quick one

Owhkay I know I haven't been updating lately. So here's a quick one, going through most of well-kinda-interesting-hmm-but-I'm-not-sure-if-oh-well-just-read-laa stuff that took place the past few days.

There was a (just practice) fire drill in school the other day. Everybody (or so we thought) was evacuated and lepak-ed on the patch of grass directly opposite the main block of the school.

The next few photos were taken in Drama class.
This was SannDee playing cancer patient.
Of course, during the play she had to pretend to be emo.


This is Jullie, the syok-sendiri of the century.
She was a psychopath that day.
Of course I mean in her play.


CheaWen was a mad professor who wanted to conquer the world.
She honestly felt like a "bien tai" during play.


This is Johnny the assassin.
I'm serious.
Look what we've done to the assassin by the end of the day?
Actually, it was his own idea.
Johnny, the AhBengGeekNerd Assassin.
Awesome.


Of course, a group picture is compulsory.
Clockwise from CheaWen; Duy, Johnny, Jullie,
ChehYi, Nicholas and SannDee.


Andy with my
nope-no-reason-I-bought-it-because-
I-just-felt-like-it-why-you-
don't-let-arh-aww-too-bad glasses.
Notice Andy's eyes are like, 100 times bigger?


In another entirely different event.
Well, the picture says it all, no?

20-people chap goh mei dinner

Yep! The title says it all!
I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. =)

Johnny did all the food ordering.
And well, the food was good! =D
Pork hand and whatsitcalledagain vege.
Is there really a difference between pork hand and pork leg?
Why isn't this thing called pork leg/foot instead?

Brinjal+long bean and steamed whatsitcalled fish.
Owh I remember now!
Afican fish.
(African fish?)


We lousang-ed the pork hand dish.
We scooped the sauce and let it drip from our spoons.
We took the mushrooms and dropped it back.
And we poked the piece of pork with forks and spoons.
Owhkay owhkay.
We syok-sendiri can?


The very-salty-slightly-spicy-kinda-oily-but-
tastes-okay-too-bad-it-has-lotsa-
ginger-which-I-don't-like chicken dish.
And Jen Ruw was gonna put the pork limb into the dish.
=.="


Group picture!
Table with me.
But I was taking the picture.
Ish~


Table without me.
Andy (guy with black shirt) was trying to be romantic
with Nicholas (guy with white shirt facing back).
*Andy!!! I didn't know!!!*
XD

late #1

31 Jan 09 (also 6th day of CNY)
Mum decided to treat the family (literally just Mum's side) to some awesome dishes which she and my eldest aunt cooked. Mum actually cooked! Like, I haven't seen her cook in decades! The moon must be pink that night. Damn I forgot to check. (owhkay syok-sendiri)

Taa-dah!

Crabs in the middle. Prawns in sauce. Vege with mushrooms. Curry chicken dry-style. Very herbal chicken soup. Pork. And (the) egg-plus-sausage (is missing).

Close-up! (The peaceful) Uncle Lim sipping on super hot soup.

Then the first batch of people had their dinner.
(guy posing desperately is Nick, my omigawd-ly skinny cousin)
>>Nick, Uncle Lim, Jacqueline, Aunt Sim.

Across the table.
>>Ben, super cool Yehyeh, Dad.

Then the kids/children/not-marrieds/still-singles/school-ings played on the dancing mat.
*Why do you people have to pull your pants like that??*
>>Cindy(sitting), Amilia, Jesson, Nick, Amanda(half-hidden)

And the ke-po's looking from behind.

Meanwhile, the adults/old-people/marrieds/not-single-anymore mahjong-ed.
*It's like, the house was divided into two sections.*
>>Uncle Ho, man-I-don't-know-the-name(not related), Dad, Yehyeh.
*Fact: Yehyeh's 79 and NOT a single health problem!*

The (ahemn) MakCiks (omg if my mum or my aunt sees this) decided to give Mickey Dance a shot! The cheering was like, loud!
I mean, LOUD!!
>>MakCiks in action: Mum(orange shirt), Aunt Geik(red top).

This was when the tv screen shouted "FAILED!"
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!
Everyone roared in laughter! (Yes, roared!)

The uncles of the family (oops. I don't mean Ama) lepak-ing in the living room.
They got tired playing mahjong after like, a few minutes.
(Okay I lied. I don't remember how long they played.)

Syok-sendiri duo.
>>Ann(my sis), Ben(my bro).

Ini siapa???
Hahahahah! Shen (glasses) and Faye (stupid face) came too. Kerry and SueLyn were ill so they didn't make it.

i found...

I was flipping through my sketch book I used back in Sem 2. On the last few pages, I found little things that I jotted down during a motivational talk (yeah TOA gives these kind of talks every now and then. It's actually quite cool y'know) by Veronica Ho (TOA co-founder). I find her talk very interesting. It was actually pretty inspiring! On the other hand, it was also damn typical, in a TOA sort of way. (I'm complimenting okay)

So the stuff I'd written down was...
"I wanna be the animator! Y'know... Like, THE animator; five years from now."
(set a goal and time. It creates pressure but at the same time keeps you going.)
"Make the move yourself! Seriously, Cheawen!"

"I wanna make RM500 a month while studying. Then, after I've graduated, RM3000 a month. Then! Cheawen you gotta earn more than RM5000 five years into working career! I give you five years, okay?!"
"Ooolaalaa~ Then aim for 5-digit pay weyy!"

"Share your dreams... That's where you'll be guided through the correct path... People will show the way..."
"Cool~"

"Retirement = Absolute freedom of time and doing things you love most!"
"Every retirement comes with a figure."
"I wanna retire with at least 9 million. Yes! Cheawen can do it!"

"People who dream big are the ones who are excitingly making changes in the world."
(this is my favourite quote from Veronica that day)
"Be passionate! Really! No, really!"

"Learn with Master and Honour."
"Aww..."

"Super designers love their assignments."
"Cheawen loves her assignments too!"
(at this point, I realize my previous post was about how much Perspective sucks. Uh-oh.)

"Olympics gold-medalists don't have Olympics gold-medalist coaches."
(another awesome quote of that day)

"Cheawen, when you grow up, you will not be a businesswoman. You will be somebody who convinces people to change."
"(But first, you gotta convince yourself to change.)" So true.

"There is NO short-cut in life. Accept that, Cheawen."

"Cheawen, do you know why you wanna learn?"
"The art of learning: learn the 5-star way; and be a 5-star learner."

"You yourself, one person, cannot make any change. Therefore, support and encourage each other. You need others to succeed and to make an impact in the industry."

"Be somebody exciting!"
(I totally love this one)
"Temporary recognition? No! Permanent recognition! Way after you're dead! Awesome~"
"Mission Not-Impossible! Whooo!"

"Rub cheeks! And roarrr! (kadavalei~)"
(don't ask. I don't even know why I wrote that)

"Don't be serious about work. (OMG!) Be serious about your progress. (Owh...)"

"Cheawen's a great learner!"

"So what? As long as you give your very best!"

"Visit places not as visitors, but as sharp designers."

(say) "Thank you." (often)
(but say) "I love you." (even more often)

"Success is effortless. (Yeah? Yeah!)"
(I totally love this too)

I've forgotten most of the things I'd written down. But typing all these things here makes me really... Semangat! I'm all "Okay, I wanna do my assignments now!" I actually remember the feeling sitting in the AVH (audio-visual hall) listening to Veronica and getting all pumped-up. I hope I can keep this spirit up! When you have semangat, all your works will turn out damn nice! Even last-minute ones~ (but only up to own expectation) Hahah! Still... =P

"Success is effortless."

damn perspective

So we're officially 10 days into this Moomoo year.

I (also) officially find that Perspective Study is friggin' tough! I mean, I know, I expected it to be hard. But not to this extend! Perspective is just... Just... Sweatifying! (??? this word doesn't exist but... You get what I mean?) It makes you go "Oumaigawd~". It makes you sleep on your table without meaning to. It makes you blink and blink and blink. Then think, "Crap! Am I stupid or something?" It makes you whine. It makes you hate ruler all the more. You can't just understand right away what the lecturer teaches. It takes time. And practices. Sheesh I'd better buck up.

Anyway, here are some pics of our first Perspective assignment. We were asked to draw (with zero knowledge whatsoever about perspective) any corner of anywhere that we find interesting. And for a person who hates using ruler, I'm pretty proud of myself. I scored 7/10!

(The second assignment was to draw our bedrooms, or a dream bedroom. I'm sure I did pretty badly. Hahah! Will let y'all see when we get it back. And we handed in our third today! Yay! That means new assignment for us. Cis. Will put it up when it's returned to us.)

Staircase at home.

Corner of kitchen.

McD's in Pyramid.

my palm says...

Happy Moomoo Year y'all! =D

I got my palm examined by my aunt today, who (apparently) has a fengshui sifu and teaches her fengshui stuff; palm-reading being one of 'em.

So yeah. My palm says:
I don't think a lot.
I collapse on my bed and become a corpse (choi!)
Okay, I collapse on my bed and become a pig (I don't wanna be one!)
Okay, I fall asleep easily without much worries.
I don't save my money up.
I spend them instead.
I will have to take great care of my health as I grow older.
I will (according to my aunt) have an awesome career in the future.
And the later I get married, the better.
Mum: Yeah, Wen, don't marry unless you've reached menopause alright.
Me: Sure, mum.
Aunt: =.=" I don't mean that. Put your career first, Wen. Guys can come in later.
Me: Okay.
And, my (future) husband will be a (not extremely but creditably) good-looking man.

So yeah.

difficult

Why hurt when you love?
Share.

Why keep quiet when you love?
Express.

Why cry when you love?
Laugh together.

Why sigh when you love?
Smile.

Why frown when you love?
Cheer up.

Really...
I wish we could all be kids.
There wouldn't be so much complication then.

Just speak our minds;
hurt and get hurt;
fight and punch;
cry our hearts out;
and hate each other.

The next day;
say "I'm sorry" and "it's okay";
couldn't care less;
play with all our might;
laugh out loud;
and hug each other.

Wish it's that simple.
...... I can only wish.

It's no fun growing up.

3K

Uhh.. When was this again?
The day I skipped Culture Tutorial. Wednesday?
So yeah. Two hours of badminton with Elaine and her college friends in 3K.
I waited for an hour for her! Gawd.
But we had fun.
Or at least I had fun laughing at Elaine's many stupid actions.
Many, I tell you. =D

Here's Elaine making a serve.
*Elaine swings*
*Elaine hits the ball*
*The ball flies somewhere else*
*Elaine squeeks*

Elaine and SJ on my left.
SJ's skinny. But awesome. =D
Notice Elaine's doing something funny with her hand?
Yeah I think she did something stupid before that. =P

And here are uhh.. Who are they again?
ZhenDe and KongHui?
I think.
I'm bad with names, aite?
=.="
Sorry guys!


Chewahhh~
Elaine doing some cool moves here. =D
Okay I lied.
It wasn't "some cool moves",
it was just "a cool move".
Bwahahahah! XD


Worked out quite a lot that day.
I know, coz my arm's aching. =.="

happy birthday brian!

Brian my youngest bro is officially 11 today~
But everyone in the house still calls him Ah-Ti. (despite his size)

Brian: Y'all did a nice job there.
Brian: The birthday song was... Acceptable.
Me: Thank =.=" you your majesty.


Brian: I wish...


Brian: Eeeekk! Not gonna tell ya!

Brian: Phoooh~
*splitter splatter*
Me: I can hear your saliva.
Brian: Koff koff.

Brian: This. Cake. Is. Kind. Da. Hard. Tah. Cut. Ugh.
Brian: You there!
*Humph~ Heavy breathing.*
Brian: You cut!
*Humph~ Hemph~*
Me: Yes =.=" your highness.

Brian: My duty today is to enjoy.

Brian: So I'm gonna enjoy.
*Chomp chomp*

Brian: Mum I want sumooore!

Mum: *Cuts innocently*

Brian: Ooh laa laa~

Brian: I overestimated my mouth.

Brian: Whoops~ Dropped a piece.

Brian: Heeeh??

Happy birthday ya bro. =)