Chillin' at Chilis~

Chin Aun just got his first paycheck a couple of days ago and he decided to take me to Chili's Grill and Bar at 1-Utama to celebrate. So two days ago, he printed out the menu from the Chili's Website and told me to make up my mind about what to eat (in order to facilitate the food ordering process it seems *ahem* I think he's trying to imply that I am slow...) We actually planned to go on Saturday but we promised Jiun that we would accompany her to KLIA to pick Steven up cos it's such a long journey there... and it's awful if she had to go alone... So, today finally came and we were all geared up to go to 1-Utama. The parking was terrible, there were hardly any available bays but luckily, we managed to find one only after 15 minutes of driving around.

At Chili's, we got a table for two and we looked through the menu. Even though I had a printout of the menu at home, the ordering process was still kinda slow... because I think I'm kinda slow *grin* Hehe... Anyways, I ordered the Flame Grilled Ribeye that was served with vegetables, mashed potatoes and a slice of garlic toast as my main course while Chin Aun ordered BBQ Beef Ribs & Chicken for his. His choice consists of double breasted beef ribs and Monterey chicken breast served with rice, corn on the cob and black beans.

Then he ordered Chili's Triple Play for starters and a cup of Chili's Soup of the Day. Triple Play is actually a fusion of 3 of Chilis most popular starters: Chicken Crispies, Boneless Buffalo Wings and Southwestern Eggrolls served with bleu cheese, avocado-ranch and honey mustard dips and celery sticks. I warned him that we probably wouldn't be able to finish it but he believed that we could...

For drinks, he ordered a smoothie while I ordered a glass of sky juice. Then he persuaded me to order something special and finally I caved in and ordered Mandarin Blush; a concoction of Absolut Mandarin Vodka, Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail and Sprite.
When we finished eating (or did we finish??) we were so full that we could hardly move. We had to walk a few times around the mall before we could get back into the car to go home *phew*
It was a meal to remember =) The food was heavenly, the service was great and the atmosphere was very cozy. I would definitely go back there if I have another chance.

Thanks Bie, for the great meal~! *muuaaks* Cheers~!

Petrol Prices Skyrocketing!!

*SCREAM*

Going up.... AGAIN!!! *groan* I cannot believe this! It went up once in March, and then in May and now July!! On the way to KLIA yesterday nite, Jiun, Chin Aun and I saw many people queuing up at the petrol stations and we were wondering why KL people preferring filling up their cars in the middle of the night *sheepish look* NOW we know... the new prices were effective 12:00am 31st July . If I'd know earlier, I would have been lining up to fill up the car as well.

Previously, after the second increase this year, the price of a full tank for me was around RM58... Now, my guess is it would be around RM60 - RM64 *sigh* What a drag... I can hardly make do when it was RM58, and now THIS! I wonder how I am going to survive... If I don't go anywhere else except class, a full tank can last me for around 2 weeks, give or take a few days. But if I want to get any chores done, or if I want to go shopping or go chilling anywhere else, it'll last me for around a week only... That's more than RM240 a month!! *louder scream*

Carpool, anyone????

What's left of love...

My housemates Jiun and Boey loves reading those Chinese Romance Stories... kinda like the Chinese version of "Chicken Soup for The Soul". Anyway, they just read one just now... like an hour ago and wanted me to read it too because the situation in the story in the book is rather similar to the one that someone we know is going through. Anyway, I can't read Chinese if my life depended on it so Chin Aun had to read it and translate it to me. The story goes something like this (excuse my inaccuracies!):

"This story tells of an example whereby a couple has been together for the past three years. The first year they had together were full of sweet and happy memories. However, when the second year came, they often argued and their relationship was permeated with heated arguments, threats, and also sarcastic and hurtful remarks. This went on onto their third year together. The situation got even worse then, one threatened the other with even more spiteful demands and the latter would resort to pretending that the other does not exist. They often broke up only to get back together again. This was because they were afraid of venturing onto new and unfamiliar grounds. But the time they spent together were really taking a toll on both because hardly a day ever goes by without the exchange of hurtful remarks. The only love and warmth that they felt was by reminiscing memories of their first year together and obliterating the years after. They were being together just for the sake of being together..."

The author goes on to comment "This is what many people are going through. They are unwilling to let go of a relationship because they have already gotten used to it and because they have invested too much time and effort into it to see it all go down the drain. But, if both no longer have feelings towards each other, why not just end it before it causes more damage?
The situation can be depicted as such: Imagine that you and the one that you love are on a train crammed with passengers going to a very important destination. In the train, everyone is shoving roughly against each other and the air stinks of sweat. You've been on the train for a few hours already and it would take many more hours before you can reach your destination. It was a downright unpleasant ride. Halfway there, you realize that the train is not taking you where you thought you'd be heading. Wouldn't you rather get off the train halfway and watch it leave with your loved one inside while you wait for another train to take you where you really want to go? Sure, you'll be getting off with a heavy heart because you have to let go of the one you love, but if you are unable to let go and get off the train, then you will never be to reach the place where your heart wants to be...

The author concluded with this: "It is not wrong for one to be willing to endure pain and suffering for the other in a relationship. However, when a relationship has nothing but only pain and suffering, then perhaps it's time to say goodbye. No one can deal with only pain and hurt not feel love in return in a relationship. How can you expect to know the warmth of the sun if you refuse to come out from your hiding place with dreary skies?"

Do you think that's true? I don't know... Jiun and Boey were both pretty moved by it. Chin Aun just says "Whatever...". Me? I don't know... I guess it's just something to think about, isn't it?

You Belong To Me...

I don't know why but I'm suddenly just compelled to put this here:

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~*~*~*~*~*~
See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember, darling all the while
You belong to me

See the market place in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me

I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too
And blue

Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me...
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*The Importance of SLEEP*

Chin Aun loves to nag me because I love to sleep... in my ideal world, everyone is allowed to sleep as much as they want before proceeding to every day tasks and chores.. Imagine... cuddling up to a mound of soft pillows and just drifting off into dreamland where everything is beautiful and you're the boss!~ (okok.. i'll admit occassionally, there are cockroaches instead of butterflies, and you fall off cliffs, or get chased by some weird creature or another in dreamland, but still...)

He insists that one does not need to sleep for more than 5-6 hours and it's really amazing because he really CAN do that! From my days in high school, through the course of my industrial training and now, the final year of my degree, my sleeping pattern is still the same even though everyday demands may vary. But for him, he can make do with only 5-6 hours of sleep a day and I am SO amazed at how he can do it, because I certainly can't! If I sleep at 12am and wake up at 7am for only a day or two... it's still isn't so bad. But if it continues for a week, I think I can spend my entire Saturday sleeping just to catch up on the sleep that I lost for the previous days.

A few days ago was Boey's birthday and we really fooled around a lot that night. We ALL expected to sleep late since it's someone's birthday... that's tradition. But what makes it worse it that we have a project due the very next day. So my group members; none other than Jiun, KF and Victor stayed up almost all night working on our respective parts. Vic was the first to go at around 4:30am and Jiun went next at around 4:55am... Then KF couldn't take it anymore and went to bed at 5:15am. That leaves me... I worked on the project until 6:45am and only managed to crawl into bed at 7am. Then Jiun woke me up at 9am because we have class.

At that moment when I opened my eyes, I felt absolutely AWFUL! For someone who places sleep as one of the "Top 5 Most Important Things In Life", getting a mere 2 hours of sleep was like walking barefoot on a stretch of hot coals. I felt that:
1. The world around me seems to be moving at an incredible rate.
2. I left my brain somewhere in the house and I am unable to find it
3. I was unable to make out a proper sentence
4. Every word the lecturer said didn't even reach the vicinity of my ears before they disintegrated
5. My hands were shaking and I couldn't write
6. My knees were weak
7. My eyesight was long gone... I wouldn't have seen a truck even if it hit me right between the eyes

You see... the weird thing was that Jiun got perhaps only 2 hours more of sleep than I did and she too exhibited some of the symptoms that I was having. However, when we met KF and Victor on campus and they looked fine! In fact, they were practically oozing with sunshine! How could that be!? They were spirited, annoying, chirpy, annoying, talkative, annoying, happy, annoying, vivacious, annoying, HYPERactive, annoying... well... annoying!I just HAD to write "annoying". Jiun and I couldn't believe it! What is it that is found in the Y chromosome that is able to cope with less sleep!? It's perplexing... AND ANNOYING~!

I guess one won't be able to comprehend the enormity of the impact that lack of sleep has on others... especially males because they seem to cope so well with it. So, if Chin Aun pokes fun at me for sleeping more than 6 hours again; I'll just tell him that it's God promise that we should ALL have sweet sleep *wink* I love him a great deal, but a girl's gotta do what's she gotta do to get her sleep!~

.... Now ain't that a sweeeeeeet one~....

Happy Birthday, Boey!

technically today is the 27th of July since it is after 12am... BUT it still feels like 26th July *weird* anyhow....

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUN BOEY~!*

hehehe... we had a lovely dinner at Pizza Hut Midvalley and then came back for some cake~! *yum* Ah... the cake cutting... Boey got it real bad! Snow Spray, Removing Candles from Cake, lots of screaming (note: Jiun, Me ChinAun and SiewEe DID NOT participate in any of the moves to torture Boey!!) I'd love to post photos of Boey with snow spray in her hair but I fear for my own safety...

Boey, if you're reading this... Here's wishing you a very happy birthday~! May all your wishes come true (or did they come true already?? hmmmm....) *wink* and I am so glad that Wan called "TianMeMe" (hereafter referred to as TMM) because when TMM called at 12am, your face positively glowed! *muuuuaaaks* Have a great year ahead!

Red Bean Soup

I did not go for my morning classes today because I couldn't wake up (no surprises here...) *ahem* anyways, when I finally did go, it was 3pm already and my beloved housemate (none other than Jiun) bought me a cup of Red Bean Soup!~ Isn't that sweeeeeet??? I LOVE Red Bean Soup... it's my absolute favourite and the canteen was serving it today *touched*

*muuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaakssies* Thanks a million, Jiun~!

K.Feong's Presentation

I didn't go for my morning classes and I got an SMS from Kai Feong asking me to bring my digicam to take photos of his presentation *hmmmmmm* I think it's because they were all dressed to the nines! *GriN* hehehe... anyway, the photo above shows Feong's presentation group and mine as well. The 4 guys are in Feong's group while the 4 girls are in mine *wink* we already presented our report on Ethnocentrism the previous week and we didn't bring the camera to take any photos... *regret*
Clockwise From Left:
Eric, Victor, Feong, Jin Chun, *me*, Jiun, Sue Leng and Boey (the little one in pink~! ain't she the cutest??)
Haha... Just posting this for the fun of it...

What A Nite! =)

It's been so long since I last posted anything here *Sheepish GriN* been bogged down with tests, quizzes, report deadlines and presentations.. Thank God that midterms are finally over and done with~!

Well, on Saturday, I had to take not one, but TWO midterm papers in the morning --> E-Commerce at 8am and Discrete Mathematics at 10:00am. I can't even deal with one paper per week and this week there are 3 papers! (oops.. forgot to mention that I had another paper on Friday which was Culture and Communiction) I wonder how I will fare *groan*

So anyways, came home and slept the day away after taking some soup that Chin Aun made *hugs* ~Thanks, dear~ when I finally woke up at 6pm (nite becomes day and day becomes nite eh? my inner clock is so screwed...) I went for a yummy dinner with my housemates as well as coursemates (Chin Aun couldn't make it cos he had to attend some company dinner). Chia Jiun drove so I followed her car there, and I am so ashamed to say that after going there 2 times already, I still can't remember the route *I have lousy sense of direction*

We went to this place in Sentul called Naili's Place =) I've been there before when my housemates treated me to a belated birthday dinner almost a month ago. It's around a 20 minutes drive away from where we are staying but I guess everyone actually goes there for the atmosphere =) It's kinda like a mamak stall... the size of 3 terrace houses! And the entire place is adorned with little fountains, trees, lights and leaves! There are leaves EVERYWHERE~! Some eating sections are made to look like little huts as well as a variety of others. We chose to sit in a little hut up in a tree and lucky for us, none of us fell down when ascending or descending the place *wink* The food isn't bad either but it is a little pricey... there were oriental and western dishes and some pretty special drinks too. We had a lovely dinner... there were 10 of us in total!

After dinner, we went off to The Curve to meet up with some other friends for a drink. We met up with Jin Chun, Victor and his other half, Samantha at The Curve. Victor and Jin Chun booked a table for us at SS and drinks were on them. Since I can't really take anything alcoholic, I refrained from taking anything else other than an immensely watered down tequila pop. I gotta hand it to Jiun and Boey though. They took pure shots of tequila and still managed to walk straight and Jiun could drive us home!!! *applause* While we were there chatting, there was a display of fireworks commemorating the Malaysia's Carnival Sale as well as some other function (some Malaysia's Book of Records thingie) and Jiun and I managed to snap some photos of it!~

We left after a while because Chin Aun promised to take me, Jiun and Boey to the Uptown Flea Market that only opens after 12am. We went there and it was so packed! We could hardly find a place to park and in the end, we had to park quite a distance away. We walked around looking at soft toys and I bought a miniature Winnie The Pooh as well as a Butterfly =) Jiun bought a really soft Snoopy pillow and Boey was unable to find anything that she particularly liked. Chin Aun just walked around with us and I think he was getting sleepier and sleepier by the minute! We finally went home at around 2-something and we all stank of sweat! *ewww* so, I had to take a bath at 3 in the morning and by the time I finished drying my hair, it was almost 4am! What a day... but I guess we all needed the time off to do all that after a gruelling month of midterms \^_^/

Dinner Treat *GriN*

What a tiring day!~ *groan*

I broke my shoe in the morning and stubbed my toe on the tar road *ouchie!* --- Then I couldn’t find a parking space near campus and was forced to double park --- In the middle of the lesson, I got a call from the person whom I was blocking and had to shift the car in order for him to leave --- Came home and got absolutely nothing done at all (perfecting being idle is not something worth mentioning) --- Watched past episodes of Ally McBeal all evening while waiting for Chin Aun to come back from work --- And when he came back, I hogged GTA: St. Andreas from him even though I don’t really know how to play *Whoopsies* heh heh...

The best part of the day -->my sister and her fiance, Daniel, took Chin Aun and I out for a belated bithday dinner. Went to MidValley’s Chilis but it was full and the waiting list was too long! *double groan* Decided to go to All Stars intead… it’s a nice cozy place, restaurant cum pub… we ordered our food and played pool while waiting~! *grin* I missed playing pool so much!! And I was lousy at it!! Hehe… then we ate until we were green in the face *look a little sick* but the food was good =) and we took a whole load of silly photos on our phones \^.^/ Dinner was a treat from sis and I really enjoyed myself~!

*hugs* THANKS CHER~! *muuuaaaaksiess*

Oh… and THANKS too, Daniel, for taking us there and back!~

Birth of my Blog~

Today's the birth of my blog *grin*

--HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!--

I wonder how long I can keep this up...

I was supposed to be studying for my papers this Saturday and I have no idea how I came about creating a Blog... oh well :) there's always a time for everything I guess!~ hehe...

*cheers*~!