Masak-Masak 2!

Masak-Masak 2! Alas, the nxt cooking session tht I had been waiting for but dead sure wouldn't happen. Haha. So, Pn. Pari said tht we had to do a cooking presentation. It was to improve speech, teamwork, and basically jus hve fun. My group is obviously me, Yan Teng, Lavenya & Anita, cos we all sit together. We told anyone who asked us tht we were either making French Fries or faking cookies using Famous Amos (they're real good, especially Double Choc and Raisin Oatmeal Cinnamon =D) But we were really actually making Potato Salad, Yan Teng's recipe. Anyway, this is Teng, before our presentation. She was s'posed to look nervous, but I dunno what she's trying to portray here. LOL! Same for Lavenya. They just don't do it right! Haha.
Then, me and Yan Teng went to wash the stuff - OK, I went to watch her wash the stuff - but yeah, tht's her there. Huge bowl, right? Belongs to me. Yan Teng asked for the biggest bowl on Earth - it's the biggest in my kitchen - hehe.
So sorry, Teng, I knw u're really gonna kill me if u find out I put this pic on my blog. Haha. But at least it's proof u washed, right? Tho there's no reason u need any proof, cos obviously I wouldn't be doing it. LOL.
But, Teng, I can make up for tht pic above. This pic below shows clearly how terribly distorted ur enemy can be when she's all blur! U're gonna love me for this. Haha.
So we began. Lavenya started, and she's s'posed to chop the potatoes into three-quarters, for bitesize pieces. I repeat, bitesize. Why d'you chop it so big?! Haha. Lavenya cut it into half, then another half, and threw it all into the big bowl. LOL! Then we had a rough time mashing it after tht.
That's me sprinkling salt and pepper. I'm moving la so it looks bad. But I dunno why Lavenya and Teng are laughing? Nxt, I poured the mayonnaise, and Yan Teng was totally restricting me frm pouring more than my heart told me. Despite tht, I still poured a lot, and in the end, we had to use the whole tub anyway.
Here Yan Teng is cutting the fresh onions. With the skin and all, u knw, after all, we did call it fresh. Hehe. Mixed the onions and cabbage (which was s'posed to be celery) into the bowl. Mix mix mix!
OK, let me explain why mine and Lavenya's hands r lik tht. Our plan was to present the bowl when Anita showed it to the audience, but it didn't work out cos our dialogue was thrown all over the place. Nevertheless, ours was smooth. Haha.
Pune-chan has a bad hand. Tht is a fact and a statement. Really, she shakes so much until we had to take so many pics of this.
Then there's the occasional ghost of Chew Yong, coming back for MORE potato salad =]
Finally, the perfect (almost) shot of young chefs in the making (OK, I knw we only made potato salad, but syok sendiri la... haha)
LOVE BETWEEN FRIENDS. Hahaha. But we didn't eat it la, I ate mine and she ate hers.
The masterpiece in all it's yellow glory. LOL. But if I do say so myself, ours was the best and tastiest one in the class. Everyone else did tuna sandwiches and vege salads.
Oh, camwhoring, a tradition everytime there's a digicam around. I guess it's knocked into me, hasn't it? Also, we took sum videos. There's this really nice one tht shows the 4 of us digging into our potato salad, and another of Yan Teng doing who knws wat. If u want it, IM me on MSN or sumting and I'll send it over. Haha.
I was walking past them jus lik every other day, when it hit me again. Fishing out the digicam, I took a pic of this group of little minions. I tink sumone oughta run 'em down. Everyday they block my way. This is MGS SECONDARY! Wait at the bus stop at the other side or sumting. Don't they teach u Moral anymore? Bertimbang Rasa, Mulia, Harmoni. If u wanna live in peace wit me, beat it! OK la, I'm not tht brutal, but still. Haha. Tht's all la, jus wanted to end this post wit this pic.
Btw, all readers pls pray for me tmrw as I depart into the wilderness/jungle tht is called Camp Angelic, PBSM '06. *Sigh* I'm really not looking forward to it. Haha. Jus rmb me. LOL.

It's Over and Done With

MGS Monthly Test 2 is unofficially over today! Yay! Gone are the days whr I hve to sit at the side sweating buckets (OK la, not tht kua cheong) Anyway, tmrw there's Arts for only 30 mins, so I'll hve to at least study a bit later. Um, the past 3 days' papers were relatively easy - but my intuition always fails me when it comes to predictions for tests - haha.

Btw, has anyone tried KFC's Cheesy BBQ Meltz?? I had it for lunch today and it's really delicious! Haha. The nachos just changes evryting and the mozzarella-BBQ mayo combo is a total success. SMASHING!

Hmmm. Tmrw's July 20th. Here's a shout out to a best buddy: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUAN KEAT! Now u knw tht I actually call u tht? LOL. I've no present for u, but isn't this good? A birthday wish for all net users (and there's a lot!) to see. But, logically, very little ppl visit my blog space anyway. Hehe.

Back to test, cos tht's the main highlight of the post. Uh, first day we had BM, Moral & Science. I hve to talk abt Science! Mr. Teh's poor command of English shows thru lik light seeping thru an open window in an attic tht's nvr been found for 15 yrs. Yep! Tht obvious. And today in class he was lik, "U all dunno how to differentiate between strategies, ways and habits la." Aight, they are diff, but not very ketara. But, well, wat has past has past.

Then, y'day there was English, Maths & History. Taking a peep at the last page, Yan Teng turned around and spread the news to our group in the A-L (names) category: "Literature is CHARACTER!" And all of us sigh with relief. I wrote a 386-word essay. The more I write, the more I realize tht Erik really is a spectrum of emotions. So many things to write! I barely finished counting it. I lik constructing triangles in Maths. And History was pretty easy cos I studied really hard for it before tht.

Alas, today we had Living Skills, Geography & Civic Studies. For Living Skills there was a few errors and Pn. Rose told us. #1: 3 to 4 [whr she says, "This error I knew I didn't hve to write. Obviously u knw after 3 is 4, right? But u all r lik babies," and the class rolls their eyes], #2: Pemboirong to pemborong ["Do u actually tink it's pemboirong? Of cos not, but, as the teacher I still must write."] Then just write and quit talking. I did Geography with absolute confidence but slowed my tempo down cos I was getting guilt pangs for answering the questions so quickly as if I was hentam-ing/tembak-ing. And eventho I borrowed Mei Er's protractor, I forgot to take it out! What stupidity. Tapping Chew Yong's table, she passed me the entire geometry set. Haha. And Civic Studies basically, most of 2H weren't serious. Chew Yong was eating, Yan Teng was making noise and I was talking. Pn. Pari was lik, "Go to sleep if u're done." Nearly all of us were done. Civic Studies wasn't really tht great a paper. Most of the tarian stuff I mixed and matched. LOL! Who spread the news abt Tema 5 coming out?? I'll get u for it. Memorizing the organizations and all. Hwa liau eh! But nvm la, preparation for End-Yr Exams. Hehe.

So, yeah, tht's all abt the test. Now gotta prepare for Arts tmrw or else Pn. Rose will go, "I told u girls to just read my notes. I'm a good teacher but u all don't concentrate in my class. Wat can I do? I've already done as my job requires." Talk abt dedication in teachers? Pfft.

The Fray

Let's write abt my fave music at the moment. Ya knw, music defines my life. The kind of music I'm hearing right now sort of portrays what I'm thinking, jus lik how music relates to evryone. Haha. But the music I'm listening to does kind of la, and besides wat I'm goin to post, in my "Currently Listening To" column is other music tht I'm hearing. So, um, right now I'm hearing lots of The Fray, and they rock, man! Haha. I want to post lyrics of "Trust Me" and "How To Save A Life", both by The Fray. For all u alternative rock fans lik me, it might appeal to u.

Looking for sumting I've nvr seen
Alone and I'm in between
The place tht I'm from
And the place tht I'm in
A city I've nvr been
I found a friend or should I say a foe
Said, 'There's a few things u should knw'
We don't want u to see
We come and we go
Here today, gone tmrw

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When u're older, u will understand

If I say who I knw it just goes to show
U need me less than I need u
Take it frm me
We don't giv sympathy
U can trust me, trust nobody
But I said u and me
We don't hav honesty
The things we don't want to speak
I'll try to get out but I nvr will
Traffic is perfectly still

We're only taking turns
Holding this world
It's how it's always been
When u're older, u will understand

And again mayb u don't
And again mayb u won't

"How To Save A Life" also fits my mind now, so check it out.

Step one, u say we need to talk
He walks u, say 'Sit down, it's just a talk'
He smiles politely back at u
U smile politely right on thru
Some sort of window to ur right
As he goes left n u stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And u begin to wonder y u came

Whr did I go wrong, I lost a fren
Sumwhr along in the bitterness
And I wud hav stayed up wit u all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him knw tht u knw best
Cos after all u do knw best
Try to slip past his defence
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things u've told him all along
And pray to God he hears u

C/O

As he begins to raise his voice
U lower urs and grant him one last choice
Drive until u lose the road
Or break wit the one u've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to evryting
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And u'll begin to wonder y u came

Sounds nice, eh? Go d/l it or sumting. Haha. I think it's long enough, isn't it? And btw, "fray" means "conflict" or "dispute". Cool. Anyone who falls in love wit The Fray, come find me! We can gush all day long~

Masak-Masak!

Bon appetit!

Close up

News tht my class, 2H were going to cook during this week's Living Skills was met with excitement and whoops of happiness. So, well, y'day Yan Teng passed me a piece of paper with evrything I was s'posed to bring. And I looked at it, and without even having to say a word, Yan Teng was, "Just bring what you can, 'kay? Tho I think I'll bring most of the stuff. You just bring kain and stuff for hiasan. Call me tonight, and tell me what you can - uh, bring." Oh, my friends so understand me! LOL.

The next day all I had to bring was spring onion, tomatoes and chilli. And the kain lah. You knw, this is the first time I'm looking forward to Living Skills. Wow! Anyway, me and Yan Teng were so hyped we told evryone frm our Group A to be ready to leave by 6:05PM cause the both of us were going to set the place on fire. Haha, I knw, syok sendiri.

Anyway, when I arrived evryone was outside wearing their aprons. I collected my stuff and entered to find Pn. Nadiah. I was lik, "Hai, Cikgu!" She laughed a bit (dunno why) and said, "Aman-der (you knw, she pronounces my name lik tht, but tht's better than Ah-man-dah and she won't be able to say Amanda simply, so, you get it) keluar pakai apron dulu." I groaned, then I decided I could leave my things here, then wear the apron. Haha. "Saya letak barang sini, ya," and I put my stuff on her table. She chuckled and was, "Ya, Aman-der." Aman-der... so strange~

Then we set to work. Pick, mix, wash, cut, slice~ We started cooking and stuff. Yan Teng made me cut the mushrooms first, and you knw, any kind of food tht I try to do anything with most probably will end up spoilt. And so it was with the mushrooms. "Leave it, Manda, I'll do tht." Haha! OK, not evrything I do tht has to do with cooking will end up bad lah. Exaggerating only. Hehe.

So I didn't cut the mushrooms, instead I made the drink! Yes, grape juice. Easy and there was lots of sugar. But I balanced it out and got the perfect taste. Put it in the fridge and left.

Pn. Nadiah came over and taught us the first steps then she left us for sembahyang time. I was tumbuk-ing the onion and ginger when Pn. Nadiah returned. Before tht I was making a heck of a noise on the table, then when she came, Lavenya: "Psst... Tumbuk on the floor lah! Teacher's here adi." Good ol' friend! Hehe. So I proceeded to make noise on the floor, not above it. I seriously tumbuk until it was seriously tumbuk-ed. Teacher said I did a good job! =D

I was done tumbuk-ing so I took out the curry puffs I bought frm Pn. Nadiah in the afternoon. They're really good, you knw! RM1 for 3. Darn cheap, right? Go get it if you catch Pn. Nadiah before 1:20PM or something. Haha. I fed Yan Teng some, and she was lik, "Manda, you are keng man!" LOL. And then I gave Chew Yong some. If Pn. Nadiah's business improves just slightly, hope she knws it's me. Haha. Joking.

After the spaghetti was cooked, we started putting in the tomato puree, sauce, paste, whatever together with the fried garlic, onion, ginger. Yan Teng and I alternated between cooking and washing. I washed so slowly and it wasn't a great job either. Haha. I'm extremely snail-lik when it comes to hse chores.

Cause of tht, Yan Teng took over the washing and I did the cooking. Yay! When the washing was finished, Yan Teng continued the cooking and I set up the table. First, I put the flowers in the middle, then asked, "Teng, how is it?" She said, "Manda, put it properly. Somewhr else so got space for the food also." I shifted it higher, then asked Yan Teng again. She laughed, and was, "Yeah, lik tht OK." Haha. All I did was move it to the end.

Teacher came around and tried our food and drinks. She said our drink was tawar and the spaghetti fine. What the -? Drink... tawar. Taking the cue after she walked away, me and Yan Teng grabbed the jug and drank straight frm it. Tawar... tawar... it's sweet lah! Maybe age actually spoils tastebuds. LOL!

When she graded evryone's food, she started telling us our tugasan at the whiteboard. Instead of doing the work, Yan Teng and I left it to Seah Yih and Anita and went around trying Chew Yong & Jia Ying's spaghetti (best - so far - until we tried Lin Kee's at the roadside, I mean the location, not tht the spaghetti was on the roadside or anything), Lavenya & Joanna's (I can't rmb the taste, so you could figure tht it wasn't memorable, haha) and Seah Yih & Anita's (too lil sauce and the noodles were hard). OK, been commenting so much on others, but Yan Teng and mine's I've shut up. But ours was kind of sour. Satisfactory, tho.

Now I can't wait for the next masak-masak session for KH!

Chapter II

You're right, Amelia, I am blogging about the Interschool Rally =] OK, so I came. I saw. I left. And, it rocked! Haha. Despite my indecisiveness, asking my friends whether or not I should go, blah blah blah, I still attended the rally. So anyway, at 5:57PM (exactly) Gerard arrived at my hse to pick me up. Then we went to Lyssa's hse and she wasn't ready at all! Haha. So we waited in her hse until she was done at 6:20PM. Hehe.

When we arrived at Hin Hua it was so packed with ppl. Mei Er was waiting outside with Kym so we weren't lost in the crowd. There I was introduced to Mei Er's friend (who's now also my friend, haha) Amanda Lee Siu Chern. Yes, you can either call her Amanda or Siu Chern. I call her my name. Hehe. And Amanda thought I was Form 4. Really! Anyway, I met some ppl I knw there, but I knew they would be there, so no surprise. The T-shirts were gone adi, but Mei Er had some booked for her so I got one cause she promised me and Amanda tht she'd buy one for each of us (she promised both Amandas, what man! Lik she promised all her friends, so said Amanda, haha) I got an M which was kind of huge but I guess it's fine. I'm lucky tho, many ppl couldn't get it. Mei Er said there were ony 200 T-shirts & over 1000 ppl. Hah!

While waiting for a missed call I was expecting, Amanda & Mei Er started camwhoring. Kym's finger was over the camera and both of us were lik, "Eh, all dark la wei!" "You're covering the camera, so of course la!" LOL. What to do, how would me and Kym knw how to use Amanda's 3250. Summore twist here, twist there. Haha.

Anyway, I got the missed call and called Lyon back since I was s'posed to. He joined us, and it was easy to find him, he's so tall! Haha. But we had to find for Lyssa, she kept on reappearing and disappearing. When we were gathered together, we headed up to the hall. Found places at the side, and since I didn't wanna hold my T-shirt all the time, Vincent took care of mine! Thanks Vincent! Lyon sat behind me and Mei Er & Kym sat beside me. Haha. Just saying la. In the middle row I could see Amanda P., Michelle Tan, Angel, etc. They were all waving and gesturing to me to come. But I just smiled and shook my head. I was staying right whr I was (it's a comfortable place =D) Oh, and Jolene says I look taller than in skl. Yay! Haha.

When the music started it was pretty loud. And everyone went in front. Cause I was standing in between Lyon & Gavin (both really tall guys) when they clapped it was like so close to my ear and the noise was deafening. Joanne and Han had to shout to talk to me. After close to an hour of singing, we returned to our seats. Then there was dramas and all. You know, rally stuff. But there was a lot of jumping. However, I didn't jump. Gerard said tht he could see me and Kym just standing with everyone around us jumping. LOL! Must've looked out of place.

During the message, OK, I admit, our row weren't paying much attention. Lyon was lik, "You know, none of us are paying attention at all." Haha. Me, Mei Er & Amanda were camwhoring with Amanda's 3250 - again - and Mei Er's W810i. To be specific la. Haha. But seriously, we couldn't hear what the pastor was saying. It was lik we caught just little bits and pieces of his message. So we paid attention at the ending, straining our ears to hear what the pastor was saying. After tht, we prayed and he asked all Christians who want him to pray for them to go in front. I looked at Kym and she was lik, "Wanna go?" I nodded. "Let's go." Haha. So we went.

When everything was over, Wei Shern came over after I got my T-shirt back frm Vincent. He's so sweet, holding my T-shirt for over 3 hrs. Hehe. "Why you didn't go Doulos?" asked Wei Shern. "I got music class." "Is it?" "Yeah, every Saturday wert." "Ya lor." "You wearing another shirt inside?" Then Lyon came, "Eh, yala! Why you wear another shirt?" He was wearing the shirt tht me and Mervy chose for him when we went shopping on my b'day, if you guys rmb tht previous post. OK, nvm, go back! "And this shirt is so huge for you," I said (as in the rally shirt) "It's not mine. I forgot to bring mine." "Ah," said Lyon. Haha. Then Amanda came and was lik, "Ugh! I'm starving. Let's go and eat la~" "Me too," said Wei Shern. "Gerard's bringing us for mamak. Wanna go?" I asked. "Can't la wei. I live in Bkt. Tinggi," said Amanda. Awww... ! Then Gerard came. "Gtg now, guys. Too late later can't send 'em home early." So Wei Shern didn't come, and Lyon had to go adi (and there we confirmed whether or not he wanted a DiGi number so tht I txt him cheaper =P)

All of us went downstairs, and Amanda was lik, "Aiyoh! After this can't see you anymore. So sad. Bye-bye!" Then we hugged and she left. T_T Hehe. When me, Gerard, Lyssa, Gavin & Jacqueline went to Modern, Mei Er called saying she was with Kym & Vincent in the mamak opposite Esso and asked us to cancel all our orders and go. Lik we would! Haha. Besides, the food in Modern is way better than the Esso mamak. Then Uncle Yoon Loi, Aunty Woon Do, Uncle Johnson, Aunty Meg, Uncle Drew & Aunty Mee Ching came. Shortly after, Sean, Joshua, Xin Xin and another guy arrived. They just returned frm sending Ee May off to Adelaide. Oh, I'm so gonna miss her for the nxt 4 months. Here's a shout out to you Down Under! Sean and all sat at the table beside us, and Prom King was all, "Eh, better eat fast. Go home and sleep. Tmrw worship, you knw! And send Prom Queen home first." He pointed at me. "She's princess, must go home first." Ah! Ever since I asked him abt the prom (cause of Matthew) he's been calling me Prom Queen and I to him Prom King (this is cause he was nominated). Besides, what was he still doing there then? Hahaha.

I had Nasi Goreng Pattaya and the five of us were discussing, um, flatulence & burping. Me & Gavin agreed tht burping was way more acceptable and polite than flatulence. C'mon, man! Everyone knws tht. But no, Gerard, Lyssa & Jacqueline were lik, tentang-ing us. OK, forget tht. Btw, there're no pics cause I didn't bring my cam along. Good thing, tho, or else Vincent would hve to hold it for me also, haha, =P

Well, I returned home at 11.30PM, and since the rally ended, I was txting Jolene. She's so nice to txt me so quickly. Haha. I slept at 12:30AM. The rally was really awesome, and you knw, lik one of my friends said, I could make up my mind whether or not to go nxt yr if I go this yr, and I think I'll go nxt yr too =D But really, the rally was great! The fellowship and the praise & worship ruled the place, man! Again, as I quoted in a previous post (and this quote was used against me also, lol) "... and now I think rallies rock!"

Just Felt Like It

This post is for no particular reason, I just felt like blogging. And besides, there is something to blog about. My friendship with someone (a classmate) is now a little awkward, but still stable. So that's one statement on something. And my class, 2H has changed our seating plan. Pn. Pari asked me to, so I did. And the class were all "NO! C'mon~" But you know, they still shut up. However, after that, Izzati aka Destructive Force Spewing Unintelligible But Easily Interpreted Mockery was glaring at me and going "BLAH!" the way she peppers all her sentences at the end. So, well, yes, unintelligible but easily interpreted mockery.

After awhile, they got used to it, but before that there were whispers here and there that it was unfair for Lavenya to sit beside me. What the heck! So I adopted a plan: DEFY & IGNORE. Haha. It worked you know. You shouldn't let ppl like tht get to you. Can't please everyone, can you?

So now we've got new places, but Yan Teng still occasionally says stuff like, "Manda, I hate you. You took my place." So I guess I've gotta get used to it cause I put her beside Anita who's behind me, and yes, I did take her place. I mean, look at it! So tempting, with the fan, and the distance from the board is just right. What d'you expect? You made me do the seating plan! =D

Oh, and these few days I've been playing with water a lot. Cause, like, me, Yan Teng, Chew Yong & Lin Kee snuck out and messed with the taps. So y'day we did tht too. And Yan Teng, well, I was in her way and she gave me those BodyGlove prints. I think Chew Yong threw like so much water at her back, and she didn't realize cause she was chasing me. Then when we returned to class, she kind of threw up - water - and of all places to be, Yan Teng, why my place?! It's like she was so strategically placed. So there beside me from BM, 2nd period I sat beside a puddle of Yan Teng's - well, what d'you call it? - watery stuff. Ick! I'm grossing myself. Enough! But it's been fun, just tht we might've been disrupting 2K & 2P. Cause we've been running and making lots of noise everytime we chase each other back to class. Sry!

And everything is fine now. But you know, friendships nowadays are kind of difficult for me. Maybe cause I'm weird, so I have weird friendships or connections with ppl. Not all, though. Certain ones. And some will remain awkward while others are normal. I have 3 different friendships:
1) I talk to you in school only
2) I talk to you thru text only
3) I don't talk to you at all
There's only one person in Category 2, and majority makes up Category 1 (normal friends/acquaintances). And those of you who think you're in Category 3, it may be cause I have nothing to say to you or cause I want to talk to you but just can't seem to. So I have explained myself =] Tho, OK, there might be quite a number in Category 3. LOL!

Also, nowadays I'm having weird dreams - OK, I always have weird dreams - there was one where me and Lin Kee were reported bringing liquid paper and were asked to go for a check? Yes, we had to put our hands into some toaster-cum-photocopying machine with laser thing. Oh, whatever! My dreams are so out of it~ Then I woke, and, yes, it seems dreams are the product of things that are in your mind which you do not know are in there. Or - uh, something like tht. Man, I have to stop! I'm rambling already.

OK, so I'll stop here. At last, one post done! Took me awhile to drag my lazy fingers over the keyboard and tap tap tap.