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so here’s a recent conversation with my dad that really made me miss him :( his secretary had just sent me a bill for something and CC-ed him in the email, asking me if the bill looked right, and i replied saying that yes everything look’s alright. then:
Dad:
Ya ya ya …. All is right.
I am not alright… $$$
Me:
why u act cute !
Dad:
Because daughter is cute papa also cute… [awwwww!!]
Dad:
Want to know something?
Me:
what!
Dad:
Nothing… just make you curious … hahahahahaha
Me:
-_-
dont be weird!!!!
Dad:
WHAT ??? early say me cute now say me weird. [HAHAHA TOO ADORABLE!]
Me:
you can be both cute and weird wat
Dad:
What are you doing for today?
Me:
ah see never follow my plurk so you dont know what i’m doing today
i’m going to SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP
yesterday all i did was sleep, eat and watch a movie
do u think i’m a pig?
Dad:
No lah… you are my cute daughter. [awwww again]
(then we talked about some money matters)
Me:
not bad wor……
i give u my paycheck ok? (background: my folks are fighting over who gets my first paycheck, ahha)
Dad:
DEAL!!! but mum will not be happy… you know, she loves $$$
hehehe
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and just today:
Me:
aiyahh
what you doing
Dad:
Working.
I was in manila last week and colored my hair.
My scalp is allergic to the color chemical and now very itchy.
SAD…….
Me:
HAHAHA SO POOR THING
like doggy
Dad:
no … like monkey… scratch here scratch there
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haih sometimes i dont know if i my dad is cuter than he is weird, or the other way around. wei lou paeng!!! are you reading this? i am coming home soon!! we go eat THE pan mee ok?!
nah show y’all a picture of my lou paeng. he was fiddling with my macbook and took a picture of himself using my Photobooth:
haih too cute. i think i should dig up something funny about him and submit it to mydadisafob.com!!
May 26th, 2009
i’ve been meaning to write a post about this person for the longest time, under my What I Got In The Mail category (no i did not get this person in the mail; he sent me a postcard from London), but i just never got around to it because i’m such a lazy bum. nevertheless, i’ve got a new reason to blog about this person now, and it’s a reason that’s better than any, because…
he is going to shave his head for charity!
i guess most people reading this right now know who Kenny Sia is, but for the benefit of those who dont, he’s one of my favorite people in the world, and that’s really all you need to know about him :P
Kenny has decided to run a charity drive on his blog to raise money for the Sarawak Children Cancer Society, where if the amount of RM 50,000 is collected before the 12th of February, he will shave his head as a show of support for the cancer foundation.
while i have my opinions on celebrity endorsements for a charity’s publicity, i think that what Kenny is doing is wonderful. why? firstly, he was very careful about his choice of cause, and it is one that is close to his heart. secondly, amidst all the politicking of the money-greedy blogosphere, it is extremely refreshing to see a blogger take this step to turn his readership into a fundraising engine for a good cause. thirdly, i am extremely proud of Kenny for selflessly giving up something that he guards so protectively: his hair!
i wholeheartedly agree with Kenny that east Malaysian charities do not receive enough attention as those of the peninsular, and having come from a high school that very much liked to pledge fundraisers only to the bigwig charities (much to my chagrin), i am fully supportive that the money Kenny raises goes to the SCCS. the SCCS was founded by a group of parents of children with cancer, and even if you dont have friends or family suffering or have suffered from that horrible affliction, surely you must know in your heart of hearts how much pain these young children go through, as well as the nightmarish lives that their parents endure, never knowing just how much time they have left with their children.
i knew a girl who died of leukemia when she was only 10. that is more than enough for me put forth my entire support into the SCCS’ cause.
also, i appreciate this little development in the blogosphere, where bloggers are starting to reach out to their readership no longer just to get help or procure favors for themselves, but for a higher purpose that serves society. if you can put a notice on your blog to ask for free stays in whatever country you’re traveling to, you can damn well put up a notice on your blog to raise funds for the needy, yes?
as for the part that involves Kenny’s hair… hahaha. my eyes kinda widened in shock when i saw that he had pledged his hair for charity, and i didnt think that he was actually serious. i didnt know it was public knowledge, but since Kenny wrote it on his blog, i will reiterate it here — Kenny actually has a hair-thinning issue (yes at 26?!) and has been taking medication for a while now to prevent the loss of his hair. see, that’s how much he loves his rambut :P so the shaving of his head, i think, goes way beyond a publicity stunt — and for that, i really admire what Kenny is about to do. the bulk of us wouldnt dream of getting ourselves a bad haircut, much less shave it all off, and even lesser so those of us who’ve always wanted a thicker crop of hair!
having said all that, i wanna talk a little bit about the Kenny Sia whom i know. in the time that i’ve known him, i’ve met a handful of people who have nothing but mean things to say about him. the usual slander: commercialized lah, mainstream lah, womanizer lah, stuck up lah, only hangs out with hot chicks lah… but just about all of these people have never met him in person or are basing these claims off silly rumors. either that, or they just adamantly want to hate him for petty reasons like him not lingering to make small talk at public events. but truly, there are few people i know who are nicer, kinder and more humble than Kenny. i have a lot of respect for Kenny’s ability to forgive the people who have been unkind to him in the past, especially the fairweather friends, as well as how down-to-earth he is about his popularity. i also hold in high regard how he goes out of his way to help his friends, never expects anything in return, and yet doesnt complain when they really dont return his favors — such rare generosity in today’s dog-eat-dog world.
us at the peak of Mt Kinabalu… moments before i fell helter-skelter down the mountain :P
i dont see Kenny very often, perhaps a handful of times or so a year whenever he drops by KL, but when i do, we can catch up and chatter away like we never stopped talking. it’s great. he’s one of my favorite people in the world to talk to, mostly because he has all the level-headedness and rationale that i do not have, and also because beneath that tough exterior, he’s really just a big warm cuddly bear who gets so excited about the things he cares most about!
the last time i was in Hong Kong, i met someone who reads Kenny’s blog regularly, and he said that he really likes the way Kenny captures Malaysian life, whether comically or honestly. a girl whom i met in New York a couple of months ago told me that Kenny’s jokes brighten her day when she’s upset or simply needs a distraction from life. a couple of lone souls even make the speculation of Kenny’s life and daily grind their very raison d’etre. in Bangkok, a friend of a friend said that the only lifestyle blog he reads is the Malaysian blog called kennysia.com. but more significantly, circumscribing all of these testimonies are the thousands and thousands of people who log into his blog daily just for a slice of humor and opinion, and find amongst these snippets of a stranger’s life a little smile for themselves :)
so in closing, if you believe in the SCCS’ cause, or have always wanted to do your bit for charity but never knew how, or you simply want to show Kenny some support and appreciation, do go and donate to his charity drive. Naeboo and i have already pledged a chunk of our Nuffnang money to the cause. i personally am slightly afraid of beholding a bald Kenny, but if it’s all for a good cause, i will shut my eyes tight the next time i’m looking at him lest i burst out laughing :P
Kenny, if you are reading this, kudos :) proud of you. at least now you save money on your Propaneiciacianaina hair thingy. wish i could be there to rub your botak head next week!! save some shine for me when i come back in the summer, ok?
and thank you for the postcard!!!
February 2nd, 2009
i’ve always wanted to blog about the person who sent me Envelope 3, and now opportunity has just presented itself in the form of a bright, smiley, sunny orange card that came in the mail for me all the way from Aarhus, Denmark :) the Danish stamp was a clear indicator of who the sender was, though the totally perasan note on the back of the envelope was a dead giveaway as well. it said, ‘before you open this, remember that Tamtim is awesome!’ -_-
so the card is from Tamtim, formerly known on my blog as Timtam before i realized too many Tims were running around with the same nickname, and formerly formerly known by his real name Jak Tim.. though sometimes i call him Lummy when i feel like irritating him. he’s currently spending a semester studying abroad at Denmark to finish up his degree in Finance, because it is his big goal in life to become a power hungry investment banker. i assure you he will do a very good job at i-banking because he actually likes the culture of staying back late to do work. and he also likes bloomberg and microsoft excel. wtf…
he is one of my favorite-est friends ever, though i would never admit this to him in person. i tell Tamtim all my shit with reckless abandon, even though he’s probably the most judgmental friend i have :P he’d be one of the first people i would talk to if i were facing a problem, and also one of the first i would go to to share good news.
tamtim, crabby as always
Tamtim is one of those people that i got along with grandly even within the first few hours of meeting each other. he’s like one of my best friends now, but we actually only met two years ago, in 2006, through my blog! he’d been reading me since the days of my old blog at pinkskyes and occasionally he would leave me comments under the moniker ArtificiallyVerbose (hahahahaha!), but one day we started talking via email because i wrote on my blog that i desperately wanted to go watch Damien Rice in Singapore, and he offered to help me get the tickets. omg Tamtim why last time you so nice, now not nice anymore T____T anyway i never did get to go watch Damien Rice because the tickets sold out within minutes, but nevermind lah, in the end i still found Tamtim! i think if the Damien Rice thing didnt happen, Tamtim and i wouldnt be friends today. so, all is good :)
we like a lot of the same things, which makes us good kakis for just about anything, be it movies, food or shopping. as is apparent with the Damien Rice thing, Tamtim and i share similar music tastes, which is awesome whenever there are gigs going on in Singapore. so far we’ve gone for The Album Leaf and Death Cab for Cutie. he’s also one of the few guy friends i have who actually LIKES watching musicals :O i usually have to beg Martian or other guy friends to take me to musicals :( oh and get this: Tamtim also watches Grey’s Anatomy and…………. GOSSIP GIRL!!! hahahaha! best. so i get to rant to him about plot twists and stupid characters that should just disappear, cos he watches all the same shows as i do. we watch Heroes too but that information is not as gempak as the fact that he watches Gossip Girl.
to those who have been reading my blog for a while now, remember the supermarket series of photos where i was terrorizing the supermarket aisles from inside a trolley? well, my partner-in-crime on that day was none other than Tamtim :P actually, he’s my favorite camwhore partner because he’s so game to do anything. most people just get tired after awhile or they dont want to cause a scene. haih, but causing a scene is when the photos are best!
there are very few people who know me inside out, and i think even fewer people who know how to handle me when i’m upset or angry. i dont always agree with what Tamtim has to say, but most of the time it’s a case of him saying what i need to hear, and not what i want to, and even though i get a little bit miffed at first, i always feel much better at the end of the day when i realize that what he says is right. this, among many other reasons – like the fact that he watches Gossip Girl and likes musicals :) – is why i’m so glad that Tamtim and i randomly found each other. we dont just get along, but we get each other, and i think everyone needs a friend like that :)
everyone also needs a friend who will help them do their economics homework. hehe! thank you Tamtim! we got the answers back today and you were right about the electronics’ workers wages..
i also found a peer recommendation that he wrote for me for one of the colleges i applied to. i want to share the last line of the letter because i think it’s amazing what foresight Tamtim has and also how well he knows me. in the letter to the college, he says: “Perhaps the only concern I have of her being admitted to your school would be her taking on too many tasks as she has a diverse base of interests and this would put her time management skills to the test”.
IT’S SO TRUE OKAY. there are so many things i want to do here, but i’m spreading myself way too thin, and i’m already feeling the massive physical and emotional drain. and i also find the sentence as a whole kinda amusing. haha. it’s very Tamtim to talk like that. ‘as she has a diverse base of interests’… hahahaha damn serious.
there’s so much more i could tell you guys about Tamtim, like how he has this weird fascination with Cookie Monster, but it’s already 3 a.m here and i still have lots of work left to do. you know lah, my time management skills are being put to the test wat. so i shall end this post with a snapshot of the little note that Tamtim wrote on the front of the envelope for the postman:
shy and anti-social wtf. thank you tamtim for the card! it really did make me smile :)
September 24th, 2008
because there are so many upsetting things going on right now and i’m starting to feel very affected and stressed out, today i am choosing to take a breather from those things and blog about something happy.
and so…! this is a post about my dear friend wongwenqi, also known as wenqiwong or wwq or banana or lump or any other weird name that we, her dear friends, choose to accord her. because she is also very weird :D in a good, cute, irresistible sort of way! as you shall soon see…
i first met wongwenqi at the Nuffnang screening for Pirates of the Caribbean mid last year. she was sooooo shy and didnt say a single word to me except for some random comment about a Nuffnang badge. then at one point she let out an equally random squeak. i would later find that she dispenses such entertaining randomness very often, most of the time resulting in people staring at her in disbelief and then collapsing in laughter. then we will point at her and go “hahaha you so cute!”, at which point she will start protesting and squeaking like, “what! what! WHAAAAAAT!!”
after the movie screening, we met properly again on my first day as a Nuffnang intern. i only met her for about 15 minutes before the workday ended, and we both had to take the train to KLCC after that. she said she would come with me, and the very moment we stepped out of the office and closed the door, she turned to me and asked me THE QUESTION (wwq do you remember THE QUESTION!)… and when i gave her THE ANSWER, it was no turning back from there! we shared a bond! we were destined to be best friends forever!!!
it’s only been less than a year since then, but wwq is one of my closest friends, so much so that i miss her deeply when i dont talk to her for a few days T____T the simple truth is that she makes me happy and she makes me laugh. cos she’s so darn cute and innocent and random. and because you share a good thing when you have it, today ladies and gentlemen, i want to share with you …. The Chronicles of Wong Wenqi is Weird!!!
this is actually a very long-awaited post because i’ve been taking my time compiling material for it. i could spend more time baiting her, but i feel that this is a very appropriate time to write about wwq! so here goes!
1. this is after i told wwq i was on holiday in china a few months ago:
wenqi says: i only know the long long uhhh..
wenqi says: what u call that again
wenqi says: the border thingy
wenqi says: the wall
wenqi says: yah
wenqi says: the long long wall thingie wtf
».¸.·* pinkpau says: THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA WTF
2. this is wwq trying to teach me the hanyu pinyin tones for Mandarin:
wenqi says: 1 is like.. no tone one
wenqi says: 2 is like the sound go up one
wenqi says: 3 is the sound like… low low go down one
wenqi says: 4 is like.. u shout u damn hate the person
3. wongwenqi is very well-known for how slow she eats. this is a 4-way chat between me, KY, skyler and her!
KYspeaks says: i see wenqi eat
KYspeaks says: i can pengsan
KYspeaks says: so slow
KYspeaks says: cut so many times 1 piece of blardy fish
wenqi says: i know lahhhhhhhh
wenqi says: wtf
wenqi says: ur boss always cannot wait for me
wenqi says: and then will leave me there alone to eat while he go walk walk wtf
wenqi says: fuck that shit ok
4. wwq is also very well-known for her cleavage-baring tops! you want to stop staring but you just cant help yourself!
KYspeaks says: everyone looks at ur boobies
KYspeaks says: the cut you wear
KYspeaks says: EVERYONE LOOKS
s k y l e r says: ya they always spill out
wenqi says: wtf
KYspeaks says: take it from a guy’s perspective
».¸.·* pinkpau says: EVERYONE LOOKS hahahaha
wenqi says: i wanted to wear a normal t shirt once but cannot find one wtf
5. and this is after i got a sponsored phone, which wwq had test-used for a while, and she’d left all her SMSes in the inbox. i saw a message from one JPWong saying ‘i love you!’ and decided to ask her about it:
».¸.·* pinkpau says: who is jpwong! why does he looooove u
wenqi says: HUH WTF
wenqi says: he’s my father! how u know one wtf
».¸.·* pinkpau says: why u call ur father jpwong hahahaha and why u call ur mother laura!
wenqi says: no lah
wenqi says: so that.. when i get kidnapped rite
wenqi says: they won’t know who is my father and mother
».¸.·* pinkpau says: -_-
».¸.·* pinkpau says: dont u WANT them to call ur father and mother -_-
wenqi says: uhmm
wenqi says: then later they ask for ransom then my father and mother broke d how leh
6. this is wwq teaching me about the deeper things in life:
wenqi says: it’s like playing the trumpet
wenqi says: if i dun open my throat and say like AWWWWW
wenqi says: instead of like.. closing throat a bit like EEEEE
wenqi says: then the sound comes out fatter… juicier… rounder wtf
wenqi says: and i think that applies to many other things in life
7. a rare economic analysis by wwq:
wenqi says: to me i think sex in kl is cheaper than having sex in penang
8. she’s so cute and so easy to bully!:
wenqi says: he once lied to me
wenqi says: saying if u dun finish eating ur ice cream fast.. it’ll evaporate
wenqi says: and i believed him wtf
9. and she is also indecisive! taken from a meme on her blog:
4. Where is the place that you want to go the most?
A place that I’ve never been before. Preferably a place with snow, but I would have to have the option to go to some place else if.. IF I realized that I didn’t like snow.
10. i even got collaboration for material for my WWQ is weird post!:
Timothy Tiah says: funny wenqi quote today
Timothy Tiah says: I saw a fly in the airplane on the way here to bangkok
Timothy Tiah says: she saw it.. flinched and tried to shoo it away
Timothy Tiah says: then she said
Timothy Tiah says: “poor fly…. going to end up in Bangkok alone and lonely because he doesn’t know how to speak thai to the thai flies”
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there are more but i will save those for another time :D maybe a WWQ is Weird Part 2 !
wwq has just left for Singapore to further her studies in music, and it was nice to meet up with her last week. she told me to meet her at Oxford Road hahahahaha why is she so cute! i am going to miss her so much when i go away T____T it’s going to be a 4-year US/Singapore long distance relationship… sigh. i dont know if i can cope with this!!!11
i’m so glad that i met wenqi. friends like her are hard to find. the man whom she will eventually love is a very, very lucky person.. because if there is any one person who is supportive, kind, thoughtful, genuine and cute all rolled into one, it is wong wenqi.
sigh! and she’s also very weird. but that’s why we all love her.
July 24th, 2008
it is 6 a.m, but instead of sleeping like i should be, or finishing Catcher in the Rye at home and in the comfort of my warm bed like i could be, i am here in Mamak-Near-My-House, STUDYING, with this.. incorrigible idiot who thinks that he can pass his finals by mugging only TWO HOURS before his paper starts. yaaa i cant believe it either. this is exactly why we broke up so many years ago. priorities in life too different, haih.
everybody, meet eeyang.
he is my first love and one of my best friends to this day :) as i write this, he’s sitting across the table from me, mugging for his CSCI paper that is two hours away, from a textbook that he DIDN’T EVEN HAVE, which *I* had to print out for him. my sole task on this fine morning is to sit here with him and make sure he studies and to scold him every once in a while when he gets distracted by shiny things :\ i even had to bring my pencil case for him because i wasn’t sure if he would have any stationery on him -_-
our relationship has always been like this. when we were going out in Form 2, it was one of those classic high school relationship stereotypes where the jock was going out with the nerd in some aberration of the natural high school ecosystem. well, no prizes for guessing who the jock and the nerd are respectively, but i was a very pretty and sociable nerd okay!!! we were from completely different and very segregated circles, but as fate often has it, it was only a matter of time before we found each other and fell completely head over heels in love.
we came from very different backgrounds and we didn’t like or do the same things, but at our very cores we were almost made for each other. we were both rebels at heart – impatient, ambitious and never letting anyone or anything get in our way, we were both all about feelings and emotions, and we really understood each other. where one of us lacked something, the other filled up that void. for the first time, i understood what people meant when they talked about puzzle pieces and completing each other. like i said, we didn’t like or do the same things, but we always took a lot of joy in learning and discovering the other person’s world. i spent a lot of time cheering him on at his basketball games, and he used to come over to my classroom and hang out with my friends, who all loved him. i remember how he gave Aira an entire pack of crackers for her birthday, because we used to call her Pollie the Parrot :P he taught me all about computers, sports and cars, and i taught him all about grammar, geography and history. in Kemahiran Hidup classes, he did all my woodwork for me while i did all his jahitan. yeah, it was one of those relationships :)
we went out for about a year before we split up and he went to a different school. neither of us saw the split coming, and in hindsight it was one of those things that shouldn’t have happened. then came many years of very little contact, where we would hang out only once in a while or turn to each other whenever we had issues that no one else but us would understand. we’ve been spending a lot of time together lately, because yes, we’ve both been having issues and of course we just naturally turn to each other – just like it’s been from the very beginning :)
this is us at Jalan Alor having that clam seafood thingy (informally called chuit chuit but i have no idea what its real name is) where you have to suck the meat out of the shell. like the numbskulls that we are, we could not suck out ANY of the meat, and had discarded 3/4 of the plate before we realized we were sucking on the wrong end of the clams :\ two days ago we both emo-ed over fries and a quarter pounder (i said i didnt want one, but i ended up finishing his), and yesterday i had a super craving for fah sang wu, so he drove me all the way to SS2 just to have a bowl. and today… we are both sitting at Mamak-Near-My-House making sure he doesn’t fail his CSCI paper. tomorrow we are going out for a movie and then making sure he doesn’t fail his upcoming English paper. hehe.
conversations with eeyang:
me: you so totally need to study harder. i can help you with CSCI!
eeyang: eh i’m not doing so bad.. i got 48 out of 60 for my midterms!
me: ……..
eeyang: aren’t you proud of me?
me …… um that’s like a B or something..
eeyang: HELLO??? a B is PRETTY DAMN GOOD!!!
me: no it isn’t. anything less than an A is material for suicide.
me: eh actually how many girlfriends have you had so far?
eeyang: hmm.. *thinks* three! you, koi lin and joey.
me: hah.. elaine leh?
eeyang: oh then four.
me: jessy leh?
eeyang: oh then five.
me: natalie leh?
eeyang: oh then six.
me: then how about that girl from taylors?!
eeyang: what, that one also count?? okay lah then seven. eh but if she counts then so do pei yee, lie peh, sarah…
me: WTF
hahaha sometimes he really cracks me up. we have so much fun whenever we meet up, and it’s so good to know we still get along with each other so well. and that we still understand each other :) we have the kind of friendship where we can just flop onto each other on the couch, watch a really shitty movie and then get up and go home, feeling a thousand times better. we could ask each other for a favour and it’d be granted instantly without any hesitation.
we didn’t break up because of different priorities, but we broke up because i didn’t know what a good thing i had then. but i know now :) eeyang, if you are reading this, can you please go back to doing your work!!!!!! stop talking to me about random things!!!!!! i am not going to answer you anymore!!!
ooh, this just in:
eeyang: do you know why i’m so panicked over this paper?
me: you are so not panicking. you’re like too calm for your own good
eeyang: NO, i’m damn panicked okay!
me: okay… is it cos your paper is one hour away?
eeyang: no lah… it’s cos this exam has 2 invigilators. so my classmates and i can’t copy or exchange papers like we’re used to doing :D
me: WTF
April 15th, 2008
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