Hi-Tea.

This is my 5th time attending hi-tea for prefects' board during my secondary life at SMK Batu Unjur. This marks that I've been a school prefect for a long 5 years. It was long indeed, and meaningful, full of memories and stories.

There were times, i decided i wanted to give up. Like, hand in the resignation letter and just get over with it. I missed wearing pinafores, i know this is crazy, but when humans have been in their comfort zone for long, they tend to want to change what they have now.

I still remember the very first day when i became a prefect. I've been LONGING to wear prefect's uniform because i think, they were cool. It's like, among thousands of students, only a few of us gets to wear this super awesome uniform which has a meaning behind it too. The first day i wore it, i'll NEVER forget how proud i was, i walk different, heck i even SMILED DIFFERENTLY. I was a different person. But then, the uniform just seem so bored to me when time passes. I started to miss my pinafore. And i gotta admit i was tempted by baju kurung concept. I mean, i don't get to wear it. SAD.

So of course i decided not to quit. Of course there were sad times and angry times. Who doesn't have ups and downs in their lives right? I did the right thing. I decided to stay and of course finish my last year as a prefect in this school.

"In a blink of an eye", i don't really understand what this term REALLY means, but for those of you who're not form 5, you'll get what i mean by " in a blink of an eye " once you reach the same stage as i am right now.
It truly is quick, and you will be amazed how time has passed. You were only form 1 the first day u came into school, and now you're leaving. Retired as a prefect, and graduated from a high school after being there for 5 whole years. It has basically became my second home.

I used to think that form 5s are really matured and scary, big and tall. But now that i'm at this stage, i'd be thinking, "Nah, no kidding, we're not even scary, in fact i think that i'm still too young to be called OLD."

My shoe and Melissa's shoe during hi-tea day.  

The thing about being a prefect is, you get to meet new things, and most of all, new people. You don't know who you might meet. It could be someone that might ruin your life, it could be someone who would bring endless happiness into your life. Humans have to go through this stage, to find the ultimate friend. If you're afraid of being hurt, might as well just hide in your shell and never come out to see the light and know new people.

Meet Raahini.

Being a prefect, when i was in afternoon session which was form 1 and form 2, they said going to camp was compulsory, unless you have a funeral to attend or something else which is really in an emergency. Basically they want your ass out of the chair, hands off the table and go to the camp. Yeah, i totally hate it. It makes me want to avoid it more. But of course i can't. And i'm TOTALLY GLAD i went to the camps.

Because if i don't, i wouldn't have such great and amazing experience. I still remember the rivers, the trees, the jungles, the night walks, the scare, the screaming shouting punishments and the food we ate. The environment and the games, scaring each other about presence of leaches, which we did not encounter for the whole camp. People really like scaring people. And last but not least, the 4 hour sleep! What's up with camp trying to mess up our biological clock?

Meet Weini, my senior. Who was an ex prefect. 

Besides going to camps, we get to organize events as well. This is the part where all the prefect dislikes too. Most of them would choose to run away and worse: PONTENG. Example? Teachers' day. That would be the day most prefects are not coming, well, i used to be like that too, until i came the ketua perhimpunan for morning session this year. I basically attend everything, because i have a duty to attend to. I can't just ditch my job to my junior, that would be really irresponsible.

Meet Melissa. The one who couldn't live without me :)

And my 5-year-straight-same-class best friend, Chiew Fei.

Sometimes i think that Chiew Fei would never ever grow up. We do all sorts of stupid things together. And of course our relationship as best friends started when we both became prefects. It was because we went for prefects interview that i get to know her, approach her and talk to her. She was a shy young little girl back then. Smiling and being kind to everyone, until she changed.

Now? She's a devilish little girl. Who NEVER GROWS UP. I'M SERIOUS, SHE NEVER GROWS UP. She might look a little bit (JUST A TINY BIT) mature on the appearance, but inside, she'll never grow. HAHA. You wouldn't want to know how we communicate. We would mumble the whole day and still understand what message each other are trying to give. People look at us one kind, and we enjoyed making them confused. 

 Being her friend for 5 years always by her side, i was totally influenced by her actions and attitude. I became a more openly girl and did things more comfortably with others. 

She always admit herself prettier than others, even though when given a choice. 

Me: Who do you think is prettier? Snow white or Cinderella? 

CF: Me.

Me: Who do you think is smarter? Einstein or Newton?

CF: Me.

Me: OH FOR GAWDSAKE!

Melissa

Penolong ketua perhimpunan, also the Ketua pengawas for 2014, i proudly presents you my junior, Wei Zhen. 

This little girl here is Wei Zhen, she knows very well how to cheer me up during duty every time when my energy is running low or i'm having a mood swing. She would run with me looking for teachers and we even arranged the chairs for events and also assembly together. We basically do all the events together and never once she ever ditched me leaving all the works to me and me alone. If she does, she'll inform me. Other than that, she is the perfect prefect to be the next Head prefect.

Juniors and Seniors and friends. 

 They were a bunch of really interesting kids. When we do play, we get crazy, the juniors call the seniors boss. And all of the juniors are a bunch of outgoing kids who are active and participate fully in every events. Life cannot be more interesting and wonderful without them. Form 5 prefects are really low in number and in fact a lot are needed. Form 4 have a lot of prefects and they are basically the pillar for next year's prefects' board. Prefects' board depends on you guys now!

A present from my brother of another mother. 

My table and Cik Yati. 

Experiences like this are hard to get. If you're given one, grab it, and don't let go. Sometimes, humans gotta get out from their comfort zone and do something really unexpected, you would see a different perspective of it and from hatred, it could turn into love.

[Book and review] Down syndrome & Autism.

Before i start a topic, let me just tell you something dumb that i just did.
So this morning, as usual i was gonna cook my breakfast. *i'm just so healthy* And i brought out eggs. 3 eggs this morning, because the vegetables are going nasty and i had to cook them all. I was so blur, so i beat the first egg, guess where'd go? Yeah, the dustbin. And my brain actually told me to throw the shell into the bowl! LOL, then i'm like, "Hmmmm, something not quite right here. " Then i noticed what i did wrong. And i'm like "WHAT AM I DOING?!"

I'm not a science person. In fact i hate sciences, except for biology. I didn't know about it until i entered form 4 and experienced it myself. But, i love stuff like autism and down syndrome. Well, i don't LOVE the sickness, but i love to know more about it, what is it, and how it affects human.

SPOILER ALERT. 
*spoiler only apply if you're an autism book fan of course*

So there's 2 books i actually bought that talked about autism.
One i bought it from an England website, which is bookdepository 

What book depository do is that they sell rather reasonable prices' books. And i bought my first, well, not really the first until i found out few years back my sister bought me Jodi Picoult's HOUSE RULES, which was also something to do with autism. The book depository book which i bought was called Carly's Voice. I saw her clip on youtube and i was immediately attracted to her story. Yes, based on true story and true experiences, which really just attracts my attention more. Later, i followed her on facebook, *what a stalker!* and realized she and her dad published a book, which was Carly's Voice.


I'll do an intro on Carly's voice first.

I'm so sorry the picture looks so pixelated, I'm actually quite sensitive to pixelated pictures. They bother me the most. Alright, back to topic. This is the book which i bought from book depository, and they have another cover version. but i think this one's good enough.

Her name is Carly Fleischmann. And she was diagnosed with autism, not being able to speak and express herself. Here's a clip that i saw on facebook.



Carly always hit herself, which she described it as "a thousand ants crawling up your arms", rock non-stop when sitting down and always screaming and banging her head on walls and floors. She wasn't able to say or let other people know what she wanted, she had verbal issues which was caused by the autism. Until one day, she typed on the computer HELP TEETH HURT. That's when her parents found out the way she can communicate with them. But typing for her isn't as quick, she type really slow and only if she feels like it. So basically her therapist had to give her her favorite LAY chips one at a time when she type. That keeps her going.



I just gotta say she's a rather interesting young lady, and bright too. She make jokes and have crush just like normal girls do. Most importantly, she is trying as hard.

Not only did she and her dad wrote a book about autism, she also showed us life being an autism kid.

There's a video clip, named Carly's cafe. Where they filmed it in a first person point of view, which you basically can see her hands, her eyes blinking, what she hears and see and smell. You will understand what an autism is experiencing whenever they go to loud and noisy places, what seemed "normal" to us, just doesn't seem so "normal" to them. To them, bright lights can cause a meltdown and things will go uncontrollable.

I don't know what causes their senses to be so sensitive, but they have really strong senses! Their ears, eyes, nose, hands, etc etc, even the material of the shirt can cause them to feel terribly uncomfortable at the skin and wanted to force it off of them. That happened to Carly. In the book, it was stated that when she went missing, and her dad found her at the park stripping her clothes off when she was a kid with a helpless stranger beside not knowing what to do with the situation.

Here's the clip.

I did mentioned above about another book. Which is Jodi Picoult's House rules. This is another book, which most of my friends didn't like. I didn't mean the content, but the book. It's a rather small book, which is THICK and have small wordings, that's why most of my friends don't read it. But honestly, i finished this book in less than a week. I read it even though i was preparing for SPM. It's seriously good, i guess it's because i love to read about autism.

So in this book, it was about a teenage boy, somewhere around my age, who have autism. Who always have meltdowns too. But the difference between him and Carly is that, he can speak and can communicate and do things on his own. I don't know if this story is true, i didn't really investigate about it. But it's worth reading.

Continue with the book. So he actually kinda into autopsy, which you always see in CSI where they open up dead people and check what's wrong with them. Which proves that he's a bright guy with autism as well. And also he LOVES detective jobs. He would creep out at a crime scene and solve the case for the police.

He had a tutor, which teach him how to socialize, and other stuff that has to do with autism. One day the tutor died, and they suspect it was Jacob Hunt who killed the tutor. Jacob Hunt's the autism kid (sorry, did not mention it above). And he don't have a correct way to defend himself. So people kept on misunderstood his message and he only led himself into more and more trouble.

Spoiler.

But actually how the tutor died? Well, you see, Jacob's brother love to break into people's houses and live in it. Yeah, weird i know. Because of Jacob, the family is having a hard time, the mom went through divorce stage and the family's basically broken with only the mother helping to support the family with a little income.

So this brother of Jacob, he don't really like his brother, and he actually hated him. But the mother set up house rules which basically what the title is really about, "Love your brother and help him" stuff like that, i forgot, so he had a lot of restrictions and he can't do a LOTS of stuff. So, he found this house which he notice was always empty, sneak in and live in it, watch the TV and eat the owner's food. He can do whatever he want, whatever he like without being controlled by his mother and no distraction from his brother.

Until one day, he found out that the tutor live in it. And the tutor was bathing, she saw him there, she wanted to chase after him but he ran away, she fell down ... and then the next day she died.

But the day she died, Jacob had an appointment with her at night. Which was after the brother left. And so the last person who actually saw the tutor was JACOB himself. So even the brother thought it was JACOB who killed the tutor, not him. Because why?

Jacob actually brought the tutor (corpse) to an outdoor place, and wrap her in his quilt. So this proves more that Jacob's a killer. Which of course he's not. Another evidence is that, Jacob had a huge fight with his tutor the day before she died. Justice just isn't on his side.

Let's just skip to the ending. The tutor actually fell down when trying to chase Jacob's brother after spying on her bathing, hit her head on the bathroom sink because she slipped, and died. Just as simple as that. And they had the court stuff going on, because the tutor's family wanted to sue Jacob, because of all the evidence that proves that Jacob's the murderer.

One day the brother confessed that he broke into the tutor's house and made her fell down... that's where the story ends. PHEW, finally finished typing all these mess. I don't think you guys even get it. HAHAHA.

The above is a clip, which was shared on facebook too. It was about Down Syndrome people who deserves second chance too. It was created with 2 autism girls and some actors shouting at them calling them slow and stupid and stuff and see how would people react. How strangers would react. Well, some people stood up for them. And some just ignored. It was a clip worth watching.


Last but not least, let's end with GIANT GEORGE.
You might not know this, but Giant George went into guiness world record as the tallest DOG! WOW. And of course the owner wrote a book about "LIFE with the world's biggest dog." And he's so tall that he could drink straight from the sink. How awesome is that? My dog can't even reach the sink, not even the chair. HAHAHA

What i really wanted to say was, Giant George passed away. Yeah, very sad, but you can see it in google too because George is a really famous and loving dog.

Of course, last but not least. I hope you guys have a great day! Ending with my lion queen~

September & October updates.

Here's my september and october update.
Gasp! i noticed that i stopped blogging for quite some time now. But i never stopped photography :) So here we are again viewing some boring photos of mine.

The photo below is my brother showing his weird face when i'm posing like this while taking a photo. I didn't notice it at first too. HAHA such a weird pose.

Here's my routine. Taking photos of my gran secretly without her noticing. Well, she did notice, which i totally did not expect to happen. You wouldn't want to know what she did once i press the shutter of my camera after this photo. She totally hide away!

Next up, i'm committed to a healthy lifestyle living recently eating lots of fruits and veges, and learned doing some smoothies and fruit juices as well :) I might post some about it soon. Who knows when that might be :P

I love the shade of browness in my dog's eye. She's had such beautiful eyes. Without the eye boogie of course.

My Lion queen~

And this is a photo i took in Honda hybrid car which my brother won test drive for 3 days 2 nights. He had to do a video review about what he think of this hybrid car and i was there to help him. It was fun riding in this hybrid car and Honda is really kind to lend him this car. He's soooo sad on the day he had to return it. But it's really fuel saving and econ friendly. But only 2 seats. EW. i had to like, cramp behind all the way to kota kemuning with my bros. HAHAHA.

In the kitchen

So the title says it all.
What does IN THE KITCHEN MEANS?

well, as you all know, SPM is around the corner. And yeah, my study table is in the kitchen. Amazing ain't it? I decided not to have it in my room because i might go haywire when i'm alone or just go crazy with myself.

So i moved to the kitchen instead. BUT THAT'S NOT THE END.

There's also a lot of distraction in the kitchen. And u know what i mean.

Study table in the kitchen
First of all, the smell of food. OH GOODNESS. I couldn't resist myself from all the food in my house. There's food almost every time and the aroma of it... Ooooh. Especially when my gran's here. She have the best talent when it comes to food. Nobody beats her cooking especially when it comes to curry. *kill me now*

So, what do we have here?
There's a laptop, basically to check my answers, i find that laptop is more wider and easier to download answers when it comes to checking answers. I decided to just do state papers for this last 3 weeks. Hope it's still early for it. lol. 10 subjects.... 3 weeks.... yeah, there's time.

There's always a glass of water beside me and a thermal water bottle which has tea inside. I've been living with tea recently. And i didn't know tea could disturb your sleep routine. So one time i had it at night and turned out i slept at 2am! Deng, should use the freaking rolling-in-bed time to do some more productive stuff instead. Let bygones be bygones.

Next up, There's a charger which i use to charge my ipod and also my phone, which i use it to access my friends. Most of them don't go online already because of SPM, imagine how wild and 24 hours-access-to-internet they'll be once spm finishes. Yikes, i still have mandarin subject, which means my spm ends at early december. T_T I want to KRAI.

And basically the other stuffs u see on the desk is books and books and books. When i first set up the table, there's only a few pieces of paper, i don't know how it can come to piles of books on the desk. Oh Gosh... Oh, and my yellow rubber band, shown on the picture below. :)

Hibernating, period.

Yup, the title says it all. I've been hibernating really. It isn't because of SPM, it's because my computer sucks and i just can't wait for SPM to end so that i can change into a new and better one. The processor had been a jerk. I have no idea, but it seemed like a tradition to me that every thing that i lay my fingers on just seem to breakdown itself. 

My families were kinda afraid to lend their stuff to me. But to me it was JUST TOUCHING. Okay, i admit i really didn't break my father's PC power button. I seriously just pushed the button with my FINGERS, not my WHOLE BODY. And then it happened. The button was stucked there, never came out. (You know, to me, it was just coincidence, and coincidence accidents happened to me a lot). My dad loves his button so much he opened up the whole PC shell and operated that one single button. It made me feel so bad about myself. Because he had a hard time putting everything back again. 

I feel bad like, all the time? Remember when we were young, we were taught NOT to do a lot of things. I could list them out and never see the end of it. 

Here's some quick example:

1. Do not lie

2. Do not steal

3. Do not break things. 

4. Do not scold or use vulgar 

5. Respect adult / do not speak when adult's speaking.

Well... i sort of break a rule, and my brother never knew.

Yeah, it was something to do with my 2nd brother. I kind of....took something off his study table when he was still in secondary school which he never knew, until now. (which he still doesn't know) let's just hope he didn't drop by here and read all this thinking "hohohoho, my sister's writing something about me." And get all excited. 

It isn't something fancy. 

It's a notebook. 

I still remember the notebook is blue is colour, and that the cover of the notebook is of a university. Yeah, he got it for free. And he used to have SOOOOOO many notebooks. I don't know how he get them, but for him, his stuff are like his BABIES. I used to want to own so many things that he owned. He arranged transparent rocks on his shelf and his desk are always beautified. 

I like it when my brothers clean up. It means i get FREE stuff. Getting free stuff, even just a single eraser makes me a happy kid. I'd always wake up seeing used stuff on my desk. And little did i know, my room was getting fuller and fuller every year, until one day i noticed: THEY WERE ALL TRASH. 

TRASH TRASH TRASH.  

Okay, back to the notebook. I had the notebook in my hands, and i thought, " i'm so dead, he's gonna find out." but he never did. Of course i did not take up the habit of stealing. Stealing that time was miserable and torturous enough for me i never want to feel the same way again. But it made me think until today "Why didn't he ask about the notebook?" The devil inside me is telling me "Seriously ning, he don't care about that notebook at all." 

The angel part of me told me to apologize. 

So i'm gonna apologize to my brother here. 

"Gor, sorry i took your notebook. And i lost it, i tried to find it, i really do. But it was nowhere to be found. Yeah, remember i asked you who's your favorite sister? Remember that you said it was me? Yeah... thanks. You're my favorite too. I mean, all 3 is. " Even though i'm your only sister, and you can only choose me as the favorite one. MUAHAHAHAHA.

I'm drop dead evil. 

Father's day chocolate making.

Hi, it's been so long since i last posted. So before father's day, my sister bought some chocolate from the bakery supplement shop, chocolate chip type (picture below) and wanted me to do some chocolate for dad during father's day.

She got me some almond too.

So i decided to heat up the almonds in the baking oven for 15 minutes or so while i started preparing the chocolate.

These are the models provided to give shape to the chocolate that i am about to melt.

This is the chocolate chip. 

it comes in a packet. If you'd like to know where to buy this, contact me on facebook or email so i can show you directions. :) 

Next is to melt the chocolate. 

Melting chocolate is fun, you melt chocolate to eat marshmallow, fruit dips, or even create chocolate :)

 Your pick.

So to create this, it's really easy. I fill the cooking pot with water, remember to fill it full if u're gonna heat it for long to prevent loss of water and burn up the whole thing black.

wait for the water to release steam. 

And put a bowl covering the whole opening of the pot, and then put chocolate chips that you're about to melt on the bowl. If you're trying to melt cooking chocolate or stuff like bars and stuff, i did it before, and it doesn't melt =_= it annoys the crap outta me and i added water.

DO NOT ADD EVEN A SINGLE DROP OF WATER TO THE CHOCOLATE. 

it ruined everything.

Seriously, 

listen to me.

while waiting for the chocolates to melt, i'm putting the melted chocos on the model, in the picture, a heart shaped model and shape them using a chopstick. Toothpick is recommended.

Because if you don't, they're gonna stay solid and the shape is reallyyyyy weird. Melted chocolate are NOT LIQUID, they don't shape themselves. So use chopstick or toothpick to shape it according to the model shape.

My first ever almond FAILED. Reason: i heat it for too long. Moral of the story is, not too much heat, and take out as soon as possible. It totally turned black. And the worst thing is i tasted it. Oh, you don't wanna mess with black almonds. Um, i mean BURNT almonds.

To fill almond in, first fill the heart 2/3 full with choc and then put almond, and then cover it up with chocolate. 

After finishing everything, put in your freezer to freeze it. For me, i freeze it overnight. 

And here is the end product. 

Cute suit and bow tie choco. 

kthxbai.
Hope you learnt something!

Thailand streets & people

This is all gonna be about photographs of thailand streets and people. So there won't be much explanation. Sit back and enjoy :)