This blog post has been saved as a draft for almost a week...

I really wanted to blog but then catching up the series, Criminal Minds, had gotten the better of me! Besides HIMYM, CM is the next series that I would start watching it from Season 1 and it's now at Season 8 already. After months of watching the series from S1 onward, I've finally caught up to S8 but not the latest episode yet. Oh, yes... I'm back here typing is all because I've no other shows to watch anymore. Okay, actually I still have a few episodes here and there for TWD S3, TVD S4, Suits S2, & White Collar S3 and they are all my favourite series!!! I put to a halt for watching the series is because... They are all at their season finale, I just can't bear to end it hahahaha seriously, no kidding.

The Railway Experience.

4th Semester of my university life has ended about 11 days ago. It really sucked pretty big because the school issued us our exams schedule in a sense that we would have a bloody 18 days break in between my 1st paper and 2nd paper. Then, 2nd & 3rd paper were back to back, highly memorizing of heavy content needed. It's more than half a month man, I started my exams earlier than most of the students and yet, I ended way later than them!!!! What kinda shit is this, it was really a torturous exams period for me. Now, I really do hope & pray that I can clear this semester smoothly, at least give me a pass for all the 3 modules, especially microeconomics. I really hate econs but I can't seem to escape it. DAMN...

Ahhh, and after my final paper, I finally met up with my primary school classmate aka my roomie for 3 years aka my twin ('cos a lot people claim that we look alike) after a couple of months!! We settled our brunch at Epicurious Cafe, finally there is an outlet at Bukit Timah, at the Railway Mall, instead of the town area. The food for me... Was a mediocre? Wild Honey still beats them hands down, it still serves the best brunch I've ever had after all these months of brunch hunting!!!

So right, brunch was pretty much done and we headed over to this nonoperational railway track for some photos taking session hahaha. All the photos shown in this post are taken with my Nikon 1 J1 with the 18.5mm lens. If you wonder, how come the pictures look like some old photographs, that's because I got them edited with one of my iPhone apps which I paid for. I don't usually buy an app but when I do, it's always photography related apps hahaha I still think that's more worth it than asking me to buy a gaming app. 

Here's another shot of her!

hahaha, looks so lonely.

A shot of the railway track.

It stopped operating just the recent years...

Some said this track is gonna be demolished!

(I've no idea when is the track gonna be demolished or even at all if it will be demolished but nonetheless, just head there for a few photograph shoots! You don't have to worry about any incoming trains at all!)

x

Last Thursday/

I met up with Shini in the noon, main objective was actually... To watch my first ever R21 movie! Not R21 because of sexual scenes but R21 for the gore and violence. Also, to meet up with my bro so I could get my delayed birthday present & collect mom's mother's day present as well.

I was utterly late that day, almost 40-45 minutes late so the initial plan was to lunch at DTF but it was lunch hour and goodnesssss, we had to queue for DTF and running outta time, since we had a movie to catch, we ended up buying sandwiches from Sandwich Haven at Cineleisure. OMG YOU ALL SHOULD GO TRY THE SANDWICH, PARTICULARLY, THE ROSEMARY PARMESAN BREAD. If I know where they get their stocks for Rosemary Parmesan bread, I would also purchase a bag and eat it at home. The bread itself was so super chewy and sweet-smelling... I'm really surprised!! SUBWAY, Y U NO INCLUDE IT AS ONE OF YOUR BREAD CHOICES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's been awhile since we settled our meal in the theater and we relived the experience again! Don't worry, we didn't eat during the movie because we finished the sandwich during the commercial hahaha we were really famished and I thought I would have to eat it while watching the gore scene but I was apparently wrong. There were a couple of movie-goers who came to watch the movie alone, no idea if it's because their friends are too young to watch it or they are also a little psychotic hahahaha love watching such gore movies.

The movie we watched was... Evil Dead. It's literally, evil, and dead. A lot of the bloody limbs tearing, chopping, stabbing scenes but I still can't get it why is it rated R21. It wasn't as gore as I thought it would be and definitely overrated. IMHO, it's more of a M18 movie man... Gore and disgusting movie should compare itself with Human Centipede, this is the only one movie I really really couldn't bring myself to sit still and watch it from the start to the end. It's just too sick. There are 2 parts for that movie and I heard the Human Centipede 2 is way disturbing than the first one. If you can handle such vomit-inducing movie, Evil Dead should be of a PG13 movie for you.

Paul!!

Shini wanted to try the desserts at Paul, situated at Ngee Ann City. She got all excited and immediately asked for the waiter to take our (or maybe, you could say... HER) orders. I had barely get to read the menu for 2 minutes and the waiter came... She ordered two desserts of HER choice, leaving me dumbfounded. So... Desserts came and we started tasting it. She ordered this Chocolate Tart & Strawberry something which she said there two are recommended by many others. I actually wanted to try the lemon tart but I was afraid that we might not finish 3 desserts in one go so I gave me lemon tart a pass.

Paul

Chocolate Tart.

(Close up)

STUPID GIRL SO FAST PLACE THE ORDERS AND MADE ME GIVING A MISS FOR MY LEMON TART.

OH, anyway, the chocolate tart was a tad too sweet for my liking but the strawberry cake was alright, but I still miss my lemon meringue sponge cake from Marmalade Pantry!!! I WANNA TRY THE DESSERTS AT MARMALADE TOAST THOUGH OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

Have an awesome mid-week!!

xx

Black & White.

For the lost of democracy in Malaysia.

(Also, to show my face lolol)

I've missed my blog.

As you guys know, all universities are currently having their finals, and students like me are cramping last minute work to put on a brutal battle for this coming weekend papers. Yes, my papers are on a weekend, on a Friday and a Saturday. One more thing to grumble is... The school set our examination timetable in a way that we actually have a 18 days gap from the 1st paper to the 2nd & 3rd paper. It's more than half a month study break man, how can our motivation last for that long, when it feels almost like a holiday to (most of) us already. On a hindsight, our liberty will be here in about 4 days' time, finally... The long wait will be over. Hopefully, I can clear my semester smoothly and results will be out on the 31st May.

05/05/2013

Malaysia 13th General Election

Sunday, it was the 13th general election for Malaysia for every 5 years. Everyone, by now, should have known about the infamous "DIRTY" election held. Pictures and videos of the dirty acts have been going on viral on the social media, mainly on Facebook.

I just feel really disappointed and devastated in a country, which claimed to be a TRULY Asia isn't even true to her own people. What's with the sudden blackout when recounting the votes, and then, additional votes mysteriously appeared when the electricity resumed. What's with the numerous buses of foreign workers, from the Nepal, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh and some other countries arriving at polling centres to cast the votes? What's with the "indelible" ink which was said to last for a week, getting washed off so easily? What's with the racist comment about the overwhelming votes from the Chinese, the "Chinese Tsunami" term came up. What's with the police officer taking note on how many people have entered the voting centre (this actually happened at my booth!!!)? What's with the abundance of identity cards found on the roadside, being thrown away by the foreign workers?

These are the prominent issues witnessed by the local civilians' naked eyes, and you actually claimed that it's a clean and fair election? Biggest joke in the history, maybe need to award you a trophy for it. Your wrongdoings are atrocious, do you even know that? What I'm trying to convey is if you wanna play dirty, maybe, you should do it discreetly so there won't be so many uprising problems and bringing such a disgrace to Malaysia, politically. There are always internal political disputes, I don't believe that there will be a parliament with really clean slip of record... Anyhow, but thanks to these acts, it actually depicted a nation's unity towards building a democratic country.

Can you imagine, civilians volunteered to go around catching phantom voters, trying to block cars with mysterious additional votes from entering the votes counting centres, creating petitions so people could sign and make it known to the White House in US. They did these all because they wanted a fair and clean election, for a brighter and better nation... I really admired and appreciated these actions from my fellow Malaysians.

On the other hand, I do rather feel sad for the foreign workers who actually tried to cast their votes but ended up, getting beaten by the locals... Personally, it's actually not their fault, the blame should be on the mastermind who manipulated this whole series of event. They were actually being "threatened" to follow the orders from the upper management. They do too, have a family to feed in their home countries and they did something they shouldn't have done, all because they wanted a better living for themselves and their families. Alright, they might be wrong in helping to vote but they are also uneducated, they don't exactly know what they are doing... When you actually watch the videos and pictures of bloodied head, of them getting pushed and bashed, you would really feel for them. I felt angst initially, seeing foreign workers coming down to make a stand for OUR country but really, as pictures are being circulated, you will divert your frustration towards the corrupted bunch of monkeys who manipulated them...

Yes, I know that PR would not overrun the government in this election, changes do not happen overnight... But we just wanted a clean and fair election so even if we were to lose, we would accept the defeat graciously. Right now, it seems that we didn't even have the chance to do so and stop slamming us, terming us as SORE LOSERS. We are just unsatisfied with the tricks used in this election and also, it was an ELECTION, not a bloody MAGIC SHOW.

This dirty and unfair election fever has not died down yet, my Facebook is still flooding with the news about it. I really hope there might still be a chance of building a democratic Malaysia, people from other parts of the world to help us, and probably... The government to wake up their bloody idea and also, forever living in their guilt conscience for using such tactics to win an election. You can have all the paper votes for yourselves but the heart of the true blue RATIONAL Malaysians, will never be captured by you.

Such a disgrace.

x

I was actually... Contemplating whether should I watch an episode of Criminal Minds or to blog but I guess, I should pen down my 2 cents worth of opinions about this screwed up election. Thank you people, who came back to Malaysia to vote for a difference, your votes indeed helped because... PR actually won 89 seats in the Parliament, it was a hard fought battle for all the opposition parties!

Good job, guys!! 

Is it time for coffee break yet?

Answer is... NO.

Why am I here?

Well, life is a bore when it comes to studying since it's not my forte. Instead of mugging for my paper on this coming Monday, I shall procrastinate a little and do some blogging with pictures taken by my new prime lens, Nikkor 18.5mm lens!

The pictures in this post are test-shot during random days, specifically, I played with it whenever and wherever I feel like it so... I didn't keep track of the dates of these photos taken. Great recommendation from Nengyi who told me about this new lens Nikon released and FYI, I own a semi-pro camera, which is my beloved Nikon 1 J1, which I named it as LRRH a.k.a Little Red Riding Hood. You ask me why, the answer is simple... It's in red!

So, let me begin...

On a random Saturday... I had a date with my Soul, a.k.a Cynthia Neo, that is, if I remember correctly which is gonna be 99% of accuracy. It's rare for me to go out to Singapore on a weekend unless, there are some events I've to attend and yes... Inevitably, I had to attend this make-up lecture on a Saturday morning at 830 which I pretty much agree that it's a crime to set a make-up lecture on a weekend morning... The weather was so good to sleep in but I had to drag my ass out from my comfy bed to prepare for school but overall, it was still a productive day so... All is well.

Thank goodness, Cynthia had the luxury to use her brother's car that day and hence, hitching free ride from school to SP, to Rochester Park, to Timbre at The Arts House and finally, back to Woodlands. It definitely beats boarding buses with the scrum of people rushing in and out from the doors and really, it makes life much more convenient traveling in a personal car.

This particular gloomy yet breezy weather gave us a love-hate relationship with it. The initial plan of our running route was to hit it off to Rochester Park but because we saw our MOTIVATORS heading to the opposite direction of our route, we ended up chasing after them but... We missed them halfway through the run so we ran to West Coast Park instead, to be exact, we ran to Poly Marina (where we used to do our weekly kayaking training there during the awesome Poly days) and saw our juniors there.

Guess what? This love-hate relationship with the weather was developed because... This sudden patch of dark clouds were hovering above us when we were running and it finally cried on us after few minutes of reaching PM. The rain was so heavy and we came to a halt, lepaked at PM while waiting for it to subside. Finally, the rain seemed to be showing some mercy on us and it sort of... subsided a little but still, you could feel the raindrops falling on your sweaty skins to an extend that you've no absolute idea whether was it the rain or your sweat that soaked your running attire...

Yes, we ran in the rain because there's a proverb saying,"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain" which we were obviously (at that point of time), literally living by that. The rain stopped subsequently, which was a good thing, otherwise... Mr Kwok had to wipe his bike for 3rd time already.

Time constraint was not a factor for us during that day because I ended school at 1130am and my reservation for Timbre was at 7pm so, we headed to Pies & Coffee ('cos Starbucks was full with people mugging their asses off) at Rochester Park to kill our time while having experiments on my new lens mounted on my camera!

Pies & Coffee
Cynthia's Latte or... Cappuccino.

Pies & Coffee

My Matcha Latte!

Pies & Coffee

You need sugar to perk you up!

Great companion makes you feel that time really flies.

Pies & Coffee is kind of a recommendable chill-out place, I've yet to try their food but I would go back there again if I am not lazy. Yup, we spent a few hours there just to chitchat and finally, driving off to Timbre for our dinner!

Timbre

Half-Half Pizza

Roasted Duck x Hawaiian

Timbre

Chicken Wings

Timbre

Mocktail

Lychee Virgin

(Drink don't drive, drive don't drink. Safety first!)

Sorry, but I am an avid fan of Timbre at the Arts House. I still prefer this branch here, the atmosphere and environment, the accessibility to this place are much better than other brunches. Oh, I would kill for the roasted duck pizza as well, it's just such an amazing piece of thin-crusted pizza topped with simple ingredients but yet, taste so heavenly! I always feel satisfied and happy after consuming the pizza, it never fails my palate!

Soul

Cynthia Neo

This is my soul, shot taken while we were strolling back to the carpark. Did you notice her with her right bare foot? She didn't dare to dirty the wall of parliament house, hence, taking off her slippers to pose for this picture lolol.

x

To end this abruptly composed backdated post, I shall post another 3 more random test-shots taken just 2 days back! I got back my LRRH just recently when I sent it for repair... There was something wrong with its hardware so better get it fixed before the warranty expires! Oh btw, the shots taken below was in utter darkness... Okay, not total darkness but the only source of light was from my laptop screen and this 18.5mm lens really take good photo in low light situations, I can't even get my flash switched on if this lens is mounted. 

Bugs Bunny

His smile makes me feel that there's actually no reason to frown.

x

Alright, please wish me lucks for my upcoming finals and I hope these few days of mugging on my Prices & Market module for Monday's paper can pull me off at least a Credit LOL don't wanna aim so high because I know I suck at econs-related modules or rather, anything to do with numbers/figures I really hate them a lot, nothing can amount more hatred I have for such modules man seriously but 60 MCQs shouldn't be that hard... Right? Hopefully...

TGIF!

Have a great weekend, peeps!

All the best for all uni students who are currently pulling their hairs as they mug for their papers and may the odds ever be in your favour. Good Luck! (:

xx

Hokey Pokey.

Ice Cream from NZ.

Brief update!

Yes, I should be doing projects & my journals but seriously, procrastination has gotten the upper hand of me... But hey... I woke up in the morn to settle all domestic stuffs man. FYI, my parents & my aunt who's residing with us, just flew to Turkey, & South Korea respectively. Hence, it explains all the household chores I've gotta do... Sometimes, such domestic affairs responsibilities would lie in the hands of the female in the house. Yup, that's me. That's okay, it means I could flaunt the good housewife/mother materials I acquired or maybe, learning in progress... JUST KIDDING but seriously, I woke up to do the laundry, cooked my own breakfast, washed all the stuffs in the sink, folded the laundry, helping to find some company document at home but apparently, it couldn't be found.

My brother is at home, sleeping now. He works night shift for this week so... Relying on him to complete all these chores is just sort of near impossible. It's nothing much actually, just some minor cleaning up for the house, nothing tough to accomplish too. Anyhow, I don't rely my brothers to help me get things done, at the end of the day, it's still the best option to rely on yourself.

So, let's backtrack to last week.

Not a fan of remembering my own mundane life but I recalled about this weekly run on every Thursday, & that Thursday, it was with my soul, a.k.a Cynthia Neo. We are trying to explore all the routes possible for jogging (mainly, all would be planned by Cynthia since I really suck in navigation) and yes, we had a short run of 5.8km from SP to the Dover canal(?), the canal which is behind Dover MRT where landed properties are seen.

Another fact of us.

We always TALK THROUGHOUT our run, like seriously, non-stop chattering, topic varies from properties to cars to everyday lives of ours. We literally ran and chatted through this 5.8km, and guess what? Amazing, we clocked only 29mins or so (definitely less than 30mins) for the 5km mark. Not something that's so good to flaunt about but for the sake of talking throughout the run, it's quite an accomplishment, no? It was definitely an accomplishment for us, like we didn't really expect it, or maybe I didn't expect it hahaha cos the weather was kinda hot & humid, you could feel the intense heat from the sun, each step taken seemed to be brisk-walking for some...

Holland Village for dinner!

After the run, we chilled at SP FC 5 before heading for a shower and I would like to apologize to anyone who sat at our table after we left lol gross as it sounds, our sweats was insane, visible droplets of sweat on the table and my seat, it looked as though someone just used a wet tissue or towel to wipe on it lolol my tights and shorts were all soaked with my perspiration. I'm truly apologetic about it but whatever man, you would also need to bathe when you get home, right... LOL

Oh, yes, claypot rice at Block 44, Holland V.

Recommended by many but when we got there, block 44 is under renovation... We didn't get to have the famous claypot rice so we walked to Lorong Liput that area, or Mambong or whatever the street is with all the eateries, bars, that people always hangout at night. The famous Holland V street which everyone should know so yup, we walked there and decided to settle our dinner at the Wala Wala Cafe Bar! The grilled chicken boneless thigh and grilled fish with some white wine sauce or something are actually quite palatable! Oh, we wanted to try their famous chicken wings but thankfully, we didn't order otherwise, we couldn't finish it! I will try it again, just for the wings! Life is too short to diet man, we will die as years come back anyway!

Hungry Soul & I!

Shot taken while waiting for our mains to come!

Fast forward to Monday!

As usual, there was school on Monday. Yup, lecture at 830am and I thought I was gonna be late but things always happen when it's least expected... In fact, I was still 5 minutes early but didn't really have the time to head up to the canteen and get my nutrisoy though. I was feeling really lethargic that day, simply because... I slept late the night before and hence, the severe deprivation of sleep. Yes, falling asleep in lecture was the next inevitable activity occurred but the lecture hall is just suck to be dozing off in. You can't find a comfortable position to sleep at all so I must say, actually I was only resting my eyes by just shutting it for a couple of minutes.

School was over & I met up with Shini.

Before that, my uni friend, Daryl, just given me my first birthday present! This novel is said to be inspiring so... I shall read it soon & hopefully, it could inspire me, so I won't be wasting my life away meaninglessly. Thank you, Daryl! Also, for wrapping the book already hahaha. Free wrapping service, and the birthday card with the well wishes. (:

P/S: I always look good.

P/S/S: LOL and I don't even look 22.

Yes yes, met up with Shini.

I really fully utilized my Monday because it was the last day my parents would be at home to send me to custom or pick me up! So, before this luxury of getting chauffeured around comes to a halt, I shall make full use of my Monday! Basically, we just headed to town for a movie and some shopping. Shini wanted to eat the thai food at Orchard Tower and guess what? It only opens at 630pm... We walked all the way there to find out this, I almost strangled her................. Kidding but really, she said she thought it was open at 630 in the MORNING like hello, who the hell eat thai food zichar in the morning before the sun rises?!?!?!?! In the end, we settled lunch at Ion instead.

Food paradise is always at the basement of all malls so...

Shini queued for 4 fingers as desserts lolol. Judging from the way and body language she had shown, I would like to deduce that... She was quite pleased with the wings, especially when she chomping down the spicy wings. I guess, it was really delicate? It looks like the crispy wings from Pizzahut to me though, maybe next time I shall try the burger, definitely rocking it when I saw it on the menu.

Ohhhhhh, so I was hunting for some pants/jeans.

Uniqlo has really cheap skinny fit jeans man, at S$19.90 but I ended up buying this... Jeggings or whatever it is called. I just needed a black jeans actually, so I ended up getting this:

Actually, I really hate my legs.

I'm just obsessed with model's legs which I can't have.

Then, more window shopping.

As in, trying clothes also no need to pay... Just try and see if they look good on you lol. We went to Stradivarius and take a look at their stuffs. I saw this dress but apparently it didn't look good on me. The top part was kinda loose and I look ultimately short in it man. It makes me look so kiddy but on the other hand, everyone thinks that I look only 18. The surveyor outside Cineleisure thought we were going to be 18 this year and my mom's friends all didn't expect me to be 22 soon. No idea if it's a good or bad thing, but also... Partly because I don't put on any makeup at all, LOL NATURAL BEAUTY FTW PLEASE.

Just kidding but if you rely on makeup, you will really look like shit when you remove it. You will look totally restless/zombiefied/ a whole new person. HAHA okay, it might not happen to all but most of them I suppose. Alright alright, I'm also lazy to wake up early just to doll-up, I'd rather be catching some more winks instead man but I do wear makeup when I've events to attend to.

Front view of the dress:

You wondered why the top part is loose...

This is the reason why:

Maybe...

I should train to have broader shoulders.

AND WHEN WILL MY FRINGE BE LONG ENOUGH TO BE SWEPT TO THE SIDE?! TOTALLY REGRETTED CUTTING BANGS THE OTHER TIME, IT'S BEEN TWO MONTHS ALREADY MANNN, MY HAIR USED TO GROW DAMN FREAKING FAST BUT NOW, IT'S TAKING SO LONG. WHY ARE YOU TROLLING ON MEEEEEE but anyhow, time to start doing my projects...

Good mid-week, y'all!!

xx