Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Sunday, July 21, 2013

To Calyn

I know my last post was like 2 years ago! LMAO,like seriously but I really wanted to do this post for your birthday especially since I forgot about it. I swear its because I m not in school anymore I barely know what day is it in the week. SORRYYYYY! I ll get you something pink with my first paycheck, whenever if I get one? Forgiven? LOL

Anyways this is probably going to be long and wordy (Mostly to drive other people away from reading it cause this post will contain many embarrassing pictures)

Calyn Ong Jen Ching.

Jan 10th 2004

Probably about the first day I met you. First impression? High class, snobbish Convent kid, follow-the-rule-fromA2Z-type of girl.;P. Probably about the first day of school, I was new to the school and you were selected to recite the school song to us "new girls" in school.

You were probably the class monitor or something cause I remember you collecting money from me in class. But that is probably all that I remember about you in 2004 cause GLADLY the week after the school decided to downgrade me to the second class.

Oh yeah another incident I shall not let you forget, one day towards the end of the of the year I unexpectedly did pretty well surpassing most of the first class students and out of a sudden I was noticed by you guys. Haha and this was what happened:

*note we have never really spoken before*
We were sitting at one of those gazebos, Hoay yean, you and I.

Calyn: You did really well in the exams. I was really surprised.
Me: er....haha
*HY and I exchanged the wtfiswrongwiththisgirl look here*
HY: No lah, she has always been good.

Hahaha bad impression much.

2005

You were still in the snobbish gang though we are now in the same class

2006

Okay so you weren't that bad after all. We got to know each other a lil bit more. Went to DOTA (was that the name of the camp?) together and the rest was history! =)

2007
My chance to finally maybe be in the same class with my fav classmates again (Song & Ash) hehe. But the school hates us so they decided to put us away from everybody else, I still wonder how did that happen!! I remember they read names for Sc3 first and we were waiting for our names to be called! T-T

So this is when you were separated from Reena, me from babes. Haha I think we almost cried, but I guess we were glad we at least had each other and of course ever since then I got my BEST TABLE-MATE EVER. (Sorry song and ash. She arranges my books! Haha what more can a girl ask for?)

2008
Probably the year facebook got popular, haha so I can share pictures starting now. This was the best yet the worst year.



Table mates! The LYNS. =)

Also the year Calyn and Song decided to cheat on me. Haha, so now there were three:


And then school ended, we went our separate ways. THE END........




HAHA NOT QUITE LIKE THAT.

And then we took SPM, sad farewells etc, but something I remember clearly and keep telling people is about the day Calyn checked the wrong ID for me, told me falsely that I wasn't selected for NS. When I found out it wasn't true, I started crying. And then you started crying I think cause Song and I were leaving you. Haha.

Can't remember if this was before or after NS, but one of the best trips ever:




Dear Calyn,

Thank you for

1. Being there for me to bully all the time, from the harmless Pengawas comment to the joke I pulled on you when I told you somebody died in the store room long time ago to scare you cause you needed to go through there every morning to check the classes. (F3 block)

2. Arranging my books, my bag, filling in my forms, ETC

3. Not giving me any perks being besties with one of the most influential prefects.I remember one time I forgot my name tag, and borrowed Song's spare. I had to hide from you all day long cause I know if you noticed you would have written me up anyways! T-T no mercy.

4. Lending me your money when I forgot to bring my lunch money

5. Always believing in me. I remembered I was the first you asked to be your head prefect campaign officer. WTH were you thinking! Campaign suicide??? LOL.I still think you deserved to win. (No offense to anybody)

6. Letting me diss pink, your fav color although I don't actually hate it that much. Kinda like it actually. Haha

7. Never finishing your hw, so I know i had to be a tiny bit more hardworking cause I can't count on you. ;p

8. Always there for me. I remember I was freaking out first day of college, and of course Song and you were kind enough to allow me to text you guys like 100 text messages that day to virtually accompany me.

9. Reading until here. haha was going to do 22 but yeah, you are too old. So you'll just be 9 years old to me. Teeeheee

Okay more pictures, of my two fav memories (after high school):

The day you guys surprised me by coming all the way to KL to send me off. Hey at that time KL was big deal. #biggirlcity



And the summer we were all Interning in the city, all grown up + our Genting re-make trip




Sunday, April 10, 2011

Morning!

Just wanted to share two things which somehow seems rather inspiring to me.

Motivational Video





and

an "Awwwwwwwwwwwww" post, here

Friday, February 25, 2011

food

It has been a month since the last update! Well today, after a long long week filled with exams,I decided that I was going to make dinner for a few of my friends.I dint give much thought to it at first, just that my friend,Jessie asked me to eat out with her as she was too lazy to cook, so I suggested that I cook instead. So in the end I ended up cooking for four, and halfway through I realize I have never cooked for more than two before and that they might not like my cooking.T-T
BUT, they finished everything, "fuh" * hopes nobody comes down with a stomachache tomorrow*

And heres some picture of the food. =)
p/s - table arrangement by my lovely suitemate, Paola.

Menu of the day
- Oven baked chicken
-Steamed string beans
-Fried Bamboo shoots
-Steam Rice
-Iced tea

Overall. =)Closer look at the chickenUS
Faster say its impressive! say it say it say it NOW! ;P



Sunday, January 16, 2011

HI

So im approximately 15130 km away from home, what has change so far besides the fact that im no longer in Malaysia.

Firstly im never without at least two layers of clothing, besides when i m in shower.
I dont enjoy taking shower that much anymore.
I love the sun now, why do we ever complain its sunny? Sun's good=)
I wake up before 9am everyday so far, without the alarm clock! ( The sun shines in at ard 7)
Ive never brought water around, even to school in Malaysia but I m constantly looking for water right now.

Things that remains the same,
My hair is growing longer and longer everyday though its been less than a month since i last cut it.
Im still as messy as ever.
And i still have the same readers and I heart you all!!

Anyways heres a picture i took yesterday, I ll put up more soon. =)
Owh looks like my laptop doesnt want to read my memory card, another time then. =(

Friday, December 31, 2010

2 zero one 0

I read an article on christmas about what christmas meant to this guy, and for him christmas reminds him that in 6 days, the year will be ending and a new year begins. So i thought to myself during christmas, and i vowed to spend my last 6 days in 2010 wisely, sad to say i wouldn't say i did. However here I am writting my-year-end review slash maybe new-year-resolution-post on a brand new year. =)

So what did i do this year,

1. Took my SAT begining of this year, which was hell. I wasnt really prepared, and i dont think I put this test to use, but it taught me quite a bit. =)

2. Celebrated CNY in Taiping-Kota Bahru-Tok Bali-Cherating-KL....=), one of the best CNY ever. =)

3. Finally put my driving licence to use although I got it in April 2009, Its feels good being able to drive around, I m quite proud of my driving skills, =). As of end of this year, i have driven to, subang, pj, bangsar, klang, taiping and my lastest accomplishment is to drive from tpg to kl although not Solo.

4. Wooops got my first pay this year, hopefully more to come in 2011. ;p

5. First trip with friends from INTI to Langkawi. The trip was good, we chose Langkawi cause there was a discount for Airasia, and i think we paid just around RM 50 for the round tickets, but because our flight was delayed, we got a rm200 voucher from them. I kinda heart air asia...
6. My first prom!!! Haha, it was just alright, but still had fun playing dress up.
7. My first community service kinda work. Joined EPIC, 2010 where i signed up as a volunteer where we helped compiled a village census of their demographics, played with the kids and help in cleaning up the village a bit. My first time in a orang asli village too. It was a great experience and this program will mark the begining of me joining a program like this, cause the feeling after is just epic. =)

8. First time to Bangkok, but once is enough for me to fall in love with Bangkok! Shopping and food there is just awesome, I think its one of those place I will never get tired of, okay maybe not never, but you get what i mean.

9. Also took some weird subjects in 2010, and i secretly kinda like them. Naming, public speaking, philosophy, world religions and business communications. Though i complained about having to study for it, I have learned quite a lot from religion, I am no longer religion-noobed though I still stand by my beliefs before taking the subject. The two project that I did was also very interessting, might talk about this one day when I feel like it.

10. Went Bangkok for the second time, on a charity program sponsored by BRANDS. Some awesome stuff which marks my first time overseas alone for non holiday purpose.

11. Night out with ash which I will remember for a very long time. XD

12. Officially became an EX- intian.

There are also several farewells this year where I bid goodbye to some of my friends to Canada and US. And soon, 12 days from now, it would be my turn. This is what makes the 2010-2011 transition so special for me. 12 days, I m a liltle freak-ed out, okay maybe alot but it's the new year, what better way to start a new year than to start anew.

Honnestly I thought I was gonna come out with a list of new year resolutions although I dont usually make a list, but right now I am too nervous to do so, so lets just enjoy my 12 days, and hope for the best for ALL.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

continuous shot


Playing with the continuous shot feature in the lake gardens, Pictures taken by calyn, we should do this more often. FUN.!!!!! =)

Friday, December 24, 2010

christmas eve

Woke up super early today, 7.30am not bad right.
Started the day with boring school stuff, apply transcript, write letter, send letter bla bla bla but had yummy nasi lemak and nasi dagang lunch at village park uptown...=)
After that went to one utama to get my specs done. Yay, cant wait for my specs to arrived, wished they had it in a different color though.
Head to curve next, to Daiso- a all rm5 Japanese store. Such a cute shop! They have everything and anything at all. Bought a few random stuff like umbrella, highlighters etc
Next up IKEA, my parents super like ikea!!!! This deserve a story of its own one day.....
After all the shopping had thai dinner with the family..yummy food again. Am please. =p
And after that came home and dyed hair with sister..hehe, its brown-er now, still not vr obvious but brown-er.
So did quite alot on christmas eve, I m happy. I like busy days, days i dont have time to complain im bored. =), the bad thing though is that its only 11pm on a christmas eve and am already sleepy.=(

Thats all, nights and merry christmas y'all.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

I is in the news!!! LOL...


p/s- they got it wrong, beside me in the 1st pic aint xinhui....;p

pictures credits to xinhuiphuah..=)

Friday, December 17, 2010

??

I feel like im standing in the middle of the ocean right now,

1. Part of me wants to swin towards the beautiful blue skies, swim across to the destination, all excited to discover the other side.
2. Another part of me wants to just continue standing there, worried if I have made all the wrong choices, worried if the other side isnt as pretty after all, and maybe secretly hopping someone will come bring me to the right side
3. And another tiny part, wants to swim back to the shore, to where I am comfortable with.



p.s- just a thought, not emo.;p

Monday, December 13, 2010

love

you know what i love????


GLEEEE!!!


That and many things...;p

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Hope in a Bottle- BRANDS

Went to Thailand as a student volunteer last month for a charity program by Brands. "Hope in a Bottle" was indeed challenging, but yet super fun!!! =)

1. The accomodation

One of my favorite things about the trip was the hotel we were hosted in. The room was great, sharing it with another friend of mine, Xin Hui, we had the whole place to ourselves. The place was huge, and the place was pretty as all the walls in the hotel were decorated with pretty paintings. We even "complained" that the bed was too big for us we dint bump into each other at all. The staff were very friendly too.

Our BIG BIG Bed
Living Room
Pretty LiftThe room was so nice, that we couldnt help but take crazy lots of camwhore pictures on timer. =P

2. The Program

Basically, the Hope in the Bottle program aims to build 4 new houses for several families in Thailand, so off we went during the day to help build houses. It was a really eye-opening and fruitful adventure.
The building process involves;
a) Mixing the cement- Now i know what you need to mix cement, cement powder, water, sand,and pebbles!
b) Carrying the liquid cement, forming a human chain to pass it along to be poured on the base-
Sounds easy but the cement damn heavy okay.

c) Laying Brands bottles on the ground- This process has been researched to save the cement up to about 25%

d) Did a liltle bit of painting too. =)

After two days of building, I will never look at cement the same way again. It wasnt a super hard job, but I never imagine it to be that tough. Thank god for machines, really. But glad to have experienced it anyway.

One thing impresses me a lot was how the organizer thought of everything, and when i say everything, i mean everything. Imagine building at a site, hot weather, in a village, what do you need?

Packed sushi lunch- checkedMobile Toilets- CheckedWhole tub of ice drinks and even chilled handkerchieves! - Checked


Rest place, with snacks and fruits- checked

Gloves, caps, hand socks for UV rays protection- checked
3. The company

Spent most of my time with roommate/ collegemate/ Malaysian-mate, introducing Xin Hui!!

Shes good company especially if you like camwhoring and shopping! =)- Problem with her was she just so super super tall, and i m like super short, so every picture with her makes me look like a dwarf. =(
Funny though a few asked if we are sibblings, we look nothing alike, and DNA must have gone wrong somewhere, she got all the tall genes. Anyways if we are, then who's the younger one??(she is)
From right, Xin Hui, Thai Ronald MC Donald and dwarf. =(

Besides, met people from different countries too!!! Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong!. They were all super friendly and impressive too! Although at times I might be rather lost among them due to my "good" mandarin skills, it was great getting to know them, comparing cultures of the different countries.

From right, me and xin hui from Malaysia, Charmian and Jackson from Singapore, Alistor and Pei-Chi from Taiwan, Alvin and Alan from Hong Kong and our very berry cool staff from Malaysia/ our "babysitter", Corrine.

4. Thailand

Thailand was just super awesome. Shopping and food in Thailand is just heaven!
Need I say MORE?


And I shall end the post with a picture of,

ELMO AND COOKIE MONSTER. =)


Tuesday, November 30, 2010

When do you be cautious and when do you take chances?

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Guest what!?

I am going to BANGKOK........gonna be with BRANDS, as a student volunteer to build houses..Yups build houses...teeeeeheeeeee...Lylyn's gonna build. ;p

There's an article on the program here;

http://www.habitat.org/intl/country/205/story/10_21_2010_Cerebos_To_Build_Five_Houses_With_HFH_Thailand.aspx

Check it out....

2 more days to go! Am excited, Its gonna be fun and if its not, at least I ll get my Thai food... yummmmm

Lunch

Today's lunch by mom and dad, super duper yummy, there's still some leftovers in the fridge.yum yum!p/s- This is the thai style of nasi kerabu. They call it "kao jam"...Basically the rice is cooked with some herbs water, mixed the rice with all the vege as above + kerisik (fried coconut)+fish + budu + keropok and not to forget the best sambal in the whole wide world = one of the most satisfying lunch. =)

Friday, November 12, 2010

klang tour!!!

So for deepavali this year, my friends and I decided to go to Klang to visit one of my friend, Nithiya.
We drove down to Klang at about 1pm to meet up with another friend who stays in Klang as well.
Meet Rachel, our tour guide for the entire day. And Nithiya, our host...She stuffed us with all the indian dishes you can think of, and after that icecream, fruits, biscuits...yum yummmmm! Oh and we even got our er purple packets!!! =)
Group picture before we left the Nithiya's house. From left, venetia, rac,nit, me, sarah and pjeng.
After all the indian food, Rachel decided that she's gonna feed us with MORE food. So off we go.
First stop, some famous fried chicken and yuyu ice. They sell like hot cakes, by the time we got there it was like around 3 maybe and they are almost sold out! Up next, klang popiah! =)
And afters we had banana fritters and those fried sticky thing. Damn oily but satisfying too.

After the eating trip, we walk around the mall for a bit, and some hypermarket wholesales store.before we head to......PORT KLANG!! for some seafood ofcouse, since we are here alll the way to Klang might as well go all the way. Our plate of salted egg mantis prawn..ordered fish and vege too, but we were too busy eating , we forgot the pictures.
After dinner, rac brought us to the "ship" to "blow wind". Its an old ship that overlooks the dirty. sea. Took some pictures, talk for a bit and head back to Klang town. Oh in order to get on the ship we had to do some erm..Climbing...;p

After port klang, we head back to Klang. Guess whats next. we went "pondan" sightseeing before we call it a day and head back home.
So that was what we did for deepavali, a klang tour, before this I had no idea there is so much to do in Klang, though its not exactly a lot but still, I would never imagine spending a whole day out touring Klang. Thanks to Rachel, we felt that we knew klang inside out by the end of the day...