If Life Didn't Suck...

Trolled.

2011-12-17T00:11:00.002+08:00

This is just a short post. It's just some stuff that I posted on Twitter but I thought deserved a post on my blog which is in dire need of updates anyway.

So.

Ways To Annoy Your Parents

Reply "Cool story, bro," whenever they give you one of those famous "When I Was Your Age" lectures.

Answer "U MAD BRO?" whenever they ask you why you haven't completed your homework assignments or done the housework.

And yeah, that's it. Don't overdo it, though. Love your parents cause they love you! :)

2 Camps and a Programme.

2011-12-10T17:11:00.002+08:00

Wow. Okay, I just realized that I have been a bit lacking in the blog posts department. So here is a new one! :) It's a lot at once though.

Teens Camp: ROOTED.

From the 20th to the 23rd of November, I went for this camp. It's not just a camp. It's a church camp. Just one of the many church camps I've been to. It was the annual St. Thomas More parish Teens Camp, and it was... amazing.

So this year the theme was Rooted in Jesus Christ, Built Up and Firm in the Faith. It's from Colossians 2:7. And this year's camp was amazing because a) almost all of my close church friends were there, only missing 2 of them, and b) God answered my prayer.

When I first went to this camp, I expected it to be like all the other Teens Camps I've went to for the past 3 years. But it wasn't. It was... different.

For one thing, we had a lot of adoration. For those of you who don't know(okay this is where it gets really technical), adoration, Eucharistic adoration, is when the priest put the host, in a monstrance. The host is basically what Catholics believe is the Body of Christ after the priest blesses it.

This is the host.

And this is a monstrance.

So basically what we did was... stare at it every morning. I know, it sounds boring. That's what I thought too. When I first saw that we had Adoration every morning, I groaned and went "What the hell?" So every morning I deliberately went there late and therefore had to kneel at the back of the hall, when everyone was kneeling in front.

I felt it was quite pointless. The host wasn't going to jump up and down or do anything. And kneeling for 15 minutes each morning seemed too much for me. It wasn't until the last morning, when I was kneeling where I could actually SEE the host(the past few days I'd been kneeling out of sight), when I finally got a faint idea of what adoration was about.

I knelt there and I stared at the host in the monstrance, and I felt this peace and quiet. I felt this calm. And what used to be a disgruntled look on my face turned to reverence. Nothing had changed. The host still wasn't going to jump up and down. But there was something inside me that wanted more adoration. It's hard to explain.

But yeah, it was amazing. :)

I also met and got reacquainted with a few old friends, who'd been to camp the previous years but aren't part of my parish. And I got to spend some quality time with the close church friends, Melissa, Esther, Sonia. :) Emmelin and Natalia couldn't come. :(

And about God answering my prayer.

Before I went for Teens Camp I had been feeling kind of out of touch with God. I couldn't feel him. I was starting to lose faith about whether He was really hearing my prayers. And when Martin(our Youth pastoral worker) texted asking me to help out in camp by leading group discussions, I was very hesitant and reluctant. Because a) I don't think I am a good leader and b) I was wondering whether God was really with me.

I finally agreed, but only because my parents kept telling me "God is calling you to do His work" and "If they called you it means they really need help". So I did it, and on the last day, God spoke to me through the speaker Edwyn D'Souza. See, the day before, my group facilitator Timothy had told me something like "There is a lot of leadership potential in you, but I sense that you're holding back."

So on the last day, Edwyn said "There are some of you here who have been called to be leaders in the youth ministry, to do God's work, but you are holding back because you are afraid. Come forward and we will pray for you." It corresponded exactly with what Tim said.

I WAS afraid of leading. Afraid because I was trying to lead by my own strength, because I wasn't rely on God for help. Afraid because I wasn't letting God work through me. So they prayed for those that went forward, including me, and now I know to let God in, and just be His instrument. :)

I didn't get to take much pictures, but here are a few.

Not my best picture, but my awesome group facilitator Timothy Mah is in it! :D

And of course we must always have the staircase picture. :)

Toastmasters Youth Leadership Programme.

So from the 2nd to the 4th of December, I went for this Youth Leadership Programme 2011 organized by the Summit/SJ Advanced Toastmasters Clubs. It was wasn't a stay-in thing, but it ran from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon for 3 days consecutively and was held at Summit Hotel.

I went with my cousins, Jed and Sharon. In fact, it was one of my aunts who asked me whether I wanted to participate in it. It was basically a public speaking course, to teach you how to to speak better and also to have more confidence while speaking in public.

I got to meet some seriously awesome people there, from everywhere. There were 22 participants and a handful of coordinators. After seeing and hearing each other speak continuously for 3 days straight, we eventually got to become friends, participants and coordinators alike. :)

This is all of us.

So we had to learn the different topics of making a speech in public, such as vocal variety(volume, intonation and such), body language(posture, hand gestures, facial expressions), speech organization etc.

At the end of the 3 days, on Sunday, there was a competition to which our parents were also invited to see our progress. There was 4 trophies for the Champion Best Speaker, 1st Runner Up and 2nd Runner Up, and also the Most Improved award. There also 4 medals for Best Table Topics speakers.

Table Topics is when you get all called out and given a topic, and you have to present a speech right then and there with no prior planning. It's basically impromptu speaking. We had 4 different sessions, with 11 participants each session, so all of us had to do it twice. And from each session, the coordinators chose one Best Speaker.

Sadly, I didn't win anything. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed because the coordinators gave me a lot of affirmation and very little points to improve but because I hadn't banked on me winning anything, the disappointment wasn't that bad.

Anyway, I do have a certificate from Toastmasters International. :D

And I have to learn how to smile properly for the camera. :/

All in all, it was a great experience, and I hope I can be a better public speaker in the future. :)

Teehee. :D

SPM Bible Knowledge Camp 2011.

This was the most recent camp I just got back from. It ran from the 5th to the 8th of December, right after my Toastmasters programme ended. It was held at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Centre in KL, same place as my Pre-Confirmation Camp last year and Confirmation Camp this year.

And, it didn't occur to me at first that it was a study camp. OI thought it would be like any other church camp, with sessions and groups and games. But we didn't have sessions, we had CLASSES. And we basically relearned the entire Gospel of St. Luke, which is our Form 4 BK syllabus. Our teacher was the guy who wrote the syllabus, Mr. G Anthony.

Even though we had classes, it wasn't so bad. I won 3rd prize in a mini quiz, and I got a present from the organizers but I dumbly accidentally left it at APC. :( SAD DIE ME.

There were like around 7 people from my parish, the parish of St. Thomas More, and we met people from all over Malaysia. There were Catholics from Penang, Kuantan, Kepong, Brickfields and others. And they were all nice. :)

Oh, funny thing. The dorm was super cold, and Esther and I very smartly went and chose the beds that were near the air cond, we nearly froze to death while sleeping and barely got any sleep. And this new friend, Alyssa, told Esther and I that we look like a lesbian couple. #awkward

But I don't have any pictures for this camp so I shall stop here. :)

BYEZ.

The Third Add Math Post.

2011-11-05T01:12:00.008+08:00

Well, hello, readers. :) You know, sometimes people exaggerate.

Like our finals, for example.

They said it would last a month. It didn't. It lasted 3 weeks. 12 days, actually. That's less than 2 weeks. And now, it's over. OUR FINALS ARE OVER. Form 4 is over. Phew. That was no honeymoon year, man.

Still, I have a feeling next year is going to be a lot worse. SPM, urgh. Oh well. We'll just get it over with. We always do. That's just how life is.

Anyway, on a side note, remember how I was so afraid of failing Add Math I even blogged one entire blog post about it? Well, I've gotten back my results. It was one of the first papers I got back. Well, the only, actually, unless you count Civic.

And the result is...

I PASSED. :')

I got a perfect 40. :) Life on the edge, eh? ;)

I know to most people, passing Add Math isn't really that big of a deal because they could probably do it with one hand tied behind their backs. But I have some serious self-confidence issues with Math, and after all those 3 Add Math failures from January 2011 till now, passing is a big deal to me. :)

I guess all that hard work did pay off.

So, I promised someone that they would be a part of my "acceptance speech" if I passed Add Math for finals. :P So here goes, my acceptance speech for passing(and yes, I know I'm a very syok sendiri person).

First of all, I would like to thank my parents and siblings for all their encouragement and everlasting love. Especially to my parents for paying for my Add Math tuition fees.

Secondly, my Add Math teacher, Pn Lee Hee Ai, who I think is a great teacher. She's probably the coolest Add Math teacher too.

Thirdly, my tuition center which gave me all the practice materials I needed to do my Add Math on(even though my parents are paying for it, but still).

Also, Yee Hui and Jennifer, and everyone else who has at some point helped me when I asked them how to do a question, for helping me whenever they could in class, when I didn't get what teacher was teaching.

And now, probably the one who did the most. I would like to thank Madd. For giving up her (very limited)free time to tutor me whenever I asked. For doing her best to teach me what I couldn't understand. For being so patient and not pulling her hair out whenever I asked questions. For calming me down whenever I got nervous. For saying I could do it whenever I though I couldn't. For everything. :) Thank you.

Last but certainly not, God. Thank you God, for giving me all the people I mentioned above. Thank you for putting them in my life, for letting me journey through life with them. I love You, and I love them :D

There's still a lot of work to be done though. A lot more practice, if I want to get an A, which is my goal for my next Add Math test. :)

I think I'm gonna finish up the Add Math workbook that I rarely touched during the exam season during this holidays. If I'm not too busy watching Prison Break, that is. Have I mentioned that Wentworth Miller has possibly the sexiest eyes ever? ;D

And the intensity of his character on the show just adds to it.

Oh and, if you're wondering why I have low self-confidence when it comes to Maths, it's because my Standard 1 teacher once told me, "Charlene, you seem quite slow in doing Maths." I know it doesn't seem like much. But it IS one of the few memories I have of my 6 years in Lick Hung, so I think it must have affected something inside me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate that teacher. In fact, I like her, very much. But the fact remains, even from young I was weak in Math. It's hard for me.

That's no excuse though. I got an A for Math in PMR, and I'm going to get 1 for SPM, Add Math. I know SPM Add Math and PMR Math are two very different stories, but I know I can do it. I just have to try harder.

A senior once told me "Once you get Add Maths, it's the funnest subject in the world." And I have to agree. That's if you get and understand it though. If you don't, it's a terrible fate.

A Little Bit of Futuristic Red Blood Cells.

2011-10-21T18:36:00.007+08:00

Do you know that if you wanted to kill someone you could just inject a really concentrated salt/sugar solution or a really diluted salt/sugar solution into their bloodstream, and they would die?

This is because their red blood cells will either shrink or burst due to the hypertonic/hypotonic environment in their blood. And if their red blood cells are ruined, they will not have sufficient haemogoblins to transport oxygen to their cells. So they would practically die of suffocation.

Yeah. I just realized that while studying Biology last night. Or rather, this morning. I hope there aren't any potential murderers who read my blog, LOL.

But I bet you didn't come to blog to get inundated with Bio facts. But all the same, pretty interesting, eh? ;) So the next time you're admitted into hospital with an IV drip, you know what to be careful of. Hehehe.

SO ANYWAY. Let's talk about the future. My future.The end of Form 4 is coming. Just 1 more year and we'll all be ready to head out into the world, going to do our own thing.

I'm having a great time now, sure, but the present won't last forever. Sooner or later, the present's gonna become the past and the future will be your present. Therefore, it is time to think about the future.

I do not know what I want to do with my future. Provided I have one, that is.

I have a few ideas, though. But I'm not gonna talk about those ideas now, Talking about those ideas will make for a long blog post, and I want something short and simple. I need to catch up on my sleep after having only 4 hours of sleep per night for the past 4 nights.

I know I sound really abrupt, being all wanting-to-talk about the future and all that, but I just finished watching 5 episodes of Vampire Diaries in 1 sitting and I need to sleep. :)

Thus, I shall leave you, dear reader, with what I think has got to be the most epic musical score ever: Transformers original theme music. Take a listen, if you want. IT IS EPIC.

Ps: I remember I wanted to use this music for the aisle walk during our Interact Installation this year. But at that time I was too busy lighting all the candles, I can't even remember if this music was playing. Sad case.

Add Math Fear.

2011-10-16T18:25:00.004+08:00

I'm scared. I'm afraid.

There are only 3, well more like 2 more days left to my Form 4 Finals Add Math papers.

It's not like I haven't been working. I have. I have been working way harder than compared to when I sat for my last 3 Add Math papers.

That's why I'm scared.
I'm scared that this is just gonna be another slap in the face, telling me "You can't do it."
I'm scared that I'm gonna fail, like how I failed all my other Add Math papers. 3 of them, to be exact.
I'm scared to disappoint. To disappoint everyone: my parents, my sisters, my teachers, Madd, who has used so much of her time to teach me. Most of all, myself.
I'm scared to disappoint myself.

I'm scared I may finally have to face the fact that I can't do it.

What if I fail?

I don't want to fail. I just want to pass. Of course, an A would be good, but ultimately,
I just want to pass Add Math for the first time in my life.

:(

God, give me strength. Help me! I can't rely on humans forever.

I Know, But.

2011-10-04T13:25:00.004+08:00

I know I'm not the smartest.

I know I can't absorb facts easily.

I know I'm not a born genius.

I know there are so many people who are more academically superior than me.

I know it's not easy to teach me.

But, despite all this, despite the fact that I can't understand what you teach me the first time, I am willing to learn.

I'm willing to work hard.

I just need someone to teach me, to guide me, to tell me where I went wrong.

I don't ask questions because I get very easily intimidated, especially if it's an area new to me. Even if I do ask questions, it' not because I want to challenge your authority. It's because I don't understand and I want to understand.

I know you don't mean it but sometimes, you make me feel dumb.

Talking To Myself.

2011-09-23T21:20:00.007+08:00

Char1. Char2.

And the conversation begins:

Char?

Yes, Char?

You do realize that your exams are only a few weeks away, right?

Yeah, so, what about them?

Your exams of which the results will be the basis for the school's intra-stream class streaming next year?

Yes.... I've known that a long time ago.

Then WHY AREN'T YOU STUDYING?!

I will, I promise. I just haven't gotten into the mood yet. I'll start tomorrow.

You said you were gonna start on Wednesday. You said it publicly, on Twitter.

Yes, I know, but then I overslept. I promise I'll start tomorrow. Let me just watch Mulan first.

WHY ARE YOU WATCHING MULAN WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING?!!

Because Mulan's like the awesomest Disney Princess ever. She's the only one who didn't wait for her prince to save her. In fact, she saved her prince! Or captain. And she saved her entire nation. And she's a girl. How's that for girl power? And she's CHINESE.

So you think that just because you're both of the same race you can neglect your studies just to watch a movie you've watched countless times before?!

Well, I can't help it if Mulan IS my favourite Disney princess. :(

Okay, fine. You start studying tomorrow. You've already failed all your Add Math tests.

WE failed them. And yes, I will start tomorrow.

But how are you gonna start tomorrow if you have production at Pei En's house from 9 to 1 and then Teens Ministry at night?

Er... Right. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

*sighs* You better get your game on, Char, seriously. Don't disappoint Mommy and Daddy. Don't disappoint us, yourself.

I won't. I promise.

Yeah sure. Go watch your Mulan la!

Okay. :D

End of conversation.

Just for your information: Char1 is the one who always tweets stuff like "Okay the hardcore studying starts today" and Char2 is the one who always oversleeps and ends up stalking people and reading Six Billion Secrets.

Studying Smart.

2011-09-17T22:18:00.006+08:00

I find myself unable to study for the upcoming finals. This may be due to either the lack of self-discipline or my not knowing of how to study smart.

SO. To scare and motivate myself into studying, I have constructed a timeline, of the entire Form 4 syllabus that I have to study, bearing in mind that starting from tomorrow, I will have exactly 3 weeks left to the exams.

And here it is!

Biology - 9 chapters, 2 chapters untaught yet as of today, be it in tuition or school. 3 chapters per week.

Physics - 5 chapters, 1 chapter untaught yet as of today. Roughly 1 and a half chapters per week, not forgetting all the definitions and principles we have to remember.

Chemistry - 9 chapters - 1 chapter untaught yet as of today. 3 chapters per week. And all the formulas and colours and balanced equations to remember!

Add Math - 11 chapters, 1 and half chapters not taught yet as of today. Roughly 3 and a half chapters per week.

Mod Math - 11 chapters, roughly 3 and a half chapters per week. I'm gonna die here because I haven't really been paying attention in Mod Math class for the WHOLE year.

Sejarah - 10 chapters - I'm gonna die here too because like Mod Math, I haven't been paying attention in class. 3 and a third chapters per week.

Moral - 36 moral values/nilai murnis. That's not including all the Acts and Laws we ahve to remember and not to mention the picky the marking scheme is about which moral value you can use for a situation. 12 moral values to be memorized per week.

Malay - A literature component made up of 30 different types of classical prose, modern prose, poetry, short stories, and dramas. That's not mentioning the 3 essays, 1 summary and all the grammar parts we'll have to do in the exam. I... don't know how to put this into a timetable.

English - This is okay. But there's still a need to read up on the Literature component though.

Chinese - UGH. I don't even want to talk about this. We have to memorize all the ming ju jing huas from Remove class to Form 4. I don't even know how many there are! Like what the heck. DIE.

So, the conclusion is: I'M DEAD.

I know what you're thinking. It's just finals right? There's nothing to worry about. But the thing is, this isn't JUST finals. This is also how the school will stream us next year. Yeah, that's right, they're streaming us in our senior year, a stupid move, but they can't help it.

So if you do badly in your finals, you go to a not-so-good class in whatever stream you're in. When you go to a not-so-good class, you get not-so-good teachers, who teach you in a not-so-good way. Thus, you get not-so-good results for SPM.

And when that happens, well.... you know what happens.

I HAVE TO DO WELL FOR FINALS. God, help me.

I Want To Play Neopets.

2011-09-16T22:39:00.006+08:00

Hello my dear non-existent readers! :)

Okay I know some people might think me as narcissistic for print-screening my own tweet and blogging about it but yeah, I want to play Neopets.

The reason I want to play Neopets is because my sister recently started playing it again. And she keeps bugging me to let her have my account because I have a lot of awesome stuff in it. And also because I'm not playing it anymore.

So, you know when someone keeps talking about something, eventually that thing remains inside your head and you start thinking bout it? Yeah, that's what happened to me. So today, I decided to log in to Neopets to mess around.

BUT THEY WOULDN'T LET ME IN.

Because I can't remember my birthday. Not to say I can't remember my real birthday. Of course I can. It's just that I can't remember the birthday that I submitted for Neopets. After all, I was relatively young when I created that account and they had an age limit, so of course I fibbed.

But now the thing is, I can't remember. So I can't log in and play Neopets. And not all my pets are probably dying and bored to death because I haven't been feeding them or playing with them. Granted, they're just virtual pets, but still. THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE CUTE. :)

See! Cute right? :D It's a Kacheek.

So, lesson of the day, kids (or the non-kids or anyone who reads this blog at all), DON'T LIE.

Because if you lie, you won't get to play with your cute Neopets anymore. HAIH.

Cybunny. It's a rare Neopet and also my sister's favorite.

Meerca Chase. My favorite game when I was still playing Neopets. :')

Side note: I mentioned the word Neopet(s) 8 times in this post. Oh wait, 9. :P

Go Light Your World.

2011-08-22T23:32:00.012+08:00

So. I just got back from my Confirmation Camp on Sunday, 5 days ago. This year it was held at the same place as our Pre-Confirmation Camp, which was at a "secret" location in KL. Lol.

In the beginning, I was quite upset with timing because it was on the weekend before our August exams, and it would take away my studying time, but seeing as I couldn't help it I just left it to God.

The speaker this year was Martin Jalleh. I don't have a photo of him, but he's really, really good. As in, he can really relate with teenagers, and he knows what we're into and we're not. He gives us examples that we understand. He's good.

And during camp, there was this song, it's a pretty good song, and I like it. They used it for my sister's Confirmation during her year. Anyway, we sang this song, and I think my voice/key/pitch suits this song. I don't know, maybe. I'm not really that good with all these musical stuffs.

That's the song if wanna take a listen. The lyrics are pretty inspiring. It's called Go Light Your World. Melissa says I have a rocker voice, lol.

So, as usual, there was Inner Healing. I didn't cry this time. It was my first time going for an Inner Healing and not crying. I guess maybe all the hurt has already been healed. :)

Anyway, pictures! :D

Melissa. :) The psycho chick who gave me silly bands! :D

Emmelin, Esther, me, Melissa.

Yeah, Melissa just stares at me like that, I don't know why. o.O

It's quite impossible to get mad at her, lol. :)

Natalia's epic face HAHAHAHAHHA!!

And yeah, she doesn't just stare at me. LOL. Luckily there's a blanket in between. :P

I love them. :)

After camp on Sunday, Martin met our parents and gave them a talk too. Then we, the children, filed into the room and started seeing You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban while looking into our parents' eyes. After the song, we went and gave our parents a hug. :D

That's the song for you if you don't know it, or if you wanna take a listen. I saw A LOT of parents crying when we sang. So sweet. :)

I love you Daddy.

I don't have a picture of myself hugging my mom, unfortunately. Oh wells. :(

Group picture of all of us. See if you can spot me!

Take your candle, go light your world.

Rise of the Gleeful Smurfs.

2011-08-18T21:55:00.005+08:00

Yo people! Yeah I know it's in the middle of exams, but for the sake of updating my dearest blog and keeping my dear readers entertained(if I still have any, that is), I have decided to put a up a few trailers of several movies I really, really want to watch after exams! :)

The Smurfs. It actually didn't really look that interesting at first, but after I watched the trailer, I found that those little blue things are pretty cute. :D And I guess Sara's Smurfy influence rubbed off on me. :P

Glee! The 3D concert movie. I wanted very much to go for the Glee Live! tour, but of course I couldn't due to financial difficulties and other stuff.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It has Tom Felton and James Franco in it. Need I say more? ;) Ps: A micro second glimpse of Tom Felton at 1:14. :D

Till then, ciao. ;)

Simple Plan.

2011-08-05T21:48:00.008+08:00

One of my favorite bands, of all time.

Their songs will always be classics to me. And you wanna know why?

Because in the midst of all the thrash Illuminati-sponsored artists(if you can call them that) who only sing songs about sex nowadays(*cough Lady Gaga cough Rihanna cough Jay-Z cough and also other people who I can't be bothered with to mention), Simple Plan actually has songs with meaningful lyrics.

I mean, sure, there are plenty more bands out there with meaningful lyrics and catchy tunes, but with Simple Plan, it's so EASY to relate to them. And even if you can't relate, you can imagine, how it would be like.

One song of theirs that I think most people I know would be able to relate to, especially this year, is Save You. It was written for Jay Bouvier, lead singer Pierre Bouvier's brother who fought in a battle against cancer. Fought, and won. :)

Jay Bouvier, cancer survivor since July 2005.

Take a breath, I pull myself together,
Just another step until I reach the door,
You'll never know the way it tears me up inside to see you

I wish that I could tell you something,
To take it all away.

Sometimes I wish I could save you.
And there's so many things that I want you to know.
I won't give up till it's over.
If it takes you forever, I want you to know.

If you fall, stumble down,
I'll pick you up off the ground.
If you lose faith in you,
I'll give you strength to pull through.
Tell me you won't give up,
Cause I'll be waiting if you fall.
You know, I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU.

Those were some of the lyrics of Save You. You see what I mean when I say meaningful?

Blogging about this kind of reminds me of E Kent. Haih. It's been more than 4 months, and I still can't believe it. That day I read a short story in English class, The Death Car, that reminded me of the Pontianak story we co-authored together. :)

How could this happen to him?

Being Cultural.

2011-08-04T17:04:00.007+08:00

Hey yo! It is now August, and you know what that means! :D Or maybe you don't cause I realized that my blog has a lot of international visitors. I wonder how many people who read my blog do I actually know personally. Hmm.

ANYWAY. August means... Ramadhan! :D And no, I'm not Muslim, so Ramadhan doesn't really affect me. But I am very happy when it comes to Ramadhan because school lets out half an hour earlier and there is a bazaar filled with good food very nearby to me. :D

Ramadhan Mubarak to all my Muslim friends! :)

So yeah, that's why I'm so happy. I think Ramadhan is actually kind of my favorite time of the year. :)

Anyway, besides it being Ramadhan now, it also happens to be the Hungry Ghost Festival on the... Buddhist calendar, I think. So yeah. If you see anything out there, especially after 7 pm, be careful. :P

Lately, I've kind of gotten to know these 2 things, asking my Muslim friends and Buddhist friends more about their culture and their rituals. It's really interesting actually, to learn about a culture outside of your own.

All my life I have taken the diverse cultures and multiracial people for granted. Now I'm starting to appreciate the wide varieties of food and folklore and legends. After all, it is the bubbling pot of different and unique cultures that make Malaysia, truly Asia *air stewardess voice*. LOL

So anyway, I will just finish this post with delicious pictures of food. Hehehehehhe. :)

Satay!Delicious pieces of marinated meat slowly grilled to perfection over a charcoal fire.

Char Kuey Teow!Kuey teow fried with bean sprout, prawns and er... other stuff.

Murtabak!
Okay I don't know how to describe this.

And this marks the end of this post! TEEHEE!

Immoral Activity.

2011-07-29T22:18:00.008+08:00

Hey, readers, guess what? A vice is defined as an immoral activity. But I guess you've already known that. If not, then well, you've just learned a new thing! :D

Okay so the reason why I am talking about vices or vice is because.......... (wait for it!)

I GOT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERACT CLUB OF SMK SUBANG UTAMA!!

Technically, I got the POST of the Vice President. So yeah. I am kinda proud of myself at the moment. I mean, I have wanted the Vice President post since I was Form 1, since I joined Interact. And the fact that I got something I worked 3 and a half years for... it's gratifying. :)

Anyway, allow me to introduce the rest of my BOD, the Board of Directors of the Interact Club of SMK Subang Utama 2011/2012! They are:

President - Madeline Ashlee Lok
Vice President - Charlene See (whooo that's me, yo!)

Secretary - Tan Yi Hua
Treasurer - Kwok Pei En

Club Service Director - Ganendra Vivekananda
Asst. Club Service Director - Arvind Bhaskaran

Community Service Director - Khoo Tze Yun
Asst. Community Service Director - Tan Heng Wei

IU Director - Aravin Gopinath
Asst. IU Director - Kyle Roshen Jacob

Funding Director - Wong Mei Kuan
Asst. Funding Director - Leong Lik Yuen

Publicity Director - Victor Gan
Asst. Publicity Director - Nur Izaat Aiman

Sergeant-At-Arms - Stephen Chong

So, anyway, Interact has this tradition where the incoming President and Vice President has to suck their toe when their posts have been announced and the outgoing President and Vice President sucks their own toes during Installation.

Yes, you read that right. SUCK THEIR TOE. This is after 5 hours of school, mind you. In a shoe, with socks on, sweat, and humid Malaysian weather. So you can imagine what our toes would taste like.

I know this isn't a really glamorous picture, but it's something to keep you entertained.

I kind of have to admit that while this is a really interesting tradition to watch in a disgustingly amusing way, it is pretty unhygienic. It's fine if you rinse your mouth thoroughly after that though. I sucked my toe like a week ago, and so far I have not experienced any bad cases of diarrhea or constipation.

On a side note, IU is this Sunday! That's 2 days away. This IU will also be our Installation. :D

P/s: Looking forward to having an awesome term with my BOD. :)

Secrets.

2011-07-14T22:09:00.012+08:00

Got a secret

Gonna keep it?

Swear this one you'll save

Better lock it, in your pocket

Take this one to the grave

If I show you then I know you

Won't tell what I said

Cause two can keep a secret

If one of em is dead

Well, hello!

The verse above is from the song Secret, by The Pierces. It's also used by the TV show Pretty Little Liars, which I have started watching and am mildly obsessed with due to the fact that they ALWAYS end every episode with a cliffhanger and that they have a beautiful cast. :)

So. Anyway. Back to the song. Or verse. Or lyrics.

To get straight to the point, secrets.

There's just something about secrets, you know. People tell secrets for very different reasons. Some people tell secrets because they want to confide in someone. Some tell just for the fun of it. Some tell, as a test.

A test of the other person's trustworthiness.

Everyone has secrets. That's a fact.

They broke the glass jar and kept it a secret, they faked a grade on their resume and didn't tell anyone, they kissed their best friend's boyfriend. Everyone has secrets.

It's just a matter of whether they want let you in on it. Or not. ;)

Over the years, from primary school till now, I have been a keeper of secrets. I'm actually quite honored to be one of those who people trust with their secrets. I like the fact that my friends trust me. It's gratifying to know that your friends know you're trustworthy, and that you'll keep their secret.

Not everyone trusts their best friends with their secrets. Not everyone trusts their friends-yet-not-best-friends with their secrets. And yet. I am one of those who are trusted. :)

People trust me, but I find it very hard to trust people. It's really hard for me, I don't know why. It's weird. I just can't tell people stuff.

Anyway, yeah. I just felt like blogging about this. I'll edit this post if need be. A.K.A if anything else come to mind. ;)

For now, ciao.

Poker Face.

2011-07-09T00:30:00.005+08:00

You gotta hold your cards close to your chest, and keep your poker face on. One twitch of the eye, one movement of the lips, a turn of the head, a flick of the wrist, and they'll know. You can't let anyone see the hand you've been dealt, because if they do, it's over.

I need to work on my poker face. To blank my expression, to make my eyes soulless. I don't want them to see the inside of me.

All At Once.

2011-06-30T21:33:00.014+08:00

So. Today is June the 30th, the end of June. Tomorrow will be the start of a new month. May I just say that June has been quite a good month, but a lot of things have been happening... all at once.

Sister's Wedding.

First off, was the wedding of my beloved seal. And no, I don't have a pet seal. 'Seal' is actually my 2nd sister, Eileen, who got married to the guy she's known ever since she was Form 2, Edmund, on the 11th of June.

Their wedding logo. e and e = Edmund + Eileen.

This is one of their pre-wedding shots, my favorite.
And another one:

They got married in Saint Francis Xavier church, Malacca.

The walk down the aisle. I don't know why my mom looks so stressed LOL.

My brother-in-law, Edmund saying his vows. He actually memorized them and didn't look at the book. I think if my husband did that, I would happy like awesomeness.

Seal saying her vows. She memorized them too. :)

"You may know kiss the bride."

KEJAM and STC gang and Edmund, outside the church after the mass.

Their Malacca wedding dinner was held at Mahkota Hotel. The food was really good. Way better than the Subang one, but I'll get to that later.

Pouring the champagne.

Their first dance of the night.

Sister of the bride. :') We're both sepet, heh.

Cruel Ecstasy gang, plus Edmund. :D Not a very flattering photo of all of us though.

During the Subang dinner, we totally wanted to camwhore and take another KEJAM STC photo, but Matt went off yam-senging and Seal had to go do bridal stuff. So:

Tim's face is epic by the way. XD

Yeah okay that's it for the wedding photos. There are more on Facebook if you guys would like to see it. I shall finish this part of the post with a little narcissism, a picture of me! :D

Madd's Birthday

So, the 25th of June was the birthday of one of my favorite people, Madeline Ashlee Lok. :) On that day, it was a Saturday, so Yi Hua, Pei En and Ash got a cake for her. She was distracted because she was supposed to be supervising our BOD dance.

And then the whole Interact gang plus Ash sang 8 birthday songs for her, LOL. And then Pei En started the fun by shoving an entire piece of cake into Madd's mouth. And everyone started following suit. It was hilarious. LMAO.

Anyway, I have no idea where all the cake photos went to, they're probably all still in Sara's iPhone or something. But here's a pic of Stephen and the birthday girl:

And yes, Stephen kindly offered to post as a pervert. Birthday girl is camera shy. XD

Interact Presentation

We were actually split up into groups of around 4 to 5, and given an area of Interact to come up with a virtual project, ie. Funding, IU, Club Service, Community Service. My group got Community Service, and we had Pei En, Mei Kuan, Izzat and me in our group. Our senior adviser was Melanie, and she gave us a lot of useful tips.

We had our Interact presentation on the same day as Madd's birthday, and the day before almost all the groups were rushing and stressing about how to present. At least I know my group was. But we did a PowerPoint presentation, as our secret weapon, and the seniors AND Pn. Rajes said our presentation was good.

Melanie actually told me the day after in church that the presentation was good, and she gave me a hug. :') LOL. So the hard work was all worth it.

USJ13'S IU

So their IU was on the 26th of June, right after Madd's birthday. In fact, I wouldn't even have gone if Madd hadn't asked me to accompany her. I mean, you can't exactly say "NO" to the birthday girl during her birthday week, can you?

So yeah, I went. It was pretty good. The food was actually quite good, and there was one performance that really stood out, which was this Indian guy called NickyBOOM who dirty danced on stage to Britney's "Imma A Slave 4 U" in hot pink short shorts. He really got the corwd riled up. LMAO.

And I bumped into Natalia there! Well, not really bumped into, I knew she would be there, so yeah.

No pictures, sorry!

Everything Else

There's been this phenomena happening around 4 Omega lately, and it's called #PurplePhotos. It's basically just taking your 'sort-of' IC photo with 4 Omega's purple background behind. Everyone who gets it taken must put it as their display picture. Here's mine:

I'm quite happy with it. Hahahhahahah. Thanks, Kan Jia Wei!

4 Omega is quite the awesome class. I really love my classmates. Thank you, God for putting me in 4 Omega. Please don't stream us next year. :(

Also, I have to write a speech about why I should become Interact's next Vice President, and I am clueless as to how to begin. HELP ME.

Frustration.

2011-06-09T14:39:00.004+08:00

I am frustrated.

I think you can probably figure that out for yourself, based on the title above. The main source of my frustration this year is ADD MATH. Full name Additional Mathematics, it is the bane of my Form 4 life and will most probably be the bane of my entire existence.

I've always been weak in Maths. Well, not exactly weak, more of can't-get-A type of weak. Mostly Cs and Bs, sometimes even Ds. But then I came to Form 3 and I started improving, mainly because I went for tuition and had a extra personal tutor. :)

I even got an A for Maths in PMR.

But now. Add Math is killing me. Every time I'm in class doing Add Math, I get so frustrated because I can't seem to get the right answer.

Okay, honestly, Add Math makes me feel dumb. That's why I hate it.

Sigh.

P/s: I miss the little boy who sat beside me when we were younger. It's been 10 weeks.

Not Growing Up.

2011-05-27T19:29:00.004+08:00

This blog has been very inactive lately. I think it's because that I came into Form 4 and am now very busy. Well, not really. I have some free time, but it's mostly used sleeping or hogging the computer. Like what I'm doing now.

Anyway. I blogged a lot in Form 2. Almost every day, in fact. Sometimes even twice a day. But now, I can't even manage 1 post a month. It's kinda sad, really. But then again, you (and I)get to see how I've grown.

From posting about daily ramblings, the little things, to only posting about big things and serious issues. This is sad. I want to be young again. I want to not have a care in the world and have little responsibilities. Now I understand where Peter Pan was coming from. I too don't want to grow up.

But I guess we can't all have what we want.

So I'll just leave you with a picture of this sleeping cat to make you fell sleepy. :)

I'll Miss You, Old Friend.

2011-04-02T18:44:00.006+08:00

Hello, people. It has been quite a turn of events lately.

First off, I'd just like to wish a belated Happy Birthday to Mr. Siow E Kent! :)

Yeah, that's the birthday card you gave me. I still kept it, after all these years. :')

Never realized you were so handsome.

Ladies and gentlemen, the handsome young man you see above is Siow E Kent. He was born on the 28th of March, and as his brother E Guy said, he was very very cute.

He got to touch a white tiger.

I've known E Kent for 9 years, going on 10. We met way back in primary school, and we sat together for around... 3 years, I think? It was Standard 2, 3 and 4, if my memory doesn't fail me.

During those 3 years, he was incredible, a great friend. I remember his English was one of the best of our class. We wrote a short vampire story together. It was handwritten. But one day I asked him whether he still had it, and he told me he'd thrown it away. I was pretty upset then.

I remember there was once, we wanted to make a movie, he and I were both fighting for the post of director, but he was so stubborn, so I had to settle for the post of producer. Needless to say the movie was a failure cause we were just kids.

Because we also took the same transport to and from school, we'd become pretty close. We used to hang out after school, because our transport aunty had to do 2 rounds to fit everyone, and we were the in the 2nd round.

Besides being a great friend, E Kent was also incredibly strong, not just physically but mentally too. In 1 of those 3 years, he knocked the corner of a desk. The area he knocked was the sensitive area behind 1 of his ears. He cried, of course. He was just a kid, anyone would have cried. It must have been bloody painful. I looked at it and it was a deep, deep gash. He went back home, and came back the next day, smiling and cheerful. It was as if he was good as new. There was some sort of purple glue on the wound.

Another demonstration of his strength was in Form 2. I blogged about it before, you can read it here. And this photo, is what happened afterward. :)

A stupid monkey banged his head yesterday, and the monkey is ME! :D

In Standard 6, he said somethings that caused a misunderstanding on my part, and I think I took too personally. From then on, I've always regretted not making the effort to repair our friendship.

On February 5th 2010, we(the general population of everybody) found out that E Kent had lung cancer. And it was a shock. Who would have thought that E Kent, Sportsman of the Year, footballer, runner and all things healthy, would get cancer? He didn't even smoke for goodness' sakes.

Gradually the cancer got worse but he fought to the every end, long enough to celebrate his 16th birthday in hospital. Those of us who had Twitter were trying to trend #happybirthdaysiowekent, and it worked too, in Malaysia anyway.

2 days after his birthday, on the 30th of March 2011, E Kent passed away at 12 45 am. I couldn't believe it myself when JonC confirmed the news to me. Everyone was crying. I cried too, a lot, but at the funeral service, after we went to pay our last respects and the coffin was closed, God gave me peace.

I pray that your family finds that peace too, for their loss must be so much greater than ours.

I'll always miss you, friend, seat partner, co-author. Siow E Kent, 28th March 1995 - 30th March 2011, rest in peace.

Thank you for the memories.

Positive Clowns.

2011-03-15T14:18:00.005+08:00

Heyyo. :) By the way, heyyo means hey and yo. :P Hahaha LOL okay never mind. Charlene the clown says hello. :) More pics below, so read through. :D

Anyway. I just got back from PAG(Persons Are Gifts) Camp yesterday. And might I say, it was a success. :)

I was part of the PAG Outreach Team for 9 months. For 9 months, we had endless rehearsals, countless hours writing testimonies, and lots of prayer and Praise and Worship. The end result was the PAG Camp March 2011.

I'm seriously friggin' proud of the participants. I have never ever seen a bunch of people so open and so willing to receive God's grace before. Not even in my own camps that I went to as a participant.

Well, to know about the whole camp, you'd have to go to one. :) I can't give anything away because the PAG camp is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you have been to one, you can't attend another unless you get called to be part of the Outreach Team. That's what Jon said. :P

ANYWAY. The group that I had to lead was BLUE. We were all colour-coded so yeah. :) The members were Andrew, Conrad, Craig, Kimberly, Levania, Miles. I still remember them. :D

I was supposed to be a camouflage person thing for the icebreaker skit. LOL tak jadi.

We did this during night prayer. It's so pretty. :)

Saw that! XD By the way, it's not mine. :P

And the pictures below were all taken on the final night of camp, which was yesterday.

Emo clown. This was before we went to put on out performance. Make-up time.

Ashley has such big eyes. *Jealous*

Look at the differnce between his eyes and mine! By the way, my eyes were open.

Ashley and I 'clowning' around. Get it? XD

Natalia! :D

Craig! From group BLUE. :)

Natalia and Pearly. :)

Natalia and Sean! :)

Suman! :)

Amanda and Kimberly! :D

Natalia and Winona! :)

And yes, my clown make-up got progressively smeared throughout the night. That's because I took some and marked it on the participants AND the PARENTS. That's why some of them have crosses on their face. :)

That's about it. Next time, if you hear about PAG Camp and get offered to go, GO FOR IT! :)

Hope I get called back to be part of Team again. :)

Poke-Nostalgia.

2011-02-25T00:02:00.007+08:00

Whassup people! For your countless visits to my blog, and your endless dedication to reading my awesome blog, I am rewarding you with a blog post! And the blog post today is:

POKEMON!

Lol. Pokemon is awesome. :) I used to watch it when I was a kid, and recently I started watching it again. I prefer the earlier episodes though. The ones with Brock in them. Now and then I squeeze in an episode whenever I can.

And of course there has to be pictures of incredibly cute Pokemons.

First up, Pikachu!

Pikachu is incredibly cute when it goes "Pika...". Look at its cherry red cheeks! :)

The second majorly cute one Charmander. This Pokemon happens to be my sister Shirleen's favourite because of its round head. Lol. It also happens to be what Jezzy calls me. Well, not really, Jezzy calls me Charizard, but Charmander is the root Pokemon of Charizard. LOL.

And then...

Togepi!

I remember this Pokemon because it's so eggy and all it does is just sit in Misty's arms and go "To-ge-pi!" Hahahahah cute.

And then, Squirtle!

Squirtle's so cute, especially in the first episode when it makes its debut, called "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad". It's so friggin' cute and its powers aren't that bad either.

But my favourite, aside from Squirtle is Sandshrew. It's down there, to the left, with Pikachu.
I like Sandshrew because it kinda reminds me of a hedgehog, and I like hedgehogs. :) Or rather, I like the idea of hedgehogs.

But the coolest looking Pokemon, in my opinion, would have to be ....

Scyther.

It's a human-sized praying mantis with blades for forearms. Super cool. :)
That's all for today. Scyther says bye!

Less Than Scintillating.

2011-02-19T20:08:00.002+08:00

Hello, my very awesome readers!

I know. I have not been updating.

A lot has happened recently. Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, stress, adjusting to a new kinda syllabus, stress, trying not to lose my temper, going for PAG, and did I mention stress?

LOL.

ANYWAY.

Yeah. My life has been busy. I know this blog post isn't exactly scintillating, but I just want to keep my blog alive. Okay?

Peace out. :)

Starkid Merchandise!

2011-02-06T12:39:00.007+08:00

Hello, people! Just a little note to say, I've removed my chatbox because it was being spammed by weird maybe-computer-generated people.

And because it was all rusty and dusty. *frowns at my readers for not using the chatbox that I placed previously for your convenience*

Oh well. Anyhow, it's gone. Okay, bye.

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Hi.

I want this (the shirts, not the people, by the way) :

Darren Criss!

Or maybe in light blue?

Lauren Lopez!

And this (but maybe in a different colour):

No idea who's this. Bonnie Gruesen maybe.

And I'm trying to decide between this:
or this:

Kthxbai.

P/s: And no, I'm not really gonna buy these stuff. Because I can only get them from the States. The shipping fees alone would use up my college fund. Mum would kill me.

Still, it's nice to dream. :)

Sexual Transactions.

2011-01-28T23:14:00.005+08:00

Okay, if you're reading this, I hope you're read the cover story of Wednesday's StarTWO, 26th January 2011. If not you will be hopelessly lost and confused. Well, okay, not really.

The cover title of the article is basically "Sexual Transaction".

Some young men visit sex workers regularly, because they can. 2-4

In a nutshell, the whole article is about prostitution in Malaysia, with 2 paying customers giving their opinions on it all.

"I can only go once a month because I can't spend so much. But when I get my scholarship money, I go more often," said Adam, 23.

I laughed at this. Really, Malaysia? You pick these sort of individuals to give scholarships to? People who visit prostitutes and use money that is supposedly for their education on casual sex instead? Pffft. No wonder all your young talent is all running off overseas. Because you don't give scholarships to those who deserve it.

Of course, the scholarship he has might not necessarily come from the Malaysian government or a Malaysian company, but as he studies here, the Adam guy, I mean, I think there's a high chance that his scholarship is Malaysian.

But oh wait, there's more.

"I usually only date and have sex with Chinese girls, but with sex workers I can call and ask for Malay girls, 'China dolls' and even Mat Salleh girls (Caucasians)," said Sam, who is already engaged but does not think he is cheating on his fiancee.

"I am not married yet, so I am not cheating. It's not illegal to have sex, right?" he said.

Oh sure, it's not illegal to have sex BUT MAYBE IT IS ILLEGAL TO HAVE SEX WITH SEX WORKERS, WHEN PROSTITUTION IS ILLEGAL IN MALAYSIA. Ever thought of that?

But oh, you're not cheating on your fiancee? Would you still feel the same way if she had sex with a random guy she paid to strip for her? After all, she's not married to you yet, so it's not cheating, right? Yeah right, stop deluding yourself, will you.

Does your fiancee know that you frequent sex workers? Has she agreed that it is not cheating? HAH. I bet if you told your fiancee you'd probably not have any balls left cause she'd rip them off.

LOL. Just my opinion. *smile*

Adam also thinks his habit of buying sex is harmless.

"I am not doing anything to anyone. I won't bother you if you don't bother me. I just buy sex for fun," he said.

You really think that encouraging prostitution is harmless? You tear these girls down, you use them for their bodies, you take away their self-worth, you trample all over their dignity, and then you get yourself to sleep by saying that it is harmless.

You think it's fun for them? You think it's harmless? They didn't pick this career path. Some prostitutes might go back to prostitution because they don't have any other skills. Most of them were kidnapped, smuggled, trafficked into the sex industry. And you say it's harmless.

Some of them can't escape from their brothels because of drug dependence. Some because of violence, fear of their pimps, the feeling of isolation and having no one to turn to.

Imagine if you were from a poor, underdeveloped country. You got promised a good job as a waitress in a better country, and you went. But it was a lie, and you got forced into the sex industry. Your pimp wouldn't let you out of the brothel in which he kept you and he hit you if you refused to have sex with the men, and maybe some of the men took you by force.

STILL THINK IT'S HARMLESS?

And then later your pimp agrees to let you out, but only after you've taken drugs. Once you're hooked on it, of course he'll let you out, because if you run, you have nowhere to go, no one else but your pimp can satisfy your burning addiction for the harmful substances that consume your system.

HARMLESS? Yeah, right. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are another matter.

"Usually, I wear condoms but sometimes I don't when the girl does not have it. But these girls are clean, right? That's why I pay more for them than the street girls. They go for regular checkups, right?" said Sam.

You see. You yourself, you're not even sure that they haven't contracted any STDs from previous customers or drug use. So what if by chance you get infected? Are you going to pass it on to your fiancee, who, in your opinion, you're not cheating on? Are you going to pass it on to your kids? Becuase your wife would have to breastfeed them, would she not?

How are you going to face them , the tiny little things, when they ask "Papa, why am I dying?" WHAT WILL YOU SAY? You think about that, think about looking into their eyes, their innocent faces, their lives so unfulfilled, and how are you going to explain that the reason they're dying is because you couldn't control your hormones?

You know, if there is a demand for it, there will be a supply. It is because people like you go to sex workers, that innocent girls are snatched from their lives and trafficked into the sex industry. If you didn't go to prostitutes, pimps wouldn't find more girls, and the world would be a happier place.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

P/s: I am not going to blog about law enforcement regarding illegal prostitution because I might get carried away and get myself sued for defamation. So yeah.

Officially an Assistant.

2011-01-15T21:44:00.005+08:00

EDITED: Because of someone. :P

Hey people.

Installation is finally over.

I just wanna say thank you to everyone who helped out, and also the seniors for guiding and mentoring me as to how to organize this event.

Thank you, Lord for giving me such supermegafoxyawesomehot parents and sisters who are so supportive and helpful and resourceful. :)

And thank you, God for giving me a supermegafoxyawesomehot senior, my evil advisor and resident smacker and stress reliever, to help me. LOL. Gonna be working under her for the next 6 months. :D

I can't really elaborate on Installation, a bit too tired, and I can't really think right now, my brain isn't functioning. Hahaha.

I'm sure there are more photos on Facebook though. :)

Now for Valentine's Day. Lol.

A Very Potter Co-curriculum.

2011-01-07T21:42:00.003+08:00

AGM was yesterday. The annual recruiting meeting for all the co-curriculum clubs. So yeah.

This year I joined Taekwondo(a first, LOL), Interact(4 years running :D), and Chess. LOL. I joined Chess when I was Form 1. When I told Seow that I was gonna join the Chess Club with Ash, she said, "Aiyoh you all ah! So lazy!"

LMAO.

Interact had our first general meeting today. Attendance was great. Hope the members keep it up. Thanks for coming, guys! :)

I'm starting to stutter. I don't like it. Stuttering and getting pronunciation problems. :( It's so weird, I always thought that because my English is fairly good I wouldn't have any speech impediments. Oh well.

Listening to AVPM music on Youtube. :D

Darren Criss FTW! Yes, that's the guy from Glee. He was originally from AVPM, just so you know.

Granger Danger is supermegafoxyawesomehot! That's a song, by the way. :)

LOL. I know you just had no idea what the above paragraph meant. Well, if you're really curious, and if you're a Harry Potter fan, at least as big as I am, I suggest you go to Youtube and type A Very Potter Musical, and start from there. :)

Ciao.

Sophistication in A Bar.

2011-01-05T22:49:00.004+08:00

So. School has started. Just a quick update then, this'll be. :)

The Sunday before school started, which is the 2nd of Jan 2011, I went to Subang Parade and got(well okay, my parents got) myself a new phone. A Nokia C5-03.

Mine's completely black. ;)

The back.

Okay, I can't resist bragging. Lol. I think this models is quite new. Cause all the adverts I see featuring it and all the web pages and reviews all say "Coming Soon" or "New!". So yeah. I'm pretty proud of that. Brand new phone. :)

The reason why I can't stop bragging about my new phone and why I keep tweeting about it is because this is my first phone that I'm using firsthand. The other phones I used before were all second-hand, hand-me-downs from my sisters. So yeah, happy.

Well, I can't say I'm in love with it yet, because it's kind of a big change, what with going from a Sony Ericsson clamshell to a Nokia touchscreen, but so far, it's pretty good. Certain things are a bit annoying though. Won't elaborate here.

And the best part is:

It comes in a box!

If anybody said that to be I would widen my eyes, nod my head really slowly but exaggeratedly, and go "No way." LOL. Sarcasm is awesome. If used right.

On a sidenote, I have been put into 4 Beta, which is a sub-science class, when I qualify for pure-science and frickin' asked for pure-science last year. On Monday I was quite pissed because of this. But it's getting better.

Accounts isn't so bad. If my appeal works and I manage to get into pure-science, I'm gonna drop Add Math and take up Accounts. Along with Chinese and Bible Knowledge. And maybe English Literature. :)

P/s: My new phone is supermegafoxyawesomehot! :D
Pp/s: For those of you who don't get this post's title, go [here].

Pre-School Depression.

2010-12-30T16:52:00.006+08:00

I feel sad today.

I should feel happy because my awesome sister let me play Sims 3 for a few hours. And I am, a bit, because of that.

But still, I feel sad. Because a new year is starting. Sigh. New books, new teachers, new classmates, new subjects, and worst of all, new homework. I don't suppose it sounds too bad. But this year kind of is the transition year, what with the different streams.

So yeah. There are doubts, of course. Like "What if I don't get in pure science?". But I'm fairly confident that my results are good enough to get me in.

I know most people only go to pure science because it's what their parents want and that, given a choice, they would much rather go to arts or sub science. I used to be 1 of them.

But along the way I realized that, going pure really does offer more job choices. And so far, I have a few ideas of what I want to do later in life. But this isn't the time to elaborate.

SCHOOL'S STARTING! And I haven't made the most of my holidays! No! Oh well. I suppose we have to progress and move on. Otherwise, we'd just be stuck in a rut for the rest of our lives. LOL.

I started listening to Kate Voegele again. Her rendition of Hallelujah is pure genius. :) For those of you who don't know, she also plays Mia in One Tree Hill.

P/s: I'm still trying to persuade Mom to get me some Farley's Rusks. Haha!

Weird Craving.

2010-12-28T23:54:00.005+08:00

Okay. So. A few weeks ago, I watched this video by a Youtube personality called charlieissocoolike[link here].

And then I kinda forgot about it.

And then. The other day, I was at Jaya Grocer in Empire and I happened across a product in the baby food aisle, called Farley's Rusks. I was with Madd at that time, she pointed them out to me.

Today, I asked my mom, "Ma, did I use to eat a type of baby food called Farley's Rusks?"

And Mom was like "Yeah, yeah you did!"

And so I went to watch the video again, and now I really feel like eating Farley's Rusks. Like seriously, I don't think I can sleep if I don't eat it, and my sleep is pretty important to me, so I want these Rusks that bad.

And that, my friends, is what a Farley's Rusks looks like. I WANT ONE!!!

Halleluia!

2010-12-23T16:55:00.004+08:00

I, Charlene See Kar Mun, am feeling pretty darn awesome now. :D

And the reason why, is because of my PMR results. Wheee.

Seriously, praise the Lord man. I feel so high now and I seriously thank God for my results.I mean, I know it's not the best results in the world, but I feel pretty darn satisfied with it. :)

Maybe it's because I set my expectations really low so I wouldn't be disappointed. I told myself that I expected 1A only, but deep down I thought I would get maybe 3 to 5 As, and my actual results surpassed that.

So, I FEEL AWESOME. Thank you, God, for everything. Thank you to the parentals, who nagged me when I needed it and encouraged me whenever I had self-doubt. Thank you to my awesome fat sisters, for annoying me till I studied. Thank you to my friends, who were so stressed out that I felt so laidback. :)

THE RESULTS:

I got 6As, a B and a C.

My result slip reads like this:

Bahasa Melayu - A
Bahasa Inggeris - A
Mathematics - A
Science - A
Sejarah - A
Geografi - A
KHB- Ekonomi Rumah Tangga - B
Bahasa Cina - C

I got a C for Chinese. C for Chinese, get it? XD

Beyond the Realm of Conscience.

2010-12-10T15:03:00.009+08:00

Hello readers! :D

I'm cheerful today. Just washed my hair after eating lunch after coming back from an Interact BOD meeting. Haha. Okay, I have no idea why I'm posting that on my blog. Should be cybersafe and all that. LOL. Never mind.

So. I've been watching this Hong Kong TVB drama lately. Don't ask me why I am. I don't even know myself. Maybe it's cause I want to improve my Mandarin/Cantonese. Or maybe just cause Kevin Cheng is in it. LOL.

Kevin Cheng. :)

I haven't watched TVB dramas for a long time. In fact, the last TVB drama I remember that I followed somewhat faithfully was A Maiden's Vow.

The drama I'm talking about is called Beyond The Realm of Conscience.

Starring Charmaine Sheh, Kevin Cheng, Tavia Yeung, and Moses Chan! LOL by the way, I didn't know any of their names before I started watching, except for Kevin and Charmaine. I Googled the synopsis and found out. Resourceful. :D

The literal translation of the show's Chinese name is Palace Scheme.

One reason why I like watching this show is because almost every character is a backstabbing bitch. No, I'm serious. LMAO. It's because in the palace, you can only survive if you have rank. Thus, everyone backstabs each other to get promotions and higher ranks. Really entertaining. LMAO.

The show is set in China during the Tang dynasty, and as usual there are Emperors and Empresses and concubines and eunuchs and servant girls everywhere. Kevin Cheng, however, does not play a eunuch. :)

Also, another reason why I like this show is because in every episode, someone's either promoted or demoted or executed or tortured or married or made a concubine or backstabbed or whatnot. It's really entertaining, especially with the cast. Mind you, it's entertaining cause they're good actors, not cause I like seeing people get tortured and executed. -.-

Somehow the roles that the actresses and actors play are also friggin' cliche and suited for them and we always see them play these types of roles.

Moses Chan plays the Emperor. Typical.

Tavia Yeung plays servant girl turned evil concubine. Lagi typical.

Charmaine Sheh plays oh-so-good damsel in distress. Even more typical!

Kevin Cheng plays kung fu master/Imperial Bodyguard/chess master.
Jock with brains. LOL. Even more lagi typical!

I mean, why can't Kevin Cheng play a retard for once? (Moses Chan's character faked mental disability to survive the palace troubles and then get crowned as emperor.)

Why can't Charmaine Sheh play the bitch for once? LOL. All the TVB experience I've had watching Tavia Yeung always had her in the villain's or bitchy role.

I guess if Tavia Yeung were to play the oh-so-good damsel in distress, no one would believe her and everyone would think that it's just part of her elaborate plan to trick everyone into thinking she's nice so that she can take over the world. LOL.

Anyway, for all its' clicheness, Beyond the Realm of Conscience isn't actually too bad. Like I said, it's really amusing to watch all this people try to outpsych and outbitch each other just to survive. Amusing, but somewhat true, I guess.

Hong Kong's perfect couple. LOL. Hilarious picture.

For once, I found a photo in which Charmaine Sheh is actually sepet. LOL.

Yes, I know she was laughing when they took the photo. Zzzz.

Conference 2010.

2010-12-05T21:54:00.004+08:00

So. I am back. :D

From the 3rd to 5th of December, I went for the 42nd District Interact Conference of Rotary International District 3300. Chey. Sounds so official. Lol. Well it kind of was. Official, I mean.

This year's conference was hosted by the Rotary Club of Seremban, which is apparently the most historical Rotary Club in Malaysia. It was held at Royale Bintang Resort, Seremban.

Well. Where do I start? There's an endless list of things I could tell you about the conference, but I'd rather keep it simple. I'll just start off with who went to conference.

There was Sara, our president. Melanie, our vice President. Jo Anne and Lisa, Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. Jasmine, Tze Yun and Madeline, our Community Service, Club Service and Funding Directors, respectively. Then there was Yi Hua and Pei En, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, and last but not least, me, Asst. Funding Director. :D

There was this one speaker, he looks really Chinese and his beard was all white, and long enough to be tied into a plait. I thought he was cool, and he sounded like Mulan's dad. As in the cartoon, Mulan. So we called him Mulan's dad, LMAO.

We had a staircase in our 2-story duplex suite. :)

Some of us.

All of us minus YiHua.

The food was great, don't have a picture of it though. The sessions were somewhat interesting. LOL. Got to bond with the seniors. All in all it was a great experience. :) Can't wait for next year. :D

Twittery Fun.

2010-11-30T16:31:00.004+08:00

EDITED: Okay, so I realized how hard that wall of text must've been to read, and how you guys as my readers deserve something better, so here it is: the revised post of Twittery Fun, with pictures and color-highlighted words! :D

Well. Twitter. The newest form of social networking. For me, anyway. I recently created a Twitter account, and I must say, it's pretty darn addictive and fun.

One reason being, I don't have many followers on Twitter(in fact, I have 7 so far, pathetic, I know), but this doesn't really bother me because the reason I created my Twitter account is to update myself on what my more well-liked celebrities are doing(read: stalk).

Even if I want more followers, I would prefer them to be people that I don't know in real life. It's already good because I only know half of my followers. The rest, I do not know, and I assume that they do not know me as well.

Which is why, this gives me the freedom to post whatever crap I want on Twitter, and no one will judge me. Because out of those 7, only 3 know me, and out of those 3, I am pretty close to 2. So assuming the 2 don't judge me, that will only leave 1 person to judge me fairly accurately.

Thus, I am less likely to be judged. Even if I am judged, it will not be that accurately by the majority of my Twitter followers, because they don't know me. Do you understand? Or did I explain it in a way that is beyond your comprehension? LOL.

Sorry about all the judging, by the way. I'm not a big fan of being judged. Neither is anybody else, I imagine.

The majority of the people I'm following happen to be British. Okay, I admit, I started this Twitter account to stalk the cast of Harry Potter. It's not my fault I happen to like British accents!

These are the British people or people associated with British people who I'm following:

Tom Felton

Emma Watson

Harry Potter Film
(official Twitter feed for anything Deathly Hallows)

Oliver Phelps

James Phelps

Feltbeats [link here]
(Tom Felton's music label)

Chris Rankin

MuggleNet
(some HP fansite I'm not a member of, just following their Twitter)

Snitch Seeker
(refer to MuggleNet)

Harry Potter (fictional character)

The Leaky Cauldron
(refer to MuggleNet)

SixString Productions
(associated with Tom Felton)

Charlie McDonnell
(also known as charlieissocoollike[link here], Youtube sensation)

Seriously, what is it with British people and being so friggin' gorgeous. -.-

In case you haven't noticed, most of the above names are associated with Harry Potter. LOL. The rest of the people I'm following, I'm not really sure what nationality some of them are, so I'll just clump them together here:

Simple Plan

Sebastien Lefebvre
(Simple Plan's rhythm guitarist)

Chuck Comeau
(drummer for Simple Plan)

Channing Tatum

Jesse McCartney

Kate Voegele

Kelly Clarkson

Nick Vujicic

Bethany Joy Galeotti

WYD Madrid 2011

Boyce Avenue

One Republic

Eliza Dushku

Orlando Bloom
(I don't think it's his real Twitter)

Tyler Ward

Group 1 Crew

Ryan Higa
(also known as nigahiga[link here], Youtube sensation)

Wendy Cheng
(also known as the blogger Xiaxue[link here])

Other than that, I'm also following 3 people who I actually know in real life. So yeah, that's it. A blog post filled with my Twitter exploits. :)

I'm becoming a Harry Potter nerd! NO!

By the way, you may have noticed that I only posted single person pictures and not those of the bands. :)

In case you don't know, that's the Twitter duck telling you to follow my Twitter. LOL. Or not. Because if you follow me then I'd have to change my statistics. Haha. Oh, look, new follower. One that I do not know at all. :D

The Similarities.

2010-11-27T17:22:00.013+08:00

I was just watching Lord of the Rings just now, while folding the clothes. And I got to thinking about LOTR's storyline, and I realized that there are quite a number of similarities between LOTR and Harry Potter.

The two of which might my be favourite movie series/trilogy of all time. :)

1) They both have main villains who died before the start of the series/trilogy, ie Voldemort for HP and Sauron for LOTR.

Voldy.

Sauron.

2) Both of their main villains are, throughout the entire series/trilogy, trying to gain back their physical form, which brings me to my third point.

3) Both of their villains have part of them in objects, ie Voldemort has parts of his soul in Horcruxes and Sauron poured all his will and malice and whatnot into the One Ring.

4) Both of their main villains have right-hand men with long, flowing hair, ie Lucius Malfoy in HP and Saruman in LOTR. In fact, I bet they use the same shampoo. Haha.

Lucius Malfoy.

Saruman.

5) Both of their main characters have a wise wizard with a flowing beard to guide them, ie Dumbledore guides Harry through HP, and Frodo has Gandalf in LOTR.

Dumbledore.

Gandalf.

6) Both of their main characters have at least 1 sidekick to go with them, ie Ron for Harry in HP and Sam for Frodo in LOTR.

Ron.

Sam.

7) They both have elves in them, even though HP's elves are servants and LOTR's elves are really beautiful wise creatures.

Kreacher. Not very hot elf.

Legolas. Hot wise elf.

8) Their villains both have a special band of people to carry out their dirty work, ie Death Eaters for Voldemort in HP and the Nazgul for Sauron in LOTR.

Death Eaters.

Nazgul aka Black Riders aka Ringwraiths.

9) They both are about the battle between good and evil.

10) They both have mysitcal creatures like dragons and goblins and... other stuff.

Well, that's kind of where the similarities end. I'll edit this post if I think of anymore. But for now, feast your eyes on 2 very great movie franchises. :)

Receive The Power.

2010-11-26T16:15:00.006+08:00

Imagine this.

You are in Genting. You are lying on the floor. The ceiling fan is right above you. You are wearing 3 quarter shorts and a shirt, and socks. No jacket. The floor is, by default, cold and hard. You should be freezing on the cold tile floor.

And yet, you feel more comfortable than you have in your entire life.

It's a great feeling, and I was blessed enough to experience this for the 2nd time in my life on Wednesday night. During Inner Healing. Whee!

I just got back from church camp last night. It was a great camp. Made new friends, got closer to present friends, and rediscovered old friends. Not to mention all the stuff I learned in between. Which is quite a lot.

Anyway, I found more Chor Dai Di players. :D Yes, it's a good thing. I love playing cards with new people. It's like bonding. :)

I think I learned more stuff from this camp than from the previous camps I went to. Maybe it's because I have matured, or maybe because I grew in faith through all the PAG training sessions, but I definitely learned more.

By the way, the theme of this year's Teens Camp is "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

But because I'm listening to the 2008 World Youth Day theme song, Receive the Power by Guy Sebastian and Paulini, I named this post thus. Coinicidentally the 2008 Teens Camp and 2008 WYD shared the same theme.

"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be witnesses."
- Acts Chapter 1 Verse 8.

Now I feel like going for next year's WYD, which is gonna be held in Madrid, Spain. Wouldn't it be awesome. I could get to meet international Catholic youths! :D

Receive the power, to be a light unto the world.

Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

2010-11-18T20:03:00.011+08:00

WARNING: Quite long, and a few spoilers, but there are pictures! :D

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. I saw it in the cinema today, with Wan Li and Madd.

When the 8th film comes out, I think it will indeed mark the end of an era.

Deathly Hallows Part 1 is pretty long-awaited by HP fans worldwide. The last book, the 2nd last movie, maybe even the best one of all. J.K. Rowling herself has said that Deathly Hallows is her favorite movie, or so I read on the web.

This poster looks a little weird though. It might be fan-made.

The official movie poster.

And with all the promotion of Harry Potter going around, the multiple trailers, the endless photo stills, I wouldn't be surprised if many HP fans spontaneously combust due to impatience and overeager anticipation. Like me. :)

This movie, I felt was a little flat. There wasn't an actual climax, unless you count the scene at Malfoy Manor, and even then, that climax was a little flat. It'd probably be best if you watch the 2 DH movies back-to-back.

Despite the anti-climax of it, Part 1 was a pretty good film. Basically, DH Part 1 is kind of a really long camping/road trip thing. You catch my drift? Harry, Ron and Hermione are on the run and looking for Horcruxes. And so, camping.

I'm not going to bother you with the storyline, because you can Google it. By the way, there's actually this thing called Harry Potter Wiki, which is filled with all things Harry Potter.

There are some interesting scenes, and some amusing ones and some that make you go "Aww". But, there are also some very disturbing scenes. To me, at least.

Some of them include when Ron is Splinched, and he's all bloody and gross, and to give credit to the make-up artist, the blood looks pretty darn real.

Another is in Malfoy Manor, when Bellatrix tortures Hermione.

I know the pictures don't look disturbing, but the scenes are, in the movie. I could even see the sinews in Ron's arms. Like whoa. Real-looking. And as for the Bellatrix/Hermione scene, it looked really wrong. LOL. You'll see why. ;)

I couldn't really feel any emotion in this film though. For some reason, I felt more affected by Hedwig and Dobby's death in the book than I did in the movie.

Like I said, despite the anti-climax of it(which couldn't be helped as the movie had to stay true to the book), it was a great film. Not just great, but GREAT. There were moments though, when the camerawork was a little shaky, but other than that, GREAT.

Everyone expected the cast to deliver a flawless performance, and they did. I don't know, maybe I'm biased, but they all sound really good. Because of their British accents. Hehe. There were a few, though, who caught my eye more than others.

Helena Bonham Carter.She's an amazing actress. Although for some reason, she keeps playing the mad woman part. Like Bellatrix and the Red Queen in Alice In Wonderland. But still, amazing. I would not want to cross her path as Trixie. LOL.

I want to watch Part 2. Zzzz. Why can't Warner Bros just release them simultaneously. After all, they've already wrapped up the filming. Zzz.

Consuming Fire.

2010-11-17T17:32:00.003+08:00

I just got back from a whole-day of PAG training.

And I noticed this.

Whenever I'm in PAG, I become deeper, I care less about materialistic things, and I learn to love. I become very semangat about the Catholic faith and bout God's love.

And then, I come home.

And I become my shallow self again. the Charlene who tries to avoid getting out of housework, the Charlene who groans when certain people approach me with their problems. The Charlene who cares more about Harry Potter than God. The Charlene I am not very proud of.

However, today I still feel deep. Well, not deep, not really. But I feel ready to love.

Am I making sense? Not really, right. I've never been really good at getting my point across. In blog posts anyway. It's like there's this bunch of ideas in my head waiting to come out but I can't express it through words. :(

Consuming fire, fan into flame, a passion for Your name.

The New LMAO.

2010-11-14T21:44:00.004+08:00

Zzz is the new LMAO. Why? Because it can be. ;)

Friday - Seafield's Interact Installation.
It was quite good, as a whole. It wasn't that formal but it was fun, and the guests enjoyed themselves, and I think that counts more than following everything to the book. Good job, Seafield Interactors. :)

Saturday - Sunday School Class Party.
It started off really slowly but gradually it became kind of fun. Food was good. :) Games were weird. First they played this Indian Poker, whoever wins get to choose anyone to drink this really disgusting drink that the organizers made up. I was curious and took a sip and ended up having diarrhea Sunday morning. -.-

In the drink was:
Fish curry
Satay sauce
Fresh fruits
Custard sauce
And goodness knows what else. -.-

So Sunday morning I went for Mass and got diarrhea and as a result I had to stand at the back because Mass already started. Zzz. Curse my curiousity. Curiousity gave Charlene See diarrhea. -.-

Monday - Debate Tournament.
I think that for first-timers we did okay. Me, Khoo, and Seow. Our topic was 'the government should distribute condoms in schools'. We were the Opposition. Of course we were an epic fail but we came out of it knowing more about debate, and I want to try again next time. :D

I'm sure there are photos of the Installation and Party on Facebook. Go and be resourceful!

HP Epic Fail.

2010-11-10T22:21:00.007+08:00

Today is a legendary. For today is the day that my darling sister Eileen and I created a spell. But before you read about how it is cast, remember this: DO NOT TRY IT AT HOME. I am a professional.

Okay. So. The incantation for this spell is Epico Failus. To cast it, you aim your wand just so, and shout the incantation.

"Epico Failus!"

The result will be startling, depending on your point of view.

See, the effect of this spell is to make whoever the spell is cast at become an epic fail at whatever they do or are doing. Say, for example, I'm tying my shoelaces. If this spell is cast on me, my shoelaces will come to resemble a pair of reindeer digging their noses.

So, yeah. Really effective, no?

The real reason for the lameness of this post is my inability to wait for the last Harry Potter installment, Deathly Hallows to come out. I mean, come out already! Jeez.

Sean Biggerstaff.

He plays Gryffindor Quidditch captain Oliver Wood. :)

My current desktop.

Oh quit looking at me like that. -.- I am entitled to my fangirl moment.

Thomas Andrew Felton. <3

He acts.

He sings.

He plays guitar.

And. He can rap. With that sexy British accent of his.

Okay, I'm done fangirling. Ciao.

Dreamy Lick Hung.

2010-11-08T19:53:00.003+08:00

I had a dream last night.

It was not prophetic or downright horrible or incredibly lovely or anything. It was kind of... Sad, and a bit scary. Like a trip down memory lane.

In the dream, I was back in Lick Hung, as my 15 year old self. I saw my 6K class teacher, Teacher Khoo. She told us to do a few pages of homework.

Then, I think it was the next day, in my dream. She started checking the homework. I flipped my book open and it was incomplete. I had the oh, shit feeling. That emotion, which I have not felt when since I left Lick Hung 3 years ago.

Even now, in secondary school, when I haven't done my homework, the feeling isn't that bad. But back in Lick Hung, it meant humiliation in front of your peers, a sore hand that could possibly bleed, and the killer glare from your class teacher.

...

Needless to say that I did not really enjoy my time in Lick Hung.

So, then, what does this dream mean? I'm not really the type to decipher dreams. Most of the time I don't even remember my dreams. But this. This is... different. I have never dreamt about getting beaten in Lick Hung before.

I am not particularly liking the phrase 'dreams come true' now.

Whenever I think about this dream, I get the message that 'no matter how far into the future you are, your past can still hurt you'. Gah.

Of course, there could just be a very plausible reason for my dream, that being that I am emotionally scarred from my time in Lick Hung and so my subconscious mind has decided to let me relive the psychological trauma in my dreams.

If that is the case, I am not terribly liking my subconscious too much now.

I know that when I described my dream there was nothing that could have traumatized me, but I woke up before the beating that would have inevitably followed took place. I've lived too many times.

Somehow it kind of amazes me how Lick Hung alumni can grow up into well adjusted adults. Hah.

Nothingness.

2010-11-08T13:28:00.003+08:00

I was just imagining the other day, how this nothingness would be. Would it be just blackness, or just white? Or maybe just a void, filled with emptiness, invisible, untouchable?

Would you be concious of the nothingness surrounding you?

Let us say, for a while, that this world that is, isn't, that this world that isn't, is. That the fabric of reality is broken and that we are all floating around in nothingness. That the computer screen you are reading this on does not exist, neither does anything around.

Let us say, for that matter, that you don't exist. That the world doesn't exist.

Have you ever wondered why you were born into your particular family, why you have your particular features, why you are named your name. It is too much for the concious mind to realize. Our imagination just isn't big enough.

I think I think too much about the Matrix. LOL.

Events!

2010-11-01T23:00:00.002+08:00

I feel like writing something to update this very dead blog and yet, whenever I come here, I am unable to write anything. Bleh.

There are events coming up. Whee. Halloween project is over, finally. Now just the Teens Camp, Conference, Installation, and Gathering. It's a pretty darn lot. Lol.

Anyway, I was watching Prom Night the other day, and I was just thinking to myself, how sucky it would be if you murdered on what was supposed to be your most special night in high school. Haha.

Post PMR Halloween.

2010-10-17T22:36:00.003+08:00

So. I finally got off my lazy butt and managed to write one post. Heh.

PMR's over. The feeling is awesome. As far as I know, a lot of my peers are already fast becoming bored. Lol.

Hello, you've been waiting 3 years for this, go and do something already! Like get a job or just laze around or run screaming through the center of town stark naked. Use your imagination. :P

Halloween is coming up. Whoot. Apparently, Halloween has Christian roots. Yeah, I know, unexpected. But I Googled it. And nowadays anyone might challenge authority with Google. "But Google says..." Meh.

Too bad we don't celebrate Halloween here in Malaysia, like the widespread type of celebration. It would be so cool to go trick-or-treating and whatnot. Just another reason to go to America. Sigh.

HP Mood Swings?

2010-09-04T13:28:00.002+08:00

I feel bad. Becuase I haven't been updating. It's not that there aren't things to update about, there are, but, I don't know, I feel so lifeless. And no, I have not been studying. I did practise Maths though.

Today, I was supposed to go for a blood test. Mom woke me up. I got up, discovered that my sister had taken my rubber band by accident. I got pissed, told Mom I wasn't in the mood anymore, then went back to bed.

You see? Stupid hormones. Hormones are making me have mood swings. Now I can get upset just because of a frickin' rubber band. I HATE YOU HORMONES. Well, I suppose without hormones, mankind wouldn't multiply so easily, and so I owe a bit of my existence to hormones.

BUT STILL. Mood swings are annoying. It's not like I can control them. Gah.

Anyway. Guess what I have been doing lately as a reward to myself for studying.

I've been watching Harry Potter movies. All 6 of them. I was bored. And they're all pretty good, actually. Except for the 6th one. It's kinda boring, and I stopped watching it after the I reached the middle. Hmm. I wonder when the 2 7th movies will come out. I want to watch them.

I Should Be Studying.

2010-08-26T18:39:00.002+08:00

Yes, I really should. But. Somehow, I just can't. And there's this massive pain in my left side. It's like all over, not concentrated on one spot. It's pretty annoying. :(

So, anyway. Studying. I should be doing that. 40 days left till PMR, my tuition centre reminds me of that every frickin' week. Oh, speaking of tuition, I only went for the first half today cause I'm sick.

Being sick is annoying. The pain is really bad. I feel pissed. LMAO.

Mr. Wang LeeHom.

2010-08-23T20:24:00.005+08:00

Right. I just want to test out this new blogskin by putting a few pictures.

And since Mr. Wang LeeHom was here yesterday, in Malaysia, although it was really badly publicized(I didn't even know he came until I saw photos on Facebook), I shall put his pictures up cause he's not that bad looking.

I don't really listen to his music though. I just think he's cool. :)

Other than his looks, he was also chosen to be on my blog cause he's so bloody talented. Apparently he can play drums, violin, guitar, piano and goodness knows what else.

Nerdy LeeHom. LMAO.

And.
His guitar. His dragon themed, really wicked looking guitar. Look at its' head! I wonder how he tunes it LMAO. I WANT TO PLAY THAT GUITAR GRRRR. Noticed that it's not hooked up to any amps? I wonder whether it does acoustical thingies or anything.

A New Era.

2010-08-23T20:17:00.001+08:00

The beginning of something new.

I changed my blogskin. Didn't wanna be dark and gloomy anymore.

Well, partly that, and, I'm really bored, so yeah. :)

Post-Trials Lazings Around.

2010-08-23T15:58:00.003+08:00

Sup. I love the first few days after exams. We have no homework because the teachers are all busy giving back our exam papers and all we need to do is get back our exam papers and not be too sad about our results. And in return, we get to laze around. :D

I saw this like thing on Facebook that goes:

"You may not like me, but Jesus thinks I'm to die for."

LMAO. Cute. :)

I bought my blazer and shirt yesterday. Whee. Excited about ILTS. Hoping that the name cards and name cards get finished in time though.

Just got back from bazaar, I waited half an hour in line for a murtabak. -.-

Winking Failure.

2010-08-20T22:32:00.002+08:00

Hmm. I feel like I should update and revive my dead blog. But I have no idea what to update about. LMAO.

Okay. I used to say LOL a lot last time. Like if somebody asks me, "Sup?" I'll go, "LOL." But now, LMAO is the new LOL. Kay? Awesome right. Lmao. I have no idea what's wrong with me.

Just now, after dinner, Daddy suddenly went and asked me, "Do you think girls should make the first move, or guys?" And I was like "Lmao." Cause he has never asked this sort of thing before.

And. Interact helped me discover something. I am a great winking failure. We were playing Mafia, and apparently I wink with both eyes. Chunted eh. Don't be jealous. :P

Planning Blogs.

2010-08-11T15:44:00.003+08:00

Quick update before I try to study.

Installation. In the midst of being planned. I'm OC. :)

I found the Interact BOD blog and have access to both that page and also Interact's main blog. BODs, I really recommend you to go see the BOD page, it's friggin' cute, seriously. :D

Playing computer chess now. Lol, lifeless. :)

Installed Prefects.

2010-08-08T17:19:00.004+08:00

Hello, people.

First off, a birthday wish to ASHLEY SEOW MAY QUINN. Whee, you're so awesome, that's why you got a spot on my blog post. :) I love you, sexy. :D

Yesterday was Prefects' Installation. Tze Yun, Yi Hua, Eric, Madd and I went to represent Interact. Whoo, embracing our BODness, oh yeahh. ;) Overall, the event was okay. Didn't really flow that good but the food was alright, games were not bad.

The Prefect Honor Guard was super chunted. :) Seriously, it was friggin' yeng. So emotional wei.

No pics, lol. Sorry.

Today, I went for guitar class, and now there's pus coming out of my fingertips. :/

I'll do Funds.

2010-08-06T16:50:00.003+08:00

Well, hello, people. :)

You can say hello now. To the new Assistant Funding Director of SMKSU Interact Club 2010/2011. Which is...

That's right. I'm Interact's new Assistant Funding Director.

And guess just who happens to be my "senior". :P None other than Madeline Ashlee Lok, my GOC and occasional Maths tutor. Whee. :D

She and Khoo got senior posts while the rest of us puny Form 3s got junior posts. Oh well. At least I don't have to worry about not having any chemistry with my senior since I know I already have it. :)

Anyway, presenting:

the Board of Directors of Interact Club SMK Subang Utama 2010/2011

President: Sara binti Ariffin
Vice President: Melanie Abraham
Secretary: Jo Anne
Asst Secretary: Tan Yi Hua
Treasurer: Lisa Chan
Asst Treasurer: Kwok Pei En
Funding Director: Madeline Ashlee Lok
Asst Funding Director: Charlene See
Club Service Director: Khoo Tze Yun
Asst Club Service Director: Ganendra Vivekananda
Community Service Director: Jasmine Foo
Asst Community Service Director: Stephen Chong
I.U. Director: Charissa Chong
Asst I.U. Director: Aravin Gopinath

And there you have it. The new BODs. :D Sergeant-At-Arms, Editor and Sub-Editor were abolished.

Super happy now. Thank you, God, for giving this to me :) And thank you senior retired BODs for your mentorship and guidance. :D

BOD Prospects.

2010-07-30T17:02:00.003+08:00

So.

I went for the interview today. The interview, which, along with these 4 months of hard work starting from March, will determine whether or not I get into the Board of Directors of SMKSU Interact Club.

It was basically THE INTERVIEW.

A lot of questions posed by Nadia and Geraldine had me stumped. I remembered the pledge and song lyrics though. :) But I felt like a lot of them were giving me the dulan face la wtheck.

Oh well. We shall just have to wait and see. Good luck to all those taking the interview tomorrow, and God bless. :)

And thank you Madd and Ash and the Form 4s for the encouragement and support.

The Day I Turned 15.

2010-07-21T16:01:00.004+08:00

Today is the 21st of July. Whee. Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of my birth. I'll let you figure out what it means. :P

Lol.

So. Anyway, on Monday.

I went to school, like any other normal day. I was kinda stressing about IU, and I kinda forgot that the day after Monday was my birthday. Madd reminded me when she asked "Char, what do you want for your birthday?" And I stoned. As usual.

I've never been good at wanting stuff. Lol. Or rather, I've never been good at wanting appropriate stuff that my friends can easily afford to get me for my birthday.

11.30 Monday night, the first birthday wish came, followed by others. :)

Fast forward to Tuesday. 20th of July, the day itself.

I went to school, like any other normal day. Stoned throughout the first Chinese period. Second period, Denyse came to sit with me. She, Ann Joo, Christine, Mushroom and I suddenly started talking about Lady Gaga being satanic/devil worshipping. Haha. :)

Third and fourth period, Science. Stoned throughout the first when we were supposed to do an experiment. Second Science period, Pn Rasuan brought us out to the pondok for sandwiches and Coke. They mentioned that it was my birthday, and the whole class sang birthday song LOL. :D

BM was uneventful.

Recess.

EY brought me to the toilet. LOL. I don't why everytime it's someone's birthday we always bring them to the toilet. I mean, the toilet stinks, and you wanna subject the birthday guy/girl to nasal torture. LOL.

They brought out the cake. :D Sang song. Paiseh-ed a bit. :) Then I took out the candles with my mouth, lol. Ate. And then the cream-splatting began. Awesome tradition la wei. Cream facial. Lol. They gave me a card too. Big one, massive, by Ash and Madd and Yihua, Pei En, Seow, EY and a few others. :D

Went back to class. Christine made me another card, sweet. :) She got the classmates to sign it and I acted surprised when I got it. Lol.

THANK YOU EVERYONE. And yeah, I know this post is kinda overdue but I was too lazy. Haha. You guys are awesome la wei. :D

Back home, got a cake from RT Pastry House, celebrated with family. :)

And yes, I know, it's not the 21st today. I wrote the first half of this post on the 21st, the 2nd half today.

Thank you, God, for giving me such awesome friends and family.

Nickname Origins: Char Siew Pao.

2010-07-16T23:42:00.004+08:00

What's up, people. Look:

My favourite nickname so far. :)

I still remember how I got it. And since I'm in a storytelling mode, I shall post the story of how I got my beloved nickname on my beloved blog. Madd was the one who created the nickname, Tze Yun made it famous.

It was Form 1(or was it Form 2?). I wanted to clarify something(can't remember what) about Geo homework, so I texted Madd with my mom's phone I think, because my credit had expired.

Madd, seeing the unfamiliar number, asked who I was. I replied: "Char." Cause that was already what she called me. She was blur, and went "Char Siew Pao?" And I went "Wth". LOL.

Fast forward a few weeks. I logged into Friendster one day(hey, don't laugh, at that time Friendster was still hip and happening okay), and put as my shoutout: "I am being a Char Siew Pao."

TY saw it and commented. And slowly it grew. Slowly most of my friends started calling me Char Siew Pao, and I've loved it ever since. Haha. :) Long time since anybody's called me though. Nowadays it's just "Char!"

All the same, :D

Charlene out.

IU Camp.

2010-07-12T19:32:00.005+08:00

I'm back from PAG Training Camp. Whoo! It was fun. And educational. And Natalia couldn't go because she had to study for trials, so I was the only junior girl there. Waliew. :(

But overall, it was awesome. Learnt new stuff, and got 2 boyfriends there. HAHA. Joshua and Sean. They were my boyfriends in 2 of the skits, LOL.

The entire camp was basically made up of praise and worship sessions, skits training, group dynamics, meals and bedtime. :)

So yeah. Fun. :) Especially with the awesome people there.

Anyway....

Yeap. You saw that right.

Interact SMKSU is having their IU Day.
On the 24th of July.
At the Dewan PIBG, SMK Subang Utama
From 11.30 - 4.30, with dancefloor after!

How cool is that? :D

Ticket price is RM15, affordable.
The dress code is smart casual or club uniform.

So go, people! Be there or be square! You can get tickets from me or Tze Yun, or any of the BOD members.

Ciao. See you at IU. ;)

Eventful Boredom.

2010-07-08T18:50:00.003+08:00

Well. Today was boring but eventful.

Cards kena rampas-ed. So tomorrow, there'll be nothing to play. Haih. Sorry, Eu Roy. :(

Borrowed a new book from Thivya, it's called House Rules by Jodi Piccoult. And like all Jodi Piccoult books, I can tell it's gonna be really depressing. :D

I stoned a lot in tuition today. Lol.

I'm leaving for camp tomorrow. :) I guess my miracle's not gonna happen. :(

Random pic of the day:

Ciao.

Wishlist.

2010-07-06T13:43:00.003+08:00

Guess what day is today?

Today. Is. The day. I. Officially became a culinary failure.

I had to cook my own lunch today. I was tired of going out to eat and of ordering delivery. So I decided to cook. This is not the first time I've cooked something for myself, by the way. It's just the first time I decided to cook what I cooked today.

The dish of the day was........ *cue jeng jeng jeng music* Tom Yam fried Maggi Mee with Soup.

I know. You're thinking it's weird. Why don't I just cook Tom Yam Maggi Mee and be done with it? Why did I have to fry it some more? Cause I've eaten Tom Yam Maggi Mee way too often, that's why.

Anyway. It turned out rather... erm... there really isn't a word to describe it. I would have taken a picture of it and put it here, but I don't want the world to know how much of a great culinary failure I am. So. XD

And now, to make cheer myself up over my failness and to distract you from thinking about how my cooking must taste like, guess what date is today?

It is. The 6th of July. Which means. That there is exactly 2 weeks left from my day. Muahahaha. And so, to help all of you clueless people as to what I want for my birthday, here's the list:

1. To attend Talent Quest Finals while not skipping PAG training camp. In other words, I need a miracle.

2. The determination and perseverance and time management and whatever else required for me to study so that I can get 8As for PMR. Yes, 8As. Including Chinese.

3. The dedication and efficiency I need to get onto the Interact BOD 10/11.

4. To be a better person, better Catholic, better daughter, better sister, better friend, better stranger.

Not an easy list, ain't it? :) The only one who can give me all of the above is God. God, please, I want these. Please. :)

Lol. On the other hand, for all of you mortals who feel it is a social obligation or just want to get me gift for my day out of the goodness of your hearts, I want:

1. Kinder Bueno (Chocolate)
2. Ferrero Rocher (Chocolate)
3. Malta (It's a drink by the way. Kinda like beer but without the alcohol. And no, it's not Shandy.)

Hoping I can get all of these. The ones from God, I mean. :) I'd appreciate anything from you mortals though. :)

Charlene out.

SU'S Got Talent.

2010-07-05T15:11:00.003+08:00

They had the Talent Quest Semi Finals yesterday. Being a Talent Quest Crew member (chey, I love saying that, "crew member" XD), I was there. I didn't just go for crew duty though. Went to support that weird girl who occasionally tutors me Math. :P

Anyway, for all of you people who were too busy to go for Semi's or couldn't care less or were just plain lazy, these are the people who got into the Finals:

Singing
1. Joey Tong
2. See Jay Yen
3. Phuah Sheng
4. Revathi
5. Hannah(Hana?) and Somebody (lol sorry, I couldn't catch his name)

Dancing
1. Vision Soul Crew
2. The Variettes (which the weird girl who occasionally tutors me is a part of :D)
3. Irama
4. Dancing Gurls
5. Suah Suay Crew (not sure if it's the correct spelling, lol)

Anyway, yeah, those are the Talent Quest Finalists.

And I'm super sad cause I can't go for Finals because it clashes with my PAG training camp. D: *ultimate sad, depressed face* Sad. I mean, come on, the first year I really want to go for TQ Finals and I can't? I'd trade the TQ Finals I went to the last 2 years just to go to this one. Sigh.

And to add to the depressingness, today in class, Christine, Ann Joo and Ivy were counting down the days to PMR, and apparently there's only 92 days left. Wtheck. Time to panic. Actually, not yet. Plenty of time left. :D

Birthday next next Tuesday. And I can't countdown to my birthday cause it'll just remind me of how close PMR is wthell so unfair. Lol.

Open Day tomorrow. Which translates into Report Card Day. Depressing wei, lol. And we just had our Sunday School Report Card Day yesterday. Depressing wthell. Oh well. The school lost my report card so I'm not going tomorrow. It'll just be a waste of time anyway.

Ciao.

Stitchin' Fur.

2010-07-03T11:56:00.003+08:00

Hee. :)

I feel smiley today. :D Lol, weird. Never mind. Haha.

Daddy and I took le dog to the vet to remove her stitches today. We sent her for spaying last week. So after the operation she had to wear this cone thingie to prevent her from biting the stitches. Ew.

Sshe looked so miserable, poor thing.

If you look closely you can see the stitches. I don't suggest you do that though.

So today we removed the stitches, and now:

Happy dog, yay.

The dog, not my sis. -.-

Lol, granted that this pic above was taken way before her operation, but still, she looks happy, and she's happy now, so yeah. :)

Holly, when we first got her 2 years ago, Dec 26.

P/s:

I miss le furball. :(

Shogun with Cruel Estacy.

2010-06-27T23:33:00.007+08:00

Hello, people! Busy weekend. :) Saturday, Teens Ministry. Then Shogun to celebrate Aaron's 21st birthday. :D Today, Sunday School Exam and Talent Quest Auditions.

I shall just put up the pics from Shogun since I'm tired. :D

So Saturday. The whole family, all 6 of us, went to Shogun to celebrate my godbro Aaron's 21st birthday. The Teohs, Sees, Changs, and Sam and Val and their 2 kids. :D

Birhtday boy opening his pressie.

Food. :D

Poser seal getting fruit juice.

Yummy escargot! Their faces say otherwise though.

The guys. :)

Aww, so adorable, lol.

Tooks's face is epic, hahahhah.

Professor Matthew in the middle of his lecture.

Reflections. Chunted. XD

Aaron doing macho pose! Lazy to rotate, sorry. :(

Lol, so many photos and he only got this far. -.-

Nom nom nom.

The godbrother Teohs. :)

For once my eyes not sepet. Ehehhe.

KEJAM and Estacy gangs! Whoo! :D
From left: K, C,E,S,J,M,T,A.
See if you can ifgure out who belongs to which gang.
Cruel Estacy. :D

After we left Shogun, we went around camwhoring while walking throughout Pyramid, jakun-ing at stuff, acting like tourists, and generally having fun.

Malaysia' next top model!

LOL look at Tim's face. Hahahaha.

I took this, wheee!

Jakun-ing tourists. :)

Mata sepet. We rock!

The end. :)

Cream Splatting!!!

2010-06-25T23:46:00.004+08:00

Hello, my awesome readers!! I'm hyper cause I had fun today. MUAHAHAHA. Today was Madd's birthday, or rather, is. It's not 12 yet, so yeah, still her birthday.

Anyway, there was a lot of planning on Ash's part. She bought the cake, she made the card, and got Madd's classmates to sign it.

Then came recess. Pei En went and brought Madd to the toilet so that Ash and I could get the cake out. LOL. The toilet of all places. For some reason I find it amusing. Hahahaha.

So when the cake was ready, Pei En brought Madd out. Then we had to run up and down to look for a lighter cause no one had one. -.- But somehow, magically, a lighter turned up, and we could finally light the candles and sing so she could blow the candles.

And after she did all that, then came the highlight of my day. EY made the first move, of course, she always does when doing this type of thing. We took cream from the cake and wiped Madd's face with it. :DDD HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY, OH YEAHHH! >:DDDD

And then, after that, well, I'm too tired to elaborate. Just wanted to tell you guys bout the cream thing. >:) Madd's face was filled with it. I told you you should have spread it evenly, Madd. :P

EY, Messi and I got Madd a CD for her birthday. And EY tied a white ribbon around it. Awww. I never knew she could be so good at all these sentimental type of things. Hehe.

Tired. Gonna sleep now. Oh wait, I got an A for my Maths. I told my mom about this result, and guess what she replied?

"Why suddenly so smart wan, you cheat is it?" Wth. -.-

LOL. She said it jokingly.

Good night, world. :) And happy birthday, once last time, Madd. I'm not gonna say all the sentimental stuff here cause all of it is already in your card and the text. Loves you. :)

Daddy's Day.

2010-06-21T21:25:00.002+08:00

I feel awesome. Well, I felt awesome yesterday, now a bit of the awesome-ness has gone but I still feel... kinda awesome? Lol.

Yesterday was Father's Day. Belated father's day shoutout, lol. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there and especially mine, my awesome dad. Love you, Daddy. :)

Yesterday was also awesome in the sense of PAG. It was cool. First time playing guitar for praise and worship. :) It felt awesome. All the worrying went away. I fumbled a few times, but Jon and Pearli and Feli were super encouraging, so I made it through. :) Thanks, guys. :D

For Father's Day, we went to Rakuzen to celebrate, same as Mother's Day. Food was awesome, as usual, but service wasn't that good this time. We had to ask for green tea like 5 times. -.-

Nothing much to blog about, so I'm gonna end my post here. I don't wanna blog about my horrible results. :P

Define Musical Taste.

2010-06-19T12:42:00.009+08:00

Hello, people. I'm finally done with my Geo project. :D Thanks Madd and Pei En, and special thanks to TAN YI HUA! :DD

Lol. I've been broadening my musical horizons lately. Checking out different bands. I like 2 of them.

One's called Building 429, and their song Always is like the super saddening type. It's so sad, you know, and the guy like stretches all the notes really pro-like.

The other band, The Afters(lol, awesome name, I'm gonna name my band The Befores. XD) has this song called Beautiful Love, their lyrics are so super chunted. And, this song reminds me of Simple Plan, I think that's why I like it. :)

Haha. Both bands were introduced by Melissa, and now I'm addicted to their songs, lol. Thanks, Mel. :P Both bands are also Christian bands by the way. Lol, they sound so mainstream.

PAG tomorrow and I can't play the songs yet. Crap. Nervous. Panicking. Help me.

But then again, I'm sure I'll do fine. Not as if it's a guitar test. :) God will be with me. :D

What a beautiful smile, can I stay for a while? On this beautiful night, we'll make everything right.

Okay, yeah, I know it's not night time now, but who cares. :P

P/s: If you wanna listen to the songs just click on the yellow words, they're links.
Pp/s: Notice that both bands have blond frontmen? Haha.

Sands of Time.

2010-06-17T18:45:00.002+08:00

Hello, people.

I went to Pyramid yesterday. There, I had Kim Gary's for the very first time. Sad, I know. Lol. At least I didn't jakun over their food or something. xP

Watched Prince of Persia with Madd. It was okay, above average. Movies with time travel devices in it will always be good, because if everyone dies, they can just go back in time and have a happy ending. Lol.

And then. We had lunch. I had ramen for the very first time. Lol, again, I did not jakun over their food. :D Ichiban Ramen. It was okay.

Searching for a reasonably priced, S sized formal white shirt with subtle pinstripesis pretty dang hard. I'm using present tense cause we're still looking for it. EY's present.

And now, it is today. I'm at home, just got back from tuition. I actually enjoyed doing Math today. I think my dear brain needs some exercise after 1 and a half weeks of gossiping and Facebooking. :D

I'm freaking out.

Feli just sent me the songs and chords for this Sunday's PAG praise and worship, and I'm supposed to play alongside Jon. And guess what? Out of the 5 songs, I've only heard 1 of them before. The chords also quite above average.

I'm so doomed. God, help me.

Pre-Con Camp Photos!

2010-06-14T14:33:00.005+08:00

I know, I know. Reading all that text about the camp is boring. And so, I shall give you a picture to look at, from camp.

Yeah, I know, my leg looks fat. I don't care. Lol.

That's Melissa's phone I'm holding. Touch screen. There's just something about touch screen phones that makes the user feel sophisticated, you know?

Hardened soya. It's tau foo fah. Female hormones! xP

That's it. Teehee. :D Lol. Photo credits to Melissa. :)

Resting in the Spirit.

2010-06-13T21:10:00.004+08:00

Hello, people! I'm back from camp. :D There's still 1 week of holidays left, and I still haven't done my Geo project yet. D: Anyway, I wanna blog about the camp. Pre-Confirmation Camp.

We went there on Friday, after I came back from Empire with Madd and Yi Hua. So I went back, we loaded up, went to the worship center, which happens to be Sri Sedaya School. (The government took a long time to give us some land to build our church. Or something like that.)

Registered and did the attendance stuff, then we were on the bus. Reached the place, got briefed, rules and regulations, the typical camp stuff, you know.

Then we went to our dorms. Dorm was super cramped. There was like only 35 cm between each bunk. Cramped! My bunkmate this time was Melissa. :) And on the first day, began the sessions.

The sessions were... educational and inspiring. Most of them. The first session was "God's Amazing Love", by John Paul, and he did this miming thing, complete with music, it was so friggin' chunted. :)

"God's Saving Grace" was the next session, led by Alvin Teoh. He told us stories of how people have injustices and barbaric acts of inhumanity done against them, and yet they still find the grace from God to forgive their enemies. The stories were horrifying, seriously.

Dinner on the first day was weird. They served soy bean milk, and suddenly the whole table was talking non-stop about how soy milk has female hormones and that drinking it can make people's boobs grow bigger. =.= All the guys were scared, haha. :)

Sleep that night, was hard. Esther kept disturbing Natalia, which disturbed me. Basically the entire dorm was making noise, including me. So I couldn't sleep and woke up feeling extremely grumpy the next day. Breakfast was at 7 30, and I woke up at 5 45. Like what the heck. LOL.

The 3rd session was done by Eddy Dorairajah, and it was the "Challenges of Christian Youths" which is basically about peer pressure, drugs, smoking, alcohol, satanic music, porn, masturbation, etc.

And Eddy has this book, it features the work of H.R. Giger, he's the guy who designed the Alien in the movie Alien, AVP, etc. And his material is so... sexually and satanically related. There's like a lot of porn, a lot of satanism and stuff like abortion and anal sex.

But the thing is, it is art. It's not porn, it's art. Creepy art. The guy is talented. I guess he just used his talent for the wrong things. His pictures were in the book too. And he wasn't smiling. In any one of them. He was just like staring at the camera, no smile, no frown. Expressionless. Emotionless.

The 4th session, "Parent Child Relationships", done by Priscilla, Eddy's wife; Eddy, and a non-Christian guy called Henry. This one was just so-so cause I don't have PCR problems, hehe. :D

"Repentance and Overcoming Sin" by Alvin was the 5th session. During this one I wasn't concentrating cause I was tired, so yeah. But what he said was basically that there is a war going on, a spiritual war, and we have to fight to win it for God. Sin is the devil's battle strategy, and a dang good one at that.

Mass was moved up early cause Father Simon LaBroy wanted to watch the World Cup, Argentina vs. Nigeria. Apparently. I have no idea how true this is.

Then it was the last session for the day, "Inner Healing", by Jimmy and Susan Leow. Inner Healing is like the talk of Catholic youth camps. Almost every Confirmation and Pre-Cin Camp will have them. It's like, healing... er, inside. Lol.

Anyway, what they do, is they set the atmosphere. Lights off, the only light coming from the projectors screen. Acoustic guitar being picked, slow and soft. The leaders speaking softly, but with conviction.

The leaders told us to open up, to let God into our hearts, to let him heal us. So they started to pray over me. I stood there, hands raised up, willing God to come. And I got slain in the Spirit, also known as rested in the Spirit.

Resting in the Spirit, for me, it was like, they were praying, and suddenly I felt like I'd lost my bodily functions. I knew I still could move my limbs if I wanted to, but I didn't fight it. Eventually that weird but cool feeling spread down to my legs, my knees gave way, I fell backwards and Leon caught me. They laid me down on the floor.

So I lay there, on that cold hard floor, feeling extremely comfortable, which is weird, because who would be comfortable lying on a cold hard floor? Anyway, I lay there, and after about a minute I wanted to get up.

I tried to move my neck, it was hard. It was the same feeling. I knew I could move it if I really pushed myself, but then I thought "Ah, God doesn't want me to get up, I'll just lie here for a while." So I lied there for almost 5 minutes.

Finally, I sat up. Everyone else was either sitting and crying, or lying down or still getting prayed over. It was dark, so I couldn't really see.

So I was sitting there in the dark, and suddenly I thought of all the bad memories, all the stuff that has happened, those that made me depressed, and I started crying. Not great big bawling sobs, but not exactly just little tears. In fact, it kinda leans to wards big bawling sobs. Haha.

After that, we went to sleep. I could sleep, maybe because of the Inner Healing. I didn't think I could sleep because earlier, during our break, we were in the dorm, and Natasha told this ghost story that was sufficiently creepy. Later I was like "Oh no, let's not take the lift."

Natasha was good, but Melissa has got to be the one person I've met who can keep a dang straight face. She said her sotry was dang scary, and we off-ed the lights and everything. Natasha, Jolynn, Emmelin and I were sitting on Sonia's bed, which is a bottom bunk. Everyone else was on top bunks.

Melissa was on her bed, which is above mine. She went "Okay, girls, when I tell you this ghost story right, you must keep completely quiet, because I've told this before, and there was like a ghost presence there when I told it."

SUPER STRAIGHT YOU KNOW HER FACE. No laughing eyes, no hidden smile, nothing. Dang straight. When we were listening, she said "First of all, the people on the bottom bunks, whatever you do, keep your feet off the floor and don't ever look under the bed."

Okay, don't look under the bed is okay, I wouldn't have run. But she said to keep our feet off the floor, and I was like WTH. Before she even finished talking, Natasha, Jolynn, Emmelin and I were all scrambling like mad to get to a top bunk.

I scrambled so madly, my slippers flew off and I pulled a muscle in my butt trying to get onto Esther's bed. Seriously. I couldn't walk properly for the entire night. D: And all this while, Melissa and the others were like laughing. LOL. I guess it was pretty funny. :)

And after all our hard work getting up the bunks, Melissa told us "That was my ghost story. I have no ghost story to tell. Just wanted to see your reaction." Lol spoiler much. But it was funny. ;D Dang straight face she has.

The next day, we had more sessions. But somehow, even after having a great sleep, almost all of us woke up tired. So I can't really remember the sessions. My brain was tired. But they had another session, it "Gifts of the Holy Spirit", done by Eddy.

And the gifts, are so chunted. There's:

the Gift of Knowledge
the Gift of Understanding
the Gift of Discernment of Spirits
the Gift of Healing
the Gift of Miracles
the Gift of Prophecy
the Gift of Tongues
the Gift of Interpretation of Tongues

There are more. I cant really remember. But these are the main ones. I think I might have the gift of tongues. I' not sure, but just maybe. It would be so awesome. :) I'm gonna pray about it. Teehee. :D

This blog post is at its' end. I'm too tired to think further.

Staying Up Late.

2010-06-10T21:45:00.003+08:00

I'm tired. :(

I stayed up till 2 last night gossiping about ex-schoolmates and sexy criminals with somebody. :P Lol, it reminds me of Form 2. Good old days. :) *stares off wistfully into the distance*

I gotta go pack. Leaving for Pre-Con Camp tomorrow. Miss me, people. <3 You know you want to. :D

Tumble-er!

2010-06-09T23:46:00.004+08:00

Hello, people!

I made a Tumblr account. Haha. Due to boredom and curiosity. :)

Charlene See's Tumblr.

Follow it, you know you want to. :)

Oh yeah. At first I named my Tumblr If Life Didn't Suck. But then I switched with Blogger's name. Cause I'm gonna be putting lot of random stuff in Tumblr, so It's Just Random Nonsense.

Whereas Blogger will chronicle my life story, and it depicts what should happen If Life Didn't Suck. Heh. :D

Nervousness.

2010-06-09T18:48:00.003+08:00

Hello, people.

I. Am. Nervous.

About. A. Lot. Of. Things.

Like Interact. And PAG. And Pre-Confirmation Camp, for crying out loud.

And I haven't even done my stupid Geography project yet.

Haih.

CharleneSee says goodbye nervously.

Sad Hectic Meetings.

2010-06-06T19:00:00.003+08:00

Hello, people! How was your first weekend of the holidays? Mine was fine, just that today was super hectic.

8.30 - 9.30 Mass
10.00 -1.00 Interact IU Nominees meeting
2.00- 4.00 PAG Session
4.00 - 4.30 Guitar Class

See, I'm so happening, I have to be everywhere. Chehh. XD Lol, don't mind my egoisticalness. I doubt there's even such a a word. X)

For the meeting, only 7 people were there. Sad much. Mr. President, and 6 nominees. 6 nominees. Out of 20. Like I said, sad much. Oh well. The 6 nominees, were Madd, Yi Hua, Melanie, Rae-Gin and Sara. Oh, and me. :D

Very productive meeting. A first. o.O

Anyway, I guess that's pretty much it. See you some other time through the screen. :)

Movie Examinations.

2010-06-04T21:27:00.005+08:00

Hello, people! Exams are over, yay! I managed to keep from updating my blog during this entire week. Willpower, man. *bangga* LOL.

You know what? After this week, I am convinced that the people who run all the TV channels on normal TV, they don't want me to score for my exams. The proof:

Glee started 2 weeks before the exams. Gossip Girl Season 3 had their pilot on Monday, the 2nd day of exams. Vampire Diaries premiered on the 3rd day of exams, which was a Tuesday.

You see my point? Frickin' temptation, right? Evil TV station managers. Roar.

I'm not gonna blog about exams. Too depressing. Holidays have started, let's partayyy!!!

There are a lot of movies I want to watch. :( If anybody has the DVD, feel free to lend it to me, I'll take good care of, I promise. Good quality ya. ;P

MOULIN ROUGE. Featuring the song Come What May. Khoo's favortie movie. Basically everybody who has watched this movie has spoken very highly of it. Trailer seems cool.

Another romantic film. Apparently it's very saddening and got very good reviews. And it has the breakdancer dude from Step Up in it. :D DEAR JOHN.

What with all the lovey-dovey romance, there has to be some goriness and horror to

balance it out. Thus, THE DESCENT. I wanna watch this with the girls. :)

Last but certainly not least, THE LOSERS. Trailer's super yeng.

P/s- Mun: This is the song I was talking about. The one where I wrote the lyrics on the back of my test paper.
Pp/s: Other readers, listent to the song. It's nice, you won't regret it. :)

Cookie Monster Rides Harley.

2010-05-28T14:08:00.011+08:00

Hello, people!!

Guess what I did today? I rode a Harley Davidson bike, muahahah! Yeah, my ride looked a little bit like that. :D I don't have a photo of me on the bike cause it was hot and any photos would have been glarey. There wasn't a camera anyway.

Harleys are awesome. They're super nice to ride, especially if you're going fast. I was a bit apprehensive at first, cause the last time I rode a bike was when I was like what... 9? Joel (as in Joel Chang, of KEJAM gang fame) was riding, and I sat pillion.

I remember he burned his leg on the exhaust pipe, poor guy. Anyway, back to today's ride. I paid 5 bucks just to ride. LOL. My rider was this Indian dude with long curly black hair tied into a ponytail, yeng. Even though he was a biker, he wasn't wearing a biker jacket.

So I got on the bike, and it was fun. :D But I was like literally entrusting my life into a stranger's hands. Later he crash into something then how? Lol. But it was safe. I held onto his shoulders. Holding around the waist would've been steadier, but I barely know the guy. I wonder whether I clamped him on the shoulders too hard, poor guy. :)

We went quite fast. When we got out into the open and he like really let it out, I think he was doing maybe 60 kmph. I went "Ahh!" a bit, and he was like "You scared?" "Yeah, a bit." But he didn't slow down! LOL FUN!!!

Okay, I bet you're wondering why I went to some random Indian guy and paid him 5 bucks to ride his bike. The truth is...

I'M MARRIED.

Lol, that was random. Just kidding. XD I was at a Jogathon and Family Carnival fundraiser, jointly organized by the parishes of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas More. STM is my parish by the way, for those of you who don't know.

So anyway, sisters and godbros all ditched me, all didn't wanna go. I ended up going with the parentals, godparents, and Uncle Mike and Aunt Sharon.

So we went there, ate stuff, played games, came back. The weather there is so murderous. Like frickin' hot. I wanted to lie down and die. LOL jk.

I got a face painting! Well, it was supposed to be a face painting, but I don't like stuff on my face even though now there're no pimples now. :D I am getting hiao-er by the day, crap. Anyway, painting. Right. Eric painted for me, on my non-existent bicep. :)

Take 1: FAIL.

The other takes are okay. :)

Cookie Monster! My favourite Sesame Street character. :)) He looks like he's wearing a hat! :D

My mom's colleague calls me Cookie Monster cause I love the lemon cookies that she makes. And I used to keep pestering my mom to get her colleague to make more. :)

Cookie Monster says "Rawr I'm gonna eat you!" LOL his mouth is senget. Notice?

P/s: Glee started showing on normal TV. The 2nd episode, the one whether the annoying but quite kesian girl sings Take A Bow, that song is nice. Better than Rihanna's.

Theresa, le hamster.

2010-05-27T19:10:00.004+08:00

I'll bet this is the cutest thing you've ever seen.

It's name is Theresa. LOL. After Mother Theresa, you know? 3 Sigma FTW! Hahahaha.

RAWR I feel like squishing it. Too bad it's dead. :'(

Sickness, Physical and Emotional.

2010-05-27T17:50:00.007+08:00

Guess what? I'm sick again. In 2 weeks I have been in 2 different clinics, 3 times.

First I went to Bandaran Clinic for my sore throat annd cough.

Then my eye got infected and I went to Kumpulan Medic.

And today I just came back from Bandaran, again.

Guess what sickness I went for this time. Grand prize is my leftover meds. Haha. LOL jk.

I came back, ate lunch, showered, tried to take a nap. Started wheezing and coughing. Gave up trying to take nap and went downstairs. Started sneezing like there was a cat trying to get out of my nose and tearing non stop.

Mom said it's an allergic reaction.

The swollen eye. Strawberry lychee with cincau bits. XD

One of my meds. Looks like pee, ewww.

LOL. Exams started today, child's play. Well actually they were quite hard, but who cares about these meaningless subjects anyway. -.-

Oh you know what. I just realized that my swollen eye emoticon will look like this:

-.0

LOL. Cool. I have a swollen eye emoticon. Awesome. :D

Ryan Higa. He's awesome. His videos lift my depression, seriously. :) LOL

If you have a spill on your table, an ordinary rag or towel would just soak it up oh-so-boringly, but thanks to the ShamWOOHOO!, not only did you not soak up the liquid, but you just pushed it off the table!

TEEHEE!

Strawberry Lychee!

2010-05-24T22:49:00.002+08:00

Yes, this is how I feel:Click to enlarge. See what the Seal wrote. This type of sister. Sigh.

Birthday shout out to Mun Mun. :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHANG WAI MUN, I love you and I hope we'll remain friends for a very long time so I can annoy you Muahahaha.

And I'll wish Yi Hua at the same tieme, since her birthday's tomorrow.

Happy birthday, TAN YI HUA, my super caring friend. Haha.

An Eye For an Eye.

2010-05-22T13:50:00.004+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHUNG YEE HUI!! My yeng-est heng dai, I love you, Muacks. :D

We celebrated EY's birthday yesterday with cupcakes. She's the only person who can look good with oily cupcake cream all over her face. ;)

Hey people, what's up?

MidTerms are coming up, and I haven't started studying. LOL. I've already gotten the adrenaline rush to study, but for some weird reason, my body's urge to sleep is stronger than the adrenaline rush. Lol. The fact that my eye is swollen doesn't help much either.

I have no idea how it got swollen. Too much rubbing, I guess. Now it's swollen and disgusting and like it discharges this weird tear-like liquid every frickin' second, so I have to like stick a tissue in my eye to soak it up.

And everytime I sleep, the liquid hardens and forms a crust over my eye, so when I wake up, I can't open m eye. Just great. And dahlah I'm already so sepet, now this swollen eye thing makes me look retarded sepet, cause my right eye is fine, but the left is just ghastly.

So yeah. My existence mae miseable by this stupid thing that infected my eye and swelled it. I wish EY happy birthday, and she replied "Thanks red eye dude lol :)" Lol what the heck. :)

I went to watch Shrek Forever After this morning with the Tooks. It's okay, not bad. Who knew ogres could be so romantic. Lolol.

Okay, I'm gonna try study now. :D

Breakdown.

2010-05-19T19:17:00.004+08:00

People say that the eyes are windows into the soul. If that's true, then the tears that we cry must be emotional baggage that gets thrown out of the windows.

Question: Why do people cry? I meant psychologically, not physically. I don't want to learn Biology yet.

Answer: (To be determined. Help me out here, anyone?)

I have no idea why I was in such a bad mood today. Seriously, no idea. The day started off fine.

Recess was... releasing? Not really. I got free chocolate though. :D Maybe I should try this crying thing more often. Lol just kidding.

One thing I learned today though: Having good friends who care about you is excellent for your health.

Thank you, Zi Yean, Jia Min, Hui May, Wai Mun, Pei En, Denyse. :)

And thanks especially to Ash, Madd and EY. =)

It would've been a lot harder for me to make it through if I hadn't had you guys. :)

Chinese Orchestra.

2010-05-14T21:38:00.004+08:00

Hello, people. Just some interesting events these few days.

Wednesday.

Went to KLCC to watch Madd's Chinese orchestra performance.

Reached KLCC, Madd, her dad, her bro and I went to Chili's. I ate there for the first time. Chili's food is quite nice, heh. :)

We ordered this Mushroom Jack Combo thing, which is basically grilled beef and chicken, with mushrooms and cheese all over, served on a sizzling pate. It came with the chapati-like thing, tortilla, I think, and sour cream and all that stuff for you to make your own roll. Chunted.

And Milo. LOL, drinking Milo in a bar. For some reason I find it funny.

So anyway, then the rest of Madd's family and Pei En came, then we went to MPO. Whoo! My second time in MPO, heh. The first time, I fell asleep. :P LOL.

So. Chinese instruments in MPO. It certainly was interesting. I think Chinese classical music isn't really my thing. LOL. I couldn't really enjoy the music cause I was locking all my coughs in my lungs. :( But I liked the Shanghai piece. That was nice. :)

So, after the performance, the performers went and like had a 'meet the fans' session. Photographs, autographs, polygraphs. LOL. I was just kidding about the last one. :)

Then we went to eat dinner, and I got home, didn't break curfew. :D Thanks, Aunty, Uncle, for the dinner, and Chili's and the performance. :D Thanks Madd, it was awesome. :)

Thursday.

I was sleeping in class, and Amelia's singing woke me up. As in literally. I heard her singing in my sleep, got annoyed, woke up and frowned at her. Their whole gang was singing, LOL. Needless to say it doesn't really help you sleep. :P

Friday, today.

Mushroom brought a hamster to school today. It was THE BOMB. So cute, seriously. God made cute tiny furballs so lift our moods and lessen our depression. :D

After school, I was hanging out with Madd in the canteen. Our convo:

M: I'm going Ace-Edventure next year.
C: *blurring* Huh, what?
M: As in like transfer there.
C: What's so good about Ace-Edventure?
M: It's an international school. Evrything's in English. And you don't have to take SPM. You can either take the SATs or O-Levels.
C: But SU has me in it.
M: *pauses* That's true.

What the heck. You see, this type of friend. Where the hell can you find this type of friend? This type of friend, GOC, who feeds my ego, she's one of a kind. :) Muahaha. :D Everybody should have a Madd. That way they won't be depressed. :P Lol, okay, maybe they still will, but still. :D

I finally went to see the doctor today. After 3 days of not talking, I want my voice back so that I can annoy my friends. Doc said I was pretty good for going to school today even thought my voice is like this. *bangga*

The reason why I don't like to consult a doctor for my cough is because they almost always give me cough mixture, and I ahte cough mixture almost as much as I hate mosquitoes. So yeah. But this doc gave me pills. Whee.

Lol, that's pretty much it. See you some other time through the screen. :)

P/s- Madd: I edited out the slapping and hair-dragging part of our convo. Don't want people to think I'm violent. >:P

Mommy Day!

2010-05-09T19:04:00.004+08:00

This is for all the mothers out there, especially mine. Happy Mother's Day, stand up, be proud. You've raised wonderful children, and only you can do the things mothers do. Because mothers are awesome. I love you, Mommy. Hehe.

Today, Edmund came with us, minus the Fats, so it was 6 of us. We went to Empire Shopping Gallery, again. But it's okay, the place is nice. :) Had lunch at Rakuzen to celebrate Mother's Day. That place, the ambience there is super nice. I could fall in love with Empire. *dreamy eyes*

I bumped into the noobest noob PE at some store in Empire. Lol. She misses her Mojo. :) After that, Daddy wanted to show Edmund our Soho, so we went up. Then came back and blogged. :)

The 5 of us, as in the 4 See daughters and Edmund, we got Mommy a new phone for Mother's Day. :) Hope, you like it, mommypoo. <3

Samba de Amigo.

2010-05-09T14:51:00.011+08:00

SU's Leo IR Day yesterday! It was awesome. :) Summit auditorium's stage is super small though. Pictures. :)

Miss Khoo, my wife, so romantic la she. <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QS0VKVcH_Ok/S-Zg8sG7mrI/AAAAAAAAAhc/w33LFFh8hj4/s1600/IMG_6466.JPG">Ashleyyyy!!!

Crowd.

MCs, Bryan and and Rae-Gin.

Leo pledge.

Sexy, sexy Samba.

This pic is so awesome. If you look closely, you'll see another face beside Madd's.

The only clear part is her heel.

Ooolala.

Gymnastics after that.

Then a band called the Jellybeans!

Charissa, the Malaysian Taylor Swift. Haha.

Amigo de amore.

BOD dance was next.
Mind the head.

After that, it was break time!

Pui Ee and Yau Shen.

Ham and Singing Bird. XD

After the break, back into the auditorium.

The Strum.

MCs, again.

Then a dance crew called School Lockers.
They were awesome.

A band with a very long and hard-to-pronounce name was next.
Guitarists like him are who inspired me to take up guitar. :)

Urban Groove!

They were awesome.

Then they had dancefloor. It was crazy. LOL. In the dark, with sweaty bodies moving everywhere, unable to see anything. It must've been fun. XD I didn't dance cause my heels were killing me.

Neffy can move!

Crazy dancefloor.

The End. :D Th epics are mostly blur cause the people were either moving too fast, and because my camera is not a DSLR. It was fun. :D

Have You Ever Wondered...

2010-05-07T21:45:00.002+08:00

... Why how some people seem to have it all, and then they commit suicide the next day?

... Why the sky is blue?

... Why Michael Wong's song Tong Hua means so much and yet I can't relate to it, but I still like it cause it's so nice?

... Whether there really are aliens in space? Because, let's face it, no one is creative(not to mention mou liew) enough to go and dream up the concept of aliens and round little planes.

... (while we're on the concept of aliens and round little planes) Why aliens are always pictured with round planes? I mean, technically, if you are a science wiz/physics genius, can a round plane really move in 1 direction? Or will it just spin around in circles?

... Why some people are so determined to destroy others, to torture and mutilate other people, to defy the very laws of humanity, to forsake their moral values, religious principles, to rid themselves of everything human?

... Why some people are just like that. You know, like THAT. Never mind, you don't know. It's okay.

... Why some guys have to rape and molest girls? Disgusting.

... Why some people abort their babies? The life inside them, taken away in a matter of seconds with the help of a pair of scissors and a vacuum.

... Why the wolrd is like this? LIKE THIS. This world where almost all politicans are corrupt, where there are terrorists everywhere, where natural disasters are bombarding us to and fro, where there's a high crime rate everywhere, like this.

... When the end of the world will come? Isn't it better to just let of all us fade into oblivion, than to continue living in this messed up world?

Angsty post, I know. But I have questions, and I need answers. Better yet, I need to believe that mankind isn't as hopeless as it appears to be. Help me believe.

Epic But Short-lived.

2010-05-05T22:44:00.002+08:00

Happy Birthday, Timothy Teoh Beng Hsien! Thanks putting up with all my crap, and I'm sorry for all those times. You're the best godbro in the world! Hehe. :D

Whee! Today was super lifeless. The only periods we got things done were KH. And man, today's KH was FUN. Or rather, FUNNY. I amused myself. Not in a mean way la. You know I love you right? :P

It's just that Pn Tan Lee Yong really knows how to hit the mark. LOL. That moment was even more hilarious the bowling moment. Short-lived, though. Oh well. At least I had my fun. :D

I HATE BAR CHORDS! Okay, I don't hate bar chords, I hate why it's so hard to play them. Annoying bars. Pfft.

Leo IR this Sat, who's going? I have a feeling it's gonna be awesome, so those of you who aren't going will miss out. :D

PAGgie.

2010-05-03T14:42:00.002+08:00

My previous post title was random, Lol. So.

Saturday. The first PAG meeting, of many more to come.

Okay, for all those of you who don't know, PAG stands for Persons Are Gifts. In Dec 2009 I attended a PAG camp held by my church. Kay, so then 1 day I got a phone call. The caller invited me to be a part of the PAG Outreach Team, a team of facilitators that will plan the next PAG camp, which will be held Dec 2011.

So yeah. If you read that post, the phone call post, you'll know that I felt very unworhty, nervous, and a couple of other emotions. So yeah.

Anyway, back to Saturday. There were a few people there: Me, Natalia, Brandon, Ashley, Kenneth, Bryan, Nathaniel, Terence, Pearli, Feli, Jon Yap and Stacie. The rest: Joshua, Sean and Esther weren't able to come.

We started off with praise and worhsip of course, then with games. There was this game, Toxic River, that involved people getting carried over a distance of 6 feet. Seeing as I was the lightest, smallest, and weakest, I got carried the most. Heh. It took several tries to get all of us across.

There was this time: Brandon had to carry me and Ashley across, and the poor guy just injured his wrist and his knee a week back. It was super scary. He carried me like the using arms type, then he piggybacked Ashley. 2 people at once. Siao. But he made it. I could feel his wrist trembling though. SCARY.

Then the rest were mostly sharing, more games, more sharing, more praise and worship. It started at 10 in the morning and ended at 4 40. Whole day thing. Feli said I have an athlete's
look and that I walk like an athlete. :) Haha.

Sunday.

I went for mass with the family and Edmund. Then DimSum for breakfast. Edmund left. Our family, all 6 of us, piled into the car at 11 50 to go to Snail River, Perak, to send the Fats off to NS.

Nothing much to say about the journey there. Slept through most of it. The journey back, however, was a killer. The roads were winding, I felt some nausea and wanted to vomit. Diddin't throw up anything though.

After we had dinner, I suddenly had this really intense pain in my stomach. The nausea came back. So I had to spend the whole night feeling like throwing up, and to top it off, I still had homework to complete. Dulan. -.-

In the morning, woke up, still felt awful, so Mommy let me skip school for 1 day. :D

The Gingerbread Man.

2010-04-30T20:39:00.004+08:00

Today. Had to present our virtual projects to the Interact members. Let's just say that group 3, which is my group, is not very good at public speaking. I know I suck at it. Lol. But Zhiying said our proposal was detailed! :D even though our presentation was dead. :(

I'm still wondering whether I can get on the BOD. Hope can la. :)

PAG tomorrow. I'm still asking myself whether I'm mature enough for it. What if I mess up? :(

LOL this post has a lot of smilies at the end of sentences. Heh. X)

Run, run, as fast as you can.

Lol I sound evil. XD

Stress.

2010-04-29T20:26:00.002+08:00

First period, places were changed today. My seat sucks. C'mon la, I know I look like a hardworking student, but you put me at the back, I'll fail the midterms for sure. The back is distracting. The back is hot. The back has none of my close friends.

So yeah, my mood was ruined for the whole day. And by the first period too. Broke my record of 2nd period mood ruining. Pfft.

Super stressed now. Rushing Interact project, then there's the PAG thing, then there's the friendship thing, then there's my cacated guitar playing. WTH.

Nobody to talk to. :(

Fit for a King.

2010-04-24T18:36:00.003+08:00

EDITED: Added a bit of stuff.

EMPIRE SHOPPING GALLERY IS NOW OPEN!!!

And, man is it fit for a King. Well, okay, not really, but it's pretty dang nice.

It's a hotel and a shopping gallery together. The shopping gallery takes up 3 about floors, and features a lot of well known brands, like:
Dorothy Perkins
FOS
Levi's
Guess
3 Stripes - Adidas
Tangs
Lovely Lace
Toys 'R' Us
New York Skin Solutions
London Weight Management

And more la. I can't really remember.

There'a also a lot of high end food like Chili's, Italiannies, Kenny Rogers and such.

And the hotel, it's so super nice. Their ballroom is so chunted. It has like grooves in the ceiling, and grooves glow colours that change. Very subtly. So super nice!

And the staff, man. Their staff are so trained and polite. You just walk past them and they go, "Thank you for coming, Ma'am.", or "Good evening, sir." with their really nice smiles. So friggin' polite!

Unlike some other 5 star hotels in KL, where their staff turn up their noses at you, if you go into the hotel wearing jeans and a T shirt. And if the snobby staff do deign to look at you, their gaze is dripping with disdain.

So yeah, Empire rocks, hehe. For all you people who don't know, Empire is located near Subang Parade. Behind Parade, actually. When you come out of ChillOut you can see Empire. I really recommend you guys to go see it, man. It's so nice. :D

Wow, my first gushy post. Oh wait, second. The first was about Teetee. Heh. :)

Decisions, decisions.

2010-04-20T20:30:00.002+08:00

At exactly 6. 18 pm yesterday, I got a phone call. The caller extended a closed invitation to me. Closed, not because it's exclusive, but because they only need 10 people, out of 50. I was given 1 day, 24 hours to make up my mind.

Now, I have 2 choices. A YES, or a NO.

If I pick NO, I will most probably be left wondering what I missed out on, and most probably regret saying NO.

If I pick YES, 2 scenarios could happen.

Scenario 1:
I become a better person, a better leader, help others around me, and ultimately grow as a human being, grow with God, and achieve a sense of self-fulfillment.

OR

Scenario 2:
I mess up terribly, and the people around me, whoM I'm supposed to guide, and mentor, turn out messed up. Ruined. Unable to function because I'm such a a bad leader.

Of course, both of the scenarios above are in their extreme. There is a possibility that if I say YES, stuff from both scenarios could happen. I could become a better person but still ruin the lives of those around me. Lol.

Don't get me wrong. I am honored with this chance, honored to be 1 of the 10, chosen from among 50. But I don't know why they chose me. I'm quiet, I have no social skills whatsoever. No visible talent, unless you consider my writing a talent, but it still needs to be honed.

So then, back to the question: "Why me?"

I'm not asking this question with snobbishness or just asking it for the sake of hearing people list out my good attributes. I'm asking it because I don't feel qualified, because in that 50, there are undoubtedly those with better leadership skills than me, more talent than I have, and are able to socialize well.

So, when I was telling all this to Tooks last night, she quoted this:

"God doesn't choose the qualified, He qualifies the chosen."

Which, by itself, I think says a lot. And it's also true. I never thought I would be one of the chosen though.

I prayed last night. I'd already made up half my mind, but I wanted to talk to someone at school, someone who isn't family. But somehow I couldn't find the right person. Or the right time.

So then the caller called again, at exactly 6. 17 pm today. I told them I hadn't discussed with Dad yet, because he came back so late last night.

Now, everyone in my immediate family knows, with the exception of the Fats, who is away at NS. We've discussed it, the parentals encouraged me to go for it. So have Tooks and Seal.

So then, what shall the answer be? A YES, or a NO?

Wish me luck in making the right choice.

Sweaty Runners Buy Drinks!

2010-04-19T21:01:00.008+08:00

Ah, this blog is so dead, I don't even know why I still bother updating. But it's okay, I shall persevere and keep updating. :)

Anyway, about the post title:

Okay fine, not all of them bought. But when you see the post title, Sports Day immediately comes to mind, does it not? That's what this is, SPORTS DAY, 18th April 2010. Or rather, KEJOHANAN OLAHRAGA SMKSU.

I'm a bit lazy today, so I shall just let the pictures and captions to the talking. It's mostly of the marching groups, Interactors, and secenes in Zi Yean's house.

Stuff. Early in the morning.

Look, it's a plane!! XD

Lekir FTW!!

Stalker shot. FAIL

Crowding around our OC.

This is what the nominees sold. :)

Stephn's awesome picture, taken by me, naturally. XD jk.

Clothed...

Stripped naked. ;)

I stalked her stalking other people. X)

PBSM, my ex uniform unit in which I wasn't active at all.

Pandu Puteri, my present uniform unit in which I'm not active.

PKBM. I have no idea what this stands for.

Rela.

Puteri Islam.

Kadet Polis.

KRS. Sounds a bit like KNS. LOL

Hang Tuah.

Hang Jebat.

Hang Kasthuri.

Hang Lekir FTW!!

Mummy!!

I too, cannot read the banner.

Hang Lekiu.

This pic super sweet wei. ;)

Yuvan with Charissa.

Now with Stephen.

Sexy Seow and the sexy pizzas. :)

Jezzy's undeniable adorableness. :DD

Sunglasses ad. ;) So yeng pose some more.

Well, that's it. For more pics, go search on Facebook. :D

P/s- Madd: The last pic nice right? :P