Enjoying the Rareness of a Malaysian Blizzard

Can anybody guess where this is?

 

I suppose I have scared off half of my readers with my previous lengthy, dull and lack-of-visuals posts. But not to worry, the upcoming posts will be back to normal – photo spamming again.

This post shall be about my first class outing with my University of South Australia 1.10 classmates, since I failed to attend the steamboat buffet party due to my tuition. Well, credit goes to Teong Jin for organising another great successful event for the class.

First, we started off with Dim Sum at USJ 21. This was rare as I seldom eat Dim Sum; in fact, I never eaten them with my friends before. To my surprise, he not only invited the present classmates of ours, but also other course mates and our last year’s classmates.

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So that were just some of the photos we have taken at the restaurant. The business owner must have felt overwhelming when he saw such a big group of 30 college students roaming into his premise. The humorous thing is that he asked us have we just finished tuition at one of the nearby tuition centres. Do we really look like afternoon session high school teens,or even worse, primary school kids?  Anyway, we had plenty of fun feasting with long-time-no-see friends and present classmates.

Next would be the blast when most of us went to Sunway Pyramid. And so, four cars led by the insane Haw Yang, Shan Lung the womaniser, veteran Teong Jin and the motherly car owner Sim Ee raced to the destination through several different directions, just like in the movie of Fast and Furious 4.

When we reached there, our group split into half whereby some want to watch Marley and Me, and the other half prefer to indulge themselves at Red Box. I guess you should have known me by now and I don’t think I even need to clarify which I have chosen.

Once we reached Red Box, our already-divided group has been separated into another two parts: English songs room and Chinese songs room. Guess what was my decision this time? If I you have thought that I would go into one of the rooms only, you are indeed wrong. I know I was greedy because all along, I always monopolise the microphone, just like Zheng Yang. But that was only in one room. Now, I was actually taking control of two rooms and I just shifted myself from one room to another when my songs are in turn. So basically, I synchronised all the order of the songs in my favour and sang non-stop from 1pm to 4pm. This was not even rare, because I never had a chance to sing in two rooms simultaneously before.

Thanks to Haw Yang who triggered me into yelling and shouting during Shake It, I almost lost my voice and I can’t talk loudly for a day. I do hope everybody enjoyed despite me monopolising every end of Red Box. I also want to apologise to Tien Jiun for being late an hour when you can actually finish singing all the Jay Chou songs by then. This was my first time seeing Nicholas and Benedict going out of their mind along with the rhythm of Please Don’t Stop The Music, my classic. On the other hand, Kaylie and Jo Ee were busy doing their duets in the other room. I feel really sorry for Kar Mun who fell sick on such a occasional day and was unable to join us due to that. Here are some photos of our KTV Party and lastly, a video of our final song of the day inserted for your pleasure (or more like Welcome to Hell).

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Video recorded by Kaylie. Sorry for the sound defects because the zooming does not record sounds. Maybe you all should hope that the whole video is muted so that you don’t even need to listen to my extremely out-of-tune voice at all.

 Photos snapped by Haw Yang who has a camera phobia (Shin Yi, 2009), inside and outside Sunway Pyramid’s mirror lift despite the fact that we were already late for class.

What’s even rare was that I actually skipped Marketing PASS (Peer Assisted Study Session) because of all these. Since we spent too much time calculating our individual bills for the singing, we left Sunway at 4pm (the time when our Management Block Lecture begins). By the time Haw Yang found parking right in front of Taylor’s Main Campus, it was already 4.20pm. Therefore, this became the next rare occurrence because I was only severely late for lectures once. Professor Luke Faulkner, the South Australian lecturer greeted us by saying something similar to ‘better late than never’ and ‘thanks for coming’. All thanks to KTV! This is my phrase of the day:

NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE, OUR SINGING SPIRIT SHALL NEVER DIE!

What’s worse is that the other gang was still watching Marley and Me when we arrived at the Lecture Theatre. What a long movie! Maybe we should start naming our class the Class of Tardiness. Eventually, they arrived around 10 minutes after we came and Prof Luke repeated the same words again.

I guess that’s all for my first class outing where so many first happenings occurred on that day. I really do hope our class which has only a lifespan of 4 months will be able to gather like that every once in a while, even after it dies.

Rushing into a Self-conjured Hurricane

At last, my study break has arrived and finally do I have a peace of mind in writing all the posts for the events which happened throughout this hectic month of April. So prepare for a continuous range of deferred posts which I shall be blogging on.

At the beginning of this month, I was really busy with my Accounting Test and also both my Financial Management and Introduction to Management assignments. The tenseness was so immense that there was not a single sign of fooling around on April Fool’s Day. The worst thing which happened to me during that first week was completing my Management assignment. It was scary because I finished it at the last minute. The fact of doing an assignment when I’m oblivious of the deadline is sickening as my heart kept beating fast as every second elapsed. This state of oblivion was due to the confusion caused as I don’t know whether to follow the Malaysian time zone or Adelaide’s. Furthermore, the daylight savings had recently adjusted Adelaide’s time zone and I can’t even tell the the time difference between these two places. As I panicked through the failure of submitting it using Mozilla Firefox, I was enlightened and out of the blue, I decided to use Internet Explorer which I never touch it before. Thank God it succeeded and best still, I handed up an hour earlier before the deadline.

After all the rushing of assignments, I had to go through a supposedly unrelated business to me – preparing for exams on the second week of April. But I’m not the one sitting for them, why should I even care? I could have spent all my time getting ready for the Taylor’s World Class Scholarship interview and won’t have to screw it like now. Okay, maybe I shouldn’t put blame on other things when I fail something. So anyway, teaching my sister and my students are part of my responsibilities, especially during their exam week. This perfectly suits the title of this post, whereby I had been too ignorant to set up a trap for myself AND I even entered the trap voluntarily knowing the danger and risks of it.

At least I survived all of them except for the scholarship interview. But whatever! Now, I get to do my twinning programme or even a credit transfer in the near future. So the day that I have been waiting and planning for had finally arrived, which is the Friday right after all their exams and my interview were over. Fast and Furious 4 with Boon Kuang!! Because of this movie, I get to experience driving through one of the heaviest rainstorms which I ever encountered in my life, and to make things worse, I was heading to a destination (KTM, Subang Jaya) which I didn’t know the way. However, I still believe that experience was worthwhile because it led me to another first-time occurrence – a movie at the THX Theatre of Gold Screen Cinemas, Summit USJ.

Although Fast and Furious 4 was slightly below my high expectations, it’s still a good show and I give it a 7.5 over 10 rating. The best part of this film was the GPS System used when they race on the usual roadway. The computerised technology used throughout the race track spiced the movie up a bit for me, and it changed my impression on the lameness of the GPS Road Navigator which I am currently using and SELLING!

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And that’s all for the first half of my April.  Despite not being able to attend David Archuleta’s showcase at Sunway’s Amphitheatre which so many of my friends went whether they are my high school friends or college course mates, I dare say I’m satisfied since I was able to release all my stress through watching a movie which I have been waiting for more than a month with my best pal. Listen here, Boon Kuang. I sacrificed this show for you even though all of my classmates were about to watch it with me on the following week. Sadly, I had to reject all the invitations but I’m grateful that I watched it with you.

Taking a Break from a Tsunami Named Work

It’s been a month since I updated my blog, and I dare say during these 28 days, my life really experienced a drastic change. Right after the Sports Day, I started my Bachelor of Applied Finance AND I finally got my self-owned white MyVi. I seriously can’t believe I am in university now AND i own a petrol-consuming vehicle. I guess these are the significations of me turning into an 18-year old adult.

 

So let’s start off with the shorter one, which is possessing a car. The day I got my car is also the day I announced my independence! It’s as if I get to go anywhere I want as long as I know the directions without the control of my parents. Before this, I had to get permission from them in order to visit my friends; and the worst thing was they had to send me there, which I don’t like it as I would feel guilty and tired of their complaints (not like I don’t get to hear them yelling at me thinking I’m still a new driver though). That’s why I wasn’t very sociable in my school days and I had few friends since I’m staying really deep inside the unreachable Bukit Rimau enclosed guardhouse area. Even my friends always complain that they had to undergo complicated and unnecessary procedures before getting into my house.

NOT ANYMORE NOW!!

Lately, I became so sociable that I drive to my friends’ houses and also take them around the lovely neighbourhood almost everyday. Because I have transport, I even offered tuition to my friends and I can’t express how much I love teaching people. So, any Form4’s who needs ADD MATHS, CHEMISTRY or ACCOUNTS tuition can feel free to register through me.

The only drawback of owning a car is about the maintenance of it. Since it’s a new car, I got to be really careful in my driving, not to knock onto anything and depreciate my car badly. And since it’s white in colour, I have to clean it often and I really spent lots of time washing and wiping it because it gets really dirty and black especially when it rains and the dust sticks after the rainwater dries up (how I hate the person for insisting to buy white since it’s the cheapest colour that Perodua can offer, and due of that I have to spend so much of my precious time washing the car).

 

Next would be the influence of university education on a person who takes things so seriously. That’s me, of course. Degree course is so different compared to my previous foundation. There’s no more spoon-feeding by lecturers, and the lecture notes provided are all too simplified. This means we have to go through the immensely thick text books in order to extract information for our learning. This isn’t very pleasant because I read books slowly and I have to waste so many hours just to complete a chapter.

Thanks to Marketing, I have to utilise my whole Sunday just to study for its quiz which happens every Monday. Therefore, my weekend is gone: half spent on completing homework, another half spent on studying for the quiz and washing MyVi.

Besides the overload of work given to me, I have to cope with some kind of anonymous force which constantly directs a tide of waves of people assuming I’m the know-it-all geek. It’s just my second week and supposedly, nobody knows who I am in university. However, it seems that half of my new classmates come seeking me for guidance and directions on academic purposes. Is my personality too obvious or is someone out there spreading rumours about me? I really don’t know.

IT’S NOT LIKE I DISLIKE HELPING PEOPLE, IT’S JUST THAT I NEED TO KNOW THE REAON BEHIND IT, THAT’S ALL. SO DON’T MISUNDERSTAND!

Now, I sort of understand why certain people would prefer living far away from the city or more like away from their jobs. BECAUSE experiencing a life of 24-7 answering questions through SMS and MSN about work (studies in my case) non-stop is so suffocating!

The only thing I enjoyed at Taylor’s now is the fact that Li Jhuin is always studying and this at least proved that I’m not the only nerd who studies during breaks.

THANKS FOR BEING MY COMPANION, LI JHUIN!

 

And so, I came up with the plan of using the advantage of my new car to overcome the disadvantage of my university life. To take a break from what I described as the Tsunami of work, my solution was to hang-out with friends who I don’t need to mention “work”. Basically, they are my juniors but I prefer to acknowledge them as my good buddies because I feel stress-free when they are around.

Last week was the best because it was school holidays. Although they weren’t mine, I still get to spend more time with them compared to when they are not having their holidays. Furthermore, action-pack movies have become part of my stress-reliever and it’s so fun watching with “non-colleagues”.

 

So, this was the first movie I watched since the commencement of my degree with my family – Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. My rating would be 5 out of 10 for this. This is a show rated 18PL, which means for viewers aged 18 and above with a combination of two or more elements, ie. a program with excessive sex-scenes and excessive violence. My mum was offended when she found out about this because she thought that it would be a waste of money since my sister isn’t 18 (neither am I yet). I just told her that it would be alright, and it eventually did at AEON Bukit Tinggi’s TGV Screens.

This movie is well below my expectations because I was expecting half of the scenes to be filled with fighting and in-game character skills. This was totally opposite from what had been described at the viewer’s review shown in The Sun. Unfortunately, nothing much turned out and I was severely disappointed.

I also don’t see a reason why they rate it 18PL when there are no explicit scenes. That misleading rating kept me preparing for those moments when I would feel intimidated and not know how to react whenever I sit beside my parents. So I guess my first above-18 movie experience can’t be considered as one, sadly.

 

The second movie I got to watch was Dragonball Evolution. It looks like I am a fanatic of game movies but I’m not actually. Just so coincidentally I decided to watch this movie when none’s at the right time. This is one of my best enjoyable moments as I get to go somewhere after class with my best pal, Calvin Soh Boon Kuang. This occurred on last Wednesday right after Accounting lecture. I was so looking forward to this when I can test my driving skills in taking a first-time trip to Sunway Pyramid and coming home safely.

My ratings for this movie is 8 out of 10, which is an A1. Speaking of this reminds me of SPM and congrats to all SPM 2008 scorers. Back to Dragonball, it consists of more amazing fighting scenes, rather than just fists and kicks. Moreover, it has a better storyline than the other movie. Most of all, watching it with Calvin and spending the whole afternoon there was the best.

Surprisingly, we met quite a number of Kota Kemuning students appearing around Sunway, such as Alex Oh and his gang, Benjamin Lim, Wei Yoong, Mary, Amanda and her cousin brother who I can’t remember his name. It’s as if Sunway Pyramid is the only hang-out venue for KK teens.

This is the exciting trailer for the movie.

 

This is the next movie that I watched on the next day, Wanted 2008. I know this movie is slightly outdated, but the ratings are the best as I would give 9 out of 10 for it, partially thanks to its creativity in bullet shooting and its violence. I watched this at Chee Hong’s (high school acquitance who’s actually my neighbour) house on Thursday. My original intention was to help him update his computer after all our effort of reformatting each other’s computers for weeks. But cool, he downloaded the whole High Definition video through Ares and I get to watch this stupendous movie with him. I would say this show as a must-watch for those who haven’t watch this 1 year old movie yet. Not to forget, there’s Angelina Jolie in it, and she’s really “hot and cool” there.

Here’s the trailer which shows less than 10% of the actions in this movie.

 

After that day, I thought I was back to my reality life of studies till their next holidays. But I was quite wrong when I get to have some fun time with my tuition students after our Add Maths class. Amanda, Mary, Elaine, my sister and I  went for a drive around my Bukit Rimau neighbourhood seeing all the beautiful bungalows and we dropped by the Matahari clubhouse which is relatively small compared to Kota Permai, the one they usually go. Nevertheless, they seemed to like the swimming pool slides as it is the one and only features that Kota Permai doesn’t possess. It was really hillarious when we sang Right Now (Na, Na, Na) together in the car until I sent by sister off to Cikgu Tan’s class.

 

That is all for my dreams in reality, and I got to get back to work aka studies. Thanks to Alex Loh for introducing Windows Live Writer, making it much for convenient for uploading photos and videos during blogging.

Wishing everyone (school students back to school; SPM leavers into their new intakes; degree students rushing for their assignments)  happy studying, including myself!!

 

P/S: Sorry for the lack of visual media this time! And congrats for reading this far, haha.

A Sports Day Not Related to Me

The previous post was extremely long; now for a change, I decided to use something new here to shorten this one. If not, I would have overload it with an enormous number of photos which I have taken on Sports Day at Matsushita Stadium, Shah Alam.

The above photos were taken by my sister's digital camera, Samsung S760, including that long video below. Notice that out of the 18 photos, nobody was aware that they had been captured, because I was using the extra digital zoom few hundred meters away from them.

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The Marching Ceremony


Malaysian Red Crescent (my old club)

My juniors who are already seniors

From the top view

Can you spot the odd one?

Our self-created banner

Taking a rest before the real show


The Other Units of My School

Scouts of Kota Kemuning

Youthfulness of the polices

St John, a new club formed after I left school
(Joel, why are you playing hide-and-seek with me?)

Fire fighters taking the initiative in getting a good photo

SMKKK's 5 colorful Houses

Observe the difference between these 2 photos!

On the Race Track

Cool shot from the back

The 3 guys jogging together at the start of the race

Mary, Wei Le and Yean Li burst into action

Teachers playing the same table-tennis-ball-on-the-spoon game every year

Too bad I left before it ended, and missed all the chaos which arose from the Surprised and the Unsatisfied. Anyway, attending this event which is not supposed to be related to me was one thing I kept looking forward to as I am able to meet the familiar faces of my friends and teachers, as well as to prove my worthiness in driving to a place I never been to on my own. At least I wasn't disappointed by that.

My Happiest Chinese 牛 Year

It's been almost 2 months since I last updated my blog. The reason is because I have been rotting at home for the past 2 months. This too had made my Chinese New Year a blast! Imagine being isolated for so long, and suddenly getting to go out every single day after that, I bet you would understand how much I enjoyed during this festive season. Lucky thing after the festival, my mood can gradually go back to normal since I have some post-CNY events coming.

Hometown - Ipoh / Malim Nawar

Thanks to my cousin brother, Kong Wai who had a really advanced camera, we managed to have some memorable photos for our family. While we were waiting for my youngest aunt and her family to arrive from Melaka to Malim Nawar, he took out his camera and started snapping pictures randomly. Here, we sort of had a group photo in front of my grandmother's house for the first time ever.

A really small portion of my relatives

One thing I always look forward to during the Lunar New Year is Karaoke!! By looking at the photos below, you can now understand why I like singing so much. It's because my family likes singing too!

Besides, I have a paternal cousin sister named Suet Li , aged 12 years old who's very talkative. We brought back the Play Station 1 for her, and she really loved the games, especially Digimon Rumble Arena (Japanese). For those who played this game long before, I'm sure you still remember how the characters pronounce their attack skills in Japanese, and it's kind of funny. The way Suet Li imitate WarGreymon's Circle Attack is so laughable. It's supposed to be a Heat Wave attack but I don't know how the character pronounced it. But my cousin sis went "Eyeball, Eyeball" and she kept repeating it while we were fighting the CPU. I can never forget that moment, 'cause she even imitate the movements like waving her hand forward. Our whole family was laughing at her cute actions.

Suet Li also like singing so much that we started singing before my other relatives arrived at the Karaoke room. I can still remember we sang JJ Lin's "Bu Chao Bu Yong Hua Qian" (his latest song). After the singing, I even keep teasing her with the first two words of the chorus, "Qing Ni!".

The resemblance between me and my family

Me and my cousins - Beng Yu, Mei Yee & Shu En

So those were some of the most memorable events which occurred at my hometown, Ipoh. My father's side was slightly lame since I don't have much common topics with my cousins, except for Suet Li (songs) and Zhi San (games). But both of them went back early as one needed to go visiting at some other places and another one was sick. Some of the unforgetable moments there were when the Astro decoder threw sparks and emitted smoke due to no reason, and wasting money eating two reunion dinners during a recession.

Oh, before I ended the Ipoh trip, I went visiting with my college friends who lives in Ipoh. On Wednesday which was the 3rd day of CNY, I went to Ipoh Parade to meet up with Kar Mun & Tien Jiun. They took me to Li Jhuin's house and then to Kar Mun's house. Their families were very welcoming and I had lots of fun even though the trip was very short. I'm so sorry for Phei Hern who I don't have time to go and visit despite the fact that he's going to Perth to study. I would like to wish him all the best there and hope he can adapt to the environment there. This is to Ern Ern as well.

Back at Kota Kemuning

The first thing I did when I came back home was to accept the challenge of organizing a gathering for my Form 5 friends, requested by Zheng Yang. I made a rush decision and started inviting everybody to my house on the Saturday. It was a wrong one because I really expected somebody else to organize it because the probability of it was really high every New Year. On the day itself, my invitation got rejected by 95% of the crowd because SOMEBODY ELSE HAD A PARTY AT KLANG!! Fortunately, Tong Yen is so kind to attend my gathering despite knowing nobody else would turn up. He even brought his friend, Danny along and picked Jamie from his house. I don't know how to express my gratitude to Tong Yen for being such a nice friend since Form 3.

THANK YOU, WONG TONG YEN!!

My Form 5 friends playing Gundam, Naruto & Soul Caliber at my house

2nd Weekend of CNY

On Friday, Boon Kuang took me to Kota Permai for swimming and sauna. That was the first time I use those services even though I been there many times for badminton, dinner and singing. It was quite fun spending time with him, and we got to know each other much more better. Moreover, I met my high school teachers there too. Ms Reetha, Ms Parvathy and Ms Thava were chit-chatting at a corner. Surprisingly, they recognized me from quite a distance away, and we talked for awhile.

Later, I rushed to another of my high school teacher, Ms Chan's house for visiting. Boon Kuang went for his BM tuition instead. So, I went there with my sister. I was so glad to meet more and more of my old pals as time passes during this new year. There, I met Ms Chan's spouse for the first time, Uncle Gary. Ewe Jin, Ewe Jon, Peik Shuang, Peik Shyuan and King Yang were also there. Time passed really fast, and within less than an hour, I had to send my sister to her BM tuition. I was so reluctant to leave her house because she's one of the most friendly teacher I ever met. This made me visit her in the first place although she didn't even teach me before.

At night after sending my sister to tuition, I followed my parents to my Mum's friend's (Jennifer Tey's) open house at Bukit Rimau near the primary school. Shockingly, Mohd Daniel, my old neighbour friend was there too. It's nice attending parties, rather than organizing them. That's what I learnt. The host must also know how to give a warm welcome and make sure the guests enjoy it. This is something really tough, but I guess the rewards are deserving too.

Saturday, I was invited by my college friend, Wei Qi for KTV at Red Box, The Curve. Unfortunately, Shan Lung can't make it and I don't have a car to drive. So in the end, I didn't attend that gathering. Really sorry Wei Qi, I understand that disappointment very well. Instead, I went to Chun Yeen's house to play the whole evening. His mother was really kind and gave lots of food to me till I can't eat anything else. This visit was really an unforgetable one as I feel very relaxed there, just like my own home. Actually, I was supposed to go back at 6pm, but I delayed it to 8pm, and then to 9pm. Finally, we have to say goodbye, but who knew we would meet again in the next two days.

Sunday afternoon, my family went to the Bukit Rimau Sales Office to witness the professional martial arts. There's this giant God of Wealth which greeted us, and soon after we arrived, the performance of martial arts began.

My family together with the God of Wealth

2 Masters demonstrating the flag art

Master standing on the knives without any difficulty

Both Masters piercing their necks with the sharp edges of the spear

The same Masters bending the iron rod with their necks

The 4 Masters playing the Chinese Drums
(Ms Lim Wei Wei's eldest son like it so much)

After that, my family and I went to my Mum's friend's (Auntie Alicia's) house at Hayat Saujana, near the Subang Airport. I can't believe I managed to drove there and back with everyone still alive. My confidence in driving really increased drastically after that. The bungalow was extremely big, but I don't really like its concept of having Wood as their main design. Among all the bungalows I went recently, the best is Auntie Evelyn's as its design is really modern, and it can match a hotel's environment.

Sunday night was my previous tuition centre's CNY gathering. The committee members and the owners of the centre really did a good job organizing and ensuring the success of that party. Despite the burnt fuse and partial power failure, they remained calm and created a really hillarious atmosphere for the guests. Even they had their fun too, I guess.

For me, this gathering was more like a reunion for me. Again, I can see the faces of my seniors. I can't believe how friendly they are when I first knew them through being a prefect looking after their class. Furthermore, this party allowed me to get to know 2 more friends better. They are Chee Hong and Resha Ng. In the first place, I wasn't sure what their names are, or more like how they looked in my memories. For Chee Hong, I quickly chatted with him once I got back home to confirm that he is the person in my memories. On the other hand, I was stunned by the act of Resha greeting me even though she wasn't sure I know her. Thanks to her initiative, I have one more good friend.

My seniors and I with Mr Lee at Alam Gemilang's CNY Party


Visiting of Teachers' Houses
(thanks Andrea for sending out the invitations)

This day is the best day in my life so far. There is nothing more fun than visiting people who I haven't seen for ages. What more, they are my teachers who have guided me to the peak of the mountain. Of course, i swear that I will reach the end of the universe in my lifetime as success is never ending.

Firstly, Boon Kuang, Chee Hong, my sister and I went to Ms Lim Wei Wei's house which is located only few roads away from my home. It's such a last minute decision that we don't even know whether she was at home or not. This was also the reason I didn't call the others for this. Fortunately, she was willing to come back from buying stuff for us! We really witnessed the activeness her kids portrayed during the surprise visit. I wonder whether was Ms Lim that energetic when she was a kid herself. But I salute her for being able to control her children properly.

Standing in front of her piano is Ms Lim's family together with us
(Thanks to her husband, we don't need to set timers like the rest of the photos during the trip)

Next was Ms Ong Lin Lin's house. Boon Kuang and I were late due to the delay of waiting for Ms Lim to get back. I didn't expect to see so many people at Ms Ong's home. Furthermore, they are my best friends in high school. I can't thank Andrea Ng enough for this! We talked about lots of stuff like the teachers we have in common and also comparing SPM with A-Levels. Those were really heated-up topics and they made us laugh a lot.

The only weird thing was that Ms Lim mentioned about Andrea and I, maybe because we were the ones organizing this event together and she didn't notice that we were friends when I was still in school. This is weird when she also talked about Harpreet and I, the same topic discussed at Ms Chan's house on Friday. It seems like everybody, whether teachers or students, were speculating that we are couples. Seriously no!! Our highest state of relation is just best friends, and nothing more than that. I really appreciate Harpreet for being my best friend, whether I'm enjoying or facing hardships. The people who struggled through SPM and all the moments of high school together with me were Harpreet and Catherine. We not only went through extra classes, academic affairs, but also helped each other a lot during our prefect duties. Thanks to both of you and those who attended this event for making my high school life a memorable one.

Group Photo at Ms Ong's house

The guys with Ms Ong

The girls with Ms Ong

When we were at Ms Ong's house, she told me that Jun Huang and Kai Xiang live opposite her house. So, we decided to go to Kai Xiang's house since most of us know him. Harpreet went back home, and the only reason she did that was because she's taking A-LEVELS, the killer course! The rest of us went to visit Kai Xiang and who knew that he's following us to Ms Leong's house after that. His mother wanted to return a bag of givings in exchange of what we brought for his family. However, we were to polite to take it, and in the end, we regretted because we don't have anymore givings left for the unexpected houses which we were about to visit.

Photo taken together at Kai Xiang's place with Alicia's Canon digital cam

Following that unexpected visit, we were almost an hour late for Ms Leong's house. She said she almost fell asleep waiting for us. I felt so guilty about it, but she should be grateful that we are so appreciative of our teachers too. Here, we discussed something very different, which is our future career. She gave feedback and opinions about the various careers that we are interested in such as electronic and civil engineer, fund manager, dentist, nutritionist, gynaecologist, child specialist, etc. We indeed gain much information and knowledge about these job prospects from her. I guess everyone would agree this was the most enjoyable one, because Ms Leong even played together with us in snapping photos in front of her mirror.

Group photo taken by my sis's Samsung digital cam which I am selling at ChinWynn.com

Idea of taking photo in front of Ms Leong's mirror triggered by Alicia

Funny post by everyone
(This is the clearest photo among those I snapped, maybe because I keep saying that the mirror is cursed)

After Ms Leong's house, Boon Kuang sent Kai Xiang back while Andrea and Kareshma went home individually. The planned activities were supposed to be over, but we were not satisfied. So, next we went to Chun Yeen's place. Alicia kept saying everything was free in his house since Chun Yeen said that his Dad is working as some kind of shopping complex owner whereby he can get free stuff from the shops. Soon, Alicia rushed us to complete our mission as she needed to go back soon. We left the house after taking a photo in front of his beautiful mirror.

The remains of our gang
(looks like we love mirrors, reminds me of Persona 3)

The 2nd last house we visited was their classmate, Joel, who they claimed that he's a genius in everything, not to mention wealthy too. Definitely, I believed whatever they said after I went to his home. He even has a robot to clean his floor, according to them. The exploration around his 3-storey house was overwhelming. The thing which amazed me the most is his elder brother's poster of getting excellent results and being the best student in the WORLD!! Wow, it's unbelievable, really!

At Joel's rooftop platform (twilight version)
[what a nice scenery, seems like Genting's environment]

At Joel's rooftop platform (daylight version)

After having a game of hide-and-never-seek at Joel's house, Alicia, Boon Kuang, Chun Yeen (ABC) and I went to the last stop which is my house. We didn't really do much here except chatting for awhile before Alicia's parents arrived to fetch her home. The worst thing was we forgot to snap a photo at my house in front of my huge mirror. But this gives those mirror-lovers an opportunity to come to my house again too, so I don't really mind. Finally, I sent Chun Yeen back home with Boon Kuang in the Toyota Unser too. What's embarrasing was when I almost reached his house, I accidentally slammed on the horn and it sounded so loud in front of a walking couple. Lucky thing they are not gangsters. If not, I would have been beaten up already, haha.

So the story about Chinese New Year has been told and my life is back to normal, dull and plain. Luckily, there are post-CNY events which gradually bring my life back to usual, such as my primary school best friend, Chen Hoong's birthday party at Red Box, Sunway Pyramid, and my college classmate, Shu Wen's birthday dinner at Ittalianies, The Curve. Thankfully, it is the existence of these events which would not make me go into depression after such an immense change of events.