For tonight, and memories keepsake

Spot me!

My high school was filled with a million and one incidents. And it was a few hours ago where we were pouring out all the little memories in our minds about the good ol' days, excluding studies obviously. It felt so good reliving those moments in the mind, where things were less complicated, we were all much naive people, and rebellious.

We were happily reminiscing, and realized that we weren't such goody two shoes after all. There was this story where the prefect and the librarian/asst monitor who were constantly out of class, taking every possible chance to walk around school just like that. From buku pontengs, submission of attendance to the office, editorial board duties, toilet breaks.. anything possible, they are the ones volunteering themselves. Hahaha, till to a point where all teachers know about their habits. It wasn't a very good thing though, but I enjoyed it immensely, the freedom.

Oh, and there was the cleanliness award, where the 'cleanest' class will be awarded the medal for a week. Guess whooooooo went crazy obsessed over it? Yes, we were THAT kiasu over this particular award, till we won it almost every other week. Drumroll applause to Jiayi.

There was the incident of playing mafia during bm class, and half the back of the class were so unusually quiet and were closing eyes.. HAHAHAHA, I couldn't remember this though. And it came to class page, where we were burning paper edge (for deco purposes) at the back of the class when teacher was infront teaching. Oh gosh, the horror, the fun, the excitement and thrill back then.

Of course there were some that I would rather keep to myself and not mention here, but infatuation is quite something that makes life happier back then. Also, the only clear memory of form one was easter day. Karl and Zixian were my classmates back then, and as everyone knows, form one is the stage where girls hate boys. Absolutely detest. So cf was giving out hard boiled eggs that very day, and to pay back for those annoying kicking of chairs I endured, snitched the pencil box of the table, and squashed the egg in it. GOSH, THAT WAS THE BOMB! (:


And the friends that I made, the bond shared, priceless. As of now, I should really head to bed for some quality rest. Cheers to the five years of 'uniformed' memories.

Productivity

Live. Laugh. Love.

Find joy in simple pleasures in life.
Quit thinking so deep.
Life's too short.

To wonder what's installed for the future.
Work hard for it, to reach for dreams and passions.
Cherished happiness.

Through the lens

The cherry of the icing for the holidays was the long awaited trip to Penang. It wasn't the best destination for a holiday getaway, but the people made it such a memorable one, friends who you know will stick by you even if the whole world has their back upon you, which is basically all that mattered. Besides that, it was food haven, where we practically stuff ourselves silly with tons of unhealthy yet delicious hawker food. Most of the photos are already up on facebook for you all to grab, so here's just a snippet of Penang through the lens, my favourite picks out of the bunch.

Cendol, to which Jia Yi hates and calls the green thing "green worm". Tsk tsk, I love mine without kacang, substitute with jagung, which taste really really awesome. We even went back for the second time before we left the food haven. The ones in KL would never give you so much jagung.

Wheee, I like jumping shots! (:
And we took a gazillion billion shots before we got a nice one.
The others were.. only me flying. others on the ground hahahaha.

"Life isn't about the breaths we take,
it's about the moments that take our breath away."
~Simon Natator

Sunsets always reminds me of this quote somehow. Spent almost half an hour waiting under the scorching hot sun (not that I'm complaining, my tan!) with the camera so that I won't miss that moment, and boy, it was so worth every moment. The silhouettes, the arrays of colors, the calm sea. It keeps playing on my mind again and again.


A passion.
Today's cell hit me right at the heart again.
Made me realize how small I am, how unmotivated.

My real horse ride. (:
So satisfying, even though it was merely fifteen minutes, especially when it's extra special.



At the back alley of their very ancient buildings.
I like this shot. Everyone looked so happy.

Fried oyster!! It was one of my top to do list in Penang, and had it for three meals. Glutton indeed. Hohoho, but it was so good, so fresh, so BIG. Those in KL are those scrawny unfreshed ones, or maybe I'm just a lousy food hunter.

View from our room. (:


Presenting to you, Flying Man! And Big Bullies vs Small Boy.
Tsk tsk.
Stupid silly random things done at 0600 hr in the morning.
Only showing two out of the bunch, way too embarassing.






See, we were in our sleeping clothes!
Because smart people like us sleep at dawn, and when it's time for breakfast cannot wake up. Hence, rushing and all we just wore what we slept in.




Oh by the time this shot was taken, we were all very gross looking and half dead already. Smeared eyeliners, and icky sweat. Hehehe, but you know, I still like this picture, the focus so sharp. (: And thank you for coming all the way even though it was only for a day. I appreciate it you know? Really one.


Lights that came back with me. (:
So bedazzling, joyful happy light balls.
I'm super glad with this buy ok, apart from dvds, and my bubble blower!
Hohoho.

To sum it all up, it was inexplicably fuuuunnnn. Mainly because there's no one to scold you for doing stupid things, sleeping late till you miss half the good morning aways, being with people you love, (: and yes, we all need to relax once in awhile. Now that I've gain a good few kgs over the years, it's time to lose them, I need to start my Live Life Healthy plan already. Need some implementations, and some discipline.

Gracias, my friend

This is a happy post directed to me.
Because life made me sad these few days.
Even though I acted all happy and jolly, and busy.

In attempt to cheer myself that little wee bit, I started flipping through happy smiling photos of all the catch ups I did, play absolutely very adorable games, listen to sappy songs (Currently: The way you look at me, Christina Bautista), read through some book titled "Happiness now" by Andrew Matthews my dad bought, and came across a quote, "your happiness depends on what you DECIDE to notice." Then on second thought, I'm actually not doing that bad in life, at least I have people that love me for who I am, and good things are constantly blessed to me, resembling God never forgetting me, his grace and mercy so ever flowing.

Was browsing through the hundreds pile of photos accumulated during the short span of three weeks holidays, and smiled reminiscing silly random candid moments. The joy of having no books and stress for that mere three weeks made up for the half year of crazy hectic schedule of trying to juggle between uni work, part time jobs, rangers, business, and also try to have fun at the same time. Rejuvenation, spending time with loved ones, real joy, best holiday ever, the first one without jobs or anything (not exactly-la, but seems long enough to be) , pure rest. (:

So since today's mission is to get a happy jolly rosanne back, here's snippets of the up times during her holidays. Went trigger happy and was crazily snapping aLOT of photos, come to think of it, it took me so long to filter the ones to post here.

~Sushi fest

It was so GOOD, best off, it's home-made, but by the professional.
That's why I prefer job diversity, more privileges hehehe.
Come to think of it, I'm craving for sushi and unagi again.





Jia has 14 rabbits. Actually, I lost count.
Haha, I love Jumper. Biased like that.

Our supposedly movie marathon night.
Meet the Parents, Meet the Focker, Ps I love you.
Didn't know that Man Yee Mee could taste so good. (:

That's for being one of my closest girlfriends. Not for the shopping and dressing up reasons, but rather those more tomboyish stuff. Tsk tsk, things only we comprehend, things no one else would ever think of doing, nor would I think of doing it with anyone else in the world. For always being there, you're already had a place in my heart. Too much, in fact. Hehe.

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Michelangelos!
Our long awaited outing, after our horrible exams.
It was good, we went crazy in the dressing room.
Sigh, we need to do this more often you know?

Clinks to becoming business partners for 7 months and counting! Of a particular star and a snowflake, along with a hanger.

I know you're more than business partner, more like a true friend who I can spill anything and trust that it will be kept a secret. And a friend to rant things out, yet not get judge. Haih, it's so sad that we get judge by everything we do. A heartfelt thanks, for teaching me how to just ignore, and work harder to prove ourselves to the world, for making everything feel better in the end. We've come a long way, and I'd like to see this friendship grow more in years to come. (:

We'll hang on, I promise.

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Ultimate Race@One Utama

Har har har. This is soooo going down to one of the best memories in my life's book. (:

Never in my life I did a back to back 50 push ups and 50 sit ups in less than ten mins, ran like a never did before, around one u, all red and out of breath, did the stupidest things. Ever (note the picture). Oh yea, I'll prove to you anything if I have that spark of motivation, or what we call "kiasuness". Yes z, I owe you big time in the race, for going that extra mile, thank you.

Jord's birthday.
Pre-celebration was at The Apartment, KLCC.

And I could write a million things about everything, but deep down, I know it's not everything that matters, it's you. Thanks for bearing with me, my attitude, and all. I miss arguing with you over fork and spoon, where you'll go it's "fork and spoon" and I'll snap back that it's "spoon and fork", and I'll always win. ;p And lollipops and all... good times good times. Just to let you know I've never taken you for granted ok?

Currently distracted by Chuck. (:
Will update more soooon. Lynn, hang on alright.
You'll do fine. Love ya.

Being an emotional brat at times

I'm digressing, about the way things are turning out to be as a consequences of my actions, how it influenced everyone around me, and how it all came back to me. It's such a let down to know that people are disappointed by you, to having a disturbed mind and a very very unsettled heart. Hmm, to that which I learned, the older you grow, the more complicated things get in life. I'm feeling a bit of that adult life thing slowly crawling up against that stress free little teen I used to be. Sorry I wasn't what you expected me to be, I'm still trying very hard to make things right, and it will all start today, a promise.

Today, I had a day off from classes. My sleeping timetable is still upside down, indicating a bad notion as I've been slacking away, arriving late for classes, and even the pile of books waiting to be read remains just there, on my bedside table. Sometimes I wish to pack my bags up, and fly away to some country being an unknown, leaving a peaceful life, but reality hits hard, and no one can run away from it forever. Hey, though the blog titles, "Silver linings of her life", sometimes it is essential to have some ranting sessions and grown up talk to ease the pain.

Maybe, in a few years time, I will learn about the philosophy of life.
About why I do things the way I did.

Things to look forward to in Bali

It was a well worth holiday after all, am back with 1000+ photos, fond memories, a lousy sun tan (which is more like sunburn), braided hair (nope, am back to the long straight hair), and souvenirs hehe. Bali was amazingly beautiful, and has so much to offer, no wonder so many people get married/honeymoon there.

1. Nick's Pension
A quaint little chalet we stayed in when we were in Ubud. Bali is famous for it's carving industry, and you can see tons of statues like these everywhere in Bali. And I notice they tend to pop in a fresh flower on all the stone carvings. And the room at the back of the statue is our room, overlooking paddy fields which is oh-so-pleasant, and definitely reasonably priced.

2. Wood carving
A major population of balinese are trained to be skilled in carvings. People there are so skilled they can just carve the wood just like that!! I was very impressed with the houses there, all so well built, unique in it's very own way.

4. Fres Tea!
(: My favourite. I drank those like thirsty fishes all through the trip till my dad ban me from it, quoting I will get diabetes if I kept on drinking it. So sad ok, because it was so thirst quenching, and travelling around can get you to sweat a lot. I kept one bottle and it's back here in my room, for memories sake. (;

5. Sukawati Art Market
If you're a fan of art, you will definitely want to check out the Sukawati art market. Wide arrays of art works, of any kind can be found there at a very good price (yes you got to bargain to at least half the price if you're a foreigner). They have clothes (mostly homogeneous though), slippers, paintings, wood carving and all sorts of things. Cheap, yes, very.

6. Jatiluwih
It was heavy ok! (: Paddy ready to de-husk to become rice. And boy, Jatiluwih has one of the most amazing sight of landscape, a whole mountain terrain-ed nicely to grow paddy. Yes, I could tell that Balinese are hundred percent more hardworking than Malaysians, making use of every land possible.

7. Botanical Gardens

Only paying a small fee for entrance, you get to breath fresh cool air and gaze at their very well maintained huge garden. Flowers of all kinds grow in abundance in there, very pleasing to the eyes. Spotted many locals having their picnics over there, heh, and the food was so tempting okay.

7. Kuta Beach

It's where you get those beautiful sunset views, and also try out surfing! (: Initially I was rather reluctant to try it out, but hey ho, we were bombarded by more than ten people trying to teach us surfing for a small fee, so why not eh? Swallowing gazillion billion sea water, having my knee bruised because of the wrong technique, and falling of on my butt and numerous attempts, I'm proud to say I managed to stand for quite a few seconds on the surf board in a mere one hour's time. It really wasn't that hard after all, the harder part was the balancing actually.

Eye candies were everywhere! Hot topless surfer dudes, carrying their surf board everywhere they go, drools*. Bad thing is I went during Indon's school holiday and the beach was so packed that every photo I take has at least ten heads in it. The above sunset photo is prooof. So potong in a way.

8. Para-sailing!!!

Whoop-dee-doo! Absolutely loved it to bits. I will definitely be doing it again when I get the chance to, the feeling of soaring high overlooking the small details on earth is such a mind blowing experience, okay, maybe I'm exaggerating it a little, but these are things you must do before you die.

9. Foooood!

Muuust try the pork spare ribs at Naughty Nuri's Warung, Ubud!!! BEST ever, gosh, I'm hungry now thinking about it, I didn't have my dinner ): And Babi Guling is one of the famous Balinese food, where they roast the pork skin to perfection. Urgh, not really my type of taste bud though. Looook! They even have starbucks in bottle form, I was pretty much tempted to buy one to keep, but I'd prefer freshly whipped up ones.

10. Trinklets

From belts, to beads, to bracelets, keychains, necklace... and the list goes on and on, you can get them all at markets anywhere, and they go for very good price when you bargain. (: I know, so tempting to just get the whole bunch of it.

11. Culture dances

Balinese people are rather steep in their believe, and they practise lots of traditions. Managed to catch the Badong and Kris dance, which is a battle between good and evil. Got to give credits to their effort taken to make those costumes, and I'm surprise to find myself in tune with Balinese music.

Diving, for beginners without experience, it was good. (:

12. Nusa Dua

Is where all the water sports take place, as Kuta Beach's wave is way too strong for these activities. Banana boat, parasail, jet ski, diving.. oh yes, we were on a roll man, SO FUN! I lovelovelove water sports! Oh, and we ticked off white water rafting off our list too!

13. Jimbaran Bay

Seafood on the beach itself. It was very romantic actually, but then with family no romance hahaha. Candlelight dinner, with flowers, cooling sea breeze, sound of the wave, and musicians going from table to table to perform, very very very nice place to be at. I already mark it down as places to visit with the significant other in future. Hehehe.

14. Roxy, Billabong Factory Outlet

All branded surf brand items are very reasonably priced there in the factory outlet! (: It's not dirt cheap, but given a very good discount for last season items. Too bad I didn't have much time over there, so I didn't get to buy bags and bags of stuff. Not sure whereabouts? Just hop on to one of those taxis and they will gladly send you there.

15. Mt. Kintamani, Lake Batur and Uluwatu
I supposed you can possibly read all this up in Bali websites. Mt. Kintamani is one of the active volcano around in Bali, and we got the perfect view from Mt. Batur, which has a very pretty sight of the volcano overlooking Lake Batur, with absolutely chilled weather that makes me shiver up my spine. The best place to be at to watch sunset would be Uluwatu, where you can get the best view ever. We missed the sunset by minutes when we reach, which was a big waste, sigh. ):

My hunger pangs are getting onto me. Am too lazy to get down and whipped up maggi, so I shall go read on bed, and sleep away my hunger. Hurrah to me for waking up early this morning to jog, which can be added to accomplishments in life. ( I know, jia and ziyan are so proud of me) Too bad my efforts pretty much went down the drain when we gobbled up our delicious brownie after jogging, how can.