mooncake fest

2005-09-22T13:53:00.000-07:00

Lizzie (in usual hyper excited mode, probably bouncing up n down too):
Yeay!!!! Its mooncake festival today!!!!Yay!!!!

American male: Thats SO sweeeet!Man I wanna come!

Lizzie:errr.. y r u so excited? do u even KNOW wat it is?

American male: Sure I do! But r u serious about this malaysian MOONING festival?

(that is an actual concersation i swear)

(if u dont know wat mooning is, go google it hahah..im sure u will get a pretty CLEAR picture then...)

Whee hee we had a successful mooncake festival of own rite here in ann arbor!Chee Yong and Pat and whoever else that had the sense to bring mooncakes, you guys ROCK :)
it was only supposed to be a small 15msian gathering under the moonlight and nibbling on paper thin slices of mooncake (as we only had 4).

The night before our msian fest, the singaporeans had their own party. They sent out invitation emails, all happy n cheery "come to our mooncake festival!first 150 ppl gets FREE mooncake!Thts right FREEE, there will be bubble tea n games n etc etc"
i was pretty sceptical. I thought there must be a catch, u know... singaporeans willing to pay for a party AND MOONCAKES for NONsingaporeans?lol

oh well, since everyone wanted to go, i tagged along. guesss wat, yeah everyth in party IS free, but u have to PAY to get in. (i knew it)..anyway their idea of mooncake is one tat has no egg yolk or kuaci, with a diameter of 2 inches. YEA i call tat KUIH. Mooncakes deserve better recognition than tat. (van dear, fake muffins? well we paid usd3 for FAKE mooncake!lol)

we had our share of fakemooncakes, grabbed some lanterns n ciao-ed. i made andrew "borrow" some candles from the sporeans so we could re-use lanterns for own mooncake fest, which was the day after the sporean's.

our own mooncake fest was awesome. had it in basketball court at the end of a field. Had lots of food, more mooncakes than expected (tats good cos MORE ppl showed up.), even had chinese tea.

me n yehcuin taught two americans, Ryan and David, chor tai ti. HAHhahaah i never won so many games in my entire chor tai ti career!but ryan n david were quick at pickin up the game. in return they taUGHT us michigan card game, eucher.

there r some pretty funny stories to tell bout a certain someone in our msian gang...but il save it for some oth time...

(van, sara, ju: there!im blogging
my god it takes so much effort ....lol)

INTROAMERICA101

2005-08-31T22:08:00.002-07:00

Whoo hoo im in ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN USA!

Lets see i will try to make a lil table to show yall the MAJOR difference btwn MALAYSIA and ANN ARBOR in general.

haha
oops i jus realize that i dunno how to construct a real table. not even gonna exert any energy attempting cos knowing me as i do it willl be futile...hahaha

so a numerical order of differences will have to satisfy my ever so keen audience(s):

1)THE FOOD
AA:
at ResHall (residential hall)
there is ice cream to jello to ham to rice to salad to all fizzy drinks u can name :)
erkkkk i can feel the double chin developin already!!! of cos aft a while (but not yet!) the food will look the same n begin a routine rotation....

the USA has ignited my dormant carnal instinct to devour til my stomach burst open...i m complusive about the cheese n coffee n bacon-bagel-ly stuff..........
m crazy bout the salad n the damn ham n cheese! min li n i r i wud say the biggest female eaters in our intec group... we have about 4 to 5 plates o bowls in front of us each time...

Chee yong is THE ULTIMATE FOOD DOWNER CHAMPION,,,,in no time chee yong can challenge that professional eater lady that digested 44 lobsters in god-knows-how-LITTLE-time.i suspect the mysteries of the BLACK HOLE and possibly the BERMUDA TRIANGLE can be solved by the disection of Chee Yong. (hey sll u Steve- Hawkin/einstein/physics disciples i have ch ee yongs contact and address.. for a minimum n0n-negotiable fee of USD1 000 000)

oh n here in the us the general cutlery provided arre the knives forks n teaspoons n soup spoons.
wat is missing u ask me? well u culinery ignoramus we are severely missing THE TABLESPOON.
so i eat my rice with a fork and a teaspoon or tablespoon,dependin on whether i feel like making the SIZE DISCREPANCY obvious or obviously ABSURD lolz.... anyway its good with small spoon. eat smaller portions chew better. lolz

NOTE TO ALL US BOUND PEOPLE: bring your own CUTLERY, save ur precious ringgits!

oh after eating we must pick up our garbage n get rid of em....even in RESTAURANTS
weird huh

INTEC:
selection minimal n redundant
enticing options if any : NASI LEMAK
others: in loyalty to a former school and to my country i will say no more.lolz
u get the idea huh?:)

2)THE TRAFFIC
OK the only reason i m not hooked up to numerous fluidy-bloody tubes n completely covered in casts with the only indication of not yet in thehouse of Hades is the little blinking on tat cardio-machine-thingy in a misereble hospital ward is thanks to very considerate n courteuos drivers of Ann Arbor.
firstly i keep forgetting which side of the road im supp to be walkin
Worse i keep lookin at the wrong direction at which the cars come from
almost got hit few times but the people here will stop if there are any pedestrians crossing or just WAITING to cross the road. they slow down, stop at least 15 meters away from you, and for as long as it takes, u leaving u more than enough space and time to do ballet spins while crossing the road. Ya n they dont honk or scream words like .... well not so appropriate to insert here.
seriously they all have this pedestrian-senstive radar innate in them.only in peaceful uni towns like AA tho. dont try spinning n crossing the roads of NY.

MALAYSIAN TRAFFIC:
if u wanna cross the road, u better wait til the road,especially big roads, r EMPTY b4 crossing
msian drivers dare u to cross. they step on the accelerator, throw in a lil audio bonus by hitting their horns and see if they will flatten u or not. Malaysian drivers mentality : Lets see who moves faster? my Waja or you stubby legs? lolz
Arina related: her mom once stopped to allow pdestrians to cross road in msia. wat happened was the car from behind crashed into Arina's moms bumper.
see? no point being considerate driver in our lil peninsular...l

3)THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTENTIONS
so im still confused
when these americans pass u by at the street, these STRANGERS, start smiling n greetin u wat do u do?
American: "Howdy!
Msian: howdy?

American: how r ya?
Me; is it "fine wat bout u?" or "how r ya?" or "fine" or ignore hahaha?
cos they dont seem to wait for responce altho i think a certain responce, possibly the first, is needed.

Arinah's story:
Arinah on bus.
Old American guy (i imagine with beer gut n stubble n a trucker cap but this is just my imagination cos arina din say)
sitting next to her.
American guy: u have lovely lips.
Arina shocked. Arinah smiles replies politely n appropriatel.
old american fart: "so can i kisss them?"

EWWWW
now was he a friendly american? Flirty? Horny? Pervertd? Or wat?
hahahha poor rina

MALAYSIA
when a guy, especially a CUTE one u bump into say a mall or at a pool, says hi or says see ya later n smiles at u..u can be nearly 90 percent sure he likes u or think u r cute to saY THE least
here most people of every levels of attractiveness do that to you.
so u cant tell if they got crush on u or not,
hahaha
l

4)THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
AMERICA
guy from China (really smart n knowledgeable one) says the american edu system is sad,. while he n his fellow countrymen recites a 1000 chinese characters, doin Chinese history n calculating the circumference of a cilinder at AGE 6, the general ameican 10 year olds r drawin sunflowers n sunshine, told to play in the sun and be friendly to neighnours and trying hard to add and minus subsequently.... iok maybe i exaggerated a lil on the american bit but the china one is from a valid source lolz...thats y they say these "kuai lo"s are not so errrr...

MALAYSIA
we fall middle ground.
suddenly remembering all the standard one lessons.
"S-A, sa, Y-A, ya, saya." "B-A, ba, C-A ca." "Baca"

n china guy giving us a mini intro on china history. damn cool,mao tze dong (sorry dunno how to speel name) was AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER b4 his legendary take over n conversion of the chinese to the communism or sth..after his illustrious career as elmentary school teacher he beacame a BANDIT then killed several war lords, went all political n powerful n all.

so in exchange on CHINA101 we gave china-guy, peter, INTRO TO THE FOUNDING OF MALAYSIA. ya the whole parameswara n his pleanduk kickin his doggy into river thing. how old parameswara kept trying to conquer nations but failed cos he just cant resist asasainatin the local ruler n having need to runaway pulak, lolzzzzz he was politely smiling

5) THE MATING PARTNER SELECTION
AMERICA
if u wanna breed good lookin kids or just land on good lookin humanspecies, get tat horny ass of urs HERE. everyone is HOT, if they aint hot they r usuall y overwieight. a minority r the dull, the GUYS are hot hot hot, u got the babyboy blondes, the shirtlees green eyed irish (oi-rish) man, the dark brooding brunette with stubble, the intellectually gruffy...watever. the fwemales well i reallyv din observe hahahha
..they r hot tho

(NICKY LING U R STILL MY HOTTEST SEXIEST YA )

INTEC:
errrr
well
the guys r really smart n errr friendly?
lolz'
kiddin!
u guys r great'
in terms of just godly-unfair physical attributes u lose out to the white hotties. anyways we ladies r merely fadin blown out candles when compared to teh shiningstar american beauty..to be honest n fair.

l;olz..anyway not all of us JPAs at AA r too hooked uo with quickly makin too many NEW friends n landing guys...most of us here stick to each oth in wat wud be our final days being able to hang out together at AA b4 the hectic classes....maybe one or two or jz one of us find the grass greener so much greener the oth side already...er hm er hm

6)DOCTORS ADVICE
got a cough
doc tells me in advertisment broadcating voice "drink lots of fluids. And dont forget! close ur mouth everytime u cough. remember, ncoughing is contagoius," tats about it.

insurabce here dont cover medicince. min li gonna gv me good old ibu dan ank cough syruo tmr...

8)OH MY GOD THE PRICES
just forget how to times any figure with four ok.
the conversion rate willdrive u nuts u wished u had problems calculating addition and substraction subsequently lolz

9)ARCHITECTURE
love the bricky-creepy crwaling- colonial times builings!

10) THE ELEVATORS DAMN IT
american elevators as far as i have had teh pleasure of riding on (in LA to AA) have the general; attributes:
1) MOVE VERY SLOWLY..better walk stairs
2)TAKE FORVER FOR DOORS TO OPEN and CLOSE
3)NO CLOSE DOOR BUTTON hence further delaying the door closing process
4) VERY SMALL (i mean a lift here can fit bout 3 or 4 average msians..so they expect to transport ONE american at a time? AT This (lack of) speed? lolz i m so mean heheehhe oj so this is exagerated btu in a way theres truth)

so MALAYSIANS u have ur ELEVATOR ENGINEERS AND MANUFAVTURES TO BE PROUD OF lolz

wow ihave so much already
gonna stop now
before i think of more to sayy
til my next posting who knows when....lolz

And So I Blog

2005-07-01T18:13:00.000-07:00

One sunny day i received an sms from my roomie vanessa. Something bout birdpoop on bedsheets in our hostel room (DILAPIDATED ROTTEN STINKING STINK HOLE of A HOSTEL ROOM). And i thought the poor darling vanessa has birdpoop to clean, i hope she doesnt trip on those nasty slimy goo in the process.

Some time later i received a second messsage from vanessa, screaming 'when the heck are u gonna clean the bird waste?'

Then the clouds drifted, the oceans parted, and Realization hit me. I reread vanessa's first sms and discovered that it ain't Vanessa's bedsheet that was sacrileged with nasty slimy goo, but MINE. and MINE alone.

God knows how that god damn bird could actually come into the room to shit when all the windows and doors were shut closed over the hols.

So damn i was pretty peeeved. i mean who wants to clean bird SHIT? especially A WEEK"s old bird shit. Oh i prayed to god there were no maggots, and made a mental note to bring two pairs of glove just in case (which I neglected to bring to the shit scene anyway cos i lost the mental note).

And then I cursed the birdie that pooped on MY (not vanessa's) bedsheet. I cursed the birdie to break her scrawny fuy neck and her soft brown and spotted newly-laid eggs to be cat food. For 7 generations.

The damn bird chose the damn wrong person to shit with. And I am as apt to slip on those nasty slimy goo as Vanessa.

So that was how all the "Lizzie u shud blog so the whole world would know the shit in ur life" business got started.

To which my initial response was "I don't know HOW to create a blog!!!"

To which i was replied, "Just click on "CREATE A BLOG"."

"Oh."

So that was how from today onwards the shit and roses in my life will commence to attract international recognition (i wish). just because of bird shit and a "CREATE A BLOG" button.

:)

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