March 07th, 2010 | Author: gabriel

It all started with a 2kg Snoopy Cake… But end up, the Snoopy Cake wasn’t there at all..

Here’s the story:

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Bi Shan threw herself a birthday party cause Deon ordered a 2KG Snoopy Birthday Cake for her… The both of them can’t finish the 2KG cake all by themselves so, she invited her friends in SG and even ordered extra stuffs for us – KFC, Pizza Hut, Canadian Pizza, Pastamania, Dessert Wine, etc.

 

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So, in her party, there are basically two groups of people.. One, more towards Bishan’s friends. Another one, more towards Deon’s friends

 

bishan's-friends Actually for me, I know most of Deon’s friends cause they were from NTU – my seniors. But they are closer to my sister though, Grace, as they were her juniors. haha..

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Anyway, we just mingled, chatted and eat the food we see in her house while Deon and his friends played board games.

IMG_1487 He has this big collection of board games! He even has a starcraft board game… OMG.. lol. Apparently, it was so complicated that it became a display set.. Haha..

Then finally, the birthday cake! Well, the Snoopy Cake didn’t turn up cause the cake shop just didn’t do them.. Maybe it was too complicated?? But the thing is, they didn’t even inform that they are not going to prepare the 2KG Snoopy Cake for them. End up, there’s a 2 X 1Kg Ice Cream Cake from Swensen’s.

birthday-cakes And tada! Surprise!!

surprise Okay fine.. There isn’t really much of a surprise since she threw herself her own party. She even put the candles on the cake herself… We’re quite bad guests actually.. We keep demanding her to prepare drinks for us.. Haha..

Anyhow, she still enjoyed herself.. Can see from her happy face…

IMG_1498The cake was quite good. Did I mention that her place is very nice too?

All the girls at her place…

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And all the guys..

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March 01st, 2010 | Author: gabriel

It’s the last day of CNY and my NTU juniors (now final year already) organized a steamboat dinner in celebration of Chap Goh Mei. Unfortunately for me, the thing was all the way back in NTU.

There were 17 of us, where most are final years staying in new hall area. Yi Chin, Ariel, Sein Chyi prepared most of the food while the rest of us waited for the food.. haha.. All the rice cookers were malfunctioning and we ‘cooked’ the steamboat food on the stove. Thanks to the cooks,

We had lots of vege,

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and lots of meat balls. Teng Seng made very good tom yam soup..

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Shaun brought his lou sang from I forgot where..

lousang One thing that we learned from experience is to label our bowls. So not to mix them up with another person’s bowls.. I did the labelling of bowls!

bowls There were lots of teasing (mainly on me), nonsensical talkings and well, the usual NTU stuff.. haha.. Felt like being a student again. Many of us there are a in pairs with the exception of some few eligible ones who refuse to go into one.

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We ended with the lamest lou sang ever..

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There weren’t any well-wishes. Just plain shouting and missing chopsticks.

Anyway, it was fun being part of the NTU-MSA again. Hope there’s one last one before they graduate from NTU. ;)

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February 27th, 2010 | Author: gabriel

It was Cameron Highlands Day! With the super warm and humid whether in the low-lands of Ipoh (actually, it’s the whole of Peninsular Malaysia), my family decided to head to Cameron’s for a dose of fresh air, tea/coffee in a cold environment! We were lucky, as it wasn’t very sunny at Cameron’s. Felt like it was going to rain, the weather was cool and nice..

We went up in 2 cars where the 2nd car consists of me and my bro. My brother drove up the hill while I slept. And I drove the rest of the Cameron’s trip. Our first stop was to buy ‘real pearl corns’. The corns there are really sweet and the corns itself has a mixture of white and yellow corn bits. We also went to Rose Gardens to look at beautiful roses and other flowers.

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Some flowers are very nice.. May varieties of rose in different colours. There’s the pink rose at the top, there’s yellow rose, red rose..

yellow rose  red rose

There’s even the black rose!

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The black rose is actually from a red rose where it turns black when it grows older.

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Like from the picture above, the back of the red rose begins to turn black.. Or at least, that’s what my father told me..

There are also many nice flowers, like the giant hibiscus..

giant hibiscus The white rose (aka milk girl)

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Even the bees are enjoying themselves collecting nectar from the flowers. The flowers are really sweet smelling, by the way..

 bee flower Okay.. Enough with the flowers… We took some pictures around – my dad wanted to take a picture with this mermaid statue. The story is that the mermaid is a being longing for her lost love, awaiting for his return..

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We went to the “ye olde smokehouse” for some scones, tea and coffee.. My brother took me posing at the grand piano.. haha

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The ‘adults’ are drinking tea while the kids were also having their own fun time..

children-tea We then ate lunch at Cafe Downtown at Tanah Rata. It was a 4pm lunch… Imagine.. haha.. The food there is very nice. Their chicken chop and char koay teow is very nice!

cafe downtown Right after that, we headed to the tea plantation for a cup of tea and cheese cake!

 

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We came here before 2 years ago… And look how the kids have grown!

nieces Did I mention that my nieces are posers??

Marielle actually posed for the pictures! And she’s only like 2 yrs old.

marielle-1 marielle-2 Oh well.. maybe it runs in the family. My brother and my dad also same case…

 

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Me? I only take with my niece…

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After that, we went to the Laban Rata Waterfall! It’s on the way down from Cameron’s towards Tapah.

waterfall The waterfall there is quite nice. Very refreshing… Had quite a long pit stop here for the kids to play… Too bad I didn’t bring any change of clothes… Otherwise, I’ll just dip right into the pool. What I did was just take a good walk around the waterfall.. hahah

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For the Cameron Trip, had to thank my sis’s bf.. She wanted to bring him around and end up going to a lot of places. He paid for all our meals at Cameron’s.. How nice of him… =)

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When we reached Ipoh, it’s already almost 9pm. We went straight for dinner at old town.

Then at 10pm, I met up with Jason Ling, Yee Weng and Kean Fatt at the Ramly Burger Stall. They had seats there and it’s not crowded at all over there. I was supposed to meet euwen also but in the end, he was out with his sam tet friends… Anyway, the 4 of us just sat there, and just chatted… Good to meet up with old school mates… =)

February 27th, 2010 | Author: gabriel

On the 4th day of CNY.. I can’t really remember what I did. But what I remember was, I was so good that day that I didn’t go out at all.. Until it was late at night at least.. hahah.. Oh, I remember I was worried about work cause it’s the first day of work after CNY and there were some minor outstanding matters that I still need to handle. So, basically, I was working (checking mails) occasionally, lepaking around the house and watching TV. Was a good time to catch some rest after going out for the past few days.

At night, I met up with Sek Hee at his place, together with Yee Hui. We chatted, played with his new Nikon Camera and played PS3! We played his Guitar Hero and Resident Evil 3 and before we realized, it’s already like 2am! hahah.. Ah, the cosiness with a small group of friends.. And that’s what I did again for the next night, with Jason Ling and the gang..

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February 27th, 2010 | Author: gabriel

Finally, I had some time to continue blogging bout my Chinese New Year days back in Ipoh.. Was pretty busy with training, work and other stuffs…
Let’s see… The 3rd day of CNY. Oh, right!

It was the 3rd day of CNY and my eldest sister is to return to Penang. My brother also had to fetch his gf and the in-laws back to Penang. Which leads to a very impromptu decision by my family.. “Let’s all go to Penang for a day trip!!”

At the time when they made the decision, I just woke up and was kind of shocked and flabbergasted with the news. haha.. but too bad, I couldn’t join them for the trip as I made a full-day plan with my friends already… They left for penang after lunch but before that, we took a ‘full’ family picture first.

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Look at the number of nephews and nieces I have already…. Makes me feel old..

 

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So.. they all left to Penang, with me in the house and Rosemary to take care of her new born son. Chee Lim came over right after my parents left.. She was supposed to come pai lin but too bad, no one was around. So, she just dropped by to see Elijah and Rosemary. Then, I went to her place to take something I left behind at her house the night before. And we headed for Choon May’s house shortly after.

Later after that, I went to Pinkie’s place, to meet her, joanna, jill and yee hui there. And guess what? We just watched TV.. hahah… Probably cause there isn’t much things to do at her place and only entertainment was the TV.. haha.
After waiting for yee hui to reach, we went to Jo’s house to play Pictionary!

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It was actually my first time playing Pictionary. I played something similar before, like Yahoo’s Graffiti, Win Lose or Draw.. or something to that category. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. But it was good play.. Need to think in the same frequency in order to guess what the other player is drawing.

Some classic examples

  • Pinkie drew a rat with a thousand legs…
  • Yee Hui’s version of Venus is “Gillette and Venus”, not the planet Venus…
  • A liver with a swimming pool is called “liverswim” and not liverpool..
  • Russia and a cow becomes “ruscow” and not “moscow”.. Lol

It was a fun game but too bad was a bit short.

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Right before we left, we played this game called “Killer Bunnies”. A very fun game but we didn’t really had enough time to fully enjoy to fun of it.. I guess there’s always still next time. =)

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And night time, there was Susan’s CNY house party! It’s something like Chee Lim’s version but the people there were more of a mixture between RPP, Sam Tet, SMI, MC and MGS people. So, being a very ‘shy’ person.. I just stick back to the people that I know.. hahah.. Saw some old friends that I haven’t seen for a while, like Nikhil Roy, Rui Yang…

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It was great and Susan prepared lots of food to eat. Lots of fried chicken, cocktail, bak kwa… I guess that’s the end of the major big gatherings for me… But within that few days, have already met up with lots of people.