Tuesday, July 26, 2011

What you have to do when you turn 17

Get your driver's license.

& I haz just passed the test today (:

Friday, July 15, 2011

Oh look! It works

This week, those who are born in 1994, who lives in Malaysia, and who are preparing for their SPM exam took the whole week off just to get into a website to check their destiny, on whether or not they will be chosen to join National Service.

=________________________=


Honestly, with so many 17-year-olds in Malaysia, the PLKN website should be more high tech and should work faster so we can suffer less in front of the screen. YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I PRESSED THE F5 BUTTON AND STILL COULD NOT GET IN?!?!?!?!?!

Oh the agony.

I gave up in the end and asked ma to send a text in the morning. And the text messaging system also very slow lah!! The news came in at 11pm or so, when I was asleep =O

The next morning ma shocked me with news while I was half awake, sipping my tea. I GOT IN!! Like, I was blur, then it settled.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got in =D

I was hoping to get in lah and was super glad I was selected. Some of the people don't wanna get chosen because they say it's gonna be suffering in there blah blah blah...And others who weren't chosen but wanted to go were envying the ungrateful ones. hehehe


NNNNAHHH! I finally got in the site,
4 days later


Oh another funny thing.
After ma told me that I was selected, I happy happy this when I arrived school but my classmates said that I wasn't chosen.

Then I was like, "huh?"

The rest also blur because they saw my face blur. LOL

Our class teacher helped us check and typed out the results on the paper and it states that I was not chosen.

And so, I felt weird.

I checked the paper and the result was really a 'NO', but when I checked my IC number, the teacher had typed it wrong =_______________=

HAHAHA

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Law Olympiad 2011

If you want to read the post about the Olympiad which I took part in last year, click here

Last year, I think we were really blur and had no clue what we signed up for. This year, we were a wee bit smarter but guess what? We were outsmarted by another team, from our school. LOL. I think last year our team did pretty poorly, we almost came in last. But today we did super good in the first round. It's called 'Whodunnit?', a game where they give you 3 cases, and you are needed to find the culprit. The total marks of this game is 30 and you know what we got?? 29!!!

All of us were like, O___________________________O
Oh my. Never expected to get such high marks, and at that time, we were leading, unbelievable!

But in the end, we went home with the fourth place. We didn't get cash prizes like the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd team did but we won in our hearts. My heart. Although we didn't do well in the game called 'Best Plea/Best Alibi', I still think we kicked some butt today. =D I mean, who gets a 29 over 30 in the first game, it like, never happen. Oh yeah.

So I'm very happy that we joined the competition. Win or lose, it doesn't matter at all. The highlight is that we had great fun during the whole process!! =D


A picture of us.
Boomchikalakaboomboom!!!



Group photo with our teacher-in-charge, the organizer and the other team from school (whom won second place. *show off!)


A freestyle one.


Then after that, we didn't want to leave the hall because this would probably the last time I'd visit Tshung Tsin's hall, hahaha, so we decided to take MORE pictures =) So we did the famous High School Musical jump snap =)


Sorry the editing so crappy, I had to be quick.
See? Our group knows how to work, and have fun =D

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Brighton Day One

I have the blogging itch to tell you guys about my recent trip to the United Kingdom. Okay, it's not that recent but it happened a month ago. hahaha. But memories will never get old =)

My family and I, along with my grandparents, survived the 16-hour flight and arrived in the famous Heathrow Airport, London and quickly got into our taxi and headed down to our first destination, Brighton. Sorry ah no picture of the airport because pa booked the taxi beforehand so after collecting our luggage, we went into the car straight away.

I remember the moment while walking towards the carpark, I very sakai, amazed by that tiny part of London, that I almost got banged by a taxi at the crossing. LOL. But the driver pro lah so I didn't get killed on my first big trip to a place so grand.


Brighton is home to my aunt (小姑妈) and her husband, Uncle Dennis. Both of them are from Malaysia, but have been living there since, FOREVER! Pa also studied in Brighton for a few years so, that's why we are there for holiday =)

Arrived Brighton earlier than expected. I think all of us were tired and jetlagged. Oh, one more thing. IT WAS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY COLD!!!! It's summer there but it was so cold. I think it was because of some wind blowing from somwhere so the weather had a sudden change. So being people from the tropical part of the globe we were practically, freezing.

But breakfast came to save us! My aunt (okay from here onwards I'm gonna call her Sai Kuma) prepared a very typical English breakfast? Which I think they have it every day but for us it's only once in 10 years. LOL


Table to feed 8 person. No worries. Lots more in the kitchen.

Didn't take a picture of my aunt's apartment!! Uhm, I think I did but it's in another album hahaha. Sorry lah you might say that I'm lazy and that I'm being a lousy blogger (which I might be) but I took around 2000 pictures with my own camera and there are around 4000 pictures all together. =/

Quick brief about the place. So Sai Kuma's apartment has only 3 rooms. One is their bedroom, and the other two rooms are occupied with their work desks and fishing equipment. We slept in sleeping bags (not for me, I slept on the sofa!) for the two nights and had to share a bathroom. You know how I like to jump around while I walk? I was not allowed to do that because I was afraid that the family downstairs might get a heart attack.HAHAHA. But I enjoyed the two nights we spent there cramped in that tiny space. It was totally fun and much warmer than living in a hotel =)


Now, where was I? >.<


They have mushrooms for breakfast =O RARE.

After that, took a drive to a nearby church. Took lots of pictures along the road. It may be facinating to me, but WILL BE boring for you. because I take pictures of almost everything


bread no dust meh when you reach home?



The church we first visited (I'm saying this because we really visited A LOT of churches) is named St. Bartholomew's. If I am not wrong, it's one of the oldest Catholic churches in the UK.

Nick and I inside the church. Note the organ behind it's like WHOOOAAA!

Everytime I step into the churches there kan, my jaw drops. Like, it really drops and I feel that my saliva is almost going to drop too. I'm in awe.


After visiting the church, we headed down to the heart of Brighton, where they're having their Fringe Festival. It is a festival held once a year in May where they have bazaars, dances, and all that fun stuff.

Grafitti along the road...


The famous British postbox and phone booth


So we walked around North Laine and the place where they sell loads of antique goods, and the alley where they sold farm products. Quit the quacking, I don't really know the exact names to the streets but I know what I saw there =P


My favourite shop in the whole entire world.
I know I sound like a kid but I really DECLARE it as my favourite shop in the whole entire world. I've been in there on day one, then went back there for 2 and a half more times. And it's still not enough!!! Okay, now I feel like going back into that shop again.


houses along the road. So pretty the flowers!


The Antique shop that we went in. Lots of cool stuff in there which I have never, ever ever, seen in my life. The most bizarre thing I've found is an antique 'Twister'.Now I wonder how you play that.

Temptation along the road =O
We just had breakfast but quickly we got hungry
maybe it's because of the cold weather and our fats are too thin to keep us warm



I HAVE NEVER, EVER EVER, SEEN THIS KIND OF SCRUM-DIDDLY-LUMPSCIOUS CAKE BEFORE!
and I regret not buying one to try T_____________T


One of the stalls in the farm market...

So after walking for hours and hours with our jetlagged bodies (not that I mind but seriously, it was exhausting) we wanted to settle for lunch. Unfortunately, most of the indoor cafes were occupied, we couldn't sit outside to have tea because of the cold weather, so were walking here and there to look for a place to fill up our tummies.

We went into a very cool bar and thought we can have something there but were soon chased out because Nick and I were under 18. Pfft. They didn't put the sign outside pun.


In the end, we went into a place where they're having an all-you-can-eat kind of promotion so we were well fed.

pa's. Didn't take mine because I was too hungry, and cold =O


Visited a candy shop after that and it was, another jawdropping moment.
After this trip I realized that I'm a person who is easily facinated with tiny things. LOL





So yeah, everyone was tired (except for my uncle and aunt) so we went back to their pad. Showered and took a short nap.

This is the view from the window of the living room at their place.
IKR. *jaw drops

We wanted to have Fish and Chips for dinner at the club house nearby but their kitchen was closed by then. Cannot blame them because we left the house around 9pm, FOR DINNER. hahaha. We (sai kuma, ma, pa and I) took a detour to another restaurant to tapau Fish and Chips while the others went back to the apartment to wait for food.


So here we are. The Fish & Chips takeaway.
YUMM!


They don't only sell Fish & Chips...



This picture does no justice to the Fish & Chips =(
It's really yummy lah. We ordered 3 Cod sets plus an additional piece of Haddock but the 8 of us could not finish 'em!!! The portion is THAT big. The next day we got up early(because of jet lag) and finished the leftovers while waiting for my aunt and uncle to wake up.


After the food, we hit the sleeping bags.

Except for Nick who was too tired and decided to sleep in his jeans.




Day 2 coming up in a lightyear.
Having trials in about, a month =/

Saturday, July 9, 2011

128 more days

SO YEAH. Only 100+ days till SPM, till doomsday. I really hope I can get everything cramped in my head by then. =/

And after that we can all shout,


At least for a few months before enrolling into college. haa