Malaysian GE 2008

Right so with elections just around the corner.......the question is......who are you going to vote for? What will the country decide?

MalaysiaToday decided to do a 'dry run' on the elections.........they're still doing it as a matter a fact......go to the site and vote.....but the results may not be that much of a surprise.....because really......if you read MalaysiaToday, by either default or something......there's really a majority of which may you'd vote already right?

Chinese New Year

My memories of CNY are all immortalised in photographs. My main CNY memories are centred around my yearly pilgrimages down south to good old JB, just shy of Singapore. Images of having a camera going off in your face, nightly fireworks and sparklers, chowing down to minced pork stuffed fish maw in soup, as well as the obligatory trip down to MeiSan SzeChuan Restaurant in the what-used-to-be-called Holiday Inn Johor Bahru-now-called Mutiara hotel, right next to the bed of VCD/DVD vending vice Holiday Plaza. A place so notorious, it's included in guidebooks!

The day previous to the begining of all these JB CNY festivities has always been, a trip down to Mantin, just shy of Seremban. What I miss most during CNY these days is the old house and the home cooked meal, split into 3 different tables divided by age and generation. It's the food I miss the most, homecooked zha nyuk and rice wine chicken, aunts slaving the whole morning for reunion dinner. All us cousins and the rest of the family sitting around watching TV2 CNY specials and uncles playing mahjong on the back porch.

Those were the days. Now it's all done at the local nearby restaurant. Preset menus and no more mahjong and TV. Just in and out. The passing of goodies bags (a novelty started by my mother I might add!) and ang pows. It lacks that rustic nostalgia of Chinese New Years of yesteryear.

But the times are achanging and traditions need to keep up with the times too right?

2nd Day of CNY

Long gone are the days of good ang pao hauls and endless fun with fireworks......

I finally have my mother's comp all to myself for the next coupld of hours while the little ones go bvisiting with thier parents......I'm not one to...sulk and bitch...but THIS IS MY MOM'S COMP!!! Hehe...

So here I am in JB doing the yearly CNY pilgrimage...

Scratch that. They're back.......but thankfully not going to hog in on my FB time......

They're watching Nancy Drew.....which I must admit...I wanna watch too.......so bye bye blog update hello Hardy Boys! Yea right....I wish it were a Nancy Drew Hardy Boys crossover.....those were always my favourite and the only ones I ever read.

2007: Year of the Tiger

The end of 2007 has been a time of change for me.......many things have happened since, tigers came into my life....

Change started around the time I joined Miss Malaysia Chinatown International in August. Around that time, a certain young tiger was making a prowl around my parts and the poor susceptible piggie that I am. was falling hook line and sinker....which in retrospect is perhaps not the worst thing in the world. This whole tigers are good for you thing stuck home.....tho actually it started with, but you know what I mean.....when I got this free fortune necklace thingie...I got one with a tiger pendant because for me, a boar, tigers are suppose to help change your luck.....and change my luck it did....I think. Things started looking up for me. Especially in the relationship department.....and having it good there....makes me all in all a happier person.

First there was the lil' tiger, then there was Sy. A part of me still wishes that perhaps I had waited like I said I would...but hey....things happen. If it was meant to be....it'll come around again. It did for Donald. And of course now, there's Al. (que warm fuzzies)

So yea. A tiger changed my life. Cheers to the Year of the Pig, bid it adiue. Coz a new year is born and it's the Year of the Rat.

All hail Mickey Mouse.

Endings

I should really be sleeping but just wanna take this opportunity to pen some random thoughts down.

Artificially Imtelligent was off to the rocky start on Thursday, thing only kinda got worse on Friday...but thing picked up today......Sat night's show was the best yet@ Too bad we're only running for the week. Perhaps also it's insha'allah also......short and sweet. Tomorrow's the last show.

I just bought a new digi SRL yesterday too...body only tho, Nikon D70s...........Nick C and I are gonna sit down and have a pow wow about the kind of lenses would suit my needs.....

And I just realised that I'm almost going to miss the deadline for the MediaCorp Auditions. Thank goddess I'm looking at it now!