Make it similar in ways.

Oh oh oh !
I think Ying Xian is like Theodore from Alvin and The Chipmunks too ! :)

Everyone, who is anyone that is, would know that I'm not refering to their sizes lah, if not then where have you been ? Hibernating under a rock ?

Anyways, I didn't think so at first, then I watched the video, and I see it now !
Actually right, I still don't see it see it lar, haha, but like I get it yknow.
They both have similar vibes hee.
They both... eat. And the way they speak is so cute ! Harhar.
"I missed you, Dave !"

Just in case you don't believe the size part, this is Theodore :

This is Ying Xian :
Okay, fine, so this picture doesn't so her justice, but I'm blogging from the comp okay.
All the other pics are in lappy lol.
She's on the left.

HAHAHA but then ah, I think they look very very similar here !! Don't you think so ??
Right right ?!

Hahaha ! If you know her you'll know what I mean.
I'm refering to the whole context of this picture heh.

Okay this picture I don't know la k.
Haha I just think it's a cute pic hee

I think I should start bertaubating and get back to study mode.
Haven't been feeling very motivated these few weeks.
Lost the drive to strive for excellence.
Quite hampa with myself.
Kesedihan melanda.

Make it make you laugh till your teeth fall out.

Even as I type, my fish is swimming horizontally and is rotating on its own axis.
Basically it's dying and fast. So fast that it can barely stay afloat for more than 6 seconds.
But that is so not what my title is refering to, gosh no. You morbid people lol. Life slowly ebbing away is not funny.

So Zhen finally passed me pictures not only of Miriam's birthday, but also added whatever pics she had of us, some dating back till you know when ar, 2006 okay. Like 3 years ago.
Some are soo funny I laughed so hard till my teeth nearly fell out, hence the title geddit.

There were these 3 pictures ah, I tell you, I look also I just feel like becoming a ketam and then go tanam myself underground. So embarrassing ok. I checked the date. 2005. FIVE. Form 3. 8O That's an emoticon with super big eyes and a shocked mouth expression in case you didn't know lol.

But all these aside, the pictures really brought back memories of yore.
With my long long hair and Denise's short short bob.
Zhen with no fringe and glasses and Mim with straightened hair.

And this one is the most, how to say... let's just say that saying it's the funniest is an understatement : Ben Jon with short hair ! Hahahaha, funny in the sense that until 3 days ago, if you'd asked me to imagine him with short hair, I simply wouldn't have been able to. I was (and am actually) so accustomed to seeing him in his uber cool, side parting with fringe, layered, straightened (?) hair which suits him well. But now, heh ! After seeing that picture, I now remember how you look, Ben ! Hee :D

Besides the classic memories of physical appearances, the memories of the events where the pictures were taken also started flooding in. I could practically hear my mammillary nuclei which is located in the medial part of the posterior region of the hypothalamic nuclei which is found in my hypothalamus whirring.
Basically it's the part which functions to store memories.
Biology, much. Lol.

So here are some outdated pictures, some of which tickled me timbers :)

Zhen's 17th

This picture is dedicated to Ben ! Have a safe trip tmw k :) Take care !


Camp 07


Camp 06

Love the background.

Valentines do at youth, 06.
Wah the pictures here are funny man, to me lah haha.

Presenting Rachel Chang at 16.

This next picture is supersuperSUPER funny la wei.
I didn't realize that was Ju-Hann at first LOL.
Then I was like, NO WAY ! HAHA.
And yes, I had braces wheehoo.


Switchfoot, 08
Not much difference.

Miriam's 19th, 07.
She's 21 this year, 09.

Okay, kidding. Inside joke btw lol.
Okay lah, not so inside. Lemme tell you.
We were at Bubba Gump, Curve.
And they got her this Cookies and Cream flavoured ice-cream cake and gave numerous tiny candles to the waiters there to help fix it up and carry it upstairs when the time was right.
Okay lor, so the time came and went, sing sing all, blow out candles all, then started to cut cake.

Suddenly someone said, eh correct number of candles ah.
And everyone started counting and someone shouted, Miriam you're 21 years old today !
It was funny then lah ok. It's still funny to me lol.
And she's 19th this year lah if you haven't already figured out.

The light was very bright. I was squinting. I'm not normally this sepet okay ! Or maybe I am :/

Can you see the calculator there. It's actually quite big ok. We had to pinjam from the waiter lol.

Wah, okay la, you win. Zhen champion. My mouth cannot fight hahaha.


Camp 08

The then 18 year olds :)

I have no idea right, why non-lala people like to do the lala pose.
But we do it anyway hee.
I find it a tad insinuating, but lol whatever. It's fun. I think. Lol.
I feel that I look the most normal lol.

Hillsongs United Concert 06

My hair was @#$*&!~ long here.
No particular meaning to the signs above.
Just lazy to find an appropriate word lol.

Just in case you guys were wondering how Ben Jon currently looks like and were too blur to notice from previous pictures, this is how he looks now :

Christmas 08

I know, maju right.
Both our hairstyles have changed dramatically since the Hillsongs picture I must say.

Christmas 06



Talent Arena early 08

Okay, that's all. Lol.
What, you were waiting for that 3 embarrassing pictures of me in 2005 ?
Fat hopes lah !
:D :D :D

On a side note, I've just finished reading The Third Twin by Ken Follett.
It. Is. So. So. SO SO good. Haha
Really lah. He's this super duper imaginative and brilliant writer who has written countless international bestsellers which have been sold all around the world.
Millions and billions of copies.

I think The Third Twin can fight with The Pillars Of The Earth for first place in my current list of favourite books.

It's enthralling. It's captivating.
And and the suspense ! Boleh mati ok.
And then the ending ! The twist !
Bah, has anyone else read this book. I want to discuss lol.
If you haven't, go read. And the title is so not what it seems to be man.
You'll see.

Make it strengthen your resolve

Found this on a friend's friend's friend's friend's blog LOL, okay, just a friend's blog and it has only strengthen my resolve to read Jane Austen's books instead of just watching all her movies adapted from her books.


1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (or just make the font bigger)


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (my favourite show out of all her movies but have not read it ! gasp)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible ( not the whole thing, but intend too :) )
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (seen the movie though, so, no fun)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (have yet to finish it)
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (major BIG font ! But it can't be any bigger so I had to put it in white hee :D)
34. Emma - Jane Austen (I've seen the show though)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (I think so ?)
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (major want to read lol)
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (watched it too, no fun again)
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (I think so, a long time ago, not too sure hmm)
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (seen the movie too when I was but a wee lass)
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (major BIG font ! But it can't be any bigger so I had to put it in white hee :D)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (It's sitting on the shelf, but other books took precedence haha)

Make it the most fabtastic movie.

Inkheart is the most most MOST perfect movie ever. For me.
Hmm but I really like Transformers too. Different genre lah ya.

Caught it today and omgosh lah
I love it.
I absolutely love it.
I absolutely absolutely love it.

Minor drawback : it didn't really follow the book in the beginning(as usual sigh), but the ending was just too splendid.

Everything was exactly how I imagined it would be ! Haha, normally I'd think how a character would look like what and what but they never turn out to look how I imagined them to be, especially Mad Eye Moody from Harry Potter haha.

But in Inkheart, everything is so wonderful. So so wonderful. The characters just came to life and omgosh the scenery !! I tell you, Elinor's castle is really just insane beautiful ! I think it was shot in Italy. And the surrounding scenery is drop dead gorgeous. That's without a doubt my favourite scenery scene. Especially when the camera films the overview of the lake and the huge ancient brick-walled builiding with creepers all over it and zooms in on the tea scene.

The next best for me would actually be the beginning, where Mo and Meggie scour the snowy cobbled streets of England with tenement houses on both sides where there's a book fair going on and everyone's in jackets and boots and the snow's falling and the streets & houses just look so so pretty. I just get so happy when I see these kinda cinematography. Beautiful.

Oh and the characters ! Love the actors, even Branden Fraser, cos I just realized he's perfect for the role mainly cos he has quite a nice tenor in his voice(important to play the role of Silvertongue) plus he's tall. I was most most impressed with Dustfinger. He's my favouritest character both in the book and movie and I think that Paul Bettany just did a fantastic job as Dustfinger. His height is definitely a plus point. The scene where he has his flashback of his former life in the book he was read out of just blew me away. There were jugglers and fire eaters, women and men dressed elaborately with masks dancing with folk-like music at a carnival and with jongleurs present. The music gave me goosebumps too. There were such haunting melodies at certain parts, during his flashback too.

Helen Mirren played Aunt Elinor exactly how she should be played; eccentric & blunt. And Farid, haha ! He was not bad man ! A bit, if I may say, gay, but played his role really well ! From being a thief in a turban & pants worthy of Aladdin to a guy with a button-down top and paired with maroon Chucks man ! (can be seen during the roof jumping/climbing scene) Fenoglio tickled all our tummies with his comments and untimely happiness. I think everyone laughed the loudest when he said : "This is exactly how I pictured him(Dustfinger) to be ! My, this must be the feeling of giving birth !" You'll prolly only understand it if you watch the show haha.

Even the baddie's castle was so amazingly captured. It had such a mysterious air to it and the cinematography when they were climbing up the hill to the castle took my breath away. I literally gasped when Capricorn's kaki trooped Dustfinger, Mo, Meggie and Elinor into the main builiding and turned the corner into this beautifully lit corridor with fire torches and black and white zigzag flooring with wonderful arches above. And Flatnose was also exactly how I pictured him to be ! Only one that I found weird was Basta, not ganas enough lol. But Gwin was perfect with his two little horns. I really liked Cockerell too, played by Matt King.

Those who are not big fans of fantasy (actually it's not really that fantasy lar, it has action, adventure, family values etc) may not like it but I'd recommend the movie all the same :) :) But you should read the book first ! Lol and I can't wait for Inkspell the movie to come out. Brr (excited shivers) lol.

The complete trilogy.
My Inkheart's cover's not this one though, cos mine's the oldest so I think they majukan the design with new publications.
Inkdeath just released last Dec !

On a side note:

I finally got my hands on pictures of my own birthday do in 2007 lol ! It was a surprise thing so that's why I didn't have my camera then bah. And I was really surprised man, normally always tak jadi, bocor here bocor there but thanks to Mim & Zhen who planned it so well, I didn't even get a whiff of all your scheming haha. They even had the Secret Recipe lady put Smarties on the cake ! I have no idea why haha, I don't particularly like Smarties but I don't mind them either :) But it was so sweet of them :) :) :) And it was so colourful and just looking at it is so menggembirakan. I still remember talking to Ju-Hann at the court at night about basketball and Add Math lol when they came round the corner with all 17 tiny candles lit and singing at the top of their lungs lol ! I think we were having a Christmas party then hee. Thank you so much lah you guys. Again. Haha.

Make it so graphic.

Because I'm tired of studying Pure Economic Loss.

Memorable events/happenings

My lil surprise from Denise on the 29th, 2008 :)

From me to her :)

2 of the most meaningful gifts of 08. And also souvenirs Hong Kong & China hee.

I so get what she means about the had part.

My granny is too cool lah. CNY 09

The essentials that kept me alive in Johor during CNY 09 lol.

Like what, 4 generations ? Lol

I wonder if her diapers have little animals prints :)

When YX's hair was still very long and w/o ze fringe :D 08

I really like this picture haha :) :) 08

When YX passed her driving test, 08 :)

Red day with Mr Mohan, 08

With Mrs Ong, the cutest, most animated teacher I've ever known :)

HAHA

Art Attack, 08 :D

Competition, bring it on !

Me likey :) :) :)

PL2, Istana Kehakiman, 08, with Mrs Ong.


Kor's farewell, 08. If you think his face is funky, you should've seen mine haha !

I like :) Fi's 18th , 08

Miriam Tiong's 19th heh. More pictures of this occasion another time.

Bubba Gump.

Pat & Selena's wedding 08.

Shon's farewell, 08.

The Norwegian :) 08

Switchfoot ! 08

Su-Anne's 24th, 08

Camp 08

Teenstreet 08

Hari Kecemerlangan 08

Zhen's 18th, 08

Yes, I play with my food. Penang 08

This looks familiar right, Fiona !

And 2 random pictures to wrap this up hee

Mangosteens during CNY. Hmm.

My mother is too cute. Was having a tummy ache that day lol.

Okay, back to PEL.