Wednesday 28 November 2007

My brein : Now and Then

my brein has been on the frying pan for the past two days. I have no choice but to treat my poor brein this way. Two dead-lines to rush this week. I'm quite sure almost everyone is in the same situation too.. but frying it last minute and with hot blazing fire is not good. coz it turns out this way in the end:

In Chinese, we call it CHOW-HUI-TA.

ahah... Thank god it's a non-stick pan. if not i'l have a hard time gettin my brein outta it. :p cant weit for this week to be over, then will be free again!

images were photoshop edited. click here for original images : brain + fryingpan

Thursday 22 November 2007

Our lovely french lecturer


Immediately after the lecture last Friday, i asked quite a few of those who attended, "Did you hear her mispronounced the word ORGANISM???" and mostly giggled and responded "YESSSS!!"
it's so funny that my initial intention was to draw this lovely young lecturer together with a *speech bubble "...******..."
:) but on second thought, i wouldnt want to spoil her image, she's just too adorable you see, especially with her fluffy hair and 24-7-smiley-face!!! she shall be depicted as a lovely lecturer, so people, no speech bubble for this picture okay.... ahhaha. mispronounciation is common, and i don't blame her. after all it was an entertainment when words are mispronounced as something hillarious!! Organism without the "end" and the "eye". ahhahah.
a bunch of us were just talking about mispronunciations after jayee's birthday surprise just now... so i guess it's normal. but but but, you guys gotta see this if you havent seen it okay.. about how Kenny Sia picked up a funny huge mispronunciation. see his Zam_Rap post... take note of the word "election". =p

Saturday 17 November 2007

Angel of Music


SiuAnn and I, for the first time in the four days, were left to wander around on our own in London. We had elaine, glen and shenhan as our dear tourguides throughout the trip, but on Monday night, both of us decided to go for our most exciting awaited plan, the Phantom of the Opera musical play...

"If you only see one show this year, make sure it is this one!"

This is their punch line in their official site. and i agree with that!

It was seriously one of the highlights of our trip. coz we both have always wanted to watched it, otherwise we wouldnt have crazily scouted for flights to london over the weekend. and to thank god that we have got the flight for as cheap as 2.02 pounds including tax, we didnt mind spending good money on good seats at the stall of the theatre, so we were basically just a wee distance away from the stage. It was spectacular. songs, music, orchestra, background, props, actors and actresses, so on. and to listen to the songs so familiar to my ears was perhaps the best part of all.

I am loving every bit of it. ask me to go again, i would say YES. :)




Thursday 15 November 2007

Warm Stay


Folks in London are cordially warm and friendly. elaine, glen and a bunch of their hospitable housemates and friends were kind enough to let us in to their new halls. shenhan was also pleasant to recommend siu and i good foods around the city.

The picture was taken during the housewarming party in their new halls at St George's.. It was a good time to get together. :) Thanks a bundle folks, we do miss the weekend spent in london!

Wednesday 14 November 2007

London in the morning and at night

Weather was a darling over the weekend... These are a few of London's main attractions :


London Eye


London Eye

Tower Bridge at night


Parliament & Big Ben at night



London Eye at night

We used to read, hear and see so much about these places in story books, movies, tales, songs and so on. Being there and seeing those places with my own eyes were as though returning to yesteryears when I was first told about them... It's an experience.

Foods and more foods

craving is indeed hard to be satisfied.. but London is the best place to be if you are craving for Malaysian foods. seriously. Thanks to all the buddies studyin in London, they do really know how to find good foods!

Nasi Lemak

Char Koey Teow


Hokkien Char noodle


Wa-Tan-Hor

Right here at this time, foods like these do remind me of home. Precious ones. :) Siu Ann and I spent a good 4 days in London, having good foods for almost every meal. Big eaters we are. :p

Saturday 3 November 2007

Crappy Stuff


WC is on board now. and he's heading home to Malaysia!!! lol.. His brother's wedding dinner is next week, so he gonna skip MANY MANY days of classes... How'd i wish i could do that too!mannnnn. what do i miss right now? foods? home? Sunlight? people? ahah...

can't wait for him to be back. I'm SO BORED. ahah. This boredom is really eating me up. It's evident, if not i won't end up with such crappy stuff. ahah.. our teachers in Convent school used to make us draw map back in Geography classes.. now i draw it with a mouse instead of a pencil! by the way, those pics are real photos.. dated years back. i hope WC doesnt kill me when he sees this. Nobody has seen his baby pic before!! DON'T CARE. compensate for the nasi lemak that i'm going to miss!!!

Thursday 1 November 2007

Hell-o-ween?

Was just musing over the word “Halloween”. As far as I know, to "hallow" is to make something sacred or holy. It is so contrary to the meaning what most people perceive “Halloween” as, is it not?
Perhaps it would be a good idea if we start calling it "Helloween"? :)

p/s : It may be an old movie, but if you havent watched it, "The Nightmare before Christmas" is a good movie to watch in conjunction with Halloween. :) brilliant in both visuals and audio.

A metaphorical measure?

On the way back from Table Tennis trainin’ ystday, a german friend brought up the topic of the “Ladder Theory”.. I don't know, but i find this theory partially true, yet awkwardly untrue.

The theory dictates that each man has a ladder. On this ladder of his, he ranks his women friends according to how much he desires to have sex with the girl.. So obviously a girl whom he loves or dreams of being with, will occupy the top of the ladder, and vice versa.

Meanwhile, women are said to have two ladders, unlike men who have only one. This is to say that women see their male counterparts in two possible ways. One is the type whom she may regard as a possible candidate for her to commit a sexual relationship with. While the other type is a man whom she regards as mere friend. These two ladders are termed “Good Ladder” and “Friend Ladder”.

As a truncated summary, a man has a ladder, while a woman has two ladders. What implication has this concept drawn on male-female attraction?
Let’s first talk from a guy’s point of view. If a man has only one ladder, then he would find it rather impossible to be just mere friends with girls whom he ranks on top of his ladder? Personally, I disagree with this point of the theory more than i do agree. Why do I agree? Coz I see that most (but not all) men, after breaking up, will find it very difficult to be friends with their ex-gf whom they are still very much in love with. That’s pretty true how this ladder theory applies in this case. But like i said, I disagree with this one ladder concept, coz I believe there are many guys out there who are sincere in just being friends with more-than-plain-looking girls without having any slightest intention of those sex elements. I dunno, but i hope what I said is true and applies to some guys.

What about from a girl’s perspective? The theory says that a girl sets up two ladders to rank guys, the “good” and the “friend” ladder. My friend, who brought this topic up, said that most guys who are already sitting on the “friend” ladder will find it very difficult to hop to the “good” ladder. For e.g. if a guy who is a very close friend to the girl, and he one day confesses that he has likings towards her, this guy is considered to be jumping from the “friend ladder” to the “good ladder”. And in most of the cases, it is said that girls will not accept these kind of relationship, and that’s how the word rejection comes about.

But, I beg to differ. I have seen many relationship blossoms from years long of friendship.. I have seen girls who eventually gave in to plain-looking-good-hearted Jack instead of strong-muscular Tom.. Most girls do get touched by the things the goody guys do, they are swooned by the sincerity they show, they are melted by the patience these guys show. These guys who are initially in the “Friend Ladder” may one day be on top of the “Good Ladder” with the efforts shown. It’s possible, so one should not render those guys on the “friend ladder” from being unable to climb up to the top of the “Good ladder”.

When i first heard of this theory, i do find it more like a satire, but well, it does emit some smells of truth in certain circumstances.. The ugly truth about human is that we naturally tend to judge people on first impression. But I believe that when it comes to friendship or relationship, there is more than this outward perspective. In essence, the ladder may come in handy to describe BGR matters, but one must not forget that it is also merely just a metaphorical gradation.

Perhaps they should run some evidence-based trials, since this hypothesis has never been validated before, as far as i am concerned. :P
This is what i found on Internet, the original Ladder Theory http://ladderwiki.com/wiki/Original_Ladder_Theory or