for shits and giggles

2009-05-18T17:39:00.000-07:00

cravings for burgers...

2009-05-16T08:14:00.000-07:00

freaking gimmicks...

coco pops just came out with 2 new flavours and shapes, one that is shaped like a star(like honey stars back home in msia, and one that is shaped like a ball like the milo cereal back home)... to be honest, just about taste the same with really subtle differences, just the feeling of eating tens of big coco balls /star is different to crushing down hundreds of small rice crispies in every spoon im guessin... you would think, who would be the sucker who gets sucked into getting these, cause they look the same, and most probably taste the same...

i did...

then again, what can i say, im quite a sucker for marketing gimmicks

2009-05-07T09:15:00.001-07:00

a reputation i might not live up to this time around...

2009-05-07T03:52:00.000-07:00

Now this is what you do when you are absolutely bored shitless...

and no... i didnt do it! that would just be rude and harsh! sheanee did it herself! and dont worry, im not so rude to just post it up without letting her know, she didnt reli mind to be honest, cause she said she was gonna put it up on fb anyways...

so yeah... to be fair, it does look like she has put on weight, then again... maybe photo angles etc? or maybe... she just really did put on weight! shes been asking me whether i thought she put on weight... and didnt seem like it? her cheeks were always chubby... well, now i see why she was asking me! haha...

now this post is not to insult or make fun of miss poh! thats just part of it!

heres another thank you post... to the person who kept me company in my 1st semester on the phone! it was good to have someone (who i was kinda close with and familiar with, and from IH.. haha! ) being in the uk to chat to, chat about our past, or just anything and everything at all! was definitely fun times! also, a great traveling partner to have(really shit at uploading photos on fb tho)...

yeah... thank you

2009-05-05T10:39:00.000-07:00

thanks!

easter break is over... went by so quickly(as all holidays do), and had to spend the last few days trying to write up a stupid assignment!!! it went better than i expected (i actually reached the word limit)... mainly thanks to 2 people that deserve special mention for sure!

firstly... jeannie oh jeannie! what would i be without you... more like, what would my grammar in my essays be without you! i would actually show u a print screen of my essay that was marked, but it would absolutely be too embarassing... its basically red in colour after all the corrections! Instead, i have something better for you! here goes!

jeannie with her mini aaron cut out!

another person that i need to thank! is definitely! jia! not big jia... mini jia! jiayun basically(jia huis sis)... cause if it wasnt for her, i wouldnt have nice coffee to help me through the next 30 crazy days ahead of me! hahah

thanks! for sending the coffee to me! woohoo.. go ipoh white town... which reminds me, i still owe her the money for it!

2009-04-07T16:39:00.000-07:00

its been a week since i got back from greece...

amazing trip to be honest, havent seen a scenery quite like the sunset at oia!

was totally not pumped or psyched for the trip(mainly cause i didnt even read up on what i was doing or where i was going), but when i went to oia everything was clear to me...

it was clear why santorini was the no1 honeymoon destination in the world...

clear why the sunset at oia is known to be one of the best sunset in the world...

my photos does not do it justice...

would blog much more about the trip, but exams are coming up soon...

or maybe cause i know if this post is way too long no ones gonna bother reading it anyways...

either way... see my mood next time...

but for now, hopefully the photo above will be good enuff...

2009-03-22T02:58:00.000-07:00

a nice sunny afternoon...

the weather over here has been really really good the past week or so...

good to the point that everyone is out in shorts and thongs(still trying to buy my havaianas)...

good to the point you wanna say :"What time is it???.... its PIMMS o clock!"(a summer alcoholic drink that kinda taste like lemon lime bitters but better and with fruits in it)

good to the point that you wanna whip out the barbeque

good to the point you just wanna go out and chill... sit down and have cream tea...

good to the point couples just enjoy the sun and relax... and look so so happy doing so...

now thats what uk weather should be like...

2009-03-21T05:29:00.000-07:00

topic of the day

might just get slapped for writting this up...

not too sure whether i heard this first or its just a random thought that has been stuck in my head... but here it goes...

if flowers are meant to represent the love that a guy has for the girl(most cases in relationships)... your either either gonna imply that the love is eventually gonna fade and die(real flowers)... or its just fake to start of with(fake flowers)?

take the example of roses during valentines day... a day that florist definitely make heaps of money regardless of whether the global economic crisis is hitting its peak... individuals pay heaps of money... to buy roses that are way too overpriced and ones that might not even be that nice on that day, either too old or too young...

so if flowers are meant to represent the love that one has for another... which way should he go? the one that last forever but is fake, or real ones that will die out in a week or 2...

some may argue that they keep the flowers even after 2 weeks after they die and dry them up and stuff... but whats the percentage of people who actually do that...?

a friend of mine did... however come up with 2 rather interesting... flower tips for valentines day(where a dozen of roses is usually bought):

-get 11 real roses and 1 fake one... and tell her " ill love you till the last rose die"

-get 11 roses of the same colour and 1 of another colour... and tell her "that rose is a standout... just like you"

2009-03-19T03:16:00.000-07:00

token effort for st patricks day!

ever since i was in dublin... and developed my taste for guinness... i have told myself that i will celebrate st patty's day! and i almost forgot...

thank goodness my uni mates didnt...

was walking to uni library to do some work where i saw some people wearing those leopracorn guinness hats... and then it just clicked... i needed one of those!

went to the uni pub... and asked the bartender how do i get one of those hats... 4 pints! and i get it... so i called another friend over... and 3 of us had 4 pints.. to get the hat! but my friend wanted it... so we agreed that we would get another 4 pints to get another hat(the other friend already had one given by his housemates). but by the time we got around to getting the second set of pints... they ran out of hats! had to settle for a blow up guinness pint... which was shite compared to the hat.. but i guess i have to be happy since no one else has it!

but trust my irish luck! my friends housemate had 1 spare hat to give out(her dad delivers barrels of alc to the local pubs so he gets all these freebies) ... so yeah! i had a hat!! everyone hat a hat... and happy!

so here we were.. all dressed up to go to the irish pub... while sippin on can of guinness on the way... by the time we reached the pub... the bouncers didnt let 2 of my friends in cause they saw them drinking in public(i threw my can away way earlier)... so we had to end up in a diff pub... nevertheless.. i ended up going there anyways just for a bit to listen to a bit of music!

so yeah.. st patty's day... live irish folk music...check! pints of guinness... check!do something stupid... check! get a bit of luck... check! had a great nite...check!

happy 250th st patrick's day people!

2009-01-26T03:12:00.000-08:00

cold chinese new year...

first of all.. let me say, happy chinese new year.. no fancy post or what not planned out cause im less than 48 hours away from my exams in which im kinda screwed for...

if my mum was here.. she would be saying "choi choi choi!!!! *whacks my mouth* cannot say such things during chinese new year day"

so yeah. just wishing everyone a happy chinese new year, do eat loads on my behalf and collect loads of ang pow on my behalf as well!

and this is how i celebrate my chinese new year...

stuck at home studying for exams... gonna have a baguette sandwich for lunch me thinks..the boiler in the house broke down yesterday and apparently we will only get a new one on friday... so there is no heating right now... nor is there hot water to shower.. had to do it the old fashion way(boil hot water and put it in the sink, mix it with cold water to create... warm water, and use a small pail to mandi kerbau a bit.. however, no small pail was used this time.. instead.. a huge beer mug..! hahaha.. now thats a man's shower right there!)

either way, it was fun the first time around when i did it yesterday.. but i think when i go and boil my water today.. aint gonna be that fun anymore!

anyways, its back to studying for me, lots of info about beer industry to read up on(yes, thats one of my compulsory questions, worth 25% of one of my exam.. some may say i should nail that question cause.. cause its beer.... man.. aint easy thats what i can tell you)

then again.. been slacking off lots.. hahaha.. ah wells.. feels like im back in my 1st and 2nd year in IH.. which is definitey not a good sign in terms of exams and results...

2009-01-25T14:44:00.000-08:00

exam fever...

since everyone is on holidays... and im the only one stranded here studying for exams.. in which im dead for... heres a little video in which i think most of you will enjoy...

have fun with it...

2009-01-09T10:59:00.000-08:00

a busy month ahead...

exams are around the corner... in 20 days to be precise... and am i prepared? nope... zilch.. havent started jack all...

my only consolation is that, for the 2 exams ahead, i actually attended almost all the classes so i actually know whats going on and what im meant to study, does that make it easier? i really hope so...

still on holidays but it all ends on sunday! and am flying off to paris on tuesday! with sheanee and zhen hong! cant wait...

in other news, got my tokina 11-16 lens that i really wanted so ill be bringin that along with me since i think my horizon is dead after that drop in egypt....

off to paris for a few days, then back to london for a day and a half to meet up with miss veronica yow!

funny note.. this is how small the world can get... sheanee is traveling around europe right now, and had a couple of days in vienna... and guess who she bumps into.. another tourist who so happens to be in vienna.. miss veronica yow.... now thats how small the world can get!

so yeah... ill be back the following monday, and its 9 days of hard hard hard core studying for my exam.. hopefully 9 days will be enough.. after all. i need to try to get an average of 64 to get my second class upper honours...

exams end on the 30th... finish my paper at 5pm.. somehow have to figure out how to pack my bags, and find a way to heathrow(mid nite bus or ) to arrive heathrow to catch my flight at 10am in the morning on the 31st.. flying back to malaysia!

yes... you did not just read the last part wrong.. i AM coming back to malaysia for 7 days.. to celebrate my mums big 6-0 birthday and also cause i reli need to celebrate.. its not even a want anymore.. its a neccesity to celebrate CNY considering i think i have missed out on it in 5 or 6 straight years...

then is back here... on the 8th.. would have skipped a week of classes.. so have to start going at my books hard cause my 2nd semester will just about determine everything...

wish me luck

2009-01-08T03:03:00.000-08:00

all for a futton...

so here is the story of my long long day yesterday... it wasnt that long.. just seemed that way...

back story: had a drinking session with some friends about 2 months ago, in which a friend of mine passed out on the couch and puked on it (kinda like mu man on cc and ken's couch), so we chucked away the futton... we have been trying to get a new one from ikea but the nearest ikea is in bristol ( an hour and half away), and we cant buy it online and ask them to deliver... so my friend had the car yesterday.. and thought.. might as well just go and get it done and over with so we cant give him any more shit about puking on our couch...

left for bristol around noon.. got there.. kinda got lost but somehow managed to spot a huge asian groceries supermarket.... those who have been to exeter(basicaly none of you!) will know that its impossible to find any asian groceries (apart from instant noodles and soy sauce, and oyster sauce as well)... so we went full on, spent about 60 pounds on random stuff, tong yuen(the one with peanuts in it), lots of instant noodles, lots of sauces(chilli oil being the most important), udon noodles, bee hoon, soy milk, man tou, steam dumplings.. basicaly i went hardcore! even bought a 10 kilo rice!

after the asian mart, we manage to find the ikea.. went in and got the futton... and head off to bristol city...

bristol is basicaly the capital of the south west of uk. basicaly the biggest city in the south.. so thought we would check it out since there would be lots to check out..(way bigger than exeter). really nice city with a little river with some sail boats in it...

now this is how cold it is in uk right now.. its smack at 3 o clock in the afternoon and the water in the river.. well. isnt water.. it has turned into ice... while waiting for my friend's friend to meet up near the river... my friend and i started giving each other bets... such as.. "i give you 1000 pounds if you jump in that water now and swim for 5 minutes and so on and forth".. no i didnt take that bet.. even though i should have.. desperate for money now!

had lunch at this random jap place... upon entering the restaurant.. they had a little koi pond thing outside the restaurant.. there was this 2 hobos outside like.. the guy literally just took a fish out of the pond and started squeezing it ! and when we left.. the fish was facing upwards.. leaning sideways.. floating on the water.. not quite dead but getting there.. poor fish!

walked around bristol for a bit.. friend wanted to gamble so we went to the casino.. didnt last long tho cause my friend lost 40 pounds in like.. 5 minutes.. so we decided to head home...

while exiting bristol.. it was JAM! and we were quite shocked cause it was almost 7 , so the rush hour should have been cleared.. friend called his ex homestay mum and she told him that the highway home has been closed cause a lorry(the ones carrying new cars on it) flipped over and had an accident..(something like that).. so they closed the highway... my friends and i thought that it was impossible to get home now.. even with the country route cause everyone will be taking that route and it will take us 5 hours to get back.. so we found a service near by(service are like. those random stops near the highway), but we found a huge one with lots of restaurants and even a cinema..so my friends decided to watch a movie instead.. and we ended up watching... YES MAN

didnt have much expectations going into the movie.. and have to say.. i liked it.. really liked it.. so weird tho watching jim carrey.. cause never realised he is so old now! it was also good cause i got to watch lots of trailers of new chick flicks coming out! bridewars! confessions of a shopaholic and he is just not that into you! cant wait to download em! ahhaha

anywyas.. after the movie.. we decided to head off.. after all. its 2 hours after .. cant be that bad right.. or so we thought.. the jam was still there.. and we were stuck in it.. took up 3 hours 20 minutes to get back in the end.. and the jam was not that bad .. it was only one part that was stuck.. so we were still quite happy we watched the movie.. cause if we had tried to head back earlier.. the whole way would have been jam.. and we would have arrived the same time anyways...

got back at 130am.. so tired..

kinda makes me feel like.. it was my version of harold and kumar goes to whitecastle... jsut slightly different!

2008-12-29T08:00:00.001-08:00

holiday season...

Been to egypt and back, am currently in london for a bit... thus the reason why ive not been on msn for quite a while(think its been the longest ive been offline), but alls good...

freezing cold in london right now, but feels really great to be here, meeting old friends from IH(sheanee, zhen hong, andrew yeo, kim, pat etc) so yeah, brings back that warm fuzzy feeling!

but yeah... soon... its time to head back to exeter... and back to my work.. haih...

only consolation would be having my bed back! cant wait to actually sleep on my bed again...

till then

2008-11-30T06:25:00.000-08:00

china...

swear if my dad reads this, its the end of me...

no doubt about it... im proud to be a chinese... proud to be a malaysian chinese.. and proud just to be part of such a rich cultured, traditional population in general...

even more proud that china is one of the strongest economy in the world (3rd behind japan(2nd) and america)... am happy that everyone is actually noticing china as it storms through...

nevertheless, was chating with daniel about well.. mainland chinese people, and some of the issues i think needs urgent addressing...

this generation.. the whole one child policy.. fair enuff, its needed to be done to reduce the population rate of china and to stabilize everything up.. nonetheless, people still have more than 1 kids.. they are just not registered.. people say china's population is around 1.3 billion..but if you add those who arent registered.. possibly 1.4 or even more...

and what happens with like.. if there was an earthquack or anything liek that.. such as the one in sze chuan province.. what happens to those parents.. who loses their child... and thats it.. no more for them...

or even worse... the whole melamine issue... its just absolutely embarrasing...

for many of the mainland china people that i know.. within my generation.. they are mostly.. spoilt and just absolutely naive.. trapped in their little bubble without having a single clue of whats happening outside of that bubble...

all they do, smoke, drink, drive fancy 'rice rockets'(whats what modified jap cars are called in canada apparenlty .. according to my canadian friend)... dressing up in branded fancy clothes.. and just screwing everything else up..

dont reli blame them, they were brought up this way... with only one child to support and love, their parents basicaly spoilt the shit out of them...

often wonder how china would be like. in 20 years time when this generation.. takes over in the working world....

another issue... the whole issue of... the men in the house is the king of the house.. its his way or the highway!

absolutely ridiculous i tell ya... absolutely stupid...

and its things like this that possibly more and more chinese girls are looking for men elsewhere

dont believe me.. just read this article...(thanks to dan for it)

http://www.littlespeck.com/region/CForeign-China-081108.htm

2008-11-30T03:56:00.000-08:00

bye bye gossip king...

as the end of the year arrives, or at least the end of the academic year for all melb uni students, i finally realise that come feb next year, i basicaly dont know anyone in IH anymore... not even a single student.. okay. maybe a couple.. but everyone that i usually talk to.. have moved out/graduated/ moving out...

i remember talking to jeannie a couple of weeks back, and talking about IH stuff, and she goes on and says to me " eddie, everyone has moved on, everyone has diff lives to live now..." .. how true... IH is kinda like a dsitant past now, with lots of fond memories all packed in it...

ah well.. heres to IH! haha.. no more gossips from me thats for sure... it was good while it lasted! and thus the chapter closes...

2008-11-24T02:28:00.000-08:00

random thoughts on reality/talent shows...

this is how obsessed i am... basicaly, its impossible to download the 1st season of americas best dance crew, ive only managed to download the 1st 6 performances of my 2 favourite crews, winners jabbawockeez and my fav crew kaba modern (in which yuri tag from my previous post is from)...

so yeah.. im lacking 2 performance from them... and just nice.. mtv on my virgin tv is showing the 1st season so i managed to catch one performance last week, and i knew it was goin the other performance was going to be on this week....

so this is what i did.. took a tripod, hook up my camera to it.. and recorded their performance! wooohooooo!!! yeah..i know, i need to get a life...

moving along, was watching who wants to be a millionair and i noticed the most stupid move that just about every contestant make when they want to use one of their particular lifeline... 50:50

whenever the contestant is stuck... and wants to use the 50: 50 lifeline, the host will always ask the contestant which one he/she thinks is the answer... and that option will always still be available after canceling the 2 wrong answers out! it will always be there.. so the contestant will be stuck in a pickle all over again.. and the 50: 50 lifeline doesnt help at all in the end!

i think that.. the contestants shouldnt even tell the host what he/she thinks is the answer.. then maybe the game might not be biased in their "random way of canceling out 2 wrong answers"

other thoughts... instead of of going on who wants to be a millionair to win some money, i think this is a good idea on how to earn some...

write a book.... titled

"how to win a reality show for dummies"

some may say shows life x factor, sytycd, abdc or american idol or whatever idol is more of a talent show than anything else, i personally dont think so, the winner wins it largely due to their personalities as well.. thus.. its a reality tv show..

if you disagree.. then jsut write a "how to win a reality/talent show for dummies".. just doenst sound as catchy as the previous one!

2008-11-19T08:34:00.000-08:00

miss yuri tag

those who are close or even semi close to me should know about this...

i always get asked this question

whats the definition of a hot woman

is it her being sexy?cute?pretty?stunning?

i dont know about everyone else... but for me.. there are 3 types of hot woman

type 1:the sweet looking type that you can bring home and show your parents... with her in a summer ish dress looking all girly and feminine, and sweet!

type 2: the type where somehow.. she has that more.. wild clubber chick look that you can take her out on a nite at a club and flaunt her, and all your guy friends will be jealous as !

type 3: now here comes the ultimate type.. the type who can cover both type 1 and type 2. Sweet looking to the point she can pull of the summer ish dress, the sweet make up etc, and yet has that sorta look that if she chucks on some clubbing outfit and some make up.. she will be the highlight of the dancefloor!

so yeah.. type 3 kicks asss!

ooh... if you are wondering who is that girl at the top... its yuri tag from kaba modern. If you are still totally clueless, kaba modern was the 2nd runner up of Randy Jackson's(black judge from american idol) Americas best dance crew-season 1!

shes is hot hot hot... at least i think so (jia yun begs to defer, saying that she is cute, but not hot)

not only that.. she can dance.. she can definitely dance!

and.. she is HOT!

2008-11-16T08:36:00.000-08:00

time to start studying...

6 weeks has passed by just like that, and i havent done anything at all... fair enough, ive been attending classes ( most of them at least, would be a blatant lie if i said i attended all of them)...

but now now.. its finally time to start studying slightly more hardcore ish!

tidied up my room and now everything is in place to start placing my textbooks and notes on my desk!!!

bad timing though, my housemates and i just bought a 37 inch tv and hooked up the dvd player, xbox 360 and the wii to it.. not a good sign!

lets see what else is new...

to answer everyone.. im still single.. come on man.. you should know me by now... single.. as always! hahhaa... just wanted to remove it.. kinda sad! hahaha... have to say.. when i read kenny's comment i burst out laughing

" Kenny Chua at 10:10am November 10

dammit, we need another gossip king to tell us gossip about the gossip king"

so yeah.. no gossip fellas.. just wanted to remove it, followin the footsteps of jason!

lastly... topic of the day(been quite a while) - Does corny pick up lines ever work?

its totally random, and i actually googled some corny pick up lines just for fun.. there were a few good ones i have to say... such as

"screw me if im wrong, but havent we met before?"

"be unique and different. just say yes"

"thats a nice shirt, can i talk you out of it?"

"if i said you had a great body, would you hold it against me"

well there are so many many more.. just go to google and type up corny pick up lines.. way way more where those came from...

but yeah, wonder whether any of it actually works?

2008-11-13T03:39:00.000-08:00

and you thought i was obsessed over shoes...

click to enlarge to see what im talkin about

courtesy of joyce shen

for the full link... check out

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=310093231686

too bad im a size 11US, and also 60,000 usd short in cash

bad luck for the seller though, size 10US is not known to really be a common size... think he is going to have a pretty hard time selling it.. ooh, the 60,000 price tag doesnt help as well

bet you its going to be bought up by one of those rappers who has shoe collections...

2008-10-28T17:23:00.000-07:00

dublin....

just got back from dublin yesterday... still so so tired from the trip... and tired trying to unpack everything, clean my room and preparing myself to start studying now!

just thought about it, i have so much i want to blog about.. about my summer holidays.. all my travel stories about world youth day and australia, my time in melbourne, hong kong, china, singapore... and now ireland.. i dont even know where to start...

i have all these photos on my laptop which i transfered from my camera.. and its all there.... but man.. i just feel so lazy and... dont know where to start...

so many this is what i might do...

start bloggin about my travellings from the latest travel (dublin) to the oldest? would that even make sense...

ah well.. worth a shot anyways.. have to start somewhere anyways eh!

too lazy for it now though....

but will... soon(man.. i sound like kenny alrite)

but for now..

dublin was fun fun fun! lots of drinking... am actually starting to appreciate stout now.. and yes.. i know i sound like an old man rite now.. in the words of jia yun.. ah pek

random fact of the day: did you know the lions in the mgm opening slide for all their movies... is from the dublin zoo!

2008-10-02T06:44:00.000-07:00

1 more year...

finally got back to ex 2 days ago, been doing absolutely jack shit... halfway done unpacking my room but i still have lots to do and i just cant be bothered at the moment, have to get it done by tomorrow though cause i might be going to london on saturday for a lil break...

exeter... is still.. exactly the same.. and i mean.. EXACTLY the same... cant believe i got one more year..*fingers crossed* sorry i havent updated in ages, if any of you knew how hectic my life was in malaysia you would understand... gonna upload all my piccas, blog about my 3 month summer break... gonna do everything...

but for now... its resting for me.. and unpacking...

however, had a lil request from my sis who i didnt know was reading my blog... apparently im meant to post up a flatering photo of her this is as good as i can get...

2008-09-05T07:49:00.000-07:00

Newton Faulkner - Dream catch me

Every time I close my eyes... it's you
And I know now who I am
Yeah yeah yeah
And I know now

There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see
And I cannot believe I'm falling

That's where I'm going, where are you going
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream catch me yeah
Dream catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all

You do so much
But you don't know... it's true
And I know now who I am
Yeah yeah yeah
And I know now

There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see
And I cannot believe I'm falling

That's where I'm going, where are you going
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream catch me yeah
Dream catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all

See you as a mountain
a fountain of God
See you as a descant soul
in the setting sun
you as a sound just as silent as none
I'm young

There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see
And I cannot believe I'm falling

There's a place I go when I'm alone
Do anything I want, be anyone I wanna be
But it is us I see
And I cannot believe I'm falling

That's where I'm going, where are you going
Hold it close, won't let this go
Dream catch me, yeah
Dream catch me when I fall
Or else I won't come back at all*

2008-09-01T08:03:00.000-07:00

The bucket list...

gone are the days that i look forward to the next big hit movie, the next action blockbuster, the next 'most expensive' movie etc... just doesnt seem to strike me as it used to...

dont get me wrong, i still get around to watching them eventually, and nothing can/will keep me away from my chick flicks and rom coms, but somehow the movies that i enjoy the most are ... more dramatic? or, just movies that people my age wouldnt really enjoy

some recent examples might be the great debaters, freedom writers, pursuit of happyness, last king of scotland etc. I just enjoy this sorta movies much more these days, i dont need no 30 million actress, few hundred million budget sorta movie... all i need is awesome acting, and an awesome script...

so here it is, the bucket list... not sure whether you have watched it, not sure whether you will enjoy it... but i did... thought it had some subtle humour in it, and... its just a movie that makes you think, or in this case, made me think about myself after watching it...

Dont think i loved the movie that much to the point that i will watch it again in the near future... but im pretty sure ill watch it again when i turn 55, or 60 , or put it simply.. when i get much older...

if you are wondering why then and not now? well.. go watch it and you'll find out

2008-08-31T22:49:00.000-07:00

A very young looking obama...

Yes We can

Been stuck in the hotel room for 4 days in a row, while i was in hong kong... in the morning till about 11am, just to watch the democratic convention...

What surprised me was, what started out with me being forced by my dad to watch it... became something that i would wake up to and get myself sitted in front of the TV in awaiting for the next big person to present his/her speech...

I do follow the US elections, dont get me wrong, i do read articles on it in TIME magazine, the economist or just random newspaper when i do have time to read it, but i was never really really in it.. till the convention.

What started off with Ted Kennedy's speech to Michelle Obama's speech during the 1st day... really got me.. hooked onto it, got me somewhat inspired! I find myself waking up the next day, sitting in front of the tv, to wait for Hillary clinton to give her speech, followed by joe Biden and Bill Clinton the next day, and finally the 'almost made it' Al Gore and Barack Obama delivering his amazing speech on the last day of the convention...

It just amazes me, how well they present their speech, how well it was created, how advance the politics in the states is... Im sure they have their speech written by professional writers, their speech projected to those glass looking conductors table around them as their sway their faces from left to right... still.. Absolutely amazing i find it...

As much as i am so inspired by them, i think i would be much more inspired to even think of hearing the great speeches by people like Martin luther King etc.. think about it, back in the day, heck.. your speech cant be projected anywhere.. you gotta have it in your head. word by word.. and to deliver his 'i have a dream' speech.. in such a way.. absolutely ridiculous...

At times like this, you get to realise just how advance America's democratic system is. Just by comparing how their politics works.. in comparison to the politics of malaysia...

I cant even think of a single politician in malaysia who would be able to deliver a speech like any of the people mentioned above who did it in the convention... yet alone.. to deal with politics in a professional way, compared to back stabbing each other with random false accusations....

Lastly... all i can say is that... if i was an american... i would be a democrat.... i personally believe that Obama is the right choice... like he said himself... 8 years is enough....

And so i join, hand in hand, and fully agree with Hillarys statement:
"No way, no how, no McCain"

And finally, as much as i am a tupac fan, a small part of his lyrics in the song changes, might not be true anymore...

2008-07-02T17:06:00.000-07:00

ghazal... followed by max...

A real fun night with great company! its so weird to know that most of my friends are now working. Dont worry, i do realise that technically i should be working as well if i didnt screw up my life, but... well.. but... *insert excuse here*

food was alrite.. not too bad... but not going to say it was superb..then again, for me to enjoy indian food will be very hard cause it just isnt a cuisine that i fancy much for some unknown reason... the soufle was pretty darn good though, pretty darn good alrite!

regardless of how good the food was, or how shit it was, i really didnt care to be honest, we could have well been in a mamak... some random food stall eating economy rice, or just squatting down on a stool by the road side eating durian(which i dont eat) .. it was the company that made it such a marvelous nite!

fantastic conversations going back to IH days, current IH gossips, how niro has traits of Vassi when he talks, shotgun marriages to marriages as a general topic... places to eat... mee and keehong so desperately wanting to become best man in a wedding... the jinx for wedding(being single and forced to sit in the singles table/childrens table, or being match make by the couple getting married to some drunken lady/guy).. and last but not least.. work work work , which steph is the perfect example of .... so darn corporate man... it felt so weird just walking next to steph, cause i was dressed like a typical student with a polo shirt and jeans.. and she was all corporate... weird... However, even though jeannie and isaac are working, they were wearing the same ol same ol stuff..

tagline of the night: "They grab you by the balls, not to say you got balls" - me to steph in reference to her being cheap labour to her company

jeannies moment of the nite:
Jeannie: Maybelle is the hottest girl here by far
steph:...
yvonne:...

Lastly, piccas!

2008-06-25T10:23:00.000-07:00

it has been a long time coming...

after many attempts at quitting...

its finally here...

At least i think it is...

Hope this time around it will actually last for a longer period of time...

not just a week or 2...

at least i know its been more than that...

How much longer...

well, if you want to know how long its been...

all i can say is that... its been that long to the point that i have lost count of the days...

so yeah...

pretty long...

No promises still...

I know ill give in once in a while when it comes to certain occasion...

But generally...

it should not be a problem...

nor a neccesity...

Last but not least...

A big shout out...

To all the people who have encourage me to quit... or discourage me from actually doing it...

Thanks...

2008-06-15T14:32:00.000-07:00

think im running out of anything to blog about? dont know why, i guess since most of my friends have somewhat slowed down on blogging, or stopped completely, im sorta running out of ideas myself... either that.. or there isnt anything to blog about.. after all.. im in boring exeter

exams are done and over with.. cant believe that i actually survived it.. a full month in the library.. not bad i have to say.. just hope that my results will show the effort i have put into it... i know i wont do well.. but i should pass.. and get.. maybe.. 2nd class lower? then again.. pretty sure i failed management accounting.. ah well

been going to london for the past 2 weekends.. and am going again this weekend.. to meet up with some peeps... going to meet kam? some of you would have known her.. crazy chinese girl from america who was on exchange last year in IH? im sure sheanee would remember her couz the 1st time we saw/met her she was all acting crazy and shit on the basketball court.. so if you dont know who im talking about.. ask sheanee. or look up facebook for kam yan..

also.. think i might meet up with jia huis sis.. or jia yun.. hahaha..whichever.. for japanese food? and maybe some other peeps.. see how see how it goes!

sis took me to bicester village last weekend.. its like.. the dfo of uk.. and.. man.. its evil.. evil.. spent so so so so so much over there.. but.. i dunno.. as much as i did spend a lot of money.. looking back at all the stuff i bought.. i have to say it was pretty worth it..

how much did i spend.. hmm.. you take a guess.. a pair of evisu jeans... by puma.. 2 polo ralph lauren polo t's , and 3 ralph lauren long sleeve shirts.. you do the maths.. and take a guess

what else is there.. might be going to st ives on wednesday with a couple of friends.. hopefully the weather will be good.. cant wait to start taking photos again.. havent touched my camera... in... AGESSSSSS

nothing else really.. sytycd america season 4 is out and kicking.. blooming amazing.. way better than the aus version.. by far!!! so yeah.. download it and watch it.. trust me.. it will blow you away!

till then.. dont know how often i will be blogging..

but.. for good exciting read and bloggers that actually care and do give a shit about their blog and updates their blog... go on and read harvard's blog.. and kennysia as well.. you should know the links to their blog by now..but if you dont.. it should be on the right of this post

2008-06-06T09:05:00.000-07:00

another year...

cant believe its been a year(academic year) since i came to uk. Somehow seems like it was just yesterday that i packed up all my stuff... seems like yesterday that i left melbourne for good.. seems like yesterday that i was puking all over swanston st... seems like yesterday that omar kenny fang raymond and tutor charlie had to carry me to my car and drive me home... seems like yesterday i passed out in the jcr...

time flies... but .. wow.. what a year! what a year.. i really think.. looking back at things.. that for once in my life i made the right decision to walk away from my comfort zone. Im actually enjoying it over here in exeter... fair enuff its a dead town and there isnt much to do, but the uni is absolutely amazing, the people are really cool.. and yeah.. i finally got a good bunch of social network friends to chill with, study with etc...

Also, i finally managed to travel without worrying about my dad catching the next flight down.. now just within the uk, but i travelled to spain.. a whole new country.. and.. hopefully ill be able to travel lots more in the near future!

All is good.. studies are good.. for once i can say that im on track, and im one year away from graduating, at the rate im going, im sure ill get at least a 2nd class lower, its up to me to see whether i can try to push it up to a second class upper.. but.. ah well. either way.. IM GOING TO GRADUATE IN 1 YEAR TIME!!!

mark my words.. i AM going to graduate in a years time...

so yeah... what a year... what a year!

2008-05-26T03:33:00.000-07:00

1 more to go...

cant believe that time over here in uk just flew by... in less than 10 days time, i would have been done with my first year over here... and only a year left to go before i graduate...

And this time.. i can actually smell graduation in the air.. as much as im still pretty sure im going to fail management accounting, i can still always resit it and pass it, or maybe.. i dont even need to resit it as all my other module marks will be able to cover it up.. weird system over here in uk

So yeah.. now that i have a better grasp of what i want to do, and what modules i want to do next year in order to avoid the trap that i set myself this year..

what trap you may ask:

Well, apparently management accounting is the hardest module from the accounting side(highest score last year was 65), and hardest module from economics side is stats and econometrics... and just so happen. i chose those 2 as my electives.. ELECTIVES MAN!!! i wasnt even forced to do it as a core module, everyone who knew it was my electives were like.. why the hell did you choose this.. beats me!

anyways.. as for next year here it goes

1)Economics Management Strategy
2)Business Strategy
3)Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
4)Basic Mathematics for Economics
5)Business information Systems!

should be okay.. plannin to average.. about.. high 60's! lets see whether that happens.. my aim for 2nd class upper honours is slipping away. but.. who knows.. who knows!

in other news.. this year has been absolutely great.. its amazing what a year can do to you.. its really different.. everything is different.. im kinda used to it here.. i have my small circle of friends which im comfortable with.. everything is alrite .. lets put it that way...

hols are coming up soon.. cant wait! melby here i come.. hahaha.. a repeat of last years 'spyrytus' event... less likely, however.... who knows.. might just have to live up to everyones expectations, however ck and veron have told me that they wont let me stay over at their place if im drunk, and i have to part ways with 50 dollars if i was to get xin yu aka monash to take care of me when im drunk, and another 50 dollars to take care of kk cause ill be getting him drunk.. hmm... not financially advisable i reckon

other news.. you wanna know how hooked onto sytycd australia i was! If any of you watches the show, you can notice .. at the finale, khaly and the breakers came back to do a group routine.. with some random girls and stuff.. im so hooked to the point that... i have watched that routine so many times to the point that i can just about name all the guys and girls in it ( its usually hard to tell all of them cause their face is covered and you only get to see a split second of them, well, considering i watch the routine about 20 times or more, im sure i can name everyone in it)

other news.. so you think you can dance america season 4 is out! good riddance american idol i say... and ..shit.. this season is gonna bring the house down. the 1st ep itself is ridiculously amazing!!!!

hmm.. what else is there to say.. like in uk is rather .. monotonous.. so yeah.. esp now..since its exam period.. but.. i only have 10 more days to go and im free!!! hahaha...unlike everyone back in melby.. you just started.. hahah!

so yeah.. good luck to everyone with their exams that are coming up soon.. hope to see you all in melby.. or back in malaysia.. or what now! Good luck with it.. and wish me luck too!!!

Final note... i just bought an xbox 360 woot!

2008-05-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

blond and ditz... pakistani...

so here i was with my friends, having dinner quite a while back... and my english mate Chris was telling us about how he got offered a job from AXA insurance.. that pays 25000 pounds.. and were all happy for him and what not...

About a week later.. whilst we were all in the library.. having late night supper at midnight, kebab with garlic mayo sauce and some coleslaw on it from raj.. the usual... my pakistani friend, who was at the dinner few weeks back as well.. started this conversation...

Pakistani: So Chris, congratulation on your job!

Chris: Why thanks!

Pakistani: So, what did you say the pay was again?

Chris: 25000 pounds...

Pakistani: hmm.. thats not bad.. that actually quite good.. 25000 pounds a month....

ME: errr...what?

Chris: ...

Pakistani: what do you mean what?

ME: what you mean 25000 pounds a month?

Pakistani: yea, chris said he is earning 25000 pounds a month!

Chris: When did i say that?

ME: NO HE DIDNT... he said he is going to earn 25000 pounds a year!

Chris: Yea.. what did you think i was saying?

Pakistani: ??-_-.. you guys are kidding right>?

ME:-_-

Chris:-_-

ME: ...erm.. no we are not? why the hell do you think he is earning 25000 pounds a month?

Pakistani:.... but.. but.. your kidding right chris? your not earning 25000 pounds a year?

Chris: erm.. yes i am!

ME: WTF!!! WTF..How the hell did you think that? WTH!

Basicaly.. you can see where this conversation was headed to, he really thought that my friend was going to earn 25000pounds a month.. who the hell earns that much.. sorry man.. no offence.. but.. its reality.. no one earns 25000 upon graduation... POUNDS!!!

so yeah.. he really didnt know.. reli reli didnt know.. he went on to say.. well.. i was thinking.. 25000 pounds a month was alright, i dont need to get much money from my parents, i can just buy some clothes here and there.. and maybe get some money from my parents when i need it..

WHy the hell would you need money if you are earning 25000 pounds a month... that slike.. RM 150000 a month.. wth

so yeah.. and this guy is like in.. 2nd year already! and he is doing well in his studies. .. but boy oh boy does he have absolutely no idea whats waiting for him in the real world!

When we finally told him that he is only going to earn.. 2500 pounds max... a month when he graduated... well.. lets just say he almost fainted...

ps. on another random note.. i hate management accounting.. a lot.. shit thing is.. im pretty sure i failed it yesterday.. and i will need to look at it again come august when i re sit for it!

2008-05-06T12:25:00.001-07:00

it was 11.30pm on a night where about 10 people, who are gathered in the library are starting to suffer from starvation... and desperately needed some late night supper ... to get.. food for thought!

it was also the monday, the 5th of may, which is a bank holiday here...

so.. the group of 10 decided to give a call to the takeaway place.. to get some orders which included 14 burgers ( some chicken, some beef, some bacon, some fish..which apparently tasted like vegetable burger instead)... only to our disapointment that no one picked up the shop telephone.. and it is likely that the shop was closed due to bank holiday....

So.. what do we do now.. well.. thank goodness.. that one of us had the handphone number... of... wait for it.. wait for it.. THE OWNER OF THE SHOP!

so there it is, we called the shop.. and asked the owner whether he would be kind enough to make our food... even though the actual shop was closed... and the owner was actually reluctant.. well that quickly changed when we told him we were going to order 100 pounds worth..

so there it is.. 45 minutes later.. food was delivered... food was goood..

now.. fingers crossed that there wasnt any saliva.. or worse... well..aint gonna mention it...but im sure you know what im thinkin...

now.... enough procrastinating. and right back to work. once again..

da vinci code sux

2008-04-29T07:05:00.001-07:00

El cerdo...

was a nite of fun... catchin up with fellow IHers.. quite an experience.. quite weird how so many people are working already.. haha..

weird how i was eating at a spanish restaurant...after..fresh comin back from spain..

food was not too bad...not the best.. but not too bad.. then again.. i cant judge it that well.. since i think i would have enjoyed it much more if i could actually eat without feeling the pain from taking out my wisdom teeth, pretty sure it would have been much nicer if i could have chew the food with my back teeth instead of the front ones... as it was so so much effort... so so tiring just to chew down a small piece of roast suckling piglet...

nevertheless, food was not too bad.. but what was more important.. was the company..which was amazing..absolutely amazing..

kudos to jeannie for misdirecting kee hong ... making keehong walk like.. a long long distance just to get to the restaurant..

kudos to keehong for cutting up the piglet for us.. and also to break the plate for prosperity reasons...

kudos to steph ting for her restaurant recommendation ...

kudos to kee win for ordering for us...

and ... all in all..kudos to everyone who came.. and made it a wonderful evening!

now..time for piccas!

steph and i
kee win, jeannie and kee hong
the lot
the lot minus steph at twenty-one
jeannie and i
the piglet, which was cut using a plate
kee hongs attempt at becoming more prosper
kee win and jeannie
isaac, me and steph
isaac and i

2008-04-24T02:49:00.000-07:00

yes yes.. im still into chick flicks..
its actually not bad.. not bad at all. katherine heigl... HOT! HOT stuff..

However, after watching the movie, i suddenly realise that.. i wouldnt really want my future partner to be watching too many chick flicks.. especially ones that involve weddings...

the reason why im saying this is because... looks at all the weddings in chick flicks! its absolutely ridiculous.. its always set at some amazing location (boat house, boat, huge cathedral, on top of the empire state building or some other random tall building overlooking all the sky scrapers of new york city, at some really nice garden on a nice spring day, on a plane, small church with small reception).. well. you get the point... you know.. those type of weddings in chick flicks.. where the girls will be ... awwwwwwwwwww.... i want a wedding just like that!

How in the world am i , or just about any other male in malaysia ... suppose to pull off a wedding like that. Looking back at my brothers wedding... sure.. it was a good wedding for malaysian standards.. church wedding followed by a big 100 table reception dinner at sheraton hotel... with lots and lots of good alcohol to sink everyone in the mood...

But thats besides the point.. the wedding was good.. for malaysian standards... but not up to par .. with.. chick flicks standards!

you cant find a boat house in malaysia.. why would you anyways? the sea is so dirty.. there arent many lakes.. definitely no lakes with a boat house... as for boats.. there are no boats big enuff to fit 1000 people in it.. dinner at the top of a tall building... let me think.. kl tower? looking out at all the polution that malaysia has.. hmm.. dont think so.. nice little garden? in the afternoon.. boy will you be sweating your arse off...

not looking forward to it.. its going to be hard aint it? all girls want their proposal/wedding to be their dream wedding ... yet i already can see how mine(if it actually happens) will turn out to be.. 100 tables.. more than half of them filled with random relatives/ clients/ dads friends/moms friends/ parents in law friends/ staff/randoms that i wouldnt have met in my life.. or possibly met them.. a couple of times at most... me having to face my fears of 'stage fright' and actually making a speech.. a serious speech showing my love to my partner,how i met my partner, my love for my parents and my career...future..etc whilst acknowledging the crowd , showing my appreciation for their attendance etc....

top that up with lots of bottles of alcohol, some random lady singing random songs from the 70's or even 60's... an emcee who talks in 8 different languages, a standard hotel chinese meal course that includes soup, fish, fried rice, mushroom with vegies, roast chicken, the '4 seasons' cold appetizer thingi, followed by fried redbean/lotus pancake and some random 'tong sui' to top everything off...

finally, me and my future partner having to change outfits .. 5 times during the course of the dinner, to pour champagne into a full tower stacked with champagne glasses, cake cutting, and lots .. lots of yum seng-ing with every table.. trying to stay sober along the way by passing drinks needed to be downed to your 'heng tais' to finish... and last but not least... lots ... lots of hand shaking with everyone.. as they leave.. whilst saying words such as "thank you for coming", "thank you so much(angpow)", "hope you enjoyed the night","why leaving so early", "have somemore drinks", "sorry i didnt spend that much time with you, i had to go around and see everyone" .. you get the point...

so yeah.. as much as chick flicks are really nice to watch.. im really really hoping that all the girls out there aint brainwashes by it... and are not hoping for such a wedding.. cause if they are.. boy.. am i going to be single for a long long long long time! especially after writing this post...

2008-04-23T02:46:00.000-07:00

facebook chat...

will be the end of me... perfect timing for it to pop up! rite b4 my exams...

i reckon other chat programs like msn and google chat is going to be obsolete after facebook chat! this is because, with msn... you may have.. 50 percent of your friends on it... and possibly 20 percent of your friends on google chat.. but with facebook chat... you KNOW... you KNOW you have at least 80 percent of your TOTAL friends on it.. what else can be better?

one of the only things that is questionable.. whats the point of having that online now button under the FRIENDS tab... cause the number of friends online through that, and the number of friends online through facebook chat never tallys.. so? which is telling the truth?

the only downside i can see from facebook chat.. you cant appear offline... or you cant block random peeps that you dont wanna chat with.. or that you dont want them to know that you are online... hmmm.. hmmmm.. other than that.. its the best thing ever!

just wait for it.. facebook chat.. will take over everything else.. mark my words!

2008-04-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

random thought

wouldn't really classify this under topic of the day... since i dont think its much of a topic at all...but here goes...

how did.. the people.. back in the day.. like..way way way back.. cavemen and cavewomen...

how did they actually do it?

the reason why i ask this is that.. i think.. without sex ed, porn, movies that have random sex scenes... i dont think i would have known how sex actually works?

fair enuff you can say that you hear from friends or this and that.. but your friends must have got it from porn, sex ed, watching their parents go at it etc....

What if there was no sex ed...there was no porn... there was no peepin possible... how would a guy know whats a penis, what is its usage, nor whats a vagina, how they would interact etc?

think about it.. seriously... its just weird aint it? they wouldnt reli be able to find it..cause itll be covered in a bush.. even more so cause clippers werent invented back in the day... hmm??

any ideas?

2008-04-08T19:43:00.000-07:00

Fastest way to lose weight...

pull out your wisdom teeth.. cause that way... you know you wont be eating normally for at least 3 days or so...

have to say.. its pretty painful.. i swear i thought i would be asleep(sedation) whilst the dentist does the operation... i know that i was injected.. and my lips and gums/teeth were numb and everything.. and they cover my face.. but i knew what was going on.. i can hear the sound of them slicing my teeth into 4 pieces, i can tell that they are pulling, yanking the teeth out etc... can sorta feel a bit ... the dentist stitching everything together etc...

What i couldnt feel was the sense of time.. it was 2 hours ish. but it didnt feel that long.. possibly i fell asleep but woke up too early as the dentist estimated it to be 1 hour 15 minutes but didnt know it was going to be that complicated and tough to the point it took 2 hours 15 minutes instead... and of course i couldnt see jack shit.. couz my face was covered...

it actually seems like that new movie that is coming out.. or at least the trailer of it... AWAKE? with jess alba... at how out of 100 people who go under sedation or what not.. remain awake.. or something like that...

after getting the wisdom teeth off, it was constantly bleeding for 3 hours or so. Was first sent to the recovery room where they ask me to take a rest but i couldnt quite rest as it was constantly bleeding and i swear i was going to choke from all the blood in my mouth.. so i got up and went back and see the doc.. who then explained to me how the operation went, and what is going to happen now, what i need to do etc.

came back.. massive headache. and i swear i must have spit out at least a full glass of blood by now. and its still slightly bleeding from time to time.. chucked on ice packs on both cheeks ( i took out wisdom tooth on both sides) and rested... cant eat properly.. cant drink properly (through a straw) and everything taste of blood...hmmmm

so yeah. been sitting at home.. either doing nothing.. chating on facebook... or sleepin on the couch in the living room(result of all the antibiotics and pain killers). Feeling better compared to yest.. getting used to the hole.. getting used to it.. and not feeling much pain (assistance of pain killers)... so yeah... thats the story of my wisdom teeth..

have to say.. dont think it hurts that much.. still think getting hit in the balls is much more painful... then again. i was under sedation so i dont think ill ever be able to tell the true pain of it.....

leads me back to one of the greatest mysteries of life... which is more painful, getting hit in the balls or going through labour... hmmm

2008-03-30T08:24:00.000-07:00

viva la espana

its amazing how fast time flies... less than a year ago, i was in gold coast soaking up the sun and stuffing myself up with different type of hamburgers... and less than a few days ago, i was out in the sunny beach of malaga.. soaking up the sun again, no hamburgers involved this time though.. just loads of seafood and loads and loads of tinto verano...

In the words of sugat and just about every thai person on this earth: same same... but different.

Spain was absolutely wonderful.. its a very different holiday compared to the one i had in gold coast! very different.. i guess both holidays was amazing, each has its different highlights.. but all in all.. i have to say spain was just that much better...

It was a totally new experience for me.. going on holiday to a different country! kinda weird to actually be in a place where very few people speak english. Special mention to Yara for being our translator throughout the trip even though she doesnt really speak spanish, she was still the best out of all of us at understanding it and trying to string random words together to make other people understand what we are trying to get at...

It was a great change.. to actually see the sun for once.. to actually feel the warmth! utterly amazing..

It was great company... was kinda scared at first that people might not get along ( it was 5 of us in total for barcelona, and 4 of us for the rest of the trip, problem is, im the only one who knew everyone and everyone didnt quite know each other couz they were friends from either basketball, my residential hall or IH.. ) im really grateful that everyone got together really really fast.. the reason why i knew everyone started getting along well is when you start talking shit and insulting each other.... perfect way of knowing that they are getting along just fine!!

For photos... click here

Barcelona

the apartment we got was really nice.. apart from the dodgy entrance and the tiny lift that only fit 3 people... it was really nice and it was just about smack in the city centre! It was even better as it was at the outskirts of the main part(la ramblas) so it was rather quiet at nite... ooh.. did i mention that we were in the 'arabville' of barcelona.. with heaps of kebab shops below us.. also.. i think i should mention that we were right by the whore street.. i kid you not! it was the prostitution area and we literally walked past it everytime we went into the city centre... and no.. i did not get one myself!!!

Have to say that i managed to do a lot in barcelona.. did some touristy thingi.. went to montjuric.. beach.. la ramblas... cathedral.. saw the gaudi house.. and last but not least.. the sagrada familia.. its amazing to look at the architecture in barcelona.. everything is so colourful.. so lively.. the architecture is just absolutely amazing.. the city streets, the window shutters, the buildings.. the mini lanes.. just wonderful.. aint going to go on and on about it.. but.. if you look at the photos.. you will understand why!

One of the highlights of the trip has to be me and sugat renting a bike.. cyclin up to the sagrada..! absolutely amazing.. just cycling through the many mini streets and lanes of barcelona itself is such a feat! Apart from that, we decided to rent the bikes for the whole night as well.. and after a few drinks at the bar. we went for a night run!!! in a word... weave

the food in spain in general was amazing(apart from the token chinese restaurant visit and the random tapas place in malaga) the food is absolutely amazing! its funny how they have siesta, where EVERYONE.. EVERYONE take a rest.. close their shops from around 2 to 4.. to have their lunch, to chill, have a couple of drinks and have a mini nap before they get back to their work!.. how cool is that!

food: in one word.. tapas! tapas is like.. yum cha..just in a spanish way.. many little dishes.. but once you pile em up.. it feels like a full meal. Paella definitely needs a mention too, its like.. seafood fried rice.. but different.. haha.. dont really know how to explain it.. but im sure most of you know it already...

Awesome restaurant.. a meal to remember.. and im sure everyone who went on the trip will agree with me.. La Rita! its sorta like a fine dining restaurant.. just not so expensive.. i was quite shocked myself as i thought it was going to be expensive as... but turns out alrite.. i paid.. 27 euros.. and i basically had a appetizer.. 1 and a half main course( i shared one with sugat), dessert, coffee. oooh.. wine too! absolutely delightful meal.. really filling as well!

fun stuff worth mentioning.. we found a famous roast chicken place. and me and sugat decided to have it ... though we could not take it back to the apartment since no one was there(there was only 2 keys) , so we bought the chicken.. took it to KFC and ate it there...

it was really good.. the drinks.. the food.. the bonding session on the first night between me, sugat and yara! hahaha.. and we started naming different looks.. me and sugat started telling our stories from IH days.. and everyone started catching on to our ridiculous humour..

Madrid

To be honest, i didnt fancy madrid as much... really didnt.. im really guessing it has something to do with the weather as it was pretty cold when we were there, i got sick.. but that didnt quite stop me from drinking drinking drinkin...

Nice nice sangria at SESAMO... we got to try really nice peruvian food, and yara went salsa dancing even though me hiro and sugat opted out of it since the place was just a bit too smoky for out liking... me and sugat then ended up in the hostel finishing the 1/3 remainder of the whiskey that he bought duty free....

Went to the prado museum.. which is one of the best galleries in europe.. it was rather interesting, the artwork, the statues of men with their penis chopped off(still have no idea why though), the disturbing paintings of GOYA's Black paintings collection... find it quite scary how someone can paint wonderful photos , and then painting disturbing photos of saturn eating its kids... apparently that was after he went deaf.. hmm many many other nice paintings in there.. but. me and sugat were never the arty type of people.. so we browsed through about...2/3rds of the gallery and just walked off couz i felt my brain was overloading.. we only spent about 2 hours in there where a friend of mine, hiro literally spent.. 5 hours ish in there.. crazy!

Went on the bus tour.. managed to see most of madrid i have to say! it is really nice.. its city centre is bigger than barcelona i think.. bit more modern... more upper class.. yet i didnt like it as much as it just seemed like any other capitals around the world...

Point to note: me and sugat were cravin some good chinese food as he has some... hmm.. indigestion problems.. basicaly.. he couldnt shit.. and we figured the only way to do so is through chinese food.. wonton soup in particular.. so we asked the receptionist of the hostel where is a good place to eat chinese food.. ( it didnt seem like the best idea then asking a spanish girl where to eat chinese but it was out only choice) and she said.. you go to plaza espana.. get off the tube... you will see a stairs going down... and there you will find a nice chinese restaurant.. and its cheap as well!.. so me and sugat decided to follow her instructions.. couz we didnt know any other chinese place to eat.. that and also.. couz she mentioned it was CHEAP.. that definitely sold the idea to us.. we went to plaza espana station.. looked around. and i saw some stairs going down.. but it had a P(parking) sign on it.. so i was thinking.. no way..its that one.. but we asked this guy with a lil tabacs(tobacco) shop where is the chinese restaurant where it is.. and he pointed to the stairs with the parking lot sign..

Me and sugat decided to take a look.. and we couldnt believe it.. it was like..china town in madrid.. well.. not really china town.. but.. sorta like it.. they had 2 chinese travel agencies and a mini chinese groceries.. and the chinese lil restaurant.. we were like.. wth.. chinese restaurant.. in the middle of no where.. it had to be good.. and it was.. simple.. but good.. the menu only consisted of a couple of dishes.. noodles and fried rice in particular.. but it was good. and of course... we had wonton soup... weird though. lil china town in the middle of no where, underground somemore.. as for sugat.. he didnt quite shit as much as he wanted too.. considering he didnt shit the past 2 days.. but he did managed 2 lil poops.. i guess thats better than nothing..

Did a lot of souvenir shopping for my family.. not cheap i have to say. not cheap at all. but.. i guess its touristy area.. and they know stupid people like me will buy souvenirs no matter what the price.. man.. i got sucked into it badly eh.. ah well. shit happens..

other nice sites in madrid includes the palacio real(palace) .. really huge.. has 2800 rooms. and the king doesnt even live there.. its used mostly for tourist to look at some 53 rooms out of 2800 rooms and its always open to the public unless there are formal state events, dinners held in there... The palace was amazing. one of the nicest ones.. one of the best preserved palace in europes.. and apaprently it was burnt down and reconstructed and stuff like that.. dont ask me for the details.. cant quite remember already... but yeah.. really really nice.. didnt manage to go in though as the queue to get into the palace was literally 2 blocks long.. around.. 250 metres long im guessin.. and im not kidding about this..

Another thing to see in madrid.. is plaza major! really nice square built back in the day! used to be a place for bull fights and all.. but not anymore.. its now just filled with random basking people(including the annoying HALO robot wannabe... which i cant stand) and lots of little random cafes where people can have their cuppa at!
Malaga:

After being a 'jap tourist' in madrid, me, sugat and yara decided it is enough, and it was now time to kick back and relax for the remainder of the holidays.... what better a place to be at than malaga, where the sun is shining, there are no clouds above you and wonderful wonderful sea to look at!

Malaga is a really nice town.. small but not too small. big but not too big.. you get what i mean! We managed to stay in a very nice hostel called hostal el nogal and it was literally a minute walk from the beach!

I reckon malaga would be a place where sheanee and joanna would absolutely go nuts! You wanna know why.. one word: food! because its by the sea.., the fish is so fresh. and rather cheap as well! during the day time you can see all the restaurants by the beach are open, and all of them have a little boat on the sand where they hire a man to light up some firewood and to grill your fresh fish to perfection, with nothing more than salt as its marinade.. and all you need after that is to pinch some lemon juice.. PERFECTION!

another reason to love malaga.. TINTO DE VERANO... its like sangria..but different.. i dont think anyone in malaga serves sangria ... but they serve tinto de verano which literally translates into red wine of the summer in english.. really good stuff!

Nice beach.. hot girls along the beach.. nice little bars with cool summer ish drinks.. good good seafood.. what else can you ask for .. really.. what else can you ask for.. just absolutely sublime!

So yeah.. that sorta rounds up the trip for me.. i really really enjoyed it.. and after spending the 2 weeks before the trip with a routine like waking up at 630pm.. having dinner, shower and heading to the library at 830pm, staying there till 10am in the morning, coming back to shower and then go to class till 4.. coming back to sleep till 630pm and the routine starts again.. trust me.. this is all i could ask for.. for a nice break from everything!

All in all.. it was great..good food.. good relaxation, good culture difference, good place to be, good drinks, awesome cocktails, and last ... but definitely, definitely not least.. great company

For all of you who didnt come for the trip.. you can stop reading now as the rest of this is dedicated to those who tagged along!

Just want to say thanks to all of you peeps out there.. for making it such a lovely trip. it was what i needed.. it was really really good! I was sorta worried at the start that everyone might not click together, boy was i wrong.. all of you got along well so fast.. and yeah.. im sure everyone did manage to have a good time.
Would also like to apologies if i have pissed off anyone during the trip. AS much as i dont think i have ...but just in case that i have.. i apologies

Now comes the highlights...

After watching rocky III, IV and V today.. im so inspired to write up this thing..

da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....da da daaaaaaaaaa*climbs up stairs*

Im going to try to remember all the highlights of the trip..but if i do forget any of them.. well... sue me.. i highly doubt i can remember everything.. after all. im sure that all the alcohol i consumed during the trip has definitely killed quite a lot of my brain cells.. here goes:

Best part of the trip... Yara getting into the water....! that i will not..and possibly forever wont forget.. the look on everyones face.. of her screaming and jumping about.. kudos for sugat 'acting cool' in the water for 5 minutes to try to lure yara into the water! Nevertheless, yara did manage to pick up a spanish dude.. CARLOS!!!

good moment that yara missed out on... hiro nakamura! In the words of yara 'i told you so!' How in the world can someone actually mistake hiro for hiro nakamura from heroes? man... seriously...

the crazee spanish peeps that we met in malaga.... beautiful mannnnnnnnnnnn

Yara's lovely photo of her/himself... love the short hair!

Sugat's finishing skills.... which later was somehow... caught on by yara

Yara's amazing ability to wake up with a new/different/unknown bruise somewhere on her body

Sugat's inability to succeed in the toilet bowl... thought he didnt stop trying (which was good cause he would then read out the guide book to me in the cubicle next door)

Hiro's sense of direction (wrong to the point that he is so convinced that he was right, resulting in him coming back an hour later)

Abe's fetish with playing around with little clams and mussels, dissecting the shit out of it.

Bike runs... lots of bike runs... never ending bike runs.. and.. never ending weaves!

Bike runs with passenger at the back... especially if yara is on.. cause she will scream the shit out of herself

Sugat farting under the blanket at 8am in the morning whilst i was sharing a bed with him, thus sharing the same blanket... it became funnier when he realised i was still awake as i started giggling.. which he then followed.. and this just went on for quite a while..

Me and sugat's inability to order an appropriate amount of food.. resulting in us stuffing ourselves.. whilst resulting in a greater bill than expected...

me getting shat on...TWICE (ok.. not me, my camera bag) within the 1st 4 hours of my stay in barcelona...

Sugat's ability to be asked whether he wants any marijuana, coccaine or any such drugs... also.. his ability to get picked on by the x-ray security people

Us(well.. i sorta started it) giving each other skill sets!

Yara would always be known for SAT NAV skills!! austrian SAT NAV being the best of them all... spanish understanding and speaking skills, going into cold water skills! hooking up with random people skills!!making stupid look 6(wasted) skills... drinking skills.. etc

Sugat... Worst SAT NAV skills(thank goodness we took a cab) , finishing skills,
rocky skills... dreadlock skills... weaving skills.. bike locking skills... asian glow skills

Hiro.. might not have that many skills.. but the one skill that he possesses.. was so important for the trip... wait for it.. wait for it... Japanese tourist guide book to choose restaurant skills!

ok..thats it.. wont go on and one no more.. think i went on and on too much already! so yeha.. cant be bothered! hahaha..so this is it.. this is SPAIN basicaly.. awesome place! awesome people.. awesome drinks.. awesome weather... cant really ask for much more now can i ?

for some photos of my trip to spain... click here

2008-03-29T14:17:00.000-07:00

back from spain!

Aint gonna make this post about it! Cant be bothered right now, will do it soon! Really trying to get some rest and recuperate my energy levels from the holiday... kinda weird.. how im trying to get a holiday from a holiday... ah well.. such is life!

Will be making a photo website flikr thingi soon so yeah.. once im done with that.. and once i can be bothered to upload the photos from my camera.. it will be on there!

As for now.. just reassuring you that im not dead.. and that i have not abandoned my blog!

To all those peeps out there.. happy belated easter! and you will.. you will.. hear from me soon...

peace out...

2008-03-14T16:36:00.000-07:00

Tristan? Ryan? Oliver?

less than 2 days ago, my sister in law gave birth to a boy! im an uncle!!! and a godfather as well, thus the reason why ill be in malaysia for 2 weeks this easter holiday, to attend the babys baptism and full moon and stuff like that..

Now.. apparently, the baby looks like me.. haha! wth ... my sis was asking me.. eh.. what did you do! huh.. naughty boy.. haha

Man.. does that mean that the kid is going to be fat and messed up like me in the future..

remembered how many people in IH have said the words "one eddie is enough, we dont need another one"

so yeah.. apparently the baby looks like me.. but.. i cant see the resemblance? can you?

2008-03-10T17:34:00.000-07:00

Reached a new record for downloading speed.. 1673kb/sec if im not mistaken. Managed to download sytycd ep 12 in like..9 minutes ish. Cant believe it! absolutely cant believe it.

Have to say this week was pretty good.. really enjoyed most of the performance. As for the people who got sent home.. yeah. i thought the judges made the right choice this week. Though i was somewhat predicting that JD was the one from the bottom 3 who would go home, i guess he did pick up his slack and pulled his weight to get back into the competition.. and it is good to see that he is actually having fun for once!

Have to say.. i thought camilla was HOT this week.. the hair was good on her! and.. she is getting better! Henry looks better with short hair.. Rhiannon is smilling for once... Laura is gone.. kate and graeme have managed to avoid being in the bottom 3 for 2 weeks in a row!

Out of all... i have to say.. i think jemma is the new HOT girl for me.. after what she did with her booty at the start of the routine...that was it rite there.. even thought it was RHYS written on her booty.. the poppin was quite cool!

Best versatile guys so far, henry and rhys.. by far!

As for the girls.. i cant decide.. i think all of them are quite good...

Nuff said with sytycd.. aint going to go on and on.. have this stupid assignment to get it done and over with..

Yesterday was the worst storm in exeter in a long long time.. so windy... it was hailing and all.. Actually cant wait to go to spain now! ....really cant wait... got an email from the uni saying that the results for one of my module is out.. was going to check it today.. but it was raining and really windy outside.. so i just stayed in and slept.. will go check it tomorrow when i have the time.. fingers crossed.. hopefully i pass.. and hopefully.. i did decently well.

SPAIN..SPAIN.. thats all i can think about right now.. well. that and the amount of assignment that have left. The only consolation that i have is that i only have 2 exams in june. Still have a 100% essay due 3 weeks after i come back from easter... its definitely going to feel weird.. for once i will really feel like im an arts student ... writting up a 5000 word essay, worth 100% for a module.. shout out to Jeannie.. i love you jeannie.. i love you so much.. you are so so so hot!
*just in case you are wonderin.... this is my art of persuasion in asking her to help me proof read my essay when i am done.. I assure you jeannie, that i will finish it at least 3 or 4 days before it is due.. please help me proof read.. i belanja you bak kut teh ! actually.. i will belanja you bak kut teh when i go back to malaysia in 4 weeks time woot!!

My sister in law is expecting to deliver in about a weeks time.. how cool is that.. im going to be an uncle in a week! Not only that.. im going to be a godfather... as much as it sounds so cool..im somewhat.. starting to feel that there is a weight of burden, or responsibility that comes with being the godfather.. ah well.. ill deal with it when it comes... stil.. how cool is that..

Shout out to all the peeps.. including Jeanette, adrian, kelvin and especially Harvard for giving me little tips here and there on photography. I know.. i know.. im still an absolute newbie to everything and i dont know jack shit about photography.. reminds me of the day when i tried to have a so called "photo shoot" in IH that went totally wrong cause i had no idea what the hell i was doing...

Also, here is a link to Jeanettes photo website.. do have a look ... check it out.. really good photos! As much as i was thinking of starting a flikr website myself, i feel really embarassed to start one as i looked through harvards, kelvins and jeanettes photos and they put my photos to shame.. they are so much better than me!

Anyways.. here is the link to jeanettes photo website.. check it out..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanette-z/

Ok .. back to work.. peace out!

2008-03-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

Assignments done: 1

Assignments to go: 2

presentations to go: 2

days left to finish it: 5

days to spain: 8!

the library has officially become my 2nd home. I actually think that i spend more time here than i do in my own room, considering i havent been sleeping much.

ooh.. stats and econometrics sucks! dont get all this shit..

Now.. if only i paid attention in class...

if only i started my assignment way earlier..

Ah well.. not time for what if's...time to do work

Cant wait for spain.. cant wait to travel and take photos... been having cravings for retail therapy...
blew 90 pounds buying stuff for cameras.. filters.. cloths...cleaning pen.. and films...

Dont think my bank account is going to hold up well when im in spain...

As for sytycd: So glad that steph is gone (though im quite sad that 2 of the hottest girls are officially gone now) As for marko, as much as i dont like him, i have to say his solo for dfyl (dance for your life) was by far the best ... i reckon he deserves to stay in there more than anthony aka aerobix dude

JD choked.. big big time.. but heard he pulled his weight and he is back on track. Demi is starting to lose it and the fact that she is a 'self taught' dancer ...well.. its starting to show.

Well, wont go on and on about it.. was quite happy that i managed to have a chat with a couple of peeps back in melb. it was really good! fun stuff gossipin and bitching once again!!!! cant believe i was on the phone for like.. 4 hours straight the other day just chatting away. ah well. such is life!

Think i should get back to work now...

time: 2.45am
time im plannin to stay in the library till: 9am
why: cause i have to go back and shower and come back to the library as i have group meeting at 10.

HOW FUN... hrmmphhh

2008-03-02T08:22:00.000-08:00

The golden rule has been broken (updates of gossips)

Cant believe it has been 2 years now since i was an oweeker. How much fun it was... man i feel old.

Really fun times they were. Care free eddie.. partying it up. Also, oweekers were treated like 'gods' or 'kings' and 'queens'. The freshers looked up to us as though were the coolest people around!

Remember joe saying to me after oweek... "Eddie, you had all the girls around ya, and you could have chosen ANY ONE of them... but you just had to keep diversifying your portfolio and you ended up with none of them"

Sad but possibly true. And now i eventually take joe's philosophy of "aim at one, and go full on"

For those who thought that i have ran out of gossips.. you thought wrong! Man.. even i thought ive ran out of gossips.. but i guess. im like a gossip magnet and it just comes to me!

lets just say, a few little humming birds came over on a nice sunny morning and whispered stuff into my ears

Apparently the freshers.. well.. girls at least.. arent that hot! apparently more hot guys than girls... wth.. was chatting with kenny earlier and we are both relieved that we are not in IH anymore, cause we will be utterly disapointed. Honestly, both of us have been disapointed for the past 2 years already. Still think that Kenny's fresher year (2004) and my fresher year (2005) had the most amount of hot chicks! hhhaa.. and it sorta went downhill from there on.. the fact that we couldnt come up with a top 10.. you know its going downhill

We are sad though... as we look at how.. we no longer 'own' the party.. dammit.. we used to rock it.. and we used to rock it hard! the only consolation we have is that... we know how to 'own' the party much better than the people doing it now!

Apparently room cramp wasnt packed.. apparently magical mystery tour wasnt that great.. (HMV MOVED??) club nite was good though.. which is always a plus couz the past 2 club nite wasnt that good

Apparently the new 'webmaster' has been using his powers! and knowing how to use it well as well!

an asian couple made out at club nite.. thats quite unheard of... asians are usually more conservative.. and they usually try to keep things subtle till it gets to the bedroom. wel.. not these 2 people.. they were full on at it!!! no subtlety there

like... dudes.. get a room already... like.. seriously... cheers to joanna wong and facebook for the photo

Oweeekers werent allowed to drink.. now whats the deal with that. I cant imagine going through oweek without drinking. Now thats just stupid! worst rule over.. i would have just quit being an oweeker just then!i think one of better parts of oweek was drinking behind the bar (sorry jeannie, i swear i did pay some parts of the drinks that i had.. not all..but quite a bit part of it).. come on man.. i needed to get pumped up for the dance floor.. and to get into the zone! hahaha.. how can you not have alc ? esp while you are bartending(i have a funny feeling my RSA is going to get revoked because of this)

Golden rule of oweekers: YOU CANT HOOK UP WITH FRESHERS!!!

Oweekers.. have so much power.. during oweek.. that. people look up to them and all. and oweekers can perpetually hook up with anyone they want..without much problem.. ok.. not anyone.. but we have a much higher possibility of hooking up than we ever would...

Now.. apparently. that rule is broken woot! yea man.. tell me about it! apparently an oweeker hooked up with a fresher! wth man.. i stayed loyal to that rule even though my urge didnt wanna listen to it.. and now i realise that someone broked that rule.. thats just WRONG! absolutely disgraceful! Cant that person hold his/her urge for 1 week... thats all they are asking.. 1 week..1 blooming week. Man.. you can lay ground work.. by all means.. ground work is alrite!.. but not hook up.. NO HOOK UPS!

yeah.. thats just about the goss that i have.. so yeah!! guess i might still retain my title as 'gossip king'! im pretty sure some of you will agree with that!

Peoples involed and the birds name will not be mentioned due to privacy reasons... good luck trying to find out yourself!hahhaha

2008-02-29T19:25:00.000-08:00

location: Library

time: 3:21am

words remaining on essay: 700

quality of essay(range from 0-10): 2...3 possibly...4 max

time ive set myself to complete it: 2 hours

Chances of me reaching my goal of finishing it in 2 hours(%): 0

number of people left in library now: 2

List of people in the library now: me, security guard

2008-02-28T09:32:00.001-08:00

click and see whats in the red circle...

One of the perks of not being in IH anymore. Unlimited internet. Unlimited FAST internet... say bye bye to 200mb quota each week. All for 80 pounds a year! gone are the days where download speed of 150kb is unheard of and only comes by once a blue moon! Best thing ever... can finally stop renting dvd's, buying music cd's, watch live soccer and basketball.. best of all.. i can scroll through youtube as much as i like..

Have fun IH peeps with your year ahead of limited internet quota... it does suck to be you right now.

2008-02-28T08:42:00.000-08:00

One of the biggest disappointment ever

After watching the performance and result show.. possibly more than 10 times now. I feel more and more shit.. more and more pissed of at the bottom 3 that australia didnt vote for.

I dont know how to explain it.. its just a show.. its just a competition.. but im just.. really upset about it. Im really pissed off about it.. as i really, truly believed that.. the people who got kicked out.. shouldnt even be in the bottom 3. And the bottom 3 couples.. shouldnt even be in the bottom 3... and australia got it totally wrong this week... totally!

Probably not as much for the guys, as i dont really see them being the best guy dancers on the show. But definitely for the girls.. those 3 girls.. are easily..easily the top 5 girls in the competition..

Im just here to vent out my frustration... as i believe last weeks results show was one of the biggest disapointments ever due to the bottom 3 couples chosen... hopefully i can look forward to this week.. and hopefully the couples that deserve to avoid the bottom 3... will get the votes to do so.

ps.. i might be more frustrated at the stupid assignment that i am working on now than the actual bottom 3 couples.. but i think the frustration sorta had a snowballing effect.

2008-02-26T19:37:00.000-08:00

so you think you can dance review : top 18

Bottom 3 couples: hilton and kate, kassy and graeme, JD and Rhiannon

Male kicked out: Hilton
Female kicked out: Kassy

Im shocked for the bottom 3, and im pretty sure everyone who watched it were quite shocked. Im sure kenny and pat are shocked as we tend to get predictions rather accurate.. and we totally blew it. I didnt predict a single couple right in the bottom 3, nor did pat.. crazy shit.

Nevertheless, i think the judges made the right choice as to who will be leaving based on the bottom 3. Still furious about the bottom 3 though as i dont think that kassy and graeme deserved to be in the bottom 3. NO im not just saying this because i think kassy is hot and she looks like maria sharapova, i actually really liked the routine.. i thought that routine, the samba and the disco was the best routine of the rather disappointing night.

I really liked kassy and graeme's routine, i felt that they had their characters right, their emotions right, i liked the choreography to it. i think i have watched that routine more times than any other routine that nite..thats how much i love it .. Yes.. they were labored.. and their floor work was a bit lacking.. but man.. the routine was quite technical and really hard, dont think many of the dancers will be able to do that choreo. The lifts were really hard.. i thought it was great! really joyous to watch.. so im quite pissed off that they were in the bottom 3 as i was starting to like them more for their dancing and not for kassy's hotness.

*random note: i think graeme is stage fright.. as all i can remember him saying in front of the audience is shouting "BAM!!!" and again shouting "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" in 2 different performance shows.

Kassy and Graeme's routine

have to also give credit to henry and vanessa as i think they did a good job on animation hip hop! Also props to Demi and jack (of course la) for pulling off the samba. I have to say that, as i have mentioned that i didnt really fancy anthony and laura.. im starting to like em after the disco routine.. it was the best routine of the night i reckon..

*if laura losses anthony at any point, she is in trouble as no other male dancers are as tall as her - pat tan

dancers i think should be out by now: Stephanie and marko... what a disapointment.. really... 2 routines.. bad badly done! i know the choreo for those 2 routines are a bit.. neither here nor there sorta thing.. but.. they are just out of sync.. no chemistry whatsoever.. and i reckon they are the weakest 2 people at the moment ... dancing wise.

Couple who has to watch out.. seremsah and camilla. I think both of their acts of 'i dont belong here' are starting to get on peoples nerves and they should put an end to it. I know they do not mean it.. but.. they should try to avoid it. I thought they did alrite.. the hip hop choreo was definitely better than the one that JD and rhiannon did. Though i didnt quite like the costumes... and their timing is a bit off... Still. there was one part where seremsah sorta plays the 'puppet master' and controls the moves of camilla.. i thought that part was tight!

Rhys and jemma:not great.. not the best.. but still good.. just.. dont know.. didnt fancy it as much

JD and Rhiannon: JD was clearly lagging and behind Rhiannon, she totally stole the show with her sharp moves and JD wasnt really finishing the each move properly... he needs to step up.. thought he wasnt that good this week

Hilton and Kate: i think kate is the best female dancer on the show at the moment. versatile and all.. but.. she has been in the bottom 3 twice.. she hast to watch out.. chances are if she is in the bottom 3 again.. she might be going... I liked hilton at the start, but.. i think he isnt versatile enuff... Ooh. hilton is my only correct prediction! haha. told you he will leave if he is in the bottom 3 .. cause of his swearing antics the last show!

Moving on to this week... stephanie and marko has to either put an awesome performance.. or.. pls.. put them in the bottom 3 and get rid of them. I wont make any predictions yet as i realise i screwed up last week.. so once i read the review on the performance show on the so you think you can dance website.. i will put up predictions.. lets just hope its more accurate this time around!

2008-02-25T11:28:00.000-08:00

Topic of the day

Which hurts more? getting hit in the balls(males) or giving birth(females)?

thought about this every once in a while... reckon it is one of life's biggest debates and mysteries. Dont really think it is solvable but here goes

reason why its not really solvable... plain simple really.. cause you cant go through both!

Been hit in the nuts quite a couple of times in my life.. have to say it is really extremely painful.. absolutely painful. Dont know whether ill still be able to become a father in the future.. hope i can though cause i do want to have kids... but yeah.. definitely hurts!

Everytime i get hit in the nuts i tell myself i will get a protector for my nuts, but i never do... and when i get hit in the nuts the next time, ill be telling myself.. man. i should have gotten the guard last time.. but i still havent gotten it.. after being hit.. quite numerous times i have to say

Thats my experience.. wouldnt know how giving birth would be.. and how much pain you would have to go through... but maybe you do?

2008-02-24T13:33:00.000-08:00

Juno

Really recommend this movie to everyone! really really do! loved every moment of the movie.. absolutely love it.

Great story, great directing(director of 'thank you for smoking'), great everything. And especially.. great great great acting by ellen page.

I wished i had one of them hamburger phones as well

Just watched this movie this afternoon... and just got told that it has been nominated for a few oscar awards including best movie and best actress in a lead role... and no.. im not saying i loved it couz its been nominated for oscars.. i loved it even before i heard about it.. but yeah.. aint gonna complain about that, as i think that ellen page just did an amazing job with her role.

also just found out that the oscars is on tonite.. so yea.. hopefully she will win.. she deserves to.

seriously.. i highly recommend this movie to everyone.. go watch it!

ps. i think ellen page is really pretty as well...! can add to my list with hillary duff, amanda bynes, vanessa hudgens.. though i reckon ellen will be at the top.. couz she actually can act!!! and not just star in random chick flicks!

2008-02-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

a new approach to fund raising

Have to say that im finally settled down at uni here. think the last thing that was lacking was a chinese delivery place.. which i have found. Sure the food isnt great.. but its alrite. Considerin i will miss dinner on tuesdays(lecture) and thursdays(bball training), having food delivered to you aint bad. Rather affordable as well, around 5 pounds for a good meal..cant complain at all!

Loving my uni as well. Loving basketball here. We have a good club with awesome players.. though we just got knocked out in the quarterfinals of the BUSA competition(British Universities Sports Association) im guessing... we did pretty well just to get to quarterfinals man!

Classes are good. Actually found my first lecturer which i might even say.. is my best lecturer today. I dont know... for me.. i remembered in my high school days in melbourne, our accounting teacher, Mr Burgess.. was so passionate about teaching accounting.. and making his students do well... that..somehow.. it made me work hard for accounting and i did pretty well in accounting i have to say.. just.. got "inspired" by him i guess... and its not just me.. im sure everyone who took his class would agree with me, just ask my friend viv if you dont believe

But yeah.. got this lecturer named Gordon Murray. used to teach at warwick uni and london business school teaching MBA students and all.. the module name is : could you be an entrepreneur! rather weird name for a module..but yeah.. really interesting.. he puts in the effort. you can see he is passionate about what he teaches.. he wants to make it interesting.. you dont usually find this in lecturers as they are usually bored of teaching the same old shit over and over again! either that or they are so interested in that subject but they just dont know how to project that passion into the audience i reckon. but yeah... im actually rather motivated towards this class. havent missed a lecture for this module yet.. thats always a good sign!!!

In the class, we go on about venture capitalist.. how to start a business this and that. And we usually get a guest lecturer every week.. where it be business angels, venture capitalist, young entrepreneur and such.. quite cool stuff as we get real life examples of what we are learning about..

What im trying to get at is.. im sure all lecturers are somewhat passionate about what they teach.. but only some will be able to project their passion towards the audience.. and he happens to be one of them..

Our guest lecturer of the week.. some entrepreneur who designed this product

www.gizmodo.com/tag/auxetix

Cool stuff eh.. a fabric to protect you from impacts of bomb.. its like.. bullet proof glass.. but instead of glass its cloth, and instead of bullet its bomb.. bomb proof cloth. haha.. apparently lots of these has been ordered, mainly by militaries of different countries.. and also big corporationgs in major cities around the world.. to protect its people from bombs! cool stuff!

And yeah.. the uni is good.. fun stuff! Actually attending this RAG fashion show thing in 2 weeks time. Theme for the fashion show: Swimwear! haha.. no im not such a perv.. thought id just go couz a couple of people i know are in it.. and after all. its for charity! hahaha

Charity man.. haha.. swimwear fashion show for charity! doesnt get any better than that! Its quite cool, i think we had some pub crawl thing a few weeks back where for every pint you buy, 20 pence go to charity also or something like that.

The one i thought was the best of them all was... b4 christmas... they had a nude photo shoot. Where girls and guys(students! all 100 over of them!) will be semi nude.. to make a calendar for 2008! It was a great idea i feel. And all proceeds go to charity! How amazing is that!! students pose semi naked for a calendar for charity!its like FHM calendar.. but with students instead of models.. and best of all.. its for charity! FHM isnt for charity.. so this was better! I didnt end up getting one.. didnt know where to get it.. and the thought of seeing people i knew semi naked... was just rather weird. Heard some people were actually totally naked.. but i wouldnt know! but yeah.. thought it was a great idea!

2008-02-23T18:41:00.001-08:00

So you think you can dance... part 2

after watching all the episodes at least.. 5 times.. i have gathered new thoughts on the dancers!

Kassy looks like maria sharapova.. im pretty sure the girls think that graeme is hot for a guy.. so when you get a hot guy and a hot girl together.. you get a hot couple... and hot couples dont tend to get voted up till they reach the top 10

Anthony and laura.. at the moment.. are the weakest couple.. dont really know why.. just feels like it. Other couples which i feel dont really have a chemistry is stephanie and marko. Henry and vanessa are borderline...

i thought that the 3 random IH girls(names will not be mentioned but im sure most of you will be able to think of it) voices were rather high pitch.. and at times may sound annoying.. but some how vanessa takes it to a whole new level... as much as im sure she is a good dancer.. i doubt she will go much further...

Hilton might still be in trouble for swearing on the results show.. i reckon if he is in the bottom 3 anytime soon he is going home. The reason for this is an example in the past with my favourite dancer from season 3 so you think you can dance(america) where they kicked off jesse peralta...
for no apparent reason(still thought her solo was better than the anya and lauren's) and she just WASNT voted off.. its the stupid judges!

couples who i think are really strong right now
1) JD and Rhiannon
2) Rhys and Jemma
3) Seramsah and Camilla
4) Demi and Jack
5) Kassy and graeme
6) Hilton and Kate

As long as they dont mess up too much on their dances... this SHOULD be the safe couples
Also.. strongest couple(chemistry wise) should be camilla and seramsah... this is because they were partnered b4 the top 20.. they were partnered doing the cha cha in the top 100 show!

People who i really like
1) Demi
2) Rhiannon
3) Rhys
4) Camilla
5) Seramsah

Please not im saying .. top 5 people whom i really like.. im not saying they are the best dancers.. just saying they are my top 5 fav in the show!

Think thats just about it.. still cant make predictions as its too early. Realised that i cant even make predictions as i will only be able to download the show 1 day after the actual airing.. by then the results will be out dy.. haih.. nevertheless.. ill do predictions just on reading the review of the show! haha

Thats it.. so for all of you out there who watches the show.. do spent a dollar on me a week.. to vote for my favourite dancers.. and for this week.. its demi.. rhys... camilla.. and rhiannon! Thanks!

2008-02-19T07:07:00.000-08:00

Review: SYTYCD australia

Been watching SYTYCD australia the whole weekend. Finally managed to download all the episodes into my comp(torrents finally working). If you are asking.. what you mean whole weekend.. 6 eps onli ma.. well, im sure some of you know by now that.. i tend to watch it over and over again! haha

Thoughts on it so far: I LURVE IT!
it makes me feel like im back in melb again. I think the thing i love most about it is the aussie accent... i absolutely love it! especially when demi said the words: 'Australia needs to know that i can RIP IT!'

dancers: I have to say the standard is pretty high, well not as high as america of course.. but.. really good!The guys needs to work on their lifts, i think the girls are getting better.. so yeah.. no complaints

Choreos: Didnt quite like the hip hop routine personaly, LOVED the waltz. And im really feeling the bugaloo(or boogaloo). didnt like the jive(and the costumes together with it) lyrical hip hop was pretty amazing. All in all, i think the choreographers are really high quality(apart from hip hop, still think shane sparks and dave scott are amazing)

Judges: The thing that i didnt quite like about the judges was that they complimented each and every dance and gave just about.. each and every dancer false hope. Just think about khaly and courtney(who got kicked out), the judges said words like "you got a long way to go" and things like that... i think the judges need to be a bit more.. strict.. either that or the judges dont reli know anything about it. I do miss Mary's scream a bit and Nigel's english accent. Ithink the american versions judges are more entertaining.. then again. its only the early stages of competition.. cant say much!

host: nah.. dont like the host.. i prefer cat deely so much better.. i miss her pronunciation of judges as 'joodges'.

overall, thought the show was great! absolutely love it! i love how they play typical aussie music here and there! love it how they manage to capture the contestants emotions better than the american version(either that or the background of each dancers are much more interesting in australia) love it love it love the aussie accent!

alrite.. time for my thoughts on some of the dancers

Demi(my favourite at the moment). just absolutely lovin her.. great personality.. great great smile.. dances well! absolutely loving it! i would compare her with sara from the american version.. though they are a bit diff.. same same.. but different!

Hilton: i actually really like him and i think he is versatile.. but.. i think he might have accidently cursed too much.. to find out more..

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23245706-5006022,00.html

Henry.. reminds me a bit of pasha.. for some unknown reason! think out of all. he has a definite abvantage as i think he is the only one who is true ballroom ? for the guys? correct me if im wrong.. and i saw some footages of him doing jazz and hip hop.. not too bad!

JD. Pats favourite if im not mistaken.. somehow.. not quite feeling this guy.. maybe its too early to say.. but... not much personality.. rather blank.. interesting background though!Nevertheless, great dancer.. just.. not sure how he will do when it comes to ballroom

Stephanie.. reminds me of anya(just much more hotter)

Rhys.. absolutely love him.. absolutely love him and the waltz(thought it was the best routine of the week,that... and the bugaloo)He is also a friend of tutor Olivia.. apparently they used to work in some cafe in crown or something like that.. and they would move the tables after work and dance and olivia used to get dragged to watch his drag shows and stuff...

Vanessa: reminds me of jamie.. but.. too innocent and too nice for my liking.. (the high pitch voice does not do it for me either)Still.. really good at what she does.. really extends her lines and all

Rhianon.. HOT HOT HOT! (apart from the huge forehead) and kate reminds me of.. alison and lauren.. and man.. i loved alison and lauren.. some how feel that im gonna love rhianon as well... i think she was the only one that you didnt reli get to see until ep 5.. couz she basicaly just breezed through everything without much problems!

Sermsah: Pretty good apart from the lift..not sure how he will do when it comes to ballroom though

Jemma jack and camilla: somehow seem reli versatile.. but.. havent made any conclusions for them... they definitely have potential though

Kassy Laura marco, anthony and graeme: not quite doing it for me for some reason.. then again.. its too early to make assumptions..

Think thats about everyone.. as for khaly and courtney.. they are already out so im not gonna go on about them.. all i have to say.. yeah.. right choice that australia and the judges made...

2008-02-18T15:32:00.000-08:00

Cant believe im doing this.. my excuse: i got forced into it!

Not only that, i got forced into by a girl who actually meant what she said when she asked me whether i was gay?

Though.. never ever did one of these questionnaires before.. so.. why not. here goes:

Introduction

First name: Edwin
Nickname: Eddie, Ed, toetai, puikia(fatboy in hokkien, masterchef)
Name you wish you had: none really
What do people normally mistake your name as: Eddie?
Birthday: 10/10, apparently its like.. an important day in taiwan.
Birthplace: Assunta hospital, pj(lacked the assunta girls i reckon)
Time of Birth: wouldnt tell you even if i knew.. dont want anyone to bomoh me
Single or taken: I dont think this question needs answering
Zodiac sign: libra

Appearance

Height: 181cm(thank goodness theres not a weight question after this..*phew*)
Wish you were taller: i think i like my height, though i always wished i could dunk in bball
Eye color: Dark brown
Color you want: wouldnt have a clue..im a guy after all
Natural hair color: black.. or maybe dark brown ish?
Current hair color: as above
Short or long hair: Short and im pretty sure itll always be short
Ever dyed your hair a bizarre color: Nope
Curly, straight or wavy: Straight as hell, thin as hell as well.. and losing lots and lots by the minute.. have resorted to using baby shampoo!
Last time you did something dramatic with your hair: Shaved my head using #3 clippers on inpulse during year 12 in melbourne. It was after study time and i just felt like it. Went to my friends room and ask him and another mate to shave it off for me. Kinda regret it couz my parents freaked out, got scolded from the boarding house tutor as there was a huge lump of hair in the toilet and i definitely regretted doing it in the middle of winter.. damn impulse shaving!
Glasses or contacts: Glasses
Do you wear make-up: Nope.. but lots of people have asked me whether i have eye liner on(think its eye liner). but i dont.. just have rather long eye lashes
Ever had hair extensions: Nope... why would i?

In the Opposite Gender

What color eyes: light brown? i wouldnt know man... somewhere along those lines
What color hair: Black.. or a decent dyed colour i guess
Shy or outgoing: Outgoing.. think id die if i had a shy one
Looks or personality: personality(yes yes i know this is the safe option and i know all of you are like.. yeah rite.. that guy so shallow will choose personality my ass) but its true man
Sexy or cute: Sweet.. would that fall under cute?(best scenario would be.. sexy to bring to clubs.. yet sweet to bring home and show your parents! perfect!!!)
Serious or fun: fun im guessin.. though.. a bit of both
Older or younger than you: Dont reli mind.. 3 years either way
A turn on: aint gonna answer this
A turn off: too many

This or That

Flowers or chocolate: well.. im a guy.. chocolates.. couz i see chocolates in my room but i dont see flowers
Pepsi or Coke: coke(though mountain dew and sprite rox my jox)
Rock or rap: RAP!!!2pac for life! erm.. rock is alrite..as long as its not. good charlotte type of 'emo rock'
Relationship or one-night-stand: relationship
School or work: Work
Love or money: define love.....
Movies or music: music
Country or city: City
Sunny or rainy days: sunny(esp in the Uk couz you onli get to see the sun that often.. have to treasure it)
Friends or family: family

Have You Ever...

Lied: duh..
Stole something: duh..
Smoked: duh..
Hurt someone close to you: duh..
Broke someone's heart: duh..
Had your heart broken: duh..
Wondered what was wrong with you: duh..
Wish you were a prince/princess: honestly.. havent wished that b4.
Liked someone who was taken: cant lie myself out of this huh.. haha
Shaved your head: duh..
Been in love: define love.. haha
Used chopsticks: duh..
Sang in the mirror to yourself: dont think so.. singing in showers does not count yea?

Favorites

Flower: wouldnt know the name of it
Candy: gummi bears
Song: Ne-yo - put that thang on ya
Scent: Chanel - allure homme sport
Color: Blue(though i had my pink moments)
Movie: pursuit of happyness
Singer: corinne bailey rae
Word: one of the swear words
Junk food: smith's thai sweet chilli chips
Website: edtan.blogspot.com
Lotion: ??
Animal: none.
Ever cried over someone: How is this linked back to "favourites?"
Is there anything you wish you could change about yourself: again.. how does this link to "favourites?"
Do you think you're attractive: haha...
If you had to choose a fairytale as your life what would you choose: wouldnt know
Do you play any sports: too many
* i still have no idea how the last 5 questions or so are related to "favourites"?*

List 8 random facts about yourself and tag 8 people:

1) i watch sytycd over.. and over.. and over again
2) have not drank a drop of alchohol in over a month
3) loves looking at fashion stuff..clothings etc
4) even more so.. shoes!! have 6 pairs under my bed that i havent worn
5) used to collect perfumes(or cologne) as well
6) like taking photos. but still not reli good at it
7) havent clubbed in UK
8) tend to play the same song over and over again!

think im meant to tag people to do this.... ah well. here goes:

1) dan
2) jeannie
3) damien
4) keewin!
5) jac kee
6) monash
7) CC
8) veron

2008-02-17T13:25:00.000-08:00

i believe i can fly... at least he does!
Dwight Howard - superman dunk

Im not going to say anything about it... but this was yesterdays NBA all star slam dunk contest. And it was definitely one of the best dunk contest in ages. Nuff sed.. just watch the video and you will know why! Trust me.. for all you no basketball fans outside. its still worth a watch. WATCH TILL THE END!!!

2008-02-12T03:27:00.000-08:00

Happy chinese new year everyone.

dont worry.. i do realise that chinese new year day has passed a few days ago.. still.. im sure everyone is still in the chinese new year mood.. putting on 10kg's along the way.. possibly poorer or richer by a few hundred dollars from gambling. Possibly have liver poisoning by now from all the alchohol.. possibly gained a few hundred dollars even if you lost in gambling.. couz you had quite a fair bit of ang pows.. possibly falling sick from all the hardcore 'house visiting'. or possibly having a sore throat due to too much 'mandarin' eating... nevertheless, the chinese new year spirit is still there.

i was actually alrite.. celebrating it alone. wasnt plannin to do anything at all.. till my mum called me .. and the conversation went like this

mum: Gong hei fatt choi
me: gong hei fatt choi
mum: we are all here having dinner now, say hi to your uncles and aunties!
me: Hi.
mum: What you doing over there..
me: nothing.. stay at home and watch dvd and sleep
mum: wah.. cannot like that wan..
me: nyeh!
mum: got so much food here.. so nice. we bought roast duck, roast pork, chicken.. everything!
me: thanks mum for making my life more miserable
mum: heehee.... ok.. i call you later la.. we are about to low the yeesang now
background: MA! FASTER! LOW A LOW A
me: haih.

to make things better. mum called me few hours later.. and the convo went like this
mum: guess what we are doing?
me: dunno
mum: GAMBLING..passes phone to cousin
cousin1: win a... why you not here.. haih.. miss you la.. we all gambling.. fatt choi fatt choi
cousin2: win a.. cannot fatt choi la.. i losing money!
cousin3: man.. you should bring your crew(izzaz and viv) no fun without you!
me: .. erm.. ok
mum: ok la.. just to call you to tell you we are gambling.. take care
me: THANKS.. bleeek

so yeah.. got depressed man.. and what did i do then! on impulse.. went and eat thai food with a friend of mine.. haha.. 35 pounds man.. i reckon its my most exp meal to day(that i have paid for).. ah well. its chinese new year.. went up to london.. which was fun ... wont go on anymore. the photos should explain everything.

chinese lady selling some dragon thingi and some random drum toy
Four seasons.. EVERYONE.. this is the best place for duck.. EVER! dont believe me just ask anyone from london! by far the best place for duck.. better than the ones in melb or even in malaysia man!
As you can see.. the whole of chinatown is just filled with lanterns everywhere!

no need for explanation
more Lanterns!
more 'non chinese new year' photos comin up soon!

just testing. Blogging from my iPod touch. Amazing stuff

2008-02-09T18:09:00.000-08:00

I can't even believe this man. How technology is so amazing this days that I ccan just use an mp3 player and make a blog post amazing stuff. Have to say that the keyboard is pretty amazing. Always thought it was going to be a pain in the ass but its surprisingly quite easy to use. As you can see I'm just testing this out so there really is no point to this post as all that I have just wrote are all bullshit. You can read on of you want but there is still no point in you reading it. Still reading?man u need to get a life

2008-02-08T16:30:00.000-08:00

Will.i.am - Yes we can (obama song)

thanks to sugat

2008-02-04T17:05:00.000-08:00

L4YER CAKE

If you wanted to know why/ see how daniel craig got the part for being the new james bond... watch this movie.

been watchin heaps of movies the last couple of days.. good movies as well..

-the godfather trilogy(one of the best trilogy ever)

-the kingdom(good, rather realistic film)

-fantastic 4(i have no idea why i even bothered watching it)

-die hard 3(just wanted to know what was that water bottle puzzle they had in it, not too bad)

-the golden compass(bit like lord of the rings,only without mr sam wise gamgee with his disturbing 'strawberries' rant, without gandalf touching the hobbits rather disturbingly as well. Actually.. i think its really similar.. while i was watching it.. i thought.. this is really like lord of the rings.. though its not gonna be a 3 part series... Boy was i wrong... as i watch the ending, and after some googling on what in the world the ending meant... only did i realise it was a trilogy as well.. so yeah.. it is similar to lord of the rings pretty much...)

But out of all.. seriously.. i thought l4yer cake was pretty good.. pretty smart script writing.. rather good acting.. some english humour in it.. haha.. so yeah.. really recomend it to everyone. Besides.. sienna miller is in it.. and shes HOT!

2008-02-03T15:51:00.000-08:00

Met this guy who lives in my hall named matt. Cant quite remember what his last name is... but... was having a dinner discussion with him only to find out that he is in 3rd year doing econs and finance. This was rather weird as usually you can only live in halls during 1st year, and he said he was here for the past 2 years as well. So i asked him how come.. and he said he was under sports scholarship... for tennis, and my friend next to me told me then that he was ranked 27th in UK. Amazing stuff...

Have to say, quite amazing stuff, as he is only 20 years old. Who knows, maybe he will be the next tim henman or something(nothing to be proud off really) but still, who knows right.. so i went on asking him about his routines and stuff... apparently his daily routines involves:

-eating loads and loads, healthy food though
-tennis training of around 3 to 5 hours a day
-run 10 kilometers!!*not included in the 3 to 5 hour training*
-run 10 kilometers....TWICE during weekends
-gym etc...

Crazy shit man, im pretty sure he has more stuff here and there but thats what i can remember.. but just that itself is scary and crazy.

Not only that, he is also one of the top students in his year.. wth man! amazing though, with all this going for him, he is not arrogant whatsoever, really nice guy.

What i find rather crazy is when i asked him, why study? why not just play tennis and you can earn more money there. And this is what he said...

Well, after i graduate im gonna take some time off to work on my game and see where i go. Might just be lucky and do well but if i dont... at least i have a good degree to get a job.

Now thats what i called hardwork man. I find all this athletes quite inspirational. How they try so damn hard while knowing the fact that they might now make it.. and have to juggle 2 lives(sorta) at the same time...

amazing stuff...

2008-01-31T13:40:00.000-08:00

Topic of the day... after some random story of my past...

This is me when i was standard 2.

Came back from school (morning class). Had my lunch... did my homework(i think i did)... or maybe i didnt have any homework that day (more unlikely considerin i was in chinese school and they pile homework up everday). Anyways... all i remembered was that i didnt have anything to do... and i was bored... cartoon only started at 4 ( at least i thought it started at 4*story of that will come soon*) back then there was no astro, thus no cartoon network or disney channel to watch swatcats! centurions! or... gummi bears!

Anyways.. i took a shower.. came out.. and while i was takin clothes from my cupboard.. i noticed a video tape (*gosh.. that was so old school) on my bros part of the cupboard (we used to share cupboard and room) tittled: "GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE"

so i thought.. hmm.. might be some kids movie.. or cartoon.. or just a movie...

So this is me.. going in to my parents room to turn it on and stuff.. after 2 minutes of random conversation between one guy only wearing a leaf to cover his body and a girl who was fully dressed with white dress.. they started strippin.. and.. started doing it..

So there it was.. my 1st time watching porn! i didnt know what was happening.. i was like.. wtf (ok la.. i didnt know the 'f' part yet.. but you get the point)

2 minutes later.. my maid walks into the room to vacuum the room only to see me watching porn.. and she was like " WIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNN... what are you doing!!!!"

She told my mum about it.. i didnt get any scolding at all.. it wasnt my fault after all.. but my brother did!

So yeah.. possibly one of the reasons why my head is so messed up now.. haha

ok... thats my 1st time watchin porn story!! whats yours? come on.. just admit it!!!

now... to the fun part!!!

TOPIC OF THE DAY...

Did your parents ever gave you the 'sex talk' lecture? if so, how did they do it? Will you do it to your kids in the future? If so, how will you go abouts doing it?

couz seriously, i dont recall my parents givin it to me.. nothing at all! all i remembered was me buyin porn when i was 13 years old at the night market.. and hiding it at a place where i thought was perfect.. only to realise that .. 2 cm away from where i put the porn was where my mum hid her jewelries (its sorta inside the top layer of the cupboard that we had..where you can move the glass and put it inside.. but you cant reli see whats inside couz the light is in the way and you can only open up the glass that much hard to explain.. will show you photo next time) so yeah.. didnt feel what else was in there.. and i swear i thought i had the perfect hiding spot for my porn.. hmmm.. so yeah.. needless to say i got scolded big time!

Also.. this was my trick at night markets at how to get porn when i was 13.. up to the age of about .. 14. Go to the guy... look around his vcd's... and show no interest in any of the new movies that are out. If he ask you.. just say you have them all.. and he will know that you want porn.. and he will ask you... you want porn a? follow me to my car...where he will have a huge stash of porn!!!

Funny thing about porn is you never get what you asked for! the cover will be filled with hot hot girls.. and the girls in the porn itself is totally different! once i got one with the cover showing american cheerleaders and i got asian lesbians instead.. wth..

ok.. back to the story! yeah.. i didnt get any sex talk at all... rather disappointing.. though i think the only thing that my mum has ever said to me was rather.. influential.. and i think it will forever stay in my head.. all she said was..

dont do anything to other people that you dont want other people to do to your sisters..

Its good.. and.. yeah.. always affected by it.. but.. i want a cool sex talk like the famous one that ken got!!!!

kens dad: son, if you get a girl pregnant... dont worry... call pa... and we'll sort it out..
(i think its something like that.. maybe not word for word but its definitely close and the point was the same. This was what kens dad said to him while he was in the car on the way to airport i think? anyone wanna correct me if im wrong?)

so yeah.. cool stuff!!!

2008-01-30T09:15:00.000-08:00

You cant stop the beat

Just a random thought... as i just finished watching hairspray (for the 3rd time), for those who have watched it... tell me whether its just me or whether its true... i swear... that all the male dancers... basically all the actors were... not blondes? or even any colour close to it.. they were all black haired or dark brown! i swear! there were quite a few blonde hair girls.. but.. no guys at all...

I swear... its true.. go watch it again!!! the only blonde hair guy was the reporter saying 'interracial dancing has broken out at WYT stage, just look at the crowds reaction' or something like that... token appearance for like.. 5 seconds!

also remembered.. even in grease.. apart from the other leader with john travolta.. i think everyone else was black haired...

So the question is.. why are there so many blonde hair guys nowadays? couz i dont think guys dye their hair as much as girls.. and besides.. why would they want to be blonde? just doesnt make sense?

conclusion1: blonde hair guys cant dance ( but ivan from sytycd can!)
conclusion2: the casting crew for these 2 shows were gay dudes and they prefer brunette guys!!
conclusion 3: maybe there werent any blonde hair guys in the past? i reli dont know..

As you can see.. im really heading no where with this post.. hahaha. just thought id update it.. hahaha..

poor effort on my part.. ah well.. ill make sure the next post is better.. hahaha

ps. Why in the world is queen latifah's hair blonde? was there even hair dye in the 60's? Shes not the only one, quite a couple of black actress in there has blonde hair? WTF man? role reversal i say...

2008-01-28T02:20:00.001-08:00

asian fetishes

Went out for a couple of drinks on saturday with some of my basketball friends (it was the day after exams) and it was me, 2 spanish ppl(twins), 1 french, and 1 austrian ( though she is actually half egyptian, half dutch) .. and this is our conversation involving asians.

spanish twin 1: Man, you know.. all the asians i know.. they sleep everyday for like... 12 hours!!
austrian: Yeah.. but thats because they dont sleep at night. Everytime i go online at 3 in the morning, edwin will always send me a msg on msn saying ' hi' without fail!
spanish twin 2: Ya but that still doesnt mean they need 12 hours...
me: .........
french: Yea man.. asians are just like pandas... they sleep non stop!
spanish twins: edwin.. you are just like a panda!! your the panda...
austrian: ooh... Edwin the panda...
french: oooh.. how are you panda*points at me*.. you wanna sleep panda? you want bamboo panda?
me: @#$%^%$

thus.. my nickname from now on is 'Panda'

We went on with the conversations and the spanish twins were going on about asian fetishes.. they said " man.. those asians... when they wanna do something... they will be so obsessed about it and will not stop learning till they are the best "..

Didnt quite get what they meant but they gave me examples after that... i know a few asians.. and i remember.. around 6 years ago.. all they do everyday is play the stupid yoyo.. but they are the best in it.. they can do whatever they want.. all the tricks the yoyo book has!!

Not only that.. they are also obsessed about their pen tricks... they can do the helicopter ones.. the flicking ones.. they can do all this shit.. and during lectures.. while they are thinking the are doing all this stupid tricks whilst listenin to the lecture.. Wtf.. how can you concentrate...

Hahaha.. so yeah.. quite true lor i think.. i think that asians do have a lil bit of an obsession going on.. but then again thats a good thing.. so whatever we are interested in .. or that we thrive to do.. we make sure we are the best in it..

Just like me.. and my shoe collection! hahahahha .... obsession sia..

2008-01-23T15:32:00.000-08:00

tofu town... filled with girls with tofu complexion

names arent going to be mentioned here, because... just due to privacy reasons... and also couz.. ppl will seriously think im a stalker *though im not really denyin it*

Nevertheless, im sure some of you (well, im sure at least 2 of you) will be able to connect the dots and know who im talking about...

Was chatting to someone i met through one of my BEST friend. As i cant reveal names.. that someone i was chatting to will be called 'tofu 1' and my BEST friend will be called.. erm.. lets just say... 'shit face'

All the while i thought that tofu 1 and shitface were from 'diamonds bay' or teluk intan(T.I), couz shit face told me that they were high school friends and shit face was from T.I.

Wel... i was wrong to ASSUME, as charlie says.. dont ASSUME.. couz it makes an ASS out of U and ME! get it.. lame attempt i know...

back to the story.. tofu1 was actually from ipoh.. (thus explainin why she was fair and good lookin in comparison to shitface) but went to T.I for 2 years for high school and thats how she met shitface

So i was going on about how girls from ipoh are always hot... and really really fair.. good complexion and stuff.. and i was telling her how.. i know another friend.. who has a very hot friend.. and she was from ipoh as well.. ( name for my friend is 'blur2' and name for her friend is 'tofu2')

so tofu1 asked me to name tofu2's name.. and i gave her a rough name..(cant remember the full name), and tofu 1 asked me.. ooh.. she goes to melb uni... ok.. i think her name is this... AND SHE NAMED tofu2's name

gave tofu1 blur2's blog to check out the photo to see whether we were talking about the same person... and we were...

apparently there are a lot of hot girls there...

all i can say.... next time i go back.. im going to ipoh... AND EAST MALAYSIA(mabel should know why)!! to 'survey the place'...

On a last note... all i can say is that..
What a small world huh... or.. well.. what a small town huh?

ps. My definition of hot is actually how sweet the person looks... like.. the type of hot you can bring back and show your parents... yet.. somehow you can take em clubbin and your friends will be like... "man edwin that lucky bastard"
*i thought id defend myself just in case tofu2 reads this posts.. even though thats super farfetched... i wanna defend myself so at least she doesnt think im a total wanker

ps. Daniel.. you up for the trip? hahaha..anyone else want to join for the 'trip'?

2008-01-21T08:45:00.000-08:00

Been seeing some ppl... that ive met or known... getting married. Fair enuff im not close to them or anything like that... the fact that i know ppl getting married brings me to wonder... shit man... when are my group of friends gonna do it.. when am i going to do it??

Always thought that my 'ideal age' of marriage is.. 28 at least ( couz then im pretty sure i would have graduated, probably with a master.. or 2 .. or 4) and would have started earnin some money and stuff...

But im sure some of my friends would have gotten married by then! I wonder who the 1st one will be... wonder who it is that is going to set the benchmark ( yeah.. been studyin too much operations management) wonder how old i will be when i receive that invitation... And when that day finally arrives... i know its a new stage of my life.. and that im definitely getting older if im getting a wedding invitation with my name on it instead of my parent's name and end up being dragged along to the wedding whilst sitting in a table filled with uncles and aunties couz none of them brought their children...haih.. wonder whether ill go alone, or would i have a partner then... or possibly hire an escort.. to be my partner.. if you get what i mean... haha

Just wonderin.. thats all... when that day will be.. hmm.. whos gonna be the 1st couple... how the wedding will be.. how we will sit together.. in different stages of our lives.. all working in big firms and all whilst im still doing my masters (hopefully i wont be in my bachelors still).. just wonderin...

2008-01-21T04:37:00.000-08:00

remember that tunak tunak song... well... here it is... with ENGLISH SUBTITLES SOMEMORE!!

for those who dont know what is tunak tunak.. just watch it.. best music video ever!

2008-01-19T07:35:00.000-08:00

This is me being... stupid!

So.. woke up late on saturday, called a couple of my friends for lunch but they already went for it. And lunch was going to be shit... found out that the student bar in the student union was open with food... so i decided to go buy some food to eat.

Couz i figured that it was going to be quick ( buy and come back) i decided to just put on a hoodie and go for it... thus i was wearing.. shorts, hoodie and my oh so reliable havaianas flip flops...

Along the way, saw the bus to the city... ngam ngam it was there... something came over me to go to city and have good chinese food... RICE RICE! so i just hopped on.. and went into town. Weather was gloomy but it didnt matter couz i was going to have good food!

Went into town.. had my awesome lunch. Took away as well just in case i want supper or i can eat it for tomorrow's lunch ( nah.. im pretty sure its going to be eaten for supper) . Came out.. and it was raining.

Next bus... 25 minutes away. And trust the weekend service.. it might not even come... best part is.. the bus stop isnt even covered.

Decided to try to book a cab (bookin cabs are cheaper as their rates are lower compared to cabs that you get from stands as they charge you much much higher rates) but the earliest i could get a cab was 1 hour from then....

Decided to take a cab from the taxi stand in the end.. wind was killin me...rain was killin me..
*this maybe a bit over exaggerated, it wasnt really that bad*

So you there have it.. 6 pounds... haih..

ps. I still have the return ticket for bus.. for the way back...

2008-01-18T04:15:00.000-08:00

a new record... 19 comments... trust the post to be one based on 'topic of the day'

conclusions so far about how innocent ppl get it done in bed... dirty talk and all...

According to kee win, all ppl are horny inside anyways...

According to harvard, the girl will initially resist but once the 'erogenous zone' has been touched, soothed,*insert arousing word here*, the girl will beg the guy for more. If you want actual convos...read the comments... im just summarizing it up..

According to joe&maylin, a voice transmitter should be placed underneath an innocent person's bed to hear the convo

According to monash, she thinks its a great idea and would try it on her 'girlfriend'

According to isaac, joe&maylin's idea should not be placed in action due to recent clampings of 'voice transmiters or hidden cams 'cctv')

According to Veron, who went totally out of point and started talkin about a movie with ppl who had mental disabilities trying to do it.. eh! im talkin about innocent ppl ok, not ppl with mental disabilities... i think i know what you are up to! Veron is indirectly saying innocent ppl are ppl with mental disabilities... ooh. you sayin pocket boy got problem la!! man.. CHOI CHOI CHOI*touch wood*!!!evil la you..

According to jeannie, sex actually happens with a BAM!!... literally.. though she tried to convince me later that it was meant metaphorically...

final conclusion: Jeannie wants loud sex, Veron goes out of point, monash might get arrested with 'distribution of sex tape', isaac might just be the one who catches her, joe&maylin are most likely on ebay.com.au right now looking for a $10 voice transmitter, harvard might just be in the bathroom having conversations with himself whilst *insert action here*, whilst kee win might just become a lecturer at melb uni in the future if there is a course in sex studies(actually think there is one already)... possibly with a subject code of 669-101(foundations of sexing)

2008-01-16T08:10:00.000-08:00

the ever so powerful word : "that"

remember back in the day, where songs were about... real life happenings, issues in the world, about war and politics, poverty, racism etc..

What happened to those days?

Now you have ppl like shakira singin songs with lines like:

"lucky that my breast are small and humble,
so you dont confuse them.. with mountains!"
shakira ~ Whenever, wherever

WTH rite?

aint wanting to diss shakira... its not just her.. even one of my fav artiste, ne-yo is messed up with his lyrics as well:

'could it be the little wrinkle over your nose,
when you make your angry face
that makes me wanna just take off all your clothes,
and sex you all over the place'
Ne-yo ~ when you're mad

man.. i can think of so many other songs... gold digger(kanye), i dont want you back(eamon).. the other version of that song where the girl screws him back... man.. countless songs.. whats the deal... What happened to songs with meanings...

Nevertheless, i think.. the best ppl at messing up lyrics, confusing its fans.. with songs that make no sense.. are the backstreet boys!!

seriously man... Im not sayin thats bad.. i like all these songs.. heck i used to like bsb and i can still sing just about all their songs with perfect lyrics stucked in my head(also with the scar of performing their songs during oweek audition, followed by strippin to sporty spice to do dances on songs by spice girls).. i love em.. as long as there is a good beat and tune..im there..but seriously.. the lyrics man...

the reason for bsb having the best 'confusing' lyrics is the excessive use of the word 'that'. Examples of songs include 'i want it that way' and 'more than that'. Remembered there was one more song as well.. think its called 'thats the way i like it'

lyrics went like :

'baby listen to me when i say, i will love you more than that'
~ more than what a...

'i never wanna hear you say, i want it that way'
~ that way? what way?specify please?
ps. man.. this song is stuck in my head.. not the ori version.. but the 'which backstreet boy is gay' version

'thats the way i like it'
~ wat way, upside down? inside out?

man.. im sure there are more lyrics that are so dodge!!! not just by bsb.. but everyone else as well!

conclusion: this world is messed up!

2008-01-14T07:57:00.000-08:00

screw james bond, ethan hunt(mission impossible in case you didnt know), john mcClane(Die hard) screw all of you... id rather be jason bourne anyday...

dont need no fancy cars, fancy gadgets... dont need ms judy dench(M in james bond) to be on your neck the whole time.. all you need is your brains... your fighting skills, and have much more lives than a cat...

If you dont know why, watch bourne ultimatum... and you will

2008-01-12T16:28:00.000-08:00

topic of the day

How do innocent, naive, geeky, really nice nice ppl (names in my head should not be mentioned) bring along the topic of sex with their partners in bed? How do they do it? how do they dirty talk ? How do they ask their partners to have sex with em? how?

Been wonderin about it in my head for quite a while now... seriously? you can imagine what... horny ppl would do... how most couples would react... but i cant see how... 2 really innocent naive ppl getting together.. getting married.. and initiating a conversation on having sex that nite...

Now im not sayin that all they are weird or anything... couz they are normal and they are just about the nicest person you will ever meet.. kind, down to earth etc... innocent as an angel.. its like.. the image they have is so angelic that .. you just cant imagine them.. trying to get it on?

Reason im sayin this is.. at times when i meet some of my parents friends (couples, of course), you can see that they are so nice, innocent etc.. that you just cant imagine them talking about having sex... no.. im not trying to think of visuals!!! im just sayin.. you just cant think of.. what the guy would say to the girl... or how they would go abouts doing it?

Which brings me to thinkin about some of the people that i know off now... who are so so so innocent and at times.. naive to this sorta topics? that i just cant imagine how it would be like for them in the future.. what the convo would be like and all..and thats why im curious to know!! What do you think?

ps. Sure there are the QBH ppl.. but.. lets talk about the innocent.. innocent.. naive quiet ones.. QANH(quiet and not horny)

2008-01-12T04:54:00.000-08:00

harvard is a pain in the ass...

handed in my accounting assignment 2 hours earlier than the due in time.. and this is after i watched american pie : beta house (90 percent of the movie was just ..boobs boobs and more boobs)

Cant remember the last time i handed in an assignment on time? Nor can i remember the last time i wrote an essay without copyin people's sentences, paragraphs with fingers crossed that i wont get caught for plagiarism... not the last time i actually did my own referencing ( pretty sure i stuffed that one up)...

Nevertheless, i did get help.. lots of thanks to.. daniel, cc, jason, grace, veron and token arts student jeannie ( who can sorta be an accounting student now that she understands absorption costing and ABC)

2008-01-11T17:35:00.000-08:00

You know you're getting old when...

you buy a dvd (national treasure part1) thinkin you have not watched the movie but realise after 10 minutes into watching it that you have...

ps. Armageddon has got to be one of my all time favourite movies... ( a hot liv tyler might have had something to do with it)

2008-01-05T03:22:00.000-08:00

2008...

Since i realise that i no longer call myself toetai (not that often anyways), i figured a change of the blog address was appropriate...

So here you are... my new blog...

ps. really couldnt think of any name for the blog.. so i think i might have immitated dan's blog add naming convention.. swear that i wanted a simple black colour blog for a long time though.. thus the background wasnt a form of immitation.. just.. coincidence?