I’m getting the feeling that people think that I’m weird. Especially when I tell them I’m going all the way to the big city just to look for one particular product. They start to give me that incredulous look and it gets worst when I tell them the price.
People just don’t understand how it feels to finally get something that one has been itching to get. They don’t understand the happiness or satisfaction one gets when that thing that they had been wanting for a long time is finally in their possession.
They just don’t get it.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
I want to, but I can't. Why? Its not my style. 2.0
I think I’ll use this title from now on whenever I want to complain or vent my frustrations here. And also, post with this title would tend to be quite SS, just so you guys know.
***
When can I drop my current image and move on to a new one? When can I be somebody new and not be teased by others? Why is it that when I sometimes wear different clothes, behave or talk a bit differently, others are bound to comment? Is my current self that set until it is almost impossible for others to accept temporary change?
For instance, if I were to firmly voice out my opinion or strongly back up my idea, would it be seen as I’m being stubborn or rebellious? If I were to just deny others of one favour, am I being a bad friend? If I were to reject your ideas, am I being a blocker? Why can’t I express myself freely like others do? Is it because I normally don’t? Is that why others always take it as I’m agreeing with their opinions even though deep down (or perhaps not so deep) I kinda don’t like it??
***
When can I drop my current image and move on to a new one? When can I be somebody new and not be teased by others? Why is it that when I sometimes wear different clothes, behave or talk a bit differently, others are bound to comment? Is my current self that set until it is almost impossible for others to accept temporary change?
For instance, if I were to firmly voice out my opinion or strongly back up my idea, would it be seen as I’m being stubborn or rebellious? If I were to just deny others of one favour, am I being a bad friend? If I were to reject your ideas, am I being a blocker? Why can’t I express myself freely like others do? Is it because I normally don’t? Is that why others always take it as I’m agreeing with their opinions even though deep down (or perhaps not so deep) I kinda don’t like it??
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Dancing Queen
It’s that time of the year again when we celebrate the Dancing Queen’s birthday! This will be the second year I’m celebrating it with SONEs around the world (I became a SONE early September last year).
Happy birthday, Hyoyeon!!!!
Though she doesn’t appear on variety shows as often as the others, but when she does, she really knows how to crack the audience up! I absolutely love her sense of humour and ‘choding’-ness. It makes her even more special and awesome than she already is. Even at a young age she already displayed great dancing skill during her audition and she also possess great confidence on stage! She was even put in the boys dancing class when they were trainees because of her skills. Hyoyeon’s special stage during their concert was freaking awesome! It was a spectacular display of what dancing is all about!
(sorry its not really hq, its the best i could find)
(awesome ain't it? haha. 18.04.2010 Into The New World concert in Shanghai)
Hyoyeon-unnie, I really hope that you’ll get more camera time on MVs and also as a permanent guest on a hit show.
Happy birthday!
Wishing you good health and happiness and success in your career.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Again and Again
All right, here we go again.
*ahem*
First week is so damn boring!!! Gosh, I do this every start of the new semester. I know I should be revising some of my notes but the system isn’t up and running yet so all of us are note-less for the rest of the week and who knows when the system will be fixed.
Now that I look back at my new time table, it’s so weird. When it’s empty, its’ really empty and when it’s hectic, I’m running from one block to another for back-to-back classes. Goodness gracious! But it’s ok, it only happens a few days in a week.
The worst part about the new semester isn’t the initial boredom, it’s the fact that I’m not in the same class as my group of friends anymore! T^T Not even lecture classes! My gosh!! I’m going to miss doing assignments with them a lot! But thank goodness I’m not alone! Haha
Oh, before I forget.
Happy 100th post!! Haha I know, I'm so random and weird.
*ahem*
First week is so damn boring!!! Gosh, I do this every start of the new semester. I know I should be revising some of my notes but the system isn’t up and running yet so all of us are note-less for the rest of the week and who knows when the system will be fixed.
Now that I look back at my new time table, it’s so weird. When it’s empty, its’ really empty and when it’s hectic, I’m running from one block to another for back-to-back classes. Goodness gracious! But it’s ok, it only happens a few days in a week.
The worst part about the new semester isn’t the initial boredom, it’s the fact that I’m not in the same class as my group of friends anymore! T^T Not even lecture classes! My gosh!! I’m going to miss doing assignments with them a lot! But thank goodness I’m not alone! Haha
Oh, before I forget.
Happy 100th post!! Haha I know, I'm so random and weird.
Monday, September 20, 2010
99 !!!!! ^^
I’ve finally reached my 99th post! It’s been a little short of a year and I’m already almost at my 100th! This can only mean one thing- I am such a procrastinator! Seriously! Like every time I have nothing to do, I come by here and drop a few lines (or paragraphs) and then I’m on my way. It’s a pretty nice thing to do, though it may be a bit time consuming. It also gives me a place to write. As you know, I don’t get to write very often now that I’m in college. The most I write is for assignments and exams, and the occasional lecture exercise which I doubt anybody else in my class takes it seriously and write properly. I don’t even take it seriously. Seriously man, where is that lady slave driver of a single lady teacher when she is needed?! Somebody needs to knock some sense into some of my classmates who, might I share some info with you, take the language very lightly. I wonder what they got for their finals?
***
Since it’s the 99th post, this is a tribute to 9 special girls (ladies?) haha. You can leave now if you don’t want to read further. I don’t’ blame you.
They are, by far, the funniest people I have ever seen, though I haven’t really ‘seen’ them in person yet. The stuff they do is just really cute and dorky at the same time. Mistakes are just part and parcel of them. It’s really funny, especially that time when Taeyeon’s lollipop flew off the stick during a Kissing You performance. The expression on her face was priceless.
Since debuting in 2007, the girls had had success in doing various activities, such as variety shows, dramas, commercial films and soundtracks for dramas. Some of the examples for the OSTs sung would be Taeyeon’s IF (Hong Gil Dong) and Can You Hear Me..(Beethoven Virus), Tiffany’s By Myself (Ja Myung Go) and Sunny’s Your Doll ( Oh! My Lady). Yoona, who was awarded best new actress award (2009) for her role in You’re My Destiny during the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards, co-starred in another drama with Kwon Sang Woo called Cinderella Man.
It is every fan’s dream to meet their idols and stars. SONEs got their wish granted in 2009 when the girls announced that they were to hold their first ever solo concert at the end of the year. SONEs around the world were really excited about it. Their concert in South Korea would mark the starting point of their Asian Tour. Everybody wanted to get tickets to their concert! You wouldn’t believe their popularity! Tickets to their first concert were sold out within 3minutes!
(this episode is a summary of the girls' first concert, check out more on YT)
Now, the girls are currently busy with their Japanese promotion. They debuted in the Japanese market earlier this month with their hit song, Genie. In October, they’re going to release their 2nd Japanese single, Gee. I’m so excited, though I might never get my hands on a copy of both albums.
It’s awesome being a SONE. ^^
***
Since it’s the 99th post, this is a tribute to 9 special girls (ladies?) haha. You can leave now if you don’t want to read further. I don’t’ blame you.
They are, by far, the funniest people I have ever seen, though I haven’t really ‘seen’ them in person yet. The stuff they do is just really cute and dorky at the same time. Mistakes are just part and parcel of them. It’s really funny, especially that time when Taeyeon’s lollipop flew off the stick during a Kissing You performance. The expression on her face was priceless.
Since debuting in 2007, the girls had had success in doing various activities, such as variety shows, dramas, commercial films and soundtracks for dramas. Some of the examples for the OSTs sung would be Taeyeon’s IF (Hong Gil Dong) and Can You Hear Me..(Beethoven Virus), Tiffany’s By Myself (Ja Myung Go) and Sunny’s Your Doll ( Oh! My Lady). Yoona, who was awarded best new actress award (2009) for her role in You’re My Destiny during the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards, co-starred in another drama with Kwon Sang Woo called Cinderella Man.
It is every fan’s dream to meet their idols and stars. SONEs got their wish granted in 2009 when the girls announced that they were to hold their first ever solo concert at the end of the year. SONEs around the world were really excited about it. Their concert in South Korea would mark the starting point of their Asian Tour. Everybody wanted to get tickets to their concert! You wouldn’t believe their popularity! Tickets to their first concert were sold out within 3minutes!
(this episode is a summary of the girls' first concert, check out more on YT)
Now, the girls are currently busy with their Japanese promotion. They debuted in the Japanese market earlier this month with their hit song, Genie. In October, they’re going to release their 2nd Japanese single, Gee. I’m so excited, though I might never get my hands on a copy of both albums.
It’s awesome being a SONE. ^^
Friday, September 17, 2010
I want to, but I can't. Why? Its not my style.
I think, this would really be the first time that I am truly disappointed with my results. I could feel my heart sink when I saw the C+ plastered on the screen. I guess those notes were really mocking me after all, the few weeks back. I wanted to cry, I really did wanted to. But of course, if I had cried, who would be the one who will always smile and say ‘never mind, we’ll do better next time’.
Perhaps I’m being SS, but, I do feel at times that I am the only one that is able to smile during hard times and tell others that it’s ok and do better next time. How am I able to smile I do not know. A smile could hide many things on a person’s face. On the contrary, a person’s eyes can hardly hide anything at all. Those people who were fooled by my smiling face usually miss the sadness in my eyes.
Am I being a total SS? I don’t care; I think it’s good to be an SS once in a while; just not all the time. Makes you feel good about yourself.
Perhaps I’m being SS, but, I do feel at times that I am the only one that is able to smile during hard times and tell others that it’s ok and do better next time. How am I able to smile I do not know. A smile could hide many things on a person’s face. On the contrary, a person’s eyes can hardly hide anything at all. Those people who were fooled by my smiling face usually miss the sadness in my eyes.
Am I being a total SS? I don’t care; I think it’s good to be an SS once in a while; just not all the time. Makes you feel good about yourself.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Boys and Girls
‘Hey guys look, sunglasses!’
‘cool!’
‘let’s each wear a pair and take a group picture!’
Around 6 of them, if not mistaken, grabbed a pair of sunglasses each and lined themselves up, ready for their photo shoot.
While they were posing away, some already went down to the bee farm below and the others were attracted by the mini arcade the site had at the back.
‘Hey, Sze, wanna play this?’ Jen Na pointed to the arcade style basketball game.
‘Sure, why not? But I don’t have change.’
‘Never mind, I’ll go get it.’
Off she went to the counter in front to get two 50cents coins for the game. Pretty soon, the two of them were shooting away, trying to accumulate points. The funny thing was, they were suppose to try to beat each other at it since it was a two player game, but they ended up helping each other out.
‘Hey guys, I’m going down to the farm, anybody coming?’
***
‘Yo, what have you guys been up to down here?’
‘We were taking pictures over there, you wanna take one?’ Sien Son offered to the two newly arrived girls at the bee farm.
‘can also, where?’
He showed them to the particular spot and the two girls were pondering over how to pose until..
‘I know! Why don’t we do that heart shape pose!’
‘Awesome!!!’
Click
‘Well, you finally got what you wanted.’
‘Yup ^^’ said the short haired girl who was grinning widely.
They spent the majority of their time taking pictures in the bee farm, seeing how that place was a bit of a bore in the shortie’s point of view. There was a staircase there, and it was steep! She took a picture of it and so did her friend, but unfortunately, her friend snapped a picture of her butt instead. =.= She doesn’t mind, everybody was in a good mood and so was she.
***
As I was typing….
‘Oi?! SA PO, Laura Diong! What are you all doing here?’
‘oh, you’re mom picked us up by the road side. Haha’
‘I thought you all berbonding with your books wan?’
‘aiya, I go Laura’s house pass her something ma, then your mom came and picked us up.’
‘See, Ying, I so good, bring Diong Wern Jyn and Laura DIong to see you.’
‘so you 2 ho bo?’
‘haiz..bo ho la. Want to exam ady….’
We spent almost one hour catching up with one another while facebook-ing and stalking people’s photos, and shared stories about our, or more like my recent trip to Cameron.
It’s quite amazing that the three of us could be as sampat-ed as we use to in just that short amount of time. Ah..good times, good times ^_^
***
After the bee farm, they went to a mini strawberry farm where most of them bought those strawberry flavoured Popsicle sticks. It was so sweet! Just the way that shortie likes it. She has a really big sweet tooth, mind you.
It was just a quick stop at the farm before they had to move on to their apartment they were staying at. They were suppose to go for lunch in Tanah Rata but some problem came up with the bus company and they had to cut their time short.
It took them a while to find where that place was, since none of them had any idea where it is, including the driver. Don’t worry, they found it in record time and unloaded all their stuff and the bus then took Richard and his family to their own apartment.
The rest made their way up the flights of stairs to the second floor; thank goodness it was only the second and not the third. Their legs were already tired from walking around most of the day and going up stairs with luggage bags wasn’t exactly a pleasant journey.
It was a good thing that the apartment unit was almost directly in front of the stairs and they didn’t have to walk any further with their heavy luggage and multiple bag packs and duffle bags.
***
‘ok, let me through, I need to open the door.’ The certain brunette shoved her way through her friends and opened the grille door and took off her shoes before opening the wooden door.
‘Tadaa!’
Aigoo..this place is so freaking small >.< and the single room near the door look like some solitary confinement room. Oh and don’t even get me started on the toilet. Aigoo!!!
‘alright guys, lets settle down and unpack, then we’ll decide what to do.’
Everyone agreed with the plan and some already started to decide who’s sleeping where for the 2nights. The boys already came to an agreement before the trip that they were going to sleep on the floor.
The girls skillfully rearranged the beds in the rooms and came to a decision on the sleeping arrangements.
Li Ping, Pey Woei and Karen would take the room with the single bed while the rest would take the room beside it with the two single beds. The mattress from the solitary confinement room was moved to the room so that two others could sleep on it at night.
After deciding that, the girls were feeling a bit lazy to go out anymore and it was decided that they weren’t going out for dinner and they spent the rest of the afternoon/evening playing cards, gossiping and catching up with each other, playing the guitar and some took a nap.
***
(A/N: pictures are creditted to their respective owners: Sien Son, Jia Minn and myself)
‘cool!’
‘let’s each wear a pair and take a group picture!’
Around 6 of them, if not mistaken, grabbed a pair of sunglasses each and lined themselves up, ready for their photo shoot.
While they were posing away, some already went down to the bee farm below and the others were attracted by the mini arcade the site had at the back.
‘Hey, Sze, wanna play this?’ Jen Na pointed to the arcade style basketball game.
‘Sure, why not? But I don’t have change.’
‘Never mind, I’ll go get it.’
Off she went to the counter in front to get two 50cents coins for the game. Pretty soon, the two of them were shooting away, trying to accumulate points. The funny thing was, they were suppose to try to beat each other at it since it was a two player game, but they ended up helping each other out.
‘Hey guys, I’m going down to the farm, anybody coming?’
***
‘Yo, what have you guys been up to down here?’
‘We were taking pictures over there, you wanna take one?’ Sien Son offered to the two newly arrived girls at the bee farm.
‘can also, where?’
He showed them to the particular spot and the two girls were pondering over how to pose until..
‘I know! Why don’t we do that heart shape pose!’
‘Awesome!!!’
Click
‘Well, you finally got what you wanted.’
‘Yup ^^’ said the short haired girl who was grinning widely.
They spent the majority of their time taking pictures in the bee farm, seeing how that place was a bit of a bore in the shortie’s point of view. There was a staircase there, and it was steep! She took a picture of it and so did her friend, but unfortunately, her friend snapped a picture of her butt instead. =.= She doesn’t mind, everybody was in a good mood and so was she.
***
As I was typing….
‘Oi?! SA PO, Laura Diong! What are you all doing here?’
‘oh, you’re mom picked us up by the road side. Haha’
‘I thought you all berbonding with your books wan?’
‘aiya, I go Laura’s house pass her something ma, then your mom came and picked us up.’
‘See, Ying, I so good, bring Diong Wern Jyn and Laura DIong to see you.’
‘so you 2 ho bo?’
‘haiz..bo ho la. Want to exam ady….’
We spent almost one hour catching up with one another while facebook-ing and stalking people’s photos, and shared stories about our, or more like my recent trip to Cameron.
It’s quite amazing that the three of us could be as sampat-ed as we use to in just that short amount of time. Ah..good times, good times ^_^
***
After the bee farm, they went to a mini strawberry farm where most of them bought those strawberry flavoured Popsicle sticks. It was so sweet! Just the way that shortie likes it. She has a really big sweet tooth, mind you.
It was just a quick stop at the farm before they had to move on to their apartment they were staying at. They were suppose to go for lunch in Tanah Rata but some problem came up with the bus company and they had to cut their time short.
It took them a while to find where that place was, since none of them had any idea where it is, including the driver. Don’t worry, they found it in record time and unloaded all their stuff and the bus then took Richard and his family to their own apartment.
The rest made their way up the flights of stairs to the second floor; thank goodness it was only the second and not the third. Their legs were already tired from walking around most of the day and going up stairs with luggage bags wasn’t exactly a pleasant journey.
It was a good thing that the apartment unit was almost directly in front of the stairs and they didn’t have to walk any further with their heavy luggage and multiple bag packs and duffle bags.
***
‘ok, let me through, I need to open the door.’ The certain brunette shoved her way through her friends and opened the grille door and took off her shoes before opening the wooden door.
‘Tadaa!’
Aigoo..this place is so freaking small >.< and the single room near the door look like some solitary confinement room. Oh and don’t even get me started on the toilet. Aigoo!!!
‘alright guys, lets settle down and unpack, then we’ll decide what to do.’
Everyone agreed with the plan and some already started to decide who’s sleeping where for the 2nights. The boys already came to an agreement before the trip that they were going to sleep on the floor.
The girls skillfully rearranged the beds in the rooms and came to a decision on the sleeping arrangements.
Li Ping, Pey Woei and Karen would take the room with the single bed while the rest would take the room beside it with the two single beds. The mattress from the solitary confinement room was moved to the room so that two others could sleep on it at night.
After deciding that, the girls were feeling a bit lazy to go out anymore and it was decided that they weren’t going out for dinner and they spent the rest of the afternoon/evening playing cards, gossiping and catching up with each other, playing the guitar and some took a nap.
***
(A/N: pictures are creditted to their respective owners: Sien Son, Jia Minn and myself)
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Beginning
DJ, put it back on..
A figure jumped out of bed as she heard her alarm went off on an early Thursday morning. It took her a while to gather her thoughts on waking up at 6.30a.m. during her semester break. Then it hit her; she’s going on a trip with her long-time-no-see friends that she had helped plan a month ago. She quickly sprang up from her bed and finished packing and prepared to head out.
***
‘Alright people, is everybody here yet?’
‘nope, Yaw Bia, Jia Minn and Suchata not here yet.’
‘will somebody please call them?’
‘Yaw Bia is on the way from Sg Besar, Jia is fetching Susu so they’ll be late together.’
Aigoo…
20minutes later…
‘uncle, everybody is here, we can move now.’
And so the journey uphill begins.
***
‘Why are we stopping?’
‘Toilet and breakfast stop, gather back in the bus in an hour or so.’
‘har? What’s there to eat here?’
‘aiya, just go down only la, walk around and see how first.’
All of them walked around the two rows of shops to find something descent to eat and unfortunately, they couldn’t find any. They ended up cramming into Seven Eleven buying chocolate, sweets and slurppy.
‘hey, I wanna go to the toilet, anybody wanna come with?’
‘yea..’
A few went to the toilet at the petrol station nearby while the others continued looking around and went back to the bus.
***
‘why are we stopping here?’
‘are we there yet?’
‘we’re stopping to see corn?’
‘I think toilet break la.’
‘oh…’
The 23 of them went down to what seems to be their first stop in their trip, a toilet break and also a place that sells really good sweet corn. Some even bought one and ate it raw, just like that. The rest were teasing her of getting an upset stomach later on, but that didn’t stop her from munching and finishing the whole thing.
‘where are we going first?’ one asked the event planner of the trip.
‘we’re going to Boh Tea Plantation for tea and scones first.’
Oh…
***
‘Alright guys, we’re now going to transfer into another smaller bus to go up to Boh.’
‘Which bus?’
‘That bus sekolah over there.’
It definitely had been a while since they had ridden in one of those buses-small with not a very high ceiling and seems to be meant for primary school kids.
‘Jen Na, be careful not to…’
Before she could complete her sentence, a thud could be heard and the one that caused it was sitting in her seat, winching in pain.
‘..hit your head. But I guess telling you now would be meaningless.’
The other two friends burst into laughter watching her rub her head again and again, hoping to ease the pain.
The journey up to Boh’s was quite exciting and thrilling as the road was obviously build for one way traffic and there were also vehicles coming down the slope, causing a minor traffic jam along the way. But with some honking and awesome driving skills, not a scratch was landed on any of the vehicles.
The view of the tea plantation was both scenic and breathtaking, the two words commonly used to describe views like that, but of course, simple ‘ooo’ and ‘ahh’ would have served the same purpose.
The ones on the right side of the bus was busy taking pictures of the view, causing the ones of the left to feel slightly left out and jealous of the view their friends were seeing on the right.
Cameras and their respective cameramen were busy snapping away and one happened to turn towards the people in the bus, rather than the view, as though going to take a picture of her friends sitting behind her.
Sze Hsien, who saw the camera, immediately struck a pose and was ready for a shot when…
‘Alar..as if I was going to take your picture. Perasan.’
The whole bunch of them burst laughing; leaving a quite embarrassed Sze Hsien pouting in her seat with her arms crossed.
They reached Boh Tea after around 15 minutes or so and got up from their seats to explore the place.
‘Jen Na, don’t hit your…’
Another thud was heard.
‘..head again..’
Laughter could be heard as they got off the bus, headed to the tea factory and café.
***
‘wow, this place is perfect for taking pictures! Just like in those fashion magazines!’
The group spent quite some time at that area taking photos of themselves, partly because that particular part of the cafe was quite nice.
‘oi, come on lor, let’s go try out the scones and tea!’
One shout and all of them left the area to taste the food.
‘I’ll have one scone, a slice of apple pie, a scone and a cup of Earl Grey tea.’
‘I’ll have one chicken and mushroom pie and a cup of Passion and Orange tea.’
The two of them paid and went to take their seats, together with 5 other boys.
‘Zhi, this pie is awesome!’
‘Serious? Can I try?’
‘Sure!’
*takes a bite*
‘So sweet! I like the crust!’
‘Awesome right? the scone is nice also!’
*takes another bite*
‘Awesome! I should’ve ordered it instead of this chicken pie, it taste a bit weird,
but that could just be me.’
‘let me try..’
*take a bite*
‘let’s switch, I’ll take your pie and you take mine.’
‘ar? You sure bo?’
‘yea, lets trade.’
***
‘Zhong, let’s go take pictures over there! The view looks awesome!’
They left their seats and went towards the balcony and went straight for the railings.
All the boys took up most of the space at the railings and a short brunette could be seen tip-toeing behind them, in her poor attempt to see pass the towering boys.
‘I can’t see T^T’
might as well take a picture of what’s in front of me.
With that, she took pictures of the boys’ back together with the view in front of them.
The boys had their photos taken against the magnificent backdrop and left the railings.
Finally! Wow, no wonder they stood here for so long. The view is awesome!
The camera came out right away and she was busy snapping picture of her now favourite view.
***
‘alright guys, one last group pic then it’s up the bus and we’re going down d.’
The whole group quickly arranged themselves in an orderly manner and took a group picture with the amajjing view behind them and called it a visit and left Boh.
‘Jen Na, don’t hit your head this time ya.’
Surprisingly, she sat down and no thud was heard. Her friends mentally applaud her achievement.
On the way down, Jen Na was feeling a bit ‘high’ and was shouting at random passers-by she saw.
‘hey, next one you shout I love you.’
‘OK!’
However, the ‘I love you’ shout never came.
‘Why you no shout?’
‘the person so old.’
Multiple reasons came and the next thing they knew, they were already off the hill and headed to a bee farm near the area.
***
(some of the pictures are taken from Richard and Sien Son's album at FB)
A figure jumped out of bed as she heard her alarm went off on an early Thursday morning. It took her a while to gather her thoughts on waking up at 6.30a.m. during her semester break. Then it hit her; she’s going on a trip with her long-time-no-see friends that she had helped plan a month ago. She quickly sprang up from her bed and finished packing and prepared to head out.
***
‘Alright people, is everybody here yet?’
‘nope, Yaw Bia, Jia Minn and Suchata not here yet.’
‘will somebody please call them?’
‘Yaw Bia is on the way from Sg Besar, Jia is fetching Susu so they’ll be late together.’
Aigoo…
20minutes later…
‘uncle, everybody is here, we can move now.’
And so the journey uphill begins.
***
‘Why are we stopping?’
‘Toilet and breakfast stop, gather back in the bus in an hour or so.’
‘har? What’s there to eat here?’
‘aiya, just go down only la, walk around and see how first.’
All of them walked around the two rows of shops to find something descent to eat and unfortunately, they couldn’t find any. They ended up cramming into Seven Eleven buying chocolate, sweets and slurppy.
‘hey, I wanna go to the toilet, anybody wanna come with?’
‘yea..’
A few went to the toilet at the petrol station nearby while the others continued looking around and went back to the bus.
***
‘why are we stopping here?’
‘are we there yet?’
‘we’re stopping to see corn?’
‘I think toilet break la.’
‘oh…’
The 23 of them went down to what seems to be their first stop in their trip, a toilet break and also a place that sells really good sweet corn. Some even bought one and ate it raw, just like that. The rest were teasing her of getting an upset stomach later on, but that didn’t stop her from munching and finishing the whole thing.
‘where are we going first?’ one asked the event planner of the trip.
‘we’re going to Boh Tea Plantation for tea and scones first.’
Oh…
***
‘Alright guys, we’re now going to transfer into another smaller bus to go up to Boh.’
‘Which bus?’
‘That bus sekolah over there.’
It definitely had been a while since they had ridden in one of those buses-small with not a very high ceiling and seems to be meant for primary school kids.
‘Jen Na, be careful not to…’
Before she could complete her sentence, a thud could be heard and the one that caused it was sitting in her seat, winching in pain.
‘..hit your head. But I guess telling you now would be meaningless.’
The other two friends burst into laughter watching her rub her head again and again, hoping to ease the pain.
The journey up to Boh’s was quite exciting and thrilling as the road was obviously build for one way traffic and there were also vehicles coming down the slope, causing a minor traffic jam along the way. But with some honking and awesome driving skills, not a scratch was landed on any of the vehicles.
The view of the tea plantation was both scenic and breathtaking, the two words commonly used to describe views like that, but of course, simple ‘ooo’ and ‘ahh’ would have served the same purpose.
The ones on the right side of the bus was busy taking pictures of the view, causing the ones of the left to feel slightly left out and jealous of the view their friends were seeing on the right.
Cameras and their respective cameramen were busy snapping away and one happened to turn towards the people in the bus, rather than the view, as though going to take a picture of her friends sitting behind her.
Sze Hsien, who saw the camera, immediately struck a pose and was ready for a shot when…
‘Alar..as if I was going to take your picture. Perasan.’
The whole bunch of them burst laughing; leaving a quite embarrassed Sze Hsien pouting in her seat with her arms crossed.
They reached Boh Tea after around 15 minutes or so and got up from their seats to explore the place.
‘Jen Na, don’t hit your…’
Another thud was heard.
‘..head again..’
Laughter could be heard as they got off the bus, headed to the tea factory and café.
***
‘wow, this place is perfect for taking pictures! Just like in those fashion magazines!’
The group spent quite some time at that area taking photos of themselves, partly because that particular part of the cafe was quite nice.
‘oi, come on lor, let’s go try out the scones and tea!’
One shout and all of them left the area to taste the food.
‘I’ll have one scone, a slice of apple pie, a scone and a cup of Earl Grey tea.’
‘I’ll have one chicken and mushroom pie and a cup of Passion and Orange tea.’
The two of them paid and went to take their seats, together with 5 other boys.
‘Zhi, this pie is awesome!’
‘Serious? Can I try?’
‘Sure!’
*takes a bite*
‘So sweet! I like the crust!’
‘Awesome right? the scone is nice also!’
*takes another bite*
‘Awesome! I should’ve ordered it instead of this chicken pie, it taste a bit weird,
but that could just be me.’
‘let me try..’
*take a bite*
‘let’s switch, I’ll take your pie and you take mine.’
‘ar? You sure bo?’
‘yea, lets trade.’
***
‘Zhong, let’s go take pictures over there! The view looks awesome!’
They left their seats and went towards the balcony and went straight for the railings.
All the boys took up most of the space at the railings and a short brunette could be seen tip-toeing behind them, in her poor attempt to see pass the towering boys.
‘I can’t see T^T’
might as well take a picture of what’s in front of me.
With that, she took pictures of the boys’ back together with the view in front of them.
The boys had their photos taken against the magnificent backdrop and left the railings.
Finally! Wow, no wonder they stood here for so long. The view is awesome!
The camera came out right away and she was busy snapping picture of her now favourite view.
***
‘alright guys, one last group pic then it’s up the bus and we’re going down d.’
The whole group quickly arranged themselves in an orderly manner and took a group picture with the amajjing view behind them and called it a visit and left Boh.
‘Jen Na, don’t hit your head this time ya.’
Surprisingly, she sat down and no thud was heard. Her friends mentally applaud her achievement.
On the way down, Jen Na was feeling a bit ‘high’ and was shouting at random passers-by she saw.
‘hey, next one you shout I love you.’
‘OK!’
However, the ‘I love you’ shout never came.
‘Why you no shout?’
‘the person so old.’
Multiple reasons came and the next thing they knew, they were already off the hill and headed to a bee farm near the area.
***
(some of the pictures are taken from Richard and Sien Son's album at FB)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Break Time
My semester break started a couple of days back and I’m so happy that it’s finally started. I’ve been looking forward to the break since my mid-terms because that was the point of time when I almost collapse due to stress and fatigue. Yes, I also get stressed out at time, but I choose not to show it out. Assignments etc are so stressful to handle and what’s worst is if you are the one who ends up doing most of the work. I’m not complaining, just speaking what’s in my head. Though I have to say, the satisfactory feel I get when the marks are announce are really great, knowing you did most of the work and your hard work is reflected on your marks.
I never knew event planning could be so troublesome and stressful as well, especially if you have more than 10 people who are not helping at all with the planning. Transportation, accommodation and even budgeting, all are indirectly under my department and this is so not fun.
Never mind, at least, if the trip turns out well, I can brag about it in the future. kekeke
I never knew event planning could be so troublesome and stressful as well, especially if you have more than 10 people who are not helping at all with the planning. Transportation, accommodation and even budgeting, all are indirectly under my department and this is so not fun.
Never mind, at least, if the trip turns out well, I can brag about it in the future. kekeke
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Ooh~ La La
You were always like this,
Apologizing and then completely forgetting it.
I’ve lost count the number of times you apologized
And then did the same thing again.
I am so disappointed in you.
I mentioned it one day
And you asked if you did it to make me mad
I said no, yet you apologized.
I accepted.
Now,
You’re at it again.
You never stay true to your words.
And you’re such a day dreamer
Even worse than myself
At least I know the limits of my dreams
I know what is possible and impossible
And I work to achieve the possible
Unlike you,
Who comes up with a new dream every now and then
How fickle minded,
But then again, me as a friend
I can’t bring myself to tell you to stop dreaming
Who am I to tell you what is possible and not for you?
Only you know the answer.
I can only stand by and watch as your fate sets in to motion.
I can only give you words of encouragement,
Wishing you the best
I can only do so much as your friend,
Please open your eyes and see the world in a new perspective
This place we call the world is not all fun and games
It’s a place build on shattered dreams and broken promises
Please take good care of yourself,
My friend.
Apologizing and then completely forgetting it.
I’ve lost count the number of times you apologized
And then did the same thing again.
I am so disappointed in you.
I mentioned it one day
And you asked if you did it to make me mad
I said no, yet you apologized.
I accepted.
Now,
You’re at it again.
You never stay true to your words.
And you’re such a day dreamer
Even worse than myself
At least I know the limits of my dreams
I know what is possible and impossible
And I work to achieve the possible
Unlike you,
Who comes up with a new dream every now and then
How fickle minded,
But then again, me as a friend
I can’t bring myself to tell you to stop dreaming
Who am I to tell you what is possible and not for you?
Only you know the answer.
I can only stand by and watch as your fate sets in to motion.
I can only give you words of encouragement,
Wishing you the best
I can only do so much as your friend,
Please open your eyes and see the world in a new perspective
This place we call the world is not all fun and games
It’s a place build on shattered dreams and broken promises
Please take good care of yourself,
My friend.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Unnie~
Goodness gracious,
What happened to you?
You look tired, stressed out and not as cheerful as before.
The dark circles under your eyes are becoming more and more obvious.
Are you sleeping well?
Goodness,
You seem to have lost your colour as well,
Is everything alright there?
Your smiles aren’t like they used to be anymore,
They looked forced and painful.
Don’t force yourself if you don’t want to smile.
Have you been eating right?
I heard you complaining about food a while back.
Things must be tough for you now, isn’t it?
You’ve been complaining and ranting since 3 weeks ago.
Its ok,
Just take a deep breath and relax for a while.
Everything will be fine.
***
This is one of the reasons why I’ve always wanted an older sibling. They take care of you when you’re tired. Yes, I can be independent at times but I also want somebody to take care of me and spoil me.
Somebody once said that I was like a big sister to her, I was happy at the thought.
She's like my big sister! I always wanted an elder sister to take care of me. Yes, I could get really dependent at times. Ahh I'm missing her so much now.
~Kok. W.Y.~
***
I try my best to help others and to take care of them, directly and/or indirectly. Sometimes, I just wish they would return the favour. It really would be nice, but then again, who am I trying to kid, the chances of that happening is slimmer than my ruler.
What happened to you?
You look tired, stressed out and not as cheerful as before.
The dark circles under your eyes are becoming more and more obvious.
Are you sleeping well?
Goodness,
You seem to have lost your colour as well,
Is everything alright there?
Your smiles aren’t like they used to be anymore,
They looked forced and painful.
Don’t force yourself if you don’t want to smile.
Have you been eating right?
I heard you complaining about food a while back.
Things must be tough for you now, isn’t it?
You’ve been complaining and ranting since 3 weeks ago.
Its ok,
Just take a deep breath and relax for a while.
Everything will be fine.
***
This is one of the reasons why I’ve always wanted an older sibling. They take care of you when you’re tired. Yes, I can be independent at times but I also want somebody to take care of me and spoil me.
Somebody once said that I was like a big sister to her, I was happy at the thought.
She's like my big sister! I always wanted an elder sister to take care of me. Yes, I could get really dependent at times. Ahh I'm missing her so much now.
~Kok. W.Y.~
***
I try my best to help others and to take care of them, directly and/or indirectly. Sometimes, I just wish they would return the favour. It really would be nice, but then again, who am I trying to kid, the chances of that happening is slimmer than my ruler.
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