One less banana...

HAPPY BELATED CHINESE NEW YEAR everyone! :)
*Sorry this is way past its due date.

First off, i'd like to give thanks to those people who made the new 'it' word/phrase/annoying word for this season: "Have an Oxpicious New Year!" Uh-huh.

Anyways, every CNY my family gathers some place with my dad's side of the family for a reunion dinner the night before CNY! This time it was at my uncle's place,

and also this time the food was good,

and again, this time much of it was in Chinese!

There were 3 of us this time (the maid doesn't count) instead of the usual 4. Weird, but it didn't really get to me.. Until after there was nothing left to stuff into my mouth to postpone the inevitable missing conversation.

It was especially weird for me this year because my un-Cinafied-banana-of-a-brother was missing. We were yellow on the outside, white on the inside - the "odd-ones-out" who found solace in each other's inability to speak Chinese! :P


But after chowing down, the main event of the night began!
Haha, even my brother participated via Skype.. a process whereby my Dad showed my brother his hand and then played on his behalf. He won more than me though!! Haha, oh well :)

This was just the beginning...

...And it ended even better!

And that was pretty much the flow of my first two days of CNY '09!

Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?!

Wow, people obviously think. A LOT. But what are they actually thinking about? And when? who? how?

Those are the questions i'd like answered when i find out which person(s) figured this out:

Is this your handphone number?

1) Key-in the first 3 digits of your handphone number (not the 01x number) into the calculator
2) multiply by 80
3) add 1
4) multiply by 250
5) plus last four digits of phone number
6) plus last four digits of phone number again
7) minus 250
8) Finally, divide by 2

Wow. It works.. Imagine, a group of nerds all in their 30s huddled in their parents' basement surrounded by gadgets and junk thinking of nothing but math equations to problems that don't need solving..

uh-huh.

Back for Long!

I know i know! Where have I BEEN FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS?!!

Well, in short, i've been busy wrapping up last semester, Fall '08, which went pretty well save for Public Speaking (gah @ BA!); getting into heaps of trouble, didn't really learn from my mistakes initially (although i have now) - remember, ALWAYS tell the truth!; having my bro back home for a month (yay); working at Louis Vuitton (again) for a couple of weeks; and well, its the freaking New Year already!

Most importantly, glad to say that things with A have been mainly on the upside - Officially Complicated has become Officially Amazing! :D

Like I said, its been amazing with her..
But that deserves an entirely different story by itself :P

And besides, I've been motivated to restart this thing, and i will. So there'll be not much sappy re-caps.. and onto the future!

Good to be back.

Officially complicated?

Well, its official.

Its officially "complicated" between me and A, when it isn't really. Its just that we figured there was no other word to describe it, and no, its not 'bad complicated' either. Which makes it more confusing, I know. There used to be a time when two people would just feel it, and that would be that. I thought that time was now, like 21st century all.. lol

Guess not :P

Cannot cincai with these things!
Some people like it old school, where it has to be properly done and all that. But im not complaining, I totally understand and its okay. Its just that, now i feel like i have some ginormous expectations on me.

Im not taking my time to see if i should, im just taking time to figure out how.

Face of Sun-U Finalist : ME!

There's this Face of Sun-U competition which has been going on in Sunway University College (SYUC) for the past month or so, to look for the cover face of ECHO's magazine for October issue.

There's me at the bottom left corner :P

Round 2: The 'physical' challenge which i won! Held two eggs on two spoons on the sides for about an hour! Beat that :P

Round 3: Q & A session to test our 'brainy' side.. I got 12/15, okay lahhh!

It culminated in the finalists (one of them being me) making a video on themselves!

You can view the video at my 'Me Likey' sidebar, and tell me what you think :P

Also, VOTE for me through SMS by sending 'JANN' to 0142614331!


*You can read about the previous rounds and check out all the highlights over at SYUC's editorial board - ECHO's webpage - http://echonline.wordpress.com/face-of-sun-u/

The first bite is the deepest

Its been on 5 days.

End topic :P

Yellow Car!

Cousins A & a are down from China, for awhile, and that means a lot of fun - going out, good food (too much usually) and doing shit every day - rock climbing, road trips, movies, a la la

Anyways.. anytime and anywhere, we have this game where if we spot a yellow car, we hit someone (intensity depends entirely on self). More hits if its a VW Beetle or a Mini :P
Oh, and taxis don't count!

Got bored on the road trip to Penang, what do you expect?