red martini

"Hello Tree's! "

2008-01-13T23:33:00.000-08:00

I dont know why my layout is pretty much screwed up. The tag board is all the way at the bottom.

Will be going back to college in about an hours time. Hello Jungle, Bye Bye Civilization!

Here's to another semester!

xxxx

"Supliiisssseeee"

2008-01-11T07:42:00.000-08:00

I think i've got my mood for blogging again.

Met up with Bren and Ani today, after like agesss.

I met up with Brean couple of days ago to bake some brownies, which so jadi! yay. (after our second attempt that is. teehee)

Anyhow, was good seeing them both again. <3

So college starts in a few days time. Mixed feelings of going back really.

Reasons why i'm looking forward to the jungle :

1. Check out the new 10.5 batch

2. I miss living with my botches <3>

3. I want to play ultimate handball

4. Ke-po to know who got in to Cambridge and Oxford

5. I need to ask Mr Boler chem questions

Reasons why i'm not-so-looking forward to the jungle :

1. Well.. its in the middle of the jungle, need i say more?

2. RICEE. going to eat rice almost everyday. ergh.

3. I cant jog in my nice shorts

4. Have to wake up early for class

5. Mr Richies is gone

But yeah whatever, ill still be going back!

I need to get all my college stuff outta my room and back in college, its totally hogging my room space!

Besides that, i've just finished 36pages of chemistry. Enthalpy, yeah those of you who have done it are going to say its easy, but i had to self study the whole bloody thing my self. Whoooaaaa.

At Ikea today, i got this picture frame and i decided to frame up some nice pictures from over the years, all in black and white.

Okay, i've got to read my Italian and German Unification notes now.

redmartini.

" A degree in being a hosuewife"

2008-01-08T09:04:00.000-08:00

More and more my family and i come across women relatives, friends and random people women are well in their late mid-20's and guess what? single and no where near getting married.

Its becoming a growing trend that girls nowadays are getting married later and later. Whenever my grandma hears this she will say they are all 'expired' already. Haha.

Though its not that suprising to me, with many girls putting their careers first,or being independant enough to not need the fuction of the male population or just because they are picky and there arnt many great men left out there. However, many parents find it a worrying thing. I just attended a dinner and my father was telling me how his friend is trying his best to match make his daughter of 29 years old.

Stable job, good family, decent man... but still she refuses.

"I dont know what she wants lah"

In the car on the way home, my dad was telling us,
"You know i told him that men fall in love with looks but women fall in love with the ears"

Marsh : Ears?! as in telinga?

Dad : Yeah ears. A guy who can speak well, full with chrisma can kautim any women

Marsh : So is that how you kautim mum?

Dad : Yala! Then why do you think she married me? Its definatly not for the looks thats for sure.

Marsh : HAHA.

Ohh well, something dont really have to worry about right now.

"all i seem to see"

2008-01-03T09:09:00.000-08:00

Well its less than a week and ahalf till college re-opens.
Hmmm, wonder how its going to look like with all the renovation and all.
Oh 10.5 people will be comming, should be interesting.

As for now, i've just taken out my chemistry book that has been stored in my box for over 1 month now. Teehee.

Time to revise and get ready for college!

Hello there dashing, 2008.

2008-01-01T11:26:00.000-08:00

I think I’ve given up blogging on New Zealand, due to the fact that blogger takes ages to upload photos! (or just that to resize all the 7.2 megapicxel pictures is just a waste of my life)

Anyhow, no, I’ve not given up on blogging just yet, it’s just that the past few weeks after my return from sheep land has been very very busy. Considering im trying to meet up with everyone and attend everything it leaves me with little or rather no time to write about it. Well I can though sum my December up - fun fun fun.

So, I guess its time for the usual- what has 2007 been like and what’s 2008 going to be like entry. (its going to be super long, so don’t bother, it’s just for my personal benefit)

I think I can absolutely say that from 1989 till 2007, 2007 has to be, hands down the most diverse and unpredictable year ever. On my xanga blog I still have my entry from new year’s day 2007, and I already knew it was going to be an unpredictable year.

Well, for 11 years of my life, every year is pretty much set. You know what you'll roughly be doing in august when it’s only January. Its part and parcel of being in school. The whole transition from high school to doing-what-ever-you-need-to-do-so-that-you'll-get-a-job-in-the-future isn’t something you always know what you're going to do, especially if you're me.

Heck, the first 3 months of 2007 I didn’t even know what I wanted to do - media, finance, politics, medicine? Then comes the thought of what pre-uni to do. Oooohhhhhhhh... pening. As much as some people might call it "wasting time", I think my 3 months off was a well deserved one, I mean if any of you even knew what my 2006 was like... well lets just say I needed the break, badly. During the 3 months, besides the parting and concerts and waking up at noon everyday, more importantly I managed to take the take to go through all my options and also at the same time find out more things about my self that I never knew due to the label you carried around upon yourself while in school.

So once I did my research I finally settled for the London Board A-Levels programme in HELP institute. My time in help, was a ball of fun. Learnt that the world, or rather KL is just one heck of a small world. And by the time you know it everyone knows everyone. Being in HELP and its rather laid back first sem schedule was pretty awesome. Going out in between classes, racing down for nasi lemak at G floor, taking that stuffy bus back and forth from Wisma to Main Block, attempting to play foosball at DSA, stuffing 9 people in a proton saga, student council elections, prom... good times.

At the same time, you ask yourself - how do you identify your self? You’re no longer the label you carried before.. so what are you? You are no longer " The boy from the red house" or " the tall prefect" or " the best chemistry student".

Soon it was time for SPM results and all that shizzz. But then once you start college, you sort of ask your self - what’s the significance of SPM anyways?. Well anyhow, SPM results were a big blow, disappointed? Very. At that point it felt like jkhfljabfjsbfhabfldfi. Yeah not really an adjective I can put in to words. Most people especially my mum at that point kept on telling me that it wasn’t bad, in fact it was pretty good results, but of course everyone has different expectations. But now looking back, I guess I agree with her, after all EST and Agama.. haha.

After that came the process of applying for scholarships, for all the applications I sent out I only got one call back- Bank Negara. Made sure I was ready for the interview, and found out that Malaysia is actually filled with over achievers, just that we don’t know it. So I guess our generation is pretty awesome after all huh? ;)

Anyhow, I guess actually getting the scholarship was something that changed the course of the year for me. I was sooo happy, it felt like everything paid off. I wanted to carry on in HELP, but was advised to switch to another college- KYUEM.

So far I’ve spent 6 months in KYUEM or rather 'the jungle' as I usually refer to it as. I'd say I will thank the college for killing my social life, making me dependant on instant food, making me a tad bit more rebellious, and making me slightly more neurotic than I usually am.

No, it’s not all that bad.

Actually, after going through the initial 'suffering' of the first 3 months, I’ll have to say this college has given me a set of amazing friends. Not that I don’t already have pretty awesome friends, but it’s different when you LIVE with your friends. The crazy zany people I live with are what im most thankful for while in the jungle. Late night gossip sessions, movie nights, sleepovers, drama, birthday bashes, parties, masalah berakhlak (HAHA!), running away from guards, stealing bangku's, wonders of tanjong malim...Living on your own brings out things in you- I never knew I had a thing for cleaning and that sometimes I cant hear my alarm clock ring. Being away from my parents is a great breather for me. Makes me appreciate them more and avoids confrontation at all costs. Well whatever it is, I don’t cringe at the idea of going back there after the holidays, it’s a pretty 'entertaining' place, and hey I do study more :)

Studying with people from seriously different walks of life is eye opening, and im assuming it will continue to do so until I graduate in July 09. Blessing in disguise? Yeah I would say so.

So I guess in a nutshell (a big nutshell) that’s my 2008. Would I have known in January what and where I’d be in July or November? Nope. The most unplanned, unpredictable year so far. Yet, somehow I found it extremely exciting and fun to go through, time just flew by like *poof*

Well 2008 is not going to be like 2007, partly due to the fact that my year is pretty much planned out already, when are exams, when are college events.. yada yada.

So, hey, here is a farewell bid to 2007, which I enjoyed very much and a warm hello to 2008 which im totally looking forward to. :)

I think its pretty

2007-12-22T22:16:00.000-08:00

Oh New Zealand just had an earthquake. -_-

Its pretty funny how when i go on holidays something bad will happen after we leave the place.

Bali, got bom-ed at our hotel road. Eypgt, got bom-ed near our hotel. New Zealand, earthquake where we were.

Ooohh noo.

anyways, Day 5,6 &7

Well, now we were making our way across country to Queenstown, but its way to far to complete in one day, so we stopped by another lake, Lake Dunsen. We had a little picnic by the lake and then my sister and i went for a dipp in the COLD COLD COLD lake while brother and father went to play golf. (phfft)

Lake Dunsen!

For some reason they were selling super alot of fruits! Its either there was a farm nearby of they are just super healthy people... which i doubt.

could the sign be any BIGGER?

the sister and i taking a dip... COLD SHITTSSSS, seriously.

picnic!

Day 6
Then we continued driving driving.. alot of driving! And we stopped along the way if something looked pretty..

Well then guess what, we reached another lake! Haha. I know many many lakes. But thats where all the action is at. We went to Lake Te Anau (god knows how to spell it). We took this boat to some cave to see glow wormmsss.

Haha i told my sister that the glow worms will drop on her head.

But it was actually pretty cool, the worms will actually glow to attract things to it so it can eat it. So the brighter it is, the hungrier it is.. And then they showed us this video, they way it ate the insects... sooo ganas! Spooky.

Day 7

Arrived at Queenstown! My favourite place. Its a tiny (well not that tiny) town by the lakeside. We took this tour that took us on a 4WD in to the mountains, to show us where they shot the Lord of The Rings stuff, and also followed by this jet boat ride on the river to one place called paradise.

where LOTR was shot.

Our guide was 100% pure maori and he said he was one of the only few left!

We were supposed to take this jet boat for an one and ahalf hour ride.

But what happened to it?

we all CRASHED in to a TREE

Yeah! beleive it or not, when we all got on, suddenly the engine failed and we hanyut sungai and crashed in to this HUGEEE treee.

1 dude was hurt, and he didnt speak english. Hevooocccc.

But i was kindda excited, taking pictures all the way, cause it was like an adventure! and we had to do some mc gyver shizz to get out.

Then we had to track through the forest to get to another side for the rescue boat to get us. I was sooo excited.

So eventually, we got another boat and took that litle ride through paradise valley. It was worth the drama, the view was A+++.

So after a very dramatic morning, my dad and i decided we wanted to be thrilled even more. So we went for this shotover jet thing. Its like this super jet that spins and spins 360 in between the canyons. Shizz crazzy especially when your about to hit the rocks.. then you dont.

Well that sums up pretty much what we did there. Hanged around the town abit, cycled in the park and through the streets, did a bit of shopping, errr well a bit to me but according to my mum it was alot, so whatever. haha.

redmartini.

"blue like mcdreamy's eyes.. wait is it even blue?"

2007-12-21T00:30:00.000-08:00

Youhuuu, i'm back again. More updates.

Day4

On the 4th day we left Christchurch. Now this is where the road adventure beginss.. dum dum..

We hired a caravan and drove it across the country! whoot!

There should really be a reality show called 'the caravan'. I mean imagine living 5 people in a surface area less than that of your usual public toilet size. But nevertheless it was good fun! Like its a moving house, fuyooo.

Inside basically looks like this

errrr god knows why my sister is in both pictures.

Thats how it looks by day, and at night it transforms in to 3 beds! 2 double beds and 1 single!

So we left the city with our massive caravan. Quite the jakun we were :) tehee.

We drove all the way to Lake Tekapo.

Lake Tekapo was one of my most favourite-ist-ist lakes. It was blue like bright blue! You know why? because its formed from melted ice!

When we arrived we took this air safari thing where they flew us up to the snowy mountains for a better look. It was amaazzinnggggggg...

Our little plane we took.

My dad hoping he'll get to drive the plane. Haha.

The scenery from the air

After we landed we headed back to the lake to eat and just hand around. The water was ice cold and the breeze was soo fresh, felt so so.. wonderful.

Well then we left lake Tekapo and drive on. It was getting late so my dad was like " Oh im just going to stop in the midddle of nowhere and we're going to camp there okay kids"

All of us were like " Whaaaaat?! "

But in the end it was soo worth it when in-the-middle-of-nowhere looks like this ;

It was another, smaller lake infront of some ice topped mountais. So we cooked and camped there for the night. When the sun setted (at like 10pm!) the starrrsss lighted up the sky! incredible! But it was reallllyyy collldddddd tooo.. Burrrrr...

Yeah well that anout sums up the 4th day.

redmartini.

" that lord of the ring place minus the graphics"

2007-12-20T00:33:00.001-08:00

Okay i so totally must blog about new zealand!

Bye Bye Kl

Hello New Zeland!

Day 1,2 &3

Spent the first 3 days around ChristChurch area, which is in the South Island. Christchurch is (I think) the maju-est “city” in the South Island. On the second day, we rented a car and took it to the city.

One thing about the city, THERE ARE SO MANY FOREIGN WORKERS. Like seriously, Koreans, eyptians, Indians, Iranians, Chinese… Everyother shop you walk in to and.. poof! You see a non-new Zealander. In the city we went to the Christchurch, Botanical Gardens and this lake thing. It was soooo prettttyyyyyyy…. How I wish our KL parks were more like this.

Okay you see that duck there? yeah. Its got to be the duck with the LOWEST IQ everrrrrr. (if ducks even have an IQ, but thats besides the point). See i'm guessing people come and feed the ducks alot, despite a HUGE sign saying " dont feed ducks", anyhow i was sitting there playing with pebbles. You know, small rocks.. you get my drift. Anyhow this duck, as you can see in the picture comes to me and eats my hand! OUCHHHH. Painfulllll.... he thought i was giving him foood!but noooooo, im holding a pebble!! What ever happened to animals scences?

The next day, we drove through the Alpine Triangle. Its basically a very scenic route which allows you to see PLENTY of sheeps and cows . haha. The view was breathtaking! Its like their grass on the hills are so tidy and green and very medow-ey like. There is like sooo much free tanah there, like land after land after land after land.

We stopped by this log lodge place to eat followed by a stop at this small river. But you know i was telling my dad

M : You know their rivers are not really rivers, its like flowing water only.

D: Marsh, what is a river? Isnt a river water that flows?

M: No no.. like in malaysia the water like has depth in to the ground, but here the water does not go in to the ground its on top of the ground.

D: huh?... errr okayy...

I dont really know how to explain it, but their rivers really is like water flowing!

Okay then we had our lil sister cam whore experiment thing. -_-

Okay enough for now, days 4,5&6 comming up soon :)

redmartini

Landed with all four wheels

2007-12-19T08:32:00.000-08:00

Hey hey hey!

I'm back, touched down in KL about a few hours ago.

New Zealand was .... just beautiful, seriously got to be one of the most untouched beauties of the world.

Well its kinda late now, rather confused with the sleeping time due to time differance, but yeah whatever.

Waking up early tomorrow, its Hari Raya Haji. - Selamat Hari Raya Haji to all muslims :)
Yes, im going to the mosque.
Then i must go to the hairdressers, faicialist, manicurist.

redmartini.

"the moon always makes a hole for its light"

2007-12-03T22:06:00.000-08:00

Weeks have been busy, with college and its millions of activities which i guess im to lazy to blog about.

But the great news is - im on holiday!!

I'm off to the land of millions of sheep later tonight ; New Zealand.

Apparently the whole country is on wireless (wow ness!) so i guess i can update from there as well.

UNICEF Aids Forum

Prior to World Aids Day on the 1st of Dec, UNICEF held a forum for young people to come up with a memorandum to be present on World Aids Day. I would say the representation of youths were very well distributed, ranging from urban youth to rural youth, youth from different states and different socioeconomic backgrounds.

"Look its a condom cupcake!"

Sarah and I were the emcee's for the formal bit of the day, which was to launch the 'Best Practises' booklet.

After the formal yada yada was over, we broke off to smaller discussion groups, which i found very mind stimulating. My group was 'Sex, Drugs & Young People'.

We spoke on problems faced by different states, how the 'islamic state' that our country is under poses as quite a big barrier and also the shifting mindset inwhich we have to live in reality where ; sex and drugs are happening.

OHHHHH and another reason why everyone should support Manchester United, is cause they donated half a million for PROSTAR centres to be set up in kedah and perlis! WHOOHOO.

I dont hear livepool or arsenal doing that. :P

Black & Bling @ Maisons

Immediatly that night was Malaysian Today's gala party thing at Maisons. Initially was pretty boring, god knows what was happening at the stage area. This iranian student was like " i was told this is a party, but its just like a gathering". Haha.

Then came the lucky dram moment, the prizes were damnnnnn chunnn. LCD TV, Trip to bali,Phuket, Krabi... Man i was holding on to my ticket so hard! But i seemed to be the only one that pretty much cared about the lucky draw thing. I kept on walking up and down with my ticket, but SADLY, i didnt win anything. HOW SAD. Sniff sniff.

The party only started when the dance floor opened. But there was just tooo many people. Holy moly. Haha, yeah had fun, whatever happens there stays there. Danced danced danced. Met um, interesting random people.
Overall a good night, nice to see everyone again.

Live & Loud KL

One word. AHHHHHHH.

Ohhhh it was orgasmicly awesome! Shaggy's performance was the best to me. Really got everyone dancing. Watching Whitney live, was like... ohmygoshicantbeleiveitsher. She looked so beautiful in her purple dress and her daughter was sooo lovely. Met super duper ex cempakans, which was plesantly nice! gosh everyone is grown up already.

Mums friend who works with TDC got us superb tickets, we got escorted everywhereeeee. Dang that felt great.

Oh and the Malaysian artists were pretty good as well.

OHHHH what a night. It was just, just... sooo fun.

redmartini.

New Home!

2007-12-03T11:15:00.001-08:00

Oh i've changed blogs.
Its been exactly one year since i've had my xanga, sniff sniff.
But well a new chapter requires a new blog, and plus im getting kinda bored of the layout and the whole xanganess.
So i'll be blogging here, since im now on holidays you can expect more updates compared to my rather dying-dead xanga one now.

Anyhow football match in awhile.

Toodles.

redmartini.