David’s Vlog
*updated* Latest video taken after he left Malaysia, on the way back to the States.
He made this the day after his arrival in Malaysia 
Stick to the status quo
Helo Bali Fun Dance Club (name so jeng)
Attendees: E-Guy, Yijin, Soo, Shun & mua
Ultimate aim: To get drunk
FREEflow. DJ Goldfish. Sunway Pyramid = 5km away from home = save petrol.
Sadly, we didn’t even get a single drop of liquid cause some people were just to selfish to share. Their asses were glued to the bar seats while their always-empty-glasses were being filled over and over again. Anyway, it’s not like I can drink a lot since my uric acid’s level went out of range again. Must be those tau fu fahs laa!
Music was great though cause you can never go wrong with DJ Goldfish.
Even Ah Ma(s) come here to club ok!
No offence. I still find it funny that a grandmother would actually come to such places. Seriously, a head turner.
This was so not on purpose lol. Really.
See what I mean about her being a head turner. Look at the guy smiling at her! Again, we did not include her in on purpose. Don’t know why Soo and my camera skill pretty screwed up that night. Like some strong gravity pull from the head.
I shall stop being mean already.
To compensate, I’m going to make fun of Shun instead.
Here is how the story goes. After having a drink at Republic, Weng Hoe (who joined us later with KK and Kevin) fetched Shun and I back to our car in Pyramid. We were rounding Pyramid’s car park based on the picture taken by Shun after she has parked her car. But rounded like a million times still cannot find her car wei!
What’s the problem?!?!
The picture was dated March 20th 2009! And it wasn’t even taken in Pyramid.
Another 5 minutes spent going through the pictures of random car parks till she finally found the right one.
And we thought we could go home straight after that. But NO, the stupid machine refused to read our ‘ham choy’,wet and crumpled paper ticket. So another 5 minutes gone.
Also, I only realised my purse was in Weng Hoe’s car more than 12 hours later. Imagine the damage that could have been made using my dad’s credit card phew.
First marathon!
Currently suffering from ODD (Obsessive David Disorder). The entire day was spent refreshing websites, switching between radio stations and handling 5 phones at a time.
HAHAHAHAHA. While typing this, I was actually calling Era FM cause they were giving out tickets to Konsert Akademi Fantasia. The dj picked up my call, asked for my name and location BUT to inform me that someone else has won it. Sweat! Maybe if my name was Siti or Nurul, it’ll be another story. Nevertheless, I still love you era.fm and am not angry whatsoever cause I don’t really care whether I win them or not. Just give me the tickets to David Archuleta’s showcase pretty please!
Random info: Era has at least 5 open phone lines.
Also, remember that Johor thingamajig I was blogging about before this? Ok, before I go to that, I want to talk about gym first. But before gym, I have to blog about the main purpose of this post; my first ever marathon.
Technically, it’s only a long-distance foot race cause a marathon requires you to run 42.195 km. I google that up. You think I know all these meh?
Google map is currently my bff by the way. Harvard Suasana Hotel is 55.7 km and 50 minutes away from Bukit Mertajam (will explain this later).
And so, last Sunday I was awaken by VernLi who called even before my alarm clock went off and together we head down (up?) to Cheras to meet up with KC and WengPhoon.
A car turn turtle on the other side of the road while we were on Federal Highway. So scarifying!
While waiting for rescue.
Soo and I were just talking the other day about being a Kelisa owner. Almost 5 years being one, we still can look at our car and smile (crazily) to ourselves. Kelisa rocks wei.
Commercial break
Just got off the phone with LaurenFooPuiYee who sounded as though she had just finished her crying session. Was told that Friend A and Friend B are together now wor. Then, she started laughing like how one would do to cover their tears. Her laughter got more serious and soon she was speaking gibberish cause I couldn’t catch a word she was saying. At one point I felt bad for laughing at her cause ppl crying maa I still can laugh. But in my own defence, she really did sound like some crazy woman lol. Finally, after that crazy woman was more composed, she said quite breathlessly,
“APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!”
Very good! I just got fooled! 2 years straight by the residents of No **, TTS5! Still cannot beat last year one la. My friend wanted to commit suicide ok!
Anyway where was I? Marathon. Wah not easy lor cause there were steep hills in the middle of the route. However, the place was quite nice and cooling. And sponsor-sponsor sekalian, where was the 5km water station which was promised?!?!
WE HAVE MADE IT WOOTS! BANGGA MOMENT!
Li Ping and Alfred rewarded me with dua keping pizza some more after that! Double woots!
Part of the group.
Definitely more marathons to come! In fact, I’ve signed up for my 2nd run this afternoon wee.
Random info: Pictures edited using the new-found-functions on photobucket. I don’t know why I chose to change the last picture to green also. But too bad la since I saved it over my original picture.
Next, gym!
I haven’t been going to gx classes ever since I signed up for that Melawati Run. Also, since the new release started sobs. That is because after running for whatever amount of km, my legs will tempang for 1-2 days.
That’s 3 weeks without classes. Actually I lied cause I managed to sneak in 2.5 classes of BodyJam in between.
Anyway, the very next day after the run, I went for back-to-back Jam and Combat! Love it love it! During Combat I kept smiling to myself hahahaha cause finally get to try the new release! But I think my techniques deteriorated cause Terence kept correcting me throughout the class, even for the simple moves.
Err, because of that, I’ve decided not to go to Johor wtf. I don’t want to sacrifice all these just yet. Also, because Cris won’t be in Johor anymore. So I’ve asked them if they could put me in Genting Highlands or Trolak instead. Wouldn’t mind Sungai Petani too cause it’s 55.7 km from my grandmother’s house in Penang, the land of cheap tasty food. The reply was: slim chance. So guess you’ll still be seeing me around Subang Jaya 
David Archuleta
This post has got to go all the way up at the top of the page cause David Archuleta will be arriving in exactly 7 hours! I feel like a teeny bopper all over again. Here are 2 of my favourite songs from him; A Little Too Not Over You and Touch My Hand.
USJRA-NST Treasure Hunt 2009 (with answers)
Date of Hunt:
22 March 2009
Distance:
19 km
Duration:
3 hours
Extension of Time:
A grace period of 15 minutes on the condition that there will be a penalty of 2 points for every 5 minutes delay or part thereof. After the extension time, answer sheets will not be accepted and teams will be disqualified.
Scoring:
There will be 30 questions and 3 treasures. Each question will carry 2 marks while each treasure will carry 5 marks.
Questions
Questions will be in sequence in ascending order.
| NO. | QUESTION |
| 1 | WHO WAS 68 BEFORE AND 54.8 AFTER? |
| 2 | CANCEL APPROVED PERMIT TO SEE MARC’S WIFE |
| 3 | MOBILE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER |
| 4 | HOW WILL YOU ADDRESS HANNAH OR TERESA? |
| 5 | CURRENCY TO BEND |
| 6 | DOES IT BELONG TO LARRY, STEPHEN OR CAROLE? |
| 7 | CRAZY TWAIN WITH ONE OF SAURON’S MINIONS |
| 8 | FOUND IN ART IS AN INSPIRATION |
| 9 | ADD CENT TO THIS TO SEE THE MOON |
| 10 | A RIOT BREAKING OUT AFTER THIS PRODUCES A FIGHTER |
| 11 | START WITH LIFESTYLE OF HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY |
| 12 | SOME SAY IT’S NOT SKIN DEEP BUT FROM WITHIN |
| 13 | BILL’S OR IS IT IN NEW YORK |
| 14 | A CLEANER WITH CAPONE |
| 15 | SAINT LEAVES BEHIND THE BEGINNING OF ECSTATIC ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCE |
| 16 | EMIRATES, REEBOK OR JJB |
| 17 | OK. RIGHT |
| 18 | A CHILL WAS FELT WHEN I LEFT |
| 19 | A MARXIST WITH A DRINK AND A HALF GERMAN *dropped* |
| 20 | LEE, WEN OR BROWN |
| 21 | THE FIRST BORN JOINS IN TO REVEAL THESE SOUTH AFRICANS |
| 22 | 90% APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS |
| 23 | I HEARD WE ARE VICTORIOUS |
| 24 | ON REFLECTION YOU WILL SEE A NAIL |
| 25 | THE REASON THE APPLE FELL ON NEWTON’S HEAD |
| 26 | FRIENDS’ MONICA’S RICHARD ONCE PLAYED THIS ROLE |
| 27 | PANICKING, OUR FRIEND RAN |
| 28 | BUZZ LIGHTYEAR’S CATCHPHRASE, “TO … AND BEYOND” |
| 29 | MAXWELL ABOVE OUR CHAIRMAN |
| 30 | SHE IS IN AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER |
| 31 | LOOK BACK TO SEE AGAIN |
Tulips
*Click to enlarge* Bear in mind that Question 19 has been dropped
Treasures
Treasure 1
This consumable you must figure out
is part of a code used in the United States
and is also a fastener of some sort
Bring one unopened and of a flavour
that reminds you of the forever fields
the Fab Four sang about long ago
Treasure 2
This recording tool you have to give
must be of one who operates a machine
and conducts ships in and out of ports
Always the first in a TV series,
it must be filles with a broken leg
of the colour of our crime busters.
Treasure 3
A writing implement that is full of lead
An ancient warrior’s head it always bears
For full points get me the type that sounds like
the first two words of Hamlet’s monologue
Answers under the cut!
USJRA-NST Street Family Day 2009
On March 22nd, we, the residents of UEP Subang Jaya, namely, LoreYunKei, ChowShiuKao, AlwynKoayCheeHua and yours truly, kinda surprised ourselves by arriving at 7:45 in the morning for a motor treasure hunt we had signed up for (after the deadline).
That’s like 15 minutes before the designated time woohoo.
Since the gates weren’t open yet, we left our car keys with the super awesome committee members and went to hunt for food at the other side of the building where all the tents were located.
8:11 am.
Sorry ya I’m in a very cheong hei mood today cause when you start waking up early, you suddenly realised you have loads of free time in hand. Can’t shop because the malls are still sleeping. Wanna watch tv also nothing interesting on.
Anyhow, each of us were given a goodie bag upon entering and filling up registration forms but no food was found cause everyone was still setting up their booths.
8:16 am
After walking (400+100)m, we went to pose with our car which was right smack in front of the line yeeehaa.
Go Team 16 yo! 31 teams competed.
8:26 am
Since neither Yun nor I want to give away our parking spot outside MPSJ, we decided to just walk across the street to get breakfast from the nearby petrol station.
In Malaysia, it’s a surprise if anything actually starts on time. We weren’t surprised.
8:46 am
We were required to be at the grand stand to be with the orang-orang besar. Some morning exercises (line dance, tai chi and wushu if I’m not mistaken) were being held at the tracks also.
Due to the noise level at the grand stand (what do you expect? it’s a carnival!), we then went to a hall instead for a quick briefing.
9:56 am
All 31 cars! Most of them came with their family. Then, there was the compulsory group photo before the start of the hunt.
10:03 am
While waiting for the questions and treasures to be handed out to us. It’s so unfair because we were the second car to be flagged off but were the last to receive those q&t.
10:03 am
While waiting for the orang-orang besar to arrive after their speech.
10:07 am
Hannah Yeoh flagging us off. I got overexcited and all I can think of is to snap a picture of her. Then I was like wondering why wasn’t Alwyn making any attempt to drive.
*draw speech bubbles around those red shirts* “Hoi wind down your window la!”
I was too ignorant to notice the ‘tulips’ being handed out to me *shy*
credit: http://www.nst.com.my/Streets/USJ/
Being first timers, we kinda underestimated the difficulty level of the treasure hunt. Thought we would only take 1 hour to complete it but omg we were at the first street (the one where Big Bookshop is located) for 30 minutes trying to figure out what the hell the questions were about.
Example; Q: Crazy twain with one of sauron’s minions, A: Winocrat. Then there was one about Marc’s wife lol. Hiyo we put Macy just because Macy sounded very Marc’s wife-ish.
There was also another motor treasure hunt going on at the same time, so Taipan area was really jammed. Not to say there weren’t enough jam to begin with.
On a special note, we all know that ShiuKao and I aren’t exactly the best of friends. However, the both of us worked relatively well together.
We also heard a lot about the ‘I told you so’ and ’see don’t want to listen to me’ scenarios that happened in the other teams. But at the end of the day, we will think back and laugh at this small little arguments occurred throughout the entire process.
Guess this is what this treasure hunt is mostly about; bringing people together and, I quote, “To bring back those forgotten laughters”.
Anyway, towards the end, our brains went kinda cuckoo due to time limitation. Tembak all the way.
Q: Maxwell above our chairman. A: Eh that shop over there la! Got two floors! ABOVE what!
Q: Panicking, our friend ran. A: Eh that dentist over there cause people always panic when they see the dentist, no?
After 3 hours, we were still pretty far away from the check point. Alwyn drove over the bumps as though they weren’t even there. Yun struggled to rewrite the answers down in such condition which resulted to motion sickness. I had to run to the check point as fast as I could and managed to hand in before the disqualification time.
Time taken: 3 hours 14 minutes. 6 marks deducted. 2 more minutes and all our efforts will go down the drain phew.
We then proceeded to Lorong Seratus Tahun for lunch. Their chicken lobak and char kuey teow quite nice…but I didn’t finish their sago desert. It’s like a bunch of sago sticked together with coconut milk and brown sugar only. I have never tried anything like this before so I can’t make any comparison. At this point, Alwyn started stoning cause that poor guy didn’t sleep the night before. Yin Kong left MPSJ before we get to go back there dsh.
2:55 pm
In the morning, we were wondering why got people so cheapskate bring a test drive car to join. Later on, we found out that they were actually representatives from Proton, one of the sponsors.
At 3pm, the answers were given out and this was like the peak moment of the day. Everyone was just laughing away throughout the whole session. I would say 1/3 of the questions were pretty straight forward, the rest needed some time, brain and general knowledge while a few left us lost even after the answers were announced. It’s a family event so obviously they can’t make it that hard right?
Being the tembak kings and queens we are, we managed to get quite a number of rights. During lunch, “Eh I think we won’t even get top 13 la cause we are only sure of 13/30 questions…some more minus 6 points already”. Then throughout the answers session, “We better get something home wei. Maybe top 5 also can”.
4:00 pm
Tada!!!!!!!!!!!! 4th placing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s Mr BK Sim by the way, a super cool guy. Don’t know what’s his position though. Anyway, he was really really helpful. Cause the day before, I was 1 hour late for the briefing. So he took the effort to explain to me what the competition was about and showed me the starting point yada yada. During the hunt, he called us just to make sure we were doing ok and called back again to tell us that question 19 has been dropped. It was very nice of him cause he wasn’t obligated to do so. Furthermore, someone else was in charged of our group who did sms us too.
Also, thank you to Mr Lawyer (sorry I forgot your name) for taking the effort to come out with all the questions. We certainly had loads of fun thanks to you!
4:17 pm
Close up of our hamper
4:33 pm
Cheers to our victory with Sarsi!
Shiu Kao was already looking forward to the next treasure hunt. He said anything less than RM50 per car please call him wor cause he needs to train up before going for the bigger hunts. His sister went for a hunt which costs RM400 per car.
All in all, we had fun and that’s all that matters.
Here’s to those that helped us to get the hamper
Kien Fei, for googling about Hamlet, Fab Four and Sauron.
Daddy, for confirming that Carole King does exist.
Soon Seng, for treasure number 2.
Sue Ann, for watching Friends. He’s an opthamologist.
Sincerely,
Yenli, resident of USJ 2.
Here’s an entry about the hunt by one of the contestants (Team no 8). Click here.
Scroll down to the entry below for the questions. Click here for answers.
Interview jitters 2
oh gosh i’m getting all nervous right now…a lil bit too early la. 15 minutes since i last received the phone call…another 24 hours to my interview/
i have been applying for whatever job that came across hoping to gain experience thru the interview sessions before the real thing comes wtf.
but but but this is one of the three jobs that i really really wanted and they just called me for an interview argh. and the only one i have been to is the one with a job agency. that was nothing la since they were just acting as a middle person so no pressure there.
how now how now? i haven’t read thru those ‘tips’ or think about my ‘qualities’. have to hard-sell myself wei so paisei.
and another thing…how am i going to go to bukit jelutong without a car?! takkan ask my mother to take leave again. she did that last friday when i went for my interview in kl. like teman small kid for her first of school. rawr!
Update: Fuckfuckfuck i had to reschedule my interview cause of transportation problem…that’s gonna leave a bad impression. But at least i would have more time to dig out my old notes and study them.
title ladidi ladida
Something has been bothering me lately.
I must admit that I’m a very fickle minded, lalang person. In other words, I just do not know what I want.
Of course, there is the long list of ’I Want’ but those are the things that I can live without even if I don’t have them. For example, getting a first class hons in my degree. I was sincerely happy when I received my second upper even though it wasn’t exactly what I aimed for at the start.
But when I do set my mind on something, regardless of importancy, the effort and time spent and the distance I would go to achieve it is very erm…out of the norm or surprising if I may say so myself.
And then comes hope –> pressure –> possibility of failure –> emotional moments. Bah.
Though the sad part doesn’t really occur/ last long cause I either get what I want or it was not a big thing. Sometimes, even when I do fail, the experiences gained from the whole process was something I am happy about
This time it’s kinda different. I’m not sure if I can achieve it and failure is not an option. The pressure is so overwhelming that I find it hard to sleep at night when usually it takes seconds for me to doze off. So now I’m giving it another 3 or 6 months depending on circumstances and see how it goes because I’m so not ready for it yet.
