HANOI 2011

so i've returned from hanoi,
the country where honking is merely out of courtesy so that no one gets into an accident, where motorcycles and bicycles dominate the roads, where snails are a delicacy (french asian country, a must), where they experience the 4 seasons (in which we arrived in winter), where the heart of Hanoi, really is in the history and the people on the streets.

itinerary for the 4 days:

day 1: checked in, went to see the water puppet show, trishaw ride around the city, visit a temple, dinner.

day 2: checked out, proceeded to a 4 hr van ride to halong city to get on a cruise that goes round the halong bay where there are a total of 1169 islands (of course we didnt see all) went on a small boat ride and saw floating vilages called Vung Viet and then skipped swimming and kayaking cause it was TOO COLD. so i did a body massage and a manicure, dinner and squid fishing.

day 3: woke up early, missed tai chi and sunrise, went for breakkie and climbed the cave of surprise, brunch, checked out, returned to hanoi, shopped for 2 hrs and went for dinner.

day 4: woke up early, visited the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum (where we saw his actual body) , saw the palace and his two houses, the Confucianism temple, lunch and then off back to kl

so pictures are worth a thousand words right? (note: more on fb)

day 1

our tour guide, ngoc









day 2































(none of which i caught btw)

day 3























day 4

that's all for now. :)

GUESS WHO'S BACK FROM A 4 DAY TRIP TO HANOI :)

update: soon!

i know i should be grateful, that i have 'elders' who care. and who arent as bad some.
but when you think about it,
it all comes down to just YOU.
you shouldn't have to compare everything to everyone else. it's about you and what YOU want.

the biggest mistake someone could make would be to
pretend we're all gonna be forever young.
because that's when WE REBEL. because we arent given the opportunity to grow and learn the mistakes for ourselves.
we often hear stories of others and the mistakes they made but that does no good if you dont get to learn them yourself or experience it.
we NEED freedom. how long can one be bound for? I will not be bound to you forever.
so dont try. please. you loose us more by doing so.
is that the relationship you want for us?

i can only take so much, as can you.
i am grateful you care. but im not grateful you cant sympathize for me.

all i wanted was to breathe. to dance. to LIVE

on a completely separate note:
we met up with chris (from the RMIT redbacks) who was down here in kl for CNY and took him out for brunch.

what i realized, i wanna shop so badly. but SURPRISINGLY, i've learnt to say NO.
biggest accomplishment YET! :D

review

SO,

last night (considering im typing this at 12 am) i watched the premiere of BURLESQUE, courtesy of nuffnang at GSC midvalley.

and out of courtesy, i asked lawrence to follow me.

getting there wasnt a problem and getting my tickets knowing how malaysians DON'T line up. solution: you gotta push.
walked around and checked out some compact camera's cause im planning on buying a new one.
then when it was time, we went it.

what was the worst part of the night, the seats allocated to us, one of it was broken.so in sheer panic i told the guys and they gave us two new seats in a different hall, one less crowded (which was good. cause the previous hall was filled with all sorts of people from the cina cina to a bunch of feminine malay boys.)

the movie? was AWESOME.
and the cast that was in it, who knew that many were in it. from kriten bell to dianna agron (from GLEE), that bald headed dude ive seen so many times.

summary?

Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess (Cher), the club’s proprietor and headliner. Burlesque’s outrageous costumes and bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue, who vows to perform there one day.

Soon enough, Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer (Julianne Hough), finds an enemy in a troubled, jealous performer (Kristen Bell), and garners the affection of Jack (Cam Gigandet), a bartender and fellow musician. With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager (Stanley Tucci) and gender-bending host (Alan Cumming), Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage. Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory, though not before a charismatic entrepreneur (Eric Dane) arrives with an enticing proposal…

the songs were really good. the dances, very frisky. and mind you, this time, they didnt censor anything. sooo you can only imagine.
the costumes were BRILLIANT. :) nothing too extravagant but very eye catching indeed.

catch it out in cinemas FEB 17th!

so a few things are worth mentioning:

1. i finally saw my uni timetable. and frankly i dont quite understand it. sooo im hoping that it'll magically turn out alright and not so jammed packed.

2. i bought myself a curling iron. or more like i'd like to think that my parents bought me a curling iron :) what i really i wanted to use that for was to create those soft waves?

and i even tried making my own asian malibu barbie :)
but her hair stayed curled alot better than mine did so this wasnt what i wanted. but
in the process of doing this i burnt my middle finger. fabulous -.-

3.chinese new year has been pleasant. the casual meet ups with cousins for dinner or meeting mum's friends for brunch and tea, neighbours dropping by. it's not so hectic.

4. Im going for the premiere of BURLESQUE. thanks to nuffnang. and im taking lawrence with me since he hasnt watched a movie in ages. so im hoping that goes well.

5. HANOI's in a few days time. this thursday to be exact and im looking forward for it. i did my research and im hoping it's as what it looks like in the pictures.

6. im on a lookout for a new compact camera. FINALLY, i have cash for that -.-

7. im going to be hanging out with friends and back to school to finish my cheer business this week before i leave. (which is soon! DAMN! :/)

8. time flies.

because im sooo fast, some of my favourite shots from today :)

the rest are on fb :)

gong xi fa cai

how's your chinese new year so far?
ive been snacking and laughing and simply berbonding with all the fam members.
pretty nice :)

like every year...

updates, shall be soon!
x

wanna know the best part? i have this font. :)

what's wrong?
I couldnt get more bruno mars tickets so im not sure what's gonna happen.

what's wrong?
my money seems to revolve around money. kinda depressing really.

what ISNT wrong?
-the guy contacted me back on my katy perry tickets. it should be in somewhere past the 11th of feb cause the guy's overseas.

what ISNT wrong?
i finally found something to wear for cny, which is tmw btw.

so yeah, i somehow managed to balanced things out. :)

happy chinese new year people. drive safely on the road aight!
wishing you a prosperous new year ahead.

today is:

today is: 'what's wrong' day

- what's wrong?
i havent recieved my katy perry ticket's from that guy through ebay. i have friends who have good history with ebay and im so worried im that exception.
:( *big sob*

-what's wrong?
i still havent found something for cny. (i do not intend to have a wardrobe malfunction by wearing the same dresses twice).. unless i really need to.

-what's wrong?
i've just been so emotionally down, it's unreal.

-what's wrong?
i cant seem to access my rmit student mail because i couldnt remember my password and tried several times till it's blocked. FUCK

you know that term when you give someone an inch they take a mile?
totally felt that in the past few days.
unneeded stress you know?

so the bad person is the one trying to help.

on the other hand, im not sure if i should be cheering this year. sounds great and all,
but everything's just getting a lot more intense now. new coaches and since ive been away ive been missing out on some major practices doing kick full baskets and everyone's learning back flips and what now (which sounds fun, and someothing i dont mind doing, but the fact that i cant hold a proper handstand or do a proper cartwheel kinda says something.lol.) though the assisted backhandspring i did ages ago was a big accomplishment.
basically, there's a whole round of tryouts coming soon and more money to fork out and im really hoping to save this year.. so it's gonna be really challenging.

ive blown a total of $200 min on concert tickets. and god knows how much i might fork out just on uni alone and my assignments and all.

last night, dearest taty azman celebrated her birthday :)

so where did we go? non other than rasta. where i bumped into nasri and arya, nic and khai wen.

too much is going in my head right now. soooo not my finest hour.
sigh

not a good wednesday

to get my mind off the whole bone in my throat thing that wouldnt go down my system, i skyped with izzat for an hour. like from 1 am. needless to say, it was a good distraction.

i even got to skype with darth vader.
how awesome is that??

bad news: it's 1 pm the next day and the bone is still there. ****!

GUESS WHAT'S HERE

THE HEADLINES. :D

so...

1) i didnt find anything from chic pop for cny. cept for a casual dress mum thought looked cute on me. I saw plenty of gorgeous jewelery but decided not to spend.
so i went to plan b: to ask sissy to find me something from melbourne :P
(LOVE YOU)

OH OH!
i got photographed by the organizers of tongue in chic for being well dressed. :D
i dont know what the whole thing was about but i read it somewhere on twitter. and yeah. i thought it was cool :)

2) i bought dinner for ah mah tonight and ive never seen her smile like that :)

3) i nearly lost my bb because i left it in the car when it went for velet parking. so the guy took me in someone else's car to find my car and get my phone which was there (THANK GOODNESS).

SO YESH, that's all that's happened so far.
tomorrow: a walk in gardens ;) and maybe i might very well just get my baby. HEEEE

update!

sorry for the lack of updates.
the net's been down and ive been busy since wednesday. (like finally putting my days to use instead of bumming around the tele like im good at)

wednesday was spent doing something i cant remember and then cheer in the afternoon. teaching the girls and boys the chorey. which is looking good.

cause thursday, morning till bout noon, i made them do it over and over again. :)
and then nick chin picked me up for lunch to meet with sarah lee and zoe and her boyfriend li eon at ou and we headed to nandos.

we laughed like mad i tell you. Our convo's were like "5th wheel", "bb's are so much better than iphone's and vice versa" (as we were trying to convince sarah, it was team demie and nick against team li eon and zoe), *rolls eye*

you probably wont get whatever i wrote but it's okay. :)

spent the day today with the bestfriend lisa to find something for cny which btw, i couldnt find anything but i didnt come home empty handed.
i bought: a red hairband for RM8 at tea and symphony and a gold necklace in a shape of a camera from a new shop called quick brown cow for RM35.
and walked into their changing room that was like a room of mirrors, it was sooo cute. and they had the cooles things being sold. i wanted a pair of earings from them :(

and then we had tea and im home now in hopes for a good long nap. im pooped.
i should have so gotten those nude aldo heels i saw :(

tomorrow: CHIC POP IT IS!

new song

" we are young, we run free,stay up late, we dont sleep, got our friends, got the night, WE'LL BE ALRIGHT"

- we'll be alright; Travie Mccoy.

that song, literally makes me smile. kinda makes you feel happy and you've got nothing to worry bout for around 3 minutes and 18 seconds to be exact. :)

pls nuffnang

a must seeeee!

i just realized that you cant really see my wallpaper. or more like it doesnt appear.

do you see the woodlike wallpaper?
if you dont, click refresh. it should appear. :)


ps: I FINALLY HAVE TICKETS TO KATY PERRY LIVE IN MELBOURNE.
(i cant give a rats ass if it were standing or sitting tickets, IM GOING!)
xx

have i ever showed you my new piercing? :)
since the parents know, i guess i could show you.

i need to get out of the house. im getting boreedd.
MELBOURNE. i miss you :(

new years present? I wish there was such a thing

fact of the day: peyton is dying on me. i need one of these. :( gahhh.

i hate how my life revolves around money. (i know it's self inflicted, but a little bit of sympathy? :( anyone? )

i've been a little more productive this january

two things good happened today:
1) my infection is almost/already gone. wheee.

2) i got to hang out at pavilion with a friend, izzat. which meant, i was able to get my eye primer from M.A.C. which i've been wanting.

tomorrow:
- im dancing with nicole. (LIKE FINALLY!)
-cheering with the green house. :)


xx