spirit of penang in pictures

saturdays part 2

continuation of last week's blog

sat (1.7.06)

went to hunza like early.... 12 sumthin. hehe... early. we had prac for our skit dat we were gonna perform dat night... unconventionally (n rather inconveniently) themed 'Hawaiian Nite'. bring out the pineapples n leis, flowery shirts n ..... u get the picture. actually, heheh.. my eyes were kinda blinded by all the bright colours n flower motives. we were swamped by hawaiian shirts n wraparound skirts. no kidding. anyway, we practised a lil' , mostly wiv the powerpuff girls routine n the lights n sound. umm, no yellowcard here, lol.

let me clue u in on wut my group prepared before going in depth cos i think i see lotsa quizzical brows now. basically, it was a skit in 3. haha, blur? let me explain. we made the whole skit seem as if the audience were actually in the cinema waiting 4 the movie to start. so, the comercials roll, n the trailers start. so, we had powerpuff gals n star wars 'trailers' as the appetizers n shota-shota as the main act.

matt n joe came late so, we only managed to really prac at like 6. then, wiv insufficient prac, we jz said " do or die trying" n did it. urm.. after lotsa fussing wiv our dressing. i for one am proud to say dat i didn't wear a wrap skirt. not dat there was anything wrong wiv wearing one. jz dat, everybody was wearing it so, me,pris n qy wore our borrowed happy pants.

so far, it went well (our act), except for rather BIG technical errors for our 1st 2 items. so sad... the powerpuffgals theme song suddenly changed to star wars theme song in the middle. n the comp hanged in the middle of the powerpoint b4 star wars. aikz... i was jz diiissss close to losing it at that point. really. but i haf to commend my team mates 4 pulling it off effortlessly. they r truly, real actors. the ppg- steffy, sab & antz,... i guess the whole thing was ruin but at least they finished the whole thing. star wars - matt, joe, esther,....well, despite the huge technical error, they managed to get the audience ready n laughing together wiv us. n my shota peeps - pris, matt, qy, sab n not forgettin adr (for his running commentary)... hopefully we did do wut we set out to do. dat was to make our audiences sides split wiv too much laughing. did we?

other notable performances were the 5-minute football (really liked dat 1), the chicken dance (which we all did) n westlife. hahar... urm, eastlife.... wtv u wanna call them. it was like, suddenly, the whole place became a concert wiv torches n phones waving in the air. started by renee n me n followed by everyone else. *gleeful grin*. oh yeah... n a fashion show by all of us. real lawak... the runway is sweet, n so is yellowcard's lead singer (his gorgeous eyes anyway). haha.

n the winner? the chicken dance. i really wish i cud say dat my group won but aikz... honesty prevents me from doing so. but overall... i had more fun then i ever had in a long time. we mz haf things like dis more often. wut nxt? poser nite.....? can't wait.

saturdays

it's been a hectic weekend. the 2nd one in 2 weeks. but of cos... hectic= not boring, n not boring always is so much better than idling.

saturdays r so much fun nowadays. pity i'll soon haf to give it up 4 the sake of cramming my brain wiv pretty pointless info that'll nvr get me further in life after i pass my spm. waste of time, really.
since i didn't blog abt it... so here goes. both my saturdays in a go.

last sat...
SPIRIT OF PENANG aka amazing race version pg first

basically, we were divided into 5 teams n were supposed to find n finish our tasks n get back to the starting point in the shortest time. well, jz like amazing race/ explorace/ spirit of kl. u get the pic.

12.45pm - reached hunza. was supposed to be there at 12.30 but u noe, m'sian time...

12.50pm - the team members were read out... some change to the members of some inbalanced teams... like urs truly. o yea, i was made leader (at the last minute, n vry reluctantly) of a team, code named Group 5. grumbled a bit... tee-hee... gotta admit dat ler.

approx 1 - set out to our 1st destination. we were fetched by the seniors (read: ppl wiv cars) to the flagging off point (gurney).

abt 20 minutes later... - dropped off by jerald at sunrise, only to find out that the meeting place had been changed. thank gdness 4 alex who happened to be there at that time n so generously offered to bring us to gurney in his 'brand new car'.

after 5 minutes - rendezvous at the designated spot. last minute instructions given out, n finally... the flag off. of cos, wiv the first clues. the first clue was easy. bac to sunrise.

a short walk later - we (my team) were ushered into mcD 4 our first task. eating our ice-cream cones from the bottom up. n dat, was relatively one of the easiest tasks all around. no shit. o yea, b4 i forget, my team memberz... well, we had kw, melv, josh, jasher, joce, em & their friend (forgot the name) . yupe, 8 of us (dun forget me....). n later, had another challenge. taking out mentos's from a big bottle of coke. hehe... let me recommend putting a mentos ( or any minty sweet) into a bottle of newly opened coke. u'll nvr noe wut might happen... or u cud jz ask me.

upon completion - got our nxt clue. dat really made us clueless. but we headed bac to gp anyway. met jim's group on the way... doubled our paces n flashed them evil smiles. muahaha. wasted a lot of time jz dechiphering the clue. n even more jz trying to locate the spot.

2-3 sumthing - running around gp doing our other tasks. among them were buying a specific amount of things (as in price) n taking photos of some shop names to form a sentence given. later, we were given a clue which had some maths equation which equaled to 1 in the end. even then, we had some difficulties getting the answer. first we got o.3.... (or sumthin like dat) then, we argued abt how to culcalate it...

3-4....- walked to 1-stop. yeah, dat clue brought us there. n yea, it was pouring at that time, no wait, it was raining the whole day already. how sickening. completed more clues there. had some error finding out how many tracks were in delta goodrem's 'innocent eyes' album. then, after wastin a lot of precious time, mel had a brainwave; he called one of his friends back home to check it out n hey presto! instantaneous answer. now, if only we had thought of dat earlier. darn.

4 something - rushed to the bus stop only to realise dat the bus had only jz left mins ago. oh crap. sat around eating kfc n (in my case) having pessimistic rantings on being the last team to finish the race. bus came, picked us, bus went.

reached prangin - last leg of the race. thank gdness....

4.45pm - waited 4 the bus to take us back.

5.10pm - still waiting.

5.15pm- out of frustration, we took the bus to batu lanchang instead. there, n bcos we were the last group to finish (sob,sob) we were specially driven home by some of the seniors who couldn't wait 4 us to reach anymore. so, i guess we finished the race in style.

abt 6- safely back. albeit too late of cos. we had a review... really lawak as the committee recounted tales of the teams goofing up n stuff. all the team leaders had to then say a speech n well, it was fun. really insightful. really.

the nxt sat is to be continued

random 3

aikz.... i was typin out an entry jz the other day when i realized dat the comp was unusually slow n sluggish than usual. only to realize that my poor, poor comp was being afflicted wiv spyware/adware. my feeble attempts to resuccitate it was rather pointless cos it jz passed out after i screened it wiv my antivirus. so... temporarily down for now. vry sad.. i've got all of my files in it n now i haf to use the freakin slow comp.

today was kinda holiday-ish for me ( it's a hol 4 my sis n the other forms... ish! how unfair), wut wiv it being speech day n all. it was altogether uneventful, jz performed wiv the string ensemble n went right home thereafter.

n yea.. a weird thing happened the other day. my mom n i were drivin home after sch.. n then, as we turned into a junction... there was this wild-eyed woman standin at the curb... i'll say.. she jz had this really desperate look on her face. n as she saw our car, she ran, n i mean, really ran towards our car n started bangin on the windows n screamin dunno wuts. she was bangin n generally creatin a loud ballyhoo... n there i was, jz calmly lookin at her ( i dunno y i did that at that time... it didn't strike me as bein dat odd) n my mom took 1 look at her, locked the car doors n drove even faster than ever. only, n only when we sped off did i realise that dat woman wasn't vry sane. then there was the moral issue... did we do right to jz leave her like dat? or if we stopped to find out her prob, wud she then climb into our car n proceed to threaten us at kinfe-point? i dunno... life's vry complicated sometimes.

can't wait 4 hawaiian nite tomorrow. i haf a really nice dress dat te lent me which i'm gonna convert into a skirt. the prob is... i dun haf anything suitable (as in 4 church standards) to wear wiv it dat might seem beachy n tropical enough without seemin too formal or sexy. but anyhow, i can't wait...

i'm jz tryin my hand at graphics and co. so bear wiv me. haha.

denise's top 5

listenin 2 paris hilton's stars are blind. really distracting. seriously, she shud quit singin n acting n jz stick to being an heiress. sum ppl r nvr satisfied.

wut happened recently...? other than the incident where my tuition teach ruined a guy's phone cos he was using it in tuition. yup... i think it's spoilt beyond repair now. she was always threatenin 2 do it, but i guess no 1 took her seriously... until now. so anyway, i've compiled from my errm, let's see... 7 or 8 yrs of tuitionin of (wut i think) most memorable moments.

denise's TOP 5
most memorable tuition moments....

5. revenge of the chair
well, one day... quite long ago when i still liked to balance myself on 2 out of 4 chair legs... u get the picture... i supposed i mz also haf been rockin the chair. then suddenly.... CRASH!!! the legs gave way n i landed nicely on my posterior which was rather bruised but not as damaged as my ego. i can still hear snippets of conversation abt it after all dis yrs... " wah... gal also can fall down" (yea, i betcha dunno wut other things gals r capable of doing, eh?) . well, i can safely tell u dat i nvr sat on 2 legs ever again.

4. blue is in
it shouldn't be in MY fav tuition moments cos i didn't see it personally. te told me dis story, but it was so gud dat i jz had to put it in. well, in f1... she went to tuition wiv dis guy who liked to bite the tip of his pen. dis poor guy bit off the pen cover one day n voila!!! bLUE TEETH. omygosh! i wud do almost anythin 2 be there then.... when he told the teach, she asked him 2 show her cos i guess she was still sceptical abt it. haha... it mz haf been sucha sight when he obligingly grinned n treated everybody to a full frontal (haha) of his wonderful teeth. not only dat, after having been banished into the toilet 2 get the offending bluish stain off... our fellow here pulled the head off one of the taps in his frantic attempts to clean his teeth. lolx.... now who said tuitions were boring...?

3. touch me NOT!!
at a time.... yea, long,long ago... when ross n i were still taller than some guys in the tuition, we wud sit behind some of the shorties. hehe... pity they grew up. n my gdness... the going-ons happening right in front of our faces.... 3 guys sitting together (obviously, they were vry close). 1 turnin gay n tryin 2 touch his friends at every given opportunity. of cos, he wasn't really gay... we jz said dat he was cos he used like really, really corny ways to touch his friend. jz like how a guy wud do if he really wanted to put his arm around a gal. u noe... running his fingers across her back n all. n the other 2 always tryin 2 resist his attempts... lol... it was really hilarious back then. pity it isn't anymore.

2. safe than sry.
hahaha... recently, dis gal, in her great haste to exit the house (of where i hv my tuition) crashed right into the gate. it happened so fast tt i didn't even haf a chance to notice it until i heard a bang or a crash. one moment it was run,run,run... n the nxt... splat! full body collision with the gate. it was a gd thing she was laughin together wiv us cos i cudden stop laughin 4 a gd 10 minutes after dat. well, it was really funny...

1. where the gentlemen go
it's gud to find that amidst all the so-NOT-gentlemanly guys in dis world nowadays, there're actually still some of the rare breed called gentlemen around. the ppl who make the difference between brutes n true men. dis is not funny or anything... n i've prob mentioned it b4... but still, it's those lil' things dat count, no? 2 of them, at different times opened n held the door 4 me. once bcos we were heading out together n he patiently held the door 4 me 2 go thru altho in actual fact, he got there 1st. sweet ain't it? n the other one was when every1 was miling around the doorway to get out... n i cudden cos there were too many ppl. so dis guy, who was ahead of me, opened the door 4 me n let me pass thru 1st.

of cos.. there were other times too. small n insignificant... but still, enough 4 me to rmb them by. like dat time when i went 4 tuition n saw k___ (at dat time, i was still infatuated wiv him) n he saw me n i almost died there. but i doubt he rmbers me tho... i chopped off my locks after camp u see. n the guys dat finished off a whole big tin of cookies during tuition... all the teasing, laughing, n lectures we had... priceless.

the sequel

i opened this window but was so distracted by the mass instruments of connectivity we haf nowadays. in layman's terms... msn n hp. heheh... look who's da bz gal nowadays....

so, how's life after the BIG disappointment? i haf to say.... now dat 'BAD DAY' is officially over... i'm still thriving. yea, i haf to... wut dat doesn't kill u will make u stronger. no? anywaaaaayyy...

i met my couz.... the 'i've got everything going 4 me n i'm every1's darling' cousin. ok, maybe i'm a lil' jealous, who wouldn't be....? he's studyin in da us... medicine... gud in sports.... quite well off... da rest.... but it's a real sad thing dat he's dad; my uncle... passed away nt too long ago. but, they're surviving.

so, after i think abt 2 yrs of nt seeing each other, we rendezvous at my grans place. yea, supposed to haf dinner wiv them (which was wut the big hoo-ha was abt... hehe). it was kinda awkward at 1st but later... it was ok.. we could talk n stuff. so, it wasn't altogether a bad thing.

yea... i kinda regret my incomprehensible outburst dat day... how selfish of me to put my things 1st b4 my own flesh n blood??? ah, nvm... another lesson in life to learn, eh?

shit happens

some days... things r so bad dat all u wanna do is crawl back to bed n bury urself under the blankets. shutting the world away, hiding from the cold, hard facts. well, dat someday is happenin rite now. bad day. yup. u noe, somehow, it nvr rains but it pours. yea, all the bad things dat cud possibly happen happens. sigh~* jz when u think "ntg else cud make me feel worse" guess wut? something else crops up that make u feel even lower than u already did. life is at best, ironic don'tcha think?

well, here i was... jz minding my own business, lookin forward to da weekends when my mom has 2 drop a bombshell dat i suspect started the whole bad day syndrome. sheesh...
so anyway, during lunch...
mom: so, wut're ur plans for sat? (as if she didn't noe already)
me: i haf prac on sat morn...
mom: we're going bac to ______ cos ur cous is here.
me: (still not getting it) oh, dat's ok, i'll ask pris to fetch me.
mom: (giving me dat wide-eyed incredulous stare look) huh? u mean ur not going? (sarcasm, starting) [i really hate it when she goes all so sarcastic, it's so darn anoying]
me: (it finally sinks in) ohhhh.... *disappointed look* but i can't... i've music prac....
mom: u can tell them u cannot. u can play any other time rite? (yea.... as if it were so easy to find a replacement).
me: umm *mumbling incorrigibly*
-despair-

that was trouble no.1
and lo n behold! along came trouble no.2 >>> finding a replacement. n guess wut? i'm still lookin... n if i don't find one, ppl will say dat i'm irresponsible... unfit to hv dat responsibility, yadda, yadda... cos i've accidentally done it b4. oh crap... ! life really sucks at the moment. someone... anyone... plssssssszz jz replace me on the piano!!! it really makes me look bad cos i've been missing a lot of duty (cos of unforseen circumstances, NOT bcos i want to).

trouble no.3- my line kaput-ed... something went wrong n it was sooo.. frustrating. really felt like crying at dat point.

trouble no.4 meant dat i can't go 4 supper wiv ben n all 2 celebrate his b'day cos i won't be goin 4 yas. aikz... it's a sad, sad world, ain't it?

n today... still lookin 4 a replacement. u noe, dis family dinner had better be worth all the trouble i had to go thru. it had better be gud if it's comparable to all my toil n sweat.

when ppl bite

i can't get dis out of my system. so, i've jz gotta haf it out here or else i won't be able to sleep peacefully tonite. u noe, sometimes ppl jz umwittingly bring u down by their comments n the ugly side of human nature is shown.

well, today... hmm... today....
o, maybe i should start from the beginning. the P.R.O.M committee. yupez... well, i'm in it... we had a meeting wiv all presidents of the clubs/societies/u.bodies etc to choose the committee. yea, n apparently, 0 (not her real name) thought dat it was up to the prefects' to plan the prom. yea, well... i guess dat used to be tradition: until tis yr. so, obviously she's pretty peeved dat she isn't on it. i dun blame her cos if i were in her position... trust me, i wud haf felt jz the same. but the thing which got me kinda pissed was dat she n another fren kinda like dissed the whole thing n put down the committee. i mean, HELLO! u haven't even seen wut we can or might do... give us a chance to prove ourself b4 judging us. sometimes, gud frens hurt u most.
tis is jz a small thing, but i felt dat it was pretty mean esp coming from a fren. but then, supposing dat the reverse happened... i guess i wud haf been worse.

kindred spiritszzzz

do u sometimes feel like u connect wiv someone. like,really connect? drawn to them... jz lured to them. eventho u've nvr been gd frens... eventho u've hardly talked? i'm nt talking abt the romantic attraction... it's jz... i dunno, it feels as if we are kindred spirits. like my soul says it connects well wiv dat person's. u noe... like i wanna noe more, drink more into the soul. yea, i think kindred spirit sums up the whole thing. but seriously... no romantic notions of any sort... trust me on dat.

and i'm such an idiot. no, i'm not gonna say it. i dun wanna be a real idiot. i confess i'm NOT an idiot or anything close. heheh.

but i still believe kindred spirits akin to mine still abound. i was too young lastime to realise dat, but i had 1 all along in my friend, my closest bestest pal (besides Jesus, but dat's beside the point)... but then, she moved away. n yea, we did remain friends up til now but we're not really close now. i've got my life n she has hers... besides, we're approx 4 hrs away by car. but i've nvr had any other friend dat was as close as we were since then. there're gud frens but nvr like b4. aikz... it's sad. but, there's hope still rite?