About Me

Pseudo-intelligent. Happy-Go-Lucky. Occasional introvert. Semi extrovert. Loves to eat but incapable of gaining weight. Sweet-toothed. Failure of a socialite. Failure as a hikkikomori (basement-dweller). A wannabe paradox.

Stale News..

Originally, the title was supposed to be Fresh Content buuut via the magic of the Internet, a Math135 assignment and Rita, I seemed to have lost a whole week of my life. If any of you find be sure to send it back ah. To make up for this rancid content I will for one, start writing about said event. I'll even post potentially embarrassing pics! Then again..maybe not. I'll save that for when someone blackmails me.

Well anyway, I'm sure that by now, you've already guessed that something big must've happened to finally get me off my lazy unfat arse and blog about it. And you're right. Go get yourself a cookie.

You see, we had a wedding here last week and boy was it a grand one. It wasn't a church wedding, it was a Chinese one so yea we did the whole shebang. Tea serving ceremonies, brides family bribing, dowry and what not. Man it was certainly a hectic day. And if you could only see us in the weeks just before the 8th, the amount of effort we all put in into setting everything up for the big day was just incredible. Double happiness and wedding decorations were going up all over the place. Caterers were booked. Floors were swept, mopped, vacuumed, then swept again. A marquee was set-up. Shirts were ironed. Dresses were being picked. Geoffrey's jacket was being bought from the local Salvo. The womenfolk's hair were being styled/done up. The menfolk's...erm...armpits were deodorised?
The point is, WE WORKED OUR BUTTS OFF.

But it was worth it for the big day turned out pretty sweet. Well, at this point I'd say it's impossible for me to describe the whole wedding in words. Mainly because I'm not a very good writer. So.....PHOTODUMP INBOUND! Oh and in case you ladies are worried, please, don't fret, it's my uncles wedding not mine ;P . I gotta say tho, I rock a suit pretty darn good if you ask me

Earliest to rise. 7 am. Delivering up the roast pig.



Oh look who's hogging the spotlight. =.= Don't they look alike though. lol.



There we go. All suit action. Except for that rose among us thorns. Currently delivering the tray/dowries to bride's house.



Looking pretty excited there... However...sepet.



Don't you just hate people who camwhore right when there's a wedding taking place!
This is Uncle's ride. He used it to get to Aunt's place but it lol broke down afterwards. Fortunately he had a better ride awaiting.


GOH BROS here. How may we be of service?
That's the bridal chariot by the way and no, we didn't drive it. Rental guy didn't let us. Something about kids, crashing and expensive car or whatever.


Time skip!
Fast forward couple of hours. In that time we: did the tea ceremony, ate etc.
Now proceeding to wedding reception/dinner. Starting time: 4pm.

But first, you must be wondering. "Where are the newlyweds? It's their wedding but I've only seen your ugly mug!" Well, it's my blog! Plus I don't really like photodumping in a blog. I'll use flickr for that.

Anyway, I present to you: Mr Allen and Mrs Diana Goh.

Here they are signing away their freedom or as some would like to call it - signing the register.
You probably can't tell from this photo but it was drizzling about an hour ago. Now it's freaking HOT! I was sweating like hell in my suit.
Downside = Sydney weather!! Upside = nice photos.
I also should point out that Uncle is wearing a penguin suit. I really like the penguin suit. Especially the tails. lol. He also had a cane and a top hat. Never did wear the hat though.



This is a rare shot of Mom & Dad together. (Due to cam shy Dad)
Ever wondered why I look so good? Now you know why.



Look! M&P allowed me to drink champagne! Geoffrey on the other hand isn't. Doesn't stop him from pulling that smug face of his though.



Guess who?
Currently the newlyweds are out for their photoshoot. If your knowledge of Sydney is top notch, you'd know by now that we're having dinner right under the Harbour Bridge. Very scenic. Romantic too. But then sydney weather X_x The newlyweds deserve a medal for withstanding that heat for nearly 2 hrs. The guests are all cheering for you guys!!..from within the cool air-conditioned dinning hall with flutes of champagne in hand of course.



Dinner finally arrives at 7pm. Menu sounded trés bien. Taste wise, alright lah. Though Geoffrey was served ice cream for his main course by mistake (^o^)
Unfortunately, they realised it and took it away. (._.)
Strangely enough, we didn't have ice cream for dessert. Instead we had something called an "Eton Mess".
Sounds classy, Eton classy. It also sounds messy, Eton messy?
Not many people liked it though. It's rather erm..different from ice cream.

And after that was speeches from the Parents, Best men, Bridesmaids, Newly-weds and finally dancing! Then we all went home.
But I had no idea Uncle was such a dancer. Man, he got moves! Apparently, he learned to breakdance from a book! Hat's off Uncle. I gotta take up lessons if I don't wanna embarrass myself at my own wedding.


Well, they say that a pictures worth a thousand words so I'd say there's a good amount of words in this post. If you're still not satisfied though, I've got tons of pics. Literally! I alone took 800+ pics. Add my Granduncle's, Grandaunt, the professional they hired...we could probably make a trilogy of feature-length slideshows with all these material.

So here's one last pic of my Sam Suk (read:third uncle) and Sam Sam (read:third auntie)
Ah..marriage..the more I think about it the more I wanna...*oh shi..people are listening**ahem*
You know what's so significant about this pic?
She's saying "I do", He's over the moon and the Parents are relieved beyond belief.
I'm sure you know what comes after "I do" right?
HINT: "You may kiss the bride." Sorry no pictures.










Till next time!

See ya!






Snippets

Thursdays are now de-facto blogging days due to the 3hr break in between Statistics class and Maths classes.

Waiting for the bus is a ball-freezing experience. Getting changed in the mornings constitutes endurance training.

Procrasination is BAD! Putting off your assignments till the last week is not a good idea. So why do I keep doing it?! Because blogging on blogs and surfing on webs are exponentially more fun than plotting plots and graphing graphs.

List of hopes and dreams, needs and wants, and everthing in between.

Hope
  • Possibly my own Rita
  • Perhaps my own laptop
  • Perchance my own room

Dreams

  • For others please ask Rita, fufu
  • Rita
  • ???
  • Profit
  • To someday be able to play an eletric guitar
  • or bass
  • or violin

Needs

  • Warmer Australian climate
  • Rita
  • More money/Part-time job
  • Über 1337 programming skillz
  • More/longer holidays
  • A new handphone
Wants
  • >= Adobe Photoshop CS2
  • Vocaloid2 software
  • More money
  • Rita!

In betweens

  • Still waiting for that letter...ho hum...
  • .1.
  • ..2..
  • ...3...
  • RITA!

Ma & Pa

Yea I know, I know. You guys are all pumped up bout my Supanova weekend right? Unfortunately, your gonna have to wait awhile cos something huge happened to me this week!! I'm talking astronomically huge!! Enough to dwarf a supernova!! That would mean that it's as epic as a quasar!! So what's the big deal then? Well, you'd probably have guessed from the title but I'll scream it out anyway, MOM & DAD are here!

For those of you having trouble grasping the significance of this event, here's a short parable to help you understand. There once lived a boy, who had to be sent away from home, far far away. He had to live away from his parents for a very long time (6 months). Day after day, he pined for Mother's caring touch, longed for Dad's uplifting humour but sadly he had to endure those 6 months all alone with his brothers. Finally the day arrives! He is finally reunited with his family and they can enjoy each other's company over a nice plate of authentic MALAYSIAN nasi lemak. And that was how nasi lemak was introduced to Australia. The end.

But seriously, having Mom and Dad here could not be any more awesome. I finally get packed lunches to uni, real proper brekkie, not to mention the Malaysian cuisine I sorely miss that Mom manages to dish up every dinner. Food aside, there's also the ton of stuff she brought over for us. I now have like a new bag, 3 new jackets, 8196 pairs of socks and a enough shirts/t-shirts to clothe all of Tokelau. Suddenly, I've become such a vainpot. I've spent more time in front of the mirror these past few days than I have in the past 6 months.

But of course, parents doesn't just mean food and clothing. The best thing about having them with us would have to be the family time we spend with each other. For the ill-informed, family time is the time spent with one's family where one has a feeling of complete safety and security. Doesn't matter if you're old or young, as long as your naïve enough to be lulled into the sense of security your family provides then you can enjoy it. Fortunately, I am one these people and for that I am truly thankful. Now, I don't mean to brag to everyone. I do realise that some people might not be as lucky as I am but to them I say, there has got to be a moment in time where you experienced this right? Even if it's for a short time, we should appreciate every chance we got/get. But I digress. After all, I really don't feel like I have the right to spout such stuff.

In any case, if for any reason I am inactive for the next month or 2 well, you know why. On the off chance you are still interested in that Supanova thing then I'll photodump it sometime soon. Too lazy to write about it already. Ta for now.

Supernova!

No don't worry, while I certainly am a star, I'm not gonna asplode anytime soon. As least I don't plan to. Well, I've a confession to make...I've been hanging out with some pretty shady characters recently. I'm so ashamed...but more on that later cos I gots to prepare for another day of Supernova Sydney 2009 tomorrow!!!1 Until then, I would suggest reading other people's blog for a change. Now go on! Scram!

Yes, that's my hand. Note the cool looking lime-green band on it. Don't I look cool with it?

Oh and by the way, special shoutout to my comrades in Malaysia. Wish you guys were here. Isn't that fun without ya. Saya pergi beremo now.

weekEND!!

Oh hey, it's me again. Just thought I'd stop by to check up on my blo...OMG!! CBOX SPAMMED WITH REPLIES!! I guess I am popular after all!
those voices inside mai head: no your not...otaku.;_;

In any case, expect a lot of posts over the next few days. I should have lots to blog about. If I don't deliver leh then I'm probably hyper busy lor. swt.

But for now, you guys probably heard that Rita came to town rite? What you didn't?! Fail!
Go directly to JAIL. Do not pass GO, Do not collect $200.
If you did read it or at least rolled a double then sally forth!

Well, I bet you're curiosity has been piqued eh? Your inquisitive nature has been whetted no? Just what did these two cheeky rascals do during the weekend to amuse themselves? Admit it, your life cannot continue without first satisfying your keh-poh streak. Well, I shall dally no longer. I shall, as they say, let the Felis catus out of the bag.

Saturday
We mostly spent our time walking around the city, shopping, lollygagging etc till dinner time. We then spent the later half of the day looking for a place that serves spaghetti because Rita had a craving for it. Unfortunately, though we were in a westernised modern city, stringy Italian goodness managed to escape our rumbling tummies. Fuming mad, we wandered randomly into some basement/lower ground food court located in Chinatown which my Grandad and I frequented so many times before. Still infuriated at the lack of clichèd (copied off John's blog) Italian food, we went up to the nearest store and carefully placed our randomly picked orders. 1 Singaporean Fried Mee and 1 Pork Rice something = almost AUD20 == RM50 (Holy ****!). Even more incensed, we stormed off lovingly back to Rita's hotel where I was forced to

Sunday
Checked out at 11-ish. Was bored wondering what to do. Both of us were still livid from yesterday's rip-off/lack of spaghetti. This time, I refused to go on without first tasting the glorious taste of what is known to mortals as spaghetti. With great determination, we scoured the cityscape, looking high and low for our elusive meal. Finally! After 30 great long minutes of searching, we located our prey. You'd think that we'd tuck in straight away after all that trouble yes? Well, surprisingly we didn't. Instead for another 15 mins, we just camwhored. Yes, even I did! GASP! I took pictures of the pasta, Rita, pasta again, Blue Drink (it's blue!), Rita, Rita with Blue Drink(which is blue in colour) etc. RIP $monies$.

After brunch, we kinda floated around again. Unexpectedly, we found ourselves going down a lift. All of a sudden, zombies started attacking us! Quick as a flash, both of us pulled out our Mini Uzi SMGs and let lose a volley of lead. But wait! No time to rest as another wave of brain-eaters marched towards us. Wave after wave came, thousands of magazines spent, hours after hours we pushed on, moving ever closer to the Goldman Building. Unfortunately, we both were killed in the foyer of that building by some levitating magicman known as The Star. Unperturbed, we decided to rape...i mean race each other (sry but the 'p' and 'c' keys are soo close to each other. LOL). This time, she cosPlayed as a princess and I was a mushroom. Fungi FTW! We shot loudspeakers at each other, bombs, banana peels, basin pans too. Oh what fun. In the end we both tied 4-4 I think.

If anyone can figure out what the previous paragraph was about then You win 100 points! Seriously

After that whole incident was over, came the time for us to part. Don't really wanna talk bout this. It was a sad moment indeed. But no need to fret because they all lived happily ever after. THE END.

Look! We did find spaghetti! wO0t!

Oh Hai!

It's kinda sad that even though I've got like 5 drafts waiting in the wings, only 2 of them ever got published. Believe me, i do regularly think up of posts for my blog but somehow they rarely get past the drafting stage, eventually getting deleted. Reasons this happens is probably because of my laziness and procrastinating attitude. Though this may be my general attitude toward everything else in life (I'm working on changing this, honest!), in this particular context, my procrastinating streak is further aggravated by the fact that my computer's Internet connection is sooo fucked up!! God, it's so annoying. *RAGE**RAGE**RAGE*

I can always work around this problem by using my bro's comp conveniently placed beside mine but in order to do so I gotta shoo him away and can never bring myself to tear him away from his comp while he's searching for pron. Just kidding. We're not like that. Lol.

Well, on the off chance you may actually be concerned about how I'm doing here, I'll just sum up my current life here in one word. COLD! Today marks the 10th day into winter and I'm freezing my b*** off here. I even had to break out the long sleeve shirts i wore once a year in Malaysia. Still, the weather here is much more "interesting" than Malaysia's hot & wet/dry weather. If the local weather was personified, Malaysia's weather would be a simple-minded hot (literally) girl who's dry for one half of the year and wet the other. (I'll leave that to your imagination). Australia's weather would be a indecisive biatch that can't make up her mind if she wants to be hawt or give the cold-shoulder. With her in charge, you could actually experience a extremely cold morning and a relatively warm noon. It's particularly frustration in the winter especially if you leave the house all decked out in winter gear (gloves, scarf, thick jacket, long-sleeve shirt, etc.) then in the afternoon, you pay for your careful preparations by sweating like hell. T.T

Edit: Warning! Reports of a few wild profanities have been received. The management would like to ensure guests that there is nothing to be afraid of and is working to prevent future reoccurrences.

Also, wanna know what last night's temperature was? 6
°C! Not even a blanket + quilt was enough! Tonight, I'm gonna hafta sleep with three layers. T.T

Here's to you...

Most of my friends would probably agree with me when I say that I'm not the type to to type long mushy post about my feelings even for someone dear to me. In fact most would say that I'm not the type to post any posts at all. I guess most guys are like that (I'm talking about the mushy post thing). Ever so often however, there are times that a guy would like to do something special for his someone special. Even though it's not much anyway, i would still like to proclaim my love to the most important woman in my life *currently*....I am of course talking about my mother! (sry Rita but mother comes first..especially today). So to Mother who art thou in Malaysia which feels like Heaven since Hellboys are in Australia, this first son of yours would like to wish you with all my heart a

Happy Mother's Day!

Though here we live in a house,
There we had a home to call our own.
The responsibilities that I had (though rarely do),
Now feels like chores to be done by the freeloader.
Rules of the house that once seemed acceptable,
Have know become heavily enforced laws.
What privacy I once had,
I wish I could enjoy as frequently here.
Over here I'm merely alive,
But over there I had a life.
Now this has less to do with living with strict grandparents,
But more to do with living without our loving parents.
So though we may be LIGHTYEARS from perfect,
Without a doubt we all know how lucky we are.
Though it may not be much,
I hope that via this “poem” of-sorts,
This truly thankful and definitely undeserving son of yours,
would like to express his heartfelt feelings to both his parents.
Mom and Dad,
From Daryl, Henry and Geoffrey,
We Love and Miss You Very Very Much!

I am unsure whether mah & yeh should read this. I don't mean to be disrespectful or anything.
If the *currently* word worries you or anything, don't worry. That's just a joke. Don't take it too seriously. lol.

Goodbye Malaysia!!

Most of my friends probably noe this aldy but for the benefit of those who don't...
I'm leaving Malaysia forever tomorrow!!
In fact our flight will be departing at 10pm, 18th Jan 2009. That'll be the date I leave ~18yrs of my life behind and start all ovr again...in a foreign country. Worse of all, I'll be arriving on a Monday!! I'm not fond of Mondays.

In retrospect, i should've posted a whole lot more blog posts. I've so much i wanted to blog about like about my trip to HK, my PSP, outings with frens and GF but i've been super bz these past few weeks...lotsa procrastination to be done.

Did you know?
Packing 18yrs of your life into a suitcase is not as easy as it sounds.

HAIZZ..there's so much i'm gonna miss! Where else in the world do you hv to beg taxis to take you to your destination? Do the Chinese in Aus pepper their conversations with profanities as much as we do? Who will replace the inconsiderate smokers who so eagerly pollute my air and invade my personal space? Despite its many many many shortcomings, Malaysia still is a very nice country and i luv it. Not enough to keep me here though.

meh! 2 l8 4 dat now. That's all in the past! Time for my future to begin!
Goodbye my beloved Malaysian friends! If any of you ever come down to Sydney, feel free to drop by my place at Bexley. Assuming of course you have food & lodging all taken care of. I don't want any leechers! Sayonara Pasar Malams and Mamak stalls! Good riddance frustrating internet connections! Hopefully the more dependable internet connection will encourage me to blog more! Don't count on it though. Here I come Australia! Land of beaches, beer and BBQs! Of course Rita will be waiting for me there too. Guess i won't be needing an adjustment period after all! Wo0t!
Signed,
Most Loyal Defector..