today's cool

it's great being 18.

Shenny: mom, im going out.
Shen's sis: where are you going?
Shenny: i'm 18 now, i don't have to tell you.

HAHA!

being 18 (and a girl) is not very exciting, it's not like once you hit 18 at 12am, you turn from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan. but it does have it advantages, if you're willing to look at it optimistically. both shen and my parents are giving us more space. not that they don't call when we go home late, but they don't shout and say "get your ass back or i'll disown you!" or something like that lol. we don't really have to ask for permissons before going out anymore, just leave a message before leaving and it's cool. yep, life is changing =D

i was the first "old friend" to visit Shen at her new home! it's really pretty, although not all the deco and furnishing are done yet. she has her own balcony! but her view is some chicken farm hahaa and she get woken up by those chicken crowing every morning. very interesting.

i told her we NEED to take a picture together, a photograph of my first visit in her new home, and we did BUT she just had to delete it because .. okay i wont say it, she'll get embarrassed heehee.
but i am mad! because we never got a chance to take another photo before we left! the next time i visit again will be the SECOND visit! it won't be the same anymore when we take a photo then! NOoOooooOO!!!!



anyway, that's guiping and i on the left. yenchuan picked her up and came to bring shen and i. they got off the car, because shen's mom insisted us to have some orange before we leave. really feels like "pai nian-ing" with all the chinesenewyear stuff pasted on the walls and the orange! haha.



the four of us went to shop for birthday gifts and cake for singyien's birthday. she's meeting us at 9+, after her work. can you believe it, she can't even take a day off or leave early just coz it's puasa-month. hrmpf. we bought her a really cute hat (which, if it wasn't for her i'd buy for myself haha!) and after scouring hours in gadong for a sexy looking yummy tasting cake, we ended up with something from makcikbakery which was quite okay.

but all our excitement poofed into smoke when we saw singyien coming, two boxes of cake in hand. WHY??!!

never mind, it didn't affect our good mood.

we had a simple dinner at ahanthai (just coz they're relatively more accommodating for us wackos to throw cream around and scream and shout). other customers looked at us in dismay. there was a little girl who looked at our cakes with longing but damn, i wasn't quick enough to capture that moment. the boss (or manager, someone authorative) looked like he wanted us out asap. we only left at almost midnight after settling a bill of $20+. HAHAHHAA cheapskates. greencurry was smoking hot!

as always, some pictures before signing off:


the girls and yenchuan, the photographer (seen in picture below)


don't ask me what's with the peace sign. only luwee and i don't have it.
i guess that's what turned us into "outcasts" in the end... (see last picture)


"*gasp* three cakes!!" shenny's hand blocked the other one.


the "ssssong" (ugly and old looking) blue cake on the left's from sing yien's manager of 40 years old. expected kann!
the sexy coffee and cream on the right is from sing yien's colleagues.
the yummy yummy tiramisu cheese on the forefront is from US*!
* us: Shenny, Amilyn, YenChuan, GuiPing, LuWee, Adrena


lyn: "psst, i think we've turned into outcasts"
luwee: "get used to it, happens all the time!"

they called us to the "speaking" people...
because we dont blast chinese from our mouth 120words per minute??


mr.niceguy yenchuan sent guiping home coz it was getting late. shen and i waited for shing, mr.niceguy#2, who was watching Rob-B-Hood. it's good, i got to talk to shen for a bit more before going home.

after saying goodnight and goodbye and getting off the car...

dad, swinging his golf club in the yard: so late.
me: mmm yeah. started dinner late.
dad, agreeably: hm.
me, going into the house: goodnight dad

HAHAHA im allowed to grow up now! to those who are already studying abroad, not living with parents anymore, and scoffing my joy, ....whatever!!!! you don't get the validation. =p

waiting for

• keys to the house
• driving licence
• keys to my first car
  

I should blog...

before i get too lazy and forget all about the hype of wanting to blog about exciting things that happened to me. Once again, holidays are here and it's ending sooo soon, next Monday back to school, getting papers back, then my doing school work mode have to turn back to on.

But anyways.. i'll talk about after I finished my exams. Then I relaxed like crazy and started to do things i've always wanted to do but never had time to during school days like boring ol' piano playing and cross-stitching. I'll never finish learning a song nor finish stitching up a portrait. EEe.. I think i'll need to take years to complete them.

Then there's the Birthday. hehehe, went to eat italian food with friends on 20th and next day went to eat korean food with dear. And then, for the rest of the week, lazed around and watch movies and drama series. Then on last Monday.. I'm starting to get stressed out again. We had to attend a lecture where people who are in charge of our uni applications talked to us about how to apply, the procedures and etc etc. I HATE the whole process man. So troublesome, I tell u. There are so many steps and so many dates to remember. Like when is the deadline to submit ur application, to submit all ur attached certified copies of results. And then there's also a day where i get my foundation studies result, another deadline to change ur preferences for the courses u gonna choose, then another day to accept ur offer, another deadline to accept ur offer. WAHHH... so many larrrrrr.. and this is not the end. I'll not continue boring u with other dates. But I think if in Brunei, u can ask an educations office to help out.

Anyways.. then on Tuesday.. it was a super fantastic day! I went to this carnival thingie called the Royal Melbourne Show. I'll blog more about that day next time with pics too! Now i show u some random pics. haha, warning: got many vain pics of me, ok. not vain lar.. I have to take myself only mah..since I'm the only one blogging from here. If one of u come to melbourne..then U and I can take pics and post about it. hahha, so for the meantime, u see ME only lar.



Yeah, i know u're gonna say I look different? or maybe not? hahah, I know my hair has grown really long..haha. Not a traditional cake with 18 candles..haha, but nvm lar. random exquisite small cakes with cute sparkle

Seafood platter


Pasta, don't look special. but the portion is bigger than usual.

Mountain of gelato





Me on the tram





Pigeons in Melbourne are damn weird. They are not afraid of ppl and like u can go soo close to them.. like until the distance that u can reach out ur hand to touch them. In Brunei, I think the pigeons like fly away the moment u're about 1 metre away from them. I heard that it's like that here because ppl feed them and sooo of course they have the guts to get close to ppl




Anyway..here I am eating something that looks like KFC chicken and also taste like it, but it's actually fried QUAIL, a bird. Then suddenly.. a few pigeons appear in front of me.. like puppies waiting for u to feed them. Then out of a sudden.. a whole bunch of pigeons appeared. so weird lar. Then I threw a piece of the bones towards them. And they all flock there like crazy birds.. The funny thing is.. why would they eat their own relative/cousin? U know for us, we wouldn't eat human meat right? yucks. haha, maybe cause their brain size too small..cannot think well. Then so funny, u can give them false alarm and wave ur hand up like u're going to throw them a piece.. and they're so stupid..they actually believe and started flying up to catch it. dumbbbb.. then i threw another piece (as in bones yea) in the water..and they flew down too.. haha, so funny :P Hope u can feel the humour as well la

Jasmine is cool to talk to

because she can make all these adorable expressions within the conversation:



hehehe!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JASMINE!!!
we're all 18 now.
;)

Jasmine is OLD now!!

Happy Birthday Yap-ahLoy!!

May all your wish and dreams come tRue!!

Heh, take good care and.. COME BACK SOON LA!!

bye, *muahss*

miss us eyy...

-Yer, why i still cant tag ler.. hmmm...-

those teachers

this morning Shenny, Felicia, Clinton, Kevin, Alison and I had our Physics Practical Exam. i walked into the room expecting it to be very very difficult but when i looked at the paper, HEEE, it's only hard. amazing how when you expect things to be very very bad, when it turns out less bad than you expect, you can still find relief. even thought it IS still bad. so yes, although it wasn't as hard as i expected it to be, i still did pretty badly. i didn't even know there was a page7 until time was up. HAHAHAaaaa.

after practicals, Shenny wanted to st.george's. two of the reasons is to see a few teachers and also to get jenny and shenny's olevel certs. so Shenny, Jenny and i managed to cajole YenChuan into driving us there. upon arrival, Shenny immediately got infected with "cha-beng" again. really. ask her. she was so excited she forgot to shut the car door twice.

at st.george's we saw a few teachers.
ms.kong - verypregnant and still in tight pants.
t.victoriah- aiyah pahh!
mrs.han - still as sarcastic as ever. (you see these kids, having exams, instead of revising at home, loitering around here) ??
t.lata - one of the MAIN reason we went to sgs was because we heard she's getting married!!!! and it's true. she's leaving on 31st october. wedding's on 30th november. wow. she's not going to teach anymore. what is going to happen to sgs??!!
t.veronica - the first thing she said when she saw us was "YOU. MAKTAB. DULI. CHIIIICKEN!!!" HAHAHA and proceeded to tell us about how the maktab duli debate team bailed out on them and lalala she was pissed. okay. i am not involved in debate. t.veronica is going through the procedures of her migration to newzealand. wah.

so yeah la. t.lata leaving, t.veronica leaving, t.menchie leaving. sgs ah. falling apart. sigh.

and then jenny went home. shenny and i met up with Clint, Fel and Michelle at mall foodcourt for lunch. SO FUN-EH. lol. Fel was getting so worked up talking about her mean maths teacher. mean i tell you! hehe. it's so fun having lunch with them all.

nowadays..

Hey yaaa..

Still having exams.. but one more on Friday. Tomorrow is the only one day break i've got. Was planning to blog during hols after exam but then.. dunno why I just feel like blogging now. I just realised I'm always blogging during holidays one ah.. that's kinda BAD, right? heheh. Looking back, I realised the last time i blogged was like two months + ago. SO LONG.. but to me, it seems like those two months just flew past me just like that. Whoosh!! hehe, school life.. what to do.

Lately my sleeping time has been totally screwed up. Before Monday and Tuesday's exams I slept for five hours. Then yesterday after exam replacement-sleep for 5 hours. Then yesterday's real sleep only lasted 3 hours. Then..finally.. my 6-hour-replacement-sleep which I just woke up from. I really dunno if u can understand this whole paragraph..hehe sounds messy.

Anyways.. my exams went alright I guess. Maths and Physics.. got mistakes here and there as usual. Then my Literature .. totally memorized the whole (shit) of an essay. And then on Friday.. gonna take Maths 2. My mind is filled with calculations from Maths 1,2 and Physics. Physics has no theory one.. calculate non stop..

During holidays I also have to study. As in self-study la. Revise things at home and go through whole year's work. Really must prepare well for my finals in november. Cannot do any more last minute work. Cause the final exams percentages are worth the most in the year. And then the total mark accumulated throughout the year determines whether we could enter whatever faculty we wanna enter in uni next year. Scary man. Everyone here in Trinity is, nowadays, just trying to pull their best 4 subjects' average mark up to their required faculty's minimum. Or else.. DIE. have to go to "not very good unis" already. Of course anyone would aim to go to the best of the best unis right? hehe, so yea.. i'm planning to go to University of Melbourne next year. Hope can get in.

Hmm.. can't believe I'm here for almost 7 months already. Missing Brunei and everyone back there. And my family, my house, my room, my piano, Astro TV, cheap and nice Brunei food.. and etc etc. And I wanna learn driving lar. U ppl ahh.. so lucky. Get to learn nowadays already. Then soon, can get license. I dunno if I have enough time to get one if I go back. If really cannot.. then have to learn here already. But also no use one.. no car to practise with.. No fun!

U know last few weeks, I overdosed myself. HAHAHA. kinda funny to think of it. Wasn't on purpose la. and not sleeping pills of course. Was having awful gastric one morning when I woke up. Then it lasted whole day even when I ate like nuts. Then I went to get gastric medicine. Then I misread the label. Instead of 2 tablets 4 times a day, I took 4 tablets each time. No wonder, the stupid gastric didn't go away for the whole night. Moreover, it lasted past midnight some more. Eeks.. bad experience man. So make sure u read the label damn carefully if u ever take any medicine.

Ok I'm going to go study now. Must use up all time possible from now on.

just pictures

from 29th July 2006











































Shenny: hehe, i deleted one picture lyn, hope u dont mind ohhh.. xP