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yenchiew says (12:34 PM):
got updates for me?

liying says (12:34 PM):
i'm engaged

yenchiew says (12:35 PM):
?????????????????????
WHAHAHHAHAHAHA
seriously ?

liying says (12:36 PM):
whatdayathink?

yenchiew says (12:36 PM):
kenot be kua.. unless .. (unnecessary info edited)

liying says (12:37 PM):
wth
u are nuts

yenchiew says (12:41 PM):
means no updates le right.

liying says (12:41 PM):
nope

Would you say I have busybody friends? Yes, I do. They would say they're "concerned of my welfare" though.

On to another topic, isn't it annoying that there are people who can't get it in their stupidass brains that they called the wrong number? And they keep calling back to ask more stupidass questions.

And at 3.13am.

IN THE MORNING. WHEN I'M ASLEEP.

These people should DIE.

#5: Goodbye Tiger Week!

Just because it's the end of Tiger Blogfest doesn't mean everyone can just forget about our beautiful feline friends and leave all these behind as if only a hype.

Here's an outtake I came across today:

WASHINGTON – Michelle Obama told a group of curious kids visiting the White House Thursday about her daughter Malia's most frequent question about Dad's job: What's he doing to help tigers?

Asked about her family's favorite animal, the first lady said they talk about tigers at least once a week, because Malia, 11, is concerned about what President Barack Obama is doing to save the endangered animals.

"He tells her he's working on it and there are a lot of people who are thinking about it," she said. "But I think, the Obama household, we're trying to save the tigers."

Although most of us don't have a direct personal line to the top of the power-chain, we could still do our part. For instance, as suggested by Planet of the Monyets: send an email to the Prime Minister and ask him to attend the Tiger Summit in Vladivostok in September this year. Ask him to make firm commitments that Malaysia will protect its tigers.

With the end of Tiger Blogfest 2010, certain banners will have to come down from the blog. So to commemorate the majestic animal, and to remind us of their plight, here's a closing banner for this succesful online event.


Yours truly,

#4: Double Whammy

Today is Earth Day.

A double dose of plight.
A plight for our planet.
And a plight for our tigers.
(and every other inhabitant too)

Where else in this universe do you get to see sights like these?

A white sandy beach and crystal blue sea, a backdrop of blue sky and fluffy white clouds.
(@Shangri-La Rasa Ria)

Gorgeous orange and royal purple hues during sunset.
(@Bukit Mengkabong, Tuaran)

Lush green majestic trees, 'neath the canopy on a sunny day.
(@ RDC, Sandakan)

Perhaps you might say that there may be another similar planet somewhere out there in the unknown abyss, but even if that is so, it's not like you can get there anyway. So why not do your part to ensure that these breathtaking sights are still there for the future generations, YOUR future generation?

Think about it.

Happy Earth Day!

#3: The National Icon

"The Malayan tiger is depicted in the coat of arms of Malaysia, symbolising the government and appears in various heraldry of Malaysian institutions such as Maybank and Proton. It symbolizes bravery and strength to Malaysians.

When the Malayan tiger was accepted as a sub-species of the tiger family, the news was warmly received in Malaysia. However, there was soon debate over the scientific naming of the Malayan tiger. Researchers proposed a name to recognize the work by Peter Jackson, a zoologist, with big cats: Panthera tigris jacksoni.

However, the Malaysian Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria (MAZPA) and the Government of Malaysia protested, arguing that Malaysia should have been consulted over the naming of its national icon. Malaysia holds that the naming should reflect the geographical region, Malaysia. In Malaysia, therefore, the Malayan tiger is known as Panthera tigris malayensis."

One would assume that if you were to protest and argue so passionately over the name of something, you should be making your utmost effort to care for its welfare.

Besides, it would be VERY EMBARASSING INDEED if the 500 or so tigers in the wild were to be extinct, and the only example of a Malayan Tiger you could ever show someone who asks is the symbol of a car. Or a bank. Or a football association. Or the t-shirts of the athletes. **


Think about it.

**or the pictures that I have drawn.

Believin' in thyself

Another intermission from Tigers
-- (what to do? It's a very very interesting action-packed week) --

Firstly, a loud resounding CONGRATULATIONS to MELVIN TONG for making it to the peak of Mount Kinabalu. That is a tremendous feat of awesomeness (sorry, am too in awe so am rather at a loss for words). I remembered my climb where I kinda crawled at certain parts just to make it to the top, and here is this gutsy guy going all the way up with his crutches. Just awe-inspiring.

Melvin is the gutsy dude in white. Btw, where's my flag? :P

Photo credit: Melvin Tong

CONGRATS MELVIN!
I shall belanja you coconut pudding for your success.

Melvin has proven to us that if you set your mind to do something, no matter how impossible it may seem, you CAN achieve it. Such a living legend.

* * *

Secondly, there was me. This is very much less awe-inspiring. In fact, it's nothing inspiring at all. Just that I didn't die after my personal-training workout session with Sam Tan of Core Fitness. He made me do three circuits of everything and basically worked out all my muscles (even those I've never realised existed in my life) and towards the end, I just wanted to lie down and not move anymore. It's not so much as not being fit, but more of...am not really sure what (muscle-laziness). I am so gonna be sore tomorrow. I'd be grateful for any backrub offers LOL

Wth.

I made it sound like I had a torture session. On the contrary. It was AWESOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH SAM!

Now I feel like I can go to bed and sleep like a log :)

Good night!

#2: boo-ROAR!

In addition to its usual menu of boar and deer, the tiger has been known to feast on the occasional monkey.

While it cannot climb trees with the agility of monkeys, a tiger would work its way stealthily under a tree and roar...

...to frighten the monkey so that it would fall off its perch down to the waiting tiger.


Did you know?

With unplanned forest managements, huge acres of forests are being cleared, reducing the natural habitat and hunting grounds of the tiger.

People who mindlessly protest and boycott forest products are not doing any good. What everyone should realise is that either we give up entirely our dependency on a certain commodity or carry out better management plans for development projects. Since the latter ain't gonna happen any time soon, perhaps corruption should stay out of projects that involve the environment.

Think about it.

Hear hear...

... to the happy couple!

In response to Yen Chiew's (Mrs Oo-to-be): "To a whole new beginning!"

-- Intermission from Tiger Week --

Congratulations are in order to my dear friend for her ROM (Registry of Marriages, not the computer parts term) last weekend. *big grin* You are officially married in the eyes of the legal system! Huzzah!

And also, congratulations for upholding the noble morales of our upbringing for being the only couple there that isn't pregnant and/or underage. I know it makes me sound mightily old-fashioned, close-minded (and every other profanity you 'contemporary' types out there are hurling at me now) but I still stand by my beliefs of holding on to some virtues as an Asian, and all that.

I mean hey, Asians were once known for their strict upbringing and morality, so why not?

Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS once again to the happy couple.

Update: I have photo!!!

p/s: Stay tuned for another TIGER entry tomorrow! (this time it involves a monkey *oooh*)

#1: Hello Tiger Week!

Did you know?

There are less than 500 tigers in the wild.
There are more students in ONE school than tigers in the wild.

Think about it.

Re: PoTM #13042010

Less than a week ago, Monyet King of Planet of the Monyets put up an entry regarding his honour of meeting a Giant ~ Melvin Tong.

Well, today, I had the honour of meeting said Giant too. What's more, I also got to meet his sister, and the rest of the troop who will be climbing Mount Kinabalu tomorrow to raise awareness and funds for the fight against child abuse. The climb is organized by Shelter Homes(03-79550663).

Me, being a scatter-brain as usual, completely forgot that I had my camera in my bag, so I don't have any photos for this post. But yea, basically Melvin 'appointed' this 'task' to me yesterday that I have to get them a Malaysia flag. Which I did. So I had this short awkward moment where I felt like a minister handing a flag to some elite troop going to battle.

Anyway, all the best to the 33-member team who will be climbing the country's highest peak (SEA's 5th) tomorrow and the day after. Let's hope for the best climbing weather for them!

- - -
On to another topic, just for the record of my 'egocentric' self, this is roughly how my sketches are when I take a pencil to paper:

I am putting this up today because for the next week, thou shalt be wow-ed by my artistic skills (or lack of). Honest-to-goodness. That's a teaser. Tiger Week starts tomorrow!

Less than 12 hours to Tiger Blogfest 2010!

"Do they eat jellybeans?"

Back in my 'tween days when most girls my age were hyped on the Sweet Valley Twins series, I on the other hand, for some unbeknownst reason, preferred The Baby-sitters Club. Perhaps it's the lack of 'popular-clique' vs. 'the nerds' social strata thing (those things never seem to get old, although we don't have them here either), and more of a 'daily adventure in a friendly neighbourhood' kind of thing.

Btw, I am still collecting the books now...they're very difficult to find, usually only in secondhand-bookstores.

The first book in the series. Ah, I miss those good old days...

Of course the book has some rather illogical stuff like how can a bunch of 13-year-olds never grow up after BSC#10 and they just seem to have a myriad of adventures over the summer and winter over and over again. That's the perks of being a fictional character I guess.

Anyway, in reality, I have baby-sat before...in a way. You know, the looking after younger cousins kind of stuff. And I DON'T get paid. And let's not forget my short stint working in a childcare (I was paid, but that was slightly more of a nightmare at times).

What inspired me to write this entry was that I met two adorable little girls just now when I was out running (more like after running) who live in the house opposite. They like the puppies but as they are Muslims, they can't touch. But they still wanted to do something, so they were practically running in and out of their house with food to feed the pups, and toys (oh my).

Conversation snippets with the 8-year-old:

"Do the puppies have chew toys? Why do they like to chew so much? Can we (meaning her younger sister and her) give them our toys?" She had a plastic toy banana in her hand.

"Wouldn't your mom mind? Are you sure you want to just throw your toys away?"

"It's okay. We don't play with it anymore, it's going into storage anyway."

and :

"What do they like to eat? Sometimes we buy food, but we don't eat them. Do they eat cereal? Do they eat jellybeans?"

"Well...they eat biscuits. But nothing chocolate okay?"

They brought Danish butter cookies out to feed the dogs. (feed: as in throw pieces on the road and the dogs eat them.)

and the one that takes the cake:

"I'll try to feed them again tomorrow...before my mom comes home!"

Oops.

I don't mind baby-sitting kids like that though. They'll be fun.

Cheaters' Pizza

Because PBJ is boring.

* 6 more days to my personal training session *

Ulp.

That said, I'm at the moment trying to reduce rubbish-food intake and confining myself to certain types of food. Wholemeal bread for one. Because I still need the carbs to run. And milk, because calcium is good.

And because starving yourself is just plain dumb.

So anyway, since I have to eat bread-oh-boring-bread for the next few days (lest hello fungus and I have to throw out the rest of the loaf), I came up with another way to make my bread interesting.

Introducing the "Cheaters' Pizza"!

All you need are:

• Bread
• Butter/margarine
• Tomato Puree
• Mixed herbs/dried herbs/fresh herbs
• Black pepper
• A skillet
• A stove/cooker/fireplace/campfire

I don't even need to tell you what to do 'cos it's so simple. Just that basically you either butter the bread and throw it onto a skillet, or melt butter in the skillet and throw the bread in and just keep turning it over and over so that you get toast ('cos I do not have a toaster). Next to go on is the tomato puree, herbs, and black pepper. Keep them on the skillet (on low flame all the time) for a bit till the puree doesn't look like it just came out from the can.

Pretty much, that's it. Hence I call it Cheater's Pizza* 'cos it's so simple.

* you can call it Pumpkin Eater's Pizza too, if you like

Here's a close-up. I apologise for the bite 'cos I couldn't resist not trying it before I had the opp to take a photo.

Right. Back to work. Flow duration curves, regional regression curves...oh you are the bane of me!!!

Cheers y'all, and have a good mid-week!

The Boyfriend Shirt

Something that I rarely post about, but what the heck, I feel like it.

Today I pulled off the 'boyfriend-shirt' look, and felt pretty suave about it (although all I did was went to campus and had lunch and dinner at some shops; and I was, as most of the time, without makeup).

This is the 'boyfriend-shirt' look:

(photo from Facehunter)

Obviously that's not me. I'm not one who's going to take a picture of myself to show off what I'm wearing. Besides, some differences:

• my shirt is white with thin lavender stripes
• it's not exactly a boyfriend shirt, it's my shirt
• not black shoes

Thing is, I highly doubt that I can pull off the look with a real boyfriend shirt, because, let's face it, I don't think any normal-sized guy could fit into my shirt, and I can definitely not fit into any normal-sized guys' shirt without looking like I'm in jammies.

Darn it. Low prob of wardrobe expansion.

But I really like the laid-back but chic look.

10 more days to Tiger Blogfest 2010, it's still not too late to sign up!

Confessions of a Narcissist

I've been told I'm cute.

And I know whoever who has ever told me that is regretting it immensely now.

Although I would have preferred to be called HOT, let's face the facts, I may not be, and beggars can't be choosers. Compliments are still compliments. So I'm all fine for being 'cute'.

And I don't care that "cute" means "ugly but adorable". There's nothing wrong with being adorable. Besides, who coined that silly definition anyway? It doesn't say that in the real dictionary. I see words like "attractive" and "quaint". I'm not gonna go into more self-complimenting adjectives.

But for the record, I am cute. I have rabbit-hamster teeth and I look like Kermit the Frog.

I know, right?

First of April

Smoke and mirrors.

You know what they say...be on the lookout for pranky stuff. (Pranky? Isn't there like a prawn cracker called Pranky Prawn?)

Anyways, I was kinda talked into this prank on Facebook whereby I was "in a relationship" with this friend of mine for about 3 hours (which he later went into "it's complicated" and then "single" and we had a fight in the comment boxes).

Talk about drama. Talk about scandalous.

Funny tho, I only got a grand total of five comments from friends whereas he had like twenty. Goes to show whose friends frequent FB more during working hours. But then again, I realised that my privacy setting doesn't show nuts, so I was practically 'not newsworthy' for the first 90 minutes. *sorry*

For the record, I am still not in a relationship with anyone at the moment. I am single. Hunky hunks are welcomed to sign up. Nice guys are definitely encouraged to sign up.

I promise I'll be nice :)


p/s: I apologise to my friends who fell for it and were so nice to "congratulate" me and stuff. So sorry!

pp/s: Speaking of which, check out Lifehouse's new album - Smoke & Mirrors!

A Message from CNNGo to KK Twestival 2010 Team

Mr. Liu Mun Yin, Marketing Manager of CNNGo.com has a message to all us KK Twestival 2010 volunteers. Thank you!

And thanks Jackie, too!

Awesome awesome