quidam

so i went to watch cirque du soliel's performance called quidam. it was absolutely brilliant! yes it is just a show of acrobats doing the most impossible things ever but they managed to make it so beautiful with music and customes and lights. everything just made it so magical. there was a storyline to it as well which made everything sort of tie up. it really made acrobats more than just doing unimaginable acts with the human body and ability. it was a show not to be missed. now i want to watch "o"!!!!! please come to glasgow!!!!

before i end i would just like to mention a dinner i made for eric and i exactly a week ago. made grilled haddock which turned out surpsingly nice with a pasta side dish and lemon cheese cake for desert. the cheese cake was too sour :p too much lemon in it haha...so here's a few pictures of the food...


it doesn't look that bad i must say ;p till the next post...ta!

excuses

as usual, when the exams are nearing i blog to waste time away haha...terrible. but i just thought i'll blog about my italy trip! went to florence and pisa. the ultimate destinations! i wish i could turn back time and relive the whole of last week again. just walking around site seeing and taking in the beauty around me. of course the holiday was made even better with eric around ;) the best trip ever!

the sun's setting outside and i've procrastinated for more hours than i should. argh! well here's a few pictures from the trip...these aren't on facebook. i gather that it would obviously be redundant for me to post pictures which are already on facebook. these are from eric's camera.

i don't want to study!!! i want to have fun all day and night (don't we all). hmph....

on top of the dome

cars which run on electricity

one of the churches we visited on the last day

ok those are pictures from florence. whatever photos i have of pisa is already on facebook and eric basically took the same snapshots of the same things :D so that's about it! he did take pictures of me sleeping on the flight back but those are p & c! haha...till the next procrastination date...ta! someone please force me to study!!!!!

glaswegian

hey all! i'm finally posting from glasgow! i've becoming glaswegian! in a way...well slightly. it's a none fact that people here love to talk about the weather for as boring as it sounds it is actually a really good topic of conversation and with the current weather conditions, it can be an exciting topic too. so there i was waiting for my water to boil and sitting at the table was my flatmate and we were talking about the weather! the weather has been my topic of conversation almost all the time. so yea...evidence of me becoming more glaswegian.

it's been getting colder (see...the weather yet again!). it hailed yesterday and there was ice on the ground. i thought it was snow. been staying in almost everyday because of it. blastered weather. the hands literally freeze from the cold. i should start wearing my gloves out. michellin tyre jackets really help keep the warmth in. despite how much i hate looking like a michellin tyre, i love that jacket of mine very very much now.

well i've got nothing much to add to this post. all the photos are on faceboook so go and have a look. for thoseof you who do not have facebook...it's about time you get an account! au revoir (been hanging around french too much haha)!

pass me

everything's going so fast. the beijing olympics ended yesterday and i can still remember all the hype about it before the opening. the haze issue, the opening ceremony surprise. now there's no more olympics to watch. no more replacement for the bad repeats on astro.

8 months has flown by. now i'm only left with 2 weeks. 2 weeks! and all i want to do is spend it with my boy. of course with the family too...but more with my boy =D my boy's the ultimate haha...gosh it seems when i start talking about him i can't stop. he's addictive. argh! i'm a dotty addict!!

i was talking to my boy last night about what i have bought and what i need to buy. we came up with a list...but must of its already bought. relief! but now it's the packing issue. the thought of lugging heavy bags here and there is gah....

well that's all the update for now. the next one will probably be done in a cold, depressive place called glasgow haha...

love you all!

08.08.08

the beijing olympics. two weeks of patriotism and feeling one with your country despite the crap that's going on in it. two weeks of not bothering about race. nationality is the key.

the mascots are so cute! blue = fish. black = panda. red = olympic flame. yellow = tibetan antelope. green = swallow.

GO MALAYSIA FOR BADMINTON! and any other sport we're participating in =D

guess when's the opening ceremony airing....8pm! notice all the eights haha...typically chinese.

landscape 2008

we the family decided to make an afternoon trip to the annual floral exhibition at lake gardens last thursday. it was a hot hot hot day but a wonderful experience and it was time well spent with the family. dad enjoyed himself ever so much for he was surrounded by the things he loved the most (besides us), plants. i'll let the pictures do the talking.

a few of the outdoor displays

the indoor displays

random pics of nice things

monkey crossing

anthea flying. trying not to break the swing meant for 12 year olds and below!

lake gardens now. so different from before. all nicely paved walkways.

i would like to go for a picnic one day at lake gardens. if only the malaysian weather was kinder to us.

melancholic

sis came and went. 3 weeks came and went. time's going too fast. the time to sort out my books and things has finally arrived. i've grown accustomed to my mundane life. doing nothing. only using the little thing between my ears to breath, eat and sleep. the time has come for me to slowly increase the pace and get into momentum again.

i'll miss my room. with me gone it'll be empty from now till who knows when. sis's going to be away in aussie land and start working there so her bed'll be empty. i've got 3 years in scotland and the rest in who knows where. so my bed'll be empty. emptiness in the room i love the most. do we always have to leave behind what we cherish most?

it's the start of the known unknown. a scary thought. where will i be in 4 years? what would've changed in my life? will i be able to cope? hhmm....midnight thoughts. thoughts of the night.

time has allowed me to reflect. i have come to know my many flaws. what am i doing about them? trying to correct them i suppose. yet it is always easier said than done. they keep creeping back into the hole they left behind. the void which can't seem to be filled with what's right. away with you i say. away and never come back. be gone! i can't use the excuse that no one's perfect because i believe in becoming the ideal person i wish to be; perfection in my eyes. alas, it has yet to happen. time will do this for me i hope. i hope to not hurt anyone in the process.

enough. enough. let us not think for now. let us just saviour what is and has been. what is to come shall remain a mystery.

on the outside

it's at times like these i feel like i'm on the outside looking in. actually not even looking in because there's no space or even a slightest gap for me to look in. perhaps i'm being to nosy. perhaps i'm being selfish. am i? do tell me.

looks like i'm useless when it comes to crummy days. i'm only useful for happy dandy days. what's the use in that?

maybe i'm coming up with my own assumptions. maybe it's not like this. either way, i shall never know.

the only thing i'm certain of is i shall remain forever yours, come what may. yours sincerely.

entered the dark side

thanks to my adorable hubby, i've become a gamer (the dark side). the game's Neverwinter Nights. according to the hubby it's an old game. i went and looked it up and gosh it is old! it was created in 1992 for msdos if i'm not misstaken till recently it was made to suite windows, linux and mac. apparently it's the best rpg ever made and one of the first. so, i'm quite excited to try my hands on Neverwinter Nights. it's been awhile since my last game.....which was in form3. donkey years ago haha. this will be interesting. thank you me hubby!

back...

after a long absence...i've decided to make a come back! haha...heya everyone. well i don't think anyone reads this anyway. i've decided to add a chatterbox and a few links just to liven up the place. it's been kind of dead for so very long.

it's been a year too short. miss you darling.

live life

we all know life's too short and we should live life to the fullest without regrets. but somehow or rather we don't. sure there are some of us who are contented with what we have and own and achieved. there are those that have small regrets but am contented too.

i am happy with what i've achieved and where i'm heading in life. i do it for my parents. i do it for myself. but why can't i do everything for myself? why am i stirring that part of my own life according to my parents will? if they want me to be happy shouldn't they just let me be in matters of the heart? let me learn from my mistakes. don't protect me. they can't protect me forever. i want to make mistakes. obviously not life threatening mistakes or mistakes which change my life forever negatively. i want to learn from good mistakes and grow from them.

don't protect me forever. leave me be for once.

nothing...

nothing's for us. everything's against us. even the phone companies are against us.

what do you do when everything and everyone's against you?

how do you cope with the pressure which comes with it and stick by your belief through thick and thin?

how do you? how do you?

man's the detroyer of all good and the bearer of evil. man's a curse....to me.

i'm off

"i'm off to see the wizard..." :p now don't you start finishing off the song....(inside joke, doesn't matter). so i'm 10 hours away from boarding the boeing 747(i think it's 747. should be. if only it was the new one...the SQ 800+ model. ooo...). let me see...i haven't been to melbourne since august 2006. according to my lovely sister loads of new shops and cinema's been opened since then. can't wait to look see look see.

leaving kl would mean leaving behind the dot :( at least it's only for a month. but i guess it doesn't make much of a difference whether i'm away from kl or not. i don't get to see the dot that often anyway. the dot being busy and all. poor dot.

i don't think i'll be blogging much over there because i don't want to use up my sis's bandwidth. it's not like i blog that often to begin with haha.....it's the thought that counts huh. i guess that's it from me for the time being. toodles!

random

hey all! haven't blogged for donkey ages. well nothing much has happened...shaf moved to seremban, dad had his birthday which was unforgettable and i got my first helium balloon!!

firstly, my helium balloon would've looked like this....note the purple balloon only. that was the colour of my first helium balloon.

BUT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THIS.....!!!!!!


THANKS SO MUCH SHAFIQ ALI!!! haha....he bought it and gave it life and he killed it! haha...he murdered the ballooooonn!!!!! but it was so sweet of him to get me my first helium balloon. whoopie!

here's a pic of my grandparents' neighbour's new puppy. it's super super cute and sweet and cuddly!

isn't it cute...its a she by the way. i don't have pictures of my dad's birthday though because everything's on video. to anthea: i've burned everything into a vcd for you. will bring it with me to melb for you.

that's all for now. miss you loads!!!!

results

finally the moment of truth arrived yesterday. i passed! so all's good. now i have no idea wat to do in the next 8 months. i should get a job. any recommendations?

don't really know what else to say at the moment. shall just stop here.