Balik Kampung

As titled, I am going back to Kuantan tonight!
Banyak gembira!

(I took this during marketing tutorial. I am not paying full attention. I am bored in the class. No one sits with me. So I play with myself.)

Buuuuut, I am not going back to celebrate CNY.
As my grandma just passed away few weeks ago, not celebrating is a way to show respect ;)

Anyway, Im going back to meet all the girl friends, rabbits and family members!

As for friends in HELP, yesh, I will not be seeing you all more than one weeks, I will miss you, make sure you miss me too xD
Play hard gamble hard eat hard drink hard collect angpao hard during this break, enjoy yourself to the MAX because after this break we have to study hard for the coming mid-term test.
The school is so nice to give us one more week after the break to do our revisions. No one wants to study during CNY. If our mid-term is after the break, guess not many people will score. Or else our brain will be over-used.One side of brain focus on card and mahjong tiles and the other side is paying attention on textbooks or past year paper xD.

By virtue of local chinese movie, WooHoo, a lot of get to see part of the beautiful beach in East Coast.
I have some classmates asked me where is the beach located and what is the cute white thingy that revolves on the sand ?
I couldn't answer them. *Shameful for a girl that lives and raised in the east coast!*
I never know about this thing and never see creatures like this before. Have blank knowledge on this thing.
So, what is that ah? Do they appear at Teluk Cempedak too?

I am going to Penang with my family members at the 4th day of CNY =(
Which means lesser day to gather with friends =(((((((( I am totally not happy with this.
Not that I don't want to go penang with my family, is just I want more time to be with my friends.
Well, I am cheering up myself by convince myself have to appreciate every trip with family. Be grateful that you can go for a trip that is all paid by daddy, because after I graduate I am financially independent, I will have to start paying everything.

And one more reason : Penang MUAH CHI here I come!
Also lots of Penang food which is highly glorified by people around the world.
Gonna call up soo yi and ask for delicious food information.

Have you been to Penang? Can you recommend me where should I go? I want something real delicious ;) I've never been to Penang during CNY, are all shops reopen during the 4th day?


Oh oh! I sold my one red paperclip *wink!* to marcusma, my classmate. Luckily I wrapped the book on that day I passed it to him, because if I didn't, the book will be accidentaly decorate with curry by now!

Bye Kyle McDonald, your fantastic stories will now be read and known by one more people!




P/S : Forgot to tell everyone that Bicarbonate of Soda is in a form of powdery white solid!!!!

Diamond Candy

Okay, I gave up on searching another version of the album cover. Overall, the songs are still the same right?

I bought Elva's latest album, Diamond Candy!!

It is imported one, so it cost me RM60+. Ish ish ish.

Nowadays downloading musics from internet are so common, and we rarely buy original CDs.

Download from net is free what. Okay I know when we download songs we'll be downloading spyware along and it stays in our PC! But it is invisible! Cost us zero! Free things who doesn't want? Is this the reason that Elva's album doesn't have malaysia version?
And since there's some fans out there (me) demand for it so they imported it since we're willing to pay no matter how much it cost.

Unless we really really really support the artist, then we'll spend RM40 or, in some cases, RM100 to buy one nicely designed album, whether you like all the songs in that album or not.

Just like me, I only buy Gary Chaw, Alan Kuo, Elva Hsiao and Joanna Wang.
These artist's albums is in my to-buy list because I don't want them to disappear or stop producing music since they earn so little from the market.

Anyway, back to the topic!
Elva Hsiao latest album, Diamond Candy! Same as the background of my blog! Colourful shining diamonds ;) The first theme song is - 闪闪惹人爱 (they translates it as Shining Love) .

So that's why the main design concept of the album is shining and bling!
See, it shines when I on the flash.

This is Elva and her dance crew, they're dancing for Shining Love, which is very easy to pick up at the chorus part. Just point ur finger and move.
The choreography involves lots of movement on the abs. So elva said now her tummy has gone and start to form muscle (*envy*).


Hmm, overall the songs are nice. Some of the lyrics is quite meaningless, abit commercialize. Don't like it.

One picture of One Red Paperclip and Elva!


About One Red Paperclip, starting it was nice and interesting, somehow when he talks about his experiece with Yahk, I find it boring, and that makes my reading progress went sloooooooooow, about 2 pages today.

Okay now I am going to talk about S.H.E !!
Last Friday I was in Pavilion, I went inside OSIM to change this cute SHE angpaos. Well, I think S.H.E is cute. Somemore the first original album I bought is their album. Dear daddy bought it for me on Fathers Day xD And I'll watch or record TV programs they appears. So, I am their fans too.

After walking around with bf and tanweishin, went dinner and finally is time to go home.
We decided to take monorail, because taxi in Pavilion are operating without metres, they want to charge us double the price. Sorry lah uncle, we are student not tourist, cannot afford that.

Luckily we choose to take monorail. We walked from Pavilion to the monorail station and through the bridge which is connected with Sungai Wang too and we saw huge crowd outside Sungai Wang.
I was so curious. And there' alot of ppl watching from the bridge and taking photos eh! Somemore there's banners of Astro and Osim. Should be a superstar, if not who else can catch such huge attention?! S.H.E is doing endorsement for OSIM, but, if S.H.E is here, why just now the brother in OSIM never tell me? He just hand the angpao to me quietly.

Then I asked a brother who is busy taking photos with his DSLR. He said :"S.H.E"

WTH????? Look real close to the stage, I saw ella and selina!!!!
Awwwwww they look so adorable, just like how they look in photos! They're smiling and signing posters. Poor girls, have to sign thousands of poster in one night. And pity their fans too, it was raining out there.

Then I walked into Sungai Wang, watched them from another angle, and then I saw Hebe, Ella and Selina!! I didn't take any photos because they're just as big as my thumb. Stood there for 5 minutes, watching them signing and smiling. Shyong watched them too, he is happy to see them but not as excited as me.
I asked him :"If the one on the stage isn't S.H.E but JJ Lin?" A big grin broke across his face :)

Finally I left, don't know how many posters they need to sign and how long will it takes.

Last but not least,

latest music videos from Elva!

One Red Paperclip

Who says barter system never works in this era?

Kyle Macdonald did it! With one tiny red paperclip, to a BIG HOUSE!

(photo grabbed from google.)

I believe most of you know stories about this young Canadian man exchanging stuffs starting with a red paperclip. To exchange things with things (not with $), he travelled to a lot of places to meet peoples. Isn't it amazing? Is like you start with nothing, and then you ended with something big, something stable, something called property.

Few days ago, I was walking around, flipping books in Times Bookstore Pavilion, somehow this book caught my attention. So I pulled it from the bookshelf, read the intro and the words behind it.
Well, I know how the barter thing begins and ends. I know he used the power of internet to trade things online. I know he almost dumped by his gf, can't find anyjob, in the stage of "I don't know what can I do" so he started this. But I don't know what and how it happened in the process!

Like people always say : What makes thing wonderful is the process.

In this case, the time interval between begin till end is one year! So how could I miss wonderful stories like this!
I'm always interested with people like him, somehow they defined how the world should be.

He blogged this barters adventures through the years. Okay I admit I am lazy to read his blog all the way from the beginning and staring on the computer reading stories will kill my eyes.

As I've mentioned in my status, I decided to buy it!
I bought this book 'ONE RED PAPERCLIP'

Initially I decided to buy it because I want to know how he did it. Then there's an add-on reason is I want to know how much he enjoys his journey from a red paperclip to a house. I want to know how much times, efforts, determinations, bravery he had put in to success it. Of course, there's a lot of people discouraging him but he did not give up. Nothing is impossible. In the end, he made it!!!!!
Hoping this book will motivates me to be more dare to accomplish my dreams, and to encourage me to have bigger and wonderful dream.

Again, I'll sell this book after reading! Is fun to share interesting books around.
The other reason I am doin this is I have no space to keep books in my KL room. Imagine a small under table space, after filling it with a printer, text books and worksheets, how much space left for non-academic books?
Somemore there's no point of keeping the book kerana I won't read for the second time.

I promise you I will try my best to keep this book clean and looks new!
Not even a signature (I used to sign all my books even before I read it)

Selling for Rm25 ;) Original prices is RM42.90. Tell me it worths pleaaase.

One question here : Will you buy a 2nd hand book if it has signature of the previous owner?

Last but not least, click on his website or blog ;)

While surfing through the website, I found out that he decided to trade his house with something else. But not sure what he got.

Will add on my after-reading comment right after I read it ! Basically there's nothing much to comment because it is based on true story, so I will only tell you whether it is interesting, or not.

P/S : I sold my The Time Travelers Wife to Melissa and this book accompanied her from Malaysia to US. I forgot to ask whether she read it in the long hour flight to US or not ;)