One Hectic Week

Phew. What a weekend.

College has already started and yet I still feel like I'm still on holiday, and if I don't snap out of this soon, well you can just say "GG" lah.

Monday-Thursday
Anyway, just F.Y.I, I spent the first 4 days of last week having the time of my life in Taman Negara. As of now, I just cannot find the words to say what an awesome holiday it was for me. If you would like a more detailed account of what happened during that period of 4 days in which I was enjoying myself, (since I won't be blogging on it) you can find it here and here.

Friday
Friday was supposed to be my rest day. I woke up at 2 in the afternoon and proceeded to Jun Sheng's house to join the gang who were already there since early afternoon transferring photos of TNT (Taman Negara Trip) and the Reunion.

After our 5 o'clock lunch at Asia Cafe I went home, tried to finish up some of my theory homework and then it was off to Uncle Kong Beng's house for CSG that night. Cookie break was definitely a treat that day. Aunty Yah Lee baked quite a big batch of heavenly, superbly huge chocolate chip cookies, which were as big as the circle I could make by joining the index finger and thumb of my right hand to my left. All of us had at least 2 each before going home. That is one recipe I must definitely ask from her.

Saturday
Music class at 10 in the morning. I totally got slaughtered doing aural exercise (listening to a piece and writing out the score) that morning. One thing's for sure though, Grade 4 is no joke anymore.

Had lunch with my church friends later in the afternoon. And as broke as they were they still chose Kim Gary's in Sunway Pyramid as our lunch stop.
Quotes See Hwang: "Rudi said it was quite cheap eating here mar..."
Yeah right... Lol.

Taekwondo later that evening was real fun. Sir had us doing 360 jumping turning kicks as well as jumping back thrust, a continuation from last week's class. Sir split us into 3 groups at the start, and this is how he did it:
Sir: "Okay, I want 3 lines." *Points at targets on the floor* "Okay, this one is big, this one is medium size and that one there is for cute."
Class: "Lol!"
Suddenly...
Sir: "Eh Andrew! What you doing there? That line is for cute only lar!"
Andrew was a very big guy, and well, Sir's definition of cute that day didn't actually include Andrew.
Andrew: "Sir, I'm cute also what..."
Sir: "Okay lah, okay lah..." *Points at the big line* "That one big and cute. Okay?"
Class breaks out in laughter.

Sunday
Woke up at 4.30 in the morning and got a lift from Kui Ch'ng to IYC to meet up with Master Wong and Sir Zul. For those of you who do not know where I went that day, well I volunteered to be a referee in the Johor Inter-Club Taekwondo Competition.

You may be thinking: "Wah! Referee ah? So cool wan!"
Then let me tell you, it's definitely not cool at all when you're forced to watch about 85 bouts of sparring going on in the ring and giving score with only a 20 minute lunch break in between. My fellow referees and I almost dozed off after we had our lunch. That shows how tired we really were.

Anyway, here are some pictures. (Was using a camera phone, so pardon me for the extremely poor quality and blur photos. Andrew I want your iPod Touch!!!!)
See the frog in the picture? The shop's supposed to be a distributor of sea food, but yet there's a picture of a frog on their sign board.
Quotes Sir: "Eh, why got katak one? Johor got special katak laut is it?"
XD The rest of the journey home were filled with numerous katak laut comments too lame to be repeated on this blog. Lol.

An example of the score sheet. Most of the time my submitted score sheets were blank though. (Sorry lah, I very kedekut in giving marks wan =p)

Master Yap, our ring's Head Judge, or Jury as they call it. 7th Dan Master woo, don't play play man!

GO Monica! The pride of our flock. She took out 2 opponents almost 2 heads taller than her to bring home the gold medal.

Andrew and me. We were taking pictures while sitting on the stage (referees get to sit up on the stage) with my camera phone and his iPod Touch (GAH! I want one too!!!) as the prize presentation ceremony was going on.

A picture of Sir Zul. He almost took his aerosol spray with him as they called him forward to present the medals.
Qutoes Kui Ch'ng: "Sir, what you want to do with the spray? Spray the winners is it?"

The 3 participants that we brought along. Proud to say PTA achieved 100% this time. 3 participants, 3 gold medals.

The cute kid with the awesome jumping back thrust. (The shortest one in the picture) He won gold by the way.
Yong-sama thinks this kid has the potential to become a leng-zhai in the near future. Hehehe...

Sir Zul's cacat car and radio clock. At the time of capturing this photo, the real time was actually 9.25 pm. Lol.

Andrew the powerful puncher.

Andrew: "Sir, why is your car dented in front? o.O"
Sir: "Huh, why ar? You-lah, kick my car."
Andrew: "Oh is it, well you asked us to do power kicking wan mar..."
Kui Ch'ng, Monica and I: "Eh yea hor, good idea, power kicking on sir's car..."
Sir: "..."

I reached home at 3am the next morning. Took a shower and crashed into bed straight away.

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There you have it, a week of my hectic life. (Cheh...) Now you know why I don't blog. Haha!


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Oh and as a "side-serving" to it all...

Yay! Finally Level 99! My first on a slow-rate server.

Yong-sama gets her much wanted HOLIDAY

I'm sure most of my close friends would very easily tell anyone who's asking about me how much I was really stressed out during the last six months and have been complaining of needing a REAL holiday. So yes then, I'm glad to announce that I finally got the holiday I wanted so much in that short span of two weeks I had as a college break.

I know it's not necessary to let everyone know what I actually did or how I enjoyed myself, but I still feel compelled to blog about it. Don't worry, it's just gonna be a real short post.

Bapakz in Genting
Weekdays are the best times to be going to Genting to avoid the stupid crowd you'd usually find there during weekends and peak seasons. So my college mates and I decided to go up there and enjoy ourselves thoroughly.

from left: Ai Cheng, Vivi, Me and Joce

I'm extremely proud to tell everyone that we crazy girls actually sat on the Space Shot (also known as the Solero Shot) at least 3 times. (I took it 4 times, my good friend Athirah and Joce actually took it 5 times). By the third time I was on it, I didn't feel anything anymore. Guess I was already numb to it by then.

And the cutest one in the pack: Ms. Athirah

We didn't stay there for the night though. And a good thing it was I guess, apparently the group of other college mates we met there by pure coincidence actually experienced some 'supernatural' sightings/feelings in a lift in a particular hotel.

6 Hot Chicks on Redang
Most of you already know how long we girls have been good friends ever since entering the same class during Form 1 in secondary school. And through bitter and sweet times we've actually been able to stick together until now (believe me, it wasn't easy). Going to Redang together have always been our somewhat plan and dream for a long long time. Looks like dreams really do come true if you put your mind to it huh? =D

The boards the hotel built floating on the sea's surface leading further out to the open sea was a fun walk during the high tide. From left: Zhong Li, Sarah, Lotte, Fern and Maine.

Now you understand why I said we were hot chicks right? Because seriously, they all are.

There's nothing much for me to say. The time and fun I had with them is just indescribable in words. The free accommodation that one of us was able to obtain was a bonus added on to all the fun we had. Love you all gurls! Next stop: Pulau Phuket XD

Hungry Teddies Storm Ipoh (Or more like 'Hungry Teddies wandered around Ipoh aimlessly a lot')

We are friends. We are Teddies. And we were HUNGRY.

Clockwise from left: Sue-Anne (nice pose), the boys at their card game -Foo covering his face, Qi Hong, Willy and Jun Sheng on the floor, The Sleeping Dong (I know he'll kill me if he sees this pic XD don't nobody tell him, 'kay?) and me.

Yup. Hungry Teddies really wandered around New Town Ipoh a lot aimlessly with me only helping Qi Hong oh-so-pathetically until we finally satisfied our stomachs. (I still feel bad because I think I was a bad guide. Lol)

Most of the time we spent hanging around the hotel room playing cards and talking. Ah, but it was nice doing a nice long catch-up after not seeing each other for so long. So where to next, Teddies?

My new but expensive hobby

Baking!

You can say that I was extremely 'smart' to take up this hobby right at the end of my holidays, when I was so broke (I still am F.Y.I) and heavily in debt (Baking is expensive if you have to buy the ingredients with your own allowance, like I do... especially chocolate cakes...)

What was left of my butter cake just three days after baking it. -Yes, it's empty-
My extremely successful first-time banana loaf cake.

But the joy of seeing family members and friends enjoying the cakes I made is more than enough to cover up for the cost of it. It's on to cookies next, when I'm not so broke that is. =D

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Here ends the delightful stories that I have to tell you about my holidays, and it's back to the digging of my grave for another five months. To all that contributed in any way to this past holiday of mine, I say thank-ya big big (Stephen King-- Dark Tower Style) and love you all.

Wait, wait, this isn't the post that I said would blow your heads away. That is still a W.I.P (Work in Progress). Don't know when I'll get around to that though.