To My Dearest Mummy,

Happy Mother's Day

...to the most beautiful, selfless woman in the world.

You taught me to be patient, to love, and to give.

Thank you for being my friend, my teacher, my girlfriend, my counsellor, my walking cookbook, my bitching buddy, a great listener and for always being there for me even though we are so far apart. I don't know how, but you still manage to do all that.

I love you supermom, I can't wait to see you soon in october. I hope you have a great one today. :)



Love always,

your awesome daughter ;P

Give it Up to the Pigs Y'all

Happy Chinese New Year!

It's the year of the pig this time round, one of my favourite in the animal kingdom. oink oinks. My nick on mirc used to be oinkIe (and thats oink-i-e and not oink-L-e la), so every year for my birthday, I'd definitely receive lotsa piggy pressies. Eversince then, I've always asked myself whyyyy oh whyyyy didn't I nickname myself diamond. :P

My email address has the word pig in it as well. I had it since I was twelve or thirteen? It's too much of a hassle to change it now since I've used it for alot of websites, msn messenger, and most of my long lost friends out there only know of this email.

Almost all my lecturers laughed at it, a few people wondered what the reason was behind it, and how childish it is for me now. :p My explanation was always because I've had it since I was thirteen, and it came about because I loved to sleep. Whenever people called or asked to see what I was doing, my answer would always be that I was sleeping, sleeping or still sleeping. So my ex hongkie bestie decided that I should thereby be named after the cute lil 'ol pig, hence the creation of my email address as we both set up our hotmail accounts together.

She should've just labelled me as sleeping beauty la, sounds way nicer and feminine too hey, wahaha. At least I didn't have email addresses that were like roticanai@hotmail.com, 2cute4u@hotmail.com, insertbfname_roxmysox@hotmail.com, xtc_is_my_bestie@hotmail.com, and ecetera right? Grins.

My high school friends in brissie had email addresses that had to do with 69, feiste, dontatouchme and what nots at hot mail dot coms. So when I first made friends with them and we were exchanging email addies for msn, mine obviously stood out with the pig in it hahaha. I was so not with it, where's the hardkore-ness in pigs shaz? Meh, I couldn't be bothered haha.

Now I've got a hugeass collection of pigs contributed by friends, families, and yours truly, all neatly packed and sitting in my room in Malaysia. Maybe one fine day when I have my own house, I'll have a room specially for all of 'em to sit in eh.

Oops, btw I've totally gone off topic. Anyhoo, I just wanted to wish all of you a happy and prosperous chinese new year. I hope all of you get alot of red packets and that you're all winning at your lil gambles. ;P

If the new year hadn't gone so well for those that haven't been fortunate, why not start afresh on chinese new year now hey? ;) All the best!

My Valentines

I see you've all had a great one on valentines day hey, hahaha. Mine was just sweet and simple. :) When the clock struck twelve, we were in the car driving off for a drinking session with a bunch of friends. I left my camera at home bugga, so no piccies. I might have to wait for one of the girl's to send me photos from theirs. I met quite a few who I've bonded with rather quickly, thanks to our dear old alcohol.

It was a crazy night where everyone ended drunk. We had submarines, except ours was with soju! Then we also had rasberry wine and plum wine and lotsa beers. I think Christina, a korean girl, and I were the only ones left that were still conscious. Then there were plenty of arm wrestling that followed for the boys while we were just blabbering and laughing away. Sadly one of them was leaving the day after to Shanghai to pick up on his mandarin for a year. It was good meeting everyone though, they are all really amiable and very nice.

The next day, we went off to Choi's for korean bbq again, this time in one of the rooms. It's so addictive haha. We had ribeye steak, ox tongue as usual, and some salted pork. There were the usual side dishes and soup. After dinner we headed off to the cinemas.

Sadly, by the time we got there it was nine, and most of the movies had already begun. Damnit, didn't get to watch the persuit of happyness again, growl. So we went off for some coffee and cakes at Coffeeculture. A friend called to ask if we wanted to go to the harbour but we declined as we were too stuffed to do anything else hahaha. oinks!












Thanks for making my day babe. :)

Will You be My Valentine?

It's that time of the year again, a day when cupid strikes again to bring love to your near and dear ones. It's a time for friends, a time for families, and a time for lovers. Although many people want to write Valentine's day off as a commercial holiday, it has actually been celebrated for hundreds of years.

How did Valentine's day begin?

Legend has it that it started in the time of the Roman Empire. It was when the Emperor, Claudius II, was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. “Claudius the Cruel” as he was called, was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that Roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. So, he cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome!

The good Saint Valentine, who was a priest in Rome, in the year 269 A.D., together with his friend Saint Marius, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, he was sentenced to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off.

But while in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl, who may have been his jailor's daughter, who visited him during his confinement. Before his death on the 14th day of February, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed...

"From your Valentine"

In 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius decided to set aside February 14 to honor St. Valentine.

There are many theories, but this is perhaps the best known one!

xx

Some interesting bits and pieces:
♥In 496 AD, St Valentine's Day was declared a day of feasting by Pope Gelasius.
♥The first Valentine was thought to be sent by a captured French Knight in London, after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, to his wife home in France.
♥Women during the 1700's hoping to dream of their perfect lover would remove the yolk from a hardboiled egg, fill it with salt and eat it all - shell included!
♥During the 19th Century the English would choose the first person they met on February 14th as their Valentine.
♥America was the first country to really establish flowers as gifts on Valentine's Day.
♥The name "Cupid" comes from the Latin word for desire. The Greeks call this god "Eros" (E-ross), the god of love.
♥The apple is sacred to "Venus", Roman goddess of love. It has long been associated with love divination.
♥In Italy there is an old tradition for single woman to awaken before sunrise to keep a look out for any man to pass their window. It was believed that they would marry this man or someone similar, within that year.
♥The old country name for the Daisy is 'measure of love' and it is still one of the most popular love tests. Pick off the white petals of the flower one by one whilst saying alternatively, "he loves me, he loves me not'. The last petal will reveal the truth.

xx

5 Ways to the Happiest Valentine’s Day Ever!

♥Send a heartfelt Valentine Card to someone who has really inspired you and tell them how much they mean to you.
♥Make a homemade Valentine Card and send it to your favorite relative you haven’t seen in a while.
♥Send flowers or candy to someone who doesn’t have a sweetheart, and sign it anonymous.
♥Make a Valentine’s Basket and send it to a family that has gone through a difficult time and sign it, From Your Guardian Angel.
♥Take your little niece, nephew, or cousin out for ice cream.

Giving is the fastest way to feel good about yourself. It doesn’t have to be expensive, even a single hand picked flower will do. Anything coming from the heart will surely be felt and appreciated. It’s two gifts in one. One is for the recipient and even a bigger gift for you.

Happy Valentines day! :)

My First Minute of New Years Day

I spent my new year's eve with bigbadwolf at the city centre. We were waiting in anticipation with the rest of the crowd to see the beautiful fireworks when the clock strikes twelve, the very first day of our new year 2007.

For the first time in Christchurch, I saw so many people together at one go. I was thinking to myself, god damn finally there is a freaking crowd, hooray! Hahaha, if you didn't know Christchurch has a very small population, so there is never traffic jam over here, not that I know of anyways. The excitement from the crowd was so contagious, it got me feeling alil jumpy, switching to partae mode!

Christchurch is breathtakingly beautiful even at night. The medieval buildings and cathedral, the iridescent lights, the greens, oh so awesome! Here's the loud and proud crowd gathering to await the new year.

Tried to take a close up of whoever was playing that night. Failed indefinately -_-". Me and bigbadwolf. Seriously, he is a meanie poo hehe.

I was tryna take a picture of this group of elderlies with their fancy shimmery wigs, I swear they were more of a party animal compared to us. We were just, er, boring. So one of them decided to be funny and took a picture of me instead, rolling over and laughing after the shot. Okay he didn't literally. So much for ruining my shot!

The clock finally struck twelve, and the crowd were cheering and clapping, everyone hugging and kissing. Then straight after, the flashes started going on non stop to capture the fireworks.

The fireworks went on for quite a few minutes, lovelae lovelae~ I was busy taking pictures as always hehehe.

Capturing the cathedral with the alluring coloured lights.

More firework piccies. Working on night mode is kinda hard. -_-"

Bigbadwolf and I after the fireworks in the midst of the crowd. Everyone was shouting happy new year to each other randomly, while the drunkards were running helter skelter annoying everybody. Couldn't get a better pic of the stage and the crowd. Oh well.


We soon left and headed for the clubs. We went to Coyote, one of the clubs that most of the asians go to. They played awesome rnb songs, but hell it was so packed, we were rubbing against strangers, shoulders crashing into shoulders. Met up with bigbadwolf's friends and he bumped into his exhighschool friends. Had a few bottles of Jim-Bean-cokes, and partied the night away. There were a few fights here and there, broken glasses everywhere.

I met a few of his Malaysian friends, most of them are from Kuching. I kinda noticed something, lotsa kuching people appreciate art eh, 'cause they are usually heavily tattooed on the arms, so far I've notice four or five of them! :p Well most of 'em in the party scene do. I told his friend that and he said, "yeah.. because kuching is smaller, so we gotta look fiercer than you kl peeps! growl!"

Heh heh, ahh.... :P

We went to the carnival and the beach the next day, photos up next post! ;) I hate hate hate the cold weather, but ain't gonna let it get to me grr. Happy new year people!

Gifts from Cupid

On valentines day as I was walking towards my house, I saw this bouquet of roses and a thin parcel waiting at my doorstep. Obviously everyone would say its from the boyfriend, duh because its valentines day. I picked it up and paused to look at the card. Only three words were written in the card...

Happy Valentines La.

Honestly, the first person I thought would buy me these were my cheeky cousins since they'd always do nice things like these to make me feel better. I was pretty shocked because the boyfriend was never really a Mr Romeo. Anyways, commercialised or not, thanks for the thoughts babe ;) What I liked most were the Belgium chocies though tee hee.





















I lub you too la. Mwah!

Happy Valentines Day

To everyone out there,

"I have a little angel flying around with a hammer.
Each person he hits gets a little bit of my love and friendship.
I hope he beats the shit outta you this Valentines day!"

Here's a million roses to everyone who's been kind. ;)

Happy Valentines Day!

*mwah*

Taiwan IX - New Years

Baby and I went up to Taipei to celebrate New year's eve with the crew again. We arrived really late at about 2am due to the congested traffic and heavy rain. We stayed over at Maomao's place for the whole weekend.


















The next day, we woke up really late because we stayed up to chat till 4am in the morning! So much for being efficient and saving time to shop =_=. We got ready and left at about 4pm to 西门町. We proceeded to the shops since Joyce wanted to look for a pair of boots to change into.

This was where we saw this crowd of people laughing and jeering and taking pictures of a guy dancing and jumping around. Apparently he is mentally retarded as stated on the cardboard paper infront of him. I think it's abit dodgy because if he was really mentally retarded, I wouldn't think that he'd write that on a cardboard about himself and dance around for money!


















We decided to pamper ourselves, so Joyce, Alice, the boyfriend and I went to the nearest hair salon to get our hair washed and styled for tonight. The boyfriend just shrugged and tagged along. Funny thing was after my hair was done, I thought it ended up looking like my old hairstyle. -_- So much for a change huh.


















Hehehe, actually we were also waiting for Joyce and had nothing better to do, so Alice started shooting away with the camera. Oops, she got cut out in this picture.


















Ah, there we go. Alice is always naturally high, and she's really contagious. Hahaha, one of the hair salon guys fell for her and practically walked her to the train station and carried her bags for her. This was from another hair salon and he also asked for her number. What the hell right hahaha. Silly Alice in Wonderland.


















That was how the back of my hair turned out to be. Okay la, not too bad I guess. Not very close to what I wanted though.























Alice and Joyce. They are both high in different ways. I thought that Joyce's hair turned out really nice! Alice wanted curly hair as well but changed her mind after, because the last time she was wearing this pink dress at her sister's engagement and had her hair styled curly, everyone ended up calling her King Kong Barbie. -_-" They are mean, you know I didnt call you that Alice!


















We then headed to Partyworld to stock up on alcohol in our bodies. Hahaha, our plan was to be high enough to enjoy the countdown near Taipei's famous 101 tower, but some of them got abit tipsy. Hics. It wasn't me. Alice left early to head back to another state.


















We started off with just a few of us as the others hadn't finished work yet. We were early anyway, got to Partyworld at about 7pm. Thanks to Stephen for booking a room in advanced, otherwise the whole place was fully booked out.

















Jessie, one of my old Brissie friends who I haven't seen for two years or so. Great catching up again! She moved to New Zealand to study and comes back to Taiwan half a year once!


















Then more and more people started pouring in. I was busy drinking after so didn't get to take a pic of the later group of people, sorry whoever I missed!


















At about 11.30pm, we left partyworld and rushed to get here in time for the fireworks. There was no way we could get close to the tower since the place was fully packed to the core. Man, I've never seen so many people in one place in a long time. Everyone trying to take pictures. My camera didn't have the night mode. -_- Daddy, I want a new camera! !#$%@^& to that person with the big head!























That's how faraway we were from the fireworks. Boo hoo, oh well.























Happy new yearz babe, I love you :)























Finally, the last planned schedule was to go to Luxy to boogie the night away. The place was thronged with all the party people, I met up with Ashley and Katy there, brissie friends!


















The music wasn't so happening though. Funny how the crowd was still so enthusiastic. Just some old hip hop and rnb music. I thought that the Deejay was pretty crap that night. The selection of music, so hard to move to. To all you pink fans, wee look.. pink lights!


















We squeezed ourselves into the crowd and managed to get to the front.


















Heheheh, er... we are the five-headed Siamese baby!


















Anybody knows who they are?


















After some awkward movements on the dance floor, we headed back to our table for some alcohol and drinking games.


















I think Stephen got lucky that night hahaha :P


















The girl in the middle is Cynthia, one of Jessie's New Zealand friends.

Hehehe, we were like, "Hey gotta take a picture for Kanny to see!" That's only because Kanny misses Jessie like crazy haha. They were besties before.

"Everybody quick! Act bored, Shaz is holding a camera again!"


















The lights were pretty hot though. Madonna says purple is in now!


















The lights changed from purple, to green, to red, to blue and and.. I lost count after.


















Goodbye 2005, I will remember all the good memories and try to forget the bad. There weren't any bad ones really, but they could've been better!

Let's hope 2006 will be a good one, filled with lotsa love, luck, happiness, and a graduation for me -_-" PRAY BABY, PRAY HARD!

2006 is going to be a year of travelling and being apart for my family and I. My brother will be heading to Europe for his career, so all the best for him, I know he'll be fine! Some of my cousins are planning to leave Brisbane for a better future elsewhere, while those that were away are planning to move back to Brissie. Here's to hoping that it'll be the best decision!

As for me, I will be praying to graduate by June, travel around after, learn more Chinese, and then find a job! Reckon it'll go smoothly for me? I hope so too!

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Happy 2006 fellow bloggers and readers!

Ready or not, here we go!

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