` Intuition

So I spent my free Friday morning in my dad’s office.
I never realized how efficient the HP Laser Jet printer is! So cool!! :) Woohoo.

Went to Batu Caves then another site with him after that.

Anyway, for those who don’t already know, I have two phones and two sim cards. Yeah. I’m a sucker at it. I can’t decide which to keep, which to lose. After all, it’s “cheaper” if we communicate on the same network, right? hah. Sure. Big deal. I don’t even reload one of my DiGi now because the DiGi coverage at school is like !@#@$%^&&*. Anyway, most of those I bother sms-ing or replying are Maxis/Hotlink users. Explains why I use that stupid Hotlink line that’s pretty troublesome (and more costly, btw). And for those of you who message my DiGi, sorry I haven’t replied cos I hardly check the phone, let alone reload it. So technically I only need one phone.

At nightfall, I watched what happens in Vegas. It’s a beautiful show. Not the storyline but Cameron Diaz. I think she’s one of those “stars” who actually grow old gracefully. She’s got wrinkles here and there. First I was like “oh dear, WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS?” *stares at wrinkles*. Then I realized what the media has done to us. We’re used to perfected botox induced facelifts, self-made double eyelids, higher nose bridges/cheek bones (yes I know my nose damn flat la, thank you but I don’t quite care now), and big boobs (yeah don’t laugh la). Swear when I was younger, I actually considered going for a nose job. Hahaha. Wtf right. Mahem. Anyway. Yeah. If Cameron Diaz hasn’t got her jobs done, I think she’s my model woman now. If she has, damn she got a cheap job done. Yes. When I start rambling and publicly declaring my thoughts and my previous thoughts, people start assuming I am troubled. Haha. Yeah. You and I know why.

Back to the phone story. At 1.10am, after the “what happens in Vegas”, I suddenly realized I lost my phone.. The Hotlink one, with all my credit. Hoho. I’m the champion. I used my house phone to call my cell for about 10 minutes, to no avail.

Dad
Me

Dad I lost my phone.
Oh that’s good news!
No, cos then I’ll have to use one of yours.
That’s even better news! Or you can use your old one.
DAD! Can you please ar?...


Then, I started scrambling around for my other hp (which I thought was out of credit). I said thought, cos it was supposed to be credit-less (the state it’s been in since before I left for Australia). Then I checked. Reload RM100. Yes la. Triple jackpotttt. Just like the movie.


Dad, you reloaded my phone ar?
Yeah. You said no credit. Digi RM100=1year.
Oh okayyyy. Thanks papa. :)


Haha. I know 100 bucks sounds like nothing much to jump about, but my dad knows I don’t use that phone, and yet he did it for me. Awh. So sweet loh. I beh tahan. Lol. Not like he doesn’t reload my other phones when I ask him, whenever, Literally. Btw, meet the newest addition to the family. Our Canon DSLR D40. It can take 6.5 frames in a second. My favourite feature of all. *squeals.

Let's see what we've got inside...

heee. :)

` stay beautiful

You see, I actually found no reason to blog.

But...

The sister flew to Korea last week for a piano competition.
Honestly, the family and I weren't expecting much, 'cept for her to gain experience.

Few days into the trip when mom called her, she went on and on ranting about how the 10 and 12 year old Indonesian kids could play well and what not. Mom and I made this bet with dad that she would come back a changed woman. She'd forget her quaintly planned music career and become a scientist of some sort. Yeah. And we bet on it with freaking German pork knuckles (which my hairdresser introduced to us, btw).

Today was the big day. The competition day. It was THE day.

Mom tried calling her the whole day but only managed to get her answering machine.

Mom was like "aiyo. Habis la. Dunno what happened already. Aiyo. She off her phone la. Aiyo how la..." *moans groan boans and every sighing in every language*

Suddenly, there was a message.


MY SISTER GOT SILVER FOR THE SOLO CATEGORY MANNNN.


Congrats laaaaa..


Omgosh. =_= wasted all the aiyos.


Like she said, all glory goes to God who has blessed her/us so abundantly.


Anyway Rachel, I lost the bet. *bah

haha.

Oh and if you think we're proud of the sister, think twice.


There's more than just us who're proud of her. There's a whole lot of us. :)


The baby's growing up. :)





Ps: I think the fact that a whole bunch of priests coming over to our house for the annual or semi-annual luncheon brought all the grace and blessings of change. :)

` kiss and tell

Langkawi was ... Langkawi. :) I had fun despite being sick like a pig. *blows nose*
I kept buying tissue paper. Gosh.

• Taboo: "I know I know I know! It's a vannnnn!" *gosh (manual, btw) *DiGi man face*
• Massage: "Can add another ten minutes ar??"
• Go-kart: haha. My fastest lap is faster than Lonngs.
• Banana boat: I think the first fall was uncalled for! *sulks
• Jet skiing: haha. Safer to be the rider than the passenger man!
• Coco beach: *lights off* "What if that place never actually existed ar?" *choi!
• Starbucks: haha. I guess 27 levels was the record. Butter fingers no more.
• Arcade: 30 bucks, just like that. haha.
  

"next time don't drink the night before we fly back"

Sheep, you loserrrr. hoho

Our favourite game of all man. hoho

*runs towards terminal thinking we are late*

)(*&^%^&*()_ mana tau kena con. Well, you only downed the Tomyam soup. lol

what joy. :)

Happy belated birthday Jo da hamster. haha.

` a day late but worth the wait

Initially, I typed a whole long paragraph to start this post, long "stories" pertaining all the photographs, but I think it's redundant, because you know how much I appreciate having you as a friend. Happy birthday, friend. :)

Thank you, just for being there.

Mikey's surprise.

Langkawi

After our "journey to the smart tunnel"

Dare to be different.

Right. Easter. heh. :)

Pavillion and the RM10 parking. Lol

Does this look like a girl with 10 A's? 96.35 average and all? Haha. Yeah. Oh and this is a picture of her when she got her three high distinction results while we were in Australia. Can you imagine that before that, she was worried about failing? Yeah. Ish...

Always hard at work, even when it's for Sunkist. *rolls eyes*

Australia

What do we look forward to during winter? :)


most importantly, who in the right mind would wear blue leggings???

Lauraaaa. :)

thank you.

` breakable

happy belated 16th, smelly.

hope you had a nice surprise that day. :)

oh i made that cake for the sisters surprise birthday party.

soooo....

i'm

supposed

to

be


studying.

(duh.)



i know.
sucks to be me.




someone, anyone (except mom n dad),

take my computer away pleaseeee?


thank you.


sayang ya. :)



oh and i got my camera back today.
paid freaking ass money to get it fixed.


up yourssssssss.

_|_

the end.

make me study, please?
please?
please?


i want to cry. :(

sigh.

okay bye.

i sound so pathetic, don't i?



hahaha. oh well.


oh did i mention, mommy bought me the GAP bag while I was in Aussie?


yeah i knowwww...


awesome blossom.

okay bye, miserable non-existent social life of mine. :)


heloooo exams. hee.



buhbye.


from Italy to Malaysia. :)

i know i'll have to dream hard.
can we go back to the two weeks in Aussie?

care free.

Langkawi has gotta be it now, eh?


LOL

` what I miss about you

Know what I miss bunches?

1. Cute Ads, everywhere.




2. Random Street Basking.




3. The people. (This should be no. 1)




4. Being with people crazy enough to do things we do.

3am on the plane. On the way to Brisbane. Most of us who were awake (or woken up) sang Happy Birthday so loudly, I think we woke the entire cabin (and neighboring ones, prolly) up. By the way, when I say most of us, there were at least thirty of us singing okay!

5. Pretty flowers, everywhere. Nothing like home.

Sucha pretty sight, ain't it?

One of the things I miss about Australia? The gorgeous flowers.

6. Fresh fruits.

When they say fresh fruits, they mean it. Back here, they pack it in a box, ship it miles, spray lotsa lotsa preservatives and tell us, FRESH FRUITS! :)

7. Bush Dancing




8. Early Nights




9. Sara Lee cheese cake

10. Electric Blanket :)



Now, for random pictures.

One day, i'm gonna own a hummer!
*cough*

ACU

Not something you can do at home, eh?



:)


I think this will pretty much conclude my Aussie 08 trip. All other pictures have been uploaded on facebook. I finally found this program that uploads my pictures directly from iPhoto to facebook. It's a whole load faster than uploading in blogger.

Till then. :)

` of free bus rides

It is tremendously overwhelming to be back home. I'm a pretty big fan of exaggerating how I feel about certain somethings. But this, is not one of them. I don't recall a time I was this happy being home. :) I have two koalas hanging off the side of my iBook now. They're so very adorable. I spent last night in Changi Airport. Luckily I didn't sleep off during the flight back from Sydney. I would've dreaded every moment spent awake in Changi with my might as well be condemned then oily hair. I wasn't the only one feeling that way. Most of us had our showers about 2 days before. Haha. Not funny.

This was why. Most of us had our showers late Friday night (possibly after the Hillsong concert, for most and packing!). From what I was told, most of us slept at 2am, earliest. Lol. So yeah. Saturday morning SIX am, we were gathering at Suttherlands. Who in freaks meets up in a train station at six? Sigh. I couldn't even pack my bag properly! Btw, before heading to Aussieland, I had immense trouble trying to close my bag, I had to literally sit on it. Went shopping at Queensland, didn't dispose anything, Laura and I had to sit on my luggage bag to get it locked down. Bought more things in freaking NSW, and I had an awesome time trying to get my bag shut. Darn it! Then again, I'm happy with all the stuff I got! Snufflelafagistish. Just a random word. Okay. Back to the story. From Suttherland station, we headed to the International Airport to keep our bags in "lockers" (cos heck to the no, I'm NOT going to lug it with me all the way to the racecourse). Then, we embarked on our ten (or more) kilometer walk. Across the Sydney Harbour bridge and what nots, on our journey towards Randwick Racecourse. They did not have bathing facilities there, so yeah. We then set up our tents, camped out that night (without bathing, btw) then woke up the next morning for the mass with the Pope (still, without bathing). Oh yeah. T'was the second time I saw the Pope up closeee. The first was at the Sydney Opera House, btw. Possibly the closest i'll ever get to him in this lifetime of mine. *heaves a sigh* Did I also mention that there were like 300,000 people at Randwick too? Yeah. Have you any idea how a horse racecourse look like? How soily, dusty, germ-infected it can get? Yeah. I personally thought we were blessed to get the cleanest, dust-free zone in Randwick. At 12noon, we literally ran to catch the buses to get to Central to get us to the International Airport (also without bathing, mind you).

Okay. No one is going to understand the exhillarating and exhausting moments I had there and all the adrenaline that pumped through my veins. I wanted to get home so desperately, I was on the first bus to Central station, ran my way to Platform 23 in fear that i'd conveniently miss the bus to the International Airport (and not make it for the check-in). Finally boarded the Airbus A380 (still without bathing - 2nd day - ewww). It was, as I previously mentioned, luxurious and the works. Grabbed a picture from wikipedia.




Alright. The group of us conquered the lounge right beside the Changi Hard Rock Cafe. They came, they conquered. There was an orchestra of snores, so powerful, you could have just stayed awake. Naturally, we all slept, regardless. Pigs we are. Slept till we got woken up by police men. Sigh. What a fright that was. I'm telling you, back then, I was pretty sure they were going to put us in some lock up for having big-ass snorers around. Turns up, they were pretty nice, just doing what they had to. Check passport. Finally, 19 of us left Singapore at 7am. The 15 of them had to wait till 12 noon cos of some unforeseen circumstances.

Anyway, this was the joke of the day.

The Kam siblings in different places at the same time.
Lyn Kam - Malaysia (7am flight) Chloe Kam - Singapore (waiting for 12noon flight) Ian Kam - Australia (he lost his passporttttt!)
yeah.

Lol.

Okay. I think I should start studying. But I want to tell the world how fun Aussie wassss. I had the best and God sent foster parents. Electric blankets to keep us warm in the cold winter. That's the best part. The one thing that kept me going through the nights (besides not having to share room with L. hee. jk).

We'll go back together, won't we? I know we will. Someday. Somehow. We'll figure this one out. Lol. World Youth Day was an awesome experience. The Aussie Government went out of the way (although for their own long-term benefit) to keep us safe and sound. I could get used to shopping there once I stop converting the figures in my head. Oh wait. And after I rid Laura. She converts them out loud, which makes my shopping sound like sins. Lol.

WE HAD BAKUTEH FOR BREAKFAST BEBEH. FIRST MEAL AFTER TOUCHDOWN. HAD MAMAK FOR LUNCH. CANT WAIT FOR DINNER. LAURA WE GOT OUR FOOOOOD. OH MAN. I LOVE MALAYSIA. I LOVE THE SUN. I LOVE IT THAT THERE'S NO WINTER. I LOVE IT THAT I DON'T HAVE TO BATHE, BEARING LAURA IN MIND. TRYING NOT TO USE UP ALL THE HOT WATER AND LEAVE HER FREEZING WATER TO BATHE. I DON'T HAVE TO STRATEGIZE HOW I'M GOING TO GET OUT OF THE SHOWERS WITHOUT FREEZING. I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT TRYING TO FINISH THEIR ASS-WHOOPING-BIG PORTIONS OF AUSSIE FOOD. NO MORE AUSSIE BBQ. NO MORE SAUSAGES. CHAR KUEY TEOW, I'M HAVING YOU TMR. AND WAN TAN MEE. OH MAN. I'VE BEEN SEVERELY DEPRIVED OF ASIAN FOOD, SPICY FOOD. IT'S ALSO GOOD TO KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T GET PITCH BLACK AT 6 IN THE EVENING. WHAT BULLOCKS. WHAT MORE, SLEEPING AT 9PM. GOSSSHH.


You know I'll forgive you about the camera incident eventually. If my memory card doesn't work, it's going to be a long journey ahead.


Anyway, since I've got no pics now, i'll upload some fancy ones. While I was freezing in Aussieland, the sister was performing at KL Convention Centre. No Limits was the name of the musical, synonymous to Honda All new Accords motto. BTW, the musical was fully sponsored by Honda. I know, right.. Bleh man. And her life can't get more exciting now, can it? LOL. Kononnya missed me when I wasn't home! Sobs. So anyway, I stole some of her pics to post here. :) She'll definitely see this cos she's been ranting about how I haven't updated my blog since I got home.

You know you can't kill me, right? hehe. *peace offering*

spot the sister. :)
cantik-cantik belaka, kan?

` changi II

Finally i'm on the way home.
I say finally because for the pass few days, all I could think of was my bed.

Will blog properly when I gather the pics from Edwin and all.
Oh yeah. My brand new camera got into a accident. Terrible. Sigh.

Well yeah. Okay. Going back to finals.
Going back to long forgotten work.

Most importantly, going HOME.

Omgosh someone should capture a picture of all these sick and tired people, literally.
Muka kesian giler.

Watched three movies on SIA flight from Sydney to Singapore just now.
Sleepy now. Oh btw, we came back on a mega A380.
Big, luxurious and comfy. The stewardess weren't as nice as our first flight tho. =_=

Woohoo. home sweet home. cawabungaaaaa.

Ta.

` Aquinas

So here I am at Aquinas college, Sydney. It's been a longggg bus ride. So long, I started hallucinating. Was actually this ( ) close to knocking Laura out with a punch (or two).

Beaudesert was awfully cold two nights ago. It was about 4 degrees celcius or lower. Thankfully, we were really caught up with the bush dance, we were sweating in that insane weather. How'd you sweat in such a weather, I don't know. I could get used to bush dancing! The Australian nut bush dance was nice nice, fun fun.

And omgosh. All this while, we were actually living in Logan City. That I didn't know. Oh and, L and I went shopping at Queensland/Brisbane City and Gold Coast. I could get used to this man! Awesome lah.

Btw, St. Mary's at Beaudesert is the second largest wooden structure in the southern hemisphere or something like that. Pretty church, i'd say. But obviously, the Anglicans just had to over do it, as usual. Long story. Anyways, it's getting really irritating cos I didn't bring my camera cable so I can't upload pics. Oh yeah. Dadda and momma bought me a new camera the day before we left for Brisbane.

So far, it's been an awesome experience. Everything except the drastic weather changes, that is.

Couple of days ago, David and Lorna brought Yuina, Laura and I to Goldcoast and we bought some stuff. haha. Mom, I have a feeling that you're going to like what I got you.

Unfortunately, we're going to stay with foster families, again. Why? Cos Aquinas had to shut down the gas flow for the heaters due to operational hazzards, apparently. There is no way i'm staying here with five hundred others from other countries, with no heater or hot water. Period.

Okay. My fingers are going to fall off. Mahemmm. Damn cold.

Seeyaz!

Love all!

` ACU

I'd say i'm glad i'm here but oh gosh it's cold. Not as cold as I expected, so that's amazing. The plane ride was great. Celebrated aunty Veron's birthday on board at 3.15am. I'm telling you, we woke nearly the entire plane up. Everyone except for Alithea. =_= That girl can really sleep. Overall, the flight was good and the SIA stewerdess were really nice. Stewards were ... Okay. Had some turbulance towards the end but it was all good. :)

Am currently in ACU. The campus' really nice. The weather is beautiful. Met Laura II. I don't think I can be any happier, just yet. We're waiting for our foster parents to come get us. Will they want us? *whiney face*

Awesome, ain't it? Anyone here'd agree with me.

P/s: I didn't realise this until I was gently reminded. We (the group of us) started off as friends in church, going to mamak together, taking driving licenses together, going on trips together, bus rides to Penang, nearly missing busses at Pudu and now we're in Aussieland together.

Joshua says oh no. I'm stuck with you forever. :) hehe. We love ya too!