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Ah today's the day of triple 7 - 7th July 2007. Don't know what the big deal is since it's just the same digits in a date. For me, today's the day with many events.

Labels: birthdays, marriage, party, weather

After months of waiting and anticipation, good news greeted me today - I got accepted into Year 3 of the University of Tasmania (UTAS) program at KDU. I'm quite excited, really. Now I can look forward and plan to fly off in July 2008. So yay me!

Labels: kdu, life, weather

Just got back not too long ago from my 7-hour long visit to Bangsar. The plan was to initially have yum char with Joshy and Mark at Devi's Corner but oh boy did plans change.

So I got to Bangsar (had to park bloody far cos there weren't any parking nearby) at about 3ish and made my way to Devi's when I got a phone call from Joshy to meet at Social instead. Ok lah what the heck right? I'm damn pokai lah but Joshy and Mark were nice enough to belanja me :p

I thought we were just gonna hang out at Social when they decided to go bar hopping. And we did for about 7 hours. Bumped into James along the road and he too was off to meet some friends for drinks. James went off his merry way and the rest of us decided to head to D'haven for some happy hours (as if not happy enough already lol!). Found out Steph was yum charring herself with Willy and another friend at Pelita. Dropped by to say hi for a bit and headed back to D'haven.

As we happily gulped our poisons, a familiar face walked by and lo and behold it was Stacy and Rama. Stace joined us for a bit and chit chatted as the sky turned from day to night in almost an instant. See, screwed up weather. Stace then left to meet some friends at Starbucks.

So after having had our beers, I decided to ring James up to see where he is and yup, he was just opposite the road at T-Club and yup, we left D'haven to continue at T-Club with some more beers and whiskey. There I met JIJI!!! Oh wow I've not seen this woman for the longest time. It's good to finally see her again after all this time. We did a little bit of catching up and we hung out there for what seemed to be an eternity. Joshy and Mark's friend, Lin joined us later and next thing I knew, tequila shots were going around. I had to decline cos I had to drive back [insert shocked and horrified expressions here].

Yeah, the last place I was at was at T-Club before heading for home at 10pm. We were having so much fun that I didn't even realise it had started to rain. Thank goodness I brought my faithful brolly along (and dear ol Joshy thought I brought it to shield myself from the sun -__-)

What I planned to be a simple and casual yum char session turned out to be an all-out drinkfest. And I kinda liked how it turned out :)

Labels: bangsar, drinking, weather, yum char

I'm feeling extremely groggy and lethargic for some reason. It's either the gloomy atmosphere and cool air or I'm falling sick. I'm really hoping it's the former.

As I sit here in my bedroom with eyes glued to the monitor and a cancer stick in my mouth, my head is spinning as I try to decide what to do for the rest of the day. There's no squash today (booo!) and most likely, no badminton either. The contingency workout plan would be the 4km walk at the TTDI park.

Seeing how groggy and wonky I feel, I hope it happens. The weather's awefully tempting to sleep in. Also hoping that it doesn't rain again. It was raining the whole night last night right up till this morning. I wonder if anyone's building an ark...

On another issue, Adam, Gaz and Jen will be flying in from the UK next Saturday for their 3 week visit to Malaysia and I'm gonna play Mr. Tourguide / Taximan (YAY!). Also coming to KL is JOSHY POSHY! Josh is flying in on the 19th from Adelaide. Josh, if you're reading this, you better remember to give me a call. Then we can sekali harung hang out with Adam and co. I'm praying I don't get us lost in the streets of KL considering how poor my knowledge of KL roads is.

*fingers crossed*

Sigh. For now, gonna rest up and hope I feel better before my walk in the park with Hogs and Mei Yee. Toodles!

Labels: blahs, malaysia, visits, weather, workout

My modem, that is.

I just got back from what was supposed to be a brief yum char session with Tiny and Zila at the coffee shop down the road of my house.

We got stuck there because the rain decided to imprison us inthe coffee shop. The lightning sure made it fun (I hate lightnings, by the way).

There I was enjoying my plate of char kuey teow when the sky fell and unleashed its fury on us unsuspecting customers.

Tiny: Ahh this kind of rain sure won't be long wan

Rubbish.

Millions of beads of terror fell from the sky and almost banjir-ed the roads. I bet KL is having a gleeful time with mud and debris floating all over the place.

While we were enjoying the torrential rain and lightning fest, the power tripped THREE times! And guess who was just seated below the power box? Me.

Nasib didn't get fried like the fried kuey teow I was having.

Labels: lightning, rain, weather, yum char

The day started out alright. My sleep pattern seems to be returning to 'normal'. I use the apostrophes cos I don't think sleeping by 3AM is normal for most :p

Just got back from gym not too long ago just when it started to rain. Our weather's seriously messed up (I'd like to use kind words when referring to it. Don't want to kena sambar petir one day).

Just yesterday I was talking to Tiny about Michael Backman's column on Malaysia and he posed me a rather interesting question - "If channeling our funds to infrastructures could be done away with, which avenue should the money go to?"

My first answer was education and I continued to suggest that perhaps our medical research projects. The reason for this is that our funds could be used to benefit Malaysians across the board and funding medical researches could mean locally produced vaccines and/or other medicines rather than outsourcing such projects that would incur heavy costs.

Of course, I said these things out of sheer opinion and point of view. Then, when I was browsing thru The Star Online last night, here's what caught my attention - 'Need To Make Our Own Vaccines' (The Star Online, 13 June 2007)

So yes, I'm very crever. Haha!

Who knows, maybe I'll write a thesis on Malaysia and its policies for my Masters or Doctorate one day *wishful thinking*

Labels: gym, malaysia, michael backman, newspaper, politics, weather

Well, the day went pretty well. Weather was the fuzziest I've ever seen. One minute bright and sunshiny-till-the-point-of-burning-my-eyeballs and the next dark and gloomy.

BUT the best part of the day was my mom.

So we were sitting in the living room watching Friends on Star World and of course, the usual ads came on. Only one got my mom's attention - the new Hugo Boss ad featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.



Mom: *SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAL* MY BOYFRIEND!!

Me: OMG?! O_O

Mom: He's sooooooooooo sexy! (I think she drooled a bit when she said it)

Me: Uh umm yeah ok.

Mom: Why aren't you that sexy?

Me: (What the.. WHAT?!) *clears throat* I will be one day! You'll see!

Mom: WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!


Nothing like the support of your loving mom eh? *cry*

I have to admit, Jonathan Rhys Meyers is hot. I could die in his eyes.

Labels: celebrity, conversations, funnies, jonathan rhys meyers, mom, weather