Memori

I was helping at my aunty's english tuition centre this weekend, had three classes with Grade 3 and 4 students. It's was spontaenuous so i wonder if i made any mistakes in explaining grammar usage (seriously, i think i made some). My dad called it 'misleading'.

So it brought me to the Pedada shoplots that were once so familiar to me. Chopsticks the coffee shop, the coffee shop at the other end of the shop, and a few in other shoplots, two bakeries, Everise the shopping centre, many other varieties of shops around, and not forgetting, Muhibbah the mamak stalls.

I was Form Four. A few of us were taking physics and add maths tuition classes at Newton's. Every tuesday and thursday, two continuous classes of two hours each, with thirty minutes break in the middle. We were talkative, talked all the way in every class. We extended the thirty minutes break ourselves and made it fourty or sometimes fourty five, making ourselves late for physics class every time and mr kong couldn't do anything to'us. Sometimes we'd bump into our school's physics teacher on the way to dinner since he's having tuition class in the neighbouring shoplot.

I visited the bakery this afternoon for lunch. We used to buy bread for dinner when we were tired of fried noodles and kampua. I saw the egg white cake which we used to buy before. It's still there, bringing me more vivid memories about our 'adventures' there, choosing different kinds of bread everytime we came.

Unfortunately it was raining, or i would walk further to another bakery that was popular (for me) with hotdog-salad-bread, a break wrapped with hotdog and salad, obviously, i never get tired of eating it. I wonder if it's still there now. Yea i remember the name of the bakery, Ri Liang Mian Bao, i remember how the tauke or sometimes the taukenio teaches their sons reading.

I stood still, eating the newly bought bread, played with my handphone, and glanced at the road where we used to walk around. The road which we took to Everise, the road which we dared to walk in the middle like our grandfather owned the road, the road that let us continued our non-stop talking after our maths class, which was to be continued to physics class.

Glancing further away, there're more coffee shops. One incident. I helped freya to pour coke inside her tupperware and (maybe) i didn't seal it tight. Then we found out in physics class that it burst and her bag was wet with coke. Papers, pencil bag, everything was drenched. I was petrified. Her calculator was kena masuk water too. Until her calculator was fixed, my calculator was with her as an exchange just in case her calculator died. Year later when i told somebody about this, she said it may be the bubbles of the coke that made the cover burst. Yea, why didn't i think of that. So it's either i didn't seal it tight or the bubbles did this to us.

Everise, a shopping centre that we used to buy junks and loiter at. During festivals my mom would come along with dad to pick me up then we would go there to buy some junks. We hardly go there since i stopped having tuition classes after form five.

Muhibbah, i used to have supper with dad and brother after our classes end at nine. If i see my brother following in the car, i'd know that we're going to muhibbah. Dad specially like one kampua stall, and we'd order satay and salad sotong. I guessed we never changed our menu. My mom didn't like it there, she hated it when people from different stalls coming to our table and ask us to order their things. It's always crowded there, smoky and noisy.

In Form five i did not take add maths anymore so i no longer had the fun loitering around, after class. I just went to class in time and went back after that. But i always treasure the time we spent together, talking nonsence, seldom do the work that mr kong asked us to try, and copied the answers as hard as we could.

Memories, sometimes they're so real.

Keku~

It's baking week!

First mom baked a coffee layer cake. This time it's not as good as previous coffee cakes because it hardly tasted coffee. The coffee we used wasn't Nescafe's, it's (what brand i forgot d), which had less coffee taste, not as strong as Nescafe. Then mom poured a little more milk than she should, so it made a milk cake rather than a coffee cake in the end.

I baked butter cake this afternoon, the easiest baked cake in the world. I only baked it with three eggs, so it's small that can only last for two days. The cake was put into the oven for fifteen minutes only did i realized i forgot to pour the baking powder. Luckily it's thin so the missing of baking powder didn't do any harm on it. Phew.... In the end it turned out exactly what i wanted it to be, light sweet, many chocolate rice, less raisins (dad and mom like raisins and i don't), best eaten a while after baked while it's hot.

Great i gain some more pounds.

*P/S R.I.P Freya's doggie.

Tkd

There was an inter-school taekwondo tournament last weekend. I was very guai to go to school and helped coach although i'd already planned something else that weekend. So Saturday i stayed at methodist school for the whole day, first tkd, then 大专之夜.

Helped coach on arranging the sequence of the competition for each person of his school. Eg student A will be sparring in Ring A for round 29, 52 and 71. If he wins 29, then he can go to 52 then later to 71, final. It's quite a mess really because there were many students who're competiting, and the rounds were all arranged next to each other so the body protectors were not enough. So i sort of messed up in the middle and dragged one round of the competition. Felt guilty for that.

At 7pm the competition was not over yet since the participants were just too many. So i left the stadium to the hall for 大专之夜, a program which give students advices on the dos and don'ts on entering university. So there'll be representatives from each uni giving freshmens some advices before they take off next week. I sneacked into the um group with sylvia to see how it went (since we were not part of the team). Met three students who are going to stay in 7th college, dunno how many more from sibu will come (if i got to stay of course...).

Overslept and went to school late the second day to watch the finals. Finally coach's school, Chung Hua got men's second place. Many of them were newbies so their techniques need more improvement(me too).

Had my first bicycle lesson with my dad and my brother (he kept mocking me~ ok he has learnt once and that's his second time, it's my first time man...). I'm yet to control my balance, how to 'pusing' and how to brake without bumping into something else. Wish me luck. =D




(with TechChiang, primary five kid, never gets tired, when others are tired after the competition, breathing heavily, legs shaking, he's there, innocent looking, not a trace of tiredness... a very naughty boy, used to have grading test with him, now he's gotten poom belt and i'm still the same old me...)

Hana Yori Dango (Korean ver.)

Spend two days in watching Hana Yori Dango (dunno who's it pronounced in Korean....XXX nancha?...) Being too excited after watching the ending just now. =D

The drama, that story taken from a Japanese manga, Hana yori dango, came out first in Taiwan (which i didn't watch, probably a few minutes in friend's house when it's hot) created a hall lots of fans to F4. Then Japanese series came out (downloaded, never watched, or haven't watched yet, peeped for a while when brother's watching it). Felt that Japanese series is better than the former from the looks of the characters, costumes and setting until i watched the Korean version. (Maybe find some time later to watch the Japanese's)

It's a very ordinary romance story, i guess it was the characters that attracted me to watch the drama, F4, each has their own personality and charisma. ^^ Just got to know Rui's role is acted by SS501's leader Kim Hyun Joong (don't really listen to their songs, but it's one of the favourite bands of brother, and his playlist is that forever-{20}-songs-playlist that if he is with the pc for the whole day i'll be listening to his favourite songs, repeating, that consists of songs from dbsk, ss501, sj, and lately some old chinese songs), didn't realize he's good looking... Of all i like Go Jun Pyo more, tall, pretty, muscular...Gee... Admit i watch the characters more than the story. =P

Ureshii~

Duty

A video that IngChan introduced to me, which i'd like to share with you. It's very touching.

Song = Still by Hillsongs

Telephone call~

Received a phone call just now, looking for my gram.

S=sweet-voiced girl, M=me

S= Hello is this XXX? (That's my gram's name)

M= Hi she's my grandma, she's not good in Chinese so i'm answering for her. Who's this calling??

S= I'm Ling from XX travel agency. We're very happy to let you know that tomorrow there'd be a tv show at 6pm at XX channel, Astro. We want to invite you to watch the program. There'd be celebreties performing on stage, Fish Leong will be performing too.

M= Oh ok.

S= (sweetly) So we'll be having lucky draw during the show and i'm here to give you your number XXXXXX, you'll stand a chance to win! Please do watch the show and should you win the price, we'll immediately contact you.

M= Ok. Where's your company based?

S= We're currently in Hong Kong. We're planning to have a branch in Malaysia next year.

M= Where will your company be, in Malaysia?

S= (0.05 second of hesitation) Oh we've haven't thought of that but the decision will come out in our future meetings. I think it'll probably in Kuala Lumpur.

M= (in awe) Oh ok.

S= (never changes her sweet voice) Ok thank you for your time. Good luck to you and your family.

M= (nicely) Bye.(put down the phone patiently)

I can't believe they are still using the same story, after...years? This's the third time i receive this kinda call... the stories are all the same. (Maybe slightly different in the story but the company will ALWAYS in Hong Kong)

A few days later the girl'll call again telling me i've won the lucky draw. I'm going to create a story for her too...(evil grin)

I wonder who did the girl get the name from. I told gram the phone call and she laughed it off, saying they called a few time before. (But i wonder if it's her because she seldom understands Chinese)

What a call. >.<

:P

Event: U6S1 gathering
Date: May 31, 2009
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Shabu Shabu Restaurant
Attendees: AndrewEh, ChekIng, TeckLuk, Danny, Leslie, LeeKhan, AndrewSia, Edwina, Cindy, Michelle, Me, EeZhen, UngHwa, Janis, Peter.
Absentees: Joyce, JingEe, Tiffany, BaYu, LingAi.

Topic: Random, mostly about uni life.
-Danny talked about his dramatic experience of witnessing a road accident in Melaka. A girl was hit and FLEW two stories high (according to him), fell down, body and hand badly twisted and pink juicy substances flowing out from her injured head. The driver ran away. (Ewww, we were just about to have our dinner.)
-Edwina was as usual, complaining about her uni, lecturers, everything.
-Cindy mentioned she has to ‘bao ci xing xiang’.
-Both Andrews were unexpectionally quiet.
-Overall, girls had girls talk, and guys were on their own.

So,
1. Fun to have most people present, everyone is still very much the same.
2. Avoid going to Shabu Shabu next time. The service’s slow and the staffs were unfriendly. Their tone’s rude and the way the lady gave us the bill’s like an ‘Ah Loong’ asking for money.


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