Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Trudge, trudge, trudge


School's started again... how fast the holiday flew past! My mind and body are still very much in holiday-mode. Work is piling up... fortunately, the weather's been great! Sunny skies on cool days, cool but not cold; I hope it keeps up.

The wonderful weather is no match for my disinclination against school though... the motivation to work hard slowly seeped away during the holidays and I find myself loafing around during class time.:( Viscom mock-up for pt1 of folio 4 due in less than 2 weeks! Ah well, at least I finally got inspired for the major Studio Production for Art. My theme is conformity and freedom. Can't wait to get started for that... I have a few ideas I want to paint out! Too bad I'm busy playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon instead... ^^;

It's wonderful wu liao fun! When I first started, I did the personality test and came as the 'jolly' type, ending up as a Munchlax............... after playing the first 3 dungeons, I decided I couldn't spend the rest of the game playing as a fat, weird-looking cat so decided to use a FAQ to become a Piplup (water pokemon can take shortcuts in some dungeons!) I also rechose my partner as a Chikorita and decided to name her, 'Helen'. Helen the Chikorita and Feng the Piplup later formed an exploration team which I named, Team Seishun! (Seishun = 青春 = youth, I don't know why, I just have a liking for 'seishun'... similiar to my fondness towards 'noutenki') When I told Helen at school today, she didn't seem very enthusiastic about it.:P


I hope to either finish this game or get bored with it soon so I can properly concentrate on school work... maybe I shouldn't have started it the day before school started............... Speaking of concentration, I've been daydreaming a lot lately. Daydreaming isn't normally too bad but I sometimes when I blank out, I come back finding someone staring at me directly. See, what happens is that I start daydreaming in someone's direction, they look up and see me 'staring' at them(when I'm actually daydreaming and not paying attention to the information being relayed from my eyes) and they stare back... very, very, very, very awkward!

staaaaaaaaaaare...

I will end this post and attempt to do some work with Kim's tag. I normally don't respond to tags but ah well~ For Kim!


In order to answer the tag questions, name 5 people you can think of right off the top of your head. For those whom was tagged, please don't read the questions underneath unless you already write the names of all the 5 people. This is a lot funnier if you randomly list the names first.

1. Kim
2. Peter
3. Darren(Cheah)
4. Helen
5. Xandie


1. How did you meet number 1? (Kim)
We were in the same class from yr5 onwards at G.I.S.

2. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your friendship with 1? (Kim)
*gets shot for not following rules and being corny at the same time*

3. How long have you known 4? (Helen)
Since yr10 through the Badminton round robin, I remember my onigiri was a conversation piece somewhere at the start.

4. How do you know number 3? (Darren)
Knew him as 'the other Malaysian person' at school during the whole of yr10 , then as 'Vanessa's admirer' throughout yr11, got to know him better towards the end of last year and now he's a 'valued' friend.:P

5. Where is 5? (Xandie)
hmmm... she's not online atm, so maybe at uni?

6. A fact about number 1? (Kim)
She's very energetic and we become super hyper in each other's presence!XD

7. Who is 4 going out with? (Helen)
If she were going out with someone, it'd be with me. *gets shot by Helen*

8. What does 1 do for a living? (Kim)
She just graduated from G.I.S. so she's not earning yet... (Kim, what do you want to do for a living?)

9. Would you live with number 3?(Darren)
I can't really imagine it...

10. What do you like about number 2?(Peter)
He relates to a lot of people and connects to many different wavelengths. I often find him striking up a conversation with a person he's just met. In short, he's easy to talk to.:)

11. Do you miss number 5? (Xandie)
Yes! I've only seen her once this year and because of VCE I can't sing with her anymore!

12. What’s you opinion of number 2? (Peter)
He's a really friendly guy whose heart's in the right place, quite a funny drunk too.

13. What’s your favourite memory with number 5?(Xandie)
Singing and dancing Seishun Amigo together with her at karaoke and on the streets in the city.

14. What would you do if number 1 and 2 were going out?(Kim & Peter)
Woah... very unexpected!O__O I think it'd be really interesting... though I don't think they're each other's 'types'... if it did happen, I'd muse, "Small world~".

15. Ever had a long conversation with 5?(Xandie)
Yeah, I think I have...

16. Have you slept at 2’s house?(Peter)
Yep, when I got locked out or when the bumming lasted until fatigue got the better of me and I dozed off.

17. Do you hang out with 3 alot? (Darren)
I think so, kind of... talk to him in school, play soccer and sometimes lan?

18. Who have you known the longest?
Kim, about... 6 years of friendship?:D

19. How often do you talk to 1?(Kim)
We used to chat on msn everyday but recently her internet's been iffy and none of my messages get to her! She's in Malaysia too..

20.How about 2?(Peter)
We used to chat on msn quite regularly, but he's been going out a lot.:P

21. Have you ever thought 3 more than a friend?(Darren)
Nope

22. Would you go out for a date with 5?(Xandie)
haww... I don't think so, if she accepted, she might force me to crossdress

23. Do you dream about 2?(Peter)
He probabaly has been included in a dream... I can't really remember any though.

24. What did number 4 do to you that you can never forget? (Helen)
All the random inside-jokes we shared, I'll treasure them... TwT

25. What have you done for 1 that the person never forgets?(Kim)
All the random drawings I've drawn by her orders... I can't say for sure, since I'm not her, but I definitely hope she doesn't forget!:P

26.What's 3’s hobby? (Darren)
err... dota? Having weird perverted fantasies...?

I tag;

-Xandie
-Kim, if you want to redo:P
-Peter
-Darren
(just because I tag you, doesn't mean you have to do it, honestly I don't actually particularly enjoy being tagged normally:P)

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The Joy of Cooking


Yesterday's dinner consisted of...

Lamb flower!

Cucumber flower!

Mashed-potato flower!

Cauli-FLOWER! heehee, geddit? Geddit?! ah~ the lameness never ends~

Failed mushroom flower Mushroom man!
(For the sauce to go with the lamb)

I also found a scarred apple (which my sister brought to work to eat today). Despite the huge, ugly scar; I found the way in which the pattern swirls according to the crevasse really pretty...


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this has been a text-lacking, image-heavy post from a lethargic Feng. I hope you were somewhat entertained regardless.;)

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Aiyaaaaaaaaaaa... catch up time!

Okay! So I've had an eventful week. I was meaning to blog about it since the fun started... but never got around to it til now............. Oops.>w>;;;;;;;; sigh... we'll make this a long post then. Props to you if you actually read to the end.:P

13th June, Friday
The GAT... that was actually kinda fun. -nerd- I found it difficult to write about diamonds... but it was easy for me to write the opinion piece. It was a personal issue! I ranted about how artistic 'heroes' weren't given the recognition they deserved, being cast into the shadows of the 'heroes' stealing the spotlight (e.g. sportsmen). It's a personal issue because for all of my school-life my artistic 'achievements' have always been overshadowed by the sporting 'achievements' of others....... :( ah well~:P I had about an hours worth of free time after completing the multiple choice questions so I doodled...

^I made a animals out of the first 2 columns of my multiple choice answers! (This would be terribly embarassing if they're all wrong..........)


After the GAT, I went home, napped then started the face-painting(make-up). Helen came over to get her face painted by me too.:) Then... stuff started going out of the time allocated to it and my planned arrangement shattered to pieces... hence Jenny(who hitched a lift off me) and I were 45mins late to the formal............................... just in time for the appetizer though!:D The meal consisted of Pumpkin Soup, Beef/Chicken/Vegetarian-something and a strange Slice(?) of Ice Cream.

Oh yeah... more importantly than the food... Everyone looked SOOO GOOOOD! All the girls were so pretty!TwT People with partners looked cute matching their partners!:D It was also fun getting partners to dance together... IvyxDarren! Both so shy... so cute! Darren even bought Ivy a bracelet!OoO Quite impressive *nod of approval* ...though I noticed that they seemed to sit further and further away the more they were teased... oops~!

Dancing was fun too... though dancing was often interrupted by the mean photographer lady! She was very rude:( and apparently, quite strange. o.o She went to Dilini's table, sat down and started talking about how she felt Asians either look really young or really old and how she couldn't determine an asian's age. Hmm...


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16th June, Monday
I'd been underestimating the fun to be had at VA all this time... VA is super cheap fun!OoO $3 an hour?! It's $2 for about 5mins of DDR in an arcade! Anyway, upon arrival I found Darren(cheah), Darren(liauw) and Elton playing COD4 against the yr10s (and getting owned by them..). So I decided to play too!:D I've never been really any good at shooting games... Well, later everyone else came and teams became more even.:) We started winning, sort of... Then I decided to go on the yr10s team as a 'sitting duck suicide' kind of player...;) The year 10s were getting annoyed from the opposite side of the room.:P
"WTF IS SOLUS DOING?!"
"WHO IS SOLUS?!"
"SOLUS, YOU'RE ON THE WRONG TEAM!"

Then we played DOTA!:D ahhh my first game of dota~ *reminisces* I remember how excited I was to try out Mirana's skills... and I remember being taught to farm... and was happily farming away UNTIL the evil, conniving, merciless Elton Lee Yew Kuan killed me! No matter~ I will avenge myself one day.>:)(edit/update: which I already have)

^PoTM Feng:D

After eating at Tea House (some weird restaurant which only Cheah favours) we decided to go to Elton's house. Darren(liauw) kept getting attacked by his house!XD He tripped over a random hole in the grass... and then whacked by the long stalk of a flower. Going to Elton's house kind of reminded me of Malaysia with the the loud banters he had with his brother. It's quite amusing that Elton and Douglas are like polar opposites from each other...

19th June, Thursday
After school, Jenny, Ivy and I went to Chadstone to shop for Richard's birthday present. It was hard because most of the shops had a sorta surfer-fashion for guys and because Richard is picky with clothes.:P We ended up buying him a jumper-hoodie with an hour left to roam around... which is when I saw a pair of boxers saying 'DO NOT ENTER' on the front.:) Presents for an 18th have to be somewhat sexual, don't they? I also ended up buying him a pretty princess crown along with the boxers.

As soon as I reached home, I was whisked away to the city for 哥哥's birthday dinner. We went to 全聚德 烤鸭(Quanjude Roast Duck). The food wasn't that great... and all the dishes/cutlery had a weird chinese motif on it with a weird-looking cross-eyed dragon! Either that, or it was duck-shaped dishes.:P We ended the meal with cakes from Laurent~

^Fell in love with the Bacio(Chocolate & Hazelnut) mousse

^Duck chopstick holders

20th June, Friday
Rushed home from school, changed then rushed back to school with Helen. We met everyone in the VCE centre and bussed down to Rowville... Ben lives in a shopping district laid out like in America!O_O Then we walked to his church where we played soccer and football..........?o.o Anyway, at about 7pm people were being sent to the Ice-skating centre. Richard, Darren(cheah), Mong, Shun, Elton, Helen and I were the last round to be sent. We had a bit of waiting to do before getting picked up so we mucked around a little... Darren(cheah) discovered that he'd been mistaking SF's "Hadouken" with "Abugen" all his life...........


Arriving at the Ice-skating centre in Oakleigh, we all proceeded in, put on our ice-skates and made our way to the rink. Instant pros: Helen, Richard(barnett) & Kih! Going round and round in circles was unexpectedly fun!:)


...then I went home and played dota, making my first 'official'(meaning that the person didn't let me kill them out of pity) kill against Edward!:D

21st June, Saturday
Richard's birthday! Went to the city with Ben, Helen, Ivy and Narae and walked to Yoyogi only to find that there wasn't enough space to fit everyone. Then the manager came out to tell us that when we did get a table, we'd have to hurry up because there was another booking later... this is after Richard attempted to book a week in advanced and the attendant at the phone claimed, "Sorry, we don't take bookings anymore." Very, very suspicious. =_=


^The crowning of Sir Richard Hinze
Because of this, we went to Ajisen Ramen instead... after eating, I snuck the pretty crown on Richard(as depicted above) while Andrew(challis) and Steven chugged sake... Helen and I got curious and took a sip. IT WAS SO BAD! I definitely do not like the taste of alcohol at all, let alone the smell! How can people drink that stuff?! ...and why was it only me.......... Helen and Jenny didn't gag on their first sip...

Then we went to FotoWorld (or something similiar in name) where Steven scored most people some plushies! I got a smiling pink pile of poop!:D Then we took purikura in a machine... which edited photos to make it look like everyone wore heavy eyeliner...


22nd June, Sunday
(I give up writing in detail!T_T) Made cupcakes with mum. They were Lemon cupcakes with Raisins in them. Later on, we decided the lemon flavour wasn't strong enough so we added dollops of lemon icing on the top.


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Notice that the I wrote less for each day as the blog post progressed... with the exception of Richard's birthday.;)
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Did you seriously read it all........?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


heehee... geddit? It's me in the freedom gundam!*gets shot for lameness* Anyway, yes! I am FREE now! No more motion/structures&materials/electronics studies for the rest of my life... maybe!>w> Today is a GREAT day!

Preparation for physics wasn't all thaaaaaat bad... I'm proud that I actually stuck to the study schedule I arranged without procrastinating at all!OoO Could it be? Is my self-discipline... improving?! Anyway, the main thing that made the 5 days of perpetual study bearable was study group on Monday at Darren(cheah)'s house! (5 days without human contact would have driven me on the verge of suicide, I think...) Helen and I were the only ones who got work (W=fdcosg *gets shot again*) done... the guys dota-ed. =w=;; Oh yeah! Darren can actually drive!O__O His driving's really scary though... he doesn't watch the road enough, turning around to join in the conversation at the back....................... song selection wasn't bad (despite Harith's disapproval) though!^^ Journey home was reaaally random. Dropping Shun off at Clayton, we then had a pit stop at Red Rooster for toilets. Then, we went through the drive-thru for a box of fries only to park outside a desolate Bunning's warehouse to eat them. Well, seems like we all managed to get home alive. :)

Tuesday was pretty dramatic... so many mood-swings! From feeling relief to losing the will to live.......... I spent the day doing past exam papers, cramming on transistor amplifiers and creating a neat, comprehensive summary sheet to make myself feel a bit more secure. Special thanks to Vincent for the pick me up!TwT


Okay, this'll be a shorter post. Stay tuned for my next post about the Formal on Friday!:D ahh~ Can't wait to see everyone in glamour-mode! Also, can't wait to see the pairings together! HelenxBen, RichardxNarae, DarrenxIvy (,JennyxFeng)... you guys better dance together!;) It'll be sooooo cute!TwT

Makeup OVERKILL である!!!

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Extra:
Dedicated to Peter since he may have wanted to know to what extent the content of conversations Helen and I share is considered 'weird'. Here is one we had today after being shooed from the courts in school by a meaaaaaan teacher:
F: てめ・・・
H: う~~~~かなしいね・・・
F: はあい。ざんねん。
H: う~~~ぼくケーキすきなのに。
F: わたしわサッカーすき。
H: う~~~~~ばか!(refering to the Richard... for no reason?)
F: う~~がっこうばが!・・・がっこうバーガー。
H: がっこうバーガーうまくない!
F: まずい・・・
H: our conversations are so retarded...

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EDIT: Added extra 'E's to the title~;)