talk about being long winded

when you hear songs on the radio unlike "oh hot damn, this is my jam.." but instead "gong xi gong xi gong xi ni ya",
when you smell your neighbor aunty's heavenly pineapple tarts in the oven and the annoying electric mixer doing its noisy job,
when you see red lanterns and "fu" stickers hung in chinese convenient stores,
when your parents ask for your help that other night to help put in those brand new, nice smelling notes into ang paos,
when you go to the Spring for last minute shopping for clothes, shoes and food and drinks,
when you hear everyone in class inviting everyone else to their open houses and explaining how to get to their own houses,
when you follow your parents to the ATM to withdraw splendid cash,
when you receive cards from relatives and friends wishing your family a prosperous new year,
when you start to worry about the clothes you bought earlier last year, whether you could still fit in them and moreover whether you could still find them!
when at night, you dream of those glorious food you'll be stuffing yourself with,
when you secretly compete with your siblings to see who receives the biggest amount of money in ang paos,
when you anticipate the lion dances in front of your grandpa's house on the first day,
when you search crazily for your ho lo chim, cards and fire crackers for "certain reasons",
when you and your family actually tidy the house for once,
when you go to the airport numerous times to welcome your brother from Singapore, sister from Australia, aunt and family from Sibu,
when you mentally plan out the houses to visit on the 1st day and look forward to friends' open houses,
when you paint the fences, your brother clean those mossy and dirty floors with the jet spray which doesn't seem to be working well, your sister in the kitchen along with mum, grandma and kakak baking kek lapis,
when your mom goes around the whole town looking for a perfect restaurant to book to accomodate your whole family for a glorious dinner,
when you and your family stay home and admire the beautiful fireworks go off in the wee hour of the night,
you'll know that chinese new year is here,
happy chinese new year people

a little late and all...

this is my update on
oh so old yet (used to be) sexy singer JANET JACKSON
*this is one of the only decent pictures i could find of her, sorry boys, aha

wait wait, wrong person, eh, who's that old grandma there?

JEANETTE RINAI TAGAL

what's so special about her you might ask?well, i'm kinda late but..
happy birthday jeanette,
could i be a worse friend?(actually i could you know, by not writing a post about it, i thought about the second option but then i stuck to writing this for her, ahahah, humour there)
since shar already wrote a poem for you and i can't top that so i won't :)(save energy anyway..haha)
walao eh, she's so much older than me she might as well be my senior, ahaha, well jeanette, i sincerely, truly,from the bottom of my heart wish you a happy birthday and new year.
Though we haven't been friends for very long but I don't need too long to realize that you're a good friend.

cheers lao ah ma:D

HOW COULD YOU?

This post is dedicated to my DEAR(see that it's in caps lock?) friend---
SERENA CHEW WEI YU.

serena,
how could you leave 1D/2D in national stream?for INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
why didn't you inform me beforehand?
our class teacher is mr. camillius choo...
you left..and made me..
CLASS MONITOR -.-, although i'll just be like you and push everything to Daryl, hehe
how is it in international?fun?do you like ditching us and hanging around with those...
INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE??

darn you, you dramatic, crazy, suddenly laugh out loud, brainy, weird, perverted, ticklish, sensitive, wacky, cool, reserved, class monitor, friend
SERENA.

we miss u.

aiyoyoyoyoyo

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

you all know what a new year means right........


yup, school's starting again and we have to get used to waking up before 7!We haven't done that in what..1month+??
i realized that during school, all we want is holidays, longer weekends, (no school for some..ahaha) but during the hols, we don't do much and it's SO BORING, we even hope for school, the irony eh?

hmm, i wonder who's our teachers next year?

somehow, this reminds me of......think think think..

CIKGU JOEY! haha, its a very neutral comment cikgu...:$(it's just the way you interpret it..wink wink!)

well everyone, school's starting so brace yourself everyone..

caution--school ahead!(in time concept lar..)

ITS ALIVE!

nope, im not talking about frankenstein up there, im reffering to my blog..haha

well, firstly..

Merry christmas!














Christmas isn't about SAnta
















or the christmas trees..
















or the presents..

















or the food..











but about the birth of christ
















again,

MERRY CHRISTMAS

a lesson

hey people, this is something which i think i should post as, well, it's worth posting, just read through. today, around 11, my mum, bro n i went for "brunch", for those who don't get it, it's lunch+breakfast. haha, sorry, not trying to make you feel dumb, hahaha, seriously, i'm not.

Then, as i was sneezing, this guy with a bag full of "premier" tissues came and showed 2 packets to my mom, so she just took out 2 bucks and exchanged it for the 2 packets of tissue. Okay, fine, quite expensive for 2 packets of tissue, i thought but nevermind, i bet he needs it more than us.
What suprised me was that, my mum, asked him whether he had eaten, and offered to buy him lunch. okay, there i was puzzled, first, i thought:
1. how do you know he can't afford lunch?
2. mum, why are you being extra generous to this guy selling tissue?

So she went to order roti canai with filling for him and told him to sit down and eat when the food arrives. Then, he asked whether could takeaway, then my mum said it was okay. Then, i think he went around selling tissues cause he left for quite some time.So my brother and I were asking her why she was being so kind and generous(as in, more than usual) today.

"It's thanksgiving."I thought of turkeys and all, haha, and then we talked about thanksgiving for a while but my brother insisted that she didn't have to chia him but instead just pass him money and he'd buy whatever he wants.

"Sidney, and Shannon, have I ever told you that your grandpa(dad's) sold eggs everyday when he was 11, 12, 13 and so on?"(we nodded)"He went around houses selling eggs and he made one cent for every egg he sold.(1 cent last time during my gp's time was quite big)The money he earned would be used for groceries and meat for that day's meals, he had 8 or so siblings and if he didn't earn enough money, they'd just eat canned chai sin with rice. He'd usually earn more than a dollar or so which is enough for meat with vege for his family."

"Your grandpa was a student of St. Thomas' and they had built new toilets. The students had to pay a cent for every visit and after 2 weeks, your gp left school because he refused to pay 1 cent for every new toilet visit, and either tried to hold his urine or visit the old, dirty toilets. He didn't rela pay that money and thought that it'd be better to use it for food for his big family, he was laughed and teased by classmates(late teens already) and so he left school, don't look down on him as that time he could read, speak and write proper English."
Maybe 1 cent at that time was really really big but wow, what a shock, leaving school for 1 cent each day?My mum continued saying an old late family friend always remembered my gp for his trifty and spendthrift attitude, since young, as he was a teacher at that school and realized that my gp as a student never, or at least tried his hardest not to pay for the toilet visits..

My mum, siblings and parents didn't live a rich life, but instead perhaps what we consider moderate or poor. My gp(mum's) owned a small car and almost everyday to pri. sch, my mom with her elder sister(2 out of 4 only as their much older and the 2 younger siblings were still small) would push the car to get the engine running again. My gp then had another car after selling the previous car but the "new one" was 2nd hand as well, not long after the purchase they still had to do the same.

My mum asked whether we had every heard her dad, our gp talk about having been to many houses in Bampfylde area cause he was painting their walls for RM 5 a day, he would bring a huge tengkat with as much rice as possible and another container above it for the vege, packed by his mum. My mum said, if she could, she would like us to experience what, well, moderate or poor families eat as meals for a few days or perhaps a week, so that we could experience, understand and most importantly be grateful.

I was thinking about what my mum was saying and, she was right, compare our lives now to the generations above us, think about it, aren't our lives better now?

Tell me, how many of us has ever washed our own shoes?How many of us wash the dishes after meals on a DAILY BASIS?How many of us do chores, have only hand-me-downs, eat plain rice and vege only for meals?My point is that now, children nowadays, all of us, yes including me definitely, take many things for granted..What do you think?Are you the ones I'm refering to, if you are, then join the club, and hopefully we'll get out of it soon too.

Lesson for the day:
be grateful and thankful for what we are..
And not be spoilt brats..



Face reality guys.

Shannon, finishing another post.

Thorugh the eyes of an ex

Yes, i have an ex..





An ex-air hostess as an aunty! hahaha, caught you guys there eh?Seriously, do I look like the type who had boyfriend? Nope, I didn't think so too.

Well, we had this conversation in the car on the way home the other day and I thought it was rather interesting so I'll post it up:

Just a breif intro, my aunt worked as an air hostess (with her good looks) for quite a long time then finally quit and settled down with my uncle in kuching, they had kids like in their 30+ years lar.

Btw, don't really remeber the convo, most probably changed abit so yeah.
A for auntie lar, I'm lazy

A:Haiya, so tiring, having 3 kids is not easy. Shannon, remember, when you grow up, don't have kids late or else you'd regret like me. When you're quite old they're still very young. (sighs)
Me:But then you got to be an air hostess and travel halfway around the world! You enjoyed life a lot ler.
A:Yealah, those were the days. Sometimes I also traveled with your uncle, Las Vegas, Tokyo .....It was so fun, with the high salary again!(she worked with s'pore airlines)
Me:Auntie, last time in your time, airplanes are sort of a luxury for rich people right? Not so common like nowadays(airasia-now everyone can fly)
A:Yeah.
Me:Wow, you get to fly on almost a daily basis. It must have been an honour hor?
A:Yeah, all the air hostess and air hosts are all very poise, elegant and good looking, like models.. All above 5"7, slim, "shapy"..Not like now, some of the air hosts are shorter than the air hostess, you know, they're suppose to help you with your baggage, if they're shorter than you, how can they do that?
Me: (i laughed, i could see her point)But i guess the price you apid for travelling around the world for so long is that your kids are still small lar..
A:Yealor, but I enjoyed those years of my service as an air hostess.

Don't remember much of the conversation, but i have a point to make here..
malaysia, our country, fortunately and unfortunately practises discrimination>>you know, they pick looks for air crew and all, unlike in America or other countries. For job applicants, you cannot discriminate because they're fat or whatsoever, make judgement solely on their talents and skills in that job, or else they have the right to sue you till you're bankrupt! So yeah, that's my point for this post.

Do comment, thats all for now.
:) Shannon