The Story of

Above 5.9...with heels

Preface
Along came two foreign visitors, who can sing a thing or two. With the knowledge of an event called "Encore" whereby all singers from different parts of the country would gather to sing their heart out, the filipino invited the two,

"I heard that you guys can sing, so we would like you two to be a part of us, the very talented and gifted singers in the journey of joining 'Encore' "

That was when everything started...

Chapter 1
Alright alright, that was the exaggerated version, but things were more or less the same. The singing competition was way ahead of us. It was few months away and no one actually talked bout organizing the event and yet we grouped up our group already. The passion. Of course beside group mates, we were good friends, who would hang up untill late nights just talking, or slaver burgers at the study room singing blindly into the night. Such miraculous coincidence that the mind could not understand.

So this bunch of 4 started brainstorming over songs. I felt very lucky to have these people as friends and singing mates. Azhar, was very good with scores and instruments along with music arrangements. Andrew, pure singing material, where every song he sang sounds nice. And since the 4 of us were averagely tall, Azhar named us, Above 5.9!

It was another burger day when Thip, a funny perky second year joined us. I can't remember what happenned when we were singing through the songs in our phones that Thip was officially in our group too. Coincidentally, Thip was above the height of normal girls in college ( girls here aren't occasionally tall), our name evovled to...above 5.9 WITH HEELS!! Though its too long, i personally find it better than names like, freestyle or chill out that sorta thing. Names like, Boys like Girls, 30 seconds to Mars, Michael Learns to Rock are in line :)

Chapter 2
Practice practice and practice. I missed out the official starting of it because i was busy with events and stuff ( aren't i always am?) Well i'm glad my group mates are considerate to some extent. Things went ok. We were practicing for auditions and thankful enough there were 3 auditions so we had to prepare 3 sets of songs. Amazingly, although we always drag practices to late late nights, songs are mastered comparatively fast. We can finish a song with dance moves in just one night for instance, well the rest of the time was just chilling like usual. Guess its because, singing with friends is always much easier.

But of course, with the ups, there were the downs as well. Just like what you see in survivor :) It was truly reality and if there were a camera following around, we would have won the Emmy's XD Anyways, just like any other bands, through the ups and downs is how we grow, together. Drama really spices up our life, just like what Andrew is so into :) I hope everyone of us learn something out of this, not just laying faults but really, grasp something more bout you, and others.

Still remember G18? That is our usual hang out spot, with a keyboard, use to be a guitar, laughter (most of the time), singing, sawing, colouring, teasing and so much more. The room is occasionally visited by a whole range of people and its practically a party every night till 2 or 3. I'm seriously appreciating the patience of the neighbours with the capacity of withstanding our shouts and laughs every single night. Salutes!

Chapter 3
We went pass auditions by auditions, repeating the same intensity of excitement and nervousness everytime we walked into that room. Though there's always minor minor mistakes, i believe we were one of them best groups that rocked the audition room :) "Very surprising", "I really didn't expect this", "Good harmonizing!" were one of the few comments we got. And for the first time ( and didn't even know that would be a time like this), judges compliment bout "very strong bass". Ok, Basses gets compliments too? XD hahahahahahaha

Then out of a sudden, we were in the finals already. Being a finalist means more practice and more practice. Days and nights, we work hard on it. Although they were unfruitful results, at least we were doing it together. FLyers and banners of our faces were up in corners of school. Though barely noticable, the fugly pictures are still there! I guess publicity of the event wasn't that successful because, even my classmates didn't know i was in it untill the event ended. Lol---

We performmed to the public a week after and i believe it was one of the best too. Due to the fact that the sound system was awful, our dance moves covered the flaws of the singing :) We were first too and just wanna say thank you to whoever that went and support. Though it wasn't that great, yep we had fun

Chapter 4
fast forward-----

"test mic, test one two.."

A day before the actual night. We went up the unfinished stage and rehearsed. With plenty of confidence we sang and danced. To our surprise, we sounded horrendous. Emotions started spilling because that could not be what we want to give to the audience. Our fast song "Upside down" was in a serious upside down! The key was not possible, the music swollen everything, the singing wasn't appealing. In less than 24 hours to the night itself, we made a big decision.

Change song..

I was feeling dreadful all the while because i had a bad sorethroat and a stingy flu which even till now hasn't subside. With the remaining energy that we had, we went back to zero and started the repetua of searching songs. The initial idea of medley was retaken. Our "bartender" along with its assistants mix songs from disney to rihanna and westlife to r.kelly. Sounds crazy? Well we did it. That morning, we went to bed at 5 in the morning, with deep eye shadows and tiredness.

Personally i felt very bad because its THE day and i'm still catching a cold. Whenever i open my mouth the irritating sound of my noise drowns everything. But look on the bright side, it does sounds sexy. I bet if i went and tried this line " hey baby, you look good tonight, may i know your number?" around college, it might have a 80% success XD

you've reached...
Chapter 5
The night itself, we were probably ready. After the opening ceremony, we rush back stage and change. Before you know it, the emcee anounced the performance of, Above 5.9 With Heels!

Our first song was an accapella, "Dahil Sayo"which means because of you in Tagalok. We started our song with a recital of a poem. A bible verse to be exact, which was something different from what others do, but effective or not, it was up to the audience. With the backup of mountainful practice, that song went nice. ALthough a lot of the audience might not notice that we were singing without music, and take harmonizing as - "choir style", we were happy with it :)

Then came our second song. Azhar was left alone on stage, singing gently to the disney theme song which i love so much, while Thip, in her beautiful dress that Azhar and Chin Yee made, glided dreamily on the stage...

"When you wish, apond a star..

makes no difference who you are..

when you wish apond a star..

your dreams..

come true"

Then came the mic problem, of which Andrew was suppose to come out with Jonathan. But let me describe the show instead of the technical flaws that are unmendable.

Once Azhar finish singing that dreamy song, the music started playing and Andrew along with Jo came out in aprons and a chair. Andrew was supposed to introduced..

" As the dining room proudly presents you....your dinner!"

With full enthusiasm, they sang "Be our guests" after exchanging the mic that wasn't working with Thip. Thip was acting as a lady guest with a menu in hand while the two gentlemen sang happily away..

"be our guest! be our guest!!!"......."Please don't stop the music!"

It was a 180 degree change as me and Azhar storm up on stage to the rhythm of the song. I know it was an arguably unsuitable song because among us, only Andrew sings good fast song. But hey, we were cracking this idea at 3 in the morning so what do you expect? After all back then, we decided to just have fun and sing it out loud!!!

"Its getting late, i'm making my way over to my favourite place..."

I was singing it out of tune because Azhar suddenly stop singing and i had to solo so i messed up a bit ( and got buuu-ed) but who cares!

"I wanna take you away! let's escape into the music, DJ let it play!"

"Please don't stop the music!"

"Who stopped the music?"

Yep after the chorus Rihanna went away and then came in Westlife. With the elegant dress she was in, Thip walked out of us and sang

"I have a dream... a song to sing"

I wasn't sure whether her mic was working but she did sang i'm sure. Thip had her 15seconds of fame and we came in "If you see the wonders, of the fairy tales...you can take the future, even if you fail" with an ending note. And then, we came to the last part, it was time to fly!!!

"I believe i can fly! I belive i can touch the sky!!!!"

"If i can see it, then i can do it!

If i just believe it, there's nothing too late!!"

At that moment, it really did not matter who was in tune or who was too loud, all that matters was, the stage was ours, and thats the only brief moments that we have after all the effort sholve in, so enjoy that moment. and really sing it all out!

Chapter 6

The story of Above 5.9 with Heels did not end with the most happiest ending that there could be, in fact it was not really joyful at first as we did not win anything. But slowly, i guess we realized winning was not such a big thing. In fact in the whole story, the winning part would just be 0.1% of the amount of words agree?

We came back to hostel together and guess what we did? We just laid down on the grass opposite the guard house and..chilled. Some were on the pavement road literally, some on the grass. The breeze was so soothing that we questioned ourselves why didn't we realize it before.

With all that's been done, we made it through the finals and gave out all we have. Now that the encore became a thing of the pass, all we have to do is feel the wind..

Encore 2008, accomplished.

THE END

Trashion Photoshoot

There was a recycling campaign going on recently, although i doubt their objectives because it was a final year assignment for them, but the campaign was truly amazing. Anyway, you can google "tarc recycle" if you wanna know how great it was but here, i just wanna talk about the "Trashion" that Azhar and Chin Yee took part in conjunction to the Recycling campaign.

Trashion simply means- trash+fashion. By using unwanted clothes or in a more vague way, trash, you can make them into fashionable clothing or dresses. Google it to and you'll be amazed at how creative people can be.

Being a friend of them, i helped out in taking photos for the trashion-contest. We went around hostel to find suitable settings and yes, check out the pictures and see what you think, bout hostel, the dress and my photographing XD

The "model" for the day was, Abygail. With the assets that she possessed, it was certain that she could brought trash into fashion :D

What do you think?

The designers did not really told me what theme their dress was so everything went freestyle. Emo? Gothic? 70's?

Cheeky?

Desire?

blur?

elegant XD

Anyway, i enjoyed the whole shooting. From carrying props to adjusting the model posture and finding better angles. It really felt like those photographer you see on tv giving soft orders of bending more or, face to the left or, more attitude. Sounds cool to me. Who knows what this accountant will do in the future, accounting photography? haha.

credits to, Azhar at the left and Chin Yee (Kimchee) at the right.

bimbo post don't bother

OR

I'd pick LV......over my dead body uck. I never got the "LV" hype, srsly. Why do ASIANS (yes it's true, angmohs don't really give a shit about LV) like LV so much?? Show off?? It's so...UGLY..i hate it. The bag itself is a monster and draws all attention to the BAG only. I heard that every japanese woman must have a LV bag, true story. Ugh.

I'm not being a sour grape. I'd pick chanel, balenciaga, burberry, hermes....over that stupid LV bag.

ok. end of rant.

How I spent my klismas

It's so late but Merry Christmas!

Anyways, my christmas was well spent. I don't really blog about what i do everyday cause...i don't like too..but I think I should blog about this. :p (mood swings.. -___-)

Okie, on christmas eve, there was this christmas celebration at church (it's more like a music concert) The producer of this whole jazz is our choir teacher, Sabrina (she's really awesome but scary sometimes. :p but still lovely) SO..yeah..the church choir is pretty much involved.

I was actually very tired that day (lol..i'm ALWAYS tired..) and i was mighty upset when i had to skip christmas dinner to go to church earlier. But I took all that back when i knew the children choir arrived at 1. blablabla *insert lecture by teacher because we rehearsed an hour late* blabla

"OMGGGG O_O" Yeah, i literally said that when i saw my college peng you at church. Let me repeat, omg! 1st, i didn't mention anything about that. 2nd, i didn't see them for like..2 weeks. 3rd, one of them is a super buddhist. 4th, THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS CELEBRATION. That just adds to my stress. Nola kidding. :p I'm happy they came. Cause someone doesn't even know the purpose of celebrating christmas.

Actually it did add to my stress cause
1. i scared i don't remember my lines
2. i ain't familiar with oh holy night and i scared i went offtune
3. IT WAS SO COLLDDDD
4. there were tons of ppl.
5. i has stage-frright..

But it went okie, of course. :D Then, I can finally sit back and relax (and continuously question my friends like "OMG WHY ARE U HERE? I DIDN'T TELL U LEH..WHY R U HERE?" if i sounded hostile or rude..sorry bb. XD)

This jazz piano teacher played this jazz christmas song LOL. And then when he sing, I'm like SHIT I WANNA MARRY HIS VOICE. WL was hilarious she was like " :O :O :O " when he sang. Yep, he's that good. Then bla bla bla..

And finally, le highlight.

A Mouse Christmas Musical. Haha, that was so friggin cute. All the cast were consist of babies children (choir) and they're the cutest rascals ever. Thr were some mistakes BTS but everything went well. babies children are supposed to make lil mistakes...i mean like..it's so cute to see their confused, frustrated faces..and seeing how they pull it off in the end.

All good things come to an end. And yien went home tired but happy.

The next morning need to wake up at 7 and sing again for the morning mass. Then...i can only remember myself singing all day long. At night, went to Aunt Grace's house for another christmas dinner. (nice turkey. :D )

and then i played with 10 year olds. Their "childhood games". weirdly fun. I'm a kid at heart. :D But it's kinda embarrassing, Michelle said it was so funny to see an 18 year old playing with kids "excitingly". -___-

lalala. So that's how I spent my Christmas. Very fun.

(the reason why thr's so much "jazz" in this post...i watched "Chicago" hours ago. Awesome film. )

and I'm tired again...but with a reason.....PP (period pain)

:p

Its Christmas Time In The City!

Christmas just came and left so swiftly i couldn't really grasp the chance of feeling it. However, this Christmas has been much well celebrated as before.

Although Encore was 2 days before Christmas (will blog bout it definitely), i had the chance of singing "Have Yourself A Merry LiL Christmas" to a whole hall of people :) Though the feeling of Christmas wasn't really blossoming, at least i get to sing with a bunch of great singers.

On Christmas eve, a day after Encore, i woke up to rush to the photocopy stall to print my testimony. Of course i typed it myself but i didn't have time to revise and memorize points. And i'm going to give the testimony in less than 12 hours. Worst part was, i haven't comfirm the list of friends that are following to church. At that time there were only 3.

Thanks to the Lord, the list went straight up to 15 as the day goes by, woa! Most of my classmates were going and i believe my testimony will be more intimate to them as to others.

Met Jen during lunch and she said, testimony can be read. Thanks to her i did not skip class to memorize the script. haha

Before everything started getting intense, i manage to get everyone on the correct bus and yea we're heading to Kuala Lumpur International Hotel for a Christmas event! :):)

The place was austonishing, it was there where it really felt like Christmas. haha. The whole program went on smoothly and honestly, God must be the program master of the event because the flow was so great!

After laughs and joy, someone pass me a microphone and i'm up on stage once more. I shared sincerely my whole life in just 10 minutes. In great thanks people said it was inspiring and funny at times. Hope the audience shall receive the "moral of the story" which is obviously, Christ. Shall post my testimony up here. do read and don't skip lines! XD

However it was to my deepest disappointment that out of the 15 that i brought to the church event, there were only 3 left when i went to meet them up. Looking at the empty seats, i felt discouraged for a moment. Sad to be precise. I was wondering, why can't i just live my life wonderfully blessed by God as it always was and kept it to myself, so that i won't have to face rejection everytime i try to share the fruits with others. WHY?

Because i know that God is good. And i want my friends and family to also have fruitful blessings in everything they do. I want. And so, i shall keep faith and keep trying!

During Christmas Day, Andrew abruptly invited me to Shangri-la for a buffet lunch. And my gosh, things are really out of my expectation. His lawyer uncle not only treat us to fine dining, he booked a room where even Anita Sarawak didn't get. Yes we saw Anita Sarawak there. The food was simply inexplainble with Fresh Oyster, Salmon slices and prawns along with a whole Christmas tree of dishes as just, APPETIZER.

My mine was booming every second thinking of how great my position was. The picture of food was just how i arranged it. There were so many fine fine food that i really wished i had a bigger appetide.

"Uncle John" open two bottles of liquor, champain and white wine. O my gosh!!!

Then came the bigger bomb. The main course, they were lamb, beef, duck and chicken to choose from. I had lamb and just count how many pieces i get.

5! and it cost 89 says Andrew. Woa man. But you can't deny how much effort they put in decorating the dish. Simply artistic.

The chicken and beef at the background. Can anyone tell me why my saliva are gushing furiously right now?

That's not all, the desserts are as important as the appetizer and main course. They were all detaily crafted and honestly, i have not tried such expensive dessert before.

Cute cute tasty!

Everything there was so delicious that no matter how messy you arrange it on a plate, it still looks as if its a dish by itself. Don't you think so?

Lunch ended 2 hours later where by then our stomachs were jingling like santa claus. We headed to klcc for window shopping and Christmas sighting. The place was bustling as usual. I wanted some shoes because mine were in this condition


Don't worry, i didn't wear them out no more. But sadly, i resorted to not buy because i just don't feel like spending. Hang around at kinokuniya and had movie with Lerina before going back with a stinging flu. Twilight's very nice :)

That was how my Christmas went by, giving testimony to encourage others, buying gifts, having a splendid Christmas lunch, window shopping and Twilight. Well-spend! and though its a bit too late, but still,


to all sushiloverice readers

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!




and a happy new year :)

Blog blog blog, i feel sorry for not updating you. But the fact is, there's so so much stuff to talk about along with tonnes of pictures to upload. Hope there's time for you after Encore Finals.

Encore Finals

23rd December

Sport Complex

5.30-10.00pm

Come and support,

Above 5.9 With Heels

Its Christmas Season..

and like i said, i am going to give a testimony on Christmas eve. And thus, i read through some testimonies round the world ( through internet ) and all of them are so wonderful! and one of them is this..

(do click on the colored links, i find it very knowledgeable)

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A SHORT TESTIMONY

by John Shepard

January, 1999

Also please read, The Way.

As I was growing up, my dad was an atheist who worked at Jet Propulsion Laboratories and worked with NASA in the early space exploration projects. He was vocal in his anti-God beliefs. My mom was an agnostic but never talked about her beliefs (in fact I didn't find out until decades later). I assumed that what my parents and school teachers taught me was true -- that there was no God and the universe and life came to exist through naturalistic processes.

However, as I entered college I began to question what I believed. Certain things I observed could not be adequately explained by naturalism and evolution -- for example, the existence of consciousness, evil and moral conscience.

I was introduced to Yoga and Eastern religious thought (pantheism) through a high-school friend and dedicated my life to the pursuit of enlightenment. I joined a yoga ashram (community) of which I was a member for several decades.

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Adherents of the Eastern world view claimed that by practicing yoga and meditation, that a person would evolve spiritually, which would naturally include becoming a more spiritual person in this life. I expected that the practitioners would become kinder and more loving and would live their lives at a higher moral standard as a result of their years of dedicated practice. However, as the decades went by I observed that people were still immoral, that they lied, and that they were power-hungry and greedy. This was very disturbing, so I began to look elsewhere for the "truth."

I checked out the "New Age" movement for a while, but the practitioners were so spaced-out and had such a lack of integrity that I couldn't take it seriously. I also began to notice that the Eastern world view had serious problems and internal contradictions and inconsistencies. For example, their concept of God was confusing and contradicted itself -- was God a person or a non-person; was God separate from the created cosmos or was God merely the entirety of the living cosmos? Also, there was no good answer to the problem of evil. The explanation of what evil even is was very contrived and unsatisfying. The ideas about how reincarnation worked were contradictory.

The thing that disturbed me the most was that nobody seemed to care about whether the world view they committed their life to was based on truth and fact. But I was different (I don't know why) and cared more about discovering the truth than about merely following a particular belief system (although I have to admit, I was very slow in discovering which world view is based on truth and reality). The worst thing was that after decades of practice I still had no relationship with the living God who created me -- in fact, I still knew nothing about "Him."

I began to listen to Bible teaching on Christian radio (I was lucky -- the station I listened to didn't have any of the "health and wealth" teaching which is not based on sound Biblical interpretation). At first I couldn't take it seriously, but it began to make sense as a coherent world view, and it answered the difficulties and problems. I was also impressed with the way in which the Bible could be historically validated through archaeology and scholarship of ancient writings. The fulfilled prophecies were stunning evidence of the truthfulness of the Bible and of its supernatural origin.

I decided to take the plunge and to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. Right away I had the sensation that spiritual blinders fell from my spiritual eyes and I could clearly discern spiritual things for what they really are, whether truth or lie.

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Critics of Christianity claim that Christianity isn't true because Christians are sinners. But the Bible affirms that people are all sinners, even Christians, so this objection doesn't disprove Christianity at all. Hopefully, as we Christians are obedient to God's written word (the Bible) and to the teachings of the Church which He established, we will improve over time.

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In conclusion, I became a Christian by desiring to know the truth about the important issues -- God, evil, the hereafter -- and by examining the evidence of the various truth claims that people throughout history have proposed. Upon discovering that the Christian claims matched what I observed, I was willing to commit my life to them. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain by doing this. I used the scientific method to arrive at my conclusions -- I observed the world around me, I developed theories to explain these observations (actually I applied theories that other people developed), I tested these theories, and I accepted the one which passed the tests.

Christianity is "true science." "

:)

Merry Christmas Everybody!

come for my testimony too! leave a message if your interested :)

snogging

.....so CUTE!! even those wrinkles are damn cute!

I just learnt a new word yesterday -- SNOGGING. It means making out..in british.

The guy above is Aaron Johnson (he was in the illusionist but i see no cute green-eyed boy in thr ...i didn't even notice the boy)

He's so cuteeee. lalalala..i've been watching those british chick flicks (quite funny), one of them being Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (i know, weird ass title, I thought so too at first) The main gal wasn't particularly likable but we have aaron in it. he's so much better looking in motion than in pics....it's like..his eyes..so captivating.. He's kinda pale but it doesn't MATTER.

He talks with a British accent (british boy :D). I think...every girl i know likes guys who speak in the British accent ( not the fake type..we know how to differenciate the "kek" British + manglish type and that's such a TURN OFF)

Green eyes. Ahhhh. Speaking of which, I thought that Megan Fox (who always looks trashy 24/7 but who cares, she's hot) has green eyes. But no, she has light blue eyes, which just makes her look more trashy.....:( Cause light blue eyes + dark hair just reminds me of stupid Katie Price.

gah. going to sleep. i hope i'll really get some serious studying, i don't want to flunk my exams..

Enjoy, most importantly

How's life been?





Packed.

Things i've been too busy with



1. Dance
I never thought it'll happen, but I'm now a..dancer? haha. Been dancing every single day. And yesterday, we danced for more than 12 hours straight. It does sound like over-doing it but hey, I'm still passionate bout it! You might be wondering why the sudden and madness for dance, o well, me along with 7 other dance-mate are having a competition tomorrow! woa! after all that practice, i believe we'll do fine. From the beginning, i wasn't so sure bout the team but right now, we're in for the title! The greatest thing bout dancing or singing is, to see one improve, to be better from yesterday. That really touches me sometimes :D And by the way, our group name's called------

Laissez Faire

a term we got through our economics, means liberation or withour intervention. Anyway i think it sounds cool :) does it not? We're dancing three dance and hopefully, there'll be a video of it to be blogged XD





2.Singing
Encore, an annual singing and dancing competition, is just a week away! gosh time flies. We, Above 5.9 with heels performed to the public on Wednesday. Songs were "I'll Be Fine" from famous taiwanese drama HotShot and "Stop" from Spice Girls. Althought the P.A system ruin almost everything, i believe it was still a good performance.Interesting at least. 5 of us we're singing and dancing and most important of all, having a great time :) Guys from TAR college, go get your Encore tickers right now!!!





3.Photography
Azhar and Kim-chi was taking part in a trash-ion competition and had Aby as the model. So, from the title its obvious that i was taking photos for them. We went around hostel itself and amazingly, some of the photos taken were really amazing. I will upload soon when i get the time. Do anticipate :) though it was my first potrait shooting, i'm glad it went well. Thank you Lord :)

To mention before time, there'll be an outing to Cameron Highlands for a photography society outing. What makes this outing different is, they'll be only 5 people compacting in a car to the mountains. And the aim is just to let these 5 strangers which share the same passion to know each other better, relax, have fun and at the same time, take photos, and yet its a society outing! :P






4.Travelling
Just came back from Johor where the whole family was. Gosh i miss my dad. Brothers are now in KL but couldnt find time yet to check them out. Hopefully they'll come to my school tomorrow. Just so you know, TAR is having its OPEN DAY from12 to 14 so do come! Anyway, the thing bout travelling is, I might go to Genting for New Year celebration which is free! and then, they'll be another Sabah Sarawak Student Society trip to Perak and after that, Cameron. God bless my time! so don't worry mum if you're reading this :)






5.Designing
..still, i've yet to step-away from designing since i step into tar college. Praise the Lord most of my designs are quite well presented. So currently, i'll be designing a logo for our student welfare committee. It'll need a lot of paper work and running-into-offices to get approvals sorta stuff but hopefully, i'll come out with something good, In God's grace AMEN! :) and btw, the committee which represents the student of tar would be changing the management soon and i'm running for Head of Department of Publication and Public Relation(PnP) as well as Vice-Chairperson. Though I'm not quite sure bout taking up the vice-chair, if God wants me to, i'll just obey :) O and yea, i'll be emcee for the installation in front of school officials, woa, let's see what happens.

6.Music

Keyboard exam is next week and i'm not ready at all! Woa, another semester just flew past and now my fingers are expected to play more "advanced" scales? God bless my keyboard lessons and exam.



7.Christmas Celebration
Anyone at all out there, my church will be having its Christmas Celebration on 24th Christmas Eve, so do come to join me if you don't have other plans. Why should you? Because its Chirstmas and I'm giving a speech or testimony in other words. Do come yea yea :D


Would like to keep typing but for the sake of you not getting bored and me not finishing my slim minutes in the cyber cafe, it'll end here. Chanquish

Foreign Craving, Satisfied

The sky was bright and clear, patches of white hid between the blues. Although i'm not friends with the weatherman, i knew his thought on today's weather well. With my backpack and camera in it, i walked towards the greeny pathway heading towards hostel. Before reaching the alley, i saw a huge crowd gather around it. With exceptionally different fashion and gesture, i walk towards them in hope of satisfying my curiosity. Surprising enough, i heard a single eye-lid lady talking in Japanese to the huge crowd. O, it was a Japanese student exchange program. I walk slowly in the midst of the friendly strangers and nod every time one came to eye connection. They look slightly confused with the surrounding which a day ago was a mystique venue of sbs night.I felt a swift of sorrow because they weren't able to check out my stage XD In my mind, i was wondering what these Japanese high school student were having in mind. Was the school impressive enough or is it a big depression compared to their origin. Japan is where a lot dream to go but right now, i'm seeing these Japanese turning the status quo and visiting not somewhere European but Tar college.

Carmen, a friend that is studying in Australia called on a morning that i usually preferred to spend it on dreaming. With a drowsy tone, i answered the long distance call. We've been keeping in touch though not that often. Anyway, the day felt great to know that, millions of miles away, you have a friend in mind. Her call reminded me of how life was like in Australia, that maybe, with a little more stubbornness, i would have gotten there as well. Overseas, something i distinctly wanted since young. The way of living, a different culture, the soil that are step on, the crafted surrounding, and everything that comes with it. It was these thoughts that made the word foreign assimilate with warmth and pleasure. The craving of living an independent life with absolute strangers and colour, the thought of walking on a pavement street with coffee houses and flower booths elongated on both side of the street, the wish of cruising the countryside or nearby cities with a mini jeep during summer holidays...

Despite the fact that "foreign" keeps invading my grief, as time goes by and thoughts gets digested, i begin to learn that, the craving of experiencing foreign beauty can very much be satisfied where ever you are. With the perception of gratitude towards your surrounding, and setting the adoration level towards overseas on everyday scenery, the beauty that is found out there can be found right here too. Maybe the world leads us to think that, out of the everyday setting, the sun is always brighter at the other side of the sea, not knowing that, your daily environment has its specialty and uniqueness that we took for granted. The brick-pattern lecture halls that stood on small hills covered with pine trees in college was always appealing to me. The walkway from hostel to college which were a mixture of tar and chilling mud decorated with the sight of a small mountain and a greeny slope would always remind me of how wonderful it was to walk on it. I guess, people that are studying overseas no doubt are getting their side of the wonderful story where they inhaled new culture wonders and beauty; however, we who stayed on in the familiar land, gets to exhaled what was known, and inhaled once more what we thought we knew, to re-appreciate what there was, and is.

GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL AWARD

wu my, nice stage, oriental theme.

GO WATCH NOW

Should i ???

Dilemma dilemma...

The whole family is meeting up in Johor this Friday. and this year's family trip is really in its fullest package. Even dad who is always busy with work is flying over. And i myself as one of the 5, couldn't spend time to travel down peninsular to meet up everyone?

I've got dance practice which requires teamwork. and the worst part isn't that competition's just few days to come, its that i'm the leader of the group...

should i go to johor???

dilemma dilemma...

blogging to keep me awake

Top is very cute and hot wei. How come I never realize this? lalalaa.. That smirk and smile..:D actually i like his hair very much. it's like sooooo gooodddd on him.

Coffee is starting to fail me...... T_T

Okay, I watched this just now and I ROFLed so hard. To all you diehard Twilight fans, I present to you...

TWILIGHT HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PARODY

study study study

Tomorrow, I have chem, maths and bio exam. I haven't reach 50% of what I'm supposed to study.

(Long story short, I was stuck at Bangkok International Airport and OMG the protesters are crazy ppl and I almost dieeeeddd. No actually, some of the protesters died cause they bombed themselves. Sounds kinda funny but RIP, no one deserves to die like that.)

No, actually, I was stuck at KL. Boring KL (yes I think KL is even more boring than Kuching. =__= and the food SUCKS except for the hawker stalls at petaling street. Chun hui should read this) But I shop shop shop until I forgot to study. Kill me plz cause I didn't buy anything from Benefit even though I was at the Pavillion (the only thing happy for me there is Forever 21, Topshop, Mark & Spencers...and Tiffany & Co :D :D ) They had SAAALLLEEEE. T___T

Why do I always blog when I'm supposed to study hard? *panics*

Oh yea, I have not watched Twilight but my sis did. And she was like..

"OMMGGGGG!! IT'S THE BEST MOVIE EVER EVERRRR!!! EDWARRDDD!!!"

Wa lao, my sis reveals her fangirl self. And she's always like.. "Can you trust me?"

I don't know la, it's too funny.

Can you trust me??

BWAHAHAHAH!!!! SO CHEESY!!

And like usual, she told me she hates Bella (I agree). I have not read the book yet. Tell me if I should. I don't want to spend stupid money on a book I will not like. I wanted to buy at first due to all the hype BUT then some ppl told me it's a stupid story about how a girl is obsessed with this vampire dude and how he's so perfect x1000000000 in the book. Ppl were saying it's better than Harry Potter?? I dunno, I don't even like HP.

Speaking of books, the real reason I'm not studying is because I've been reading..

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino !!

Love love love that book. Only japanese ppl can think of sth so sick and twisted. My only regret is...I didn't buy OUT (same author). Someone buy it and ship that book to me. I must read it, urghhhh. Lots of ppl recommended that book and it's 10x better than Grotesque. T___T I didn't buy it (I saw it at Kinokuniya) cause I was afraid my dad won't like it (the front page is a girl holding a knife to her eye) so I bought Grotesque.

Yang, Big Bang had a new song called Sunset Glow (I assume u would want to know this since u like them. :p )


TOP.... :D I love happy songs, makes me happy.


Sigh, back to studying. It's just a mock exam, why do I have to be so kiasu. :p

Coffee, please don't fail me. T_T