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first things first: i just heard that Bill Clinton is going to KL to speak. what!!! i have had a supercrush on Bill since forever, so i am understandably very upset that he chose to speak in my country JUST when i arrive at his.
secondly: there’s a rumor going around school that Blake Lively (Serena of Gossip Girl) is matriculating here at Columbia beginning next year. that is crazy, considering how the application deadline for the class of 2013 isnt even ovet yet, much less the decisions. but if the last few episodes of Gossip Girl are anything to go by, Serena van der Woodsen can charm her way into any Ivy even before she actually applies!
so i finally got around to sorting out my pics from halloween. there are so many of them!! here are some of my favorite pics, mostly because the costumes are (kinda) ambiguous, and i can as usual make the promise of a one buck prize to the first person who hits the right guess. guys, these one bucks really do exist, i swear. dont let cynicism rob you of your dollar!
1. a stranger on the train. this costume is actually pretty obvious when you see this dude in person, because he had all the gear with him… and wtf i guess it’s pretty obvious from the photo too since you can see the symbol on his clothes. bah.
2. this guy got his colors mixed up.. because he was more white than grey
3. aiya very easy if you all cannot guess this one i will smack you
4. this two come in a pair. i only recognized them because one of my friends dressed up as the guy in the left once. haha they were really happy that i knew their characters.. the girl on the right told me that everyone thought she was just a random tiger
5. this is nick the handsome <3 ahh his costume is amazing. if you can guess what he is i'll give you $1.50 !!!!
6. the ambiguous costume here is debbie’s, the girl in the middle. she says you have to stretch your imagination a little bit before you can get what she is. haha it’s so freaking out there. but here’s a hint anyway : those are pink hearts on her cheeks. not that her character has hearts on his/her cheeks… she just thought it was an appropriate symbol :P i cant stand it la she’s just too cute. and to add to her cuteness, she drew those hearts with pink highlighter HAHAHAHA. oh and sorry had to block out my front cos it was a bit indecent :P
7. okay, this one is a no-brainer. the hint is the badge she’s wearing; it says Mavericks. if you cant recognize her by face or by the Maverick term, then you probably wont know who she is! i thought i was going to see lots of people dressed up as her, but surprisingly i only saw three. i asked all three of them “are you dressed as _____?” but disappointingly not even one of them said “you betcha!”. geez. play the role, you guys!
8. HAHAHAHA I LOVE THIS COSTUME. it’s so awesome. the hint is me trying to eat him!
9. probably not guessable if you dont follow US politics. saw many variations of this character! all of them with the real name Joe!
10. BEST COSTUME EVER. if you can guess what they are, you are beyond godlike. the hint are the thingies that they have on their neck! cannot say what it is la, cos very obvious oredi like that
11. i was VERY impressed with this costume! i spotted him from my seat in the subway.. and all i saw of him at first were his metal claws.. and i thought ‘oh.. wolverine.. yawn’. but then he stepped into view!!! and i freaked out!!! and started pointing at him like a mad person. haha. he started posing for me! and i just had to take a picture. guess who!
i wish i had been more diligent that night with the picture-taking. there were definitely lots of very awesome costumes out there, many of which totally boggled the mind. like there was this guy who was walking around in a bright neon costume that actually glowed, complete with white glowing umbrella. to this day i still have no clue who he was dressed as.
and i cant wait to blog about my favorite costume of the night! it’s better than ANYTHING i have ever seen, and that includes a guy from my hall who went as a Metrocard (subway ticket – he made himself a sandwich board designed to look like the actual ticket) and a girl who went as a Facebook page :D haha stay tuned.
November 12th, 2008
okay, first of all, an event notification!
as we all know, the MTV Asia Awards 2008 is going to be held here in Malaysia this year. if like the most of us, you don’t have tickets to the invite-only awards show, fret not!
in conjunction with the awards show, there’s going to be another party happening at the same time on the same day, and it’s called the MTV Asia Awards X-Party! brought to you by Celcom and Genting, the X-Party is going to be the wilder, less formal, let-hair-down twin of the awards show. the awesome Hujan will be performing, as will DJ Tony Touch and Faizal Tahir; all this plus a huge live screening of the Awards Show!
X-Party Details:
Date: 2nd August 2008
Time: 7pm – 3am
Venue: Genting International Showroom
Hosts: Cheryl Samad, Jien and Hannah Tan
scoring a pair of tickets for the X-Party is simple, and totally easy-peasy for all those who are already party animals! all you have to do is go for a night out at the clubs in your best party-wear and get spotted by the purple X-girls that will be stationed at the hottest clubs in town. catch? your party wear has to have a dash of purple ;)
the X-girls have been in three states in the weeks leading up to the party, but they are in KL for only one more night, which is tonight – Thursday the 31st. best of luck catching the X-girls around the clubs, and have fun painting the town purple!
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i am free to blog right now because Martian is not layaning me at the moment. he used to get very iffy whenever i blogged (which explains why when i’m in Singapore i dont get to blog very much), claiming that i should be spending time with him instead of on my computer, but HEHE i have come up with the perfect solution for that. this is what i got him for his birthday a couple of weeks ago:
a PSP!
sigh yes it was expensive. but it was an important birthday, and seeing Martian’s excitedness when he opened the gift was worth every cent the PSP cost and every minute spent writing the advertorials that paid for this gift :))))) i got some of his favorite games installed in it, and now all he does is play poker and that car game – whatever it’s called – whenever he has a second to spare. so my plan to have a little bit of time to myself kind of backfired because now he doesn’t even talk to me anymore T____T
and then there was one night i paraded this new short skirt in front of him and he didnt even look up from the PSP T____T
me and Kitty being bored while he plays poker, haih
but it’s quite funny lah cos sometimes he’ll hurry out of the bedroom, and then i’ll walk out and catch him putting the PSP down guiltily. and last week when i was busy preparing for his party and asked him to help me, he said wait ah i need to go take a crap, but he spent something like FORTY FIVE MINUTES in there, and when i looked around, needless to say the PSP was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. haih i feel angry just thinking about it. what have i done!! sigh nevermind lah at least i have time to blog now.
oh and since i get a couple of emails every now and then asking for gift suggestions, i hope the PSP idea and this bit henceforth will help you folks out a little with the gift-getting. Martian and my 2nd anniversary was on the 4th of July several weeks back, and i got him two things, one for each year we’ve been together. see, Martian has two things that he’s most passionate about – history and the environment – so i thought i’d get him stuff that’s related to both these things :)
the first thing is a book titled The Chronicle of Malaysia, Fifty Years of Headline News, which is this huge and very heavy compilation of Malaysian newspaper headlines from the past 50 years. every huge piece of news from our Independence Day in 1957 up till last year is documented in that book. it makes the most interesting read for anyone at all, history buff or not, because there are bound to be newspaper articles in there that you will remember reading from way back when.
we spent some time poring through the book together and picking up bits of news here and there and telling each other how we felt or what we were thinking when reading those stories or what we were doing/going through during that particular time in that particular year. the sort of stuff Martian likes to do. he’s the nostalgic kind :)
this book even comes with this DVD of some really amazing footage that is split according to the regimes of our five Prime Ministers (when it came to Mahathir’s regime, Martian switched the dvd off hahaha wtf). it features videos of events such as the first ever National Day celebration, the first ever parliament meeting, the signing of independence documents, 13 May 1969, the launch of Proton, the great flood of the 70s and many other things. it was really cool seeing in video all these things i’d only ever read about.
watching the footage of the floods in the 70s made me feel so proud of my country’s people. there were videos of soldiers and villagers building bridges and boats to bring people to safety, makcik-makciks cooking rice in great big pots to feed all the hungry villagers who had lost their homes, children helping out where they could, and rakyat of all races lending each other their strength and effort to make sure everyone was safe, fed and warm. it was beautiful. but that was in the 70’s. 40 years later it seems we’ve digressed somewhat. i dream that i will one day see a Malaysia like the Malaysia i saw in that video. but that’s a story for another day.
hahaha Pak Lah on the cover of Asiaweek in 1984!
this book can be found at most bookstores for RM 120, and is a great gift for anyone who loves Malaysian history or for older people who grew up during the times of our country’s infancy and development :) i would highly recommend it, and i plan to buy a copy for my former Sejarah teacher. yeah, Mr Mani. hahaha. he would love it, i think.
the other gift i bought for Martian was to address the treehugger and greenie in him. it was …
a pair of reusable chopsticks!
Martian ALWAYS makes damn a lot of noise when we go out to eat at Japanese restaurants or any place that uses those disposable wooden chopsticks. he even makes noise when i take a straw for my drink :( so a pair of reusable chopsticks is something i’ve been wanting to get for Martian for the longest time, but despite hunting high and low, i have never managed to find any.
but great blessings come in the form of D’Jungle People, this team of experiental learning consultants (really fancy term for people who teach you life lessons in the most fun ways ever!) who facilitated all the Brats workshops, camps and events i used to go for :) Google told me that the folks at DJP imported reusable chopsticks from Taiwan and sold them at cost price to their clients in a pledge to save trees from being cut down to be made into chopsticks, and i was just over the moon. i quickly emailed Evan of DJP (who’s a real sweetheart!) to ask if he still had stock, and whaddya know, the next day i was over at their office in PJ to pick up 3 pairs of reusable chopsticks :)
these beauties are made of stainless steel and are put together by simply screwing the two halves of a chopstick together at the middle. they come in a slim and sleek case that looks like a pen and can be easily slipped into your pocket or your purse. they’re great :) i love my pair of reusable chopsticks and bring them with me everywhere i go now.
the chopsticks make a great gift for anyone at all – the environment-loving people would absolutely appreciate it, and everyone else who never knew how they could help the earth will now know :) i bought each pair of chopsticks at RM 20 from DJP. give them a holler if you want some! they are absolutely wonderful people.
okok Martian has finally stopped playing the PSP. YES. BEDTIME. okay g’nite all. hehe Martian is staying with me tonight :) i think it’s my secret birthday today or something. he’s being exceptionally nice to me. earlier today he took me out to have Carl’s Jr for lunch. ZOMG…… do you know how rare it is that he lets me eat junk food. i intend to treasure that moment in my little heart forever and ever.
July 31st, 2008
i’m home!!!!!! …for a day. before i leave for singapore again tomorrow. sigh. but it feels good to be home, even if briefly. today, i ate home-cooked food with my mom and slept in my own bed, then i brought my duvet over to the living room sofa and napped there for a few hours with the sound of indonesian tv shows and my brothers playing Dota in the background. then my dad came home and told me some stupid joke which went something like this :
“eh girl i tell you a joke.. okay lah got this guy he was telling his friend a story about a dog.. it doesnt really matter what the dog story is because it’s irrelevant and very long! but the punchline is that the dog tried to chase a bird, but the dog lives on the 13th floor of an apartment!!! so the dog died in the end!!! hahahaha funny or not? eh why you never laugh?”
sigh. there’s no place like home :)
so i was in Kuching for the Rainforest World Music Festival 2008 over the weekend. it’s my 2nd year at the festival, but i spent a lot less time at the venue this time around. we totally skipped Friday, missed all the workshops on Saturday, and only managed to go for one workshop on Sunday. it rained heavily during the weekend too, so the main stage area was converted into a mud zone. icky, but loads of people kicked off their shoes and rushed into the mud to party anyway. it looked like such a blast doing that, but i held back because of the worms that were apparently crawling up people’s legs :( so Saturday was quite the boring day where we just danced on the grassy area, quite far from the stage.
but on Sunday i couldnt stand missing out on all the action anymore! so Kenny, Waifon, Albert and I took the plunge and jumped straight into the mud along with everyone else :D it was maddddd fun being in the midst of the crowd and dancing to the music, getting muddy and dirty and forgetting that we were stomping around in sloppy sludge that smelt like poop. letting loose is what partying is about, yes? i wish now that we had jumped into the mud on Saturday too!!!
as i mentioned on my Plurk a few days ago, my beloved camera is now dead :( the lens wont focus anymore and now any pictures that i take all look like this :
haih so emoe. but here are the pictures i took from the festival before my camera died, and some from Kenny’s camera as well :
#1 i bumped into Christine at the festival! it’s such a small world ok – she’s actually Martian’s cousin, and also a friend of Kenny’s and also Kelz’s!
#2 Mr Sia and me doing the /eyes thing! yes my hair is so short now!! nice ah nice ah?
#3 the anonymous Icyqueengoddess whose identity thou shalt never know! she was doing the Pinkpau Pout with me in this photo and i really wish i could show itttt.
#4 when we first got to the venue, Kenny and i were wondering if our best friend The Really Big Heineken Bottle would be there again! and it was! so this is me reprising my role with the Bottle from when i first met it last year
#5 Kenny dirty dancing with Bottle!
#6 us doing the nasty-nasty with Bottle!
#7 and then producing lots of little Heineken Babies… hahaha
#8 me and Waifon, who has the best ranty blog in the world!
#9 it’s always fun to camwhore with Albert. just look at his expression hahaha
#10 me and the super sizzling hot Ing Hui! is she not super sizzling hot?
#11 this is Wuichi whom i met at Rainforest last year. i love his emo glasses!
#12 the crowd on Saturday night. they are ALL ankle-deep in soft slushy mud! and this is when my camera died… all pictures hereon are from Kenny’s camera
#13 at the entrance on Sunday afternoon. note that Gerard the 2nd is no longer around my neck :(
#14 Naughty Nazrul was there! he picked me up and squeezed me so hard that i dropped my phone!!
#15 sigh!
#16 Kenny and i later went over to the beach just to hang out and take pictures of the sunset, and we bumped into Waifon and Albert. hahaha this is Waifon posing off-center for Kenny so that he can sneakily take pictures of the girl posing in her bikini over there :P
#17 nah a closer look. she was soooooo hot. and she was posing in the water for about an hour or maybe more! we could not help but happily ogle
#18 Kenny’s, Waifon’s and my foot in the stinky mud later on at night. in some places, the mud level was at mid-calf! le scary.
#19 mudbath! loads of people were just rolling around and mud-wrestling after the festival. mud-slinging too – packed fistfuls of mud missiles are PAINFUL.
#20 Kenny took Icyqueengoddess and i for kolo mee and teh si special!!
#21 one of the best drinks in the world – the teh si special (that’s gula melaka at the bottom..!!!!) – and the very gorgeous Samantha Poh!
#22 kolo mee, THE food of Sarawak. YUM.
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it was a great weekend and i really enjoyed myself :) thank you Kenny for the awesome hospitality as always and for not whacking me even though i accidentally set off your very loud burglar alarm, and Sam and Icyqueen for the laughs and great company. pillow-talking with Icyqueen is THE BEST!
it’s been such a long week, and an even longer week is about to come. i feel both physically and emotionally drained, and there’s so many things going on in my life that i wish i could handle better. i feel wronged by certain people, and my instinct was to get angry at them and stop speaking to them… but two wrongs dont make a right, i think. songjun put it very well when he said that there will always be many layers of friends, and i cannot expect everyone to be at the highest level, because there will always be selfish people in this world. i’m beginning to see that expecting them to care and understand is futile, disturbing and heartbreaking.
i think i care too much. about big things and little things. i’ve always liked that about myself, but the last few times i cared too much for my friends, i wasnt met with pleasant results. it hurts and angers me that my genuine support and concern is taken lightly or used against me, and recent events have made me feel like caring is just so tiring and not worth the hurt.
but then i remember that there are many layers of friends, and i remember that the ones in the highest layers are the ones who love me and let me love them back openly and freely without fear or worry. these are my best and closest friends who have never – and dare i say, will never – brush away or misuse my love and care, who are important to me, and whom i am important to. these are the people who remind me that kindness is what makes the world go round. and these are the people i will always and forever pour all my care and love into.
July 15th, 2008
i just realized that i totally forgot to post Part 2 of the Wild Live Party pics! so here goes:
#1 me and joe the gorilla! if i’m not wrong, this is the same gorilla who was photographed sitting on the curb smoking through his mask before the party started. at one point i asked him to remove his gorilla mask so i could see who he was, but he was like “WAIT WAIT THE THIRSTY GORILLA NEEDS A BEER!!” hahaha
#2 this is Caryn, who came as a zebra! it was my first time meeting her and i am glad to have been able to! :D
#3 MY FAVORITE COSTUME OF THE NIGHT!!! this is Shad the Elephant Terrorist, and he only bombs jumbos :P he put that outfit together by himself, and used a rolled up towel for his trunk. so clever! :D
#4 my ladybug friend :D her name is Min Li! she made her own ladybug wings for the night :O so cool…
#5 okay, if you’re going to a party that Kul is invited too, you can forget about trying to win Best Dressed :P Kul has the most gorgeous dresses for any event! she went as a peacock that night in this beautiful long blue dress
#6 Linora and her pretty butterfly wings. Linora, i never got to ask you if you made them yourself!
#7 Liang and the Nuffies for the night
#8 ST and his super kau pro camera :P check out that camera! dont you wanna ask him what lens he uses?
#9 this is me and Wingz who came as Mickey Mouse! hahahaha Wingz cracks me up. he’s so hamsap!
#10 the point of this photo was to show the signs that Will brought to the party.. but the photographer a bit fail :P
#11 this is Jessica, the hottest bear you will ever find :D
#12 two drunk cats!
#13 gorgeous Hui Wen, who came as a peacock but only had one peacock feather in her whole costume!! hahaha what is this?!
#14 the nominees for Best Dressed! Jolyn the Lioness won for Female Best Dressed, and Tock the Cow won for Male Best Dressed. sigh Suet how ah do you think we should go and rob Tock of his laptop!! you take half i take half
#15 me with Pinky who came as a hunter! technically not an animal, but because she’s so nice it’s okay :D
#16 THIS IS MY 2ND FAVORITE COSTUME OF THE NIGHT!! he even pouted to simulate a chicken beak… hahaha
#17 Michelle came as a unicorn. such a unique idea!
#18 Lee Meng kept poking everybody with his fluffy pink trunk that night. on a few occasions i stuck my finger in it
#19 this is Waffle. he was supposed to go as a bear, but then he somehow ended up as a dragon. an MSN conversation prior to the party :
».¸.·* pinkpau says:
if ur a bear u cannot eat rabbits ok
u stick to honey pots
like winnie the pooh
Tim says:
where would i get protein from
».¸.·* pinkpau says:
honey flavoured protein shakes
Tim says:
bears probably cannot process the processed food and would promptly die
».¸.·* pinkpau says:
aiya okay lah then u eat fish
ok? fish is good
Tim says:
why are fish any less of living beings than rabbits!
».¸.·* pinkpau says:
i didnt say they are!
it’s just that i had rabbits before
and i cannot stand the thought of ppl eating rabbits T____T
Tim says:
well i have fish in my aquarium!
how about MY feelings
isnt Waffle weird -______-
#20 this is Wongwenqi, whom i love <3
#21 the real Winnie the Pooh… :\
#22 and this is Sheon, one of the nicest guys i’ve had the pleasure of meeting. now, if you can guess what he came as, i’ll give you one buck :D people who were at the party cannot play!!!
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okay so tired. i just came back from singapore late last night, and it’s been a long day today running errands and doing random shit with the 2 days i have in town before Kuching this friday! w00t the Rainforest Fest is upon us once again!
also, my hair is short now :\ i meant to just go and get bangs, but cut it short on a whim. sometimes i think i trust my hairstylist too much.
and i am still angry. one of those vaporizing guns would be really good right about now. i keep telling myself that it’s no use getting so affected by things i cannot control, even more so when they’re being done by someone i don’t even know, but… sigh. i just really hate it when people upset my loved ones.
ok goodnight!
July 10th, 2008
this is a photo post from the Nuffnang Wild Live Blogging Party that was just over! only the first part though, cos there were just way too many cool costumes to take pictures of throughout the night :)
the party was a smashing success! as i previously mentioned, the party concept is blogging live from the event using those nifty pocket-size USB modems and computers set up at the venue, with a wildlife/animal dress code! it was held at Modesto’s + Rain in Desa Sri Hartamas and saw some 200 guests attending. great games, great costumes, great food (seriously), great party activities like animal face painting and polaroids for the guests, but most of all… great company :)
20 photos first! i’m currently using my super awesome Nokia N82 (a pinkpau n00b review shall follow when i get the hang of this phone) to go online, so i can’t put up too many pics. another batch of 20 photos coming up soon!
#1 the moment i walked into the venue, i saw THE COWS!!! haha their udders are so hilarious; everyone kept pulling on them the whole night. i asked Nicholas (second from left) where his udders were, and he just gave me that infamous grin of his and pointed to the hole in the crotch area of his costume -_-
#2 and this is me with them cows. i partied till the cows came home!!!!! giggle.
#3 this is when the party started and they were calling for the first kind of each animal to rush up and hug the emcee. and because there were so many of the same kinda animals, there’d always be a whole bunch of people pushing their way to the front to give Liang a big bear hug! hehe these are the rabbits
#4 and these are the leopards!
#5 THE ELEPHANTS!!! Shad on the right made his costume and used a rolled up towel as his trunk! the awesomeness! i have a picture with him in my 2nd batch of pics that shows what his poster says :D very funny wan
#6 the bees! HAVE YOU GUYS WATCHED BEE MOVIE!!! it is so the best animated movie.
#7 despite all my initial hooha about going as a peacock, i ended up sticking with my ladybug outfit instead. haha look, i brought my home with me – a big leaf :D big thanks to Gin for lending me her ladybug cap!
#8 Vivien and i! we went to primary and secondary school together
#9 and this is Lie Peh, also a primary & secondary schoolmate. she’s a make up artist now, and she has got some SKILLS!
#10 us very cute former Nuffnang interns aka the Nuffiepuffs! this is such a hot photo of Michbaby (first from right)!
#11 and this is our ex-boss, Stewie. haih. dont you think he is so sexually unattractive!!!!!!111
#12 this is my favorite photo of the night :) this is me with the Nuffies hired for the night – Germaine, Veron, Ginny (who was told to cover up hahahaha you’re lucky if you managed to take a picture with her in her initial costume!!!) and Jess.
#13 me with Adeline, the super cute 1st runner-up for Malaysian Dreamgirl! my favorite Dreamgirl moment will ALWAYS be Adeline’s “higher than mountain, deeper than ocean” quote… :D
#14 and this is Hanis, the 2nd runner-up for Dreamgirl! she came as a moth! her dress was really, really pretty
#15 me and Kenny who came as … Winnie the Pooh… hahahahaha
#16 the very hot Michbaby!!! Tangbaby, her bf, came as Shrek!
#17 Skyler, the most ranty person i know :D
#18 Jen, one of the few zebras that night
#19 this is Suet Li who came as an ostrich! aren’t her eyelashes nice? hahaha when i saw her that night, i was really surprised she bought such expensive-looking falsies for the night, because she doesnt like to waste money wan, and so i asked her how much hers was. and then she went, “OH! i just cut feathers from my ostrich costume and glued them on!!!” haha sigh! only you, liew suet li!
#20 and this is Kevin who came as a mixed cat. he was so drunk, he had to be hoisted out by his friends. hahahhaa. sigh he and i go way back. one day i must tell you guys the story of how we met.
okay okay okay i gotta go now. my friends are waiting for me. if i stay here blogging any longer, we’re all going to miss the ferry to Pulau Perhentian. yesssss a beach getaway with the besties :D i so cannot wait!!! okay byeeee
June 23rd, 2008
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