My parents don't even take note of the Winter Solstice festival. It was different when my grandparents were around. They'd make cute round balls of white and pink in sugar water and we'd have bowls and bowls of it till we're so stuffed and hyper.

It's amazing that someone of my generation actually knows how to make these glutinous balls and she's pretty good at it too! Silly woman kept muttering, "Ngo hor yu kah chut ge la"(I can marry liao) over and over again as she 'chai'ed the pulut.

We invited the entire class over because it's nice to end the term with a little party. We thought we could bring the cliques in the class to form a tighter group, but in the end, there were still some boundaries that many could not cross.

But who cares.. it was the process of rolling them glutinous flour balls that maketh the spirit of Winter Solstice.

And in true Jolene spirit, I had to ruin it for Li Shen by making flower shape tong yuen, cube shaped tong yuen, snowman tongyuen(for Christmas!), Koala-Bear-NOT-PIG! tong yuen, boobies tong yuen and smiley face tong yuen! So pretty!!

Lie Yuen and Li Shen rolling the balls.


This is how she chais the pulut.


Skill wei..


See the cute cubes? Hehehe


She put me in charge of the soup. Gula Melaka with pandan leaves. Smelt absolutely heavenly. Mmmm.


Now, who would've thought?! PINK TONG YUEN!! YAYYY!!


Pink tong yuen stacked up.


I was just testing the soup, really.


Some of the other classmates arrived and helped to make somemore glutinous balls.
l-r: Narjit, Pei Zhi, Xin Yi, Chee Wen, Li Shen, Cze Yin and Lie Yuen


Me and my snowman!


Awwwwww.


It was in great demand,my pink flowers.


So nice and fluffy right??


I think they look especially cuter when they are in the water.


L-r: Li Shen and Josiah


My Snowman drowning in Gula Melaka water.


Love the texture!


More of the classmates.


l-r: Cze Yin, Lydia, Carol, Brenda and Me.


A cool photo of the classmates, taken from our staircase.


I bought a toy gun recently to shoot the cockroaces(a story for another day). Here's a pic of Sett trying to shoot Maxis' manhood.


Nipples are nice to shoot.


Desmond was trying to hold Magesh down while Yan Rui aims at his crotch.


Top l-r: Me, Lydia, Carol, Brenda, Wuan Phing, Lie Yuen, Jamie
Bottom l-r: Ee Chia, Cze Yin


We were so bored that we even played Happy Family. Remember the game? But we did not have any patience for it. A sign that we've really grown up since we last played Happy Family in kindergarten. :) In this picture you can see that the other classmates were playing a game and the girls were excluded. I suppose when you play kindergarten games, you gotta deal with kindergarten type of attitudes as well. ;

The Sweet Years

When I was 13,
Keying in data on the library computers,
I leant over and extorted your email address from you,
And you didn't even know my name.

When I was 14,
We were brought together,
By two people who broke our hearts.
And then you gave deriratives of my name,
From Joey to Jo,
To the new baby rabbits you found one morning.
I remember how you'd stop to talk,
Everyday after school.

When I was 15,
It was cold in the highlands,
So I grabbed on to your hands,
And you did not let me go.
I know you were watching me closely,
As I pretended to sleep that night.

When I was 16,
We danced in our own rhythm,
On the eve of my 17th birthday,
Which was our school prom.
The music got slower,
And our faces came closer,
In the dim of the light,
I broke the magic,
As I bent down,
To inspect some confetti.
I was too shy to kiss.

When I was 17,
I realised how much I missed you,
Letters came from across the causeway,
As we finalized our going-ons,
So that we can stop playing games,
And do it for real this time.

When I was 18,
You gave a trail of kisses across my cheek,
And it led on to my lips.
A kiss shared 33 stories above the city,
Oblivious to the glittering skyline,
A memory I will hold dear.

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I'm not allowed to say exactly which of my housemates had a screaming fit with Vinnie, but it was a show worth watching. Housemate X was peeved at the way Vinnie came up with a million and one excuses to avoid doing their dentistry project. On the first day she said she had to cut her hair, her hair was still long the following day. On the second occasion, she said that she had a flat tyre. We heard that she was shopping in the one and only go-able shopping mall in Sungai Petani.

Housemate X really wanted to sound Vinnie. She smsed me and told me that she was really really angry already. So I dared her to come downstairs and tell Vinnie off. She was scared.

Then I trash talked her and I think she got pretty worked up because she came downstairs and spoke in a very aggressive tone to Vinnie. After awhile, the tone of the argument rised and I got excited and took out my recorder.

Vinnie, not pleased, followed Housemate X up the stairs and into her room to fight back. She kept saying, "I DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOU TALK TO ME. YOU'RE ONLY THE ASSISTANT, NOT THE HEAD. WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO ME LIKE THIS?"

I could not possibly miss this for the world. There was finally a showdown to this entire situation. So I went upstairs on the pretext of "calming down the fight", but not before pressing the on button on my recorder. Hahaha. This is the first time in my life I've seen a proper catfight. Yeah!

Housemate X asked, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, HUH? YOU TELL ME? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! EVERYDAY WE DO PROJECT YOU DON'T KNOW FLY GO WHERE..."

Vinnie retorted, "I CAME OKAY. I SACRIFICED MY TIME FOR YOU ALL!!"

Housemate X was bloody peeved, "OH. YOU KNOWWW WHAT'S SACRIFICE LAAA... DON'T USE SACRIFICE LAH PLEASE.."

Vinnie crossed her arm and shook her head, "SACRIFICE IS A GREEAAT WORD."

I know I'm mean but I was damn amused because they've hated each other since day 1. I sat down on the floor and threw in the occasional, "hey, chill lah, don't fight lah, calm down wei...eh, don't lah.." but most of the time I was just looking at them intently. They were really screaming!

At one point they looked at me and I did a hand motion of "hey, calm down, calm down," but nearly did the hand motion for "carry on!!" ..LOL

They fought for a grand record of 14 minutes. I'm also amazed that throughout the entire argument not ONE curse word was uttered. It ended with the both of them swearing never to talk to one another again. I was waiting for the grand finale of a slamming door but Vinnie did no such thing. Haih, wasted.

I told Housemate X that I recorded it and thought she'd laugh along. But I think I nearly got pummelled to death by her and so my 14 minutes worth of catfight was deleted. :(

Not only that. Narjit who is Vinnie's room mate is really hating Vinnie now. They are full blown enemies. They've progressed from not talking to calling each other names. Narjit has not succumbed to name calling yet though.

One morning, Vinnie woke up earlier than Narjit and put her towel in the toilet to "chup" the space. And since their bathroom has no hot water, she boiled hot water to bathe with later. Narjit woke up and asked her, "If you're not going to bathe first, I'm going to bathe,". Then Vinnie looked up from her boiling kettle and gave a bitchy and resounding, "No!".

Obviously Narjit was pissed right, so Narjit just went into the bathroom, ignoring Vinnie. As Narjit was undressing, Vinnie kicked the bathroom door open(they have a faulty lock) and said, "Bitch!!"

Wah lau wei.

Narjit was nearly in tears. She can't fight back because she's afraid that Vinnie will blackmail her by telling her parents about her having a boyfriend.

The two girls are starting to separate their items in their room. Vinnie has always been using one of Narjit's cloth to line her table. She returned it to Narjit and Narjit saw a pink highlighter mark on it. She told Vinnie, "You better wash this off before giving it to me I tell you,"

Vinnie threw it in the dustbin and said, "Bitch."

Wtf!! My household problems. Haha. We haven't seen Vinnie in days, rumours has it is that she has moved out. But I doubt so. :(

She still drives at the speed of a snail and causes traffic jams in Sg. Petani.

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That aside, I'll be going to Vietnam on Saturday and will only return on the 27th! Yay!!

I'll try to look for a dog meat stall and take a photo of it. I will paste it in Angel's room to remind her what happens to dogs who do not listen to their owners.

It'll be a well deserved break:) One psychology presentation, one dentistry project, one physiology test... all over for now!

But it was a good week.:) Chee Kiang came to visit me in Kedah before going to see his grandmother in Penang.

Seems like all boyfriends from KL came up this week. To quote Yan Rui, "Why suddenly all the KL boyfriends come up eh?"

Lydia's bf Tek Jian(sp?) who lives in KL and studies in UK came up to see her for a few days and even Vinnie went off to frolick with her USJ6 boyfriend. Whoever that is. Hmph.

We even threw a Winter Solstice Party at our hostel and invited almost the entire class. Pictures won't be up so soon.

Celebrating Wuan Phing's 20th Birthday!
l-r: Me, Cze-Yin, Yan Rui, Narjit, Lishen, Wuan Phing, Xiong Khee, Lie Yuen, Tek Jian, Lydia

So nice right the effect of the candles!

This group was assigned to do Kedah as their case. They were to collect information about the dental services in Kedah and put it up on a poster.

Another group's project.

Tell me that my group's poster is an ingenious one! We cut the districts out and put them back together as little cards with flaps in the shape of the districts.

SO PRETTY!!

I finally found the reason why my room has so many cockroaches. I hung this on the kitchen's window.

When we're bored.....

Courtesy of Jamie. And I have hairy legs.ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Our completed work!

Must pose somemore.

L-r: Me, Lydia
Camwhoring while waiting for the lecturer to conduct another round of blood tests on us.

l-r: Jimmy, Maxis and Chuan Hong

Me pan hiau...... I look pregnant here right? It's the contour of my posture I'm telling you!!

l-r: Jimmy, Maxis

Ah Thong sleeping or mocking me(I was in that posture minutes before the picture was taken due to excruciating period pains).