly the christmas train project- 'supposedly' because i'm suppose to be very busy with the train but am yet to be assigned something.

The VI choir got 3rd in the KL competition. 1st was CBN and 2nd was SMK Kepong Baru. It was quite disappointing but the results was predictable. Both the schools were clearly better. I felt so sorry for our choir team but this is what i have to tell them: be proud that you guys managed to beat 13 (or more) other school with just 3-4 weeks of practice, and that you guys managed to learn 2 songs in that short period of time. 'jong jong inai' was by no means an easy song to learn and sing well, but yet you guys sang it at a fairly well standard.

Right after the choir competition, i rushed off to IIUM for the architecture camp, 'Beyond Borders', as an Observer. (there were the Observers and the Participants. differs mainly by the number of activities and activities and the money to pay). Arrived at the registration counter at around 3pm to find out that there wasnt a room for me, thomas and keong, and i was to get another room from the lady at the counter. Got the key and found out that the campus was so huge that it was impossible for me to haul my luggage to the hostel(college) by foot. A facilitator asked if it was ok for me to wait for the group of people from Lim Kok Wing to finish their registration stuff and then take the same bus with them to the college. i agreed. In the end for some reasons unknown, after waiting for a good half an hour, a guy said i could follow his car to the college instead. ZZZzz.

So i followed his car. When he started to slow his car down and pulled up at the side of the road, my jaw practically dropped. I was looking at what in my opinion looked least like a place where human beings live in. i looked at the guy who sent me to my nightmare and gave a feeble silly smile, and started walking towards it. oh my god, 5 days i was thinking..... as i passed by the ground floor rooms and peeped into the windows, i had this feeling that this place has been a refuge for war refugees and that it has been abandoned for at least a few thousand years ago. Seriously.

It was such a contrast to the main buildings.

Next, i realised that i didnt know which room was mine. The number on the key was F4-6. little did i know that time that the number '4'= 4TH FLOOR!!.. so after threading up that few flights of stairs, i began looking for room 6. it was at the darkest corridoor and when i opened the door, i nearly fainted. the room smelt like it was a storeroom for at least 5 dozen of worn socks that havent been changed for 10 weeks. the smell actually came from this carpet thing that was folded and i think apparently the gormless person who stayed in this room left it damp. managed to survive in that room long enough to open all the windows to air the room for abit. next thing that i noticed is that the place was heavily vandalized, and that the last time someone actually cleaned the room was a few hundred years ago. Dust balls bigger than grapes can be found everywhere and the spiders, lizards and all sort of insects were eagerly waiting to befriend me. the mattresses and the pillows were SO yellow, brownish even. So i started by flinging the pathetic piece of bed sheet given outside the window and did the same for the pillow case. as i opened the bed sheet i saw many yellowish spots on it. Hmm, this is a boy's dorm and that was definitely not a good sign, oh no sir.

tried my best to lay the cleanest part of the bedsheet on the bed and then since it was getting hot in the room i turned on the fan. oh gosh wrong move, it was snowing dustballs!! DAMN and i just laid the bedsheet, which was now covered with dustballs and dead bodies of insects.

since the smell was still quite unbearable i locked the door and went out to take a walk. went to the other 2 rooms and found their rooms way way cleaner than mine, and the best part was there wasnt any smell at all.

so for the whole evening we were just bumming around...most of them sleeping. finally it was dinner time. took the bus to the main building and had a measly meal (rice, 1 miserable piece of very dry chicken, and some sauce). After that it was the ice breaking session. we were divided into teams after that randomly. i was the only Taylorian there in my group.

this group of mine....some of them were not too friendly at 1st while some of them were fun and sporting but initially still stucked to their own clique. Not many ices were broken that night as i couldnt even remember a single name that night lol. and i think the same can be said to the others.

will write about the next few day's activities some other time....or u can go to the SABD blogspot for a short and concise write up about the trip...

all in all the camp was fun...UIA guys were very very helpful...providing us extra transportation at obscene hours of the day. thanks!

pics can also be found at the SABD blogspot website.

update

2007-06-10T09:03:00.000+08:00

much has happened since my last post....went to Redang for some relaxation after a gruesome semester....and it was pure enjoyment there. Many funny incidents happened there...particularly the Jiunn related ones lol....
anyways...got sun burnt and till now my skin is still peeling...

right after we came back from redang a group of us had to rush for the Hilton train project. wel i wasnt that involved in this round of model making as i was busy training VI's choir for the competition this 13th June, which i'm quite glad to see that the team is shaping up nicely.

anyway, Taylor's group won the Hilton train competition..link to the news here
pics of the train will be posted to my multiply website soon...

as for now....praying for desirable results for the choir team..

Martina McBride (concrete angel)

2007-05-15T11:41:00.000+08:00

great and sad song.....child abusers shouldnt be tolerated.

lyrics

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late

[Repeat Chorus]

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

[Repeat Chorus]

coooooool light saber fights

2007-05-13T10:01:00.000+08:00

i've seen many light saber fighters(jedi) wannabes but this one tops them all.. got this link from Ryan..thx man! enjoy...it's really real.

new links

2007-05-11T23:54:00.000+08:00

check out the new links in the 'favourites' section! not enough time to write anything worth reading so....just updated a few links!

funky cool song - MIKA's grace kelly

2007-04-21T00:54:00.000+08:00

just had to say this b4 sleeping....this song may sound very disturbing at 1st, but after awhile u just cant get enough of it *wink*

want the video? UTube rulez as usual...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzA0nG_PurQ

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!

lol...addictive!

friends

2007-04-20T16:58:00.000+08:00

All i can say about them is that sometimes they just take you for granted. being too kind and anything-goes type is seriously not worth it, especially with friends who don't appreciate you. They tend to ignore your feelings after awhile, since u have always been 'sporting' and just laugh it off. If u DO react and get offended, they'll say u cant take a joke. EITHER way they WIN. They've got this whole 'sporting' thing all wrong. It isn't true at all for there is a limit as to how much a person can tolerate. A person's still got feelings however sporting they are. That said, it's not that he/she could never again be 'sporting', just please dont drag in on and on and worse still spread it around in front of you like u dont exist. the 'other ppl' could have taken it another way and then there goes a misunderstanding and all the trouble that comes along with it.

Then there are those who are just hypocrites. They stick around you when they need you. When the time comes when u need help, they'll give all kinds of reasons not to help u, or worse still, make you feel terrible and inferior to them, just because they are better in certain areas. oh and did i mention that they just wont share their knowledge too?

BUT, sometimes being selfish does pay off. Just mind your own business and who cares what happens to the world. That way, people around u get hurt and annoyed, but at least you are happy. Sounds great doesn't it?

tired as usual

2007-04-18T23:44:00.000+08:00

feeling very sleepy while writting this....its like the end of the world....anyway, a friend just sent me a link to a Utube video clip.....what can i say...we no-life-beings resort to Utube for a bit of entertainment....here goes

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=IWJJBwKhvp4&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/IWJJBwKhvp4/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskKElhyT4-JImQGyX5G8_FUE

have fun :)

stress + KTM = dig grave

2007-04-17T18:52:00.000+08:00

hate it when i have to take the KTM to come home from college. it's not that i dislike taking public transport or anything...it is just KTM that i hate...they just dont know the meaning of being punctual. the record waiting time is about an hour. earlier today i had to wait for half an hour...

feeling really really tired is one thing...being stucked at the station not being able to go back to my oh-so-comfortable bed is totally unbearable...it's all i could do to refrain myself from strangling that idiot who so cheerfully announce 'perhatian semua penumpang yg dihormati, perkhidmatan train komuter ke Seremban mengalami gangguan waktu perkhidmatannya. harap maaf' (translation : to all passengers, the train service to Seremban has been distrupted. thank you.)
or
" train seterusnya ke Seremban akan tiba dalam masa 15 minit" (next train to seremban arriving in 15 minutes)....and that's after waiting for about 10 minutes?

my o my....they must have announced the same thing so many times that i could even memorize it... >.>

it really makes me want to laugh whenever i see the KTM pledge they so proudly display at the station. one of them states that 'we will ensure that the train does not arrive later than 5 minutes.'
bullshit...

pro driving

2007-04-16T23:28:00.000+08:00

been a long while since my last post...so i'll just write something b4 going back to my work...
well life's been really busy...same old same old..nothing new there....what's new is that i recently discovered my secret talent! --- sleeping while driving!...i've nver done that before and it kinda shocked me coz i'm the type who wont feel sleepy whenver i drive....i guess after 2 years of architorture thing's changed....

to further prove my theory....a few other friends shared the same/worse experience.......architorture friends....what more can i say...

signing off....from the 1st word till here...it's been half an hour....yeah u guessed it right....i dozed off in front of the computer again....tata off to bed i go....foreseeing many many sleepless nights in the coming week....

Chinese New Year

2007-02-20T10:08:00.000+08:00

it's been a long time since i last visited this site of mine. Hehe my bad. Since i'm on a Chinese New Year break now i have a little more time on my hands. This year it was a bit different from our yearly routine. Instead of going back to Penang to celebrate CNY, my family up there came down to KL. Suddenly the whole house is bustling with life. Well since they dont usually come all the way down to KL we had lots of sight seeing to do!

Since there was such a big fuss about the 'eye on malaysia' we decided that since all of us have not seen it we'd make a trip there to watch the various activities that were happening there. After all, it's been officially launched quite a long time now and we thought we'll have a smooth ride there. it was around 8pm. Everything was fine until we reached Jalan Tun Razak. there it was a nightmare, the infamous Kl traffic jam. While we were stucked in the jam, we saw the fireworks display coming from the direction of the 'eye on malaysia'. We queued all the way to the Ampang roundabout and it was apparent that it was quite impossible the reach the 'eyeonmalaysia' in maybe an hour?(a case of so near yet so far). it later occurred to me that the jam might not have been caused by the ppl who are going to the 'eye on malaysia' but the ppl who are going to some sort of an open house at the istana budaya.....well u know malaysians and open houses. gosh.
so we decided to take our relatives sight seeing in KL itself, and went home.

The next day was the 2nd day of CNY and also my grandmother's birthday. after some loitering at home, we went to a restaurant to celebrate the whole afternoon away. at around 5pm we decided to try our luck with the 'eye on malaysia' thing again. i wouldnt say the traffic was good, but at least it was bearable. it was a LOOOOOOOOOONG crawl as we approach the 'eye'. From afar, we were slightly crest fallen to see that the ferris wheel was...well..just a wheel. Nothing much (proly because it was still bright). looking for a place to dump the car was another problem once we were there. my dad was lucky he managed to get a place in a short while, i wasnt so lucky (we were in 2 cars), but managed to park behind Istana Budaya. for some reasons that place was still kinda empty, probably they did not know that place existed. (neither did we though, pure luck... pure luck)

guess what, after meeting up with the others, we decided to go home XDXD (less than half an hour there after queuing to get in for an hour or so)...coz there wasnt anything to see other than ppl, ppl and more ppl....oh and the queue for the ferris wheel ride was just great. i estimated that if we were to join the queue we'll reach the ticket booth erm....2 or 3 hours later? it was insane!

the toilets there were interesting too! at 1st i passed it off as phone booths....it was not until i saw someone came out adjusting his pants that i took a better look at it. well, that explains the stench i have been smelling all the while.

well that's all the time i have now...happy chinese new year to all!

my 1st ever blog entry

2007-01-01T12:11:00.000+08:00

i'd never in my wildest dreams thought that i would blog, but here i am, my 1st ever post....hopefully i can keep my blog active...