...or when i'm studying alone, my mind tend to wander off.

the other day i was telling my course mates that i can't study on my own, i need someone or a group of people to be around me when i'm studying. when i say i want a group of people, i meant a group of people who are also studying. i remember during my spm year, i studied with a bunch of friends at teacher grace's place, that was when i could really focus and studied like a real nerd. (oh well, i wonder, should i really use the word - nerd on me?)

but anyway, my course mates were saying that they would prefer to study alone instead of in a group. i was like, why not?


okay, i'll tell you why i can't study alone, especially when i'm at home. i would rate my home as the most not conducive environment to study.

i'll give you four reasons.

......don't you tend to look for something to eat when you are studying / doing revision? snacks like chocolates, biscuits, ice creams etc? 'cause i always need to eat something to make myself stay awake while reading that freaking big stack of law or tax notes. so food is one of my so called distraction.


......this is the most distracting one. i tried to discipline myself to not touch the computer for one whole day, but obviously i failed. blame the creator of facebook games! lol. those games like bejeweled, typing maniac etc are just so addictive. i kept playing those games just to beat the highest score, i know it sounds silly but yeah. anyway, i'm still trying very hard to not touch my laptop for one day, wish me luck on this. (: obviously i'm a person who is very lack of discipline.


......oh well, the television is not so bad. i don't spend the whole day in front of the tv but still it can be quite distracting. when i try to abstain myself from the computer, i turn to the tv when i'm fed up with my law notes. so conclusion, television is bad for me too!

......don't worry, i'm not an emo freak. what i meant by loneliness is that i can't stand studying alone, i need someone to be around me to study with me, to discipline me, to help me with my law paper etc. the other day i was in the library, studying on my own, i find it quite effective you know? although there were lots of unknown people over there but we were all doing the same thing, which was studying. i think all i need is just a 'studying atmosphere' as it were, then i'm sure i'll be very focus. (why my course mates don't like group study one?)


anyway, nonsense aside 'cause finals is just one month away. i can use some of the negative adjectives to describe my feelings right now, i'm seriously very scared. i can't wait till it's finally over!

p.s. sigh, even if my finals is over, i still can't make it to camp. ):

Labels: daily, that's sasa

besides studying, i spent the whole day in front of my computer. i was kinda bored, trying to think of something interesting to do. and guess what, as i was looking through my photo albums, i saw lots of photos of myself taken with different types of food.

oh man, i really do eat a lot!

so i decided to photoshop some of those photos.

Labels: food, that's sasa

i miss how you would smile like an angel.

you've always had the greatest smile on your cute little face. i remember when i was younger, during my rebellious age, i was an emo kid. i didn't like smiling, i hated everyone as though they owed me something. but the truth was, nobody owed me anything, i just wanted to be emo because i think i looked cool with the very trendy emo look. oh how childish i was back then. but on the other hand, you smiled even when you were sick and in pain, you didn't blame anyone for having to go through all these at such a young age.



i miss how you used to wake me up in the middle of the night just to play chor dai di with you.

knowing me, i sleep like a pig and it's not an easy job to wake me up. but you never gave up, you would shake, hit, bite, tickle or shout at me untill i was finally awake. as usual, i was reluctant to play with you at first. but you showed me your very innocent face with your big watery eyes staring at me, begging me to play just one game with you, finally i gave in. i knew it in my heart that you were having sleepless nights, you just wanted someone to do something fun with you.



i miss how you would beg me to repeat my stupid stories just so you could laugh more.

you were always there eagerly waiting for me to come back from school, then we would have lunch together. that was the time when i would tell you everything that happened to me in school, and you listened to me attentively as though i was giving a very important speech. you would asked me questions about my friends and teachers, laughed at every funny little things i said, and forced me to repeat every single details on the stories you liked. you were always there for me whenever i needed someone to talk to, and never failed to keep my dirty little secrets.



i miss how we would dance along the song - asereja by las ketchup

we used to have the whole television to ourselves back then, our favourite channels were mtv and channel v. we would try our best not to miss any programs shown in these two channels, i couldn't recall what were our favourite programs back then but i do remember who were our favourite vj's. yours was paula malai ali but i used to like sarah tan a lot. obviously both of us have different likings sometimes, but we hardly fight over anything. i mean, yeah, we do fight but not always. i remember there was once, the song - asereja was played on tv so both of us danced along this song. you were so hyper at that time, while you were dancing, you accidentally knocked your head towards the wall. from then onwards, i don't allow you to dance along this song anymore, 'cause i didn't want you to hurt yourself.



i miss how you always refused to admit that you actually miss me a lot.

i remember there was once i went to singapore for a school trip, if i'm not mistaken, it was a four days three nights trip. i printed out the itinerary so that you would roughly know where i went or maybe i should rephrase it to, you would roughly know where was i and what i was doing when you missed me. so yeah, i heard that when i was away, you checked the itinerary list almost every hour. i know you missed me a lot, but you just refused to admit it. even when you were admitted to the hospital, you would call me and we would spent hours talking on the phone, 'cause you said phone calls from the hospital were free of charge. i know you couldn't live without me, although sometimes you said i annoyed you a lot.



i can go on and on telling you how much i miss you, how much i want you to come back, listing out things that we are supposed to do together, but i still can't change the fact that you are now in a better place. deep down in my heart, i really hope that you've never left us. but it's okay 'cause somehow i can still feel your presence with us and you are always that bubbly little kid i've known since young.

i don't think a one-week-off like what i'm having right now will actually help me to study more, instead i will either spend more time on my computer doing nonsense or indulge in a few awesome movies which i'm going to write about in my other posts, perhaps i will.

oh well, i seriously don't know what has gotten into me lately but i'm realy hooked to a few you tube videos, one of my favourite right now is ryan higa's. omg, he's cute but he craps a lot in his videos. maybe i should share some of his crappy videos here.


......that dumbledore in this video seriously creeps me out.


......saw how edward stopped that undeniably small car? lol.


......argh, this is disgusting!


......i thought jacob was supposed to be transformed into a wolf? not a dog?


......no comment, as crappy as usual.


maybe it's time to check out my law notes right now, off i go!


oh wait, before i go, please check out the one i like most.
......i can't help laughing when i first watched this.
"wait no, somebody has to die!" haha!

Labels: entertainment

the next day, we woke up very early in the morning to have ipoh's dim sum for breakfast. we thought we might be able to avoid the crowd if we managed to reach ming court as early as 7am. but there were people who were earlier than us, imagine it was only 7 something in the morning okay, and the place was already crowded.

we still couldn't avoid the crowd although we were there earlier.

dim sum :



we stopped by this small stall for tau fu fah since we didn't manage to eat it yesterday.

this is the tau fu fah stall i talked about in my previous post, the one where the lady boss allow us to order food from the opposite coffee shop.




err, i'm a bit too lazy to type right now. so after this will be pictures only okay?

Labels: food, travel

this is a full blog post on the food in ipoh as i've promised to blog about it.

last month, me and my whole family went to ipoh for a two day trip, went to lots of places for food. i remember i once said that ipoh food is hard to resist, hence the non-stop meals.



we headed to kampar for lunch before reaching ipoh. kampar is the hometown of my dear friend, vinnie. dad is not very familiar with the route to kampar so we needed vinnie's help, she drew us a map which eventually led us to a food court with the name 36 stalls.

the map drew by vinnie. owh, isn't she cute? that is why i sayang her so much. (: for those who want to go to 36 stalls, i hope this map will help you.

some of the food were actually from the coffee shop next door. remember i once said that ipoh hawkers are very cin cai and they allow us to order food from anywhere?



once we reached ipoh, it was not time to check in yet, decided to eat something sweet. tau fu fah was the first thing that came into our mind.

i have no idea what's the name of this tau fu fah shop, anyone know? please tell me okay? hehe.

but the bad news was, by the time we reached there, all tau fu fah were sold out. what is this la? all they were selling at that time were ice kacang and soya bean drinks only. oh well, at least we had something sweet to eat.



on our way to the hotel, we stopped by to buy ipoh's famous salted chicken. the funny thing about this salted chicken shop is that you can only take away, there are no places for you to sit and dine there.


but they have places for you to sit while waiting for your salted chicken to be ready. you see, take away also need to wait. all because of the usual long queue in ipoh.

by looking at this salted chicken, it can never tempt you to eat it. i mean, it has the not-so-yummy look. oh but the smell and the taste were, oh very awesome! okay, i admit i'm a chicken person so i really like this.



we had the ipoh's famous chicken rice for supper. my dad die die also want to go there to eat, so me and mom had no choice but to follow him out for supper. i have never had chicken rice for supper before, 'cause i don't remember any restaurants in kl selling chicken rice till midnight.

the workers there told us that normally they will sell till 2 am. wah lao, so if you are craving for chicken rice in the midnight, maybe you should come here. but the thing is, you need to wait very long before you can get a table for yourself to enjoy your oh-so-yummy chicken rice. yeah, and again it's because of the ipoh's massive crowd.

Labels: food, travel

this is an overdue post.

i promised vinnie to blog about my trip to ipoh since last month but i was just too lazy to blog about it. oh well, since promise is always a promise, i'm gonna do a post about ipoh right now.

you see, i'm always so nice to vinnie. (: for your information, she's a perak-ian.


but i'm gonna do something different this time. instead of posting pictures of places or food in ipoh, i want to do a short write-up about what i personally think about the capital of perak, ipoh.


the five 'the's'.

1.the nice hawkers
generally, hawkers in ipoh are really kind, nice, friendly, polite and you name it. this is what i first noticed when i was in ipoh for two days. no offence ya, i find hawkers in kl are a bit too arrogant and calculative if compared to the ones in ipoh, even my parents said so too.

i'll give you an example.

this is a small stall selling tau fu fah at the opposite of thean chun (in cantonese). just in case you don't know, thean chun is actually the name of a well-known coffee shop in ipoh.

so what i'm trying to say here is that the lady (in red) is one of the nicest hawkers whom we managed to talk to. i mean, she's really nice, she even allowed us to order food from the opposite coffee shop to eat at her stall. most of the hawkers in kl will never ever allow us to do so, but it seems to be a very common act in ipoh. that's why i say hawkers in ipoh are very cin cai (in hokkien) and also very very nice. they are more than willing to serve you your food no matter where you sit and they don't mind even if you bring in any outside food or if you order any food from any other coffee shops around the area.

i would say, this is really rare in kl.


2. the orange-green hotel

we stayed in hotel ipoh city because it was just right beside the restaurant where the wedding dinner was held. this hotel is actually connected to a row of shop houses, so yeah, this is my first time staying in a hotel which is not standing on its own.

my first impression towards this hotel wasn't a good one. i thought this must be a cheapskate hotel, wanted to blame my sis's friend for booking a room in this hotel. but i changed my mind when i first stepped into the hotel lobby. then i was like, woah, i didn't expect the lobby to be so well-designed.

i kid you not, there were lots of mirrors in the lobby and the reception area was not cheapskate at all.

i even took the opportunity to take pictures of myself in front of the mirror. ignore my ugly hair, can you see the reception area? so nice right?

the hotel room is very spacious and well-maintained. the toilet is really huge, two times bigger than my toilet at home. oh and before i forget to mention, the pillows smell like soflan too.

maybe we should call hotel ipoh city as the hotel you can call home 'cause it's very comfy and cozy.


3. the massive crowd
it was during the hari raya holidays when we were in ipoh. oh my god, there were so many people in ipoh. we saw people practically everywhere, especially at any places with good food. but if you were observant enough, you'll notice that most of the cars over there were not perak cars, which means people from other states actually came to ipoh during the holiday season. my family was one of them.

this is one of the very famous dimsum restaurant in ipoh. have you ever seen such grand dimsum restaurant in kl? okay, i'm not here to crap about the look of this restaurant. i want you to look at the crowd, where did all these humans come from?

even the take away section had lots of people queuing up. tapao also need to wait, so poor thing right?

crazy crowd! we had to wait so long just to get a table for four at every coffee shops or restaurants we went. it seriously tested our patience when we were there, but like i said, ipoh people are nice, so they made us feel better while waiting.

apparently, according to vinnie, this will only happen during holidays.


4. the delicious food
we went to lots of places to hunt for good and yummy food in ipoh. but i'm not going to post any pictures of food now, will do another post about ipoh food later.

so stay tune!


5. the not-so-interesting city
besides eating, there is nothing much you can do in ipoh. no places to visit or for sightseeing over there, unlike malacca where there are so many historical sites to visit.

so, the only place we went during our trip in ipoh was the shopping mall. we spent the whole afternoon shopping and yes, we bought a lot of stuffs.

my sis complained that if she were to stay in ipoh for life, she's gonna die of boredom because there are not much entertainment there. so let's pray that she will marry someone from ipoh. haha!

Labels: travel