What I like about Chinese New Year *u* (Part 2)

Since Chinese have 15 days to celebrate CNY, so I guess it wasn't too late for me to post another post about CNY.hehe...

I shoud proceed with my previous title>> What I like about Chinese New year...

3. Gathering~~

Since it is not easy to get all universities to have same holidays at the same time in a year, CNY is surely a great time to meet with our old friends.

some of the gals

52 '09 CNY class gathering~

Sitting together reminiscing the days we ruled 52 class, we joked, we played, we laughed, and cried?? (nah, it's actually laughed into tears) for whole night long. It is kinda touching to see the unity of 52 class is still there even though time have passed for a few years. Thx for everything , guys..Hope our friendship never end..May God bless u all~^^


4. firecrackers~~

Yippee.. I like fireworks...ya, of course, who doesn't know it's illegal, but don't you all think CNY wouldn't "sound" like CNY if there's no firecrackers 'pi li pa la' around us, the situation would be like celebrating birthday without birthday cake (moodless lar, in other words)...and hey, if you guys track back the history of CNY. Firecrackers is used by the chinese to chase away the "nian" , the man-eater-monster. So, in order to pass down the 'tradition', it's no wrong for us to play it during CNY right? haha...

Mum and dad~

fuiyoh~Uncle Seng so brave... stand so near...somemore drinking beer..

5. Cai Shen~~


*Direct translation> Cai means "Wealth", Shen means "God"

Cai Shen (God of Wealth) ,is believed by the chinese that he will bring prosperity to the people.
He is popular to those who want to receive windfalls and have better luck in gambling~ So guys, if you are desperate for money, Cai Shen is the person you want~ Go! Cai Shen, go!

Oh ya, believe or not, i can actually foretell...haha.. I saw Cai Shen few days ago, in IPP, and ...and..I even took his photo ~yes!! such lucky am I !! He told me that my cohort will be rich ~~ho ho ho...




Behold.........*here's a look of Cai Shen
(drum rolls**)

Cai Shen Dao!!

We will be rich! yeah! I guess nobody will be happy like this person does...



ohh, stop it~ Masu! Treasurer of student council for Tesol, 3rd cycle, Cohort 1 ...:P

What I like about Chinese New Year *u* (Part 1)

Yeah~ A year had passed...Again, it's Chinese New Year ~~year of Ox.. Gong Xi Gong Xi^^

"Ang gu gu ...a lo lo" lol... such a cute cow, isn;t it?

Chinese New Year has always be my favourite~~Yippee~~

First day of CNY...

Wake up early in the morning...went to my po po's house to bai nian (visit-visiting or kunjung mengunjung u may say)..

1. Bai Nian~~^^

I love it cuz we will get ang pows when we go and visit from house to house..

Ang pows~~ muackz3...

I guess no one will ever dislike or resist ang pow except ..those who ad married and have to give away the angpows to the bujangs (singles) and the kids..

RUN! PEOPLE! RUN! PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE FOR ANGPOWS!
oh ya..before we receive the ang pow.. dun forget to say


Happy New Year~ or Gong Xi Fa cai~


my dad's advice: "Better dun use Gong Xi Fa Cai when we greet people this year cuz it's really hard for people to "fa cai" nowadays." ya right, thx to global recession~~ duh~

**For "bananas" and people who yet know to speak and understand chinese**
Direct translation: "Gong Xi">> Congratz/tahniah "Fa Cai">> having windfall or untung banyak

For your information, for chinese, red symbolise luck .. Giving angpows is just a symbol of giving some lucks to the people..so people, dun care too much about the contents of the ang pow k..hehe^^

2. FOOD!! eat~ eat~~eat~~

What so great about chinese new year when we don't have yummy yummy food to enjoy with?

Notice that some weight management companies begin to give a big push on their great products through mass media, trying to tell the consumers "Dun worry, we will always stand by you~~Eat more now, lose your weight later~ "

Damn~CNY is totally a great chance for them to gain more profits ... aiyoh

whatever lar...Chinese New Year is the season of food..

Besides juicy mandarins~
we also have>>>row.. row.. row your boat.. gently down the steam~steamboat!!!

and drinks ~

Cookies Monsters: "not to forget the crunchy biscuits and cuisineeess...yeeee~~~"

Kuih Bangkit, Kuih "Kapek", Kuih Bakul, Kuih Ribbon...etc..

Now, this is a bit different >>>>Yee Sang

Yee Sang (literally means "raw fish") is only served during Chinese New Year and it's a common dish for Malaysian nowadays..It is some kind of chinese salad bar served with the mixture of shreded vegetables (lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, gingers, onions and etc.) together with sliced raw fish, jellyfish added with sweet sour sauce made by sweet plums and juicy lemonade.

For more details on the history of Yee Sang>> u may view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng

When people gather around the table, then it's show time!!!
By using chopsticks, people will toss and mix the Yee Sang.. adding in some "good words" while tossing the yee sang is just like making a wish before we cut our birthday cake... the higher we toss the mixture symbolise the better luck (for bussinessman>> the better fortune )we will gain for this year.. ^^

ya...It's such a nice view to see the rainbows of vege flying in the air...but becareful .. don't toss it to high or else the vege might drop onto one's head....well, if it really happens, the next thing u have to do is run for ur life!! 'cause u might just end up just like the bunny below...

The night before Chinese New Year ^^

Yap.. It was night before Chinese new year, like usual ... my family would gather at my grandmother's house to have dinner~
What differ this year with the previous years was...all of us were not celebrating the night at Pendang but my hometown,Sungai Petani as my 'po po' n 'gung gung' moved to their new house(which is just a stone throw from my house) on last July~ ^^
This year,my family have decided to have reunion party instead of just having a dinner together.

Yeah~ party...
But before that...

Come come come...let's bai bai (pray) first~~

It is part of my family's tradition that we have to pray to our ancestors before the reunion night falls...

Duh~dad, stop playing with your phone lar...come come help mummy. Pity her ...

Next, prepare for the kenduri~

lol... just look at how these experienced chefs work.....

quick~quick~ quick~

Meanwhile.... the kids...

Aaaaa....*mouth widely opened*

Food!!! Mummy, can i have a bite? yummy~~

So...let us wait no more...the party begins~~

~~ Reunion lunch ~~

Po po, grab the food!!! hei yak~~

**burp**(excuse me) hmm...full~ full~

Next,the party continued with..

some "lepak"-ing activities

camwhoring with po po **peace**

some "wuliao" games...such as..

secret codes,

cards and pc games.. **yawning**

n ..what the heck is he doing??

Ben 10, come out from there lar.. adui~~

not to forget some 'gas' drinks (minuman bergas) for the kids~~

dun worry~~it's okay for the kids~ [tidak melebihi 1% alcohol..]

At night, it's steamboat time!!! yeah~
The family of steamboat:fishballs,meatballs, fish, prawns, crabsticks,vege and etc.were q-ing up, to be served~

Wait har....wait till the soup is cooked and boiled then u all can jump in yea~~

now off u go~~

into the tomyam swimming pool~~

Sis: "Jom makan ler wey!! hoi fan la..(cantonese)"

yum.. yummy~

After the big feast, now it's time for us to burn our fat...
let's go out n pray pray in the temple... while waiting for the new year to come...

Say bye bye to the year of squekie squek rats, and welcome the year of mooo moo cow~
Yeah~it time for celebrating~ let us see how the cow jumps over the moon and chases away the rats this new year~~

Happy New year to everyone~ kong hee huat zai (in hokkien)~~

The new chapter begins ~~

lol... i know I'm late but still Happy 2009 to everyone...

This is my first post for 2009.
To make a conclusion for my 2008~Well, 2008 is not a bad year for me....even though lots of not ok things happened around me...haih~~sad T.T

Throughout the year, i have learned a lot things...In brief, i have learned not to ran away but face and accept the truth of our life,the real faces of society (especially those 2-face-hypocrites)....

Now, here come 2009..^^

~~ HAPPY NEW YEAR ~~
Yeah~ Finally, all 58 of us in my cohort can proudly announce to everyone that we are now first year degree students...congratz ~~
A brand new sem must come together with some brand new stuffs...
Here's the report on some of the new things which i have found on the first day of my school..

Hot New Images~
Of course, image is very important for it gives the first impression to the others.
my cohort mates, some ad changed their hair styles.. some wore their new clothes and shoes...n
some even wore their new songkok if i'm not mistaken...lol
It's nice to see new faces and surprises anyway...
and.....speaking of surprise~~

wow... guess who have their new image too...(here's the clue>>it's a him) :)



**drum rolls**







the "fresh"iest of the new semester is ...Mr G





(opsy,sorry i haven gt his pics yet )





hey, he looks diifferent with beard on his face. Honestly, I felt sorry for him coz seriously, i hardly could recognise him if he didn't speak with us on the first day.

New subjects and timetables...

Subjects>>>

As it is our degree year, compared to foundation studies, of coz there's lot of differences in subjects....

For this semester, my cohort will be doing on Linguistic, Philosophy of Malaysian Education, Human development, and an elective subjects>> maths or science~
Some of us were quite disappointed as we didn't have english studies as one of our elective subjects whereas the other institutes have...haih~~

Our timetables >>
For this semester, there are only three credit hours(2 hours for tutorial and 1 hours of lecture) for each of the subjects... so, needless to say, we are damn free if compared to our foundation timetables...
However, thinking back , izit good or bad for us to have too much of free time?
hmpn...hmpn...(isshh~~ philosophise~~)
Whateverlahh!!...It should be okay as long we can manage our time correctly...rite?

New course name>>
yup...we have our new name for our course... it is called B.Ed TESOL(Teaching the Speakers of Other Language)...

Haha... suddenly i feel reporting the new things in school sounds familiar..reminds me gzul, the Dva, he always gossips bout the new things in my class...XD

Things which are still remained as before ...
yup, there are things which are new and there are things which are still "remained" the same ...


The obvious one would be >> the construction ...
duh~~~ after 2 months of holiday, still we could find the similarities of the construction sites...swt-.-" oh ya.. except for some roads which have been built and repaired..
The drainage system~ oh my God, they haven finished the system...
haih~it was quite dissapointing when sometimes i heard my friends says..." hey, see!! we and the other institution started the building projects at the same time, they now ad have their new building but we? the drainage system haven yet to solved...how ironic izit?"
yup.. i know.. nowadays there's global recession, sometimes, the budget might not enough to cover up the expences used ... ya~right~~.....

But the thing i felt angry is~~ how could they(i mean the workers) leave a big big hole in the middle of the road in front of our dorm..n..somemore they didn't close the road. Don't they think it is too dangerous for the people who are driving cars and motorcycles at night? ...if something happened , kesianlah the pak cik guard tu....haih~~


haha....phew..feeling much better after blah out those things...
look back my title.... i dun feel like i'm writing bout it...."lari tajuklah"(runaway the topic)...

Remember, i once said ..our chapter of our foundation years have ad end, the end of the chapter doesn't mean it is finished ... it means another chapter of our story have just wanted to begin...
so now, our degree years>> our new chapter of the story...and here goes our story...


Welcome back everyone~~^^


p/s: sorry cuz i haven uploaded all the pics in here...

Cameron trip~~~ yuhooo!!

my cameron trip ... hehe^^

I was quite surprise when i got the invitation from my best friends, Yun Ting to have a trip with my ex-form 6-classmates to Cameron Highlands right after their STPM examination. It has been long time when I last saw them~~Miss them all~~U61 ~~:)

There were only 9 of us including the

-van driver
-Yun Ting(The Guide@Planner )

-her sis>>Yun Yee

-Regina(Regiz)

-her sis>>Pauline

-Shu Fern a.k.a "Shok Hun" (in Hokkien)

-The funniest one>>Yee Quant

-Mong Ling a.k.a Kong Kong/100

It was a girl party afterall~~ yippee~~^^
We started our journey at 7 sharp in the morning and reached Cameron Highland about 11a.m.

First stop>> BOH Factory

Cactus Farm >>>

what a "hill" of cactus~

Our apartment, at Tanah Rata

look at that 2 fella~ i wonder what have they done to yun yee...lol..

Our dinner>> tadaa~~

what a satisfaction to have steamboat under freezing cold condition..

Itadakimasu...:)

After dinner , we have our pillow talks, not to mention, some pillow fights till 4 in the morning...

Holidays in cameron wouldn't be fun without

Shopping~~~~ for vege...duh~~
but still we had so much fun in bargaining with the sellers over there...

yun ting: " hey, let's do bulk buy~"
camwhoaring~~ while the three are having "fights" with the

sellers...-.-"

Though it was just a simple u61 gathering trip, we had lots of fun.hehe^^

Till we meet again in the next gathering~

Thx for everything and good luck , my friends~

Year end promotion~~... or what~

Recently i was busy reading my books, in other words>> reading to clear the stocks~~yup, it's year end promotion~stocks clearance time~yeah!!

The reason is, without realising, i bought too many books, duhh~~

tell you what>>one of my weird hobbies is buying books...**swt**

I like to buy books especially when i went shopping with my friends. People buy clothes during shopping whereas i buy nothing but.....books??? lol...what the~~

and guess what? I actually have about 5 unread storybooks before this...

(NOTICE: I said storybooks, other types of book I haven't counted in)~~huhuT.T

AND.....THAT'S...... NOT...... ALL!!......

After the cameron trip, I borrowed " Can you keep a secret" by Sophie Kinsella from Yun Ting...

Few days ago, I went to Popular (a store that Aza don't like to step in for her funny reason) and came out with four more books~~ gosh~~ u should call me crazy/siao~~ I must be crazy that time~~@.@

Now, i have quite a big collection of unread storybooks ....Help~!!

Before this, i got...

" Susanna Sees Stars" by Mary Hogan~ [ i really see stars right now ]--->*.*
" Caught in the Act" by Gemma Fox
" It Chicks" By Tia William

" The School for Husband" by Wendy Holden (interesting title huh?)
" Lipstick Jungle" by Candace Bushnell

Princess Dairies the series "To the Ninth" by Meg Cabot (ad finish reading)

New stocks that i bought few days ago~~

Cecelia Ahern Box Set, including:
" If You Could See Me Now" (in the process of finishing it)
" A Place Called Here" "Where Rainbow End"

"Dairies of a mad Mother-To-Be" by Laura Wolf

(lol...I know the title sounds not suit for me...lol...i bought it for 2 reasons: the title is quite interesting and I gt extra discount if I bought this book..hahaha^^ ) This is the second book in the series, I miss her first book " Dairies of a Mad Bride-To-Be"...(the title not suit for me tooo~~lol...)

That's all the unread storybooks for now... help2!! I can't breath~~ **fainted**

Haih.. I guess after this, I wouldn't buy storybooks for the next semester...except I have done my reading ...duhhh~~~ Better continue my reading now...ZzZzZzZ....

Days when they all came back~~

Days when they all came back~~one word>> noisy~~ lol...
(sorry lar guys, i couldn't find words except the word "noisy"..:P)
kay... I should start it with the arrival of my aunties and cousins to my grandfather's house.

well, I have 4 aunties , each of them comes from different states, 3 are teachers (from melacca, N9, and Kelantan) and 1 is retiree (from S'pore).

So , u know la, how the situation at my grandfather's house will be like every holiday...

'coz all the grandsons and grandaughters will sure follow their mummy to visit my grandfathers..(well, not all...)

Speaking of my cousins~

There' only a few of them managed to come back here... [ Yin Yan jie jie and Ah Bing couldn't make it as one is currently studying in Beijing and another one has examination at Utar.] However, Suk Yee, which is studying degree in NTU, S'pore, she made it~~yes!!!
wow , it has been long time since i last saw her....wait~actually, i think it's not very long afterall..yup,half a year...haha^^....(thx to Mei Ying jie jie's wedding lar)

What did we do for last week??

1) To and fro the hospital

My grandmother fell off and cracked her ankle, so she has to stay in the general hospital for the next confirmation. Speaking of the hospital....well, at first Suk Yee and me were like "Har....Why GH?? Private better what~~duh~"(ya right, we are a bit prejudice lar) but in the end , we were wrong~~ -.-" Lol...Though it is a general hospital, back to home, Suk Yee and i just couldn't stop our "wow-ing". To our amazement, that was the first cool~~ GH that we both ever visited....lol.. ample, nice-designed, strictly-secured, fully-equiped and well-facilitated...if you could just take a look on its lobby, gosh~ bigger than hotel lobby man~needless to say, the rooms... [i gave it 4 stars]. Till now, my grandmother is still lying in her bed in the hospital. Get well soon, po po~

2)Fight for TV and laptops...

This happened most of the time~~haha.. When grandfather wanted to watch his news whereas the grandchildren wanted to watch TV shows; Grandfather's case...okaylar... that's his daily routine what~hoho... Luckily, there's still another TV upstairs, hahah~~and then this happened>>

Girls: "Hey, we want to watch DVDs drama lar!!"

Boys: " Yoh...You all ar...watch dramas waste your time lar~ Play game better!!"

In the end, we all have to play "scissors, paper, stone" to get the chance to use TV...**fainted**

Yup, that did settle the problem~ Next, we fought for laptops-.-'' we got two , one of course the "wiser" get first...hahaha... daa~~ there goes me and Suk Yee with our laptop~~leaving.....

Boys: "Hey, we want to play Dota.."

Girls: "We want to play 'masak2' game~"

The crazy 4-Hao, Peng, Sau n my sis>Er

3) Fight for toilets and bathrooms....

This happened when one big family staying under one roof...this time?? still okay lar..tak ramai orang~boleh tahan lagi~~^^

4) Avoiding Xiao Zhao, the notorious, mischievous little boy~~

" Pai Zhao is coming~Pai Zhao is coming~Quick2, switch off the lights and pretend we are sleeping!!!" That's what we did when Ah Zhao came and kacau us~~ lol...

This smart,4-year-old, little guy, was the one we all afraid the most!! ishh...geramnya~haih~~What to do~T.T...He is the smallest and it's hard for us to bully him too~~:(

and then what he did??>>> "Ben 10 !!! Ben 10 !!!",ran into our room, pulled out our tv plug and crushed our games and dramas~~huhu, matilah~~~T.T

5)Play cards and mahjung...

Yeah~mahjung~ finally i know how to play mahjung...hahah~~thx to Ah Peng and Yen Sau, the best instructors..

And look what happened to the mahjong pieces~~*swt* 6) Our own drama class~~@.@

Better wish that Suk Yee will not chop me down after viewing these pics~-.-''

Yup,what a noisy and funny week we had, i would say ...Thanks to you all, guys~~
Till we meet again, guys~ Miss u all~~