No measure of time with you will be long enough, but let’s start with forever.

That was one of the things I remember most, coming from Edward in the movie Breaking Dawn – Part 1.

Yeah, I know how most people would roll their eyes at this point of time, with minds suddenly filled with all sorts of criticism one can think of.

I don’t blame them. It is indeed cheesy at some parts, to have someone saying that at this century. Some people don’t even say ‘I love you’ all that often anymore.

But let’s not forget the part where Edward was supposed to have existed at least a hundred years ago.

And yeah, it’s just a character some genius came up with. But what if, I told you that I really met someone who would say something as cheesy as Edward? Really! If you really are interested to know who, let me know I’ll introduce him to you. Hehe!

I don’t know what triggered me to write this post too. I guess I’m just overwhelmed with the whole movie after watching it last Saturday. Everything’s just so touching and emotional, not just Edward & Bella’s part.

I actually teared at Bella’s dad’s parts. It’s just so touching to see how protective Dads could be yet they try to hold back and act all macho.

It’s really a good movie. I know how difficult it is to accept the whole idea though. It’s just that I am not choosy with movies so maybe it’s easier for me to like Twilight Saga.

Atop, I actually read the books after the first movie so I guess I was able to accept the whole part easier. Some book lovers would condemn how lifeless and expression-less Kristen Stewart is playing Bella while some movie lovers would loathe their cheesy scripts.

So for me, I am actually on the win-win situation! I watched the first movie before the books, so when I started reading I was actually already visualizing Kristen’s stoned face. And when I watched the movie, I actually anticipated the cheesy parts. Hehe!

So in short, thumbs up to Breaking Dawn – Part 1! Only downside is they censored the part where Bella was in labour. =.= Looking forward for the download versions and Part II, of course!

Their songs are  awesome too! ♥

So anyways, just last weekend, the five of us (Chai, Malar, Elen, Felicia & myself) went on a mini road trip to the East Coast-Kuantan! Wasn’t anything spectacular but I had an a-ma-zing time!

We had all the yummy local delicacies…

#1. Ikan (with no tulang) Bakar!

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Pic #2 & 3 may not have looked that good, but it’s a wonder how something so simple taste that good! For this, we took a 45 minutes drive to Kemaman – totally worth the journey!

We also had a really good dinner with Elen’s parents but I was too distracted by all the yummy seafood I forgotten to snap pictures.

And the company of course was awesome!

#4. Dear Feli!

#5. Lily Darling!

#6. Bee!

#7. <3

It’s a wonder how happy I felt going to work after the whole tiring journey. I guess at the end of the day happiness does make a whole lot of difference in your life.

I know how cliche this sounds but it’s a totally different thing when you experience it yourself.

#8. Love you guys!

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Main reason is of course it’s mine this year.

But it’s not so much about celebrating my moment and things like that, it’s about meeting up with friends I used to see almost everyday but haven’t met since our finals last May.

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Roomies & first friend from university.

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Juniors who are still schooling, seniors who are already working…

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And loved ones.

This is really a memorable part of university. And of course, being part of the wonderful bunch from college makes it all different as well.

It’s sad how we have to move on from phases in life like this. But I suppose this is how it’s meant to be.

I’ll miss each and everyone of you.

I keep saying how much I miss university but even I myself haven’t expected that I really do miss that phase of my life so much so it made me so emotional the whole day.

I was super excited with just the thoughts about meeting friends from the same course since it’s I-Week at the Faculty.

So excited I actually half-ran to the hall from my car. LOL!

Then I saw the very familiar building I spent my last three years in. And the smell of their air-conditioner – mm hmm~ I’m back!!!

It was just so thrilling to see how successful I-Week in FEA can finally be! After so many years of letdowns, thank God we haven’t gave up on this beloved school of ours!!!

Then I met my roomies!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually met them last night and when I saw them, I immediately felt like crying. I don’t know why either, I just wanted to hug them both and cry my heart out.

Don’t get me wrong, my life hasn’t sucked as much as it sounded. Just that I missed them so so SO much!

So to get an all-day outing with them today sure made me a super happy girl! And this silly woman came too, all the way from RTM Seremban!

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And her so-called boyfriend who has been dead centuries ago!

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…who is also cross-eyed! Ahahaha!

#2. Roomies!

For dinner we had Korean food, which was somewhat disappointing. Haha but really, it’s who you eat with that matters.

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And that’s the face you get from Malar when she is calling you ‘menyampah’.

We basically went hunting for Elen’s so-called furnitures and did some shoe-shopping with Malar – simple stuffs but don’t know why I got super emotional about the whole thing when I left Elen’s house just now!

I just suddenly remembered, these girls have been there not just for three years, but a really important chapter in my life.

They saw me in my worst and best days, heard me out countless times when I rant about my day, got woken up by me in the middle of the night simply because I was being stupid for getting scared over some random noise or shadow, accompanied me to shower in the next cubicle because I was scared again, and even helped held my hair and pat my back when I vomited over one of my migraine days.

They were there because they cared for me sincerely, with no expectations on what they’ll get back.  And I know, they’ll always be there even though I’ve had already countless friends walking out on me simply because we are moving on with different things in life.

You girls are really the most amazing people I’ve met. I’ll always be grateful to have met each and everyone of you.

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Can’t wait for our complete group shot! ♥

I think I finally understand Audrey now when she said something about it being less fun when our birthdays are so near each other’s. It’ll somehow end up as just one of our birthdays, if you get what I mean.

So obviously for my case, I was the Queen of the day! Ahaha! Chai picked up me after work and treated me to dinner then movie after that! Even got me a present that I picked myself.

What did he get I hear you ask? Oh well, best present of all obviously – that is to be able to spend quality time with me! FHL!

#1. Chai's King of Pig from K5

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Yes yes his eyes were half closed but it’s the only picture of us from that night that looks okay.

#3. Punishment for being late.

His punishment of course! Ehehe!

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Another one just to make me happy!

#5. Something I chose for myself

 

#6. Dinner!

Dinner was at the restaurant (of my choice) and it was superb! If you don’t already know, it was at Johnny’s!

It’s his first time so I pretty much made sure he tried everything I loved from there. End up our table (for four) was full with dishes!

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At this point, we have already whacked one bowl of Tom Yam Bihun and one plate of BBQ Chicken Spinach Noodles. yums!

#8. Mixed Dessert!

We were super full until we couldn’t even finish our steamboat but what is a meal without desserts, right?

Rushed to the cinema after that, even missed some of the beginnings but I’m really glad we chose to watch this!

#9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes!

Don’t really remember what Planet of the Apes’s about but I sort of remember how silly I used to think it was, to have walking and talking apes in a movie. Not to mention how scary some of them looked. (No offense to fans!)

But this prequel is gooooooodd!! I really enjoyed the movie but it’s kinda sad how Caesar became from this…

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to this…

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But oh well, like what Summer from 500 Days of Summer said, “What always happen happens – life”

So the movie pretty much was the finale of my birthday celebration. This year, stranger than ever my big day went by just like any other day. I know how this is how it’s supposed to be – it is after all, just another day.

I used to always emphasized how big birthdays were and how celebrations should be planned by people who truly care about you. If there were no celebrations, then sucks to be you but no one cares. LOL!

This year however, I realized celebrations, cakes, candles, presents, etc are all kinda over the top. What really matters is to have people you hold close to your heart with you.

And that should apply every day, not just on birthdays so see how birthday is just any other day of the year? Guess this is a sign of old age!

But thank you Bee for the wonderful outing! I really really reeeaaally enjoyed myself! Let’s save up for more dinners at nice restaurants!

Both Fei and I were extremely excited about it because… hey, we’re talking about real life elephants okay! What is there not to be excited right?

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The gentle giants are really really adorable! Probably they are very well-trained too that’s why their cuteness doubled and tripled all the way!

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Despite their ‘animal odour’, Fei and I couldn’t keep our distance from them the whole trip!

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Adorable max! Especially when they go mandi!!

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You get to feed them too! Most of them prefer peanuts to fruits so if you’re going to visit them, stock up on peanuts!

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But just so you know, being cute is one thing, feeding them and enduring that splat of saliva on your palm is another. >.< Thank goodness I volunteered to take pictures so I didn’t have to go through that!

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Even got to ride on them after that! Many complained about their rough skin and stuff but really, I adore them to bits!!! Look closely at their faces and you’ll see how gentle they look, how manja they really are!

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See! They even know how to pose for pictures!

So yup, that pretty much wraps up about the elephant trip. Gotta head to bed now since I’m working tomorrow! Yesss I’m finally working!

As for the family, we’ve always loved having more people at home so whenever guests from near or far come we would be extremely excited about it!

This time around, I didn’t get to join their tour plans all week but I managed to self-invite whenever I can. Hehe!

#1. Batu Caves!

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I must admit, it’s a really nice place to take touristy pictures!

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The flight of stairs almost killed me though! At one point I felt like I was falling backwards. >.<

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But since we were there, we might as well make it all the way to the top!

I actually liked the place because the monks (I think) were really helpful and friendly! They insisted on giving us some blessings and kept telling us “It’s free!” LOL Maybe Fei and I had the kiam-sap look

After a long flight of stairs (very long one indeed!) and some scary encounters with the monkeys, we left Batu Caves and headed to the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary.

But I would like to keep that for another post cause I have loads to tell!

Have a good weekend ahead people!

Nevertheless, just a quick one to mark the importance of that day!

2nd August 2011 marks the second year we have been together! We haven’t managed to celebrate but the boy got this sent that day!

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It may not be the most exclusive bouquet I’ve seen but it’s definitely the sweetest one I’ve received! The effort behind this dozen of roses and thoughts of getting it sent to my doorstep – priceless! ♥

Thank you Bee for the wonderful surprise! Sure got me smiling up until today!

#1. Hung hung!

#2. Qii Qii!

These two siblings have totally different personalities! One would be running up and down, climbing every box/shelf in his way while the other spends the whole day doodling/reading.

So after reading Qii her Disney Princess-themed book, I chased the little boy around the house for a bit. Not long after that, I surrendered because he is seriously energetic! I settled down to help Qii with her homework instead and was pretty impressed or more like shocked to see what kids at kindergarten are actually doing.

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This little girl actually did so well in both the subjects, in fact all the subjects that she had homework that day! Impressive!

#5. All smiles after homework!

And after she completed all her work she sat down with an A4 paper and a pencil then started drawing a picture of Mickey and Minnie Mouse blowing off candles on a cake then said, “Mun Mun jie jie, this is for your birthday.”

The drawing sure made my day!

Oh well, it’s Sunday night already so there goes the weekend.

Have a good week ahead everyone! Last week of July already!

Probably because I haven’t had my usual 11hours sleep since Friday (oh, so I do know the reason :p) and a sleep-deprived me is super grumpy.

And yes, I need 11 hours of sleep so I was just counting to myself if I start working and needs to wake up at say, 6am everyday I will have to sleep at 7pm! wtf I’ll probably still be in the office at 7pm =.=

So anyways, things got a little busy last week. – happy face because I feel so productive!

Yean needed an emergency meeting with us so Cass and I had a mini drinking session with her last Wednesday.

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Okay, so it wasn’t really that mini cause we had quite a lot of beer that night. Well, they had most of it, I stopped after my second cup of Carlsberg cause I really don’t fancy beer. >.<

And it was so last minute, Cass and I were in the wrong dress codes for a drinking session like that. LOL But it was a really good meet up I would say.

On Thursday, I managed to meet up with my favourite friends to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. We bought our tickets a week before that so not only did we managed to get tickets on that day itself, we got pretty good seats.

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As usual, we dined at one of the shops with pretty good food, comfortable environment and best of all, really really reasonable prices!

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Us messing around with the iPad 2 at the store and when we couldn’t keep the original copy, we decided to take pictures of them.

The movie was really really gooooood! And I’ve been telling this over and over again, but when Voldemort died in the movie, I was actually really sad because that means it’s really over.

Then on Friday, we had a networking dinner with the Boston Consulting Group.

#5. The Poo Couple!

#6. Sayang & I

The night would’ve been better if more people could come *tsk Pei Ling please sedar I’m talking about you * but it was still good to see everyone after such a long time. Hehe!

Then the following days were occupied with assessments after assessments and interviews. And yeah, that was the exhausting part of the week because whenever I have an interview coming up, I would be half awake all night. >.<

So it’s Wednesday already and I haven’t had any yumcha sessions this week. Should probably plan something. Have a good week people!