How was your 2009?

Year 2010 is coming soon, so this is to conclude year 2009!

1.What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
++ Stay in hostel with a ready made friend

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
++ I don't remember if I made any resolution but I already made new ones since November

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
++ Hmm , not that I know of. My auntie did but I'm not close to her.

4.Did anyone close to you die?
++ Nope

5.What countries did you visit?
++ I didn't go out of the country

6.What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
++ Fitness, knowledge and discipline

7.What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
++ I don't have a specific dates etched, it's all just very random

8.What was your biggest achievement of the year?
++ Finishing my final year project successfully. It looked bleak for a while but I would call it a success

9. What was your biggest failure?
++ I don't recall

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
++ Well, I tripped and made a huge wound on my left knee, then there's the normal flu and cough + sore throat. Muscle cramps from lack of warm up

11. What was the best thing you bought?
++ Oh man, where to start lol .. my clothes, my nail polishes, my lens, Jay MV DVD

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
++ Skip question

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
++ Ah lots! I can't even specify

14. Where did most of your money go?
++ Books, clothes, food


15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
++ Finishing Final Year Project

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
++ Taylor Swift = Love Story

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
Every year I'm somewhat in the middle
b) thinner or fatter?
Proud to announce, 8 kg thinner :D
c) richer or poorer?
About the same, I save little and spend more every year

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
++ Work harder on my assignments. Save more money. Realize fitness was way important earlier of the year.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
++ Wasting time. Eat unhealthy food. Buy predictable chic lit books

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
++ At home with tapao meals lol

21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
++ Nope, not in love

22. How many one-night stands?
++ I don't do those

23. What was your favorite TV program?
++ Desperate Housewives and I picked up How I met your mother

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
++ Did I hate Hannah Montana last year?

25. What was the best book you read?
++ One of them would be Sophie Kinsella's - Remember me


26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
++ Nah, I'll stick to Jay *hearts*

27. What did you want and get?
++ A new phone, my handsome Sleek

28. What did you want and not get?
++ Hmm, I think I'm done with my wishlist for now

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
++ I don't remember what I watched but definitely not New Moon

30. What did you do on your birthday?
++ The paralympic opening ceremony. Unique

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
++ More laughter and less anger

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
++ More dark and fitting

33. What kept you sane?
++ The people around me


34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
++ Oh, Neil Patrick Harris. He's awesome as Barney Stinson

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
++ I don't keep up with politics

36. Who did you miss?
++ I miss a lot of people

37. Who was the best new person you met?
++ All my new friends !

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
++ Don't trust anyone, anyone could just stab you in the back

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
++ Geez, so many songs ..

Class trip - non educational

Last Wednesday we finished our FYP and by next Monday we had a little DM class gathering. It was a fairly easy event as there are only 10 of us in class.

After 2 semester of going through crazy consultation and late night work, it's time to enjoy one last time before we break apart.

Everyone was present except for Yassier and Helmi.

We had our lunch at Chilli's. Om nom nom.

* photographs credit to Elian

Peace lunch - Deena, Jo and Elian

Half of the girls in class - me, Elian and Laini

Laini with the boys who were busy watching soccer game - West Ham vs Chelsea.

A group photo before Farah arrived.

Me and Laini's huge faces. LOL


My beautiful spicy mashed potatoes. I had cucuk udang for breakfast. It was delish!

After lunch and about 10 mins of digestion walk, we went for our movie.


Movie of the day :- Ninja assassin.

We sat one row from F2 to F9. The movie was fairly okay, not my cup of tea and I cringe at every slashing, bleeding part but still enjoyable.

After the movie, we parted ways. :(

Yet, we are not going home without camwhoring with the beautiful Christmas decoration around!

What's left of us - Jo, me, Elian with Farah and Deena peace - ing behind.


Crazy faces. I love my nose. XD

Photo in a photo.

Me and Deena trying to act cute. Epic fail lor.


Jo doesn't like me kissing her. Ngek ngek ~~

Reached home about 8-ish but it was fun. I wish we can gather again someday and have camwhore fun! Or another movie!

The rest of the photos are in my facebook!

Take off your clothes and put mine on!

Last Sunday the long awaiting dress gathering happened. Since I finally finished my FYP, I began catching up my social life. This gathering was way overdue.

So what happened was we gathered our clothes and our make up etc etc and head to Lily's house.

Here's some photos, the rest will be upload in full album in facebook.






The smiling pillow fight -.-'

Pink and red combination *love*

I like our lips in this photo!




Happy Chinese New Year! LOL ..

Twas a fun life size Barbie experience. I *heart* my girls!

5th anniversary

Today is a significant date in my life.

It's been 5 years but I still remember this date as clear as day.

5 years ago, right now I would be in the bus , feeling miserable, my DIGI line no coverage , the sky getting darker as I was brought to some unknown place for the next 3 months. I left from Putrajaya Central that morning.

Tonight I would have scraps for dinner and cried myself to sleep. The next 3 months seems bleak.
5 years later, I finally finished my FYP .. and looked back at the date fondly as I recalled. Life changed for me 5 years ago, all for the better.

Everytime I walked through Putrajaya Central, I cannot help but smile at the memories of 19/12/2004 in the morning where tons of school buses were taking us away to our doomland.

I probably won't be who I am today without my National Service training. Of course it's awful to be away from home, away from normal comfort of life but I grew to enjoy and love the vacation I was blessed with.

In Kuala Krai, Kelantan friendships were made, hardship and fun times were endured together. I totally love my camp very much.

For the past 4 years :-

1st anniversary (19/12/05) [blog post missing from bravejournal]

2nd anniversary (19/12/06)

3rd anniversary (19/12/07)

4th anniversary (19/12/08) [ I can't believe I didn't blog about it]

Sometimes I do miss camp life so much. =)

The final project

Finally I'm done with my final year project! I think it went pretty smoothly. Check out my blog:-

Project Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

For the first time in 4 years, half of my December is finally cleared and free! I can do whatever I want to do right now!

For the past two weeks, being in the studio running up and down, testing and troubleshooting my project, then clearing and setting up the class had been fun.

Although yesterday had been stressful but it was still memorable. We freeze together, we share the same tension , nerves and fears right before our individual presentation.



I would like to take this post to thank Kayvern for helping me with the flash actionscript. So many frustrating trial and error made me wanna pull my hair out so thank you for saving what's left of my mane.

I would also like to thank Eric for full on tutorial for a maya noob like me. I know I'm not the fastest learner but because of your help, it sparked an interest of 3d modelling for me. I know my end head product looked more monkey than human but it was more than enough for me. At least I learned something!

Not to forget with Chau Ching's help with the ear. Although it's a small part of the head, I'm still very much grateful.

I appreciate all my other 9 classmates (yes, 9 .. we are a small class but I prefer it this way) and you guys know who you are. It does not matter if we talked a lot or barely a word but I appreciate everything!

Originally I felt sad that I missed out from my original batch but now I can see it's a blessing in disguise. I could not ask for a better class.


Last but not least, my lecturers who had been giving comments and ideas on how to improve my project each critique. They had been there for the past 3 years. I take these advices and lessons for life.

I'll see you guys this Monday =)

* photo credit to classmates on facebook

Big Bad Book Sale. Love!

This post is so outdated but now I finally have some time / mood to blog. My final year project presentation is next Wednesday and I am almost done. Well, I'm not panicking yet and it's such a huge relief that there will be no exhibition this time around.

Anyways last month, on the 26th the Big Bad Wolf sale is around and we went on the first day itself. I was clever enough to have thought that perhaps it's a weekday and people are still working, I will have time to browse books. Not so clever.

It was already packed when I went there and books were everywhere! It's like I died and went to book heaven.

The books were a great deal, selling off at the prices of 5 to 20 bucks averagely! Presentable quality! Crazy but so very true.

There were people with pasar malam trolleys and big recyclable bags walking around, stuffing books into their bags! We didn't know we were gonna buy so much and we ended up with two boxes of books.

The cashier lines grew so long that everyone had to line up in right beside the tables, too bad I don't have a photo to show it but it reminded me of the game 'snake' where you twist and turn. Yup, that's exactly how it was like.

After queuing for about an hour, we finally paid our books.

45 books = RM 347

Such a happy bargain!


The sister's books. Kinda reminded her she still has a lot of book pending unread in her cupboard so she only got a few. Oh, I was looking for Stephen King's IT but either that book was way too popular or something, I cannot find it.

I think I should read the first book too.


These are my books! Yes, I know I complained about the chic lit genre but I was actually stocking up for next year read, my upcoming hols and at 8 bucks per book, I dove in without a second thought.

The best book of the lot I bought would be the yoga book. Love the visual graphic and the clear instructions and explanation. It's only 8 bucks! *heart*

The brother did not present himself with us so we bought books that we think he might like. See, all red man united books. The third book is so beautiful, I felt lucky to have snatch one of it earlier before it was all taken within the next half hour. The fat record book is only RM 15!

The father's books. His books are mostly self help philosophy books that somehow interest me only a bit. I think my dad was so overwhelmed by the books that he didn't realize he bought two copies of the same book.


The sale even have chinese books corner. Sometimes I feel a tad bad whenever we go for a book sale and my mom would look bored but this time, she brought 17 books home at the average price of 5 bucks each with pretty good quality.

I went again on Sunday morning with the sister and we nabbed another 5 books for RM30. A book for me, a book for her, an autobiography for the brother, a sudoku book for the family and a useful 3 bucks pocket thesaurus.

I *heart* book sales. Even if it's really crowded and packed like a can of sardine!

I'm returning to my blog slowly and I will try to include images into my posts so that it will not look so dry, aight ? =P

Dec lazy post

Do you like the same person you liked a month ago?
++ i'm not even sure I like that person, let alone still like him

Have you ever slept on the floor with someone you liked?
++ yes, ages ago but it was very sweet

Will you be in relationship in the next couple of months?

++ who knows?

Do you think the person you like is nice?
++ refer to the first question

Where would I have found you last night at 11pm?
++ right here, struggling with maya. let it be over soon.

Who was the last person to say " i love you " to you ?
++ gah, i forgot.

Are you texting anybody?
++ nah

Was it a boy or a girl to text you first today?
++ if today is considered after 12 am, deena. if it's waking up time, it's karyn

Do you curse in front of your parents?
++ yes, they know i don't mean it. i don't curse at them though

What would you do if your best friend told you they were moving?
++ which best friend?

Who pissed you off yesterday?
++ ah *think think* not pissed off, more like bored of and upset with

Hold hands with anyone recently?
++ my sister. now i sound so old

Have you ever felt replaced in any way?
++ yes, although i don't remember when

Are you open about your feelings or closed off?
++ quite open

Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people?
++ i only hate one

Think a lot before you fall asleep?
++ i tend to, if i'm not tired enough

What were you doing at 4 am?
++ doze off finally

How long can you go without your phone?
++ 2 days? i dunno, never tried. oh, in camp about 5 days!

Are you happy right now?
++ i'll be much happier once fyp is out of the way

Who were you with last night?

++ alone. damn sad right?

Are you a forgiving person?
++ depending on the "crime" but usually, i remember the black marks

Have you ever kissed anyone with a tongue ring?
++ nope

Are you thinking about anyone?
++ no, i'm thinking about softwares and lectures. fml

Person you have feelings for shows up at your house, you say?
++ hello (what else am i suppose to say?)

How many bracelets do you have on your wrists right now?
++ don't fancy bracelet much

Do you ever think about the past?
++ of course. if only i can pause and be 22 for some time.

Last night you felt?
++ lonely. fml.

What are you looking forward to?
++ finishing fyp. gah. finish finish finish.

Twilight tales

This post might contain spoiler.

When I watched Twilight the first time, I had expectation for it. I had read all four books, from the first Twilight to the fourth Breaking Dawn. I never read a series of book (not a fan of Harry Potter) like how I read Twilight.


Sad to say, I was yawning for the first 20 minutes.

The good :- introduction of the characters, was cool to see them being introduced and how they were being portrayed. The make out scene was pretty romantic.

The bad :- K Stew's expressionless acting. The shots of scenery and trees are way too much and when R Patz expressed " You are my life now ", I wanted to laugh.

There was nothing much to see until the last 20 mins.

It was a disappointment for me. Nothing like how I expected at all.

Then along came New Moon. It was slightly better but if you seen all the trailers, that's the best you can get. All the best scenes are already in the trailers. I wanted to skip the middle portion.


The good :- The introduction of the wolf pack and Volturi, love the special effect. Jacob wolf was adorable. Taylor Lautner was pretty good.

The bad :- K Stew's still almost expressionless acting. The draggy scenes of Bella and Jacob. Bella's horrible screaming which made me cringe. Edward's horrible make up.

Of course, the action also starts at the last 30 mins.

All in all, I have made my conclusion.

If you think the movies were superb and great and out of this world, think again.

1. Are you sure you're not thinking about the book when you're watching the movie, thus calling the movie great because of the book?

2. Are you sure you were not drooling at Jacob and Edward's body? (Actually, Edward's body looked kinda turn off-ish)

3. Are you seeing them so much like Bella, Edward and Jacob, you don't see their acting skills?

4. Are you just obsessed with Rob/Edward that he can do no wrong?

5. Did you even read the books?

Who read the books and can tell me the movie is much better than the books?

I know, some people said books tells the story much better than a movie can but stop using that excuse. A movie can still make an impact if properly done. My example would be Marley. I read it and I watched the movie. Movie was a tad draggy but still packed with an emotional end.

So far the two twilight movies did not even meet up to the standard of the book, ok the special effect was cool and I loved the wolf pack but other than, dead flat. I don't even believe Bella and Edward are in love in the movie. They looked awkward and forced. Bella looked clueless instead of stubborn and Edward looked bored instead of protective.

The next movie would be Eclipse, the third and my favorite book. If these expressionless and bored chemistry still applies, there goes my favorite book.

I feel it's such a sad thing cause there's so much hype about these movies. The posters are great, the cast picked looked the part but fall short on chemistry and draggy scenes. I want to like K Stew but she looked really bored during the whole movie.

I would say I'm a Twilight fan, not fanatic but for the books, not the movies. Sorry.

Oh, so this is how it is now

Last night I dreamed that I hate Hannah Montana. So weird, even in my dreams I hate her. You know what they say? Love can pierce through time, space and reality. Apparently, so can hate.

Huh.

Then this afternoon nap, I dreamed about orgasm. Or sex. Or something in between.

Huh. Wtf?

I been exposed to too much of Barney Stinson. Awesome!

Oh, look. Feed my cubby rawr on the right. He's such an adorable endangered pink lion cubby.

I officially declare cold weather makes me fat(ter).

When it rains, I can't go out jogging. When it's cold at night, I crave something warm, thus pushing aside thoughts of dry bread and oats. I never spent on dinner for the past three weeks but these past two nights, I had been doing so.

I need to get a grip and discipline myself again. Like now, I ought to be in bed. Mornight everyone.

Cry me a river

I have been crying for the past two days. Over a song, over missing home and over a movie.

I cried until my nose was blocked when I listened to a hokkien song "Grandma's words" (youtube it, darn touching). The chorus was raw and beautiful, made me reflect a lot on myself. It made me think of how little I thought of my own grandma and how she stood up for me and rescued me from the mother's cane when I was little. Listening to it made me forget about how annoyed I was with her at times. She's after all, being a grandma looking out for my best interest.

I cried the second time because I was frustrated. Imagine you're going to a trip with your friends to Genting, you pack your bags and got pumped up and excited. Right an hour before you leave, boss calls you for an emergency compulsory meeting. That was the situation I was put in except replace Genting with home and boss with a member. Spontenous person? Uncheck me.

I cried the third time when I watched Marley and me again just now. It's the second time yet I still have rivers down my face. I'm not even sure what gets to me, I just sniffled up and teared down.

Oh well, now that I think sob fest Nov is over, here's why I have not been updating my blog lately. I have been blogging somewhere else ...

Check this out :- Project DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)

Yep, that's my FYP blog and yes it's compulsory to create one so that our lecturers are able to monitor us. It's filled with probably boring stuff in there so unless you're interested in installation art, design or just curious about how I will portray dissociative identity disorder in my opinion, then you might click it. Check out my fellow classmate's progress too.