Jo Kenn in the house!

LOOK AT HIS NINJA HANDS! He is definitely a potential Ninja fighter in future.

I should have put this up earlier since the baby boy is almost 2 months old now. But better late than never, so let me introduce the new member in my family officially, the small ninja fighter is baby Jo Kenn!! He almost made it on 10/10/10 but he was too eager to see the world a day earlier, so he decided to pop out on the 9th. Anyhow, I’m delighted to welcome this new October baby in the house.

Oh yeah, so now I’m a B with 4 kids around me, and when I come to think of it, I’m not exactly a B in the house anymore since I’ve passed my throne to them since Jia Huey was born.However, I’m more than happy to have one more kid to play with in next summer, as I’m really missing these cheeky kids for now.

Hola, and now I’ve another new target to buy clothes for during my Cali trip. I think I’m getting better at buying kids’ clothes after 2 years of experiences, because my taste preference will automatically switch into kids mode when I’m choosing clothes or toys for them, just to make sure that they’ll like the gift.

For now, I’d rather talk to the kids than having to handle what world has gotten me into.

Lappie has got new friends!

Hi everyone, please welcome my new best friend, the bunnies!

Does anyone have idea on what is it?

Nah, I’m so kind to reveal the answer straight away! It’s a USB device to warm hands up through laptop. So what I have to do is just to plug the cable while using laptop, and there’ll be consistent wave of heat generated in the middle of the bunny gloves. TADA, and then I can say goodbye to my icy hands when I'm at indoor!

This is such a BRILLIANT and useful invention to me!! Now I feel warmer and calmer with this pair of gloves on while I'm rushing for assignments or simply enjoying my bubbly drama time. And when I’m bored of doing my work, there’s always this pair of bunnies smiling and accompanying me all night to keep me battling,they are really awesome studying partner, isn’t it?

Dear bunnies, this winter feels better with you guys.=)

Dear BFFs,this winter feels warmer with all your support.You guys are really awesome and considerate as always.

送给许可欣的温馨小品

I can’t sleep now so I’m gonna blog about the person I last talked to, who’s also a special friend of mine in Vancouver. She’s special because she knows me in and out, from my personality, secrets to habits. She’s unique because our birthday is only 7 days from each other. She is special because she’s on my ‘my 10’ phone list, and everything in her just makes her a special person to get along with.

Our friendship started when I first met her on a gathering last year. However, we only got to know each other better when we lived under the same roof. It’s so true that you get to understand a person so much quicker when you live with the person, because that was the way our friendship was initiated. Our conversations mainly took place in 2614, specifically in the kitchen as we never really hung out together at that time. Everything was 'settled' on the dining table, so you really can't neglect the significance of 2614 to the three of us.

Only until this term, when we no longer live together anymore, we realize how significant were those 29583993 lame jokes generated in 2614 kitchen, and so we started calling each other every week, even for the smallest matter on earth, just to keep up with our intimacy. I have to say, she is an extremely caring person, she takes the trouble to find me just to know about my condition. She possesses what I value the most in a friendship- trust and actions, and that’s when I know that she’s a true friend I could never miss out on. I treasure our friendship very much, not only because of the comfort I find in revealing myself to her; it’s also about her kindness to welcome me into her world.

I just want you to know that I always, always feel blessed to have a confidant like you. I’ve encountered many short friendships since I came to Vancouver, so short that I don’t expect much in new friendships at times. But you are nothing like them, you are not a footprint in my life, you are something much more real than that. You are an important piece of my life, and I will be there for you just like how you treat me the same. This is a mutual dependence, so don’t even bother hiding yourself even when you need only 1 buck to buy chocolate.

See, you called me at 1 a.m and I’m now blogging about you at 1.46a.m, I’m so efficient!

我会很听话喔，今晚会安心地去睡个好觉，会好好照顾自己，会保持身心开朗，然后从明天开始，我会带着你的喜悦和幸福去享受下雪天的乐趣。冬天出生的宝宝，怎能不开开心心地去迎接下雪天的来临呢？我之前还真是太不乖了。

不过，最重要的是，我知道你跟Eu是我生活中最真实的存在，所以别人不懂的事情都无所谓，只要你们懂我就够了。还是美里人跟怡保人最最棒啦！！！！

喔喔，还必须要凑齐一位吉隆坡人才对, oh yeahh！^.^

别说对不起

在细雪纷飞的那晚，当外面的温度空降到冰点的那天，我第一次听到你说对不起。突然而来的道歉，竟然令我有点无所适从，因为心灵还没来得及搭上道歉后该有的风度，反而一直处在空荡的状态中。

别说对不起，你只是顿时让我了解到，

原来，你也不过如此而已；
原来，我也不过如此而已；
原来，人也不过如此而已。

2010年第一次迎来的雪，却令我觉得有点陌生。身体很冷，手心很冷，也远比不上内心深处的寒冷。

Beautiful art

Take 12 minutes to watch this video.



This video is a very good metaphor about life. Sometimes, life is just like the stack of cubes as shown in the video, every cube represents a different phase in life, and every cube anchors to another cube of memory.

これわ人生です

I don't understand why.

My mood swings a bit these days. Despite the hectic workload that has taken away half of my soul, there’s something bugging me and I find it difficult to understand, at least it’s beyond my understanding. I received 2 news in a day, one good and one bad. They are nothing about me directly, but the contrast is too big for my EQ to handle it calmly. It’s like, someone’s at the beginning of my previous path, whereas the other one just took the exit out. And I am like the final product to them.

Then I started thinking, am I a good final product?

I don’t know, I’ll never know, as keep moving on is my only strategy in solving problems as such. Although sometimes, figuring out the outcome yourself does not feel good and can be avoided, this is still a process we have to master. Although sometimes, you think you could believe in what others say, it’s this faith which diminishes your faith on the others in the end. Although sometimes, promise may sound sweet, never forget the destruction of a broken promise before that.

I just don’t understand how this incident could have happened, at least for now. It’s not even the anger which strikes me now as I’m prone to ‘fire’; it’s more like a mixed feeling of emptiness and disappointment.

信与不信，真的只有一线之差。

Girls are born to be complicated

A lot of people think that girls are complicated. I can understand the perception but I can also explain this phenomenon with valid reasons- a girl’s life is born to be complicated. Apart from the busy daily tasks, we have to pamper our skin like a princess to ensure that it doesn’t upset us by bringing in a colony of bee hives.

How not to be complicated when a girl’s life involves so many small steps from the inner to outer shelf?

Let’s start from the skin! We have to select the suitable set of skincare products to keep our skin smooth all the time. It’s not as easy as using just one bottle of cleansing foam to achieve the desired skin texture, there are also other products like toner, moisturizer, eye gel, day cream, night cream etcetera which enhance our skin performance. Every product has a specialized effect to the skin and that’s why we have to select the right ones according to our skin sensitivity as well as age.

That’s the first complicated stage.

And then we move on to mask!

I have to say, although doing mask is generally beneficial to your skin, keeping an eye on the ingredients to prevent allergic reactions is important. Another important factor in considering the suitable mask to be used is the weather. Since I came to Vancouver, I usually buy hydrating masks to give my face a hydro boost, so that it won’t dry off as easily.

Keeping your skin clean and clear requires a great extent of determination. You have to keep it as a consistent habit and do mask at least once a week, although 2 times weekly will be ideal. This is extremely important for people who are not going to monthly facial treatment, just like me since mask is the only extra treatment I put on my face. If you’re a lazy bum, I suggest you to use night mask in which you can put it on overnight and then either wash off ( for peel off type) or dispose the mask sheet the next day morning.Besides doing mask weekly, I also use black head remover to get rid of the tiny black sesames on my nose.

This is the second complicated stage. And I haven’t even touched on the outer parts like cosmetic, hair treatment and clothing part yet.

Most of us are consistently living under pressure to stay in a good shape in and out, but I take this pressure as a positive one and set out a strict control to reach the balance in life. I don’t really like to complaint about myself because I much prefer allocating the same amount of time to upgrade myself instead. I also dislike making remarks on others appearance either, simple because I think that words like ‘ugly’ and ‘fat’ are powerful enough to ruin their lives if these people happen to be pessimistic and have ever heard these remarks, since I feel that many suicides derive from society pressure. Hence, things are meant to be kept silent sometimes.

In a nutshell, I just want to give an idea to the others out there who judge girls based on their appearance but never really spend enough time to understand a girl’s effort to keep herself at the best in and out. If a girl doesn’t complain about your appearance and personality, why should you find the trouble then? Inner and outer beauty don’t come by without a reason, as every pretty girl has surely invested quite a bit in herself first before she can constantly shine out. It’s not as easy as it may seem, because it requires consistent effort, money, and time. That’s why I don’t see a reason of being jealous with pretty girls, because they are willing to pay the price for the deal. As long as they are taking the right path
towards being beautiful, why not give it a shot?

Being beautiful is really affordable and achievable, don’t you think so?

Don't look back in anger

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you'd never been
But all the things that you've seen
Will slowly fade away

So I start a revolution from my bed
'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

And so Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger
I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows, if it's night or day.
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock 'n Roll band
and throw it all away

Gonna start the revolution from my bed
'Cos you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside cos summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as she's walking on by.
My soul slides away, but don't look back in anger
I heard you say

So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger
I heard you say

And So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late and she's walking on by
My soul slides away, but don't look back in anger, don't look back in anger
I heard you say

At least not today.

Foods for thoughts

Leading a healthy lifestyle doesn’t really require high expenditure and a dull menu all the time, as we can play around with the fresh food resources so long that we have the passion to begin with. Therefore, I started making my own smoothie a few days ago and absolutely fell in love with it. Banana, baby carrots, milk and some ice cubes are all that I need and a cup of banana and carrot smoothie is ready to go in 5 minutes once everything is blended together. I tried halving the milk and replaced it by strawberry yoghurt on my next attempt and it tasted good too, so just go ahead inventing your own recipe until you find the combination that you like. It’s like a morning energy boost to me since my stomach feels absolutely satisfied after drinking a cup of it.

Despite of the program that I’m enrolling in university, I’m not an arrogant person when it comes to giving some food recommendations from a nutritional point of view. I seldom bring food issues to the table simply because I think everybody is responsible of their own dietary style. If you are health conscious, then you would want to know more about the proper foods to be consumed to lead you to a healthy lifestyle without needing anyone to motivate you to do so. If you’re simply not a person in that group, then there’s nothing I can say to give you that push to join in the line, because you will most probably ignore it no matter how much time I spend to persuade you. Also, I don’t want to upset myself by listening to how some people prioritize their food preference and neglect everything else, especially the environment. To me,they will only start to realize the real problems embedded within the entire food system when some real disastrous outbreaks kick in, which is quite disappointing when I come to think about it. That’s why I only give my two cents when people are genuinely interested in food issues so that we can work on it together in hope to raise public awareness based on pure scientific evidences.

Anyway I’m currently working on a food project about rooftop garden and I’m doing 12 hours of gardening as my community service learning. I’ve done 8 hours of farming at 2 different urban gardens so far and the take-home message is

“FARMING IS REALLY TOUGH, SO PLEASE APPRECIATE YOUR FOODS!!!!!”*10 fingers pointing at myself*

I will cherish my food more from now on and do my best to no waste food in future.

Oh la la my colourful life

I’m a colourful person, I enjoy using cute little things because they turn my life into a colourful one. My obsession in colourful things has long been in me since I’ve loved decorating my room with pretty cute things since young. I love exploring creative ideas and art crafting, which is why I do window shopping myself sometimes just to look out for those cute things to satisfy my sight. If there were so many great minds in this world, then there should be abundant different ideas out there as well.

Colourful things simply make my day.



I’ve received quite a bit of positive feedbacks on my fringe and I really thank you guys for being so humble to me. Some friends encourage me to join freelance modelling while the others have asked me to model for them but I hesitate a lot since I can’t pose naturally in front of people, I realized I only work best with myself and my camera. Although curiosity of trying something new strikes me for a while, I still find it difficult to overcome the stage fright as I'm not used to presenting the best of myself in front of everyone else yet.It’s just like my singing as well, nobody knows this side of me until they have been along with me for a while, as I usually present my best to my BFFs.

Also because of the fringe, almost 60% of my friends claim that I’ve Korean look while the other 40% think that I’m more to Japanese. It changes my life slightly when a friend starts texting me in simple Japanese and he even wrote my birthday card in Japanese. I’m so glad that I can ‘pretend’ a bit since I’m able to understand most of the conversations besides being excited for the fact that I can finally put my Jap into use. Therefore, I should really go further for my Jap course before I start to age =_=, or I should say, before my memory starts to worsen.

Besides saving money, I’ve also started picking up some Korean language in preparation for my upcoming Korea trip with my lovely Seoulmates. I’m really putting an effort to learn both languages by watching tonnes of J&K dramas, sometimes I even re-watch the scene for a few times just to catch a word or phrase.

Anyway I like my fringe too although it means more work (have to cut my fringe almost every week now).I’m still coping well with this lifestyle,however the day I get bored of cutting my fringe will be the day I surprise you with my ‘10 seconds haircut’ again.

Halloween, I'm here!

Hanging out with friends 3 days in a row was somehow an achievable luxury to me despite of the hectic schedule as I spent my last few days of October celebrating Halloween as well as friend’s birthday. Also because of the frequent outings,I broke my own records in many ways for 3 consecutive days.

Firstly, WX dear brought me to her dance party and that’s how I got the chance to dress up in Halloween this year. I didn’t want to splurge on Halloween costume so I put on the Yukatta my host mama gave me during student exchange trip in Japan last time. I must say, dancing Waltz and Cha Cha in Yukatta seemed to be really awkward because many girls wore a dress instead. Can you imagine a yukatta floating around the sea of dresses? That was exactly how I felt.

However, I had the chance to learn some simple dance steps courtesy to dear dear and overcame the embarrassment slowly. I couldn’t even believe myself dancing for the whole night when I haven't danced for at least 6 years.



I then went to a theme park for the first time in Vancouver and getting high with all the screaming and haunted environment. Going to theme park and playing under the rain enhanced the Halloween craziness even further, because our jeans and shoes were soaking wet. If I could describe the feeling to you, it would be like sitting on a roller coaster with water dripping all over your face and melting your eyeliner. I wasn’t sure which one was nastier in the end. Well at least they didn’t close down the park, if not my 30 bucks would have washed down the sink already.

The coolest thing I found in the park was definitely this monster that we took picture with. He was stationary for a very long time and no one actually noticed this real flesh until he jumped out of the stool and started scaring people around. He somehow reminded me of the wax museum prank by Edison Chen in one of the videos I watched earlier since he prank people in the exact same way. I swear it was hilarious because he pretended as a wax figure and randomly scared visitors who were taking picture with him.



Wrapped up my Sunday afternoon with Afsan’s birthday and we went for a good movie together. It has been such a long time since we last hung out together and it was great catching up with them outside class again. Sometimes, I’m grateful for the small faculty I’m in because that brings us closer together. I don’t understand the greatness of it until the beginning of my third academic year, when I can recognize most of my classmates by face. I may not know all of them personally but we definitely went through several courses together. Learning something in a familiar environment with some other passionate people is somewhat comfortable to me.

Another thing I love about LFS has to be the Agora café, where you can pick up a hot chocolate in a mug for only 1 buck. The best part is not just about the price, but it’s how homely I feel carrying the mug to my lectures and return it back to the café once I’m done with it. It’s a way our faculty promotes sustainability,and honesty in a way, since there is a possibility for those mugs to disappear at anytime.

Of course, fun outings and huge expenditure usually come in a package, so I guess I shall start eating grass for the following days to compensate with that. =_=