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The Art of Refusal

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:32:31 GMT

Good Friday

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:58:23 GMT

Happy Good Friday everyone! :)

Today marks the day that Jesus died for all of us, many many years ago. It also marks the start of a week-long holiday! Hahah. Which can be not much of a holiday considering I have 3 mid-sem tests in the very week after the holidays, each of which has 20% weightage. >.<

Anyway! Today after church service (where they gave free hot-cross buns, woohoo! I was so happy hehe), we headed off for the famous fish and chips in Port Melbourne. I was pretty excited, considering I've heard so much about it. Supposedly there's a tradition about fish & chips and Easter, but no idea what that's about. *shrugs*

So off we went!

The place.

We shared a set for 4 people between 5 of us (Pammie, Jilly, Bianca, Venxhin and I), and we ended up not being able to finish it anyway. Haha.

Chips and potato cake.
Didn't manage to take pics of the fish, prawns and calamari
cause I forgot in my hunger. Haha.

Sat by the sea because there weren't enough seats at the shop.

The view.

Started throwing chips to the seagulls.

The, uh, seagulls.
Not pelicans. Hahaha. *winks to Kitmun*

Can you see the chips in two of the seagulls' beaks?

Then began to feed them in the strangest ways.

On his head, my friends, are chips on a tissue.

And finally, you guessed it, posed and took pictures like there was no tomorrow :)

Ah, I take such pretty pics. :p

Group pic.
Ok I know this one is pretty off, but I didn't know the back would be so bright.

Pammie and Jilly!

Stasha with her awesome posing skills! Hahah.
Was trying out the continuous shots and she totally killed it. Haha :p

Us: "ACT CUTE!"

Us: "Seagulls!"
From the looks of it, the first thing in Cheng Joon's (right) head
was the fear of seagulls pooping.

More continuous shots. Only, this time, watch the two guys at the back. The 3 girls in front are just to attract attention. Hahah. :p

Then Eric wanted to learn how girls sit cross-legged.

Learning from the sifu, Su Li.

He doesn't seem to be doing very well.

Nick, the pro.

Finally masters the art. Haha.

"Emo boyband group" pic.
Apparently the way Eric emo-s is to blow kisses. Hahaha.

The gay/act cute pic.

To salvage their ego, they did a macho pose.

Girl pic!

Pouting pic!
With a... um... nvm. Hahah.

1 to 10 rule!

Nick: "ATTACK HOT CHIC!"

Eric doing his levitation act.

Later Stasha, Kitmun, Mavarick, Nick, Cheng Joon and I walked around a little while the rest went back first. Then we sat around and talked and the girls (except me) dog-watched. At one point, two cute dogs pass by, and Mavarick goes, "The first one looks like Nastasha, and the second one looks like Kitmun."

Later, as I watch the dogs go on their way, suddenly I go, "Oh. Nastasha just pee-ed."

A random sign on the floor.

Easter in 2 days! :)

Buy! Sell! Buy! Sell!

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:43:29 GMT

I've been trading shares online lately.

Only it's not with real money. :p

It's an online simulation competition by an investment bank. I wasn't so ambitious to think that I could win it, but I thought it'd be good to try out my luck/skills in shares, so that even if I lost, it would be better than losing real money, and it'd be a good experience.

So it all started last week. I bought 5-6 different shares, and on the first day itself I lost close to $2000. -.-

The next few days were spent trying to get back my $2000. And now, after the first week, here's my holdings:

Share names blocked out.

Do you see those yellow figures?? I swear I had a profitable share at one point, but I accidentally sold it for too cheap. Sheesh.

And if you notice the number of shares, I thought it was normal for people to buy like 1000-2000 shares or so. Apparently not, because the person in the number 1 spot now currently holds 80000-1000000 shares per company. I was like -.-

But all is not lost, I have made profits overall okay!

Yeah, well, it's not much compared to $50000 that other people are getting, but at least it's a profit! *defiant*

Although, all was happy until I found out from my dad that there's this thing called brokerage fees, which is charged everytime you buy (and sell? not sure) your shares.

*sigh* But it's still a profit of $166, right?

I guess I have a lot to learn. One thing I've learnt is that I am incredibly, absolutely risk-averse, so I guess that's why I'm not earning much, or at all.

The second thing I've learnt is that, I probably shouldn't play shares because I honestly suck at it.

Stop laughing. -.-"

At least there are 521 people suckier than me. Haha. :)

Keith's 21st

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:14 GMT

Celebrated Keith's 21st last Thursday night (and am blogging about it now as promised). Went to Hang Guk Kuan, and because everyone was so busy talking, Manrou and I ended up ordering for us all. We said that we definitely, absolutely must order their chicken, but somehow ended up forgetting to, until we were halfway through dinner. So, we frantically called the waiter and went: "Um, can we order this *points to the picture* if we haven't ordered it already?"

Seafood tofu.

Kimchiiiiiiii. :)

Ate, chatted. The normal stuffs. We kept bullying Wei Siang because he sat right at the end of the table, and whenever he asked us to help him take food, we'd give him:
- empty mussel shells
- chicken bits
- just sauce

Hahah. Well, not really, we said we would, but we always didn't. We're nice people. :)

Kye Li, Shanice and Joanne.

The two "very nice" people. :p

Ate until we were stuffed. Then the cake was brought out, and we sang really loudly to embarrass Keith (yes we're nice people).

Joanne, me and Hui Ching, Keith's girlfriend and
the one who so nicely supplied me with TVB dramas! Hehe! :)

Hui Ching and Keith, the birthday boy. :)

The cake!

So funny la this smile. Hahaha. :p
And poser Wei Siang in the background. :p

EVIL MANROU! -.-
Hahaha.

All in all, it was fun just to have an excuse to go Hang Guk Kuan and have dinner together. Hahah. Nola, we really wanted to celebrate his birthday, but since we've been wanting to go there for 3 weeks already, it certainly didn't hurt. :D

Group pic!

And that was his birthday celebration. :p

Twinnings

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:36:39 GMT

1) I'm drinking a Twinning's flavoured tea; Green tea with orange and lotus leaf infusion.

How weird can tea flavours get? Pretty weird.

Wellbeing Infusion tea; blackberry, ginseng and vanilla infused.

2) Mobile phone contract is ending, what should I get?

3) I got my dates when I'm coming back to Malaysia. Should i take Air Asia X? Just RM1900 for tickets.

Earth Hour, A Time To Vote For Global Warming

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:15:57 GMT

Earth Hour 2009 came and went. For those of you who are unaware, Earth Hour is where you turn off your lights for an hour, as a vote to save the Earth from global warming.

Now, I have no idea how effective it is, or whether anyone out there actually goes around in a helicopter and starts counting the lights that are off or something, but I thought it'd be fun to try out for once.

So excited was I that I got out my camera once again to take pictures and videos. At 8.25pm, I stood on my balcony and started filming the city lights. At 8.30pm, one patch of lights went off and I was like, yay it's starting! But after waiting until 8.33pm I realised that not only are none of the other lights going off, I spotted some even turning on! I was like -.-

Before 8.30pm.

After 8.30pm.
I ask you, is there any difference at all?! -.-
Other than the part I pointed out, of course.

So I gave up and came back in. Then I began to wash my dishes in the dark. I kid you not. Is that amazing or what! Hahah. :)

After finishing that, I was totally lost as to what to do. So, I began to film in the dark and talk random nonsense. I think I began with, "This is the longest hour of my life!!" I mean, I couldn't use the computer, watch TV, read, study, do my work, shower, or even go to the bathroom!

Later I even took Teddy to play with, making it play peekaboo with the cam. Haha.

And after all that, it was only 9.10pm. -.-

So for the rest of the time, I just sat there and stoned. At 9.30pm, I went out to record for one last time to see if any lights came on at 9.30pm. But again, nothing.

And that, folks, was my "awesome" Earth Hour experience.

No wonder the Earth is going to die of global warming one day. -.-

Christmas Come Early

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:58:53 GMT

My early Christmas has arrived, from a modern santa who sends presents not with a sleigh drawn by reindeers, but through the post. :p

The parcel that made my day.

I've been anticipating this parcel for days now, but I thought it'd come in 2 weeks. Instead, it took only 4 days.

4 days!!

Needless to say, I was impressed and the whole morning before picking it up from the post office, I was restless. When I finally got the parcel in my hands, I went home and took a million pictures of it. And as if that wasn't enough, I even took a video of myself as I opened the parcel, talking to the camera the whole time. I guess you can tell how excited I was. Hahah.

And you know what, videos rock! :)

Will blog about Keith's birthday celebration later. And because I forgot to wish him when I saw him today (I'm sorrryyy! >.<), happy birthday Keith! :)

Oh well, not like he reads this blog anyway. I think. Haha. :p

Straight Out of a Novel

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:25:41 GMT

"Marry me?"

Who can say no to that? :)

Wake Me Up Before It's Too Late

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:25:08 GMT

An hour ago I was lazily snoozing during an afternoon nap, after spending most of the morning being blur, dizzy and having what felt like an incredibly heavy head.

Snuggling under my blanket, suddenly, the bed starts to shake a little, and I thought in slight surprise and annoyance: Who is that, shaking my bed...

Then, in my half-awake state, I thought that my teddy bear was shaking my bed, because he's the only one in my apartment with me.

The suspected culprit's mugshot.

Only then did realization kick in and I realised: Waitaminute.. no one should be here to shake my bed!

Omg.. is this an earthquake?!

Immediately wide awake, with eyes bigger than you've ever seen them, I jumped out of bed and was panicky but blurrr like crazy. I glanced out the balcony to see if people outside were screaming and running around in chaos while firetrucks and police cars sped around and buildings crumbled to dust, but all I saw were people happily walking around and frolicking in the sun.

And I was like, did I just dream that?
Did someone really heavy just fall down and shake the building?
Was it a ghost?! o.O

Went on the internet to see if there were any breaking news, but there weren't any yet. Started to gather my thoughts and packed my passport, keys, hp, and some money in my bag in case I had to run. Planned to grab my jacket, and even considered changing to, er, proper run-in-the-event-of-an-earthquake clothes, but was too lazy to. Remembered the quake 2 weeks ago which I didn't even feel. -.-

Checked the news a few minutes later to find that it was indeed an earthquake. Went online to nudge Kyeli and Kitmun if they felt it, and Manrou said she felt it too. We both heard and saw so many helicopters flying overhead, and my heart was pounding like crazy from the aftermath of it all. The sound of the helicopters made it scarier, but it also made me happy that the emergency response is so fast (at least, I hope it was the emergency response).

Manrou said she wants to fly back home (she's just kidding.. I think). Kyeli said I should call her the next time it happens cause she wants to feel it too. Hahah! These people. :p

My emergency evacuation bag is still on my lap, and I am still ready to run if necessary. I don't think I'll get any sleep tonight.. even though the tremors lasted for about 5 seconds and measured only 4.6.

... Whatt, my first earthquake/tremor experience mah! >.<

MJ

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:56:20 GMT

I woke up 6:45 am today just to buy MJ tickets online.. MJ.. Michael Jackson! His last tour in UK in his life, and presale few days ago was totally sold out! He added from around 10 concerts in London to 50 due to high demand, breaking a new speed record of tickets sales.

Luckily, I managed to get two at GBP75 each. Now I'm wondering, should i re-sell it? Ebay resell tickets can go up to GBP180 each. thats.. over RM1000 profit. LOL.

What should I do?