Over and done with

DONE!!! Woohoo! I'm free!!!! It's party time!!!!

I had my exam this morning at 9 am. It was 2 hours long. By 10.55 am I was starting to feel the relief already. Couldn't stop smiling after the exam.

Ahhhhhhhh, feels so good now that the exam is over! I think I did OK, can't tell if I passed or not, but don't care. I'll know in 6 weeks time anyway.

I feel like I didn't have a weekend last week. Went back to work on Saturday and Sunday. And then came home and studied. Did NOTHING fun.

So must celebrate this weekend! Must get wasted go out and have fun! Must go do stuff that I can't write on my blog! (By that I don't mean doing the same thing I did 2 weeks ago :P)

I'm so glad February's done! March, you better be good.

Poker tournament this Saturday.

Let the fun begin.

A Walking Contradiction

I think you can pretty much ignore all my announcements.

When I say I'm going to do (or not do) something, I'll usually contradict myself sooner or later.

Remember when I said that a particular blog will be my last about something?
The next day, I immediately wrote another blog related to that something.

Remember when I said I want to go home ASAP?
Now I'm having so much fun, I don't think I will anymore.

Remember when I said I want to work in a place that's warm all year round?
Look where I ended up. And loving every minute of it.

Remember when I said I won't blog until next Wednesday?
Well well what am I doing now?

Remember when I said I don't want you to come bursting my bubbles?
I think I'm on the verge of bursting them myself.

Obsessively thinking about three things.

Can't stop talking about two.

And listening to the same song over and over again.



I know this blog didn't make a lot of sense.

Oh well.

Gong Xi Fa Chai!

Ok, am 2 days late again. But...

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!

Year of the Golden Pig. This is my year! And I don't care what people say about offending 太岁. I refuse to offend him. This is going to be one great year for me! I can just feel it.

Erm, have nothing interesting to blog about. Exam's next Wednesday and my mind is FULL of exam stuff. Which naturally means my mind is pretty boring (and bored) these few days. So to not bore all of you, I'm declaring a blog holiday until next Wednesday. No updates from now until February 28. So I don't have an excuse not to study.

Well, actually last Friday night is very very worth blogging about. That was one memorable night. But I can't! Need to preserve my image here, you know. Well, anyway I think almost everyone who reads my blog already knows what happened last Friday. Except those who went back to Malaysia and are busy celebrating CNY.

Oh, and I played poker on Saturday night at my colleague's house. Guess what? I won! I won hands down! Not just by chip count. I have to admit I got lucky at the final round though, it could have gone either way. I hope my luck continues, I've got another poker tournament next Saturday (after my exam :D). That one pays real moo-lah.

No more things to talk about already, wait let me rephrase that, no more things that I can blog about already. Back to studying again. I can't wait for next Wednesday to be over! Fast fast come!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Yes yes, I know I'm 2 days late (almost 3). I wanted to wish on Valentine's Day one, but then I got busy mah. And got lazy. And tired. And need to study. And got lazy again.

Nothing special happened this Valentine's Day, which was expected. I went out with a bunch of friends for dinner. Had Peking duck again! I think I'm addicted to that dish. It's so delicious. And so fatty. Which makes it even more delicious. Mmmmm... getting hungry just thinking about it.

I got a box of Godiva chocolates on Valentine's Day. :D It was sooooooo delicious. Brought it to work to share with my colleagues. So good so good. Truffles are still the best though. If you've never tried truffles... well then my friend... you have never eaten REAL chocolate. No kidding. Everyone MUST try truffles. They are expensive though. *sigh*

(I so want to write about something else related to chocolates, but I can't. Darn. Ask me if you want to sampat haha.)

I also got a watch. Going to wear it everyday once I get some of the links removed. Oh and then the day after Valentine's Day, I got a bouquet of flowers from a friend. :) Very pretty! There were white roses, white carnations, purple lilies and some other I-don't-know-what-they-are-called flowers. Thanks yah. I like it a lot. Got a lot of teasing from my colleagues though. Have to keep explaining that it's from a friend only. I have a feeling they don't really believe me. Ah well...

And now it's time to introduce....... Bear Bear and Kacang Bulu!

This is Bear Bear. Bear Bear is 2 days old only, but has already developed an obsessive love for candy. You can tell since he's tied a big bag of candy to his left arm so I wouldn't steal it. He likes to smell good, keeps himself clean and is attracted to flowers. No, he is not gay. Bear Bear is also distantly related to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.



This is Kacang Bulu, formerly known as Wak Wak until an anonymous person pointed out his real name. According to his birth certificate, Kacang Bulu was born on December 10, 2006. He was unfortunate enough to fall into my hands 5 days later. Muahahahaha. Despite popular rumors, Kacang Bulu does NOT like to eat mosquitoes. He is actually quite the gentleman with polite manners. Check out his spiffy suit complete with tie and all.



Kacang Bulu loves to sing. He only sings ONE song though, and oddly enough whenever he sings, he sounds just like 4 of my friends. Want to hear? (I just uploaded the video, so it might not be available yet. Apparently might take a few hours.)

Bubble of Joy

There's a feeling inside me.. that's creating bubbles of joy. Everytime a bubble pops, it makes me want to smile. It makes me happy. It makes me want to tell someone. It makes me wish I could keep the bubbles bubbling for a long time.

It's so simple. So innocent. It does not ask for anything. It does not expect anything. It gives at will. And it accepts whatever it gets.

It will not get any better than this. One more step, and it's no longer pure. One revealing question, and all the bubbles will burst. One wrong move, and there will be expectations.

So don't come bursting my bubbles just yet. Let's stay like this for a while.


我不想要什么。

我不要你的承诺，也不要你的责任。

我只是要，有时候可以依赖你， 有时候对你任性， 有时候让你照顾。

我不会问你到底要什么。

我不会问你那晚的意义。

请让我好好享受一下暧昧不清的感觉。

让我偶尔猜测你在想什么。

话说太清楚了， 就不再单纯了。

说出来了，不是失望，就是责任。

我不需要责任，亦不要承诺。

我只想，偶尔对你微笑，偶尔看着你，在即将陷进你的眼神前抽身。

还没得到的东西，最好玩。

我不是水性杨花，我只是喜欢这个感觉。

这个暧昧的感觉。

Busy Crazy Week!

Haven't been blogging much lately, compared with the one week where I had a blogging spree. I wrote one per day for 5 days in a row!

Too busy nowadays. I had a crazy week at work. CRAZY. Crazy until I couldn't take my Wednesday afternoon off for study time. :( Partly crazy because I work so slooooooooowly also. But then if I work fast I know I'll miss stuff and then I have to go back and redo it anyway.

Crazy until I have to go back to the office to work tomorrow!!!! And tomorrow is a SUNDAY. I'm working on a weekend for the first time! I think this requires a formal recognition of some sort. In a really weird way, I'm kind of happy that I finally have the need to work on a weekend. If you've never worked on a weekend, then you've never actually worked in a consulting firm. Hehe, just kidding yah. I'm working tomorrow because I'm slow mah.

Oh and so many things happened and will happen this week! My department had a poker tournament on Thursday night! And guess what? I won 2nd place overall. Second place! SECOND place you know! Me, win second place! Hehe, I have to keep saying it because it is really unbelievable that I won SECOND that night. I won second by chip count because we ran out of time. I would have won first if I knew it was the last hand (I thought 2nd last hand pula so I folded). If I went all in last hand, I would have won. But still, I didn't even think I would make top 5 loh. I was expecting to get busted in half an hour.

Trust me, I'm not a good poker player. I don't even have a poker face. But that night, I felt like I could just tell what people have, and somehow I knew when I had the best hand and how to lure them into betting their chips. It was soooooo cool. I think the fact that I only had 2 hours of sleep the night before helped. Too tired to show any expression on my face. Hehe.

And then last night I went out with my colleagues. Went to my colleague's house first, played a drinking game called Connections. So fun, but I was so unlucky loh, one round I had to drink the whole bottle of O3 in like 10 minutes. Then after that we went to play midnight bingo. The place was soooooooooo smoky. And speed bingo is so crazy. The person calls out numbers like a machine gun. I didn't even have time to check all my cards. I think I must missed like every other number he called. Plus the fact that I was a bit drunk already didn't help. Very fun though.

You know, I'm so happy I came to Louisville. Yeah, it sounds like all I do here is drink and gamble only. And I know quite a few of you think I'm becoming a drunkard. Which I'm NOT. I'm just trying to build up my tolerance. ;) But it's so fun here. My colleagues are sooooooooo nice and fun. The friends I met here are sooooooo nice and fun too! Sorry lah, my vocabulary for describing friends is a bit limited. So maybe there are not as many lengzhais here as LA, but who cares? You think I'm such a shallow person meh? I don't make friends with people just because they are lengzhai also. If I do, I won't be such good friends with Mr. Turtle liao loo. :P Hehe, just kidding yah.

There's a nice balance between having fun and studying here. Although recently it's tipping way over to "having fun". Die, I have to finish my 5th report by tomorrow and I haven't even started. Ah well, I'm going out in half an hour again! The university of Louisville has a Chinese Association and they have a Chinese New Year celebration tonight. Their performance schedule looks pretty impressive. The leaflet already looks super impressive. Oh and the food. I hope it's gooooooooooood. Guess I'll just have to stay up tonight to do my report.

I'm so happy I'm here!!! :D

My Skiing Trip

Guess what I did last Saturday??

I went skiing!!! AND tumbling down the slope... since somebody pointed out that I tumbled more than I skied. (Is skied the correct past tense for ski? Looks weird.)

Fell down about 5 times. Average out one per hour. I think lah. Might have lost count halfway. :p Hehe. One time I fell so badly my ski came off. Another time I fell so badly my poles were too far away for me to pick up. Had to leave them halfway up the slope.

But it was soooooooooooo fun!!! 3 years I spent in Iowa, land FULL of snow, and I never went skiing. Had to wait until I came to Louisville for my first skiing trip. My friends and I went to a ski resort called Perfect North near Cincinnati. It's about an hour and 45 minutes away. I just found out Cincinnati is so close by. Am so going there next time for good food.

Since I've never gone skiing before, I went for the newbie lesson. The others had gone skiing before, except one, so he and I went for the lesson together. The instructor was very nice and extremely patient. The lesson was supposed to be one hour long. But then because I was so not a natural skier, he spent an extra hour with us. Until I finally learned how to turn. Hahahahaha. But he was seriously very patient loh. And no, he is not a lengzhai ski instructor. I think if he was lengzhai hor, I don't need to learn how to turn liao. Won't be paying attention at what he's saying.

So now I still don't really know how to turn. I can turn when I'm not skiing that fast, but once I speed up (which is the time when I should start zigzagging), then I'll straight away forget how to turn. Stupid right? The only thing I can say I can do really well... is getting off the lift. Takes skill one mm kay.

Was very very cold that day. We started skiing around 4 pm. Ended 9 pm plus. Temperature was about -10 C. Ok lah, I know it's not as cold as Des Moines, but we were OUTSIDE for 5 hours plus. And then I left my waterproof gloves in my friend's car back in Louisville. So for the first 2 hours I had thin gloves until my friend went to buy thicker ones for me. My fingertips are still numb now. Hope it's not permanent. Too expensive to visit doctor to find out. Hehe.

Quite sore now. Walking like an old lady in the office. Back pain, leg pain, hand pain, fingertips pain. But so so fun! I want to go again some time... but not in such cold weather anymore.

Next time, when it gets warmer... we will be going horseback riding! Who said living in Louisville is boring huh huh huh? *chuin face*