The Way We Were

I'm doing some read-ups on stress management in relation with the theory that psychological stress affects our risk of developing cancer. In one of the sites, a technique called Imagery is used. Basically it's remember something that soothes and relaxes you like the way your mom's cooking taste or the coffee shop at the corner of your old house. Something like that.
When I tried it on myself, the first thought that came was the day I spent with Shirling and Stef hiking Kerachut and the fun we had on the beach. I didn't know Stef before then and I kinda had a negative image of her but that day, I was taught the evils of prejudice and being judgmental.
Now, I remember that day as the best day I've had in the past couple of years. It sounds lame, just 3 girls on an empty beach (it really is empty because not many people know about it and it takes an hour or more of hiking to reach it). But the truth is, that day was bliss.
Too bad the people that matter will never see this post.And too bad I don't have any pictures to remember that day by.

Too Much Too Early

Just got back from Beijing!
The "!" is cause I'm happy I'm back, not cause it's Beijing... Lots to post bout lots of stories. Will probably end up not posting most of them though. I ain't in denial.
Anyway, some pics from before I went to Beijing. It was sort of a day out plus Terrence's birthday. Had fun~
This was at Pavillion's Red Box PLUS. I have no idea what difference PLUS or no PLUS makes but it seemed like it mattered to them. A few hours of polluting this world with my beautiful voice. Joann (girl getting Choke of Death by Patrik) sang quite horribly too so it's OK. (^.^)
This was before we went in. I was supposed to do some ultra cool pimp pose but shy shy lah~ Haha.
Oh, and this is even before the Pavillion! At the MUMedS BBQ before the clubbing night thing where Chris got drunk.
Group pic of BBQ! The girl with the horns next to me is Usher (or Ah Sher... Not really sure how to spell.. Oh, I found out recently that she has a REAL name! *shock*). The girl on my other side is Evonne (who really looks like Mei) and the guy beside her is Yin Qian (who's really really hitting on her hard). Then there's Ali (right) and Vin sitting on the floor. And Joann beside Usher... Basically, it's a long list.
Another group pic showing even more nerds! Haha, looks like our number is strong enough for world domination! Muahahaha~ Oh no, I just realised a few people on the right got their face cut off. Dang.... Ooo, Usher is standing beside me again. And see the guy at Usher's 2 o'clock?
His name is Ping Tet and he can really sing man. Like honestly in the big voice sing. Not the pop star sing type. I'm VERY glad he didn't go to the Red Box thing... He's from Penang too so yeah~ Penang Rulez.

Near Far Wherever You Are

It's been soooo long since I've last posted, right?
Between the last post and now a LOT has happened, but the main thing is I've finished my mid-sem summative exams!!!!
Haha, I never knew how stressed I was about it until the end of it. But then by then it was too late for me to do any Progressive Muscle Relaxation Techniques. For those of you how don't know what PMR is, it's something Monash is making us go through because they're afraid we might get too stressed and conform to the statistics that says we'll eventually become depressed alcoholics with psychiatric morbidity. Instead of PMR, they should either just reduce the amount of things we have to learn or make school sponsored FUN trips for us. Those makes so much more sense. And for those of you who laugh when we do something, go to hell! Nerds can party too!
I took a lot of pics between then and now but not all of them are with me now, so I'll just make do with what I have.
Don't need what I have not, right?
Oh yeah, and another major thing that happened is I lost my wallet. No biggie though.
I have no idea if I've posted this already.... This is a pic of the cultural morning we had. Every Friday is theme day so we basically dress up like idiots. The girl on the right most is Evonne (she's really pretty and has a HOTTT body... REALLY HOT), the girl in the middle is Joanne (hope I spelled it right), next is JC and the left-most is Jess the really pretty Indian girl. REALLY pretty.
This is Reb (right) and Chris on the cultural morning too. Later, we shall observe how Chris looks after more than 4 standard drinks in 2 hours.
This is Bibi Zarah on the same day but at night tie. She's from Mauritius which is an island country so basically, people walk around in bikinies and board shorts.
This is (L-R) Catherine, Yvonne and Reb. I have to cherish this pic cause this is one of the very few pics where Yvonne isn't doing some stupid pose. We were at the cafetera and since Chris was preoccupied talking to some other friend, we decided to cam-whore while waiting for her.

I know I say I don't like taking pics of food, but this place was awesome! It's at Kota Kemuning and the shop is called Tropical Secrets. Not onlt is the food good, the price is unbelievable also. And that white drink you see there, I don't know what it's called but I've never drank any juice that nice before. No idea what the fingers are doing...
After exams, it's chill out time! Reb is really concentrated on getting the Stack Up right but I really don't know what Stella is looking so intensely at. Is that a spoon? Is she looking at her food? By the way, we were at YogurBerry. The yogurt was pretty good.
The girl on the right is Cheryl. Sorry I can't get a clear pic of you! She's like my mommy. So nice.
I'm vain. So what?
Chris and Aliya... Drunk. There's a lot more pics and a huge story behind that night.... Might post some other time.

I Need A Bigger World

You know what?? I was telling Slur (my really close ally from college) about Bitch and she was totally on my side all along so I thought like "Muahahahahaha~".
Then today I go check Facebook and see "Sieu Ming and Su Peng are now friends".
I just went like WTF?!?!?!
Then I remembered that Bitch is from Penang too (Argh, so insulting. My beautiful Penang has been raped by her presence!!)
So in my mind I said all the prayers I could think of (I realised I don't know too many. In fact... I know none!) and clicked on "Su Peng" hoping against hope that it wasn't Bitch but kinda knowing it is cause Slur seems to know like more than half the people from Penang. Lo and behold, I was greeted by this:
I've done some modifications because I feel my beloved Penang being defiled is bad enough. I don't need my blog getting the same molestation too.
This is outrageous! Slur! I demand that you delete her!
Grrrrrrrr.....

So This Is What It Feels Like

Screaming like a baby in the womb
Silent screams I'll take to my tomb
Standing here in the same room
In a corner that won't fit two
My hopes and dreams I put on view
My sorrow my pain. Unknown to you

Lalalalalala~

I know it's kind of a little late for this, but what the hell is the Chinese cheng beng and burning things all about?!
Seriously, in this day and age, people who still believe in these kinds of stuff??
OK, let me explain why this is so freaking ridiculous.
IT POLLUTES THE EARTH!
Not enough? Fine. Here's more.
Let's see what happening here. Your ancestors died and went to heaven (hopefully *roll eyes*). He reaches heaven and then what?
In case you guys don't understand here. "Heaven" is supposed to be a place of eternal paradise or whatever crap the believers would like to say it is. No matter what race, religion or ethnic you are, it always comes back to the fact that heaven is a place of endless happiness and hell is a place of unconditional suffering.
But if living humans have to burn offerings to the dead ones to provide all the cars, credit cards, China Dolls (maybe in the future anti HIV medicine to combat the affects those dolls will bring) etc etc, that basically means there's nothing there? Heaven is just this vast field of clouds?
The fact that there's nothing there isn't even the worse point.
It's the fact that even after leaving this material world of pain and death, you eventually (still) have to rely on the mortal beings for your own happiness?!
The idea that burning things produces smoke which moves upwards and hence it moves to heaven is so primitive even Tarzan would have laughed his loincloth off!
If this theory sticks, do you realise that most of our pollution is produced by some form of heat towards a material hence producing chemical fumes that move UPWARDS? Basically we're saying every time the lorry or the bus accelerates and a thick fume of black toxin comes out of the exhaust pipe, it's actually making an offering to the deads?
Lessons we've learnt up till now. One, there's nothing in heaven (even though it's supposed to be a land of eternal happiness). Two, heaven is even more polluted than earth (as if that's possible).
The good side it, it was them who polluted it and it's them who will suffer later. I guess life (or death) is fair after all.
And the other problem here is that these people are burning paper.
PAPER.
Again, main problem, it pollutes the earth!
But let's stop being such environmentalist and just think rationally again.
Are you offering a symbol or are you offering the real deal?
To phrase it better, "are your believes for real?"
Because if all you're doing is offering a symbol then for god's sake PLEASE stop burning and making life miserable for all of us!
But if you're a true believer, why the F are you burning paper stuff?
Are you so unfilial that you want your ancestors to drive around in paper cars, fill petrol at paper pumps, whip out the paper plastics (plastics as in credit cards) to pay for it and then zoom off to have some screws with the paper China Dolls?
And get paper HIV? Plus, since a lot of people die of old age, won't you need to burn some Viagra to?
Is that the kind of life you would want the people who brought you into this life to have?
Is that how you treat the people who nurtured you and fed you? By giving them burnt up paper stuffs in return?
Shame on you!
And the sickest part is, he's gonna be screwing a paper thing!
This is even worse than blow up dolls.

A Selfish Kind of Love

It's going to be exam time soon! But the one on Tues is only a formative so relax la~
Maybe not too much but come on, if we're gonna study every time something like this happens, can you imagine how horrible our lives are going to be?
Myior was saying something about us going to hell when we die cause of the sky-bridge stuffs but honestly, I feel like we're already in academic hell.
There isn't much to report. I got a horrible hair cut. That's one. Of course I'm not going to elaborate about it.
The past few days have been so hot I was starting to think I've actually descended from acdemic hell into the flames and pitch fork hell! Can you believe that it was actually 33 degrees the other night? NIGHT??
And please realise that I don't have air con in my room. It's horrible!
But that was the few nights when I really appreciated my (no water heater) shower. I haven't been to the gym lately. I'm feeling so fat. OK, not just feeling. I know the truth la you don't have to make it so obvious!
Slurrie, if you look carefully you'll see the plate on the table. That Arab restaurant was extremely awesome and you can be sure I'm not losing any weight here. And Farhan!!!! I'm gonna go gym tomorrow!! By the way this is Adnan's birthday and he would be the only guy in the pic. Oh yeah~ the upper right most girl's name is Stella and although she looks normal here, she's not.
Hint: Her theme song is "This is the short Stella~ ella~ ella~ ella~ a~ a~ a~".
The amount of people that came when they heard there was going to be great food.
If I'm not mistaken his name is Mr Muscle. If I'm not mistaken la! This pic looks a lil' obscene.
A better shot of him. Although you can't see it in this pic, he looks so real he actually has nose hair. NOSE HAIR!! Can you believe that while they were disecting him and everything they didn't even have the courtesy to give him some grooming. And boy are his lips thick. One day I'll have the courage to poke into his eyes! Cause I heard it's like, real or something.
This girl's name is JC. And I tell you man, she is soooo wrong (mentally) that she makes all the porn directors and porn stars look right. Seriously. The lecturer says "... rubber, like a balloon for exmaple.." she replies "Hahahahaha." and the lecturer looks at her and goes "I knew the moment I said rubber you would be thinking about condom. OK lah, fine! Like a condom!"
And worse of all! She pinches your nipples if you step on her tail! Some times she pinches them for no reason! And she pinches them regardless of gender or what armour you're wearing. One time she pinched a guy's nipple eventhough he had his suit and shirt and tie on!
By the way, the pic is her demonstrating how to get a boob job. Sexy mama!
After she gets her boobs fixed, it's time to give some one else some service. Nurse JC, paging Nurse JC.
WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF SERVICE! Slur LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS BITCH ER!
This senior of mine. I can remember her name! It's Shu Peng. I remember it cause someone said "Oh it sounds like stupid."
Anyway this bitch a, I don't even feel bad for calling her a bitch.
This Bitch (that shall be her name). One day she just walks into our Histo lab when everybody was rushing off to lunch and she says something like "Can you all settle down while I make this announcement?"
I was really hungry so I asked "What's it about?"
That bitch just went "Well, if you'll just listen for a minute here I can actually tell you that."
Her attitude! And in the name of that red guy with horns and a pithfork from down under, she took waaaaay more than A MINUTE.
I walked out halfway la but the whole thing basically was about this thing she's organising where we have to PAY RM70 and drive all the way to god know's where and take time out of our already almost full schedule to do so.
And Bitch was giving the whole freaking class attitude about it. I don't know about you but the way I see it, she's asking for a favor and obviously she's not getting it.
So OK over and done with. Contact with Bitch #001 over. Date of Contact #002: never.
But oh how wrong I was. One day we were sitting there having lunch (why does all her problems center around lunch? Maybe that's why she's so fat.), Bitch just walks up, stands so close to me I can not only smell her obnoxious THING she must be using as a perfume but I couldn't scoop my food anymore cause her tummy was in the way of my arm movement!
She just stands there and starts talking about that stuff again and someone just went like "Hei, why don't you explain what you're talking about to these guys? I don't think they know what you're talking about." very nicely and she just gives us THE LOOK and goes,
"I already gave a very long speech about this conference in the Histo lab the other day and if they didn't attend it well it was their loss."
Can you actually believe she said that?!
If she didn't walk away right after I was gonna shout Bitch already.
She was there trying to ask us to sign up for it! And she gives us attitude!
By the way, from what I heard once she went to ask some girl why that girl wanted to be a doctor and of course the girl just ignored her. Then Bitch just went on by herself (without anyone prompting her) saying,
"Actually I didn't want to be a doctor. But since both my parents are doctors and in my opinion, if you're smart and you can serve people, you should become a doctor so that's why I'm here."
Do I need to elaborate further on why I can't stand her?
As Aliya said it: "She's an itch with a 'b'".