So we went back to my Ipoh, my dad's hometown as usual for this chinese new year. The journey there was surprisingly smooth and therefore only took two hours, compared to the usual minimum five hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic during previous trips. This is mainly because them boffins at our kerajaan have so kindly decided to add a third lane to the two lane highway. This upgrade was completed just before the start of the chinese new year and of course, in due time for the coming elections. The irony of the whole thing though is that the jam began when we reached the town of ipoh itself.
Anyways this CNY was pretty much like previous ones, with the usual meeting up at my auntie's place, lunches, dinners, gambling and fireworks. Unfortunately though those big, red, noisy five-minute firecrackers usually set off to usher in the new year were unavailable this year so we had to make do with those big rockets that exploded in pretty little multi-coloured patterns in the sky. And the first of the big rockets fired into a neighbour's balcony, exploding there in all its multi-coloured glory and we thought maybe we shouldnt use them big rockets after all...and then we saw the rocket's stick still in the wine bottle. Turned out the stick had snapped and my cousin had cellotaped the two halves back together.
Lost twenty bucks when i could have won fifty, mostly due to greed. All in all though this was pretty much an enjoyable new year. Could've eaten more though...
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Moo
How do you fit a cow into a proton wira? I say the guy who managed to do it should get an award. xD
Friday, January 18, 2008
Update
Been really busy so didn't really have time to update in the past few weeks, but since there's so much work being given to us now that we're in form five, I doubt that I would very often.
Anyway our final school year has started two weeks ago, though somehow this year doesnt feel like a new one like the last four years, but more like just a continuation of last year. It's like as though the year-end holidays were just some really long mid-term break. Maybe it's the studying, because this particular year end holiday was the only one where I felt obliged to study, and did so almost everyday. Of course much of the studying was mainly due to my mom making me do four hours a day, starting with the first day of the holidays, and I actually wanted to. However, my lack of self-discipline prevented me from doing so and I therefore skipped it whenever I could, resulting in me covering only FIVE CHAPTERS of add maths in TWO MONTHS. So of course I try to make up for it now by reading through the day's lessons if I do have the time, though I doubt that would be enough. Oh, and we will be tested on last years work along with what we've covered this year in our first chem and sejarah class tests.
On a lighter note, I've noticed people complaining about the new canteen operators, mostly in terms on pricing, though some have found the food unsatisfactory. Personally I think that the food tastes way better than last year's, and THAT is the most important thing. For me anyway. xD Which is why I'm not complaining about the pricing. I'd much rather have a satisfying lunch at the current prices than pay a few cents less for rubbish food. The black pepper chicken served last year's a perfect example of that. But then there's no more prawn mee now......
Anyway our final school year has started two weeks ago, though somehow this year doesnt feel like a new one like the last four years, but more like just a continuation of last year. It's like as though the year-end holidays were just some really long mid-term break. Maybe it's the studying, because this particular year end holiday was the only one where I felt obliged to study, and did so almost everyday. Of course much of the studying was mainly due to my mom making me do four hours a day, starting with the first day of the holidays, and I actually wanted to. However, my lack of self-discipline prevented me from doing so and I therefore skipped it whenever I could, resulting in me covering only FIVE CHAPTERS of add maths in TWO MONTHS. So of course I try to make up for it now by reading through the day's lessons if I do have the time, though I doubt that would be enough. Oh, and we will be tested on last years work along with what we've covered this year in our first chem and sejarah class tests.
On a lighter note, I've noticed people complaining about the new canteen operators, mostly in terms on pricing, though some have found the food unsatisfactory. Personally I think that the food tastes way better than last year's, and THAT is the most important thing. For me anyway. xD Which is why I'm not complaining about the pricing. I'd much rather have a satisfying lunch at the current prices than pay a few cents less for rubbish food. The black pepper chicken served last year's a perfect example of that. But then there's no more prawn mee now......
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Okay so i haven't updated in quite a while due to ongoing P&A practice but this blog isnt dead like kevin thinks it is...xD There are a lot of things that have happened since finals were over...that seemed such a looong time ago.
=P
Ah yes, W-Hole productions finished filming part one of the Paratha Puff Girls trilogy on the first day of the raya holidays some three weeks ago. We did the filming in darrel's apartment where we spent the the afternoon playing with lego! Lego will be our main props in this video so we spent about two hours building completely random structures as can be seen in these snapshots. Oh and the trailer is out, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNXkNMouew
=PComments and feedback shall be very much appreciated.
After the raya holidays P&A night practice started on thursday with orchestra practice being held in the electone room. Why foo had to choose that room out of all the empty rooms available i have no idea but it stank like hell, but good thing practice was moved to the hall the following week. For the first few days i was able to attend chem headstart classes but then after that practice started at around nine so i totally missed chem...and mod maths so that now i have a lot to catch up on. Shit i am so screwed...
So practice went okay for the first two weeks, what we did was mostly receive new scores for the songs to be played and i was busy tabbing out basslines as foo only gave out s for mostly violin and piano. For Matsuri the bassline was easy as hell so i could figure it out just by hearing the song, but Setia had something kinda melodic and at first i had no bloody idea what to play as foo being the lazy bitch she was didnt bother giving me any bass notes so i eventually figured it out by looking at the electone player's left hand and playing what she was playing. xD Yeah this year's orchestra was so much different compared to last year, mainly because mr koh left and foo who didnt bother tabbing out the notes for all the intruments in the orchestra, while mr koh took the time to tab out the notes for EVERY SINGLE INSTRUMENT there was, so most of us had to improvise and got shouted at for not figuring things out quickly enough.
Anyway as i said earlier for the first two weeks practice was mostly okay, but things started getting nasty in the second week. Well for me anyway. :P Apparently being the bassist i'm supposed to be playing a very important role as i'm supposed to be supporting the entire orchestra, so every time something went wrong, i.e. the whole orchestra went too slowly or quickly that bitch would pin the blame on me. Like for example the school song. Like when foo's incompetent hearing told her that the whole thing went too slowly, she would say that i was dragging the entire orchestra down as everyone was supposed to be following me, but the thing is that i was following them. So then i played a little faster the next time, but then i was out of time as they were playing at roughly the same speed as before because, as i discovered, this orchestra doesn't follow the bassist's tempo. Which is why i do not see the point of adjusting my tempo if the whole orchestra is out of time. So then foo is like 'Shum what are you playing you're completely out of time!!!' So the next time i play slower and she's like 'yes this speed is good' and i'm like 'WTF this is exacly the same speed as what i played the last time!!!!' So this happened like over and over again. Lol.
Well anyway i had my fun pissing her off by idly fingering my bass whenever i felt like it. xDDDDDD My god you should see the way she smiles when she's talking to mrs chan. Really makes you feel like punching her in the face. And the way she quickly looks for a scapegoat when something supposedly goes wrong when she's entertaining somebody seemingly important. And the way she calls me when any 'technical problems' arise. Like i'm tech support or something. Our IB conducter, Ju Anne is so much better, such that i'm only really serious when she's conducting the orchestra. xD Kudos to her for getting student of the year.
Then there was Jobo's party, but you can read about that on other people's blogs. Oh and on the way back i saw a Lamborghini Gallardo. Yeap. Real fine piece of Italian engineering.
only view you'll be able to see of a Lambo you're tailing
you can still see the blood on some of 'em
After the cultural village it was lunch, then off to the airport. When we got back a few of us had dinner at the curve. People there were richard, kok wai, don, joel, benjamin(4W), genna, wengyee, trixie, puiyi, melissa and myself. We ate at this pancake place whose name i cant remember, but the food was different(pancake based), but good. Gotta go back there to try out the rest of the stuff on the menu. xD
So practice went okay for the first two weeks, what we did was mostly receive new scores for the songs to be played and i was busy tabbing out basslines as foo only gave out s for mostly violin and piano. For Matsuri the bassline was easy as hell so i could figure it out just by hearing the song, but Setia had something kinda melodic and at first i had no bloody idea what to play as foo being the lazy bitch she was didnt bother giving me any bass notes so i eventually figured it out by looking at the electone player's left hand and playing what she was playing. xD Yeah this year's orchestra was so much different compared to last year, mainly because mr koh left and foo who didnt bother tabbing out the notes for all the intruments in the orchestra, while mr koh took the time to tab out the notes for EVERY SINGLE INSTRUMENT there was, so most of us had to improvise and got shouted at for not figuring things out quickly enough.
Anyway as i said earlier for the first two weeks practice was mostly okay, but things started getting nasty in the second week. Well for me anyway. :P Apparently being the bassist i'm supposed to be playing a very important role as i'm supposed to be supporting the entire orchestra, so every time something went wrong, i.e. the whole orchestra went too slowly or quickly that bitch would pin the blame on me. Like for example the school song. Like when foo's incompetent hearing told her that the whole thing went too slowly, she would say that i was dragging the entire orchestra down as everyone was supposed to be following me, but the thing is that i was following them. So then i played a little faster the next time, but then i was out of time as they were playing at roughly the same speed as before because, as i discovered, this orchestra doesn't follow the bassist's tempo. Which is why i do not see the point of adjusting my tempo if the whole orchestra is out of time. So then foo is like 'Shum what are you playing you're completely out of time!!!' So the next time i play slower and she's like 'yes this speed is good' and i'm like 'WTF this is exacly the same speed as what i played the last time!!!!' So this happened like over and over again. Lol.
Well anyway i had my fun pissing her off by idly fingering my bass whenever i felt like it. xDDDDDD My god you should see the way she smiles when she's talking to mrs chan. Really makes you feel like punching her in the face. And the way she quickly looks for a scapegoat when something supposedly goes wrong when she's entertaining somebody seemingly important. And the way she calls me when any 'technical problems' arise. Like i'm tech support or something. Our IB conducter, Ju Anne is so much better, such that i'm only really serious when she's conducting the orchestra. xD Kudos to her for getting student of the year.
Then there was Jobo's party, but you can read about that on other people's blogs. Oh and on the way back i saw a Lamborghini Gallardo. Yeap. Real fine piece of Italian engineering.
only view you'll be able to see of a Lambo you're tailingOn monday the form fours had a trip to Sabah, and we had to gather in school at an insane 3.30 a.m. We practically spent most of the trip in the bus as there was so much travelling to do. We stayed in two places, the Pines Resort, best two star hotel around, and Shangri-La(not the frachise one). 
view from pine resort
view from pine resortA lot of places were skipped due to the lack of time but we did visit places like the sabah museum, poring hot springs(where we had the tub quarter filled with sulphur water when it was time to leave) and some cultural village. There were also a few stops at places selling cultural stuff and local food. And there was this photo stop at the bangunan yayasan sabah.
human skulls collected during war hanging from a ceiling in the cultural village
human skulls collected during war hanging from a ceiling in the cultural village
you can still see the blood on some of 'emAfter the cultural village it was lunch, then off to the airport. When we got back a few of us had dinner at the curve. People there were richard, kok wai, don, joel, benjamin(4W), genna, wengyee, trixie, puiyi, melissa and myself. We ate at this pancake place whose name i cant remember, but the food was different(pancake based), but good. Gotta go back there to try out the rest of the stuff on the menu. xD
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