Wednesday 27 May 2009

bored...

I am feeling bored for the past few days. Been wasting my time by doing work that I manage to pile up the last 3 weeks! lol!~ so now I am drafting and quoting EPF's FAQs for Swinburne. I do not even have the high urge to stalk SYC. maybe because there are not much updates on TVXQ so the admins decided to spamz the site with lots and LOTS of pics. i enjoyed looking at the pictures but there is nothing much to comment about.
[it is supposed to be a secret from the lecturers! Hopefully they do not stalk my blog! *fingers crossed*]

The past few days I did not play with Mira. Her daddy played with her. So I just go online instead. LOL! Next Monday and Tuesday are public holidays for Sarawak. Sarawak will be celebrating Harvest Festival during these 2 days. It is to thank the Gods of Harvest for giving the farmers good harvests of rice(?). I forgot already! *failed Sarawakian*
Anyway, there will be lots of wine drinking. These wines are made from fermented rice which the locals call 'tuak'. I heard that Japanese who ever drank tuak loves it very much because it is much sweeter than their sake. I have only drank tuak once, so I cannot give much comments on how tuak tastes like.

I have a new blog account at wordpress.com. I am still considering whether I should shift my blog from Blogspot to Wordpress or just stay put in Blogspot. hm...

I was kinda moody this morning because my sister sort of raised her voice over my breakfast. So I did not talk to her much. wahahahahaha! cis... I feel irritated because not many people online (actually I am waiting for Tricia to online so I can complain to her) to chat with.

ok, better finish this post now and get back to my work.

Monday 25 May 2009

Pictures of Birthday Bash 1

As promised, these are the pictures taken on 18th May 2009 when I had my first birthday bash.
Credits: MQ Bula @ Claud

-At Absolute Lounge & KTV-
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Carol, Me, Claud

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The 3 of us again~

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Carol, Me, Fam

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The flat LCD screen at Absolute Lounge & KTV

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Carol, Me, Fam from different angle


-At Koreana-
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our table

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3 ladies with the menu

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Me & Carol with our drinks

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our cuter side *blek*

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another cuter side of us! *mwahahahaha...*

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the food we ordered

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cute side (Again!)

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food...

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forgot the name of this dish

various
more food...

kimchi fried rice
kimchi fried rice (the only dish I can remember! lol~)

Sunday 24 May 2009

Birthday Bash 3, 4, 5

Birthday Bash 3 (21st May 2009):
I went out with my family (this includes Mira, too!) to Boulevard to celebrate my birthday with them. We ate dinner at Kenny Rogers because my family do not want to eat any fried food (eg. KFC, Sugabun). We also ate there because my parents never ate there before. I carried Mira all the way from home to Boulevard. She just loves car rides (she fell asleep immediately during the car ride!). She enjoyed herself the whole time at Kenny Rogers. I think this is because the environment there was really calm and colourful! She loves staring at the menu I showed to her, too! Ok, enought of Mira. Each of us ordered the quarter meal (a quarter of the whole chicken with 3 side dishes which you can choose from their menu). I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story. *wink* We spent RM117.20. Exactly the SAME AMOUNT of what me and Fam spent at Koreana!
We blew out my birthday cake after we returned from Boulevard. It was past 10pm! Gosh! I also celebrate Mira's 2nd month in this world. We took quite a number of pictures. Will be posting them here.

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My birthday Cake!

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Me & Mira

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Me & Mira

my food
My portion

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My family

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My cake after the cake-cutting ceremony (lol~)

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Cute Nyimi

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Me & Nyimi~

Birthday Bash 4 (22nd May 2009):
My colleagues from the HR department (only 2 out of 5 of them) brought me out for lunch at The Spring's food court. It was another surprise to me as I did not expect them to treat me (a trainee there of 2 months) for my birthday! Hehe... I ordered cheesey chicken baked rice (sorry I did not take a picture of the food) and it cost me RM9.00. My colleague paid for it (Thanks a lot! Really appreciate it!). I ordered papaya juice, too. It was my first time drinking papaya juice! Luckily it tasted good (maybe the sugar water helped as well. I do not know~). Then we hung out at MPH Bookstore till it was time to return to the office.

Birthday Bash 5 (24th May 2009):
Today I went out with Shiela and Juju. Did not take any pictures today because we do not feel like taking. Or you can say we forgot. lol~ I wanted to eat lunch at some western food but MOST of the western restaurants are closed on Sundays! *sobs* In the end we ate at Hanii's Corner (actually I do not remember the full name of the shop. Sorry!). Me and Juju ordered sirloin beef slice whereas Shiela ordered butter chicken rice. The prices are reasonable (or you can label it cheap if you get the chance to eat there and compare the prices with other shops). After lunch, we immediately went to Absolute Lounge & KTV for karaoke session! Shiela forgot to bring her student ID. She almost could not get the student price but the tauke (aka boss of the shop) was kind enough to charge her with the student price! *thankful for the kind-hearted boss* So we were there for about 4 hours singing non-stop! We sang mostly English songs, with a few Japanese songs. We finished singing at 6pm because that is our time limit! So Shiela sent me home first because I could not want to join them for dinner (I promised my family that I will be eating dinner at home).

Thursday 21 May 2009

Mini surprise from my (best) friends in Swinburne

I was a little bit surprised when I entered the Room G215 during lunch break. My friends, Carol, Claud, Fam, & Gab, waited there for me with a mini surprise. They bought 2 mini slices of rectangular-shaped cake and a lunch for me! They told me to sit down in front of the cakes and I was all smiles while they sang the birthday song to me. Since I do not have any wishes to wish for, I just blew out the candles. Maybe I should have wished for Park Yoochun as my date for one day instead! *bricked by SYC admins* LOL! Anyway, that will never come true.

After blowing out the candles, the 4 of us (excluding Gab) ate our lunch. Carol tapau seafood fried rice for me! Thanks for the meal! It was delicious! Although I was not very hungry, I manage to finish the meal...well, very slowly. heheh.. Then we all ate the cakes which were bought from Taka (forgot to ask them who actually bought those cakes).

The one with the Oreo biscuit on top as decoration is delicious and creamy! It is a cheese cake! Yummy! The other one, which has toffee as its topping and chocolate as its base is too sweet for all of us. It choked our throat! But since I am a cake lover, I just ate them (not forgetting to mention the calories that I have to take in and the hard work to burn them!)

There's more coming tonight! I cannot wait to see the BIG cake! :P
Pictures of this afternoon's event will have to wait either for tomorrow's or Saturday's post.
Thanks again the 4 of u! *hugs and muaks*

Tanjoubi~

Tanjoubi = Birthday. I turned 21 today! I want to thank all my friends for wishing me "Happy Birthday"!Arigatou Gozaimasu!

To my friends: I am so touched by your greetings of birthday wishes! Last year not many people remembered or know my birthday. This year I received lots of wishes from you guys! You guys are the best! *gives everyone Friendship Forever tags*
Stay healthy always and God Bless You all!

I am still wondering what should I eat tonight to celebrate my birthday. My mum seems reluctant to eat Sugabun. I definitely do not want to eat KFC and Pizza Hut's. Been eating those too many times. If I order from Sushi King's, my mum is not a fan of Sushi King's. ahh... tough choices (and lots of brain storming as well) to make! well, I might just ask for suggestions from my best friends later! We will be meeting up during lunch break.

I ordered a 1kg birthday cake (which I have mentioned in my earlier post) and will be collecting it today. I cannot wait to see how my cake looks like! It is a birthday gift from my sister! *thank you Max!* *hugs*

My parents bought some shares for me for one of my stocks (which we call it saham in Malay). I think the sentence above is structurally wrong. Please help me correct it if possible! *bows*

My best friends, Claud, Carol, & Tric, discussed that they let ME decide what present that I truly want (and of course fit in their budget) as my birthday present. This has been going on since the year 2007. *giggles* So this year they decided to present me with a Tohoshinki handphone strap which I initially bought for myself in the first place. Since they agreed to pay for it, I was SOOOOO HAPPY with their decision! You 3 girls are the best! *hugsssss and sloppy kisses*

To Tohoshinki fans in Malaysia: Do not be jealous of me. I just happen to have a friend in Japan. That is all.

There will be a major update on my birthday celebration (only at home) with my family tonight. I will post about it either tonight or tomorrow morning.

*Tinanit, ganbarimasu*
*Thanks to all my friends for all the birthday wishes throughSMSes, Facebook, & Messenger*
*bows*

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Happy day(s)~

Yesterday I went to order my birthday cake from Mita Cake House at the 2 and 1/2 Mile branch. I ordered a 1kg chocolate cheese cake. It costs RM62! Since my sister will be sponsoring for my birthday cake, so I sort of take the advantage to order the biggest cake! *crazy girl*
My sister was expecting me to order a half kg cake, but I saw the sample of the cake and it was too small. I have HUGE appetite when it comes to cakes! *yummy* I cannot wait to collect and see the cake tomorrow! Then we will the ceremony of cutting-the-birthday-cake after I take away "special" dinner after work!

I played with Mira last night. My bro-in-law and sis did not came back home till after 8pm. So I spent my time playing with Mira. She talked a lot last night to the lion stuffed toy which belongs to her mum. The name of the stuffed toy is Buncit (it means plump in English). She talked to Buncit for almost 5 minutes and she was actually enjoying herself. So happy to hear her talk baby talk! *grinning*

Today I had laksa for breakfast! I have not had laksa for 2 months already! It was delicious! Hopefully the spicyness of the laksa would not trigger the pimples to pop out on my face! *worries* As usual, I stalk Sharing YooChun (next few post I will address it as SYC only) the moment I sat down in front of my pc in the office.

I ate lunch with my colleagues today because for the past 2 days I brought lunch from home (which is only bread and some other local pastry). I wish to lose weight faster by doing my daily routine of walking up and down the stairs when given the chance! And of course drink lots and lots of water which I ended up going to toilet often! hehe...

I always secretly sms to Carol! *guilty* and Facebook-ing, stalking SYC, check email. lol! my work is always never done... And I am actually worried for the coming 3 weeks as my lecturers will be coming to the organization where we are having practical right now for an inspection! I hope that I will be busy doing some work. die la me... and the rest of my batch~

Tuesday 19 May 2009

new layout!

yay! I have got a NEW layout! kinda hard to find suitable layout for my blog. some layouts got nice pics but the fonts are just too small and hardly can be read! I personally do not like Yoochun's hair in this Mirotic period. But it is one of the nicest layout that fits for my blog.

anyway, yesterday I went home rather early. I did not realize the time to go home until my mum gave me a call so that I have enough time to pack my things and go to the place where they were supposed to pick me.

reached home around nearly 7pm. Dropped by 3rd Mile because Papa wanted to buy some anchovies (aka ikan bilis). I took a 30-minute bath because I washed my hair. Why it took me soooo long? Here is the process:
1. Wash with shampoo. Rinse.
2. Apply conditioner on hair. Leave for about 2 minutes. Rinse thoroughly.
3. Apply hair treatment. Leave for minimum of 5 minutes. Rinse thoroughly.

haih... Because I could not stand the pimples crowding my face, I applied facial mask (which it belongs to my sister) and leave for 5 minutes. Then rinse it with water. I need to avoid all fried and spicy food to avoid having more pimples on my face! *boohooo*

Monday 18 May 2009

Birthday Bash!

Yesterday (Sunday), me, Claud, Fam, Carol, and Gab went to celebrate our (me & Fam's) 21st birthday. My birthday is on 21st May and Fam's on 23rd May. I do not know if my friends still remembers my birthday (those who are far, far away from me). I do not mind if they have forgotten. But it definitely will make me happy if they send me sms, facebook, or friendster birthday messages. Hehehe... Anyway, back to my report.

Fam came pick me up from my house at 9.40am. then we went to pick Claud up. Went to have breakfast at Hong Kong Pau, which is located somewhere at Padungan. It was my first time there and I have to say that their food is DELICIOUS! It serves pork, so it is not halal. I still cannot remember the names of the food I ate because it is in chinese and I can say it is the first time that I heard of the name.

After breakfast, we went to Crown Square. Claud is still searching for a suitable dress for the coming prom which will be organized by Swinburne's Student Council. Since it will be their (Claud, Carol, Fam, Gab) final year in Swinburne, they decided to attend this year's prom. I will be joining them, too, since I have got a dress (which belongs to my sister). I managed to buy a pair of earrings from one of the shops there.

Next, we went to Hock Lee Centre. Carol and I bought 3 pairs of earrings each as it only cost RM10 for 3 pairs! LOL! Suddenly I got the urge to wear those dangling, long earrings to work (and maybe to classes in the future if suitable).

Then we went to Koreana to have lunch. By the time we reached there at 2pm, it was closed for their lunch break! geez... Their opening time is from 10am-2pm; 5pm-10pm. Since we went there on Sunday, I am not sure if that is also their operating hours on weekdays. The food portion is really big. You can eat the whole portion yourself if you have a BIG appetite. If you do not have one, then it is wiser to share it with a friend or two. Most of the food in the menu are spicy. Since I do not like spicy food, I did not order anything spicy. Food ranges from RM10 to RM 60 (some of them depending on how big the serving you want to order). Right now I am missing the pictures of the food as I DO NOT OWN MY OWN CAMERA. so I have to the pictures from Claud (in the next few days).

Since we have to skip lunch, we directly go to Absolute KTV & Lounge. It is a new KTV and they have some Japanese songs! LOL! Of course it was all in Kanji and Hiragana! and got 3 TVXQ songs! one of them is RISING SUN! the actual karaoke version was in Mandrin, but I just go ahead with Japanese version! lol... It is only RM10 for students per head (make sure to bring your student ID for verification) and RM13 for normal people (per head) from 12pm to 6pm. other times I did not take note.

We went back to Koreana at around 5.30pm for dinner. Kevin and Aaron joined us. We ordered 5 dishes. Total price is RM117. Since me and Fam share the bill (we sponsored the other 4 as a treat), we split the bill to half. It was a good experience eating Korean food. I still prefer Japanese food. Maybe it is because it suits my taste. I am NOT being biased here!

Kevin sent me home last night. He is a speeding freak. But I am ok with that. LOL! reached home before 8.30pm. It was a fun day and tiring. hehe..

Friday 15 May 2009

waiting....

I cannot wait for the weekend to come! I will be celebrating my birthday with Fam on Sunday. I do not know where to go in the morning. To hang out at the shopping mall from 10am is no fun. I want to go outdoors. Karaoke is definitely in and so is lunch. Karaoke location still not confirmed yet. Lunch will be at Koreana. Suddenly got the urge to eat some Korean food.

Right now, I am blogging illegally at work! I am supposed to think of how to improve their (the organization) induction program. I do not have any idea yet. Been lazy this whole week. Hopefully next week I will be hardworking to read all the info that I have collected for as my research to do the project later. I am sleepy right now. My sis just love to ask me to do things at the "right" time! I will be going home rather late because I have to follow my bro-in-law. *sigh*

Luckily I had my lunch with Claudia and Fam. Ate a place called Yew Fook. I ordered butter fish fillet. It was rather oily and I did not taste much of the butter flavour. Claudia ordered the same but hers is squid. Fam ordered kolo mee in soup (forgot the name of that food). I only spent RM5.70 for lunch today. Not bad!

I cannot wait for the time to turn to 5.30pm! I want to stalk SharingYooChun but the line would not let me! *cries*

Wednesday 13 May 2009

wow~

ok... I have not updated this blog for a very very long time! Currently I am a practical trainee at Swinburne University (Sarawak Campus, of course!). This week is my 2nd week here. I have done a few tasks that I am supposed to learn. Right now my job is to help in their project, which is improving the induction program for the new Swinburne staffs which will be commenced some time in July. I would not be here anymore at that time as I will be starting a new semester (my final year) that month. The working environment here is quite relaxing. I always online secretly (scared that I will get caught by my supervisors) especially when onlining Facebook! lol!

My lunch break is either at 12-1pm or 1-2pm from Mondays to Thursdays and 12-2pm on Fridays. So on Fridays is the only day that I can go eat out of the campus! Last week I went with Claud, Carol, Gab, & Fam. Yesterday ate rojak kuche (is it spelt correctly?) with my colleague, Fila. I do not know how to explain the location (coz I still do not know my way around Kuching that well yet!).

I am soooo sleepy right now. I cannot concentrate on what I am supposed to do. Cannot wait for my lunch break to arrive (which is another hour away from this entry post).

Oh yea! One of my front tooth chipped off! A small chip but I think it is quite deep. I cannot wait to go visit the dentist this coming Saturday to see if there is anything that can be done onto my teeth.

I plan to celebrate me and Fam's birthday this weekend but it might be postponed because Tricia has a high possibility that she would not make it to Kuching by this weekend. she might only be able to come next weekend if her dad allows her to come.

I plan to go for karaoke sessions, then grab a bite at a Korean restaurant. Hope that it would not be expensive as I am currently low in cash. ):

Sunday 3 May 2009

ramblings

Tomorrow's my day to start my internship. I am still not ready (mentally) because I just do not feel like it. Maybe because I am still exhausted. I did not get enough rest for the last few days. Every time when I am ready to go to sleep, my sister comes down to the living room with Mira. so I have to play with Mira before she fell asleep again. so I slept EARLY in the MORNING and wake up some time in the afternoon. tonight I have to sleep early because I have to wake up around 6am tomorrow morning. I am a slow person (as in getting ready early in the morning).

Tomorrow TVXQ is starting their Japan tour. I am not sure where is their first destination but I bet it will be fun! They will end their tour at Tokyo Dome where it will be their first Dome concert ever. I heard that they were so thrilled about it that they are willing to give 300% of their energy during the concert! I wish I could attend the concert as well! well, gotta work hard and save lots of money so I can enjoy in the later years of my life.

Mira's sleeping soundly now. Her parents bought few new toys for her. She likes particularly the one that you stick to the side of the crib and it rotates with music being played as it rotates. I am not sure what it is called cause I have not seen the package of that toy. LOL!

Saturday 2 May 2009

updates!

wow! it has been a very long time since I last updated my blog. I was so busy with my assignments for the last 2 months. Now I am free from those but I have something new to worry about: my internship.

my internship will be starting this coming Monday. I will be doing my internship at Swinburne University in Kuching. I am staying with my sister and bro-in-law and niece, Mirabelle. My parents are here in Kuching, too, taking care of my sister and Mira. she LOVES to complain a lot! lol! but she's adorable in some ways.

my internship will take up 8 weeks of my semester holidays. this means that I would not be able to enjoy my semester break this year. but I will get to experience how it feels like to work at workplace with different people (aka diversity). and I will be paid as well. I heard from my coursemates that I am one of those few who will be paid during internship. Lucky me!

Mira is growing up well. she is already 5 weeks old. she starts to drink a lot and sleep a bit less. she is always active in the middle of the night! it makes me and my sister suffering from minor insomnia. and we both have black bags under our eyes! but once she's active, her eyes like to focus on interesting things (aka the TV). she also like to look at me. hm..

I hope I will be able to update this blog more often during my internship. mum will surely use my laptop to play her mahjong games which I specifically installed into my laptop for her to play. Coz sis's desktop has gone hairwired!