The Journey

Wellhello! Here's some pictures I've collected over the past month.. With a story behind each! :)

This was at Ritz Bina, a top-shop no-frills dining outlet! Cat sleeping under the row of dishes. Actually a family of them. They were SHO cute!!!

Outside the Taj Mahal of Ipoh, our beloved train station.. Drove there to get tickets for my KL trip to get A-level photostat-books and visit BRATs peeps and crash Mr. Benjamin Tan!

At Ben's house, we encountered... mozzies! The freaking mosquitoes were partying-partying-yeah all over me and him on Friday night.. We gladly took revenge in the morning and doused them in aerosol! Huge fella, but see the spray left on the tile hahaha!

Okay, the next step requires a prequel. Last Saturday, I was working for Disney Malaysia through a friend's event company.. It's for this audition/competition called Disney My School Rocks, which is an inter-school dance competition! Perak level, and plenty of manpower involved. There were about 30+ people involved in the entire event's administration! Haha. Here we go.

At work, I was assigned the duty of a team guardian - handling the incoming teams and ushering them around, also rushing and bringing them to backstage for standby. The most stressful job I guess, since we're almost always on duty and can truly fail.. And cus I just need to let it out? I am number four! :D

Due to my work responsibilities, I was required to use a walkie-talkie. It was quite new and interesting, although you'll probably hurt your ears a bit given the noise the pack needs to overcome! But enjoyed it lah everything! :)

Brats Saga Still Continues (Part 4)

The 2nd assignment on day 3 was to visit a local paddy field. The main significance is only that Kedah is bestowed the title "the rice bowl of Malaysia". It wasn't too bad lah there, One of the family members told a story about this disease, called "Perang" (the colour). It sometimes happens that the young paddy stalks will get infected, they will then turn red. It'll be as good as dead paddy then...

Stolen off Senior Brat  Pau Ling a.k.a. Roxanne Low! Good blog!

The special thing about the 2nd assignment is we were gifted "buah tangan" by the farm owners as they have, as someone described, a mango "orchard" (it's only a couple of trees xD) beside the field. They were quite nice to eat actually! Haha. Firm, not too soft. They gave us plenty! About twenty to thirty mangoes you know. But they weren't ripe so most of us "ta pau"ed the fruits. Haha. Compare to the dodol they bought on Assignments 1 day 2! Freeeeeeee :D :D :D

At night we went to have Laksa Kedah for dinner! Well, I didn't have any cause I'm not a fan of laksa, so I had satay! But everyone had satay-lah so yeah. Haha. Satay was actually very nice. Laksa was plain cus we didn't go to the main one I guess.. The first-choice was sold out and had closed shop!

Joash took this picture! Thanks Joash :)

This the one with Joash in it :)

BRATs Saga Part 3 - W.H.A.T.?

Then after the first day... and night, we were facing assignments straight away. We went to Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad's childhood residence.. and all. :) Took photos - but we were wearing the BRATs t-shirt. No offense, but just that white is plain.. heh. That's why I have 2 orange shirts, man! And a pink shirt that's my absolute fave!! :D

Oh and a random picture! Cause the place was actually still closed when we came. Aren't we the earlybirds!

Spot the poser!

Haha. Moving on to more relevant points.. We were to do a soundslide.. Well let's talk about less technical stuff-lah! Doing assignments was... quite stressful. But it was great to finish them! Team W.H.A.T. the best! Really loved working with all you peeps. Haha. Team X bought back Dodol from their visit to the Dodol making centre or what ever term you use for that place. Haha.

Our... tour guide.

Here's a shoutout to - group leader Tan Ee Laine, video editor pro Yin Li (saved us a lot of progress a couple of times on the video job - priceless mann), guys Samuel Lee & Zhong Min, stand-upper Denielle, and Amanda, Chien Huey, Aisyah,  Samantha, SU Yi, Valerie, Natasha and Raanita. :) best group EVERRRRRR

Note: This is a scheduled release; I'm actually on my way to KL at the time is is posted! Haha

The BRATs Saga Part 2

Okay... First day was.. overwhelming! Thrust straight into the culture of the 'camp! I was quite surprised to see so little guys - at first impression lah. But after a while it was understood.. That guys just weren't interested to sign up for this awesome camp. Haha.

What we do on the first day, a set of briefings and some icebreakers to warm us up. Don't have pictures on this so yeah.

They had a bunch of workshops, only remember Photography by Jason Lioh and Social Media by Niki Cheong because those were the two I'll take heart to for life! Yeah. Got a great roommate - Joash! I sleep at least half an hour later than him - and it makes no difference to him! Yeah. Awesome stuff la. :)

Btw, the photography workshop required us to test our newly-learned knowledge hands-on! The theme was "green" and so yeah.. My entry was this.

Well, it received some commendations.. In part of being the top of the list 'cause of alphabetical order -.- heh. And well this group of BRATs gathered at Alor Setar were complimented for presenting a really consistent set of photos. Because, well.. the previous batches... Uh I shan't say haha! But. We still love ya even though you can't really take pichas alright :) lovelovelove :D

Btw the first morning after that, managed to catch a pretty neat picture of the Alor Setar skyline. Reposting this from twitter..

More to come.. And well I'll end this post on a random quote.

"Reach for the stars. And if you don't grab em, at least you're on top of the world" - Armando Christian Perez (better knows as Pitbull)

OneRepublic Secrets Cover 2 (by Samuel Yohannes Lopez)

This a cover my good friend made for a competition...

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BRATs

Hey guys. If you've been a friend on facebook or following me on twitter, you'll definitely know that, I've been at BRATs Camp '11 at Alor Setar, Kedah! And this you probably won't know, that I was at Paradise Sandy Beach Resort (Hotel lah) the day before camp. More like a stopover holiday before heading to Alor Setar. Family went there, then parents dropped me and my sister off to BRATs!

P.S. this post'll be split up into smaller bits, released whenever I want to :D

This was in the... garden? Swimming pool. Absolutely beautiful place!

A random message... Heh.

An angle of the view from our balcony! It faces the beach but the space is huge!

(On a side note, my parents stayed the following night @ Alor Setar - they caught Kungfu Panda 2 without us kids!!! How could theyyyyyyy :O)

Edit: You can check out my sis's blog some time, it already has (Update #2!) the Penang food photos on it! Here's a taster - Penang Chee Cheong Fun - my mum's favourite, and must have, at Gurney Drive!

Penang Chee Cheong Fun! At the famed Gurney Drive.

Update!

Edit: This post is brought to you courtesy of  uninvited guest blogger Adrian Yap. He is NOT INVITED to come back and post again. EVER

I am in the house of my best friend! His name is Adrian. I like his house. It is quite big. Big is nice. And I like nice. Everybody likes nice too. I think so too. Fluffy is so cute. I like cute. My phone no battery. Actually got battery, but battery no battery. I don't know how to explain, but I think you know what I think I am trying to say. My brain very tired, and exhausted. This post very hard to post. Headache. I think I want to sleep. But before I sleep, I must eat some supper. The last supper. For the day that is. Got that?

It is time to go. I say goodbye. Good bye.