You aint never been on a REAL road trip before

Trust me, you havent. At least not unless you've been on one with me and Tatt. Here's a bit of introduction (Last time someone who read this thought that Tatt was my previous school). Tatt is a big guy we call Phat Tatt who looks like one of those creatures from the Planet of Apes. He loves to cuss and show the universal hand signal. All his bad ways aside, he's a real great cook (trust me, I've tasted some stuff) and he's studying some culinary diploma and loves to eat Char Siu.

So anyway the both of us planned to go over to Kampar to see Chew (privacy protected in case any more weird guys disturb her). We holla-ed at KC and Dan and Shan but none of them could come. KC said he had to take care of his house and Dan had class (physics) and Shan said he's going to Penang with Mitleshwaran (his lil bro) and even if they weren't his parents wouldn't allow him. Of course, no one's parents would allow it. That's why Tatt and I just asked permission to go out without telling where XD

So we were travelling on the freeway (pretty smooth drive) until the Taiping highway before we took a break (my Kancil 660 had been going around 120km/h for the last 90 minutes and it was starting to feel powerless). After a 30 minute break (and a lot of Tatt's sandwiches) we made our way to the Ipoh Highway. Then everything started to go wrong lol.

Chew gave us a call and Tatt passed the phone to me, who was driving, and caused me to miss a turn and I was bz talking, n missed another turn, and I drove into a tol (thought there was a U-turn there) which prompted us to drive against the flow of traffic (try to beat this, theres even a video of it) before taking another wrong turn and almost going to Sitiawan (Yay! Fuzhou territory!) and finally an old man at the Caltex station gave us directions to the highway. Turns out we weren't suppose to exit the highway yet. So anyway we turned out, then went ahead and turned into the Tambun exit (We got scared when we saw "Cameron Highlands: 2km") and made a turn and came out (Chew was like, WHAT HOW DID YOU GUYS END UP THERE???)

So anyway we finally found our way to the Gopeng exit (didn't expect it to be THAT far). The entire trip there was more than 3 hours (30 minutes was used to find our way when we were lost n another 30 minutes 4 a rest at Taiping). Met up with Chew at the Pasar Malam. Tehn after walking around (I actually saw a girl who looked like Chew Yi! Except that this girl was plump. Would look exactly like Chew Yi if taht girl lost some weight). After that we went to Chew's house (Wow 3 storey corner house! But she isn't the owner, she's just renting a room lol). Then we chatted and chatted and la la la all about our old days and friends. Chew had this Hello Kitty bed sheet with the words "Dear Daniel" printed on it. N I was like wow you do miss Dan dont you XD

So we stayed and chatted til 10pm (Chew's classmate came midway to take a bag and he look too afraid to come in. Must be because of the presence of an ape). And boo-yah, we were off, speeding thru the night. I loved the downhill part near the Ipoh tunnel. 120km/h without acceleration babe! WOOT~!

Well I reached home at 12:30am. Really tiring, but a great day. Should do it again some time n mayb stay overnight at Kampar XD

MEAT!!!! (FINALLY)

Woot~! Finally the 49 days are over and
I CAN HAVE MEAT AGAIN!!!
Yeah it's definitely a pleasure to have meat. Can't believe I missed it so much. 2 days ago I bought a few lamb shoulders to be grilled at midnight. Marinated it in olive oil, wine, pepper, garlic and soy sauce (Tatt said salt but I decided to add a bit of Asian flavour, yeah baby!). Didn't have any herbs so I didn't put any (A bit of rosemary and tyme would be nice >.<) So anyway I grilled 2 pieces and gave 1 to my eldest sister (She was going off back to KL at 1:30am so she was the only one left awake at that time). Man, it was extremely gooooooood

But it could satisfy my hunger and I still had a major craving for more meat. So after I dropped my sister at the bus station, I took a detour and arrived at McD after 1 am :-D
McD Drive Thru... Check out the clock on my car. If you look properly it says 1.13 ^^

Me when I was ordering my food lol.

Well I just ordered a Big Mac and went home straightaway. My parents would kill me if they found out XD

Didn't snap any pix of the lamb shoulders because I didn't have my camera and my phone konked out. So no pics of it. But it was great. Had 2 more this morning ^^

Another long week

Well since I can't come online often I guess I'll turn my blog into something like a weekly journal. And I seriously have to watch Percy Jackson soon. Wanted to watch it last Monday but Yen Ping told me that our power point presentation, which was due the next day, was in her brother's laptop and thumb drive, and
both her brother's laptop and thumb drive ARE IN KL!!!!

Well, that sucked and I had to stay home to do it. Took me 7 hours to complete it. Couldn't really complain because I really love doing power point presentations and the only reason why I gave the job to YP is because she was fussing that she had no work to do (We're in the same team with 3 others). The power point presentation (my first ever) turn out to be a blast. The teachers were all amazed by the animations and all the moving thingies that Pn Pau, my bio teacher, mentioned it a few times in class, and the boys must have been drooling over the players in my presentation because I went through a lot to search for pretty netball players. Real eye candy it was. Talk about discrimination XD

Nothing really interesting throughout the week except for the presentation, other than the perbarisan rumah sukan. I'm the flag bearer of my contingent and we are mulling over what I should wear during the opening ceremony. Vimalan wanted me to build a Bumblebee costume. But it's really a hassle and the deadline is to near so I didn't do it. Don't know what should I wear lol.

You know, I kinda realized that it was really stupid that I tried to hit on CY. I mean, yea there might loads of similarities between the two of us, like our family enforces corporal punishment, our parents don't want us to get into a relationship while we're studying, we are super sneaky, we love food, both of us have cousins who are a bit on the dark side, we bend and break rules and but we never cross the line even though we often tilt dangerously over it, and we have ties with triads and so many other stuff (Yen Ping somewhat put that all together). But if you look at the whole picture, you'll realize we aren't similar as it seems. I mean, she's a pedigree, someone of high status and class and has expensive taste, while despite the image I portray and the habits I have (Holding the door open for others to go pass first, pulling out the chair for girls to sit, proper dining and table manners, leaving a tip for the waiter even though I get charged 15% of govt tax and service tax etc), I'm a village kid at heart. A budak kampung. Son of an ex-coffee shop worker. That practically makes us worlds apart. If it was centuries ago, I won't even be allowed to go near her. Well, guess I should have thought of this beforehand. Guess in the real world, opposite repels...

Queensbay outing with ma boys

Went out with Shan and Dan and KC on Friday. Initially we were suppose to go to Gurney but Shan said that there was nothing to do at Gurney so we ended up going to Queensbay instead because Shan said we could go skating. Well it was okay since I could attempt to break my Penang bridge time record. I managed to break it by clocking 5 minutes and 50 seconds. A pretty big achievement since my car meter only goes up to 140km/h and it can only go up to 120km/h max if there is no slope. Got caught up in a bit of a jam or I swear I coulda shaved 20 seconds off my current record.

After quite a bit of debating, we finally decided to watch Wolfman because KC said no chinese movies and Shan had already watched Percy Jackson. So Wolfman it was. The line at the ticket booth was really long so we booked our tickets through the phone (It was 2 hours before the movie so I guess it was ok XD). Then we hung around the manga shop and pissed KC off lol. Man, can't he just try to be interested? Honestly I'm not much of a manga fan but I don't mind hanging around a manga shop pretending to be overly interested in them. So anyway KC left us alone and went to borders to read his psychology books. I really don't understand why he keeps reading them even though they are useless stuff. Trust me, if any of them were useful, he won't try to be a recluse and a pessimist and pretend his life is in a turmoil and all...

Went to TGI Fridays for lunch. Had vegetarian fetuccini alfredo and a glass of red. The steaks were extremely tempting, but I'm vegetarian so no meat for me. This was our lunch:
Clockwise from top left: Daniel's Chicken Caesar Salad, my Vegetarian Fetuccini Alfredo, Shan's Chicken something something (forgot what it was) and KC's Jack Daniel's Chicken. KC's face turned all red midway through his meal. We were debating whether it was the effects of the Mojito or the Jack Daniel's... Great metabolism he has...

My lunch came up to RM44 after adding the tax so I paid with a RM50 bill. Told KC that it was for the lunch+tax+tip (I always tip the waiters even though they charge service tax. It's a habit). But KC paid the exact amount and someone (I don't know who, either Shan or Dan or KC) pocketed the tip which was suppose to be for the waiters -.-

After lunch we went to watch our movie. It was a pretty average movie. Nothing really special and memorable, although it didn't suck (way better than Twilight). Shan wanted to go skating after the movie but since KC and Dan (being homeboys) were afraid of the crowd and I prefer skateboards to roller blades, we ditched the idea and went for a walkabout instead. KC ordered a pizza at Pizza Hut to eat while he was in the car. Good thing he's tidy when he eats or I would've objected lol.

Well, that's a day out with ma boys. Don't know when is the next time I can chill with them.

Note to KC: It is a fact that pessimism shortens the life of your chromosomes. Buck up man.

CNY home visiting XD

Ah, school's starting tomorrow. Not really looking forward to school actually. It's pretty boring and stupid going to school. Wish the CNY hols could be longer lol.

Anyway I went to Taiping with my family on the 4th day of CNY. Went to visit my mom's cousin. His house was 200 steps away from the Tesco in Taiping lol (that's how he described the distance, 200 steps). Well yea, it was very near to Tesco. You can see it once you step out of the house. I was like, wow, a short walk and you get starbucks and McD and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Pretty cool huh? So Hock Gu (Uncle Hock in Hokkien) told us about our relatives around Taiping (It seems that my great grandfather, who was something like the head of the fishermen of Port Weld, was extremely rich and had many wives so there is a chance that almost all the Ooi's in Taiping are my relatives) and his children, his son who is living in KL and his daughter who is living in Australia.

Hock Gu's daughter married a white guy. He says that's a price you have to pay if you send your kids overseas to study. Send them there and they bring a foreign guy/girl back... Then the whole conversation came to multiracial marriages and westerners. It was an extremely uncomfortable conversation, especially when CY prefers whites and latinos to Asians (and she has a crush on a white guy at the moment). Hock Gu advised my sisters against marrying a white guy lol. He said that although the children will be beautiful kids (that's the consolation), the cultural differences would be quite big and it would be a hard life. For instance he said that my cousin (his daughter) was once sick and she rang up her in-laws and they were like, go see a doctor tomorrow and when she moved to another house, those who helped her with the moving were her parents and relatives, not her husband's side. According to Hock Gu, the westerners don't like to "intrude" into the lives of their children once their children gets married, but just like what Hock Gu said, helping them isn't actually intruding, it's actually caring about your family. Enough about caucasians and multiracial marriages already. It's getting revolting just thinking about it. I'm xenophobic anyway.

After all those chatting, went to have lunch at a vegetarian restaurant. The food was okay since I don't fancy all those soy stuff. Give me good ol' greens and legumes anytime. My sister asked Hock Gu to draw out a family tree. But it turned out that my grandmother's family (Hock Gu is my late grandmother's brother's son) was so big that midway through the family tree Hock Gu said it would be easier if he emailed us the family tree. According to him, our family has ties with a gang in Port Weld and Matang (my great grandfather was the head of some gang as well). He said life was hard in Taiping and you had to join a gang in order to survive. So almost everyone in Taiping was somewhat related to a gang (or triad, as CY calls it).

We had to go home at 2pm because my sis had tuition. Well, it was a great day out. Nice to know I got relatives all over Taiping. Hock Gu asked us to contact him if we were going to Taiping for any excursion because he can arrange everything for us lol. Will be looking forward to my next trip there XD

CNY Holidays and a whole lot of stuff in it...

Today is the 3rd Day of CNY. This year is pretty quiet. We had our "reunion dinner" last Saturday night. We weren't allowed to hold any celebrations at home since my granma passed away so we went to a vegetarian restaurant opposite Taman Inderawasih to have dinner. There was an empty seat on my table and we set up a set of cutlery and a plate with some food on it and said it was for granma lol. It was a merry family gathering as usual. Then on the first day of CNY we went to Kek Lok Si to pray my granma. Then we went around the Penang island to pray at various temples and then this old folks home and then we went to have Indian vegetarian food somewhere near the Cheshire home and the temple of fine arts. My 5th Uncle's wife asked me what toothpaste do I always use because my teeth are unnaturally white (Everyone agrees they look as white as dentures). The secret? I dunno. Maybe it's because I scrub really hard with my toothbrush, maybe it's because of my dark complexion.

So I've been going out to watch movies 2 days in a row with my family. Great movies. The first was Jackie Chan and Lee-Hom's Little Big Soldier and we just watched Louis Koo's All's Well Ends Well Too 2010 today. Really nice movies.

Well that's all from today. Gotta start studying soon. I want to get some A's in my next exam so that I can just get some annoying teachers off my back -.-

Sukan Tara

Woohoo~! Today was our sukan tara. They had 3 events for everyone, long jump, shot putt and 70m sprint. I was posted at the shot putt section. Since I was the only athlete there, I had to give them a briefing of how to throw a shot putt and the rules of the game even though shot putt is not one an event I have ever taken part in (Edelyn said that everyone thought I was some top shot putt athlete or something). All the kids were like, "Oh I don't want to throw" and they were trying to escape. So I went over to the kids from my team and told them whoever who doesn't throw has to do the chicken dance in front of the whole school on sports day. That kinda made all of them throw and we managed to get a lot of points because almost none of our students were disqualified (According to the teacher, only 4 students failed).

Then I left my post after the break and had some fun. I joined my team in long jump and 70m sprint. Manage to pass every single event lol. After everything finished, it was thetime for the main event: TUG OF WAR!!!! Yep, the tug of war tournament. Frau Kok (the German language teacher who is in charge of our team) gave me the name list and I did some changes to it. Wait a min... SOME CHANGES is the understatement of the year. I should say I changed almost the whole list of students. I think only 2 or 3 students from the original name list survived my selection. Well I didn't do it without any purpose though. 1, most of the students were all skin and bones. How would we win if we put in a bunch of sticks? So I rounded up as many round students (pardon the pun) as I could find and drafted out a new name list. It was good though. We had 2 beefy guys and 7 other extremely heavy students. I was the smallest among the team, but I was the talisman (I was never lost this event on sports day before and my previous teammates have always treat me like a lucky charm) and the self-proclaimed captain (ebil laughter) so I was sure to participate.

We practically cruised through the entire tournament. No competition at all. Even though we were required to play a 3 series game, we won the first two series in every round easily. That caps a 5th successive tournament victory. Call me a talismanic captain or what? :-)

Well, today has been a great day for me. Especially during the tug of war tournament. Man, the atmosphere and the sound of the spectators screaming my name, waving to me and all... I feel like a superstar lol (Frau Kok said if we were in another country the everyone would probably have hugged me). Next up: the overall champion title for sports day. I've never won that since my first year in primary school. It'll definitely be nice to bring the curtains down to my school life with an overall champ trophy and maybe a sportsman of the games award.