Ipoh - Brotherhood

Well the day was a day of "celebration" so to speak. A good friend of mine has finally touched down @ Ipoh after his NS stint. He's looking fitter and better now, dropped about 10 kilos in 3 months? Haha. Joshua Yau welcome home! (There are SO many Joshuas, am I right lol)

Top notch Ipoh dim sum.

We went to the famous Ming Court for breakfast. The organiser of sorts, a Mr. Carl Cheong was unfashionably late though. Haha. Well at least I enjoyed my dim sum! Come to think of it it's my first since Chinese New Year with my cousins and all. Haha. That was also the time where I got my first parking ticket.. But well there's not much of a story to tell!

Then dropped by Joshua's house to see his dogggg :D and pick up some games haha. His doggie was shooo cute! It's a young Golden Retriever, still quite a puppy. I actually took a pic. Or two. Oh well. Haha!

Cute little puppy dog!

When we visited it's teeth had just grown out, so it was biting everything it could get it's paws on. Like me. Er. Yes. And my other friend. Oh well, it was so so friendly and cuuuute :) AND AND also right. It had some sort of magnetic attraction to our slippers, it was like someone stuck the label "bite me" all over them!

We propped them on top of his cage where he "couldn't" reach, but managed to chew at my friend's sandal which was at the edge of the cage. Kawaii-ness unlimited, no? XD

Extra large just for you. Because I can.

And yes he needed the leash. If not he would bug us on our way out. All the way, on our way. Out. I believe you get my point. Haha. We shot straight for Ye Olde English, but it was closed, only opens for dinner. So the guys plotted to go for Station One . Well oh well. Should've hit Aberdeen instead, it's much better I tell youh.

We lepak-ed there from lunchtime till 3.00pm ++ ! Not bad right. Played Choh Dai Di (as copied from Wikipedia) for quite a number of rounds, then went back. Dropped Lee Eu Meng, Joon Yang, Alex Leh and Ho Ming Foong back. Only Lee told me in advance, so they kinda messed up my plans to go get some Maggi Goreng for teatime at home. RAWRRR well at least I'll be a tad more healthier. Heh. That's about it.

Kuala Lumpur - A Journey

And yes the chain of events. Reached KL on Friday afternoon - met Serene there. She just came from her visa interview, dressed all formal all!

We were waiting for Stephen since his bus was from Singapore, and decided to get a drink from the awesome vending machines around Sentral. Sadly, most of them were spoilt! So we went hunting for a working machine - finally found one outside. Haha.

We went for some nasi lemak (it was really good) with Aren, an old friend of my cousin's. He fetched us from Sentral to dinner and to our home for the weekend! Check out the cuuute doggie if you haven't (there's another cute doggie coming up from my friend's house - stay posted :D) And then there was Urbanscapes.

Urbanscapes - the picture says it all! RM0.00 - Complimentary!

Somehow I won Urbanscapes passes which would be on the same day as the Liverpool match, almost same time! Considered skipping the match - but in the end my friend who'd accompany me for Urbanscapes had to leave early so ended up hitting both! Yayy haha. If you can't read pictures or something funny, Urbanscapes is an all-day creative arts festival. It's pretty chill.

Here's the wrist band I was given - orange is for 18 and up!

Met up with Xing-Yi and his friend, Aaron. We proceeded to round the place. There were many things to see, from the hot air balloon being started up, to guitar hero to an indie band "rocking" the stage. Haha. We had some random stuff too, with some "tasks" to be done. Hug or hi-five 5 random people. And all I got was this CD.

Lady Gaga.. No, it's Christina Aguilera!

Yeah. That's about it. There was one ultra-cool demonstration by some experimental duo. It was a water container set up, with 16 partitions separated by plastic walls. The top is open, and there are "crystal balls" at each corner. It conducts electricity from the balls to the water partitions, and these trigger off the synth :) once I figure out this newfangled video editing program I'll post it up for all to see :D till then Here's the video! You gotta check this out, the most eye-catching thing we walked past in the whole Urbanscapes. :D

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 :)