Random-ness

No topic post today .. just don't feel like working and just wanna post some stuffs I bought, will get and something to look forward too.

1. Soft toy -- Scrump and Care Bears. I bought these 2 cuties on my last day in SG .. both bday gifts for my friends. For those who don't know who Scrump is, Scrump is Lilo's doll which she sew from fabric. Well, this one is the cuter version of the actual Scrump, the actualy Scrump looks a bit scary (sorry Cyn ;p) but she loves her so much :D

I didn't know who Scrump was 'till she told me, though I watch Lilo & Stitch but no one really notice her I guess. And I found her quite cute (this version ;p), I can't help of getting one for myself. So yes Cyn, I bought one for me too :D

2. Playing card of three of my favorites .. My Melody, Lee Hom and Disney .. nice! :D

3. More Lee Hom's collections -- all found at Yahoo Taiwan Auction. Thanks to Ricky for bidding. They are autographed CD of Lee Hom's trip that he made during the Shangri-La album preparation, Shangri-La first edition (my introduction to Lee Hom), autographed Unbelievable CD, Falling Leaves single CD and finally .. White Paper which completed my full album collections.

4. One Tree Hill Season 3 Boxset, which I found in the local Movie Store. Two seasons down, 4 more to go, well actually I have Season 1 and 2, but they're pirated, I'm planning to get the original boxset, which Gosh, this will definitely bankrupt me to the max.

5. In-ear headphone for my i-pod. Well, I thought of getting the original Apple in-ear headphone, but it costs almost USD100. No way on earth I'm gonna buy earphones for USD100. This Sony earphones are awesome enough, I simply feel disconnected with the outside world once I put them on.

6. Music-Man Concert DVD - Hong Kong version with bonus of Man in the Mirror CD. I wasn't planning to get one, 'cos I already ordered one Taiwan version which comes with the Music-Man figurines. But I got so tempted with the limited edition single, so I bought it anyway. Maybe I'll give away the DVD to someone :D

7. Sony Ericsson T707 -- soon to be mine, I hope! I've been planning to get new phone. But lately SE always release slide phone which I'm not quite fond. I'm a clam shell person, so I'm gonna get this one instead .. blue one of course. I'll wait for my next paycheck.

While I have spent quite a money for those stuffs above, I'm still currently waiting for these stuffs ..

1. Music-Man Concert Figurines

2. Music-Man DVD Taiwan Version with the MM figurines

3. And of course, I'm looking forward for my Aussie trip end of this year. Yay!! Can't wait!!

My flight is confirmed, but still need to apply for visa and arrange accommodation for my family. My accommodation is pretty much fixed though. Also need to plan where to take them and stuffs. Hopefully we have enough time to explore big parts of Aussie-land. Opera House is a must.

Last part of the this random-ness post .. please meet my new 19' monitor at work :D Sweet huh?! LH relaxing with his coffee enjoying the view.

Caught in the Act

This was just one of few scenes that our faces caught in the MM DVD .. :) Pheww, at least I wasn't doing something crazy, I was enjoying the moment. Good thing about sitting on Row 1, we were prohibited to record and snap with camera, so we got to enjoy every second of the concert.

I have yet to watch the DVD, I'll get my copy today.

Thanks LHTHFC for the capture :D

Sampai ke Ujung Dunia

I don't really listen to many of Indo songs, I totally lost track of new singers and bands. I know some of new songs from radio. This is one of good song I like .. it has nice and simple tune and good lyrics. "Sampai ke Ujung Dunia" by Dirly. I personally like the piano and guitar in the song.

Dirly was the runner up of Indonesian Idol Season 3 (2006). His voice is much better than the winner.

Cinta ini menggelisahkan aku
Membuat aku gila
Andai kita terpisah
Mati rasa-rasaku

Cinta ini membodohkan aku
Menutup akal sehatku
Andai engkau tak disisi
Risau isi jiwaku

Reff:
Selama kau belum jadi milikku yang utuh
Aku akan selalu milikimu
Selama bumi masih akan terus berputar
Aku akan slalu menujumu
Walau ke ujung dunia

Cinta ini membodohkan aku
Menutup akal sehatku
Andai kita terpisah
Mati rasa-rasaku

Season 7 Promo Shot

Season 7 Episode 1 - "4.30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)" has started on 14 September 2009 .. looking good so far, there hasn't been any problems or intrigues or anything.

The main characters continuing from previous seasons are the Scott's Family of Nathan who is in the off-season of NBA, Haley who is making a come back to singing career and Jamie who is turning 7. Other main characters are Brooke and Julian who are finally in relationship, Milli and Mouth who are continuing their sweet relationship and Antwon and Lauren. There will few characters come and go in this season, but everyone is starting new life without Lucas and Peyton.

Season 7 introducing 3 new characters .. Quinn as Haley's older sister, Clay as Nathan's sport agent and Alexis (coming soon).

For the time being, I have to watch it over youtube .. I don't normally watch series 'till they're all release on DVD, but I can't wait for this one .. so I'll be surely on youtube on Tuesday night (the series air Monday night Eastern Time). Thank you to whoever put each episode up on youtube .. Really grateful for that.

And I would love to have this Nathan Scott NBA card :) I used to collect NBA cards when I was in school.

Counting down to Episode 2 - What Are You Willing to Lose on 21 Sep. Yay!!

Last year today ..

this is where I was .. Taipei 101.

Spent NT3000 at Page One, watching Mammamia with Mel2, Renny and Lia. It was a relaxing day indeed, while counting down for the First Music-Man concert @ Taipei Arena. It was one hell of holiday for me .. lots of great things happened, including experiencing my first Taipei typhoon.

Time flies .. too fast!!

Personal Creation

Vida, Tania, Thelma, Mba Git, Feby and Evie are my gal pals at work .. these what I made for them upon my return from SG ..

I've been to SG for so many times, I had no idea what to give them from each of my trip .. from fridge magnets, keychains, chocolate, you named it. So I thought this time I give something different. I thought of it since the day I decided for the trip.

So I bought the wood frame at IKEA and decorated them individually .. the pic was taken on Mba Git's Birthday in May and ta da .. there you go. It's nothing fancy, but the thought that counts right beside I had fun doing it :D

Lebaran Cookies

So I was looking through stardreamer's blog today and found this .. she was just telling us about how she enjoys cooking and baking now. This is it 'Chocolate Crunch Cookies' .. YUMMO! Me love cookies.

The message in the blog was .. "If you would like to try, please send me sms before 21 Sep 09....hahahahaa....The first 3 sms that I receive before the due date would get 1 tube of above Chocolate Crunch Cookies made by me!!"

And I immediately text her and I'm girl no 2 to text her before the due date .. so I'll received freshly from the oven Chocolate Crunch Cookies specially made by my dear gal after the Lebaran .. YAY!! Thanks girl ..

Quote of the Day

"Remember that one single positive dream is more important than thousand negative realities. Since we are young and free to create whatever we wish, anything is possible."

by. Adeline Yen Mah of

Chinese Cinderella: The Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting

痞子英雄 (Black & White)

It's been a while since I watched Chinese Series, in fact somehow I kinda avoid of watching series 'cos it's hard to stop once you started .. so anyway, friends were telling me about ZZ's (周渝民) new series, it's a very different from his sensitive role "Hua Zhe Lei" in or confident businessman "Qi Wei Yi" in or his other goofy and childish characters, instead here he acted as cop, he is a craven and cowardly ruffian who's interested in the chasing girls, but that makes it quite interesting and along the storyline, his character changed to more serious.

ZZ plays Chen Zai Tian aka "Pi Zi" and Mark Zhao plays Wu "Ying Xiong" -- that's how director Cai Yue Xun (the director of and ) came up with the title "Pi Zi Ying Xiong - Ruffian or Hero"

ZZ (痞子) acted as "an officer who relies on bullet dodging, ludicrous intuition, and mysterious information to solve numerous cases"

英雄's characters are righteous and a bit overly unyielding, this case solving expert will heedlessly crash cars, jump from buildings, and kill others every time in the hunt to capture a criminal. He's a man of justice who can distinguish what's right and wrong. He's the hero in his colleagues' hearts, while he's a crazy man to his team captain and officers of higher ranks.

From the news I read, initially Director Cai wanted to reunite F4 to act on this drama, but it was feared that having four handsome guys standing simultaneously in the light might cause the audience to obsess over them, which is a good point .. I personally don't think that this series can stand on the same level as Meteor Garden, they are totally different genre and it would definitely ruin the nice story plot if putting all F4 guys in the scene.

I have yet to finish watching the series .. but so far, it got me hooked! I could give 4 stars out of 5 and Mark Zhao isn't bad at all .. :D

The Proposal

This is Sandra Bullock latest movie released last month .. I like her a lot, I've watched most of her movies, not all but quite a lot and she is very an expressionist person in her characters of all her movies.

And Ryan Reynolds .. hmmm .. he is yummy. I've never actually noticed him as this gorgeous and hot guy :) I've seen his early works from TV series Two Guys, a Girl and Pizza place back in 1998. He was always this goofy and not-so attractive guy playing comedy movies like Just Friends, Van Wilder, Definitely Maybe 'till he took a serious role as Wade Wilson who soon to be Deadpool in X-Men Origin: Wolverine then I started notice him ..

Anyway, The Proposal is indeed a must-see movie specially for those movie lovers .. it cracks you up but at the same time it gives romantic feeling of being in love .. love truly comes unexpected and when it comes, hold on to it or you'll lose it for good.

Here is a synopsis of the movie:

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books, who forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to avoid being deported to Canada. He grudgingly accepts, under the condition that he is promoted to the position of editor. When the government investigates, the two are forced to spend the weekend with his parents in Alaska in order to sell the lie. The family suggest they could marry the same weekend, and they reluctantly accept. They start to fall genuinely in love as they spend more and more time together. Because of this, during the wedding ceremony, Margaret decides she cannot do this to Andrew and confesses the business arrangement in front of everyone--including the immigration officer handling their case. She is then told that she has 24 hours to get back to Canada, and thus goes back to New York to pack her things. Upon doing so, however, Andrew shows up at the office and confesses his love for her in front of the entire office staff, proposing marriage all over again (taken from IMDB)

Pulang Kampung ..

If things go as plan, I'll heading "home" to my growing up place in 3 months time, which is I'll be spending Christmas and possibly New Year in the land down under .. yay! :D

This was totally take me by surprise, I did plan for a trip to Aussie in 2010 for my best friend's wedding but since this trip will be about 6 months in advance, I'm sorry B .. I guess I won't be attending your wedding, but miracle happens, so hope by then I have enough saving to go there again and witness your special day ^^



My trip this time will be a family trip .. my cousin (first grand child from my mom side) will be getting married in Hunter Valley - Wine Country, it's indeed a beautiful place. It's located about 2 hours drive North of Sydney. She has picked an awesome place, though it would be even more beautiful if she could pick in Autumn/Spring season to have her wedding instead of Summer, 'cos Summer in Australia is just too hot and dry .. anyway, this wedding would be a big reunion for my mom's family from all over the world as well, we will indeed gonna have a good time.

And surely I'll be heading down to Wollongong .. place I can still call home .. I'm so looking forward to see my friends there again and reminiscing those special moments. I'm also gonna be a tour guide for most of my family who has never been to Aussie .. Sydney and Wollongong in particular.


I really hope that 2 weeks would be enough for me to have that reminiscing feeling of being home after 7 years.

5 days to go ..

'till One Tree Hill Season 7 begins .. can't wait!! Now that Nathan is with the NBA, it's gonna be awesome .. but too bad no more Lucas and Peyton. Hope they would pop in every now and then ..

五月天 First Concert

My first MayDay concert was great .. the concert itself was actually awesome though sadly I didn't feel the hype 'cos I was pretty much lost with the songs, only few were familiar in my ears. But I enjoyed it ..

This was my 2nd time step foot in Singapore Indoor Stadium, of course it felt different .. the first was back in Oct 2006 for Heroes of Earth concert. Back then I could feel the hype even before the concert. This time, I was looking forward for it, but at the same time I felt something missing.

As for the crowd, this MD concert was definitely smaller than LH's back then, there were still lots of empty seats but becos it was a rock concert, you can actually feel the hype-ness from the fanatic fans. There were lots of fast songs and the fans were jumping, screaming and sang along with them.

I was practically a silent audience .. other than I don't know most of the songs, the guys were all speaking in Chinese which I was lost once again, I picked up bits and bits but overall I was pretty much out there. Though one thing I like the most was during the L.O.V.E shout out and how the guys warmed the stadium, it was amazing! It was different than LH's or DT's concert.

The concert went 'till 10 mins passed midnight .. it was surely an experience. Afterwards we headed to the usual supper place MD guys always go when they are in SG, but too bad we didn't see them.

Anyway, these are the best pics I took during the concert .. and somehow I liked these, it's not close up but it shows the whole stage with all of them on it. Well, what more you could get from side seat :)

Sweet treats from Japan

A friend from work just got back from his partying trip in Japan and brought us these sweets. These are some interesting flavour of KitKat .. they are original KitKat (red), Lemon Vinegar (yellow-white), Mango (yellow-red) and lemonade (blue). Imagine sprite flavour in a chocolate .. hmmm .. yummo!

I have yet to taste any of these, but it sounds interesting. Thanks Ndi.

Bankrupcty

My 6 days trip in SG resulted me with bankruptcy .. these are just parts of what I spent .. but a friend said that as long as the things you bought not available in Indo, then you're fine. Well, thanks man .. :)

My new-added collections of My Melody

And my original Season 4 of One Tree Hill .. yay!!

On my last day of the SG trip, I checked-in to the hotel and guess what there was a DVD player in the room. What could be better watching Nathan in action in a quite decent hotel room .. alone :D

.. and make-up expert too?

So not only he is a musician, a designer he is now a make-up artist/expert too?! Interesting ..

I (Finally) went to Singapore

Well .. you know what people said that you haven't been to Singapore if you haven't visited the Merlion .. so yes, after my countless visits, I "finally" went to Singapore ..

I spent most of my times in SG alone this time .. I took my time to browse one place and move to another when I had enough, it's good to really enjoy your alone time like that.

So on Sunday, I went to take Singapore River Cruise with my childhood friend - Tep ... I got 3 free tickets from Lia (thanks De) .. night cruise is always better with the beautiful lights and under the stars. It'd be romantic with a guy we love of course, but since that hasn't been accomplished yet, nothing better to spend it with your best friend right?

Other than the Merlion and Esplanade, we went pass this gorgeous hotel .. The Fullerton Hotel which used to be a post office in those British era. Wonder how much to stay there a nite ..