Another Death

3 years ago, daddy passed away...
Several months back, a friend's father passed...
Just yesterday, one of my best friend lost her mom =(

Every time I hear of a close friend losing someone, especially a parent, my heart will start to beat faster, and I get into this panicky mode that makes me want to fly over to wherever they are and give them a super big hug that will squeeze away all the sorrow and provide some warmth and comfort, however little it may be, without saying a word. It's impossible to do that, I know. So I grab the nearest huggable thing I can find. It takes a while to calm myself down. I guess it just brings back certain feelings that I try so hard to bury.

It's going to be exactly 3 years in 2 days. A lot has changed since, and we are adapting in various ways. I think I can safely say that we're doing pretty good so far, and I hope it will continue to be good. For all those who have lost someone, it is important to know that things will be ok =) There's always someone out there who cares ♥ Be strong!

p.s. Daddy, if you are looking over me...please let me find an awesome job soon XD

Cuti-Cuti Malaysia: Penang

Took Aeroline up to Penang this time around.

They've totally upgraded since the last time I took them. They now give you a blanket in addition to the small pillow, rice meals and personal in-bus entertainment! It really feels like you're on a plane, and the seats are so much more comfy than your average economy class passenger aircraft =)

I finally got to see Bibi and Ivy again like what?? After 3 years??!

I miss being in high school and being crazy XD

Penang has changed a lot since...
and so have our lives

Welcome to Straits Quay

The place feels so ang moh *LOL*

Other than the cute Charlie Brown decorations, there's really nothing to rave about this place because everything we ordered SUCKS! We didn't try their main course and stuff, but I doubt it'll be any better.

Visited the original T-Bowl Concept Restaurant in Queensbay Mall. All I can say is it's worst than the one in Sunway Pyramid =S The lighting is too dark and the drinks and dessert were sickly sweet...it SUPER SUCKS!

Out of the three concept stores we went to, Clinic Café has the most acceptable food. It's not great but they are definitely better than the other two. It could be due to us only ordering the fried snacks and drinks, so I can't say for the rest of their menu options.

Some things just don't change...
like friendship ♥ and a few other things

Ivy still likes her muscle men =P

Bibi still have her awesome BBQ ^_^

And I'm still me XD

It was really really great to be able to meet up again =)

If only we were complete *sigh* =(

Anyway...let's move on with the post...

Got to see Bibi's super cute nephews ^_^

Aren't they a bit Chinese-looking? *LOL*

Sorry David, I forgot to take picture of you =P

Managed to meet up with Boon Hoe and David as well =)

Thanks Boon Hoe for driving us around and bringing us go makan ^_^

Mee mamak at Bangkok Lane. It's a bit wet for my liking but the taste is not bad, and I really like how they added small pieces of cuttlefish inside for texture. There's however one thing with this place though, their service attitude is really TERRIBLE. It took them half an hour to get our order done just because we ordered one large plate to share amongst the three of us. The worst thing was they came to our table to confirm our order 3-4 times when Boon Hoe already went to order at the stall before we even sat down. Just because you serve good food doesn't mean you can bully your customers! >_<

Went to Viva Local Food Haven (东城饮食中心) for some good old hawker food. I finally got my fried oyster *wee~* ^_^ The oysters as you can see in the picture is quite huge compared to the usual ones you get in KL or even Gurney Drive, and it was relatively cheaper too =) We ordered grilled stingray as well, which was really good especially with the additional sauce YUM! But I only remembered I've forgotten to take a picture when the fish was half demolished, so I didn't bothered XD Didn't really like the 卤面 (loh mee) Boon Hoe got because there's one kind of taste to it, and I forgot what David ordered because it was nothing special *haha*

That wraps up the end of my Cuti-Cuti Malaysia to Penang.

Stay tuned for Cuti-Cuti Malaysia Sarawak and Ipoh =D

Most photos taken from Bibi's camera

Chilling at Chiling

I've been wanting to go to Chiling for such a long time!

A bunch of us finally made the trip last month during Labor Day =D

Wondering why I still have a long face?

Because Viran and I was the first to arrive at uni >_<

Luckily we had access to the med building *muahahaha*

After mamak breakfast, we started our journey to Kuala Kubu Bharu.

I forgot how long it took us, but it was quite a distance lar...

Ready to conquer the treacherous path to the waterfall!

This was one of the easier water crossings,

so we still had smiles across our faces.

Check out what happened when it got tougher XD

The current was so strong it washed away Viran's flip-flops!

But some nice people picked it up downstream and informed him.

So the prodigal flip-flops returned to it's owner on his way back =P

erm...was actually quite disappointed with the waterfall...

but I guess after Rainbow Waterfall, anything else will just be inferior =.=

Thanks to Brandon,

we had black bread with "black" hands *LOL*

Didn't really know what to do after being disappointed =(

So went to climb some rocks and trees *haha*

Then these two daredevils thought it'd be fun to try and kill themselves.

Group picture~ ^_^

We sort of realized it was kind of fun to play with water after that,

so we all became kids and splashed around till we got tired of it XD

On the way back, the sky started to darken.

We were very lucky to have made it back to the car when it started to pour.

Got back and had dinner at Piccadilly.

Since it was still early, we went for dessert at Sweet Bean.

I am of course happy when there's dessert *hehe*

You have now reached the end of the post.

Thanks for chilling with me till now =P

Pictures courtesy of Brian and Viran

March Babies

Here's prove of my extreme procrastination.

*sigh*

Presenting the March babies at the near end of April -_-''

Han Yin's surprise at Alexis =)

BBQ party at Han Yin's, where we ended up camwhoring like 99% of the time *LOL*

Brandon's surprise at Chili's with his "special" presents XP

Not descriptive enough? Well here's prove of my laziness then >_<

pictures courtesy of Brian

Umami Steamboat (甜味火锅放题)

It's very seldom and rare that the full set of OMEs get to gather. This time around we even got two new members to join us — Tze Mien who came back from the land down under and Sandy the exchange student from the land down there too XD

We had our first OMEs outing of the semester at Umami Steamboat (甜味火锅放题). I find the place quite okay as they have a rather wide variety of shellfish and enough variety of seafood, which was basically the only stuff I ate other than all the different mushrooms and a few other stuff *LOL* I especially love the scallops ♥ They have pretty nice beef and lamb too, though I find them a bit reluctant when it comes to giving it out, so if you are a big meat eater I'd recommend Chong Qing Steamboat Buffet (重庆麻辣自助生锅). They have a BBQ and grill outside as well, but the variety is lesser than 口味锅 Tasty Pot Restaurant (which has nice BBQ lamb and bad everything else -_-'') and only the satay was nice. It tasted sweet (the sweetness is different from the usual satay sweetness) and the meat was tender. One important piece of information: DO NOT GET THEIR CHICKEN WING! They probably have the worst chicken wing I've ever tasted. It was super dry and just *blargh*

If you are a fan of all those usual fish ball and steamboat-whatnots, they have a pretty large variety of those. Sandy was so amazed by all the colorful stuff she almost couldn't bare to eat them *LOL*

We got the tom yum and chicken soup base for our steamboat. The chicken soup one is just okay, but I really like the tom yum one as it wasn't too sour or spicy that you can keep drinking it *hehe* ^_^ They also have a D-I-Y 沙茶酱 (shacha sauce) station that I find pretty cool. I've never tried 沙茶 before and actually don't know what it is, so I just simply mixed a few of the ingredients together. I don't know whether what I made was really 沙茶酱, but it was really yummy *hehe* =P

Unlike most steamboat places at Sunway Mentari, they don't have round tables at Umami. We had to merge two separate tables together and had two different pots. I was actually quite glad we had two different pots since those at the other table just threw everything and absolutely anything into their pot till it resembled a mess of something I can't even begin to describe =S

They also stopped eating while we were just about halfway through and started camwhoring =_=

After dinner, it was of course time for dessert! Their ice cream was really nice. It didn't taste like the cheap ice creams you usually get for buffet, and they were colorful! *hehe* ^_^ When our tummies started to ache from too much food, we played Truth with the chopsticks and laughed till our tummies ached even more XD It was really good to finally have all the OMEs together again =)

All pictures courtesy of Tze Mien =)

Summer Fun

It's the end of Week 2 today, and what better way to motivate/depress (I know I'm being ambivalent >_<) myself than blog about all the awesome happenings during the summer that I left out XD

My Chinese New Year was pretty much really boring this year back in hometown. I have no idea why, but I just wasn't in the CNY mood pretty much the entire time I was back =( The feeling was just so different, and I felt like such a stranger in that town this year =S Some say it's because I've grown up, and things like growing up kind of does this thing to you whereby you stop enjoying festivals and holidays you once loved. But I beg to disagree, because after I got back to KL, it felt so much more like CNY with all the visiting etc.

One of my very few reunion dinner that I had this year at Cubes courtesy of Mr. Chew =)

I really don't know what happened, but this year is the year where I had the least CNY dinners *sigh*

First visiting stop at Shu Shan place, and my first gambling session of the year believe it or not =.=

Second stop at Han Yin's amazing house of mirrors *LOL* and Michelle's place.

Third was June's surprise birthday at her place thanks to all the Oscar-winning actors/actresses *wakakaka*

My place was next ^_^

Then Shu Shan's farewell came =(
We all had food literally up to our throats at Bumbu Bali,
and it was the last time most of the Leo family gathered together with her at Weng Howe's place.

♥ MISSING YOU MUCH!!

Last stop at Brandon's house with his eyes on the TV as usual when there's a Liverpool match going on =P

photo by Audrey

Celebrating May Ling's belated birthday at Audrey's cool museum house
before the semester started for good the next day >_<


all other photos by Brian