Its finally here.
My last day.
My last meal.
My last everything.
By 8.30am tomorrow I will leave the island for good.
It hasn't sunk in yet.
And guess what...
I've not finished packing.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Locking Arms
The beginning of the end has come. On Friday night I shed my first tear, tears that I had been putting off and postponing for as long as I could. I bid farewell to a dear friend, and it wasn’t a hug and a wave, but for the first time I had the guts to tell her what she had meant to me and how she has been important in my life here.
Oh man. It was so tough.
Today was my last Sunday in Sungai Nibong Gospel Hall. Anyone that has ever asked me would know how much I love it there. The church members have been so kind, warm and welcoming, I thank God for leading me there and to have had the privilege to know such wonderful people. Saying goodbye to them?
It was even tougher.
As I sit and write this, I’m really coming to the end of my time in university, and I’m struggling to deal with this ‘new’ experience: saying goodbye.
Looking back, it shouldn’t be something new since I’ve had at least 3 major transitions in my life, but during those significant times of parting, I don’t recall it ever being so difficult or heart wrenching:
Standard 6 to Form One; Form 5 to Form 6; Form 6 to Uni.
Now however, my group of friends here are from all over Malaysia and saying goodbye may mean goodbye for months, years or perhaps even forever. Which is a depressing thought, as I have gotten really close to certain people who’ve come to have a special place in my heart, and as cliché as it may sound, great friends that I love.
Chapter 1 - Study Question 4: What prompted you to read this book? Why now?
Ironically, this wasn’t my course text book. Someone passed me a book to put back in the PKA Library, and its entitled Friendships That Run Deep. Although my exams were just around the corner, I found myself unable to resist reading, first a few pages, then a chapter, then the whole book. The title prompted me the most, because now is the time, more than ever, where I’m at a loss at how to handle my friendships. God's timing is perfect.
The book talks about how friendship requires the choice of unmasking. As I think about the friends I have, the different levels (acquaintances, close friends and intimate friends), I know some have seen me masked, most have seen me partially unmasked and only a rare few have seen me completely unmasked, in all my vulnerability- unprotected, subject to attack and defenseless.
William Barclay articulates a question we all could ask: “I wonder if there is anyone to whom I would open my heart?”
The philosopher Seneca gave the answer: “If you wish to be loved, love.” There is no other way. The journey begins in unmasking, where there will always be risks and the very real danger if pain.
In three years, most of my first year was spent having surface friendships. Then again, building up trust takes time, and time takes time. I admit I was holding back, cautious of not getting attached because of experiences where I’ve cared for friends and had my heart trampled on in return. Only in my second year did I open up to some and finally, being in third year I took bolder steps of reaching out to friends, allowing them to see that I truly valued them and risked giving more than I’d receive. As I listed down the names of people I have to say farewell to, I realize I have 8 people whom I love dearly, and will feel the deep pain of parting ways. These are the people who have shared my struggles, my thoughts, my shame, my joy and my tears.
Friendships grow through intentional choices for loyalty. If I reach out to you, you may choose to ignore me, or worse reject me. The vulnerability of showing my true identity can set me up for one more heartbreak. If I trust you, even a little, you hold in your hands the power to hurt me. The choice to be loyal to a friend is oxygen given or oxygen withheld. To say yes breathes life into a relationship; to say no leads to eventual death. Love is an act of will- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to. By our everyday choices we decide to lock hearts in loyal commitments to one another.
Not everyone chooses to care for another in intentional acts of loyal friendship, and that’s why we carry scars from childhood friends who chose to belong to others and left us behind. I “replaced” my best friend in Standard 3. Karma always catches up and in Form 1 I was “replaced” by my friends.
The words of C.S. Lewis: Christ who said to His disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.”
I had read a saying before and it stuck in my mind, “We can’t choose our family, but thank God we can choose our friends.” Reading the line in the book again, You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another got me thinking. Put in that light, my friends are more than what I’ve believed them to be all this while. God chose them for me because he knew who I’d need and when I’d need them. And I can see that now.
Seasons of Friendship
It is good to spend time talking sharing and getting to where the truth is between us, content with being friends and not merely doing friendship. Change doesn’t come easily, for it is hard, sometimes painful and often complicated; it need not, however, be fatal. Where friendships often get lost is when unstated expectations are not met and feelings get hurt. This is the reality, friends change and so do friendships.
Life’s road divides before us and the journeys we take may lead to different places. Friendships flourish and grow, they change and grow, and sometimes there is a separation. Kahil Gibran wrote, “When you part from your friend, you grieve not: For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
How do you know when it’s time to bring closure to a friendship and move ahead? The necessary step is for one of you to unmask and ask honest questions about the relationship. Assessing the value of the friendship requires asking hard questions.
1. Is it worth the continuing expenditure of my resources? (of time and energy?)
2. Is it worth the risks involved?
3. Do we see a mutual future in it?
4. Am I merely hanging on for old times sake and not wisely discerning that its time for me to sell and reinvest my resources elsewhere?
Trying to answer the 4 questions for the 8 names I listed down was easy for some, and tough for others.
Is it worth my resources? Yes, definitely.
Is it worth the risks? For some I am willing to take the risk, for others I fear more burns and scars that I’ve experienced before.
Mutual future? I think so. I hope so. Some give me the sense that they want to move on, and I’ll just have to accept it.
Hanging on? It feels like it only just begun. But I know I have been hanging on to one friendship that I perhaps should let go of because I just can’t take the disappointment anymore.
I’d like to put the blame on Swee Kit for making me go through the whole ’saying your goodbyes’ process, which she brought up during our Graduating Seniors Retreat way back in February. Back then, it seemed like there was plenty time to make peace with leaving, and now I find myself with only 4 days.
Four days to tell the people who've impacted my life tremendously that I love them very much.
*Parts in blue are taken from the book*
Oh man. It was so tough.
Today was my last Sunday in Sungai Nibong Gospel Hall. Anyone that has ever asked me would know how much I love it there. The church members have been so kind, warm and welcoming, I thank God for leading me there and to have had the privilege to know such wonderful people. Saying goodbye to them?
It was even tougher.
As I sit and write this, I’m really coming to the end of my time in university, and I’m struggling to deal with this ‘new’ experience: saying goodbye.
Looking back, it shouldn’t be something new since I’ve had at least 3 major transitions in my life, but during those significant times of parting, I don’t recall it ever being so difficult or heart wrenching:
Standard 6 to Form One; Form 5 to Form 6; Form 6 to Uni.
Now however, my group of friends here are from all over Malaysia and saying goodbye may mean goodbye for months, years or perhaps even forever. Which is a depressing thought, as I have gotten really close to certain people who’ve come to have a special place in my heart, and as cliché as it may sound, great friends that I love.
Chapter 1 - Study Question 4: What prompted you to read this book? Why now?
Ironically, this wasn’t my course text book. Someone passed me a book to put back in the PKA Library, and its entitled Friendships That Run Deep. Although my exams were just around the corner, I found myself unable to resist reading, first a few pages, then a chapter, then the whole book. The title prompted me the most, because now is the time, more than ever, where I’m at a loss at how to handle my friendships. God's timing is perfect.
The book talks about how friendship requires the choice of unmasking. As I think about the friends I have, the different levels (acquaintances, close friends and intimate friends), I know some have seen me masked, most have seen me partially unmasked and only a rare few have seen me completely unmasked, in all my vulnerability- unprotected, subject to attack and defenseless.
William Barclay articulates a question we all could ask: “I wonder if there is anyone to whom I would open my heart?”
The philosopher Seneca gave the answer: “If you wish to be loved, love.” There is no other way. The journey begins in unmasking, where there will always be risks and the very real danger if pain.
In three years, most of my first year was spent having surface friendships. Then again, building up trust takes time, and time takes time. I admit I was holding back, cautious of not getting attached because of experiences where I’ve cared for friends and had my heart trampled on in return. Only in my second year did I open up to some and finally, being in third year I took bolder steps of reaching out to friends, allowing them to see that I truly valued them and risked giving more than I’d receive. As I listed down the names of people I have to say farewell to, I realize I have 8 people whom I love dearly, and will feel the deep pain of parting ways. These are the people who have shared my struggles, my thoughts, my shame, my joy and my tears.
Friendships grow through intentional choices for loyalty. If I reach out to you, you may choose to ignore me, or worse reject me. The vulnerability of showing my true identity can set me up for one more heartbreak. If I trust you, even a little, you hold in your hands the power to hurt me. The choice to be loyal to a friend is oxygen given or oxygen withheld. To say yes breathes life into a relationship; to say no leads to eventual death. Love is an act of will- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to. By our everyday choices we decide to lock hearts in loyal commitments to one another.
Not everyone chooses to care for another in intentional acts of loyal friendship, and that’s why we carry scars from childhood friends who chose to belong to others and left us behind. I “replaced” my best friend in Standard 3. Karma always catches up and in Form 1 I was “replaced” by my friends.
The words of C.S. Lewis: Christ who said to His disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.”
I had read a saying before and it stuck in my mind, “We can’t choose our family, but thank God we can choose our friends.” Reading the line in the book again, You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another got me thinking. Put in that light, my friends are more than what I’ve believed them to be all this while. God chose them for me because he knew who I’d need and when I’d need them. And I can see that now.
Seasons of Friendship
It is good to spend time talking sharing and getting to where the truth is between us, content with being friends and not merely doing friendship. Change doesn’t come easily, for it is hard, sometimes painful and often complicated; it need not, however, be fatal. Where friendships often get lost is when unstated expectations are not met and feelings get hurt. This is the reality, friends change and so do friendships.
Life’s road divides before us and the journeys we take may lead to different places. Friendships flourish and grow, they change and grow, and sometimes there is a separation. Kahil Gibran wrote, “When you part from your friend, you grieve not: For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
How do you know when it’s time to bring closure to a friendship and move ahead? The necessary step is for one of you to unmask and ask honest questions about the relationship. Assessing the value of the friendship requires asking hard questions.
1. Is it worth the continuing expenditure of my resources? (of time and energy?)
2. Is it worth the risks involved?
3. Do we see a mutual future in it?
4. Am I merely hanging on for old times sake and not wisely discerning that its time for me to sell and reinvest my resources elsewhere?
Trying to answer the 4 questions for the 8 names I listed down was easy for some, and tough for others.
Is it worth my resources? Yes, definitely.
Is it worth the risks? For some I am willing to take the risk, for others I fear more burns and scars that I’ve experienced before.
Mutual future? I think so. I hope so. Some give me the sense that they want to move on, and I’ll just have to accept it.
Hanging on? It feels like it only just begun. But I know I have been hanging on to one friendship that I perhaps should let go of because I just can’t take the disappointment anymore.
I’d like to put the blame on Swee Kit for making me go through the whole ’saying your goodbyes’ process, which she brought up during our Graduating Seniors Retreat way back in February. Back then, it seemed like there was plenty time to make peace with leaving, and now I find myself with only 4 days.
Four days to tell the people who've impacted my life tremendously that I love them very much.
*Parts in blue are taken from the book*
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Our Challenge
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To all my fellow PKAians, especially those graduating, I dedicate this song to you. If you can remember, it was the theme song for the National Conference 2005.
For several weeks, it's been on my mind, and as i get closer and closer to the REAL end of uni life, when i leave Penang for good, I realize it's important to take what we're gotten these 3-4 years and use it for what is next to come.
May we not forget as we leave this chapter behind.
Our Challenge by Colin Pal
Leaving my past behind,
Knowing much more I'll find
Taking each step into the unknown
Surrendering all i have
Giving my all to you
Knowing not my will,
But yours be done.
Run faster, Reach higher,
Changing our world together
Run faster, Reach higher
Declaring your love forever
As we pray for our land
Jesus we'll make our stand
Knowing You're with us till the end
Casting our pride aside,
Taking each others hand
Standing united in Your might
Run faster, Reach higher,
Changing our world together
Run faster, Reach higher
Declaring Your love forever
And I'll hold, I'll hold on to You
Cause You, You'll light my way
I'll hold, I'll hold on to You
Cause You'll, You'll guide my way.
To all my fellow PKAians, especially those graduating, I dedicate this song to you. If you can remember, it was the theme song for the National Conference 2005.
For several weeks, it's been on my mind, and as i get closer and closer to the REAL end of uni life, when i leave Penang for good, I realize it's important to take what we're gotten these 3-4 years and use it for what is next to come.
May we not forget as we leave this chapter behind.
Our Challenge by Colin Pal
Leaving my past behind,
Knowing much more I'll find
Taking each step into the unknown
Surrendering all i have
Giving my all to you
Knowing not my will,
But yours be done.
Run faster, Reach higher,
Changing our world together
Run faster, Reach higher
Declaring your love forever
As we pray for our land
Jesus we'll make our stand
Knowing You're with us till the end
Casting our pride aside,
Taking each others hand
Standing united in Your might
Run faster, Reach higher,
Changing our world together
Run faster, Reach higher
Declaring Your love forever
And I'll hold, I'll hold on to You
Cause You, You'll light my way
I'll hold, I'll hold on to You
Cause You'll, You'll guide my way.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Very Important Verification Assembly
Who does this remind you of.....
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=p
Specially for you Yee Lye - All the best for your VIVA!
*What does VIVA stand for?*
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Specially for you Yee Lye - All the best for your VIVA!
*What does VIVA stand for?*
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Cool as a Cucumber
“You’re the kind that people will invite to gatherings and stuff...”
Huh? And what kind is that?
I was talking to a friend who was saying that she felt herself to be a person that would be forgotten about years down the road, and thinks when there are things like reunions, she would be missed out.
She went on to say I’m the type thats outgoing, can change the mood of the room or whatever, and I replied: It’s the hair.
Jokes aside, I was actually a little offended and defensive to be put into that category, even though I know it wasn’t meant in the way I’m thinking. Why I didn’t like it was I don’t like the idea of me being associated with the ‘populars’ of any social group. Sad to say, when I think ‘popular’, it’s more negative than positive that comes to mind. Words that are related to popular are things like ‘cool’, in-crowd, and happening. Bleh.
These are some of the things that I don’t want to be associated with:
1. ‘Cool’, so means will give only certain people the time of day, those equally ‘cool’ and happening.
2. Don’t wanna mingle with a different crowd. I can’t stand it when I ask people out and their first response is, “Who else is going?” Urgh.
3. Find things lame and will respond unenthusiastically because it’s not ‘cool’.
4. Make others feel un‘cool’; can be done by the way they speak and topics broached.
I’m talking in terms of a broader social setting, like in a club or society. Not the friends that you hang out with. This is not the same as having cliques. Obviously we all have our circle of good/best friends. It’s when the different circles are in the same setting, it sucks when the ‘cool’ people make others feel ‘uncool’. But it doesn’t mean that a noisier group is any more ‘happening’. Man, I dislike the term ‘cool’.
I've heard several times people mention they wish they were in a different group because so-and-so is there, and its got more 'happening' people, so more fun. My response is, why don't you work on your group dynamics and make it 'happening'; its so unfair to dump people that way.
Then again, of course there’s always the other side where it’s also the responsibility of the quiet, shy, ‘boring’ people to do something about what they perceive to be their duller group or whatever. If I jump out of the car when the traffic lights are red, and hop into another friend’s car just for fun, you think its ‘cool’, and you wanna do it, then do it… Watching and thinking, but not doing prevents you from the thing that you think you wanna be. Whatever that is.
I dunno man, its all relative. If you’re in a group that does 'boring' things, but you’re having a blast, then that’s cool to you. That’s all that matters. Why compare.
How ironic, on the exact same day that friend was lamenting to me about her ‘uncoolness’, I went to watch a movie with a group of friends, and my passenger who is in the ‘cool’ category asked me who else is going. When I told her, her response was “Eyer, why such lame people.” I know it was a joke, and she didn’t mean it, but it was just very bad timing and it got me really annoyed.
It was the exact reason why I wouldn’t wanna be labeled ‘cool’.
I don’t think I’m ‘cool’ anyway.
I have 'boring' hobbies that are mostly done quietly on my own, which i think are cool though.
One of my old school mates summed me up as being this character:
Eh-hyuk...Eh-hyuk...!
(He hardly epitomises the concept of 'cool')
*Take not that there's cool and there's 'cool'...*
Huh? And what kind is that?
I was talking to a friend who was saying that she felt herself to be a person that would be forgotten about years down the road, and thinks when there are things like reunions, she would be missed out.
She went on to say I’m the type thats outgoing, can change the mood of the room or whatever, and I replied: It’s the hair.
Jokes aside, I was actually a little offended and defensive to be put into that category, even though I know it wasn’t meant in the way I’m thinking. Why I didn’t like it was I don’t like the idea of me being associated with the ‘populars’ of any social group. Sad to say, when I think ‘popular’, it’s more negative than positive that comes to mind. Words that are related to popular are things like ‘cool’, in-crowd, and happening. Bleh.
These are some of the things that I don’t want to be associated with:
1. ‘Cool’, so means will give only certain people the time of day, those equally ‘cool’ and happening.
2. Don’t wanna mingle with a different crowd. I can’t stand it when I ask people out and their first response is, “Who else is going?” Urgh.
3. Find things lame and will respond unenthusiastically because it’s not ‘cool’.
4. Make others feel un‘cool’; can be done by the way they speak and topics broached.
I’m talking in terms of a broader social setting, like in a club or society. Not the friends that you hang out with. This is not the same as having cliques. Obviously we all have our circle of good/best friends. It’s when the different circles are in the same setting, it sucks when the ‘cool’ people make others feel ‘uncool’. But it doesn’t mean that a noisier group is any more ‘happening’. Man, I dislike the term ‘cool’.
I've heard several times people mention they wish they were in a different group because so-and-so is there, and its got more 'happening' people, so more fun. My response is, why don't you work on your group dynamics and make it 'happening'; its so unfair to dump people that way.
Then again, of course there’s always the other side where it’s also the responsibility of the quiet, shy, ‘boring’ people to do something about what they perceive to be their duller group or whatever. If I jump out of the car when the traffic lights are red, and hop into another friend’s car just for fun, you think its ‘cool’, and you wanna do it, then do it… Watching and thinking, but not doing prevents you from the thing that you think you wanna be. Whatever that is.
I dunno man, its all relative. If you’re in a group that does 'boring' things, but you’re having a blast, then that’s cool to you. That’s all that matters. Why compare.
How ironic, on the exact same day that friend was lamenting to me about her ‘uncoolness’, I went to watch a movie with a group of friends, and my passenger who is in the ‘cool’ category asked me who else is going. When I told her, her response was “Eyer, why such lame people.” I know it was a joke, and she didn’t mean it, but it was just very bad timing and it got me really annoyed.
It was the exact reason why I wouldn’t wanna be labeled ‘cool’.
I don’t think I’m ‘cool’ anyway.
I have 'boring' hobbies that are mostly done quietly on my own, which i think are cool though.
One of my old school mates summed me up as being this character:
Eh-hyuk...Eh-hyuk...!
(He hardly epitomises the concept of 'cool')
*Take not that there's cool and there's 'cool'...*
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Food Firsts
Ages ago, Sharon was telling me about this place on the mainland, Autocity area, that has chocolate fondue and so one night we decided to go. However, we miscalculated the area's closing time, and arrived too late. Finally, TGIF, another horrid exam paper over meant i could celebrate.
Sing it now
"...Ice ice baby...dung dung dung dung dung dung dung...Ice ice baby..."
(they were not very good at posing)
Ipoh has a branch as well, and i went there in February but the only pic i have of the place is this, which has nothing to do with the actual shop.
Ice Ice Baby is quite nice, it has the dim lighting thing going on. We sat out the back in a corner, away from all the noisy chatter.
Above is a pub and restaurant, called Tao i think, there was live music playing and the selection of songs were good, almost oldies and some new stuff. Unfortunately, the singer though not too bad, wasn't exactly American Idol quality.
The fondue arrived and we dug in. Its alright for a first try with friends, something fun, but for RM21, i don't think i would order it again. The pot actually isn't that deep (deceiving!) and the fruits were stuff like watermelon, honeydew, lychee, banana and apple. Oh yeah, and 2 pathetic strawberries.
We observed that none of the other fruits actually tasted good slathered in chocolate except banana. I suspect that they simply chuck a bunch of fruit together, regardless of weather it compliments the taste. Sharon, who mistook the honeydew for sengkuang, suggested maybe it was a local version. I had a hard time trying not to compare it to the chocolate fountain experience i had with Rudi a while back.
After getting back at almost *cough cough* 5am, i had to get up again at 7am because i had breakfast plans. I had never been to the 'famous' soft boiled eggs and roti bakar place near the airport , so finally i was going.
Its a coffee shop, painted blue, along the side of the main road that leads to the airport. The last time i was supposed to go, the place was closed. As you can see, the sun is still just rising...
While waiting for the eggs to come, there is a gang of small pyramids sitting in the middle of the table, tempting you as you hungrily have no choice but to look at them. The sambal wasn't like sambal though, very dry but when you're hungry, anything goes.
The roti bakar came, and its all cut up nice into little small squares, which i like cause it makes it easy to dip into the egg. Something unique about this place is there's a sugar dispenser on the table for you to sprinkle sugar onto your bread. Sarah went a bit overboard with it though, but she said its cause she put too much soya sauce in her eggs.
The eggs...Oh yum!
Its not easy to find places that can make soft boiled eggs to the EXACT consistency where its not too undercooked that the egg white is transparent, and yet not just-that-little-bit overcooked where there are bits of mushy play-doh like yolk. I hate those bits, and it spoils my telur separuh masak moment, cause i either have to take them mushy bits out beforehand or avoid them while dipping in my bread.
The pricing is listed, and take note they are CLOSED on Mondays.
I wanna go again. Anyone who wants to bring me out for breakfast, please don't hesitate to ask so long as we go there.
=p
Next food place i wanna go to is Crepe Cottage along Gurney Drive. I've not gone there in more than a year, and i missed going with my CG members last month. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Sing it now
"...Ice ice baby...dung dung dung dung dung dung dung...Ice ice baby..."
(they were not very good at posing)
Ipoh has a branch as well, and i went there in February but the only pic i have of the place is this, which has nothing to do with the actual shop.
Ice Ice Baby is quite nice, it has the dim lighting thing going on. We sat out the back in a corner, away from all the noisy chatter.
Above is a pub and restaurant, called Tao i think, there was live music playing and the selection of songs were good, almost oldies and some new stuff. Unfortunately, the singer though not too bad, wasn't exactly American Idol quality.
The fondue arrived and we dug in. Its alright for a first try with friends, something fun, but for RM21, i don't think i would order it again. The pot actually isn't that deep (deceiving!) and the fruits were stuff like watermelon, honeydew, lychee, banana and apple. Oh yeah, and 2 pathetic strawberries.
We observed that none of the other fruits actually tasted good slathered in chocolate except banana. I suspect that they simply chuck a bunch of fruit together, regardless of weather it compliments the taste. Sharon, who mistook the honeydew for sengkuang, suggested maybe it was a local version. I had a hard time trying not to compare it to the chocolate fountain experience i had with Rudi a while back.
After getting back at almost *cough cough* 5am, i had to get up again at 7am because i had breakfast plans. I had never been to the 'famous' soft boiled eggs and roti bakar place near the airport , so finally i was going.
Its a coffee shop, painted blue, along the side of the main road that leads to the airport. The last time i was supposed to go, the place was closed. As you can see, the sun is still just rising...
While waiting for the eggs to come, there is a gang of small pyramids sitting in the middle of the table, tempting you as you hungrily have no choice but to look at them. The sambal wasn't like sambal though, very dry but when you're hungry, anything goes.
The roti bakar came, and its all cut up nice into little small squares, which i like cause it makes it easy to dip into the egg. Something unique about this place is there's a sugar dispenser on the table for you to sprinkle sugar onto your bread. Sarah went a bit overboard with it though, but she said its cause she put too much soya sauce in her eggs.
The eggs...Oh yum!
Its not easy to find places that can make soft boiled eggs to the EXACT consistency where its not too undercooked that the egg white is transparent, and yet not just-that-little-bit overcooked where there are bits of mushy play-doh like yolk. I hate those bits, and it spoils my telur separuh masak moment, cause i either have to take them mushy bits out beforehand or avoid them while dipping in my bread.
The pricing is listed, and take note they are CLOSED on Mondays.
I wanna go again. Anyone who wants to bring me out for breakfast, please don't hesitate to ask so long as we go there.
=p
Next food place i wanna go to is Crepe Cottage along Gurney Drive. I've not gone there in more than a year, and i missed going with my CG members last month. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Beetle Genocide
Shel: How come there are so many of these beetles lying dead nowadays? They're everywhere!
Sarah: Dunno.
Shel: Is it because this is Penang?
Sarah: Huh?
Shel: You know...Land of the beetle-nut...Hur hur hur.
Sarah: *smacks forehead* (Hers not mine, though i'm sure she was tempted)
(I hope the Penangites know this landmark...They should.)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Mamak Time Out
"Is there something between you two?" asked the Carp sitting opposite me, as he gazed at his laptop screen.
"Obviously not! Funny la you..." I replied, tickled at the question.
It's so normal when males and females befriend each other, people assume there may be something more.
Just cause the dude is considered good looking...Tall...Has a decent body...Is a really nice, friendly, sincere...
;p
I was joking (take note the word joke means not serious) to Wai Wai the other day, asking her if she knew anyone in Penang i could have a fling with for the next 2weeks before i leave. Sadly there's no one on the list that fulfills the himbo requirements. I don't actually want to like the guy, just decent enough to enjoy time with, flirt flirt a bit, take me to all the romantic dating spots in Penang before I leave for good.
Which reminds me, i wanna do two things if possible- hike into Pantai Keracut again but this time stay to watch the sunset and go up to Penang Hill near sunset to view Penang at night.
I finally did the one thing that i've not done in USM all my 3 years here, and now i wish i did it sooner:
Swimming at the USM pool
It is located at the other end of the world, and i guess it was the distance and self confidence that held me back. Well, Sue Min and i went 2 weeks ago, and the first 15mins was figuring out HOW to wear the swimming caps, a compulsory item.
Trust me when i say its not easy to put on when you have long hair.
I think it was pretty obvious we were first timers considering all the posing and photo taking. But so what, we final years can do what we like.
Coincidentally, our lifeguard friend CC was there too, and his friend had an underwater camera casing and so with much difficulty :
Its really not that easy to make your body stay underwater. CC makes it look like a breeze and can even pose, while Sue Min and i... Lets just say we took several shots before finally getting one that looked decent.
Chia Hoey came along to be out photographer.
The best thing about the pool?
Its wonderful surroundings. Trees all around and this glorious sight as the sun went down.
*Happy!*
"Obviously not! Funny la you..." I replied, tickled at the question.
It's so normal when males and females befriend each other, people assume there may be something more.
Just cause the dude is considered good looking...Tall...Has a decent body...Is a really nice, friendly, sincere...
;p
I was joking (take note the word joke means not serious) to Wai Wai the other day, asking her if she knew anyone in Penang i could have a fling with for the next 2weeks before i leave. Sadly there's no one on the list that fulfills the himbo requirements. I don't actually want to like the guy, just decent enough to enjoy time with, flirt flirt a bit, take me to all the romantic dating spots in Penang before I leave for good.
Which reminds me, i wanna do two things if possible- hike into Pantai Keracut again but this time stay to watch the sunset and go up to Penang Hill near sunset to view Penang at night.
I finally did the one thing that i've not done in USM all my 3 years here, and now i wish i did it sooner:
Swimming at the USM pool
It is located at the other end of the world, and i guess it was the distance and self confidence that held me back. Well, Sue Min and i went 2 weeks ago, and the first 15mins was figuring out HOW to wear the swimming caps, a compulsory item.
Trust me when i say its not easy to put on when you have long hair.
I think it was pretty obvious we were first timers considering all the posing and photo taking. But so what, we final years can do what we like.
Coincidentally, our lifeguard friend CC was there too, and his friend had an underwater camera casing and so with much difficulty :
Its really not that easy to make your body stay underwater. CC makes it look like a breeze and can even pose, while Sue Min and i... Lets just say we took several shots before finally getting one that looked decent.
Chia Hoey came along to be out photographer.
The best thing about the pool?
Its wonderful surroundings. Trees all around and this glorious sight as the sun went down.
*Happy!*
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
27 Dresses
The other day 10 of us watched 27 Dresses good fun show and i really enjoyed the witty, sarcastic and hilarious lines, and the banter between the main characters. Of course, my friends ventured into the topic of marriage. In fact, of late the topic has come up quite a number of times when I’m with different people, mainly females. Some say they wanna get married by 25, one was determined to make it by 26, and most say MUST get married before they hit 30.
So, the other day for fun my roommate and I went through the class list to see who’s attached. Out of 30, 17 are attached, and 5 of those are engaged, with plans to either get married this year or within the next 2years.
Whoa.
Outta 30, 5 engaged.
Quite a lot lor.
As of now, current point in my life, i have zero desire to even think about the idea of getting married. I don't have any hopes or dreams, or any particular longing to start a family. Am i weird? Maybe.
Sure when i watch romance movies the cuddly, rosy ideas float through my head, but then it passes. I think i know what i want and since i know its not possible or likely in the near future, why be unrealistic.
BUT i'm super duper excited for others to get married, kekeke...
Perhaps in 'that' way i can relate to the Jane in the movie. Happy when others are happy.(?)
Recently another two friends of mine got together, and they're the kind of people you hope will pair up, you know will pair up and really enjoy seeing them paired up. I believe they can go all the way.
I jokingly told some PKA friends that since there are about 30 of us graduating this year, if 2 get married each year, we'll be able to meet up twice a year for the next 15 years!
Quite cool eh?!
We're predicting who will be the first of the attached to send out the pink envelope.
=p
*Best thing i liked about the movie was that they got married a year later.*
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Sign Language
Last week while driving around with my parents, my mom pointed out this unusual sign next to the school gate, and i have to agree its pretty funny...
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Andrew, wasn't this your school?
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Andrew, wasn't this your school?
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