haters

if you are living and breathing somewhere out there, you should know that the world doesn’t revolve around us

there will be, of course, for all of us, something that we don’t like hanging around us in our lives

that, in this case, i’ll make it to be someone that you don’t like

i’m all about hate, haters and hypocrisy here, for these are among the things that i hate, and even more reason to do so now

this post is not directed to the haters of mine, rather it’s for someone’s else haters

i sound like a busybody, i know. But in truth this lies in the fact that i just can stand in the sidelines doin nothin bout something i also hate

people simply love lookin down their noses at people who they THINK are lower than them god, this is so freakin common that we see it everyday

okay, so if you say you’re smarter and everythin else (a whole lot of crap there), you look down at others. Then what?

then, you’ll start to hate them for being what you aren’t

but, as with all things… there is a limit, exceeding this limit is when i think it needs to be addressed

this is especially for you people. You guys know who you are and that’s all that matters

i’m not giving out names. What’s the point in it?? Going so low is NOT me, however i am here to tell the story

there’s this friend of mine who’s sorta loud, brash and the happy- go- lucky kind… at that note too, she is also the kind of girl who wouldn’t take things too seriously

being who she is, in the class she’d always be the one who’s garnering attention whether it’s gettin all laughs or just pure distaste showing on faces

saying what i gonna say, i’d sound mean but can’t blame me… coz at least i try to not laugh at her

well, i don’t think what she does in class is silly, though i do laugh and even then… i don’t do things that ridicule her, unlike some people

if i were to tell all their names, the list’ll probably be long… still, i can assure you that it would end

so, being who they thought they were; that they were, like,  somehow above her on some kind of standing… they did something that really made me still want to LMFAO whenever i think of it

being under the curse of stupidity and lameness, one of them made a graph… this is PURE SHIT, i repeat, PURE SHIT that i don’t wanna mention if not for this post

SMH.

the graph is rather plotted to rank people by their appearance and as you’d be now SMH- ing like i do, it’s obvious that they made this friend of mine to have the lowest rating… yeah, – 10 points. WTF?!!!

No.  Don’t ask me, ask them

who give dem people the right to do such things when all the said person did was to so happen be on your hate list at first sight???

for all that’s worth, this upsets me because it’s as if no matter how bad these people are, others still think its COOL to be part of their group

not over yet, degrading someone just doesn’ t seem enough… for this is exactly what they did

i’ve always kinda respected her for knowing bout the latest trends and having the heart to dress up for college everyday

and yeah, on this day particular day, she wore something that happen to not look so good

once again, there goes the haters again saying that she should realize that her clothing SUCKS and it makes them to want to puke and that it hurt their eyes

come on people, everyone has had their share of wardrobe dysfunction days. what’s the big deal this time around, plus now especially for her???

don’t give me the shit that you people never had such experiences and that even so, her dressing is SO bad that it cannot be forgiven

if you wanna criticize, go fill your blogs with posts on celeb fashion disasters (there are LOADS of it!!!)

i’d very much like to point out that this ever hating population are young and stupid, possibly a combination of both also

having such mentality that you can fuck  everything up and still be in the right, but it is fuckin hard to forgive others, is the root of this problem

this flaw of the mind is what should be corrected, but from what i see no one wants to correct it

why waste your time in life hating people for what that don’t seem favorable to you?

for all the negative energy that one is sure to gather from having such jackass attitude, it’s not worth

it’s WAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY BETTER to let others hate you than you hating people

would hating let you settle down for something less that would satisfy you, instead of just going to the one who you hate and tell them how much you hate ‘em and do whatever that would make that hatred of yours go?

people with brains would just stop hating and mind it from getting the better of them.

fools loves to hate. And to those fools, take note of this NOW!!!

hate changes nothing in life and we live for ourselves, not for others

don’t hate. try to change it… If not, hate yourself for not having the guts to make the change happen

not that it’s gonna be any of my concern if you people think hate is the best medicine for you

for me, i hate things but i don’t let it rule me and that’s that. It just stands to be there for me to make a statement.

well, i don’t think many would understand my view on my kind of hate, but i guess whatever’s ok =)

now it’s for the hypocrisy, (not the main idea of this post, as you can see by now)

this is not something that i do really have the right to judge since hypocrisy is prevalent in many aspects of life

i do not condone hypocrisy in any form, mind you

nowadays, being a hypocrite is socially acceptable  as that is the way if you wanna live in this world without having enemies and to be able to gain advantage from others

“Nobody speaks the truth when there’s something they must have.”

Elizabeth Bowen

“People may or may not say what they mean… but they always say something designed to get what they want.”

David Mamet

besides that, being hypocritical are for COWARDS

despite that, i’ll never agree with hypocrisy… though i try to not dislike people for it

it makes me want to gag, to make my eyes go blind and for my ears to not hear anything whenever i see someone feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not

“I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.”

Homer

however, as much as i hate to say this out loud, for God’s sake… i do sorta respect the people who could tell a lie without blinking an eye and be able to say something that they do not mean at all

in other words, these people could pull off a  pretense very well

“It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.”

Norman Douglas

“The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a great lie than a small one.”

Adolf Hitler

so yeah, i do hate hate, haters and hypocrisy… did i get my point across??

here, i just ask that you look at yourselves before judging others. No one is perfect, not you not me.

we are created by God to have imperfections, even Mariah Carey agrees with Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel; angels are not all- perfect either. don’t get offended

it is now time to wake up and make a change for the world to be a better place

don’t be mistaken that i do not have my share of haters, it just happens that the time for that haven’t come yet

i do sometimes (maybe most of the time) rub off as conceited, aloof, you name it

it takes time for people to actually see me for who i am, and for that i don’t blame my haters… I LOVE ‘EM

with them, i know that i’m always in existence somewhere and make me want to keep doing my own thing things that only i alone can do =K

mid- autumn festival

a black mooncake with wolfberry and lotus inside. from the baker's cottage

one of the best things of being a Chinese is the festivals that we people celebrate

and the mid- autumn festival, among others,  is one of those that i look forward to

okay, maybe i should start with how the idea of eating mooncakes, moon- gazing and carrying lanterns around came about

known also as the Moon Festival, it is a popular harvest festival celebrated by the Chinese, Japanese (Tsukimi  月見)  Korean (Chuseok 한가위) and Vietnamese, albeit being done differently

in our region, though, it is more commonly referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival

when do we celebrate this festival? well, to put it in simply, it’s usually around late september or early october

however, putting it properly would be the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar (Chinese) calendar

this day being when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest (also at its maximum brightness for the entire year), astronomically, this is a date that parallels the autumn and spring equinoxes of the solar calendar

*gazes to the sky* tonight, i can’t find the moon anywhere

i love legends, and here comes what lies behind this festival

as with many chinese festivals, there are always many versions of a legend that is said to lead to the particular celebration

and as you people have guessed, this festival ain’t an exception to this

the first version, with six variations of it where Houyi was an archer

but here, i’m just gonna have the two most popular variations

version#1

Once upon a time, the earth had ten suns. They burned the crops and people suffered infertility. Houyi sympathized with humans, so he decided to shoot down nine suns and leave one for the benefit of the people. After he shot down the suns, he was treated as a hero. He had a beautiful wife named Chang’e, and they lived happily together. Houyi had a many apprentices; they followed him to learn hunting. One day, on Houyi’s way back home, the emperor of the immortals gave Houyi two pills, each of which granted eternal life as a reward for shooting down the suns, one was for Houyi, and the other for his wife. He warned Houyi, “Make no haste to swallow the pill.” Houyi was to wait until New Years Day, on which he and Chang’e were supposed to eat the pills together. Chang’e put the pill in her jewelry box for safekeeping. But Peng, one of Houyi’s apprentices, discovered their secret and decided to steal the pill. One day, when Houyi and other apprentices went to the mountain, Peng pretended to be sick so that he could stay home. After everyone had gone to the mountain, Peng sneaked into Chang’e’s room and forced her to give him the pill. Chang’e knew she couldn’t fight Peng, so she ate the pill herself. However, after eating it alone, she began to float. Unable to come back to earth, she took flight and flew far, far away. She did not want to leave her husband, so she stopped at the moon, which is the body closest to Earth. After Houyi found out what happened, he was very angry and heartbroken. He looked up into the night and called Chang’e’s name. He discovered that inside the moon there was a lady’s shadow that look like Chang’e, so he ran and ran and tried to reach the moon. He failed due to the wind.

version #3 which is the first mid- autumn legend that i’ve heard as a kid

The earth once had ten suns circling over it, each taking turn to illuminate the earth. One day, however, all ten suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. Houyi, a strong and tyrannical archer, saved the earth by shooting down nine of the suns. He eventually became King, but grew to become a despot.One day, Houyi stole the elixir of life from a goddess. However, his beautiful wife, Chang’e, drank it in order to save the people from her husband’s tyrannical rule. After drinking it, she found herself floating, and flew to the moon. Houyi loved his divinely beautiful wife so much, he did not shoot down the moon.

the second version The Hare aka Jade Rabbit

According to tradition, the Jade Rabbit pounds medicine, together with the lady, Chang’er, for the gods. Others say that the Jade Rabbit is a shape, assumed by Chang’e herself. You may find that the dark areas to the top of the full moon may be construed as the figure of a rabbit. The animal’s ears point to the upper right, while at the left are two large circular areas, representing its head and body.

In this legend, three fairy sages transformed themselves into pitiful old men, and begged for food from a fox, a monkey, and a hare. The fox and the monkey both had food to give to the old men, but the hare, empty-handed, jumped into a blazing fire to offer his own flesh instead. The sages were so touched by the hare’s sacrifice and act of kindness that they let him live in the Moon Palace, where he became the “Jade Rabbit”.

the last and third version Overthrow of Mongol rule

China was ruled by the Mongolian people during the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1280-1368). Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D. 960 – 1280) were unhappy at submitting to foreign rule, and set to coordinate a secret rebellion. As the Moon Festival was drawing near, the leaders of the rebellion ordered the making of special cakes. At the back of each was a message with the outline of the attack; but i believe the one i first heard  from some book, and now wikipedia also, makes more sense that is:

inside each cake, however, was inserted a piece of paper with the message: “Kill the Mongols on the 15th day of the 8th month” ( 八月十五杀鞑子)

WHILE there are also some being that, mooncakes – which the Mongols did not eat – were the perfect vehicle for hiding and passing along plans for the rebellion. Families were instructed not to eat the mooncakes until the day of the moon festival, which is when the rebellion took place.

(cont’ d) On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government. What followed was the establishment of the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644).

now to the MOONCAKES!!! yum =)

basically, mooncakes are cakes filled with lotus seed paste (including red bean paste and black bean paste)  and have a yolk in the middle to represent the full moon there are also more elaborate versions having four yolks to represent the four phases of the moon CHEERS TO MORE YOLK!!!

my favorite traditional mooncakes is the one with lotus seed paste filling and a single yolk

traditional ones

nowadays though, mooncakes have evolved with rather much delicious- NESS in them

filled with anything the mind can think of, they now have another variety of skin for the cakes, snowskin (made with cooked glutinous rice flour) mooncakes, that is

snow skin mooncakes

i’ve tasted quite a number of the snowskin mooncakes and seen loads of them… BUT i’ve NEVER SEEN BLUE- SKINNED MOONCAKES hope to, next year

Haagen-Daz has also introduced a line of ice cream mooncakes in Asian markets that i have yet to try =(

20th of september

finally, i’m eighteen. WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!! *punches fist into the air*

it’s been too long that i’ve never had a birthday cake already… since i was thirteen, i think

well, i didn’t actually see the point in having birthday cakes for my fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth birthday

first, i don’t really consider myself as a fan of cakes… i’d rather have a good, expensive dinner at a chinese restaurant or something of that sort

then, i also find it sorta hard to make up my mind on the flavor of the cakes that i wanna since i’m spoilt for choice

back to my birthday…

celebration- wise, it’s almost like all my other birthdays of course, i’m not comparing with the birthdays i had when i was still a lil kid =D

on the other hand, the delicious- ness of the cakes, if you ask me *shrugs* it’s way better than the others i’ve had coz i’m really into choosing the flavor of the cakes, albeit me not choosing some chocolate banana flavor (haven’t came across anyone who enjoys chocolate and banana together yet… wish i would someday)

now, it’s the presents man, i love this part here is where the massive- ness matters, to me if not to everyone but remember, it’s no big deal for me if i got presents that don’t worth much, after all, it’s the thought that counts… yeah

i’ve got big bucks from my parents and i had spent it all on buying clothes for autumn fashion, don’t blame me: i’m a victim of fashion, if i’d say so myself

and obviously, with me finally reaching the age of eighteen there’s a whole lot of things that i can be glad about. me gonna have a credit card that i can call as my own, among others

so here’s the pics of me and my family celebratin my birthday on 19/9/09- a day earlier than my actual day, with some of it just being there as a testimony of what happens when you’ve got itchy hands on a camera

dang, my ring looks so freakin ugly... ugh

wish that whatever i wish for would come true... but it rarely comes true...

the bday lick... haha

eatcha!

happy birthday to me =)

rain

i love the rain

the pitter patter of raindrops on the roof is like a musical piece orchestrated by Mother Nature

for me, there is nothing that could make me feel as i do when i listen to the sounds of the rain around me

the falling of  raindrops on my umbrella and on the windscreen of my car(among others) gives me a feeling of calmness that i couldn’t really describe in words and when i’m at home, it lulls me to sleep |-)

whenever i am down and depressed, the coming of a rain would always cheer me up, if not of very much help, in the very least; but most people tend to get depressed on rainy days

figuratively, this is the way for me because the rain kinda like comes and wash away all the tears that had been streaming down my face when i’m crying

the rain comes,  washes all my sadness away, get me all soaked and at the end of the day, i’m still grateful for what it had done for me on the inside (not that i mind in the tiniest bit of having my clothes all soggy and wet)

ever since i was a child, i have loved the rain…  for the fun it brings

in my primary school, when it rains, the football field would be, in a way, flooded, and for some reason that i still can’t figure out up till now, there would be loads (yeah, LOADS) of  frog eggs in the large puddles of water…

and guess what i and a few of my friends would do? we’d somehow find plastic bags or a container of some kind and we, and some guys will then scoop up as many eggs as we can

when i reached home, i remember asking my dad if i could put the eggs into the aquarium with the fishes. he told me ‘NO’

and what i did later was that i poured the contents of my plastic bag into the drain outside my house

i do hope the eggs survived from anythin nasty and that the tadpoles did get to live their life

doing this felt so good, along with the other things i once did when it rains. I LOVE ALL THE MEMORIES OF ME AND THE RAIN =D

i enjoy hitting the puddles of water that’s found after a rain, with a consequence that means i gonna have my shoes dirty LOL

when it rains, driving too seems to be of more fun, a favorite thing of mine to do

adding to that also, is that i’m one of those lucky girls who gets to walk under the rain while sharing an umbrella with the one guy she likes ❥ man, i’m getting all dizzy with the romantic stuffs people do

everything that’s got to do with the rain is good. the smell of it, the feeling of it on the skin...

maybe it’s just me, but it seems like everything  was better when we were kids.Why is that so? Probably because we are more carefree and have less worries

when the year- end exams are done with, i gotta try singing in the rain like Gene Kelly, and dance too… :-# lest they will try to keep a lookout for me doing that

and, here’s me as i sit facing the balcony of my friend’s condo to look at the beautiful view all around and below as it rains

if i could, i wanna kiss the rain right now ♥

Can You Speak Coffee Talk?

came across this quiz while i was on msn.com

half- expected myself to get a really low score on this, coz… well, i’m a coffee freak but most of the times, i don’t actually try to get to know about what i’m ordering at Dome and Starbucks

seems to me like this is the time to change this attitude, or i might soon loose all the curiosity in me 

so yeah, the result i got: Espresso No- Go; nice try but coffee lingo is not your cup of tea. You probably like your coffee plain and simple- fancy foams and flavor need not apply

now, it’s your turn to see what you’ll get =)

Can You Speak Coffee Talk?

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okay, time for me to try out more of the other quizzes at delish.com now

i can only look

one of my favorite hangout places on the weekends is suria klcc

and kino’s one of the honored outlets that have me keep going there to waste my time away when i’m done with shopping… haha, LOL… but true…

for that, i’ll always have something to buy from there coz i’ll be walking around the shelves in search of good books and stationaries, but not in circles

however, these are the only things in the bookstore that i can only look at but will never spend my money on unless i’m so freakin rich

oh, how i wish that i’ll be getting these things for my birthday

a savage mickey that i love at first sight

mickey of the wild wild west

can i have some?

these are among the very few pretty things that you wanna get your hands on if you were to look into all the ones displayed there, ranging from figurines of sorts (if the one you wanna buy isn’t on display, you can order it. COOL)

now, you wouldn’t be wonderin on my sanity if you happen to see me snapping pixs of what’s inside the glass display shelves spread around kino

bet you’d do the same as me…

the one book that i bought

gotta hold back from readin it now... gotta study for tests first =(

=K

september

YAY! IT’ S FINALLY THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER!

man, i’ve been waiting this month for so long… why, you ask :-S

well, let’s hold that for a bit – lemme copy paste what i’ve found when i wikipedia- ed, first…

In Latin, septem means ” seven” and septimus means “seventh”

September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when there was a calendar reform from the month of the Ides of March to the Kalends, or January 1

In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is 1 September

September begins on the same day of the week as December every year, because there are 91 days separating September and December, which is a multiple of seven (the amount of days in the week)

first off, i’m born in september… ME A SEPTEMBER BABY!!!!! to be exact, i belong to the 20th

next thing is that it’s the beginning of autumn. I love fall out of the four seasons, and yeah, its the time for grunge- inspired fashion to come out in their full dark (and golden) glory

and… and… darn, i’m out of reasons *bangs head repeatedly on the keyboard*

ok, let’s say that i’m lookin forward to G- Force which is gonna be released on the 17th  gosh, don’t tell me that i’m secretly interested in a plot that revolves around guinea pigs who are secretly government spies and are dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from takin over the world. OMG

LMFAO, i’m childish :-# one thing though, i’m sure as hell that i love one of the many soundtracks, ‘Jump’ by Flo Rida ft. Nelly Furtado

there’s also Black Eyed Peas comin down to KL to party on the 25th. I’ m still decidin if i should part with my 100 bucks and above to dance the night away in my all- black sexy clubbin garb  hmmm…  should I?

*snaps finger suddenly* now i remember one more thing… it’s  the Mid Autumn Festival… but *sighs* it’s not happenin this month coz it’s a leap year in the chinese calendar, so this festival’ll be in october pity me, that my birthday’s on Hari Raya; at the same time it’s Hungry Ghost festival *sniffs back tears*

that’s all, it seems, to make me love  and waitin  for september now you know why…

i septiembre amor, ahora, siempre y para siempre!

* blows a flying kiss into the damp air around me*

in my own official terms, i’m posting this to mark the start of september. YES!!

adios

i’ve been a spanish freak lately coz i’m learnin the language to prove someone wrong, so here’s what i’d usually say… *switches back to japanese*

さようなら sayonara

=K

socialvibe

i’ve joined socialvibe

to help make a difference in the world i live

all of us would want everyone to be happy

so, join my cause of feedin hungry children in africa

i don’t like seeing and hearing bout hungry people who’s  got no food  to eat =(

me hates being hungry too, even during the times that i try to stave away hunger with yogurt and as lil chocs as possible

if you have the urge to, or feel obliged to… then

let us ALL do them ( do for me also )  a favor and click the “Help Now” button at the right- side of this blog

muchas gracias

=K

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when twitter was down

i had lots to tweet bout last night, but the thing is, twitter is down

from busy texting with this one guy,  i got lots of things from our conversation that i just had to tweet …but can’t =(

so, i tried using twitterfox, which seems to suck as well

i couldn’t tweet at all and maybe all twitter apps users experience this too (i don’t know…)

with the twitter fail whale keep appearing on my browser, tweeting couldn’t go much further. WTH

when my repeated attempts were obviously in vain,  and was nothing more than a waste of time,  (I could have put those minutes to much better use – by going to bed early) i shut my laptop down and trudged the stairs up to my room with a begrudging sense of feel towards the people who do not have a twitter account

it’s only at times like this that i sometimes feel non- twitter users are very much lucky individuals

still, lucky me that i have a twitter account…haha =K

aarrgh…my blood pressure is rising from this shit!

” calm down, man… ” came a voice from the insides from my head

“i can’t…” was the reply that came from my mouth

for me, this Twitter-is-down hysteria is legitimate, for one simple reason which is: I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT TWITTER!!!

” This online panic is warranted.” says me, (probably the only student in my college’s pre- university school with a  twitter account) a girl whom swears that twitter makes  her social life all the more fun. And voicing out what she have to say for the world to hear.

chemistry practical

chemistry practical happens to be one of my favorite practical lessons in college, though i really dislike chemistry in all ways possible (i don’t mean chemistry as in the romantic way)

well, most students i know love chemistry, but i’m not most of them

the practical we did today involves the use of a burner, that is, our first attempt during chemistry. i’ve done it twice for our biology food tests

i love using the fire for it gives a kinda dangerous edge to practicals, and partly, i once liked the way how gas smell- including petrol, LOL…

now, i don’t anymore. it’s bad for health…yeah, haha =D

the thing is, i’m afraid of lighting matches.

don’t know why i do, since i’ve never had past bad experiences at this job and fire

so, with a half- burnt joss stick that i got from the back of the lab, i took fire from the flame of my friend’s

TA- DA! its done and burnin’  (reminds me of Sean Kingston’s Fire Burning)

the flame's not visible in here...oops

She get it pop it, lock it, drop it,

That birthday cake,

Got a candle, need to blow that crazy flame away

Now take my red, black card and my jewelery

Shawty is cool like the fire, cool like fire

Somebody call 911!

Shawty fire burning on the dance floor

Whoa!

I gotta cool her down

She won’t bring the roof to ground on the dance floor

Whoa!

She’s fire burning, fire burning on the dance floor

That little shawty’s fire burning on the dance floor

She’s fire burning, fire burning on the dance floor

That little shawty’s fire burning on the dance floor

(Fire burning, fire burning)

-one of my favorite songs. i could listen to this forever-

then, wielding half of what was left of the earlier joss stick length (the other half were burnt away), i sat down and began conteng- ing the asbestos while waiting for 10 minutes to pass before i could proceed with the experiment

this is two out of what i did in total, naughty me…*smiles mischievously*

i never realized the magnitude of what i did to the poor asbestos sheet =( till my friend pointed out disapprovingly to my very active hands and the many smileys (sad-dies too) smiling (some un- smiling) back at me from the sheet

i kinda blanched and was like “oh,,,i thought i was doin the right thing” .

LMFAO- ing, i stopped messin around and became a good girl

can’t blame me, naughtiness runs through my blood and resides in my soul

“Who could really blame you (who could really blame you)

We’re the ones who made you”

Eminem- We Made You

imma bad girl in more ways than one  =K

CIAO~~~~~~