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Jan 14, 2006
today, there was an article in the star about the perfect man.
anybody, what is YOUR definition of a perfect man?
Posted at 07:51 am by chikuan
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Jan 13, 2006
i have a bad habit.. i like to hide and run away...
dunno why, whenever i am faced with a prospective embarrassing situation, my gut instinct is to dig a hole, hide or to run away...
Instance 1: Saw my tutor when I went to watch Sound Of Music... first reaction when seeing said person coming my way... guess... Well, i was definitely not thinking of greeting him( though i really wanted to), i...(it's a bit embarassing, but the people who WOULD read this blog probably already know) just went and HID BEHIND A PILLAR!!!!(even i can't believe myself sometimes...)
Instance 2: Saw a primary school classmate while shopping in Midvalley... hung my head down and proceeded to walk faster.(loser... )
I did that again today... when will i change?!
p/s: haven't seen or talked to Ling ni in a loooong time... sometimes see her on msn, but she never replies....what happened to her, i wonder?
p/s/s: i am not some type of obssesive compulsive stalker...
p/s/s: or maybe i am...
Posted at 12:54 am by chikuan
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Jan 7, 2006
Finally, it's back to school. Can't help feeling that my holidays went by faster than i wanted it to. Nevermind, CNY is not that very far away....
This would be a tough year, with all the exams and all. But strangely, i am not that very scared(or pressured). Perhaps it's that feeling that no matter how bad i do, i'll still have my safety net(since the requirements for studying that, at least at college level, is not that very high)... as for SATs, worse come to worse i don't take it lar....eventhough that does seems a bit out of character of me... Guess the rejection and time spent in form 6 has done my ego in and changed my type A personality... well...
To everybody, have a good year ahead. Cheers.
Posted at 06:07 pm by chikuan
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Jan 1, 2006
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.
Posted at 06:32 am by chikuan
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Dec 28, 2005
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 "不要死,好好活下去“。 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)
- 真正的速度是看不到的,就象风起云涌,就象你不知道落叶什么时候会掉下来,婴儿何时会长出第一颗牙,就象你几时会爱上一个人一样。。。(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:你毁了我做好人的机会。。。 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.
Posted at 08:53 am by chikuan
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Dec 23, 2005
a TV series that i was watching just ended... don't laugh at me... i am talking about 金牌冰人。。。 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 陈豪 who played 高斐 and 盖鸣晖who played 令狐喜wonderfully 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..
盖鸣晖is quite convincing as a girl disguising as a man... i think she would make a very convincing 花木兰, though she would be a bit too old for that..
besides that, i am watching 嫂嫂十九岁。。 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?)
Posted at 08:16 am by chikuan
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Dec 9, 2005
FCPs-Female Chauvinist Pigs
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...
Posted at 11:13 pm by chikuan
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Nov 23, 2005
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...
Posted at 07:18 pm by chikuan
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Nov 22, 2005
Have just come back from HK and missing it already...
Isn't it strange how fate works sometimes? one of the biggest reasons this trip was arranged was so that we could see how "kow gong", my great uncle was getting on... he has been suffering from a heart problem eversince my grandma was sick... few days before the holidays begin, kow gong was admitted into the hospital, a few days before departure, he passes away in Queen Elizabeth Hospital...we didn't get to see him after all...
In Malaysia, deceased muslims must be buried before the next sunrise... Chinese, especially hokkiens keep the ceremonies going on for a few days depending on how grand the ceremonies are... but in Hong Kong it is different...
As there are only 6 crematoriums to supply the huge population, there is a long wait to use the "furnace"...so, in order to obtain a "space", there is a waiting period of two weeks... when my kow gong died, they had to wait 2 days for a death certificate to be issued, not because the hong kong people are inefficient, but because their system dictates that only a few people have the authority to issue a death certificate... after that, they joined the wait.. 2 weeks... the whole period where the body has to be kept in the morgue and will be taken out one day before the cremation for ceremonies...kow gong will be cremated on the 24th of November... 2 days after we leave...
since the trip could not be cancelled, we went on with it. this is my first trip to Hong Kong, yet it felt so familiar, perhaps because of the fact that i grew up spoon-fed both by TVB serials and my grandma's tales of where she used to live. The tour guide was a nice person, many funny anecdotes.. i took loads of pictures, in Repulse Bay, Wong Tai Shin temple and all the sights. the hi-light of the tour was the free harbour cruise we got the day of arrival. a buffet spread of fresh seafood like mullets, salmon and the best cheesecake i have ever tasted. the view from the "garden" on deck of the ship was spectacular... couldn't take pictures though, the movement of the ship made all the pictures pretty blurry...
the nest day it was off to Shenzhen, where i had the biggest culture shock in my life... while i didn't see any beggars in Hong Kong, a 20 minute train ride away to Shen Zhen brought me face to face with beggars who harrassed people for money and refused to go away... all my money was with mum, so i wasn't obliged to give them anything, but i felt so scared everytime i saw them. not because they were pityful or anything, but because these people were perfectly capable to work and could chase you around for money... as scary as stalkers...
although we did visit a few amazing places in Shenzhen, i was glad when we got back to Hong Kong. as soon as we got onto Commonwealth ground and deposited our stuff at the hotel, it was off to Disneyland...
Posted at 06:45 pm by chikuan
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Oct 29, 2005
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?
Posted at 10:47 am by chikuan
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