All work no play

Play? What is this strange word you speak? I no understand.


Hello, nerd alert.

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My study table from when I was studying for an exam in Monash library! So neat and clean, right? :p


And now you’re looking at my 3 tables when I was studying in a classroom with Jo Yi. Much messier hahaha! And gosh, what an unimpressive panorama photo.

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But look at hers! She was using SIX tables! One of which is solely for her earphones!

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Another day, another table in library.

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Another day, another place. I’m even facing the wall now, less distractions.

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Another day, same place same table.

Sigh I have no life.


On the bright side (haha!), we watched the sun set the other day. Nope, it wasn’t exciting at all.

Can’t believe I’ve turned into one of those students who goes to the library / campus on weekends and during study break to study. I’m so hardworking! Lol no, it’s just because working at home in my room is too unproductive. :(

Food photos from my iPhone

This is a compilation of all the food (and some drinks) photos I’ve taken with my iPhone.

Being a non-Instagram user among all my Instagram user friends, I tend to feel obligated to take food photos before eating as well. It’s weird to see EVERYONE taking food photos while I just sit there and wait, so I join in HAHA. And then after a while, I started taking food photos (occasionally) even when they’re not around. :O

Though, these photos don’t usually turn up on my Instagram, or Facebook, or Twitter, and most of them not on my blog either. They usually just rot in my phone/laptop. -_-

So, I’ve decided to gather all of them and post them here, for the sake of not letting my ‘efforts’ go to waste.

Pardon the horribleness of these photos, I’ve never intended to be a professional food photographer. Not a food review post either.


Moocow frozen yogurt.


Syn Jie’s birthday cake from RT Pastry House.

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Oh hey Instagram-filtered photo! My Subway breakfast.

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Chicken chop (I think), from Seed Café in Mid Valley.

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Iced lemon tea (or honey lemon tea), also from Seed Café in Mid Valley.
Ah yes, these two photos are filtered too, with a Korean app called Pudding Camera.

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J.Co donuts that Kim’s parents bought us during her CNY open house.

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Prawn mee from Little Penang, KLCC.

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Little Penang’s pie tee.

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Uhm, pork meat in a bun? LOL I don’t really know their names, or where I had these.

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“Thank you” chocolate cake.

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Sarah’s Candylicious jelly beans.

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Some noodles in Din Tai Fung, Pavilion.

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Din Tai Fung’s xiao long bao / xiu long bao.

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I don’t know why I took this wtf. Makes no sense. Anyway, bento from KLCC’s Signatures Food Court’s Japanese food stall.

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Probably from Coffee Chemistry Cafe in First Subang Mall.

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Welch’s 100% grape juice! HAHA I had to shop for these and I wanted to make sure I didn’t buy the wrong thing. Grocery shopping isn’t exactly my area of expertise.

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OMG horrible photo of that food, and one of the shamrock on another plate of some other foods. From Malone’s, Sooka Sentral.

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My lunch on a day when I was feeling fever-ish. Some bread from somewhere in KLCC :x and Gong Cha’s milk tea with grass jelly wtf. (apparently it’s signature green tea with grass jelly -_- as I was told by a friend who loves Gong Cha, therefore he must be right)

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Little Pantry, IOI Mall. The whole shop is full of pinkness and the waitresses are dressed in maid costume wtf.

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Starbucks’ red velvet cake.

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Also Starbucks’ red velvet whoopie pie and charcoal whoopie pie, that I’ve never tried and look a lot like macarons.

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Glasses of Hoegaarden (in Carlsberg’s glasses wtf), during dinner. I don’t think I took this picture lol.

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Thick salmon sushi at Kin San Kichi, Desa Sri Hartamas (I think, honestly I didn’t catch the name, I had to google it).

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Tempura udon, probably. Tempura not shown here :P Also at Kin San Kichi, Desa Sri Hartamas.

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Big Apple’s strawberry donut’s stain on the box, that looks like lips. :D
This, I used the English version of Pudding Camera, pudding.to . It’s a lot like Instagram.

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Antipodean’s grilled chicken with tomatoes, green beans & balsamic vinegar.

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Some random muffin.

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Isetan was/is selling this ‘packaged’ coconut drink in a container that resembles coconuts, with a straw!

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This, I don’t remember.

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Oh, from some restaurant in Desa Park City’s The Waterfront. I like this tea thing!

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Salmon sushi and soft shell crab sushi. Uhm, some Japanese restaurant on the lower floor in Pavilion.

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Shit, no memory of this one.
Update: I think this might be from Isetan, KLCC.

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Whiskey with coke, and uhm don’t remember this, vodka with lychee maybe? and long island iced tea, at Traders Hotel’s Gobo Upstairs Lounge.

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Green tea / matcha macarons from Intercontinental Hotel, KL.

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Complimentary desserts from Traders Hotel, KL. So cute!

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Just wanted to point out the “OSAMA” on the spoon, from Snowflake btw.

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They also have a signboard banning people from bringing their ‘Osama’ spoons home hahaha.

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Some cheese almond snack that Jer Rei gave me. :D It’s available in Isetan. And hello Pudding Camera!

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Paddington House of Pancakes’ chocolate fondue, with banana, mini pancakes, marshmallows, strawberries, vanilla ice cream and awesome melted chocolate which isn’t photographed here. :3

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Heh, the chocolate drops on my plate. They look like foot prints, or paw prints.

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Antipodean’s (ice?/cold?) chocolate.

The Big Breakfast @ Antipodean, Bangsar
Antipodean’s big breakfast.

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Yuen’s steamboat for Wen Yi’s birthday.

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Their ice cream. :D The yellow’s corn, green’s melon, and pink’s strawberry.

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Tajine (Jalan Delima’s branch)’s nasi briyani with lamb. The portion is big!

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Some breads and pizza from Shook! at Starhill Gallery.

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My first time ordering a hot drink from Starbucks. I don’t normally take pictures of my Starbucks drinks :P

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Da Sa Rang Korean BBQ restaurant in SS15, Subang during Jia Jia’s birthday dinner. This thing was right in front of me! -_-

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Group photo! (because I didn’t post anything about this here.) But but look at all the food!

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Soft shell crab thing, SS2 Murni. I think the soft shell crab was 65% flour, 35% soft shell crab. -_-

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New Tinge packaging, with upside down and downside up faces lol wtf. I don’t know if I’m making sense.

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At 1 Utama’s Paddington. I took a picture of said Instagram addicts, taking pictures of the food and/or drink. :P oh and that’s nachos, and passionfruit and mango crush in a pitcher.

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PADDINGTON AGAIN! This was from a different time and different place (Mid Valley). Also chocolate fondue. Oh look, they serve bigger marshmallows! :3

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Calamari from Nemo Cafe, Mont Kiara. I was too full to have their fish and chips. Next time!


My dad went on a grocery-shopping spree for the children of PPKKCTM. 15 packs of Jasmine rice, 10 trays of eggs, packs of Milo and Dumex milk for children, Marie and Jacobs biscuits, a box of some condensed milk for Milo (I think). Not sure what else. D:
Anyway, this I probably used Pixlromatic.


Antipodean’s cappuccino (I think), with coffee art! :D


Squid ink spaghetti from En Ginza Cafe, Pavilion (in Tokyo Street). It was good but wtf it stains your lips and teeth! But I was highly amused by the stains hahahaha!


And my plate, but well this one was expected.


Squid in the squid ink spaghetti!


Dinner at Dragon-i. More dishes came after and I couldn’t be bothered to take another picture.

That’s it so far. Kay bye!

From the past few months

Here I am, sitting by the pool, listening to Adele on the radio, enjoying life. Just kidding, what I’m really doing is sitting by the pool, being forced to listen to Adele, and having nothing to do. Oh, did I mention the laptop in front of me. Who brings a laptop to the poolside?!

Me, apparently. That’s how bored I am. I bring a laptop to the poolside.

Now, don’t think that I don’t like pools. I spent two good hours in the pool this morning, it’s tiring. I’m just here to accompany my hardcore brother who wouldn’t mind spending his whole day in the pool.

Oh, now they are playing Zombie by The Cranberries. Good choice, radio. Good choice. Which reminds me, zombie apocalypse is coming!

This is a little abrupt, and totally unrelated, but here are some pictures from the past few months. I don’t want to let them go to waste. :D


My first time at Time Out Comedy Thursday, in Zouk.


A very dark picture with Alex during the show. According to him, that’s the point of taking pictures in clubs.

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A super cute guitar pendrive I got from a press conference. The glue wasn’t dry though D: and I lost one part of the guitar wtf. No idea where it went, it fell out of my file. :(


Polaroid! This was at a pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Malone’s, Sooka Sentral.


The green man!


I don’t know who that is…


I cheated, someone did that for me and let me hold it for a picture hahaha. But these two are legit, they did it themselves! :D


Here’s our professional.


Taken by some photographer, and this exact picture was included in their press release email. D:
And MSN Malaysia uploaded this too. *flattered.


Oversized leprechaun hat and glasses! :D


Temporary tattoo which faded when I went to shower before bed wtf.


Sarah’s and Alex’s temporary tattoo. :D I should’ve gotten the Guinness logo too!

Moving on….


I’m a BRAT! K. Selangor 2012 batch.

I’m so belated in these photos, the second BRATs workshop is already happening. Might be ending soon too. -_-


Group photo! Don’t know what happened to the proper photos that Jason Lioh took.


I’m suicidal! During BRATs camp! LOL just kidding.


I accidentally scratched myself twice with this. -_-


My roommates. :D

Right after BRATs, I went to St. Patrick’s celebration in Changkat Bukit Bintang. (This was on the actual day of St. Patrick’s) And that was the most hardcore thing I’ve ever done. Well I did take a nap first, and it took around 20 missed calls and a few alarms to wake me up. D:

Oh and I also bumped into the BRATs photographer when I was there. -_-


Me and Alex setting up the Expatriate Lifestyle buntings. We went early to help out.


With you-know-who again.


With Sarah!





I’m not sure how I survived, but the very next day after St. Patrick’s, I went to Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Festival.





Wen Yi and Zoey’s cousin, Tyler (I think :p ). Oh and that’s a real camera.


Pardon the dark photo, but they’re the balloons I bought for my brother.


Dinner after! :D


The Hunger Games movie premiere! Jer Rei was super nice and won this for me. :’)

Anyway, I loveee the trilogy, but wtf there were some crazy fangirls there. They cut queue, screamed when they started to show trailers wtf, when the movie started and during a few scenes. It was horrible.



During the company night out.


The Mongoose bosses!

The next night we had Esquire’s 1st Anniversary celebration in Zouk. :D


5 of the elves manning the registration booth. Spot Bradley Cooper in the background. :D





With one of the Time Out Comedy Thursday comedian, Youcef Banouni.


With Amber Chia. Henry Golding, Deborah Henry and Daphne Iking were there too but I didn’t catch them.


One of the times Angeline came to visit us during our lunch hour. :D


This is Sarah, on the LRT, with her skirt stuck to the door. HAHAHA :p


This is a no-smoking sign my brother drew and pasted in the house lolol. So cute :D

On one of my many visits to KLCC, I witnessed a pretty cute proposal! :D


The friends gathered near the KLCC park, waiting for the girl to come out and see this. I think they were playing some romantic music in the background or something.


So cute right?! :D They were waiting there for quite a while, and in the end they just went into the mall looking for the girl lolol. And found her in front of Mont Blanc wtf.


The girl took quite a while to accept the proposal. D: It was actually pretty awkward as we all waited for her response. The guy next to me said she probably wanted to reject instead hahaha!


Reunion dinner with the “family”.


Saw this in Pavilion. Expensive sex timer wtf.




Afterwork drink on a Monday night with Ashley. :3


At Snowflake! :D


The Avenger’s premiere, with Kritz who refused to be in the picture.


They hired people to dress up as the Avengers. :O


Farewell dinner for the 4 Mongoose interns! :D



Jer Rei has mad skills for taking group photos like this.



I went to Publika for An Honest Mistake album launch but I left before they even started. -_- This was one of the performances prior to the album launch, when I was still there.


I think this is weird.


The new 50 cents coins dispensed from the autopay machine because I didn’t have small change. A few weeks later, I got another batch of RM9 worth of old 50 cents coins for the same reason. First world pain wtf.


Had dinner with Angeline. :D


Had brunch with Nidi, Jer Rei and Alex before Nidi went back to Indonesia. Sarah and Sim were supposed to be there too! :/


I know this may be TMI, but despite enjoying this big breakfast, I puked everything out a few hours later. :( I still can’t figure out what was wrong wtf.


Surprised Wen Yi with a cake on her birthday! I think the main surprise element was me and Jo Yi’s presence. :p




Then we went for movie and steamboat dinner. She knew about the dinner, but she didn’t know others would be joining the dinner. So I’d like to think that the surprise was a success. :D


With the birthday girl! :D


All our phones at dinner. Nokia, the last one standing.

And moving on to the next birthday surprise!

Stichie lover, Kexin. :D

We waited for her in her house, and she came back without any warning and so she surprised us instead. A lot of us were too shocked to react. Though, she was still very surprised and went on screaming hugging and having teary eyes. :D Her reactions were so good and satisfying.



With the stitchie birthday girl. :D


The present from me, Wen Yi, Zoey and Jo Yi. We solved the puzzle and framed it on the same day lol.


The heart piece in the middle can be taken out. :D And maybe replace it with a photo or something.


Playing with her stitch hats.


Jen looking adorable! :D

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One must take pictures of KLCC if one works near KLCC.

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One more of the clouds/haze/whatever hiding half of KLCC.

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And this is Menara Ambank. :D

I shall end this post with this photo.

Shook! at Starhill Gallery. :D

Whew! That’s a lot of photos wtf.
Now that I’m done creating a false illusion of my life, I shall go back to my real life.

Twinnie’s Farewell Present

Well, I’ve finally moved my lazy ass and transferred the pictures of the farewell present that was handed to twinnie. And then I edited it, sorta. :D

The pictures are taking forever to upload.

Anyway, just a warning, I’m really not a craft person :( and I did it last minute! :P So my handwriting is extra horrible :D also, I might not have included everybody. -_-

Compilation

Click thumbnails to see full size.
Lee Yi ShenTan Wai LeongLoo Hang YangTan She-ReenTan VivianTan Syn JieAngeline TanFiona ChanSin Wei JienLee Jin WaiTan Tiong HsienAu Hau NungChow Kian SiongKritz YeohLiew Hui TengYoonA

And I TOTALLY forgotten that I printed TWL’s photo :x so I didn’t ask for his number and get his message :x The other one did not return my phone call, so… -_-

OH GEEZ, WHY IS MY HANDWRITING SO BAD D:

Of Year 2011

So hi! I haven’t been blogging for one whole year, I don’t know where or how to start blogging. D: But I thought maybe I should start with a summary of year 2011. :D It’s been a long but awesome year, and very productive too. Not all the pictures below match the paragraph, because I don’t have pictures for all of them. D:

Anyway, I started Foundation in Communication with Taylor’s University in January. When I first got there, I knew no one. foreveralone.jpg but then I’ve met a bunch of lovely people and the whole FICM bunch have been awesome.

These girls in the polaroid, we’re always arguing with each other hahaha. According to Jo Yi, we’re all stubborn. Debbie is the super hardworking girl, determined to get into Melbourne University, and this awesome girl got her wish! I’m so proud of her. :’) Zoey is not as nice as she looks, because she’s abusive to me. >:( She’s always bullying me wtf -_- Jo Yi & Wen Yi, I’m lazy :D but you know I love you! :D

I had my first sleepover at Jo Yi’s house! It’s a miracle, really, considering the protectiveness of my parents. It’s probably because my parents knew her when she slept over at my house. It was on the day she had her belated birthday party, and the next morning we went Pavilion to see Kyle Patrick. :D Kyle Patrick’s so tall and skinny and hot! So hot :D

Kyle Patrick @ Pavilion
I also got a Macbook Pro. :D I told my dad I needed it for my assignments, which was not a lie. I’ve been in love ever since. :D

I got my driving license and it took me MONTHS to finally start driving out a lot LOL. I even drove these girls out! And Vivian! :D Anyway, my poor parents had been my driver for a year. :x I also had a minor car accident. D: Part of the reason it took me so long. I guess I’m brave enough to drive alone now but I haven’t really get the chance to do that LOL. I can only drive to a few places though. -_-

Taylor's University Foundation in Communication Jan '11

I went to a club for the first time too! Well, kind of. I went to Vertigo when it was under renovation at 12 noon with my dad wtf, and went to Vertigo again for Hennessy NyX launch party. But that happened in 2012, oh well.

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And then I also went to pubs/bar. :O Once for me and twinnie’s birthday, we went with our high school friends to The Library. Unfortunately, this is the only picture I have of that day. -_-

An Honest Mistake

Second time was for my music video assignment actually, we had to shoot the band while they perform live at The Laundry Bar, because they’re too busy. I guess it also counted as the first time I went to a gig. :D

I also went to Bukit Bintang to countdown to 2012! It was awesomee :D although crowded and a lot of douchebags spraying something, but it was an awesome experience. :D Not sure if I would want to go back there for another countdown LOL.

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I nearly forgot, I went to “participate” in the I’m Not Stupid 3 / We Not Naughty movie as an extra. It’s a Singaporean movie, directed by Jack Neo. They came to Taylor’s for shooting. Honestly, it sucked. -_- It wasn’t fun, it was hot and there was a lot of waiting wtf. But Shawn is reallyyy cute :D

And I finally, FINALLY went to karaoke! For the first time in my life! :D It was pretty awesome. :D

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Not to forget the two video assignments I’m very proud of. :D There was another video assignment, but it’s kind of embarrassing. :x Anyway, we really learnt a lot from doing these assignments. All the obstacles and problems were pain in the arse and freaked the heck out of me, but it was worth it. :D

On a sad note, my grandfather passed away this year. :(

I might have missed some notable events.. But anyway, looking back, it really has been a great year with a lot of changes. Life is good! :D I know I’m late, but happy belated new year, and happy Chinese New Year! :p