Kuala Lumpur - Passion

Okay, so I did head down to KL for the Liverpool match! Although I am an Arsenal supporter, you can't really turn down a free ticket can you? Haha. It was the weekend some more, great offer.

After Urbanscapes at Asia Jaya, I shot straight down to the Masjid Jamek interchange to the Sentul line which leads to Stadium Bukit Jalil. My cousins joined along at Taman Jaya as they were waiting for me at the mall over there.

The queue for interchange tickets..

Well, when we arrived there, we saw this huge huge crowd. It doesn't really look as massive as the real thing, but there's a picture of it. Massive, everyone was jammed up there. Thank God we met Sandra there, she was further in front and got our tickets. Since we had the time we went to get our return from here to Kelana Jaya area so that we wouldn't get stuck in another queue on the way back.

Well to cut the long story short, we made it! Although a fumble or two happened along the way (cellphone signal at the Stadium was horrid - 30-40 calls were dropped before we managed to make contact!), we  managed to enter the stadium at least! I really liked my seat :)

My view.. This is a very accurate approximation of my field of vision there.

I sat in a very good seat, with some sort of semblance to the TV view that I actually enjoy quite a lot.Could see the left-right play and movement was very obvious.

The match finished 6-3 - quite entertaining, and the goals were be-au-tiful! Oh the first Malaysian goal was one spectacular free kick, swerving wickedly out of the keeper's grasp. Brilliant! Malaysia managed to catch out Liverpool on pace on more than one occasion in the second half, something quite interesting as Liverpool weren't able to do the same to the steely Malaysian defence.

Although this defence shipped 2 free goals to David N'gog who happily took them and barely touched the ball other than those two goals. He was running in the full back zones, weirdly enough. Isn't the furthest player forward supposed to hang around the central areas?

Here's another panorama shot - quite nice to see a full stadium!

Full view of everything! What a glorious stadium to play in :)

After the match, the LRT human jam was INSANE!!! People were packed together like sardines, and it was kinda tense. But some dudes managed to crack some lame jokes, like "ini sardin ke tuna sekarang?" and "tepi, tepi, air panas!" "tepi, tepi ada orang pengsan! Ada orang nak bersalin! Ada orang sudah mati!" and all. Haha.

After we managed to squeeze through and get on the train, rode all the way to Masjid Jamek. The jam here wasn't so bad, as most of the traffic was still stuck at the Bukit Jalil LRT. But there was a sizeable queue at the ticketing counter, so we were lucky enough to grab our tickets on the way here instead of leaving it till now.

We headed to KL Sentral instead for our friend to pick us up. We then sent Stephen to KLIA for his return flight and shot straight for supper at Murni's SS2. Hit up a Roti Beckham, dedicated to Joses Khoo XD

Roti Beckham, dee-lee-cious!

Kuala Lumpur - Family

Hellohellohello. I haven't been here for almost a month, how about that! Been busy being on top of the world, enjoying life :)

(Oh a quick note - my video editing software is down - There's a really interesting video I need to edit before I publish it in the full post, so be patient aite! Here's a short pre.)

This post is mainly about this KL trip I made last weekend - for a bunch of different reasons! The original purpose was to capitalise on my free Liverpool ticket that my friend passed to me.. It'd mean I'd meet up with my cousins, Serene and Stephen. Don't really meet up with them as often as I should!

My aunt's dog. Sho cute right? It's a Golden Retriever crossed with a Rottweiler. Elegant!

Okay, aside from the cute dog. Stayed with my "aunt" of sorts. It's on my cousin's side who's not related to me. But she was really nice to me nevertheless :D She has 5 dogs in the house, 3 Shih-Tzus and 2 mix breeds. And if you didn't know the babysitter I grew up with, another aunt was married to a vet, so I do get along with dogs quite quickly!

Yet To Come

Something's in the works :) KL Trip was awesome! True Worshippers at DUMC, Urbanscapes at AsiaJaya, and Liverpool-Malaysia at Stadium Bukit Jalil! Coming soon..

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)