The Greatest Revenge December 30, 2007

A few days ago, I was watching this old Hong Kong TVB drama with my parents. This particular girl, was with this particular guy for quite awhile. Guy is working, and is trying to get the attention of the boss’s daughter, for his own personal gain. Guy doesn’t care about his girlfriend. His girlfriend found out, and she pleaded with him to stay with her. She kept on asking,” Do you still love me?” over and over, again.

I could only watch the drama, with great distaste for the girl, and yet I felt a little uncomfortable, because I’ve been guilty of doing that too. But only now, watching it as a third party, I realize how annoying and what a complete shame it was. Not only will you drive your man away, you’re also making a complete fool of yourself.

I guess I realized then, how much it must take to just accept things, and leave.

The girl in the drama, however, used the age old technique, telling the guy she had his baby. Way to make him wanna leave even more. The girl probably thought her boyfriend was harmless. But he, thought of her as a great hindrance to him. He even plotted her death, and pushed her off the train, disguising it as suicide.

Poor girl. Now that I know how foolish it is to be that kind of girl, I must remember not to ever, do that again.

As I’ve read in many places, the greatest revenge you can have, is showing him how much a good life you’re having, without him.

“I’d rather buy new clothes than a phone.” December 28, 2007

I think I surprised my mum and myself when I said that. But anyway, what led to that topic was about the possibilities of me getting a scholarship next year. She said if I managed to get, I should use the money to buy a new phone; she even said I deserved it.

Whoa. Coming from my mum, me deserving something is a very rare word indeed. The last time I remember her saying something about me deserving something was 5 years ago, back when I was in Form 1. I did pretty well in my mid terms, and she said I deserved a new schoolbag, so I upgraded my brandless torn bag to a Tropicana Life one. I’m still having it now.

But anyway, I doubt I’d get the scholarship. I heard that you’re only applicable for the scholarship if you get a CGPA of 3.8. And well, I only got 3.55. The official one. I should get 3.6167 because I calculated it myself.

So, yeah. I’d really prefer to buy new clothes or splurge on a slightly expensive meal (say, Italiannies?) rather than buy a new phone. Sure, it would be nice to upgrade my rather wonky K700i to a flashy S500i, but really, at the end of the day, all you want to use it for is to make phone calls and send text messages. Or maybe, take the occasional picture. But I have my camera for that.

Right now, I’m quite happy with my K700i. It’s a hand-me-down from my aunt, and it was already 2 years old when it was given to me. So now, I think it’s around 4 years old already. Other than the malfunctioning joystick and keypads, it’s still in an okay condition. Well, actually, it suddenly turned off by itself while it was charging the other day. And I couldn’t turn it back on. Thankfully after removing the battery and placing it back, it was okay again.

I’m feeling a little bummed right now. I wished I’d gotten a full 4.0 for my GPA. But I know I’ve worked hard, so I guess I should be quite satisfied with my results. I do know I’ve definitely worked harder compared to my 2nd semester. 2nd semester was just me bumming around, not serious about anything. Heck, back then, I remembered not even caring whether or not I got into a degree course. Thank goodness it’s all behind me in the 3rd semester.

I can’t wait to start my degree course though. I’ve had enough of lazing around in the house, doing nothing, rotting my brains out. Although I must say, this holiday was better than the last, ’cause I’ve been getting out of the house quite a lot with my mum. Lots of things we want to do, before we won’t get the chance to do so next year. Not only ’cause I’m going to Kampar, but also ’cause she’s starting her new full time job in 2 weeks time! Haha.

Okay, dinner time. Byee!

Sucks. December 28, 2007

GPA: 3.85

CGPA: 3.55

Stupid second semester pulled me down.

Edit: Eh, I just checked. My CGPA should be 3.6167 not 3.55. Wtf!

More Food I Needz. December 27, 2007

These two days have been rather productive. Yesterday I went to pay my fees for my degree course, then went household shopping in Giant, Kelana Jaya. Referring to my previous post, I finally bought my first herbal tea egg! Gawd it was so good. I plan to buy more in the future! Or maybe even make them. Muahahahaha…

 And just today, I spent like 3 hours going through the whole of KK looking for ingredients to make my strawberry cheesecake. I couldn’t find any sour cream, so I ended up using yogurt instead. I haven’t tasted it, as it has to chill in the fridge overnight. Hope it turns out okay. =/ But the mixture tasted fine so hopefully nothing goes wrong.

I still want to eat McD, bread over soup in Dome, frozen yogurt in Yogurberry, and more herbal tea eggs!

Red, is the colour of passion~

My first time doing the shadow picture thing.

Cute smiley runaway dog.

 

My even cuter smiley dog.

I was tempting her out with a sweet.

She looks angry here. =/

This picture ownz.com!

P.S. Speaking of which, I’ve been checking the UTAR intranet for my results every minute everyday! How long are they gonna keep us waiting for our results and our letter of offer. -_- I am like dying to know my results. Did I do well or bad?! Hurry up already!

Savouring City Life. December 25, 2007

I’m sitting at my desk, in front of my laptop, playing a game which I will have plenty of time to play when I’m there. Yet, I still sit here all day, doing irrelevant things despite the fact that I won’t be living in the city in slightly more than a week’s time.

Oh, don’t bother reading, I’m just gonna complain about having to go to Kampar. If you’re bored please leave, thanks.

As I duly walk around in the virtual world of RO looking for alligators to kill, I am constantly asking myself, “What am I doing here, cooped up in my room? I should be out, enjoying the last of city life!”

Even if I can’t go out, I should be at least downstairs, watching tv, spending some quality family time, before I start to yearn for it when I’m 13742958738 miles away from home. But the father’s in a bad mood, so the tv is his to hog, and I’m not keen on watching lame Taiwanese talk shows.

I want to do a lot of things. I want to go to the arcade with my friends, and play some arcade games. I want to go watch all the movies I want without having to delegate who has watched what, ’cause I haven’t watched anything. Except I Am Legend. I want to go to that new shop in Pyramid called Yogurberry which sells frozen yogurt with fruits. I want to go to Dome and eat that bread-over-soup dish. I want to go to Pizza Uno and eat their strawberry cheesecake. I want to eat herbal eggs (can you believe I haven’t eaten that before?) from wherever in the shopping complex that sells ‘em. I want to eat Chicken McDeluxe from McDonalds. I haven’t eaten McDonalds for a few months, it feels like a treat for me. I want to drink bubble tea with nice soft gooey black pearls. I want to explore all the shops in Sunway Pyramid, Pavillion, Mid Valley, 1 Utama, Ikano, The Curve, just for the fun of it. I want to go on a spontaneous roadtrip with my friends to wherever there is good food.

So many things I wanna do, but lack the moolah and parental consent.

But yet I know, it’s all just an excuse. I have some moolah, but my thriftiness doesn’t allow me to use it. Parental consent, I should be able to just withstand some nagging. And, I should just gather my guts to ask my mum for permission to go out.

Yet here I sit, staring at the blinking screen, still electrocuting alligators just to get their worn out prisoner’s uniform.

Speaking of strawberry cheesecake, I must get to buying the ingredients and make one.

Nuts about Donuts. December 22, 2007

Prologue: No, I’m not actually nuts about donuts. But we’ll come to that soon.

Note: A lot of people seems to like picking on me, isn’t it? As if I’m not gonna suspect whose doing it is.

Anyway, met up with the ex-schoolmates yesterday, namely Pei Yi, Shereen, Grace and Jia-Wen. If you think I’m clamouring for attention from Jia-Wen, go ahead. Whatever. I think the amount of times I went out with my friends these past few months are definitely more than the first half of the year. As if I mind. I’m quite happy actually. Surprisingly, my mum doesn’t make a big fuss out of it, perhaps it’s because she knows I won’t see much of them next year onwards. It would be really great if I could spend New Year’s with them though.

I-Legend, the new movie by Apple Inc. (Kidding okay)

Moving on, I had 6 passes to watch any movie produced by Fox. I asked Elaine, but she’s at Bangkok. I asked Nicole, but she’s at Langkawi. Damn you girls you get to go holiday-ing. I wanna go on a holiday too. =( Since the number of movies produced by Fox were quite limited (only I Am Legend and Alvin & The Chipmunks) I thought maybe we could cheat our way into watching another movie. However, they said we could only watch those two and we ended up picking I Am Legend. (To tell the truth, I kind of wanted to watch that show too hehe)

After purchasing our *free* tickets, we went our separate ways (Shereen and Pei Yi, Jia-Wen and I. Grace hasn’t arrived yet) ’cause Pei Yi wanted to get my belated birthday present. Just as well, ’cause I wanted to get her belated birthday present too. Haha.

Camwhoring at Nichii. So sorry if this seems like a clingy picture. *rolls eyes*

Whatchu lookin’ at mannn.

Later we went for lunch at BarBQ Plaza. It was our first time there (except Pei Yi). I was pretty grossed out by the fact that we had to grease the upside-down-wok-shaped-thing-used-to-barbeque-our-food with lard. Yes, pork fat. Ew. But anyway, it was kinda fun cooking our own food. So much fun in fact, that we were 1/2 hour late for our movie.

Shereen and Pei Yi.

Red meat increases chances of high cholesterol.

Fishcake!

The result.

My verdict for the movie contradicts Pei Yi’s. I thought the movie was quite nice, and it was really sad that his dog got infected thus he had to kill it. When I went home, I gave my dog a great big hug. I don’t think I can imagine what life would be without my Goldie. Sigh. Although I thought some parts were a little unlogical. Like, how can they think a 20 foot wall can keep out a virus? (Miraculously, it does -_-) And, I also think they exaggerated the advertisement a little. In the poster of the movie, they said “last man on Earth”. Uh, he wasn’t the last man on Earth, just the last man in New York City.

After the movie, we went exploring in the new wing. Suddenly Grace and Pei Yi suggested buying J.CO Donuts. I’m not really a fan of donuts, but since they persuaded me to try one I was like, okay okay fine lol.

We have better things to do rather than just waiting around in a long line.

Grace and I.

Civilised picture of Pei Yi and I.

Uncivilised picture of Pei Yi and I.

Quote Pei Yi, “Poh Nee you’re becoming more and more lala-lah!”

Shereen and I mocking clams.

Posers.

Also posers.

I pity this man, here. He has to endure thousands (probably millions?) of people gawking at him through the glass everyday, while he has to concentrate (or pretend) on creating the perfect smooth apple-cream-covered donuts for you. Oh, and also endure people like yours truly taking pictures of him, for fun.

Yes, it’s us again.

Ornament on Christmas tree.

Said Christmas tree and I.

Now I present to you, the reason of this entry’s title. Behold, steps on how to eat a J.Co Donut, modelled by Pei Yi:

1. Show off to the world that you braved the crowd, and managed to get half a dozen of very yummy donuts.

2. Open the box, and allow the yummy scent of donuts to waft into neighbouring people’s noses, increasing their envy of you.

3. Inhale scent of said yummy donuts and show an orgasmic expression.

4. Bite into said yummy donut to stop yourself from drooling and increase neighbouring people’s drools.

I’m so lame. Pei Yi’s lamer. Lame Pei Yi lame!! No more J.CO Donuts for you! *wags finger*

Hungry yet?

Of course, the obligatory camwhoring is needed.

After that, I headed to the old wing’s main entrance with Jia-Wen. On the way there, I bumped into Kim Sng. She said she liked my style of blogging! *big wet eyes* That’s like, possibly the best praise I ever had about my blogging style. Thanks Kim!

Anyway, I had lotsa fun yesterday. Went home and installed RO lol.

Fin.

Tagged. December 20, 2007

Gonna do the tag that Yue Lynn and Cherrie tagged me to do.

Here’s Yue Lynn’s first:

Part 1 : on THE outside

Name : Chin Poh Nee

Date of birth : 4th October 1989

Current Status : Single but unavailable. ;)

Eye colour : Pure, boring, black.

Hair colour : Black with faded brown highlights.

zodiac sign : Libra

Part 2 : on THE inside

Heritage : A Chinese Hakka. Or is that a Hakka Chinese?

Your Fear : Worms, slugs.

Youe Weakness : That’s for me to know and for you to find out, ;)

Your perfect pizza : I don’t really fancy pizza. But I guess Hawaiian Chicken is what I’d usually order. Oh! A super thin crust is also a must.

Part 3 : yesterday ,today and tommorrow

your thoughts first waking up: yesterday (It’s 3am! Yess more time to sleep. *checks clock* Oh sweat it’s already 6am.), today (I’m hungry), tommorrow (Yeay I’m going out today!)

your bedtime : yesterday (1am)

your most missed memory : I have lots of missed memories.

Part 4: your pick

pepsi or coke : Coke

Mcd’s or burger king : McD’s. It’s cheaper than Burger King.

Adidas or Nike : Nike.

Lipton tea or Nestea : Nestea.

Chocolate or Vanila : Can I pick chocolate AND vanilla?

cappucino or coffee : Cappucino.

Part 5: Do you

Smoke : Ew. Obviously not.

Curse : When I’m seriously pissed.

Drink : Just a few sips of the mild stuff, with my parents around.

Part 6 : THE past month

drank alcohol : Nope.

Eaten sushi : Nope.

Dyed your hair : Haven’t dyed my hair since July.

PArt 7: Have you ever

played a stripping game : Nope.

change who you were to fit in: I guess everyone has been through that at least once.

Part 8: Age

You’re hoping to be married : When the time feels right.

Part 9: In a guy

Best eye colour : It doesn’t really matter.

hair colour : It doesn’t really matter.

short or long hair : I’d most prefer short hair.

PArt 10 : What were you doing

One minute ago : Doing this tag.

One hour ago : Having my lunch.

one month ago: In UTAR.

one year ago : Enjoying my post-SPM? Hehe.

Part 11: finish The sentences

i love : Jia-Wen, my life, my friends, my everything.

i feel : contented.

i miss: surprisingly, nothing at the moment.

i need : to know my finals results now!

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Cherrie’s tag:

Rules:

1. Do this tag and answer all the questions in your own blog
2. Delete question no.20 and add one of your own question instead.
3. Tag 8 victims to do this tag.
4. No lies & no twist and turn. Just type the name out.

Questions:

1. What is your dream when you are still a small kid?
To be a policewoman and be able to use a gun. (Influenced by Hong Kong TVB dramas.)

2. What is the happiest thing in your whole life?
So far, it’s being contented with my life, right now.

3.What do you wish to have right now?
To take a nice long shower.

4. When is the last time your horse laughed?
If you’re referring to me as a horse, then it’s just yesterday. -_-

5. What did you realize recently?
I’m too nice for my own good.

6.Which bad habit in you that is the most unacceptable?
Looking like I’m forever in a bad mood when that’s how my normal expression looks like! Sob.

7. When you are unhappy, what will you do?
I will rant in our blog, listen to angry songs, and probably lament to poor ol’ Jia-Wen.

8. What are you afraid of losing?
My valuables.

9. Within 5 years, which target is the most realistic one?
Graduating with honours from my degree course, having a job that I enjoy doing.

10.When you meet someone that you like, will you profess or hide your feeling?
I’d obviously hide it.

11. List out 3 kind of people you hate the most.
Smart alecks, impatient people who are rude for no reason, people who pretend like they have the most compassion in the world.

12. Define loneliness.
When you have no one you can tell your feelings to.

13. Are you satisfied with your life now?
I think it’s safe to say, yes I am satisfied with my life now.

14. When is the most recent time you feel touched?
I forgot. Haha.

15. Where is the most beautiful place that you’ve visited?
Places in my dreams.

16. A song that is playing in your mind recently.
XPAX theme song. -_-

17. If you have a wish to come true, what is it?
To not want to wish.

18. Do you have anything to be worried or scared recently?
Well, I was worried that prom would be sucky for me, now I’m worried about my finals results. Hehe.

19.If the world is going to end, what will you do?
Haha. It’s a secret.

20. Did you ever had a regret that still bothers you to this day?
There are plenty.

I’m not tagging anyone.

Civil Asses December 19, 2007

I went to renew my IC yesterday. Surprisingly, the lady at the receptionist was exceptionally friendly. I thought maybe there are some nice government people after all. Famous last words.

After waiting like, 1 hour I was put through to counter no.8, which a middle aged Indian man was in charge of. Let’s just say, he had a major pole up his ass. I sat down, then he gave me the brief nod of his head, asking me what I want. At first I didn’t understand him, after he did that twice I was like, “Ohh nak renew IC.”

Then he gave me an irritated glance and said, “Haa, cakap la.”

My mother started talking to me in Cantonese saying, “See, told you you need to tell them what you’re here for.”

Stupid man probably thought we’re Chinese eds, not knowing how to speak English. Then he asked me to put my right thumb to be scanned. I was sitting down, so I just extended my arm to the scanner. He said, “Depan sikit.” so I just put my thumb higher. My arm was long enough, see.

Then he started shouting at me asking me to stand up to scan my thumb! What the fuck. My mum started scolding him asking him why is he shouting, so rude, etc. I just kept quiet, ’cause I was just mildly irritated.

Come to think of it, maybe I shouldn’t have held my anger and just throw the fucking thumb scanner at his face. Who cares if people say I don’t respect my elders? He doesn’t get my respect if he doesn’t respect me.

What is it with people and shouting at me? It seems like everyone likes to shout at me, not just my parents, strangers too it seems. What, do I look very vulnerable to you? Do I look very nice to you? Fuck it. Maybe I should stop being so nice and polite to people in real life and just be like Blair. Yeah, Blair from Gossip Girls lol. I really worship her, I wanna be like her!

Fuck you civil servants. I hope that old man dies of heart attack from eating too much curry.

Okay, that was mean.

There I go again, being all nice.

I just wished I had more courage to retaliate to people who are mean to me, in real life. Damn my cowardness.

On another note, I’m getting my laptop back tomorrow. I sent it for repair ’cause there was this yellow vertical line on my screen. Luckily it’s still under warranty, I barely had it for a week.

Seems so hard to believe that I won’t be sleeping in my own bed in less than a month to come. Everytime I go shopping with my mum for all the stuff I need when I’m there, I feel like I’m going on an extended school trip. After one week of living without my parents, let’s see how I’ll be, emotionally. Haha.

P.S. I’m going out with my friends on Friday! Hope I’m allowed to drive there, fingers crossed!

P.P.S. My mother doesn’t allow me to drive. Says she needs the car. Hmph. Oh! I woke up laughing today. I didn’t know that was remotely even possible, but I think I dreamt of something funny and woke up laughing. Haha.

You Saw This Coming December 14, 2007

SMKSU Prom Nite 2007. (Picture stolen from Sheryn’s blog)

So, I went to my aunt’s place to do my hair. Actually, I didn’t have a particular thing I wanted to do with my hair. It was short, so I can’t possibly curl it ’cause I can’t pull off a Gwen Stefani. My aunt was also unsure of how she should do my hair ’cause not only it was short, it was also very layered. Then she starting twisting a lock of hair, and pinned it up. I was thinking like, “Oh, she’s gonna pin up the top part of my hair and leave the rest down. Nice.”

Then she pinned the rest up, and left a lock of hair and plaited it. I was so horrified it couldn’t show on my face, and was thinking, “Oh wtf. I look horrible.”

Therefore I can say I didn’t go with the conventional curled hair or sleek hair, but something tousled and well, weird.

But anyway when prom started I kind of forgot about how my hair looked like. Of course, I was reminded when the gorgeous girls in my table had really, really, nice long hair. Sleek and curled. Wtf. I want long hair too.

I arrived at Sunway Hotel at around 7.20pm (surprisingly there wasn’t any jam). The last time I came here was for some Interact thing, in which the lift incident happened with Jia Sheen. Ahem. The infamous story of how Chin Poh Nee and Nah Jia Sheen didn’t know how to operate a lift and ended up going up and down for no reason.

Jia-Wen and Justin arrived awhile later. Before that Wen Jiet and a girl whom I think is Hsien Ming (if I’m not mistaken) came to talk to me lol. I can’t recognize a lot of people, they just look so different with their hair done and make up and pretty dresses.

The dinner that night wasn’t anything to rave about. It was exactly like Unity Dinner’s dinner, except that there was vegetable soup and fruits this time, minus the ice cream. I think they served coffee too, but I’m not sure, I think I wasn’t in the ballroom then.

The hosts that night were Aiman and another girl, I forgot her name…supposedly from MTV? Performances were just mediocre. There was a performance by this group, I think they’re called Kus Kus or something like that. They were…not really good. They tried performing an MCR song (just because they were here on Sunday, tch.) and they…sucked. I’m sorry, but they weren’t really good. They were noisy, and not good. Maybe it’s also the sound system’s fault-lah.

But I have to say, the first dance was really good, save for the technical glitch in the beginning. There was this Malay girl who played the guitar and sang with her sister too, she was good. She was better than her sister, I’ll have to say that. AND! The chairman of the prom, Ilyas, was really really good in singing! Like omg he really sounded like Michael Bublé.

What else. Oh, yeah. Prom king and prom queen. I wasn’t there to witness the crowning of the prom queen, but I was there when the prom king was announced. Azrai his name is, I think. Not bad looking-lah. Who’s the prom queen? I hope it’s Vanessa. Her dress rocked that night! I don’t think I can pull it off (or even dare to wear it) but damn, she looked good. Oh, I like Min Yi’s dress a lot too. :) I loved the ruffle details!

Btw Justin, your date was hawt, ;) Zi Yin’s date was damn hot too. Everybody’s date was hot! Except Jia-Wen’s.

Awhile after prom king and queen was announced, there was a performance by Reshmonu! Well yeah, he’s a successful Malaysian artiste and all, but I can’t say I’m in love with his songs, although I did quite like his song Walk Away. The prim and proper ballroom then turned into a temporary club since he started performing. Lots of gorgeous young people dancing and bopping the night away, though I wasn’t one of them. What to do, I can’t dance to save my life haha.

Pei Yi and I. I love her hairdo.

Janice and I. Proof that makeup really changes how you look. I couldn’t recognize Janice, if she weren’t hanging around with Jia Sheen and Elyse.

Jia-Wen, my date for the night. ;D

Elyse and I.

Prethiba and I.

Whoa damn cool xD

Boon Heng and Pei Yi.

We were the only ex-form 5’s that night. But. I’m the only 18 year old ex-form 5. Muahahahaha PTS-ers.

The ceiling. Random. But pretty.

Temporary club. Lol wtf check out the guy in the hat.

While Pei Yi and I were in the ladies’, we saw Su Yi!

And while, we were in the ladies’, look what Jia-Wen was up to :P :

Abrar, Jasmin and Jia-Wen.

Abrar, Yue Lynn, and Jia-Wen. Lol pictures by Yue Lynn stolen from Jia-Wen.

With Jia-Wen and Jun Siang the White.

Shaun Tan and Jia-Wen. This picture is nice! Dang you Shaun Tan, got nice phone.

Jia-Wen and Wan Ji.

Hotel decor. Sunway Hotel had a lot of paintings hung in like every wall of the hotel. And it’s not those small paintings, they’re big ones.

*muacks!*

Showing off my camera.

Lol! There was this escalator going down so Jia-Wen and I decided to check it out. We ended up in this weird dimly lit hallway with weird busts like this. It was creepy, like some haunted museum.

Camwhore camwhore.

This is Li Ching. I saw her and she told me I looked damn familiar and asked if I was from SKSJ. I found her really familiar too. Turns out, we were in choir together! Ohmygawdness the coincidence.

Huge Christmas tree. Lots of people took photos with this tree as a background, except me. What’s the point, you can’t even see the whole of it. :(

And that concludes my prom. I had a great time, hope those of y’all who went did too. ;)

Squeaks and Headaches December 12, 2007

The sound of a 0.7 pencil lead squeaking on the surface of a lined A4 paper.

The tapping of the buttons on a calculator.

The rustle of papers as I sift through papers, papers, and more papers to look for solutions to questions I don’t know.

Ah yes, the familiar sounds of studying Math.

I didn’t blow dry my hair when I was done showering just now, so I’m having a headache now.

It doesn’t help that I can’t do questions that are supposedly important for finals.

Damn you Mathematics, damn you.

P.S. It’s been a year since I owned my camera! And it still serves me well. It will, especially for tomorrow! Muahahahahahaha. I love my camera. There really is a difference between good quality products and not very good quality products. ;)

P.P.S. I finally found Jay Chou’s piano notes for Secret. As in, that Secret song. I wanted to look for others, but I can’t seem to find it. So currently I’m practicing real hard but I’m playing Lu Xiao Yu’s version. Jay Chou’s version is slightly harder and longer so imma concentrate on the easy version first. :D