Sunday, August 30, 2009

Tanah Air Kita.

credits: http://www.skthew.com/2007/08/13/bangsa-malaysia-merdeka-get-together/


You may frustratingly have the worst public transport system ever; you may be polluted and dirty (in more ways than one) but you're home and there's just no place like it!


Happy 52nd
Merdeka, Malaysia!

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Why wasn't I born with immense talent?



I personally find this awesome. What about you?

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愛愛愛




I think I left a part of me in HK. On the Star Ferry, to be exact.

I haven't completed a meaningful post in what feels like forever and the number of drafts on my Blogger dashboard is piling up. I'm finding it frustratingly difficult to collect and put my thoughts into words.

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Que Sera Sera.


"Well, let's see. We might consider Schrödinger's Cat :

In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger, in an attempt to explain the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, he proposed an experiment where a cat is placed in a box with a sealed vial of poison that will break open at a random time. Now, since no one knows when or if the poison has been released, until the box is open, the cat can be thought of as both alive and dead."

- Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory S01E17

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Change.


Y'know, for all my big talk about wanting something new, the one thing I resent the most is change. Once I've found my comfort zone, I am reluctant as hell to budge. My argument is: why change when you've already found "good enough"? Besides, change is mad scary to me with all the 'what if's - What if it doesn't work out? What if I'm not good enough? What if I'm being too ambitious? What if I already had "as good as it gets" and I left it behind?

My Dad always says that the only constant thing in life is change. The truth in that statement always irks me to no end.

But I guess once I get past the whole intimidating idea of change and realise it may not be as overwhelming as I play it out in my head to be, therein lies opportunity - something I would've never noticed unless I wrapped my head around the concept of imminent change.

Sometimes I foolishly forget that being young doesn't mean I'm the only one entitled to ambitions and dreams.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Grass Is Greener and All That Jazz.


I miss HK.



When does not settling
turn into idealism?

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Firsts firsts firsts.

The 13th of August was a day of firsts for me.

First time driving my brother out for lunch and a movie. I always wanted to do this because this is what I imagine my non-existent older brother would do for me haha.

First time "celebrating" International Suit-Up Day. While I didn't manage to fully suit-up, I did wear Erico Besto's blazer briefly before realising it's just too damn hot in Malaysia to wear one.

But the biggest first of all would have to be what happened that night..

First time clubbing! Haha what was suppose to be a yum cha session turned out to be me breaking my clubbing virginity at MOS. It was all very spontaneous because, a) I "dressed up" like 2 minutes before we left while the boys were waiting outside and; b) we didn't even think we could get in but Eric saw someone he knew who was buying a bottle and the rest is history. Haha. Actually, according to Amir B., your clubbing virginity is not broken til you get high and go crazy on the dance floor. And we weren't planning to do that so we had a couple of beers and then I saw..

Rowy! Haha I love love love LOVE this picture! And then we got so excited (I don't know why) so she knocked back a few shots, I tried a Jägerbomb and we went out on the dance floor. Haha! In retrospect, I am amazed at the spontaneity of it all but it was all good fun!





Scenes from the dance floor.

Music was pretty disappointing though -- the opening notes of "Just Dance" started playing and we all woohoo-ed! before it went into "Don't Stop The Music". Pft. So potong! But it's all good because they played "Last Night" which is the song I actually have a secret fantasy to dance to. Sssh!

One bucket of Tuborg (5 bottles) is effing RM87 ok! And Rowy told me mineral water is RM14! Clubbing is no cheap hobby. Oh man I cannot let one night get to my head -- I already have a very expensive hobby being obsessed over gadgets! :/

Besto who signed for drinks that night! Hehehehe.

Amir B. who "watched over" my drinking.
Amir B.: "Just down it Ri, just down it!"

Besto who took care of the girls the whole night! Aww. Probably didn't enjoy himself much while becoming the "barrier" between us and anyone who dared to come near us ;) Hahaha. Love ya Besto!

Designated driver and his partner-in-crime. They took turns carrying my bag that night. So sweet ;)

Haha I love you guys la. It couldn't have been easy to look after a high, talkative, loud, semi-out-of-control Ri :D


After listening to all the clubbing stories from Besto and Amir, it was fun to go out and see it for myself. Quite amusing to see it in real life la, the wasted people who are either knocked out on a couch or really, really, really friendly. Haha. But I really think I'm too old/out of shape for this getting high and dancing for hours at a time thang. I could barely drag myself to the shower after I got home and I woke up with a throbbing headache, aching knees and blistered toes the next morning. How sad is that! But better than Rowy though who now has messed up, stepped on and very bruised toes partly thanks to me and my heels. Ehehe.

Just that day I wanted something new and different in my life and I actually get it. I'm suddenly very proactive right. Haha.

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Blah!



I'm so tired of my blog design. I want to change it, I'm going to change it! I need something new la. Something, anything! Maybe I will try green tea soy latte.

So I drove today setelah sekian lama. Drove to Pyramid only, no big deal. Actually big deal for me. Who knew it'd be so stressful to drive. Had to literally prepare myself emotionally the night before or something. Haha. OK I'm not that bad. Kinda. Sorta. I just had to psych myself into taking the leap that's all!

Speaking of taking the leap, it's International Suit-Up Day! I haven't suited up (yet) today but I will later on. But I swear it's bonkers to suit up in Malaysia what with the sweltering heat. I wore Eric's blazer for a grand total of 10 minutes I think and couldn't take it!

And I finally kaypoh-ed around a bit to find out how the A-Levels students did. Ahh brings back memories of my results day. Hard to believe that was one year ago. I still remember sitting at Laundry with my college mates trying to watch the Olympics Opening and divert our mind away from the impending doom. Haha. Then when the fateful day arrived we couldn't even check out results til 4pm! Nerve-wrecking, I tell ya! Cambridge trying to kill us before we get our results..

This is a post of sorts. I just needed to put something up so that something new is up on my blog. Time for a change! Buang yang keruh, ambil yang jernih yada yada yada!

A shout out to anyone who's reading this who got the results that they wanted and expected: congratulations! This is step one to making it happen ;) And to those who didn't: it's not the end of the world and it's not a dead end. The road is long! :)

OK I need to go to the loo.

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Rockband Unplugged.

Hello! Feels like I'm back from the dead as I spent the better part of last week in bed, knocked out from food poisoning and cough and flu and high fever. In today's times with the H1N1 and all, it's scary just to come down with the flu. But I'm A-OK now!

Nothing veryyy interesting has happened, though, other than that. I seem to be not accomplishing anything these days. I can't even wake up early. I've developed this nasty habit of setting my alarm really early but snoozing it every morning and waking up late anyway. I have to kick it otherwise my days are just gonna go by too fast.

I'm also getting a bit sick of Pyramid. Haha. Finally, right. I go so often that I've seen the same ol same ol fashion and stuff in all the shops over and over again gah it's kind of sickening. I want to shop but there's nothing new!

So there wasn't much of a point to this post other that to whine it seems. Sigh. C'est la vie!

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