Sayonara.

*If only I can bring my TV along!!!!* :p

It is finally my turn. All my brothers went and got back already. Evidently, all of them grew up after the trip abroad. I hope the same happens to me too.

To all my friends who called, sms-ed, MSN-ed, met up and belanja-ed, thank you so so so so much for taking the effort to do the things you did. Really appreciated it. :D

Hope to see you guys soon and do keep in touch!!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!!

Crazy.

My relatives can be really mad at times. Had dinner at Royal China Restaurant in Ampang just now. It was a Chinese New Year dinner with my close relatives and my dad's employees but everyone thought I was my farewell dinner.

Coincidentally, it is my fourth brother's Chinese birthday. Got him a cake and everyone sang him a birthday song. Since I am flying off tomorrow, my cousins were all forcing me to drink with them. Bottoms-up with everyone one of them, including the restaurant captains! You cannot imagine how many glasses of wines I had to drink!

The captain was singing karaoke in our room. Everyone was cheering and clapping, making tons of noise. My cousin brother and one of my dad's employee sang me a farewell song while everyone cheered. For that moment, I really felt like crying!

One of my cousin sister was being a b*tch today. Heh. Since we're all so happy and high, she tried to force me into singing karaoke! She told everyone that I like Miriam Yeung and all of them was like forcing me to sing! She even took the songlish book to search for it. Thank God the song she wanted me to sing wasn't in there. Phewwwww!!!!

By the way, did I mention that my brother and his girlfriend is going for the Leo Ku and Miriam Yeung concert next month in Bukit Jalil? Arggggggghh...!! *Envy*

新年快樂!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!!!! Gong Xi Gong Xi!


Our reunion dinner. One final yummylicious home-cooked food before I fly off to NZ and suffer from my own cooking!! *sweat*


Loooooooooooooooook!!! My angpaus. Muahahahaha! Got a few for my NZ journey. For safe trip wor. ;)


The one person I am sooooooooooo gonna miss when I am in NZ is definitely my niece!

95% packed and ready to go! Feeling abit nervous now...

Big No.

Fiona Sit to Substitute Miriam Yeung in Love Undercover 3

What is this?! Why are they messing with two of my favourite movies (Love Undercover 1 & 2)??! Why are they replacing the original lead actress?!?

As much as I like them both, it's still a BIG NO! No no no no no no no.

If it is decided that way, they might as well just change the lead actor (Daniel Wu) too. I don't see how Fiona Sit matches Daniel Wu.

I HOPE they change the whole plan altogether.

Well, at least change the movie name, change the entire cast and change the plot. Change anything that resembles Love Undercover 1 & 2!!

Dinner.

Had dinner with 5 of the Bliques members at Delicious, One Utama. I was extremely late due to the traffic jams around my house. Took many alternative routes and finally reach my destination 30 minutes later. Took another 15 minutes to look for a parking space. Dinner was supposed to be around 7-ish pm but I reached at 8pm. Heh. Sorry about that, guys.

Eric, thanks for the dinner!! Really appreciated it!

Classic.

I believe most ex-SMKTTDI students would remember the laksa that was sold in the canteen during recess. It was not generally delicious or anything but for that time, it was, for our standard at least. I remember rushing down to the canteen to buy a bowl of it when they sell it on certain days of the week. As a matter of factly, I remember discussing with Su Yi if we're gonna buy the laksa that day or not. Or if we decide to share it or not.

It was one of the bestsellers. If you're late, chances are you won't be able to buy a bowl of it. Our canteen is basically overcrowded with 'hungry ghosts'. What we always do is, we buy a bowl of that super-boiling laksa and eat it outside the canteen, standing by the bicycle stand.

Let me briefly describe the laksa. It's not like the typical assam laksa you get from the pasar malam or anything, whereby the soup is dark in colour. This laksa soup is brownish, and cloudy. The noodles is not transparent like it should be. It's white (like uncooked-la!). In the soup, there's always some parts and bits of the 'buah assam' and some kinda leaves.

I think the laksa is the one thing I truly missed when I left school few years ago. I mean, for few years I fought my way through many many hungry ghosts just to grab a bowl of that laksa! How can I possibly forget that?!

Just when I thought I'll never get to taste that laksa again, I discovered a place which serves something like that old-school-laksa! It was in this shop in Subang Jaya called Bawang Merah, opposite SJMC Outpatient Centre. Wooooo! Maybe the soup wasn't boiling that's why it didn't taste like the one sold in our canteen. Nevertheless, it's quite good.

If any of you remembers the laksa I was talking about and missed it dearly, go try it out at Bawang Merah in Subang Jaya!

My cousin didn't like it though. I concluded that the reason she didn't like it was because she didn't go through the experience I had!

Registered.

Did my part as a Malaysian citizen. Registered as a voter today at the Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya booth at One Utama. For that moment, I felt so 'adult-ish'. Hahahahah! So have you guys do your part as a Malaysian citizen? Go register!

Was at One Utama since 10am. You have no idea how jam it was when I was entering the carpark! For God's sake, it was only 10am! If it wasn't for the movie I was supposed to catch at 11am and I had to collect the tickets, I wouldn't go there so freaking early!

In preparation for Chinese New Year, I took my Japanese baby for a massive makeover. Cost me RM68 but it was all worth it. Afterall, I haven't been treating him well ever since I brought him home about 4 years ago. Since I'll be "deserting" him for about a year, it's good to pamper him abit before I leave.

As for me, I pampered myself by buying pair of shoes (again!). For some reason, there was a "force" pulling me into the Converse shop. Browsed a little, tried on 2 pairs which caught my eyes the most and finally settled on a low cut misty grey-coloured Chuck Taylor's. Basically, if you've seen my other Converse shoes, it's the same. Just different colour.

Have you seen the black 'Chucks' I had? The one with the Italy flag at the back? Bought it for slightly more expensive from Taiwan than the normal black Chucks they sell here. No regrets though. I couldn't get that edition here!

What I am trying to say here is, I've accomplished so much in half a day!!

Boob Watch.

Sent this picture to The Star newspaper. Hope they'll publish it on their 'boob watch' section!



If it is one spelling mistake, I can accept but all of it??!

For your information, I snapped this picture in a hotel in Shah Alam. Well-known hotel, okay! Can't believe they made this mistake.

So if one fine day you see this picture in the papers, its from me. :p

New Email.

If you didn't receive an email from me regarding the change of my primary email, sorry. Maybe I didn't update my contact list. :/

Please send your emails to looannie@gmail.com from today onwards. No junk mails please!!!! :p

As for MSN, it will still be loo_annie@hotmail.com

.......

I've come to a stage where I no longer have anything to do online. MSN? There's no one at the moment who I want to talk to. Like a routine, I log on to all my bookmarks everything I come online. Checked all blogs, webbies, forum, everything. Nothing. Nothing seemed interesting anymore.

So boring-la!

Watched Memoirs Of A Geisha with Su Yi and Emma at GSC earlier. Not baaaaaaad at all. Its funny how Michelle Yeoh speaks with the Malaysian-English accent. Felt so.... homely. Hahahahaha! Since I didn't read the book before, the movie taught me things about geisha that I needed to know. Sells art but not body ;)

I've finally decided to start packing for New Zealand today. At the moment, there are two large luggages in my room. One of it is kinda filled with stuffs I am bringing. So heavy! Planning to fill up the other luggage with clothes only. I'll put the instant noodles and other foodstuffs in a box for custom declaration.

Applause!

Another wonder created by Hong Kong director Joe Ma Wai Ho!



Among the stack of cds and dvds I bought from Hong Kong is a movie called 'Embrace Your Shadow', starring Hong Kong singer Fiona Sit and Taiwanese actor Dylan Kwok. Had absolutely no expectation of this movie but towards the end I felt totally satisfied and thankful that I bought this dvd. There are some scenes which are so touching that I have to admit that I actually shed some tears!

This has gotta be one of the nicest Cantonese film I've ever watched. Such a nice and touching film and it makes me wonder why it never get to hit our shores...

Here's a movie summary from the dvd;

"Ran's (Fiona Sit) life has never been easy, until she meets Juchin (Dylan Kwok). She has to look after her brother who was paralyzed by a rare heriditary disease, a special form of Takayasu's arteritis, and six years old niece abandoned by her mother. The burden is supported by an unstable job of tailoring curtains with limited income. Juchin, a teenage professional thief, coincidentally bumps into Ran's family. Touched by their love and affectionateness, he decides to protect and help. Eventually, Ran has fallen for this guardian angel. But a gangster threatens Juchin's life, troubles also bring to Ran, nevertheless, Ran and Juchin are still holding on. The only thing Juchin wishes for is that the rare hereditary disease will not fall onto Ran..."

F*ck.

Another reason to cry for leaving Malaysia this year.



Why??!?!!! WhYyyyYYYyy??!?! WHYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

My Turn.

After attending various farewells by my friends, it is finally my turn. Catered the deeeeeeliiiiicccciiiiiooouuusssssss food from Madam Ng. If you're like Su Yi who had no idea who Madam Ng is, well... she's my mother!

Felt so thankful, grateful and appreciated to my mom! She cooked up a storm in our kitchen and churned out a huge pot of curry chicken, fried mee hoon, sambal sotong and deep fried spring rolls! On my part, I made my specialty - coleslaw. Oh, and I prepared the drinks too. You should see that huge ass block of cincau we bought from the market! It weights more than 1kg! So there I were, standing by the kitchen counter and dice dice dice dice dice the entire block of cincau. Soaked the diced cincau in a pot of water for a couple of hours and you cannot imagine how BLACK the water became. Like squid ink weih!

Okay. Enough of typing. Here's some pictures from the party yesterday.


IACT Bliques


SMKTTDI-ans


With Rozanna. Known her since the day she was born!


You have no idea how HOT it was under the quilt!


Group photo without Emma and Mary


Charmaine Loo, co-owner of the ball pit


Su Yi Chin, intruder of the ball pit

The 3rd Generation.

"There is a proverbial Chinese saying that a family’s accumulated wealth cannot be maintained past the third generation. This movie uses period drama to capture the essence of the culture, diversity and social complexity of the Chinese in relation to family, love, relationship and business. The movie portrays this through the eyes of the Chan family as it evolves from one generation to another generation" (Cinema Online)

Malaysia's first Cantonese art film, The 3rd Generation.

*Spoilers Alert*

Well, the whole angle and shooting thing was good but the development of the story was kinda blurry. Until the end of the movie, I still couldn't really tell what happened and how the summary above came about. Since there's an emphasis on the whole wealth thingy, I thought the movie is about how the 3rd generation used away all the money and stuffs. You know... that spoilt-rich-useless-ungrateful-kid thing. But no. There's nothing much on that.

Well, the son (i.e the lead actor) isn't exactly spoilt-rich-useless-ungrateful-kid anyway.

Character-wise, I think the movie can do without Amber Chia. No. 1, she hardly has any script. No. 2, she has a relatively low screen time. No. 3, she can't act for nuts.

Carmen Soo. Ahhh. Seems like she's the lead actress. Her character doesn't really need alot of acting skills-la, I think. And I H-A-T-E the way she converse with the lead actor (Nicholas Teo). There was a bunch of girls actually laughed out loud when the both of them were talking to each other. You will understand why once you watched the movie.

Nicholas Teo. THE son. THE one who started an affair with Carmen Soo's character. THE whole point why this story has taken place. It's either someone offers him a better script to showcase his talents or just stick to singing. Period.

If you managed to read up on the article about this movie on today's The Star papers, you'll notice that they mentioned something about the "steamy dance scene". Well, your imagination doesn't really need to run free. It IS quite steamy. Let just say its a better alternative to sex scenes...

Watch this if you are taking cross-cultural studies. It tells us younger generations about the traditional Chinese values and beliefs. I managed to stay awake throughout the 2 hours of the show, mainly because I survived Puteri Gunug Ledang (which was the longest 3 hours in my life!). It wasn't THAT boring actually. The 3rd Generation, I mean. My brother and mother beside me was complaining and wanted to leave halfway through. Told them I'll meet them outside after the show but they stayed anyway. I think they've never watched any artsy film before, that's why. I personally find it quite entertaining for watching artsy film once in a while. Especially since its a Malaysian one! Malaysia Boleh!

Upcoming.

Watch out, world! Charmaine Loo, the child-prodigy is set to invade the drumming world!


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Upgrade.

Am planning to upgrade the RAM of my iBook. With the amount of things I have in my hard disk, the current 256MB is not enough!

Went to Ikano's Apple Experience Centre and enquired about the price. For a 256MB RAM, it's gonna cost me RM350 and for 512MB RAM, it's gonna be RM550. Pricey pricey. I'll just settle for the 256MB RAM. Gonna cost me a bomb already.

Asked about the additional hard disk too, for fun. 40Gb is RM499, 60Gb (RM699) and 80Gb (RM899). Mad! Daylight robbery. Thank God for the wonderful invention called external hard disk!

Horror.

The horror. The shock. The eeeuwwww.

We found a baby snake in our koi pond! It was first discovered by my brother's maid. That slimey 'lil thingy was "resting" on top of the light at the side of the pond. My dad called for help immediately (not the firemen, but the contractor instead!). Meanwhile, he tried whacking the snake with a stick. It fell into the water and my dad kept whacking. Water splashed everywhere. For that moment, it looked like a scene from Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragon! :p

I think the snake kinda fainted. It was curling up and floating rather lifelessly in the pond. The contractor came awhile later and scooped the snake up with a fishing net. He placed it in a bag and apparently is going to release it. Well, he can do anything with it, as long as it doesn't end up in a cooking pot!

It's too tiny for human consumption anyway.......

Marketing.

The skills. The tactics. I am once again conned by the wonders of marketing.

The anticipation of watching this increased after spinning Ellacadabra for too long. The perfect marketing skill. The show received high rating and people will start to notice her so it's time to push out album number 2.

Well, the album was not bad-la. Was completely surprised that Ella Koon sounded so good but wasn't really promoted in the Chinese music industry. Since she wasn't promoted all the way to Malaysia, I am sure not many Malaysians know her. Frankly, I have never heard any of her songs before Ellacadabra. It was a sudden decision to purchase the cd when I was in Hong Kong. HK$82 for 13 songs and approx. 30 minutes worth of DVD. Not very cheap but it is definitely a 'bargain' I can never ever get in Malaysia!