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Cold, wet, race...

Today was my fornight sail on the platu... there will be many sailing terms in this post.. :p

So today's team on Platu 1 includes me, juzzer, my dad, dominic and some guy called marco...

was quite a bad day for the team, as so many things went wrong... especially with the spinnaker...

we didn't leave the club until 1 pm, because there was a big storm and it was so cold... the rain was piercing on our skins... on the way to the race area, we also got stuck with one of the boats anchored on the way... it was main sail up and then down and then up again...

During the race, the spin kept getting tangled up with the shroud... urgh... so many problems... the outhaul was stuck... etc...

At the second race, as we were getting the spin up, the shackles somehow unshackled itself... at the spin's head and clews... it was actually up for a moment, when it suddenly collapsed, then the head got stuck at the spreaders... after finally untangling the spinnaker, we realized that the spin's halyard was all the way up at the mast... there was no way to get it down while we're still racing...

Even after the race, our engine couldn't start, and the wind died down... so we had to be towed by another boat all the way back to the club...

Back at the club, Dom borrowed a harness which I put on... After fastening me on the main halyard, I was hoisted up to retrieve the main halyard... It was amazing... Being afraid of heights, I actually enjoyed going up there, although I might not do so in the near future... For an idea how high I was hoisted, take a look at this picture of the platu...

I was hoisted up to the first line from the top you see on the main sail... Posted by Hello

Glitch

They call it a glitch in neopets... When all this while, once you're a member of a guild, you're not allowed to go to other guilds... ESPECIALLY their message board... But now, with that glitch going on, you can 'invade' other guild's message board... hehehehe... it's fun seeing so many ex-members of my guild coming in and chat... the board became so lively all day...
I checked other boards, and there was also 'trashing' one another, especially from rival guilds... at least, in a polite way... ;)

t3trino's friend started neo-mailing me today... quite a friendly chap :)

at home, did some chores, and installed the internal water filter in the fish bowl... the turtle tank was also cleaned...

at night, went to 1Utama and look for some shades for sailing... couldn't find a cheap and suitable one... next time, perhaps...

La la la la la~!

I can't sing... Just finished watching Malaysian Idol... So far, the show is hilarious... :D

Anyway, also downloaded dreamweaver trial... It's a 30 day trial, so we'll see what I can do with it for www.bangsar.net/~ayin

Feeling hungry right now...

HTMLing

Still hooked onto teaching myself some HTML...

Managed to change my user lookup, shop, and pet lookup page on neopets...

myuu gave me http://www.bangsar.net/~ayin to play around with... there's nothing there yet... i couldn't find the dreamweaver cd, and i forgot how to use frontpage ^_^
besides, my cd-rom is acting up again, not being able to identify any cds inside it...

other than that, nothing much that is noteworthy happened in a couple of days...

One missed stop...

Went to Wangsa Maju's JPJ to accompany Zaid renewing his driver's license...

Since Zaid forgot to bring photos, we took some instant photos of him at a shop near the Wangsa Maju LRT station... But due to the fact that the photos turned out awful, he took a picture of him that I kept in my purse for his new license... Take note, that I already offered him that picture earlier, but he claimed that he wanted a more recent picture because he thinks he looks better now... Haha!

At the JPJ office, there were 130 people in queue!!! We got our call number at 12.05 pm, and was called at 1.55 p.m.... That's almost two hours...

On the way back, Zaid fell asleep in the LRT, and I was daydreaming, until I realised we missed our stop... *grin* Luckily I realised that when the train doors were closing on our stop, so naturally, we went off the train and board the opposite one back to our stop.

The End.

Kitten-mania

My cousin sent me this link The Daily Kitten

So kawaii! Check it out =)

=^_^= Posted by Hello

Blooming Knight

About 10.30 am, Zaid picked me up from home, and we headed to Midvalley Megamall... Seems early, right? Well, it's a public holiday, and he wanted to obtain tickets for the 12.30 pm Kingdom of Heaven... I couldn't understand why he didn't get them earlier, or at least made some bookings... His explanation was that the crowd would go after Star Wars Eps 3... I was still sceptical about his point, but I'm too lazy to argue this time.... hehe...

SO... as the elevator door opened, before us we saw a crowd lined up at the ticket counters... As we were halfway through, one of the screens noted that the tickets for the 12.30 pm show was selling fast... By the time we reached the counter, only the front row tickets were left... Then Zaid opt for the next screening which was at 3.20 pm... But even that show, only the first three rows were available... Really, I wasn't complaining... For me, there's no reason to... His self-guilt would suffice... *grin*

After purchasing those 3rd row from the screen 3.20 pm tickets, we stopped by at Dunkin Donuts for my breakfast... Then we met up with Yad, K Tasha, Man and his friend... They were devastated to find out that the movie starts at three... So we all ended up doing a little shopping before meeting for lunch at 1 pm at the Chicken Rice Shop... So before lunch, I bought 3 pairs of earrings and a pair of shorts from Quiksilver/Roxy... =^_^=

Between lunch and the movie, I bought another pair of shorts from Why Pay More? and had a round on Time Crisis 3... Then, the six of us played bowling... I beat Zaid by two points! (Ha ha!)

So the movie was ok... superb acting by Orlando Bloom, Marton Csokas, Eva Green, Edward Norton and all the others... To me, it was just a bit slow... and kinda violent...

Now... back at home... feeling sooooo sleepy...

A day without him...

Stayed at home the whole day today...

Yum... spaghetti for lunch and dinner... Swept the whole house for today's chore... I wonder what's in store tomorrow... I'm yet to clean the fish bowl...

myuu's friend came over, and we played mah jong from about 3 pm till 5.30 pm... so much fun, although I did a lot of beginner mistakes...

right now I'm quizzing t3trino on his Living Skills (Kemahiran Hidup)... aiseh...

Associate

Bought a shirt for my 13 days work...

Promoted to Associate in my guild on neopets...

Still haven't found out anyone else's exam results...


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4-flatters

Right... The results for last semester is out!

As usual, there are just so many students logged on that the whole student portal website was so slow....

So I finally scored straight A's again... Although this time, I'm not the only one... Up till now, I've come to know that there are 4 of us who scored a gpa of 4.00 : Nads, Me, Elle & Wani

Take note, I'm not saying that only the four of us scored 4.00 but that's the only people I've known so far that obtained that mark... I'm sure there's more to be revealed...

Just need patience to access the student portal... Best of luck to everyone else who haven't checked their results =)

Far, far away galaxy...

Yup... I just came back from watching Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith
Went with Apul, Zaid and Shu Yi to catch the 11.30 p.m. show at 1Utama... All of us, except Apul who had the tickets, thought that we were gonna watch the movie at Midvalley's GSC Cinemas...

It was quite crowded at the cinema... I'm not surprised...

I've no comment about the movie, except that seeing Anakin's actor in the Darth Vader suit, is funny... :D

Erm... I'm hungry... *grin*

Zaid xiansheng jintian zai : Boleh cancel class tak?

No strokes to clarify the tones... dunno how to do...

Anyway!

When I woke up today, all I thought was that it is another normal Monday in my 2 and a half months of holiday... Todays agenda went through like this:

Lunch > Class at 2.30 pm > Dinner > Class at 8.30 pm

and of course, neopets, tv and other things in between...

The slight difference, I thought, was that I was going for help tutor Shalyn (Zaid's sis-in-law's youngest sis) at Hartamas at K Tasha's (Zaid's sis-in-law) house because apparently Shalyn was supposed to have a dental appointment in Hartamas...

So I thought, no problem.. I've been there before... so it wasn't such a big deal for me... I'm quite familiar with that place anyway...

On the way to Hartamas, it started to rain... I was already slightly behind schedule, that K Tasha even called me to ask me where I was... 'I'm arriving soon' was my reply, and I thought that she may think that I got lost...

When I finally arrived, and almost went into the wrong house *grin*, I was trying to get my umbrella when I saw K Tasha with an umbrella on her lawn... I waved at her, signalling that I'll be fine with my umbrella, so I tried to get my things together: bag and some chemistry notes that I got from my tution in form 5... Even as I got out of my car with the umbrella and pouring rain, I couldn't find my keys pulak to lock the door... Found it in my bag =D

Then I entered, the house, said hi and salam to K Tasha, then placed my stuff at the dining table... Then I looked around the house... trying to recall what I did the last time I went there... K Tasha went upstairs to call "Shalyn" down, and I was told she was in the toilet kejap...

The next thing I remembered was hearing a guy's voice saying Boleh cancel class tak? I looked up to see this tall guy in a cap and shades, wearing jeans and a faded t-shirt... Funny... =D I just stared at him... No words came out from me, but in my mind, there were millions of questions going through my head: Who is this guy? Is this Ya' (Zaid's brother & K Tasha's hubby)? No... he's too skinny to be him... Is this Shalyn's boyfriend or friend? Does he already have plans with her?

Hehehe... the questions may seem outrageous to many... the guy asked again whether class could be cancelled... I just responded by staring blankly at him... Even K Tasha was amused to see my reaction... Only then did he take off his shades and said 'Can't recognize me?' with a mischievous grin... I still kept quiet... By this time, I was staring in disbelief... 'It was his idea, there is no class...', said K Tasha just after the guy said, 'It's me, Zaid!'.

I guess, most people would respond my screaming, laughing, crying, overjoyed and all... I was just staring, trying to get the realness of the situation in... My mind was telling me, it's real! Zaid's standing in front of me... But somehow, it was so unbelievable...

After the truth finally sank in, all the details and pieces to the puzzle were revealed... There was no class, no dentist appointment, even no Shalyn in the house... He just arrived Malaysia at noon, and reached the house at 2 p.m., 30 minutes before my arrival... The conspiracy consisted of Zaid, K Tasha and Shalyn... I have to admit, I had no clue, no suspicions, completely unaware, that the surprise worked! Well done all of you! =p

Up till now, I still feel like I'm dreaming...

The surprise was followed by distribution of the goodies that Zaid brought back from the states... mostly food and dvds(why am I not surprised?)... Chatted for awhile, as this was the time I gathered all my answers about the surprise... Then I took Zaid to 1Utama for a snack... Ended up at A&W, some shops (i'm still hunting for a black shirt) and mph...

Then we headed to my place, greeted by t3trino (lil bro) at his computer... When he saw us come in, he was like, 'Zaaaaaiddddd!!!!'... I guess people would expect me to react that way =p Shortly after, Zaid attacked my computer... I guess changing back from broadband to dial-up connection was something he wasn't looking forward to... HA HA! Next, he met myuu (big bro) and my mom...

At 6 p.m., I send him back to K Tasha's place, because his next agenda was surprising his mom... I would've joined in, but I had mandarin class to go to... And just for the record, I had the impression, complete with flight details, that Zaid would be coming back to Malaysia in July...

There are a lot more details, but I can't remember them for the time being... you have to ask me myself *grin*
Besides, the post is getting too long... that it'll look to much like an essay, which is one thing that I'm trying to avoid...

Nevertheless... I'm sooooooo happy *still grinning*
Looks like I've something, or rather, someone to look forward to seeing now... =^_^=

When phobia sinks in...

Another sailing Sunday... The weather was neither hot nor cold...

Today's agenda:
Platu 1
Skipper: Dominic
Crew: Me, Justin and my dad...
Number of races: 2
Results: 1st race - 1st; 2nd race - 3rd
Prize: A bucket of beer

Many people asked why we did badly in the 2nd race. The reason: we didn't know what the course was, so we just had to follow someone from behind... *grin* besides, it was mostly reaching all the way, so there wasn't much room for overtaking...

Now, what I meant by my title is just what happened in the boat... especially Justin a.k.a. Juzzer... hehehe... due to his experience a fortnight ago when he was almost thrown overboard 3 times, made him so reluctant to go to the foredeck...

Besides the usual faces, some people representing Tag Heuer... I think they went on one of the boats as well... Asha Gill was one of the celebrities that came with Tag Heuer... I dunno if there's anyone else, or perhaps I just can't recognize them *grin*

For the after-race gathering, we had some chicken wings and fries... But as usual, they arrived so late, while the team and I were so hungry... I wonder what's wrong with RSYC's F&B service... Consumed about 4 chicken wings and a handful of fries...

I'm so tired... So I'm staying home for dinner... Somehow, I'm feeling hungry again...

=^_^=

A bruise I got today... Must have got it when I tumbled on the boat when I was trying to help put up and fly the spin... Pic doesn't look so clear, because the lighting in my room is quite dim... Posted by Hello

The Fifth Element

Just watched the movie for the first time on the makeshift cinema at home... Great movie :)

Gary Oldman's great, so is Bruce Willis and the others...

Makeshift cinema consists of: A white wall, a projector, a notebook that can play dvds, speakers, and a mattress on the floor complete with pillows and a big quilt... =D

Scratchboard

Yay... Finally got my own scratchboard... many thanks to myuu...

Another day of not doing much at home accept play a lot of neoquest II and keeping an eye on t3trino studying...

Tomorrow will definitely be different... Going sailing with the team =)

*still looking for a plain black shirt without logos, brands, etc. for work*

Baya and Hamid

No... I'm not announcing a couple or anything... We just went to Hartamas Square for a little birthday gathering for Baya (11th May) and Hamid (4th May)...

Initially, I felt lost and out of place, but after Fifi and gang (Hamid, Apek & Shima) arrived, things turned out better than I thought... Really, I felt somewhat awkward when Baya picked me up from my place... (can't drive in the dark) and i was suddenly picked on (jokingly, of course) quite fast... Feeling annoyed at first, I put aside that feeling, thinking, 'oh well, it's Baya's birthday, let's just make it the best for her'... Thankfully, things turned out great...

As usual, I ate rice with lala goreng... Yummy! A little spicy dish, making me drink two glasses of iced herbal tea... I'm also surprised that I finished my lauk before my rice... After finishing my rice, I still felt hungry, so the victim here, was Hamid, who sat on my left, eating chicken chop with mushroom sauce (i think)... So I attacked many of his chips and mushrooms *grin*

Dressed very casually... Jeans and shirt... also brought along jacket, just in case... Hairdo as shown below... With dangling earrings... (taken of in the pic)

Curly, curly... oh wait... Wavy, wavy, hair... Posted by Hello


Other events:
Dom (Platu 1's skipper) called to assemble the team for this Sunday's regatta
Waited in front of SBB Mutual in Uptown for an En Mazlan who didn't show up...
Bought a new filter for the fish bowl...
Met another anime fan, Jijot, during birthday gathering

Ho hum...

Not much happened today

Started playing Neoquest II

Paid tutorial session

Started my hunt for plain back t-shirts for work

None found

The End.

First crash?

I woke up today by the sound of my phone ringing... I received news that I have a facilitator's briefing for the Disney Storybook Funtime at 4 pm, 1Utama... Yay!

So I spent my morning on neopets as usual, and picked t3trino up from school at 2 pm... Bought back Burger King and I was all ready for the briefing by 3.30 pm... (I had to postpone my class again... *feeling guilty*)

Went into my car at the bastment, and when I was about to comeout from the basement entrance, I didn't see a 4WD coming from my left... When I DID see that car, I slammed my feet on what I thought was my break pedal... Well, no! I hit the accelerator... However, thanks to my reflexes, I realised my mistake fast and hit the break pedal...

Technically, I did hit the 4WD... But I only hit his bumper, as I managed to stop in time... Since he was moving pass in front of me, his back bumper *grazed* my front left light... So there's only some black lines on my car, which is probably bits of his bumper as I could rub it off my car... He also checked his car, and reported no damage... Yay!

Still shaken, I drove carefully to 1Utama for the briefing... I arrived early, but being unable to recognize anyone, I was lingering outside of McD's for 45 minutes... *feeling like an idiot*... Finally I was briefed until 5 pm...

Dropped by Scents and Glass, where Baya works... Wished her Happy Birthday (today she's officially not a teenager anymore)... ;-) Had a nice chat with her...

Headed home for a scheduled squash session at 6 pm with myuu... I broke my last (only) record... This time I hit the ball to the ceiling just after 10 minutes of playing... :-( At least, it was a RM6.50 ball (last time it was RM7+)

The Great Shaman Hunt...

At last my car's road tax arrived this morning... However, I had trouble removing the old road tax as the glue was still sticking onto the windscreen... The old road tax is also in shreds... But since I was already due at t3trino's school, I just sticked the new road tax onto the glue from the old one... I know I should've rid the old glue first... But oh well...

After picking t3trino, we headed to 1Utama to buy Shaman King Vol4 and have lunch... Unfortunately that manga was out of stock... The only volume Shaman King that was available was Volume 5... and they had 10 copies of that! :p I actually had to calm t3trino down as he started to look teary... (probably because I refused to buy the last copy of Volume 4 when it was still available until he submitted all his school projects)

Anyhow, we had Aunt Anne's pretzels for lunch *grinning*... While t3trino was still munching away, I bought myself a box of Surevue's disposable contact lens... According to the worker, it is the same as Acuvue, just different in packaging... Since the Johnson&Johnson's label is there... I'm guessing it's true...

Next we headed downstairs, to ProCutz, which is located next to Arena foodcourt... The concept of this "hair cut shop" (i'm not sure whether it's more suitable to be called barber or hair saloon) is similar to the QB House in Ikano... Also priced at RM12, t3trino had his hair cut there...
Before us, there was this guy with a baby in his arms... The baby was bawling away as the worker was trying to cut the baby's hair while a woman (probably the mother) tried to distract the baby with a rattle... How cute!
However, I think the QB House is much much better due to some reasons including t3trino's new hairstyle and the equipment used there...

Night squash was cancelled. Evening squash tomorrow perhaps...

ni hao...

Just got back from my first mandarin class in Kelana Jaya... Boy, it is tough! To me, it's harder than learning French...

Can't say much about it... 'Cause I'm not sure what to say... :p Besides... My head is still spinning from trying to absorb today's lessons...
I think the purrgatory may offer more insights of today's class...


Pos Laju called me up today, wanting me to clarify my address... Apparently there're two similar but different address i.e. the Jalan... One was written 16/18, while the other is 18/16... But still, the pos laju is so slow, because my dad mailed me my car's road tax on Thursday... So it'll only arrive tomorrow morning... How ironic... I even had to postpone my tutoring session because my road tax expired last Saturday...

Samui!

also bought three squash balls for RM6.50 each near Atria... It is time to play again...
can't wait to sail this weekend on the platu... =^_^=

Mommy's Day

Woke up at 7.30AM this morning to present our mother's day gift to our mom... It was a Pilates giftbox complete with a pilates dvd and some pilates thingy that I've no idea what it is... Just wrapped it last night using a wrapper that I bought from Japan back in 1998... I love those wrappers... =) Quite cheap too...

Anyway,

Happy Mother's Day 2005!

I had a duel this morning with t3trino on neopets, equipped with a Leaf Shield, something I invested on for 11999 nps...(As suggested by my guild, The Great Guild of Neopia, thanks!) It's great getting two jackpots at a game of chance called Dice-A-Roo... lol... I'm speaking in neopets world... Back to the duel... At least my losing streak is over... (Yay!)... But it was a draw... Maybe next time... muahahahaha....!

Home theatre

So what makes a home theatre complete?

Here, a notebook, a projector, t3trino's computer speakers, and a white wall... myuu set the stuff up in his room, and we watched The Grudge and Smallville S4 E19... It was awesome... The pizza we ordered for lunch came during the middle of the movie, so we munched our food while watching...

Spent most of the day playing neopets as well... But not as much... I'm getting bored of the games already... I get bored fast... ~dangerous... *Still loves the neopet banners on this site* ;-)

However we also played a bit of mahjong after such a long break due to t3trino's unfinished school project... Apparently he completed this morning... (It's due on Monday)... I doubt that it is properly done... But I've no patience to go through it at all...

Myuu just uploaded some pics from the RSYC's Selangor Open Regatta at his blog... Most of the pics shows myuu or me on our platu and with our teammates... Here's the link...

Last night I called up Bal and chatted for like 40 minutes on the handphone... Hehe... With Zaid in the states, my hp bill has been quite reasonable... Our conversations mostly involved friends and anime, specifically Gensoumaden Saiyuki which is now shown on Astro's AXN channel again... (yippee!) Time to catch up with the anime, and at least watch the missing episode (Crude Counterfeit) from my Gensoumaden Saiyuki collection...

Initially planned to watch Kingdom of Heaven today with Baya, Fifi, and possibly Nad-chan, but as somehow expected, Baya didn't call or message me to confirm the plans... I didn't bother to check up with them as well... At least, hopefully my plans with Nad-chan somewhere during the weekdays goes well...

Great green grass grows...

Friendster profile in green.... *grinning* Posted by Hello

Blog change...

Well... I'm sure you've noticed the difference... Hehe... I've been teaching myself a bit of HTML... I was surprised myself when I found the help section in Neopets actually teaches you step-by-step HTML... Of course not everything... just the basics for someone like me who knew nothing about HTML...

Syok! ;-)

It has been fun playing around with what I've learned... All those trial and error, finding out how the heck to align the texts and images.. <- Thanks to myuu =^_^=

I've also started advertising on my blog... I'm sure you've noticed that, but I know the traffic of people visiting this blog is like, almost none =P

Anyway, notice of race for the keelboat championship regatta for this 15th of May, series 2 Race 1 is out... If you'd like a copy, just ask =p

Basket...

Something has happened!
The incessant mewing of a Mutant Kadoatie drives you completely mad, and you give its owner 5,000 Neopoints to take it away!

Ouch!!

*Squashed*

A refreshing change today...

Although I did spend half the day playing neopets, I finally used my brand new squash racquet today... for 30 minutes...
Rudy and I went to the squash court at 6 pm, equipped with one squash ball... After trying out a few hits, and getting more control with my aiming, at about 6.30 pm I hit the little black thing to the corner of the ceiling, where it dissapeard. Just like that. =p
Rudy's just happy that it's not his fault =p

Anyway, I've started reading The Chronicles of Narnia... I've been wanting to read that book back in 2003, but as usual, I procrastinated until the movie itself is coming out soon...

Kingdom of Heaven is out in the cinemas! Time to find tickets and ... =^_^=

Neopets, neopets, neopets~!

Muahahahaha... Addicted to Neopets Posted by Hello

Webcam finally repaired...

Webcam mania! Posted by Hello

Nothing better to do... Posted by Hello

Rope burns

Today's Happenings:

Stupid stomach cramps!
Lack of sleep -> Woke up at 6 am!!
Neopets as usual..
Went to Justin's place and carpooled with him to RSYC
Lunch
Met the Englishman (our skipper for today)
Rigged platu 2
One race
Finished 4th
Suffered rope burns on three fingers
Went home with dad
Dinner at 1Utama
Bought sports sandals -> to replace my stolen ones in Lumut
Home
Blog =^_^=
 

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