Tomodachi

Why is it that just when you find something precious, you are forced to part with it?

The past few months had me discovering so many new friends. Friends that I could truly be comfortable with where there isn't any awkward silence. Friends that have the very same interests as me. Friends that I could chat to anytime and anywhere and never feel lost for words. Friends that have become so precious to me in just the few months we've met.

I think I do have many friends but I think that somehow the bond of those friendships never could enter that whole new level of 'special friendship' reserved for a special few no matter how hard we try. Don't get me wrong, I do love all my friends truly and deeply but I never could never reach that level with them because of the different interests and opinions. I never could understand all those dramas and movies about friendships. I mean yeah sure it's sad to part but why can't they just find like new friends lah, after all life goes on. It cannot be that painful.

When my parents and others ask us if we feel sad leaving Malaysia, we just shrug and never gave it much thought. Leave then leave lo. Big deal.

Until I found them......

Funny how in just a matter of minutes of chatting, it seemed like we've known each other since forever. If I weren't a Christian and know that there is no such things as past lives, I might be tempted to believe that we once were the closest of friends in the past. Suddenly the prospect of leaving becomes very painful. Suddenly all those emotions of parting found in those friendship dramas becomes clear. Suddenly time seem to go faster than you want it to and you find yourself helpless against it.

One of them is Ammy. I met her in eiChi's akiyame forum, had a lot of fun debating there, chatted to her online for the first time and ended up with a 7 hour msn chat record, met her in life and found that we can go on and on and on until one of us tell the other to shut up lol. Mostly it ends with Ammy asking me to shut up because I am just naturally more sarcastic a better debater than her and she always end up having nothing to shoot back. HA! =P

Twinny twin twin...

As promised here are the photos taken during our Akiyame forum members trip to Matang Wildlife Park. I seriously dislike my camera now. I want eiChi's SLR camera ok?! Even toilets looks good on her screen. She doesn't even have to try to snap a standard good picture. Everything comes out pretty. And when she does try, it becomes 'pro'.

Sun Bear

Does it even looks remotely like a sun??? It's BLACK. Have no idea why it's called sun bears....Or knowing me, I most probably got the name wrong again. Like today I saw this girl who I think is my sister friend (darn, they all look alike) asked me helped her buy her books and I was like 'Form 4 izzit' and wonder why she kept staring at me weirdly until 2 hours later did I realized that she have to be in Form 5 like my sis.

I am seriously hopeless at times.

By the way, I discover that I have no pictures.....all the pictures turned out sucky cause of the cages.

Am totally out of shape. Half dead and panting halfway through only to be faced with that! (pic above) The super long stairs.....I wonder how I managed to survived. Oh I should really really consider suing Nike. I keep slipping every 5 minutes. Ask anyone. Bloody useless shoes. Keep making noises like a half dead toad again. Shall never buy Nike ever again.

Oh I forgot, those of us who went were eiChi, Yen, Brennan, Ammy and two other guys whose name I do not know. NOT I forgot ok. I really don't know. I don't know why but Brennan voice sounds a lot like Hilary's. I kept forgetting that it was him and wonder why Hilary is with us every few minutes. Seriously, the tone and everything. EXACTLY ALIKE.

Or maybe just I don't hang out with them often enough to be able differentiate their voices throughly.

Ammy's relative

This is one camwhore of an orang utan. Just look at it's slutty magazine pose next:

See? Slutty pose.

Ha, saw Ammy's name on the wall. So maybe there is one 'm' less but who can be bothered?

I'm seriously sorry for the lack of nice photos. You just have to wait until eiChi blog about it. Her camera is bound to even make those hideous cages look like precious silver.

Japanese students!!! I mean their artwork. Man, I want to go to Japan. I hope LA got hot Japanese guys although I highly doubt it as even in their entertainment world, only JE Talent Agency boys are hot. By the way, the sign said the landscaping was done by them, the Ritsu school people la and not JE, but I totally see NO SIGNS of any landscaping. Unless the latest trend in Japan is overgrown weeds and wild bushes.

It says March 2007 AGAIN. Impossible an entire garden can disappear in just 9 months right?

The stream! The stream! The welcomed coolness after a hot day of hiking. But damn sian I cannot go in cause of girl problems. Of all days.....-_- Anyway, the rest were extremely excited and was about to jump in until.....

HAHAHA!!!

Guess they cannot have fun in the stream after all muahahahaha...... until someone had to point out that the ranger said to ignore the signs. Some ranger....ask people ignore signs. He said there aren't anymore crocodiles. So they all happily trooped into the refreshing water to kek me...

On the search for....... ?

See their happy faces?

Ammy: Ooh! Let's do the typical NS pose!!!

And there you have it...

HAHA! It DOES looks like the famous NS pose! The expressions and everything. Hahaha. Had tons of fun on the way back talking about all kinds of nonsensical stuff besides stalking Ammy to find out where her house is as she refuse to tell us. Sad to say, she discover us tailing her and chased us away =(

Was dead tired when I reached home but remembered that Chee Xiung invited me and 2nd sis to his house so die die also must go =) Play and chatted until dinner time before going out for ice-cream again.

Youth Camp '07

This is the other group of friends I was talking about. Met in Youth Camp, crash their room to play games cause we know Ivan and Augustine, then suddenly discover that Chee Xiung like Tegomass like siao, became INSTANT friends, continue to get to know him and Aaron better, chatted until 3am in the morning in their room and kena cheng the next day for nearly missing half of the morning devotions =P

This is Aaron

Our Uno Stacko building damn satt ok! LOOK! Standing on ONE block! Aaron and Chee Xiung super deceiving la ok. I thought Chee Xiung was like super guai and Aaron the noisy one and it turns out to be the total opposite. Looks are deceiving.

At 3am, you tend to get a bit siao. I think we were playing truth or dare and someone dared Chee Xiung to stuff his head into the lamp for want of nothing better to do. That was after we asked him to sing the ABC song outside the balcony top.

We discover to our dismay that one of the camp advisers were in the room RIGHT NEXT to us the next morning. I think they heard all our secrets as we were extremely loud.

Anyway, we had tons of fun at camp but thought we would never see each other again until 3 days later Ivan smsed us to inform us that Chee Xiung has moved to our area....YAY!!!! Needless to say, I start borrowing all kinds of Japanese drama and songs from him lol. Hana Yori Dango sibeh nice ok! Nishikado! Nishikado! Nishikado!!!!!

Full of super rich bishies the drama. What can be better?

You know it's funny how they are all younger than us (Form4) yet we can still have lots of fun with them? I'm really glad I met them =D We share quite a lot of the same interests and can never run out of things to talk about. Seriously, hanging out just like that has never been this fun =)

Then there is my cousins again. My 2 wonderful cousins who are super fun to go shopping with.....whom we've only started to become super close to the past few months.....

Why why why must ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END??? WHY???!! T___T

I know I would miss them dreadfully. If I were to ever actually cry when I leave it would be because of this 3 group of people. People who have since become very precious friends. I wished I've met them earlier.

Life isn't always fair isn't it? Just when you finally find new friends, you find that you have to part all too soon. *sigh*

Secret Gardens & Borneo Highlands

Celebrated my actual birthday with Sha and 2nd sis at Secret Garden. Just a simple dinner between us three cause I like it that way. Quiet and can talk. Too many people isn't all that nice at times.

Ceasar Salad

Me: What should I order? Ceasar Salad or Chef Salad?

2nd sis: Which one is cheaper?

Me: Ceasar Salad.

2nd sis: Really? Ceasar must be a really cheap king then....

-_- My sister can be so random at times......

Oat-bread (something like that) fish

Absolutely fan-freakin-tastic!!!!! Huge and delicious!!! Did I mention that the salad was out-of-this-world too?! I so LOVE their food!!!! Totally worth every cent I'm paying =) 2nd sis wasn't too happy about her spaghetti though cause of it's meager portion compared to our fish and it's only cheaper by a dollar (RM11 I think)

2nd sis first reaction to her spaghetti:

"This little? Wow, is the bowl like really expensive then?"

Hahaha. Queen of sarcastic comments.....

Vanilla lover something sundae

To heck with my diet. It's MY birthday, one ice-cream won't kill. I seriously suck at remembering names. Such delicious food yet I cannot remember the names. I need to find a way to cure this weakness of mine before it leads to the destruction of my future career.

Pretty frosted bells

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Watched Alvin and the Chipmunks with 2nd sis and friends on Wednesday. Seriously, on Wednesdays you get to see like nearly the entire Kuching youth population at Star. Saw many friends there too.

You know what I want this Christmas???

A TALKING CHIPMUNK!!!!

So cute ok! Just LOOK at them! The CUTENESS!!!! I so wanna squish them tightly for being so adorable. I so totally love them after this movie! I want a furry cute chipmunk that can talk and dance like them =D Nice movie. Worth a watch.

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Ok, now to the Borneo Highlands post. Such a gorgeous place for snapping pictures =)

This is obviously not the main entrance of Borneo Highlands. I forgot to snap a pic of the main entrance. Oh well. Btw, I didn't see any billboards of Iggy unless it's located at the clubhouse which I didn't bother visiting as it was so far away and I was lazy to walk.

Where I stayed

Pretty no? Up here is where all the rich people build their vacation houses. Some are beautiful while some are what-were-they-thinking lol. My aunty said if you want find rich boyfriends you can go there la although every time I come here the rest of the houses are always vacant. There goes the 'Ouran bishies' dream.

Side view

Bonsai

Am lazy to type much so I'll just put up pics I snapped during the time I was imagining myself as a pro photographer.

Patio. My favorite place. Completely relaxing.

Little pondok behind the house

I LOVE this shot. Why? Cause it looks like what a PRO photographer would take. Right? I don't know why they always like to take macro shots but nevertheless so can I. Take beautiful macro shots I mean. With my tiny digicam again! This just confirms that I have some amount of artistic blood in me no?

I am such a wonderful photographer *sigh*

Real grape vines at back of house. This is the highlands remember?

Ok this one is somebody else's house liao. I took a pic of it cause it's lovely. Like beach front house lidat! Only it's oddly built up here on a mountain instead. If I ever strike gold with my kaya balls plan in US next time, I am SO GETTING a beach house like this in Malibu. Wherever Malibu is. Is it in California? I forgot liao. Anyway, the point is I want a beach house in the future that looks something like this.

Gorgeous ok?!?! Like Full House one!

Dead horn beetle

BBQ A.G.A.I.N

That would make it the 3rd BBQ in one week. Omg, I cannot stand BBQ anymore. My family always have this insane urge to hold a BBQ every holiday we get ever since we moved to my current house now. I'm sorry, did I whine about this issue in my last post already? Well,you just have to listen to it one more time then. If you ever want to find my house during the holidays, just follow the smoke in my area. I assure you that 95% of the time you would hit the jackpot.

HUGE slabs of beef

PRO BBQuer thanks to our BBQ craze

Another rich guy's house. His house wasn't all that great until you go to the bottom and OMG FREAKIN GORGEOUS!!!! There is like this underground conclave and stuff completed with ponds and a stage and a BBQ area and a shower deck and a sunbathing deck and hell, he even had those Kenny Rogers rotating chicken roasting oven thingy too!!!! Omg, does he have a son? I want to date him hahaha.

The underground conclave (part of it) I was talking about

The resort swimming pool

Ha! Damai and Santubong only have standard concrete pools. Here you have a man-made rock pool! How cool is that? The water is absolutely freezing though. Like ice. But you'll get used to it after a while provided you're comfortable with yourselves sporting goosebumps and purple nails.

Am scrolling through the massive amounts of photos my family took and discover that everyone has myriads of model-like shots taken up here except me. Apparently, they took it during this one morning where I decided to sleep in late after chatting to my cousins until 4am about NEWS and other stars. Meanies. I also want my share of cam-whoring!!!! Especially in such a model-like scenery like this.

The only pic I have

I should have taken more darn it. Shall not sleep in late anymore the next time I'm in places like these. Grrrr..... The satt satt spa wasn't functioning as the hotel was under construction. Too bad. I could have taken more pics. It's really lovely with all their various pools and sauna.

Kuma-chan!!

Kawaii ne? My youngest sister lugs this bear with her everywhere and I do mean everywhere she goes. Reminds me of chibi Gaara and his dodongo in Naruto. Anyway, she even brought it all the way up here and personally took many shots of her beloved teddy bear. That was taken by her.

My cousins

I swear I totally LOVE my cousins to bits. Especially the two girls in front. MOST especially the pink shirt one who suddenly became incredibly obsessed about Yamapi after hearing his voice and spent the rest of the day listening to his singing on my sister's cellphone. I totally forgive her for saying Japanese singers suck before. Hee~

There is one of my cousin though who I don't really like who thinks he is the king of the world. Expects everyone is born to serve him. Like during dinner he would just sit there and expect food to drop from the sky onto his plate lidat. Even when people already super kind put a prawn in front of his bbq plate he won't even bother to flip it to let it cook on the other side. Nor would he help with any cleaning up. wth I dislike spoiled people like these. Like not even your house again hor so can act cordially or not?!

Being the ultra mean level-headed sisters we are, we purposely snatch all our cooked prawns to one side giving death glares should he dare steal ours. Actually we are very generous la hor and I seriously couldn't care who eats my prawn but like hell I would give in to spoiled people. What? Spoil you further meh? Personally I couldn't care less if you are spoiled but if your 'spoiltness' affects me then I would care. I don't care if your parents think of you as their little prince, like so what, my daddy thinks of me as his little princess daughter also so there!

Kuma-chan again!

Spent my whole stay here eating, talking, watching Shige's drama thus getting my cousin hooked on Shige too and spend the rest of the other odd hours eating again. At this rate it's a miracle if I could ever become thin again.

Going out with the girls from Akiyame tomorrow. I mean later in the afternoon seeing as it's like 2.09 am now. Am getting lazier and lazier to faithfully blog lol. Shall go to sleep now.