Little Miss December

Dong dong qiang!

2012-01-23T16:28:00.002Z

7.30 am. Alarm rings, but I go back to sleep until I hear Alison getting up at 7.50. Alison washed up while I laze around in bed for a bit, and then it's my turn to shower. By the time I'm done Alison's already left for her C3 exam. I put on the new blouse I bought from the Hollister sales on Saturday, pack my stuff in the green backpack I've been using since I got here, put on my red coat and leave home. Put on my earphones and walked to Costa with Bruno Mars serenading me. What a weirdo I must have looked, red coat, blue skirt, green backpack.

I would have brought a smaller bag but my laptop might just break my bag, and I needed the laptop to Skype with my family at Yeh Yeh's house on this special day. You might ask, why can't you just Skype them at home? If you don't already know, I've been using the crappy public Wi-Fi back home, I haven't got the Internet in my room fixed just yet. So I have to drag my laptop all the way to Costa to leech their Wi-Fi. ^^ And get some breakfast.

By the time I get online Mun and all have already left Yeh Yeh's house, so I didn't get to see them. ;( But I did get to see my dear old gramps, so. And every year a small part of me gets scared, because I know I don't have a lot of years left with him, I mean, come on, he's 92 this year. But he's looking good, so, yeah, God willing he may get to see his great grandchildren.

Just as I was done Skyping with the one hour Costa Wifi, the people who finished C3 walked into Costa, and all of us went to the Norman House cafe together. Jiann Lee, Jaycee and Ng studied their Econs while Kok Weng and I were just like, ._.

The Lower Sixth and 18 Month students had a Chinese New Year assembly this morning, but we weren't there cos Upper Sixth students are supposed to be on study leave. We were invited though, just that we were too lazy to go. I guess this new Pastoral Care Vice Principal is doing a pretty good job ~~even though she can be a bit of a bitch~~, I mean, last year, all we got was an email saying that we don't get holiday for Chinese New Year. -.- Guess the school realised the fact that around 80% of the students observe this festival, I mean, more than half of the student population are Chinese and Vietnamese. And don't forget the Malaysians, Singaporeans and Thais as well, even though we are a small part of the student community.

But yeah, second CNY away from home, you'd think the second year won't be as hard. Heck no it isn't. There isn't a moment where I don't wish I were home with the rest of my family right now.

But I guess, life doesn't work the way you want it to.

Sigh. Have a lovely time eating pineapple tarts and collecting angpows, guys. ;(

And hope the year of the Water Dragon treats everyone well! :)

Suet Tyng

P.S. Arsenal lost 2-1 to Man U yesterday. Argh, not a good year for Arsenal, looks like.

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

2012-01-06T01:06:00.002Z

Hello everyone! Page 6 of 366 just begun on this side of the world, hope it's gonna be a great one! Hope 2012 has been treating everyone alright!

I guess every internet user in the corner of the Earth would have come across Timothy Tiah's really sweet meme proposal video at least once in their internet lifetime. Well, every internet user in Malaysia at least? This video came out like, last month, and I posted it on Facebook and Twitter. I have to admit that posting it up here didn't really cross my mind, I'M SO SORRY BLOG, I HAVE BEEN ABANDONING YOU. ;( It's just that recently I came across another proposal video, it was done on an American reality show and it was really exaggerated! Like seriously, there was a dancing mob and all and the girl just won't stop crying. -.- Okay la, I mean, even if it was just a simple one she would probably have cried her eyeballs out anyway, she was being proposed to for goodness' sake. In comparison to this meme proposal it was definitely more lavish and the guy must have spent a hell lot of money to arrange it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWlavnM6b0&feature=share

For some reason I can't get the embed for the video so we'll just have to make do with the link! It's titled "Best Wedding Proposal Ever" and I'm like, hah. No. More like, "Most Exaggerated Wedding Proposal Ever".

This, my friends, is the real shiz.

"But, I love you, and, I think you're my soul mate.."

Those few words, cheesy as hell, yet somehow, when he said it, that did it for me. It sounded so genuine, so sincere and obviously not scripted at all. I could hear him say it from the bottom of his heart and even though the rest of his speech sounded pretty normal and, I may add, corny, it still managed to make me tear, and I do dare say that never in my life, have I ever cried watching a proposal scene on TV or anything. It just also occurred to me that I have never actually witnessed a proposal in real life, ever! So I guess when I saw this, it seemed like the most beautiful thing ever. Not that it isn't anyway.

I guess if you aren't a frequent 9gag reader the memes might be a bit hard to understand, but it doesn't take a genius to understand the message he's trying to get across.

Apparently this video is so popular all over the world, even Ryan Seacrest and Christina Perri have seen it! It seems that Ryan Seacrest came across it and shared it on Twitter or something, hence the popularity.

And they both are bloggers! More the reason to love them. This is the post on the proposal on Audrey's blog and Tim's blog!

I am so happy for them even though they are complete strangers to me! They are going to be so happy growing old together. Congratulations Tim and Audrey! :D

Suet Tyng

We won't be seventeen forever.

2012-01-02T10:34:00.003Z

Hello guys! This is my first 2012 post! Happy new year people! This is just gonna be a short one, just a summary on my 2011 and a little update. I know I haven't done a lot of other posts, it will probably come up soon, because Switchfoot deserves a post on its own.
So, I arrived in Cambridge last night! For those of you who didn't know I was back in Malaysia for two weeks (well, one actually, the other week was spent on vacation overseas) for my Christmas break! I also managed to get my probationary driver's license, right before I turned 18! Which is a miracle, actually, considering I made the examiner so pissed during my road test. Hopefully I'd still be able to drive when I get back in the summer!
At Kok Weng's place now, because Alison and I crashed his place as our room in Purbeck is in a mess due to works going on in our bathroom. Also, I lost my house keys heh, gonna have to go and get a duplicate.

Okay, considering I have done this for the past two years or so, I guess summing up my year will become an annual thing from now on. So, what I did on my seventeenth year?

As everyone knows, I started my 2011 in a land that is over 10000 km away from home and 8 hours behind everyone else.
So where did I live? A little nice house in Cambridge, which I shared with..

6 guys and 3 girls.

Despite the shit we had to go through sometimes, like the school food and PMS-ing warden, I had a lovely six months there.

Which led me to gaining a whole bunch of bros, due to the fact that out of the 14 Malaysians, 8 of them were guys.

At the same time, not forgetting my lovely bunch of homeys back home.

The lovely bunch of girls who have stuck with me since 2006, including June, Sam, Tzi and Jia Jen who aren't in here.

My main source of entertainment back in 5C.

Not forgetting the family.

On side note, I dissected a lamb's heart!

Became a tour guide in Cambridge, albeit bad at it.

May ball!

And in the summer, we had a lovely cookout by the river!

Got my first work experience! Picture here with the Taylor's uhh, colleagues. Gosh it feels weird saying that.

Tried something new.

Started another school year in the same year. And found out that my school has a thing for barbecues.

We had one for the end of the school year, and another one in September when we came back after the summer.

Celebrated something I usually celebrate with family, with a family of a different kind away from home.

Fireworks Night 2011.

Got to see one of my most favourite bands in the world. <3

And also The Sleeping Beauty ballet in the Royal Opera House in London, oh so posh.

Malaysian food fest!

And I got to visit one of my most favourite places in the world for the second time!

Taken at Kiyomizu temple, Kyoto.

And we started 2012 with a bang.

Happy new year guys. 2012 is gonna be good. :)

Okay, one week of hardcore driving and another a week in Japan has left me far behind in my studying, and I've got an exam in January! This means I won't be back for awhile, so, yeah, be patient for the next post! :)

Suet Tyng

Can you believe it has been exactly a year?

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine, just own the night like the 5th of November.

2011-12-12T21:14:00.001Z

Guy Fawkes Night, 5/11/2011

Also known as Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night. November 5^this the day Guy Fawkes was arrested, and the English (although some countriesalso observe this day) celebrate this day because well, in history, Guy Fawkesisn’t portrayed as a very nice guy (haha, pun intended). It seems that he andanother bunch of people were trying to blow up the Parliament, and he gotcaught while guarding the explosives underneath the House of Lords. So peoplecelebrate the failure of this plan, and nowadays there’d be fireworks andbonfires and funfairs and people would go to pubs and drink.

Truth is, I barely knew about this until about a week beforethe thing, when Gasem mentioned it during Bio. In Cambridge, the maincelebrations were at this huge field called Midsummer’s Common, and when we gotthere that day, there was this huge fair with rides and tents. Sachy, Alison,Ng and I got there first, then Jiann Lee and Han Jun, and then Geoffrey and KokWeng. Later that evening we joined another bunch of Abbey kids, and most ofthem are from my Bio class.

Midsummer's Common! :D

There was initially a slight drizzle when we were walking there, but it stopped when we got there. Thank God for that. There was this fire show, which we didn’t get to see cos, well, we were hanging out at the meeting point waiting for the rest we didn’t even realise there was a show. It was a very uh, quiet show too, cos we totally didn't hear anything other than the crowd until the announcer was like, ‘thank you blah blah blah for the fantastic fire show’ and we were like, ‘huh, there was a show?’ Haha.

Soon after that was the fireworks, which was about fifteenminutes long! And like all fireworks are, IT WAS SO PRETTY! Gosh I lovefireworks. Then again, WHO DOESN'T?

Baby, you're a firework.

C'mon let your colours burst.

Make em go, "Oh, oh, oh."

You're gonna leave em going "Oh, oh, oh".

Boom, boom, boom, even brighter than the moon, moon, moon.

It's always been inside of you, and now it's time to let it through.

Us! :)

After the fireworks they lit the bonfire, but nothing muchthere so we went on the rides! Perhaps we should have gone earlier if we weregonna go on the rides though, cos it was so, so crowded. I got separated frommy group twice, because everyone was literally squeezing their way past eachother. I honestly don’t know how everyone else managed to stay together. It’snot nice getting lost in a huge crowd. LAnd especially not nice if an angmoh lashes out at you while you’re trying toget past. This crazy woman pushing her baby in a pram scolded me just because Iwas trying to get past. I mean, geez, all I said was ‘excuse me’. Of course,you’d get pretty frustrated too if everyone’s trying to squeeze between you andsome random stranger so I don’t blame her really. She wasn’t exactly ‘scolding’me anyway, she just wasn’t very nice about it and everyone else was liketelling her to chill and all and I just walked away. Probably did it cos she was racist or something. -.-

The bonfire.

Found my group and off we went to the rides! The first ridewas something called "Oblivion", which was, I quote Alison, like ‘a pendulum gone crazy’.Haha.

You probably understand why she said that by now.

After that, we went on more rides, most of which were surprisingly quite scary even though they didn't look it! There was one ride where Alison and I were screaming throughout the whole thing while everyone else was just like, ._. after a minute or so.
But yeah, I'm a puss, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

Didn't get to go on this. 1) Too scary looking, 2) No cash.

Apparently it wasn't as scary as it looks. :/ Hm.

By the time everyone was done with the rides I think they were on the verge of throwing the guts up.

Guess not everyone. Ng might have though.

Bumper cars! Which we sadly didn't get to go on. :/

With Alison and Sachy.

Around 10 pm the fair closed, so we went for dinner! Well, supper actually. The whole bunch of us Abbey kids were famished and decided to go to KFC. We were praying really hard they weren't closed, and turns out they weren't! Ah thank goodness. :)

By the way, no one has a clue on who that girl with the blue hoodie and glove is. She's just some random stranger who randomly joined the photo. -.-

Well, we were at KFC, and Alison is vegetarian so she bought her dinner from the Tesco next door. Heh.

With Anthony and, apparently, Jiann Lee as well. -.-

The Penang besties. I swear, they fight more than a married couple does. -.-

Jiann. :)

The big baby lol.

Walked home after dinner and Sachy stayed over during the weekend! She's been staying over at our place almost every weekend now. Earlier that day she was in London, and she thoughtfully bought us fruit tarts, so when we got home Alison, Sachy and I had dessert! :9

And Alison conveniently had ice cream in the freezer.

Sigh, as if I'm already not fat enough. If I hang out some more with these two Penang kids God knows how much more weight I'd put on. :P

Fireworks Night - it was original, cannot be replaced. ;)

Suet Tyng

Malham Tarn!

2011-12-11T17:43:00.001Z

HOMG like finally! Mocks is done, and even though the real exam isn't too far off at least now I've got a bit of time to blog properly! This is the Malham Tarn post, up only like, almost 2 months later! So here we go.

Day 1

So we had to get up at an unearthly hour of 5.30 am (!) to catch the 7.22 train to Ely. D: We had to switch a lot of trains that day, but each train ride was only about half an hour? Longest train ride was an hour plus, which was from Peterborough to Leeds and it took approximately another hour for us to reach Settle.

Zainab and Anthony came late, I knew Zainab came late because her phone died in the middle of the night and her alarm didn't go off but I don't know what happened to Anthony though. So the rest of us went first and they joined us later. :P It was kinda like Amazing Race, where they were trying to catch up with us and all. Haha.

This is us to Ely!

Sunrise. Yes it was THAT early in the morning.

Reached Ely, then we were on the train to Peterborough.

Geoffrey and my tiger. :)

Peterborough station, waiting for the train to Leeds.

Poor pup on the train track. :( A little kid must have dropped it.

By the time we were on the train to Leeds everyone started to lose their hype and the fatigue from waking up two hours earlier than usual started to kick in.

At Leeds station!

After about half an hour's wait, we were on the train to Settle!

I have been told that this is a more beautiful part of England and damn were they right. You get green scenery all over England when you are on the train, even from Cambridge to London, but this place is, like an undiscovered treasure.

Settle station. It's a very old station.

Sabina and Geoffrey.

Settle town. Very traditional English town.

And after a grueling twenty minutes of mountain climbing in the minibus, we were here! Malham Tarn Field Studies Centre. With the tarn right in front of us. (A tarn is a mini lake. I just found out about that when I got there).

Our tutor during that five days was a really awesome guy called Cian. He's really nice and he did his job really well, all of us learnt so much with him. Apparently he was gonna leave that place soon, so the Lower Sixth students this year who will most likely going on this trip next year will not have him, which is a pity because Cian was a really, really good tutor! He mentioned that he wanted to go down south, to escape from the colder northern region, and we're kinda hoping he'd be coming to Cambridge and work as a Bio teacher in Abbey. Haha.
Upon reaching Cian allotted us to our rooms before giving us a tour around the place. I got Alison as my roomie, AGAIN.

My bed. Hehe. I got to sleep on the top. There was another bunk bed, and Alison slept on the top of that one. They gave us a room big enough for four, but there wasn't a toilet and shower in our room so we had to use the one all the way at the end of the corridor! The sad thing was, everyone else's room was en suite, for some reason ours was the only one which wasn't. And since the toilet we were using wasn't exclusively ours, other people, especially the guys, since all five of them shared a room and a toilet, used that toilet as well if they couldn't wait for their turn. Sigh.

Bunk bed! :D

We then got to do some field work, first one in the woods, second one by the tarn.

The pretty tarn!

Getting ready to catch some algae for the oxygen experiment thing.

After that Cian took us to this pretty place by the tarn. There were sheep grazing everywhere (though they were quite scared of us) and it was so green!

Geoffrey. -.-

Cian asked us to draw what we see, and he kinda explained how the non-living stuff affected the living stuff and all.

This was my drawing. Far from the original but fair enough!

SHEEP!

This is the Malham Tarn House (and Kok Weng), which is now the Malham Tarn Field Studies Centre. It's quite an old house, built like two hundred years ago. Apparently one of the previous owners from a century ago can still be seen in the attic. Scary.

Dinner time! :) The place fed us a lot, seriously. We had garlic bread and pasta, and then chocolate pudding for dessert. And that was just day one!

After dinner we had a class (Yes, how sad, class at 7 pm) but that was only like, for an hour. Then we had to go out and set up traps for the wood mice so that we can mark them and count the population. We didn't do the second capture though, which was sad cos they're really adorable! We should have taken one home and kept it as our lab pet. :P
Then we called it a night, and everyone knocked out almost immediately cos they were so tired!

Day 2
After breakfast and packing lunch, we had to meet up in class before we all went out again. We spent quite a lot of time outside in that trip, and thankfully it wasn't raining a lot. We were really lucky cos the northern region is famous for their colder, rainier, gloomier weather!

In class.

After meeting up in class we went out to check how many mice got caught in our little traps. 12 of us set up traps, including Louise and Lisa, and, out of the 12 traps, only 2 had mice. -.-

The one holding the bag is Cian, the coolest Bio tutor alive who likes Green Day.

Naww you schooshy mooshy little rat.

After that, we were off to Gordale Beck to do some freshwater sampling! The weather was nice, albeit windy, so we walked to the site, which took about, half an hour? The pretty view around made the climb less tiresome. :)

Geoffrey, Gasem, and Saqib.

Gordale Beck! :)

My partner for this task was Anthony and we caught a lot of crap in our sample! Haha.
It was so windy that my papers flew off my clipboard and fell into the stream. I got them back though, and even though it was all wet my data were thankfully not written in ink.

Lunch time. :)

Geoffrey. -___-

King of factory workers.

Some of the stuff we caught. :)

Later that afternoon when we were walking back to the house, Geoffrey's wellies got stuck in the mud. If that's not hilarious enough, he was playing the Lord Of The Rings theme song on his phone, cos he was trying to act cool and all, walking with a scenery similar to that in The Lord Of The Rings, and halfway his boot got stuck in the mud, with the song still playing. Oh, Geoffrey Yong, why.

The sheep! Ah they were EVERYWHERE! So yeah occasionally you'd find their poop in your path but STILL! ADORABLE SHIZ YO.

Then later in the classroom, Cian was explaining to us on how to calculate our results and also on the little invertebrates we caught.
Even later in the afternoon, we went back to the lake to collect the results for the experiment from the day before and suddenly Sabina caught sight of this little wood mouse, sad and alone.

Someone may have accidentally trampled on the poor little fella. :(

Kok.

After collecting our results we chilled for a bit before dinner! Dinner was papadoms and chicken curry with rice and we had ice cream for dessert! :9 Went back to class for awhile, then off to our rooms, and Sabina, Zainab, Saqib, and Gasem hung out in our room for awhile that night.

Day 3

Had a little time in the morning, so I was just walking around looking at the stuff in the main entrance.

Yeah, apparently if we had gone a bit further from the spot we were doing our freshwater sampling the day before, we would have got to the place which inspired a few locations in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

And a wee bit of Harry Potter too.

Poem written by William Wordsworth based on Yorkshire Dales.

Quadrat sampling after that, and I got Gasem as my partner! I feel bad cos he was doing all the hard work while I was just writing down stuff. :P

Back to class, then later that afternoon we were supposed to do one of our compulsory assessed practicals. I know right, a test, on a Sunday. Sigh. It was quite an easy practical, though I was the last to finish and Louise, Lisa and Cian were just like hanging out there watching me while everyone was back inside the house hanging out in the common room. Talk about awkward. Went back to find out Manchester United lost 1-6 to Man City. Not a Man City fan, but, still, it was good to know Man U lost THAT badly. >:D Off to class to finish up Part 2 of the practical, then it was near dinner time, not only for us but also for the crayfishes which the place keeps! Guess what was for dinner for them?
Well, after Cian explained all the stuff on the invertebrates we pretty much didn't need them anymore, so..
Bye stoneflies, mayflies, and worms. :/

And we spent a good ten minutes watching crayfishes fight over food and stuff.

Then it was time for OUR dinner! Sunday roast with Yorkshire pudding, cos, well, it was Sunday night. Basically it's just beef with some veggie and potatoes and Yorkshire pudding..

..Like this. You'd find it in English pubs as well. How English.

Meat was a wee bit too tough but there rest was alright! Some fruit cake thing for dessert after that.

Sabina and Kok Weng

After another hour of class, we hung out at the common room, just talking, singing, dancing, playing chess, ~~watching dino porn~~...

Sabina and Zainab.

Party rocking in the Tarn House tonight!

Kok challenging Rose in chess.

Sir Walter, one of the previous owners of the house.

Watching the dino show. Haha.

Then it was bed time, and then now,...

Day 4!

Breakfast. Haha. There aren't usually this many vegetarians, only Alison, but the Muslims prefer not to eat the meat cos it's not halal. :P

After breakfast, we went to study succession at the bog! A bog is sort of like a swamp, if you didn't know. The bog we went to is a UK and EU protected site, and there is a walkway there made of plank to minimise the damage done by visitors to the bog.

Did more sampling with my partner Gasem and collected some soil.

Just Alison unintentionally sitting like a child.

Sampling.

Later that afternoon, after class and lunch, we went to a quarry! We had to go by minibus cos, well, if we walked it will take pretty much the whole day. So we got to see the other parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and it was really, really amazing! We went past little villages and a little river and gosh I am really considering buying a little cottage there and living there when I'm old and grey.

This is the quarry!

And we have to wear safety vests.

The restoration area. The people at the quarry have this to sort of like, make up for the damage they do.

The quarry. Strong winds that day, so we didn't get to go closer to the quarry, and we didn't get to wear the cool helmets. :/

Guy explaining.

Geoffrey and Kok.

Alison.

Hoot hoot hoot.

Kok.

By the time we got back, it was close to dinner time, and since I have this new policy where I am vegetarian every Monday, while the others were having beef lasagne,

... salad for me. :/

Sticky toffee pudding for dessert! Gosh, diabetes in a plate. I swear, all of us must have gained at least 2 kg while we were there. Not only we get such awesome food for dinner, we have cake every afternoon as well! If you walk into the tearoom in the afternoon you'd find this huge tupperware of cake with the label Abbey College on it, and gosh their cakes are good!

Hung out in the class later that evening.

Day 5

Had another assessed practical that morning. After breakfast we set off for the woods and this one took a little longer cos there was more stuff to do and all. Went back to class to finish up the Part 2, then got all our stuff from the room and it was time to go!

To the Settle train station.

Bye Settle. :(

On the train to Leeds.

Leeds train station, where we got stuck for an hour cos our initial train got cancelled.

At Leeds, we were supposed to take this train to Stevenage, and then to Cambridge, but since it got cancelled we had to find a train that goes to London's King's Cross and stops at the stations in between. Upon reaching Leeds we were checking our the schedule, and there was a train leaving for King's Cross in two minutes! So Louise was like, okay, if we run really fast we will be able to make it, and suddenly all twelve of us were like, running across the Leeds train station. Unfortunately when EVERYONE finally reached the train the doors closed right in front of our faces and we had to wait another hour for the next one. So everyone just chilled, hung out around the station and getting McDonalds.
Still. I felt like I was in a movie.
Only that, in the movies, the people usually make it.

Off to Peterborough from Leeds, and everyone's so tired by then.

From Peterborough we took the Stansted Express to Cambridge, and it was so crowded!

Reached Cambridge a little later than we had expected, and then had dinner with Kok Weng, Alison and Geoffrey.

Coming to the A2 Bio class was kinda a huge change for me because, well, from a class of 9 Malaysians and 1 Korean, now we have 4 Malaysians, 1 native English, 1 Russian, 1 Nigerian, 1 Gambian and 1 Pakistani. The 6 (the non-Malaysians) which I have previously never shared classes with are from the Lower Sixth group, while I am from the 18 Month group cos I came in January, and at first it was kinda weird for me cos Geoffrey, Alison, and Kok Weng knew the others from medic group. This trip really allowed me to bond with my Bio class and I have to say, we are a pretty awesome Bio family. :D

But seriously, I wanna go back to that place someday. There is no words to describe how pretty Yorkshire Dales is, my camera just doesn't do that place justice.

I think I've got my retirement plan set out already....

Suet Tyng

Still looking for a home in a world where I belong.

2011-11-26T14:07:00.001Z

Is there anyone who still visits? Probably not, considering the fact that has been nothing to look at for awhile on this blog. I haven't even finished the Malham Tarn post! I'm really sorry guys, I've been busy with UCAS and I have got mocks coming up soon! D: And my UCAS is still not sent off! It's almost done though, so yeah.
November has been a really hectic month, all of my weekends have been quite fun-filled! But no seriously besides all these uh, socialising I have had to deal with a pile of homework that keeps filling itself up. I meant to finish up the Malham Tarn one a long time ago, and I'm really sorry!
So what have I been doing this November? Well three Fridays ago I saw In Time with practically the whole bunch of Malaysians and then on that Saturday was Guy Fawkes' Night, which was super fun, and then on the weekend after that was Switchfoot, which, by the way was amazing, and totally deserves a post on its own. Three Idiots and tang yuan making at Jiann Lee's place that Saturday. Then last weekend was Breaking Dawn with the rest of the Malaysians also, and it's actually not too bad for a Twilight movie. Of course, it wasn't like, THE BEST MOVIE EVER but it was alright. Not like, horrible or anything.
Yesterday evening, I was in London with Jaycee, Geoffrey, Kok Weng, Han Jun, Alison and Sachy, and we were watching the Sleeping Beauty ballet in the Royal Opera House! It was really good, and I wish I could do ballet but. Yeah. And Te-Sha joined us in London so there were like, 8 of us! :D
So this is a little bit of what you might expect in my future posts, which, by the way, will not be up very soon, but please do stay tuned. Come back in perhaps.. a week or two. :)

Suet Tyng

The Black Suan.

2011-11-10T01:20:00.000Z

Black swan. Haha. Pretty isn't it.

By the way this little guy (or girl?) lives somewhere along River Cam. The last time I saw it was in January, near Jesus Green park.

Anyway.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUAN SHMUAN! Hope you're having a lovely eighteenth! Or not, since you've got your ASes (which, by the way, I was done with months ago, wahahahahaha). Hee good luck!

Pre-prom shot! :)

Stay wonderful and keep on rocking with that lovely singing voice of yours. ;)

Suet Tyng

So raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

2011-11-02T20:54:00.001Z

Pink's Raise Your Glass brings back so many memories, memories of 2010. Memories of prom, specifically. And it reminds me of prom because this song was playing on the radio when Van, Suan and I got stuck in KL traffic whilst being driven to Equitorial by Suan's mom. And I remember Van Lynn saying, it'd be so cool if they played this song during prom, because it's 'raise your glass'.

Fast forward almost a year later, here we are in November 2011, cherishing every moment of 2011 before 2012 (and the end of the world) hits us. If given the chance I'd do 2010 all over again, even though we had to go through all that SPM shit. It was a really good year nevertheless, a final year with friends you may never cross paths with again.

If only, if only I could have a day of Form 5 all over again. A day with my beloved 5C and their 'chao si mei' jokes, lunch breaks with my lovely gang of ten girls who have stuck with me since Form 1, English classes with Jen-Li, Dhivya and Gwen, BM classes with Sheeks, Jen-Li, Dhivya, Sek Wai and Anish (and Alamin's Jedi robe), Add Math with Miss Leong (and Van Lynn beside me, with our usual "This is madness!" "No. This. Is. ADD MATHS!"), staying back for Interact Club meetings and games. I'd do anything to get it all again, even if it's just for a day.

Sadly it's impossible, because (cliche alert) we all have to go on with our lives. But we still have each other, and in ten years time when we're married with kids we'd be like, "Ah, Form 5. SPM was shit, but, it was a good year."

"These are my souvenirs, my mental pictures of everything." - Switchfoot, "Souvenirs"

Oh and it's Yuan Sing's birthday today! Ah more 5C memories, he sat across the aisle on my right last year and the two words commonly associated with him are "Jean" and "Rat".

With Yuan Sing at prom. Happy birthday Yuan Sing!

Suet Tyng

Field trip!

2011-10-20T23:14:00.001+01:00

Hello world! Just wanted to let you guys know that I may or may not be out of contact for the next few days because I'm going on my first field trip in Abbey! Our Biology class is going to this field centre in this place called Settle in North Yorkshire! We're gonna be like, doing our ecology unit thing there, and two assessed practicals as well! -.- So it really is gonna be an educational visit, like REALLY EDUCATIONAL! Sigh. And five days of my half term gone because of it. Quite excited it for it though, apparently it's real lovely up there cos it's the rural part of England and it's gonna be pretty! :D
Gonna have to be up before six tomorrow cos we are going to meet up in school at an unearthly hour of 7 (seven!) in the morning! And from there we'd walk to the train station and leave Cambridge a few minutes before half past seven. Okay if this was Wesley it'd be like, oh chey, normal la. But now, in college, my earliest classes are at nine and I usually wake up around, maybe, 7.20? Tomorrow I'm leaving Cambridge at the time I wake up. Sigh. And it's Friday tomorrow! The one day when I do not start lessons at nine, which means, I usually get to sleep in! Not tomorrow though. And I don't think I'd be able to sleep for the next few days, not even when I get back from Settle even though it's half term.
And it's gonna be a long journey tomorrow! We're gonna be switching trains a lot and it's about a 4 hour plus long journey. Kinda like from Penang to KL. But we're gonna be on a train and the scenery is gonna be pretty so I don't mind! Still, 4 hours, that's actually quite far. I mean, from here to London takes about, less than an hour, if you take the train that goes straight to London all the way and makes no stops, otherwise it's just slightly over an hour. Guess we ARE gonna be going quite far, in fact, it's more than half way to Scotland! D: A few more hours on the train and I'd get to visit June.
And since it's so far up, it's gonna be much colder as well! Our two Bio teachers Lisa and Louise have been telling us incessantly to bring lots of warm clothing.
Gonna be missing one day of school tomorrow. Thank goodness I only have two lessons tomorrow, Statistics and Bio, so I will only be missing Statistics. But I like Statistics! Especially Duncan's Statistics class. :/ Oh well.
Sigh okay, if I'm gonna be up before six tomorrow I'd better be heading for bed soon! Nights world, even though for most of my readers it's already morning in their part of the world. :D

Suet Tyng

Of hot guys and piercings.

2011-10-17T21:43:00.002+01:00

Okay, so I was doing my usual thing on Facebook, (ahem, stalking), and most of the time when you do the usual thing it probably means looking at photos. Which was exactly what I was doing, I was looking at this friend of mine's photos.
And suddenly, WHOAH! In this group photo I came across there's this hot guy among them, standing out in the sea of people. And I was like, hover hover, find name, click on name.
Oh and you have no idea how much I love people who do not privatise their profiles.
So I got to see his pictures, and dayum, is he shmexy.

UNTIL.

One picture shows the other side of his face and OMG, WHAT DO YOU KNOW, A PIERCING ON ONE EAR.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. GOD CREATED YOU BEAUTIFUL, WHY WOULD YOU GO AND DISFIGURE YOUR SELF WITH THAT HOLE ON YOUR EAR.

Same thing happened when I was watching an episode of Boys Over Flowers cos there was nothing else on TV, and I was like, ooooh, Kim Bum! Then he turns around and oh look, what have we here, a black stud sitting happily on his ear. -____-

I guess it's just my taste in guys. A piercing is a total turn off for me. :/

Guys, please, don't ever, ever, ever get a piercing.

Suet Tyng

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TZI-QING! Hope you still read this haha. I miss you woman! Hope you had a great eighteenth! :D

Graduation 2010. ;(

The sista from anotha mutha but same grandmutha.

2011-10-14T00:29:00.001+01:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIONG SUET MUN. :D

Cue Michael Learns To Rock: Oh my sleeeeeping child....

So, you're eighteen, woman! :D And it shall be my pleasure to post up unflattering, young photos of us while you stare at the computer screen completely appalled.

I hereby present to you a small fraction of our lives together in your eighteen years of life. Because, if I wrote about EVERYTHING, I could totally write a book. And also, I don't have pictures of us as little kids in my computer here, so yeah.

Only on your birthday do I post up weird pictures of myself! See how much I love you? And this was taken during the KK trip when we were in Standard 4! Remember the tour guide who never changed her clothes and apparently peed in her pants? :D

And shortly after, we were off to Korea! :D This is us with the photographer Shaun. At that time I was actually quite scared of him, I don't know why. And WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING, SUET TYNG, IT'S A HOT KOREAN PHOTOGRAPHER. -.- Okay lah not that HOT but he's Korean! But then again, I was ten years old, and ten year old kids aren't supposed to be ogling cute Korean guys.

So! Fast forward to Form 1 (and I remember it specifically being Form 1 cos I brought along my Pahlawan Pasir Salak, which was sadly one of the shit-est books I've ever read after Bukit Kepong) and here we are at Genting Highlands on Christmas Eve! This was our last holiday ever together. I miss going on holidays with you guys! :( Sigh.

Yeah bet you're absolutely horrified now. Haha. Don't worry, I don't have a lot of readers. :D

Halloween 2008! And this was almost right after PMR, which made it more awesome! Our first time trick-or-treating, I was good and angelic and... apparently, you're real naughty. Like, real bad. :D Haha. Okay shut up, Suet Tyng.

With Wah the witch!

December 2009, after Sherlock Holmes with Kevin. Had a real awesome birthday that year. :)

Yeh Yeh's 90th last year! :D

October 2010, when Kevin came back. Oh wasn't that the best day ever, Mun? ;)

And this was real recent, taken in August 2011 when I came back for the summer. :)

So, see how much we grew in these... (2011 minus 2003 is... ah yes,) 8 years time? That's half of our primary school, the whole of our high school and half of our college life! :D Thanks for being my bestie literally ever since we were born. Even though I'm now here all the way in UK we'd still be BFFs! And I can't wait for you to join me here. :) Thanks for listening to all the shit I tell you, for putting up with all my shit and all our Luke Tan times together. Thanks for going through eighteen awesome years with me. :)
No one can ever replace you. You are the most awesome cousin anyone could ever ask for. :)
And good luck for your AS, I'm sure you can do it. ;)

Suet Tyng

Turning up the heat.

2011-10-01T17:21:00.003+01:00

Its probably too small to be seen, but it says 26 degrees in KL and 28 degrees in Cambridge in the weather box.
It's hotter now in Cambridge than it is in KL. ISN'T IT SUPPOSED TO BE FREAKING AUTUMN.

But that's okay man, loving the heat, won't be getting a lot of this in a few months time. :/

Yes 5C, I made you guys my Google theme. Be proud. :D

Suet Tyng

Because when you're fifteen, somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them.

2011-09-30T22:24:00.000+01:00

A little piece of advice from Taylor Swift.

Everyone, it's my evil sister's birthday! Say happy birthday!

Here is a very flattering picture of her.

Happy birthday camwhore! You're fifteen! :D And sitting for PMR next week! Haha. Good luck woman. And have fun in KDU, try to at least.

Suet Tyng

Walk.

2011-09-25T13:13:00.001+01:00

So this morning, I decided to go for a walk, in parts of Cambridge that I haven't been to.

Usually, when I get out to the main road, I turn left to go to school and to buy stuff and all, and I have never turned right until today, when I decided to. So I walked, and ran a bit, until I reached the end, where Addenbrooke's hospital is.

I should have turned back, to go home, but I was standing outside the hospital and decided to do the most spontaneous and random thing ever.

I walked into the hospital.

I still don't know why I did that.

So I ended up walking around a small part of the hospital (it's HUGE) for a good fifteen minutes or so.

You sort of need to press a buzzer to go to the wards area, and I dared not go in lest they asked me what I was doing there.

So, I was just walking along the corridors, going past the dialysis centre and some little brain imaging room, and I was hoping I might find something that may help me with my future career or that may help with my personal statement.

I was also kinda hoping I'd get to see something that may give some sort of epiphany on life and blah blah blah.

But nothing. I just wasted about 15 minutes of my life wandering around a hospital.

Ah. Oh well.

On another note, everyone, who has seen the movie Thor,

Who else thinks that Loki is too cute a name for a villain?

I saw this movie quite awhile ago, when I was on the plane coming back to England after my summer break. I didn't think about this then, but recently the movie crossed my mind and it dawned on me, WHAT KIND OF EVIL NAME IS LOKI?
Loki reminds me of... I dunno, something cute and adorable and squeezable.
Can't blame the producers really. There really is a Loki in Norse mythology. It probably means something evil in German or whatever.
But as far as I am concerned, I am so not intimidated by the name Loki.
I mean, okay, think about it. Voldemort, ooh scary. Magneto, yeah kinda intimidating too. Gollum, hm yeah guess you call it scary. Hitler, ooh makes your knees turn to jelly. Mojo Jojo....
I take that back. Mojo Jojo is also a name too adorable for someone evil.
Thor is actually a pretty good movie though. Can't wait for The Avengers. :D

Suet Tyng

Supplies!

2011-09-25T11:41:00.001+01:00

Bet everyone got a heart attack when they clicked on the link to my blog and instead of finding words they see my huge face grinning away with a snowman and an.. elf? Haha.

And well, I thought the picture was rather fitting, cos you know, Little Miss December in Christmas? And everyone knows Christmas is in December (LIKE DOH). So yeah. And that is the only picture of me I can find that can totally relate to December.

Don't worry, I have a feeling that thing is not gonna be there for long. Just trying some things out. Thinking of changing some things around here. Including my link. I mean, two ate one too? What was I thinking? And to think it was even worse before, ugh, so embarrassing.

Till I figure out what I should change and what I shouldn't, I guess I'm gonna stick with this for awhile.

Suet Tyng

Upper Sixth.

2011-09-24T13:03:00.000+01:00

I just realised, I haven't at all blogged about my Upper Sixth life ever since I got back here! D: Yes I am a terrible blogger, I know. Don't get me wrong, I love blogging and I don't think my love for it is gonna die anytime soon. In fact I wish I could do this for a living. I mean, I know I can earn money through blogging now, but, yeah, it would be nice if I can like, travel round the world and write about it and earn money, like Gwen.

Anyway, Upper Sixth! As most of you know, I have already moved! Alison's my new roomie now, and we're sharing a room under the school! Most of the others rented a place of their own, so the only people staying under the school now are Alison, me, Ng and Faris. But the latter two are moving out in January when they are of legal age so yeah.

This room isn't half bad, it's just that the toilet floods when we shower cos the shower floor is just raised a bit but the water flows out and all. And there was no internet, cos even after we bought our router cos the socket is completely broken. The school is currently letting us the vacant room opposite for the toilet problem, but since we've got access there we plugged our router there as well. And yay, we've got internet now! :D It's not exactly fast, quite slow when it comes to loading YouTube and all but ah well, better than using the Purbeck wifi. Sucks like crap.

A2 is definitely a lot more relaxed than AS, but to be honest AS felt almost like SPM. The gwai lous think that we are a stressed lot of people just because we're doing a year's work in two terms, but to be honest it doesn't feel like it. I guess cos we're used to everything being rushed, maybe it's an Asian thing. Maybe it's just me, cos I'm the biggest weirdo alive, but yeah. And A2 is, well, more chill?

Behold, my timetable.

It used to be only Tuesdays when I had all of my lessons in one day, but now it seems that my Wednesdays are quite packed as well, even though I get to end early. For once, I don't have to finish at 5.30! And then my weekend kinda starts from there, cos I only have two lessons on Thursdays and Fridays. My Fridays, as you can see, are quite pathetic, cos while there are people who would already have finished their lessons I would only be going for my last lesson. Sure, I don't have to wake up as early as I do on other days, but my Friday Bios are so potong! After my Maths class I'd be like yayyyyyyyyy and then Bio. :/ At least it's Bio, I like Bio. And only a double, not a triple.

Celebrated Mid-Autumn with the rest of the Malaysians about two weeks ago, and boy was it awesome. It really felt like home away from home, and coincidentally the twins' mom is here so we got to have nice, home cooked food for dinner that day! And earlier that day the Penang girls and I went to Mill Road, which is like, the Asian street, to look for lanterns, and we almost couldn't find it cos we got to the Malaysian Chinese supermarket about HALF AN HOUR AFTER THEY CLOSED, I KNOW, WHAT FRUSTRATION. And yes, there is a Malaysian Chinese supermarket here, how awesome. So we walked further down, asking the Muslim supermarket and the Korean supermarket UNTIL, we found a Chinese one owned by a lady from Hong Kong. Moral of the story: Perseverance. :D

Yay! :D

Even earlier that day, in the morning, Alison asked if I wanna go jogging with Sachy and I was like, okay, sure, I need the exercise anyway. So, we met Sachy in town, and we just, well, explored. Sachy took us to this place near the Cambridgeshire City Council, which she passes by on her way to school, and there is this small hill which we climbed and, gosh, the view! :D One of our greatest discoveries on that day's adventure. Could see pretty much the whole of Cambridge. Then after that we went exploring round Trinity College before having breakfast and then we shopped a bit. :D Well more like window shopping cos we didn't bring our wallets, only some cash and we didn't think of bringing our debit card. :/

The view.

Cambridgeshire City Council.

The two Penang besties.

With Sachy

With Alison.

Sigh, I don't know what else I'm gonna do today. Everyone else has their own thing to do and I'm like, ._. at home. Of course, I've got homework and laundry to do but it's such a lovely day out today, really feel like doing something besides that. :/

Oh well, we'll see.

Suet Tyng

Tanggal tiga puluh satu, bulan lapan lima puluh tujuh.

2011-09-19T22:20:00.000+01:00

I just realised, I didn't do a Merdeka post! D: I am a horrible Malaysian.

Happy belated birthday Malaysia! :D I know I am a few weeks too late but it's the thought that counts!

I know this is a terrible cliche, but being overseas has really taught me to appreciate Malaysia more. Of course, the weather here isn't burning hot like Malaysia but it can get a bit too cold sometimes, especially during the winter. And it gets dark too early during the winter! When I first started out, it would be like 8 pm dark when I finished classes, which is around 5.30pm. And it really depresses you, it really will. In fact it is possible for people to get depressed because of that, it's called SAD, Seasonal something Depression! So patients like that have to sit in front of a light box as treatment. No kidding, I read that in some mental health leaflet. Of course, during the summer and all it is less depressing cos you get daylight until maybe 10 pm or later! 8 pm is like 5 pm bright, it's the other way round during the summer. 8)

And of course, the food. Maybe it's just Cambridge, but it's so damn hard to find Malaysian food here. Sure there are Malaysian restaurants, in Chinatown, which is in LONDON, which is ONE HOUR TRAIN'S RIDE AWAY. The closest we have to Malaysian food here in Cambridge is Golden House, which is owned by a Chinese but she has some Malaysian dishes as well. Like this thing called Mamak Chicken, which I find okay but the guys love it so much they overrate it and I'm like, -.- it's nice but it's overrated! And I'm not even sure why it's called Mamak Chicken. Doesn't look anything like Mamak to me. :/ And they do have Malaysian fried rice as well. 4 pound isn't so bad for a big bowl of rice (and I mean, BIG bowl, I always have to tell the lady to give me less rice cos I'd get too full and fall asleep in class) and some meat and vegetables, but it's RM 20 so yeah. You can get food like that for so much cheaper in Malaysia. Especially in Penang, oh Penang, everyone's food heaven.

And believe it or not, the Malay language is really useful here! The great thing about this language is that only Malaysians can understand it, Singaporeans probably know a bit as well. We can just talk about a person who's not Malaysian in front of him/her like, openly. For example,

*Walking past a smoking China girl*
"Eeeh, rokok!"

And, we can always use it to test if a person is Malaysian or not! Like during the recent start of year barbecue, we heard about this new Malaysian girl who's coming to Lower Sixth but we don't know who she is, and Ng had his suspicions on this girl, so when we thought she walked past Jiann Lee decided to test her by saying, "Oi, bodoh! Babi!" to no one in particular, but she didn't respond and turns out it wasn't the one Ng was referring to. The girl Ng was talking about turned out to be Singaporean, because while walking past her I heard her speak the distinctive Malaysian/Singaporean accent and Jaycee went and asked her if she was the Malaysian. We found out that the Malaysian girl hasn't arrived yet, but oh well, no harm trying.

Also, we have successfully spread our culture to the Chinese of Abbey College!

A Malaysian and a Chinese walk past each other in the streets.
Malaysian: Eh, Sha Bi! (Sha Bi is China's equivalent to noob)
Chinese: Eh, So Hai!

So I dare say that the Malaysians are quite influential here. ;) Though they haven't done that in months now. :/ I miss that happening.

And, I miss shopping in Malaysia! Not only I have to multiply everything by five here (Okay, it all ends up being the same price anyway, for example a shirt which costs 20 pounds here maybe sold at Malaysia for 100 bucks if they are of the same brand), but shops close so damn early at around 5 or 6! Ang mohs don't know how to do business, seriously. Don't they know that people go shopping after work or during the weekends? On Sundays it seems that the law allows shops to open for only 6 hours, so they'd open late and close early, like around 11 am to 5 pm. I mean of course, people wanna sleep in on Sundays but hello, shoppers are the least busy during the weekends. And I can't like, go buy books or anything after school cos I finish at 5.30 and shops would already be closed by then! The latest they'd go is 8 pm on Wednesdays, and at the Grand Arcade you see the sign "Late Night Shopping on Wednesdays until 8pm!" Pfft, Malaysia's 'late night' would probably be what, 12 am? It gets quite inconvenient sometimes.

So yeah, that's all I can think of for now. But Malaysia is home, I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else. Sure we have shit politics, but I think as the younger generation we can change that in maybe 20 years time? Pfft, and the adults accuse us of being ignorant, as if they have the best ideas ever to rule the country. Didn't they see us during Bersih? And the Harimau Malaya and Singapore match? And the Chong Wei - Lin Dan match?

Happy 54th Malaysia. :)

Suet Tyng

No more hanging out cos we're on a different track.

2011-09-19T21:01:00.001+01:00

This is the long awaited post on the Abbey graduation! Hee sorry I didn't post on this earlier. Will do now. :)

Abbey's A2 students' graduation 2011, 20th August 2011 at Novotel KL.

On the Thursday before the event, I was talking to Kok Weng on Facebook chat about our results which came out that day, and then I asked if he was going for the A2 graduation on that Saturday.

Kok Weng: AS IN GRAD? I WAS WONDERING, CAN YOU EMCEE WITH ME PLEASE?

Two days later.

Apparently, Jiann Lee was supposed to emcee with him but he chickened out. -.-

It was... bad. And very last minute I guess. Only got the agenda for that night's event one day before the event, and prepared script that same night. And we only managed to discuss our parts a few hours before the event, during the rehearsal. We only rehearsed our scripts twice and we had to go home and get ready. But yeah, for a first timer and being notified at the last minute, I think I did pretty okay. Personally I feel that Kok Weng did a better job though. I was fumbling around with my words most of the time. :/

Rehearsal

Winnie's speech.

Howie Day's Collide by Han Jun and Jiann Lee.

Student Ambassador Germaine Thai's speech.

Slideshow done by Jiann Meng, who's going to Cambridge to do Maths. :O

Click to watch! See how many times you can spot me in it. :D

Principal Julian Davies' speech.

Presenting the certs to the students.

Stephanie.

Yi Chin.

Yee Hsiong

Aina

Germaine

Takkun.

Ariff

Jiann Meng

Yi Tang

Wei Ken.

Allan, who, by the way, came all the way from Sabah to KL for his graduation.

Everyone!

Presenting token of appreciations to Andrew and Julian.

The, um, band?

Which accompanied Julian's singing. :D

Duet by Stephanie and Julian.

With Jasmine and Yi Tang, take 1.

With Jasmine and Yi Tang, take 2.

With Jaycee.

With twins and Kok Weng.

Them. <3

Yi Tang, Ezanie, Takkun and Yee Hsiong

With Te-Sha and Charmaine.

With Jiann Lee, who said something quite stupid before the shot so forgive my face.

Han Jun, Kok Weng, Jiann Lee, Yi Tang

With Yee Hsiong, Han Jun, Jasmine, Jiann Lee, Jaycee

The other them. <3

Stephanie and Germaine.

Well that didn't take too long! Probably cos I had the photos uploaded earlier and I saved it in the drafts. :D

Okay now I really have to do my Chemistry. :/

Suet Tyng

Regrets and mistakes, they are memories made.

2011-09-09T21:52:00.000+01:00

I was just thinking about my high school life, around Lower Sec, especially around Form 1.

And I'm sorry I was such an asshole. :(

But that was a long, long time ago. I hope all of you forgive me for my immaturity back then.

I do not admit that I am very much mature now, for I have so much more to learn, but, I'm sorry I was such a dick. :(

Suet Tyng

But behind the scenes, he means the world to me.

2011-08-25T16:23:00.000+01:00

I can't believe I'm leaving (again) in less than two weeks! D: Two months gone just like that. They were pretty good two months though, I had a lovely summer back here! And, we're going to Krabi on Sunday. Not really looking forward to it though, to be honest. Yeah I'm the weirdo who doesn't like going on holidays. But didn't you read the newspaper? Going on holidays decreases your IQ! D: That doesn't mean that I totally detest going on holidays though, it's much better than sitting at home and rotting. Which exactly what I have been doing in the past two weeks, ever since I stopped working. Well I did get a couple of things done though, like renewing my passport and getting driving lessons. Which, by the way, I'm really lazy to go for tomorrow. Meh, I hate driving lessons. >:( Though they are quite fun when you get the hang of it.
I really don't want to start school again. Though I am quite excited. Can I just stay here for the rest of my life? I mean, Steve Jobs didn't finish college and he is (well, was) the CEO of Apple....
Okay just kidding, I wouldn't wanna spend the rest of my life being a homemaker. I mean, I'd go crazy if I have to spend all my time at home.
So last week, on Wednesday, it was a Selangor holiday, so aunt took Wei Liem and I out to KLCC. Wanted to go shopping but my brother dragged me to PetroSains. -.- And on Thursday, my mom took me to renew my passport, which was, the biggest FML day ever.
So, in the morning, we went to the passport office place thing, and since you can do it with machine we wanted to do it with the machine. All the machines couldn't read my MyKad, so I had to go to the Pendaftaran office to see what's wrong. Turns out there was something wrong with the chip, so I have to renew my IC, which means I am currently identity-less. No la, I have a temporary IC. Thank goodness it was early, so there weren't a lot of people.
Then we had to do it upstairs at the counter where they needed my birth cert, because I haven't turned 18 yet, which OF COURSE, I DIDN'T BRING. Sucks being a December baby sometimes. So my mummy had to go ALL THE WAY HOME to Sungai Buloh, from Damansara just to get my birth cert. Since they needed a photocopy of my birth cert and my mom's IC, my mom decided to do it at home, with our printer. Then mummy drove all the way back to Damansara, with my birth cert and the photocopies, BUT NOT WITH HER IC, which she left inside the printer, and they needed it. So we went ALL THE WAY home again, this time I went with her, just because. Of. That stupid. MyKad. Which I don't understand. Why. They need. Even though. We have the. Damn. Photocopy.
And as it turns out, the reason the machines couldn't read my IC was that I was not 18 yet, and you have to be 18 and above to use the machine. So, I renewed my IC, I have currently no identification, for NOTHING. D: But I have to renew my IC anyway so. Yeah.
Went home, checked my results, and it's.. oh dear God. :/
Then the next day, went to ASA to talk to Andrew bout my results. Turns out that it was okay, so yeah. Saw Tzi Hua there, who was having an interview with Julian. She may be coming to Abbey next year! :D
The next day was the Abbey graduation ceremony, and there should be a post on that pretty soon.
Sunday was Daddy's birthday, so the cousins all came over! :) And had a Skype session with Ling, so she didn't miss out on the celebration. :) Yay technology for making those who are so far away don't seem so far! :)
Had driving lesson on Monday, and then stoned for the whole day. Like seriously, the holidays are killing my brain cells slowly, by the time I get back for A2 my brain would be total mush. Tuesday was similarly unproductive as well, did go for taekwondo though. Yesterday was, well, at least I went to the gym. I went on Monday too, and on both days I hardcore there okay! Okay la, my hardcore is probably nothing but still, at least I went. Ohh and after lunch yesterday I went to Mun's house to have bonding time! :) Yay.
Today, well, the only fun part was having lunch with Shi Jie, spent the rest of the day doing pretty much nothing. And, I think it will be awhile before I want to be in the same car as him if he's driving. Okay, I'm exaggerating, I'm still well and alive with all my limbs intact and it's not like my heart has gone to my arse or something. :P
And then later in the evening, thought I'd cook a dish for the family, for the sake of being productive, so I just did something simple. Omelets. With ham. And cheese. Guess what, they hated my cooking. Again. Sigh. Can't believe I screwed up such a simple dish. Omelets! Who screws up frying eggs?? They turned out okay when I made them back in Cambridge though, maybe cos I'm not used to the utensils here? Hm, must practice my cooking, and meanwhile, my family's gonna be lab rats. :P
And, my omelets turned out to look like scrambled eggs. Which is quite sad, actually. Well the good thing is that the burnt bits were stuck to the pan, probably cos I didn't put enough butter, so at least my family didn't have carcinogen for dinner.
And, I'm sick! :( Well it started yesterday when I couldn't stop sneezing at Mun's house, thought my nose was sensitive or something. Today my throat feels horrible and my body feels tired all over. Hopefully will be well enough tomorrow to meet up with Jen-Li and all as well as my lovely gang of girls on Saturday! Excluding Sams cos she's going to Le France. :/ And, Krabi on Sunday. Sigh, how can I fall sick, it's not like I've been stressed or anything lately! I'm such a weakling. :/
Okay, have to get my rest if I wanna be all pumped up tomorrow, so, see ya later alligators.

Suet Tyng

Hello, jealousy.

2011-08-18T17:29:00.000+01:00

Okay, so you know how I stalk people on Facebook, like all the time? (Yes that includes you, even if you are not in my circle of Facebook friends)

Well, now you know.

Facebook really brings us together you know? New friends you meet from camp, or whatever social gatherings, all you have to do these days is ask, "You have Facebook? Give me your Facebook name, I'll add you." Back then, people wrote letters, and not because they were doing PMR or SPM English questions.
And, you find all sorts of people on Facebook! High school friends, primary school friends and even kindy friends! Yes I found a friend from my kindy, and even though I am quite positive it's him I haven't exactly had the guts to add him yet. Don't ask why, I don't know either.

And coming to primary school friends. You know when you look at old photos, from maybe four or five years back you'd be like, dang, we have really changed a lot, especially in terms of appearance. Maybe someone who used to have grandpa specs wear contact lenses now, or maybe even got a laser surgery, I wouldn't know, people are so rich these days. Or, a really fat boy you once knew, has turned into a Taylor Lautner because, for some reason, to me, guys at a certain age just have a sudden obsession with the gym and making it their second home. Maybe the really pretty girl in your Standard 6 class now has dyed hair and coloured contacts ~~and started dressing like a slut.~~ Or, the hot guy, back in primary school, has become hotter than ever, the unfairness.

Which brings me to my point.

Okay, so there's this girl from my primary school whom I used to be quite good friends with. In fact we used to be in the same class until somewhere along Standard 4 or 5 our classes got changed and I wasn't so close to her anymore but we still talked once in awhile! Well she wasn't very pretty back then, in fact I remember her being quite chubby, which is why we were friends I think, we were like, the chubby friends haha. But even when we were in the same class she wasn't my closest friend, I had a BFF who's really awesome and she's a total opposite of me, she was a stick (and still is) while I was a round ball of... lipid (Still am, actually, but that's not important right now).
Okay, so back to this, not so pretty, chubby friend of mine. I do remember her being quite vain though, especially in Standard 6, I found out about the part of her when we were on a trip to Langkawi after UPSR. But yeah, she was okay as a person, I don't have a very strong memory of her but I don't hate her.
After Standard 6, we all went our separate ways, I strayed the furthest because I was the only one in Wesley while everyone else was either in DJ or BU 3 if not Taman SEA. Back then we had Friendster, but along the way Facebook came about and suddenly everyone has one. Then you find out that your friends somehow know your friends from primary or whatever, and from your one primary school friend you find the others and suddenly it's like a gold mine.
So this friend of mine, the one we have been talking about, I found her profile around last year and, CRAP, I COULD HARDLY RECOGNISE HER, BECAUSE SHE IS SO FREAKING HOT NOW I WAS LIKE WTF??? Okay, so I am jealous, not to bitch or anything, but, if you consider her vanity back in Standard 6, the reason why she's so skinny right now could be cos she hasn't been eating. And yes, I'm talking anorexia. Now I know that's mean, because she probably got her hotness through exercise like a normal person, but the anorexia thing is just something I thought out of jealousy, so ignore that. ~~It could be true for all we know though~~. Even if she IS anorexic, that's her business. And she's so pretty now, I mean, I totally couldn't recognise her. In fact she's so hot she's a model for some things now, including for 17 magazine. And I'm like, SHIT, WHY DIDN'T THAT HAPPEN TO ME? But then I wouldn't wanna be like that if I have to starve myself though...
I don't think she remembers me now, because I saw her once recently but she didn't acknowledge me, either cos she didn't see me, or I have been completely erased from her memory forever. And it really was quite recent, about a month ago at Jog For Hope. Yes, I think I mentioned this. And I saw her, and once again I was all SHDJHBVJBKAK WHY DID YOU BECOME SO HOT WHILE I AM STILL STUCK WITH MY FATS.
But I have decided that I shall not care, at all, at all. Nope. Never. Ever. In fact, I'm gonna sleep now. I have a driving lesson tomorrow, wouldn't wanna crash. Hmph. Screw being hot. I like being me. Not hot but, me.
Ah, shut up Suet Tyng, go to sleep.

Suet Tyng

Summer lovin' happened so fast.

2011-08-15T10:17:00.000+01:00

Does anyone else still read this? Besides my mom? Well if there are people who still bother to visit this sad, abandoned blog then, thank you. I am aware that I haven't exactly been reporting the stuff about my life lately in the cyberspace and being busy is not an excuse cos I'm on summer break! Well this is a good start.
Whoa, can you believe this? There's only less than a month before I have to go back to Cambridge again! :( I don't wanna go back, I'm loving my summer break. I haven't been studying at all in the past month plus and my brain feels like it's gonna be mush by the time I start school again.
In case you didn't know I have been home since late June and I have till early September before I leave. Summer's been pretty packed, I've passed my Undang, gone for a US Apps talk, supported Beii, Ruo Rong, Deborah, and Min Yi at a K-Pop competition thing in which they got to be on TV, jogged for hope (read previous posts), met up with friends, and I have worked at Taylor's for a month!
Yeah I just finished work last week. Got a job at Taylor's HR department through my aunt, and even though I have a pretty cool job name, Admin Assistant, it really is just a nicer way to say, Office Maid. I do stuff like keying in data and filing and photocopying. Mostly the keying in and filing though. I really don't like keying in, it's such a sleepy job and I fall asleep at work ALL THE TIME! Except for the last week, for some reason I didn't fall asleep AT ALL in the last week, maybe cos my body was just getting used to working life, AT THE LAST WEEK. But seriously, when you're stuck behind the desk, from 9 to 6 every day, doing the same old mundane thing, it can get really tiring. My job's easy, but it's really tedious. And boring. I like filing better, because it involves more movement and is less passive so I don't really get sleepy. The last two days of my job I was helping out the payroll section, and since payroll stuff is really P&C I couldn't take it back to my place to file, so I was quite literally on my feet the whole day filing stuff. And I was wearing heels. Sadness, I know.
But if my job were more interesting then I'd really like it there, the people there are so nice! Honestly, I'm really considering going back there next summer. Or, if my aunt can arrange, I may get to work at Lakeside campus! I love the Lakeside campus. To work there would be like, 8D
Met up with Jen-Li, Dhivya, Yuan Sing, Anish, Shi Khai and Eric last Saturday! It's been so long since I'd seen them. Meeting up with them feels like 5C all over again, albeit embarrassing cos Eric was being himself and all. Then later that day, a relative was having a birthday dinner so we all went, and I got to see my three little darlings Hector, Brandon and Ryan. :) They were pretty shy though, except for Brandon, he's okay, he was just stuck to the PSP the whole night, that's all. You see, kids these days, really have everything. Hector's barely two and he's so hooked to the iPad. It's their family iPad kinda thing, and Benny kor kor has like, ABC videos and all in it so Hector has a mini TV everywhere he goes. It's not a bad thing, I mean, it's education on the go but that just makes them antisocial, man. When I was a kid, I had to watch it on TV, like a real TV. And robbing my parents of TV time with my Sesame Street CDs, apparently.
Anyhoo, I had my first driving lesson this morning! Scary shit, I tell you. I guess it's cos I get so nervous and all and I almost crashed a few times but I'm pretty sure I'll get the hang of it soon.
Oh, you know what's frustrating? You know how you have to wait a month after your L license is issued before you can do your practical test? Well, I didn't. So my L license is issued on August 5th, which means I can only take my exam from September 6th onwards. BUT, NO, I AM FLYING BACK ON SEPTEMBER 3RD, HOW SAD IS THAT. :( So I can only take my exam in December when I come back for Christmas break, and I'm not even sure if that's possible cos I may have forgotten how to drive by then? Sighs.
Did anyone go for Wesley's concert this year? The Sound Of Music? It wasn't too bad, Flower Drum Song was better though, in my opinion. Sad to say but the choir's standard dropped quite a lot, even last year itself was quite bad. And the dances all looked the same to me. They were all doing the same damn thing, and it's like, you see moves from previous concerts and you'd be, hey, deja vu! Acting was, well, Pearl Moses style, can't say much about it. They have got the acting talent though, it's just that Pearl Moses twists their talent to suit her style, like she does every year. I just felt that they took a really big risk doing The Sound Of Music, because it's a really famous musical and people will have high expectations of it, especially if it's a secondary school concert. I think the kids in our school have got talent, they really do, and I have a sneaky feeling that if it was an all student thing, with hardly any teachers getting involved, our school concerts can be really, really, good.
Now that I've got my break back, it's time to work more on my personal statement and read up more! I think I will not be applying to the US anymore, even though I really like the idea of the US education system. It's just that you have to really make time for everything, you have to be really, really set on going to the US, and I haven't even done anything, not even SATs. Yes, if I were applying to the US, I'd be screwed upside down inside out. There's a lot to do for the US unis' application, and it really doesn't help that I'm in a UK college and obviously UK colleges would give you more help to enter a university in THEIR country. But I'm still considering it though, I honestly like the US system. I mean, I can always go there for Masters but still.
Okay, I'm gonna post up a few pictures from here and there, as a treat for my faithful readers. :) Most of them are on Facebook though, so unless you don't have me on Facebook you wouldn't be able to see them.

The Sound Of Music, 23/7/2011

With Brendan and Eric. :)

Choir getting ready.

Sam Ng as Maria and Jia En as Georg Von Trapp.

The Von Trapp kids. :)

Sixteen Going On Seventeen, my most favourite The Sound Of Music song of all time. :)

Kimberly Anne as Liesl and Jun Shern as Rolf.

Pyjamas! :)

So long, farewell.

The Von Trapps are missing! :O

With the rest of the ex Form 5s. :)

Goodbyeeeee......

The cast.

Hannah banana the narrator. :)

And I've got stuff from work as well...

With Taylor's staff on my last day of work. :)

Lemon Garden lunch at Shangri-La, 7/8/2011

Tiong power! :)

Lol, daddy. :)

The 5C row gang outing, 13/8/2011

Dhivs and Jenners. :D Haha

Pool at Brewball.

With Jen-Li and Sheeks.

Aunt's birthday dinner, 13/8/2011

Heh, some random kid who is not from our group.

Random kid's sister. Haha. Eh but they are damn cute kay! They played with me more than my own nephews. :P

RYAN LIM, YOU CUTIE PIE.

Hector! :)

Brandon. I swear, he looks like some Korean kid.

Okay, so hopefully that makes up for all that I have not been posting on! Heh.

Results out on Thursday! *insert Chopin's Funeral March, allegro*

Suet Tyng

Rawr, rawr, rawr.

2011-07-28T18:21:00.000+01:00

Okay, first and foremost. I need to tell you guys that, I have really strong respect for Singapore. I mean, who doesn't? They have got achievements that one would never expect from a small island like them. In fact I love going to Singapore! I get really excited when we go down south, despite the 5 hour journey, which sometimes takes longer if traffic at the Causeway is bad. And they've got Universal Studios, albeit tiny, but they still have one! And I love Orchard Road, the best place ever to shop. Even though you have to pay twice the price but still. And the luge ride in Sentosa? Yeah, that's awesome. Funny how I've never actually been to the Merlion though, Singapore's icon. And I love the Singapore MRT! It's really efficient, and clean, unlike Malaysia's LRTs and KTMs, which can be quite unreliable sometimes! Remember there was one time, the LRT broke down somewhere, resulting in a whole bunch of Wesley students who come to school by LRT to reach school late? Like, during break time, and the Form 5s at that time were having trials so they had to take a cab to school? And how the train actually went past the buffer, hanging at the edge of the tracks at Sentul Timur terminal, which is ONE STOP AWAY FROM SENTUL? Highly doubt something like that happens down south. And, I love Singapore Airlines! My first flight to UK, back in December was on Singapore Airlines and I loved it so much! Malaysia Airlines are good as well but, I think food wise, Singapore Airlines won hands down. And, they'd probably have more of their students in Cambridge than Malaysians! Also, the National University of Singapore is ranked 34th in the world by Times University Ranking 2011, which is I think, is remarkable. Long story short, they're really forward, much more ahead of us, which is why, I have so much respect for them.

Not so much anymore after the earlier game between Harimau Malaya and Singapore.

The result was 1-1, which is really good I think, considering we have been losing to Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool recently, this is actually quite a good score. But this gets Malaysia out of the World Cup qualifiers, because earlier in Singapore we lost to them 3-5.
Normally, I would be really glad with the score, in fact, I had dared not hope that we would even win tonight. Yes, I was expecting us to lose, but I kept my fingers crossed. And I'm really proud of the fact that we scored the first goal! That one goal really gave us all hope, it proves that the Malaysian team isn't a gone case, isn't disgrace after all, and it brings a glint of faith back to the hearts of those who have stopped believing in their own homeland. Of course, that hope was crushed in the end, but 1-1, saya sangat bangga menjadi Anak Malaysia. However, underneath all that pride, I was unsatisfied. Not because we hadn't won, but because, well, Singaporeans hadn't won the game through football.
Hand up if you were watching the game, and you realised that at every minute after Singaporeans scored that one goal, the players were falling like pins with the slightest push, and they looked like they were so injured they were gonna die right there and then in the fields of Stadium Bukit Jalil. But right after the five minute extra time, when it was announced that Singapore were gonna make it forward, they were jumping around screaming, running and hugging each other. Whoa, it's a miracle, you were lying there in pain just about 10 minutes ago and now you can run! It's either really painful when you run, or God came down to Earth and healed you, like how he let the blind man see and how he let the crippled man walk again.
Or, Singaporeans are a bunch of really good actors.

*camera zooms in on Singapore's manager*
Commentator: Nah, inilah DIRECTOR untuk lakonan pemain Singapore malam ini.

You see, this is why Singaporean dramas are more popular than Malaysian ones. In fact, I watch Singaporean dramas all the time! I can name you more Singaporean actors than Malaysian ones. Besides the eleven on the Bukit Jalil field earlier. And they've got really good-looking actors too, unlike Malaysian ones! Even though some of them aren't Singaporeans, like Dai Yang Tian, who's a really hot China guy by the way, go search him.
Yes, their actors, as in the ones on TV, not the ones on the football field, are imported as well. Just like the ones on the football field. Somehow they brainwashed those foreigners into their kiasu mindset, so to call them totally foreign won't exactly be right. Wei even read out a tweet earlier,

"Why the hating on the Singaporeans? They aren't even Singaporeans."

I don't know whose tweet is it, but well said, my friend. I guess it's a good thing that Malaysians haven't got any foreign players on our team, because that is what makes our team truly Malaysian, it's of Malaysian spirit and of Malaysian... skills? We may suck balls, but so what? We're Malaysian! Even though apparently why the government isn't importing foreign players is so that the, um, LOCALS have a place. But still.

People are saying that the Singapore's flame for victory was fueled by the placing of the Chili Crab at 35th place and the Chicken Rice at 45 by the CNN Top 50 foods or something, while our Penang Assam Laksa got 7th place. Well, it isn't our fault that our own small Malaysian island happens to be everyone's food haven. When we think Penang, we think food! When my family goes up north to Penang we can spend one day just driving around the island, stopping at different places for different food! Penang Char Kuey Teow at Lorong Selamat, Penang Assam Laksa, Ice Kacang with bananas and red bean at Swatow Lane, Ghee Hiang Tau Sar Piah, End Of The World Seafood at Batu Feringghi, oh damn it makes me hungry.
And, uh, news flash, Singaporeans. Chicken rice and chili crab aren't even yours to begin with.
Not to say it's ours either, because the chicken rice comes from Hainan, it only came to Malaya because of the Chinese immigrants. I don't know where chili crab comes from, maybe it IS a Singaporean dish, but anything Singaporean is just as good as anything Malaysian and vice versa. Maybe your style of cooking is different, but at the end of the day, it's still the same damn thing. Like Singapore Fried Bee Hoon, it tastes the same as any Fried Bee Hoon to me.

Singaporeans, I know you guys are awesome and all, but try to be more humble about it. Like that time Shane was telling us about a Singaporean guy they met at Golden House, who's studying at Cambridge University.

"So, where are you studying?"
"Cambridge University, WHERE ELSE?"

Guess I do not need to explain who the Singaporean here is.
Apparently in Cambridge, Singaporeans and Malaysians are like, rivals. Then again that happens everywhere doesn't it. But yeah, it seems that the Singaporeans fight for the places in front of the class, and all the Malaysians are like, ._. at the back.

But not all Singaporeans are like that! Like my Singaporean cousins, Gabriel and Raphael, they're really nice people! Speaking of them, I haven't seen them since the last time I did, back in 2009. I really want to meet up with them again, along with Mun and all this time round! :D

It really makes me happy to see how a football game brings us Malaysians together, ~~how we diss the Singaporeans together hehehe.~~ The first time I'm seeing a 1Malaysia situation again since Bersih. It shows that deep down, we are patriots after all, despite all we say about the weather, the government, the country as a whole. And all the tweets, all the Facebook statuses, shows how much we all actually love Malaysia somewhere in a hidden corner of our hearts.

Rest assured, Singaporeans, we are not going to poison your water, the one other thing you leech off from us besides petrol, because we have enough class to not stoop to that level. You may call us sore losers for not accepting our loss and calling you guys actors instead, but that is only because its true. We may have lost, but we have lost with pride, because we know we have played our best and we have played fair and square. And also, we're used to losing anyway, we've always had that feeling whenever Lin Dan plays with Chong Wei. But there are the rare occasions that Chong Wei wins, and it brings a huge sense of pride for our country in us. I accept our four losses, to Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Singapore, and by the way, how on earth did we lose to Chelsea 1-0? Either they turned complacent, or, they really do suck. ._.

Anyway, I'm proud of you Malaysian Tigers! Harimau Malaya ftw! Rah rah rah!

Suet Tyng

Farewell, old friend.

2011-07-26T15:06:00.000+01:00

Sigh, bombing in Norway, death of Amy Winehouse, train crash in China, this week isn't a good week.

And, I just got news that made it worse.

RIP iPod

(28th Marth 2009 - 22nd July 2011)

Dear iPod,

I can't thank you enough for your service and loyalty in the past two years. I am sorry for not taking good care of you as well as I should have, I'm a terrible owner, I know. Thanks for not dying on me even though I have dropped you for God knows how many times, but you had a cover so it was not so bad. Still, it was me in the end who caused your... death. Had I been more careful with the water bottle in my bag, the little water droplets wouldn't have got onto you and killed you instantly. Still, I don't understand how everything else was dry though. But I guess fate has it's own way of meddling with things. I still remember that morning before it happened, when I was checking out Twitter on you during breakfast. I got really scared when you started failing on me at work, even after I charged you fully. I know that I should get over it, but I can't help but blame myself for being so careless.
Thanks for being there for me whenever I needed you. You were there all the time, when I'm studying, at work, or when I'm just too bored. I remember spending about one hour playing games with you after dinner back in Cambridge, I remember how music from you made me feel less scared and sad on my first day at Milton when I was all alone, I remember how you were there for me during SPM, and the exams before that, and times when I'm in the car, and at the gym, and during breaks between classes. I remember using you to leech off people's Wi-fi, especially in Starbucks and all. And how I used to play Rolo and Tap Tap and all, and how I checked the London Tube map app whenever I was in London.
I will never forget the day you entered my life, when I tasted the sweetest victory ever in fifteen years with my comrade Jen-Li at the MCKL treasure hunt. I'm glad I didn't trade you off for a camera with Wei Jun, because I already had an iPod touch then. Still, you were different, because I literally won you, with Jen-Li's and my brain juice (and hints from seniors and cooperation from other teams), and to earn something in that manner is really the best feeling ever. There will be a replacement iPod, or, if God forbid, an iPhone, but none will ever take your place in my heart, because, you, of all the things I had owned, were the most special. In fact, I'm quite pissed off at Apple right now, I'm gonna stay anti-Apple for awhile.
So yes, I'm gonna be iPod-less for awhile. I wish I got to stay with you longer. So when the service centre said that they couldn't repair you, it feels like I just lost a best friend.

Rest in peace, friend.

Thank you, iPod.

Suet Tyng

We were both young when I first saw you.

2011-07-18T15:46:00.000+01:00

This is so funny! They are so lyrical ahahaha. Poreotix whoo hoo! :D

Yeah I know that they are last year's winners but still, I just found this.

Suet Tyng

Jog For Hope.

2011-07-17T08:09:00.000+01:00

Yes, I went for Taylor's Hartamas' Jog For Hope this morning! Which was more like Walk For Hope, since I walked more than I ran. I don't feel tired now though, maybe cos I'm so used to walking in UK. And it was just 6 km, which felt very, very short.
I saw so many people there, from Wesley or not! But yeah, I saw a lot of Wesleyans, which I expected to anyway. Saw one primary school friend but I don't think she saw me, and even if she did I don't think she'd remember me anyway. :/ And Lih Seng was there too! :O Didn't see any of my Abbey friends though, haha, but I had really good company today! Hanging out with the Wesleyans made me so nostalgic, it really felt like high school again, watching Wee Cherng kena diu by the rest of the guys haha.

Wee Cherng: Wah, Suet Tyng, can run ah! Can join next year 2012 London Olympics. Sure win wan, Usaine Bolt can go sau pei.

And yes, he's still as retarded as ever, but that's what makes him Wee Cherng. OMGEE I MISS WESLEY SO MUCH.
Woke up at 6 today and Wah and Mun came pick me up at 6.30! Was hanging out with them and their friends until I found Suan, then yeah, hung out with the Wesley people after that. But while we were running I was pretty much alone, because everyone I knew were either ahead or behind me. :/ Still, it was good, I had my exercise. :) Even though I only ran during the downhill parts ahahaha. Suet Tyng, you fat, lazy pig. :P
So yeah, after that, we just sat around and talked, then I had to go, because I was hitching a ride again with Wah and they were going to Atria to have Dim Sum with their friends, so I just followed. But yeah, the food was pretty good.
Couldn't make it for MY Challenge! :( I really wanted to go, because today's one was Modern Dancing and Wesley has a dancing team there! Besides, I really want to go see the competition. Oh wells. :/ But it sounds so cool, why is that all these stuff only comes out after we have left high school. >:(
Sigh, I haven't been able to sleep in at all since Sunday! And I won't be able to for the next two weeks. Well I started work on Monday, so every morning now feels like school except it's a lot worse even though I don't have to wake up as early as I did in high school. And at least I looked forward to school, because I get to see my friends and classmates. Don't get me wrong, I really like the people in the office, they're really nice! It's just that, my job's real tedious and mundane, despite the fact it's totally easy. I mean, all I do is just key in stuff, but it's really, really annoying when I make a mistake! I really hope I get to do something more exciting soon. :/
And yesterday, I had to go for Undang, so no sleeping in. Worst 5 hours of my life. I can't believe Geoffrey said he enjoyed Undang. I guess that's cos he had a really good and funny lecturer unlike ours who played these Islam tsunami video thing and some Bollywood video thing for all of us to see before class, while he was taking down attendance. And, oh God, another 6 arduous hours of Amali, but apparently I can skip that. If I could I would, because I'm really hoping I'd get my P license before I go back to Cambridge.
And this morning, Jog For Hope, so I woke up the earliest I have had in a while. Next weekend I have this US unis talk thing at Taylor's Lakeside, so yeah. Haven't been this busy in awhile. :/
Sigh, need to work on my personal statement which I haven't touched in awhile. ._.

Suet Tyng

Don't be a drag, just be a queen.

2011-07-12T16:52:00.001+01:00

So this morning, I was in the car, and Born This Way came on the radio. And I got quite pissed off for two reasons.

1) It's Lady Gaga.

Though I have to say, it's a really good song with a good message. Despite the scarily weird music video. I usually get quite peeved when Gaga comes on the radio, especially around last year, when they played Alejandro and Paparazzi, the two Gaga songs I will never come to like. So okay, maybe I'm not so annoyed about the song being a Gaga song.

2) WHAT HAPPENED TO PART OF THE SONG?

"No matter gay, straight, or bi, lesbian, transgender life, I'm on the right track baby, I was born to survive."

Yeah I'm sure most of you know by now that you don't hear the first half of the above sentence on Malaysian radio. When I heard it two weeks ago, I was like, WTF? (Please remember that I have only starting listening to Malaysian radio again two weeks ago) And that really did it, because I felt that it was a really good and powerful sentence, for I feel that homosexuals and transvestites receive the most and the worst discrimination of all, even in places like America and England where the people are more open. Our lovely government has decided to happily censor off that sentence on Malaysian radio, so as to not influence youths to become gay, or so they think, thus leaving all homos in Malaysia being unable to express who they really are, for fear of being a disgrace to their family, for fear of being the laughing stock of the community. And all you hear is, "No matter... no matter... no matter..".

In fact, this isn't the first time. Last year, when Adam Lambert came, he had to sign an agreement to like, behave on stage, after he kissed his guy bassist at a previous concert. And if that isn't embarrassing enough for Malaysia, on the day of his concert, there were people distributing anti-gay posters and protesting outside Stadium Bukit Jalil. A small group, but still, it was clearly showed how conservative some Malaysians can be. And, I Kissed A Girl on radio. All you hear is "I kissed a....... and I liked it". Sure Katy Perry herself said it sounded more wrong, but still.

As far as I know, you DON'T choose to be gay or lesbian. I'm not quite sure why it happens, maybe I will when I read the abnormal psychology part of the psychology text book I bought. You don't just wake up one morning and go, "Gee, I think I wanna be gay today." It's part of who you are, and you can't change who you are even if you wanted to. And it's not something you can fix, I mean, if you were born ugly there's always plastic surgery, but I shouldn't be encouraging that should I. So you can't really influence someone to be gay even if that person wanted to be. And to deprive a person of the freedom to be who they are, and oppressing them, that is just despicable.
I know that homosexuality is a sin against religion. I honestly wonder what if someone's a really religious person and then finds out he/she is gay/lesbian. :/ Poor them.

So yeah, Malaysian government, I'm lesbian! Whatcha gonna do about it? Get the police to arrest me?? And then get them to beat me up brutally, like how you did to the Bersih people, who by the way, only intended to demonstrate peacefully, have the police not ceased fire?? Is that it, Malaysian police? Have you become big, barbaric bullies, instead of protectors of the citizens? To be honest, with all these stories about bribery and rape, I don't feel safe with the Malaysian police anymore.

And uh, just to clear the air, I'm straight. Damn straight. As straight as a ruler ahahahaha. Ahem. *slaps self*

But we're getting kinda out of topic here. So anyway, Wawasan 2020 my arse. Less than nine years and we're still stuck with this backward thinking, with a government that tells sweet lies and hides the ugly truths from citizens just so that they are not overthrown. I'm so proud of Bersih, they stood up for what we have held in for such a long time.

Coming from a country where even kissing scenes are censored on TV, I obviously had a shock when I switched on English TV and there they were, boobs and gay kissing scenes right on screen, in front of my eyes, so detailed, and child stage actors scream out the F word as if it is the most normal thing for a twelve year old kid to do, while in Malaysia, Cee Lo Green's F*ck You has become Forget You.

I know, you're probably thinking, "Aiyer, this Suet Tyng ah, go UK a few months think she England woman already, don't want Malaysia anymore." That's not true, I love Malaysia with all my heart, and if we haven't got such a screwed up government, I wouldn't even consider working overseas after graduation. We get shocked when foreigners think we live on trees or haven't a clue on where Malaysia is when they know Thailand and Singapore so well, but can you blame them? All I'm saying is, if we're gonna be stuck with such primeval perceptions, we might as well be living on trees then.

Suet Tyng

P.S. I didn't mean to make such a big fuss over a censored part of a song. Forgive me, but I think too much some times and it all comes out for you as stuff to read.

Where Rainbows End.

2011-07-11T16:28:00.001+01:00

"In a few years' time if my name ever comes up you will probably say, 'Rosie. Now there's a name I haven't heard for ages. We used to be best friends. I wonder what she's doing now; I haven't seen or thought of her in years!' You will sound like my mum and dad when they have dinner parties with friends and talk about old times. They mention people I've never even heard of when they're talking about some of the most important days of their lives. How could Mum's bridesmaid of twenty years ago be someone she doesn't even ring up now? Or in Dad's case, how could he not know where his own best friend from school lives?
Anyway, my point is, I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends for ever, Alex.
I'm happy you're happy, really I am, but I feel like I've been left behind. Maybe our time has come and gone."

-Where Rainbows End, Cecelia Ahern-

All I wanna say is that, I really, really, really miss you. :(

But life doesn't quite turn out the way we want it to, does it?

Suet Tyng

The broken clock is a comfort.

2011-07-08T14:51:00.000+01:00

How can I tell you what is wrong, when YOU are exactly what is wrong?

I wanna talk to you so badly. :(

And, OMG, my iPod!! Please don't do this to me. I love you iPod. Don't die on me please. You're too young to die, I've only had you for two years! I'm sorry for all that I've done to you, in fact, I'm the reason why you're like this now! iPod, please, no, I've had enough to go through, don't be like this.

Suet Tyng

When you love someone but it goes to waste, could it be worse?

2011-07-07T16:07:00.000+01:00

I had a dream last night.

It wasn't exactly weird or anything. It was actually quite normal. It's just that, I didn't feel so good about it.

The right word would be, envious.

So yes, I woke up, and the first thing I felt was jealousy. After a while, I thought about that dream again, and I realised, beneath that jealousy, there was a hint of guilt.

Guilt because, jealousy was never supposed to be there in the first place.

Oh my goodness, I'm becoming a ruthless, selfish, despicable human being.

But I miss you, I really do. :(

Oh, and that aside, couples on the Internet, please spare other Internet users of your mushy proclamation of love for each other and get a room. Once in awhile is fine, like Valentine's Day or anniversaries, but everyday is tad too much. Not everyone needs to know how much you guys love each other forever and ever until death do you guys apart.

Suet Tyng

Home sweet home.

2011-06-28T15:34:00.002+01:00

So, I just arrived home today.

But why do I have a bad feeling about this.

Suet Tyng

Two months later.

2011-06-24T17:36:00.001+01:00

I guess, I value my pride too much.

But sometimes in life, you just have to. This is the part where I really must.

As much as I don't want to deny myself of something I long for all the time, I simply have to.

It really breaks me, but, I cannot allow anything to ruin what we have.

My last Friday here in Milton Road. Three more days till I go home. And leave this house forever.

I remember the Friday before the last time I went home. I remember it so clearly.

And I remember the Sunday when I came back. Two months ago.

Now come to think of it, how ironic it all is. Oh, the irony.

I should be excited to go back.

But right now, I just don't know what to expect.

Actually, I do.

I just don't like what I see.

Suet Tyng

I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes.

2011-06-24T16:36:00.000+01:00

Love Actually! A movie about many different people's love lives and how they are related to one another. Kinda like Valentine's Day, speaking of which, I haven't seen yet, and how could I not have it's a freaking Taylor Lautner movie. It's a damn old movie but it's damn good! Albeit obscene, there were a few scenes that... showed things you don't wanna see. Still! And, Thomas Sangster! I loved his story the most. In case you haven't a clue who Thomas Sangster is, he's the boy who plays the oldest kid in Nanny McPhee. And also the voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb.
But yes, I would definitely love to watch it again! I wonder if Valentine's Day is just as good though, I really, really want to see it! Gahhh.

"I thought it could be something worse!"
"Worse than the total agony of being in love?"

Suet Tyng

You're (not so) beautiful.

2011-06-21T01:47:00.002+01:00

Jen-Li, I can't stop laughing over this. Hahahahaha. :D
So glad we had that 5C conference call thing today. There weren't a lot of us but still! It was nice catching up. And we wouldn't have found out about this video from Jen-Li, hahaha.
Seriously, click it! It's shit hilarious.

I had C4 this morning! D: Scary. Couldn't finish it. :( There was a 7 mark question, which I didn't figure out how to do until like, literally the last minute! Just as I was about to write something the invigilator was like, "Those who do not have extra time please stop writing." And I'm like, D:<
Took the bus home, and while I was going to get to the bus station this Asian couple (okay just an Asian guy and a woman, they don't look together), just walked up to me asking if I could speak Chinese, and I'm like, yeah, a little. We conversed mostly in English though, cos I said I was from Malaysia (and proud to be! :D) and prefer English. I thought they were tourists kay, they were asking casual questions like, where are you from, are you working or studying here, and I was thinking, gee, these tourists must travel very little, I mean, yes, it's exciting to see another person of your kind in a foreign land (I get excited when I see Malaysians here in Cambridge!), but hello, Cambridge is full of Asians, it will be as if they never left home, really.
Then suddenly the guy, I can't remember what exactly it was he said but he mentioned something about the Bible and he gave me this booklet, which he says is also about the Bible and I should spend some time reading it. On the cover it said something about happiness and peace and blah blah blah, I flipped it open in the bus and it didn't look like any of the Christian stuff I see, it wasn't like, bad or anything, they WERE talking about happiness and peace and blah blah blah, it just didn't look..well, typically Christian. Don't quite know how to explain it.
So I reached home, I showed it to Geoffrey, he flipped it a bit, and then he was like, "Whoa, you don't want to read THIS!" Apparently it was a cult, it has to do with Jehovah witness or something and I'm like, heh. Well the guy at the bus stop was right, it WAS about the Bible, just not exactly... Christian? I dunno, I can't seem the right word for it. :/
Yeah I should have known something was wrong when I saw an order form for the book "What The Bible Really Teaches" at the back cover of the booklet.
I'm quite scared of the booklet right now. D: I guess I'll toss it in the recycling bin. Save the trees, whoo hoo.

And, whoo, 400th post! :D

Suet Tyng

Who's your daddy?

2011-06-19T16:32:00.002+01:00

Barney: Who's your daddy?

Honey: Who's YOUR daddy?

Barney: *sob* I DON'T KNOW!!!!!

-How I Met Your Mother, hahahaha-

Happy Father's Day daddy! :D

He isn't as scary as he looks.

And I realise, I didn't do one for Mother's Day! D: So I'm gonna do one now, ~~cos my mom reads my blog~~

Happy belated Mother's Day!

Wish I could be home for both days. :/

Suet Tyng

Getting down on Friday.

2011-06-17T14:44:00.002+01:00

It's Friday peeps! :D

Not that it feels a lot different anyway.

I had an appointment with my UCAS adviser this morning, to talk about, well, duh, UCAS. So we were talking and then suddenly out of nowhere he found his choir seating plan in the midst of the UCAS forms of the other people he's advising. HAHA. And he showed me where's he's sitting, turns out he's singing tenor, and right in front. And he's singing at King's College Chapel tomorrow, like whoa. Don't play play man.

So yeah, I went shopping after that! Not intentionally though. Walked in city centre for about an hour to see what to buy for the people back home. Ended up buying a blouse and a shirt like what the. But they were five pounds each kay! Sometimes you just gotta know where to look. ;) And the shirt isn't really for me.

Abbey barbecue party tonight! Don't know whether I should stop by, the others don't feel like going. :/

Oh, and happy birthday Eric! Yeah he probably will never read this but damn, I miss those days when he sat behind me in class. Especially how he argues so much with Jen-Li, and called her and Dhivya sluts, haha, sorry guys. x)

Eric: MADAM! JEN-LI SAY I LOOK LIKE DRUG ADDICT!
Miss Teng: Yeah, you look like drug addict!
HAHAHAHA.

Suet Tyng

Pride or disgrace?

2011-06-16T18:01:00.001+01:00

So, if you tweet a lot, or maybe you don't have to tweet to know this, but there's this piece of news going viral about how Sandra Woo is on FHM.

Sandra Woo as in the Sandra Woo who was in WMS.

I know she's hot and all, but still, whoa. FHM, no kidding man.

So I'm like, whoa, I so have to see that! And I asked my mom to get me a copy so that I can look at it when I get back.

I'm gonna recycle it though!

I didn't quite know how to tell her to do that, because I was kinda scared that she'd flip if I told her to buy a.... men's magazine. FHM isn't exactly porno, you know. Especially not FHM Malaysia.

So my mom used Wei's account to talk to me on Skype.

suetwei: oh ya u ask me to buy u what just now?
suettyng tiong: FHM
suetwei: hi
suettyng tiong: hi who is this
Turns out it was my sister.
suetwei: what is FHM?
suettyng tiong: if this is not mummy im not telling you what it is
suetwei: no lah...ur sis lah want to use comp to print something lor
suettyng tiong: oh okay
suettyng tiong: hi wei
suetwei: she is off...so what is FHM?
suettyng tiong: its a mens magazine
suettyng tiong: and yeah
suetwei: huh men magazine? who u want to see ah?
suettyng tiong: its a mens magazine with women in it
suettyng tiong: BUT NO NAKED WOMEN
suetwei: ya lah...thenk the magazine shopkeeper must be thinking I'm lesbain how?
suettyng tiong: ask daddy buy hahahahahah
suetwei: ok lah which edition? the latest?
suettyng tiong: june one
suetwei: okie..

My mom just readily agreed to buy me an FHM magazine! And she didn't even ask me why! Like whoa. And she used "okie"! Like double whoa. Not that it's bad or anything, but not quite the response you'd expect from a parent if you asked them to buy a... men's magazine.
But yeah, I guess you've gotta be more liberal when parenting an almost 18 year old kid, I mean, the kid's almost an adult.

SO MUMMY, I KNOW YOU READ THIS, I JUST WANNA SEE YOU ARE THE BEST. Muacks.
And now you know why I asked you to buy... a men's magazine.

And Sandra Woo in FHM, is that pride, or disgrace?

Awh damn I'm so hungry.

Suet Tyng

So this is me swallowing my pride standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night.

2011-06-16T17:37:00.000+01:00

I'm sorry for being mad at you in the past two months.

I'm sorry for being too judgmental and too selfish.

So maybe you do care. Not quite like how I wished it to be but you still do, and I'm sorry I saw past that.

I'm sorry for taking you for granted.

I'm not gonna let myself get upset over this anymore.

Suet Tyng

I realise, it was only just a dream.

2011-06-15T13:16:00.000+01:00

"Could this be a dream? It can't be though, it feels too real."

And then I woke up.

It WAS just a dream. Only a dream.

It was one that didn't make sense, yet it was so realistic.

Not one of the best dreams I had, but it was one I wish was real.

Suet Tyng

You've been far away for far too long.

2011-06-14T15:51:00.000+01:00

You see, this is exactly what I was afraid of.

But it proves a lot of things. A lot of things that made me see the light.

Still, I'm quite pissed off at you. It shouldn't have happened. I shouldn't have had to go through this. It was a decision based purely on your emotional state.

It really didn't make sense that I had to suffer because of something that should have ended a long time ago, and had completely nothing to do with me.

Then again, why do I still care? I thought I was done with this.

Suet Tyng

And who do you think you are, running around leaving scars?

2011-06-12T18:22:00.000+01:00

Okay, so I was on Facebook and your picture appeared on my home page.

So I thought I might stalk you a bit.

That's what Facebook is for! Stalking! Jeez. Who doesn't stalk people on Facebook nowadays.

So yeah.

I can see that you are really happy now.

So maybe I don't have a right to judge you, considering I barely said two sentences to you during my five years of high school life. Plus, I don't even know what really happened, so it would be damn wrong to just blame you for everything.

But what you did to him really wasn't nice.

Yeah I know, it isn't nice of me to just judge you like that but I recently have had empathy for those who are in his shoes.

And over the last few months, I have seen enough to know that being in a situation that is similar to his is definitely not nice at all.

But then again, that really depends on who you are and what you are like, really.

Suet Tyng

I would do some M2, but my pencil box is with Faris.

2011-06-06T18:24:00.001+01:00

He lost his and he's got Physics exam today, so he took mine.

But that gives me an excuse to not study! >:)

So, I had a very, very busy weekend last week. The ASA people decided to surprise visit us, so yeah, took them out on Saturday to kinda like, tour around Cambridge. A lot better at tour-guiding this time than the time when I took Gwen and her dad around, that was epic fail, sorry Gwen. :P Jasmine was supposed to come with me, but she had to tidy her new place, so I did it alone, and it was quite fun actually! Walked around the market place a bit, and bought this shirt with really, really adorable designs! Naw. Took them punting, and I think I know every college that we pass by throughout the route now! Heh. If I go another couple of times, I think I can do the explaining of the colleges myself instead of the punting guy. And the guy was super nice, he gave us 2 pounds off each! 8) Went for lunch after that, walked for a bit, then off to the Strawberry Fair! I don't know why it's called the Strawberry Fair, I didn't see any strawberries at all. But there were stuff to buy, food and clothes and all. And almost every girl who were at the fair had this pretty flower garlands on their heads, so Charmaine and I bought one each and wore them too! So outside the fair we kind of looked like idiots. Heh.

After that, I went home, showered then off to the twins' house for dinner! Their mom is here with them so we got nice homey food that day. :) After dinner, we played Shadow Hunters! And I was the newbie there lol. But it was quite fast to pick up and it's really fun! I won my second game lol. Played three rounds of Shadow Hunters then we talked until 4 am, which was like, sunrise already! Yeah sun rises earlier here during summer. So when we got home we were sneaking around like ninjas so that the wardens wouldn't wake up. >:)

After 5 hours plus of sleep, Kok Weng, Faris and I went for barbecue with the A2 Malaysians, as well as Jiann Lee, Han Jun and Jaycee. Had no idea where the park was, but it's a really really nice place! There was a bunch of Malaysian Malays barbecuing there too, how coincidental, but they're not tourists, they live here in UK. Felt like home. :)

Strawberry Fair parade in city centre!

Punting. 8)

Swans! So pretty.

The whole family of them!

The riverside where we had our barbecue. Lovely place to have a cookout, no?

Watching Jiann Lee and Faris planning to ask for matches from the other Malaysian group.

Cooking. :)

Sotong.

Arai and Yee Hsiong playing with the Malaysian kids.

Feeding the ducks with leftover bread!

With Jaycee, Faris, Han Jun, Jiann Lee, Kok Weng and Yee Hsiong.

Alamin, anyone? For 99p?

So yeah, had a terribly hectic yet fun weekend! Time to hit the books now. ._.

Suet Tyng

With people running in circles it's a very very mad world.

2011-06-05T23:23:00.000+01:00

So today, I was on Facebook, as usual, looking through my News Feed, and I saw Jeremy's status about some Obedient Wives Club in Malaysia. And since I don't quite keep up with Malaysian news lately (in fact, on ANY news at all) I searched it up on The Star online.

And, oh look, there really IS such a club.

I mean, can you imagine, a bunch of women with heads covered in colourful cloths, sitting in one circle.
Woman: Hi, I am Siti, and I am a bad wife.
Everyone: Hiii Siti.

Might as well name them Bad Wives Anonymous.

The first question that ran through my mind when I read that was, What the f*ck?

Oh, and, they are giving sex lessons to make them better wives.

I may not know a shit about being a good wife but I'm not that dumb to know that there are OTHER BETTER ways to being one. The last time I heard, a way to a man's heart is through his stomach. His stomach, not his bloody penis. Sure guys are known having nothing else but sex in their mind but not ALL guys are like that! To say that ALL guys are horny would be such a sweeping statement.

And no matter how good a wife, how OBEDIENT you are, if the guy's an asshole, he's an asshole. Which is why, women, we must be extra careful so that we will never, ever, end up marrying one. Don't blame the wives for adultery in men! They're sad enough okay, having to deal with the pain of betrayal, and now you blame them for not being a good wife?

Dear reader, if you are not from Malaysia, well then, I think you should know that gender equity is almost non-existent in this country. Sure it isn't as bad as in the old days where you can't get education and go out to work, but male chauvinism definitely still quite strong here. I mean, men cheat on their wives, and their wives get blamed! And when girls get raped, the GIRLS get blamed for their dressing. Which is why at one point, the government school uniform, the baju kurung, which, by the way, covers almost every skin of the body, was apparently too sexy, because the top material is white and quite translucent. Unless he is a f*cking animal, most men should be able to control their sexual desires even if a woman is completely naked in front of him. Okay, may be not to that extent, but they should be able to control. Well, if he's horny, then he's horny! You can be wrapped in layers and layers and he'd still do you anyway. Pssh.

So all that is taught in the Malaysian syllabus about respecting women's rights, is nothing but shit written by hypocrites?

And, why would you need to join a CLUB to be a good wife?

Most women learn from their mothers, if not their grandmothers or any female whom they are raised by, to be a good wife. Even if you don't have anyone to follow suite, common sense and instinct will tell you how to be a good wife. Duh. Can't be that hard. Well, it doesn't look hard anyway.

And why should you be a good wife if the man isn't a good husband? Okay, sure Islam says that if you obey your husband, you go to heaven. So if your husband asks you to murder someone, isn't that against any religion? Okay, I'm being too extreme right now, because most men don't ask their wives to kill someone in their position but what I'm trying to say is, women have every right to not obey their husbands if their husbands tell them to do something they don't want to. And if a man is a good husband, he's never ask his wife to do anything they do not feel comfortable with and will not ill-treat her. Men marry women to be their wives, not their f*cking slaves.

Which reminds me of the time, where Shane, Geoffrey, Aisha, Jasmine and I were arguing about women obeying their husbands and Shane was like,
Shane: "You left a spot. I did not marry you to leave a spot there."

And why should women obey men? What are we, maids? Slaves? Shouldn't it be both ways? Men listening to women as well? Isn't that how a good marriage works? I'm not married and even I know that. And I certainly didn't have to join a CLUB to know that.

Of course, being a good wife doesn't only mean being good to your husband, but being a good mom as well. Well I can't really say anything about that, because I am completely clueless in that bit, but I'm quite sure that's the tougher bit. But why would you have to join a damn club to know how to be a good mom? Sure it shows your interest, but I wouldn't want my kids to be raised with skills that I picked up from a CLUB. I would want to raise and educate them in my own way, if not my mom's, thank you very much.

So yes, I think this Obedient Wives Club is not only completely unnecessary, but is extremely demeaning to women. I actually feel quite insulted about this. And this is why, Malaysia, you need more marriage counsellors. And you know where you can get marriage counsellors? Psychologists. And you know where you get psychologists? People who studied psychology in university, which means, Malaysia, time to hire more marriage counsellors. And do me a favour, please, do hire more psychologists, so that I don't end up jobless after graduating. And Malaysians, it's the 21st century, no one is gonna make fun of you for seeing a psychologists, you are not definitely not mad if you see one. Well, if someone does call you crazy, then he is a bloody caveman who hasn't evolved and chances are, he's still fascinated over seeing fire.

Extremely pissed off by this discrimination,
Suet Tyng

Movie madness.

2011-06-03T22:55:00.000+01:00

Guess how many movies I have watched since Saturday?

Okay, so Saturday, I went to see Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger's Tides with Geoffrey, Jasmine, Sachy and Alison. Oh and if you watch it make sure you look out for Philip Swift! He's the sexy shmexy priest fellow who is in love with this really pretty mermaid. Though I'm really jealous of that mermaid. But she's pretty, and they look good together, so, okay. So, we came back and saw Step Up 2 again on TV that night, before that we saw a bit of Nanny McPhee, also on TV. Then after Step Up 2 I finally got to see The Notebook, and I've been wanting to watch it since before Easter. And yes, it's a real good movie, albeit cliched but it's good!

Then Sunday, while waiting to watch The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button on TV, Home Alone was on so we saw a bit of that. Yeah I've seen Benjamin Button before but I didn't mind watching it again, it's good anyway! So yeah. This week is half term, so Monday we saw Mission Impossible 1 and 2, because somehow we have the whole trilogy at home. On Tuesday I saw Lord Of The Rings, the first movie, the Fellowship one, because, again, somehow we have the whole trilogy here. I think it's Faris' though. And yes, the first Lord Of The Rings movie came out ten years ago, I'm aware of that. I'm slow, okay?

Then on Wednesday, I was told that we were making a spontaneous trip to Cambridge Leisure for X-Men First Class. AND OMG OMG LUCAS TILL. I was like, :D LUCAS TILL!!! I really didn't expect him to be there, I was like, WTF, IT'S LUCAS TILL!!! Yeah. Sorry. So I've seen all the X-Men movies except for the first one, because, if you remember, I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that we're missing that one disc from the whole quadrilogy. So yeah.

Then yesterday, we finished the Lord Of The Rings trilogy! Yeah, it took like, six hours? But we had quite a break in between, because while we were watching the second one halfway we had a surprise visit from Winnie, Lai Yee and Charmaine, the ASA people. Lol.

Okay, so let's see, if you count Nanny McPhee and Home Alone as well, I'd have watched 12 movies in less than a week! Whoa. No wonder my FP1 mocks was shit. Yes I know I should really have used half term to do my Maths. I have a terrible feeling that on the 13th, when I'm doing my M2 paper, I'm going to regret spending 5 days of my half term watching 12 movies. And maybe when I'm doing my C3, C4 and FP1 as well. Oh dears.

Oh, oh, oh, and..!

For some reason I thought Tom Cruise looked a shit lot like Taylor Lautner in Mission Impossible 1. No? Hm. Maybe it's the hair. Yeah I think it might be. Cos you see, in the second movie Tom Cruise has long hair, and in the third movie he looks a lot older. Or maybe they just don't look alike at all. Hm. I guess it's just me. :/ But still, they are both hot to the max. Even though Tom Cruise is like, old. But he's hot okay! :P

Suet Tyng

I thought it felt right, but that right was wrong.

2011-06-02T15:05:00.000+01:00

Hello people! :D

Had FP1 mocks today, and FP1 class on Tuesday. Almost 5 hours of FP1 that day, can you imagine. D: Scary, I know. And, FP1 was so screwed up today! First, I was late for the exam, then I didn't have time to finish it! Even though I finished 5 minutes later than the time I'm supposed to stop. And I was... about 5 to 10 minutes late? Didn't finish two questions, one was because I really hadn't a clue, and the other one I knew how to but I ran out of time! Both were 7 marks each if I remember correctly, can you say, FML?
After class, walked down to city centre to get the bus, then for some reason I walked into Grand Arcade and made the most spontaneous window shopping trip ever. Walked into a couple of shops, then at New Look I saw some pretty things and I thought, maybe I'll just try it on. Took a look at the price tag, and they were like, less than 15 pounds each and I was like, :D New Look happens to have very cheap stuff, bought my May Ball heels there for only 7 pounds! DON'T CONVERT LAH, THEN IT SOUNDS CHEAP. YES I KNOW THAT IS FREAKING RM 35. Best part is, they have student discount, so I bought a blouse today for 9 pounds! And YES I KNOW THAT IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN MY HEELS, DON'T TELL ME IT'S RM 45 I KNOW THAT but I kinda got the heels from the cheap cheap corner of the store. Like, the stock clearance part. This is what I like about England man. Everything sounds cheaper than if you buy in Malaysia, although it's actually the same price really.
Lol speaking of student discount. Reminds me of the time when I was shopping at Forever 21 back in Malaysia during Easter break. You know how if you show your college card you get 10% off? So yeah, I tried that at the Pavilion one with my Abbey card. Apparently I couldn't use it because Abbey isn't Malaysian, so okay, I gave her my Wesley card. Yes, I still use it for discounts, how despicable of me. And it also got rejected, cos it isn't a college. So I'm like, fine. Then a few days later at the 1U one Wei wanted to buy something and the cash was on me, so while paying for it I'd thought maybe I should try again. So I gave the girl my Abbey card, and she looked at it, she went to the back and asked a few people, then asked me to sign something, and then I got the 10% off! Like whoa. I didn't think it will get through! I definitely love the 1U one more now.
So okay, walked for a bit, and then decided to go home. Usually I take the bus to Arbury or to the Science Park and walk home from there, and it's quite a long walk, about 10 minutes? I've been looking for Bus 9 since forever, because it goes right past my house, meaning I can get off at the stop near my house, but I cannot find where I can take it from, so it's really frustrating. So today, while queuing for the Science Park bus, there was this old lady who was like kinda blur and this guy asked her where she wanted to go, and she said the centre of Milton. Then the guy says you have to take bus 9, and I was like, oh yeah, but I can't find bus 9 anywhere. Then he asked the bus driver and he told us where to go, and I'm like, YAY, THANK YOU OLD LADY. :D But of all times I find it now, when I am about to move out in less than a month's time. Gah.
Okay I'm kinda hungry, gonna hunt for food now. :D

Suet Tyng

Partying partying yeah!

2011-05-29T18:27:00.000+01:00

Abbey's May Charity Ball! (7/5/2011)

My seat. Heh.

Lol Shane.

The guys.

Takun, the emcee.

Julian singing.

Jiann Lee, Ng and Faris, band performers. :D Gah don't have a picture of Jaycee and Jasmine performing. :/

With Jasmine.

Faris.

Stephanie and Han Jun.

Shane and Ng, lol.

Geoffrey.

Jiann Lee.

Han Jun.

Group hug before performance.

Yi Chin and Jasmine.

Ng.

Yi Chin and Andrew.

Andrew and Geoffrey.

Andrew and Shane.

Jiann Lee and China guy Jack.

Kok Weng.

Bouncers, lol.

Ezanie.

Shane.

Germaine and twins.

Band performance by Jiann Lee, Ng and Faris!

Malaysian football team taking their prize. :D

Eltjse, best dressed.

Kok Weng on the dance floor.

So yeah, that's it. :D Till next time.

Suet Tyng

So unrequited now.

2011-05-24T15:38:00.000+01:00

Okay, today, I decided to cycle down to Waterstones in city centre to return my books. So I cycled down on Aisha's bike, and I reached this park, and I cycled on this pavement where there were people walking as well.

So there was this bunch of ang moh ladies walking in the direction opposing mine, so we were like moving towards each other. And I was cycling like, at the side of the pavement, like really to the side and if I go anymore to the left I'd be on the grass, which I'm not sure I'm allowed to cycle on, and I wouldn't wanna hurt the pretty grass anyway.

So she pretty much saw me, and I kind of thought that since I can't cycle anywhere else, she'd at least move a bit to make way for me. But no, she didn't, and when I cycled past her, the handle of the bike hit her, since I HAD SO LITTLE SPACE. So I turned and apologised profusely (okay not quite profusely but I apologised!), but she swore at me! She was like, "Bloody hell!" but her friends were like, no, it's okay, and she was like, "SHE HIT MY ARM!"

Ma de, YOU didn't wanna move! >:( Diuuu.

Okay, I understand why she's so angry, because I hit her quite hard and I feel bad too! But it wasn't entirely my fault. :/

Then there was this old lady behind her group, meaning like in front of me, she was like,"It takes two to make an accident!" And when she walked past me she was like, "Always two."

And when I got back home, I closed the door on my finger! :'(

FML.

Suet Tyng

What hurts the most was being so close.

2011-05-21T20:11:00.000+01:00

When life decides to suddenly take someone you get so emotionally attached to just like that, without even a single goodbye.

Suet Tyng

Cos you had a bad day.

2011-05-19T02:05:00.000+01:00

So, today didn't go too well.

And it didn't start too well either. My hair band snapped into half! Like WTF. I was about to put it on, before washing my face and all, so that my hair doesn't get in the way, and suddenly, *snap*. And I'm like, =/ because it's the best one I have and it has sentimental value! So I'm still really frustrated about it.

Went into the toilet, and found out that I had an unwelcome guest. And she's gonna be here for a few more days so I'm gonna have to deal with it. That's two sad things in less than ten minutes! And I thought, today can't be good.

True enough, C1 and M1. C1 was alright, it's just that I was really careless at one part and I'm still kicking myself over it. M1 WAS PURE BULL SHIT I SWEAR, IT WAS SO MUCH TOUGHER THAN MOCKS. M1 sure pulled my confidence down. Not to brag but I did fairly well for my M1 mocks and I was actually quite confident about owning it, BUT NO! Why do you do this to me, AS? Edexcel, WHY????

Had lunch at Golden House with the whole bunch of guys, and met some Singaporean Cambridge students there. Some of them were really nice, talking to us and all, because some of our guys are Golden House regulars and they seem to Golden House regulars also so I guess they kind of recognise each other. And one guy, Linus, was one of the actors in the Malaysian Night play! When he came in I'd thought he looked familiar, and when he said his name was Linus I was like, "OH, YOU'RE THE GUY WHO ACTED IN THE MALAYSIA NIGHT RIGHT???" And he was like, "Uh, yeah, how'd you know?" And I was like, "Oh, we were all there." Yeah. They can be really nice people, not stuck up and kiasu like all the stories I've heard.

So anyway, bad day continues on after that, when I was at city centre with Kok Weng and Geoffrey, at the Boots self check-out till. I guess I kind of forgotten how to use a self check-out till, because turns out you're not supposed to remove the items from the bagging area. Funny, when I put my stuff there the machine told me to remove my items from the bagging area. Stupid confused machine which confused me. So the guy had to come help me out, and yeah, kind of embarrassing because I was buying pads and all. But there really is nothing that I should be embarrassed about, I mean come on, this is England, where they openly show butts on TV commercials. And they have commercials on online dating sites, and they don't censor swear words, sex scenes and gay/lesbian kisses. UNLIKE MALAYSIA, WHERE YOU'D BE WATCHING A COUPLE ABOUT TO KISS ON TV AND SUDDENLY IT KIND OF CHANGES TO LIKE AFTER THEY KISS AND YOU'D BE LIKE, WTF, IT'S JUST KISSING! And couples here are really affectionate, I swear. I was walking behind a couple one day and suddenly they just stopped and started making out in front of me! I was like, WTF, that's random! And caught another couple snogging away at Dominos, where they were waiting for their order and I was walking past them outside the shop, looking through the window.

Came back and watched X-Men 2, which I really didn't quite get. I mean (spoiler alert), why didn't Jean just restart the jet when she was in the plane itself. For her to get off and sacrifice herself was quite unnecessary wasn't it?? But yeah, I've seen the third one so I know what happens after that anyway. Yes, I'm watching the quadrilogy backwards, I started off with X-Men Origins, the Wolverine one. Then X-Men 3, and today X-Men 2. Geoffrey says this is like Benjamin Button haha. We're kind of missing the first disc though. Hm. =/

And just now, we watched Nine Months on TV! Now this movie is a really, really old Hugh Grant movie, heaven knows how old, so don't be surprised if you haven't heard of it. It was okay, Hugh Grant is really good-looking though! Even though he had that 90s kind of hair thing. Saw Hugh Grant last night on Bridget Jones, yes, the night before my M1, no wonder I screwed it up.

So yeah, should be really getting to bed now.

Suet Tyng

Say you won't forget, and I'll be okay.

2011-05-19T01:05:00.001+01:00

The days turn to hours, and it's just a moment before they go. I'm scared to say goodbye cos what's after that? I don't know.
As the years look past us, if we lose track or lose the fight, I'll search forever to find a way back.

Well, I didn't want an ending, but I guess in life we don't really have a choice do we.

Hm, I haven't really listened to this song since graduation, and now is actually a really good time to do so.

Suet Tyng

New Moon.

2011-05-12T20:54:00.000+01:00

When I first read New Moon, I really couldn't understand why Bella was so freaking emo. Like, hello, it's just a sparkly undead guy whom you have only known for a few months. Sure we all miss him too, but I just could not understand how it was possible to miss someone so much until you hear his voice in your head. That is not missing him, that is pure insanity.

Now, come to think of it, she must have been going through a pretty hard time hasn't she. I've probably been to judgmental. =/ Sorry Bella Swan.

Suet Tyng

You and I must make a pact, we must bring salvation back.

2011-05-09T22:49:00.002+01:00

So as we all know, there was this poor girl in SMK Raja Abdullah who got bullied by a bunch of immature ~~lala~~ kids, and she had her hair cut and was choked and all. (Yes, I am that 8, I get Malaysian news when I'm all the way here in UK)

After reading Kar Jin's post about this, I feel inspired to do one as well! So yeah. Like any normal person would react, I was really enraged after watching this. And I wasn't shocked to find out the people behind this were Form 1 or Form 2. I've never liked kids in that age group. Bunch of immature desperate tweens who think they are so cool and mature after entering secondary school. And they can be really rude, some of them. No respect for their seniors at all. Yeah, the kids in WMS included. No offense. But I'm okay with them when they get older, when they become more mature. And not all of them are rude and disrespectful, some of them are really adorable and polite. And I like kids in that category, not because I can bully them but because they actually show some respect.
Okay, so enough with my complains over little juniors who have a child's mentality, back to the real deal. If you have read Kar Jin's post, you shouldn't bother reading mine, which will look so stupid in comparison, but if you insist, okay. :D So yeah, if you have read Kar Jin's post, he mentioned that these kids shouldn't be expelled, because this is the time when they need the education, during this immature phase. There is some truth in that, I mean you can't blame them for having a child's mentality, they are children after all.
I'd like to believe that these kids are beyond redemption, and education is pointless for them since they can survive in life as barbers anyway. But no, that defies every principle that I have stood up for, which is to never give up on anyone at all, and this is the core of my principles for my future career as a psychologist.
And if you visit their Facebook profiles, you will find that the girls are blaming it all on one of them. We don't know if it really is just one person's fault, because we weren't there to witness it for ourselves, but if it really was just her fault, and they didn't want to face the consequences, why get involved in the first place? How could they just have stood by and watch the poor victim being bullied, and if they really didn't want to get into trouble, why didn't they stop her? And the video clearly shows that there is not just one person involved. Then again, we don't know for sure if all of them are involved, and if all of them were in it, well the others are just being plain irresponsible, like the immature children they are. Sure they are not mature enough yet, but by this age they ought to know that everything you do has its consequences, and they should face them responsibly.
And come on, what kind of person bullies another person so violently, takes a video of it, and posts it on Facebook? And it seems that they expect people to like it? Yet another proof of how little they think before acting.
So yeah, that's all I have to say so far. I hope the poor girl is okay though. I mean sure this is traumatising, but I hope that she is strong enough to overcome this.

Suet Tyng

I just haven't met you yet.

2011-05-05T23:31:00.001+01:00

Mocks are done, so now, pictures from Abbey Charity Fair! :D

Food stall. Selling really good Vietnamese food. :D And other food as well. Om nom nom.

With Jasmine. :)

With Alison and Sachy. :)

All the AS Malaysian girls! (Yes there are only six of us, how sad, I know right)

Emcee Shi Jie. ~~Ngehehehe I'm such an awesome photographer. ;D~~

Principal Julian and his son. :D

Adorable shiz yo.

Running towards Daddy.

Nawww. :)

Fashion show!

Awesome performance by Ng, Faris and Geoffrey! :D

More fashion show! :D

Shi Jie: And now, as a special treat for all our guests, we shall present to you Abbey College's version of Michael Buble, Principal Dr Julian Davies!

Yeah I typed that part of the script for him. :P And Julian sang Haven't Met You Yet! Such an awesome song, and he made it better! :D

Fed Fed, the ladies man. ;)

With Vikki's (?) daughter. At least I think it's Vikki's daughter.

Kok Weng, Soo Jin and Faris.

Milton bros, some of them at least.

With Arai. :)

Faris, Jasmine, Yi Tang above Jasmine, Kok Weng, Jaycee and Aisha. :)

Kok Weng, Geoffrey, Vice Principal Andrew, Faris, Takun.

So yeah, I'm done! Wheee. :D May Ball this Saturday, so excited! :D

Suet Tyng

All my life I've only been pretending.

2011-05-02T19:40:00.000+01:00

SOMEONE TAKE ME TO LONDON, TO WATCH LES MISERABLES RIGHT NOW!

Because right now, I'm actually feeling quite miserable.

Suet Tyng

We Scot the Power!

2011-05-01T20:55:00.001+01:00

And you know what else is depressing? I missed I.U. Day, also by a week! After retiring from Interact I had vowed to myself that I'd attend all the Interact events possible when I go to college this year.

BUT NO. I'M STUCK IN THIS MISERABLE PLACE, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM HOME.

It's really sad to see the I.U. pictures coming up everywhere, and how awesome it all looked, and wishing with all my might that I was there.

I'm really starting to wish I had never come here at all.

But still, congratulations Interactors! From the looks of it I.U. was definitely well done. :)

Suet Tyng

We were meant to live for so much more.

2011-05-01T20:27:00.001+01:00

I can't believe this.

I have been listening to Switchfoot for almost two years. I started listening to them after Shi Khai, Jen, Zhi-Yang and Ivan played Meant To Live during our Interact Installation in Form 4. Not that I didn't know about them previously, I've heard one or two of their songs before that, but it was only after that I really listened to Switchfoot. And I've always thought, it would be nice if they went to Malaysia. And that I get to see them perform.

Well, what do you know? Two years later here they are in Malaysia. But I'm not there. And guess what, I missed them by a week.

MY DREAM. TO SEE THEM PERFORM. CRUSHED. FLATTENED. SHREDDED. RUN OVER BY A STEAMROLLER. AJDBKSAJHSA. D:

So I am here now, having my own little Switchfoot concert. Although I'm a few hours too late actually.

I am so sad. :(

Sigh, at least I went shopping with Jasmine today! Fair enough.

Suet Tyng

Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.

2011-04-29T23:26:00.000+01:00

Congratulations Prince William and Catherine Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!

Missed the royal wedding live because of mocks. >:( But just saw the repeat, and gosh was it beautiful. It was like a fairy tale come true!

And her dress!! OMG it's so lovely. I want Sarah Burton to design my wedding dress too! :D Yeah if I have the money and the title, that is. But kind of a waste isn't it, that this dress is only worn once for this one occasion and it's kept away somewhere, never to see light again. It's a real pretty dress though, everyone has been gushing over it.

Kate looked really beautiful today. I'd always thought she was pretty, and today she looked prettier than ever. Like, she had that bride's glow and radiance. When I get married I want to be pretty just like her. :)

William could have done something about his hair though. No offense. I mean, there is no way he cannot afford to pay for hair planting treatment. I was looking through the pictures of the wedding and whenever there was an aerial shot, I could see this bald patch on his head! And I was like, :O, isn't he only 28 years old???

But yeah, the Brits really love their royal family. You can see that on TV and all. How they would camp five days before the wedding at the Royal Wedding route to get a good spot so that they may catch a glimpse of William and Kate. And the rest of the royal family, of course.

And, apparently Cambridge doesn't get today off, I don't know why. No wonder they went ahead with mocks. But isn't it kinda ironic, since they are now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge but we don't get today off. :/

I'm so happy for them!!! May they live happily ever after. :D

God save the Prince. And the Duchess of Cambridge, as she's now called.

Suet Tyng

What could you do if your good wasn't good enough.

2011-04-28T21:47:00.000+01:00

I know you're somewhere out there, somewhere far away.

It's so hard where we are, it's so far.

I need you so much closer.

I am damaged at best, like you've already figured out.

So I'm holding on to the words you said, you said that I will be okay.

But it will all get better in time.

I am gonna miss you like a child misses his blanket, but I've gotta get a move on with my life.

It's time to be a big girl now and big girls don't cry.

So I throw up a fist, throw a punch in the air, and accept the truth that sometimes life isn't fair.

And I forgive you for being away for far too long.

Suet Tyng

With you is where I'd rather be.

2011-04-26T20:24:00.001+01:00

But we're stuck where we are, and it's so hard, so far.

So as you all will know, I'm back in Cambridge. Sigh, two weeks was too short a break, but I guess we can't be greedy can we. Two weeks away from Cambridge, and the trees are green with leaves! How nice. Even the tree at the back of the house is growing some leaves.

Friday and next Monday are supposed to be bank holidays, but we have mocks. D:< Not so nice news to receive upon reaching school.

It's 8 something at night, but there's still daylight! Kinda like Malaysia's 7 something. Seriously, I don't know why they even bothered pushing the clock forward by one hour. This is so much better than when we first started out. Back in January, it was all dark by the time we finished school at 5.30! How depressing.

I left my Bear Bear in Malaysia. More the reason to emo. Now I don't have anything to cuddle to sleep. :(

Sigh, I really wanna go home, to where I belong.

I miss you terribly. Come back, please.

Suet Tyng

Don't, please don't.

2011-04-23T18:46:00.000+01:00

God, I am literally down on my knees begging you. I know my request is extremely selfish, but I really need this. Please God, not now.

Suet Tyng

Despicable me.

2011-04-22T20:33:00.000+01:00

And no, I'm not even talking about the cartoon.

I'm talking about, despicable, horrible, inhumane, selfish, me.

But still, how could you??? :(

Suet Tyng

Holidays, week two.

2011-04-20T13:48:00.000+01:00

Oh my goodness, Wednesday already??? Won't be long before Sunday comes. :( I don't wanna leave Malaysia so soon. :((( Bah, three days of school next week is so not worth missing I.U. and Wei Liem's school concert. And Nick wants to have a vector's test next week. D: More the reason to stay here.
Went over to study at Shi Jie's ~~insanely huge~~ house yesterday, since he coincidentally (and not to mention conveniently) lives so nearby. And it was really productive! Almost finished a C4 paper and an M1 paper. Probably wouldn't have done anywhere near that if I hadn't gone over. Reminds me of that time when Jen-Li, Kar Jin and I went over to Sheeks' place to do our Add Maths homework. We got Shi Khai to do his homework for once, lol. Clappity clap clap.
Been listening to a lot of Bond and Escala lately. Weird, this sudden fetish for string quartets. Hm.
And yearbook, why aren't you out yet??? If it doesn't come out by tomorrow heaven knows when I will be able to actually take a look at it. I want it before I leave!!
Hm, should get back to my M2 paper, have got some more papers to do, and not to mention Chem as well! D: I'm doomed to eternal oblivion.

Suet Tyng

Durian Democracy.

2011-04-17T18:20:00.002+01:00

I swear, if Kar Jin does not end up being a politician, I don't know what else he will be. And when he becomes one, I'd so vote him as party leader/Prime Minister or whatever that is politicians get voted for. Not because I'm biased, like, Oh, that guy was my friend in high school, but because he speaks out for us. For every thing that the government does that discontents me, he speaks out with such wit but with no form of extremity in his blog, Durian Democracy, which is a must visit for everyone. Usually I don't give a shit about politics, which is exactly what this blog is about, but this isn't exactly about politics, it's just about how he views the politics, which is extremely mind blowing and perspective widening in every way.
The stuff he says are so true! And his super pro bombastic English makes my English look like shit! Then again my English is shit. But his English makes mine look way, way more crappier in comparison. Like, maybe primary school level. And by primary, I mean lower primary level, like Standard 1 kind of level. Yes, I sound that shit next to Kar Jin.
Then again, Kar Jin's speeches/essays/debates/acting has never failed to impress me in my five years of knowing him. ;)

Suet Tyng

Awesome day number 2!

2011-04-17T16:59:00.002+01:00

Had dim sum for lunch at Shangri-La with grandma and some relatives. After lunch headed to Mid Valley where the gang were already at. Spaghetti, our favourite hang out spot. And all that was left for me was a miserable chunk of Yee Theng's birthday cake. Hahaha. But it was so awesome catching up with them! It feels like so long since I last saw them. :) Funny how the last time I saw them was also at the same place.

Walked around a bit after that, then Giselle and Wee Kii joined us. Jia Jen came much later, after most of the people have left! Haha that girl. So yeah, we actually just walked around, didn't do much, then everyone started leaving.

Oh and we bumped into Russell Pang! Haha. Cos after a while, Jen, Van and I split from Yee Theng, Giselle and Weeks, and he bumped into them earlier, and he was like, "So many Wesleyans here today!"

Haha.

Left Mid Valley, then dinner at Lala Chong with some family friends. Uncle Pak Onn's birthday, so yeah, we had a cake for him and all. Yin Li saw me there, but I didn't see her! Haha. I'm so blind without my specs. x)

So yeah. Been slacking for the past three days, must really get serious on my work now! Yes, three days, on Friday as well when I went to watch Rio with Mun. :D

And, HAPPY BIRTHDAY YEE THENG! :)

Suet Tyng