Beautifully Imperfect.

Okay, this blogger is back, after what seemed like ages. It's not actually been THAT long, you know, just about 10 days? Have been slowly sinking into the holiday mood, the type where you just want to laze around on the couch and do nothing else. It's either been so hot, or raining cats and dogs these days. The weather just makes me want to sleep. Holidays are seriously unhealthy. Must get up and about soon. Badminton? Cycling? Come on. Let's go!

Nothing, with a capital N, has been happening lately. Had yumchar sessions with the girls (and Ching treated us to yummy Chef Loong dimsum. Thank you, Ching!), pasar malam with Ching, Ming and Xue, plus One Tree Hill with Mary etc. The usual. Everyone's been, or going to, have their exams soon. Ran into Foon Yee and Diane on Thursday in McDs. They were there to 'study'. *big grin* That didn't really happen, 'cause we got caught up in a gossipin'/bitchin' session as usual. Met up with Karen later that night for another short mamak outing. It's just nice to have the freedom to catch up with these people whom I haven't really seen in so long.

Been eating so much. Tsk tsk tsk.

Anyway, back to business. Must update about the most fun event that has happened since the end of exams. None other than... *drum-rolllllll*

EIGHTEEN ALREADY!!

The 18th birthday celebration of Ms. Ng Siok Kwan! We left at about 8 p.m. to go to Bandar Menjalara, to this superb Western foodhouse called D'Fortune. The food there is really good, plus it's really good value for money. Although, Andrew had some really weird dish which consisted of six sausages of assorted lengths =p Don't know what he ordered, 'Sausage Delight' or something like that. Lol. As usual, made loads of noise, sang 'Happy Birthday' at the top of our lungs to the birthday girl, and laughed our heads off at each other. Oh, and we had fortune cookies, so that was really fun too. Left to Rush after dinner, where this big geeky looking guy in a red shirt was trying to dance with Mary *tee-hee*, and then some of us crashed back at Sioki's place. Slept at 4-something after cooking ourselves a Maggi Mee supper and our girly pillow talk.

Well, being the self-absorbed people that all 10 of us are, we never go anywhere without cameras, so I really want to let the pictures do all the talking for me, but Flickr is being a total arse, and won't let me upload the photos just yet. So, I'll update again soon with the pics, I promise.

Be back soon!


Until then, I'd like to wish a very happy birthday to all the November babies, Eugene, who turned 18 on the 2nd, Esther and Jamie, both 18 on the 3rd, Jane who turned 18 as well on the 5th, my darling Mummy who turned 60 on the 14th, Siokkwan, who turned 18 on the 18th, and De Shun who also turned 18 on the 22nd ! Happy belated!

Also, all those having exams or are about to have exams, Siokkwan, Mary, Charmaine, Wenxue, Archana, Manda, Karen, Jo, Pekwah, and anyone else whom I'm not aware of, all the best and good luck!

I received this email today:

A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you. While reading these, keep in mind that these are first graders "6" year-olds, because some of them are really classic!

Better to be safe than... punch a 5th grader.

Strike while the...bug is close.

It's always darkest before...Daylight Saving Time .

Never underestimate the power of...termites.

You can lead a horse to water but...how?

Don't bite the hand that...looks dirty .

No news is...impossible.

A miss is as good as a...Mr.

You can't teach an old dog new...math.

If you lie down with dogs, you'll...stink in the morning.

Love all, trust...me.

The pen is mightier than the...pigs.

An idle mind is...the best way to relax.

Where there's smoke there's...pollution.

Happy the bride who...gets all the presents .

A penny saved is...not much.

Two's company, three's...the Musketeers.

Don't put off till tomorrow what...you put on to go to bed.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and...you have to blow your nose.

There are none so blind as...Stevie Wonder.

Children should be seen and not...spanked or grounded.

If at first you don't succeed...get new batteries.

You get out of something only what you...see in the picture on the box.

When the blind leadeth the blind...get out of the way.

And the favorite:
Better late than...pregnant.


LMAO! Kids say the darnest things, huh?

I had enough of exams and quizzes, so I thought I'd make one for you instead. Haha!
Come on, it's about me, so it's not nearly as boring as Economics, and it's really easy. So just go test how much you know *drum roll* the reeeeeaaaaallll me.

So, go on and click here to take the quiz and then click here to see all the scores.
You get gloating rights if you get a high score.

Lol, just a good bit of fun.

GUESS WHO'S BACK

Guess who's back... back again... Shady's back... whoops, wrong track.

Haha. Just exactly how lame was that?

For those of you who did not understand that, that was my attempt at a joke-lah. It's all a result from :-
Too much brain usage during exams + Mind-boggling questions + Three hours of squirming uncomfortably around in the super cold exam hall - mamak sessions - social life = Overheating of brain = Extra lame than ever.

ABUSE (FINALLY) OVER

After 13 long years of education, including those kindy years, I have seriously come to the conclusion that final exams are a form of child abuse. Not by inflicting pain, but mental disorder. Lol. Exams are over for the year! Never thought the day would come for me to say that. Dramatic, I know, but seriously. Maths B was the final paper today, and well, we do not expect anything less from a Maths B paper. Left the whole killer 15-mark question blank. BLANK. Ms. Lee actually came by my table and I must've have looked pretty lost because she attempted to drop a few hints... BUT *drum roll* I still couldn't get it. I couldn't for the life of me understand what she was trying to tell me. How bad is that?


Oh well. My happy after-exam smile. =)

DETOUR

So, first event after exams: we were supposed to go for a few rounds of badminton at Megah. We didn't make any bookings, 'cause well, usually we just walk in and get a court without any difficulty. This time, all courts are booked till the end of the year on weekdays after 6 p.m.! Can you believe it? Good business. So, we ended up at Williams. Another place with good business and good food. Slurp. Ate so much. Headed home after that, Suki stayed a little while longer at Ching's and managed to book us tickets for the premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on Thursday! Wheeeee. Hope the movie isn't a total letdown because Goblet of Fire is my favorite book of the series. But then again, these movies adapted from books are always letdowns. [*cough* Charlie and the *cough* Chocolate Factory]

OTHER BITS of TOTAL RANDOM-NESS


Aaron. Also known as the 'Rambutan Tree' of our family. He eats SO MUCH. One rambutan after another.

It feels good to be blogging again. Yes, weird, I know.

But, it took me almost an hour to open up the 'New Blog Post' page. Sheesh. My dial-up connection is getting slower as we speak.

Omg. College is OVER. OVER. OVER.

I am very fascinated by toys. Innovative. They have little jigsaw puzzle pieces in plastic instead of conventional cardboard. See? That's my work of art. It's a horse, in case you couldn't tell. Hmpf.



Ching, Suki and I are going to bake 'Chewy Choc Cookies' tomorrow morning. Yay.

Siokkwan's birthday is coming up this Friday! Can't wait.

This was weeks ago, but the Gaghan family got eliminated from the Amazing Race, and I'm so heartbroken. Bah. Little Carissa Gaghan is nine years old and she's racing there, everyday, tougher than some of the idiots on the race. And I salute both her parents for being so strong and carrying the weight of the team, travelling with two kids. It's definitely not easy. Look at her trying so hard not to cry when they were eliminated. Sigh.




That Backstreet Boys' video, I don't remember what the title is, but it's just weird. The one where they're so 'rock and roll' and old school. It's WEIRD.

I just realized I can name all the Backstreet Boys offhand: Nick, Brian, Kevin, AJ and Howie. Gosh, I'm a freak.

I don't like tauge.

Man, I have to wake up early to walk Joel to school tomorrow. Darling Joel is taking his first steps into the world of primary school. Awww. It's a big moment for him.




I feel like eating potato chips at past midnight. Right now.

I absolutely CANNOT stand bitchy and slutty unpleasant-looking Paula Malai Ali. Ugh.

Mini Cornetto's are not worth it. I can down one in three bites.




The mounds of papers I've used for all five subjects this year are all stacked up on the very bottom-est rung of my book shelf. Imagine how many trees the MUFY program kills every year? A lot.

I need sleep.

Yeah, so, that's that then. Good night (or rather, morning) ! Not much has been going on in my life to blog about, and I doubt you want to hear all about my final exams either. But that will change hopefully soon, lol. I need some fun.

Oh and before I go, here's a quote.

Optimism: Every dark cloud has a silver lining...
Pessimism: ...but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.

Listening to: Fort Minor - We Believe [You guys should totally check this out, it's Mike Shinoda's solo project]
Currently feeling: Queasy. Ugh.

FINALS START TOMORROW!

So what am I doing here blogging now, you may ask? The answer: I don't freaking know! Argh. I'm so not disciplined. Not disciplined at all. How do you guys force yourself to study. I don't know, it's like the drive, it's just not there anymore. I know I just have to give it my all for the next two weeks. It's like the final laps of a super long marathon, but I'm running out of breath already. No stamina. Water, please? Lol.

Things to do after finals, in no particular order:

1. Clean my room. Too much books and notes and papers junking up my space. All that academic-ness in the air is making it hard to breathe. Lol.
2. Take my driving lessons! And get the damn license!
3. Pack for India. Wheeee.
4. Shop. Shop. Shop till I drop.
5. Watch that new Chinese show that Eve has on VCDs.
6. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.
7. Do whatever I want to do.
8. Probably work in January.
9. Try to catch up with some old friends.
10. Definitely spend more time with family.
11. Red Box, anyone?
12. Watch Chicken Little, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and all those other old movies that I've missed.
13. Bug Papa to get a DVD player.
14. Play some badminton or basketball with the gang.
15. Watch episodes of One Tree Hill with Mary and Suki.

How am I ever going to do them all?

See, I even changed my desktop wallpaper. Not like it's helping at all!



Issssssh.

See you all (hopefully ONLY in two weeks time)...

Listening to: Simon Webbe - Lay Your Hands
Currently feeling: Irritated

Omg. So freaking slow. As slow as a kura-kura walking on ice. I hate dial-up connection. Urgh. I hate despise it with a vengeance. It took me almost forever to open up the page for me to type away at my new blog post. So long, that I even forgot what I wanted to blog about in the first place. Grrrr. Damn TMnet and their sucky dial-up system.

Since I don't for the life of me remember what I ever wanted to blog about in the first place, let's amuse all you people with a what-I-did-over-the-past-few-days type of blog. Won't be too boring, I promise.

Oh, and btw, guess who I stumbled upon in the world of blogging? None other than our lovely Ms. Jovina Chua! *claps* Check her page out if you miss her. I know I do.

ECHO: OUR IDENTITY

Wednesday was the launch of our Sunway University College Student Magazine, Echo. After what seemed like long hours of slogging our asses through wordy features and interviews, our magazine was officially launched to the criticizing eyes of Sunway students. Bittersweet in some sense, I would say. First of all, I enjoy writing, there's no doubt about that. I liked writing up features on topics of my choice, conducting interviews, getting the survey done. But what I didn't enjoy: poor organization, lack of teamwork, social rigidity, poor communication skills which 'leaders' should have had portrayed. I'm not saying it was evident in all members, because it wasn't. But when it mattered, there was a huge lack of the abovesaid, and that made work in Echo a tad unbearable, as much as I enjoyed writing.

But all that aside, thank you, all you people who I enjoyed spending time with in Echo, especially all the writers, namely Cath and Eugene. You guys are wow. Oh, and I'm sure Cath would have liked me to say that she was gorgeous, in case any male who is hot, single and available is reading. Haha!


My dear favourite fellow writers, Eugene and Catherine during our FRIM trip earlier this year

Well, the magazine did turn out better than I expected. Not incredibly amazing or anything, but good enough, considering the condition of the entire editorial board throughout the year. And I think those of you in Echo would know who I'm referring to. Not well edited at all, though. A college's [esp one of SyUC's stature] mag should have been flawless. *shrugs* Oh well, what do I know, I'm only a writer.

Played two games of foosball with Mary. And played really really horribly. My hand co-ordination skills damn teruk. So malu-fying! Considering the whole bunch of them at the other table were all MUFY people. "Wendy, use your English skills to play foosball, lar!" "Wah, Wendy playing foos!"

*covers face* *crawls under table* Mary, next time you wanna play with me, wait till there's nobody, okay?

MOCHA MUD PIE

Thursday. Yada yada yada. Fast forward five hours of horribly boring toe-falling-asleep classes, two hours of Econs-extra-class-torture and press 'play' at our council dinner at TGIFriday's in Subang Parade. *slurp*

I swear the best part of TGIFs is the mud pie, seriously. Heavennnnnlyyy.

We had a blast there. LMAO. Our lovely Charmaine decided to torture the poor waiter who was assigned to our room. Well in all fairness, he was pretty cute. Even Ranek said so; and then purposely looked at his name tag for his name. [Shhh, don't worry, I won't tell your darling.]

I'll just recap the more, *ahem*, interesting scenes for you guys.

Scene 1: The First Attraction

*All of us were sitting around, joking and poking fun at each other while digesting our heavy appetizers and main meals; been waiting for desserts to come for the past 15 minutes*

*Waiter comes in*

Charmaine: (points at dessert) So long. You went and buy our dessert, is it?
Waiter: (looks embarassed)

Scene 2: Bodily Parts

*I don't exactly remember what happened, but I think Wenxue was teasing Charmaine about guys*

Charmaine: No, I like a combination of Roddick's face, Nadal's muscles and Blake's arse! [Wendy's note: Fyi, those are tennis players.]
Mr. J.: How about that waiter's ass???
*Everyone laughs and some of the girls start discussing the waiter*
*Waiter comes in*
Charmaine: (blurts) They want to check out your ass!
Everyone: (looks shocked)
Waiter: Errr...that's flattering, errr..but no thanks. (walks out backwards to the door, afraid to show his ass to us)
Everyone: (bursts into laughter)

Scene 3: The Return of the Waiter

*Waiter brings in the next round of desserts*
*Gloria and Alan are pulling one plate towards them to share, and then we hear the sound of the fork dropping onto the floor*
Gloria: Excuse me, can we have another fork, please?
Mr. J: (teasing) You purposely dropped the fork so that he would come in again, right?!!
Gloria: It wasn't me, Alan dropped the fork!
Everyone: (turns to look at Alan)
Alan: (in lightning-speed reaction, points at Charmaine and accuses her; waving his hands around frantically) Charmaine asked me to do it!
Charmaine: What???
Waiter: (looks confused and embarassed at the same time) Errrr, okay. (Starts to walk out backwards again)
Chew Ling: (calling out gaily after the waiter) By the way, we're from Taylors!


OMG. I laughed my arse off that night! LOL!!!!

Ming, Ching, Chew Ling [goodness, it all rhymes] and I went to Wenxue's place after the dinner to watch Goal!. I thought the movie was a pretty good football flick, compared to some of the previous ones that we'd had. Ching was obviously not enjoying herself though, haha. Chew Ling, luckily enjoyed it, because the guy was cute. Haha, I totally agree. I want to watch it again once the better DVD comes out, cause the sound on Wenxue's one wasn't really that good, and sometimes it's kinda difficult to catch because some of their accents are pretty thick.



Mmmm. Kuno Becker, if only he was in an MU jersey instead. And then him again with David Beckham, who has all of three lines in the movie and sounds like a freaking woman in all three of them.

CANDLE IN THE WIND

You know I never really paid much attention to our PM's wife before. I don't even know her full name, I just know that there's an Endon in there somewhere. But reading the news this morning, and reading what people say and remember about her, touched me deeply. She sounded like an amazing woman who cared. A lot. And it's a loss to Malaysia. Our Prime Minister looked so tough, however, in all the photos shown. It must be is definitely going to be hard on him, no doubt about that. Bless his heart. And bless all the caring Malaysians who trudged there to her funeral, despite it raining. Appreciate and treasure life, you don't know when it's all gonna end.

Chilled out with the babes tonight for our weekly [or well, at least we try to make it as 'weekly' as possibly, lol] dinner, at Murni's again. Catched up on each other's latest gossip, and Ching's happy news. Teehee. We're all so happy for you, woman. Went back to Ching's after that and hogged her TV because her parents were out. Had the remnants of our incredibly sinful La Cremeria ice-cream from the last time and watched the Hitz.TV street party show, or something like that. Ooh, and saw UVJ Andy drumming in his band, Estranged. He's pretty hot. When he came to our college for the Sunway Ball Sneak Peek, I went whoa. Lol. And then K-Town Clan came on, rapping, and Mary tried to imitate them. Wahahahah. Too funny, way too funny. =)

Earlier in the evening, before Ching came over, I got a phone call on the house phone.

Su (my sis-in-law): Hello?
Ching: Errr.. boleh tolong panggil Wendy, tak?
Su: (sounding insulted) Please. Hold. On.
Me: (runs to the phone) *beeeeep beeeeep* Hey, no more, who was it?
Su: (still sounding insulted) Your friend thought I was an Indonesian maid, okay! Don't let me find out who, I whack the fella!

Haha, and later I found out it was Ching! Can't wait to tell Su.

SATURDAY, CAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO CALL IT

Nothing much. Did my math homework. So proud of myself. Mr. Deimudu will be shocked that I'm going to hand in something. Haha! Did nothing much for the rest of the day.

Just wanted to share an excerpt that Evelyn and I had with darling Joel on Saturday. [If you guys don't already know, Eve's my sister-in-law, and Joel's the oldest son of my other sis-in-law, Su, who's pregnant again]

Joel: I want my baby in my mummy's tummy to be a girl.
Eve: So, what do you want to name your baby sister?
Joel: (solemnly thinks) I want to name her Choongkie.
Me & Eve: (simultaneously) CHOONGKIE?!?!
Joel: (nods)
Me: But Joel starts with a J, and so does Joshua, so your baby sister's name must start with a J too.
Joel: (thinks somemore) Oh. Then, I'll name her Junky lah!


OMG. Junky Tan. Can you imagine? Hahahahahaha!


AND...TODAY

Did spat. Went over my Accounting trial paper, and realized what a careless idiot I am sometimes. My total score currently is 361. Gosh, how am I ever going to maintain that for a 20% scholarship? Sigh. How, oh how?

Here's the final torture timetable of college:

31st Oct: English
2nd Nov: Maths A
8th Nov: Economics
10th Nov: Accounting
14th Nov: Maths B

Sigh. In approximately three weeks or so, my college life will come to an end. I can't believe it.

OTHER RAMBLINGS



I so wanna watch Chicken Little! I used to love that story as a kid. About how the little chicken would go around telling people that the sky was falling down and that he wanted to see the king to inform him, all because an acorn had fallen on his head. So adorable. I spent my childhood listening to that story.


Wah, so cute. How can you resist?


You all should watch that clip on TV where he's dancing to that 'Numa Numa' song. CUTE.


Anyone wanna watch with me? Please please please??


And I am dying to watch the next episode of One Tree Hill. Argh. It rocks. And I'm obsessed. So unhealthy, man. At least it's over a series where there are real people in it and not anime. Hehe, sound familiar, Janet?


For Sookies and Mary's viewing pleasure, lol. And for anyone else who enjoys One Tree Hill. [I wonder how these lil blinkie things are made, anyone know?]


And for no particular reason, here's the last pic of my blog.


Because I think Gary Neville's a great full-back; don't fancy Rooney but he's just there in the picture together with him. Man U's losing just because Neville's injured. [Hua Choon, if you're reading this, DON'T LAUGH! Neville's better than sissy-fart Beckham anyday. Hmph.]


Till the next post, lurve you all!