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Papparich on a Friday Night

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 21, 2009

Okay, I finally got out of the house and enjoyed some real entertainment! :)

Guess who’s back!

#1. Heng!!!

Yay! The BFF is back!!! :)

He insisted on going Papparich cause apparently Labuan got no good coffee. Haha.

Another sampat was with us too!

#2. Cassie!

This girl can never take a decent picture, seriously. ;-)

It was so fun despite the fact we do nothing much, but to sit and talk all night only.

Yumcha sessions are always the best way to hang out cause it doesn’t require that high cost and definitely not energy consuming.

I am officially on a holiday! :)

Poke All Day!

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 19, 2009

Okay, the title sounds a bit wrong. Haha!

Holidays started like about one week only and I’m starting to rot at home already.

So I go online pretty often and what else to do if not FB when you online the whole afternoon.

And I use this application pretty often, just to amuse myself on the funny things you’re able to do with your friends or your friends’ avatar, to be more exact. ;-)

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Hahaha! Buddypoke!

That is my avatar before I changed her appearance.

And yes, that was really how I felt just now!

#2. L.O.V.E

And this is after I changed her hairstyle, added some eye shadow, changed her shoes and added a watch.

Surprisingly I used a lot of pink. I used to hate pink like anything. Haha!

I got bored and changed her appearance again.

#3. Me like BLUE!

Tadah!

Okay fine, I know I am getting lamer by the day.

First it was Plants vs Zombies, now Buddypoke.

But hey, try staying in the house with nothing on the TV to watch and no more blogs to read cause you’ve read them just yesterday, see you’ll turn lame like me or not!

Sigh.

I need some real entertainment before I go nuts.

Of Awful Card and Grand Imperial

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 17, 2009

It’s 16th November (as I started out typing) and 16th November is a big day in the Choong’s.

It’s Mommy and Fei’s birthday. Yes, both of them share the same birthday. :)

When the clock struck twelve, Fei presented Mom with a handmade card by Fei and I, signed by the rest of the family.

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#1. The front cover

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#2. The inside

 Reason I’m posting it up here is not because I’m super proud of it.

But I think it’s super funny cause Fei’s artwork is like a kindergarden student’s. ;-)

She did the front cover, while I tried my best to make the inside look more mature.

Really cannot do anything. Too colourful. :)

Then just a moment ago, we went for dinner at the Grand Imperial (yes, again).

This time, we ordered the dishes ourselves, not the set kind of meal.

We had Peking Duck…

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which they serve in such a way whereby the inside is…
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super crunchy but not too oily duck skin. Super delicious!

Then we had some tofu thingy with vegetables.

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I think it doesn’t look that good here but it’s seriously because the photographer (Ehem, me) suck.

The tofu was really good and that vege is my favourite vege! I think it’s called siu pak choy, small white vege. :)

After that it was the lamb!

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#6. Super yummy lamb!!!

I didn’t know they actually serve like this as in individual portions in Chinese restaurants and from the way they presented that heavenly tasty meat, it sure feels like I was at a Western restaurant.

And the lamb, they actually used erm… some kind of leaf as the spice. It’s called something like fat fong kam yip in Cantonese. Any idea what’s the English term for it?

Anyway, my point is it was so special and it tasted really really good!

The best part is each plate only cost RM7 something cause it was on promotion! :)

Okay, enough of lamb. We had eels too!!!

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Not something my dad usually orders but really worth the try! It was very nice as well!!! :)

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The last time we had this prawn and broccoli thing and we liked it very much so here it is again!

Super big fat juicy prawn. :)

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After that they came with some noodles that was fried with the earlier Peking duck!

You eat the skin first with the sauce and popiah skin-like thing then you eat the meat with the noodles later. :)

Okay, I know this may be a very common thing but it’s my first time!!!

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Noodles were so-so only probably because I was a bit full already. :)

And that’s all we ordered so no more dish lah, then the waitress did this to our napkins.

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My dad say maybe they’re preparing us for desserts but we didn’t order any so we were hoping for free desserts. :)

They were all minding their own businesses, so Fei and I went to the toilet. Hehe!

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Toilet breaks are essential for girls!

There are more but I guess I should just keep it to myself. Haha!

When we went back, there were really free desserts and it happens to be one of my favourite desserts too!!!

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#13. Tau Foo Fah! :)

The bill then came and it was about RM400 which I think is quite worth it compared to the last time we went there.

No, obviously we didn’t get richer now.

It’s the big day of Mom and Fei after all. :)

Divide the amount, it’s only RM200 per person actually. Haha.

Best part is, I didn’t even contribute a cent or any form of present besides the awful looking card to make their birthdays better. Sigh.

It’s the end of semester which also means my PTPTN habis already.

Another semester k darlings, and I promise I’ll get something really meaningful for you guys. ;-)

Happy belated birthday again Mommy and Fei!

Home.

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 14, 2009

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#1. Hi-Fibre Cheesecake

I am HOME!!! :)

Yes, I’m done with the exams (as mentioned a few hundred times on FB) so I’m back since Friday night.

I didn’t want to come home that early as there are still things unsettled in the university, like application procedures for the coming internship, scholarship, and laid-back sessions with the bunch. Hehe!

But it’s Mom and Fei’s birthday soon so better be home to not miss any celebration. Just in case.

And I was just in time for Fei’s surprise on Friday night itself.

Her long time buddy, Kylie and Malcolm came over with a High-Fibre Cheesecake (as shown above), which is one of the very few things Fei eat during her diet times.

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#2. Malcolm, Fei, & Kylie

The surprise was a success, obviously. Fei is the blurrest person on Earth so it’s super easy to surprise her. :)

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#3. The success!

If you guys haven’t noticed, Fei was still in her home clothes/pajamas. :)

She had no intentions to change pun despite the photo-taking and friends-coming-over.

Well, she’s just being herself I guess. ;-)

Malcolm came with a guitar and played her the birthday song when they surprised her and for some reasons, my Mom cried.

Okay, so my Mom and Fei share the same birthday but still, they came for Fei.

Why is it that Mom was the one who cried?

No idea. Mom being herself, I guess. Haha!

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#4. With Mom

Oh yah, it was the first time me meeting Malcolm actually.

Apparently Alyssa, also Fei’s long time buddy (Kylie, Alyssa and Fei were inseparable in school last time) and Kylie wanted to match-make Fei and him.

I keep telling Fei I’m with Aly and Kylie also!

Malcolm seems like a good guy! :)

Anyways, Heng is going to be back this Thursday! :)

Can’t wait, can’t wait!!!

What Are Friends to You?

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 11, 2009

I’m just wondering.

How do you consider someone as a good friend?

Someone who clicks seriously well with you?

Or someone who has nothing in common with you, just being together feels comfortable?

Someone who agrees with everything you say?

Or someone who’s all in for debates with you over where the best Hokkien Mee is in the country?

Someone who knows what you’re thinking without having to tell it all out?

Or someone who has no clue about anything in the world even if you draw things out?

Well, I don’t know.

But I’m sure with really good friends, you can be yourself without having to worry about being judged.

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Yes, you can take pictures with your middle finger at your cleavage and your dear friend thinks it’s the picture of the night. :)

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You can also take silly pictures with them at a restaurant.

And both of you actually enjoy acting like that while others may think you’re silly.

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And of course, you can punch them whenever you beh song with them and they will never get angry.

What are friends to you?

p.s: Questions are seriously random, no intentions at pointing to anyone or anything in specific.

p.p.s: I am in serious need for BFFs. :(

My New Friends

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 4, 2009

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These became my good friends lately.

I’m constantly with them.

Not that they’re annoying or anything but it gets really boring after spending just an hour with them.

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They’re very obsessed with me, too.

They make me feel extremely bad if I leave them aside for a while to attend to other stuffs.

And this had to become my favourite among them cause it’s extremely important for me to not lose it.

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#3. Favourite friend

Until next week at least. ;-)

You see, I won’t be able to update for a couple of weeks cause they are making me feel extremely guilty already now.

I have to get back to them. :(

They’re not really what good friends should be so I won’t keep them for long.

I’ll get rid of them as soon as I can.

I’ll be back, promise. :)

The Weekend At Home

Posted by: Xin Min on: November 2, 2009

I am not going back home with my books again.

Cause I don’t even touch them when I reach home!

Die. Means study week better not go home.

Friday was eventful, Saturday was even better!

Mom woke me up around 11, saying we have our programme for the day lined up already.

Breakfast-ed, then off we went.

Oh, I was ‘on leave’ that day. :)

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#1. Driver of the day!

Xinyi was on duty instead.

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#2. Boss

Mommy looking prettier this time. Hehe.

She was saying when ever I have the camera, she is going to make up for that outing cause I always snap candid pictures of her. ;-)

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#3. The baby girl of the family

Hehe. She is Xin Fei, in case you guys cannot recognize her.

Oh, where were we going?

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Those who stay in Subang would know by now, I guess.

Hehe. Yup, we were going to Summit again cause Mom wasn’t satisfied with the shopping on Friday.

She said it was too rush and she didn’t see everything there so she’s going again.

Fei and her went straight up to the 4th floor, where the Metrojaya sales was at, while Xin Yi and I went for a hair cut.

At the place Audrey cuts her hair. I call that place like that cause I don’t remember what’s the name of the saloon! :)

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#5. XinYi getting her hair cut

No pictures of me during the process cause I’m always terrified to move while someone’s doing something to me that concerns how I look after that (ie. facial, hair cut, etc)

But got picture of me after the hair cut! :)

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Tadaa!!!

Not much difference, I know but that’s the whole point!!!

I love going for a hair cut and get people washing my hair for me but I hate it after the hair cut when I realize my hair is short already. Hehe!

Then off we went to the Metrojaya Sales to meet my mom and Xin Fei.

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#7. Metrojaya Sales!!!

I secretly took this shot. Secretly cause I don’t know if I was allowed to take pictures since the security was really tight there.

As I mentioned in the previous post, they even tie up your handbags! O.o

XinYi and I didn’t get to stay long there though cause Fei and Mom left already.

Again, I didn’t get to shop properly. :(

But, they were waiting for us for lunch!

And guess what’s for lunch???

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#8. My favourite kind of lunch!!!

SPICY CHICKEN MCDELUXE!!!

I am a super huge fan of Spicy Chicken McDeluxe and would go crazy if I don’t get it after three weeks not having it.

Serious!

Haha. Okay, after that we sent lunch home to the guys and off we went to Bangsar!

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XinYi wanted to shop for office wear at this place called the Dude and the Dutchess, if I’m not wrong.

But she didn’t get anything in the end and then she brought us to this Indian shop to…

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#10. Fei, getting her eye brow threaded

Yes. Eye brow threading place opposite Bangsar Village.

The very traditional method, you know the one where they use threads and all.

The whole thing was fun in a way cause you get neater eye brows after that but PAIN!

Super pain!!!

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#11. XinYi in pain

My sisters threaded their ‘moustache’ also but *Hehe*, no thanks for me.

Eye brow already so pain, upper lip sure more pain lor!!!

See XinYi’s face!!! O.o

They have this saying in Chinese, “Oi Leng Mm Moi Meng” that translates “Want Beauty Don’t Want Life” which really applied for this cause…

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p.s: Pictures in medium size to not scare you away. ;-)

The parts that were threaded became swollen and very red right after that!

Fei said the feeling on her upper lip is as though she rubbed cili padi on it.

Gosh. But it was really reasonable and the results were good at least.

For eye brow threading is RM 5 only and if you do the upper lip also it’s RM 8. :)

And then, next destination was to the hospital in Bangsar.

It started raining very heavily.

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But not for long. :)

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#16. Hello again Sun!!

Oh yah, we were going to the hospital cause my aunt, or more fondly known as Kao Bie just gave birth to a baby boy!!!

If you guys follow my blog, he’s Qii Qii’s (pronounced as Kei Kei) brother. And Qii Qii is, I think the only child that I’ve blogged about before.

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So super adorable right!

Let’s just call him my cute cousin cause he doesn’t have a name yet. :)

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#18. My cute cousin!

See! He even opened his eyes!!

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#19. Us with the proud mother

I’m really happy cause my aunt and uncle got good genes one means they produce more good-looking people to the society!

Haha! I know that’s really random but I’m just happy lah in short. :)

Then it was dinner at the new Imperial Garden that night.

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A pretty expensive place for a normal family dinner, I would say.

And the food are served in relatively small portions so it’s just average though the interior of the restaurant was pretty nice.

My Sunday was spent on anything else other than revising for the finals.

So, it’s 12.26 am now that means it’s Monday already and I shall start my revisions again.

An Eventful Friday

Posted by: Xin Min on: October 31, 2009

I am home since Thursday night.

And then Mom told me she would be on leave today (Friday) and that she needed me to fetch her to some places.

I didn’t expect her to mean placeS with a capital S cause seriously damn a lot of placeS!!!

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#1. My tool at work

Yes, that’s my tool for work today.

Meet my boss.

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#2. Hello BOSS!

Hahahaha! My mom’s going to kill me when she sees this. :)

Cause she came up the car then I was like, “Mom, snap a picture, *click* Okay, done.”

And she was still stoning after a few seconds I took her picture.

Then only she realized I snapped her stoned face with ugly hairband and insisted I delete this picture.

Mom always have the best candid pictures. I shall share with you guys when I have my own house ok.

Cause she’ll probably disown me when she sees those pictures on my blog. Haha! Kidding!

My boss is of course, a kind and considerate boss.

First destination was to Nirwana, the famous mamak shop nearby my house.

For me to have my breakfast before starting work!

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This place serves their curry, dahl and other kuahs as shown in the picture above and I like cause my roti/tosai is constantly full with kuahs. :)

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#4. Done eating, now what?

Yeah, now what?

Start work, what else!

To the factory-like shoplots at Sunway!

We were supposed to buy new sets of plates and bowls for Kao Bie’s house-warming present. :)

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There were so many things there!!!

But unfortunately, Mom didn’t get anything cause they were too expensive.

I thought they were supposed to be cheaper some more since they look like they were those bulk-selling-so-cheaper seller.

Their plate cost about RM20 plus for one. Just ONE!!!

It’s those nice nice ones but still, RM20!!! O.o

Imagine you accidentally drop the plate while dish-washing and you can’t deny this kind of accidents happen really often then *PRIIAAAANG!!!* RM 20 gone!

So, Mom left empty-handed and we went to The Summit after that.

Why?

Cause Metrojaya got their sales there and all items are on 70% discount (if I’m not wrong)

There were soooo many things there but I didn’t take any pictures cause their security was really tight.

They even tied my handbag up. :(

We didn’t get to see see at all the departments cause we needed to fetch Fei from school.

But we managed to get Fei a pair of shoe from Dr. Cardin, Kao Bie’s sets of plates, a hand towel, and my urm… bra. Hehe.

Super cheap, I tell you.

The Cotton Shop bras were only RM15 each! Reasonable right! :)

After fetching Fei from school, I rushed back to fetch Boy to school.

Then came home lunch and off to work again!

This time, to Puchong’s Bake with Yen.

From the name of the shop, I’m sure you must have guessed the shop sells stuffs related to baking.

They had all sorts of flours and sugar!

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They also got er… all the pans (or what ever you call it) for baking…

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And er.. all sorts of base for cupcakes?

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This is just the variety of colours for ONE type of er…base.

And a whole lot more of er…things that you would need for baking.

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#12.

Okay, confession.

I got no baking sense at all.

I mean, I have absolutely no knowledge and interest in baking (besides eating the final result :) ).

My mom and sister went hyper in there though.

They wouldn’t leave and I almost bore to death there.

Lucky I brought along the camera.

After that went to get my new IC.

Nothing’s wrong with the old one.

It’s just that everyone needs to renew when they are 18 so I better go renew before I turn 25 and get fined for not renewing earlier.

I was excited of course cause I’ve always disliked my old IC photo.

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I always complain about how these people at the registration place make you look up/left a bit/move forward/go back a bit to the right/etc instead of moving the camera cause by the time you’re done fitting your face into their desired angle, you look like you’re constipating already.

And I will still complain cause my new one is even worst than the one above.

Hence, no picture to prove it cause it’s too hideous! :(

After that we rushed back to send Fei to Aunty Catherine to get her hair done for MPT5&6.

Yup, it’s her turn.

And Mom and I were super excited for her.

We almost quarreled while doing her make up.

Haha!

And the end result?

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#14. My baby sister!

I must clarify that I didn’t take her ugliest picture to be the ‘before’ picture.

In fact, this is one of the nicest. Haha!

And after!!!

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#17. The excited mother

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#18. The sampat sister

Mom and I weren’t the only ones who were super excited about her going MPT5&6.

Pa was excited, too!

He didn’t show it obviously but let me just tell a random fact about my dad.

He hates the camera, for unknown reasons.

Every time we ask him to be in a picture, he would not only resist but also call us ’sampat’ for snapping pictures of basically everything we see. tsk tsk.

How can anyone hate the camera.

But point is, he was so happy to take not only one but THREE pictures with Fei just now!

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#19. With the proud Pa Pa

And and, he was asking me to show him this picture when he saw me transferring the pictures just now. :)

I know how some of you may think, what’s the biggie.

Not like my sister is close to Megan Fox’s hotness or Julia Roberts’s sweetness.

Thing is, my sister went through a lot to become the person who she is, today.

To be pretty in her own eyes at last, though she’s always been the prettiest thing to me.

So Fei, be confident of yourself and you’ll realize you’ve been looking super duper down on yourself all these years.

No one tops you, to me. You’re beautiful, smart, sexy, kind, helpful and everything else that you can think of to praise someone.

Yes, my baby sister is close to perfect.

Of course, she’s blur and she has her own bad habits.

But these imperfections of hers made her nothing but more unique in her own way.

Today, I was really happy for her.

Cause my baby sister has finally…no, not grown up, passed ONE phase of her life.

She’s always going to be my BABY sister. Hehe.

Okay, I’m going to end this post with more pictures of my sister.

But edited by your amateur blogger who tried to produce some good pictures today.

I really tried.

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Note: My sis fails, let me repeat FAILS in posing. I had to tell her how to smile, stand, etc cause I can’t stand it when I see her posing like she’s singing the national anthem. Yes. Stand still with hands at the sides. T.T

Or maybe Ben is right. I’m more of a poser than a photographer.

Well, at least I contribute to the world of photography! Haha!

Okay, one last picture of my sister.

This, I didn’t make her pose.

All I did was to make her laugh.

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#22. :)

And it turned out to be one of my favourites. :)

Latest Addiction

Posted by: Xin Min on: October 29, 2009

Every time the semester draws closer to its ending, finals would be the one you have to go through first.

So, end of semester also equals to examinations.

And to me, it also equals to new addictions.

First semester, I was still an angel and I concentrated in my revisions. Teehee.

Last semester (my second), I was addicted to a TVB drama.

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This semester, I got addicted to nope, not another drama but something far worst.

This doesn’t have an ending.

Well, not anytime soon that is.

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Plants Vs Zombies. :)

I know how silly it sounds, but once you start playing one round of this stupid-looking game, you will not stop.

Serious.

You get over rounds after rounds, then the big boss and you think you’re finally done and over with until they give you a watering can and say you got a garden now!

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#2. Cute flowers!!!

See!!! Such adorable flowers!!

And you can continue with the puzzles and mini-games to get money to buy more of these cute flowers!

Want to know what’s worst the best part?

I got room mates that zombify plays with me too!!! :)

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#3. Louise zombify-ing

Sigh.

Lucky me I’m still a coward and I am still terribly afraid that my CGPA will drop.

So I do spend some time off Zombies and focus on Statistics too!

Okay, going off now. :)

My Kind of Entertainment.

Posted by: Xin Min on: October 27, 2009

When you are bored & sick of studying so much, you feel like you can vomit out papers and books you need some entertainment, what do you do?

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#1. The sien face

 

This was taken in one of the very super boring Sociology lectures.

Ah yes, I haven’t told you what I do when I’m bored.

I look at random pictures in my phone and blog about them! :)

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#2. Mandy with the very yummy dessert

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#3. Elen with her *nyum nyum* noodles

These were taken almost a year ago if  I’m not wrong. Goodness. I forgot why were we there already. For lunch and movie I assume. Got Belle also. Haha!

All I’m sure is that the food there is really good and the deco of the restaurant is really nice. It’s at The Gardens by the way. :)

#4. Coursemates

#4. Course Mates

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#5. Jo Ann & the bully, Pei Ling

These were taken just a week ago! :)

We were at the talk given on our coming internship.

If you noticed the lecture hall is extra nice and all (that is if you noticed lah), don’t think we usually get to attend classes in halls like this.

This is Dewan Kuliah (DK) 3 of Faculty of Economics and is extra nice, only open for special talks.

Our normal lecture halls are a bit older and we sit on wooden seats. No cushion one. But better also or else I will always sleep in class. :)

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#6. Moon with our pot!

This was during lunch just now! I had the most satisfying lunch ever!

Okay, not as satisfying as McD’s definitely but still damn good!!!

I am so full, I don’t have to eat dinner tonight! :)

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#7.

This was taken…don’t know when already. :)

A very nice gift from a very thoughtful person. :)

#9. Darling Happy :)

#8. Darling Happy :)

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#9. Fei & I

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#10. Po Po dearest

The two persons (and a dog) that are really close to my heart.

Miss all three of you very much out of a sudden.

#11. Audweeee

#11. Audweeee

A picture of Audrey the adorable hobbit to represent the BFFs cause this is the only recent picture I have in my phone.

Yes, haven’t met them for quite some time. *sigh

Okay, I’m feeling all energized to start my Statistics!!!

You should really get a blog if you have no idea what to do with the Internet when you’re dead bored. :)