Just last night, I couldn't even get into windows.

I thought I was very clever and tried to restore it(read: reformat) it.

My entire hard disk is gone.

G-O-N-E.

Luckily all the pics are up on shutterfly but the resolution will suck so the photos since october with the high and mighty higher than Sony Cybershot's resolution....is pointless now.

Songs, all gone.

Notes and sound files from class, all gone. And i have a psychology test on wednesday. God. But all that can be found in my classmates' computers.

Still.

I'll die without the internet. I'm going back to kedah WITHOUT my laptop.

Fortunately photos since Luna Bar till now are still in my camera. And they were very nice ones too.

I feel like vomitting. This is the same feeling I got when I thought I was going to fail SPM back in form5.

That same helplessness and the urge to cry.

I had a nice new year entry all done up, saved on my documents..etc. Gone now.

I pray that it'll be fixed by the end of the week because I'll need it then.

Went swimming with Chee Kiang at Villa on Wednesday night. Was quite afraid of getting electrocuted as the skies were threatening the onset of a storm. The entire olympic sized pool was empty that night. It was fun as I have not gone swimming...since..OH MY FUCKING GOD...since before National Service! But then it started to drizzle.. =

We went to Hartamas at 12am for mamak with Daryl, Justin, Jonathan(Ooi!) and Eu-Foh! It's great catching up with them and they entertained me with their PD trip stories and BIG FAT JUICY GOSSIPS that has strangely been kept away from the ears of THE Jolene Lai. BIG FAT JUICY ONE YEAR OLD GOSSIPS. Gah. Any interested ex-SMK Subang Utama ke po chi can ask me about it if curiosity gets the better of you. Tee-hee.

But it's always good to catch up with old friends. Daryl was my form2 classmate. Justin and Jonathan were my primary school mates. Chee Kiang and Eu Foh were my classmates in form4 and form5.

Justin shi sha-ing at Devi's Corner.


They pretended to be stoned because it was only hours after the closure of their PD trip and they have not gotten enough sleep yet.
l-r: Jonathan, Justin, Daryl, Chee Kiang, Eu Foh


It is not a habit, but it has been long proposed for the gang to pay a visit to Luna Bar. Yes, again. But this time, I can say for sure that this batch of photos are the MOST beautiful ones I've ever gotten from the place. Feast your eyes..


L-r: Sush and Manda


l-r: Myself and Sush


l-r: Mun Teng and myself


L-r: Mel, Mun Teng, Sush


Camwhoring


l-r: Chien, Amanda, Mel


l-r: me, Chien, Manda


OK..so I finally learnt the magic of slow shutter speed. Pretty?


Now you have a clear photo of the much hyped about alcoves.


THE swimming pool in the middle of the bar.


Couldn't stop getting excited with my new found discovery - slow shutter speed. Beautiful reflection, no?


Beautiful Chien with beautiful lighting.


The mother of all camwhoring techniques. I propped the camera up with some coasters, an ashray and an upside down cup and set the timer and used slow shutter speed. Chung Lern will be so proud of me.


Mel in a similiar pose.


Amanda wanted one too. Love the reflection again.

Sush looks amazing here.


How can I not want one of myself in that pose too? Hehehe.

One is not enough. At least this one is sharper.


I put the camera on the table, LCD screen facing the table surface and snapped the Christmas deco.


After awhile it started to rain. The heavy clouds were well illuminated by the lights from the city. It was almost as bright as daylight even thought it was about 10pm.


l-r: Me, Mun Teng, Mel


It's a must.


:D


Mel looking sweet here.


A view of the bar.

After awhile, the guys arrived. Kevin, Marcus, Chun Meng, E-Guy, Barry and Chun Guan. Admittedly, all in all it was a fun night la. Despite the earlier misunderstandings:P Sorry people.


l-r: Kevin, Sush, Mel


Oh!!! Lydia actually came with her boyfriend Tek Jian and her friends. Fancy bumping into her here.
l-r: Me, Lydia, Tek Jian, Vern Lyn(?), Jessie(?)


One of us together.


Now that I've discovered slow shutter speed and the timer function and learning how to prop it on a stable surface ala tripod style, it's time to snap panaromic shots of the skyline. Here you go!


Tell me it's not beautiful?:D


More lights.


Couldn't find a good surface to get a nice view of the KL Tower. But this is good enough!

Perhaps the most beautiful photo in all the photos I've ever taken in Luna Bar.


L-r: Chun Guan and I.
My top was too low and my cleavage was NOT a sexy line. It was like a friggin Chanel logo. The two Cs joining together back to back that type. Damn obscene. So, yeah, censored. Do not be surprised that I have my "conservative" moments.


l-r: Marcus, Kevin, Chun Meng, Mel, Chun Guan and Myself


A very nice photo of e-Guy and Mel. I'm sure my classmate back in Kedah will be like printing this picture out from my blog because she thinks E-Guy's really really really cute. This picture is a really good one of him!


L-r: "Charlie" and Mel.


An okay shot of the guys. I didn't frame this pic too well.


L-r: Me, E-Guy, Kevin


L-r: me, Kevin

I think Kevin was drunk that night. When we stopped at a traffic light after Luna Bar, he got out of Chun Meng's car, and came knocking on my car. Then ran back to CHun Meng's car. At another traffic light, he poked his head out of the sunroof and waved madly at us.


l-r: me, E-Guy, Barry


Sean and manda. <3. Sean brought his twin brother Rudy and a couple of other friends along that night.


Another panaromic view of a part of the city.


l-r: Mel, Sush, Me, and Chien


More..


l-r: Kevin, Chun Meng


Chun?


OK, that is REALLY Genting Highlands. The last time I managed a shot of Genting Highlands was with my ancient Sony Cybershot and even then it was like a blur of yellow lights.


The mezzanine floor. (the area above the main bar).


We stayed until 1am and even KLCC had turned off their lights.

A strange thing happened. A doctor from USJ had a patient who has a sister who was going for National Service on the 1st of January 2006.(so pityful). She was worried about national service and the doctor referred her to ME with my blog address/email address, I'm not sure which.

Anyway, the girl added me on MSN and we got chatting. She's from USJ12's school and just finished her SPM and was shit worried about national service. Who wouldn't be?

I met up with her on Thursday morning in McD's Taipan with my national service photos and letters between me and Weng Lum and gave her my blog entries as well for preparation.

hahahaha, the poor girl is a banana too. I hope the first batch is far better than the third batch. I mean the first batch usually don't have a choice and so even the educated ones have not started their tertiary education yet? Whereelse the third batch, it's like even if the educated ones got it, they'd defer.


This is Marie. Wish her luck!

This is Yang Ching and she was my kindergarten classmate and we were the best of friends back then. Sadly, growing up in different schools(she was studying in SMSJ) kind of got us drifted away and for years we've been meaning to catch up.

Finally we did some bonding over mamak in USJ9. Surprisingly we can still click SO well despite not talking to each other properly for nearly 6-7 years.

One night when we were 7 years old and were in her mother's car somewhere in USJ Taipan, we got really bored waiting for her mother to be done with her chores and we decided to play "pretend". We pretended that we were old enough to go shop for bra and panties together. Because shopping for lingerie is what adults did and it would be so fun.

We played alot of things together. From masak-masak.. to Polly Pocket..to taking down all the cushions in my house and building a fort together...to excluding my then very little brother from all our 'big girl games'...to throwing my brother on her pokey grass....to gushing about our crushes and covering each other's mouths when one of us threatened to spill it to our parents... we went swimming together....and 'watered the plants' together...

It was so fun lah. So yeah, she's my childhood friend. She'll definitely be invited to my wedding when I DO get married. Hahaha.

She was my classmate for two years! We both had a crush on this little boy called Derek(2nd row, 2nd from left) who sat at our table. My I-hate-boys phase never happened.

Yang Ching was my first friend in kindergarten. She was the one patting me on my back when I was crying on my first day back in 1992 as I was the new-girl-who-came-from-that-Petaling Jaya-kindergarten.

A close up. She's the one on the left in the front row. I'm the one on the right in the back row. The one next to her is Li-Lynn, who was from SMK Seafield and is also a PTS!

Our graduation class picture in 1993!! Hehehe. The boy in the back row 4th from left is Joash Tan. Most Subang Utama people would know who he is.

It's not too difficult to spot me. Yang Ching's the 2nd one from right in the row below mine. The Chinese boy above her was her second crush in kindergarten. hehehe, she fell for him because he used to share his Tupperware food with her. So cute. My crush is the partial little boy on my right. He was quite a bastard to me as he was in this "I hate girls" phase throughout kindergarten. I was suffering in silence. LOL.

This morning I managed to catch up with Esther, Mun Teng, LiPengAndEdison and V-ng Yan(whom some of us have not seen since SPM finished!!).

l-r: Mun Teng, Esther, V-ng Yan, Me, Li Peng

We suddenly realised that it was almost like a 3 Cekap reunion! We were all in the same class back in form3! But V-ng Yan was my standard 6 classmate, and Li Peng was my classmate from form2 right up till form5! It felt SO weird to not have her sitting next to me after that. Can also be considered an exSR SS19 reunion. Since all of us except Esther and Edison were from SR SS19 Subang Jaya.

Li Peng and her VERY buff Edison(what you did laa?)

I can't imagine that this is their..*takes out calculator* OHMIGOD, 6th year together. Amazing...too amazing. But so sweet!!:)

I'll post the Genting photos in another entry. If I don't manage another entry, Happy New Year to everybody, okay?

I finally stepped out of Malaysia for the first time in nearly three years. Dad's company has a factory in Vietnam and he thought it was a nice place to bring his family for a well deserved holiday.

My brother asked my dad on the plane, "Dad, does it snow in Vietnam?"

Dad was too embarrassed to admit that Mervyn was his son.

Hehe, actually cannot blame him also. I packed two jackets.

My brother and I don't suck at geography for nothing. :D

So anyway, Vietnam's freaking warm. But it rains alot! Which is quite nice. I have like 500 photos from the trip(entire memory card full liao )...so I'll be breaking it up into multiple entries.

An Introduction To Vietnam

The first Vietnamese faces to greet me.


The Airport at Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City.

The Australian man sitting next to me on the plane explained to me that the buildings here are very narrow because the tax they pay is according to the width of their doorway. Kesian...


There are absolutely NO rules when it comes to driving in Vietnam. They drive on the right side of the road and they honk all the time. it's like if they're bored, they drive on the left and when there's an on-coming car, no problem, just swerve back to the normal lane. AND MOTORBIKES BERLAMBAK. You just close your eyes and cross the roads... they will manoeuvre around you, no worries.


No iPods yet, but they enjoy music too:)


So cute!! Got Santa Claus there!


The hotel we stayed in was not extremely grand a hotel, but very well equipped and satisfying. :) As long as it has a long bath, a pretty bathroom, freezing airconditioning and a big nice window, I'm happy.
Here's one of my grandmother with the christmas tree and the interior.

I can't tell you the name of this hotel because I'm about to tell you about the massage parlour in the hotel. We thought it'd be cool to try out "authentic Vietnamese massage". But apparently they touch all the wrong places, and they ask the men, "Sir, you want extra services?" and they will elaborate further with a very rude hand sign.


I found a display case in the lobby and got my brother to take this shot. Beautiful lighting?:D


The view from my hotel room. :) Tee-hee. I know it doesn't look much, but that's the behind of the shoplots which stocks the funkiest bags and sandals.


Must camwhore, anywhere, anytme.

After resting at the hotel for awhile, we decided to check out the shops around the place. Since dad comes here so often, he knew where to bring us.


We went for heavenly beef noodles.. uhhhhh tasted SO great.


I don't know which part of the cow this is, but it sure as hell rocked.


A funny pic of my father and brother that my brother will surely want me to delete and it will be a request that I will coldly ignore.


My camera shy brother and the interior of the restaurant.


This is the front of the restaurant. It's pronounced as Fer 24. :D


One of those bags cost about slightly below RM35. Good right? Sandals about RM25-Rm30. Not ridiculously cheap, but satisfying la.


Should be traditional vietnamese footwear. Didn't get any though because I know I would not be able to find the perfect occasion to wear any of it.


There was this shop called Saigon Impression and it sells formal wear. I thought this outfit was quite special but the top cost about RM150. The pants was of a similiar value..so I only got the top. I mean, I know it's costly, but it's so special and unique!! You know the "got feel" attitude when it comes to shopping? It applies.

Problem is, I don't know where to wear it too. Someone get married and invite me please.


Another angle.


My brother was getting his prom suit done. I mean can you imagine? Prom is like a year away and he's making his suit already. Partly it's because it's about RM200 cheaper in Vietnam compared to the prices here. I like this picture though. Can see his naik syok face when the guy measured his underthighs. tee-hee.


My mum found something nice there as well!


I thought this photo of the Clarins' building looked pretty nice.

It rained alot in Vietnam. So it was very nice and cooling all the time.


Strolling along the streets.


A typical Vietnamese vendor.


There were tons of mini art galleries all along the streets. And they are all very nice paintings. But it's like one in every six shops is an art gallery.


That's me trying to act touristy.


Some of the more unique paintings available in the art galleries.


We went to this Ice-cream parlour and they served candies in the shape of spastic looking animals(think Happy Tree Friends) in a glass bowl. Quite cute lah.

Mum and I


The interior.


They sell these freaky snake wine. It's not advisable to drink it though. But some people do. I bought one for Chee Kiang and he said he got a shock when he opened it. hahahahaha.


I motioned to this vendor with my camera that I would like to snap a photo of her with her wares.. but she put her straw hat on my head and made me pose with her wares instead. LOL. Then my father had to buy some bananas from her as a payment. Smart cookie, this one.

More photos coming up... but we all like photos, no?:) I know I do.