It's hard to say goodbye

Don't get me wrong. No one died! It's just that...my dad left for Malacca this morning.

I haven't told many people about this. Only my bf knows at this point. My father was promoted. The only Chinese on the list and the most junior person to be promoted to this position. The only thing is he has to transfer to Malacca.

I don't feel particularly sad about it, just a little weird. It's not like I don't love my dad. Of course I do. I just don't feel sad because we are used to it. Dad wasn't home when he went studying in USM. He wasn't home when he worked in Kuala Kubu Baru. I don't really remember, but I think it wasn't until I was in secondary school that my dad got transferred back to Ipoh.

The weird feeling does not come from the fact that I won't be able to see my dad every day like I used to (I started university. I don't see my family all the time). It's because I know things will be different, again, for my mom and my younger sister. After this semester break I'll be going back to university. My maid will be leaving within this week. With my mom working every day, who is going to keep an eye on my brother so that he doesn't do anything illegal (I'm not exaggerating)? After he joined me in university next year, who is gonna keep my younger sister companied? She's not a normal kid. She doesn't go to school. I'm sure she'll be feeling lonely when we're all gone. I hate to think about that......

Suddenly, I wish I could go back to when I was little. I used to tell my mom that I wouldn't leave home no matter what I do in the future. I will get a degree in Ipoh ( I used to think there will be a university in Ipoh when I was ready to attend). I will work in Ipoh (That's before I want so badly to leave this country, stay overseas and never come back). I will never leave my family.

Before going to university, the thought of everyone leaving home never crossed my mind. Guess I wasn't ready to grow up then. Maybe I am still not ready to grow up yet.

What is the purpose of living...

...without my favourite TV drama showing every day at 7 p.m. from today onwards??!!

I won't mind if I bought the DVD, but I can't find it anywhere. Just like I can't find it when I was addicted to it 5 years ago.

God, is it necessary to punish me this way?

Erm, I guess God isn't exactly punishing me, but is trying to stop me from going completely crazy, before things get out of hand. Seriously, everyone knows how I get obsessive with things I like. I do think I'm sort of an extremist. I love AND hate things to the fullest. The last time I was obsessed with a singer, I went all the way to Europe just to get his special edition CD. Ended up getting his calendar for about RM 70. And the only time he came to Malaysia, I actually WON his concert tickets in a Hitz.TV SMS contest! I got the VJ calling me and stuff. I've never won any lucky draw before. It was SO COOL......until I found out the concert was on a school day and therefore no one will be able to accompany me to KL and also the fact that my mom will kill me for missing school to catch my idol. That saddened me so much that I cried for 2 days continuously.

Gawd, how idiotic can a 17-year-old be? Looking back at what I did, I finally know.

My recent obsessions didn't cause me buying air tickets or concert tickets though. Instead, I source my energy to something less expensive: creating fan sites.

Anyway, back to the topic. I'm really sad that the series ended. What am I gonna do all day without a nice TV series to watch???

Erm......actually, I have 2 coursework and 1 assignment. But I decided to temporary ignore the fact. LOL!

So I'm spending more time online nowadays than usual. To search for news about Nick Cheung and Jessica Hsuan. You know, just to catch up from where I've left it 4 years ago. So far, I've found out that Nick's 11-month-old daughter is named Justine (what a nice name); and that when Chae Rim got divorced with her husband he was one of the suspects (another was Alec Su); and Jessica finally broke up with her businessman bf.

I used to wish Nick & Jessica were a couple in real life, although I knew for sure that they will never end up together. They were both fully committed with someone else at that time. It's definitely impossible to them to be together now, since Nick is married. Well, it doesn't bother me much. I've passed the age where it bothered me whether my idols end up together. Besides, even if they did - end up together, I mean - they might probably get divorced like Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson (erm......is there any connection between those two couples? Nah, it just rhymes).

Anyway, they were my first idols. I've never liked any artiste enough before that to look for their info online. And I think I should remind you what the internet connection was like 5 years ago. There was no Streamyx. It was difficult to search for Chinese sites using Yahoo or Google or anything. My classmates actually believed that the "Ask Miss X" sections in entertainment magazines tell you EVERYTHING there is to know about your idol. I was the only one in class who would search for info online. So you can imagine, I was hailed the "idol specialist" in my class. Anything you'd like to know about your idol, turn your head around and ask me. If I can't answer you immediately, come back tomorrow and you'll receive a 10 paged long portfolio about your idol.

Yup, that was what Esther Danielle Tio was like, 5 years ago. Gives me shudder now that I think of it. I wonder how many extra As I'd have gotten in my SPM if it weren't for my idol obsessions. It didn't affect my PMR though. I still got 8As. But that's nothing to be proud of. Coz everyone else in my class and the class next to us got 8As in PMR when I was in secondary. That makes almost 90 straight A students in our year.

Whatever. I just hope my obsession won't get in the way of my studies again, which I think is exactly what is going to happen......Sigh......

Make-up tips

Saw a makeover show on TV last week. Decided to try the blue eyeshadow look when I was doing nothing in my room. So here goes:

Well, the result might not be the optimum, bcoz I only used what I can find in my makeup bag. And having seen the pics, I think I might have used too little makeup. The colors are not bold and striking enough to pass as a mini smoky eyes look. Whatever. It's not as if I'm professional. This is as good as it can get.

Anyway, I'm giving a few personal tips here if you'd like to try this at home. Generally, a shade of blue looks nice on Asian eyes. But it's risky to put on blue eyeshadow at the same time, as wrong application will make your eyes look puffy. So, rule number one: DO NOT smear blue eyeshadow ALL OVER your eyelids. You have to contrast it with darker shades such as dark brown or black. What I did was I only used blue on the middle part of my eyelids and I blended in black eyeshadow and eyeliner to complete the look. This way your eyes look deep and concave instead of looking blotchy. Curl eyelashes and apply mascara to enlarge eyes.

More tips:

1. If you're using eyeshadow which is in powder form, it tends to fade after a short period. So before applying it, use eyeliner pencil on your upper lids. Draw a bold line and smear it with your middle finger. This way the powder will stick on to the eyeliner and it will last longer. It also enhances the color of your eyeshadow.
2. If you have fair skin, light blue looks sweet on you. But if you have a dark skin tone, you should not use light blue because it will make your skin look darker. It also makes you look pale. Personally, I always prefer electric blue.
3. Bold eyebrows can actually enlarge your eyes.
4. If you have small eyes, do not draw full eyeliner as it will make your eyes look even smaller. Start from the middle part. The line should be thinner at the start and bolder towards the end.

The items I used to achieve the look:

The black eyeshadow from the big eyecolor palette, Za 10CT eyeshadow (dark brown & beige), Loreal Holographic (xenon blue), Za Ever Liner for eyes (white), Maybeline Line & Design Auto Natural Brow Liner (gray), Maybeline Line & Design Eye Liner (velvet black), Maybeline Line & Design Auto Eye Liner (blue black), Loreal Volume Shocking construction mascara (black), Loreal Double Extension mascara (black).

My fave TV drama of all time...

...is NOT "My Name is Kim Sam Soon", to be truthful.

I only realised that when I got addicted to this HK drama called “Game of Deceit”, again.

Yeah, this is not the first time I got addicted to this drama. When it premiered in Astro's channel 30 (it was channel 16 then) five years ago, I was SO into it I had to watch every episode as many times as they would rerun it, which means three times per episode. I even woke up in the middle of the night to catch it. It was WAY serious than my Kim Sam Soon addiction.

Now that it's airing in TVB XingHe, I'm doing the same thing. Watching every episode for at least two times per day, five days per week.

Which is a very, very weird thing to do. In fact, I don't even understand why I'd have liked the drama so much in the first place. It's not half as meaningful as Kim Sam Soon. And Nick Cheung is SO NOT Hyun Bin (I mean his looks. Nick's acting skills are better than Binnie's). And Jessica Hester Hsuan is......well, erm......I'll have to be honest. Personally, I'd choose Jessica over Kim Suna. Not because Suna is not good enough, of course. It's just that......Jessica is my ultimate role model. She's very pretty and she's a genius. I know Suna majored in Piano in Ball State University, Indiana, which makes her smart as well. But come on, Jessica graduated from University of London, Imperial College, majoring in Engineering, as one of the top students. I don't know how she could do Algebra in her head and be so good in acting at the same time. Seriously, I'd give anything to get admission to University of London (not Imperial College though. That's for science. I'm aiming UCL). I'd give anything to be as smart as her.

Anyway, back to the topic. I mean, it's not like “Game of Deceit” is a multi-award-winning drama like Kim Sam Soon. The script is not well-written, although it did give the audience many surprises. It's just another typical TVB production, made to earn money from commercials. A commercialized drama made to entertain......
Then again, maybe that is the point of making TV dramas. To entertain, I mean. “Game of Deceit” definitely succeeded in entertaining. Although Nick Cheung and Jessica Hsuan acting as a couple might not seem like a good idea at first, their chemistry turned out to be really good in the drama, just like Kim Suna and Hyun Bin in KSS. Besides, which Hong Kong actor could be funnier than Nick Cheung?

Here's the final episode of "Game of Deceit":


Call me lame, but I've always liked Nick Cheung as an actor. He's passionate in every production and he's the BEST comedian ever. And he sings pretty well too (I've uploaded his song to this blog).

I'd go as far as saying he's one of the most underrated actors in HK. With his talent and dedication, he should have won a Hong Kong Golden Film Award YEARS ago. I'm serious. You should look at his recent projects which took part in various international film festivals (Cannes film festival, Venice film festival etc.), such as "Breaking News", "The Election", "On The Edge" and the most recent "Exiled", which I'm actually half-way watching (I'm learning to appreciate award-winning films even though I can't understand the stories half the time. It's not an easy business to guard myself from falling asleep, coz there wasn't a single line from any actor for the first 15 mins of "Exiled", except the beginning part where Francis Ng went knocking on the door and asked "Is Ah Ho in?" and Josie Ho went "There's no such person.").

Trailer for "Exiled" (Oh by the way, like all the nicest movies ever produced, this movie is of course banned in our country. You know, it's really unfair that we have to watch these good movies on pirated DVDs when they were meant to be appreciated in cinemas):

iPAQ Pocket PC

Another post about PC. But don't get me wrong, I'm not advertising for hp (not that I wouldn't want to if they offer me the job). I just LOVE hp products.

This is my hp iPAQ Pocket PC h1940:

It's slim and lightweight.

My dad got this iPAQ in Singapore two years ago. It was expensive then. I'm not sure of the current price. He gave it to me last year, but I wasn't making much use of it except for breaking records in its featured game, Jawbreaker.

Earlier in the evening, I spent some time fishing out the charger and external memory cards buried in my drawer. I figure I'm gonna explore it a bit so that I'll be able to use it in college next semester.

Seriously, my room is filled with all these electronic gadgets now. I have this hp pocket PC next to my hp notebook next to the table for my desktop, where my hp printer and desktop monitor sits. My cellphone is put beside my bed at all times. No wonder I can't seem to get enough sleep. The radioactive is really bad for health.

My new notebook PC

Figure I'll introduce my newest toy a bit. It's a Hewlett-Packard (HP) Compaq Presario V3000. Just got it last month.



Info:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo processor (1.66 GHz)
Display: 14.1" WXGA high-definition widescreen display, with BrightView option
Weight: 5.3lbs
Communications: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network with Bluetooth
Memory: 512MB RAM
Hard disk: 80 GB

Price: RM 3674.00 (plus another RM 340.00 for genuine Windows XP Home Edition. So I got it for RM 4014.00 in total.)

User's review:
No comment at the moment. With update you with this after I tested its ability to withstand extremely frequent virus attack when I bring this baby back to university.

In Christmas mood already?

I know I am. Haha!

It seems a bit too early to play Christmas carols, but I uploaded one on this blog anyway. LOL! Today, me and my mom put up the Christmas tree. I love putting up Christmas tree. Can't remember a single Christmas that we celebrated without the tree in our living room.

Our Christmas tree is always exceptionally colourful, with excessive amount of decorations. This is the way me and my mom like our tree. We've been collecting Christmas decorations for ages to achieve this effect. Something is missing here though. PRESENTS. Haha! Waiting for my uncle to come back from Germany for that. (Sorry, the pics are not clear coz I used my lousy w550i to capture these.)

Although I have a phobia to dolls, there is a larger version of that doll on the tree beside my bed. One with glowing wings.

Traditionally, these candles are put by the windows during Christmas to guide Santa Claus' sleigh at night. But of course, we don't usually have those glass windows without ugly iron bars in Malaysia and anyone with common sense wouldn't use real candles. So windows are replaced (rather strangely) with the audio set and candles are replaced with lightbulbs.

Did I ever mention that Christmas is my favourite festival? Although strictly speaking, Christians don't celebrate Christmas and we certainly don't get angpaus like we do during Chinese New Year, I still choose Xmas over CNY because...

1. Christmas carols are WAY better music compared to CNY songs. I hate CNY songs. They are ear-splitting and cause serious migrane. Plus every year you'll see little girls/aunties and uncles with freaking horrible makeup coming out with CNY VCDs, which usually consist of the EXACT SAME songs in their release during the previous CNY. The remix versions are EVEN worse. Totally "ah beng-ish" and lame. You know, these people should get fined for creating noise pollution.
2. Presents are better than angpaus. Preparing presents requires much more patience and sincerity, although it always causes headache to get suitable presents for every member in the family. Besides, exchanging presents and tearing up wrapping papers are such a fun. With angpaus, you always have to be very careful when opening the packet so that you don't accidentally tear the $$; you are always competing with your siblings to see who gets more $$......Basically, it's ALL about $$ and how you lose half of it gambling with your cousins.
3. Christmas decorations are colourful and attractive. CNY decorations are just......red.
4. Hollywood's year-end blockbusters only come out during Christmas, not CNY.
5. CNY causes air pollution. Think fire crackers and joss sticks.
6. The amount of saturated fat intake during CNY is a frightening figure. Christmas is OK because the celebration is only one day and there's only one Christmas feast. That is reasonable. But during CNY, you eat all kinds of junk food and drink as much soft drink as humanly possible throughout the FIVETEEN days of celebration. The effect on your waistline is instantaneous.

Having said that, I don't hate CNY. I mean, I couldn't hate it. I'm Chinese after all. I just like Christmas better.

P/S: If a Christmas-hater is called the Grinch, I wonder what a CNY-hater is called. Any idea?

Just when I thought things couldn't get weirder...

...they did.

Another list of weird wonders:

1. My cellphone
I honestly thought it's screwed up when I still couldn't hear a thing this afternoon. So I took my phone and the warranty card to the retail at Kinta City, where I got the gadget. Guess what? The first person I saw the moment I stepped into the shop is Michael (my classmate in A-Levels), sitting at the counter, looking blur like he does 24/7. And the first thing he said to me was, "Why are your nails black?" Not "hello". Not "when did you come back?". Why are my nails black?!
As if that question alone was not weird enough, I handed him my phone and told him the problem. So he experimented by using my phone to call. After a few seconds, he looked up to me and said, "It's working."
WHAT?! I snatched the phone and listened to it for myself. It's INDEED WORKING!
My phone repaired itself after going haywire for more than 12 hours. Weird huh?
He said if I insist to get it repaired they'll have to send it to the manufacturer in KL. So I decided to ignore it for now. I'll send it for repair when it's entirely spoilt.

2. Harry Potter and the Hairy Penis.
You know things are seriously wrong when Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe landed himself a role in a stage production called "Eqqus", where he has to strip naked in one of the scenes. COMPLETELY NAKED! ON STAGE! "It'll be the most explicit nude scene ever staged......", says Sunday Telegraph.

According to the article in Telegraph, "Equus, which had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1973, is one of the most controversial and acclaimed works in the English language. It charts the relationship between Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, who will be played by Radcliffe's Harry Potter co-star Richard Griffiths, and Alan Strang, a disturbed teenager who is referred to him after blinding a horse with a metal spike. Over the course of the drama the psychiatrist carries out interviews with the patient and his family to try to find a motive for the crime. At the heart of the story is Strang's obsessive and very physical relationship with a horse called Nugget. In one scene, a naked Strang kneels before the horse as an act of worship. In another, he is clearly sexually aroused by the act of riding the animal."
This, is FREAKING ME OUT. Not only that he's gonna be naked, he's gonna act as if he's sexually aroused by the horsey......
OH MY GOD. OH...MY GOD!!! I'm chatting about this topic with my friend Brigid right now and she's like, "he actually has to get aroused? Means......PHYSICALLY aroused?"
Are you thinking what I'm thinking???
GROSS!!! Eww, eww, eww! SUPER GROSS!!! That's it. End of this topic. I'm SO grossed out.

Oh wait, this is the poster of the play (Dan's torso ps-ed with a horse face):

3. These irresponsible parents might as well murder their babies.
Read this article on Yahoo! News:

Gandalf, Superman and Madonna coming soon to British playgrounds
LONDON (AFP) - Britney, Tiger, Gandalf and Madonna will soon join the more usual Peters and Janes in Britain's playgrounds, while Harry Potter may also drop in, according to a new survey of babies' names.
Other newly-fashionable choices include Snoop, after the US rap star, who may end up hanging out with Reebok and Adidas, said the survey of what parents are choosing to call their offspring.
"It seems that many of us are happy to take hero worship to a whole new level, naming our children after the stars we admire," said Sarah Malone of www.findmypast.com, the website which compiled the survey. "
However, it would appear that the famous British sense of humour is alive and well, with six parents naming their son Gandalf, along with one Harry Potter and two Supermans," she added.
Sport is a big supplier of names, with 1,191 little Tigers emulating the US golf star -- the top male namesake overall -- while there are three David Beckhams, 39 Gazzas, two Reeboks and three children named Adidas.
Bizarrely, there are 26 Arsenals -- a mixture of boys and girls whose parents are presumably big fans of the north London football club.
From the world of music, Australian star Kylie Minogue has inspired the biggest gaggle of little girls, with 7,261. In contrast, Madonna only manages 288 namesakes, easily beaten by 1,611 Britneys.
Among actors Keanu Reaves has given birth to some 1,120 little nominal offspring, while Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches has also produced a reasonable crop of followers, as has Apple, of which there are two.

How irresponsible and selfish to commit such a crime on your own children. Don't you realize your kids are stuck with these silly, bizarre, humiliating names for the rest of their lives? Superman? I tell you, he's gonna get beaten up by bullies in school all the time for having this name.

Oh yeah, I just saw this video on YouTube. A news relating to the Britney & Kevin sex tape.

People are SICKENING weird nowadays.

P/S: Seems like I just keep writting about other people's life instead of my own. But since my life is so pathetically boring recently, it's better that I stick to other people's scandalous lifestyle (at least for now), just so you wouldn't get bored to death.

I'm a mad mad girl in a weird weird world...

The world is getting weirder by day. The Altantuya Shaaribuu case is heading nowhere with more and more confusion (I know some inside stories about the case. But sadly, can't share it here. Don't wanna kena ISA). My w550i suddenly became malfunction and I can't hear people talking from the other end. Malaysian film producers came up with another rubbish called "Cicakman", which is supposed to be the Malaysian Spiderman. Bai Ling got casted in the next season of "Lost". Britney Spears is getting divorced with her idiot of a husband, Kevin Federline (better known as K-Fed nowadays. Thanks to Perez Hilton the man)......Wait a minute. Britney getting divorce does not count. Coz that's not weird. That's expected.

Which is why the rest of this post will be a mixed analysis of every weird case above (except the high profile murder case I mentioned).

1. My cellphone.
What has happened to my cellphone? I totally can't hear a thing when someone calls me! It's not like I dropped it or anything. This is weird. Don't tell me after I dropped it accidentally a month ago, it only started going haywire now.
Gawd, do you think I still get warranty for this? I actually like the phone very much, you know. The audio quality is execllent. Sigh.

2. Cicakman.

Whoa. This is so creative! Oh, oh I got another idea. Why not SAMPAH-MAN instead?
It's pathetic. There's no other description. It's just plain PATHETIC. Will they ever get tired of "copied-in-malaysia" movies (notice, it's "copied", not "made")?
I just wanna ask why. Why do you have to make CGI movies when both you and us know you suck at it? What for you produce something which you obviously realize you don't have the skills to produce? You know it's gonna make ppl laugh their asses off. Cicak man VS Spiderman. One pinky of Spiderman can crush one million Cicakmen and reduce them to Cicak powder I tell you. Don't they know how to use their brains? I'm not saying you cannot copy. But copy ppl's STRATEGY, not story. Look at Thailand, they've got good boxers and ah guar (transsexuals), so they produce action movies and ah guar comedies. Look at Korea, you ever see them do CGI arr? Koreans are good in tear-jerking romance movie with a classy air. That's why they went for it.
Look into your strengths. What's special about our country?
The multi-racial society! That's the uniqueness of our country...... Sadly, that is also one topic which is taboo to local filmmakers (think "Sepet"). The only successful film we've ever made is "Puteri Gunung Ledang". But to hell with it, that version is not even Malacca's version of the story ok? It's the Indonesian version. Besides, that film is commercialized. It has lost its artistic and historical value because it's only packaged to entertain the angmos (westerners), just like all the costume Chinese films like "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon".
Once in a blue moon when the Malaysian film producers do come out with good films (like "Sepet" and the one about Communists), they get banned half the time. Only rubbish like Cicakman, Diva Popular and even Remp-It, which actually sets a very negative example to teenagers, encouraging them to "remp-it" more often, can survive the scanning.
How the hell is our film industry gonna improve this way?

3. Bai Ling? Has the director finally "LOST" his mind on the island?
Gawd, is this legal? Is Bai Ling even an actress in the first place? She certainly doesn't dress like one.

This pic is almost reponsible for causing me to puke Milo on my brand new laptop.

Why in the world do they wanna hire her? Maybe they are trying to make Evangeline Lily look more beautiful than she already is in comparison. Come on, if u wanna get an Asian, please be respectful to all Asians and get a decent one. Kim Yoo Jin was good in the earlier seasons. Why Bai Ling the hooker? Well, maybe she is playing a hooker.
Whatever. Bai Ling is totally embarrassing us as Asians. So does Zhang ZiYi with all her brainless, hypocritical and superficial statements.

4. Britney & Kevin: Chaotic...is an understatement.
I'm not analysing this. Everyone knows the reason they are getting divorce. It's because the horny pimp and the dumb blonde are not meant for each other.
You might wanna read this news from http://www.philly.com:

THE MOVIE that sinks Britney Spears' career may not be "Crossroads."

According to Britain's News of the World, Spears' layabout husband Kevin Federline, has four hours of XXX sex footage of him and his estranged wife. With the tape as leverage in a divorce settlement, it could be an expensive day at the orifice for the former pop tart. K-Fed has reportedly been offered nearly $50 million for the tape. (The price, however, could double if Britney's wearing nothing but her mouseketeer ears.) Britney reportedly fears that release of the footage on the Internet will change her image from wholesome to ho-some, so Kevin is reportedly seeking more than $30 million plus custody of their two children to keep the tape hidden. The home video is alleged to show the couple early in their relationship two years ago, holed up at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Said a source: "They did nothing all day but have sex - and play the odd game of chess."
Chess? (Could we go from "One Night in Paris" to "One Knight in Britney"?) "They were insatiable," added the source, "and they believed they would be together forever. "Britney didn't think twice about making the video at the time. She mistakenly believed that their love would last." To paraphrase the Shangri-Las: "Hate to say we told you so, but we told you so..." "Kevin has told Britney she should comply with his demands," said the source, "otherwise the whole world will see her having sex, which will be devastating." Checkmate. "
At the moment Kev is in talks with a company in Arizona about putting the four-hour sex vid online." Hmmm... celebrity sex tape broker David Hans Schmidt is based in Phoenix... A Britney source replied: "She is absolutely furious with Kevin, and knows a full-on sex video could almost certainly ruin her chance of a career comeback. "They were made for the couple to watch in the privacy of their home. She never thought that he'd threaten to SELL them." Oh, Britney. Cute as a button. Dumb as a post. "Britney has contacted her lawyers to see how she can stop him," said her source, "but it is going to be a hard one. It is his tape, so in theory he owns the copyright."
As for K-Fed standing Britney up at the restaurant at NYC's Park Avenue Regency Hotel being the last straw before divorce, News of the World says it's worse than that. Britney supposedly threw a fit at the hotel, demanding the keys to Kevin's room. "It is against the hotel's policy to give keys to people not staying in the hotel," said a source, "but she was so upset that when she demanded it they handed it straight over. "She raced up to his room and found another girl in there. "Two members of staff were fired for handing over the keys, but the damage was done." (Ironically, about the same weekend this took place, Tattle was at the Regency for the "casin0 Royale" press day. There, beautiful Bond girl Caterina Murino locked herself out of her room and it took the entire power of Sony Pictures to get her a new key... to her own room.)
According to News of the World's version of the pre-nup, K-Fed was worth around $30,000 when the couple wed. Britney was worth approximately 2,000 times that. He was raking in about $75,000 a year at the time (mostly working for her), while she was bread-winning a little less than $20 million. More News of the World raunch: A Las Vegas hooker claimed that during the time Britney was pregnant, she and K-Fed "went to two casin0s then back to his hotel suite... . There were lots of drugs - cocaine, weed and ecstasy. We shared an E in his limo on the way then passed out on his bed." A pricey stripper said she also spent quality time with the classy Mr. Federline. "Kevin said we could be together if he wasn't married," she said. "Another time I went to his hotel suite and the tub was full of strippers."

Ouch, that hurts both Britney's heart and her pocket. Divorce can be an expensive matter you know. I don't pity her though. It's completely her fault that she's both blind and deaf. The guy has been dumping girlfriends with kids before her and ppl have been trying to talk her out of the marriage. I mean, even Justin Timberlake tried to talk to her about it (he could've ignored it and let her dig her grave, but he adviced her anyway). She just can't see and can't hear. And she has the guts to ignore prenup agreement "to show her unconditioned love and trust" to Kevin. She's such a disgrace to the female population's intelligence.

We can surely count the days to the end of the world with all these weird stuff happening.

You MUST be kidding me...

WARN!NG: If you are my friend, PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS POST, unless you'd like to see me committing suicide.

I've just had a fight with my parents this evening.

You know, I REALLY wouldn't talk about this here if I'm still keeping my journal. But since I have this blog now and juicy stories do attract readers; and I'm so in need to release the frustration I have in me; I have no choice but to tell you the most embarrassing thing I've ever heard in my life.
“They ask you out so often just because they wanna tackle you and you are stupid enough to go out with them,” said Dad when I told Mom I'd like to go out with my friends to watch a movie tonight.
At that moment I was literary speechless! SPEECHLESS! It took me such a great effort to stop myself from replying,
“Oh don't be silly Dad. Your daughter never had admirers because she's often seen by the guys as too arrogant to mix with them. Besides, she doesn't even have friends, since she doesn't go out. So don't worry, she'll never have admirers.”
And I'm not even being sarcastic.

Oh. My. God. I can't believe he said that. Seriously, I'm starting to feel a bit reluctant to post this thing because it's SO gonna win a gold medal for the Most Embarrassing Conversation of the Century. And maybe another gold for the Most Mistaken Impression 2006.
Me? The guys wanna tackle ME? Puh-lease, don't ever repeat this statement to ANY of my guy friends. I don't wanna be the BIGGEST JOKE of the year. Who in a right mind would want to tackle a girl who's:
1. Not pretty.
2. Fat.
3. Not smart.
4. Not allowed to date.
5. Not allowed to go out with guy friends too frequently (too frequently here means more than once a fortnight).
6. Not allowed to go out with friends too frequently (too frequently here means more than once a week).
7. Not allowed to go out without a purpose (without purpose means not necessary. Not necessary means watching a movie that you have not been waiting a few years for it to show, or window shopping at the mall when you have nothing important to buy, or hanging out at the cybercafe when you have internet access at home), which actually means I'm not allowed to go out AT ALL, because other than all the activities I've listed above, there's NOTHING ELSE this extremely boring city of Ipoh could offer teenagers.
8. Not allowed to do something which is unnecessary (means reading a book which is not a textbook for one whole day in the privacy of my room, or going online to do something which is unrelated to my studies, or chatting on the phone when there's no emergency)?
9. Basically a freak.

No, wait. There is such mad guy. My boyfriend.
So let me rephrase the question. Who in the world could sacrifice so much in order to date me?

This is why I never had a second thought about whether my bf truly loves me. I mean, he deals with everything I stated above. He went through all the obstacles just to be with me. He doesn't care if I'm not allowed to see him every day. He doesn't care if I'm going to UK next year. He's not dumping me for another girl.
Well......maybe he does care, sometimes. Once in a while when he wanted to see me more often but I can't make it, he'd act a wee bit moody. But all in all, he's a great bf and I'm very grateful of him for being patient with me.

The thing is, not only is the idea that there are guys trying to tackle me completely laughable, the assumption that all the things I do online and all the novels I read are unnecessary is also inaccurate.

Please, do you think creating a website that has 400 registered users to this date and continue attracting thousands of visitors per day is something everyone can do without sufficient skills? I learned how to market my site. I learned how to manage the people in my site. And if I'm given a tiny amount of money to invest on it, cash will be rolling in from my site without me doing anything. Besides, this knowledge is not unimportant, seeing as I'm planning to take up cyber law in the future. Are you still telling me that I'm learning nothing by spending time online?
Do you think I'd ever be able to read, write, type and translate Korean language now if I hadn't spent time studying it? Are you telling me being able to speak in one language more than everybody else is not an advantage?
Do you think I'd be able to write essays and stories and novels in English if I hadn't read all the novels that I ran out of space to keep? Let me tell you, if it's not because of a novel I read just before my SPM I would've NEVER got the 1A in my GCE O-Level English. If it's not because of the novels I wouldn't have been able to get through my General Paper in A-Levels; and I bet I wouldn't have sufficient English to read law now. Seriously, English is not something you learn out of a textbook. Besides, the novels I read now are mostly those related to law. Are you telling me fictions are useless?
And lastly, do you think I'd be able to speak English if I never watched the “unnecessary” English movies I've watched so far? Although my English is not very fluent, it's still passable thanks to the movies. Where else do you think I learned my English from? I'm Chinese-educated since primary school; we don't speak English at home; I speak Cantonese with my friends. How else could I learn to speak English?
I'm not saying I should spend all day doing all the things above and spend lesser time on my textbooks. I'm just saying you can't say all the things I spend time on serve no purpose, because they do, to a certain extent.

Anyway, I'm positive that I won't tell my bf what happened today. My dad telling me I'm mixing the wrong group of people is enough of a frustration already(by the way, just for your information Dad, my bf got a Merit Award in his first semester for being the 2nd best student in his class. Your daughter would consider herself lucky if she doesn't end up last place in her class and flunking all subjects next sem, so she is not mixing the wrong people. Other people's son is). I don't need another person telling me my dad is wrong and follow up by a bunch of criticism.
My parents criticize my friends; my friends criticize my parents......
Why do they have to do this to me? Why can’t they just criticize each other face to face? But nope, they HAVE TO pressure me and blame me for everything. IS THIS MY FAULT?! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE TO GO CURL UP AT ONE DARK CORNER AND DIE!!!

Gosh, this post is awfully long. And I'm sure I've just made more people hate me. Wonderful. Just perfect.


I hate my pathetic life.

Accepting the rejects

Today I planned to go to the state library to get some reference books for my coursework but I ended up standing outside the library chatting with my former classmates who are taking STPM soon while my boyfriend went in to check whether they've got the All England Report there. Why? Coz after being in Inti International University Malaysia for about 2 months, where people don't really take the dress code thing seriously, and also because of the fact that I've NEVER once in my life been to the state library, I wore a short skirt to the library. Which explains why I didn't go in, or should I say, I couldn't go in.

I'd have liked very much to discuss how unfair this system is to people whose religion actually allows them to wear short skirt and relate the issue to the "it would not have happened if it wasn't because of the sexy attire" statement. But I certainly does not want to minum kopi kat ISA. With our rights to freedom of speech being seriously violated these days, who knows? I mean, they are watching the disgustingly horny SMS-es we send our bfs/gfs (in case you don't know, that's the reason we are required to register our prepaid cellphone account. To catch those people who are sending SMS-es that touched sensitive issues. Such as the recent Dato Azhar one). It's no surprise if someone is watching the activities of tiny, unnoticed blogs like this one.

Darn, this is so unfair! How are we bloggers ever gonna get famous without dissing the government?

Anyway, I don't wanna linger too far into this topic. Back to what I was saying, I didn't go into the library. Five minutes later, my bf came out and told me he didn't see the reference books I wanted. So instead of being the good girl and good boy who hang out in the library, we went to Kinta City for a movie. You should be able to guess what we've watched judging by the title of this post.

Yup, that's right. "Accepted".

Looking at the poster alone makes people interested in watching this piece of "SHIT" (not shit. It's SHIT. South Harmon Institute of Technology.)

I won't tell you the detailed story here. I don't do spoilers for movies that are really good, coz good films are worthy to watch for yourself in the cinema. I'll only write synopsis for movies that are bad (such as the one we saw on Monday, "The Covenant". Seriously, they claim the genre as "horror movie" but not only that it's not horrifying at all, it's completely pointless). This movie is about the rejects who didn't get accepted in any college they applied for. When they got turned down, they made one up: South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.), where they really don't give a shit about what other colleges are doing.

The character I like the most in this movie is this dude, Glen. He's doesn't have a single clue about everything happening around him, but at the same time extremely talented in cooking. I get clueless looking at him. LOL!

Glen's favourite freaking- mad-out-of-the-blue line is, "Battle Royale!"

I love the story and S.H.I.T. is definitely a college I'd like to attend.

I think I can conclude that this is the second best comedy of the year, the best being "Click" and the third best being "Rob-B-Hood". Well......"Click" isn't exactly a comedy since I cried like a baby towards the touching ending. I gave credit to it for being really meaningful in teaching people about life. Whereas "Accepted" is a REAL comedy, by means you'd be roaring in laughter from the beginning until the end, but at the same time, you learn something.

So I'm telling you, this is a MUST-WATCH. You won't regret spending 8 bucks for the ticket (remember to bring along your student ID so that you get a special rate).

Ok, ok. Watch these trailers if you're not convinced yet.

Meanwhile, check out the really cool official site of the movie:

http://www.acceptedmovie.com

For those who've seen the movie, here's a poll:

Capture the Chanel look

Don't you just LOVE Anne Hathaway's chic Chanel look in "The Devil Wears Prada".

Anne Hathaway and Meryl Steep in "The Devil Wears Prada".

I know I do. Which is why I went on a "mission" to a nearby shopping mall 2 days ago to hunt for a similar look......with only RM 200 (USD 55.24) in my pocket.

*Real bargain!

Style 1

Top: Blouse from Soda Exchange (RM 75.00/USD 20.72)

Bottom: Plait skirt from Chic Avenue (RM 39.90/USD 11.00)

Accessory: *Necklace from S & M Jewellery (RM 18.00/USD 4.97)

Don't even have a single cent to spare? Fish out old clothes from the bottom of your closet and put them together to create a new style!

Style 2

Top: An old white blouse (price N/A), A knitted jacket from Giordano that I bought last Christmas (RM 100++/USD 27.61)

Bottom: A pair of jeans I bought last week (RM 59.90/USD 16.54)

Accessory: *Beaded necklace from S & M Jewellery (RM 15.00/USD 4.14) , A vintage brooch I bought in Bottcher Strasse, Bremen, Germany 2 years ago (20 Euros/RM 120)

There's no need to declare bankrupcy in order to achieve the "million-dolar-look" for this fall/winter season. Just remember the essentials:

1. Keep your hair long and straight.
2. Black and white top is a must.
3. Invest on a pair of leather boots.
4. Make your plain top interesting with long necklaces. You can wear a few necklaces with different lengths at one time.
5. Smoky eyes + Nude lips/Nude eyes + Bright red lips (My personal fave is earth tone smoky eyes + nude lips. I think this suits Asians more, since most of us have small eyes and red lips looks strange with our yellowish skin tone. Few of us can actually carry the 2nd look well. One tip though, if you have small eyes, don't draw full eyeliner as it will make your eyes look even smaller).

And voila! Here goes the fashion queen!

Timeless

So I've just put a new song in the embed player. A Korean song, Timeless, by Zhang LiYin.

Nope, that's not a typo. Jang Ri In is only her name translated to Hangul. Coz Zhang LiYin is a Chinese! Yup, you got me right. This girl from China was discovered by a record company in South Korea when she was very young and was brought to Seoul to be given professional training. Now she sings and dances like a Korean artiste. I love her vocal, absolutely amazing. Well, it's no competition to Leona Lewis' of course, but I'm sure she'll have a pretty timeless career with such talent.

Well, nothing much happened today. I've made a PS of me and Suna unnie out of boredness:

Haha! Does it look like we are in a commercial together?

X Factor

How do you know if you've got the "X Factor"?

It's when you-can't-sing-you-can't-dance Simon Cowell says this about you:
"Across this show, across Idol, across all the other shows. Let's be honest: all the girl singers haven't been very good....until now! You are absolutely the BEST contestant I have ever had across any of these shows. And that was an amazing performance."

X Factor contestant Leona Lewis got that comment from Uncle Simon recently. You guys probably haven't heard of this reality show, but it's something like UK Pop Idol.

Anyway, action (in this case performance) speaks louder than words, here's the clip:



Credits to www.perezhilton.com (And I'd recommend this blog if you are into celebrity gossip. Perez Hilton (the blogger) is responsible for breaking news like Britney being pregnant with her first son Sean Preston and the Bradgelina affair.)

OMG. Christine WON the pageant!

LOL! Ok, I hope the newly crowned Miss Astro Chinese International won't come across this blog and be like, "My name is Novel. Why are you still calling me Christine?"

The truth is, her name was Christine when we were in Sunway College Ipoh together. So, I actually know her, but of course we were not friends because we were in different courses then. All I know about her was that she's a marketing student and she's also a model. My boyfriend knows her boyfriend. That's about all. Haha. I guess my best friend Jessica might know her better.

This is Christine Novel, Lim Siew Theng. Winner of Miss Astro Chinese International 2006.

Whoa. Ipoh girls have won the pageant two years in a row. Hehe. Does it mean if I enter the competition next year I'll win too?? (Puke! With your looks arr? Next life la!)

The funny thing is, I happen to know last year's winner, Annabelle Kong, as well. She was my senior in secondary school and we were members of St. John Ambulance. She did us proud by becoming the 2nd runner up in Miss Chinese International Pageant 2006.

Annabelle Kong, Miss Astro Chinese International 2005.

Annabelle crowned 2nd runner up in Miss Chinese International in HK early this year.

All in all, Malaysia produces beauty pageant winners. Think Rachel Tan who won Miss International Chinese Pageant, Monica Pang, 1st runner up in Miss USA......

But there's something I have to comment on this year's Miss Astro. Apparently, they decided Top 5 based on SMS votes this year, which is totally unfair. Beauty pageants are not popularity contests. I mean, what does the public know about the definition of beauty? The only thing that probably matter to us is whether we like the face. Although I strongly disagree that beauty is something a person could define, at least the judges are professional. Besides, this SMS system provided chances of plagarism. Contestants from slightly better financial background might pay people to vote them. Seriously, I don't know what the organizers were thinking......

Well, not really. I know they were aiming one important goal for sure: Money. Money from some ham sup uncles and wu liao aunties who spent their time catching all events regarding the pageant and wasted money sending SMS votes.

Which is why I never believed in all these reality TV thingy. The soap dramas are more realistic.

Busy day ahead...

Phew, I can't believe I took more than an hour to change just the small banner on top of this blog. Well, I could've saved all the trouble and search for a skin on the net, but I really want a unique one for my blog, so I decided to modify bit by bit. Seriously, I'm hopeless at this html thingy! Sigh, I don't know how long will it take me to come up with a skin entirely created by myself......

Tomorrow, I have to go to a kenduri at the police station. Yup, my dad's office. Haven't decided on what to wear yet......Baju kurung?? LOL! Joke! I do have a set of baju kurung + cheongsam dress though. Like mix & match. Haha! No, I'm not gonna wear that.

Oh ya, Moses Chan is coming to Ipoh tomorrow! U know Moses right? The TVB actor.

Neh, this bloke is Moses Chan lor. (The pic's from his recent appearance at the opening of a Burger King chain in HK. Gosh, I'm so drooling......over the burger la! Not over him!)

Nope, I'm not a fan of his. But considering the fact that I've missed Lee Hom, Tang Wei, Tony Leung AND Ang Lee together in Ipoh filming "Lust, Caution" 2 months ago (coz I was in Nilai, sob!), and also the fact that I've lived in Ipoh for my whole life but I've never met Guang Liang wearing his boxers and slippers eating "gai si hor fan" in a kopitiam although I know where his house is (seriously, my cousin who lives in Kelantan has had dinner with Guang Liang and had driven Nicholas Teo back to his hotel ok? I'm so envious!), or Dato' Michelle Yeoh shopping in Jusco (by the way, her mother is my grandaunt's best friend), or formal TVB actress Cheung Wai Yee walking on the streets dressing like a businesswoman, or even my secondary school seniors who won beauty pageants sitting in Coffee Bean; u know I'm desperate enough to meet some TVB actor, whoever he is, as a compensation......(NOT!). LOL! I'll try to catch a glimpse lah. He's going to Ipoh Parade's SenQ at 3 p.m. The kenduri should be over by then......wait, I think I'll be going. Coz I think the lucky draw is tomorrow! I bought a laptop at SenQ earlier and they told us we r entitled to participate in a lucky draw on a certain date......sh*t! Where's the receipt?! I might be seeing Moses Chan!

But anyway, he's coming to Kinta City too, which is situated 5 minutes away from my house. LOL!

I'll try to go to the events. I might even get to pose with him and I'll put some pics up to share with you guys. Hehe. So wish me luck.

A fan of K-dramas?

OK, for those who are not interested, please act as though you can't see this, coz this is an advertisement for my forum:
http://sunbin4ever.17.forumer.com

Yup, my very own K-drama forum, as you can see the GIF link at the side of this blog. To be precise, it's a SunBin forum. A forum dedicated to the great actor Hyun Bin and actress Kim Suna in "My Name In Kim Sam Soon", which is my fave K-drama of all time. We have 300 registered users now.

Forum banner.

Not an incredible figure, of course, but it's not bad seeing as I've just started the forum 5 months ago. Basically, my job as admin in the forum is kinda hectic. I'll be translating news all the time (Korean to English, Chinese to English). I have to translate my SunBin Chinese novel into English (Yup, I've written a novel and it's getting quite some positive feedbacks from the China sites. I'll tell u more about it later). Also, I have to write analysis......to determine whether there's something fishy going on between Suna onnie and Hyun Bin oppa.

Anyway, if you are a KSS and SunBin fan, join the club, chingu.
However, if you are thinking one of the followings:

1. Kim Sam Soon is an ugly woman.
   
2. Kim Suna is an old lady who shouldn't seduce the young and handsome Hyun Bin.
   
3. Hyun Bin doesn't like Kim Suna.
4. Hyun Bin is MINE, don't you dare touch him, b*tch!
   

......Please pretend that you've never seen this post and close this window before I kick ur as*. Thank you.

P/S: Gosh, why am I suddenly so vulgar today? I bet it's the lack of sleep. I've gone back to the routine of sleeping when the Sun rises and waking up after noon. Should get some sleep now. The Sun is rising soon.

P/P/S: Actually, I'm thinking about registering my forum so that it becomes www.sunbin4ever.com, but it'd cost me USD 12 per year! That's RM 45.60! Well, not a huge amount, really. And I can pay with my visa card I suppose. But my mom will kill me for wasting unnecessary money on celebrity craze! Besides, with RM 45.60 I can buy me and my bf Sushi King for lunch ok? But then again, I'd be able to earn money from advertisements if I register my site. Still considering......