And this is why.. wei lynn will not be able to lose weight. She told herself that she will not have any tea-time snacks, suppers, or extra rice during meal times. She even had the idea of only having fruits + juices for a week. Of course, it won't be able to happen..

Just last night itself she had a late night supper at a mamak. She had a huge bowl of curry mee for lunch, and 2 hours later she snacked on more CNY cookies with 2 slices of cheese cake. And each time she tells herself to not have rice for dinner, she ends up adding rice.

IT'S ENOUGH!!!!! Starting tonight, I shall be disciplined.

(There is a line between having just enough and being greedy; I have crossed that line and if I seriously don't put this to an end, I might just end up being a fatso!)

**

Reality hit. Reality check. I am now, a fully fledged... lady.

I'm no longer a teenager. I'm now, 20 :)

Till a few days ago I still find it awfully hard to accept and believe that I've hit the big two oh. However, the rational side got the better of me and I'm now embracing this new age and turning point.. and yearn to be a more mature person =) Think twice before I speak, do not complain unnecessarily, be more aware of my surroundings, be more mindful, yes all these are traits I hope to upkeep.. wish me luck ok people :)

Since my birthday this year falls on the 2nd day of CNY, naturally, birthday dinner was celebrated with family and them relatives! During the day, we went for karaoke with relatives, and when I got back from the washroom, the song "Happy Birthday" was being played! Everyone sang to the song, I was so embarrassed ok. Thanks to my mom's idea! A good one, nonetheless! :p

Dinner with the bunch at a restaurant =)

Family & Batu mama from S'pore

This grandma of mine is one hell of an intellectual lady.. So sad that she got hit by stroke years ago. Nevertheless, her brain is as alert and quick as ever.. She told me in mandarin that she will come see my graduate in 3 years time. and that I will succeed in all that i do. it touched my heart, really!

With the cake Aunt Catherine from S'pre got me :) So sweet of her!


At the family lounge with dearest family- before I head to my little party


Outside my house

@ Mardigras, One U- My little birthday gathering :)


With my dearest Mandy & Elaine


with one of the coolest dudes around which also happens to be one of my closest friends- Pin Yu

with my best college mate ever- Foong Tsin

with one of the nicest girls around- Sammy

The whole group @ the Island bar


Inside the club- my girls! :)


The guys- Jimmy, Terry, Brian, Pin, Teng Jun, Noah, Seu Foong

P.S: I don't see you, Gene, Nick!

Ahh~ Fan got me this Flaming Lamborghini which is apparently.. a tradition for all birthdays!

All in all, I had an awesome birthday =) Really, I mean it! I celebrated my eve with cousins from Johor.. we took a stroll around the lake & park outside my place.. and we took tonnss of photos!! Will upload when I get it from them..

I want to thank those who called me(lainey, pin, gene etc), sms-ed me(almost every min i got a msg! made me feel like a queen ok that day; even friends whom i've lost contact with and friends I've even forgotten msged me! and btw, jo your msg touched my heart i almost cried! love u dear), emailed me- pj(your email was so so meaningful, thanks for everything), yng, and those who facebook-ed me. You guys mean so much to me! and thanks for making my 20th a memorable one. :)

**

P.S.: Thanks to all & especially Brian who took care of me that night! Owe you one ;)

I'm very happy today. :)
... was smiling to myself the whole time.

I want to always be happy.
Not that I'm not, but at times I still let little unneccessary things affect me!

My resolution this year would be to always be happy, grateful, and... smile more! :)

*Hugs

Hehe I stayed back @ the office today! Normally I'll leave at about 6pm.. However, tonight was an exception. I stayed till 9 pm yo! :) U all must be wondering why right??

Well, I wanted to take pictures of KL at night :) hehe. I am absolutely in love with it! The office was at one of the higher floors in the twin towers. Hence the amazing view. Will post the pics up next time.. =)

It was only yesterday that I realized Valentine's Day falls on this Thursday.. Sammy & I had a deal, if we both are dateless by tomorrow, we'd be going/organizing a singles party. Right Sammy dear?? :) Lol!

Anyway, I had my little birthday gathering last Friday. I had a great, great time. Was a bit sad initially as many close friends couldn't make it, all going back hometown as this year my bday falls on the 2nd day of CNY.. However, many still turned up in the end! ^^ (haha my first time using this emoticon! got influenced by jo!) And we enjoyed ourselves very, very much, didn't we guys? =p

Besides visiting lots of open houses & outings.. I also experienced something quite different last weekend!

I had Korean dinner. With Koreans! :]

Well I would normally introduce the people first; but this time, suspense a bit! hehe. So, the food will come first okie..

Kalbee, also known as Beef spare ribs

Kimchi and various Korean side dishes filling the table

I liked the beef more so I posted a bigger picture of it, as compared to the dishes above! hehe.

Oh oh! Lol chien loong told me once he ate it all up 'cause he thought he had to pay for it. We don't have to pay for it la as it comes together with the main dish, but of course, it has been included somewhere in the bill..

The Korean style of eating is: to wrap the beef & some veges with lettuce!

Though I'd rather much prefer:

Our RM4 Korean rice!!

It tasted better than normal rice; well it had to ok! I can buy a Yong Chow Fried Rice with that price... hehe.

My brother being fed by her!

Oh, did I mention that it's the Korean culture to feed their loved ones/friends during meal times? Yes, they do!! I was surprise because the Korean girl asked me to open my mouth, and fed me, out of the blue! The last time someone fed me was years ago...

And now introducing... Jung Ji En! She's my brother's uni mate, :)

She's one of the most hyper, talkative girls I've met. Always so excited wan!! She talks more than me hehe. It's true ok!! Anyhow, she asked my brother to give her a name. And he suggested April. She now introduces herself as April!

Another Korean chick! Sung Wun Hae; Chien Loong's gal :)

When we were taking pictures, the Korean girls were passing each other this thing and I wondered what it was. And suddenly, they passed it to me too! It was then I realized that it was a mirror. Hehe... They were checking how they look :) Well we Malaysians will just check the picture taken & see if we look alright. I learned something now about Korean girls! =)

The sweet couple! ;)

All of us including Tatenda, the girl on the most right- She's from Zimbabwe.

It was so funny because I came with my brother & Ji En. And CL came with his girl & Tatenda. Little did we know that the 2 Korean girls knew each other beforehand already!! Lol.

Us girls =)

I had quite an experience interacting with the Koreans! Firstly, I realized that it's not easy for them to speak English, and the fact that Ji En & Sung are quite fluent in this language is amazing. Though Ji En does get frustrated sometimes trying to describe certain things in English! And when she gets frustrated, it's so funny. My brother will then help her with it. I kept laughing in the car!!

Also, I realized that Korean girls care about their image a lot :) Always wanting to look their best! Absolutely nothing wrong with that because I feel looking good enhances self confidence, thus making you feel good! Lastly, I find them korean girls to be really open with their culture; willing to explain to others about this & that. Basically, they're friendly, nice and sociable!

It was nice meeting you both, Ji En and Sung!! And also Tatenda.. :) The first Zimbabwe-an I've met! Oh and I also found out that Zimbabwe is beside South Africa and Bostwana. Hehe.

Alright, time to catch up a bit on my reading before I turn in.. Ahhhh, 6 a.m. again tomorrow!! Nights everyone :)

Boo, I was having a bad day at the office... all because I caught a flu! And I can't stop sneezing.. Is it true that if you sneeze, it's an indication that someone misses you? ;) lol I'm not sure how true is that, but I'd like to think that someone out there misses me! Whoever that person is la. hehe.

Anyways, I'm feeling so much better now because I just fed food into my tummy, again. I had so many meals today already. And to end it all, I sinned with more CNY cookies. I can't help but to think, what a trade off this is.. just when I started hitting the gym, I'm eating more than usual..

Yesterday, I woke up really late (7.30 a.m.) for the first time, and well it's the time where I normally leave house to head to the train station. I rushed like mad, and arrived at the office 15 mins late (not too bad, I thought). I was feeling drained, lifeless. Not because I dread work, but because I did not have enough sleep the night before. And just when I was thinking, 'how am I gonna get through the day?' I saw a black plastic bag (with something in it I assumed) on the side of my table.. Curious, I opened it.

A note from a new friend of mine @ the workplace!

With homemade cookies inside ;)

It made my day, really! Any negative thoughts of how drained and jaded I was just disappeared! Well, this friend A.K. doesn't know about my blog; but I'd like to thank him for this lovely morning surprise :) (well, he told me his mom made cookies and i sort of asked him to bring some but i didn't know he meant it! so it's still considered a surprise la :P)

It's these little things in life which makes me happy.

**

I'm supposed to sleep early tonight as it's a loongg day tomorrow! Despite it being the new year eve, I've still got work. And, relatives from Johor & S'pore will be over at my place tomorrow evening! I anticipate a hectic yet exciting evening ahead :) Really gotta help around the house, though...

Last Friday was a public holiday for me. A big Thank You to our prime minister for at the last minute, declaring Thaipusam as a public hol for the federal territory area. I was estatic. I got to wake up at 10 in the morning :D

Wei Yang & I visited our beloved high school, Sri KDU- where we attented form 4 and 5 there. We wanted to collect our SPM certs, which has been buried there since ages ago. Hehe. And also to visit our favourite teachers! :]

Looking at the long yellowish-blueish coloured corridors brought back so much memories! We used to store our textbooks inside, crowding outside the classroom to 'lepak', gossip with friends and all. To me, this corridor sorta shows our future; a long winding road yet so much for us to explore.

The class I attended when I first got in KDU. I love my class!

Mr. Selvam & I

My BM teacher for two years. I didn't really like him at first, cause I thought he thought I wasn't proficient. Turned out he was one of the teachers who had so much faith and confidence in me that I will kick ass in SPM.

Omg. My favourite place in form 4. Hehehe... Whenever I feel tired, I will head to this place for some silly excuse stating I have headache lah, period pain lah... and I was given a room to sleep for about an hour and a half. I'm so naughty I know!

Mr. Hew & Miss Tai

Mr. Hew IS my favourite teacher in Sri KDU! hehe. He was my Add math teacher in those 2 years, and I was the subject leader for Add Math in form 5. Why? 'cause I simply love the subject AND the teacher! I used to bombard him with millions of questions and I'm pretty sure I was annoying as hell, yet he was patient with me, all the way till the end!

Miss Tai taught my class Accounts for a while and is very, very generous with her compliments! A really friendly lady :)

Ah, students playing badminton in front of the cafeteria! This brought back sweet memories :) I used to conquer it, okay! 'used to'

And guess who's this?! Melissa Campbell !!!!!

She's soooooo pretty, gorgeous, stunning but most of all- friendly like hell! And she's back on track to becoming a super star in the performing arts industry :) She acted in 'Anna and The King' years back where she was Chow Yun Fatt's daughter(Princess Fa Ying) in the movie. Now, she's acting in this malay series.. when I asked her when's her show, she was so shy to tell me! But i managed to dig out in the end anyhow! ;) Mondays to Thursdays, 10.30 pm Astro Prima! Go check it out okay...

I would love to see her in Hollywood one day. I somehow know she will make it there!

And lastly...

My companion for the day. Where we ended our visit with lunch @ A&W.

**

A little poem I'd like to share with all of you- a poem I fell in love with when I was a young girl.

The Little Things in Life

-Regina Riggs

Too often we don't realize

what we have until it's gone

Too often we wait too late to say

"I'm sorry, I was wrong'

Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones

we hold dearest to our hearts

And we allow stupid things

to tear our lives apart

Far too many times we let

unimportant things get in our mind

And by then it's usually too late

to see what made us blind

So be sure that you let people know

how much they mean to you

Take the time to say the words

before your time is through

Be sure that you appreciate

everything you've got

And be thankful, for the little things

in life that mean a lot.

**

My gosh the first month of the year 2008 has ended! And i'm turning 20 in a few days time.. haven't had anything planned yet! Suggestions, anyone?? :)

Anyways.. a few recaps on what happened in Jan 08! I'm just gonna let the pics do the talking cause I'm too lazy to blog & my bro is waiting for me to watch Hot Fuzz!

Had a pre-CNY 'lou sang' dinner in Ampang with my colleagues sometime last week.. They're just this bunch of down to earth, fun-loving and patient people.. I've learned so much from them!! Lovin' my internship so far.. =)

A lovelyy present from Sammy dear! :) Thank u dear, so much. I love it =) Everything of Sammy's so cute, from her handbags to her accessories, to her clothings.. She's got style ;) And I have faith in her that she'll be a Someone in the fashion industry in the future!

Presenting one of the nicest girls around, :) We had dinner at Delicious, Bangsar

Puay Chai primary 6I gathering yo! (we go wayy back, say 8 years ago?lol) It was a night time catch up @ The Apartment, the curve

2 of my closest friends then; Winnie & Jamie.. =)

It was good catching up with friends I haven't seen in ages! And when I meant ages, I mean it.. 8 years is super long ok!! And goshh, they all remember my chinese name.. and past histories of this and that.. had a great time reminiscing all the memories :)

Mr.Goh/ kor kor who used to be my badminton coach for a year plus! I've known him since I was form 2, and till now he's still making effort to keep in touch.. A very, very nice guy! Came all the way to KLCC to have lunch with me :)

Oh and speaking of which, i'd like to thank those who has travelled all the way here to have lunch with me.. Noah, Derek, Chien Loong, Fan darling, Goh kor kor, mummy.. I guess that's it! Thank you guys so much =)

Oh man this was quite sometime ago.. Had a small farewell gathering for Char & Wen! They left for the U.S. already.. Char to San Fransisco and Wen to Minnesota.. Char's the one in black. Both really really nice girls, and I know both of you will make your experiences in the states an enriching one! :)

Bio buddies! (back in form 4 & 5) hehe.. Mandy & Harry! Oh Harry how i've missed having bio lessons with you in kdu.. and going about doing prefect duties. Haven't seen u in a million years, fortunately u turned up that night :)

Char & I =) Quite sad that I didn't get to know her better!

Kye & I. My gosh this boy arr he's the King of Jokers lah, never fail to entertain the whole class back in kdu.. and damn hamsap also wan! hehe.. remember all the jokes we had in kdu. Memories, memories.. :)

Wen & I. Oh and the tiny card I got her before she left lol.


Groupie =)

Note the girl in pink spaghetti! She's Daniella and she's on her way to become a celebrity :) Was my classmate in kdu and man, she's just soo gorgeous now, well she always has been, now she's just more refined! Good luck Dan, I know you can do it! =p

Omg when was this taken??!! Oh now i remember.. it was in a chinese restaurant.. haha i was so happy wearing this pair of heels i got in S'pore.. made my bro Ken snap a pic of it! =p

I really don't wanna post this up, but it's too funny to let it pass.. My brother acting all "girly".. and he did pull it off pretty damn well! Gosh ken please la!! But seriously, he's not gay or anything ok.. he's perfectly straight.. yes i have solid evidences to prove that...

Uncle Peter & family came to KL and we had dinner together :) He's been living in melbourne for 30 years.. and his children has really strong aussie accent.. He's my mom's good friend's good friend and we only met for our first time in melb! A very hospitable man =)

Hmm, this was sometime ago as well.. Had steamboat dinner at Ikano with Jo & Vonney who got back from Virginia, U.S! (but now she's back there already)

Tadaa~ The small troop of mozart girls =) It's so funny cause everytime we mozart girls start talking, it will start revolving around this particular topic.. *nyehehehe* nvm i'm not gonna say it here!!

And we headed off to Vonney's "guest house apartment" for drinks, to chill & sleep over! The sparkling wine beside the 100 plus is mine.. and it tasted sooo damn good. :) Wei yang brought the other 2 liquors.. He damn hardcore la.

Oh, i forgot to mention that Jia wei & Wei Yang joined us after our dinner. We played this card game introduced by Wy and we had tons of fun!! I drank really really little that night as I was so exhausted(woke up at 6 am for work u see), and I could just fall asleep anytime.. All i remembered was wy and jw getting so pissed drunk!

Alright my bro's calling me for the 100th time to go watch the movie already.. 3 more days to CNY, 5 more days to me hitting the big 2 oh! Well.. Have a good week guys!! =)