My Chinese New Year in Malaysia!!!

This year my family went to Malaysia for Chinese New Year!!!

Wow, the last time we went back for CNY was like..........
I forgot, but I think I'm still in Primary school lar...

We went back on Saturday to got back on Tuesday (17 - 20/02/07)...


Actually, even though I was quite excited, I wasn't very looking forward to the Morning Rush to the Customs to beat the Jams!!!
I thought we will be waking up earlier then usual, at about 5am or something...
(We usually wake up at 6++am and leave by 7++am...)
But this year my dad will be joining us (me, my bro, my mom and my aunt) back to Malaysia, hence we left the house at 8.30am instead...

I was praying that anyone going to Malaysia haven't woken up yet...

Thankfully, the Jams weren't so bad...
We got through faster then we expected and reached JB at 10am...
(We have bought 12pm tickets beforehand...)

Anyway, at the Singapore Custom there, while I was heading towards bus 170, someone waved and walked towards me to get my attention...

Surprise Surprise it was actually Li Hao!!!
My ex-Swiss Cottage Schoolmate cum now-NUS Mech Engin Friend!!!
Hahaha, he was a Malaysian, and was on his way home to celebrate CNY with his family...
His first few words to me was:

"Hey!!! *waves* You are a Malaysian too???"

(-___-;)
After these few incidents, I hence conclude that maybe I Do have a Malaysian face...

Otherwise, how would you explain that Three Malaysians (and one Singaporean) have mistaken me as one of their own?!?!

Fine... Fine... Malaysian then Malaysian lor...
My mom came from Malaysia anyway, so I have one half of Malaysia's blood...
(Then I should be called Half-Malaysian what... But they go and round it up...)

It was a pleasant surprise to see him there... We took the same 170 to Malaysia, but I lost him at the Custom over there because the passport queue for Singapore was bloody long and slow...


Apart from a few more traffic jams here and there, crowds and lotsa smoke and pollution (oh hell for my face), we made it in one piece to my grandma's house...
Even though I was there for CNY celebrations, I still brought along my Feedback notes!!!
(Stupid lecture notes... Dunno how the lecturer becomes a lecturer when he don't even know how to teach, let alone do a proper lecture notes...)'

Garh...
Thus I spent two lovely days bonding with my notes...


The One-Eye cat was still there!!!
It recognises me!!!
That or it is friendly to all humans provided they feed it later...
Don't care lar, I just enjoy playing with it...

The cat just loves it when I scratch its head, or scratch on its chin-neck area...
Its eyes curled up and I can almost hear it purr in contentment...

Like that lor...

Strangly, all the other cats disappear liao...
Still got one more black and white cat...
(Wondering if it was the little kitten we saw the other time?? Same coat of colour and same blue eyes...)

Me and my brother were thinking maybe that One-Eye cat chased them all away cos it can be pretty fierce if it wants too...
Hell, it even uses its teeth to scratch my fingers when I tried to tickled its paw!!!
Like warning me like that...
Kinda hurts... Basket...

Makes me think of this...
Machiam like gangster...


Heard from my family's friends in Malaysia that Fireworks have been banned!!!
What!!! Nooooo!!!
What the hell...

But hah, ban also no use!!!
Some stores are still secretly selling those Fireworks!!!
You just need to know the right person, that's all!!!

And apparently, we weren't the few people who knew the right person...
Because on CNY eve, 1st and 2nd day on CNY (while we were still there), we can hear "BOOOOOOOM!!!" of Fireworks music!!!

I even saw a lot of those big big Fireworks!!!
Neh, you know those kinds you see at the Esplanade during major celebrations (new year, xmas etc)??
Well, just downscaled them by three times and you have it!!!

The more expensive the Fireworks, the more magnificant it is!!!

I even saw four to five Fireworks being let off at once!!!
At different locations, all at some distance away from each other, but within my eye range...
Wah!!!


When it is our turn to play around with our Fireworks, me and my bro and my dad were all quite excited!!!

There's Bumble Bees (it can fly!!! Sometimes in circles!!!), Dino Eggs (just some little sparks and sounds, not very fun), Twister (so says the name, it twists in circles and travels a bit before exploding in sparks), Rockets (stick in to the ground and lit it, then it will fly off with a loud shrill before exploding), Flowers (very pretty colourful sparks!!!), Mini Sky Fireworks (it flew straight up into the sky before exploding into colours once), Big Sky Fireworks (same like the mini, but it explodes many many times!!! So there are many many colourful flowers in the sky!!!)...

I like!!!!! I like it very much!!!

But poor one-eye cat very scared...
It keep ducking underneath cars and meowing at me to comfort it...
Heeheehee... Opps I mean awwwww so pitiful...

(If possible, I will try to upload those videos my dad took...
Eh, but how to upload from the handphone to the computer hah??)

Many people came to visit my grandma during CNY...
And among them all, there are two very cute and cuddly Babies!!!
Baby girl is 8 month old, and baby boy is only 4 months!!!

AAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!

So Cute!!!!!

*Major Meltdown*

Really So Cute!!!

Super Duper Damn Cute!!!


Especially the 4 month old baby... Cos he smiles alot, and is easier to make him laugh since he is not old enough to recognised his granny (who takes care of him)...
But the 8 month old girl will pursed her lips before crying if any strangers carries her...

But still soooooo cute!!!

Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!


Sorry, *adjust mood*...
Got abit carried away...

We took pictures, but using a Film camera, so may take some time before my mom goes and send them for development...
Yayayaya, I know very old-fashioned liao, but we no money to buy Digital Camera waddd...
(Unless you want to sponser)

Apart from old family friends that visited us, my mom's older sister (who was kinda estrange from the family) came too...

I finally saw the two cousins I never really knew much about...
Looks more like my uncle... Errm... Never mind...

I also saw two of my Malaysia childhood friends...
Wonder where the rest are??


Alas, the time spent in Melaka flew by too fast, and before I knew it, it was time to go home and face those bloody traffic jams...

I have to digress!!!
The transportation system in Melaka suxxx!!!
Absolutely!!!
It took my family nearly 3-4 hours to travel back and forth via bus to a shopping mall!!!
Maybe it is because of the CNY, that's why got lotsa jams lar, but 3-4 hours?!?!!?!?!?
And the shopping mall not that far lar!!!
Wth...


Oh well, at least this CNY was different...

I'm BACK!!! From Malaysia!!!

Woah!!! Finally back to Singapore...

Familiar buses, MRTs, HDB buildings...
Relatively cleaner air... Organised infrastructure...

It's good to be home...


The first thing I did after I log online was to check out the blog count...
Wah liao... Really low... You guys really advoid me eh...

Ya I know I did mentioned that I will not be in Singapore during that period of time...
But you can always read my archives... Equally entertaining lar...
Hahahahahahhaaa...
Okie, now refresh!!! REfresh your browser 10 times!!!


Anyway...
It was the same old routine on the journey to Melaka...
Pretty boring actually...

The highlight on the trip was probably the new dunno what passport-scanner-cum-thumbprint-recognizer at the Singapore custom...
From the way they have to station people there to assist us through it, I gather that it is rather new...

There are two gates barring you to the other side...
To open the first gate, you have to put your passport, opened to the page with your picture, and placed it face down onto the scanner thing...
You have to push your passport quite inside that thing in order for the whole thing to be scanned... And it cannot be too tilted or it could not be read properly...
(Thanks goodness for my temp job last holiday, for I have played around with a namecard scanner thing...)

After you passed through the first gate, it closes behind you...
You will then realised that you are now stuck in between the two gates...
So if your thumbprint doesn't matched the passport, you are trapped!!! Muwhahahahaha...

Okay, maybe not trapped cos there are still enough space for you to escape anyway...
Just jumped over the gate and run like hell...

To open the second gate, you will have to placed your right thumb on the thumbprint scanner and pray that it scans properly...
Sounds easy right??


Tell me... Which of the above looks remotely like a thumprint scanner?? Or a scanner even???

If you dunno the answer, please dial 1800-I-Am-Blind for assistance...
Of cos the reddish-brown rectangular thing lar!!!
It even has Two arrows pointing at it!!!

Guess what my mom did??


I have to call out to her (we were at some distance away) "Ma? Ma?! Mummy!!! It's the one below!!! The one below!!! Rectangle one!!!"

Before she "Opps" and placed her thumb at the correct spot...

Hahahahahaaa...

Mom: Oei, cannot write about this in your blog hor!!! Cannot hor!!!

Heh heh heh... =-p

Another uninteresting thing was that, some custom guy spelt his name as "Hairy" in his name tag...
I nearly laugh out loud in his face...
But that's not a very smart thing to do lar, so I didn't...


At my grandmother's house...

The Cats changes again!!!
This time, there's two regular cats that comes to our house for food...

There's a white cat with big patches of black, quite shy of humans, but not totally afraid of them...
It will watch you with caution and will run away if you walked towards it, especially if you are a stranger...
But if you continue to be friendly towards it (i.e feed it lar) it will lie on the ground and let you pet it contently...
Once, it was so used to me and my bro's presence that it didn't even moved even though it was lying directly outside the door and the only way out was to step Over it...
I was on my way out and tried to nudge it away...
But it just tilted its head, look at me lazily and continue lying there, the lazy bastard...
Wah not scared I step on you arh??

Another one in brownish greyish stripes, was super friendly to humans...
It has One Eye...
Yup, one eye, the other eye was... Errm... Gone... Only a hole there left...
Super friendly to humans, it will come to you if you called it... And will cuddle and rubbed against your legs!!! Heheeheheheh...
I like to hold out my hand, and it will just come walking towards you and rubbed its head underneath you palm and shutting its eyes...
Machiam very shiok like that...
But it is also super jealous... If it sees you petting other cats, it will get nasty and tried to scratch that cat!!!
Aiyo, I scolded it lar... And I think now it learns how to share liao...
How do I scold it?? Like that lor:

Cat: Meow!!! *paws comes out*

Me: Oei!!! Cannot!!! *Slaps the paw away*

Cat: Meow!!! *Attempts to scratch again*

Me: Cannot lar!!! *Pushes paw firmly away and continue petting the other cat*

Cat: Meow Meow Meow!!!

Me: Okie okie lar... *pets both cats*

There are also many other cats, but they are all... Well... Scarey cats...
Always running away even though both me and my bro were carrying food to feed them...
So have to throw the food at some distance away...

There is also one very very very cute and quite pityful kitten...
So small... And vulnerable...
We suspect that it doesn't have any mother becos it was too small to be left alone by its mom...

When we first saw it, we thought it was blind, becos it didn't run away when we approached it and we can see there things poking out from its eye!!!
Yikes!!! We thought there was a stick or what... And its eyes are tearing...
Heart-wenching...
We tried to feed it, but forgot that babies feed on their mother's milk lar not solid food...
It was also sitting very close to sharp barbed wire... Dangerous...
Wanted to shift the kitten away but it refused to... And even "snarled" at us...
But we managed to half-push half-made-it-walked to a safer spot...

The next day we saw a female cat breast-feeding it...
Doesn't look like its mom leh... Totally wrong colour, it could be the foster mom for all we know...
Then we realised that those things poking out from the kitten's eyes was just residue which was licked away by it's "mom"...

Tried to feed the "mom" but it ran away too...

I carried the little kitten and petted it...
So adorable!!!
But than after that I think its "mom" taught some survival skills to it...
Cos the little kitten escape me too when I reached to pet it again...
Oh well...


We visited some of the friends of my mom and aunt in Malaysia...
Two of them have babies!!!
One is 6 months old and the other is only 3 months!!!
So CUUUUUTTTTTTEEEEEE!!!!
*Melts*

The 6 month old baby smiles alot...
The first time we saw her, she smiles...
Then she even let my mom and me carry her!!!
Wow... Thought babies usually cries when carried by strangers...
Smiles again... *Evaporates*

The 3 month old baby just looks at you...
Look look look...
And then he fell asleep...
-___-...
Hahahaha... Still very adorable... And he is very good-looking...
Will be a shuai ge when he grows up...


Basically... Only the cats and the babies are blog-worthy...
The rest of the days are sooooooo boooooring....

I brought my pens, my pencils, my eraser...
With the intention to draw to pass my time...

But I forgot to bring paper...

Wow, how smart can I get...

My bro brought some foolscape paper lar...
But there's no fun in drawing on those blurdy lines!!!

GARH!!!

(And at the same time, a Certain Group of People went for Kboxing without me...
Grrrr... That adds up to my Sian-ness...
I hate being left out... Or being ignored...
In fact, it can cause me to switch to my other personality...
The anti-social quiet side...
Muwhahahaahhaha...)


Okie... What a long post...
Read until shiok le mah??
Now go and refresh 5 times again... Thank you very much...
Why refresh??? Cos I will see the numbers until very shiok... Don't ask why...
Hahahahaha...

Oh yea...

I'm back!!!
I'm back!!!
I'm back!!!

Come'on, let's hear a cheer for my home-coming!!!

*strains ear*

*silence*

-_-

Hmmpth, at least I know I'm being missed...
Cos I got 4 messages waiting for me when I came home... (didn't bring my hp along to melaka)
But whether the 4 messages came from 4 different people or only 1 is a whole different thing altogether...
But let's not dwell on it...

*quickly changes topic*


My 5 Days in Melaka...

Can be summarised in one word...

Boring-but-bo-pian-cos-mom-says-so-thus-have-to-endure-twice-a-year
-torture-of-utter-bo-liao-ness-and-pretend-to-be-a-nice-granddaugther
-when-in-actual-fact-I-sometimes-don't-understand-what-the-hell-my
-grandmother-is-talking-about-and-I-don't-know-any-malay-despite
-such-yearly-exposure-aiyah-who-cares...

Please wait while I catch my breathe...

*gasp*

Anyway...
It's just another trip back to melaka...
But without my little brother this time... (Juz me, my mom and my youngest aunt)
Why??
Cos the little bugger go get himself sick, literally full of shit and vomit... (think it was something he ate...)
Aiyah, and he got our mom worried sick as well...
So no choice, since everything has being set, we have to leave him at home...
With my dad...
My mom, throughout the whole journey keep worrying about leaving him at home...

"Oh no, ah girl, do you think leaving him at home is the right choice?? I feel so guilty... blah blah... What if he get sick even more?? blah blah... What if he forgets to eat his medicine?? blah blah..."

Well, you get the drift...

Seriously, I think my brother is secretly happy that he is left behind...
Imagine all the hours of Xbox and Computer games he can play, without my mom nagging at him every 5 minutes...

To my little bloody brother:
You betta make a Complete Full Recovery of your health hor, cos you make Mom worry so much...
Must learn to appreciate her efforts...
So now, you must go, and lie down on the bed, no need to over-exert yourself...
And leave the computer to me... Muwhahahahahaha...

Well, as usual, we went the same old place we always go every year, to the same shopping mall, same giant supermarket etc etc...
This time, I bought along 4 library books...
Cos I was in no mood to draw...
And 4 books weren't enough to keep me occupied for 5 days...
Sian, should have bought 8 books instead...

Hmmm... the cats in my grandmother's neighbourhood seemed to have multipied...
I think there are more than 6-7 cats over there, hanging around the building!!!
Woah!!!
Melaka didn't sterilised their cats...
Took a lot of pictures of those cats, using my aunt's handphone...
Awwww... So cute!!!

The roads in Melaka were pretty dangerous...
And the jay-walkers were quite reckless too...
In fact, my mom feel that she have to Hold My Hand when we cross the road, something which she had not did, like since, 5 years ago??
-_-
Sigh...
I'm always a little child in her eyes I guess...


Something unexpected happened...
On the 4th day, while waiting for the bus which we (me, mom, aunt, grandma) have missed...
(Btw, if you miss a bus in melaka, you can go buy something to eat and drink and sit down to have a chat, and by the time you finish eating, the next bus will then come in approximately 5 minutes time...
Yesh, waiting for a bus in melaka, can be quite blood-pressure rising...)
So we wait and wait and wait under the hot sun...
When suddenly, a car slows down and stops in front of us...
The car window rolled down and *woah* who do we see??

A very handsome young lad...

He smiles at us, and gestured to us to sit in his car...

So very happily, we did...

0_o

Hahahaha... No lah, actually that guy is a family friend...
One of my childhood buddies when I was a small kid in melaka...
Wah, now suddenly see him so old le, and he has started working!!! (for he gave up his studies halfway)

Oh man, reality bites...
I'm No Longer Young!!!
Noooooooooooooooo.....

Geez...

In fact, I'm so old le, I've started sleeping early...
Well, old people need to sleep early you know...
On my first night, I went to bed at 9pm!!!

Hah, speaking of which, I need to go and sleep now...
Must catch up on my eldery sleep...

Night all...

My Trip to Malaysia, Malacca...

Went back to Malacca to visit my grandma...
My mom, me, brother and aunt usually went back twice a year, every school holidays to see her...
Cos my mom and aunt originate from Malaysia, and my grandma originate from Indonesia...
From what my mom told me, we a freaking huge family over at Indonesia, which is why my grandma got send to Malaysia due to over-population...

Anyway, this time even my dad join us!!!
Very rare for he usually can't take time off from work...
But me and my brother sneakily guess that it was becos he wanna spend Father's Day with us... Heeheehee...
No lar, it was becos he hadn't had a holiday with us for a very long time...

And I learn how to play Tai Di!!!
(@o@)
My friends gonna freak out!!!
Cos I'm mostly idiot at these kind of things...

Sigh...
It was quite a nice trip...
I wasn't as bored as I was before as I have my LOTR book and Tai Di to play with...
Very relaxing, I didn't worry about school and work and stuff...
Life is certainly much slower in there than back in S'pore...
Sitting on the sofa, listening to the sound of the fan blowing, the cats meowing was very soothing...
Zzzzz.....

Bought a nice shoe over there at Rm39.90, meaning less than S$20 back in S'pore!!!

By the way, there were Tonnes of Cats at the area surrounding my grandma house!!!
Counting 5-6 at the moment...
Nearly saw a catfight... They were meowing like crazy...
One or two of the cats were very very friendly to people, they allow us to pet them or scratched them...
While the rest of the cats see us like see ghost run away so fast...
My brother got so excited at one of the cute cats that he snapped 50+ photos of it close-up!!!
Hahahaha...

A lot have changed since the last time I went back...
I remembered in the earlier years when my grandma first moved to her new home, there was a great sea and nice beach...
I used to spent a lot of my time playing by the beach...
Sand-castle building, splashing with the waves, or flying kites (the wind were very strong there)...
But now...
Low walls were being built to surrond the sea...
Hard sharp rocks covered what used to be a nice soft sandy beach...
Reclaimation destroyed what's left of it...
Now no more sandy beach for me to play with... No more lovely waves for me to splash at...
So sad.....
(>_<)
:'(

But then...
It's great to be back home!!!
Miss you all!!!