tsewei’s blog

Yes it’s getting pretty dusty in here. It’s time for a spring cleaning.

Abandoned my blog for a while when exams started. And then I went home to KL, and continued being lazy about my blog. Mostly, I hung out with my darling au yong, after which I will never feel the need to write anything down on my blog ‘coz I seem to be quite satisfied with just keeping happy thoughts and memories to my brains (or rather, just lazy).

Ok, so it’s time for a recap now. Needless to say, semester break was a good one. First there was a good short trip to Genting where us roulette newbies won a few hundred ringgit and made all the aunties at our table jealous.

Tried the go-karts but it was too excruciatingly slow. Things got funny when au yong got the car that’s even slower than mine, and I couldn’t hear him frantically yelling at me from behind to slow down so that he can take a photo of me looking dumb in my helmet. His throat was quite dry by the time i finally heard the faint calls of “slooow doowwnn!” from behind, and he was trying to take my photo with one hand and trying to call my phone on the other hand to get my attention AND trying to steer his kart with his elbows and wrists. Hilarious. I guess I couldn’t hear him coz I spent too much of my brain power getting into an f1 mood while the kart rattles away at 15km/h.

Then, there was a fun roadtrip to Penang island. On the way there and back, we stopped at his grandparents’ place for some tasty home-made ‘loh-bak’ and ‘tau fu fah’. Found a hotel in Penang that has huge rooms right next to the famous foodie place Gurney Drive, only to discover that: 1. it was a family-vacation hotel (lots of screaming kids running around and toddlers with squeaky shoes) AND 2. Gurney Drive’s hawker food place has temporarily relocated to a few streets and one roundabout away.

Also, I learnt that you can get to Hospital Pulau Pinang from anywhere (every point of the island seems to have road signs pointing towards there). Ooh, and we tried the couple spa package for only Rm120. So cheap! And the massage was great…

And then back in KL, there were lots of shopping and eating and lounging at home cursing at the crazy rainfall. My parents finally agreed to subscribe to Astro, so goodbye free-to-air TV, hello satelite TV. My house is probably the last house in the entire Klang Valley to have installed satelite tv. Even the floating kopitiam in the National Park jungle has one when i was there 3 years back.

Oh, and we also spent a lot of time cursing at crazy and brainless drivers on the roads. Au yong is in charge of overtaking/swerving to avoid them and the swearing part, while I give them a good staring.

Christmas was peaceful. Collectively, we babysitted his dog, my cats, my father’s fishes and my mom’s plants for the Christmas weekend while everyone was away. Avoided the city and shopping areas like the plague (coz this is when all the kampung folks come to KL to take photos with Christmas trees and clog up our streets). Instead, we sat at home and ate pizzas and watched Jamie Oliver cook his Christmas meal on TV.

There was also a lot of dusting and cleaning as I helped au yong pack his room and stuff before he shifts to Tokyo next week. That was when I got acquainted with Dust-ball From Last Millenium.

New Year’s Eve. Well, there was a lot of eating and drinking of course. First at a friend’s house on the 30th (excellent roast lamb and nice company) and then at my house on the 31st (excellent bbq lamb and the cats tried to get themselves bbq-ed too). And now I have 2 big fugly pimples for the new year. No thanks to oily food and dehydrated body from alcohol. *hic*

And then ending the year 2005 in a big bang — my bimbo moment.

Me, trying to act smart, tried to tell my sis tse mei an interesting serious fact about this new year.
Me (acting smart) : Eh, did you know, that 2005 is going to be one second longer?
Sis: Huh?
Me: Yeah. Tonight, they’re gonna add one more second to the atomic bomb.
(1 silent second as my brain tries to register what is wrong).
Au yong: Atomic bomb? You st000pid! It’s the atomic clock lah!
(everyone ends up laughing like hyenas.).

Oh well, Happy New Year!! Here’s to a good year ahead in 2006.
Hopefully my internship with MTV Asia goes well too. (Starting work on 3rd Jan! eecks! excited.)