some penang photos

After a few days.. i finally managed to upload all the photos that i intended to put..

Our first tourist stop is this bee museum. You get to drink free honey but the tour guide gets commission for us buying honey. Honey very ex leh... RM70 per bottle. But they taste really good...

Here are my cousins.. dun they simply look so cute???
The literally 双峰（蜂）塔.

Malacca stop on the first day. Taken at the bottom of a hill.

Taken outside the Red House, after we managed to conquer the hill. Nothing much on top except a churh loh. But we bought a lot of key chains as souvenirs.
Something interesting i saw while walking along the streets of Malacca. Guess what is it for? Its a brush wor. As in the brush to wash ur pots kind of brush. Looks like corn right?
We arrived at KL for the night and before we left KL, we were brought to this Choc Boutique to spend money again...
Lunch on the way to Penang. This is the "Golden Pillow". Its actually bread stuffed with curry. OMG... damn nice loh.. yummy...
There's the infamous Penang Bridge. Our main purpose for travelling so far on bus instead of gg there by plan.
On the bridge.
First stop in Penang, the Penang Hill. Its really a tall hill leh.. unlike our Bukit Timah Hill....
There's the first cable car tt's supposed to bring up to midhill while we change to another cable car.
That's the night view on top of the hill. You can see the Penang Bridge so clearly. The air up there is so fresh and cool and the view was breath-taking...
Dinner was at their coffeeshop which essentially have all their shops by the roadside. This oyster omelette is one of the best man.... oysters a lot... nice nice....

2nd day in penang was all the temple visiting..

The first temple we visited was the sleeping buddha. No Photos taken inside so i only managed to get the head. But the buddha span the whole temple...

2nd temple was the Kek Lok Si Temple. From very far away, we can already see the majestic Guan Yin and the Pagoda.

That's the Pagoda. The first thing that will greet you after you finally managed to climb up the hill to the temple. The climb is not that bad coz you get to shop along the way. So you wun feel like you are doing a long long climb...
Part of the wall in the Pagoda. Very pretty right? Only the first few levels are pretty lah.. the top few a bit old. Coz not many ppl actually go up there i think....
That's the big bronze Guan Yin.
Look how small i am compared to it.
Last temple is the snake temple. Got real snakes wor!! Vipers leh.... Spot the snakes in front. No one dares to go near them loh...
Shopping in Penang. In the background is their Raffles City, Komtar. Got a lot of things but din really have mood to shop coz got a lot of ppl.. quite sian..
Dinner was at a seafood restaurant. Not nice one.... but quite fun lah.. look how big the prawns are!! Too bad i din get to try them.. i only get to eat pathetic little prawns...
The cousins.. 3 are not here...
The Penang Laksa. Not nice one.. at least coz i dun like lah...
The white coffee.. very very nice... wow!!
Something funny i found in Penang. The bank has a weird name. The chinese name is not too bad coz it read 公众银行. But the Eng name cannot make it lah... quite funny.. 3rd day. We left Penang already. Visited the Perak Hole. I am standing at the opening...We climbed a lot loh.. but i din reach the top coz i cannot climb liao.. but near the top got this super big 佛. I am so tiny.....
That's how tall the hill is.. we started all the way from the real bottom. I nearly reached the top but i was really too tired liao..

Last day shopping in KL. The indoor roller coaster at Berjaya Times Square. I should have gone to the amusement park to play instead of shopping. Nothing much to see loh.. sad sad...

Look! Even got 360 degrees turn one wor... Its very fast and looks really trilling..

Last dinner overseas before we make our way home. The entire gang. Include our tour guide and our bus drivers and my little cousin who decided to stay in KL with her aunt instead of gg Penang with us...

7 birthday parties down, 1 more to go!

Wow.. i haven had an update for so long.. really very very lazy.. photos are coming up soon. Once i get ard to posting them here. Posting photos on blogspot very troublesome lah.. maybe i post somewhere else den let you all see.

Anyway, i went for 3 birthday parties this weekend, plus another 2 of my bestest friends which i will never miss for anything in the world, one of my cousin and a uni fren. Total of 7 in 3 weeks.

My cousin's 12th birthday party started off my chain of parties. Another big family gathering. I love family gatherings. So noisy and fun. The highlight of the party was this piñata in the shaped of some cartoon Duel Master. In case for old ppl like me who dunno wat's a piñata , you can check out it's history here. Anyway, its supposed to be a big empty thing filled with sweets and stuff. The game if to break the thing and to get the stuff inside lah. Dun sound interesting but its actually quite fun. Even old ppl like me enjoyed it. It feels so good to be young again.

The 2nd one was grace's party. Took us a very long time to get into the place coz it was so ulu and the fast took very super long to come. After that we realised why coz there is only 1 bus for the entire service. Anyway, it was at this temasek club. Jus a little appeal to all my dear frens, if for any case you all need a party or wat, please choose a more accessible place ok? Back to the party, the food was pretty good and the place was quite nice lah. We even got to play games like musical chairs and pass the parcel. Got forfeits one wor.. And we get party hats coz her theme was a madhatters' party. It was a really enjoyable party. After the party i met Joven to buy ailing's present. Settle in 30mins. haha.. so productive and ailing likes her present. But her card took us longer time to choose than her present..

The 3rd one was zhu8jie's party. She had it on the actual day loh. So happy that she decided to spend this special day with everyone. Joven and I were even super on time for the party loh. So proud of myself.. haha.. Anyway, we were all given a flower made by the birthday gal tt we were supposed to pin on our top. The st john gals were supposed to be her bbq kakis and we got special flowers. The whole night was quite busy coz the food a bit 供不应求. Not that there wasn't enough, but jus that we could not cook fast enough. After a whole night of bbq, we went out for KTV. Sang till 6am loh. The first time i went KTV with this bunch of gals. I was really amazed at a friend's singing power. She was so good!!!

4th party was Qiulin’s. She had it at her house and as usual, I was late and I dragged the guys down with me coz I was late for meeting the guys. I meant guys coz none of the 4D gals can make it for the party except pey yng but she's gg with CO. Her party was comfortable in the sense that i get a table and chairs. Quite nice catching up with the ppl since i din get to talk to them much during my party. And Qiulin liked her present. So happy... But sotong alvin revealed the price of the wallet in front of Qiulin which shocked her coz she tot it was too ex. Her present not ex lah. In fact, i had a lot of fun getting her present coz got a lot of sales even though her wallet was real hard to choose. We got her a sand coloured, braun buffel which was originally at 20% percent off but there is an additional 10% off for takashimaya VIP members. While py and I was making our way to the counter, this lady approached us and said that we can use her taka card in exchange for us to help her use her vouchers and pay her cash for it. I definitely dun mind coz we get another 10% off. We oso got her a book which she requested for. The book oso got discount coz I bought at popular and I have 20% off. I was so happy shopping for her present coz I am a real freak for discounts and we had so much discounts. I literally saved around $40 for her present. Happy day…

5th party and also the first party of the weekend was huiwen’s party. I went real late coz I had tuition and before tt, I was shopping for xiling’s present at Raffles City. Sigh.. I am always shopping for presents and paying for them and not getting my money back until I am so damn broke…The highlight of the party was at the cake cutting which I successfully managed to push her head into the cake a little…But the cream got into her eyes.. so sorry.. anyway, the cake was made by her friends loh, so sweet..

The next party was on sat and belongs to Ms Xiling. It was the only party I bothered to wear nice nice so far. I had real fun playing with xiaoxin loh. She’s so damn cuteeeeeeeeee…… And xl looks great in the pair of jeans we got for her. I hope she really likes it…I literally tried out the whole store’s jeans and had a long long phone conversation with mit before I settled on a pair for her.

My last party that I have attended was Amanda’s party. It was the first 7A party that I have gone to and its had a theme: A Venetian Affair. As expected, Amanda was the only one really in the theme and she really looked so pretty that night. For me, I 勉强 a bit tried to fit the theme by turning up in a lacy top. At first I din wanted to go but I thought that since she invited me, I should really give her some face. The party was in a super ulu place tucked right in the heart of sixth ave loh. Her parents booked the whole restaurant for the night and they paid a lot for each person loh. Rich ppl… Anyway, the food was real good!!!!!! I loved the tiramisu. OMG… its super super super nice…… Her cake was very nice too. There was also this party mask that was part of the deco that I really liked. Amanda’s father took it down for me and all of us had fun taking photos with it. I kind of enjoyed amanda’s party. Jus that it’s a very different class of party that I have attended so far…

I have 1 last birthday party to attend before it is the end of the year. Yeah!! No more birthday parties! But the coming up party is gg to keep me real busy.. quite sian.. I have already spent 1 day making banner for tt 大小姐.

Well well well… a super long blog to make up to those who are loyal readers of my blog. I will be back with photos, once I get ard to loading them onto blogspot…

post exams event

i have been so lazy to blog so I haven been updating abt my life.. since I am waiting for my phone to be charged so that I can charge my camera, I shall blog a bit abt wat happened after the last day of exams.

Penang trip
Right after my exams, I left for Penang with my family. We stopped over at KL on our way there and back. KL was a nice place to shop coz everything’s so nice and most stuff are cheap. Due to the exchange rate, it seems like everything in M’sia is 50% off. Wow!! So cool.. haa… And I really like mid valley but its jus too bad that I missed their year end sale. Anyway, I think I will be back!! Anyone wants to go with me next year or something?

KL and shopping aside, the trip itself was quite okay. I jus felt as though I spend a lot of time on the bus. Anyway, some quick updates abt the trip. I will post the photos another time.

We booked our trip with a tour agency so we had a tour guide to bring us around. Got good and bad lah. Good thing is that we dun have to worry abt getting lost. Bad thing is that the tour guide keep making us spend money. And the food they planned was always the same except for a few variations here and there. At the end of the trip, I was so scared of prawns and fish that I refuse to touch anything for 2 days.

Day 1: We visited a bee museum and got to drink honey for free. Very nice.. but the honey very expensive, costs RM 70 per bottle. Spend money again…. But the peranakan meal is quite nice. Probably one of the better ones. Spent the first night in KL. Did not managed to do much shopping coz I dun want to bring up to penang and back but I promised myself a good shopping trip on the way home.

Day 2: Saw the Penang bridge and went up the penang hill. It was real nice and cooling on top of the hill. And the view was really spectacular. We even managed to catch the night scene and you get to see the bridge real clearly.

Day 3: Temple visiting day. We visited the Sleeping Buddha first. It was real big but unfortunately I cannot take photos. However it seems like there is an even bigger one in Thailand. Hope I can get to see it one day. After tt we went to Kek Lok Temple which was located on a hill. So we have to climb to get to the top. We went up the pagoda but it was so scary on top coz I felt like the floor was slanting and I felt as if I was going to fall off. We also visited the giant bronze Guan Ying. OMG.. its real real real big.. wait till you see the photo. We also visited a snake temple with real vipers. In the evening we went shopping at their version of “Raffle City”. It was a very run down version but it was bustling with life. It was quite small compared to KL but still, it has got quite a bit of things to shop. Unfortunately, I din get to buy much stuff except for ribbons which was real cheap! For supper, I went to search for my Penang Laksa. Found it but was quite disappointed coz I think its not nice. Sour sour one. Tried the white coffee too. Wow… very very nice!!

Day 4: Back to KL and was a whole day of traveling and shopping. Went to mid valley to shop. Very very very nice place except for the dumb BK person who took my order three times. After tt we went back to our hotel and went shopping at Sungei Wang.

Day 4: Shopping at Times Square. Quite disappointing lah coz got nothing much to buy. Should have tried the indoor amusement park instead. Seemed like much more fun…. Went back to SG in the afternoon. Missed home so much..... the next day after i got back from penang, i stayed at home the whole day to watch VCD.. finished the 海豚湾恋人 that i borrowed from xiling.

Amazing Race
I organized an amazing race for my RV cadets which was the reason I din want to go M’sia in the first place coz I have a lot of unsettled stuff. The day went pretty smoothly and i am so glad that my juniors enjoyed the event. They are even thinking of how to make their juniors go through the same thing again next year. Haha…. after the race i rushed down for a friend's wedding. It was the first time i attended a malay wedding and she was so pretty. But i spent a lot of money on taxi fare.. sian...

Birthday parties
Well.. now I have got tonnes of birthday parties to attend. I attended my cousin’s party on 2nd Dec and really enjoyed myself. I simply love family gatherings… I went for Grace’s party on 4th. Enjoyed myself oso.. haha.. coz got games and it was quite funny. I still got ailing’s party on the 8th, qiulin’s on the 10th ,huiwen’s on the 16th, xiling’s on the 17th and huimin’s on the 30th. Sigh… no money lah……

the beginning to the end? or the end to the beginning?

okay.. i finally finished my dreaded exams today... but the problem is.. i am not feeling happy at all. In fact, i feel quite bad....I think its all because of 305 . Everyone said it was easy except for me. Well basically its all my fault lah.. i spend 4 days on the super not important stuff and only 1 day on all the important stuff. Actually i did not realised tt the not important stuff are not important until this morn. sigh.. anyway.. the paper was basically throwing everything in the textbook and notes back to him. Which includes tiny prints..... But.. there are a hell lot of stuff to remember and i have a bad memory that is getting worst. I probably forgot like 70% of the stuff that i remember. The remaining 10% that i remembered came from vague memories from JC stuff and only 20% came from uni notes. What's wrong with them? why cant they jus give us MCQ?? i rather do tt anytime than 20 5 marks questions anytime!!

304 was even worst. But i felt better when i came out of the hall coz everyone felt the same as me... sigh... there was actually THREE phylogenetics questions and the last one was an exact replica of last year's and our tutorial this year. But the problem is, no one knows how to solve that question coz its not found in our notes even though our lecturer insists that it is and refuses to give us answer. He probably jus pure lazy..... Anyway, i jus hope that the answer my friend found is correct. And i even had sleeping beauty in my paper. He actually asked us to calculate the number of F0 and F3 generations required to detect a particular protein. WTH.... never teach in class loh.. NO ONE has EVER taught us how to calcualte such stuff. I thought they are supposed to modulate the papers? How can they allow such questions to get through? What on earth are they doing... getting more and more irritated with NTU each day..... if anyone found out how to do that question.. please let me know coz i am very curious...

so.. turns out that my most longed end to everything is probably the beginning to something worse...

anyway.... in 6 more hours, i will be leaving for penang. haha... very fast right? I am going for holiday with my family. Din want to go coz i jus finished exams and i really want to sleep and slack. But my uncle cannot go so my family din want to waste the vacanies so got my siblings and me to go loh. A lot of ppl want me to buy hor fan and laksa loh.. wah lau... see how lah.. haha.... But I will take lotsa photos and show you guys when i am back.. hehe.. a bit excited about the trip...

Penang! here i come..

weekend = blog time

this time next week i will be M'sia enjoying my holidays!!! yeah!! i am so looking forward to it..2 more papers cleared and 2 more to come. I will be free on the 24th at 12noon when the invigilator says stop writing.. woohoo!!!

anyway.. some updates abt my papers first... anyway.. side-track a bit first. coz i tot it was quite funny. Yesterday my dad asked me wat paper i taking tmr(which is today) den i dunno how to explain. How do you tell him principles and methods of structural biology? So i told him Maths paper since its rather near the truth as 303 got a lot of maths. Den he asked yesterday leh? Hmmm... i oso dunno how to tell him read research papers. Since its like english so i told him eng paper. Den he very funny.. coz he said.. den monday leh? chinese ah? haha.. i tot it was so funny coz i felt like a pri sch kid.. having eng and maths papers.. anyway.. back to the topic.

302: Research Seminars

this module basically teach us how to write and read research papers. so for the exam paper, we are supposed to read a paper and ans questions. We got to write an abstract in 100 words, a title (usually less than 10 words lah) and some comments in under 200 words regarding the contribution of the findings of this paper. The second part of the paper is some english and grammer questions which were all give-aways. Anyway.. the sian thing is that my lecturer, who's a very nice person, was super generous with marks. Effectively, i got 70 marks for writing abt 300 words. Coz abstract was 30 marks, comments 30 marks and title 10 marks. Hope he will be a nice person and give me good grades.

303: Maths paper essentially.

This module is very irritating coz it made me dug up all my maths stuff. Like complex numbers, integration and trigo. But.. his paper was alright lah. The maths part was quite okay. I think should be all correct. But the theory part was quite bad. I dun really know how to explain. sigh.. and MCQs are worth like 3 marks each. And NMR took up 30 marks when he only got 2 lectures. Wah lau.... hope i can score.. i need an A... desperately...

anyway.. i got 2 more papers... genetics and plants. All need my brain space coz got a lot of memorising.. esp plant.. felt like microbiology. I hope can do well.. i have a bad feeling abt genetics... sigh...

Paper number 1

today's my first paper and i am so happy that it is over. really a load off my shoulder....

A can score paper but i jus forgot my stuff when i got in. Its not a mental block. Jus simple cannot remember.

I know ppl are gg to kill me but i am going to say this. Klaus is a nice guy. He so 仁慈. He never killed us with the paper. He really cannot teach but at least he gave a lot of tips...

Sigh... but dun think can get A... i forgot a lot of stuff when i am in.. sigh.. anyway.. i think should not be very bad. At least i felt good when i got out from the exam hall. Unlike 208. Now klaus has moved 2 rungs up my hate-lecturers list. WN still remain at the bottom most, followed by KY.

post 170

neurobiology exam on monday. and i slept half of today away. wat on earth is wrong with me? i cannot seem to study at home without falling asleep now. should have jus picked up my books and get out of the house.

and now i am sitting in front of the computer bloggin when i should be trying hard to finish my work.. i am getting so lazy.. got things to blog along the week but jus too lazy to use my brains.. shall update when i am feeling more hardworking....

bored dead....

this is wat happen when you are so bored.....

Okay.. this is how my table will look like when i am studying.. its obvious studying is not much in progress.. coz if studying is in progress, textbook on the left, notes on the right.... At the moment, textbook is still in front.. haha... and the piece of paper is plain.. means i haven started making notes yet...

This is how my table looks like in the middle of revision. Pens strewn all over, textbook on left, cup of drink on the table and the notes making in progress. Currently i am at brain metabolism. Lect 3 of 301. And since i do things chronologically, i am very dead.. sigh....

These are my 宝贝 pens... I used to tell ppl that pens are my life and whenever i feel unhappy, buying pens always help. haha... a cheaper kind of retail therapy..

My dad left the knife on the duck to look for something to add weight coz its took tough to chop. Looks pretty gruesome right? haha. and the head was put back by my dad to take the photo...

This is the result of ultimate boredom... hz dunno why sent an origami instructions to make a tortise. Being an origami fan and at the brim of ultimate boredom, i decided to try making it. Looks a bit weird though and i had a very hard time figuring out how to make coz the instructions are not clear enough. Anyway, i believe with more practise, it will look better.. haha..

Okay.. time to go back to my books....

games and revision always seem to come together...

i hate revision! and i hate exams! and i hate it when i get addicted to games right in the middle of exams! argh!!

anyway, introduce 2 games to you guys...('o') den u all can get addicted with me...

first one is hongkong cafe:

this is about speed...you are supposed to try and earn as much money as possible in 2 mins. My highest record was $2500. But the highest is $50, 000 plus.. wow.. i wonder how did tt person did it..

second one is unfolding:

got it from xiaxue's blog. Need to use a bit of brains. But she said she finished up till level 16 in 17 mins flat. means must have a trick one.. but i haven figure it out.. maybe someone can play den let me know?

i gotta go and study liao.. i m really really really moving very slowwwwwly......

exams are coming!

argh.. today is sunday!! exams are coming in 2 weeks and i haven started studying! i still got a report due tmr. Supposed to do it on friday but guessed what i did? i started on my pre-exam ritual..

i started with packing my room. All the clothes lying ard the place and the mess near my table is driving mad. I even vacuum the whole house, fold the clothes and cleaned my fan. I even washed the toilet and swept the kitchen. Felt so happy after tt coz the place is so neat and nice for study. But i still nv touch my report....

Sat went for SJAA National Conference at RELC international hotel. I woke up late loh.. din wanted to go.. but got my auntie to send me there.. luckily or else i am really dead...Hmm.. quite a boring seminar but got this particular speaker very good. Very humorous. Even though his topic wasn't something very new but his humor makes the whole thing so nice. I appreciate good humor in anyone. He's a lecturer at NUS.. if only all my lecturers like him can liao lah... Here's the first presenter. His presentation was okay and he seemed to have spent a lot of effort making the slides. So responsible... Heard that he's not married yet. A nice doctor.. but too bad he's too old liao lah....haha.. anyone wants to consider?

Lunch was there too.. food not very good.. but the menu very funny... see wat's so weird abt the menu...

Saw the steam fragrant white rice? white rice oso got such a nice name.. haha.. so funny.. Like sky juice... and the sif fried garden vegetables.. shoulded be stir right? and the dish really only got vegetables.. and nothing else. i forgot to take photo though...

Den after lunch, we all had nothing to do so took silly photos. here's my fren trying to take a phot of himself. This is a nice guy. Not too tall though but very fit and nice. He's up for grabs. Anybody wants introduction??

After the seminar got a long break before the dinner so we all went hospital to visit my fren's baby. Not really my friend lah, its hz's fren. I haven had a fren who had given birth. who wants to be the first?

The baby so cute... Mother and child looked so blissful. Except for the extra jaclyn at the back...

The dinner was at the same place but the food was much better. Even got chinese orchestra performance towards the end.

It was at this place called tang cantonese gourmet restaurant...

This is the menu...

I think we were too hungry to begin with so we attacked the first dish with much zest. This was taken after the damage.

I finally got to take a dish before the damage.. butter cereal prawn.. not veyr nice though.. cereal not crispy enough.. but its fine lah.. saw the fish at the back? That one was very nice...

See my friends got so bored waiting for the food that they started exercising their fingers...

And as usual i am always disturbing little kids. There was this litte boy who was sitting beside my table.. very cuteeeeeeeee.....

Sigh.. and today's sunday.. and i nv went for the morn seminar coz i overslept.. and instead of doing my report, i am typing my blog.. can someone just hit me on the head and wake me up? argh!!