it's the last day of the year 2008

such a cornucopia of mixed emotions.. am i eager, am i ready, am i looking forward to it?

truth is, i really don't know.. 2008 has been a crazy crazy year..
i've sobbed my eyelids swollen and i've laughed my heart out.. i've helped strangers and strangers have helped me.. i've found new friends and have met many a good friend as well as found out the meaning of true friends..i experinced some of life's most beatiful experiences and perhaps it's greatest sorrows..
do i have regrets?.. of course i do, plenty!.. but i would not go back to change them?.. no, they have taught me much and wisened me considerably.. i never put much stock in the saying 'live life with no regrets'.. everyone has regrets and wishful thoughts of things they could perhaps done differently.. but this is what life is isn't it?.. a lesson with the world our classroom..
thinking bout the upcoming year i realise that we can't have any expectations as to how it would turn out.. last new year was a bang but the year, well i guess one can say it was a year of much learning for me.. this year, the celebration of an upcoming year seems to be a quiet one.. people change, people move on, people are people..
but then, i've met nice people, ones i hope will stand the test of time and be there till the very end.. well the test of time will prove it i guess..
speaking of time, thank the heavens such a thing as that exists.. as precious as moments in my life have been i cannot imagine being stuck in a the same vortex of emotions.. okaay, maybe there are some places where i would like to be stuck forever.. hmm :P

which brings me to my resolutions..
(i shall blog them so that when i forgot them they would be here forever)

brian suggested coming to class on time..
okaay that was just that once you know.. hmm maybe twice or thrice.. but that's it!
four la max.. bout piano classes and punctuality, err, trying!


then lene suggested being nice
haha, why do i feel that is one effort already marked with a big red F on it?
define nice, is it being sweet and biting back all sarcasm no matter how needed it is?
so maybe i m a litttle cynical about life and have a sharp tongue but hey live with my mum XD
the last trip my 5 year-old brother was acting out his favourite ultraman scene (yea he has favourite scenes in that whole dumb plotless gross monsters series)

brother: swish.. pffft... pow
mum : i didn't know ultraman blew out steam

see see SEE!!!!
now you understand

and anyways, sarcasm is a very beautiful thing if properly appreciated so i doubt i will manage to be 'nicer'.. to the definition of some anyways..

so here's to the good old resolutions

-stop procrastinating
-study harder

oh forget it, i'm never going to manage to keep them anyway!


HAPPY NEW YEAR YA'LL
if there is anything happy to be about....

christmas was.....fun?..

*crikey*

it was way better than expected.. went to grandmas on the eve where met up with the whole family for dinner and stuff.. got back around twelve..

then sis and i spent the night stoning in front of the tv.. vodka, ribena, limes, chocolate milk and baileys make good companions when ur bored.. lonely... and well bored..

watched a dvd, perfume, curtesy of chew :D ..bout a sad, insane but gifted fellow who wants scents of women so he kills them, leaves them nude bt chastity intact and steals their scent..

and this all made perfect sense the other night.. hmm

oh dropped of asleep bout 4 plus on the account of severe sleep shortage feeling very much at peace at the world.. see instead of fighter jets and bombs, armies shld just spray good hard liqour into the mouths of opposing armies.. that'll cheer everyone up and soon they'll be all "macha" -.-

btw, daya is a wonderful thoroughly entertaining companion when high *winks*

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woke up on CHRISTMAS day!!!

hmm updated bloggie, went to helena's place for lunch.. good good food!.. thanksies helena's mum and super young looking grandmum.. then went down to my grandmas place again to join the rest of the family who were already there.. was pretty much a dull affair until we started drinking again.. every1 was happy happy happy after that

*note to self: to ensure parties don't get dull, spend good money on good booze*

then we left back and upon reaching kjg ktm, discovered my car's tire had a puncture.. it well literally got screwed.. sheesh!

so there i was manning a jack at one in the morning (coz i insisted on doing it) and slightly unsteady from the liqour consumption barely an hour ago

thank the heavens dad was around to help.. prolly wld hv ended up kidnapped, mutilated and dead somewhere if not with some freaky assholes hanging around the place

hmm predictability is one of the things i shld pray for next year..

shiznits

blorg!

i shall blorrgg!

having said that i shall now commit my(lazy)self to the task ahead

i got the pics up a couple of days back bt the post is coming out now ny la.. maaf ye!

DAY ONE

we went to the a'famose resort and spent a night there.. for the day, we were at animal world/safari.. and though some say the tickets are pricy and what not i say that it was well worth considering the numerous (4) animal shows and the animals all look content and well fed.. besides there rlly isn't anything else that you could do about there..

i knew instinctively that this safari would be good when i caught one of the red indian girl mascots dry humping a dustbin

ooopsy!

so in we went

and my daddy so berani went and petted a huge lion cub/growing up adolescent more like.. and then the handler came and went no no!

apparently simba jr is pretty wild and were he not half asleep, dad could have lost his hand

then we went for the elephant show which was rlly good i must say

the elephant does thai massages

though she was a girl and hit him in the sensitve region a couple of time.. cheekines i tell you.. hmm spare parts anyone?

elephant on bike

elephant throwing basketball

elephant playing football

elephant and i

(loooooooove animals)

then we went to the chicken farm where they had many chickens and these adorable chicks

cute cute?

but unfortunately they meet their demise in the jaws of a beatiful reticulated python or a hungry alligator.. sad wei


(sucky picture quality due to the glass O.o)

a chicken whose feathers grow backwards.. they're bred that way because some one (weird dude) thought it looked good.. hmm your hair all come cover your forehead and face and neck nice meh?

fat fluffy cute chicken

a phoenix cock.. in ancient china, their tail feathers can supposedly grow 15 to 20 feet long so they're kept on high up perches.. kinda like the peacock

oh and some lady, the kind people don't rlly take too i presume, thought her kids
" girl girls see, kentucky fried chicken.. hmm kfc so yummy kan"
how awesome is that for conservation

you know i rlly think there should be these voice activated pick on key words machines around these places.. so when someone approaches an exotic bird and goes 'look....kfc....yummy'.. THWACK! they get one good boinker on their head..
same goes for those who go to aquaria and say 'sharks fin babe!'.. they shld be dumped in with the fishies!

that's what i think la!

after checking out the birds and their eggs, we went for the multi-animal show
many many pics so just briefly aites

strrrooongg!

animals pick up litter.. people people work with me here!





introducing puma, cheetah, and tiger


all kucing biasa ny...... cheh!






aww korrengge in boxers... hehe, it touches my heartstrings






a beauty is it nt?

after that we went for the animal safari.. pretty cool as the animals roam wild and we are the ones caged up

and look!.. i got a souvenir.. a lil pet monyet!

told ya they're free








half sotong-ed out already, it was time for the wild wild west show


the sounds, effects, smell of gunpowder, waahh... very convincing!


















pssst... the red indians, awesome six pacs :)

daya loved this cowboy... hmm

an albino peacock.. there were albino peahens too.. different yet gorgeous

heading back from monkey island where tame monkeys swing from tree to tree and peacocks and guinea fowls roam free... tata' pretty gibbons

DAY TWO

chicken rice balls... sooo good!

then we went to the malacca maritime museum.. i love museums, even as a kid, so one built into a ship... woot!

old maps.. can u see malaysia?... it's the one that looks like a err... err...

old emergency lights.. just imagine lugging them about

at night, we went over to the portugese settlement for dinner..

food was okay but the christmas decorations.... awesome!

seems the agung is coming so the streets are all being prettied up..

even the tiny wooden houses had hung out lights and baubles.. seems to say a lot bout the holiday spirit doesn't it?

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i noe, it's beautiful, stunning, amazing....

most of the houses on the streets are shimmering shinning splendid!

bt one house outshone them all.. the king is stopping by to visit them you see.. so they really went all out.. blown up santa clauses and snowmen, lil gnomes, reindeer on the ceiling, small fantasy houses... it should be christmas all year round weih!

and most of them even had nativity scenes all set up in little grottos in front of the house

seee!

(with flash)

you could just see baby jesus lying on the hay with mother mary and the three wise kings around him.. and the animals sharing the manger too as well..

(without flash)

well that's about it peeps.. i gotta rush now as i'm heading over to helena's for christmas lunch.. more updates l8r.. loves and merry christmukkah!

pretty innit?

it's karthigai and wee bit of history on this day is that when lord muruga, one of the many hindhu deities, was born (or descended to earth) in six big water lilies (yes there were six of him and he later on joined his, err other selfs to become one) he was looked after by six maiden girls.. hence, in honour of their labour, they become stars when they died..

it is believed that on this night and the consecutive two, there will be six brightly shining stars.. I THINK

but it's raining anyhows and the sky is all cloudy.. you still could check out the skies if you want to brave the wet and cold tho..

bubble mania has hit my home!

eating day!!!

finally i have something blog-worthy aaannnndddddd pictures! :D

t'was a merry eating day indeed yesterday.. had contract class, oh and there seems to be this idiot in my class coz when ms donna asked us which do we prefer contract or tort, he shouted "contort"...entah siapalah si bodoh itu..haha

and although class was freezing (the ozone layer over my coll definitely is thinning and has gaps showing for sure!) i managed to persuade my friends to go makan air batu campur and cendol during break time.. teehee!

we have this rlly good ice kacang stall and the uncle is very generous with his condiments and santan.. although kan i don't see loyal old customers so i guess their arteries would prolly have been all clogged up by now.. kesian kesian.. maybe his magnanimous pourings of coconut milk should be a wee bit more restrained.. but then again, he could be a bit more generous with the syrup and gula melaka though...hmph!

see got newspaper add also... chewah!

most lil stalls in brickfields have them.. like our pisang goreng stall.. that cute round uncle has the best pisang goreng and linko ever!!!.. simply superb!.. must queue long long and still sometimes can't get.. dahla some people come and pack in these huge plastic bags.. greedy betul.. like yesterday, four in the evening only and all we could get were three small remainder pisangs.. aish!

then tracy and yee han wanted jagung.. those people makan takkan kenyang wei..

haha i actually have a very funny pic of tracy eating jagung but i kan very the baik thesedays... lol

our lil candy tug of war

does this not just bring back memories of lady and the tramp? ..

*i'm the lady btw*

'this is the night, it's a beatiful night.. ladiladilaa'

so after class we decided we shall go to the connaught pasar malam thanks to tracy.. that place is literally food haven!.. by the end of our walk i was wishing i had more tummy room

snappitz in the car

after walking

and walking

anddd walking

we were hungry and decided to have dinner (or at least part of our dinner) at the fatman lok lok stall... oh how i love steamboat.. my mum thinks it's highly unhygenic to eat at a lok lok stall so i only can makan here when i keluar dengan kawan.. haiz

oh what glorious food..
plus they don't serve beef which is an added bonus for me being a hindhu and all..

then we walk walk some more and i got my baby octupuses and taiwan sausages and helena and tracy both got their pork satay.. and helena wanted crepes... which were super yummy.. then these people also had room for coconut ice cream

see the pic below, it's all home-made and really does taste of coconut water

and there was a lot of stuff to see like this stall selling gorgeous animal print fabric but it was getting packed and late as well so we had to balik dy


lil bit more of muka tembokness while tracy picked out couple keychains for her bf and her.. how sweet kan kan... helena and i contemplated buying a pair for the both of us to split but how wrong would that be.. haha a key going through a heart? two munchkins smooching? two little diaries in which you can get each others initials engraved on?..

takpe jelah!