Project 365? May 6, 2012

My friends are all embarking on the project 365 thingy, whereby you take a photo a day to show what you’ve been up to. Well, it is very easy for me to participate now that I have an iPhone (I always sound like I’m bragging, but please take it more as me being very excited!). However, I don’t use Instagram (though I have the app), my Twitter isn’t public and I don’t feel like cluttering one post a day on my blog! Instead, I prefer to compile all the weird / nice / happy photos and post it all in one go. Like now.

Woke up early on a Saturday to go for RPM. Thought I had an appointment with Sookie, but she ffk me in the end, hahaha. (I had been ffk-ing her before this, so the one time I could make it she wasn’t around!)

Pic in the J33 changing room after cycling outside the RPM studio (I wound up too late to go in anyway) cos I thought Sookie was inside, so I wanted to catch her when she walks out. Hahahaha…

Driving to Haikara to meet Sookie, Ching and his gf. Pictures another day!

So pretty the Haikara coffee after I poured in the milk. I think this is the charcoal coffee, the “must try” at this restaurant.

But after mixed up already, it looks like nothing next to Sookie’s green tea with vanilla ice-cream.

Always have to have coffee before church. This Pokka vanila milk coffee isn’t too bad.

Was very early in church!

On the way to SS2 mall.

My favorite new drink in Chatime is the roasted milk tea with grass jelly. Yay for grass jelly, I no longer like the pearls which make me feel too full anyway.

Warehouse prices for stuff like Billabong, Levis, etc… but too bad most of the stuff aren’t a good fit. I have to keep telling myself that I don’t *have* to buy something just because it’s RM30.

You won’t even believe where this place is…!! It’s in a DIY store, like ACE Hardware, but it’s called “Mr DIY”. Got so many stuff here for theme dressing. Last time I spent so much time making “wings” for my costumes cos it’s expensive to buy from costume shops. But Mr DIY sells stuff for like RM5-RM10. Worth it !!!

Some really silly hair decoration stuff…

This headpiece is actually for kids la… but this adult wanna act cute and camwhore with it too.. tsk tsk!

Scrunchies galore!

Then Tron “potong stim” and told me to stop wandering around Mr DIY and help him select stainless steel bowls instead. Tsk!

See? Even got a pretty floral background to camwhore with in Mr DIY… hahaha. Ace Hardware, I think I won’t visit you as much anymore.

Finally got to try Marutama!!  It’s so yummy, but it’s quite pricey. RM30 for a bowl of ramen!

This is the specialty of Marutama ramen — the funny hard boiled egg with the runny middle! Very very goooood.

Indulging in Magnum in the office. I started eating this after I saw my vendor digging into one. Hahahha… it’s only RM3.90 but it’s like a little indulgence every other week for me. Ok, I need to stop complaining about gaining weight if I keep doing this.

Experimenting with my new camera filters… yes, this is the horrible place where I have to park my car! Ok, this is not the horrible part. I will show you the horrible parts another day.

Messy dressing table!! Okie, I promise that I cleaned up right after I took this photo.

More act-cute camera decor apps from iPhone. Hehehe.

Hahaha, Tron said that this filter is like Lee Hom in the “Ni Bu Zhai” video… lol.

At 3 Two Square, some Thai restaurant here. Again… pics later. This is just pics from my iphone!

Yummy yummy sashimi don from Sugimoto. Oh my, looking at this picture makes me want another bowl!

Aiyoyoyoyyyoyyoy.. so cute la my nephew!!!

Took this photo of my church’s cafeteria to show my mom. So pretty right, the church? Those orange tulips are a recent addition. Anyone looking for a church, do contact me to show you around this place. [RLC, PJ]

Prawn noodle after church!

Trying to get more mileage from my neon pink earrings from Diva.. hahaha.

In “Atrium”… where I had…

Tough-ass ayam penget rice set…

Both Dull and I have bottle openers as keychains… for our car keys!! But I’m innocent cos the keychain was a gift from Fuzzy (who also engraved my name there), but Dull actually uses her keychain cos “need something to open them beers after driving around and grabbing some bottles from 7-11″. WTF.

Found an old Christmas present I had wrapped up (for old church cell group members). I still remember that this is for Alan — he didn’t come to church on Christmas and subsequent cell groups so I wound up keeping it. Hahaha.

This is what is inside the package. And yes, I ate it.

More filters! I like this drawing filter.

Another wonky filter… hahaha. But I love it!! See how straight my teeth are??? With no braces… Muwahahha. At least I can save money on ONE aspect of my physical appearance.

Had Chinese food when I met up with Dull. =) Was an awesome catch-up session. Think I need to meet her once a week!

Yes! I am so addicted to “Draw Something” at the moment! I’ve already bought 3 palettes and counting! I thought I drew this pic awesomely but obviously my brother has trouble guessing…. can you guess what it is?

Won this from Female magazine! I only used it at my ROM, and then I gave it to my mom. Hahahaha…

This is Tron’s drawing! He also got very excited when I showed him what is “Draw Something”. Can you guess what he is trying to draw? All my friends are fed up when they know that Tron is the one behind the drawing, cos they will end up messaging me to tell me they don’t know what is he drawing. Hahahahaha!!!

Dim sum at J33 “Oriental Pavilion” after church. I had dim sum again today! Man, I’m so blessed.

Ok, very vain, but couldn’t decide which one is the nicest.

myPhone! April 11, 2012

Okie, time for a break from all my awesome holiday photos… to tell you that I bought a new phone!! After using my previous one for more than 5 years, it was starting to break down on me. The navigation button fell off, and stupid Nokia said I had to replace the entire keypad for a few hundred. No thanks. The port to charge also fcuked up, and again – need few hundred to replace. No thank you, again. Phone started randomly shutting itself down whenever it liked. Behave, why don’t you? And in case you’re wondering how I charged my phone, I charged the battery directly. Whenever I took out the phone battery to charge, I would put my SIM card into my dad’s backup phone. Yes, my DAD’S backup phone.

I think I whined a lot about my phone on my blog before, just doing a recap before continuing, haha.

Anyway, the MAIN reason why I took so long to get another phone is simply because I DON’T KNOW what to get. There are so many choices for smart phones nowadays. All I know is that I did not want another Nokia because I am so sorely disappointed in my last one. In the end, the strange, strange thing that “encouraged” me to change my phone is … my boss. I think he has shares in Apple or something. Everytime he saw me using my old + crappy phone, he would say, “Hey, just get an iPhone la!” He made it his mantra for a few days, and then I really did go and buy the iPhone! iPhone 4S to be precise.

You can slide in a 20sen coin and can prop your phone up. But that’s not why I bought this casing. I bought it because it is “spongebob yellow” and was the only phone casing I liked in the Mont Kiara mall, where I bought my phone.

Before buying it, Tron also did encourage me to get a new phone, but he is not as consistent as my boss. He used to be a BIG supporter of the Blackberry, but now he starts to complain a whole lot about it. Hehe. Then he liked the Samsung Galaxy S2, but after a while said it was no biggie. I think he’s interested in the Galaxy Note now, lol. So he was confusing me, who was already a confused soul. So instead of being confused and buying the “wrong” phone, I just continued suffering with my previous phone.

OH — another reason it took me so long to make a decision : I am not the gadget loving type. If I buy a phone, I know I will be using it for a longgggg time. I didn’t want another phone that I would hate after a year or so. :\ I suppose another reason would be that I’m just stingy about gadgets in general, and was hoping I would just win a damn phone so that the decision on what model to use would be made for me. Unfortunately, no luck there … YET. ;P Anyway, I have been chalking up a lot of huge expenses recently, so it was kinda like a, “Meh.. what’s another few thousand”. O_O”

I’m still exploring the apps, so if you’ve got any cool apps that I *must* download, please do tell me! Currently I’ve downloaded mostly camwhoring apps (hehe) and games. My favorite game at the moment is Bejewelled. And according to the app, when I had the phone for merely 4 days, I had already chalked up 8 hours of game time. O_O” Yes, that is how bad my addiction to the game is! I have other serious apps that Tron passed to me (he uses the iPad). Mostly stuff like things to read PDF files, lol. Yes, my boyfriend is a very serious guy. But I’m more into using this phone for fun times, so please recommend games to me! =D And yes, if you see me Tweeting more often than usual, this would be the reason! And I Twitpic more often too!

Oh, and I’m really loving the camera! Yes, one of things I loved about my old phone that other phones did not have was the front-facing camera. The iPhone 4S has a front camera, so I feel like there’s some continuity there, hahaha. But my old phone’s normal camera is pretty slow and I don’t think the Carl Zeiss lens is that special. I rarely took photos with the back camera for my old phone because it is sooooooooo slow that it’s not really “whipping out my camera and casually snapping something” anymore. But with my iPhone 4s, I have become so snap happy.

Ok, so it’s pretty much a bimbo phone for me, and I’m proud of that! I never claimed to be a gadget geek, so when I’m able to do small things like take photos, install apps, use wi-fi, etc, I’m really happy. Cos I didn’t have that with my old phone! In fact, I feel less inclined to switch on my laptop cos I can already do what I need to do on my phone.

If you’re wondering how Siri is for me — Siri reminds me why all my Australian / American vendors don’t seem to understand me. *sad sob* Actually, I’m changing, I speak really slow when talking to my vendors so they don’t think that I’m rapping / speaking chinese wtf. The first time I asked Siri to call my boyfriend, he said, “Sorry, cannot find Show LX Shoe”. LOL! So you can try and guess what is my boyfriend’s real name. When I dictated an SMS to Siri, he came up with some gibberish! Other things that Siri doesn’t understand : He thinks my “Change” is either “Cheesy” or “J”. “Cancel” is “Kennesaw” and “Review” is “Reviewal”. Whaddaheck! Am I really pronouncing so many extra syllables?!?!

Oh God, I just had a most irritating conversation with Siri:

“Send a message to Andrew”

“I don’t know who Angel is”

“Andrew.”

“I don’t know who Angel is. To whom should I send this message to?”

“Mommy” (decided to change contact since apparently I pronounce “Andrew” like “Angel”)

“I don’t know who Angel’s mother is. I don’t know who your mother is. In fact I don’t know who you are.”

WTF, why so rude! Anyway, just abruptly ending this entry with all the photos from my iPhone so far! :X

First photo taken ever on my iPhone… at the Apple store! That seems apt. By the way, my colleague told me that at some places, even the 4S is out of stock, but though I did not have to line up to get my iPhone in the Mont Kiara branch, I have a few bones to pick with the Maxis store there. Firstly, kept telling me the 32GB white casing is in stock, but when time to pass me the phone, it is suddenly NOT in stock. Told me to wait 30 minutes while he gets the phone from another branch (when I insisted I wanted the white one), but ended up waiting one hour. Then my credit card couldn’t go through, so I had to pay in cash!!

Random at work the next day, where I discover that a fully charged iPhone cannot even last til 6pm for me.

Muwahahha.. all the cute cam apps have been installed at this point!

Taken by my loving boyfriend, who was so into my phone when I first got it! He helped me with all the security settings!

My oh-so-adorable nephew! We love him and he loves us!

Present that Tron gave to me… for my phone! But nothing to dangle it from, so I use it for my pedestal key instead.

Arr… more camwhoring. On Sunday, had usher duty, where we always have to wear a white top and black skirt / pants and black sensible shoes. For me, it means that if I go anywhere else after church, people might mistake me for a sales assistant.

Random giant bed bug.

Yes, you always have a way of brightening up my day.. iPhone…

Just taken today! Went to 1U with my man.

Here we are at O’Briens, which was super understaffed today. They made us wait 30 minutes for two freaking sandwiches and 2 cups of terrible coffee and tea. They forgot our order la! I should have gotten the hint when the chinese uncle before us was ranting on why his order was late. What really got my goat is how they NEVER apologised for their mistake and we didn’t even screw them upside-down for their mistake, in fact didn’t scold at all! We just asked where is our food!! But another Malay group that actually arrived later than us AND got their food earlier than us, I heard the cashier say sorry to THEM. Wtf, I don’t want to pull out the race card, but it is really racist lor. I ban from visiting O’Briens already, seriously. Damn disappointed, starting the day on a bad note.

And you think the sandwich in O’Brien damn hard to make? Look at this la, there’s no veggies or anything also. Sheesh! And the group after us (that was apologised to) ordered the triple decker and all the other more complicated sandwiches lor. FTS seriously!

Ok, guess where we went to watch “Wrath of the Titans”? Storyline is nothing to shout about, but I like the action I suppose. The last good movie I watched recently was Battle Royale, which is something I may or may not rant about in the future.

Tron said some aunty was tsk-tsk-ing at us when we took this photo… lol. What’s wrong with camwhoring wor.

What Do Koreans Look Like Anyway? January 28, 2012

It always bemuses me when people are so excited when people say they look like anything but Malaysian Chinese. You tell a girl she looks Japanese and she squeals with excitement. The “in” thing now is to say they look Korean – again, happy faces all around. Why ar? Why so happy to be recognised as something you are not? The exotic-ism? But if EVERYONE started to look Japanese / Korean, how exotic can it be? Maybe I find it no big deal, because I never need to go “the extra mile” and people think I look Japanese. Some people bleach their hair, wear “big eye” contacts, fake lashes, etc, and then only people say they look Korean. I go out in my RM10 shirt, cheap slippers, specs, horrible hair and people still ask me if I’m Korean. Maybe those who go the extra mile look like the members of 2NE1, while I look like Kim Jong Il.

Hey, don’t discriminate.

And I think we shouldn’t aspire to look like another race… but to make people think that Malaysian Chinese are damn kau pretty. And one day, maybe people would think, “Hey, are you Malaysian Chinese?” is a compliment.

Meanwhile, here are photos I cleared out of my handphone :

Photo of me in red jacket being an usher @ church. I’m part of the “welcome ministry”. Do you think I look very welcoming?

The red jacket brings to mind company XYZ’s bank tellers… I feel like I’m working for them again!

Oh, you know. Just taking photos of myself while Tron drives me around.

Ah, a Gross Leech moment. There’s been people saying that there’s PLASTIC in Chatime Aiyu Jelly, and actually it’s just hardened jelly skin. I love aiyu jelly! Anyway, I was playing around with the jelly skin, and this is how it looks like. Very disturbing, I know.

I love taking pics of myself AFTER a workout to see how sweaty and tired I am.. This was after Simone’s Body Combat class…

After Su Lin’s crazy Body Jam class.

New shirt from H&M… this was taken at church. We had to go for some special course…

My Stepford’s Wives look… ;p

Casual Fridays… Can wear tee shirt to office, so syiok!

Me trying out the bling sunglasses that I won from Aldo. Check out how high the nose bridge is! Totally cannot pakai… hahaha!

Some funny Crocs game that they were playing. This was taken in Hong Kong. I like the miniature Crocs mascot so much! Wish I had the guts to sneak one home.

Nah, very Korean looking no? Some aunty asked me am I Korean when I look like this!!!

Glammed up a bit because was meeting Raymond for lunch. This was way back in December and I was flinging the rest of my leave left and right because they don’t allow us to carry forward

Trying to show you the ultra funky necklace that Tron’s mom gave me!! It’s HUGE and very “Oriental” feel about it.

Random pic taken in Vivocity.. Haven’t worn that green dress in ages!

Stopped by some highway rest stop on the way down to Singapore…

I just love my sheer, silver jacket… I pair it with almost anything. Even this long dress from Kitschen. But Tron hates the jacket… he says that when I first wore it, he thought it was smelly plastic. (Must specify that it is SMELLY some more)

Can see messy house in the background.

In Paddington House of Pancakes, Midvalley.

Nah, most Korean of them all. This is how “dresed up” I am when working from home.

Molesting Elephants… Tsk! December 14, 2011

I know I haven’t been blogging in ages. Been madddddd busy. Seriously busy. Cos wanted to clear up stuff before I went on holiday. Was in Singapore for 4 days 3 nights, not looking forward to my credit card bill. On the upside, I’m probably a shoo-in to win the car after spending so much. ~*do not want to disclose more about secret credit card contest that I’m entering*~

Anyway, I don’t really have a lot of pictures because of the following reasons :

a. whenever I go to Singapore, I tend to go back to the same places. I shop at the same places, I eat at the same places… so there’s really not much variety. Even I can’t inspire myself to blog with pictures like that.

b. my boyfriend takes me to places like Mos Burger… not that I’m complaining about that, but he seriously is the type of person who can eat Mos Burger / McDonalds for every meal and feel satisfied. Are women and men created with even different tongues, different tastebuds? I think I would be jelak eating the same thing EVERYTIME. Especially since I always choose the Yakiniku burger at Mos Burger without fail… Anyway, Tron says that I cannot blame him for developing such traits because he is a “bachelor boy”. -__-”

c. even when I met Ben, we were busy talking like at 100kph because we wanted to fill in on as much details as possible in as little time as possible. Where got even time to camwhore together!

d. how to possibly take a lot of sweeet sweeeeeet photos together when your boyfriend takes photos like these :

I was seriously dumbfounded when I saw this picture… I was like… WHAT did you think you were supposed to capture?!!? It could be ANYTHING’S BACKSIDE that I have my hands on! It is soooo weird. This is the laziest photographer on earth (his excuse was that he wanted to quickly get it over with as it was VERY HOT).. didn’t bother on framing and thinking about what the subject matter at hand is! Granted, it’s a cheese-tastic pose, but did I really deserve such a fate? To be immortalised in such a manner?

It was only when Tron saw the beginnings of a bitchfit on Orchard Road that he quickly helped me snap the following photo. But the moment was gone. My expression is no longer of someone attempting to push an elephant, but of someone who is laughing (because if she doesn’t laugh, she will cry with frustration) while randomly feeling up an elephant.