Phooey

Phooey! Just came back from Genting and the water tank up in the roof greeted us, sort of. Water dripped from the roof down the stairs and on the floor. The house's water tank must have missed us so much that it started to cry. Luckily didn't cry on my LOTR book, if not my turn to cry pulak. Apparently something about the tank's washer(?) spoiled or something and therefore cannot stop the flow of water. Still waiting for the person to come and have a look and repair it. But one thing that I was able to do while mopping up the puddle of water, I got to shuffle! *cue LMFAO music* "everyday I'm shuffling" 

Meh, just kidding. nothing much damaged from the water leak, except maybe the top of the stairs. Heh, that's good.

Genting!!

Whee, just came back from Genting (and KL). I know this post is super-duper late and I don't have any excuses for that. Reason why I'm writing about this Genting trip is because it is unlike any of the previous trips that I've been to. I can now officially announce that I have been to, and played at the casino. Woot woot!

Yes its true! Yours truly has touched the slot machines in Genting, though I don't see it being an often thing in the near future. Its cause I am the 'kiasu' type, so most probably I won't be playing much. But it is interesting to see my parents play the slots. Dad has a 'strategy' of beating the odds, while mum is the 'if it is to be, it will be' type. So far, Ah Pa's strat seems to be working.

Also, Ah Pa and Ah Mi was talking about 'Zorro' every time we were up in Genting last time, so I was interested in this 'Zorro'. Although I did not see Ah Mi play 'Zorro' (its Ah Mi's favourite apparently), I did get to see Ah Mi play 'Penguins'. It was so interesting. The way the penguins jump here and there and also the random features that would appear when Ah Mi was playing was very very cute. Heh. Once in a while, Ah Mi would tap the glass to 'call' the penguin to give more random features too. Nice to see mum play like that, and I now know why Ah Mi likes to play in the casino. As for Ah Pa, he also enjoys himself. Ah Pa constantly says, he plays to win, and win he does.

So when the day ends, both Mum and Dad comes home happy. Dad won money, Mum got to relax a lil. As for me, well, I can't say too much. After all, I mostly just watched after I gotten through my family's rite of passage, as Sa Ee puts it. Heh.

I am A+

Yesterday, I went to donate blood!! Hooray, thus the title (cause I dunno what other title to put already)

And I got a whole bunch of goodies!!

1. Tiger biscuit

2. Milo 3-in-1 Fuze

3. Super Cereal Drink (Ah Jie like wan, according to mum)

4. Quaker Oats
5. Apollo Wafer Biscuit

6. One bottle (300ml) Chrysanthenum tea

7. Eu Yan Sang chicken essence

That's from the blood donation drive. I also got a new pair of sunglasses from some optometry shop.

All in all, a good haul, if compared to last time when Ah Mi or Ah Pa donated blood, one apple and one biscuit with tea to drink. Heh~ 

Well, the reason I decided to write about this is because for me, something big happen. I voluntarily let myself be poked by a needle. Needless to say, I have a fear of needles. According to Wikipedia, I have trypanophobia. It started when the doctor tried to take my blood for a blood test last time, poke here poke there. All because I fat and cannot find vein. LOL. So let this be a lesson to all the fat folks, before you eat until so fat, remember to take permanent marker and draw your veins on your body first! Then only when taking blood, the doctor will know where your vein is! Hah, joking only. I know that won't work. *damnit*

So now, let's see what other fears that I have...
1. Heights, definitely, albeit under certain conditions.
2. ....................................

Just heights? Nah, its just that I can't think of anymore, for now. But as for height, I might have faced it a little when I was in Mexico. Jumping into the cenote sure took me a while and a whole lot of me, so I must say that's a good thing. *pats self on the back*

Woo... looks like I've written a lot. (by my standards at least =P) So I'll stop now.

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Hi!

Blogged!

Done!

This is for those that want me to update my blog.

Chao!

After some time, its good to write something

Its been a while since I wrote anything here *brushes off cobwebs* so thought I might wanna write about most of the stuff that happened in the past month or so, if I can remember it correctly. Also this is mostly because somebody *ahem* mom *ahem* is asking me to blog. Nothing much happened recently, except for a trip to sugar shack. Went there for dinner, look at all the maple trees, usual stuff that you do when you go somewhere to sightsee. But the food there is great, at least for me, cause its all pork, egg, pork, egg, pork, egg..~~

A sample of the food served there. There's pig lard, ham, bacon, potatoes and egg souffle. 

The food is nice in the sense that I don't usually eat these kind of things. The egg souffle is something new to me and I liked it cause its soft. Its like eating a cake, but in the back of your mind, you know its eggs. Yummy. The item that I was looking most forward to was the pig lard, because before this, a friend of mine *cough* Constance *cough* asked me to use google translate to translate its french name. So out of curiosity, I did and the result was... ear eff-ing. That took me totally by surprise and so I was wondering what it was before the meal. 

But the highlight of the meal for me is most definitely the dessert, pictured below. 

Some kind of pie. I forgot the name, but it is truly delightful to eat this. Don't mind the pie, its here just to steal some glory from the pie and thus lying in the shadows.

The pie.. is so good! The filling reminded me of kaya. Most people say that its sweet, but to me its just the right amount. I know I know, diabetes warning... but still.. its too good for me to pass it up. There was another dessert but I didn't really like it that much because I think its a bit too.. 'zai'. Stuffed? I'm not sure about the english equivalent. Oh and I forgot to add, all the foods above, you have maple syrup to cover it in, although personally, I think its better without the maple syrup. 

Well, with the exams around, this is as much as I can write. By the way,

Happy Birthday Ah Pa and Ah Ko!!! :)

Toronto~~

Last week, I went to Toronto. It was my designated chill week since it was the reading week for McGill University as well as University of Toronto. And indeed a chill week it was. Basically, I went there, relax and hang around buddies that I haven't hang since... Taylors? Wow, 3 years. Being back with them sure brings back a lot of nostalgic feelings. For one thing, there's this koala that will always wanna do inappropriate things  try and hug me. Heh. Also had a Ridzuan condo A307 master bedroom reunion, me, KP and Wilson. Being with those two, wallet will open like the floodgates of hell during the the 7th month but luckily I practised restraint (restraint.. kononnya =P) Bought another pair of nike shoes and a nike T-shirt. What to do, nike shop in Toronto had 50% off everything. =D

Toronto, met up with the almost non-existent hippo(Once!) Damn that guy really slim dy. Haiz... 

Also met Alex, still as optimistic as ever apparently. 

And Kenneth... suddenly so freaking fat =P

Met the girls in Toronto too, prettier but still bulliable

Made 'siu bak' and fried ice cream in Toronto too! 'Siu bak' was too oily once again. My cooking problem is always the oilyness... too much oil. Haih. Fried ice cream was okay I guess, but didn't make enough for everyone, so siapa cepat, dia dapat. Hahahaha~~

Also, although the reading week is way pass the CNY period, we still played mahjong into the wee wee hours of the morning. Not everyday la of course, but still... and I learnt how to play mahjong, with points and all that in Toronto. Got a 'cheng yat sik' one time, happy dy. Hehehehe

Well, that's all that I did in Toronto, during my Reading Week. Ironic isn't it, that it is the reading week but I did not do any reading whatsoever =D

Clubbing

Yup, I tried Montreal's night life. And to be honest, its not my kind of thing. Not my cup of tea. No siree.

The idea of going out for a drink is not new to me, in fact, I enjoy it.

The idea of going out to dance in a club is new to me, but I have a feeling that I will not enjoy it.

So... the idea of going out for a drink and dancing, it combines two things, a plus and a minus. So I thought why not right?

Turns out, the minus overweighs the plus by a mile. It wasn't that enjoyable after all. Well, I'll just say why I don't like it, then judge me as you will

The night started out fine. Lining up in front of the club in the winter was fine since we had on jackets and stuff, pity the ladies though, dress only. It was fun to watch the ladies shiver in the cold winter night. And then, once I got in, I found myself standing in a dimly lit place, the norm for clubs. I was fine with that. Turns out, we were a lil too early, nobody was there yet. So we ordered drinks and waited for people to come. Until then, it was still fine. Then people started coming, and the music started. Oh god, that's when things took a turn for the bad, the music was too loud for my preference, way louder than what I had expected. The bass was booming so loud that my chest felt like it was about to explode any time soon. Then of course there's the dancing. I didn't dance much, mind you. I know I have two left feet. At that time, I was thinking, what the hell is and introvert like myself doing in a club? 

So in the club, I went to doing the thing I enjoy doing when I have nothing in common with the crowd. People watching. There was a whole lot of people. Everybody was rubbing everything with everybody, which I know is something normal out here but I'm still not used to it. I don't know whether you would call this a culture shock or not, I'm just not used to it. I'm not disgusted or anything, just not used to seeing it. My rational mind was saying, its alright la, these people might be friends, who knows right? And so, the rubbing (they call it grinding for some reason) continued on and on and I watched as the guy was getting a lil touchy. Everybody was a lil high and feelings of lust were very apparent. But the juiciest part of the night was when the guy and the girl started going at it, and to those that don't understand the meaning, they were slobbering all over each other. Now that's a show for everyone to see I'll bet. Was kinda weird to see a whole bunch of people crowding around two people making out but hey, what the heck right? Haha... Could be friends (with benefits ^^) or strangers. 

With the music continuing, a pair making out, and others grinding anybody and everybody, that was when I decided that it would be the last time I went to a club, for anything. This occasion was apparently for charity, something about helping Pakistan and it was organized by UNICEF McGill, with my friend being one of the execs. That's why I went. It was a not so good experience, I wouldn't classify it as a downright bad experience but it wasn't good either. Either way, I can honestly say, I experienced Montreal's night life at least once and I definitely hated it.