一路向北

Hi bloggy! I'm going to tell you my story of traveling all the way up to the north of Peninsular Malaysia :)

It all began on April Fools' Day when I decided to play a prank on my friend by saying that I was going to Perak and that I wanted him to show us around. And then we started discussing about my trip to Perak. I was pretending only, of course. :p But the more we "discussed", the more I felt like going. So this trip of mine to Ipoh was a 弄假成真 case haha.

First stop - Batu Pahat

Karen, Hong Ling and Nikita first came to BP to hang out with Amanda and I. We had dim sum first at Ming Castle, with Karen's dad. Probably because I was too shy to speak loud, Karen's dad didn't hear me at all when I said "Uncle 吃" for 3 times lol hahaha. Many of the dishes we had were actually my first try too. :p And I must say the dim sum is nice here :))

We went bowling on the first day. Karen, who claimed that it was her first time playing bowling, actually scored the highest mark among us. Eh-elleh pretend-pretend sahaja *shakeshead*. I brought them to Pantai Punggur to see the sunset, because I find the sunset view there really beautiful. But apparently everyone got hungry waiting so we left before the sun really set. 

Well never mind, because a most sumptuous dinner was awaiting us! :D We had porridge, fried mee hoon, fried rice, satay, tandoori and the most tasty cheese naan ever! Amanda's dad was on the house and he really did ordered a lot. He must have expected an army to join him for dinner :p

Karen and I the more hardworking ones went jogging the next morning to burn some fats. But deep down we knew that the fats we consumed far outweighed the fats we burned. Hehe. So what next? Briyani gum! Yay! More fats! We had our fill before we paid Nikita's cousin a visit to see her cousin's cute little daughters. It was amusing to watch Nikita talking to the kids. Awww shooo cute. :))

So we spent the whole afternoon at Amanda's cozy home for a Disney marathon, watching Tarzan and the Aristocats; listening to songs from Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King etc. With all the Disney animation to choose before your eyes, you wouldn't want to leave your seat! Especially with that superb arm chair. Hahaha. Okay well I almost forgot one thing. We had mango marathons at Amanda's house too. And that was our utmost pleasure. The mangoes were so sweeeeet :D

Amanda's parents tapao-ed siput for them at the end of the marathon. We were so full we decided to take a walk at Amanda's church, and whoa... The night sky was really beautiful. Twinkle twinkle little stars we saw :D Well, those who come to BP mustn't miss out our Yong Chi Steamboat coz they have their signature juicy fried chicken and the most tasty salted egg-coated pumpkin ever :p And that was where we gave Amanda an early birthday surprise with a cake named Oriental she chose HERSELF hahaha!

I brought them for breakfast at Amanda's second home in BP the next morning. Amanda couldn't join us because she didn't have transport back :( We said bye to BP and up to north we went.

Second stop - Kuala Lumpur

Well actually, this was a resting stop for us. Karen and I had wanted to make a trip to Kamal Bookstore, but her housemates discouraged us to do so because it was already quite late in the afternoon. So all we did was getting bus tickets to Ipoh and having our dinner at I Love Yoo! and Tutti Frutti.

Third stop - Ipoh

We set out the next day afternoon, with Hong Ling and Felicia, reaching Ipoh in the evening. Kah Chun and Zhen Theng picked us up, and we put all our belongings at Zhen Theng's place first, because we brought otah which had to be kept frozen. His house is furnished with a set of imported furniture, and I'll say it's nice. We had wanton noodles for dinner, at the place where I requested Zhen Theng to bring us, after I saw his photo on Instagram. Haha :p I'm good at food-spotting I guess. They brought us to Riverwalk at Sungai Kinta, where we saw colourfully lighted trees :) And then we went for the most meaningless movie ever - The Great Gatsby. Stupid ending. Not because the movie was stupid, but because the movie cruelly showed how stupid humanity can be.

We had breakfast at Foh Sun Dim Sum the next morning. Yay dim sum again! We ordered quite a lot, and when everyone was full but there were still leftovers, they started to say I used to say I have good appetite la I only ate a little la and all sorts of excuses just to make me finish it. Terrible. I tried my best to swallow as much as possible. Pity my stomach. After that we went for Karaoke, where Hong Ling chose a lot of emo songs from Jay Chou. Well obviously, she likes his songs. Haha. Kah Chun, didn't miss out his signature song 独家记忆. And so we emo-ed together for awhile. xD Lol actually, that wasn't just all. Once, Karen and I went to the toilet and we literally lost our way back. Haha! I have to admit that I have no sense of direction. And so does she :p We lunched at 大树脚, having Yong Tau Foo! I enjoyed it :) Ab-so-lute-ly delicious!

We met up with Sonia and had dinner at Michaelangelo's. We shared a little cute brownie and two huge pizzas. Sonia invited us over to her house for tea, and that's where for the first time I tried Punjabi tea! How to describe it? I'd say it's a mixture of bak kut teh and milk tea haha! It tasted like herbs. Apparently Punjabi girls have to know how to brew this special tea before they are qualified to get married. And guess what next? I asked Zhen Theng and Kah Chun to bring us for the hot dog they mentioned about the night before. I shouldn't have been such a pig. Thay tricked us to eat the spiciest stuff ever in my life! I didn't even bite it, just a touch of it and I screamed " 辣! " Can you imagine how spicy that was? And Felicia swallowed the whole of it. Can you imagine again?! Her tears kept rolling down her cheeks all the way. That made them guilty and so they offered her muaci they bought in the afternoon. Hahaha. Now you know. We went crazy that night taking funny photos, playing heart attack. And yes, I was the first to sleep. As piggy as ever :p

The next morning, we had fish head noodles, and then finally my Ipoh white coffee! :D And as if we hadn't had enough, Zhen Theng ordered sam kin xiu min pao. And gave me a lesson on how to pronounce that. -.- His parents sent us to the bus station after our breakfast. I wanted to give his mother the tapioca chips we got from BP, but his mother insisted not to accept and asked us to bring it to the seaside when we're in Penang. Haha. His mother was really hospitable and cute la. :) So we continued traveling to the north! :D

Last stop -  Penang

Finally, we made our way to our last stop - Penang. Wilson, Jack and Crystal were already waiting for us when we reached. We first had our lunch of Penang's famous assam laksa, and they brought us to a water reservoir where we had a photography session. Haha. There's this candid shot that I like a lot.

They then took us to Bukit Bendera where we had another photography session. :p Dinner was at a hawker centre where we ordered a whole lot of food. Rojak, o-jian, ikan bakar, cai-dao-kueh... Just all sorts of nice nonsense food lah. :p So then, we had a brisk walk at a bay before we head towards our refuge tower haha. We stayed at Wilson's dad's apartment, which overlooked Batu Feringghi. We had the whole unit to ourselves. And we played heart attack again. HAHA.

The next morning...... Finally the long awaited Penang prawn mee! :D They ordered different kinds of food which we shared. And I made a new discovery: Penang's curry mee tastes good too! :p Wilson took us to our first mural visit, which was kinda worn out, probably by the weather, or the waves, because it was drawn on the wall of a wooden house above the sea. But I got something! Hehe.

I got myself this lovely notebook :)

I don't know why, but I  love this particular mural very much. Maybe it was their smile? Or maybe it just showed the love and strong bond siblings could have towards each other? :) Whatever the reason, it just warms my heart.

Jonathan and Hui Mei joined us that afternoon as we went to a historical place of interest in Penang.

So of course, when there's no food, all we did was photography again :p

So we found murals at this place too huh ;)

We had an extremely sumptuous lunch which was again a mix of all sorts of nonsense, then we had coconut jelly for super high tea. We were so full! They took us for the long anticipated mural in some of the backstreets in Penang. Sadly, it began to rain and we didn't manage to put our photography skills to work :(

Dinner was by a street. I don't have to repeat what made up our meal, coz I won't be able to remember all the nonsense we ordered :p Wilson took us for almond tea. It tasted like medicine haha. I wonder if he brought us there to see our reaction drinking that funny thing or he really find it nice and wanted us to try as well. Well we can forgive him for that, seeing that he kept us entertained with his singing in the car that night. He was like a live radio, "playing" one song after another, and some more, songs of our choice. :p

Anyway, that night, it was heart attack again. Haha. And then a game of "Truth or Dare". Well we didn't manage to dig out much stories from each other, neither did we come up with any dare that was very daring. But we did hijacked Zhen Theng's Facebook account a lot and made Kah Chun selca on Facebook :p

The next day, after breakfast, we managed to had our street art visit once more! This time, we took loads of photos ;)

 

We rushed our way to the bus station after that. Thanks to Wilson's good driving skills, we made it. Haha!

This trip was overall an enjoyable one, having the time to relax and have fun with friends. I enjoyed myself. :)

 

Finally

Hello again, after such a long time. I didn't realize I haven't blogged since this year began, until last month. Someone asked me:"Has not your life been happening since 2013?" It's just the other way round bro. Life had been like a roller coaster ride for me since 2013. It's just that when you're in the middle of the ride, how can you possibly pause for a moment and blog?

Well...... I really don't know how to start. In fact, my holiday started two weeks ago but I kept excusing myself from updating my blog because I seriously don't know how am I supposed to record all that had happened all this while. Maybe I'll do it month by month? Alright here we go.

January

The only thing I can remember of January now is the flash mob we did. Karthik was the PIC- person in command, and I could see that he was doing his best to make it a success. And throughout the process I think what gave me the deepest impression would be him apologizing again and again? :p Have to admit that he's really a peacemaker. You may imagine our flash mob to have caught the audience by surprise with the dancers coming in one by one out of no where. Well no. Before we even started the student area was already flooded with crowd, with cameras here and there. Apparently many people, especially our former classmates knew about it and were waiting there to watch. Great supporters, aren't they? :)

February

You won't imagine that I'm actually updating this in October haha. I can only look through my photo album to recall what went on in February coz I can't remember anything lol.

Hmm well one of the significant events would be the Sexual Health Awareness Campaign which was held for three days. I wasn't involved much in this campaign, besides the visit to Sg. Buloh Hospital. Harri assigned me to be in charge of a game station which I initially thought to be unfair as this was group D's job in the first place. But I prepared for the game, still, till a few days before the event when Shi Hao told him to reallocate the task to group D members lololol. We had did most of the job so all they had to do was to just carry out the game. And so my game station was passed on to Zhen Theng.

After this not-so-exciting event came the very exciting Chinese New Year! :D I can't remember much of what happened, but I know, we had our last reunion dinner with our grandmother, because she passed away later on in March :( My Chinese New Year wasn't of much fun because it seemed to be more of a study break. We had an exam right after the holidays so I didn't get to play all I wanted to. And I kinda felt sorry towards Husna for having to rush home just to study, otherwise she could have had more fun hanging out visiting friends. Sigh. Life as a medical student :((

What touched me was when my Interact Club friends celebrated my birthday! We were at Raymond's house for gathering, and Wan Yi walked in with a birthday cake, which really surprised me as I wasn't expecting a birthday cake this year. Thanks a lot! :)) I do appreciate it and I'm missing you guys now writing this. :')

March

One event I remember most is the captain ball competition! :) It means a lot to me as I witnessed how united our classmates could be. That was when I started to appreciate them. I was kinda forced into the competition, I didn't want to take part for I knew how bad I was at games. But it turned out to be an unforgettable experience for me. It was super exciting watching them play! My classmates proved that medical students are not nerds! ;p I remember how I fooled Aiman by nodding my head when he asked if I was his team mate, and he passed me the ball surprisingly when I thought I wasn't gonna fool him with my very hypocritical smile. :p I remember how we had a "secret meeting" a day before the game to discuss "strategies" as though we were about to march into war. I remember how Kelvin encouraged me seeing that my team mates were not so cooperative when it came to practicing. I remember how we had fun talking nonsense, and how they started calling me RBC. I remember how when Karthik tried to be lame by showing me what's a red blood cell, I got him speechless by showing him how a sickle-cell was like. I remember Wilson's cool way of catching the ball, keeping it out of reach of the opponent's catcher by just swiftly jumping up and reaching out to the ball. Cool and composed, impressive! ;) I remember how Karthik and Loga, who are football players, played well in different roles. I remember how Kelvin pressed on even though he hurt his ankle during practice. I remember how Chin Liang and Kah Chun, these two basketball players, took control of the game by passing on the ball to and fro till it reached their catcher. I remember how Kah Chun forgot he wasn't on a basketball court and literally bounced the ball, which of course, wasn't allowed as a rule of the game :p His "Oh man!" look was just so priceless hahah. I remember how at the very last second, Kah Chun threw the ball without even facing Nicholas, the catcher, and yet it so accurately reached Nicholas' hands! That was totally dramatic! I would think that such scenario could only be seen on movies, or drama series - but not in real life like this, right before my very eyes! Wowww. Even though my team didn't play very well, I was proud of my classmates, who won the Champion and the First runner-up. They deserved it! :)

This competition brought us close together and I'm glad I was part of it :)

Looking for the Silver Lining

Just realized I haven't been blogging for two whole months. Not that I didn't have stories to tell, but it's just the other way round, I got stuffed up with so many things I didn't know where to begin.

I'm not the kind of "emo" person but I know lately I've been emo-ing a lot. I wasn't aware of it until my friend asked me not to. I had been struggling to myself to some problems I was facing. Some are about choices to make, some about people, some about myself. I talked to my parents about these problems, but I know I'm old enough to decide for myself.

I saw in the papers today of Shio Yee's brother, who is now well known in my hometown because of his successful video assignment which made him "the first Asian to win the Best Short Film Award at the Alto Vicentino Film Festival". It's really awesome to see someone from your hometown becoming famous because of high achievements. It reminded me that successful people are actually ordinary people who worked the extraordinary way. I shouldn't be finding excuses to be lagging behind, that's irresponsibility. Responsibility finds a way. And guess what, this is from a quote I saw in one of UCSI's toilets hahaha.

Tell myself: stay focused and work a way out! :)

We Run KL

Went for the 10km Nike Run just now. It was actually a super random decision. I thought of signing up before but I missed the registration date. Soon I gave up all thoughts of joining till this day.

I was eating a slice of cheese cake while studying. It wasn't till noon that I finally finished that cheese cake. Then it came across my mind, why not take the opportunity to run since my roommate's sister registered but decided not to go for it? I quickly messaged her and one of my classmates who was also going. Then I grabbed my stuff and joined my classmates to take the public transport together.

We reached there before time, and I waited anxiously for my roommate to appear. If I didn't get to change into the particular shirt given, I wouldn't be able to join the event and all effort would have been wasted. Finally she arrived and I changed. It fitted perfectly! :) We left our belongings with the people who were in charge and got our numbers before we started running. I still remember her number was 1707 and mine 1708.

My roommate told me to keep pace along the way and try not to stop. In order for me to keep up with the speed she was going, I had to. At one point of time where there was the U-turn, we lost sight of each other. I assumed she was in front of me, so I kept running, thinking that with that I'd catch sight of her soon. Even if she was behind me, given her ability she would definitely catch up and we would meet again. And true enough, we met again! Yes she was behind me. And she specially made a trip back just to find me. I was touched by her sincerity. And all the way we ran together till the finishing line, where we lost each other again among the crowd.

I took my finisher T-shirt and started looking around for people I know. And I met a random nice girl who offered to bring me to ask about where to get our belongings. On the way, I saw my classmate's girlfriend and quickly called her. And almost immediately I couldn't see where was the random nice girl already. I just hoped that I didn't cause her trouble searching for me. I felt a little guilty but I was glad that I finally found someone I knew. So we went to search for our stuff together after a few fruitless attempts to contact my classmate. At lorry A, where my stuff was supposed to be in, we met our classmate. Finally! And soon more people gathered.

Some of them went to get our belongings while we waited. I didn't have to queue because they were getting it for me as well, but my roommate said she was in a rush and sought my help. So I took her number and went into the impatient crowd. Why impatient? Because their system of keeping and returning people's belongings was simply silly. With hundreds of bags in the lorry, three person stood at the end shouting out numbers, and as people raised their hands they passed on the bag. I mean, anyone could have raised his or her hand and got what didn't belong to him or her right? I was worried I wouldn't see my lovely bag forever. Praying hard in my heart, I waited patiently for 1707 to be shouted. After about an hour, I saw my friends squeezing out of the crowd, and with my bag too! I was more than just being happy to see it once more!

They went to the tent where the rest were waiting, while I continued waiting for my roommate's bag to appear. I waited for another hour and my classmate called me, saying that LRT station would close by 11pm, and it was 10 something at that time. I felt bad to keep them waiting so I asked them to leave first. But they didn't. Instead, Matthew, Aiman and Kelvin came to where I was and started shouting for my roommate's bag. Thankfully her bag was We Run KL bag and it wasn't long before they found it for us. So we went back to the tent and made our way to LRT station together. I was looking pale that time, that's not surprising as I sustained my whole day's activity solely on the slice of cheese cake I ate in the morning. My classmates asked if I was alright and if I needed to eat. I just answered,"It's okay, Just go." So we left.

All the way, I walked behind as I really felt bad that I might have caused them to miss the LRT. Wilson offered to help take my roommate's bag but I really didn't want to trouble anyone. A few of my classmates kept me in sight and occasionally asked if I was fine. I'm really thankful for their concern and care, and that they didn't blame me for holding them up.

At the station, all of them went pass the entrance easily with Touch'nGo card, me? I raced towards the machine to get a token. I didn't have small change! I turned and asked the girl next to me if she had any. She didn't have enough to change with me, so she gave me RM5 and refused to take my RM10 in exchange. Another random super nice girl! :) Guess what, actually I stood for quite some time in front of the machine looking for Bandar Tasik Selatan. I found it already, but it showed RM1.70 and I was totally puzzled. I came here with RM3.30 why was it RM1.70 showed??! Gosh I couldn't delay further so I just clicked that destination, hoping that I didn't make a mistake. The rest were waiting for me and Matthew asked,"Ruby, you never take LRT before?" That was embarrassing. We raced up the stairs as we saw the train had arrived. But alas, as we reached it went away. Cheng Cheng offered to take my roommate's bag for me as I was holding quite a lot of things. That's so nice of her for we didn't know each other. Joanne took care of me as well on our way back. Finally we reached.

Sometimes I don't understand why am I always giving people trouble. I feel really bad about it, but thank God it's always nice people that I meet. This Nike run was really a good experience for me. :)

Red, Black

Hey bloggy. I got myself a pair of wrist bands from the Pharmacy students. I bought red and black, mysterious and beautiful combination.

Red and black ♥

I've seen many other combinations like green and blue, blue and purple, red and white...... But red and black is significant to me, and it makes the perfect combination in my eyes :)

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Yay! No early lectures tomorrow :D

I didn't go back for the weekend that has just passed. It's just one week since I last went home, but I'm missing home already. I'm not one who will easily feel homesick. I only do when I'm faced with troubles. So yeah, you can guess, I was.

Missed my daddy so much. His calming voice is always so soothing when I'm perplexed. I called daddy today! And yes, I felt so so much better after talking to daddy :) The man who loves me most in this world, that's him! Hehe. I wanna go home! :( But I have to stay back to prepare for the upcoming exam, sigh. Stupid MEQ. Why only now you tell us about that huh Medical School of UCSI?! Informing people at the last minute is your hobby is it?!

Fine. I'll bear with it for the moment till I can fly back home after MA3, hehehe. Ahh. Listening to 煎熬. Feel so 煎熬 now. Hahaha! Okay I'm being so random. Should get started with PBL thingy now. See you, bloggy!

Hello October!

It's been almost a month since I last blogged, September was a great month for me. Wake me up when September ends? No way, I'd miss out a lot of fun and knowing nice people then :P

I haven't had enough sleep since before I went for CF camp. I didn't really manage to get proper rest since then. I don't know why. Probably because I was kept occupied with lots and lots of events.

Like I said, September was great and fun. The only thing is that I kept getting the same questions from people for the entire month. "Ruby! Why did you cut your hair?!" Like I needed a reason for that *shakeshead. What's wrong? Well maybe they were not used to it at first, coz I never had such a short haircut since after primary school. I have to admit that I didn't quite like it at first, but for a self-loving person like me, it isn't hard to love every part of myself again, this is plain narcissism, lol. XD

It's quite fun playing with hairstyle, that's the privilege of being a girl :P

So now, stop talking about myself. Now I'm going to briefly describe the events that I had this month. :D The first one was the camp, of course, which I told about in my previous post. These are what came next:

Birthday Celebrations! :)

We had two birthday celebrations in a row with our CF friends. Hanging out with these people are just fun, but tiring though, since I never had enough sleep. :P

Harry was caught by surprise, we succeeded! Yay!!

Paul dedicated a song "For You I Will" to Harry XD

The following night after Harry's birthday celebration, we hanged out again to celebrate David's and Philip's birthday. It was rather a well-planned secret "mission", but somehow... it half failed. XP It didn't happened the way it should, but still, they both were caught surprised :)

Discussion before executing the great plan :D

Getting into position... Look who's showing off his wrist band *shakeshead

Do re mi fa. Hehehe.

I didn't take much photo for the second celebration because first of all, I was sitting at a distance away from the birthday boys; secondly, my Kodak baby doesn't like taking photo in dark places :P So... this is all I've got>>

One of the birthday stars- David!! XD

Nicholas the annoying kept singing the same song that whole night: "Baby you light up my world like nobody else!", until Amanda and I got this song stucked in our heads -.- As if he only knew that sentence. *slaps forehead.

Departures... :'(

September was also when my sister flew to UK. :( Gonna miss my heart-talk companion.

The last family portrait before my sister's departure.

 My Bugs Bunny friend, Charmaine; and also Anlynn, Jessie, Wendy and Syakirah all flew away, up up to the sky, and down down to land on other countries.

Managed to meet Charmaine before she left. We got her this lovely sweater :D

Beginning of Youth Alpha! :D

It was also the start-off point for Youth Alpha, Yay!! Amanda, Ann and I created the "slogan" ourselves because there wasn't enough space on the banner to fit in the words "Welcome to Youth Alpha". Creative right! Say yes! Haha!

Our cute banner! :)

Installation of my high school :)

It was the last installation my brother would be participating for Interact Club. Soon he'll be an outgoing director. He was performing. As a very supportive sister, I made myself present :P

My lengzai brother who thinks he looks like a Korean -.-

Reminds me of those times when I was an interactor :P

After all these came MA2. And I'm lazy to write on. So yeah, I'll continue when I'm free :P