Zestful One

2004 Flashbacks

Posted by IcedNyior on December 31, 2004  |  1 Comment

…2004 memories…

How many boyfriends/girlfriends? none

How many crushes? 2 or 3 I tink – Lola, Heidi & I owez cuci mata anyway

Care to mention any names? Moe :P (thank god he’s not reading this)

Had to say goodbye to? Everyone in Miri & KK :( Grace before she left to Kch

Missed anyone? Everyone in Miri & Grace and some people in KK

Win anything? I won 2 online competitions and got LOTR merchandise & a Atomic Kitten CD

Best place you went to? Nowhere in particular

Worst place you went to? KL…haha…not used to it here….i juz need time

Happiest moment? During Bal’s birthday party I guess.

Worst moment? March-April when I had problems with friends

Best present? Christmas presents from Lian – coz no one every posted prezzies :D

Best party? Every weekend from March – June…seriously!!

Best movie? Butterfly Effect, Phantom of the Opera

Best song? Yeah – Usher featuring Ludacris & Lil’ Jon & The Reason – Hoobastank

Best month? June because all my problems got settled out. The only thing left was exams

Lesson you’ve learned from 2004? The value of friendships

Hope for this new year? Settling down in KL
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…me in 2004…

1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? Meet up with online friends alone (usually go in group). Club 4 days in a row. Go out clubbing before a final paper (Moral), came back and sat for the paper

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I did not make new year resolutions last year

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Not that I know of

4. Did anyone close to you die? No but my best friend’s grandmother passed away :(

5. What countries did you visit? Brunei…hahaha!

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? More determination!

7. What date/s from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I don’t remember particular date, but the memories that will remain in my memory is the times that Lola stayed over in my hostel room for a month or so

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? I didn’t feel like I achieved anything significant in 2004

9. What was your biggest failure? Not completing my Foundation in Engineering even tho I repeated some subjects

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Injury = shoulder pain after a motorcycle accident. Pain for almost a week.

11. What was the best thing you bought? A new handphone – Nokia 6610i after my old hp got stolen

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Lian :P coz he’s so nice to me :D

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Certain friends who hurt me

14. Where did most of your money go? Clubbing…haha..and transport (buses & taxis)

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Blogging! :D I’d do it everyday. And Warcraft, played it on LAN every night. LOL!

16. What song will always remind you of 2004? The Reason – Hoobastank

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
(i) happier or sadder? At this time last year I was happier becoz I was in KK and we had lots of activities during the Christmas & year end celebrations
(ii) thinner or fatter? Fatter…haha! Lost quite a bit of weight in Miri
(iii) richer or poorer? No difference

18. What do you wish you’d done more? Concentrated on my studies

19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Going out and caring so much about “what people think”

20. Did you fall in love in 2004? No

21. How many one-night stands? None

22. What was your favorite TV program? CSI, Gilmore Girls

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? No

24. What was the best book you read? Angels & Demons – Dan Brown

25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Erm….nothing. Im not musically talented

26. What did you want and get? I wanted to complete my studies but instead I got a whole lot of fun at the expense of my studies. Im lazy bah

27. What was your favorite film of this year? The Phantom Of the Opera

28. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I juz went out for dinner on my birthday and went to Sid’s hse the next day for makan. I was 19

29. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? No having to move from Sarawak to KL

30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? Cincai….haha….just simple but nice

31. What kept you sane? My good friends :D

32. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? None…not interested lah

33. What political issue stirred you the most? Hmm..not interested in politics

34. Who did you miss? Everyone i left behind in Curtin

35. Who was the best new person you met? Lian :D tho technically I havent met him ;)

36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004: I learnt that trust shouldn’t be given so easily because the person that is your friend today could be your enemy tomorrow. I’ve also learnt that it’s okay to take risks and be brave as long as you are able to think out your actions properly. And that “what people think” doesn’t matter.

Back blogging….

Posted by IcedNyior on December 30, 2004  |  No Comments

After reading the news about the tsunami, i felt like the things i was going to blog was going to be mundane and insignificant compared to the suffering and troubles every one was facing. Some people have a non-chalant attitude about it. But i feel worried about it because I have friends who are there and still silent. No signs whether they’re safe or not.

But yeah, heres a what i did for the past few days:

25th – woke up, go to church, Joe called from US, sleep, woke up, went to eat at the Penang restaurant, online for a while, sleep.

26th – woke up, went to Times Square in KL, met up wif Winnie, makan at Kenny Rogers, talk talk talk till puas, went back, sleep, woke up online, sleep

27th, 28th – Sleep, eat, online, sleep, eat, online…u kno d drill

29th – Went out for dinner wif Sids at Chillis…..bleh so full

30th – I did something pretty impulsive today. this is an except from my chatting wif a friend {which explains why the language is lintang-pukang}

i jumpa wif this guy ba ysterday apparently he’s from swak and my fren’s kazen. I’ve only chat wif him twice u kno…pastu terus je jumpa today…we chat this morning and arranged to meet.

So anyway, i had lotsa fun today. he’s a really nice guy…we got lotsa of common interests. i never meet up wif online friends so fast u kno….seriously…first time. den i saw my fren online juz now around midnite. he said he havent met him for like 2 yrs & he warn me to be careful bout him coz he cant be trusted. he ask if he got ask me out again or not….i said no la. den he said, take care of yourself.

Hmm…confusing….

Merry Christmas~!

Posted by IcedNyior on December 25, 2004  |  No Comments

Ok so im a bit late but Merry Christmas too all my beloved friends (and that includes YOU!) :D

I made gingerbread cookies today

Posted by IcedNyior on December 24, 2004  |  3 Comments

I’m very rajin to bake lately. HEhe! Made gingerbread cookies today…kept nibbling at every batch till i got so sick of it. I made like 4-6 batches..haha..so yeah. I started making it at like 12.30 pm…haha..only finished around like 3 am or something….mmg takde kerja lain nak buat. Oh yeah, i sent some off to her coz she gave me cookies too…yum yum!

If u want the recipe, msg me or something. Malas ahh wana post it here

First Pic : Wet ingredients = Egg, sugar, molasses(treacle), shortening
Second pic : Wet + Dry ingredients = Flour, cinammon, ginger, salt, sugar, bicarbonate soda
Third pic : The Dough
Fourth pic : Ready for baking
Fifth pic : Fresh from d oven.

Christmas 2004

Posted by IcedNyior on December 23, 2004  |  No Comments

As a Christian, i do celebrate Christmas.

Every year (prior to this one) Im busy as early as November, organizing, practising, recording, writing scripts, directing. Active in carolling, music team, tamborine dance, sunday school christmas party, christmas eve drama, christmas day drama….and the list goes on. I had make all my cards and spend loads of money buying presents for friends

This year, i decided to take a break. I pulled out of everything. I also didnt feel like doing anything. But its also because I still feel like i dont fit in here. My sisters are doin some perfomance thingy and my dad is putting up signs and stuff for this Christmas bazaar were having somewhere…im not sure. I didnt go shopping to buy christmas gifts or clothes. The only christmasy thing i did was to send out store-bought cards, buy a small present for Lian coz i know he’s sending me a package and buy prezzie for aaron & yapp (that was my sis idea, i juz supply 1/2 d money).

In short, its just going goin to be the simplest Christmas I know.

Oh yeah, my mom bought me a red top for Christmas..according to her, its from Korea so its RM 35 if im not mistaken. So here’s the pic. Click for a bigger pic

I made pretzels

Posted by IcedNyior on December 23, 2004  |  No Comments

I was home alone today for the whole day coz everyone else was out. So i made pretzels!!! So here are pics:

Yeast+warm water in the bowl. Melted butter in the cup

Yeast water+salt+sugar+flour+butter

Top : The finished and baked pretzel
Bottom : the rolled out dough

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…6 am and cant sleep…

Posted by IcedNyior on December 21, 2004  |  No Comments

I slept the whole day yesterday like till 8pm coz i was feeling feverish (read my phlog on the side). Got up, watched a bit of TV then came online, check my mail, blogged, chat and do other stuff.

I wondered if you noticed the little box “Powered by phlogger“? Its this thing i found on Emy‘s blog (get well soon!!) that lets me sms to update. Meaning that if im away from the computer i can still update a little. So make sure to check it out for updates :D

Oh yeah, so i mentioned about 2 packages which i got. One is from Aaron which wasnt a package but a christmas card with music that was post laju-ed. So sweet. Thanks koko!!

The other one is a pack of cookies from Jess. yeap, she baked em herself. I havent eaten home-baked cookies for years (i mean besides the ones i bake myself). Thanks a lot my dear :D i’ll send u something i bake :D….not sure what i’ll bake yet :P maybe gingerbread. Yeah….most probably gingerbread. its ngam for christmas :D

I registered for flickr tho I havent uploaded pictures yet. :D hehehe!! I have to resize my pics first. I checked out squarespace – its a bloggy thingy – just to see how it works. If im happy with it, i might move last year’s posts from xanga (i’ve got 2 old blogs over there) because i dont like xanga’s interface. There’s this really cool website where u can draw pictures and sent it to people and they can see the steps u took while drawing it. This is a drawing i did for RBJ.

And here’s an interesting website by Alvin. I like the flipping pages thingy!!! I wish i could do something like that :D

I feel like having hard pretzels….mayb i’ll make some today or tomorrow.

Oh yeah, im goin out for lunch with Sids, Pam & Fudu. Hopefully not Nando’s, its doesnt appeal to me anymore :P

.: Review :. The Phantom Of The Opera (repost)

Posted by IcedNyior on December 20, 2004  |  No Comments

I’ve watched it on just now, 8.30pm show at TGV Sunway (One U had no tickets). You can read the online review at the bottom.

I found this movie very interesting. Christine (played by Emmy Rossum) has a great voice and her acting is pretty good – except for some parts where she looked really weird when she was supposed to look entralled or possesed. LOL! The actor for Raoul looks a bit too young and boyish tho. And the Phantom was too goodlooking ;)

The songs were great. I especially loved the one Christine and Raoul sang on top of the roof. They are all great singers.

If you’re the type of person who has read the book or seen the musical and liked it, go watch this movie. It deviates slightly from the book and some parts we cut out but its still good. :D Even my parents – who are not into musicals – enjoyed the movie. The only bad thing they said was that the songs were repetitive.

Please do not watch it if you hate musicals. There was this teenage gal behind me who said “oh please dont start singing again!” and when they did start to sing – like every 5 mins – she would start to sigh loudly. I SOOO felt like turning around and saying “You’re watching a MUSICAL for goodness sake! They’re SUPPOSED to be singing it!!”. But of course I didnt coz im too nice.

(Click the pic below to go to the official website)
I so can’t wait to watch this movie. “The Phantom Of The Opera” by Gaston Leraux (sp?). It’s set in the Opera House in France (not so sure if it’s still standing now). Here’s a rewiew from Cinemaonline.com.my

“Emmy Rossum plays Christine Daae, an up-and-coming talent of the opera theatre. Young, pretty, and with a beautiful voice, she is one of the promising ballerinas under Madam Giry’s (Miranda Richardson) tutelage. Just before the company’s big opening night, the two new eager managers, Simon Callow and Ciaran Hinds, find themselves in a fix – their temperamental main soprano Carlotta (played deliciously to the note by Minnie Driver) is having another one of her diva tantrums. The managers have no choice but to thrust Christine into the limelight, and she ends up surprising not just herself but her audience and fellow cast members.

In the enthralled audience is her childhood friend and the theatre’s wealthy patron, the Vicompte Raoul de Chagny (Patrick Wilson). But Raoul is not the only one mesmerized by her lovely voice. The phantom of the opera, a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs of the theatre, is also smitten. Furthermore, he claims personal credit for her fine voice, and proceeds to take Christine under his wing.

Even as Christine is lulled into a drunken euphoria every time the phantom sings to her, she is increasingly drawn to the ravishing Raoul. Initially, her heart cannot betray her ‘Angel of Music’ who has so faithfully trained her voice. However, it doesn’t take long till the two fall in love, much to the furore of the phantom. It is this escalating anger which plays the backdrop to a terrifying tale of intense jealousy, obsession and passion.”

So there we go, a love triangle set in the Victorian-era. I loved the book even after I had to do a book review on it for Academic English last year (carried a major percentage of overall marks). Armed with the full-english-version of The Phantom of The Opera, it took me more or less an hour to read the whole thing (i devour books like I drink water) and 1-2 weeks of analysing the plot, characters, meanings, ect and write a seperate review and re-interprete EACH paragraph (30++ if im not mistaken). Nuts, but worth it, coz i got something like a 17-18 out of 20….bangga lah :P

Oh well, this show opens today (its 5 am Thursday) and I hope I’ll be able to watch it tonight. However i did read reviews that the music/lips coordination was bad. Hmm…..

p/s: in case u were wondering why im up early…well, i was studying for my Business Mgmt paper at 2pm. Then i have an IT paper at 11 am Friday. Just took a break to post this up and then im going back to my books. :D

Rock The World 5

Posted by IcedNyior on December 19, 2004  |  1 Comment

Rock the World is a concert featuring local bands. It was at Stadium Merdeka from 3pm onwards.

I went late to RTW, coz dah anggap it will start late. Sampai around 4.30pm and this band was singing…i didnt like it. Like the lead singer out of tune, then the english oso buruk. In short it was LOUSY. Lucky i didnt remember the name, if not, sure I kutuk habis-habisan.

Anyway, i stayed there listening to other bands: OAG (best :P ), Tempered Mental (nice songs…but not talkative to the crowd), Love Me Butch (reminds me of Hoobastank’s more rock songs), Roots N Boots (not my preferance in music), Republic of Brickfields (reggee style..nice) and 1 or 2 more. All the bands played 3-4 of their songs.

Soooo many ppl. Sesak kat depan stage so i didnt go there. Duduk kat blakang jak.

Then Evenstarr performed Masih, Ruang Di Antara and 2 more songs {which i forgot…sorry!!}. Oh..the MC wrongly pronounce the name as Evanstarr (same thing happened in Titiwangsa during the Bandaraya gig) . Their performance was good…i think quite a number of people heard Masih already. aku terdengar one gal behind me singing along or something like that.

Silas new rambut looks sooo different lah. I like it better while it was long :P den he pakai snowcap & jacket at first den buka, underneath was a black singlet. I thought that that looked pretty bad. Imagine Gurmit Singh (Phua Chu Kang) with his short hair and dyed blond.

I had a great time, even tho sesak habis while entering & panas gila. And some !@#$% purposely brushed against my butt *curses!*
Sayang also coz i didnt get to hear Nice Stupid Playground & Disagree. Nevermind, i did bump into one of the Disagree members tho.

after Evenstarr played, i and Gladys (who was with me at the time) went to KLCC by taxi (too lazy to take Mahameru Monorail to KL Central then LRT to KLCC), costs rm10. And wanted to eat at Sushi King, but there wasnt one (i forgot they revamped the Food Court) so we ate in Chillis instead.

We got chips & salsa (which was bottomless so i think we refilled it for like 4 times) and Fajita Quesadillas. Dictionary.com says it is a dish consisting of strips of marinated meat, poultry, or vegetables that are grilled over an open fire and served in a tortilla, usually with spicy condiments. I say its meat & onions in a round pancake. LOL! Plus fruit juice – which was also bottomless so we tried all the juices: apple, guava, pineapple, tomato, mango. I liked the guava best :P

We were stuffed by then but dessert kept calling our names so we ordered High and Mighty Pie (i think that’s the name) which was vanilla icecream+bits of nuts+bits of candy with an Oreo crust & drizzled with chocolate and caramel…..was absolutly yummy, but too sweet and the two of us couldnt even finish 1 piece. Spent bout RM35/each there (we were celebrating something *private*) and 2 hours there. Yes, we actually sat there eating and talking for 2 hours, from 9.00 pm to 11.00 pm. Could hardly walk by then. We rushed to take the LRT after paying the bill.

Kena bising coz we were so late. got back, took a shower, watched “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” on 8TV then came online, check all my mail, check out Joe’s, reply all my forums (evenstarr & RBJ), then blogged.

Now going to sleep….have to wake up early….Zzzzzzzzzz

its like 5am, I live a terrible upside down life….sleep all day (woke up at 2pm) and stay up all nite :P

Finish! Finito! Habis! Over! Zilch!

Posted by IcedNyior on December 17, 2004  |  No Comments

My finals are over. I had two papers. Business Management on Thursday afternoon which im not sure i fully prepared for. IT this morning which I was late for(details below). But going to pass both lar (i hope)

Was happy yesterday coz of 3 things:
(1) I finished my hardest paper – it was really tricky and i hope i answered it correctly :S
(2) I’ve bought my tickets to fly back to KK for 2 weeks in Jan using MAS – I hate using Airasia, who cares how cheap it is, not worth the price i should think. No, im not disclosing the details of my flight. :P
(3) My koko sent me a package for Christmas :D – I got a Christmas card, A magnet from Australia (cos he went to Sydney recently) and a small box with quotes and inspirational things to do. Its nice!! Thx Lian :D

So this morning i woke up around 9.30 am coz my paper was at 11am-12pm. Got an sms around that time from my classmate that the paper was at 10-11am. SHIT!! So i kelam-kabut get ready and rushed outta d house. My uni is like 35-40 mins away and my dad drove like a madman to get there on time. It didnt help when the aforementioned classmate smsed me again saying that the lecturer isnt letting anyone who is late to take the paper. *starts panicking*

Got there at 10.20 am and the lecturer was ok about it. Left the exam hall at 10.35-10.40am. *hears cries of shock in background* Well, the paper was easier than expected. Its 40 Multiple choice questions. Thats it. However, each Q is worth 1% of the overall grade, which is ALOT for someone who always makes careless mistakes (read: me). Oh well….im hoping i score tho :D

wokay, going to take a nap now I so need my sleep!! zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[9 pm]
CHANGED MY LAYOUT….what do u think? Is the text too small??

Im using my sister’s phone for my 016, its hard to get used to her Sony Ericsson T230 phone coz its lagging and the buttons for spacing and symbols are diff :P

But at least i get to use my 016. Only 1 sen/sms for 6 close frens and 3 sens for the rest of the Digi community :P