Her grandma runs a small business selling really retro candies and tidbits to the neighbourhood children.


Anybody remember these bubble gums? I used to buy them for 10cents each from the ice-cream man outside my primary school. If you're lucky, there might be a tattoo inside!


Lie Yuen's grandma traps a chicken every now and then to be sold off to the friendly neighbourhood chicken chopper.


Hear the chicken clucking as it runs around. Love em' authentic chicken clucks.


I love em fried. But then again it's not often I see so many chickens in one place! Do forgive me!


Lie Yuen trying to act like a Heong Ha Mui(Village Girl)


I have not climbed a tree since 1996. Back in the days when I attended taekwando classes in primary school, I'd spend some time climbing the trees in the school compound with my brother(who was in standard one) before my mum came to fetch us. I'm older now, Can't climb so high. Don't want to break my head for nothing, do I? Maybe next time I'll climb higher:)


There's an old well outside Lie Yuen's grandma's house. Lie Yuen said that she and her cousins once tied a rafia string and see how deep it was...and once, a cat jumped in and died. :(




Lie Yuen was kind enough to belanja me some good ol' authentic ice-cream man ice cream! Hehe.


MMmmmm.... nothing beats slurping a 40 cents ice-cream cone on a hot day like this.


Her grandma kept feeding us almost every other hour. Thank god I was only there for the weekend or else I'd have to go bulimic. Red Bean Soup! Chilled! Mmm!


After watching There's Something About Mary(I know, I know, 8 years later, yea.) on Lie Yuen's laptop and a 45 minute afternoon nap, we decided to take a stroll around the neighbourhood.


What do you know? Even lalangs are nice to photograph!


God Of The Padi Field?


Would you look at that! Wild sugarcanes!


A nice wooden bench under a nice wooden hut. So kampung-ey!




Wohoo.. that's a dilapidated zinc and wooden house. This is the chinese version of a ghetto. Not all the houses there look like this one, like Lie Yuen's grandma's place is a proper concrete house.


Stray dogs almost everywhere.. and very friendly little buggers too! They come to see what you're having for dinner as well!


We ventured further to check out the padi fields. Apparently there's a drought going on now. I suppose it is a nice place to come to clear your head abit. Not so much the fresh air, but the vastness of the land.


Looking for fishies in vain..


I thought this one made a nice photo composition while I was bending down looking into the drain.


Oooh! Rustic living!


A BALSAM PLANT!! I've not seen this in ages ever since I grew it excessively in my backyard about 10 years ago due to an obsession with "pokok keembung" and its reproductive mechanism(the seeds burst out to spread far and wide) as was stated in my standard five science books!


Every once in awhile, it's nice to get a macro shot of a pretty flower along the way.


The evening sun had a pretty good lighting effect for a new style of camwhoring: Shadows!


How often can you come to such dense greeneries to just lay back and chill?


The tarzan like vines that cascade down from the higher branches.


Oh look at that!! We actually found bamboos.


An oriental feel to the quiet Pematang Pauh village.




There was a hut nearby and apparently it was once a gambling den where old men gathered and ate dog meat together.


Ooof.. really really kampung. I like!!


Now this is something that I've always wanted, a hand made swing in my courtyard. I think the swing is meant to be for two people. So nice!


The swing hangs from a wax apple(Jambu air) tree. An old Indian uncle asked us to use the galah to take some to eat. We declined politely but it's nice to know that people around here are so friendly!


My turn! My turn!


One of the bigger drains that runs alongside the padi field. There were fishes jumping up and down and they looked like Ikan Tenggiri. I don't know, maybe I'm just too Bandar(city) to know.


Fluffy dandylions with a ladybird.


Heyyy!! Pink flowers growing wild!


Lie Yuen and her posies..!


Sometimes beauty can be found in the simplest of things. Don't you agree?


Who would've thought these corn-like weeds can be so fun? You know, if you put these pink flower-weeds and corn-like weeds in a tall slim vase, it would actually look nice. A one of a kind ornament, don't you think?


Morning glory. Lie Yuen's grandmother uses this to make natural colouring for her cakes and pastries.


A view of the padi field at dusk.


See how our shadows stretch across the padi field?


These pink flower lalangs look best when the setting sun casts an orange flow upon it.


A lone centipede crawls along.


Of all the places to camwhore...but then again, I do strange things.


I think this mutt's pretty cute even though it looks disease ridden and has patches of hair missing.


A nice array of homecook food to end our evening walk. Have not had a home cooked meal in ages. :(


*sigh*


Even chickens know how to visit their fallen friends.


So many chickens!


A lone moth amidst the dried leaves on the ground.

Once in awhile it is nice to take a stroll around an old quiet neighbourhood. At least something different from the internet and books and books of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and dentistry. Bleh.

The poor boy needs some serious entertainment after looking like an entertainer for hours on end. Hahahaha. Too bad I'm in Kedah now or else I'd head down to Damansara with my camera.

Calvin has a shout out to ya'll: "Spend RM500 and above using your Ikea Friends card and u stand a chance to win RM1111!!!"

So if you're bored and restless, just pop by Ikea this Sunday and hear Calvin say over and over again, "Spend RM500 and above using your ikea friends card and u stand a chance to win RM1111!!!"

See, living in the Klang Valley is SO fun. You can do silly things like going down to Ikea and take photos of your sporting friends in Viking suits.

Have a heart, make Calvin smile today and please take a flyer from him!

Just a wee bit left over photos from the Chinese New Year holidays..


Mel, Abby, Dennis, Hsin and I congregated for breakfast at the Old Town Kopitiam's SS15 branch. The food's not that good.




Abby and I


l-r: Abby, Me, Mel


Hsin and I.


Mel and I

As a joke, I can't remember exactly how it went, I ended up asking Dennis to marry me. This is a video of him rejecting my marriage proposal.


On Friday, Abby and I went to Midvalley for some ..er, spontaneous shopping. Hehe. Excuses, yea, I know. They were giving out free roses to those who has a receipt from any specialty stores in Midvalley.


Camwhoring with the roses.


One more time in the car!


On Saturday, I went with Chien and Abby to Sg. Wang for some essential shopping(not excuses la..had to get my silicon bra. My old ones were running out of adhesive.). No photos though because Chien dear has this thing about me taking too many photos here and there. The sweet dear is however still encouraging my trigger happy-ness by buying me a camera pouch for my Lumix as a belated birthday present. Thank you Chien!!

Later that day, I went with Chee Kiang to Luna Bar(again!) as he was meeting up with his Asean scholar friends. I was waiting for him to pick me up from the Bukit Nanas Monorail station. I was walking along the sidewalk and I caught side of this sick looking cat with all fours pointing towards the sky. I thought nothing of it and walked along. Then I heard a ferocious meOwr behind me and when I turned around, the damn feline used it's paw to HIT my ankle. Not scratch, No, HIT. You know the type girls give guys who make fun of them, "eeyer! you damn bad la! *piak*!" Strange kitty.

So I hurried along, not wanting to befriend it but IT WAS CHASING ME!!! When I stopped, it manja-ed my legs and gave that same scary meow. I even took a video of the weird creature and as you can see, it was giving chase.

Ferocious manja cat video 1.

Ferocious manja cat video 2.


These are Chee Kiang's scholar friends! l-r: Leong Hooi, Eng Hooi. Nice sunset eh?


L-r: Jon Siow, Chee Kiang, Me.


Viewing the skyline from the mezzanine floor.


A few pictures of the bar at dusk.


Gives a whole different effect, doesn't it?


I LOVE THIS PHOTO SO MUCH! It's my wallpaper now.


On Sunday, I went with my family to Itallianis at One Utama for dinner. This is my cousin in a RM149.90 RedRumMurder pink halter dress. I think it looks abit chiffon-y. Nice!


l-r: Me, Shevie, Aunty Judy, Uncle Terry


Shev and I


Angel and I looking similiar. :)


I received a wonderful surprise in the mail on Saturday! Thank you Lee Cheng!!! Lee Cheng is my senior from school but we've kept in touch through reading each others' blogs. She's got this surprise gift package thing going on for whoeever who was interested and I thought it'd be fun so I was like, "Me! Me!" How would I know that she'd take me seriously??


The entire box of goodies! Stickers, tattoos, cards, postcards, bangles, Rocky Strawberry biscuits, incense sticks, facial foams, nail polish remover, pompom, nail polish, Chupachup etc.


My beautiful spangly new heels for my cousin Hong Fei's wedding in March! Hope I won't fall flat on my face, wish me luck!