Questions: Beh Chun Chuan

1. What time did you get up this morning?
7am

2. How do you like your steak?
I din eat steak

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Bait

4. What is your favourite TV show?
None

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
I built my own island

6. What did you have for breakfast?
Mere hun

7. What is your favourite cuisine?
Chinese

8. What foods do you dislike?
Bad food
9. Favourite place to eat?
My home

10. Favourite dressing style?
Anythings will do
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
No car
12. What are your favourite clothes?
T shirt

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Paris

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
1|2 full
15. Where would you want to retire?
My own businesses
16. Favourite time of the day?
7pm
17. Where were you born?
SP
18. What is your favourite sports to watch?
Football
19. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
No 1
20. Bird watcher?
Define bird.
21. Are you a morning person or a night person?
morning

22. Pets?
Nop
23. Any new and exciting news that you'd like to share?
Nop
24. What did you want to be when you were little?
Doctor
25. Are you a cat or a dog person?
I m normal person
26. Always wear your seat belt?
Yeap
27. Been in a car accident?
Nop
28. Any pet peeves?
Nop
29. Favourite pizza topping?
Nop
30. Favourite flower?
Sun flower
31. Favourite ice cream?
Chocolate
32. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Nandos
33. From whom did you get your last email?
Groupon
34. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Pavilion
35. Do anything spontaneous lately?
Nop
36. What was your favourite vacation?
Singapore
37. Last person you went out to dinner with?
Lance
38. What are you listening to right now?
Ntg

Beh's first ever post

Well, finally i had posted up my very first blog in pages of our ledger. Before i started my blog,  i wish to make a disclaimer over here :

1. Mr Tyson, please forgive me for my bad English because i wrote this at midnight after a peak week of working.

Talking about October, i think the word that most related to it is business and vacation.

1,2,3 oct 2012 Sarawak trip. Lol.. i had actually just spend a RM 250 for the whole 3 day trip >.< including accommodation + food + flight + cultural village ticket + souvenir.

10, 11,12 Planned Langkawi trip but fail due to my council members ffk (^$#%$^#%$*^&&^) . So i decide to stay up and continue my business,

14,15,16 Almost been scold my family for holidays 3 weeks but only back for 3 days.

17 Back cyber.

23 School reopen and also my 1st booth at Oldtown Prima Avenue been established.

Hmn.. Ntg special else. What a boring life i had. Lol.. wish to have more to share in the future.

I'd do it all over again

This is sooooo long overdue but I'd like to share with you guys, because I had the best time that week.

I took part in Nike We Run KL 2012 on the 13th of October 2012 (Saturday). I love running. I enjoy the solitude accompanied by the sound coming from the earphones and my own heartbeat when I'm running. It calms me down and keeps me in a happy state of mind.

The streets of Kuala Lumpur was conquered by over 12,000 runners on the day of Nike We Run KL 2012, including Yean See and I. The 10 kilometres race flagged off at 5.30pm. The crowd was so huge I couldn't catch a sight of the starting line AT ALL when I first heard the gun shot. It was a drizzly evening, the perfect weather for a long run, and I ran my heart out. The streets of KL have never been more beautiful than in the 10 km journey, where I ran alongside people of different ages and races, wearing the same race tee. I completed the race in 1 hour and 17 minutes. I was sweat-drenched and could barely feel my own feet at the finish line, but I had a blast. I left the race village feeling positive and contented. Because when you do something you love, you simply don't need any other reasons to be happy.

Guess what I did the very next day?

I went to one of the places I love the most. PENANG.

Sara, Niloufar, Yean See and I went up to Penang for a 4 days stay from the 14th til 17th of October. Darryl was already there a week earlier and he hosted us during the stay. Each of us were excited for different reasons. Sara's reason comes without saying - She was stoked thinking bout' her pancakes & crepes from the famous 'Crepe Cottage' (Muahahaha), while my reason being to be able to step foot in the island puts me on cloud nine already.

My close friends know of my fondness for Penang and they often ask me why. I'd say you don't need a reason to love something, but I know you'd give me the troll face, so I say, I love how the streets look old and filled with history; how the shop-houses have beautiful floor and wall tiles; how the whole place is so rich in culture; how you can see water surrounding the island; how you can find good food in every corner (char kuey kark/char kuey teow/prawn mee/and the ais kacang at Swatow Lane with my favourite papaya in it oohhhhhmygod/apam balik with banana oh.my.gosh so yummy you could die eating it/the crepes at Crepe Cottage especially the one with banana & nutella mygoodness best crepe in the world ever ever everrr/wantan mee at pulau tikus/and ohmygoddddddd Harvest Inn!/the list goes on and on); the to-die-for STRAITS QUAY; and the ultimate experience - that excitement you get as you go on the Penang bridge. But really, you don't need any reason, you'll just love the place. Lol. =)

The awesomeness-filled 4-days stay made my holidays. I had the time of my life with the 4 of them. Oh not to forget, Yean See's and Sara's odd infatuation for lamp posts and road signs that they snapped pictures with almost every of it that you can find in Penang. LOL! And also, the girls had a great time partying in the hotel room. *smirk*

Penang's impeccable beauty can touch one's heart and bring you tears and laughters. It's just, amazing.

Yours sincerely,
Yvonne.

Question: Shuying :)

1. What time did you get up this morning?
7.30am :D Dont doubt me, i had a church wedding ceremony to attend. 
2. How do you like your steak?
I can only accept medium well or well done. 
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Bait.
4. What is your favourite TV show?
Wipeout, Cash Cab, The Voice, Gossip Girls, Kang Xi Lai Le..
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
New York! So i have a higher chance to meet Jeremy Lin! <3
6. What did you have for breakfast?
Ipoh Style Hor Fun Soup.
7. What is your favourite cuisine?
I love chinese, western, korean and japanese food :D
8. What foods do you dislike?
Weird one? haha cant think of any now!
9. Favourite place to eat?
Smoke free, sweat free, quiet and clean! *dont get me wrong, i still like food stands :目*
10. Favourite dressing style?
Shuying style. LOL Casual la. 
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
I can handle bicycle, motorcycles, manual/auto car. 
12. What are your favourite clothes?
Clothes that make me look good and feel good. 
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Jeremy Lin's house! hahahha other than that would be europe countries. :)
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
1/2 full.
15. Where would you want to retire?
Perth i guess. 
16. Favourite time of the day?
I like morning actually, but i always sleep late in the night so i cant wake up early :(
17. Where were you born?
Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia, Asia. 
18. What is your favourite sports to watch?
Swimming, basketball and badminton :)
19. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
Ermm, dont really curious about that. haha
20. Bird watcher?
Nope.
21. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night. Sigh! 
22. Pets?
Mommy doesnt allow. 
23. Any new and exciting news that you'd like to share?
Cant think of any. I cant wait to finish this and then drift off to sleep! haha
24. What did you want to be when you were little?
Princess! JK. I wanted to be a doctor. I think I have talked about it many times :)
25. Are you a cat or a dog person?
Not sure. what do you think?
26. Always wear your seat belt?
Yep, 85% of the time. 
27. Been in a car accident?
Thanks God for His protection over me. No. 
28. Any pet peeves?
People who always make other people's life hard (inconsiderate) and smoker. 
29. Favourite pizza topping?
Anything. I like pizza as long as there is a lot of cheese on it. :D
30. Favourite flower?
Rose, white Lily and Tulip :)
31. Favourite ice cream?
Anything, except strawberry i think. haha
32. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Carl's Jr. Cant forget every experience with it. :D I like their sweet potatoe fries! 
33. From whom did you get your last email?
Twitter. 
34. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Erm not sure, i think i will try not max out my credit card.
35. Do anything spontaneous lately?
Not going back hometown for Haji break? haha because normally i would go back. 
36. What was your favourite vacation?
Sabah relaxing trip with my parents and Singapore trip in Feb 2012(1st trip to other country with friends) 
37. Last person you went out to dinner with?
My bro and his family.
38. What are you listening to right now?
I Lift My Hands-Chris Tomlin

Confronting an old enemy with new allies

25 October - As I hauled my rear end out of my nice, warm bed - or should I say, rack (In the United States Marine Corps, rack is a term describing bed), I was feeling horribly down and miserable as I was dreading yet another stressful day of the first semester week (I will not go into the details; chances are you've probably run into this all-too-familiar crap of  a subject registration process, if you're an MMU student. The long-ass hours of agonizing waiting in the MRT-length queues, all over a piece of document/form/verbal enquiries which probably takes a few minutes of processing, and then having to do them all AGAIN if you do something wrong), and having to awkwardly face my former lecturer all over again (Don't get me wrong, he's one of the nicest, most genuinely helpful guys out there, it's just that my presence might make him feel as if he didn't do a good job tutoring me) as a result of having lost in a long-forgotten battle (aka my Principles of Finance subject). I REALLY hate it whenever a vile, repulsive reminder of my demoralizing past comes back haunting me; a foul remnant of my past mistake or failure which comes back to bite me in my rear end, to torment me, to shame me.

BUT SADLY, to add salt - no, salt simply doesn't cut it - acid, to my semi-healed war wounds that morning, some crap popped up and the whole faculty had to put us on hold, in regards to retrieving our subject registration slips. Just great. Now I have to go through that ordeal ALL over again - and the best part? I literally have to WAIT for Monday to have to go through all that stress (you don't say). Bummer. After confirming my worst fears with the faculty administration, I dragged myself off to the library, hoping to pick up a couple of good books to shake off my doubts - and hopefully, as a temporary fix from all my accumulated stress and exhaustion which had been compounding over the course of the past few days. I picked up a couple good books and plopped myself down onto a sofa and transported myself to the-land-of-no-sorrows, no worries and no crap, and started the process of healing. Truly, it felt like I had subject myself to treatment in a bacta tank (What's bacta, you ask? Go to wookiepedia and look that one up, I won't deviate from my post here) ... all the way up to 3.45pm. (Oh, and in case you're wondering, I did manage to chow down some lunch too.)

With some of my war wounds beginning to open up again, I sighed dejectedly and dragged myself out of the library - out of la-la land - and into the real world, where pain and strife ruled supreme. With each step I made to XR1005, I felt it like a knife wound to my chest. Not only would I have to fight a past battle I lost to all over again, I would be all alone this time, with no friends by my side. That feeling of isolation and loneliness WILL get to anyone occasionally, even to long-time loners such as myself.  However, I comforted myself, saying that regardless of how much shit would be thrown in my face, I would neither run from my destiny, nor would I cower in the face of adversity, no matter how heavily the odds stacked against me were. After (temporarily) re-igniting that resolve, I entered the designated battleground that would contain me for the next 14 weeks, I picked a seat while playing a mental recap all of my past events ....

And there I saw it. A friend I knew from last semester's Microeconomics class. Thank God! He looked as if he was someone whom I could relate to! We saw each other, I waved to him and sat next to him. Before we knew it, we were chatting away like long-lost friends. At least I would no longer be alone in this nightmare! My good luck didn't end there, however. I even met Angee, too, who wanted to retake this subject. Now that I know I'm no longer alone, I feel so much better. Truly, confronting an old enemy with new allies isn't so bad after all. This is all of course assuming that our registering for this subject goes off without a hitch ...

Author's comment: Thank you for taking the time to read this, and sorry if I sounded rude at times. It's just that I've been through so much these past few days.

Questions: Sara

1. What time did you get up this morning?
8:30 which is a miracle. I don't usually get up early in the morning. :D
2. How do you like your stake?
Umm..well done?! I've never tried any other way.
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Stolen.
4. What is your favourite TV show?
Well if I want to list down my favorite TV shows it's going to be a very loooong one! :D so I'm just gonna write a few of them. Dexter, The vampire Diaries, Castle, The Mentalist, Lie to me, Sherlock, Community,How I met your mother, American Horror Story
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
San Francisco, CA...I guess. 
6. What did you have for breakfast?
A Chinese biscuit.
7. What is your favourite cuisine?
I love Iranian and western food.
8. What foods do you dislike?
Spicy food and probably many more I can't recall now.
9. Favourite place to eat?
Somewhere quiet. 
10. Favourite dressing style?
Casual. I don't like dressing up. I always prefer wearing something that I'm comfortable in.
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
No driving licence yet!!
12. What are your favourite clothes?
 I always prefer wearing something that I'm comfortable in. I love hoodies, jeans and loose shirts.
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Everywhere!!!! Europe and America first then Asia. 
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
1/2 full? :D
15. Where would you want to retire?
When I reach that age I would like to be somewhere peaceful and quiet.
16. Favourite time of the day?
Night! It's when life begins. Lol.
17. Where were you born?
Tehran, Iran.
18. What is your favourite sports to watch?
I'm not really into sports...but I used to watch Football here and there.
19. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
No one specific. :D
20. Bird watcher?
This would be a guy question I suppose. But no.
21. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night person. 
22. Pets?
No I can't handle pets. I get scared...even though I love animals.
23. Any new and exciting news that you'd like to share?
Nothing exiting more like horrible news which as you all know is Iran's financial crisis.
24. What did you want to be when you were little?
Can't really remember...but I think I wanted to be an Architect at one point. 
25. Are you a cat or a dog person?
Neither one! But if I had to chose I'll definitely choose dogs! 
26. Always wear your seat belt?
Nah...but I try. :D
27. Been in a car accident?
Yes but it was a teeny tiny one!
28. Any pet peeves?
When someone keeps asking questions about the movie while I'm watching it. It's annoying as hell.
29. Favourite pizza topping?
Chicken.
30. Favourite flower?
Daisy, Rose, Daffodils...I don't know really I love all kinda flowers.
31. Favourite ice cream?
I think everyone here knows the answer! obviously Chocolate but I love all the other flavors too...it's hard to decide.
32. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Umm...Carl's Junior. I like the Chicken Sandwiched there.
33. From whom did you get your last email?
My Uncle.
34. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Anywhere with Chocolates,cookies,ice cream, cakes and pancakes etc. inside! :D :D
35. Do anything spontaneous lately?
Nope.
36. What was your favourite vacation?
Thats a hard question but if I want to choose over the past two years its definitely going to Penang this sem break!! I had the best time!
37. Last person you went out to dinner with?
My friend Leili. (she's a UM student.)
38. What are you listening to right now?
Linkin Park, Castle of Glass.

A new beginning! :)

Goodbye my beautiful mouthwatering pancake and hello diet!