Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Meaners

Danny pranked Daniel on pregnancy and abortion for April's Fool. I, not realizing it was 1st April was pranked too, luckily not so serious la. I seriously thought it was real. Here goes: (just a rough draft of it, can't really remember the exact words)

Layleng: Eh, I got something to tell you.
Me: Yeah, what?
Layleng: Danny is coming for my company department annual dinner on April 19.
Me: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Layleng: I'm one of the committee for the dinner.
Me: But if I go I'll be alone leh, you have to walk around and work.
Layleng: Nolah, Saturday no need to work la. (She didn't understand me =_=")
Me: No, i mean you committee mah, so you have to help around at the dinner.
Layleng: Then ar, I bring you around also la. You're the committee also what. HAPPY APRIL'S FOOL!!! Haha!
Me: I HATE YOU LAYLENG... IDIOT!!! (LL: It was a joke lah!)
Layleng: Sorry!! Sorry!!
Me: (I already changed my MSN nick to "I HATE YOU LAYLENG!") Haha!
Layleng: (She thought I really angry) So so so sorry! Yor, change the nick samore. Sorry! SOrry!

Then it was actually planned by Layleng, Ju Yen, and Mich. In a group chat I said "You are all MEANERS." But I'm sure you all know I'm just joking lah right? :)

Sunday, April 06, 2008

What?

Yeah I'm still jobless so what? People have been asking me to chill for as long as I can. People ask me to slowly find a job that suits you most. But I know it's not easy, almost impossible to find one. What's work if it's not tiring, challenging, boring and not highly paid? Sigh. I fear getting a job I dislike, I fear of finding a job because it means no more rest, I fear of working because it means no more leisure, it means 6 days non stop, 8 - 10 hours continuously. I fear... of beginning in the first place. I am used to my current position. Even though i'm doing nothing, no income. But, all I want is to do nothing. And I still have a lot of things to do before I start work! Damn.

I guess floor measurers tend to think a lot. And I seemed to be getting very much materialistic these few days. LV, Gucci, CK, AX, G2000. Maybe unemployed people who have no income dreams for all luxuries. Speaking of dreams, floor measurer dreams a lot too. Crappy dreams. Stupid dreams.

We often watch shows thinking it's so dramatic. How a guy dramatically tackle/propose to a girl. How a person dramatically wanna die because they broke up. How two people dramatically love each other secretly and don't get to be with each other. How dramatically two people walk past each other but not noticing and the camera shoot it until the viewers with teary eyes go 'omg, so wasted. they not no 'yuin fun''. Shitty. But dramas does happen in real life. Can't believe a guy can be so useless after breaking up. A girl can go all crazy over a guy. Dramatically real. Oh, how I wish dramas happen on me. Well, happy dramas of course.

Finally Danny is willing to come out to see people. Haha. Yay I get to see him soon. Mwahaha. Crazy. 12th April at USJ Summit. Woo hoo!

~ I need some essence in life.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Circle Magazine

Was browsing through wanita.net and saw an ad link that directed me to this.


It's an online virtual chinese entertainment magazine. You download it and you can read it just like a normal magazine but on your screen! I'm quite impressed with the graphic designs and ideas used. If you can read Chinese, I definitely recommend it. If you're a banana, just go through the pics and clips :) There's 7 people behind this online mag, and if I'm not mistaken, one of them is the Halo Cafe marketing personnel - Ah Yuan.

Loads of fun stuff in this mag - They have artistes interviews, music reviews, movie reviews, step-by-step make up lessons, shopping guides, personality test etc. Each issue they target different topics like 'Recycling', 'Ladies First' etc. Very very interesting (for me lah).

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

[Lyrics] Orange - Ai Qing

A song that I instantly fell in love with when I heard it as a background song for some programs introduction on TV. This song is about a third party's view on love and relationship.

Ai Qing

by Orange

Melody & Lyrics: 柯文坤

当 你得到了他以后
Dang, ni de dao le ta yi hou
想 了解他的习惯
Xiang, liao jie ta de xi guan
当 你失去了他以后
Dang, ni shi qu le ta yi hou
还没明白他的所有
Hai mei ming bai ta de suo you

*爱情没有分对与错
Ai qing mei you fen dui yu cuo
只有分虚与伪与假理由
Zhi you fen xu yu wei yu jia li you
世上的爱情变得那么地感动
Shi shang de ai qing bian de na me de gan dong
爱情骗子 情场杀手
Ai qing pian zi, qing chang sha shou

Chorus
闭上眼睛oh 闭上嘴巴
Bi shang yan jing oh, bi shang zui ba
侧耳倾听 用心去看
Ce er qing ting, yong xin qu kan
你会听见 你会看见
Ni hui ting jian, ni hui kan jian
真正的心oh 真正的他
Zhen zheng de xin oh, zhen zheng de ta
甜言蜜语 另有目的
Tian yan mi yu, ling you mu di
忽冷忽热 缥缈不定
Hu leng hu re, piao miao bu ding
无动于衷 不懂珍惜
Wu dong yu zhong, bu dong zhen xi
冷看爱情 不懂真心
Leng kan ai qing, bu dong zhen xin

Repeat *

重视爱情 万众无一

(P/S: Pokok, I know this is your blog song too, but too bad! Neh neh ni bu bu!)

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Sawadika!

Hello hello. I know my blog has become dusty already so I'm here to clean it up. It's not that I didn't online or anything but I just don't know what to blog. Life has been erm, very simple. Didn't do much for the past week except that I went to Hatyai with my parents, meet up with friends and then went to Penang last weekend for Sourir Pour Moi promo just for fun.

This post I will talk about Hatyai only. I guess since secondary school I've been going to Hatyai a lot, perhaps few months once. If you still don't know, Thailand is a nice place to shop, eat and massage and 'imitation goods'. My parents go there often to buy those Zebra pots and stuff, and I'm back with shoes and bags cuz I freaking can't fit into their clothes. Sigh.

It's been over 3 years I didn't go due to my studies in college and fear of bombing and now, finally I get to go! Hatyai has became much quieter compared to last time, the stalls close at 10pm, more chinese/hokkien/english speaking Thai yet the quantity and quality of food remains :)

From Wikipedia:

[Hat Yai (Thai: หาดใหญ่; also Haad Yai / Had Yai) is a city in southern Thailand near the boundary to Malaysia. Geographical location 7°1′N, 100°28′E. With a population of 157,359 (2008) in the core city and about 800,000 in the Greater Hat Yai, Hat Yai is the biggest city of the Songkhla Province and the largest metropolitan area in Southern Thailand, and is thus often mistaken as being the capital of the province. However Songkhla is the capital, unlike the other provinces where the capital is the biggest city of the province. The city covers the whole tambon Hat Yai of Hat Yai district. Both cities are a part of Greater Hatyai-Songkhla Metropolitan Area.

The name "Hat Yai" is a short version of "Ma Hat Yai", meaning big Ma Hat (Thai: มะหาด) tree.]

We used to take the bus from KL to Hatyai but now my parents drive up to Changlun, stopping halfway in Ipoh for lunch, enjoying the journey up. Park the car at Changlun and take a taxi up to Hatyai. I would say a 4 days 3 nights stay is sufficient. You take 1 day to go to the big market (shoe, pots, dried goods shopping), 2 nights to walk around the small market (around Lea Garden hotel), 1 day to Big C/Tesco, the rest go for massage every day because it's very cheap! Traditional massage is only 240 Baht (equivalent to RM24 here).


For me, it's a food haven there. And shoes too. I came back with 6 pairs of shoes and a stomach 2kg heavier. Serious! I eat 5 full meals a day because they serve all porridges and noodles and rice there. But yummy *drools*. And anybody know if there's a fashion brand in Malaysia called Espada? (Not ESCADA) Because I saw it there and the clothes were nice! But expensive. Should be a foreign brand.

Well, let's say no more and let pictures fill you with words :)

PLACES

You will find quite some number of these Bird's Nest and Sharks' Fin restaurant around. And also small dessert (Tong Sui) push cart stalls that sells dessert drinks such as Soya Bean, Taufu Fah, 8 Treasure dessert drink etc.

Small push cart stalls businesses are more popular than those restaurants'. Street food are every where and is yummy always. You can find carts that sells Thai pickles, grilled squid, fruits, roti canai, coconut etc.


Every corner you will find clothes stalls set up like this, especially at night, at the market area (around Lea Gardens Hotel), from clothes to watches to necklace to collectible items.

This is the Pasar or 'big market' that we call. I seriously don't know what its real name is. It's actually a square building where there are tonnes of shoe and bag stalls here.

They also have a lot of stalls selling these crackers and nuts and snacks.



Here comes my fave part - PHOOD

I first had this roti canai thingy in Phuket when I was 7. I remembered loving it so much because it has evaporated milk, banana, egg and chocolate sauce on it. I came back to KL and tried making one at home and I vomited everything out. Hmm... weird. This one has got no choc sauce but it has banana, egg and evaporated milk inside. The guy actually will pour more milk on top but it's too sweet to be consumed so cut it.


Orange juice made from local oranges.

My favoritest dish in Hatyai from ONE particular aunty - Fish Maw soup (at the small market)

Ho ho ho! Guess what is this? What the Chinese know as "lou jue tao" (stewed pork head). I doubt you'll find this in Malaysia. And NO I DIDN'T EAT THIS. Can't imagine myself eating the erm... nose. The ears yes lah.



Beef Noodles near BP Grand Tower Hotel.

They still use old-fashion bottles.

Essential condiments on the table and the Thai seriously put everything in their noodles. (Clockwise from upper left: Crushed peanuts, chili sauce, sugar, chili powder, green chilies, and XO sauce.

Duck noodle soup few doors away from Hatyai Central Hotel. Yum yum! They used to have the green noodle made from spinach, but not anymore. It seems to have disappeared from all the shops :(

Ever-wonderful Thai laksa. (Opposite Pasar) The Thai eat the laksa with lots of greens as seen below. Not the normal lettuce or cabbage or so but leaves with more pungent tastes such as basil, curry leaves. If you don't like the taste you can opt for bean sprouts and cucumber. You can take as much greens as you like, the laksa is only 20 Baht! And water is free :)


Mini Petai look-alike. And taste like petai too.

Cucumber, mini eggplant and guava pieces. To go with the laksa.

On the way back from Hatyai to the custom, we asked the taxi driver to stop at this town called Kongeh or something (the name sounds obscene) for Kuey-Chap. For me it's so so but my dad loves it.

Usually what I do in Hatyai is eat (of course), shop, facial (Only 300 Baht around the corner of Hatyai Central Hotel), massage, go to the salon to straighten my hair or dye (used to be cheap but now not anymore) and manicure/padicure (only 120 Baht for both, but don't expect those nail arts lah), eat eat and eat more. Hehe.

Going to Thailand during the Water Festival will be much more fun, but if you would prefer a peaceful and relaxing trip, you can go anytime :)