The Earthquake that Rocked My 18th Birth-Week

A Cake-less Candle

Since this is a pathetic post without photos, I would be making this post a bit unique from the previous ones. Try browsing on names which appear in this post and see what happens.

Sunday (12th July 2009)

This year, I celebrated my birthday early with my parents. We went to Chilli’s at Mid Valley for lunch and that was what I’ve got, as shown in the photo above. Chilli’s was at least generous enough to offer a free ice-cream brownie to the birthday boy.

Monday (13th July 2009)

Next day was KTV at Neway in Subang Jaya. I was in the same room with Alex, Shan Lung, Kar Mun and Tien Jiun. Alex proved his enthusiasm on Transformers by shouting New Divide with Shan Lung. On the other hand, Tien Jiun portrayed his prowess in partially imitating Jay Chou’s rapping and adding his own rapping style into it while Kar Mun didn’t fail to disappoint him with her Jolin Tsai’s vocals. I was in Tank mode on that day because of his new songs at that time. The other VIP room was filled with the “insane” gang led by Siew Fen.

Tuesday (14th July 2009)

On my birthday eve, Boon Kuang celebrated my birthday with me. We went to Sunway Pyramid for the afternoon and caught one of the coolest movies in town which I also enjoyed most.

At night, I missed such a nice opportunity to have a Japanese Buffet Dinner with Tien Jiun, Kar Mun and her star brother, Kah Fai at Mount Kiara. This was due to the tuition which I am obligated to teach. But I am really overjoyed that Kah Fai sent me a birthday wish past midnight.

Wednesday (15th July 2009)

I spent the actual day giving tuition only. But I was touched by my student, Yee Lyn who played the birthday song on Mary’s piano just for me.

The night was the fun part for me. Shan Lung, Alex, Yew Wooi and Meng Jiun came to the Matahari clubhouse for swimming. Too bad Meng Jiun had tuition and he was forced to leave early.

After swimming, they surprised me with a string of events. We went to Subang’s Pizza Hut and had dinner over there. Then, I was taken to a night movie with and by them, Obsessed.

After the movie, their plan failed when one of the shops they intended to go was closed on that night. Subsequently, Shan Lung, the pitiful driver, had to take us to The Curve. However, the streets along those clubs were not lighted on that night, and many shops were not opened too. That’s a little unfortunate.

We also thought of watching another movie at midnight but Jeff had classes on the next day. So, we ended up supper at one of the mamak stores in Sunway.

This whole night was really great, and I am so extremely grateful to them for planning everything for me.

Before the official night ended, I received a birthday message from Alvin which gave me a flurry.

Thursday (16th July 2009)

Jamie insisted to come to my house and he did came on this day. He gave me a present which is his brother’s newly recorded album. He told me more about his family background which I didn’t know before this. I was quite impressed with his elder brother who is a rapper with codename, Jin Hackman.

Friday (17th July 2009)

Phei Hern came back from Perth during his study break. He invited me and Kevin to meet up in conjunction of our birthdays. We went to Summit for the movie that I was waiting so long. It turned out to be average only but still worth the watch.

I really hope that I can meet up with Phei Hern next year at Perth by completing my tertiary studies at UWA. I sure wish everything goes well till then, including the obliteration of A(H1N1) disease.

This is such a special year for me because I managed to celebrate my birthday throughout the whole week. Normally, my birthday always fall on my examinations and I have to delay celebration or even minimise it. This year is so different as it fell on my holidays and I get to enjoy as much as I wanted to.

Thank you to all my friends and family members. I really had a blast this year ALTHOUGH I DIDN’T HAVE A SINGLE BIRTHDAY CAKE. I’m just joking. This year I received about 90 birthday wishes in total and this already cheered me up.

A Delayed Meteor Shower which Signified an End to Semester 1

29th June 2009 (Monday) was the last day of my Bachelor’s degree semester 1. While everyone celebrated their independence on the previous week’s Friday (because their last subject was Marketing Principles), we Finance students finished with Financial Management.

If it’s solely based on Last Day of Exam, there is no big deal. But Veronica celebrated her birthday with us at Sunway Pyramid on that day before going back to her hometown, Indonesia. Therefore, it really is a memorable day for us.

 Happy faces after final exam (Li Jhuin, Mary and Veronica)

Being rejected by Shao Xian to the party (how sad!)

Yee Von & Li Jhuin at Blue Atrium

Brian, Benedict, J-Tsen, Benjamin, Nicholas and Ridzuan buying presents

Shan Lung, among the 14 people to attended the party (Can anybody guess what restaurant is this? Tips: At Asian Avenue)

The only 4 girls in the party

Eating the chocolate piece of the birthday cake

Veronica biting candles off her birthday cake

The answer of the location: Snowy Healthy Dessert Home

After the hi-tea (it was lunch for me since I forgotten to have lunch due to my exam), we went for movie! One of the most mind-boggling movies I have ever is, but is also Veronica’s favourite –> State of Play.

My rating: 6 over 10 because it’s dull and hard to to understand. I only derived my satisfaction because I got to understand such a sophisticated storyline.

1st time taking photos in cinema

Late dinner after movie at around 9pm at Kim Gary:

(Okay, those long hairs in the photos are scaring me)

Vandalism on Kim Gary’s table with its own pencil

And then erasing it off after that!

Arcade at 10pm

Before ending this post, let me show you how a meteor shower crushes the Earth:

Sucked by the Quicksand of Astro Star Quest 2009

 

Lately, I have been telling everybody that I am busy with Astro Star Quest 2009, and the first thing that comes to their mind is that I’m one of the contestants. Of course not! I wouldn’t be so foolish to join it, knowing what I am now. So, my business (busy + ness) is actually because I am supporting this amazing guy:

Alvin Chong

Initially, I only know that Astro Star Quest 2009 has started by watching it for a few minutes every Saturday night before I go out for dinner. It wasn’t until an opportunity arise that I get a million steps closer to knowing these future stars. The opportunity is as such:

Thanks to Kah Fai who made it into the Top 10 of ASQ 2009, Kar Mun who is my Foundation in Business classmate, invited me to go and support her younger brother, Kah Fai. So, I was more than happy to agree with her and went for 3 Semi-Final rounds out of the 4. On the 2nd round, I got attracted to Alvin Chong’s singing style and I took a photo with him on that night.

I guess it is fated that I started to support him and then even created a forum for him, which now became Alvin Chong’s Official Fan Club. This is the link: www.alvinchong.forumotion.com.

In the end, I have sort of lowered my support slightly towards Lan Kah Fai, though I still like him very much. I guess I should apologise to both Kah Fai and Kar Mun for being such a traitor. But thanks to both of you, I get to know Alvin too.

So, I started watching ASQ live performance from Top 10 to Top 5. Below are the photos of me at the Astro studio:

  Top 10

Top 9

(My parents didn’t allow me to go for the 3rd semi-final round. So, I missed seeing Justin’s and Billy’s last appearance on stage)

 Top 6

 Top 5

More photos of me during the trips:

 

3 Different Jojo Styles (Missed the golden one)

Dinner at Overseas Restaurant, thanks to Kar Mun’s Mum

 

With the composer contestants

 

Do you think the left guy on both pictures look alike??

Finally we have a group photo of Foundation in Business classmates!

With the siblings who I knew them separately (Meng Jiun & Sheen Yeen)

With Xiu Bao

With Wan Yi

Justin, the most friendly contestant who has the best vocal too among the guys

SPY, who has a very strong voice, able to compete with Jaclyn Victor’s

Chuu Chuu, found out that she’s a very good friend of Elsa Lam

 

Yean, who wrote a song to Nicholas Teo, named Shuo Ni Ye Yi Yang Ai Zhe Wo

Alvin Chong!! You should know who is he by now

Kah Fai, supporting him too in the finals

On 8th July 2009, the Top 5 had a Conference Session at Sungei Wang, and I was there to get their autographs and my VIP tickets to the Grand Finale tonight!

The colourful theme and the black theme of their exclusive photos

I went to Sungei Wang, Times Square and Pavilion on that day with Meng Jiun, Shan Lung, Alex Loh and Yew Wooi. Jeff Law Yew Wooi is the an Alvin's fan who I met in the forum which I created.

 

The 2 emcees that will appear on the Grand Finale

  

Top 5 singing their new singles one by one (Kah Fai, Alvin, Min, Ryan, Yoke)

The banner which Yew Wooi spent much effort doing for Alvin!

   

Answering question session

  Autograph session (notice Alvin’s head really look like a small boy here)

Session ends

  Alvin departing to China

Finally, I get to take 1 photo with Isaac!! And Justin too

After that, we went to Pavilion. These are some photos taken over there:

At the SALE display of Pavilion

 

This is Pavilion, which is a first time for some of us

 

The beautiful art creation in front of Pavilion

 

The Black Fours …

 

… including me

 

Final picture of the day –> The Silver Statue (It’s a man, by the way)

This is an extremely long post because I compiled all my ASQ experiences here, except for the Grand Finale which I’m going to attend later. So once again, congrats for reading this far. You are on your way to becoming a blogworm.