Happy New Year... It's the dawn of a new year, and one more step closer to STPM... *sigh*

This past holiday i have totally neglected my studies, so from 3 January onwards... must work harder...

and, today i saw a Pantomine.. "Cinderella" by The Actor's Studio in KLPAC. Pretty entertaining.... Elaine Daly, who plays Cinderella was quite a beauty as well. and they really managed to poke fun at the current issues in Malaysia.

All and all, best wishes for the new year. Love and Peace.

personally, i will be the first to admit that i like Jang Dong Gun... hold on a mo, cross that out, i LOVE him... but even I cannot tolerate The Promise.

no offence to fellow Jang Dong Gun fans out there ( perhaps people like Min Fuah), but the whole movie was hilarious( something i don't think the director actually set out to do), here are a few examples of the corn-fest:

1. the "tear jerking(not)""LOVE STORY"(huge emphasis on quatation mark) crafted by the author was...(well... lets just say that M&B has better romances)... the line that reportedly made legions of fans cry: I quote "²»ÒªËÀ£¬ºÃºÃ»îÏÂÈ¥¡°¡£ sure, i had tears in my eyes... from laughing too much. belly-aching funny? sure... cornily(is there such a word?!)cliche?yup... touching?NO!

2. other examples of cliche/corniness/plain sad(as in pathetic)

• ÕæÕýµÄËÙ¶ÈÊÇ¿´²»µ½µÄ£¬¾ÍÏó·çÆðÔÆÓ¿£¬¾ÍÏóÄã²»ÖªµÀÂäҶʲôʱºò»áµôÏÂÀ´£¬Ó¤¶ùºÎʱ»á³¤³öµÚÒ»¿ÅÑÀ£¬¾ÍÏóÄ㼸ʱ»á°®ÉÏÒ»¸öÈËÒ»Ñù¡£¡£¡££¨am only quoting by memory, by what IS he trying to say? mind you, he said it not once, but TWICE!)
• the bad guy says:Äã»ÙÁËÎÒ×öºÃÈ˵Ļú»á¡£¡£¡£ as if he has anybody else to blame other than himself... perhaps his parents, for not giving him a good spanking...

3. cecilia cheong is ok..(though i don't like her, there may be people who do) but she is sure no Helen Of Troy... who is the director trying to fool?!

so.. altogether, didn't Jang Dong Gun had better choices?!

read a review on the star:Empty Promise

p/s: my cousin went to the premier in Singapore and saw Jang Dong Gun... lucky gal.

p/s/s: do remember to decode the chinese before reading.

a TV series that i was watching just ended... don't laugh at me... i am talking about ½ðÅƱùÈË¡£¡£¡£ that TVB series on 8TV..

i know at out age and of our generation we are suppose to poke fun at TVB serials... being fake and corny and all... but i found this show seriously funny.. and the grouping between ³ÂºÀ who played ¸ßì³ and ¸ÇÃùêÍwho played Áîºüϲwonderfully matched and a beautiful pair... periodical dramas are not really my cup of tea, but this was so outrageous that they actually managed to be funny..

¸ÇÃùêÍis quite convincing as a girl disguising as a man... i think she would make a very convincing »¨Ä¾À¼, though she would be a bit too old for that..

besides that, i am watching É©É©Ê®¾ÅËê¡£¡£ that korean drama on ntv7... although i already know that the girl will finally be paired of with the other guy (seriously not my type) instead of the guy i want her to be paired with (to the T), i am still religiously following the show...doesn't hurt to get some eye candy once in a while...those of u who know,KNOW what i am talking about...weird that he can be such a nice guy in one show and such a baddie in another(the one on 8TV)...hmmm

on a more solemn note, my bro is leaving for singapore on monday...

 

p/s: my dad still hasn't given the green light for BT... anyone can help me burn a few shows i REALLY want?( like the ones mentioned above?)

the was an interesting article in The Sun today... Taken Off The Independent about Female Chauvinist Pigs... the new generation of women who show the world how far(or rather or behind) we have come in "liberating" ourselves (or of our clothes,specifically)...

http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=12257

Personally, i do not have a very high opinion of this people. but maybe that's just me...

I've heard horror stories about people going to disneyland HK and had to fight with the mainlanders for everything... waiting 2 hours for rides, an hour for food and so on. so when me and mum booked the trip, we specifically requested that we didn't want disneyland, at least not for the moment.. But whadda'ya know, as soon as we got to HK, we were informed that we ARE going to disneyland afterall due to a mistake in the bookings, so, not to question fate(or my lucky stars) we went along with it... it IS afterall 350 HKD for a ticket ( all included into the tour)
whoever spread the horror stories must have been spilled a whole rack or spices.. cause disneyland on a saturday was pretty crowded, but not to the extent of scary...if we had gone alone, the i doubt we could have gone in, cause the lines for tickets were soooo long, but we went with a tour, so the tour guide was incharged of getting the tickets from a special line by the tourism board, which was much faster...
we got into the park at 11 am.. half an hour after it officially opens to the crowd... me and my brother went immediately to Tomorrow Land, and covered all the supposely "famous" games... before lunch, we had covered Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blaster and Space Mountain ( where i screamed)... after lunch, we went to all the shows and stuff... all really spectacular.. I liked the Mickey's Philhamagic most... it's a  45 minutes 3D movie where the screen is concave and wide and things really seem like they are in front of you... when donald duck spilled some water, all the audience where sprayed with water from the hidden mechanisms, when cakes where paraded in front of Donald, gases where pump into the theatre so i could smell blueberry... and when he went on Aladdin's Magic carpet, you could almost feel the wind... much better than a similar 4D movie we saw in Shenzhen...
Disneyland at night was cold.. only 14 degrees celsius... the highlight was the firework display, which went on for 30 minutes before the park was almost due to close.... For whoever who thinks of going to Disneyland HK in the near future, i can tell you it is really worth it..
After the rest of the tour group went home to Malaysia the next day, we stayed on for 2 days more as we were originally supposed to visit my kow gong in those two days... instead, we visited my kum po (kow gong's wife) to give her emotional support...inspite of her grief, she has continued working while kow gong's body is yet to be release for ceremonies and in a weird way i think seeing us and bringing everybody out to dinner offered her a change in scenery and a respite from her grief...we went to dim sum restaurants and stuffed ourselves full of the little delights and i tasted the small kuih's that my kow gong and grandma used to love... a bit weird really, having so much fun while someone just died.. but like my yee poh(great aunt) from china says.. life must go on...
The time we had, we really got to see HK... before that the tour was so packed we could hardly wander off by ourselves... we took the tram to the peak and took pictures(Madam Tussaud's was unfortunately closed), took the ferry from HK island to Kowloon, went to Snoopy's World in Sha Tin and wandered around on the MRT... i've discovered two of my favourite shops in HK, which are almost on every street there... Aji-Iciban and Bossini's. Aji Iciban is in KL as well, but the ones they have there are so cheap(compared to outlets in KL) and sooo many more choices... Bossini is a clothing label like PDI in KL, but not carried here... eventhough all the clothes there where long sleeve and hardly practical for Malaysian weather, i couldn't stop myself admiring the lovely designs and the affordability of it all... My aunt says i will surely go crazy if i went there in summer... but it's a catch-22... if i went there in summer it would be too hot to do anything, and if i went there in autumn ( like i just did) it would be too cold to buy anything...

22 Nov, we came home, after a week away... the day before we went to my kow gong's old room and gave jossticks as a sign of respect... I couldn't help but get teary eyed when i hugged my kum poh..she's such a nice and loving person... i sure hope to see her again soon...

Have just come back from HK and missing it already...

Today i thought about my grandma...she's been dead for more than one and a half years and i still find it weird sometimes when i think about her, perhaps about the fact that she's no longer here...

She used to tell me stories, about her past, things that for a long time i have had ingrained in my brain... but lately, i find myself starting to forget...images becoming vague, like some movie i saw a long time ago on TV..

People say that forgetfulness is God's gift to mankind, but what if i don't want to forget?

reading other people's blogs make me think, and sometimes they lead me to things i never knew about some people, like:

* i didn't know soo mei blogged... the fact is, i think she is much more computer literate than i am, cause all my life i hadn't need to worry about things concerning computers... my father and brother handle the gear and my task is to do whatever i want with it..(which explains why this blog is so plain)

* Teck Pei's blog is a jumble of his current thoughts and his worries, which are quite insightful if you know him

*Hui Fen is the ever rational one.... her blogs are long and often thought-provoking... you see very much of her romantic side though

*Vince... well, i've known that guy since form 1, but frankly, i don't think we've talked much besides the casual hello.... from his blog, you do realize that he is quite the new-age sensitive guy... No offence, but i have never seen a guy who puts so many declarations of love in his ramblings that he KNOWS his guy-friends will see....

*Me... well, i'm just a very CONFUSED person... so bear with me.

first of all, let me say one thing...*YUCK*

okay, this is what happened...

today, i was on my way to tuition. I was sitting with Soo Mei on the bus, she got the window seat, i got the isle one. The bus was pretty crowded, so i didn't think much of the person standing next to my seat, and what a big mistake that was...

half way to town, i felt something pushing against my seat... at first i thought it was his belly (and by golly did he had a BIG BELLY... it's one of those they could have used to make the "Berapa Bulan?" commercial) so i didn't think much of it... I scooted in closer to Soo Mei and i told her i wished the guy would leave soon because he was seriously getting on my nerves( at that time, i just didn't realise how ANNOYED i should really be)

Later the creep got of the bus, i was a bit suspicious about what really happened, but didn't voice my suspicions out loud, then this guy sitting in front told me the guy was a "Bian Tai Lao" and my suspicions... i didn't know i was supposed to feel angry, mad or offended... most of all i just felt really really disgusted and yet wanted to laugh out loud considering how pathetic that guy really is... Bumping the seat? come on, get a LIFE...

Chiaw wei tells me what i really should have done was stand up and move somewhere else when i suspected something wasn't quite right. Next time i'll do that, but wiser still, next time i'm taking the WINDOW SEAT.

p/s: for all you would-be perverts out there, i'm considering ordering an electric-stun gun from the States.

p/s/s: better still, i'll just get a pair of good old fashioned SCISSORS!

Hf proposed a great diet tip, am thinking of buying apple cider next time happen to be in supermarket...(wonder what apple cider tastes like though? will it taste positively vile? very curious.)