Bye 2007, Hello 2008.

Oh well.. I'm actually racing against time to post this entry before 2008 arrives. haha.. My cousins just went home after a family gathering at my place tonight. This post is about the random stuff I did in 2007 ... good times they were.. xP It's not chronological, so... I'll move on.. haha..


I bought Azrin Patrick the Starfish as a gift (cos she transfered to Penang. sob sob). It's so cute I almost wanted to keep it for myself. hmph. :P


Watched Heroes (downloaded) and I need more!! Volume 3 please!! haha. I <3 Heroes


Got addicted to Prison Break.... :P haha.


..and Veronica Mars. Only watched Season 3 and i'm missing a few episodes!


Went to ER '07




Participated in Sports Day for the 4th year.. woot.

Standing on the field.. :P



Won a medal in 5/5 events I took.. haha.. just lost to the Sportsgirl Category B by 1 gold..


Snap a picture of ..lightning?


Went caroling for the first time.. whee!! so much fun,..:D



represented my school in the F1 competition at state/zone level..



SMKBL F1 gang at Centrepoint, KK.


Yes, celebrated the Mooncake Festival.. I'm still a kid at heart. :D


Went to the GenRev concert. Super awesome!!!!


Went to SMK PJ for RIMUP. My opponents didn't turn up. :(


RIMUP group pic


Celebrated my Sweet Sixteen with friends.. love you guys! gonna miss you Albert! <3s


Won Girl's Doubles (intraschool). The victory coincides with both our birthdays.. so it's like our birthday gift, the win. :)


Did 'kerja amal' for some silly moral project..


Chinese New Year with cousins.. and my brother is the only one missing in this pic! hmph!



Dinner with cousins and ..cousins.. :D



went to the BOL concert.. my friend walked the runway. woot! hahaha..


The after show with Brigette :D



Church food fair..


Awwwww.. It's 2008 already!! Back to school the day after tomorrow and... hectic studying schedule! argh.. but i hope and pray for the best this year.. CNY is about a month away and there's a public holiday next week! haha.. see, the grass IS greener on the other side.. hahaha.. Happy New Year everyone!

xoxovon

Will miss 2007, definitely. WIll miss Azrin, Albrinz and Samuel.
But life goes on..
God bless. ;)

Christmas 2007 Is... a few hours away.

Oh how fast time flies. In a bout a week or so school will reopen and the hectic life as senior student in secondary school will resume. *urgh*

What did I do during my hols? nothing much.. for most of the month of November I was preparing for my violin exam and I didn't go out with friends. So much for keeping myself focused. haha.. After my exam, i went for a short vacation.. not glamorous though, went to Sibu, visited Kanowit for like an hour+ , and Kapit too.


the room i stayed in a RH Hotel, Sibu. Miss Tourism 2007 was held here!


The view of the Rejang River from Durin Bridge.


10 cheeky lil' piggies.

Hmmm... I decided to join caroling this year. i have friends joining, my brother joined, so I'm not alone in it. And there's a possibility I might not get the chance to participate next year coz of blablaspmblabla. I was very excited, I must say. First timer, newbie, rookie... whatever you called it. All in all, I had a lot of fun. Whether it was waiting for our rides to arrive, the car rides, looking for houses, caroling, eating and so on.. i made friends, had fun and not forgetting (free) food. haha. I chose to go everyday including the one at STB (we were in the papers! haha) and Saberkas. for the fun of it, and experience..


caroling groupie pic! (1st night)


At a mansion somewhere at StarHill i guess..haha.

*Pejam celik pejam celik* 9 days gone... 15th-23rd of December past just like that. And here I am now blogging with my tired but not so sleepy eyes. But it was worth it.. spreading the joy of Christmas to people, celebrating the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.


another groupie pic.

Thank You for protecting and guiding me/us/them.

xoxovon

I'm looking forward to tonight's midnite mass. I love it.
Once in a year, it's not for a miss.
Merry Christmas. =)

It's Almost Christmas

Tagged by Neece the Japanese but is Malaysian and she's not japanese.

Games rules and regulations

Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question, make it total 20 questions, then tag to 8 people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she had been tag. Whoever did the tag will have blessing from all.You must link to the one who tag you, then spread it to 8 people, let's the game go on, return the tag to sender is prohibited.

1. What is your dream during your childhood?
i wanted to be like alicia keys. a singer/performer. hahaha

2.You like rainy day or sunny day?
I like ah? when i wanna play outside then i want sunny if i wanna sleep then rainy day. haha

3.Which colour you like most?
red

4.If you've chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
till death do us part? that line doesnt only play a part in marriage vows blerh. haha

5.Where is the place you wanted to go most?
One only ah? i wanna go to The US of A.

6.Which part of you that you hate most?
i cant fit into my jeans. so u know which part... hey wait, i dont hate myself. haha.

7.When you encounter a sad moment, what would you do?
try get over it as quickly as possible.

8.What do you scare to loss the most?
Your english is cacat.=P

9.If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her? Or just
keep secret in heart, observing by yourself?
when it happens, it happens.

10.List out 3 good points of the one who tag you.
i find her crazy as in a shopaholic shopaholic which might be good cause she probabaly knows the places where things are cheaper and she's sometimes funny and sometimes entertaining to watch. hahahahaha.

11.What are the requirements that you wish for your another half?
what? haha

12.Till now, what is the moment that you regret most?
hmm.. there's more than one. so i'm too lazy too think.haha

13.Which type of person you hate most?
i try not to hate. it's bad... haha

14.What is your ambition?
to be a successful person. *thinking of betty suarez* :P

15.What is the thing that will make you think he/she is bad.
who? lol

16.If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
to perform better in studies.. which reminds me. my report card is still in my school bag. haha

17. What do you think is most important in your life?
living it to the fullest.

18.At what age do you wish to marry?
at the appropriate one.hahha.. i dont know.

19. What do you want as your christmas present?
urm.. would like good results as in As in my SPM is that ok? haha

20. My question goes like this: If you had the chance to go caroling again, would you?
Definitely. hahahaha. im missing it already.

Now i would like to tag this to:
a) Eric
b) Sophia
c) cyril! haha
d) ruby
e) i dono.. lets try ashley. =P
d) people number 6,7,8 up to you.

She did it.

I'm not sure. Was at Ruby's page and I saw me name... or maybe she meant someone else's name.. I'm bored anyway... haha

LIST OUT THE TOP 5 PRESENTS YOU WISH FOR:

1. a new phone with better functions than the one i have now.. =)
2. a better violin =)
3. a getaway holiday to somewhere other than here. haha
4. clothes.. =)
5. pst.. i need money. haha. i cant survive the hols with just 10 bucks.. xP

LIST OUT THE REASONS FOR YOUR CHOICES:

1 most peeps hav cams and mp3 sort of stuff and bluetooth.. u guessed it. mine doesnt.
2. mine needs upgrade, daddy! im in grade __. haha..
3. i like fantasy hols? haha..
4. im getting fatt'r? hahhaha
5.broke xx

THE PERSON WHO TAGG-ED YOU IS: Ruby

5 IMPRESSIONS OF HIM/HER:

1. tall
2. taller than me
3. taller than me and neece i guess
4. tall!
5. tall? hahahhaha..

MOST MEMORABLE THINGS HE/SHE HAS DONE FOR YOU:

she sings, i listen..from the crowd. hahaha

MOST LOVED INVENTION:

me? toilets =) hahaha

WHAT DO YOU DESPISE THE MOST:

exams?

6 PERSONS YOU WANT TO TAG

1. sophia
2. annabelle
3. eric
4. albert
5. faustine
6. and....lets tag eunice again! hahahhaa

F1 @ KK, 2-4 Oct 2007

What? Only now?
Yeah... finally, a post.
And the friggin' 'add image' thing won't pop out. Ugh. The frustration. I can even go to the living room and watch the Nadal vs Ferrer match and the page still won't come out. Lol.
10 minutes past..
Oh babi-ness, still won't come out. I guess I'll keep typing.

This post is about the F1 In Schools Technology Challenge that I participated about a month ago.. haha. But the competition was over 3 months, starting around June where teams had to come up with a 5-page portfolio and submit it to the F1ISTC in Malaysia..rather Sarawak, I think.

First, there were so many students in my school joining and teachers had this idea of eliminating groups which didn't .. I don't know how to put this but it's kinda like 'less potential' of winning. haha. Teachers-in-charge asked groups to present using PP, together in it are the initial car designs (hand-sketched & CAD), team name, motto, sponsorship matters and etc. All that had to be done in 2 weeks or so. Have to modify some more.. Just when I thought this was hard..

Then a few weeks later, results for the teams which were qualified for Regional Finals were announced at www.f1inschools.com.my. Sarawak was in Zone 6 together with Sabah and Labuan. Oh well, being the BL we are, haha.. all 4 teams from BL were qualified. Ooo.. it's sure gonna be loads of fun when we're in KK. So throughout the August school break and the whole month of September, we were all constantly working our bums off, eyes on the computer/laptop screens, brainstorming, modifying, discussing, meetings with teachers and members, going out to look for sponsors, and staying back at school for almost every school day. 99% stay back. That's why I as so busy then! Going out looking for sponsors is just not my thing because I just don't like asking money from people. haha.. Have to be 'professional' some more.. but every team has to look for sponsors to keep the team going. We had to have our own team corporate uniforms, merchandise for marketing, spray paint for the car, and so on. Left-overs from our budget goes to the school PTA (sadly and yeah, we can't keep it.. sobs). I fact, everything that belongs to the teams, belongs to the school after the competition ends, except our uniforms and merchandise. Things like monetary funds, backdrops, banners must be kept in school and we can't bring it home. We were all thinking of putting our team banners up in our room wall, but... sigh.

The last few days before leaving for KK was hectic!! Teams from my school only managed to manufacture our cars the week before competition. And one car takes at LEAST 2-3 hours to manufacture. Manufacture meaning cutting into its shape, no tyres, no paint job, nothing. Naked. (The cars are cut from Balsa wood, it's very light. Cut using Denford CNC machine. There's a computer programme where you have to press some buttons and so on to start the machine and there's a knob on the machine to control the speed of the cutting). It's complicated, but we had an F1 official there to help us. So we skipped, ahem, were excused from school. i missed class for about a week. That includes precious Add. maths, chemistry, biology.. I say precious cause every little bit of information is precious. Physics wasn't much of a problem because my physics teacher was involved in the competition as well, so she was busy. On Thurs, Fri, Saturday and Sunday before competition, my friends and I who were in the competition was at school sandpaper-ing the car, making it smooth then putting tepung penyumbat on it, sandpaper, put, again and again until it's so smooth that you'll go crazy doing it for days. After that, have to spray the car with white coat 3 times and after each time, have to sandpaper the car. Then spray with base colour, and the other colours. For my team, we added stripes so, it was a lot of work. Lastly, spray with clear paint. Multiply all that paint job and finishing by 3. Each team needs 3 cars for the competition. 1. Race 2. Spare 3. Display.

On Sunday afternoon, (i know, what the hell? A Sunday?!) teachers brought all teams to SMK Matang Jaya to test run our cars. My car wasn't done yet, so it was still in the white coating. And coating was only half-way of the paint job. Competition was on Tuesday. After test run, went back to school and then went home in the evening. When I wished there was coffee to keep me active and awake, I was already too tired and lazy to make it.
Monday- our teachers-in-charge (TIC) wanted to prepare us for the competition so they made us set up our booths in the school hall on Monday for booth presentation. Okay, it was hell for a couple hours with teachers and students coming in to visit our booths. Interact. Be friendly. Be approchable. Be confident. SMILE =) I was so glad after mock booth presentation was over. Then, we all went back to the KHB workshop a.k.a. bengkel to continue our car finishing. The bengkel was where all of us spent our last week before the competition. Oh, the memories. aahhh. Made all kinds of sounds, sang, laughed, ate and smelled sawdust, ate KFC Zinger burger, twice..

Tuesday, 2nd October- Stef picked me up and we both went to the airport. Check-in was.. haha... SMKBL was the largest group out of the whole Zone 6 and we had so many stuff. tubes for banners, boxes for other props and nazmi even brought his PS2!! that's insane. 3 days in KK and most probably boring nights, not a bad idea after all. But we had our laptops with us :) and Eric's laptop filled with a variety of tv series, reality shows, songs, etc. When we went to the gate everyone was gone and i think we're the last ones and everyone was waiting for us. Lol. Our seats were scattered. So we were all practically sitting with other people.

Reached KKIA and boarded a bus to Kompleks Tabung Haji, where we all stayed for 3D,2N. there's no shopping mall 1km radius around that area and it's located in the kampung area. It wasn't bad, it was ok. Just that, I expected too much. haha.. It's a kinda like a Muslim place some more. (I was hoping for 4 or 5-Star hotel. Oh come on lah, JPN didn't even wanna sponsor 2 of our teams to KK. JPN was suppose to cover all expenses, air tix and accomodation+food. And there was some conflict going before the competition saying that JPN was only gonna sponsor 2 teams. Pft). We went to our rooms, unpacked and dressed in our full attires for the presentation. That's the first part of the regional finals comp. Teams will meet with a few judges in a room and give a 5-minute verbal presentation. Present whatever is important to get good scores and then the judges will ask questions. random questions. It was about 30 minutes per team for the presentation. Nerve-wrecking, yes. Before that, teams were quarantined in a waiting room. I walked back and forth the room so many times, wiping dry my sweaty palms. None of my team members prepared scripts, we went in, spontaneous. Didn't be too rehearsed. Eww.. haha. it turned out good anyway.

Had dinner after the Muslims had sahur, I'm not sure bout the spelling. Correct me if I'm wrong. And then I was up all night preparing for tomorrow's booth presentation. putting on double-sided tapes on the banners and stuff, editing video. All that, I did it in someone else's room. First, in Eric's room which looked like a store room the whole time because he had his AeroFlow© Eagle iron stand, AeroFlow© flourescent light sign, toolbox, wires ,etc. It was loaded. haha. Emm, Tan had their stuff in there too. When they wanted to sleep, I went up to teacher's room to do some editing cos' my room was occupied by unwanted occupants. I don't wanna elaborate here. It was just uncomfy to work with people i don't know around me. I ended up sleeping around.. 2am. And woke up at 530 to shower and breakfast at 630. 7am meet at the lobby with all the props for the booth. Before that, have to register our car 1 and car 2 for specification reasons. It's part of the aspects for point scoring. Only 1 hour to set up booth. And surprisingly, my school did a heck of a job. I'm not and don't want to trashtalk bout other teams but my school was the only school where our booths were fully fitted, decorated. There was absolutely no more space for other stuff on the walls of our booths. We could hardly walk around in our booth with ease. I was standing outside my booth for most of the time. While the booth p. was going on, the races were also going on. when it was our turn, the officials would call us up to the race track and my friends from other teams would take care of our booth. We took turns.. lol.

The booth p. and races ended at around 2pm. Only valuable stuff like laptops and LCD projectors were brought back up to our rooms and the other were left in the hall for tomorrow's VIP booth p. As Emm said, "Cikgu, apa yang tak bernilai?" Lol. Of course everything was valuable. It was our hardwork for months, but we won't have much time to set up again the next morning though. That Wednesday night was awesome! I'll tell bout it in another section.. hehe. We begged and persuaded our teachers with our form 4 teenage charm, asking them to bring us out since one of our team clocked in 2nd fastest in the race. so we did go out. And went back to the complex at 10 cos' that mall closes at an amazing 930, so early.

The next morning, Thursday, i woke up late! hahaha.. AutoFreaks© knocked on my room door and woke me up.
Rick: Eh, breakfast now.
Me: (smiled) I overslept.. oh ya. (closed the door and took a quick bath.
My roommates were Muslims)

Apalah.. mana tahu when I went down to the restaurant, nobody. Rupa-rupanya NO BREAKFAST. Ish. The Muslims already had their meal in the morning.

Then i went to Eric's room and we, Chinese kids ate ...................... (not gonna tell you here) haha. We shared, okay. Oh, just like brothers and sisters. haha. Feel the love. After that, went down and had our final booth p. for the VIP/VVIPs. Then was the results and prize giving ceremony. Being teams from BL, our teachers and the school had high hopes and that was the weight we had to carry. We all expected to win and other schools see us as a big threat. The big fish in the pond. At least that's what I thought they should be thinking of. haha. At last.. *drum roll* (not as exciting as when in KK).. haha. We grabbed 3 out of 6 awards given out.

Best Marketing & Sponsorship: AEROFLOW©
Overall 1st Runner Up: AUTOFREAKS©
Overall Champion: Light Speed©

We did it! We sapu! We gulung! haha. my team didn't win anything but we got an overall 8th place though. I'll give credits to my own team :D

Overall 8th place: Swift Stream©

haha. So we cheered and, I was so happy for them. Cos' we worked together! And whoever said we did not co-operate and work together, you'd better take that back. Or if you don't want to, it's fine. At least we know we did and you weren't there to witness it happen. *bitchy stare, waves hand in a Z shape and snaps* hmph.. haha. we had so much fun TOGETHER at KK although we were competitive among ourselves when it comes to serious business. We had to, to show some colour and intimidate our competition. haha.

Went back to Kuching that very same day, at night. Packing was alright for me cos' I didn't bring boxes of stuff but for Eric.. haha. I think he used cellotape like no one else. Before leaving for the airport, teachers brought us out to the Filipino market and lunch. The weather was steaming hot. So.. I did buy some stuff.. I'm not such a good shopper, especially when I have limited funds. haha. Melvin and Liew had plastic bags of goodies for the homies back in school. haha. Then went back to take our luggage and boarded the bus to the airport. Man, BL was noisy in the bus. haha.. laughing and poking fun. Reached the airport and check in our loads of stuff. This time we had good seats okay! We weren't sitting alone anymore. Hallelujah. Flight was delayed. Had dinner at the airport KFC. Again, we boarded the plane last minute. haha.. It was like 'last call' already I think. I slept during the whole flight. too tired I suppose. I think Rachel's mp3 was still in one side of my ear. Maybe it was God's music that made me sleep so soundly... ;P I was so blur when she passed me a bun when I woke up. haha. Reached Kuching around 10pm. Took a group photo at the arrival hall, all of us in our Maybank & AeroFlow© sponsored corporate shirts. Thank you :D

I couldn't hold my pee any longer so I went to the toilet. Came out and looked for my luggage.. Damn! Can't find. haha.. Whoever put my bag on the floor, *toot* haha. I panicked okay! I thought it was lost or mixed up somewhere on another plane or maybe they didnt even put my bag on the plane to Kuching! Ugh. Hallelujah. I kept my cool and found it. My precious clothes in side arh and my Winnie the Pooh towel.. haha.

My dad picked me up. I went home and showered. Oh, the cooling water that runs on ... don't think otherwise. haha. It was so hot. And what more to say, History paper the next morning and I.. haven't studied that time. And I think you can predict the results of my exams lah. haha.

My oh my. what a long post. Hope ya'll read till you need a toilet break half-way reading. haha. Will continue on the events that happened during the KK trip in another post. Need to refresh my memory a little bit. Lol. Happy reading, happy blogging and goodnight.

xoxovon

I'm alone. I'm hungry. I have a golf club beside me.

For more information on the F1 In Schools Technology Challenge, check out http://www.f1inschools.com.my/

To fill the space in between

Sha la la mai ku ku!! haha.. oh my gosh, haven't posted anything since end of August. Someone spank me (Neece... haha). Oh well.. was so busy during the whole month of September doing the F1 In Schools Technology Challenge thingy. I'll post something bout the F1 competition soon. And I'm having my last paper of the year end examinations tomorrow, EST Paper 1. I don't know. It's not just me but everyone, my friends, seem not to care much bout paper 1. Simply because we 'can't' study for it.. haha. I'm not so sure bout that.. My teacher just tells us to read a lot of articles concerning science and tech. Gonna ask my mom bout that when she gets back from some public forum later.. All the best peeps! Last paper!

xoxovon

Darn. Chemistry folio and morale assigments. urgh.

It's Finger Lickin' Good.

Last Friday, after my whole day at Winners Court, I went home, took my bath and went to KFC immediately for my birthday dinner with some friends.

We ate, we drank, we talked, we laughed, we took pictures, we ate, we drank, we talked, we laugh and we took some more pictures. 2 pieces of chicken nen-nen (breast meat) haha, 1 regular mash potato, 1 cup of Coke/Pepsi whichever and I was already stuffed. Despite not eating between lunch and dinner and I only had breakfast (which was around 650am), one packet of chicken rice (around 1pm) and plain water all day. I must be sick, I thought. Albert wanted to try the Chicken Poppers ('cause he said it looked interesting in the ads. haha) so i ordered it.. Opened it up.. wahlau le! Only 5 small pieces of what look and kinda taste like meatballs plus 1 regular mash potatoes in the box. Some of us made fun of the name.. 'Chicken Poopers'.. Lol ..

I have no idea what we were doing. My little brother took all the photos that night.


I'm guessing we finished our food.

Group photo! :D

Albert spilled something. Chicken.. Lol.

No one was hurt during Albert's spilling incident. :D

Rachel, Eunice Scissorhands & Anna to the Belle.

Did she just pick her nose? haha.. No one knows the truth about her nationality or where she came from. kidding. Lol. Oh oh. She even brought chocolates for us all, how sweet. Her shirt says ' I ♥ M♡M'. Where's OUR love? =P

Ee-mee koko!!!

O.o A camera.

Emmanuel: *tongue-out*

Group photo!: Stef, Rachel, Neece, Emm, Belle, Von, Albert & Eric (little bro) behind the camera.

Another one.. Gradually, we started acting crazy.

See what i mean. KFC is alcohol-free. No worries... haha

There was one moment when the lights at KFC went out and only a shimmer of light shone from the what seemed to be the light above Emmanuel. The 'oohs' and 'aahhs' from the patrons started to fill the place and.. i don't know which of these guys, Emmanuel and Albert started singing 'Happy Birthday'. Soon after, the girls started singing with them.. How sweet of them .. ♡s to all of you. I personally don't like making a scene in public but.. what the heck? haha. Not a crime for having a awesome friends, it's a gift.

Then, we decide to fake it. There was no cake. We were so full so.. the bun was the cake and I poked straws as candles. I'm not 3.


Thanks for the presents although I only informed you the day before. :D

xoxovon

I am sixteen, going on seventeen.

From the lens of a camera.

The badminton competition was like last Friday and I finally found the time and mood to post up some pics. Thank God... haha. Here we go..

Briefing

Co-organiser, Lester.

Co-organiser, Leon

Mised Doubles Round 1- Amy/Jeff vs Yvonne/Sen Kai: This pic looks kinda funny, only if you think so. Lol.

... was picking up the shuttle. haha. Nice arse x.x

Girls' Doubles Open: Roselind and I. Matching shirts! whoot~ haha

Edited this cause it was blurry. Our faces can hardly be seen then. :P

These are only some. Thanks to Aileen for some of the pics too. Hope there'll be more pics coming in from other people soon. haha.

xoxovon

A picture means a thousand words. What does a picture of a thousand words mean?