Sunrise and Sunsets

January 27th, 2009

town of peace.

Posted by thenarrowpath in Uncategorized

walking in this small town,where my dad spent his childhood days, it seemed busy only for this chinese new year moment but somehow, despite the cars from other places and the buzzing noises of people talking, the town still maintained its special peaceful vibe. It was as if the trees and the breeze soothed the noise pollution of firecrackers and chinese speaking people.

              Today in the afternoon, i strolled from the hotel to the taiping lake garden to pick a scene to sketch (college assignment). I sat on this old stone bench and studied the scenery of century old trees which stretched their large branches across the roads to the lake, dipping their leaves slightly on the surface of the water and forming an ancient curtain to seperate the hectic roads from haven. The calm lake showed another dimension of the world, reflecting the plots of greenland on the lake. As the majestic trees shaded me from the warm sun, i took out my sketchbook and began to record that very sight of my life unto solid paper. Drawing the outlines and filling in the details, curious passerbys would stop to stare for a brief moment before walking on to snap pictures.

                Feeling slightly lazy and tired, i decided to lie down on the bench for a moment with the sketchbook on my lap. ‘ People are so gonna think i’m weird but oh well, i’m not from around here anyway!’ As soon as my head layed on the chair, something TERRIBLE happened.

                 A sound came crashing unto the muddy soil and I jolted up instantly. ‘NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!’MY SKETCHBOOK FELL UNTO THE GROUND!!!!!!!!!! The soil smudged my drawing and my other drawing got slightly folded, my flexi eraser rolled unto the soil, picking up bits of brown dirt on its sticky surfACe!I’m totally a clutz.. anywer i go! The drizzle of rain started to fall and i returned to the hotel asap.

             This cny has been quite fun! Although my cousins n i are slowly losing touch wif our niece n nephews as they r growin up n cant reali speak eng ( we used to bond tru games) my cousins n i wasted no opportunity toh have some cousin time! we all stayed in the same hotel n went over to their room to play cho tai ti (my sis n i). strangely,i kept gettin nice huge cards linked together n evritime i got my cards i would ask my couz: eh u nvr shuffle properly ke?’But sadly im not too good wif strategy iq stuff so i didnt win evri round. Think i had sum gud *fung sui* wif my cards though! lol. In the middle of playin, suddenli the door opened n this tall guy in red shirt n cap peered tru. He came in casually n i looked at him.. never seen him b4.

    ‘ hi harvey’ my cousin albert n my sis greeted him. Turns out, he’s their ex schoolmate who’s the only child n parent’s hometown in taiping too n his relatives r mostly married so he’s so bored n oh he stays in same hotel too (taiping’s kinda small).

     If he were to be a japanese, he would be voted japanese heart throb! He has nice quite sharp features.. oval face with slight pointed chin with fair skin n sparkly dark slit eyes. His long fringe sweeped to the side a lil n when he smiles he flashes his straight white teeth n a slight dimple. and all this, i can describe in two words….. *SO PRETTY!* (yes shu n joel, if ur reading dis u’d be rolling ur eyes n going.. she never changed… haha)

    Anyway, we went to taiping sentral ( the 1st modern shopping complex n cineplex in taiping which just opened 5 months ago!) n hung out there, bought movie tickets. Somehow we ended in the show Inkheart n the show can be summarised in 2 words… *IT SUCKS!!!!!* The plot n storyline wus original.. but the acting, directing, camera, script,flow of story n ending wus TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, AMATURE-ISH N CLICHED. this is the worst show ive ever seen in the cinema.. i actually raised one eyebrow frm time to time n wanted to doze off n wanted to walk out halfway! I looked at my cousin alvin who was frowning at the screen.I was so bored that i smsed to chat n it started to be freezing cold for me!I wus shivering n my friend suggested tru sms to go hold on to sumone. Well i wus seating between pretty jap boy n cousin.. to cling on to any of em wud be.. awk-ward.

             After what it seemed like forever.. the most horrible movie ive ever watched in the cinema ended.*YES!* We walked out unsatisfied except for my sis who said the show rocked (SWT) n harvey who said it wus ok (but i dunno if he was sarcastic or not).

             We went back to the hotel room to play cho tai ti (again) n bluff. i won in cho tai ti again cus my cards were not shuffled well! (aGAIN haha.. strange day). den we watched shutter tru my couz’s laptop since i recommended it. we offed all the lights n squeezed unto the bed. The last time i watched the shutter i wus FREAKED out for life. It wus in the cinema wer i screamed my heart out!!!!!!

              That was bout4 years ago.. (wow) but this time it wusnt s scary s i remembered but the plot stil rocked. But when it got to the scary part i would be freak out n prepare my self.. tensing my hands until harvey glanced and smiled teasingly at me. he had his hand ready by his side for me to grab on to but of course i wouldnt do that cus i just met him!n he doesnt even noe my name hahaa. soon the movie ended n my guy cousins liked the plot but they felt that ju onn was 10 times scarier (i wna watch it!) but now dey got phobia of dumping n mistreating girlfrens lol (shutter story plot).

             This short break was nice. I got to buy a gorgeous pair of shades n other stuff (shopping! wootz) n also got to take time off to clear my head.Im starting to get a clearer picture on drawing the line frm the guy i like as he has a gf (i found out onli after liking him) n now im on a more casual basis wif him s frens. Thank God! i dun wan the same ting s last time to happen again..

                  I also confirmed that i really have almost no sense of direction. i got lost in taiping town few times today while walking! how embarassing. gtg now, sis wants to sleep haiz. till then, ciaoz

January 22nd, 2009

college?but b4 dat… all dat i missed bloggin on

Posted by thenarrowpath in Uncategorized

Its been totally ages since i blogged! Normal for a lazy girl like me =D. well… lets start with the last day of spm.

   SPM…. i really screwed up biology paper 3 so i try to move on and the last paper was accounts, 4 days after the science students end theirs if they last take est! It wus a shocker, accounts. All the spotted questions in tuition didnt come out but the tough ones did! So anyway i actually manage to IMBANG my document!that’s like the 3rd time i imbang-ed in my life since form 4 without needing to correct i tink. Anyway.. i wus looking anxiously at the clock and contenging on my accounts paper as a message to my mortal who will inherit it =p. After that, me, ann ee, angeline n si onn went to ice skate which wus not as fun as i remembered it to be because we were more focused on ice skating than chatting XD. I actually fell down, dragging down an innocent lil girl wif me. and the sad part is when i fell i wus sumhow waiting for a split second for sum random guy to pick me up! lol.. of course the always helpful skaters on duty helped. then.. joel joined us n we went to watch twilight and by some WEIRD coincidence, i met yat zhoong while walkin up the stairs in the cinema room itself n turns out he, ju n a few frens were in the same theatre too! and ju happened to sit RIGHT in front of me so i gleefully put my feet on his chair (habit) =p. twilight wus like so romantic-ish.. can feel the chemistry between edward n bella. But the sad ting is, edward wusnt hot. Carlisle was soooooo WOW! anyway when edward tried to hit on bella, leaning in on her with his arm rested on the window sill i tink i wus like * ewww ewww! please wax!!(his arms r like a jungle!) n he kept lookin at bella like he wus grimacing in pain, tinkin of eating her up. well the show would have been BETTER IF IT WASNT FOR JOEL N SI ONN MAKING RANDOM COMMENTS ESPECIALLY WEN SI ONN WUS CRAPPING DURING THE CLIMAXES OF ROMANTIC SCENES!i kept hittin si onn n tellin him to shatap lol while he kept on crappin. Ju’s fren wus so pissed at the noise pollution that he wanted to turn around n say SHUT THE F* UP 0_0.

  Next stop.. christmas! I organised christmas carolling together wif sue mae for our youth n the musicians n i had our 1st practice (jus us 1st) in Jo’s house. My mortal brought his violin n OMGOOOODNESSSSS…….. the sound of his violin wus SO BEAUTIFUL that i immediately fell IN LOVE wif it. wen i played it i almost CRIED because the sound was jus.. BEAUTIFUL n melancholy-ish( wateva dat means) n mellow-ish. then he played his violin spontaneously to us singing carols n he has talent. it wus as if he prepared at home which he didnt. I want his violin sooooooooooooo much! the sad tiing is, he wont lend me cus he says *his violin is like his life* n it costs 10 000+. =.=’ if i were rich i wuld buy a violin like dat next time. anyway, carolling wus reali fun.. on the 1st nite sumhow we got served GREAT MEALS like CRAB,SATE,LAMB,LASAGNA,SPAGHETTI,MUFFINS… den the 2nd nite wen the christmas play people joined it wus all just kuih muih muahahahahaaa. we had fun bonding n spreading bout Jesus’ bday! n in the bus, julian or rick wuld play the guitar while we sang along to it.. jason miraz i’m urs, jonas bros (to mock em) n all. and then… the xmas play. OH i SERIOUSLY APPLAUD YEN YI for being brave n a GREAT ACTRESS!

     time seemed to zooooooooooom by like in a snap of the finger. b4 i knew it it was 2009.. its like WOW! on the 4th jan, josh,jo,rick,wen jun,yen yi,yumey,sue mae,brandon n me went to watch bedtime stories. josh,jo,rick n wen jun (breathe!) were watchin it for the 2nd time cus they loved it soooooooooooo much. after dat we went to hang out n jam in rick’s music shop. no wonder why he can play lotsa music instruments! there r the drums,keyboard,guitars in there. oh n i saw his violin but i didnt play it.. dun wan him to have to show his skills to the rest if he didnt want to. he didnt bring the violin up anyway.

    The night before college. I wus freakin nervous bout steppin into n entirely new world.. wer i barely knew anyone especially in my course. the sad ting is.. im in diploma in architectural technology (DAT) but 4 of my frens who enrolled into architecture enrolled in foundation! SO UNFAIR.. i wus like sum loner or sumtin. you see, DAT has been around for more than 10 years n is REALLY established n recognised worldwide (Esp aus n uk) but taylor’s created a new one called foundation. its so that the students stay in taylors for 4 years, not 3 like us. more $ ma… n then taylors kept SERIOUSLY promoting foundation like crazy.. they offered so much scholarships n onli promoted it on open day etc. anyway in the end… DAT onli has 17 PEOPLE while foundation has… 67!!Imagine dat. oh the first day, i hung out wif the subang utamas! min shen, inez n sue mae. n mei ling whom i met in CLIOD joined us too. it wus ceramah after ceramah after ceramah for orientation for 1 whole week.. imagine dat huh. the first 3 days, girls mainly mixed wif girls n guys wif guys. i felt so.. unfancied n uncolleged. Majority dyed their hair… make up.. dress up n all while i just didn dye my hair n wear norm clothes. my permed hair.. like i permed it in mid dec but it tak jadi.. it turned out S-shaped instead n messy, dry n poofy! man….

  Anyway, the first DAT i met wus germaine. n den.. well hung out mostly wif the foundations cus they were evriwer. wenever any diploma met a diploma dey’ll go HAPPY! on the friday, we SABD (school of architecture, building n design) went to kl to do sum team building activity. we went to central market, to annexe in a reali gorgeous looking room wif extra high wooden ceilings n yellow spotlights wif wooden floor. i got to know nikita, aisyah n cindy who r frm DAT too! dey’re reali LOUD FUN n talkative. OH… if u can imagine a group of girls talkin bout guys, they wuld be the champion lol. they can talk forever bout guys, so entertaining. we were split into groups n had games n all.Then they split us into smaller groups n my group were frenli wif each other. there wus Aisyah wif me.. den i met zeng quan who wuld be the *wait for u to approach him den onli he starts gettin frenli* kind, nicholas the ever intresting talkative guy, aiman frm DAT too who’s got charisma, talkative n interesting artistic points of view, sum peeps frm dubai n middle east (yes taylors has lotsa foreign people) like mohammed who looks jamaican, peyman n nasir n ders more. anyway, all groups had to walk around kl n get inspiration for the theme The Invisible City. Our team had nick who’s the *tour guide* since his school is in the heart of kl. Oh well we walked around n then sumhow ended up in a reserve jungle in the middle of kl (!!) in bukit nanas, passed tru back alleys etc den after sum brainstorming in a pondok filled wif mosquitoes in the JUNGLE where u culd see kl buildings s well.. we got an idea! *TING*. Oh it wus cool dat we felt like the weirdish art people (so proud!) n we went back to the annexe to work on a piece of artwork wif paint, cardboards, magazine cut outs etc. Our group had a lil bumpy start on the artwork since there wus soooo many ideas evriwer! den we just aiya lets just work on it. i found out I TOTALLY DUNNO HOW TO PAINT cus wen i painted sumtin on the cardboard, zeng wuld be like *OH!* n quickly touched up on it, changing it almost entirely T_T n no one wanted me to paint on their parts! lol.. oh well. anyway, we managed to finish in time but our art piece was ONE OF THE WORST. lol.. other groups’ were like beautifuly painted (oops on my behalf) n 3d-ish like. surprisingly, our group won 1st.. wootz. cus our presentation n theme hit the bullseye! OUr definition of the invisible city wus the neglected parts of the city such as the reserve jungle, graffiti on the wall, ignored wavey roof n lanterns in petaling street, homeless beggars n dirty back alleys. more often den so wenever we tink of the city we immediately tink of shopping, traffic, advertisements, glamour etc but we forget bout the *uglier* side, (back alleys, beggars etc) we forget that those also makes up part of the city. so tadaa! u hav ur invisible city.

    Anyway, monday came n for the first time, we got to meet our classmates. there’s all kinds of interesting people! for eg: BRYAN who’s a REAL joker. he n si onn wuld have surely been best buddies! Bra (his nickname) actually wrote *KOLEJ TAYLORS, school of homosexuals* on his assignment drawing (we had to draw the campus) n drew a man jumping out frm a building wif a parachute against the sky ( i suggested jokingly.. swt) n he still got A. lol.. cus our teacher is abit uh… not so observant on tiny fonts. remember, in her class we shuld look at things like THIS , not like THIS  (*wink*).

    Nicknames came up for the foundation n the diplomas since we hang out together during breaktime. The FOUNDIES n d DIPLOMATS! oh.. there’s this gorgeous ROOFTOP garden on the 5th floor dat we hang out in during breaktime. we even played frisbee n heart attack+ truth or dare, occasionally disturbing the kurnia insurance office people who culd see us tru their window on the same floor. i had to cover my face wif all my hair n walk like a ghost past their window while nick had to pretend to pee by the side of their window! talk bout college kids lol. once awhile, we went to play pool (yes there’s a pool/snooker place in campus~)

   im slowly adjusting to college life. the 1st week of lectures, i had a vomitting feelin almost evriday! lost my appetite like crazy.. now i know why, it wus actually the cigeratte smoke in campus evriwer. many people smoke in campus bluek! we’re starting to bond as frens n i get to be myself aroun em now. oh, one of the best ting bout architecture is no one is competing tru textbooks anymore but TALENT. talent in drawing, creative ideas etc.For once, results are not so predictable n der’s great competition as wen u draw sumtin, u tink ur drawing is soo beautiful but the lecturer wuld put evrione’s work side by side infront of evrione n comment n mark rite der for evrione to see n den u’d be like *oh crap mine sucks* n i’ll always smile wen i tink dat =D.oh i met people who have stuff in common wif me. aiman is like the male version of me n my buddy! He loves to sing, likes theatre n talks animatedly. Isaac loves classical music, bryan loves contemporary ballay-ish lyrical jazz-ish dance, zeng quan loves pool,singing, was a horrible monitor like me n well.. im still a banana whom the chinese speakin people love to tease jokingly =p.

     I just wanna keep the spark in me, being myself so that all who have known me will always noe me. well.. gtg! have to wake up earli to do assignment project wif group members tmr.. hope that palace of golden horses allow us to make a documentary on the building materials in the hotel!till den, ciao

          Well i take ktm almost evriday now dat im startin to get sick of it.. but i coincidently met si onn in the station once n in the train once wen i walked in  n he coincidently stood at the door. WA!! it feels soooooo gooood to meet up wif old frens. i met up wif jo zee (to return her sis’ violin which i borrowed), edmond n yi won (while i went to holiday villa to swim but anyway it wus raining so i culdnt) on seperate occasions. Now im flooded wif assignments, so far i have more than 10 in two weeks! crazy. n den.. oh i started violin lessons too in a music center near my place but my teacher is STRANGELY MY AGE =.=’. in the first lesson it wus lil awkward (i wus also unhappy dat i didnt get an experienced teacher) but i just came back frm my third lesson n he’s not so bad after all n we click. but it still is bit awkward to have a violin teacher my age lol.. he wanna commment on my mistakes also abit weird loh same age mah haha.

    so as i move on in this new chap of my life, i hope all wuld go well.. there’s so much more that i malas to type here but the next time i blog which wuld probli be months frm now… um.. i’ll do a LUMPSUM recap like dis lol. i’m so not meant to blog!

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