Away

after spending 3 days in penang, i had been having a really incredible time. i eat eat eat eat eat and eat since i arrived. thank you very much to jess + family as well as shan & yee + family for treating me SSSSSSSOOOOOOOO WELLLLLLLLLLL~

due to all the overeating and my inability to resist the temptations of delicious food, i've put on SO MUCH WEIGHT!!!! I AM SO FAT, I WANT TO KILL MYSELF! i can't take pictures anymore because i look so frigging fugly in every single one of them. anyway, i think i'll put this weight issue aside first because I AM GOING HONG KONG TODAY!!!! oh my gosh, i won't be able to buy anything that fit me. oh well... (=_=)... face it, i'm fat. i will only start to go on diet and work out when i go back to melburn in february. *phekz*

however, since i'm a camwhore... i shall... post a pic of myself anyway then =]


lol. my white feet. shiny Reef flipflops. black pleaded MNG skirt. sand. that's me

alritey, i won't be around for 5 days, my blog will freeze then.

temporary farewell to Penang and HELLO HONG KONG!!!



luv the piccies. luv photography. aren't they pretty? taken by me with my new canon Ixus 850IS

FOOD FOOD FOOD

27 December 2006

yesh, u guess it. more and more food will be shown in the upcoming posts. we woke up a wee bit earlier for breakfast in a hawker place (i don't know the names for the places i ate). the food was nice. i luv the pancake (it's a different type of pancake which made of flour, banana, egg etc. they r so special that u can only get them in penang. i can't get enough of pancakes. i will soon be a pancakes addict *thumbs up*


loh mee

mee jawa

the legendary pancakes. its crispy on the outside, sweet and soft on the inside. yum yum

after that, aunty karen drove us to several places to take care of some stuffs before we go hong kong. not long after, she stopped by a famous cendol store so we could have cendol. the cendol is really tasty. the special thing about this cendol is the red beans in the cendol. they are soft and really sweet. this cendol is definitely recommended. i'll give them 9 out of 10 (1 mark deducted for me couldn't finish it because i was too full. hehe). the store is so famous that they even have their own website. hahaha.





It's DINNER TIME!!!

oh my gosh, the dinner was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!!! we had seafood. it took us about one hour to reach the place called "Hai Boeh" and its all worth it. there were 8 of us there (me, jess, jessica, aunty karen, shan, yee, heng ee and their mom). the restaurant was located bear the sea. since we reached there earlier, i managed to take some really nice and professional (well, thats what i thought) pictures of the sea. i luv them. anyway, this meal was aunty karen's treat. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AUNTY! we had tonnes of seafood. oh my gosh, all the seafood are really fresh and tasty. *dances clumsily with my fat booty*


the place

i decided not to post the one with me in it because it's too frigging fat

FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEAFOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

deep fried stuffed brinjal. omg, they r so crispy and the filling tastes really good
fried lala (clams) tom yam style. really special and spicy. i luv it
pork ribs with sweet sos
fresh oyster. OMG!!!! it's seriously HUGE!!!!!!!! and tasteh too!!!! it doesn't have the muddy taste all!!! juz genuine OYSTER!
fried prawns, scallops, vege and COCONUT FLESH. really unique eh?
claypot fish. dayem, it's fresh and tasty. i had quite alot altho i'm not a big fan of fish
tofu with green thingy. i always luv tofu so i luv this dish alot
fried kang kong with chilli sambal
THIS IS THE CLIMAX OF OUR DINNER!!! LOBSTER HOR FUN!


OH MY FRIGGING GOD!!! CAN'T YOU SEE???!!! IT'S GLOWING!!!!! yesh, it tastes ..... hmm... i dont know what word could fit better... heavenly?

Aunties Reunion

26 December 2006
today its the official aunties reunion for me, jess, shan and yee!

jess drove me around the penang town for sight seeing. alrite, we didn't check out whores this time, we checked out all the beautiful beaches, old streets, awesome places to eat of course. she's a good tour guide, no doubt about tat


pretty temple on an old street

after that, we went Gurney Plaza to meet up with shan, yee, heng ee and their mom. we had lunch in a posh hawker food place called "Food Loft". the deco of the place is really classy and u get to choose seats where u can enjoy the good view of the sea while u r eating your meals. it's very thoughtful of them for taking me to such nice place. it's shan & yee's mum's treat. we ordered quite alot of food and chatted for awhile. aunties always have alot to catch up. *gigglez* haha



place where u can make your order. they have sample dishes and all

the seating area. real comfy huh?

the grand view from the restaurant
FOOD!!!!
assam laksa
tom yam bihun
curry mee
Phat Thai
pandan leaves chicken

mango with pulut. i duno whats the official name. hehe

jess burning from the spicy tom yam kung

yee with newly straightened hair

shan wif straightened and highlighted hair

later that night, we went to aunty Sue Chin and uncle Mosses's (i hope i spell their names correctly) house for dinner. oh my gosh, their house is like the houses u only get to see on MTV's Cribs. it's like celebrities' houses with versace sheets/pillows, imported furnitures, expensive chandeliers, maids, personal chelf and a huge guard house as well. dayem! by the way, it's a beach house, so u get great sea view and u can enjoy the sea breeze 24/7. it's too awesome. i went around the house in my impressed face all the time.

after dinner, we had SUPPER! haha. we went to a food court. me, jess, jessica, shan, yee, ponx, dove, edward and angeline were there. there were like zillions of food stalls to choose from. we ordered abit of everything to try. I HAVE TO SHOUT!!!! MY FAVOURITE WAS THE PANCAKE WITH TUNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i even took away one for myself to eat in the middle of the night. bwahahahhahhahaha. it's the definitely tasteh! there are other many many many combinations as well. makes me wanna eat just by thinking of it


THE pancakes
the internet is fucked up so i cant upload the rest of the pics but nevermind, there's more to come. YUM YUM!

First Day in Penang

25 December 2006

it's xmas day, my family and i don't take xmas seriously so didn't have much celebration about it.

anway, my parents drove me to kuala lumpur today because i'm going to meet Jesslina, who came down to kl for her crazy xmas shopping trip with her family. it's thrilling.

weeee~ her parents said i look thinner in person!!! bwahahahahah

after saying goodbyes to my parents and all, our journey to penang began!

her dad drove realli fast, i meant incredibly fast. his driving speed ranged between 140km/h to 160 km/h so we reached her house in approximately 4 hours. after reaching, we settled down and all... OMG, I CAN HAVE A ROOM TO MYSELF!!!! this is too nice. i felt so warm and fuzzy inside because i'm touched. hehe.

not long after, Ponx and Dove came over. it was pretty awkward at first because i don't understand hokkien and it was the first time we met in person. however, i think i have an undiscovered ability to understand hokkien although i'm not a hokkien speaker. haha. i could sorta pick up some of the words and interpret what they are saying. however, it didn't work sometimes and i was left blurred with my mouth wide open. then, i will be too embarrassed to ask.

alrite, cut the crap! DINNER TIME!!! jess' parents brought us to Crab Village. we had awesome seafood. clams, prawns, crabs, fish, meat in seashells with long blunt torns (i don't know what it's called) and fried noodles and bihun. i have to thank jess' family very much for treating me so well *sniffles*


this is the "meat-in-shells-with-long-blunt-torns" i meant earlier, they are DELICIOUS!!!!! yum yum

prawns bbq-ed with salt and spices

fresh crabs
once again, i was full like a mofo in the end. we went home. we hung around for awhile, then we went out for DESSERT! Ponx drove us (Dove, Jesslina, Jessica and me) to Gurney Plaza and we headed over to Gurney Drive for DESSERT~ the place was seriously crowded and it's hot in there. we found and table and started to order food. we ordered some fried stuffs, some drinks, ice kacang and cendol. i luv the cendol! and the fried chicken skin! haha. thats every kids' favourite when we go to KFC. kids will always fight for the crunchy chiken skin. well, u can get a cup full of fried chicken skin here.


check out the huge penang crowd

all the tasty but unhealthy fried stuffs

ice kacang with ice-cream

cendol

next, we went sight seeing!!! haha. we went to some old streets of penang to check out the legendary "BEYON-JE" (old and ugly looking "female" whore with horrible make-up, thick brows which were drown up til the forehead, fake stuffed/plastic surgeried boobs, fake synthetic long hair and skimpy clothing who earns a living by selling sex a.k.a. AH GUA) of penang. hahahahahahaha. it's toooooo hilarious and scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *SCREAMS* what an experience! haha. i think it was pretty obvious that we drove there purposely to check them out! hahahah. this is because, we went around the area repeatedly for at least 4 times. it's crazy. *phew* i didn't have nightmares about them that night. thank god.

i had lotsa fun and we are going to meet shan and yee the next day! weee~
AUNTIES REUNION!

Merry Xmas!

weee~ Merry Christmas everybody!
on our xmas eve, we didn't do much. my uncle came to my house and brieved us about our upcoming japan tour *thumbs up*. after that we had dinner. ellie was here the whole day becoz she came over to my house to sleepover for 3 days 2 nights earlier. later that night, xinli came over to my house as well. we wanted to accomplish our carolling plan but it didn't work out. oh well, there's always next year. no worries.

we started off wanted to watch the movie "night in the musuem" but the tickets for the 11.50pm show in Jusco were sold out so we were stuck at home. me and xinli watched a few crazy episodes of "malcolm in the middle", i totally luv the series. too clever and too funny. while we were watching the show, ellie was chatting wif her pals on msn... as usual.

li got bored and went over to check what's ellie's been doing. then, it was 12.00am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's xmas!!! so we gave each other xmas kisses. haha.

at first we shouted "MERRY XMAS" at kei ying by sending her our voice clip. hahaha. eventually, things started to go wrong...

we started sending "merry xmas" voice clips to every single person who's onlining in ellie's, li's and my msn friends list. (i have to apologize to those who didn't see that coming). *cough cough* hey, we are ai ming, xinli and ellie. our cretivity is borderless and it strikes before u knew it so things went a lil'... i'll say ... haywired!

we sent voice clips that sounded like we were partying or there was a huge crowd in the room or something.
- firstly, we played hit songs (eg. London Bridge, Wait A Minute...) using my cellphone
- secondly, we started shouting sorta randomly continuous from different directions with different tones of voices. the effects were too funny. it sounded like there were lotsa people. (-_-")
PS: we did rehearsals in kei ying's conversation box. lol
the worst part is, people actually bought the whole shit.

hahahahhahaha. things became uglier. we found a perfect target and played jokes on him. it's the best fun we ever had in sending voice clips. BWAHAHHAHAHA
*EVIL LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY UNTIL CHOKE AND COUGH, ALMOST OUT OF BREATHE*


about what we did? it's too hard to explain by words here because we sent TOO AMAZING voice clips which can only be heard once and never again in one's life
we could feel (although he's so frigging far away) that he might have shitted in his pants at the very end of the conversations. hahahahahha.
btw, i don't actually know him in person but ellie and xinli do. so i don't giv a fuck about the consequences. i only know that i had fun. hell yea, that's the genuine beauty of this whole act. hahahahah.

i can literally put myself in the shoes of Ashton Kutcher in episodes of Punk'd. plus, i can feel the undecribable joy of punking people. BWAHAHAHAHAHHAA. once again, it's better than having sex! lol

i have no idea why we did that... maybe its the after vodka effect (LOL) or we were bored to the maximum and we've got nothing else better to do... anyhow, it was just fun. our xmas was not wasted. weee~

PREZZIES!!!!!

100% handmade by ellie the great

100% made with love by xinli the awesome

jess said she bought my prezzies but she hasn't pass to me yet!

weee~

PS: blogging in penang in jess' place. i had fun today. i totally luv it. more fun days to come~ will leave for hong kong on the 28th of dec!!!!!!
OH BOY~ I LUV MY LIFE

Nose Bleed

that's my blood in the picture. such a piece of art *adore*

i'm back in malaysia for 3 weeks now and i'd only posted 2 posts. i'm too lazy. anyway, it's not the main point about this post. this post is solely dedicated to my frigging nose bleed. i never had any nose bleed for the past 17 years of my life until i started studying in melbourne australia in 2006. i had my very first nose bleed during steph's birthday dinner, i could never forget that. it's too memorable and embarrassing. i was totally freaked out too.

i was scared because blood was coming out from a place it shouldn't have. i was shaking really badly. it was just horrible. since then, i had 4 nose bleeds after that. I DON'T WANNA DIE FROM A FRIGGING NOSE BLEED! yesh, thats what i have in mind everytime i have nose bleed.

i was told that the nose bleed is caused by the over dry air of the winter in melbourne so i thought i'm gonna be safe when i'm back in malaysia. however, i'm wrong. i had my nose bleed again in malaysia when i was eating a hot and spicy claypot noodle. argh.

everyone is really worried now. as for my mom, she bought some traditional medicines for me. i was forced to gulp down a big cup full of bitter soup/tea/liquid she prepared and she made me swallow some pearl powder. urgh. it's was horrible beyond all reason. now, i'm so afraid of nose bleed that i won't even dare to breath any wee bit harder. i wil breath through my mouth when i feel a weird sensation in my mouth or trout or nose.

*sigh* i guess i can't run away from this curse because it runs in the family. my granddad and my dad used to have nose bleed really often.

oh well, when problems occurred, i turned to GOOGLE for informations and cures and i found some outrageous ways of stopping nose bleeds:

*INGREDIENTS: mettle scissors
INSTRUCTIONS: take a cold pair of mettle scissors and put them on your back hold there for a few minutes and your noes will just stop bleeding

*INGREDIENTS: tiny rolled up piece of toilet paper or facial tissue
INSTRUCTIONS: rolls up a piece of tissue and stuck it up your lip right above your upper teeth. I tried this tonight when I got a bloody nose, and it worked in less than a minute.

*INGREDIENTS: Freshly sliced onion
INSTRUCTIONS: This is a great home remedy from our age-old Ayurveda and it works every time. At the onset of a nose-bleed, make the person lie down with the head tilted back, slice a big chunk of onion and place it under the nose. The fumes from the raw onion act as a natural coagulant and the bleeding stops in a few seconds.

*INGREDIENTS: matches, vaseline OR lip gloss
INSTRUCTIONS: As soon as you feel a nose bleed coming on get a match and light it, blow it out and then breathe the smoke up the side of the nose that is bleeding. Do this GENTLY, do not sniff hard! That will make it worse! When you do this, make sure that the smoke goes up your nose. You will be able to tell that it has because you will have a smokey taste in your throat. the great thing is that it will stop the nose bleed almost instantly.

*INGREDIENTS: slinder or regular tampons and vicks vapor rub,qui-tip
INSTRUCTIONS: first cut the tampons at least in half (long ways) put vapor rub on qui-tip then rub it at the very edge of the nose. insert the cut part of the tampon in your nose.it works much better than using toilet paper or paper towels..it should stop within 10 minutes

*INGREDIENTS: ice
INSTRUCTIONS: just put some ice in your mouth and try and hold it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue and try to keep it there as long as u can bear the coldness it will stop the bleeding in seconds works every time for me and other people i know

*INGREDIENTS: water
INSTRUCTIONS: My Grandfather took a mouthful of water from a glass, pursed his lips and sprayed a fine layer of water into my face. He aimed for the bridge of my nose, but of course it went everywhere! I don't know if it was the shock of what he did, or if something else was at work but the nosebleed stopped as the water hit me. He told me it was an old Chinese remedy. It works.

so, after all the researches i've done, the conclusion for preventing or curing nose bleed is:

When you get a nosebleed, take some cayenne pepper right away. Red pepper, or chile pepper, or tabasco sauce will do. Take about a teaspoonful. Your nosebleed should stop within 5 minutes or less. Take cayenne pepper every day for the next few days or so, and try to eat foods spiced with cayenne pepper on a more regular basis. Cayenne pepper acts to stop all kinds of bleeding very quickly, you can even pour it directly onto a wound in an emergency. It helps keep vitamin C in the body longer. Vitamin C helps keep blood vessels strong. If you stop taking large dosages of vitamin C, you can get rebound scurvy, which can make bleeding worse. Cayenne pepper prevents this from happening. Green Vegetables are a source of vitamin K, which is also needed in trace amounts by the body to stop bleeding. Putting vaseline in the nose can help prevent nosebleeds from recurring during that time when the nose needs to heal after you have recently had a nosebleed. Things to avoid, which can cause excessive bleeding: asperine, alcohol, both of which thin the blood.

My Wee Results

hahahaha. my results for trinity was out this morning at 4am malaysian time. i watched movie and fell asleep at 2+am and crawled to my bed at 3+am. i didn't bother to stay up to check it because i know i'm gonna suck. anyway, shan sms-ed me this morning and informed me about everyone's results. wow, everyone is really good as all of them got 90+% average score. in comparison, i suck big time. hahaha. oh well, it's expected though coz i know i won't get 90% ... so 87% is fine with me. i'm not sure what faculty i will enter next year because the min prerequisite for law is 87%. there might be a tiny wee bit of chance that i can get into law but with 87%, i can definitely enter faculty of commerce.

regarding my results, i was surprised to see that the marks for my psychology and m&c are actually quite high. hmmm... maybe Ron and Ian are not as yucky as i thought. haha. *clears throut* I SPENT LOTSA TIME, EFFORT, BRAIN JUICE FOR THESE 2 SUCJECTS, OKIE?! my maths sucks as usual so 82% is kinda expected. haha. but for my english and history of ideas, i thought i could get higher marks. especially history of ideas!!! my HOI tutor, jonathan is one mean motha fucka. now i can hate him with no doubt.

English : 86
Hist Ideas : 84
Maths 1B : 82
M&C : 88
Psych : 90
Average Best 4 : 87
Satisfactory Completion : YES
EAP : 78
Satisfactory Attendance : Y

i'm satisfied with everything because my main aim to study in trinity is to get into university of Melbourne disregard which faculty i can squeeze into. my goal is considered achieved!!! now i can tell people proudly that i will be attending courses in university of Melbourne next year


SO!!!! UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE!!!! HERE I COME!!!!!



yesh yesh. phey shan! phey yee! jesslina! doreen! ivan! WE WORK HARD TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day of Arrival

the flight was just alright, not too good though. haha. i was stuck to sit beside a malay old fart who has a long white pony tail. he looks like he was a metal rocker when he was young, he got that "artistic" kinda look. maybe he's the director of some local movies such as CICAK MAN. haha. the meals were horrible. they served beef for the meal 2 hours before we land and they said they've got nothing else. so i had to starve (=_=) bloody Malaysian Airlines. i paid so much to starve myself.

i didn't sleep at all because i was too excited. i watch "Devil Wears Prada", "Click", "Nacho Lebre", "Just My Luck" and abit of "Numb3rs", "Supernatural" and "Prison Break".

OMG!!!!! I LUV NACHO LEBRE with jack black starring in it. it was really really really really hilarious and the filmography was REALLY NICE!!!! i luv that movie. i was amazed by it actually. it was so funny that i had to MUTE my laughter so i won't disturb other passengers. it was dreadful to laugh with my mouth pressed by a pillow when it was THAT funny. after janet (mind you, she just sat near me) heard my laughter, she watched as well and she did the same as me. LAUGH. haha. people so have to watch it although i know its quite an old movie. *thumbs up*

after i've arrived, it was raining. urgh. i got down from the plane, claimed my checked in luggages and i went out to meet my parents and friends. WEEEEEE~
mom, dad, xinli, kei ying and ellie were there to welcome me. so happy. =]
jesslyn couldn't make it because of her pierced navel accident. gosh. hope it's not too bad.
xinli promised to make a BANNER for me and so she did ... with "Welcome home... Ai Ming" on it. check it out:


HAHHAHAHAHHA. *SPEECHLESS*

after that, we went to have mamak food RIGHT AWAY!!! lai hui and zin joined us =]

kei ying and li
zin and lai hui

ellie and i

it's too awesome to have cheap and genuine malaysian mamak food. however, all the food seem so TINY!!! i mean the portion. gosh. i had a bit of everyone's food anyway. hehe. after we sat around and chatted a little. we went home. li and ellie followed me back home. OH MY GOSH!!! they made me a choc cake!!!! thats too nice!!!!!

looks like cakes u got from bakeries
YAY!
the makers *muakz muakz*
li. me. ellie. gosh, i miss Justea. haha

I LUV ALLLLL MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXO