How was the weekends?

Saturday – The Amazing Race

Saturday was pure hard work blended with an fantastic coordination and planning that made the Amazing Race such a huge success. And to think that, we managed to pull off the event in just four days. The thought of it is enough to make me float up into the blue sky. The teamwork is great, I have never worked with a team so well before.

These pictures are simply taken from my Bobbing Apple station (where they had to immerse their head into a basin of water to get the apple out) at the Monash University bus stop. I patiently waited with Cheok there for close to two hours. Damn, we were so bored.

I started camwhoring and claimed that kissing an apple was actually apple sex. Haha, my mind does this weird things when it get so bored. Not my fault. :D Hmm, I loved how random these pictures look like. I likey!

 

These people, my dear beloved friends got bored too while waiting at their station which also happens to be the last station. Pity them, but the two guys seem to had plenty of fun attempting pole dancing.

I love this picture. I have always love the idea of having a picture inside another picture. That is Celia and me, by the way. We both feel that we have that copy pasted similar smile in every photographs. Which in my case, is kind of obvious.

And this is Crystie. God, I love how happy she look when she attempts the star jump, where as I always succeeded in looking overly-happy. Which in turns makes me look like shit. :(

A group shot of the committees and the participants. (Though not everyone is in it.)

  Hot Red ICAEW peeps yo!

Thank you all for making this event a success, hope to see you at the next event. CFAB/ICAEW rocks the world.

Candy Themed Nail Swatches

Ah, my nails kind of reminds me of candies. Those super sugary sweet candies that comes in the most lovely, adorable colors that make you want to eat them. Well, that is the purpose of it anyway. Here, I used Thistle from Elianto and Baby Blue from Faceshop. And I just realised that I have the five main colors of the rainbow in nail polishes. My toe nails are rainbow in color now. Awesomeness overload, no?

I shall paint my finger nails in the similar color.

Simple Pink Nail Art Swatches.

I have one thing that I very much would love to do now; my nails. I haven’t given my nails a manicure for such a long time (I think it’s been a week plus already). I removed it for the PwC Firm Visit, don’t think they tolerate Hot Pink there.

 

Simple and sweet, right? I used the Hot Pink from Elianto as the first base for this nail art. Then, I topped it with three coats of Etude shimmer pink nail polish.

This a super short update, I know. I’m kind of busy these days.

Going Nowhere

Being sick is making me crazy; I’m drinking hot Ribena, I ate steamed orange with salt. And I’m going to drink milk with tumeric next. But guess what, I’m still the same. I still have flu and a very annoying dry cough. I couldn’t sleep last night because of the bloody cough. I would cough every bloody minute. I need help. I’m taking my medications but it doesn’t seem to be helping. Mom said, “It takes time.” Time is definitely not on my side; I was supposed to be well today because we’re going for a firm visit today. The last one, my last hope? But, yeah. I had to fall sick and have a manly voice at this point of time.

5-in-1 ; I felt like dying.

Yesterday was miserable for me; I was so sick. It all started with a sore throat; so painful and dry I couldn’t swallow anything. Then, came the blocked and runny nose; the flu. So I took my pills; one for the sore throat and another for the flu. And then suddenly after waking up from my nap, I felt this sharp stab of pain in my pain. The pain was there for at least a few hours, it was so bloody painful, I could have sworn that I’d rather die than suffer in pain.

Why? What happened? It turns out that I was actually allergic to the flu pills. It never crossed my mind at all, I mean the odds of that happening was probably close to (80%)? The point is I didn’t know it could happened. And I’m glad it was over, really. But now, I have a mild case of fever and I’m still taking pills. I’m pretty sure I’m not allergic to Brufen.

And I can’t eat rice or prawns now. My mom put me on strict diet and I had to eat this fresh tomato with salt.

 

Damn. I’m tired of being sick. *coughs coughs*  Yeap, I have a dry cough too now.

The RM 1 Burger King Whopper

I am not a fan Burger King. I do not advocate eating fast food, but I do enjoy eating McDonald’s Fillet-O-Fish. Oh, hell yes. I’m a walking contradiction. In my whole entire lifetime (which is actually not much), I think I have only eaten at Burger King twice (with this visit being the second one).

So, what brings me to BK again? Well, they had this offer where you can get a BK Whopper for only RM 1 with a purchase of a soft drink which cost RM 3.10, in total after tax it’ll be RM 4.30. Oh-so-much-cheaper than McD value meals but for that one day only though.

 There was such a long queue just to get the burgers; it was about 40 minutes long.

Two dine in sets! Another two take away!

The Whopper up close and personal and all mine.

Mwaks.

Happyx Birthdayx to Crystiex Lulux

If you wondering why I add an ‘x’ to the words in my title, it’s because the girl who is celebrating her 18th birthday has a tendency to do so. And I’m doing that in honor of her today. Oh, she also refers to herself from a third person point of view on her blog. So, who is she? Wel, no surprises here, she is one of my BFFs; Crystie!

Ta-da! We managed to surprise her after our Moral examination which was by the way, total crap for me. There are 40 cupcakes there all together with one large candle and eight smaller ones. We got her a dress from Kitschen, currently my favourite place to shop.

The cupcakes were made by Ru Yi’s mom which happens to be the best baker I known. Her fruit tarts are to die for. Hang Ee popped in a penguin as a present too. It’s a cute squeaky one.

The whole lot of our classmates that were there to celebrate.  I love my class, we have surprise parties every month.

Happy Birthday Crys!

Em, trying to look cute like Crys? Failed. :)

Crazehy Third Driving Lesson.

Of all the approximately 750000 words that exist in the English Language, I can’t even find one single word to describe what happened at my driving lesson today. It was tough for me, as usual but it was also a sweaty affair for me today. I was learning how to do the side parking, which I thought was hard at first but I kind of (note: kind of only) like it after a while. The only downside to it was that my instructor turned off the air-con, letting to sweat like as though I was in sauna while trying to maneuver the (stoooooopid) steering wheel 720 degrees to the left then to the right. Hmm, I’m afraid I would forget what I learned today because he taught me how to do the side parking, the three-point-turn and also the slope part. Oh, well, this will definite bore and maybe annoy you but I’m going to write down what he taught me today.

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How to do a Side Parking

1. Put your gear into reverse gear.
2. Reverse until you see the second stick.
3. Turn your steering wheel 720 degrees to your left.
4. Reverse until you see all four sticks behind your car.
5. Turn back your steering wheel 720 degrees to your right.
6. Reverse until your tyre is about 1 feet from the yellow line.
7. Turn your steering wheel 720 degrees to your right.
8. Reverse until the car is in the box. (cont.)

How to do a Three Point Turn

1. (Cont.) Change back to first gear. Do not move your steering wheel at all cause.
2. Slowly release clutch and start moving forward.
3. Adjust your car until you’re moving in a straight line.
4. Then, turn to your right until you almost reach the pavement.
5. Pull the handbrake and change your gear to reverse gear.

SHIT. I FORGOT ALREADY. 

 

Okay, okay. Wait. I think it was…..

1. Turn 1440 degrees to your left and slowly reverse. Stop when the car almost reaches the yellow line.
2. Press on the brake and pull the handbrake.
3. Change your gear back to first gear.
4. Slowly move forward.

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I think that was all. And please, please, please do correct me if I’m wrong. I’ll be going for my fourth lesson this Thursday. I hope I won’t ‘mati engine’ at the junctions and traffic lights like I did today. I hope I won’t get honked again, I hope the world would be more considerate towards beginner’s driver like me. Well, one can only wish,

Hell-ish Driving Lesson.

Do trust me when I said it was hell for me. I felt as if I was in a horrible dream that I couldn’t wake up from especially during the last one hour of the lesson. The best thing is that I’m going for another two hours of lesson tomorrow. God, save me.

So, why was it so bad today compared to yesterday? Simply because he brought me to drive in;

1. A rather large road with plenty, plenty, plenty and plenty of cars zig-zagging here and there with multiple traffic lights at one go. That would mean I have to change from the second or third gear to the first. And then, there is the part where I have to break to stop but the Kancil brake sucks so much that I have to step harder.
2. Garden roads where the roads become super tiny and it’s two way traffic. Which means that I cannot, I CANNOT cross the line that separates between one lane with the another, because then I would obviously crash.
3. Roads with at least 100 bumps. I’m not exaggerating. Okay, fine. So maybe the roads didn’t have 100 bumps, but he made me practice on the same road again and again.
4. Roads with corners, you know, those stupid roads with the arrow signs at the side. Again, I had to drive through these roads again and again. My instructor have to hold and adjust my steering for this. But the thing was that he went so so close to a Myvi when he did that for me. Am I supposed to drive like that next time?
5. Junctions! I found out that I actually suck oh-so-very-badly in junctions. I ‘mati engine’ about 3 times here, I guess I panicked because I had to change gears, step on the clutch and brakes too.
6. Turnings and U-turns. I’m quite bad in this area too because apparently I like to swing my steering wheel after making a turn. God, when will they change those sucking steering wheels into power steerings?

Gah. It was bad. Period. I don’t want to relive that memory again. Hopefully I won’t suck so much tomorrow.

Three, oh, three! ; My 1st Driving Lesson

God. Driving manual is tiring and oh-so-stressful, especially when it is your first time driving, and your instructor who speaks Cantonese (and you understand about 80% of what he says only) lets you drive the tiny red Kancil around roads which have cars parked on both sides of the road, making a three lane road into one and then asking you to drive on the highway without giving much notice in advance and you suddenly find yourself caught amongst all these gigantic, mean, fast moving cars and you just started learning to handle the clutch, brake, accelerator, gear one, gear two, gear three and signals about an hour plus ago – your mind keeps questioning you, “What the hell are you doing?”.

Oh, yea. That was kind of half of what happened today during my first lesson. Honestly when my instructor, Micheal came to pick me up, I have no idea what to expect from the first lesson. I thought maybe I’ll just listen to some boring chatter about the mechanics of the car. Well, he did that too; you know explaining about the gears and clutch.. bla bla bla. When he was done, he muttered something that sounded like, “Okay, now it’s your turn to drive.”

I was like, “WHAAAAAAAAAAATTT? So fast? Now?!”

So, there I sat at the driver’s seat and for the first time, I started the engine and the car moved. Haha, before dying off about 3 times, that is. But eh, I ‘mati engine’ only three times on my first lesson. I think that is pretty good, plus the Kancil didn’t mati engine when I was driving, it died when I tried to start driving. Oh, yea. I guess that makes me a pretty good first time driver. Can’t wait for my next lesson tomorrow.

And I think I heard a sigh from Micheal when I told him I wanted another lesson tomorrow. Man, I suck?

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It’s October 1st. Sighs. It was a bad day. I started my day playing SimCity Metropolis. (It’s a very addictive game, I can play for hours using my phone.)

And then I had a brunch of fish ball noodles which was mediocre compared to the one sold near Pudu Market at night. Then, I got into a huge misunderstanding with Teddy. Argued like hell; things finally settled after two hours or so. Tried to find the text style widget for Twitter but couldn’t. However I persevere and I finally managed too! Look at my sidebar now. I decided to modify the Twitter badge I found online, personalized it and voila, this is what you get! So do follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/KahMunHong.

 

After that, I got a call informing me that I was shortlisted for an internship and will soon be going through an interview with them. The call got me jumpy and I was in a worse state compared to before the call. I got an earful from my parents about it too.

Honestly, I’m very very tired of waiting. I don’t like this feeling of anxiety; this feeling, that just maybe after all that had happened, after all that I have turned down, I was to lose it all. I’m sick of waiting. How much longer do I have to go through this?

Oh my! Stationaries?

I know I have been MIA-ing from my blog for about a week plus; well let’s just say I’m pretty busy with tonnes of activities.

My weekends was gone to a Homestay Programme in Perak (I’ll be blogging about it soon) and the following weekdays was spent in college. By the time I came back home after college, I’ll be too tired to even lift my finger. So, what more about blogging. On those nights I slept around 11 pm, which is early for an insomniac like me.

So, I thought I’ll post a filler first.

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Alice in Wonderland themed journals! God, these look so pretty. :)

I could really use something like that. Hint hint. :D 

I love to blog-hop from one blog shop to another; it has become like my favorite hobby recently and I stumbled into Aly & Kate. And my, it’s not usual blog shop that sells clothes. They sell preeeeeeettty stationaries. They have planners, journals, decoration stickers… anything you name, they have it.

I want this! God, I love polaroids.

Ballerina rubber stamps.

Do drop by there, clicking on the pictures would bring you to their blogshop.

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Maybe you do know, maybe you don’t know yet, or maybe you do know now that I am so so in love with papers, notebooks, planners, journals... basically stationaries. I have always wanted a Moleskin notebook which costs around RM 90 for one. The funny thing is I know if I were to buy one of those Moleskin notebook, I could never bring myself to use it.

 

I got this notebook for my birthday from Kimmy about a few years back and till today I haven’t touch the book yet.

Guess what, I still want more and more notebooks!

The Best Beef Noodles in the World

Trust me. That statement is not an exaggeration and it is a factual statement. Don’t believe me? Try heading down to Jalan Tengkat Tong Shin. Try finding the Ngau Kee Beef Noodles stall. And then try to literally die from eating the noodles because it is so god damn heavenly.

 Seriously. Just look at the amount of minced beef.

Before you dig into the noodles, take a deep breathe and smell the aroma of it. It’s enough to make you salivate. Like really. Then, mix the generous amount of minced beef with the noodles. And dig in!

And this is the soup with beef balls. This is even better stuff.

The soup as clear as it seems, is actually really rich with beefy taste to it. It is hard for me to describe something so delicious as no words in my vocabulary fits the bill. Either I need to read more, or you should just try it yourself.

The chili sauce is not bad too.

The stall looks like this.

The neon signboard! You definitely can’t miss this at night.

The place is so old. Tree vines had actually grown on the wall.

So, if you haven’t try Ngau Kee beef noodles before, I strongly recommend you try this. You won’t regret making that life changing decision. Though, I must warn you in advance. You might get addicted to it, I know I do. :)

The Last Raya Holidays

Honestly speaking, most of my Raya holidays was spent on studying and preparing myself for the Law Final E-Exam. Initially, I thought one week plus was a long time to study for Law. So, I took my own very sweet time to study. Like half a chapter a day and on some days, I didn’t touch the book. I finally realized that if I continue revising this way, I wouldn’t be able to finish the syllabus on the week of the examination.

It is kind of stupid for me to take that long to realize that. In the days to follow, I set the target of reading a few chapters a day; which for me proved to be an impossible feat. But in the end, I did manage to finish all the chapters with the questions along – of course, it took me many midnight oils to burn to accomplish that. So now all I’ve got to do is wait for my results to be out later in the day, should be around 4.30 pm.

[Edit: The results is finally out. I passed. Oh, boy. I’m washed with relief.]

It was obviously a very mundane routine for me during the holidays except for some occasional incidents involving Kah Lok. Trust me, his antics are really humorous. Take this for example.

He saw the Pooh bear’s butt from the kitchen and he said, “Eee yer. Barrr-tooock.” And it’s so funny if you can hear the way he said it.

In the very same week too, my daddy trimmed Kah Lok’s hair as it was getting bushy. Plus, we had this old *idon’tknowhatitiscalled* thingy (shown in the picture above). All you got to do is comb the hair, and voila! It’s trimmed.

Mommy decided to hose him down with water after that because he wanted it. Haha. He really like the water. But funny thing is he doesn’t want to learn how to swim. He rather just floats around.

The last day of freedom?

I’m about to blog about how much my life sucks when I realized all I have been blogging recently was actually more of rants; on basically the fact that my life do suck. But really, today is bad. On the ‘bright’ side, I found out I had a super power!

I think I have an innate ability to just screw things up and along the way, hurting other people. And I’m sorry.

Anyway, I wouldn’t actually say it’s like the last day of freedom. Well, it’s more like the last day to enjoy myself before my Assurance 6 hours lecture class begins. By then, I would probably be obligated to study my manual and that I won’t have time like today to watch Clash of the Titans.

Stockpiling my highlighters in preparation for my Assurance class. And of course, my manual is the one on top. 

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