here here :) beware of long post ahead..

Don't mind Kev. He was drunk already at this point :)

Well, nothing much happened last week. As I said, when one wants to blog, the mood or the want to blog has to be there because if not, what’s the point right?? Well, lets just say that I had to dig deep to want to blog today and I found a bit of that so called “mood” to do so.

Ok, last week was actually quite “happening” might I say because at work I had one whole week of Orientation which ended on Saturday afternoon. Tuesday after Orientation we had telematch and that’s where I got my knee injury from. I’m seriuously too injury prone these days. Little bit, little bit here pain lah there pain lah. Oh well.. Orientation was surprisingly okay and all went well. I mean of course there was the boring moments here and there but what can you expect kan.??! You don’t expect to be entertained 24/7 especially when it involves so much talking. But all in all, NOT BAD!

This is the glamour-glamour ballroom. It was like an award show and I really felt out of place.

As soon as the weekend was near, my mom asked my help for the school concert and seriously I had no choice. But I help mummy every year so I guess I was used to it. On Saturday night, me and my sis attended this show called the Broadway Parodies Lagi Lah by the Actors Studio, KL and it was really good. You can really see all the hardwork they put in and its no joke. Basically, the whole show evolves around the cast acting and making fun of popular musical tunes at the same time making fun of the Malaysian culture i.e. how we talk, our habits and etc. Mia Palencia was in it and she had the best vocals of course.

On Monday night, had a small gathering with families at my aunt’s house and it was basically for my daddy’s bon voyage and Mui’s birthday. Of course Mui’s birthday is officially 2 days later. It was then that we realized that Nana was really attached to her mama and papa. I pretended I was taking her home with me and she biut for like a few minutes and tears started forming in her eyes. HAHAHAH. Me, Kev and Mui left a bit earlier that night to catch the 9.50pm movie. We watched My Best Friend’s Girl starring Kate Hudson, Dane Cook and Jason Biggs. When I first so the cast I really wanted to watch the movie cos I like all of them and I wouldn’t say it’s a good movie cos its like so typical lah the ending and its not a movie that I’ll watch twice. If out of 10 I’ll probably give it a 6.5/10. But the earlier part of the movie was really good and hilarious. Not recommended for young kids tho.Kev was drunk here too and me and Mui werent :)

Oh ya, on Sunday night, my whole family attended Toh Puan’s wedding at Magellan Sutera and seriously, every year these things are like so formal and glamorous that’s why I always malas wanna go and this year was no different. At the last minute I was so malas to go. You imagine lah a party full of VIPS and half the people I bet I was related to but didn’t know who they wereJ I seriously am so unfamiliar with my mom’s and dad’s extended family. Immediate family ok lah but extended don’t lah you harap me. HaHHAAHA. Ended up experiencing looking at all my cousins drunk and smiling and literally everything. HAHA. Had fun taking pics as you can see.

Compared to the last birthday 3 years ago, this year’s one seems a bit more mellow and quiet?? The only difference this time was we were more into the open bar compared to last time but since my last drinking experience, everytime I smell Whisky I seriously feel like vomiting. And I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t wanna make a fool out of myself again. I always end up shouting when i’m talking when I’m drunk. :D

And of course, this Saturday is the day that I have and still not looking forward to because daddy will be leaving for Singapore L I’ve seriously been dreading this day. Oh well, will count the days and there’s officially 2 days left before Daddy leaves for Singapore.

Tonight, we will be going out to celebrate Mui’s birthday but not really sure where yet. Basically to spend more time with Daddy also lah before he leaves for Singapore.

This is Jordan our 2nd cousin I think. He has a face of a man kan?? His suit so cute dis :)

Kasian he got attacked by tipsy and drunk people. hahaaha

PS: You know what, I always feel like I’m boring you guys man with my posts and that’s partially the reason why I malas wanna blog sometimes. Takut I’ll bore you guys to death dis. Sorry if I am but seriously my life aint that all entertaining.

I actually wrote this post 2 days ago and saved it as draft and can you imagine I even malas just to post it up. I wanna post it with pics bah and the uploading of pics usually takes a bit long for my liking. But this post has to come with pics and I’ll have to upload the pics from my dad’s camera also because I’m in the mood for pictures now.

If you see blur pics like this means it was taken by someone drunk. This was taken by my cous. Really drunk he was.

As you all know, my dad was suppose to leave for Singapore tomorrow but not jadi. You see, since last week my dad caught the bug. You know, the one with fever, flu, sore throat, cough all rolled into one. Yesterday, my mom told him to go and see the doctor again cos his cough wasn’t sounding so good and my mom said that he wasn’t himself yesterday. After the doctor’s visit, doc said that my dad was already having pneumonia which means his lungs were already badly infected if it already sampai this stage. Doc also said that if he had visited the doc two days later he would have had collapsed. Damn it! I guess everything really happens for a reason. There’s a reason why my dad got sick the day before he has to leave. So, doctor told him to rest for two weeks before he can leave for Singapore. Been dreading the day my dad has to leave and its going to kena drag again. But trust me health is much more important.

Tomorrow is All Souls Day and that means I get to go and visit Datuk and Gong-Gong again J

My 2^nd pay arrived yesterday and it feels good especially going through a month like last month. So many ups and downs during work. And the ups were really up and downs really down, it was crazy!! :p but it all feels good in the end so all is good. So how are you guys??!! I’m not sure if I’m too late or what but GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR EXAMS JACQUELINE TEO FUEY PHEAN.

OH YA!! I have to say this hear cos I think NURUL RAFEEQA AFDUL MUTALIP needs our support even though I don’t exactly know how the whole thing goes but Nurul got short listed out of 150 girls to 15 girls and now 10 girls for MISS VEET J What’s the update now Nurul??!! J AHAHAHA.

Ok, this is too long a post. But at least you guys are updated right??!! HEHEHEHE

someone's lazy :)

oh oh.. someone's been really lazy to blog. And its not because I have nothing to blog about. Trust me, there's so much to blog about as last weekend was the busiest weekend yet and I had a whole week of Orientation from Mon-Sat.

Will blog about it when I'm in the mood cos you really need the mood to blog :p and I'm dont have it today. So till then, Good Night. And for the sake of it :D


HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NURUL RAFEEQA AFDUL MUTALIP

AND ALSO TO MUILI!!!!!!!!!!! Finally 21 and 16 respectively :) will update more next time. Nite2!!

wth??!!

The skinny guy on the steps was one of the photographer that day. Look at the dark skies.

That hut day is the Wedding Pavillion. Quite a few people get married there during sunsets.

This is one of the three Gazebos where guests are able to book it to have a private dinner on the beach with a private butler.

I don't know for what reason but my knee is hurting really bad and at times i find it hard to kneel down or to even bend my knee. Must have been cos of the telematch this evening when we had to run in the sand like maniacs. Cos after that my knee really started aching but not as much as it does now. Anyways, I just realised the last time I blogged was the one in the empty hotel room and that was because I was less busy until I got involved with the photoshoot. It was seriously such a tiring process. The most stressful time so far since I've been here. But seriously I've learned so much more during that time and made so many more friends from the photographer to the director to the staff many of whom I did not know before this :)

All the pics below are from the night of the Fireworks Display:)

Anyways, I realise one thing today and it is that I hate driving. I don't know why but I'm not a fan of it at all and I need to get meself a automatic car quick. Just need to save a few months before I do so. The only thing I like about driving is that it takes me from Point A to Point B without anyone having to take me.
Last Friday night me and my family including all the monkeys except Kevin and Mui went to see the fireworks display by 1Borneo. It was five-minutes long and the good part about it was that it was continous instead of having all the unnecessary pauses in between. Seriously the best fireworks display I've seen in KK so far. Its not like we have a lot of fireworks display also kan?! :) haha.. We didnt go right up to 1Borneo but instead parked at Hospital Likas (formerly SMC) and waited and suprisingly we werent the only ones with the idea but a whole bunch of people. Yours truly so smart some more. I went and cross the big longkang bah using the really small walkway and had so much trouble getting across the next time and it seriously took me some time as my legs were shaking for some reason. First time I did it like hero but not the 2nd :)

The pics you see of the sunsets together with dark skies was taken last Saturday when I was looking after the Korean group from Asian Webzine. They were at the resort taking some pictures for their webpage and seriously they were a really quiet group comprising of 2 guys and one gal. While they were taking pictures of the sunset at the beach, I was busy too taking the sunset with my phone at the back.

Am having Orientation for the whole of this week and during the first day yesterday, I kept on staring at this guy who is also in the orientation but in Front Office. I kept staring also cos he looked really familiar but I couldnt get my head around as to where I saw him. So during the break, he suddenly came up to me. "Alex, you're from what school last time?? Maktab ahh??". And I was like ya. Then it was that time lah I remembered who he was. Veron, Jacq and anyone who was in MN, form 1 Jerai you guys remember kah this guy called Benedict????? He was with us in Form 1 only then he left. He looks really different now but the attitude and the way he talks is the same :) Comment if u guys remember this guy!! hahaha..

so what do you do when ur all alone in a hotel room??

1) you watch tv until u get bored and theres nothing to watch.

2) use the free high speed internet with your laptop:)

3) lie down on the king size bed and jump on the bed since no one is with you and you cant do that on your bed at home cos its not springy enough :/

4) walk around the room and feel lonely for awhile.

5) look at all the attire for the photoshoot hanging in your room and say what the hell??

6) start blogging when you're done surfing the net.

7) start sms-ing and instant messaging people just to be entertained and its the most perfect time to catch up with some friends.

8) keep on looking out the hotel room window when there is completely nothing else to do.

9) set the alarm clock to make sure that I wake up at 5am for the shoot tomorrow.

10) scream cos I just realised what time I have to wake up tomorrow and all the things I have to go through but its all part and parcel of the job :)


If you guys were wondering :) am now staying at the hotel where i work cos the photoshoot for the resort is starting at 6am tomorrow and we will be taking wedding shots on the beach so it shoud be fun! :/

Better start going to sleep now if not i'll have trouble waking up tmr for the shoot :( good nite.....

FINALLY!!

Yayy!! Its that time I've been waiting for and finally my New Years resolution has been fulfilled.. I finally got my license today and the feeling of it is weirdly bikin panas also cos I really have an ass of an instructor. Today I went for my JPJ exam at KMK and actually I'm from PMJ and this is because at the last minute this week my Instructor suddenly informed me that my L license is expiring on the 12th which is a Sunday. So, he told me that I had to pass my JPJ and get my licensse finalised the very same day. So I asked him lah, what if kan I fail and my L license expires. He tells me that I have to go through the whole process again of taking the stupid ceramahs and bengkels and computer test. I'm not going to go through that again man. It was hell enough for me the last time and a complete waste of money. And imagine paying another RM1000++ just to go through all those time wasting pieces of shit!

So today I went to KMK at about 7am just so that I can practice the route on their road test and you know what, KMK's road test route is so much harder than PMJ. PMJ's route takes about 10 monutes but KMK's one takes about 15 minutes man and its so long and far and complicated with all the slopes that you have to stop at the junctions. So, in my mind I was like all this and if I dont pass my gosh!!

So I literally forced myself to pass cos it was really do or die man. And you know how its your instructor yang urus kan your driving license after that?? After my JPJ exam, I had to go back to collect the results at 2pm and go to JPJ to settle my driving license and it cost me another RM60 when I already paid it all together to my instructor. I'm am so gonna ask him for my money back and not let him get me ripped off man. This whole process was harder because of his lack of responsibility!

Anyhows, the point is I already have my license and I dont have to deal with him ever again! And now the conditions of the roads outside my house is so bad cos their making it wider its gonna be tough getting use to it. But I'm sure I'll do fine.

At the same time when he told me he was busy today and wanted me to do my license at JPJ, in my mind I was like "I no need to go to work ahh??!!" so I took Emergency Leave, called my boss and she said it was okay. Bloody hell, now another day from my Annual Leave kena potong. I was actually saving it for a long holiday during the Christmas, New Year time but what to do. Thats life I guess.

My dad's leaving for Singapore next month to work and we wont be seeing him for many months in a row. Now he's deciding whether to come back for Christmas or CNY. I suggested to him that he should come back during CNY cos of my grandma. He suggested he'll come over for CNY while we go over there for Christmas. I dont mind spending Christmas in Singapore actually. Its a change and Christmas in Singapore rocks! So we'll see. Especially now that they are having direct flights from KK to Singapore its really good for a big family like us and my dad's can come back more and vice versa. One things for sure I'm really gonna miss my dad lah when he's gone cos he really looks after the family and I feel safe when he's close and around. I never said this directly to my dad you know ever in my life cos my family is no good at PDA even among ourselves but I love him to bits and everything he had to go through just to support the family is amazing and I really gather strength from him. Not to let anyone bring you down or bully you. One thing that I really learn from my Daddy is strength and determination. Not to let your academic qualifications bring you down but use your intelligence instead and life experience and thats what he's been doing to support the family all these years with that many children. We've never really been well to do really but always comfortable or sometimes beneath comfortable and it has never affected us and we've never been happier.

I'm not writing all this to minta kasian or ask for sympathy but it is a known fact and it has never affected us a single bit. We get through day by day and thats all we could ask for really:)

So dont take this post the wrong way k?? I'm really not asking for sympathy because its a fact and its nothing to feel sorry about :)

imback!:)

Ok,been on a blogger’s block lately.. hahahaha. Have been very lazy to blog even though quite a few things have been happening. I’ll try my best to remember the few bits of highlights during the past week and jot it down here.

The last time I blooged was the one where I posted up this bunch of pictures. And gave you this excuse where pictures tell a thousand words. Well, that was all bullshit cause I was actually just pure lazy to post anything up :D

Ok, I’ll start from last Saturday lah since I promised to blog last weekend but didn’t. HAHAHA. Ok, so here goes..

Breakfast at Papar town after visiting gong-gong.

27^th September 2008 (Saturday)

Last Saturday was actually my Gong-Gong’s 4^th Anniversary since he passed. I still remembered the day and also the day before very clearly. It was year 2004 and therefore the AF fever was so freaking crazy! I think AF2 was the year where it had the most fans and their caption “Dah Demam” could not have been more suitableJ Well, the day before was the 26^th September 2004, and me, veron, jacq, my sis, michelle and lleufer decided to attend the Af Konsert at KDCA, Penampang because we were really into the craze! The days before that we were up and down from KK to Papar non-stop. We only went home when we needed to sleep or shower and other than that we will be at Papar Hospital. But it was during that time that the family really bonded just like when Datuk passed away the year before. I still remembered the night when the Holy Family home called my dad and told him that Gong-Gong was admitted. My parents plus my sister rushed to Papar Hospital that very same night. I still remembered clearly that it was a Thursday night. What I don’t remember though was how come I didn’t follow them that night. Must have been tuition of some sort. Early that morning around 2am, they returned home and I still remember how Mui Li was explaining to me that she was looking for Gong-Gong in the ICU and she couldn’t find him. Then she suddenly saw my parents walk towards a bed with an old unconscious man. My sister had the shock of her life when she found out that it was him. I also was so shocked when I saw him the next morning. Was almost close to tears actually at what I saw. This will also be the day that will be very hard to forget because my Popo was there too. Gong-Gong and Popo have been separated for many many years and it was the most touching thing to actually see her there standing at his bedside and sometimes silently shedding a tear or two. Saturday night will be the night that is also so hard to forget because that was the night that Gong-Gong’s breathing slowed down tremendously. He started to take really slow deep breaths and there were long pauses in between each breath. That was the night that my grandpa became officially unconscious. He did respond to anything we said to him like he did the night before. It was then that all of us gathered around his bed including my dad right beside his head. My grandma then wanted to say something to my grandpa at that time and so daddy tried waking my grandpa up without any response. That was when my dad broke down for the very first time during this whole time. He was keeping it in all this while and it was then that he finally let it all out and that was when everyone knew that gong-gong was going soon and broke down at the sight of daddy breaking down. That was the first time I actually saw my daddy breakdown like that. That very same night, my grandma was also talking to gong-gong even though he didn’t respond. That night on the 25^th September 2004, will be a night that will always be stuck in my mind. After my mock exam on the 27^th September 2004 at school was when I found out that gong-gong passed away that very morning.

So last Saturday, we went to visit gong-gong at the cemetery in Papar during the morning and it was Nana’s very first time there and meeting gong-gong J

28^th September 2008 (Sunday)
Went to mass with Mummy, Mui Li, Chiara and Frances. Daddy went with Kev to the earlier one because Kev had to work.

Ended up babysitting the monkeys today cause my parents went out for a church appointment. Realised this I think around last year that these monkeys are really growing up and are able to look after themselves. Only the youngest monkey of them all, Frances, will sometimes come knocking on my room door asking whether she can come inJ I usually end up shouting at her first and when I hear her going down the stairs I open my room door for her cause she’s just to cute to be shouted at. HAHAHA. That’s usually the case with all my siblings, I shout at them cause it’s the spur of the moment thing where you’re so pissed with them and I still end up apologizing.

29^th September 2008 (Monday)
Was not looking forward to work cause of the weekend break and was really looking forward to the Raya break in two days. Was a somewhat busy day but not to the level of going crazyJ Had dinner appointment which my Boss wanted me to join which was with Royal Brunei Airlines UK Media Group. It was okay I guess but lots of conversation.

30^th September 2008 (Tuesday)
Today, my Boss took her annual leave for one week and therefore left me with taking the RBA group for the Orang Utan viewing and also to see the Premier Seaview room. They checked out at 11am and after that was suppose to show Teng to Boss for the Bien Bautista photo shoot. Teng ngam2 my cousin so luckily it was easy to talk to herJ Couldn’t wait to go home for Raya holidays. Went for the 12.15am movie at Cathay cinema with Kev and Mui and we watched Eagle Eye. It was okay I guess. Action packed movie but it was a bit too loud and fast for my liking. Probably would give it a 3/5 stars J went home at about 2.30am and didn’t sleep cos I watched the Man Utd match with my dad and bro. They won 3-0 and are finally hitting form. Thank God! :D

1^st October 2008 (Wednesday)
Slept in till about 11am and caught up with TV. In the evening just kawan my mom with errands. Ended up at City Mall. Went to the arcade with Josh. Haven’t been to the arcade in ages and it was lots of fun! I know, I’m 21 and should be acting my age J but it was lots of fun though. Hehehe..

Yesterday I went swimming with the monkeys at SGCC and got a really bad tan on my back. Today my whole body is aching put together with the stiff neck that I’ve been having for the past week not a good combo.

Sorry for the extremely long post but this is what you get when I didn’t blog for a long time. Hope it doesn’t bore you to death and to Nurul Rafeeqa Afdul Mutalip and all my Muslim friends, SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI! And to Jacqueline Teo Fuey Phean, hope everything is good with you cause you sounded a bit upset on your last post.

XOXO