Happy Birthday, Mum!

Yesterday night, we celebrated Mum's b'day at Hajime KL. (One thing about my family is that whenever there are any special events, we almost always have Japanese food. Haha.) The initial plan was to enjoy a buffet at Jogoya in Starhill, but that place was fully booked, so we settled for Hajime instead.

Mum and dad

Ko, me, Jo

Ko and I

Once we arrived at Hajime, we quickly started browsing through the menu and placing our orders b'cos I was so hungry! I didn't eat the whole day so I could stuff myself at the buffet, but tragedy of tragedies, we ended up somewhere else. Haha.

Salmon sashimi

Cold green tea soba

Soft shell crab maki

Karaage or fried chicken topped with spicy sauce

Unagi and cheese maki

Prawn tempura and avocado maki

Fried oysters wrapped in bread

Grilled mackerel

Salmon roll

Chawanmushi or steamed egg custard

Prawn maki topped with avocado and unagi

Garlic fried rice

Mum enjoying her chawanmushi

Then Jo took some random photos. Lol.




After that, we went to Mid Valley Megamall to catch a late-night screening of "Ip Man". Such an awesome show wei. Loads better than Jet Li's "Fearless". Haha. The movie ended about 1am, then we left for home.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUM!

My last post was about how excited I was about being in 5D. But now that all that euphoria and excitement has past, I turn to face the fact that I have always known even before I even got into 5D. And that is: 5D will be filled with many hardworking, intelligent, bordering on genius (OK, I'm exaggerating) nerds who are prepared for every single lesson of every single subject; they will be intimidating smarties who have all knowledge at their fingertips and who are equipped with answers that will roll off their tongue once the teacher finishes her questions. Lol. OK lah, it's not that kau lat lah. Haha.

A keen observation I have made is that the class of 5D 2007 and 2008 were made up of a majority of prefects. And many people have the mindset that there'll always be many prefects in the first class, definitely wan. But not 2009. Haha. Seeing 5D as it is, you'll be surprised that the supposedly best of the best aren't prefects.

Now that I have spent 3 days in 5D, I don't really feel the pressure - not yet. But it's there. I know it's there. Haha. Lurking and waiting for the right moment to pounce on me and send me crashing into the valley of stress and pressure. Even knowing this now, I'm not completely worried. 'Cause I have really great friends who are balanced in the sense that they're both Bugsies and Ronald Jacks. Lol! (No one will understand that except for Nette, Jessica and YP. Haha.) And besides, I am too. So we'll be able to get each other through all of it. Haha.

I quite look forward to going to school. Although it feels different now. I don't know how to explain the difference, but it just is. I'm so tired nowadays. I never, and I mean never, take daytime naps. But for the past two days, I have been falling asleep about late afternoon and then head off to tuition. Sigh. Speaking of tuition, I have to go get ready now. Haha.

Signing off...

Form 5 on January 5

January 5th. The last first day of school for me. I was actually really worried about streaming and also how to treasure my last first day, 'cause I didn't know what to do to make it a memorable one. Haha. But everything was on course for a smashing first day. Hehe. It started off with me ending up with size 5 shoes. For those of you who do not know that I am Bigfoot, I wear size 7. Imagine stuffing my feet into shoes two sizes smaller. And why did I have size 5 shoes? They were Jessica's! We ter-took each other's shoes when we bought them together. Although I must admit it was my fault because I didn't bother to check which was whose. Haha. I was pretty sure I had mine.

My size 7 shoes =D (and yellow socks from YP XD)

So when I arrived in school, everyone else was already there. Haha. And I thought I was early. We had assembly and speeches, blah blah blah. Just normal stuff. Then they moved the Form 3s and the Form 4s to other locations for their streaming while we Form 5s stayed in the Dataran Bestari. The Form 5 administrator was Miss Helen Sim. And she began with three ominous words: "This is it." Just those words were enough to make me freak out. Haha. Like, it just makes the reality of sitting for SPM and being in my last secondary year so much more real, y'knw? Lol.

Moving on to "the moment you've all been waiting for" (quote Miss Sim), she started streaming the classes according to the class arrangements, that is M E T H P K S D. That was good lah. Gave me time to stop hyperventilating and clear my airways before fainting from shortness of breath. Haha. Then when it came down to S, me and Nette were holding hands so tightly. Dah lah sweaty palms somemore. Lol. After they passed the As and my name wasn't called, I heaved a huge sigh of relief. Yay! I'm in 5D! Haha. Then she passed the Js (no Jessica Loo), the Ks (no Khoo Iri), the Ls (no Lynnette Tang) and the Os (no Ong Yoke Pei), and I nearly shouted for joy. Haha. But I had to control myself. We were together! Me, Jessica, Nette and YP weren't separated. Lol. How awesome is that? Very awesome. Haha. And for the first time in the past 4 years of secondary school, me and Iri were in the same class. Hehe. Other than that, other friends who are in 5D are Usha, Kavitha, Hannah, Angel, Joanna and Aranee. Oh, and Jia Ying's in 5D too (we've been in the same class since Standard 1, except for one year). After that, I was shouting and jumping and dancing. No one else was as happy as me. Lol.

Other highlights of today was the school magazine! Haha. Although I thought that we did a sucky job last year, the magazine actually turned out quite OK. Except for the horrible Editorial Board page pictures, everything else was fine. Lol.

Identiti 2008

Last Day of Freedom

I had an arrangement with Jessica, Nette and YP to celebrate our last day of freedom before starting a new school year. We met up at Aeon JJ (where else lah ryte?) after our respective church services were over. Then we picked up tickets for Four Christmases and then we went and makan. We had lunch at Dragon-I. Ordered dishes with steamed rice. All the dishes were quite yummy. Choosing to eat at Dragon-I was a good choice. Haha.

Xiao Loong Bao - Dumplings filled with minced meat and soup

Spinach (or as Nette calls it, spi-nudge XD) with garlic and mushroom

Sauteed diced chicken in dried chillies

We lepak-ed at Dragon-I for about an hour plus. It was the first time I spent such a long time just sitting in a restaurant after I was done eating. Usually, I'd just up and go. Haha. But I guess it's different when you're in good company. Lol. After that, we headed to the cineplex to catch the movie lah. It was quite funny lah. Entertaining enough. Then me and Jessica bought school shoes, and we went to Haagen-Dazs after that.

Strawberry cheesecake and vanilla ice cream on crepe

Belgian chocolate and cookies 'n' cream ice cream with brownies