miewyin’s colourful life…

eliza and i went to pj/kl to have a surprise birthday party for anna…oh yeah, she was very surprised…all she could say when she saw us was “eeeeeeeeee”…and we managed to dunk anna with three cocktails…buahahahaha…and we went to gen japanese buffet at legend hotel, kl…very good food…a lot of varieties…went drinking at cangkat bukit bintang bar twenty-one…managed to sleep for only 3 hours before heading to kl central to take the train home at 9am…

but the journey back and forth ipoh-kl was not very smooth…we decided to take the train since it was more convenient…first was when we were going to kl…suddenly the air-cond was not working for half an hour…it was basically sauna…then it was this morning when we were coming back to ipoh…just right after slim river station, the train came to a halt…we were wondering what was happening…we waited for an hour to wait for the next train to pass…another half hour for the “head” carriage to pull the train back to slim river station…got to know that the engine was dead…waited for another hour for new engine to arrive…half an hour again for them to fix the engine and finally a total of 3 hours later, we were moving again…the train went very fast after the fix and we reached ipoh half an hour earlier than expected…

so basically, we took 5.5 hours from kl to ipoh by train which in normal cases, 3 hours…and i was already late to meet up with my college pals at kbox embassy…thank lord still managed to sing 3 songs…at least saw them la before they go off to become UK residents…lol…and dinner was another birthday celebration for my aunt and cousin…and now i’m dead tired and sleepy…

got to know also that another ipoh unity member faced very bad luck just recently…and it has something to do with travelling from kl to ipoh at slim river…this is scary…i’m considering to have a bomoh ritual to eliminate all bad luck…lol…

saya ingin mengucapkan berjuta-juta terima kasih kepada Michelle Tan Li Peng, Goh Chen Yeng dan Avinesh Kumar…

that’s how much BM i can think of writing…lol…ok, that’s not the point…the point is, now i know that these three friends (really worthy people to be called friends) will always be there for me…well, they have always but i’m pretty sure that i can now rely on them to pour all my whatsoever feelings out and still trust that we will be friends forever…or at least i hope…

it was because of my last post…michelle was first to ask me what happened…and then the usual avinesh kumar…and the most surprising ever, Goh Chen Yeng CALLED!!! wahsai…when was the last time she called??? don’t remember…sms-es do not count as calls aite…

there are some other friends i know i can totally count on…but better not name…in case i miss out some…hurt people’s feelings then no good la…but i’m sure you know who you are…and thanks for being there for me through all these tough times…and most importantly, thanks for understanding because i know you really do…*muax muax*…XD

this year’s installation was different…VERY DIFFERENT…

we had it with our penang sister club tanjung putra and their sister club phor tay high…and it was held at penang…and for the first time ever, all BOD members were there!!! and record breaking 15 ipoh unity members attended…even you don’t see this many in ipoh…and first time again, the BOD photo is complete!!! i feel so proud and happy for everyone…lol…

the reason we join the installation with our sister club is to do the twinning anniversary at the same time…killing a lot of birds at one time…well, it wasn’t as smooth as we want it to be…but still, we managed to handle them…

went partying at night at upper penang road…the newly installed presidents kept being dunked…i was drinking kilkenny and beer at the same time…in the end i really ko-ed…zhiyi vomitted i think…and my head was spinning…some went for hokkien mee and dim sum with raymin…the rest went back to the house…i straight away collapsed…thank god my head was ok already the next morning…else i don’t know how am i going to drive…moreover, we had gardening project at phor tay private high’s leo garden…i had the idea to do a project together since we had to do at least one and we’re all there…and our installation theme was “service together”…it was a good idea to help out with the leo garden…some sort of school service that omega leos can do…lol…

went for laksa at penang road before heading back to ipoh…anna made a new friend there…it was nibbling on her…i was sitting beside her…when we knew what was it, we screamed…i still managed to take hold of my handbag…anna just threw and pushed everything…laksa, her bag, weng’s wallet, the chair…lol…luckily no one was sitting behind us and weng had to take out his cards one by one to clean them…and we asked him to check our bags to make sure the siu keong was not in either of our bags…lol…scary…

i’ve lost count on how many times have i been in penang this year alone…XD

it was quite last minute that anna, eliza and i decided to attend the region 1 joint installation…supposed to take the van with the alphas…but anna offerred to drive since it was cheaper…and the best part, her petrol bar was blinking…lol…she pumped rm10 at sungai perak petronas because she wanted shell instead…all the way there’s caltex and esso but no shell…and it was again blinking furiously…had to exit at bukit tambun to go to the nearest petrol station…and caltex it is…no choice…after juru toll there was a shell station but unfortunately, it was impossbile to go in from the smart tag lane…reached green lane and there were 2 shell stations…lol…she pumped full before moving on…

went to get anna’s vest from weng and off we went to han chiang high…parked the car there, went out for makan, went back to the school, take weng home and back to han chiang again…lol…

really adventurous penang trip we had this time…and for the record, it has been really long since anna drove me…and this was the first time i got to sit in her new car…lol…

well…not that this will bother these people…i’m constantly being left out…being forgotten…and being taken for granted…AND I HATE IT!!!

although i’m already used to this, but it hurts me everytime it happens…and it doesn’t only happen to me…to Avinesh, Goh, Mei Yenn, Mei Loo as well, as far as I know…i’ve moved back to ipoh in November 2008 and who took the initiative to notice this??? yeah there are some, but not many…

sometimes i think i’m just someone who is always being made use of…when i’m no longer useful, i resemble a rat on the street…ignorable…if this is what friends are for, i rather not have them…the excuse of “i usually don’t call him/her out” is the lamest i have ever heard…

oh well…at least i know i’m not alone…but it’s just not right to treat us like that…if i’m alone, i’ll just bare with it because no one understands my feelings no matter how much i’ve tried to talk about it…but even some of the coolest people i know are being ignored and this is really surprising to me…why???

this is bad…this is getting the bitch out of me and i don’t want that to happen…please don’t make me hate you…

and for the record, i’m working in ipoh…PERMANENTLY…in case you don’t know what “working in ipoh” means…

it’s the start of a FIVE DAYS WEEK!!! woohoo!!! lol…i only had 2 working saturdays…and it’s officially the end of peak period…so whatever jobs i have now i can slowly do…hehe…but still need to complete tax within 2 weeks…hope i can get back the files next week…

i hope these 6 months can pass slowly…then i don’t have to start with working saturdays too soon in february…lol…

yesterday was the last day of four colleagues…one just wanted to quit and venture somewhere else…three were trainees and now it is time to go back to university to finish off their final year…the office will be so quiet…and maybe i can start playing facebook during working hours…lol…no such thing…but the laptop i’m currently using is not blocked…so can go online whenever i want…what to do, lady boss’ laptop…hehe…

15th august is just around the corner…need to settle the reservations and everything else by next week already…i’m so excited!!! lol…and august is going to be very very very VERY busy…thank god saturdays no need to work…

the idiocracy and ignorance of some people really gets on my nerves…most of the time it’s not as if you can get whatever you want…there may be a lot of circumstances that just do not allow you to implement them…and some people, will just tell you “go an do it la” without even asking “why not?”…and after that, they will tell you “no one’s stopping you, why can’t you do it?”…this is what i call jumping to conclusions…or rather, assuming everyone’s life is exactly the same as yours…

put yourselves into other’s shoes and understand the situation first before shooting “go and do it la”…money can’t buy you everything…that’s a very simple theory that everyone knows but not everyone understands or can practise it…so what if you have the cash??? you don’t have the time…even if you have the time, you are alone…your peers or the person whom you have to deal with is not free to entertain you…and that, even if you can fulfill what you want, there’s no satisfaction…

and some of these people, they only know how to tell people to do this do that, of which, they won’t personally do it…what’s the point of telling others when you don’t even do it yourself??? you just make yourself more irritating and untrustworthy (note the word “more”)…so ponder on this…

i remembered when boss asked me if i was free around 20-ish of june before my exams…and i told him after exam anything also can…hehe…then he told me he was planning for his “honeymoon” and wants to bring some kids along…lol…

Christine flew to penang on 21st evening…boss and i met up with some of the penang leos for dinner before meeting up with christine at traders hotel at 10pm…shangri-la’s subsidiary, five star…whoot!!! lol…we were supposed to stay at raymin’s house, our luggage was already there as a matter of fact…but christine offered to share her room…hehe…so we ditched raymin and off to traders!!!

yum cha-ed at coffee island with a lot of the penang people…9 leo clubs and 1 lion, we calculated…suddenly all came out for christine…sweat…lol…after coffee island, boss and i took our stuffs at raymin’s house before heading back to traders…we went for rojak at gurney drive on the way…it was already 1am…

slept at 3am plus and it was really hard to wake up the next morning…we had pillow fights for one hour as boss was trying to wake both of us up…but he was still sleeping himself…what the heck…i finally gave up and got myself ready…when i came out of the bathroom, boss was again snoring away…cilaka!!! zhiyi came to the hotel before we went to disted to pick up cheng yee…went for duck noodles (and nasi lemak for christine only)…then laksa and ching bou leong…it was raining, so we decided to go somewhere indoors…but the rain stopped while we were on the way to queensbay…so we dropped by at cap kaki for durian…yum…bought 1 kg of mangosteens as well…it was a pretty light 1 kg…and the cap kaki boss gave us some free rambutans…

lepaked at queensbay for a while…basically it was only toys’r'us because christine was telling us how much fun the Hong Kong leos had playing pictionary and uno attack…so boss bought the uno attack because it was easier to play…and we also saw some jumping rabbits which were really adorable…christine bought for each of the HK girls…and one for me…hehe…thanks christine!!! muax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

boss bought his sandals…cheng yee and christine bought green tea ice-cream…and we headed back to traders to play uno attack…lol…it was fun…him keat came over as well and we headed out to Ah Sui Seafood…a lot of dishes and all were really good…went back to traders to have raymin pick us up…hehe…and went for tong yuen just opposite the hotel…yum…then finally to batu ferringi…the rest were already at sunset bistro…met up with them first before heading to fulfill my mission…i’m the soldier, eliza’s the commander…so have a guess what was the mission about…

cheng yee finally paid my debts…what to do…christine and i dared him together…ahahahaha…celebrated boss’ birthday also…a simple green tea cake was all we bought to make him smile from ear to ear…he never expected it…*peace*…thanks, zhiyi…after that we went for ikan bakar…but i was already bloated up…peng hooi was supposed to drop cheng yee home on the way to supper…but due to cheng yee’s non-stop talking/daring/all-the-things-he-shouldn’t-have-said, he was there with us for supper…lol…

went back to traders and we all KO-ed at 2am…but we only managed to leave the hotel at 1pm the next day…raymond and si sheng wanted to join us for breakfast but we were still in bed…lol…sorry, guys…went for beef noodles near the jetty and the best nasi lemak in town (according to the penangites)…and cendol before going back to the hotel to lazy around and play uno…

supposed to go to the beach but time did not allow…so we detoured and bought dragon balls at ghee hiang and had hi-tea at new lane…popiah, hokkien mee, lobak, satay, fried mee jawa, pork intestines porridge…right after that we went for thai food just on the next road…

went for transformers after dinner…damn it was good…lol…i like bumble bee…and supper again nearby…had hokkien mee again and chee cheong fun…supposed to wait for the char baked pizza…but christine had to rest already as she had to wake up at 5am…so we dropped her off and we parted at 12am…

and so, 50 hours with Christine…boss and i left raymin’s house at 11am…had breakfast with zhiyi and si sheng and left for home…it was the third consecutive week i went to penang…supposed to go to penang this week too…but i’m just so tired of the travelling…so now i’m just lazying at home…something i haven’t been doing for quite some time…hehe…

and thanks to zhiyi for being our tour guide, ee khoon for the dinners, raymin for the accommodation, cheng yee for the company in the days, si sheng, su sen, peng hooi, him keat, kok sheng and all others who were there to meet and accompany us especially christine…thanks!!! ciaoz!!!

ever imagine how life and death can happen at the same time???

i remember last year this month, death happened in my family…and so did some of my friends…it’s kind of a trend thing…sad to say it though but it seems to be a fact…these two days weren’t exceptional as well…three friends’ family members passed away…and at the same time, DC Alan Thoo’s boyboy (according to him) was born…he has been very anxious since his wife had symptoms this morning (and still had the time to facebook and camwhore)…lol…the baby came out just in time for Father’s Day…and not forgetting birthday celebrations that i just had with a HUGE bunch of friends…

imagine again, a person celebrating her birthday at a friend’s house while she has her grandpa’s death ceremony to attend to at home…seems ironic??? i guess this is part of life (and death)…

i thought to myself also, what if one of the deceased reincarnated and was born again to be Alan’s baby??? lol…well, it’s really according to one’s belief and i’m just thinking too much…

so to family members of the deceased, my condolences…to those celebrating birthdays, Happy Birthday and Happy Father’s Day…

usually we would travel to the forum venue a day earlier because we’re part of the forum organising committee…but this year, few of us could only go on the first day itself…i had my P4 paper which ended at 6.15pm on thursday, i had to send in my reports, iron and pack my clothes, and some other chores that needed to be settled before i could head to penang…

5th June- i only managed to sleep at 3.30am after settling everything…woke up at 6.30am as we needed to reach sam tet by 8am to see the alphas get on the bus…reached penang at 10.30am and off to work!!! sold masks at B-Suite, then went over to Sunshine at 12pm plus…but we had to make some detours first, and getting up to the banquet hall took us half an hour because of the bloody lift system…and we only reached the hall at almost 2pm, and because of that, we got complained by the hall management for being late…hello, blame it on your system…anyway, we did the decorations, had rehearsals, amended emcee scripts, ate domino’s pizza and left at 5pm to prepare ourselves for Fellowship Nite, with the theme of “Super Heroes”…had to borrow one of the girls’ room to transform ourselves as we did not have our own rooms until 2am…i was Storm…Eliza had to help me spray my hair grey…hehe…some thought i was the white hair maiden…sweat…Fellowship Nite was a blast…with all of us being so tired, but we still had to stay on for the rehearsal of the opening ceremony the following day…had supper at McD’s while waiting for the electricity to be back again at the hotel…we only went back at almost 2am…i had to stay at the secretariat room to amend my emcee script while all the others went back to their rooms to sleep…by the time i finished, bathed, and waited for my hair to dry, it was already 4am…

6th June- i had to wake up at 6am to get read for the Opening Ceremony as i was one of the emcees…(gosh, i’m emcee every year)…i have to say, it went smoothly…although a lot of Leos complained it was boring, but what can you expect from an Opening Ceremony??? we already had the 24 drums to wake everyone up…aiks…then i had to stay on for the Seminar, while all my club members went for breakfast/lunch…they came back with my lunch but i had to stay on while all of them went back to the hotel to prepare for Banquet and sleep…after lunch was the Public Speaking Competition…then only was i no longer needed…lol…Pei Cing was the emcee for the competition and the Sub-District Forum…her english was not bad…there was one thing i was very proud of that day…PDG Sam, who was the Seminar speaker came to me and said, “You have been doing a very good job today” while shaking my hand…that actually gave me a boost of energy to continue on with my duty…then came the Sub-District Forum which i had to help out as well…and of course, our outstanding awards…woohoo!!! lol…really glad to see boss coming back to the hall before the sub-district forum…else, i don’t know how am i going to go back to the hotel to prepare myself…i already don’t have a key, plus i had to go back to the hall an hour before Banquet…basically, i was rushing to prepare myself back in the hotel…

went back to the hall and worked again…when dinner was served, some of us were still standing around to see if there were still delegates coming in…but instead, i saw all the forum organising committee already eating…so why don’t we sub-committees sit down and eat as well??? and then our glorious moment came…looking back at the beginning of this fiscal year, i never thought of this achievement…or rather, i wasn’t aiming for it at all unlike last fiscal year which i grabbed every opportunity that was in front of me…it was my second greatest moment in my Leo life…i’ll always remember those words…

“She was the Top Treasurer last year”…i stood up screaming in my hands and tears started to flow…but i was held back a bit to see if i had listened wrongly…then i realised my club members were standing and cheering for me…then only my name was announced…but still, no one was blurer than boss…or rather, stunned…lol…

had a lot of photos taken…really good performances…and a good fellowship at Kayu…lol…even after Kayu was also fun…when we were back in our room…ngek ngek…

7th June- Closing Ceremony!!! we woke up at 8am…there was a School for Incoming Officers but we didn’t go…then Closing was at 10am…so we just hanged around for a while at the secretariart before heading to Sunshine…we were all basically walking zombies…but had some fun at the same time…lol…

after settling everything, we left Penang at 4pm…reached Ipoh at 6.30pm…due to the jam and i had diarrhoea…kesian me…couldn’t eat anything since after lunch…came back, washed up, unpacked and studied a bit…by 10am already KO…

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