DREAMS AND MEMORIES

This is a totally random post while I’m working on my next one. Was playing with the webcam and it’s features the other day so here’s one really random picture just for fun. ^_^

 

 

And yes, those are my new specs.

 

Got a new pair of glasses today… It was like a revelation when I put them on as the world suddenly became crystal clear again. Almost as good as my first experience wearing contact lens.. Must be the kind of lenses the optician used this time. Apparently it’s suppose to give better protection to the eyes especially since my astigmatism seems to be increasing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In all, am totally loving my new glasses. There’s a rather solid feel to it due to the design of the frame but at the same time, not too heavy for long hour usage as well. Then there’s the great lenses paired with a white frame which really makes a great combination. Hope it’ll last me for a long time. ^_^

Travelled a total of 58000++ kilometres with this old faithful car of mine. From convoy drives to almost every part of Malaysia, to just simply getting around university and on occasions. going out for mamak sessions. Many memories come to mind whenever I get behind the wheel.

This car has not only been a medium of transport but also provided refuge when I needed a quiet spot. And also not forgetting, the numerous occasions when it became a sanctuary for discussion or ber-emo among close friends while on a drive.

So much of laughter, joy, tears, consolation, encouragement and ambition were shared amongst friends in this car. Some who were ‘fair weathered’ friends, some friends of opportunity.. But the most important of all are most definitely the trustworthy and true friends who were with me through the many uncountable adventures we had with this car.

Here’s to cherishing the fond memories with my little Kembara car. ^_^

 

Went to this hawkers center near the Stadium Indera Putera after dropping by the Ipoh PC fair for 40 minutes. practically starving when we reached the hawkers center. Since only Cres and Bart were with me, it was only natural that I speak Sabahan bahasa with them (something that I’ve picked up throughout my years at University) asking them what noodles they wanted to eat.

 

Proceeding to the lady boss of the fried kuey teow stall to place my order, I started to make my orders in fluent cantonese. This is what happened after I finished placing my order.

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(2 second pause before she could stop staring and start talking )

[Conversation translated from Cantonese]

Lady Boss 

ARE YOU CHINESE????!!!

 

Audrey

(Puzzled) Yes. I am Chinese.

 

Lady Boss

Owhh.. They why were you speaking Malay Language with your friends then?

 

Audrey

Owh, they’re from Sabah, not Chinese and normally speak Bahasa or English only. (Sorry here Bart, easier to explain to the lady by saying you’re not chinese instead of explaining to her that you’re half chinese and the whole long story and we’ll end up not getting our dinner)

 

Lady Boss

I see. So what’s your order again? And urmmm… can they take pork?

 

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Settling back at our table, I noticed that some neighboring table people were staring at the bunch of us in total shock. :-P

Probably surprised that a bunch of non chinese looking people speaking Bahasa, suddenly order food in Cantonese, and asked for ‘lap cheong’ in the noodles as well.

 

Back once more to my university to continue with final semester after one week of forced holiday. Was seriously reluctant to come back after spending a relaxing week back home in KL. but i guess my room isn’t so bad after all. Definitely miss my roomie even though we seem to be operating in different time zones.

Its the usual drill when back from a leave from university. Sweeping, wiping, mopping and laundry. So now I have my room back in perfect order. Nice and cozy.

The philosophy for this semester is to finish as much work as possible OUT of the room. And have total relaxation when back in the room. (^_^) [Except in unforeseen circumstances of course which hopefully wouldn’t be often.] A good example of what to do in the room would be to lounge in my bed like my doggie. 

 

Been trying out several new themes for my blog for the past few days. There were so many that I couldn’t decide which one to go with. So there was a lot of searching, downloading and not to forget, lots of codes to tweak here and there. [Unpleasant reminder of why I don’t enjoy doing programming]. And there was seemingly endless lines of codes for each and every theme I was considering. Nearly got crossed eyed from all those codes.

 

Finally made my decision last night and started to do my own customization to the template. Hope that it’s not too wordy at the sidebars. Would appreciate any comments, feedback or suggestions to further improve. (^_^)

Presenting my classmates and girlfriends from high school.

Jo Lin (rightmost), who was my room mate for one semester in University. Miss those times when we used to gossip late into the night back in old V5. And of course, our trademark nicknames for each other.

There’s also Sze Yuin (leftmost), one of my best shopping and makan partner. The crazy adventures to the hilariously funny encounters and experience is sufficient to write a novel.

Miss you guys terribly now that I’m back in Uni.

Finally!!! Managed to get the ants, lizards, and other pests which were temporary illegal residents in my room under control. Thanks to my bottle or Ridsect. Definitely handy and effective. Quite effective inkeeping the lizards and cockroaches at bay too. :-)

 

The Ants pitched against the Ridsect. I guess you know who is going to win this battle.

I only officially began unpacking my room today. Whilst bringing out the boxes which were packed in the topmost cupboard, I came across a majorly gigantic ant hill in the making. All members of this particular ant family were stuck to the furthest end of the cupboard. [which of course I couldn’t reach to wipe or shoo away effectively while they are still up and scurrying around.]

Therefore, out comes my trusty Shieldtox to create a ‘smokehouse’ for the ANTS… muahahaha… Back to cleaning up their carcasses now. Should be well knocked out after the 15 minute smoking. Hoping that’s the last of the lot.

I am once again back in UTP. This would be the final semester of my degree program. Looking back, although there were plenty of datelines, complaining, peer pressure, and even some cat fights along the way, it’s been a great four and a half years. Met lots of people, and said and almost equivalent amount of goodbyes for one reason or another. And it’s definitely the time where I’ve done the most travelling.

One more semester filled with Final Year ‘Problem’ (FYP), tests and assignments to plough through. Then, it will be, FREEDOM! I might actually miss UTP after all is done. But that’s a worry for another day I suppose.

PS: Will try to update the posts on KL outings ASAP. Keeping my fingers crossed for acceptable internet connection in the hostel.

It’s been a super super busy day. Had fun, ate a lot, laughed till verging on the borderline cackling of a lot. Was annoyed with the traffic and the car park system. Last but not least, got super frustrated over my forgetfulness.

Will further elaborate about the first few parts in the following posts, but for now just really want to ramble about my forgetfulness. Always been rather forgetful in every sense of the word. But today of all days I actually forgot to bring my camera out for dinner. [Since it’s my mom’s birthday we were going somewhere nice for dinner]

Although I’ve only had my camera for a little more than half a year, I’ve grown very attached to it. It has served me well thus far all the way from Malaysia to Hong Kong and many other places locally as well. It’s a great camera aside from being handy and easy to manage. I rarely need to do any modification to the pictures taken aside from some occasional cropping if i require a close up view [normally only the case for profile pictures]

If you’ve scanned through my blog before, I’m sure most of you would notice that I LOVE blogging about food. Love everything from tasting, savoring, trying new things and taking pictures to blog about the experience. Especially the taking pictures part.

Since I FORGOT the camera tonight, had to resort to using my phone – the good old Sony Ericsson W810i 2.0MP phone to take pictures of all the ‘goodies’ we tried tonight. *Sigh*

Sad but true. The pictures are fairly okay considering it’s from a phone camera. But it’s still better than nothing. Sincerely regretful about the situation but hope you’ll bear with the picture quality.

I came across this book with a rather interesting front cover at the bookstore when shopping with my sister a few days back. So now, take a good look at the picture of the guy and girl on the front cover.

So, being a fanatic over korean drama series some time back, I remember watching this series called ‘Love Story in Harvard’.

‘Love Story in Harvard’ was a rather big hit at some time and so technically when one Googles up picture for that particular series, there will definitely be plenty of search results. I remember seeing a picture of the two main cast of the series which was somewhat similar to that of the front cover of the book above.

Below is a comparison of the two pictures. In my humble and personal opinion, they both look pretty much the same to me. Neglecting the colour pencil effect and the rose which drawn just above the authors name that is.

I didn’t actually purchase the book so I’m not sure if it is an actual translation of the series into a Malay Language book [which would explain the similarity of the pictures]. Perhaps I should have purchased the book to appease my curiosity after all.

Fruits and sago mixed with blended ice, makes everything nice. ^_^

A fresh mixture of mango juice, mango and glutinous rice balls with black sesame filling. There’s also sago at the bottom of the bowl, so be sure to dive down under while enjoying the mango and mango juice.

Honeydew and sago. I guess the name already tells all there is to know about this dessert. This is my favourite out of the two. Probably because of my preference for honeydew in general.

I decided to treat my parents to a movie last night since my mom’s birthday is just around the corner. As she’s not really into all the action packed kind of movies, and Ice Age 3 being a family movie would definitely be more suitable for her.

They’ve not actually tried the 3D version of movies before, thus guess it was worth treating them to one for experience sake. (^_^) So off we went to Pavilion for the movie.

The movie was super duper funny. There were so many things to laugh about in almost every scene be it because of the individual characters personality [such as Sid the sloth] or because of what is happening in the scene itself. This would be like the never ending chase of the acorn by the squirrel. Only this time, add in a competitive flying fox into the picture.

A movie well worth watching especially if you’re in for a laugh. Or even if you just want to spend time with your family and friends.

I finally got about to watching Transformers 2 : The Revenge of the Fallen yesterday and it was AWESOME!!

Was at the edge of my seat wondering what was in store in the next scene. The effects were cool and amazing. On the whole a totally satisfying movie with a good combination of humour, action, and a good solid story plot. Been waiting to watch this movie with group of friends since it first went on screen but had to keep putting it off for one reason or another.

Anyway, am glad I watched it before trudging back to my ‘hot jungle’ university to roast for the coming semester. Thank goodness its the final semester. One more stretch to go and then I’ll be done. Yippiee!!!

While passing time before the movie, had dinner with my friend at Dragon-i. I got into my photo taking frenzy again and took some pictures of our yummy dishes. ^_^

The very same day after completing the marathon, my car battery decided to give up on me. I was very fortunate that I still managed to make it back home before it really gave up on me for good.

So since the car battery decided to officially KO on a Sunday, had no choice but to wait till my Monday whereby my dad would pick up a new battery for my car.

Obviously, there wouldn’t be a mechanic around to help replace the battery. Therefore, time to get our hands dirty with the car. So I worked side by side my dad who taught me how to change the batteries and in less than half hour, all was done. got my engine up and roaring again. Yeay!!! Rejoice!!!

Moral of the story is

1. Be alert of the car battery condition especially if it’s been more than a year since the last battery change – normally there are certain warning signs which hint that it’s ‘almost time to go ’. It’s the second time this has happened to me and I STILL didn’t notice the signs.

2. Learn how to jumpstart a car and keep a pair of jumpstart cables in the car. [definitely cannot jumpstart a car without the cables]

3. Learn to change the car batteries coz it just might boil down to getting your hands dirty..

Woke up full of disappointments this morning. The haze was back in KL. Which in other words mean that I can't go running at the KLCC park. (T_T)