To start off 2013

[EDIT] Before I forget to mention ... I'm fucking graduating y'all! Hahaha! By the skin of my teeth, I managed to pass the subject that shattered my confidence in my final semester. The work I produced, to me, was poor, rushed and messed up but apparently it was deemed C-worthy by my lecturer, which means GRADUATION TAIM BITCHES! Haha!

Happy 2013 to everyone! I know it's February already and well wtv, but I hope everyone has a blessed new year. I hope it's filled with happiness, luck, achievements and lots of flowery love. I pray that we all avoid any hardships and if we do face it, that we're here for each other, to comfort each other and to stay strong for one another.

To my best friends, though you're both doing very different things at the moment and are so far away from me (one is always in Cyberjaya and one is in San Francisco lol at the difference), I wish you all the luck in the world my wives! I pray you both graduate feeling proud of what you've accomplished through your journey of programming/art. You've been through a lot of sufferings and stress over the years, I know. I pray you both stay HEALTHY too. I miss you two so much and I wish that I could be there for you both 24/7. I'm forever with you in spirit when we're not with each other! I love you girls so much. My life would crumble without you.

And to the friendships I've built in the 4 years of Architecture in Taylor's, thank you for experiencing foundation and degree with me. You guys made me who I am today and I couldn't have asked for more from anyone. Good luck in future endeavors and remember, when we're 70, old, frail and super wrinkly, we will be in the same lepak place, playing mah jong or tai ti or Monopoly Deal while reminiscing on the retarded things we use to do together. Love you guys so much!

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Onwards to normal blorging!

It's been over a month since I last blorged and goodness gracious me, I have procrastinated enough! There are far too many things to blorg about it's actually quite insane but if I keep being the lazy fucker that I am, I'll probably end up abandoning my blorg completely. NOH! SHAN'T LET GO OF MY COMMITMENTS!

Okay lets begin! NYE was spent in Penang with mah college mates. Twas a fairly normal trip up north and all we did was mindlessly wander around, looking for food like the pigs that we are. Visited some pretty cafes (which became my inspiration for whart I want to do for my career but lets rant about that later). Can't really remember much since it was a month ago and I'm relatively senile so here are some photos of the trip! 

FYI, I'm filtering out like a whole lot of photos because there's just far too many from this trip and other trips. AND I'M TOO LAZY TO EDIT MOST OF MY PHOTOS so fuck it.

Burps and Giggles!

Obligatory photo of the ladies with them murals.

Newest mural in Penang!

So I had to have a photo with it too. :)

Like-a-boss.

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[Edit] It took too many days to compose this blorg post it's unbelievable. I've reached a new level of laziness I swear to God. 

Anyway, the much anticipated Cambodia trip was up next! Flew over to Phnom Penh with my yobo Jojo, Yvo, Lily and Dex! The first day started off really productively, since we walked around the whole of Phnom Penh and visited every tourist attraction that was available; which wasn't much. Regardless, walked about 8km on the first day. KITA POWDERFUL YO HOR HOR HOR! Here are some photos. I stole some from Dexter's camera, please don't kill me. Haha. All the wide angle photos are taken by Dextie. :)

Here's the hostel that we stayed in. It's called Mad Monkey and it's pretty damn awesome okay. The service is good, the food is good, the place is clean and the best part?!

IT'S FULL OF MURALS! I was so unexpected happy with my choice of hostel haha! I didn't know many artists came and painted on the walls, it just made everything seem so much coohler. I mean goddamnit look at that photo of a John Lennon next to a cyclops cat. HOW AWESOME IS THIS?!

Here's another mural of a deformed Iron Man (at least that's whart I think it looks like haha). Super happy. I took more photos of all the murals but I'm just too lazy to edit them whee. For my eyes only then. Hahaha!

Excited faces! On our bunk beds!

Us on our 8km journey around Phnom Penh! Haha. Excited little kids.

Here is me being an idiot behind everyone.

And then here's everyone being idiotic with me. Hahahaha!

Here's a very canggih photo of birds + Royal Palace + Dexter's back. Haha! The beggars there are super persistent and intense. One kid actually grabbed onto Jojo's leg and wouldn't let go so he was basically allowing Jojo to drag him around. So scary larh. 

The second day was pretty depressing because visited all the historical landmarks that involved the deaths of many Cambodians during Pol Pots dictatorship. Super depressing, seriously, learning about a genocide that happened in our neighbouring country caused by a ruler who was of the same ethnicity as the the people he instructed soldiers to massacre. We were all pretty bumped at the end of the day haha. 

Many people left bracelets around the graves as a remembrance to those who suffered and died during the massacre. I decided to leave one of mine there as well, and at the most depressing area of the Killing Fields (to me at least); which was where soldiers use to murder babies by violently hitting them against this massive tree that til today, still stands. Can't really imagine the agony the mothers went through watching their children die like that. Kinda struck a nerve there.

So anyway, we headed to Siem Reap the day after, by bus. I seriously hate bus rides. I don't see the fun in it (though I slept throughout the whole journey), I'd rather take a plane than sit on the bus for hours til my ass goes numb. Okay whatever, when we arrived we went to the National Museum then straight to Angkor Wat. I don't remember because it was like the end of the day, but yeah we did. Probably to get the gist of how exciting it will be to Tomb Raider everywhere in the coming days haha.

Here's a photo of one of the dancers performing during our buffet dinner. Quite cute larh th performances. The story lines are pretty sweet and romantic. Haha.

The next few days were spent Tom Raider-ing, as expected. Haha. I'm too lazy to explain our adventures so maybe the photos will speak for itself. Photos are in no particular order ...

Angkor Wat at dawn. SAH BEAUTIFUL.

Yobo posing with the Paul Frank tee Teck Hong gave him for Christmas. :D

The weather was on our side (excluding the heat of course). Beautiful skies ahhhh!

The most beautiful waterfall I have ever been to in my entire life, period.

I miss it so much.

Sahhh beautiful! This photo doesn't do it justice, seriously.

Photographing a child while she was clearly indifferent and minding her own business haha. Like-a-ninja yo.

WE IZ FINALLY IN TOMB RAIDER MOVIEZ!

Dramatic photograph of Lily.

Spot me trynna be a lion.

Just, colours. :)

These trees hnghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

One of my most favourite things I've ever seen EVER, is this. Whart is it? Well, you see the white part of the soil, under all the clear water? That's quick sand. Herp derp yerp! And if you were there, squatting next to this black hole of soil, you can actually see the quick sand moving on its own, with no wind or water current to move it. SUPER COOHL. And so beautiful!

Tomb Raider-ing in my maxi y'all. I'm fucking fearless! HASTAGYOLO!

A Visitor Interpretive Centre that we were lucky enough to visit. GOSH SO PRETTY. This is how we should have done our VIC back in Sem3! I would've gotten an A for Studio for sure. Cis.

Most well preserved temple in Siem Reap. :)

Fish spa with Andrew Zimmer ... 's clone.

ONE THOUSAND PENETRATIONS!

Being stranded in the middle of no where with karaoke-ing locals.

Of floating villages.

Beautiful sun set! 

I appreciate the many sunsets we've seen in Cambodia, seriously. There's a collection of just sunset photos in my album. Hahaha.

Over all, it was an amazing trip. We experienced a lot of new things, we played A LOT and let out our inner child by climbing everything climbable. We ate bai char (fried rice) like we've never eaten bai char before in our lives (okay sometimes it was just because we didn't have a choice and we lacked money haha), got massages, was one with nature and all that jazz. IT WAS GREAT. :) I was really happy, especially because I went with a bunch of lunatics that I love so much. Lets hope we can have  more trips like this in the future. :)

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Erhmahgerd right after the Cambodia trip, Jojo and I has to attend something awesome. Say whaaaart? Yes. Golden Disk Awards babeh WOO! Seriously super awesome! I SAW MYUNGSOO LIVE ARGH. Kinda sad that 2NE1 wasn't there though but the many artists that attended compensated for them not attending haha. Saw Ailee and Lee Hi, those two goddesses cis. So pretty and talented argh I'm in love. And I suddenly found myself liking a few groups that I never thought I would. Mmmhmm. 

Okayh enough, I'm too lazy to explain my experience. Cutting it short, IT WAS AWESOMEEE. Koreans are so good at organizing concerts, I mean seriously, da bomb diggity.

To be honest, my photos from day 1 were kinda shitty because my camera zoom ain't all that so you'll be able to see a huge difference in photo clarity. Haha! I shall wait for Jojo to post up his photos. He has nicer clearer ones. 

Red heads. Fitting in with the Kpop crowd.

The stage of awesomenessssss!

Infinite and another group I didn't care about. Beast kot? MY MYUNGSOO IS THERE KYAAA!

FT Island. Hong Ki looked so strange. Super dislike his hair like that.

MY BABY LEE HI ARGH SO ADORBZ. And Sistar on the right haha.

SHINEE :) Taemin looked so handsome.

King of swag in da house. GD with his Cruella De Vil hair do.

EPIK HIGH! Look at Table. Sah kiut.

KYAAA. It was like they were having their own concert man.

Super happy we went for the awards. It was worth the money we paid! And we got the buy one free one offer too HAR HAR. So awesome. MORE CONCERTS PLEASE!

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Recently went to Kota Kinabalu with my parents and sister and wao. KK is like a whole other country man. I wouldn't consider it as Malaysia. LOL! It's too gorgeous there. Jojo kept lowering my expectations and kept telling me that it's like every other town in Malaysia but WRONG. How bout no. Haha. I love it there! It's so peaceful and gorgeous and just arghhh! Incomparable to Subang (but I still love Subang, even though the weather tends to suck here. It's a beautiful day out today though!).

So anyway, my parents told me that I've been to KK before but when I was younger, which would explain why I have no memory or recollection of ever stepping foot in this gorgeous state. I was a jakun little fuck when we arrived. Was lucky enough to visit when the weather was extremely nice! Blue skies, breeze, sun. AWESOME. 

I'll show you whart I mean.

This be my crib for the weekend. Haha. SPECTACULAR VIEWWW MANNN.

I immediately ordered the Signature Oxtail dish that Jojo was telling me about right after settling in. REALLY GOOD. 

This was the sunset view from my hotel room. INCREDIBLE?! YES. INDEED.

My cousin's quaint little purple wedding haha.

I can NEVER get tired of butter prawns. FAVOURITE FOREVER.

After snorkeling at Manukan Island. AHH SO AWESOME. I chased after parrot fish and there were some gatal purple fish that thought my fingers were worms. 

La la a.

How beautiful can this place get?

The view on the other side of the island. :)

UNNGHHH.

Haiyo sea water wai you so beautiful?!

JUST. WAI?!

Another gorgeous sunset. UNGHHH WAIII?! I can't fathom the beauty of Sabah. ERHMAHGERD.

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SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO MY DAHLING JANUARY BABIES!

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY TO :

1) Miss Jaslynn Tham Munn Yi who has left me for San Francisco once again. ;_; I wish you were here with me waiiii are you so far away?! I love you forever. And I owe you a mega huge seafood feast when you get back here during summer!

2) Miss Nikki Minah! Haha. I miss you woman! Haven't seen you in ages! We must celebrate with a birthday dinner yes? :D Love you woman!

3) Miss Lilypad Bear! Hope you enjoyed the waterfall surprise! I'm sorry I couldn't make it. :( Was really sick. But I was there in spirit. LOVE YOU!!

4) Miss Simbarbar! Hopeyou had a great celebration Simba! :D And wear that sweater out with PRIDE yo! Shine bright like a LION. Lolol. LOVE YOU LOTS. :)

This post is getting too long so I'm just gonna abruptly end it here.