Addicted

I'm absolutely addicted to the new Hilary Duff song 'With Love'. It's a damn great song! Recently released about a month ago, it's the second single from her spankin' new album 'Dignity'. I totally gotta get it once it hits Malaysian shores!

Apparently, the video clip doubles as her commercial ad for her recently launched fragrance 'With Love...Hilary Duff''. Unfortunately I haven't seen it yet coz' i've been deprived of my MTV. Anyway, here are the lyrics:

With Love

Hilary Duff

Dignity

I don't mind you telling me what's been on your mind lately

I don't mind you speaking up

I know sometimes I can be all wrapped up and into me

I can be in such a rush

Just slow me down, slow me down

Tell me tomorrow everything will be around

Just slow me down, slow me down

You're the one who keeps me on the ground

Baby, you can be tough

Say enough is enough

You can even be blunt

Just do it with love, love, love

You can tell me I'm wrong

That I'm coming on way too strong

Don't think I'd be crushed

Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love.

I can take your honesty, all your words sway heavenly

Listening to you all the time

I wanna be there for you, the way you've been there for me

Always help me walk the line

And slow me down, slow me down

I know you will always be around

Baby, you can be tough

Say enough is enough

You can even be blunt

Just do it with love, love, love

You can tell me I'm wrong

That I'm coming on way too strong

Don't think I'd be crushed

Just do it with love, love, love, love

All this trying to find we know each other

Now that I've been leaning on your shoulder

I can tell you baby that

You're right, you're right

You're wrong, you're wrong

And I can't believe people know your song

Baby, you can be tough

Say enough is enough

You can even be blunt

Just do it with love, love, love

You can tell me I'm wrong

That I'm coming on way too strong

Don't think I'd be crushed

Just do it with love, love, love, love

Baby, you can be tough

Say enough is enough

You can even be blunt

Just do it with love, love, love

You can tell me I'm wrong
That I'm coming on way too strong

Don't think I'd be crushed

Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love.

Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love.

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Reporting Live: Seremban, Negeri Sembilan

I'm here! I'm finally here! Seremban...well actually Senawang, but Seremban is only like 15minutes away. As I said before, i'm here to accompany my sister on her work trip. >insert angelic expression here<

- I think the picture above shows the heart of Seremban. This street would be what Penang Road is to Penang. And by the way, I just found out that there is Seremban 1, Seremban 2 and Seremban 3. Yes...3 Serembans, but they are all like next to each other. But the picture above is in Seremban 1. It kinda looks like Penang dun it?


- Here is what Seremban is renowned for: Seremban Siew Pau. Seremban just would not be Seremban without it! And of course it's delicious.

Anyways, here are some pictures of my home for the next 3 weeks. It's called the Spanish Villas and it's loacted in Senawang. It's perched on a little mound so it has a view of the surrounding hills and it's got wonderful facilities like a swimming pool, a gym and a tennis court. Here are some pictures:

- This is the living room where the TV is located (DUH) and that's the balcony.


- This is supposedly the master bedroom where my sis and I sleep. And that's the attached bathroom.


~The second room this is. And we converted it into our luggage storage place.


- The kitchen, equipped with a stove, microwave, kettle and storage space.


- The dining area and that's the kitchen at the back. The door on the left is the entrance and the one straight ahead leads to the other balcony where there is a washing machine.

Personally, I think this is a really great place at a reasonable price. There are 3 bedrooms in total with 2 single beds in each one and one more single bed in the living room and that equal to 7 beds! One for every night of the week! Hehe. There are 2 bathrooms so we decided to reserve one for baths and another one for number one and number two! Gotta be smart people! The bad thing about the place is that if there is a heavy rain with really strong winds...the ceiling in the kitchen leaks (I found that out on Monday). And there is NO INTERNET CONNECTION! FYI: If I sound like some realtor, it's unintentional...

- And lastly, this is the swimming pool with a fantastic view of rolling hills in the background! Damned that I didn't bring along my swim attire...but I'll get one soon enough!

Tomorrow, I plan to head down to Kuala Lumpur which is about an hour away via the train. And then will meet up with Ivan and go around shopping! Yay! So gotta get up bright and early tomorrow and find my way there on my own since my sister has work. I really really hope I don't get lost and end up in like Ipoh or something.

Selamat Tinggal!

It's official, as of tomorrow I will be going to KL and then to Seremban where I would be staying for about 3-4weeks. My sister would be working and as for me...that is yet to be determined. But I have a brief objective of what I want to do there:

• Explore Seremban (never been there and will probably never go there again)
• Find a way to get to KL (the KTM might be the best way)
• Deliver package to Ivan (you owe me big time!)
• And lastly...enjoy myself.

The scary thing about this trip is that I don't really know what to expect! I don't know whether I will come back to Pg every other weekend or if there is a decent laundry area and for Christ's sake I don't even know where i'll be staying yet!!! Apparently, it's difficult to find a place to stay...actually a cheap place to stay which is available on such short notice. So whatever happens...HAPPENS.

Yesterday was alright. Mohan threw this farewell party since he'll be leaving for India to study medicine. The FOOD was great! Really good. I had like 2 helpings! I didn't stay long coz the others had school today and I had to fetch Jeff home. But still it's nice to see so many friends together again. I have pictures...but I can't seem to find my USB cable (damn it...I hope I didn't lose it).

Anyways, I will try my best to update my blog while in Seremban if I can locate myself a Starbucks or some other hotspot. And i'll try to post pictures too! So, see you in Seremban!!!

Over and out.

Small events...

Okay, I know I haven't really been posting up stuff here, but it's just because there is nothing to post up. Not much has been going on in my life...for now that is. Yup, in a week or so, i'll be heading down to Seremban to stay there for a few weeks, keeping my sister company while she's there working. I'll probably try to go to KL since it's gonna be only like an hour away. Or i'll just explore a bit of the area! So excited!!!

Chinese New Year is getting more and more blase for me. Things are just the same, year after year. The only thing is the amount of ang paus I collect are dwindling (sad, but true). So to make up for it, I went ang pau hunting with Mei Zhi May and Lee Xin last Sunday!!! First, we went to Seberang Prai to go visit Mei Zhi and Lee Xin's homes (which were really nice) and just hung out there...talking...snacking. It's nice since we haven't been together as a group since college. But on our way there, someone gave me wrong directions and I made a wrong turn and wasted RM2.40 on the stupid toll fees. Jeesh. But in the end, we did made it (thanks to Mei Zhi's mom). After Prai, we headed back to Penang Island via ferry and visited my homelah and also May's home. Then to Jeremy's home since we were in the area and he happened to be free. Just visiting these few homes took us from 9.00am to 7.30pm.

Oh yeah, the day before that, I went to this BBQ beach party thingy organised by Jeff. I did feel kinda left out coz all who attended the party were classmates but me. But it was okay, great people, great (slightly sandy) food and great time. Good job Jeff, good job! And send me some of those photos will ya?

I'm just too lazy to post photos up for now but you can expect them in later postings!
And lastly, a slightly overdue shoutout to some people:
- HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF
- GOOD LUCK IN AUSTRALIA YONG MIANG (misspelling intended)

Eight days later...

31 hours of travelling took me halfway round the world and i'm home at last. Eight days later, here I am. I've acclimatised and gotten over my jet-lag (although I haven't gotten over the stupid ridiculously-slow internet connection here) and i'm back to normal. Currently, i'm still waiting for university replies which are like really late and i'm getting kinda anxious. But to blow off some steam, I go out to meet my friends!!! It's only been a while but so much has changed now since classes have commenced.
I'm really gonna miss my sister (merci!) and life in America. The experiance was really great and all. Going to miss the shopping and sight seeing.
You know what, i'm at a loss of words now, so i'll do another post some other day when I feel like i'm up to it.

What to do when there's no snow?

The day after revisiting New York, we headed for the town of New Haven for a short half day trip. Guess where we went?!

That's Yale University!!! Yes we visited Yale! Yeah, the place was really really nice coz the building was historical and all that. We took pictures and videos of the outer fascade of the buildings coz we probably couldn't get in. It was kinda quiet and deserted and i'm guessing it's coz classes haven't started yet or something. The uni is spreaded out around so it's pretty big if you ask me.

The inner courtyard place in particular was really nice coz the building would then surround you all round and I felt like I was in some medival site.

Yeah, that's me and my sis in awe of the place...do we look in awe?...Hehe. But it was cold there that day and I had only this hoody on me and the whole time I was waiting just to get inside some building which was heated so as to stop me from bloody shivering.

We then paid a visit to the Yale Art Museum coz it was free and it was a self guided tour of it. It seemed pretty small from the outside but inside...there was like four floors, an outer courtyard and so many things to see. There was art from the Greek empire including sculptures of Gods and stuff, there were things from Asia which included China, Japan, Korea, India and even some from Africa which looked so creepy. I really liked the art and crafts from China...coz I am Chinese and I also liked the paintings from Europe, the ones i'm guessing were from the Renaissance period...yeah, those were really good. But my sister and I didn't enjoy the abstract art that much. It all looked (artists, divert your head away now) crappy to me...

- what the?...

-umm...

-hmm...

I hope you get what I mean. I just don't see what's so artistic about it. It's just so...blah!!! Maye it's coz i'm no artist...but I must admit, some...and only some of the abstract art was worth of being displayed. If you called that art, then I can do art...

- First, find a medium

-Then, let your artistic talents flow!

- Touch up a little here and there, add a little light for display...

- And voila! I call it, Essence of Trashcan II

Anyway, yesterday, my sister took a day off and took us to beautiful Vermont. It's supposed to be really nice, with great scenary. It was alright but I think it would look better in the summer or fall when there is more colour in the trees. But why did we go there? You see, it hasn't been snowing in Bristol lately and we're all getting kinda antsy about the mild winter, so what better to do than go up north to a place with SNOW!!!

- Our first glimpse of frosty goodness (I kinda make it sound like food, don't I)

It wasn't really snowing all that much when we got there. We visited a couple of places like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory, where we had a tour of the place and ate some fantabulous ice cream (Imagine...ice cream in winter). Then, we went to a place called Cold Hollow Cider Mill, where I had like 4 small cups of all-natural Apple Cider which was really refreshing. YAY! Then, there was wine-tasting, watched glass making, look at art pieces in galleries...but that will appear in my next post coz in this one, all I wanna talk about is:

- SNOW!!!

- SNOW!!!

- And More SNOW!!!

I finally got my snow. I was half satisfied, coz the snow wasn't deep enough for me to do my snow angel...haih...But at least I got to see it fall and accumulate and all. The first picture was when we were in Stowe, Vermont and it started to snow and the next two was when we were on our way back home and it started to snow, so my sis took an exit to a town and we jumped out of the car and play with snow in the middle of a carpark! Siao I know. But I may never get to see snow in the days to come so might as well make the best of the opportunity!

But the thing is, when we arrived home, it started to snow like really early in the morning!!! But, it was really little and it quickly dissappeared...sad.

Anyways, I will upload more photos of my trip to Vermont in my next post and possibly in Ringo and Friendster...so hang on!!!

New York: Revisited

Heya guys, I've been very lazy to post pictures up here coz sometimes it only lets you load a limited amount on each posting. So if you wanna access more photos, you can either check out my friendster or ringo sites. You can also see my sis's blog ( E.B.O.F. under my friend's blogs).
On Jan 8th, we revisited New York coz it's such a mesmerizing place and we haven't really toured all the places we wanted to tour. This time I wore my new coat so as not to freeze my a$$ off like the last time! Here are the pics along with commentary!

~ Okay, so from Bristol, we first have to drive about 45 minutes to the New Haven Train Station. But that day, there was like this thick fog which hung around the air, so my sister had to drive extra careful. And that caused us to miss the train and had to take the next one (Haih...wasted half an hour) But anyways, the train ride which took 1 and 1/2 hours landed us in Grand Central. From there, we had to take the metro (pic) to our first stop, The American Museum of Natural History.

~ That's the American Museum of Natural History. It's big, it's spectacular and it's where the new movie 'Night at the Museum' is supposed to be based in. Yes that's right! But don't worry, we didn't stay past the evening...

~ Inside the museum, photography is permitted...so YAY! Here is me with my new friend from Mexico, Rocky! Nice to meet you Rocky. Moving on...

~ In the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, I spotted this delightful >Arrghhh!!! It want's to eat my brains!!!<>

~ There was also the Dinosaur wing which showed bones, bones and more bones!

~ But alas was my favourite section, the Guggenheim Hall of Minerals and the Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems!!! It's all mineeee...muahahaha...muahaha..ahek..ahek >tercekik<

~ After the museum, we headed to the ferry port station thingy to get on board for a free round trip to Staten Island and back. And on the way, we got to spot the Brooklyn Bridge and also Lady Liberty (but it wasn't up close so she still seemed pretty small) The ride was somewhat...windy. Both my mum and sis had their hair blown left and right, up and down (I called it crazy hair syndrome) But me and my short hair encountered no problem whatsoever! Lalalalala...

~ Then, for the rest of the evening, we walked around, passed the famed Madison Square Garden...

~ Fifth Avenue lah...

~ And also the biggest store in the world!!! Occupying a whole block on it's own and several stories high, it's MACY'S!!! Oh, and we also managed to squeeze in some shopping time at H&M which was just around the corner...

~ And that's when we finally reached our destination: The Empire State Building!!! Yahooo! It's the one with the red and green litted roof behind me. So we went in, stood in several queues, waited for minutes and minutes, purchased tickets, stood in more queues, took 2 elevator rides up to the 80th floor observation deck and I tell you, it was all bloody worth it. The view was SPECTACULAR. It was just absolutely AWESOME.

~ The view from the 80th floor...

~ Me, just taking it all in. All views from all four sides of the building. Yes, it was windy up there and yes my mum and sis encountered crazy hair syndrome again but it was really really worth it. The view......WOW. The windyness really made it difficult for us to take pictures up there but those are the few good ones.

~ Since there was another line for the elevator to go down, we decided to walk all the way down until our legs melted and we were reduced to mere meatballs rolling down the staircase. Just kidding, it was only like 6 floors coz', from there we had to take a different elevator down...hehe

~ Our final stop was back at Rockefeller Center with the huge Christmas tree and the open air ice-skating rink. There was like so much less people there compared to the last time we visited (Thank God!). So, we got to go up all the way to the edge to peek at the rink.

That is pretty much all we did for our day our in New York. In total we took like over 200 pictures (I know) so, I won't be able to post all of them up. But I will post some additional ones up in Ringo.