Year End Note

Year end is approaching. I believe this year has been my most productive year – why? Write too much, think too much, stress too much, play too little :P Cant believe it’s all over now. On cloud nine is no exception since I don’t have to wake up every morning moodily, struggle on my assignment; and wake up middle of the night or lose my appetite thinking of my endless coursework and deadlines. Those days were miserable…grrr

Time really flies! When I come to think of it, it seems to me that y’day was just my orientation week and now I am done with my Hons. Walking down this journey has never been easy. Yet I am thankful for all the learning opportunities. I actually feel grown-up, a whole lot this year J I can’t say thank you enough to all who helped me along the way and showed me the love, directly or virtually.

First I would love to thank my lecturers and supervisors for all the guidance and encouragement throughout the year. I reckon some gave me really a hard time to cope with, but I believe your intention has always been for my own benefit. To all my ever supporting family and friends, I am glad to have you around. Daddy & mummy were always worried that I will get depress and insane by Hons (so ask me go relax) while brother always asked me to play online games whenever I told him I m stress. Well, they are always lovely J

I shall not deny I own a bunch of awesome friends – those who are always there for my grumpiness and my never ending complaints (about how awful a lecturer can be, how badly I need a break, or how madly I wanted to give up.. etc). To my lovely zi mui across the world who have conveyed their love and encouragement endless-ly, I am truly moved. For those who have make me lovely dinner and desserts to brighten up my days (you know who you are J ), that is so sweet of youuuuu . For those who spare their times to review my thesis, thank you so much, I owe you for this.

Lastly, to someone who is my loyal fan :P, my awesome classmate and my loving buddy, my heartfelt thanks to you for always there to share my joy and sorrow, dry out my tears and pat my shoulder whenever I need it. U never fail to give me a boost, accompany me for meals or coffee or handle my crappy-ness etc etc (as the list goes on :D). I see your hard work and so do you. We have FINALLY make it! We shall never let our disappointment rule it out, after all we have tried, and tested our abilities and we should be proud of what we are today!

Thank you for this once a lifetime experience. Am truly grateful.

Random :P

R.A.N.D.O.M things can just happen such as:

1) I was in the sunday market, bought 3 oranges. As i was making my payment to the vendor (a young lady), all in a sudden this young lady pop up with a question:

" Are you living in Wellington "

I hesitate for a while "Err...Yes..."

Then she continued.." Do you know any branded shop like LV around here?"

I paused and think " No.."

She was disappointed but then came up with another one " How about Gucci and Channel?"

I answered " Nope as well. We only have Calvin Klein..." (how sad is wellington :P)

ha how random is that young lady.did my face show that I shop branded stuff.. lol

2) One of my lecturers told me this. He received an email from his 2nd year students.

"Hi michael, you mention tutorial in your lecture. What is a Tutorial?" OMG... hahaha

3) Yday, a guy came and rang my house doorbell. I went to open the door.

He asked me " Is this a tutorial room?"

I was perplexed @.@ answered " nopeeeee..." (obviously..)

He can then asked me " What is this place?"

I was like (duh..) " my house! "

As if he just woke up " Ooh! sorry. (paiseh..) do you know where is 72 FT?"

I said no idea.. (in fact, i never know 72 FT exist)

HAHAHA.

Ooo-la-la

time really flies. especially happy moments :) i m super happy with my break :)) it had been an awesome holiday!! no further complain on that. if i do complain, probably u should come n slap me instead. lol

a new semester starting tomorrow, or should i say my last semester at nz? eee sound so sad .. :(

not very looking forward to it coz not very like it to go back to slog life :P oh well, human are just greedy sometimes... we always demand for more relaxing life :P

what min yu said was right, face it and go through it, not avoid it. about what is the 'it', only a few know what 'it' really is :P anyway, it's true in many cases. and i will hold this spirit for this coming semester.. i hope. constantly. haha

time to get back to some studies. will continue my blogging some other time when i m happy.

happy returning to school, peeps! all the best and work hard!

xoxo

memorable :)

My bday was a fairy tale :)

Things were beyond expectations on 22th June. Hohoho firstly, I was so happy since I am done with exams :) then I called for a dinner with my close frens to celebrate my belated bday :) I was in a stress free mode. oso I was so looking forward to wear my lovely red dress – my bday gift which arrived on time before my bday dinner :)

Typically, since it’s going to be my day, I had a pretty well groom up and with the help of my flatmate, I had a pretty pair of lashes on! Weee…*happy happy*

Things were getting weird along the dinner But I did not really dwell further. Kai yen brought Elun’s camera bag without his gigantic DSLR. Elun came in late and was busy text-ing all the time. Along the dinner, Alex began to come out with sarcastic words, directed to Elun most of the time( well, we are so used to alex style of talking, so I didn’t think further whether is that intentionally or not.). Elun began to be pissed off. After elun ‘realise’ his camera is not in the bag, lagi pissed off n blamed kai yen for not checking properly before bringing his bag. That time I felt bit disheartened, part of due to ‘forget-ness’ of bringing the camera, part of due to the ‘chaos’ exist. There seems to be tension in the air and many of them become moody n sad. Hmm weirdd. when I asked yee ping what's wrong with elun, her answer was “maybe elun was scolded by boss today”.. pretty logic reason, so I just accept it w/out questioning further.

After the dinner, Elun went off early. His reason was to look for his camera. Then poh yee also followed him, dashed off quickly without solid reason. Both of them left-in-a-sudden was enough to make me pissed off. They are my since- first- yr buddies and I was thinking “how can they went off just like that..” hmm Alex still continue to make the situation tense by ‘adding salt and vinegar’. Alan also remained silent as if the exam woriness has hit him badly. So the dinner ended up kinda disappointing. I was real sad. thinking that it was not a lucky day afterall. When yee ping dragged me along to New World to get some groceries, even though not in a very-happy-state, I try to conceal my sadness and accompanied her.

On the way, I was thinking probably I should pay a visit to Elun hse to see what is happening to him. I texted him and his reply was discouraging. Albeit my mind was telling me “mayb I should not go and disturb him”, my action proven opposite. I still went to the house.

When I get there, tze hui asked me to head up the stairs coz elun was looking for me. It was pitch-black upstairs. As I made my way up, I began to feel eerie as I am afraid of dark n I wasnt really sure exactly where are the switches.

When I was on my final step,

SURPRISE!

The next moment, I saw a fleet of ppl standing there sang me bday song. OMG OMG OMG!

Puai yee was the one who went absent from my dinner and now she is here to capture my over-surprising face! Gee.. I stood in awe for the amazing décor. OMG Again! Purple n white. This is really so yi-chin-theme :D I gasped for a second when I saw my bday cake which was made up of 3 tiers of cupcakes with purple butterfly attached on each of it and a butter chocolate cake on the top with a purple 2-3 candle on it. it was so so beautiful :)

The most unbelievable thing happened as if I had just walked into a fairy tale. I just realise all of them were acting during the dinner. Their mission of making me extremely sad had succeeded. This very moment reached deep into my heart. I am touched. Speechless. Warm. Blissed. :)) Thank you guys for making this the most beautiful bday gift ever! =)) A big big Thank You to Elun, thanks dear for everything EVERYTHING =)) it is the most awesome bday surprise I ever had in my life :)) I guess u must be disappointed as I didn’t shed my tears, but trust me, u never know how deeply I am touched by all these. I had left my tears to be shed in silence.

Gosh, One thing for sure, by this year end, I am going to leave NZ with a heavy heart.

My masak-masak ;p

Presenting some of my proudly made malay delicacies... hehehe :)

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the yum yum onde-onde

and kuih dadar!

Tempting?

Lalala...

Life has been roller-coaster for quite a bit.

for the start of 10%, its tough, when it approaching the 20% i'm more used to it, n now i m done for that 25%...

easter break is here! wee :)

although need to work hard during the break, still I have been enjoying myself for catching up my sleep, for treating myself good food n slacking alot too :P

On good friday eve, went to the easter chocolate buffet at Duxton hotel :)

over twenty choco-ish delicacies to choose from...

Had some fun baking upon good friday, although the sponge cake looks tak jadi, but still taste good lah..

then had Hell pizza for dinner with hsemate, yumm yum cajun wedges, squid rings n pizzas! cant believe hell pizza also serves butter chicken on spinach fettuccine!

Had a satisfying lunch at Cha, Ashlee had the crispy chicken rice while i had my pork mince noodles...

then went out with the hons gals for yummylicious ice-cream@ kaffee eis* and M'sian food @ Satay Kampong & watched 3D Alice in the Wonderland :)

seee...my mint chocolate chip ice-cream named 'After Eight'

satay & hainanese chicken rice.. :)

the gals who finally get the chance to chill out for abit ;)

No more slacking. sigh.. Hav to workkk harddd.. HARDDD..lol xp

ish...The celcom scam.

When I was heading my way to ktm station at kl central, I was approached by a celcom guy. He was holding a Celcom SIM card, handing it to me as I passed through the gate, as predicted, he was going to promote something on celcom. He told me the SIM card is free, ha I thought “oh free stuff, that’s not too bad” so I grabbed it as I go, not even have a second thought that ‘there is no such thing as free lunch’. As I was about to hop on to the escalator, that guy asked me to spare a few minutes to register if I decided to take that SIM card with me. I refused, afraid that my train will arrive anytime soon. Thinking that I cant afford to miss the train ( well u know it took ages for the next ktm to arrive), so I just handed the SIM card back to that guy, telling him that I am in a rush. While he was still trying hard to persuade me to have it, he even told me I can give that SIM card to my siblings. Oh well, I was determined enough, he got me no choice and let me go. I managed to escape. Weee:) When I was down at the platform, I just realised that I still need to wait for another 15 minutes ..ish… I hate waiting train. Then I began to feel bit guilty. I thought I should have help that guy. Hmm… thinking he might need it for hitting his sales target(maybe?..)

I met my friend at mid valley. I told her about that incident. I was really curious—“ why is Celcom being so nice, giving free SIM card..” She gave me a sigh “hngh..i also kena just now”. She faced the same situation, she was also thinking to help them so she agreed to sit down and filled up the form for registration. Soon later she found out that once u register with Celcom, they will automatically change your current hp service provider to celcom!! So basically they are not giving you free number or anything, they just persuade you to register without telling you that your current hp number going to be 'devoted' to celcom! they just snatched those Maxis n Digi customer away. Wooo~! I just realised how daring they could be.. Nasty marketing strategy:(

My friend did escaped since she ran away while halfway she was filling up the form.. at least not kena tipu…

The following week, I met another friend at mid valley. I did not mention anything about the Celcom thingy to my friend, thought its nothing very serious. Unfortunately, when he was on his way back home, he was approached by the Celcom staff. My friend, being nice, did filled up the form completely without realising it was a trap. Only till the next day, he realised that it was a post-paid SIM card and his 012 number no longer belonged to maxis. Only after he went to digi centre to terminate the celcom line and change his 012 number to digi instead. He was charged a day of usage by Celcom even he didn’t use it at all and the existing credit remaining at his previous maxis line all gone!!!

I no longer feel guilty. Well at least they should inform the people beforehand what going to happen next after registration. They can’t just be that way!

BEWARE of what i called the celcom scam vis-à-vis asymmetric information in the market.

How it turn out not to be ..Heee

I drafted this longgg agooo..until today i am back to my writing mode so i continue to write this n wanted to publish this since i m so free rite now...heee :) this gonna be long, so bear with me...

lets rewind back to the pre-peparation for the day of 7 October 2009.

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I was in Pascoes, a few times, wanted to get stg for her...The 1st time when I start to hunt for the perfect key pendant, I end up buying another gift for someone else >.<" Then i waited, till the next sales, I bought this key as I fall in love at first sight :) pressie was ready at this stage.

Knowing Harvey Norman hav this great deal from CK that it costs less than 20 cents to print a pic. Thinking that I still have time to do it, i continued with my first planning of her bday card, which is a monthly calendar where i will paste the respective picture to that respective month. well, its stg similar to our typical calendar just full of our pictures.. But due to pile up of las min work, assign n presentation, all that ‘freak up’ my plan.

Fail to do the monthly calendar, I was thinking maybe I can do a yearly calendar instead n put it into the bday card. Stil... time does not permit me to do so. Every time when I wanted to do it, either she stays in the room or she stay up late, later than me till I gv up n go to sleep instead.. aikss

At the eleventh hour, I get pretty pretty stressed up. So I left the bday card job aside & I start my planning on the surprise instead. Hmm...I don’t really got the idea how should i do it, as she didn’t cry for las year surprise when we did the cupcakes for her, so I was pretty sien dy. then we had this mooncake party 1 wk before her bday, at first I was thinking doing a surprise at that time, but don’t feel like it coz I did it for her during intec.

I wanted to bake a cake for her. To make all this really surprise, I try to keep the thought to myself as much as possible and will only inform the gang in the las minute, which is one night before her bday. I shall say this method is proven to be effective =) as no one will reveal it accidentally before hand.. ha

I wanted to do a surprise on Tuesday, which is one night before her bday, but she knew that I am working on Tuesday, so not to make her suspicious, I decided to make a so called camouflage celebration on tues night. I bought a mini cake from the chocolate cake comapny n cute candles from new world n I work as usual til late on tues..

It was not really a surprise as I think she has predicted by 12 o clock I will surely present her stg. I was sleepy but i waited..Til the clock strike 12, I went to the toilet with the cake out of the room, after I lit the candles, as I wanted to walk into the room, one of my Vietnamese hsemate went to knock on the door to wish her happy bday. Damn it. I am not supposed to be seen by her so I ran away to the kitchen to hide.

After awhile, then only I went into the room with the cake. She was so happy by then. I told her I don’t really got the time to do a lot of stuff, so I just bought a mini cake. She thought that her bday celebration must be over. Yeah, so *evil wink* I am happy. I know my plan will succeed.kekeke =D

She was called upon to work for whole day on wed. (part of it is becoz' i made a deal with my boss, the other of it is becoz she wants to work on her bday) n so I felt pretty secured that I will have enough time to do the preparation. Heheehe:) straight after lectures, I went to new world to grab the ingredients for the choco brownie n truffles, then to the party shop to get some pretty cool 21st bday balloons. Then went to wan ling hse to borrow the right baking tray from Bebeh, then head to the café to get the balloon pump from my boss,Gino. Phew~! hav to do it damn secretly n quick since afraid wyne might appear anytime anywhere around there.

Thanks to Gino who has been very cooperatve since he promised to let wyne go anytime I m ready. So its pretty a good deal. Once all done, i met up with poh yee in uni and bck to home to start our baking.

Poh yee had fun baking :)

Mix mix mixx....

Pour the well blended mixture into the tray, ready to bake...heee
Cake writing timee...

then, the oreo cheese truffles making time...
poh yee mashed the oreo, i did the chocolate melting...
Before and after refrigerate...tada...that the yum yum truffles =)

Willis later came up to help with the balloons followed by joseph, ting fang, ck n candy. Thanks to them that we managed to messy the room with colourful balloons n ribbons.

Everything gets pretty ready on time except alex. We were hiding in the room while waiting for wyne. It was around 6pm. I was getting worry as alex has not arrived yet while wyne will be walking bck from work by now. So we got no choice but to call up alex, asked him to stop walking wherever he was right now. Poor thing..but to ensure the plan will not be ruined, we got to do so..Hee sorry alex XD

Wyne was taking a longer time that it supposed to be to get back home. So we were all gan cheong and getting hot since we were in dark. i was thinking.."gosh, I got no plan B! what if she didnt appear?..". All of us later started to think of alternatives plans while Candy was still peeping through the windows at all time. she must be thinking why this za bo can take so long to walk bck home. Evytime we heard some noice, we went excited but when we found out that its not wyne, we were frust again..hahaha

Tick..tick...tock...tock... hmmm time was getting slower when we started to wait , wait n wait....At last the bday gal finally approached. so all get set to go. Ck was holding the camera to capture the moment of astonishing face while joseph was preparing to make all the popping stuff out…hehee willis was holding the cake while i lit the candles..

Once she opened the door, we remained silent, she was standing in the dark, she felt stg but she is not sure. then she came out with “eh….” In a jiffy I went on to click the bday song from my lappy, ck started to shout SURPRISE!! and all of us jumped out from the corner, singing the bday song aloud in front of her.Heee… She was touched needless to say,surprise too!!! Haahhaaa… I feel so happpyyyyy coz oh yeah, we did it!