Photos. What everyone loves most.

Took my sis' camera to UCSI to toy around for a week. Thought that photos would do a better job in showing you guys what I couldn't describe very well in words.

Monday (2/6):
My hostel room, which is my current home for these couple of months till I get kicked out of it next semester. I wonder whether did my description do any justice to how my room actually looks like.

My bed, which, as I mentioned earlier, is on the right side.

My side of the desk. And no, it doesn't look like this all the time, only for the first 10 minutes upon arrival and before I unload all of my stuff.

My roommate's, who hasn't showed up yet, side of the desk, which I conveniently use to chuck the electric table-fan, toaster/oven, half-boiled egg thingie and other things when my side is piled up

The cabinet, with mine on the right.

All the food that are to be my breakfasts, lunches or tea time snacks on top of the shoe cupboard

And for those who are curious about the piano practice rooms at my college (e.g. Shien Yin and Lucinda), here are some pics for you: The piano room (120 m)that I booked for practising during my freetime, though nighttime isn't counted since the rooms are mostly empty so you don't need to book any one of them.
One of the rooms with a grand piano in it

Tuesday (3/6):
Did a little cam-whoring myself out of boredom, due to the ample 7 hours between my Malaysian Music and my individual piano class.

Meet my new teddy bear that my aunt got for me. It hasn't got a name yet. So, suggestions? Sorry but no, Daa, not Temme again.

The length of my teddy is equal to the width of my bed. Oblong creature.

I quite like this pic

Aww...look! It was smiling too!

Its right hand a little short to go around my neck

Further proof of boredom. In case you didn't know, it was a dragon fruit.

Wednesday (4/6):
I was honestly awestruck by the handbell performance giving by the Woman's Choir Concert and Bell Ensemble who came all the way from Chicago. The handbells sounded nothing like how I imagined, which was the typically tinkling sound you would expect coming from a bell, but like the sound of chimes, magically soothing and indescribably melodious. I'll try to look up for videos to show it to you guys. Meanwhile, I'm introducing:

Jenny, the sweet girl who taught me a thing or 2 about the handbells she and her choir and bell ensemble play

Just before choir that day, the few of us who were in Phyllis' room went cam-crazy:

Me and Bi Ying, who plays the electric guitar and er hu (outside campus)

Me and Huay May

Phyllis, me and Bi Ying

Me, Eunice, Huay May and Bi Ying

Eunice, Bi Ying and me

Me with Bi Ying's electric guitar

Me and Wen Dee

Bi Ying, Eunice, Phyllis, me, Wen Dee and Huay May

All of us again

Thursday (5/6):

Went to University Malaya to play the traditional Malay Gamelan. Then, we went to have lunch at Wen Dee's mom's restaurant (Nihon Kai), which took us an hour to get there after losing our way and circling a certain area a couple of times, fruitlessly searching for the restaurant.

Me playing the Sarong Barong (please, someone correct me if I'm wrong)

Bi Ying and me

Bi Ying, Phyllis, Ms Wong (our Malaysian Music lecturer), me and Song Lin



Us playing a short piece with the instruments with me on the Bonang

Me and Wen Dee

Eunice and me

Pik Ying, Jin Fem and me

Me, Jia Wen, Andrew and Ming

Emmanuel and his ghostly eyeballs

Me, Song Lin, Phyllis and Bi Ying

Huay May and me

My lunch: Mixed Fried set dinner

Macha (I'm not sure how it's spelt), the green tea ice-cream

Standing: Jia Wen, Rachel and Jin Fem
Kneeling: Kevin, Ming, Bi Ying, Huay May, Eunice, me, Phyllis, Song Lin and Pik Ying
Sitting: Andrew, Emmanuel, Hui Yin and Wen Dee

Friday (6/6):
Went out with grandparents for dinner.

Grandma, cousin and me

Grandma, me and sis

Some little girl wandered over to our table and plonked herself down beside my cousin

Saturday (7/6):
Another Ying Hui and Amanda Day, with the both of us went to watch 'What Happens In Vegas' starring Ashton Kutcher, who was hawt, and Cameron Diaz. Very comedy and entertaining. But that wasn't the highlight of the day, oh no, it was Amanda driving me to 1U and back home! In her car! She definately drove better than me, as in not too near to the left side of the curb or driving in the wrong lane. Oh well, I guess I gotta practice more.

Amanda and her La Mien
Me
Amanda at Starbucks
MeMe and Amanda

End of post.

On Saturdays

Last last Saturday (25th May)
It was nice seeing Denise again, since the last time I saw her was more than a month ago, at the Anugerah Cemerlang. Awww...I miss my other Vegie Gang too: Amanda, Siu Jeen, Jing Lynn, Shi Ning, Xiao Chin, Vania, Denise and Shien Yin. Honestly guyz, we really need a huge get-together, one where ALL of us are present and not half.

Anyway, Amanda, Denise and I went to the book fest at KLCC last Saturday and it was our lucky day, or at least Amanda's, seeing that I'm not that big a fan of Zhang Dong Liang, though, I must admit, it was pretty exciting, having a celebrity more or less 2 feet away from you, even if he just swooshed by in a flash. Too bad he didn't entertain us by singing, merely standing on stage and blabbling non-stop about that electronic dictionary crap. Oh well, at least Amanda got some photos of him with my camera, which made her very high. Better still, she got a 40% discount for her books instead of the 20% stated! Cheers for Amanda!

Then, the 3 of us went for lunch (I swore I could hear an orchestra in my stomach) at Burger King, where we chatted and chatted till it was about 3.45pm when we had to leave coz my viola class was at 4.30pm.

Stuffs that I bought

Amanda

Me

Zhang Dong Liang

Blablaring

And blablaring

Me and Amanda

Amanda and Denise

Denise and me

Amanda, Denise and me

P.S. Thank you so much, Denise, for the cute 'bookworm' you gave me!

Last Saturday (31st May)
Went to Marche at the Curve to have dinner there as a celebration: my bro got selected to represent MALAYSIA in the International Olympics Maths Competition in SPAIN! I'm so jealous. Obviously.

Yerp. My bro and sis at Marche. That maths freak.

Look! I got myself a new pair of shoes just for the upcoming field trip to University Malaya to play the traditional Malay Gamelan.

May outing

Gosh. I never realize how much I miss you guyz! I miss crapping to my bestie, Amanda, about everything everyday, I miss Lucinda's crazy and funny self, I miss Joanna's outspoken way regarding almost anything, I miss Jing Hua's awesome-but-mostly-impossible ideas on our 'huge vacation at the end of the year', I miss Chee Kin's humorous stories on his college life and people and I miss Eu Chern's sarcastic jokes and his ever-flowing critisms about that S******** woman. The only person missing here is Yeon Li. Heck, gal, where have you been burying yourself?

Anyway, today's outing was the best yet, right from the moment me and Lucy met up around 5pm with more than an hour to kill. At first I was just showing her the Seoul Garden buffet restaurant where we were supposed to eat and then, out of curiousity, the both of us wandered into One World hotel, where we spent the rest of the time exploring like lost tourists (if anyone should ask, we would have replied we were from Pinang or somewhere else remote so we didn't look stupid gaping at the crystal chandeliers) and taking photos, including absurd ones.

Lucy and the crystal chandeliers

I looked so stiff

Lucy

Me

Lucy and me

The view behind us looked nice through the floor-to-ceiling panel glass windows

Lucy with pillow

Me with pillow

Now you see us

Now you don't

About 40 minutes later, Jo, Jing Hua, Sarah and Jyh Ling joined us but the latter 2 only stayed for a while coz they had a movie to catch. After they left, the 4 of us sat down and chatted till Lucy remembered the both of us were on a mission to find the swimming pool. So, off we wandered again and in the end we got there, thanks to the 'directory' in the lift that wrote 'Spa, Gym and Swimming Pool - 2'. But apparently, we appeared to be crashing a poolside BBQ and Bar party, though it was slightly drizzling. Haha. How embarassing.

Jyh Ling, Jo and Sarah

Me + them

Jing Hua (cool blouse, Jing!)

Joanna

Me and Lucy in the 5-star toilet

So orange-ish

What was with the both of them, I had no idea...

May the hostesses Joanna and Ying Hui present you the sumptous buffet dinner!

Amanda called around 7pm and we went to Italiennies to meet her and Eu Chern. After long indecisive moments, we had dinner at Jack's Place, where Lucy and I finally got to savour our grilled mutton with potato (it was grilled, not mashed as we dreamt it). Our table seemed to be the noisiest one, with an occasional burst of laughter. If our chatting was a piece (song), it would definately have tons of sfs (sudden loudness) and forte (loud) throughout. As for dessert, we went to Secret Recipe, where Amanda and Jing Hua got chocolate-coated piece of cake, Eu Chern got an oreo cake, Chee Kin and Lucy got hot chocolate, while I got myself iced chocolate with whipped cream. Jo was too full to stuff anymore food or drink.

Lucy and Amanda

Jing Hua and Jo at Jack's Place

Candle...duh

Amanda and me

Amanda and Jo at Secret Recipe

Me and my whipped cream

Ugh...

Chee Kin, me and Eu Chern

La La-ish. Ok, this is the worst poise I've ever used. Don't worry, this is the first and last time you'll see Ying Hui doing this eye-soring, puke-making La La poise.

Amanda, Eu Chern, Jing Hua, me and Joanna

Lucy using Jo's lap as pillow

Me and JIng Hua waiting at the taxi stand

Nicole, Jing Hua, Amanda, Lucy, Sarah, me and Jo

The Photo of the Month

I totally had an awesome time with you sexy people today! Till the next outing in June, I wish a humongous Good Luck to any of you who will be sitting for exams and to the rest, I hope that college will be exciting, or at least bearable, for you! Love you guyz soooooo much! XOXO

P.S. THANK YOU Amanda and Joanna for Jesse McCartney's Departure album! His version of 'Bleeding Love' is totally sizzling! And THANK YOU Lucy for the cute piggie and heart shape hair band! Love you lots!

Recap

I know my blog's been dead for a while, though I'm very much alive, seeing that my classes haven't commence yet. And since Shien Yin had updated hers after being pestered by me, I might as well update mine. So...

Monday: Officially checked in my hostel in the evening, around 4.40pm. Surprisingly, I found my room void of human life (my roommate was taking A Levels and that course started a week before orientation) and coated with dust, which was due to the repainting of the walls and replacing the carpets with tiles. Lucky me (about the tiles, I mean). My room had a long wall-to-wall desk by the window flanked by 2 black plastic chairs, 2 single beds on each side (mine's on the right against the wall painted baby pink), at the foot of my bed were 2 cabinets facing each other with an angle of 90º between them and at the foot of the other bed were a wooden shoe rack and a greenish plastic rubbish bin. Good luck with picturing it.

Had dinner with Zhi Shan at a shop outside the campus that night since I hadn't had any friends yet. Then went to a bakery to buy a bread for breakfast before heading back to hostel where I spent the rest of the night finishing City of Ashes. And I did, which I regretted coz it made me depress and remorseful the whole night. To City of Ashes readers: Isn't it frustrating that both books should end on such a heart-stabbing key? First, Jace turned out to be Clary's brother. Then, Jace just wanted to love Clary as a sister. Gah!

Tuesday: First day of orientation and still feeling depressed. The whole day was technically briefing, briefing and more briefing. Went for lunch at McDonald's with another 'Freshy' like myself, though she's taking Food Science & Nutrition and is a year older than me. She took her A Levels at Taylor's before coming to UCSI. Walking all the way back to the campus was excruciatingly tiring but who cares coz, heck, it helped me to burn off some calories gained from lunch. After we were dismissed, Jee Ween and I sneaked in the library and hid there till it was time for her to go home.

Around 6.45pm, I joined a group of 12 (2nd year A Levels students and JPA Scholarship holders) for a Bak Kut Teh dinner. Actually, I got invited by 1 of them after my mom embarrassingly introduced me to some of them at the lobby (you know what an introvert I am). Anyway, by the end of the dinner, I still hadn't got half of their names coz apparently they called each other by ever-constantly-changing nicknames, though I know 1 of their Chinese name had the same pronunciation as mine so it was kind of awkward when I kept looking up everytime I heard my name. Went to bed rather early since I didn't have any book to occupy my time.

Wednesday: Second day of orientation. A little less briefings and tons of club presentings. After lunch, we split according to our Faculties and went to choose our subjects. I got a feeling the Faculty of Music had the least freshies. Anyway, I waited for ages before it was my turn to discuss my course with Prof. Juan. Lucky for me, my maximum amount of Credit Hours for this semester is 18 so other than Malaysian Studies, I didn't need to take other non-music electives. The online course selection only took me about 10 minutes then when I was done, my dad came to pick me and home I went!

Friday: 2nd attempt on driving exam. *Sucks in a deep breath* I passed! I passed I passed I passed! IFUCKINGPASSEDIT!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!

Hopefully I can update a little earlier next week, maybe once I get my student ID and can legally log on to the internet using the library computers. Till then, tata~