An Untypical Taiping Weekend

Butterfinger' Stay at Taiping. ...was not bad, though my dad complains from A to Z about the hotel we stay in, was really small, inconvenient, and have so little plug points. Well, nobody said Taiping is a well-advanced village. So, be happy with what you have, dad. On the way to my destination, my friends, Cheng, B.hee and Danny SMS and called me about our ranking, our average and how many As we got. Haha, first time I had friends calling me about our results, but it was a nice experience. Thanks to Cheng for helping me check my result while I was on the road. Cheng is ranked 13th in my class, I felt sad about it, and now I hope nobody will ever get sick during exam. I ranked 8th, I was even happier when I found out I was ranked 38th in the whole form! Yesh! As for my gang, I have full confident Cheryl is ranked 1st(well, I was wrong, it's Justin), Johnny gave me the biggest surprise when Danny told me he ranked 2nd, woo-hoo nice job, mate! And Tian Jin ranked 3rd, no surprise, he always gets 3rd or 4th. From my understanding, from 4th place to 8th, we all had the same average. How weird, right?(with the exception of Wai Loon though). Another first time I see this happening, kinda cool, haha. Anyways, we did great guys! And I hope we would still be together in the same class next year, nobody splitting up.    
          The reason why I'm in my ma's hometown that weekend is because my auntie is getting married, to be specific, my mom's dad's brother's daughter, that would be my mom's cousin, which is not close to my mom at all, got married on 12.11.11, congratz to her. Yea, but I was freaking bored that night, after eating, the night before the bridegroom meets the bride, as tradition of Hokkien clan, or maybe the whole Chinese people, the bride and bridegroom cannot meet face to face or call or text each other, haha, ok, the call and text part I made it up, I don't know about that. Anyways, I was so bored that I was so happy it's time to go back to my grandmama's place. Back there, I was so happy to know my cousin is going there too, yes! At last boredom is gonna fly away from my side, she grown even taller than the last time we met, but she is still her wacky self, never change. Though she's younger than me by 3 years, she taught me something, a game called sketch, if that is how it spelled, ha, it was a fun game, at first I thought it's gonna be complicated, but after playing it, it's addictive and easy to play. Sketch is played using poker cards, haha, reminds me of her poker cards, at the back was Disney princess, haha, imagine Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and all those Disney princesses sitting round a table playing poker, haha, this reminds me of Shrek, one of their movies, those rough princesses.    
          The wedding day. Well oh well, a big day for the couple. For me, it was an okay day, had food as usual, the best part about weddings is that they'll have food before, during and after the wedding, the worst part today was the time the groom meets the bride. The groom and his pile of friends will do all sorts of stupid stuff before he can go in, cause the bride is suppose to be not ready yet, so they are stopped by the bride's sisters and brothers, playing games with them, making them put lipsticks, and kissing each other, by the way, those friends of the groom are all male, and we spectators will be looking at guys kissing each other on the cheek, and the last one, right on the lips. Then they had this banana which was tied around their waist, after that, both male will swing their banana to the other male side, if the other male's banana is hooked with his banana, one of them has to eat the bananas, so stupid, after watching this I walked away, cause it's stupid and also disgusting, it seems that everyone there are perverts, well, I just can't stand looking at this and enjoying it, urghh. so I sat on a chair and start eating again, since it's the morning, they offer cakes, kuih, all that sweet stuff. I enjoyed my time sitting there and eat the glutinous rice kuih, sticky and yummy...well, after they finish their perverty games, they knocked on the door, sorry, bang on the door, and shout "open the door" in Cantonese. Why in Cantonese? hello, guys, we're Hokkien Lang. At last the groom can meet his bride after a day of not seeing her, they did the Chinese tradition, zham cha, lastly kids go upstairs and take angpow, which is such a long queue....moving on, all of us went to the groom's house, fuh...his family's house is so humongous, it's like 10 times bigger than the bride's shop lot house. However, when entering the room, you find out the house is kinda small, only the outside is big, cause they had so many fish ponds and they have a big garden and carparks. Plus, this guy who owns this house is a Arowana fish seller, that's why his so rich, haha. He rears these fishes in a big fish aquarium outside his house, kinda cool. That day, my dad and mom was bored so we went back to my grandma's place and play and rest. My grandma said we can shower at her place, thanks for the offer, but we already showered in the morning. Talking about that, that shower I took in the morning was freezing cold, yea they had a water heater, but the surrounding was so cold, the water heater was not enough to make the surrounding in thermal equilibrium. I was practically like a fur ball in the shower, just letting the water run down. Getting out of the shower was the hard part, I had to off the water heater, here comes total coldness, I took my towel, and then just stood there looking at my clothes, just unable to move, but at the end, of course I decided to stop wasting my time looking and wore my clothes, which really almost killed me, having a morning shower sucks badly!
          Well, the wedding dinner, how did it go? The one thing I don't like about w.dinners are the going in and the getting out part. Going in, if you're late, ok, my family's always late, everyone goes and thought you were the bride and groom, well, we are so not. Getting out we need to shake hands first, and squeeze out to the exit, hate it, so cramp, thank goodness my dad went down and get the car ready for us to get out! Yay! The whole night was drunken talks, bad singing, horrible food and my grandma, urghh..can pengsan and she's sitting right beside me, cause my ma had an argue with her and doesn't wanna sit next to her, I also hate family issues. Whole night was my grandma thinking I'm wasting food, oh come on I don think I ever waste food ever! I just eat slower than others, so patience, grandma, of course I'll eat it, plus the forcing to eat the last bits, oh please, I'm so full already, you want me to finish that?! And so, I was a bloated fish when I came back to the hotel, just feel like laying down the bed and sleep away....
          The next day, we ate Khai See Meen(Shredded Chicken noodles) with my cousins for brunch, and went back home after that, to meet my grandparents for dinner. That weekend was done.

*Bang!* => KILL ME

          Taekwondo this/next week is all over. My training sessions and me following my parents to Philippines period is gonna clash. Everything in the same week, no choice but to sacrifice one, that is obviously taekwondo, sigh, kill me. Every year, sir will have these few sessions, kinda like POWER BOOST sessions when our last grading is near, so we'll be able to get good results. This year, I'm in trouble, for missing almost all these sessions, i hope sir will still let me take my grading, even though i'm gonna miss, hopefully i will do my best in front of him, every move right, and he'll let me pass to perform in front of Grand Master on December 4th, oh Lord, I pray I'll be discipline enough to practice everyday in the Philippines, be ready for that day. Talking about sir, Sir Bala is getting married, haha, at last, Congratulations to him...wonder when is sir Sara gonna get married too...has he found the right one, anyway?, ^^.
         
          This post looks kinda short, haha, add more stuff. Emm...ok, Report Card day on Friday. My parents already know my results, ranking, average bla bla through a website, a government website for parents to check their son's and daughter's results, ha, did they create this website cause they were afraid the students would hide their results from their parents? Who knows...well then, me and my ma still went that day, pity my class teacher and other teachers waiting for us to turn up, if we didn't, then it'll count as we wasting their time, and i do not like wasting people's time, even if i don't see eye to eye with that person, i will still not do that(maybe i should rethink about it...). Got there, got lost for a while, and finally saw my teacher. How 'lucky' I am to have my result paper right beside Justin's, my classmate who got 1st(every time..). My teacher told my mom to take mine, but my busybody mom went to compare my marks with Justin's instead, then she gave me a few 'huh?!'s, indicating 'why you so 差 one?!' and 'fuh, wau, girl', meaning 'your marks and his are so far apart, sigh'. The worst part was when she was counting how many A's he got, slowly counting 1, 2, 3...10As...my 7As broke itself into pieces...what to say during this time?Nothing, just..smile, A Big Wide Smile, and change the subject, hehe. I asked my teacher are we gonna change classes tomorrow, how happy I was when she said there'll be no streaming next year, whoever is a Creativo, forever will be one, haha, ok, she didn't say that, that's just what she said translated into my own words, haha. Anyways, YAY!!! We'll still be together next year! Woo-Hoo!!! I went home happily, but stopped by Danny's house to finally pass exam papers to him, haha, i kept it for so long.

          One more thing to tell ya, I'm gone for a week startin...tomorrow, and so, I'm not gonna blog again, sorry, but I'll post pictures(if i took any) when I come back from the Philippines, smell ya later~!  

School Again?!

          School's back, well, only for a day, to return our textbooks and maybe get some test papers back, which me and the gang did. After returning all the books, we walked round here and there, finding teachers. Me and Danny went to find physics teacher, cause I was eager to know my phys. results, even though I know it's gonna be crappy. Once we found her, she couldn't give us anything, she hasn't finish marking yet. Then, we went downstairs back to the hall, and got our bio papers, all of them, man, bio teacher's fast. My result wasn't too bad or too good, I got 67 for it, which is worse than mid-term, but somehow it didn't made me feel like saying, "why 67?! why...67 only...", and cry out boo-hoo, I felt contented with it, 3 marks more, I could get a solid B, that's next time. Later, I remembered me, Dan, Jon and...ahh B.Hee(almost forgotten him, sorry B.H) went to find chemistry teacher. She, I guess was kinda busy, maybe having more papers to mark, cause the only paper she completely finish marking was paper 1, objective paper. Oh well, the rest of the time we spend on helping her mark, counting stuff. Finish doing that, one last stop before...you'll know soon, went to the teacher's office, actually to find BM teacher, but she weren't there, so detoured to find English teacher, sigh, English, also 3 marks more I could get an A+, if not because of my bad essay writing, yea I could get it, next time then. Now, all things settled, we head off to D&J's house, haha, again, oh yea, first we need to find Jun Rong, found him, waited for a while, everybody's there already and we go. I stayed there till 3pm, cause I got tuition at 4, so need to go home early. Me and B.Hee made instant noodles(lunch) first, then we helped J.Rong and Pin to cook too, which was weird, and so, in the middle of cooking for them, I asked Hee why are we doing this, only then he realized...We're Dumb Fools. And we called them to cook for themselves, muahahahaha! Later, the whole time there I was actually watching wrestling, well, I didn't like want to watch it, but I enjoyed watching the match between Undertaker and Triple H, I can't believe myself almost falling for an addiction to WWE again, I'm so weak, haha.
          Went back to school again, that's for me and those having taekwondo only, on Thursday. I got there before 2.30pm, so I quickly went to physics teacher's office to collect our papers. When I got hold of all my phys papers, I counted my marks and I got 64, of course not my dream mark, every paper was ok, just paper 2, the essay section, I only had 14/40, totally unexpected. So, anybody know any good teachers or tutors or anybody thinking they are really good at physic essay, please tell me, on Facebook, go find Raika Rai, that's me, the one that needs help. Moving on, to taekwondo, that day we recapped all the taegueks, me red belt learning taeguek chil jang, the 7th tae. now, had to suffer from taeguek 1-6, which I forgot all of them, except the 1st one, which is the basic, at least I didn't flunk that one. Thank goodness Sir Sara wasn't there that day, or else I'm gonna be growing muscles from a whole lot of push-ups, yikes! After taekwondo was done, I called my mom if she has arrived yet, and oh yea, she's not here yet, so I used my extra minutes to collect BM test papers. Oh BM BM, was a letdown, I dropped from being on earth all the way to hell, exclude my dramatic self, in simple words, I did badly. I was worried sick for my SPM, I was so worried I'll fail Malay in SPM, I told my mom about it, and she said I need more time to study BM, before mid-term, I had no tuition for it, and it wasn't the subject I'll be afraid I'll do terribly, she also said, maybe I should think of canceling my BM tuition, so I could have more time doing revision for Malay myself, I wonder, should I take mom's advice or..not? During shower time, I managed to calm myself down, by..ha, guess, well I was calmed through singing, yea, I know, again...this time singing Drops of Jupiter by Train, this song has no connection with Malay or anything, but it was nice to sing it in the shower. Out of the bathroom, I got down thinking what should I do to improve me BM grades, huh? Haha, the only suggestion I had for myself was, go search Google, 'Bagaimanakah seseorang pelajar dapat meningkatkan markah untuk subjek BM?', stupid me, asking Google to help me think. My pop said I blogged a lot, maybe I should write a paragraph using Malay in every post...erm, actually it's not a bad idea, better than mine a million times, another question, should I? Haha, let's just see about that next year.

...and My Holiday Begins

          Just after Friday, i started doing all the things that I wanted to do so...badly during my exam days, I made a note to myself whenever I felt bored and lazy in the middle of studying, one of those things I was really eager to start was watching Supernatural again, oh yeah, this is definitely what I call holiday, spending almost the whole of my day watching it. I start from Season 3 episode 1 till the Christmas episode on..Sunday. The Christmas Special, a part Danny showed me before I knew anything about this tv series. I remembered watching this Christmas part, which is the first time I watch Supernatural, a short clip Danny shared from YouTube, he told me it's one of those touching moments, but who knows maybe this emotional moments have some ghost or demons coming out?..well, i basically kinda stick myself so tightly to the chair like superglue, I think i was able to freak out anytime, like when it's almost about to end, I was so scared something or someone will appear at the windows, I was blinking like a blinking maniac, I made it a scary moment than a touching one. Plus, after that part finished, I was so relief i'm done with it but at the same time, I have no idea what was going on. I always thought Supernatural was scary, now, I think it does has it's scary factor, you know, fighting demons and stuff, but it's more about brotherhood, family, bonds, all that lovey lovey stuff, so that's way, it has these kind of moments, that will sometimes make your heart skip a beat and you'll feel like sobbing(like my mom...). Extra information, that episode also made me understand how does Danny came out with the word 'fudge' to replace the 'f' word. Haha, I love the part when Dean used a few 'fudges' in one sentence, and the old grandma pagan god said he was improving, something like that, funny. That reminds me, Supernatural is not only loving, it's also hilarious! Seriously!               
          While watching Supernatural, I also did something on the side, yea, cool right, I'm a multi-tasker, XD. I was reading a book so boring that it took me 4 days(can be faster if not for Supernatural, LOVE it) to finish reading that Boring book, called...(I can't even remember what it's called already) something about Isla and Luke. Ok, this is actually a sequel to the 1st book, but because I bought it in a garage sale for..5 bucks? They don't have the 1st one, anyways, what the cheesecake, just buy it for fun la. WRONG MOVE, shouldn't have done that! Regret, regret, regret, nevertheless, 5 buckeroos is still $$$, I forced myself, me eyes actually, to keep on reading till the end, and I did, yay me!(urghh) So...the story, okay, the main thing is about this girl called Isla going out with this guy called Luke(sigh, *fall asleep*). During their college years, Luke's dad took them together to go vacation with him and his 2nd wife, which of course, Luke hates. But then, Luke's relationship with his new mom becomes apple peachy after their vacation, great...Let's fast forward to New Year, yea, it's the night just before new year, Isla and Luke went to their local, kinda grand bar place, Luke got drunk, super drunk, and talked rubbish in a drunken way the whole night, till the time when everyone was out of the place. And when just when Isla was ready to drag him back home, he wanted to have nachos or salsa, let's just say he wanted food, so, Isla had to carry him by the shoulder to that place. While he was eating, Isla took a photo of him eating like a man starving for a year and this is his first meal, she took this photo for her competition, some photography competition she came across in the newspapers. At the end, she gotten 1st prize for that photo she took, and it was placed right in the middle of the college hall. Luke was really upset to see this and so he broke up with her, cause he thinks she was trying take advantage on him, make him a fool...I think, dah lupa. Isla no matter what still love him very much, and he still do, even though he wanted to break up. Everyday, Isla miss him even more, and one day, she can't take it anymore! Yes, she can't! She gone nuts and did suicidal action! Ya, I just bluffed you! Haha. She didn't do that, what she did was took down that photo and paste the poem she wrote for Luke on Valentine's day. Luke was touched and at the same time, thinking if Isla is trying to show the whole world their privacy, he still thinks Isla is playing tricks on him, what?! Come on....she truly loves you, and so that guy called up the girl, and don know what happen la, they chit chit chat chat, and the end they become couple again, aww...happy ending...one piece of advice, NEVER EVER buy a book that is a full love story, and no action! Believe me, it's boring, and after that, you can't just waste money putting it a side, you have to read it, ishh ishh(words my English teacher uses when she's...well, I think she use it every time, ha).         
          If you're ever finding a love and action series, try The Kane Chronicles or Percy Jackson, haha, both by the same author, Rick Riordan, his books are the best! If you want a balance of unreal stuff and romance, try Sweep, or they also call it Wicca, you know about Wiccan magic? Yeap, this series is all about it. Talking about Sweep, I just remembered I went to midvalley and finish reading Dark Magick, it's book 4, the same day I finish reading Isla and Luke book! Haha, killing two books in one day? Ha, new proverb. Reminds me of the walk just to get to Borders, Borders is located at The Gardens, and I'm at Midvalley, though it's connected to each other, walking there was a pain in the buttocks, no, at the legs, it was tiring, my legs were almost bendable by the time I reach there. My poor legs...
           And that's my first session of HOLIDAY!!! XD

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          Wednesday, the day we only had 1 paper to test, that is Chem Paper 3. That time, I believed I did okay, but now when I think about my whole chemistry, it suck, terribly. However, if I were to think in another way(the positive one), at least I got a B for it, hahaha, and laugh it off, man, I'm cold.            
          Well, after we pass our papers, we suppose to go to the bengkel, I don't know what you call 'bengkel' in English, but...I think it's call bench, okay, then, I'll use that word, we suppose to go to the Agricultural Science bench to get some tips or do more revision for that upcoming subject, the last subject of my form 4 year, ahh...form 4, gone so fast, long gone and moved on, nope, not the song, it got nothing to do with the song, just the name, it relates to my time this year, fast and furious...guess that's too much, huh, eh-heh, sorry. So, we reached to the bench, and then some other teacher told us that our teachers didn't come today, what, they played truant themselves, amazing~
          While I was quite loss having no idea what to do next, I saw B.Hee and Danny walking my way, well, not really towards me, I think, but I went up to them, telling today's 'exam tips' session is cancelled. Straight away, B.Hee suggested we hang out at Danny's house for the 3 hours before our parents come and pick us up, in short, till school finishes. I had no single problem with that at all, since Dan's house is quite near from our school, so B.Hee suggested we walked there, and yeap we did, 'we' including me, B.Hee and Thailand, Pin, Wai Loon from Johnny's side. Now we were on our way to Dan's and Jon's house.          
          The walk there was not what I thought, the Sun was practically burning me, Danny had an umbrella with him, I had one too, but I was so lazy to even reach my hand into my bag and get it out, and I didn't wanna share umbrella with Danny, it's not because of you, it's because of Johnny. Though we're best friends, but Jon's been acting weird these days, it's as if he wanna say we like each other as a couple, sigh, the misunderstand-er, either than the sun, Jon kills me. At last, we reached their condo, and it's a big place, I mean, it's like a maze, just to get to the fifth block, we got to walk more, ha, if I went there myself, it's gonna be a new story, 'Butterfinger Lost in (modern)Jungle'.            
          This time, at last, we reached their house, going inside their house was cool, wait wait, I meant their house itself was cool, the outside and the inside was different. Haha, Danny keeps on saying his poor, so poor his shoes are used since form 1, so poor to even afford anything. Tell me, how does a poor guy afford an LCD tv, the latest Astro tv broadcasting system(Malaysia stuff), a billion ps3 games, and more?!..ok, ps3 games haven't even reach a billion yet, but they have a lot! That's why it's super cool! We had a fun time there, some of us played ps3, watch them playing, I studied a little(so rajin, right?Haha, oh yea), some took out their old comics and read, go online facebooking, talking about that, Wai Loon showed us a video of two motorcyclist trying to rob a shop, came in full suit, even wore their helmets and dark sunglasses into the shop(we gotta be careful around these type of people), then used some 'parang' to hit the owner and his family, owner had a wooden stick under his desk, took it out and beat those guys, but they keep fighting back, till the end the owner got a line on his forehead, and his son was cut, his hand was bleeding. Urghh, I felt total disgust when the motorcyclists were hitting or like 'slicing' them, man, it was painful. Anyway, I also took a look at their photo albums, didn't see any of their pictures, just their parents wedding time pics, and I found out that their parents married the same year as my parents, 1994. Pin was all in on the psp game he was playing, he was really concentrated in it, hehe, he was addicted. Then, Danny's dad came back home and gave them their lunch, and also ask if we wanna eat anything, aww...how sweet, haha. My parents are sweet too, but maybe not so sweet like their parents, ^-^.          
          The next day we also had one paper to be tested on, if you don't count Chinese papers. For me, I don't take Chinese, i consider myself a half banana already. My paper was PJK. Same as the day before, after finishing that paper, we went to the 'bench'. This time, thank goodness our teacher came, but the only tip we got from her was the experiment report, will be about pembiakan, haha, at least the rest of the time I had fun copying all the answers into my blue exercise book with Rebecca, Cheryl, and Joee, we had a nice do-work-and-chat time, XD! Later, I had taekwondo, just as any usual thursday. Though I did so so bad in new syllabus, got bombed by sir on every move I made, haha, i'm always happy when my friend, Shi Ying comes back to her ex-school and have taekwondo, happy happy all the way, even when your being skewed/slaughtered/grilled in a hot barbecue pit by master, teehee!         
          Friday was the last day of school!!! Well, can be counted as the last day, I was even happier, Incredibly, Unbelievably just really HAPPY! You can see that at my first post when I start blogging, unimaginable happiness. I remembered me just thinking in my head about what I'm gonna do when I got home, haha, even during the ride home, I just stared out the window, and see myself smiling, from the minute we passed up our last paper till the whole day, I can't stop laughing, cheesecake, I was really on top of Mount Everest!            
          On Saturday, I realized this school year was all over, that made me sick in my stomach, in fact, I felt like crying a little, I'm gonna miss Creativos a lot, hopefully nothing change next year, we'll still be in the same class together, Be Creative Forever! Things got worse, when I knew about myself, not caring about Danny, and just continuously chatting with Esther on Friday, sigh I should have asked about his add maths results when Teacher Hayati, our add maths teacher gave our papers back. I thought he did better than me, he is always better than me, but this time, I was wrong, and deep in my heart I wished I could turn back time and ask a simple question will also do, man, I didn't even ask a single thing. I'm sorry, best friend, I hope I will never make myself have this feeling of sadness because then that means I hurt you again. *in my superior voice* NO, I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN! :)