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After the overlook of the year that is gonna go by, I also noticed other things that I can say can be "grouped" together to be the top 10s/5s of 2009

Events:

Quite a number of events happened throughout the year, many of them were in regards to the local politics. In fact for nearly the first half year of 2009, Malaysia had not other real news apart from those...

A great example of small events blown to full scale political events here included the death of a Teoh Beng Hock a small time chinese political aide who was found dead on the ground floor of Plaza Masalam Shah Alam. He was there to be interviewed/interrrogated by the ISA that had a branch/base there.
The death, initially ruled as suicide was a reason that no one in his family and, to no surprise, the opposition party. Claiming LIES and CONSPIRACY, the opposition made an inquiry as to who was to blame for Teoh's death, rather than accepting his suicide reason.
All in all, the whole thing was widely blown out of porportion that Malaysia suddenly got attention of the world, albeit from a wrong reason. Till now, the inquest is still ongoing. His "trial" - Teoh's inquiry will start on the 7th of Jan 2010 again.

Another event that shook the Malaysian race was a very bad demonstration done by a group of malay residents from a small section in Shah Alam. Not too happy with the state's decision to build an Indian temple in the midst of their mainly Muslim residential area, the people there decided to retaliate by holding a demo, and boy; did they hold it...
Shocker of shockers, these people actually took a cow's head during the demonstration and proceeded to stomp and spit on it, all the while yelling for their own rights. The act was actually video-clipped from another stranger who happend to be there, and poof! Went straight to you tube faster than u can say demo.
This incident was also videoed by the media who showed it on TV, sparking cries of outrage from the Malaysians, many of them Indians and non Muslims.
In their defense (which was poorly conducted to my account), they were just trying to show their despair and anger over the building of the temple.
WHAT A WAY to do that in a multicultural nation, people!!! =.=
Seriously, no wonder they call u people ulu at times, the way u behave... Just because u're malays/muslims demonstrating doesn't mean that u can just stomp on other religious/racial traditions and so forth!?! This was further sparked worse when an mp decided to defend the demonstrators, reciting the same excuse on the demonstrations... It was finally solved when the demonstrators were brought to court and charged accordingly, and the temple was to be relocated somewhere else.

Other news included the death of Yasmin Ahmad, the renowned movie/ad director of Malaysia. She died after having a stroke sometime in July-August (I think). The director was known for her sentimental advertisements, especially during festivals (think of the petronas ads on CNY,Hari Raya) as well as her breakthrough movie, Sepet..Rest in peace, Yasmin.

well, for a person who is quite self absorbed, these were the breaking news in 2009...
A New Year, Malaysia, and hope that u do better...

Just a little bit

Around the bend, corner, whatever. The year is kinda zipping by now that it's 29th.

SO...2009.
What can I say about it?
The ups and downs were so many and nearly unbelieavable that it seems like it's from the pages of a sci-fi/fantasy book.

What were the highlights then?
- got to meet my A'levels students (AKA Pink day group) and UNSW students (OMG =.=)
- had 2 rounds diploma students working as lab assistants in their industrial training session. YES - u know who u are!!!! :P We had good times then, didn't we?
- The bouts of sick days and illness that I had from April to June. HAd to take mc like no one's business... SO SAD :(
- a trip to Cameron highlands before that :)
- Meeting my UNSW march intake . Not to mention meeting a certain Korean girl too... +_+
- getting the merged class of UNSW (O...M...G...) and handling it till their finals.
- seeing the developement of a student, from SAM to SAMANTHA to THE CONFUSED ONE to CHAI CHAI to SAM again... so much developement...
- a surprisingly mediocre 30th adnivessarry.
- went through the whole month of tehnsion wait for my kids' UNSW results, which was to say.... >.<
- went through a BAD Appraisal. SIGH... there goes my bonus/increament in 2010...
- went through a series of drug test for my heart... Now seemed better, till recently...
- Heard the NEWS from my IJN doctors after deciding to get a second opinion of cardiologist.
- GOTTEN A NEW CAR!!!! YAY!!!! :)


all those, and I can't seem to think of anything to wish for, now any resolutions for the upcoming year. WHY?
COuld it be that I am thinking of the worst already?
sigh...
AH!!!
MY resolution - TRY NOT TO THINK OF THE BAD STUFFS SO FAST.

Reminisence

Well.
Was reminiscing some of the old times, and the songs that we used to dance to during me and my friends' university years. Why? Heard Macarena on the radio this morning :p and started to think about the dance I did with some of my relatives and friends during an aunt's wedding about 3 years ago.
That was when I started to check out some old songs that made me dance to too...
Some of them included the ones below:


Vengaboys We like to party


Spice Girls - Stop


Ace of Base - lucky love (not really dancy though)


Aqua - Dr Jones


2 Unlimited - No limit (YES, DAMN Ah Beng...)


Will Smith - Getting Jiggy with it (what to say? ;P)


Las Ketchup - Ketchup song (remember the moves?)


Lou Bega - Mambo No.5

And of course, the song that started ti all for me to do this:


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MACARENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, got another last one for u to check it out :p

The end is coming

Yup, folks. THE end is near... 17 days to be exact. AND THEN...
The cycle renews again, like whaaht people says. It's a new cycle - full of new possibilities, new adventures and new experiences....

You should know what I am talking about by now.... =.=
If not, u shouldn't be reading philosophical, parody books much less this blog.
WHAT the heck am i saying?!?!?! Nothing much, apparently. Not nothing. It's more like somethig.... incomprehensible actually.
At least it's coherent.

Well, back to my "REAL" rants. Just got the results of my kids today, as I was on leave from work yesterday. Got to kow the results, and I mean EVERYONE'S results....
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
I consider it a very bad thing, as it kinda made me look like an incompetent educator... Maybe I am :(

Not to mention the incident during work before this.... Haizz..... I think I'm gonna get FIRED already...

Enough of self-sorryimg, if there's a word for it. Now that it's near X mas time, it's a time for enjoying and sharing already. With that, I wanna share some things with you all :)



Enjoy, Cos I did!!! :p


Also, as I was looking at some things on youtube in line with Lady gaga, i noticed this cover of her Just DAnce.... Not that iffy softie don't worry.
It isn't too bad. In fact, he's a so called original singer wong writer in NYC. Got into his site and checked his covers. Got a check on his original song. Aint' too bad too...
here they are down below... I think some gals will like him... :p



COVER of JUST DANCE



His original song - Night Fades

U MUST SEE THIS

Didn't know what to post actually since the last one. Wasn't really into it.
Then I saw this teaser today. Must share with u all!!! YAY!!!!


Dh Preview One - Watch today’s top amazing videos here

Picies galore

Well, after the weekend, I decided to spend a bit of my own time to blog down some updated stuffs, which isn't much (now that i no emo- less to say). But due to some people, I thought of tryin to post the pictures that I took as well... It's about time I think :p

Anyways, the week past was quite ok. Still up and down, but mostly stable and up :p
The highlight of the week past to me was on Tuesday and Friday:)
Tuesday, for the presentations that I went to watch that afternoon. A colleague of mine had a presentation that was compulsory to the students, so I went to see it. 4 presentations were done: Animal rights, Teenage pregnancy, pre marital sex and sex education were done by them. The 2nd and last were good. Unfortunately, as the first 3 didn't really control their time - which was a bad thing to me - the last group started their presentations only at 5pm, which was definitely after the time. It eneded up with 80% of the students all back, as =most of them had classes at 5pm.
Sex ed to me was very good, as it really connected to Malaysian standards, unlike the other 3 actually.

Next was Friday. My kids finished their exams !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yoho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :p
so we went for a lunch at KIMCHI, a korean hop in TCM. And the lunch was not too bad either. The sizzling beef was good acutually.




Abu and Anna ;p


Jia and Mr. Leong


Tetra and bodycheck gal ;p

Of course, Ash suddenly became weird during lunch. so got the picture then!!!



And of course.... some horrific ghost had to come back and haunt us, even at the last day....




Now, some random photos:


If u see carefully, the first two lights looks like the eyes of the demon front of the dark clouds (the body)



My cat Doukas

Oh yeah, b4 I forgot, we also met up with Yuen's nephew, who is so DARN CUTE!!!!! Took some pictures of them together.

Importance

Well, they say u learn something new everyday. AND BOY U DO.

I did too today.

U ARE NOT REALLY IMPORTANT TO CERTAIN PEOPLE WHOM YOU PUT AS IMPORTANT TO YOU.

Nuff said.

Going to scream again now at my balcony.

SLEEEEEEEPYYYYYYYYYYYY

as i went to the office today, some colleagues began to tell me, Jeff. U look pale today. Even a few of the students who met me told me so. Then i started to think. It's mainly due to sleep i think.
let's calculate...

Saturday night : sleep at 3am
Sunday : woke up 12pm
Sunday night: 2am
Monday morning: 7.45am
Monday night: 3am
Tuesday morning: 7.45 am
Tuesday night: 2am
Tody: 6.45 am

total sleep within 4 days : 23 hours.
IF average per day is 8 hours, therefore I shol've been taking 32 hours...
intead it's 23 hours.... so...TERBALIK O.o

dead....

recovering

Well, it's time for me to change already.... The past few/many posts were so dark, I scare myself reading it now. Gosh..... Didn't expect myself to be so.... DARK.
Hehehehe...

But, I seriously would like to thank my friends who both on many many places started asking about it. Enquiries on whehter I'm ok or not.
Now, it's not that I'm looking for attention, but with all these going on, I can say that it seriously helps you a lot :)

And because of this, I can go on..

THNX!!!!

P/s: Not that i can't go on already. It's just that I was going throgh a dark period that time.... hmmm. the 30s crisis?


NOW...something to jiggy with it

Singularity

Now i know why people need to have their other half. After all this. It's easy. So u can talk about ur distress, feelings and uncertainties with them.
I, being single till now didn't give me that feeling...until now. I dono why, but throughout this entire week, I was aching to tell someone, anyone i know about how I am feeling.
But let's face it. Even I myself don know what I'm going through.

ANGER,HAPPINESS, SAD, DETACHMENT,all these just cycled through me at a goddamn fast rate like some enhanced PMS, that basically drains me. Thought it was just pure melodramatism, overly dramatic about it. But now, after lying on the bed for some time, I realized that I do need someone to talk to.
BUT HELL it ain't gonna be the ones I talked to past week, whether through phone, meets nor any other means.

Why? cos one, they caused it. And two, they won't understand. I my as well talk to the wall for all the same purpose.
And that's why I writing this down again, early in the morning where I could sleep soundly, maybe even with a dream or two on a cool night.
But noooooooo, I had to be high strung over it, thinking over the whole episodes and charades that went through throughout the past week.

One: I feel used.
TWO: I am an idiot for willingly to being used.
3: I can't believe I was so immature about it.
Four: IDIOT for not seeing it, and putting my whole goddamn leg into the messy coffin I built for myself.
5: Still wanting to go along with it even after noticing it.PURE RETARDEDNESS
6: Not being able to work well due to it.

tHese are the 6 things I noticed the whole week, tried to rid myself of it.
Managed to do it this morning during my work time till evening,
then 7 came in - being involved in it again.
PURE FUCKING GENIUS OF ME TO DO THAT.
MUST SHOOT MYSELF FOR BEING RETARDED.
And to think, i call a certain someone retard all the time, when i'm the biggest one of all.

GODS. I feel like i wanna scream myself hoarse till my throat dries up and i cough to death.
Or maybe get a heart attack now and begone with it.
WHY?
COS I FEEL LIKE A BIG JERK AND LOSER.
Can't believe I TEACH as a living.

SLEEP FOREVER is what i wanna do now. Maybe catch a bit of chtulhu's insane dream, so i'd be insane too.

P/s: bolding the words to remind me how much mistake i made, if i survie this and read it again.

hypocritic idoit

I think I'm a hypocrite. Was talking about the sunny days this morning , now feeling angry like shit.
Should know that some people do not really care much of what u plan one. I don mind u telling me it's cancelled. tell me earlier, don leave me hanging like some person that u would only layan when u have no bloody choice. In fact, if u think u have no bloody choice just say so. Don need ur sympathy or whatever that u think u're forced to.

And i'm a bloody idiot to be angry with it. Cos it's normal for people like those to do such a thing. But why am i goddamn angry for?
Cos i'm too attached to them. DAMN IT.

DEEP BREATHS...
U managed to do so well throughout the day. Then u crumble over such a small thing, a last minute cancellation.

Congrats, u Idiot.
And now u know how they think about you already right? Some idiotic, emotional SIR that they are getting annoyed with.
With that, can u handle the thought of not having them at all without a breakdown?!
SUNNY NEW DAY.
MY FOOT

New weekend

well, fell asleep after some commotion yesterday night. It was dreamless slumber, so deep I overslept for work today!!!! :p luckily managed to reach it there.

Anyways, after the sleep I suddenly realized something, as I faced the new bright sunny day. LIFE MUST GO ON. It's a fact, and one that I forgot the past few days. No matter how crappy it is for me, I realized that I must go on. so why in the bloody hell am I still moping about the past, and the future too?
LIVE IN THE PRESENT, ENJOY IT.

Yes. That's what I must do....
So i figured out already. let's be happy about it lar. go fucking nuts if u want to, but not over the worries, but whatever joy u find in ur current position. YES, ANYTHING can go to hell anytime soon, so what's the point of worrying about it? Yes, u do worry sometimes, but let's not despair over it.
Well, I am currently in the office typing this out, while waiting for the YELLOW HOUSE to grab the championshi in netball and marching :p
SO HAVE A HAPPY WEEKEND!!!!

21 guns

well, if u heard the first verse before the first chorus, that's how I'm feeling now.

Now I realize it, that to be better, I seriously need time to be away. Even the slightest contact seemed to trip me already. but i can't do that, cos my GUILT TRIP will be on.
CRAP
might be going to a talk this Monday by some students of another programme, by a colleague of mine. Seemed appropriate now- Suicidal thoughts is the talk.

It's raining heavily in my heart now, whatever that may mean to u. That's how it feels for me... And my umbrella is just useless against the storm.
My as well give in to it, be swept among the tide.
Had a friend (a nice surprise, actually) who sms-ed me in regards to what I've been blogging about. Well, I do admit, might have being melodramatic at some time.
BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT MY THOUGHTS ARE MELODRAMATIC.
See how it goes lah this weekend. If u see the newspaper....
Oh well.

Suicidal tendencies

Was trying to sleep after a long day, but couldn't. So popped up the laptop and started to check my fb. Thinking there might be some people around that usually pops up at this time there, especially after someone told me see me in fb. GOSH. How stupid of me to believe.
Anyways, it was when I started to look back at certain times. It's a habit of mine to think back to the few days before and replay it over and over again.The more troubled I am, the further past I'll start from. And it immediately hit me that I was seriously tensed out this week. I have no idea why.
Maybe it might be due to the whole shcmooly thing that hit me beginning Saturday. Yea, Saturday. It hit me that I was especially tired mentally and emotionally (surprisingly) since then.
Why? It was obvious that I got into some kind of mess here. Not too big, but it's affecting me personally, quite bad. And for me, talking about it would just mean that I'm seriously losing it.
It seems that I could not hold any sense of differentiation anymore. PEOPLE has always said, do not mix work with personal life. Of course, it's hard isn't it? we all do that a point or 2 in our life.
I for one kinda lost myself in it too. And now I seriously find it difficult to get out of it. Main reason is being emotionally attached already. STUPID. HOW IN world could i do that? I've done my job before, and it wasn't like this!?!?!?! So much that I think I'm losing my mind over it.
Not to mention of certain status change. that was bad too. and it did affect me alot.
Somehow this combination is wrecking me up. I've been mentally loaded eversince Tuesday, with the work - my students were sitting for their externals then, my paper some more. I was much more nervous than they were! Of course! It'll reflect on me in reality! NO matter what anyone say, I don't think I can forgive myself if they did badly.
And then some other things popped up too. and it just overkilled me metaphorically speaking. Been draining myself over it since then.
I think it came to the point that today, I seriously couldn't think happy thoughts. BLOODY SONG started to play right about 10 in the morning and kept on till now. YES. it's still playing. That was why I drowned myself with quite loud music in the car.
Or walk aimlessly...
could this be depression? I even told my health condition to certain people I shouldn't be telling? I mean, elo?!?!?! It's me business. why do i need to let everyone know it? Want sympathy is it? IDIOT. FUCKING IDIOT.
SO what the hell am i gonna do? the parental instinct seriously screwed me up this year. SERIOUSLY. At times, i wish it didn't happen, at times I'm so happy it did. MANIC now.I'm not even too sure if anyone shares what i am feeling or did have what i am feeling now before. I'm BLOODY AFRAID make my next move now.
I want to withdraw to myself. let myself feel my own presence, instead of being bombarded by it. Some people could do it, some people are doing it. BUT i realized i couldn't do it. I am an open book, not something closed. I can't withdraw from the problem knowing the fact that it would HURT THE PROBLEM!!! The guilt would be my ticket to hell man.
It's not that i am not going to hell. Jeez. been thinking of certain hellish thoughts already these few days. Only thing i can say is:
IF U COMMIT IT, BE SURE U ARE GOING TO COMMIT IT
FOR example Committing suicide is a pure one way. If u wanna do that, be sure u are gonna do it. DOn have last minute thoughts about it, cos it'll ruin the commitment.
Gee, I confess, been thinking about it last few days. even though of which can kill outright 100% and which cannot. Which can be done and which cannot

U cannot drown nor strangle yourself
Hanging and jumping from a building may not kill you. IT'll be bloody painful for you to suffer then. NOT to mention u are in public
Slitting wrists needs technique. otherwise, u'll just waste blood, not life.
popping pills can be done. yet, if u are found then, they can save u again. Modern medicine can pump those drugs back right out of u
walking/running to an oncoming vehicle/train/bus? SERIOUS COMMITMENT

all these were thought within the few days. And it said something. JEFF. YOU ARE SERIOUSLY MANIC DEPRESSIVE. Not to mention, idiotic for being able to come up with it.
Well, I'll just let my health runs it course I think. Not too sure how long it'll take, but it'll do.
When I do die then, mayb the bloody song won't play in my head anymore.

press play

This song popped up in my head after a certain something happened this morning about 10ish.
Please Don't Leave Me lyrics by Pink

Da da da da, da da da da
Da da da, da da
Da da da, da da

I don't know if I can yell any louder
How many time I've kicked you outta here?
Or said something insulting?
Da da da, da da

I can be so mean when I wanna be
I am capable of really anything
I can cut you into pieces
But my heart is broken
Da da da, da da

Please don't leave me
Please don't leave me
I always say how I don't need you
But it's always gonna come right back to this
Please, don't leave me

How did I become so obnoxious?
What is it with you that makes me act like this?
I've never been this nasty
Da da da, da da

Can't you tell that this is all just a contest?
The one that wins will be the one that hits the hardest
But baby I don't mean it
I mean it, I promise
Da da da, da da

Please don't leave me
Oh please don't leave me
I always say how I don't need you
But it's always gonna come right back to this
Please, don't leave me

I forgot to say out loud how beautiful you really are to me
I cannot be without, you're my perfect little punching bag
And I need you, I'm sorry
Da da da, da da

Da da da da, da da da da
Da da da, da da
Please, please don't leave me
(Da da da, da da)

Baby please don't leave me
(Da da da, da da)
No, don't leave me
Please don't leave me no no no

You say I don't need you
But it's always gonna come right back
It's gonna come right back to this
Please, don't leave me

Please don't leave me, oh no no no.
I always say how I don't need you
But it's always gonna come right back to this

Please don't leave me
Baby, please, please don't leave me
© EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC.; PINK INSIDE PUBLISHING;

Now.... Repeat the playing in your mind over and over and over again since then till now (4pm) non-stop, especially the chorus.
You will be able to feel my bloody mood today then.

Princess and frog

let me tell u a story:

The princess and the frog got together, on the account of an old crane and a fish after a night of stormy weather. the next day, the princess went to tell her half sister about it. The half sister stormed off in a huff for not being told earlier and proceeded to have her daily mocha at the Starduit coffeestall.
Now, this act hurt the princess, who always confided to her sister in almost everything, including PMS and lacy panties and red bikini bras and the such. She didn't know that telling the sister about the incident would blow up in her face. So she went to cry into the deep dark seductive darkness that is her closet.
the old crane, feeling lonely called out to the frog. The frog, panicking at the incident told the old crane to bugger off straight, hurting the old poor lonesome crane. wobbling in sadness, the crane wandered of to Tekken.
Realizing its error, the frog tried to croak to the crane through his croaking device, but was snuffed out by the emoing crane. The crane, which still felt hurt began lashing around everyone else, who got out of their problems themselves - the princess and even the fish who saw the anger from far away.
So everyone began to apologize to the crane, each defending their actions. the fish defended the frog's actions, trying to calm the crane down, yet nearly got swallowed up by the angry bird.
Meanwhile,the half sister, at starduit stall began to realize that she wasn't being chased back by any of them - the frog, the princess nor the fish. She got angrier thinking that they left her cos they jolly well happy to be rid of her. in her anger she began to note on her magic mirror all the things she was hiding from them - the feelings, intentions and anger all on the magic mirror.
all tis continued till late at night, where the frog still croaked frantically to get the crane's attention. finally getting the old bird's attention, the frog apologized to the bird telling him the reason of all the things that had happened. The crane, hearing the story, got calmer and began to advice the POOR POOR RETARDED frog on how the others might feel/think.To the crane's musing, the crane noticed that the fish had the eye on the frog as well. yet the frog was oblivious to it.
Sighing loudly, the crane proceeeded to knock sense into the frog on the birds and the bees, and the princess and the transpiration of their togetherness.
The crane explained (in vain) the effect of the frog and princess going along together, yet the frog was retarded to it.
As the frog went back in forlorn, the crane thought, "sigh... it's going to be a long december in the woods this year"

TO BE CONTINUED...
this is a fictional story, any coincidental or parallel story are just coincidence

HITCH

IT means so many thing now after today.
First of all, I am getting over the last 1/2 day of anger and such. It is not good. Depression isn't either. Yet, it happened, especially after seeing an ex that breaks down in public.....
Anyways, Had supper with some person. WHom I wasn't supposed to bother from now onwards. Yet the temptation to contact was too great. I AM GOING TO HELL FOR THIS TEMPTATION.
So proceeded to have a long talk to him.... And i went
through my head: Am i to talk about birds and bees too? Since it's part of biology...
To make things simple, I told that person that he should just go along with what he had done since that day, and not regret it.... AS HE DID tell me the complications.
YES ABU, u are right. can't get angry after i know. IT's not his fault. It's YOURS.

AND that gave me the creeps. GEE, i thought. HE HAS MORE TRAITS IN COMMON WITH ME THAN I THOUGHT OF!!! Here's the guy who thinks so blooody far into the future when the present is not even being handled properly!!! I thought I was the only one doing that!?!?!?!

Gave him some final advice on it, basically. WHY? b'cos from Wednesday onwards, i am just plain sir to them. not planning to barge into any affairs of theirs already.

Also, after all that has happened, I observed some things:


1) first and foremost: U can see how people feel for other people, but u are blind to how people feel for u.

2) No use trying to reverse things. Life is not a car.

3) When u go into something. DO GO INTO IT.

4) And don't be too secretive. people know (see reason 1)



so now, what does hitch got to do with this?
1) The whole incident revolves around it, slightly but still it.
2) I feel like Hitch (the guy in the movie of the name). Give so much advice. Yet fucks up in his own one. sigh....
3) At my age, it's seriously fucked up when u are single. Time to adopt a kid on your own....

Feeling better so don worry

I'm much better so don worry.
U all go about ur important things, and that is now.
I'M FINE. FEELING BETTER. DON WORRY. NOT ANGRY.

Hope that makes u feel better. It's my own problems. NOT U, JUST ME.

IT's formalities, by the way.

$(%*

AND I FEEL FINE

FUCK IT.
Hate people who is keeping things from me, when the so called "secret" is obvious even to a blind man. And the nerve of them to say i'm close to them.
Fine. If you don wan me into your private affairs, then don't. I'll keep things proffesional now then.
FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!
That's how ANGRY i am and how hurtful I feel. Don blame other people. I just know it. Asked b4 and u don come clear out of it.
do u actually know my latest relationship status became this way partially because of u people!?!?!?!
1) They say they respect u... RIGHT....
2) They start pretending u're their best friend instead.
3) And then they proceed to NOT tell u anything else cos U're still their TEACHER.

Now, I'm just plain depressed.............
this is what happens when u're too close to them. U GET BURNED. VERY MUCH.

Now, since I don teach them anymore. I'll stay the fuck away from their business. It's not my fucking business.

3 more days

If I'm counting today, which I can't since I'm not teaching them, I'd have 3 more days with them. B4 they all do their exams and fly away. One's heading to mapleland. Another going back to pandanland till next Feb, where he/she'll fly to Australia...

All going here and there.
Ihave A MIND to visit them when they're there. Problem is:
1) Don think they wan me:(
2) can't go out of country till i finish up something. BIG.

SIGH......
*proceeds to corner to make mushrooms again*

BTW: listening to Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come, right after Gradation Day song from Vit.C. Talk about APPROPRIATENESS O.o

Serious

No wonder they say teaching is hard
RULE 1: WHEN LECTURE, JUST LECTURE

Now I know what it means, with the end of my intake here.
Seriously, I think I am grwoing WEE TOO LITTLE attached to this small group
That I am letting my guard down, taking them in as my anak buah.
Now that certain things are happening, I just realized that they are not going to be there all the time. And IT HURTS, really hurts

I'm actually tearing up over it. Thinking about them, how they've been the whole year through... It's like watching oyur own kids grow up.. And now they
re going off.

Tuition was different, somehow it didn't really feel that bad. It was like, once a week?
BUt this one instead had been EVERY SINGLE WEEKDAY. From Jan till now, especially nowadays, since I'm having extra classes with them.
Knowing that next week is their final academic week with me is actually quite hard for me to bear in a way.
Sometimes, I wish i have a year and a half with them like A levels instead of only 10months. But if they do take A'levels, I might not even be taching them!!! So in a way, I'm thankful that they're doing this mode instead.
But they all...
SAM, ASH, JY, JJ, ANNA, Lee.. A small mischievious group of kids. The loudest, most non sensical group I've ever met. Yet, these kids are so dear to my heart, that as I'm writing this, my eyes being to water.
If teaching is painful, being a parent hurts alot then.

Yet, this is where I am slightly apprehensive. Does a lecturer just teach, be a proffesional? Or should he/she put his/her effort into knowing the kids too?
I apparently knew them so well, that we seem to have our own private family monikers here.
This further intensifies my dilemma. I do teac them,I do. but everytime their work/results are bad, my heart falss doubly. One from being a lecturer - Am I teaching them right? other would be concerned about them - WHY aretheir grades that way? Frustration pours into my heart here, that I dono how to handle it sometimes.

can't bear to see them off on the last day. Might cry.

Archie

And that's that!!! Archie proposed and married Veronica Lodge on September this year!!! O M G. Every fans were not happy at all, complaining loudly that it was Betty that he was supposed to marry. But, not only did archi married Veronica, they had twins too, and Archie is now in the Lodge company!!!
Yet in the end it seems that the comic got into the "peer" pressure, and voila!!!
Issue 603 that is to come!!!



WT?!?!?! What is hapening?! What about Veronica? The twins?!?! Find out then. It apparently is a 6 parter storyline that started in 600. Hmmm

hate teaching at these times

Just realized.
They are leaving soon.
Heart tugs painfully.

Thank god I'm going to shower now. So that my red eyes will not be questioned. :(

As I am writing now

As I am writing now, I am currently beside my bed. ooh...
Well, didn't manage to go to work today as I suddenly had all the flu, cold, fever chills, body aches and lethargy at the same time this morning itself. It was goddang painful to get up at all wei, I thought I had broken my body. My family were quite worried too, insisting that I should see doctor. I know this is a temporary thing one, as my body tend to accumulate the restless nights, and effects till a certain point and KABOOM!!! I was feeling the tiredness seeping out yesterday in fact as I came home.
Well, had to apply Emergency Leave. Initially thought I could be better by noon, but by 11 I was still painful everwhere, that I had to sms on my bed itself to extend the EL. Then I went to sleep again till 12!
Woke up slightly better then and took abit of food. Went to sleep again at 1.30 till 4!!! Now, not that I'm jolly healthy and jumping, but at least I feel much better that I can actually start typing :p
Anyways, I should be able to work tomorrow.
My body's alarm signals can be so teruk at cases one... sigh....

another note, the grandfather of one of my other kids passed away peacefully yesterday. My condolences to her and the family.

Time to sign off now. Gotta rest a bit more.. maybe another nap...

More rants

This 2 days were surprisingly taxing on the mind. Work and work related matters seemed to bog dow on me.
Not to mention, after my last MC on June till now (Yohoo!!!!) i seemed to be getting someting. All started with the ulcers popping out in my mouth... Eww... but still, then my throat dry, now coughing slightly... Aie!!!! No!!!!! Musn't fall sick... Why/ My kids need me!!! Pahpahmon!!!O.o

How did that come out to be is embarassing, and embarassing to know too. Nuff..
Yet, apparently the name is stuck already to me, when the kids whine about something, anything (everything).

Anyways, the distress and uncertainty is back again, folks. U know what i mean. If don, then it's ok.

Well, today our Sue finally came back from Pandanland!!! Sue's relative passed away and Sue had to go back to jaga the place, keep the place from burning, according to what it says... Sue had to sleep at the wake of the relative, so with the rest of the family, they ahd to go through the wake.
It took Sue 4 days in Pandanland b4 heading yesternight. Sue as usual, overslept again today and missed a class. Luckily it remember to wake up for mine O.O
Also, Sue's bornday is this Friday!!!! Yes, TGIF!!!!! Sue's bornday!!!! Yay!!!!
others planning to bring him to grab, i mean, to party.... So they planned to go to the Ministry of Sound.... Curfew? about 11pm...
Aiyoh... u go clubbing and go back at 11.30? OMG... Clubbing doesn't even start till it's 12. But it's them... they invited me to go.. Planning to go... see how... Mayb wear the black zipper t :p
but they then wanna drink too, and I put my feet down... no drinking slcohols DEARS, not if u're driving... Mocktails ok. ekorayam jantan no....

Then, Sue came and say mayb it'll go back to Pandan land on friday!!! WHY!!! DOSHTE!?!?!?!

RIP

Firstly and foremost. A minute of prayer to Stephen Gately from Boyzone who died suddenly in Spain while with his hubby Cowles. Stephen was 33.
Not that I"m obsessed with hime,but I think that he was a gutsy and brave fellar during his time, as he did the undoable at that time during the boyband times - by coming out then. I take that as being brave for someone of that nature, as he provided the "carpet" for others to follow later one (Lance, Ellen, etc).
R.I.P., Stephen, and condolences to the family and close ones.

Died, then came back to life

Sir! Sir!!! Sue's dead!!! That was what my kids told me this afternoon. "Cannot contact Sue lar!! Worried about her!!!" One of them continued. What happened:
Messaged Sue this morning and no one picked up called, no pick up. At this time the whole class knew that Sue must be sleeping. Biasa mah. Then till 2pm still no pick up on phone. Sue was not only absent in my class but another class to. That's how we got worried. Sue might've really died!!, exclaimed one of them.
So off we headed to Sue's house. Anyways, in the end, Sue came out with very bad face - just woke up face!!!! O.o
Found out that Sue had headache the day b4 and whole night through - popping Panadols like candies...
Siau kid!!!
Grr....

Anyways, before going off, take a listen to Kris Allen's single - Live like u're dying. Yes. I didn't really like him as idol this year. Yet, surprisingly this song is nice to hear. He sounded a bit like the singer who sang the man who wouldn't move...


Note: The name SUE is given to protect the "real" person's name. We don play naming the culprit here one :p

Sudden urge

Suddenly so wanna say so many things at the same time. And it's like only been 3 days since my last blog. Hopefully these kinda things don happen to often though. Hate to see it happening when I'm in some ULU place w/o a connection and wanting to say something.

Anyways, here goes.
friday

Nothing really happen much that day. As usual, had classes with my kids. Ah. Remember now. Was at lunchtime, where the kids and I went to the nearest mall for lunch. Now, usually we'd head straight for Subway and the promo lunch there, since it's the fastest.
Yet, on that day, one of the kids - the Confused One - whined on having Subway again ("don wan Subway lar.... always that one...") and so we asked him what he wanted. He dono pulak. ended up in the Station Kopitiam at the lower ground floor. The food was surprisingly ok... Kinda got hungry about an hour later though, even with the Nasi Padprik i ordered (but that's just me). After that , we went to get my drum set (don ask) while another kid went to get Nee and San to complement her Ich at home.
As we headed back to college about an hour later, the CONFUSED ONE stated: STILL HUNGRY LAR...
Nak kena ketuk punya budak!!!!

Sidenote: Guitar Hero 5 got cool songs wei!!!

Saturday
Woke up about 11 and checked FB. then went to clean my room abit for the coming makan we're having. my PSP suddenly gave out, prompting me to go and check it at Cine with a frined of mine at the shop. So up I went there, just in time to see the latest gadget...



PSP GO!!!!! first to .. :p

Going back then, my first few friends- my work colleagues - arrived for the makan about 4ish... It's a bit sad though that only few of them then, cos the others couldn't come. Anyways, they stayed till about 5ish and went off, just as the other batch came in. And came in more of our guests then...
the makan ended up finishing about 9 something, with my sis's Bf's family going back last. Not really last, as my sis's friends were there still. We then proceeded to my room as the "ADULTS" aren't there anymore and proceeded to...
GUITAR HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

finished about 1 am :p

Sunday
Woke up at 1.15 suddenly remembering that I have a card tournament at 2!!! So scrambled to the bathroom to shower up and so forth. But before heading there had to send my cat to groom firstly, and get lunch (Mckers.


that's doukas n the bag as I sent him to the groomer.

Tourney didn't relly do well... Stupid cards didn't come at right time in the second game (won first one), and loss as a result. Third game was financially bad.... Money flood..... Flood!!!! no peep to handle the situation, not to mention Moto chen bugger came in the second turn!!!! And 2 sneaks crumbled my defenses...Got 8th out of 11 :(
Dinner at a friend's open house, at Penchala. His house is huge... And STEEP. the road heading to his house is like 20% steep!!! thnk god we walked up to it (cungap cungap I...)
Dinner was ok. The chicken was TOUGH... my jaw ached after 3 pieces of it... the chicken wings were good though, Me and my other friends (9 of us) had like 50 of them!!!! Hahahahahaha!!! I hade 8 i think :p
Went back at 10, slept then...
And here I am now in the ... blogging here.
GTG, kids to teach.

Like a certain person I know:

THE END

Flash...

My friends have been telling me a bout this so called new series that just premiered in US. Known as Flash forward, they raved a lot about it, for a good reason too.
As I watched the trailer, I got caught up in the excitement too.
The premise is simply this:

Whole world population collapse and FAINTED for 2 minutes at the same time - so many disasters happened. REALLY BLACKOUT. so u expect la, accidents happen, planes literally crash and burn and so forth.
Next thing is, as these people woke up to the proceeding chaos around them, they realized that many of them dreamt a part of something on themselves 6 months later on. Whoever that they contacted that time ACTUALLY dreamt sequence similar too...
That's the whole story. Obviously u know now, what the plot is heading too.
It's from the makers of LOST. Best of all there was an advert on this Flash series... on the Boeing that crashed in LOST!!!!



The trailer

Anyways, before capping off, here's a video that's been missed sorely on MTV and V (I think in this region at least) - American cowboy from the group Jada. Not too bad for an very new model-like gal group. Let's see if they're a hit like the pussycats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx8l_-Ed9_Q

SEX IS EXPENSIVE

Yes. You got that right. SEX is EXPENSIVE.
What?!?!! My update after a month and i'm talking about sex? It's the most interesting thing in the world, i think :p
Anyways, how did that statement come about?
Well...

Me and some of my friends are thinking of something to get for a friend of ours - his 30th birthday is coming about mid month.
people who know me would know by now the many types of friends I have. And this friend of ours is particularly eccentric.
He is always BERTANDUK.

Everytime we all hang out together, it's noticed that he can never run away from the sex subject for more than 5 minutes one. And he ALWAYS TALK ABOUT IT in many ways/hints/connotations - u get the drift there.

So, we decided to get something to that way for his big THREE O. After all, he's approaching his 1/3 lifespan already :p
Now, we went to a sex shop in PJ this evening, trying to think of what to get him.

First, we dono still whether he has his other half or not - HE NEVER talks about it. So... there goes the presents that we thought to get for him then - the boardgames, the cuffs, tasty lingerie, you know lar, things that u need a partner to USE WITH.
Even if he had a partner, we didn't know his gender preference - our friend here is so ambiguous, an earthworm would likely tell us its gender instead. But I digress...

so off that plan go, as we looked/hunt for more. Of course, since he's SINGLE (To us), obviously we plan on the THINGS he can use BY himself.
so we went to see...

Lingerie - WT?!?!?! Who is he wearing for? IS he gonna wear it pun?!?! Don expect us to get him and elephant thong for him for that birthday, tell him to wear it and ask him to show the present!!!!???!!! that's traumatizing, even if he's good looking (to some of our female friends lar)

Cuffs/Whips - Don think he's the flogging type. And he's bad with memory. Next thing we wouldn't want is that he calls us to his place to look for the keys to the cuffs that he wore....

Condoms - Firstly, it's sooooooo common, even with the flavoured/smelling/ribbed/ whatever types. Furthermore, how is he going to taste the flavoured one?...

ALAT PEMBESAR - not sure how well endowed he is, don wanna know, don wanna help him there. Even if it's for his birthday. Please, pal, ur ego is big enough... we don wanna help you on other ...

Then another gal pal of ours who were there suddenly told us. What about CAHAYA KULIT?!?!?! And we went wah!!!!!!
yeah lar, why didn't we think of that at all? Cos it wasn't on the shelves, one thing's for sure . By now, u would have known what it is... googling it or translating it to the language that u understand.

On the side note, I wonder why they don put it out? It's obviously sold, since when we ask for it, the sales guy went under his counter (literally) and pulled some of those items we were asking for....

maybe cos it looked eewwish? not really... or else people - guys especially, won't use it (NOT TAT I USE IT)... I'm pure- and TCF, so don need that :p

Continuing to the sroy. So we went to ask to see if he has it, and dear lord - the many types he pulled out from the drawer!!!! It's like the drawer came from Doraemon's pocket!!!
U have the normal one, with lips; u have the bigger one looking like....
than the mini one, which says finger rubbing "machine". NOW this one we don understand from him. How can the guy use it when the thing wrote that it's for the ladies to touch....?
And he took out the most technological one, as we rolled our eyes at the previous ones... thinking of which to get our friend. The technologically advanced? It's bigger (medium torchlight size) and apparently, it VIBRATES, so it acts like .... 0.o

there, we were kinda struck speechless by the devices. Then the gal asked for price.
The advance one? RM699 - OM(insert your letter)THAT MUCH?!?!?!?!?! wow, it's as pricey as a DS Lite, near the price of a PSP!!!!
Can't really think of anything else it'll do though. Not like the device is gonna play videos for you, or spout music. heck - u only use it for ...
Then we went and ask the prices for the others then...
RM299 for normal one. O.o
RM400 for bigger one >.<"
the finger one? RM 180 - WOW. Just WOW....
Now u know why sex is dear...

To end the story. We went out of the shop, saying that we'll think about it. Of course we'll think about it. We'll think about the device, and the price tag along with it...

In the end we decided to buy him

A BIRTHDAY CARD

Parodies

Well, are parodies of videos, movies and music clips funny? Depends on who's doing it acutally.
But some ARE SERIOUSLY funny, I do have to admit. It's just that in being funny, does the parody have to be toilet funny too( I mean sex ler...)? Up to that person.



next, Jessica Alba parodying Jess Simp.



Who likes beyonce?!?!?!



And desperate for more



Of course, who doesn't watch the idols huh?


and finally, Hiro!!!!

V

Am sooo waiting for the series to come this November!!!
For those who doesn't know / forgot about this series, V was actually an old series from 1984, that tells the story of how aliens came to earth on the promise of helping humanity. In the series, we get to know what they were actually up to in the end. Plot was good, but the most memorable thing about V wasn't ints story - it was the Aliens!!!

I could still remember the time I watched this show, behind the back of my parents or some solid thing, as the aliens portrayed here were kinda scary in many ways. Sure, they looked like us, but the best thing is that u can tear their faces, and they turn out to be reptiles!!! SCARY!!!!
Also, I can still remember scenes where these people/aliens go to secluded areas like toilets and such to eat food: U can see them putting live rats into their mouths!!! Cool or what!!?!!?

The series ended kinda early, and no news about it until now. Now, with the successful revised series of Battlestar Galactica (2004), the producers of The 4400 are revising V again, and the series will premier (in US la :( ) this November. But since it's internetting age, we get to watch too, don we? :p

UFO in Klang?

Apparently a week or 2 ago, the chinese newspapers were screaming about the sightings of a UFO over Klang. One actually took a picture of it when he was on his blacony, overloooking the field where some kids were playing at- the UFO hovered there then.


U might have to crane your neck to see the picture...
So... perfect looking

zzzzzZZZZZZ!!!!! MERDEKA !!!!!!!! ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz

Well, it was quite a long weekend last week, as opposed to the normal ones that's been on for like a month or 2? Anyways, it was actually a good weekend, as I managed to recharge a bit of myself there, after the so much work (I dono where it came from also) b4 this.

Highlights:

Saturday

Started the day ok lah... Woke up at about 12... After all the washing up, watched a bit of TV b4 heading to Midvalley at 2pm to meet a friend there. Coming back from Kyoto, the fellar got some things as cenderahati. YES!!!! :p
Watched a show to pass the time b4 buka-ing puasa. SHOW? - GI JOE!!!! :P
After the show, another friend joined for the buka, so we had dinner in the Italliannies at Gardens
Food was not too bad - had calamari salad and the diablo shrimp pasta...
was put into the smoking corner though - thank god no one smoked then.
There was also a group of GAYS- about 16 of them who had dinner there, celebrating a friend's birthday. How I know they are HAPPY? -Dress, attittude, not to mention they all holding each other throughout the makan....
brrrr...Went back after that to play ghostbusters...

Sunday
Woke up at 12. Got to some house chores. Didn't do much in the afternoon, except for going out to get my box of cards on the latest expansion!!! YAY!!!! (NO MORE MONEY NOW THOUGH )
Came back to arrange it b4 watching my Korean show at 7. Then whole family went to Tropicana Mall to have diiner at the Kimchi, a Korean restaurant. THE FOOD is DELICIOUS!!! Serious, must try!!!
Then tried Bad Ass drink after dinner- had a cup of iced snickerlicious. GOT SO FULL THEN - had rice, beefs, beefs and more beefs in the KIMCHI initially, not to mention a glass of chocolate milkshake. Was surprised that I could down the snickerlicious!!! Went giant awhile there, b4 going to buy DVDs.
Went to buy BRUNO... went home to watch it- One word: DANGEROUS!!! as in the show is sooooo not for the older generations, nor for the younglings.
me watch with my sis and her BF, and had a laugh over it... One thing's for sure, it WILL NOT BE SHOWN here. THe ratings is basically R to near X... Talk about nudity!!!
There's real clips of Bruno in a swingers party, nude advertisement, and more... But it's so hilarious!!!
- Now, everytime I listen to celine Dion's My heart will go on, I'll remember this show!!!!

Monday
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz
Finished up my ghostbuster's game :)
fun game... got mw whistling till now :p

Random pictures

Pwetty pictuwe :p







Others were actually pictures taken during my field trip with the kids to the bird park. As u can see, they had fun (I think :p)

Hadouken!!!!

And theat was yelled in my brain when I saw the part where the grandma took out the snotty alien-controlled boyfriend in the Movie Aliens in the Attic.
Went to watch it on Saturday night, leaving my brain behind- since i Know this is all nonsense/action movie already. And boy oh boy. DO LEAVE IT behind, and you'll have fun thorughout the movie.
Why? cos it actually was action filled from beginning to the ending, if the action is somehow kiddy a bit. The acting was so-so, especially weak coming from Ashley Tisdale and the main actor... but thanx to the "matured" actors/actresses, it helped kept the movie afloat.
The grandmother was especially funny, so was the bf of Ashley. AND THE ALIENS!!!
They're kinda cute, even the evil ones. Of course, like my friend said after the show, "The good aliens are soooo cute, the bad one are sooo different". YUP
Now my next few movies - District 9, GI JOE!!!!

Also, spent my whole day finishing up the 1year old game SILENT HILL HOMECOMING. It was actually quite riveting, as the controls were slightly improved in my opinion.
Out of the 5 endings, I got the more reality based one... The ending where the Hero- after killing the final boss, saves his brother and walks off to the darkness:

Wakes up in hospital room, bound on feet and hand. He then realized that it was the hospital room that he escaped from initially at the beginning of the game, only this time clean and new.
Then he noticed 2 other doctors, one near his head who was getting ready to connect some elctrical thingie to his scalp.
He shouts whether he's up or not, is his brother save. WAS HE DREAMING?
The other doctor replied, yes. He was dreaming, he'll only wake up once he is in his coherent mind....
and proceeded to zap his brain to wake him up...
WT?!?!?!
Whole time I played, i got my hero to be a mental patient?!?!?!

They are to be respected

And I went WT?!?! In my head....
Stupid lady in charge of the museum was thinking that we were disrespectful to the cancer organ specimens there....
REWIND>>>
My kids and I went for a field trip to day to coincide with the biology topics I've been teaching, and one of the place included a university medical museum. Yeah. I've been there, along with Mr J and A before with some other batches of students before this.
So procedure during this time was slightly different. I just managed to call the dean yesterday and a lady picked up. When I told her that there are about 8 of us only (turned to be 6 - 2 absent) she said it's fine. no need letter.
So this morning we went, jolly going there to see the things.
there wasn't any problem to begin with, since there wasn't anyone there when we went to the museum about 9.30
then I had to go loo, so left the 4 kids there.
Came ack and saw all 4 of them sitting outside the centre with some lady and guys of uni staff looking over them.
Apparently another small group of students from another school came to the place, and the lady thought we didn't ask for permission.
I told the puffy and peachy lady that I did call and a lady answered my phone. She said who and i told her frankly I didn't get the name. She went off in a huff then
So I continued the "trip" with the kids in the museum when that same Indian lady came with another lady, asking me aside. Since there was a lsight commotion already, my kids stopped and stood next to me.
they started interrogating me like some couple of MIBs who thought that we came to their museum to steal the specimens for fertilization!!!
Come on! It's cancer specimens. It's in enbalming fluid bottles. We were just looking at it.
And THE INDIAN lady had the nerve to tell me: "You must treat them with respect, not make fun and gawk at them" WTH?!?!?! What were we doing? playing catch the ovarian cancer? "You are not supposed to take pictures too" _ Hello... We knew that, and we didn't . The other school on the other hand took pictures with normal flashing cameras!!!Students were gawking!!!
And she said," This museum isn't open for public. U need to have the right channel to go through to visit here"
Yeah... I called and was told no need. Now u say I need letter of permission, blah blah blah, lectring me there, making me look like a BLOODY IDIOT in fornt of the kids. Of Course, being courteus as always, I just went into apologetic mode, gomen...gomen... ok :0 ok :) will do that...
U people change your policies like changing underwears only... old ones coming out smelly, new ones not looking good at all pun.
The nerve...When the other lady, more "apologetic" sounding and formal went to ask her - since they're here,can they go on then?
The INDIAN LADY: Go lar go lah, they saw half of it anyways.

That was when my students came themselves ad said they're done. don wanna see anymore.

Oi lady!!! It's no wonder they don wanna open it to public, with a mediator like u, it's HELL. THEY SAW HALF OF IT... wah.. must be bloody top secret huh?
BEST is still: BE RESPECTFUL... How? Bawa colok to the place. give one to every organ specimen we want to see is it?
ISH... Makes me want to discard the field trip for future usage...

Interestin Practice On a Holiday break (IPOH)

Too tired to blog about it yesterday...so here it is!!

Anyways, this week is currently a week of term break for te pre university students in my college. So, me and some office colleagues decided to take the day off yesterday (Tuesday) to have a small 1 day trip to... Ipoh!!!!
Objective: FOOD
There were 7 of us who went to Ipoh that day, in 2 cars. We started our journey about 8.45 am from the college, as we were waiting for a friend to arrive.So during the wait, snapped a picture of a colleague :p



Posing maut!!!

Well, we went to The famous nasi lemak stall in D.U. for breakfast about 9am before making our journey to Ipoh about 45 mintes later.
The whole trip was quite good actually, as I was driving, 3 other colleagues were in my car while another 2 went to the car that Alex drove. We had a brief stop at the Tapah stop along the highway, so that urs truly may ease himself at the restroom while the others went to buy guavas and other stuffs at the stop. Then saw a small kiosk selling KimoIce! Tried it (chocolate) - meh =.=

Anyways, continued our trip to Ipoh, reaching the stop at Ipoh Selatan about 11.30am - ahead of schedule!!! (:p) We drove past Jusco where me and my colleagues started to look into the map from a street food guidebook to go to our first makan place - some place near some road selling something good.
Let me tell you first, as I was somehow believed to lead the group, me and my colleagues in my car had the task of leading the other car and collegues to the place.
No need to say, as I wasn't a great leader, so the first stall took us about 20 minutes to locate. :p
We went round and round that whole road only to find that it was situated at the end of the other side of the road... Choi... =.=
It was a coffeeshop named Yong Suan, with a nasi kandar stall located at the entrance. Now this stall was highly recommended so we thought of trying it out.
And what do you know.... It's REALLY GOOD!!! I had a piece of ayam merah which tasted good but spicy, while the others had rice with whatever's thrown at them. Why thrown? Apparently whatever any of my colleagues said to the waiter handling their food wasn't taken into consideration.. Nasi setengah - plop! Whole plate of rice -
Tak mau kuah - Plop! More gravy!!!
But they did enjoy themselves, every one of the colleagues - Alex even 'bathed" in the glory of the spicyness!!! :p


Managed to take this b4 going off - just to show HOW FAMOUS IT IS

Next, we drove a 5minutes drive to the famous Jln. Theatre where many good food were supposed to be found there.Firstly, we went to shop at a store there for some things that Yati, Hema and Yong were looking for for some college activity. It's actually surprising to me here, that on this road itself, there are 2 shops/supermarkets that sells trinkets and decos for bridal events/events and such... U can find a lot of those ribbons lar, bunga mangga deco, masks, and others there. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures there. sighh....

After the 10-15 minutes romp in a shop of it, we then went to another recommended shop at the same road for dessert. this time we had "tau fu fah". Taste - not too bad, but the texture of the tau foo fah makes up for the taste, as it was oh so smooth!!!! never had a smoother one that that!!!! Typing this is making me drool all over again, just remembering it!!!

hehehe... took abit first b4 the picture!!!


No. Me not in cos I had to take the picture!!!
Waitress too lulu to take for us.

After the soft makan, Yong, Hema and Alex decided to walk to a shop at the end of the street to order the Ipoh's famous salted chicken to take away, while Yati and Chee decided to shop at the remaining decoration shop. So off I went with Peter for our so called next stop - others too full to eat - the On Kee Chicken Rice with taugeh!!!
Unfortunately the much more popular Lau wong, situated next to On Kee was closed. So we went to this one - not that it didn't taste good!!! YUMMY!!! Also, as Peter was eating, people just staared at us eating... wonder why....




Chicken rice was good, slightly oily but good!!! To the point that I ordered an extra bowl of rice!!! Hahahahahaha!!!
Peter commented then after the eat, that he was then "TRULY HAD EATEN". Hahahahaha!!!

We were then very full by 2.30pm after that, andour initial planning was so way ahead, that we didn't know what to do then. Then we decided to go to Ipoh Parade as it was hot here too. SO Ipoh Parade - HERE WE COME!!!!

Went there, jalan jalan a bit. Bought some things there. I actually bought some things I wanted to get for so long. Got it in Parade only cos I had the time..Can u imagine that?!?!
Anyways, we had a small drink at the starbucks there... Yes - starbuck in Ipoh... WT?!?!




Again, no group photos cos this time there were only one worker in the shop that was BUSY BUSY BUSY

It was about 4 that time, so we decided to go to our final destination for the day. The plan to the Old town white coffee cofeeshop was scrapped as everyone had it in Starbucks aready (DUH!!).
So we went to Kek Lok Tong, near the famous Sam Poh Tong.
I can tell u this, a 15 minutes trip from Parade to this temple ended up becoming a 30 minutes trip, thanks to yours truly...
Thank you colleagues, for your patience!!! I've never gotten the wrong road as riduculously funny as this one!!!
Let's just say that towards the 4th U turn out of a remote bend, Chee messaged to tell me not to give up hope....
But Kek Lok Toong we managed to reach, and it was breahttaking...




We went into the cave and saw really good cave stalactites and mites as well. The cave was littered with statues of Buddha and other gods, among the beautiful stalagmites/tites. Best of all, the cave opens into a nice man made garden which house a small lake.






Had an episode of breathing difficulty though here, a sudden pull and tug of pain that I had to sit down and wait it off...

Then after that we went back to the main road. Of course stopping at the tambun pomeloes stall to buy 3 for the family :p
Then we went back to KL, reaching DU again about 8pm...
Not too bad for a day trip!!!!

previews

well. some pictures to tell you the tales I might tell...

In many way,s I' changing it slightly, but also in many ways, these stories are ORIGINALLY told that way.
If u google it, u realize it then.
Take my Red riding hood for instance, the older version from France went nearly to what mine was.
Mermaid died in the original.
Pied Piper killed children too.