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Valentine's Day celebration at The View, Hotel Equatorial

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:40:00 +0000

This was our 6th valentine's day. We never purposely celebrated in the past, even during our university time together in Kampar.

We celebrated in advance by finally having a fine dining. He booked online for the dinner at The View, Hotel Equatorial.

I'd advise anyone that book dinner go for 7.30pm or later. We reached at 7pm. And we could see the opposite old flats and some dirty buildings clearly. It wasn't romantic... Until the sky turned dark. Both Penang bridges were in sight. Such a great view!

As a side note to remind myself,

You! Left the Godiva chocolates at relative's house! Wasted his money and effort!

Revive after so long

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:03:00 +0000

After working for almost 4 years, I realized that I forget many things especially those good memories. And I come back here again.

Intended to start writing journal using app Flava, After writing for about 6 posts on Flava, I stop again. It cannot organize my posts according to my preference.

I prefer Day One app which is exclusive to iOS and Mac only. It looks much more elegant and organized. But I'm Android phone user currently and this app needs to be paid.

I'm not a persistent person. Just wanna note down as many as possible here. Many years from now these old photos and journal entries will ignite my recollection of interesting memories I would have otherwise forgotten.

Happiness from a Stranger?

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:36:00 +0000

I have slit eyes. Double-eyelid eyes are pretty, and they can 'talk'. Unlike sepet eyes, people think that i'm cool, moody or even angry when i don't have any facial expression. Lol. So i'd better smile more.

"Do you know that person?"
"i dont know oh.."
"Then why are you smiling at her?"
"Because she was looking at me. i dont know what to do except smile."

Haha. i believe it happens many times to everyone. I don't know how about others, but i will actually feel happier after i smile back to a stranger or when a stranger smiling at me. I won't feel awkward (of course except to those pervert look guys).

So let's smile at a stranger! Give people your genuine smile, to let them feel the happier world.

In a crowd, when you see a girl finally got a balloon after long crying to her mom, the simple and happy smile on her little face will infect you too. You'll feel glad for her happiness.

An old man's kind smile with a broken tooth,
Funny jokes you overhear from a group of students at the next table,
Some motivational words you got from a stranger's comment of your blog post, all of these could easily light up your days!

Maybe one day, your smile at a stranger would save someone who's going to commit suicide, the warmth you give stop him from hurting himself.

Everyone has the power to give happiness and hopes to others. Be a kind stranger!

Share Your Feeling?

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:05:00 +0000

i've been losing my blogging ability for over a week. I find myself struggling not to post anything on the internet, share anything with anyone. It's all because i'm afraid to show my emotions, my thinking.

i'm a big fan of infectious smile. :D
For me, happiness can be infectious but not sadness. i love to feel other's happiness, and let people know my joy too. i can't accept myself to make people sad. because i know how heartbreaking it is when you feel someone's grief & sadness but can't help anything. i'm bad at comforting friends. Only know to accompany him/her to cry together, be a listener to ease their pain.

HP-ness blog is a platform for me to spread happiness, share good things. So i tell myself not to write anything here when i'm not in good mood. Happy go lucky! :D

No man is an island. We need each other and we all have our lifetime supporters.
Believe me. If you keep everything to yourself, you'll go insane one day. lol.
So do share your feeling and emotions to your close friends, family!
They're always there for you, no matter you're happy, depressed, pissed off, moody or angry.

Peace. ^^V

2 Lessons from Facebook!

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:29:00 +0000

This is one of the most visited sites showing on my Google Chrome every day.

FACEBOOK!

Facebook is addictive. What's your average time on facebook everyday? Psychologists have introduced to a diagnosis Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). I'm afraid i'm very close to it. lol

Anyway, i still find the "good reasons" for using facebook.

1. Boost Our Creativity

through profile picture. You gotta believe how powerful the facebook is. Girls are actually busy to get a perfect shot for profile picture during outing. There's once i was scared by a girl friend's passion. She wanted to change profile picture and she didn't let go of me till i took a picture of her that she felt it's perfect. (more than 10 shoots at the same spot, with the same pose -.- )

By far the most popular style is this-is-me shot which you can see clearly who the person is. That's how facebook users polish their self-capturing and photoshop skills!

In-a-mirror shot is also very common. I log on to my facebook account, i can see more than 20 friends'profile pictures are they facing the mirror and holding a camera or handphone.

Hard to ask pictures from friends. Use my own pictures.

I'm-a-photographer shot, i see this type of picture everyday. Three persons are displaying the picture of them holding camera on my MSN now! lol. Many guys i know are obsessed with DSLR camera.

Cousin and my friends. My cousin keat looks the most pro.

Not only guys, my girl friends wanna show they're photographers too.

Besides, the trend of I'm-with-my-meal shot shows me that as long as we have a perfect profile picture, we don't mind to let the stomach growling just for the photo taking session. hehe. :)

My Sis and i.

Actually i don't set any of the photos of me shown above as facebook profile picture. I think i'm the most creative one! At least i haven't seen any friend's profile picture like this. Haha! Look at the picture below, you'll agree with me.

My profile picture before. Forgive my ugliness, i like this! Funny mah~ :D

My little advice here, you can put ugly picture like i do, but please don't use some gangster/lala pictures. I ignore the friend request every time i see a gangster picture (e.g. Long gold hair covering almost the whole face picture). And once, i blocked a friend of mine for few months due to his profile picture. I was so embarrassed when he asked why i never approved his request. I didn't know he's actually my friend till he asked me. Plus, he didn't put his real name.

2. Teach us tolerance.

Frankly, I don't have a good temper. When facebook is getting more popular, i'm facing more and more useless stupid application spams. I have to keep an eye on my application privacy setting everyday, clean my wall and inbox always. I don't blame Mark Zuckerburg. Facebook is way too popular today. You can see many company got their own facebook page. And many annoying sellers are using facebook to do business. I just quietly ignore all the requests from FB online shops.

The annoying facebook users help to train my emotion control as well. Read more for the annoying user types, i found this interesting and true. I don't like friend-padder who randomly add friends everyday to reach their hundreds or thousands friend amounts. Knowing some net friends has nothing wrong, but i dont believe anyone can know and keep interacting with everyone of the thousands of friends on facebook.

I learn to tolerate with horrible photo taggers and especially the let-me-tell-you-every-detail-of-my-day users. I still don't understand why people wanna post "Yam-cha at Starbucks now", "Just woke up, good morning!", "In class now" and "Watching XX movie". When i beh tahan anymore, I'll definitely place a comment there "Get some life pls!" How could someone really enjoy the movie while he's busy updating FB?

You might think that i'm talking nonsense about these lessons i got from facebook. I'd be glad to know what you learn from facebook. Do let me know ya. :)

p/s: thanks to those friends for allowing me using their pictures here.

i hate to forget & lose things.

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:46:00 +0000

My short-term memory doesn't work well. Since secondary school, i always forget to bring this, bring that. Especially after i lost my habit of doing to-do list everyday. i always have good friends to remind me for important things, such as Poh Yeen, ShynYing and Venus. But now, i'm a grown-up and have to be independent.

at my age of almost 20,

i forgot my train ticket. by the time i found it, i missed the train.

i lost my comb. x999

i forgot to bring IC, purse or handphone X999. (you know i'm exaggerating, but too many times that i forgot)

i thought i had used up my pocket money, and asked money from parents. after weeks, i found few hundreds in my drawer. hehe

my calculator's M.I.A. and i actually gave up to find, bought a new one.

my glasses (which is the most important thing to a short-sighted person) also disappeared for few days, and i found it after i made a new pair. -.-

there are many things that i lost and till now i also don't know where i lost them.

Today i realize that my pendrive's lost and i'm so pissed off.

He's my first sight love. :(

the moment i saw it, i wanted to own it.

if you're a guy, you sure can't imagine how terrible the feeling is.

Plus, it's limited edition! Baby pls come back to me~

Boost Your Happiness: Your Nose Knows!!

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:01:00 +0000

You're using it right now and you probably don't even realize it. What is it? Your sense of smell, of course.

Your nose is amazing! It alerts you to danger and helps you taste food and enjoy the fragrant world!

A human can detect thousands of smells. And I can't smell very well. Unlike other friends who are very sensitive to smells, I'm always the last one to know there's someone farting in class. Lol.

It seems certain aromas have the power to stir up strong emotions and even change our mood. :)

A study of 4000 people in UK looked at the scents that appeal to us most. My favourite smell, freshly baked bread, topped the list. The smell makes me happy and blissful every time because it's homely, warm and reminds me of people i love.

   TOP SMELLS THAT MAKE US HAPPY
   1. Freshly baked bread
   2. Clean sheets
   3. Freshly mown grass
   4. Fresh flowers
   5. Freshly ground coffee
   6. Fresh air after rainfall
   7. Vanilla
   8. Chocolate
   ----------------------- Source: Reader's Digest

Our noses know the little things that make us smile. How about you? I got 4 from the list above. Baked bread, flowers, fresh air after the rain and of course chocolate! My mood turns good because of them. Tell you a little secret, i like to sniff liquid paper and petrol. Yeah i know, many people told me, that's not good. But they somehow make me feel high, they're like drugs.

Anyway I still haven't found any friend who feel happy smelling farts. If you're the one, let me introduce you my secondary school's "Fart King". You'll love him and get happy every day. *evil smile*

Singapore's Attraction

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:15:00 +0000

Besides going to Singapore landmark, i went to many must-visit places. Sentosa Island, Singapore Night Safari, Chinatown, Boat Quay, Orchard Road, Geylang, and (i-forgot-the-names) museums.

There's too much excitement at Sentosa Island till we never slowed down our pace. 4D Magix & Cineblast, Palawan Beach, Songs of the Sea, Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon!

--Dolphin Lagoon--

I like Dolphin Lagoon so much! I saw pink dolphins for the first time. Dolphins are already very adorable, can you imagine how cute the lady pink dolphins are?

We were sitting quite far, thus the pictures we took shown above are not clear enough. I believe you can see clearer at the picture below.

Picture credit: dsphotographic

--Underwater World--

--Songs of the Sea--

I'll definitely return for Songs of the Sea during my next visit! Very spectacular effect, everything was so fancy and incredible! It's a world-class show.

--Night Safari--

Carrying anything too bright is prohibited, and pointing lights at the animals is not allowed. Therefore we don't have any animal pictures. But i can tell, S'pore Night Safari is a wild adventure not to be missed. We saw animals in almost every enclosure. Best safari I've ever been!

--Chinatown--

-- Food--

After eating for 3 days at S'pore, i personally feel that Malaysia's food is more delicious! However, Soya Bean & Yew Char Kuey at Geylang is so yummy (my favourite food there) and Malaysia doesn't have. too bad too bad. The taste of soya bean is different. Our tourist told us a joke.

Singaporean's very kiasu (fear of losing). Even the yew char kuey is unbeatable long.
LOL. It's true! You can't find such long yew char kuey anywhere in Malaysia. Don't believe? See the pictures.

Injured Smile?

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:19:00 +0000

Picture credits: SilentFun

I don't really understand the hidden meaning of this picture.

I got two ways of interpretation.

1. Although there's wound, she has the beautiful inner smile.

2. Although she's smiling, she's actually hurt.

How about the mirror? i'm confused. But somehow i feel touched, many things running in my head when i first saw this picture.

i might get its meaning totally wrong.

Let's share your thought about this picture. :)

Boost Your Happiness: Candy

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:58:00 +0000

Children like sweet. You'll never fail to make a kid happy with candy and lolipop! But many grown-ups do not crave candy anymore.

Candies are part of our childhood memory. At my age now, I still like candy and it definitely can enhance my mood every time i feel a little blue or depressed. Actually I always steal my little sister's candy, especially milk candy and cotton candy. Unlike my friends, I don't really enjoy Halls.

Believe me, eat some candies next time when you feel unhappy. It's undeniable that the effect is instant yet temporary. The little bits of happiness still count, right? At least, you get the enjoyment for few minutes.

My favourite Candy now. :D

Thanks to Tiang. I'm addicted to Sticky.

Sticky, traditional hand-made yummy.

The first time I tasted it was when the first Sticky outlet in Malaysia opened at 1 Utama. We got attracted by the big crowd for its shop opening ceremony, and the pinkish new shop is easily spotted.

Finally my lil sis's turn to covet my candies. LOL

See why i love them so much. So colorful that can bright up your day!

Expired Rubbish 过期垃圾 by DA.MON.STER 摩斯特

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:28:00 +0000

Lai Quean was driving. We were chit-chatting happily in the car. We all stopped talking concurrently, just to listen to the song on radio.

I was enjoying the music and listening to the lyrics.

I still remember this part of lyrics clearly!

到时自己亲生子女抛弃自己你就会知道嗰啲滋味
供你去出国读书乜嘢博士碩士学士
都係假嘅爛有學問尼啲就叫做自私

No words coming out from us till the song ended. We were touched. No! It's more than touching, we got shocked because of how true and realistic the lyrics are!

I immediately asked Lai Quean for the song's name but he didn't know as well. I googled for the song after that night. This's a great song by DA.MON.STER (i never heard of this local group before, but obviously they are great!) .

♫♪

不会再哭不会放手记得抓紧我双手
Let me go home. Let me go home .

♪♫ (Chorus)

i listen to this song over & over again. If there's still heart in you, try to recall how you own everything in your world now, never ever abandon your parents pls. We need to care about our old folks.

Papa and mommy, i wanna hold your warm hands tightly even when the hands become wrinkled old hands one day.

i love you. ♥

Digi Campus Roadshow at Westlake, Kampar.

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:34:00 +0000

Today i finished class at 11a.m. After lunch, i was enjoying afternoon sunshine. But then someone's blasting music. *sulk*

Oh no. It's more like got people throwing a party on the road! I heard the sound of car's roaring engine. What's next? Loud music! And DJ talking. I stood up and looked outside the window. Wow! It's so yellow!! I saw a yellow car parked outside the opposite house and many yellow people on the street. Lol.

I immediately picked up my camera and walked to balcony. (Haha. i was like a reporter, got news sense. I thought of taking journalism as my degree major. =P)

Do you notice? A yellow man inside a yellow car holding a ~~yellow~~ mike. "blah blah blah... Don't miss the opportunity to win a hp laptop. Sign up to the cheapest blah blah blah Digi Prepaid Campus! blah blah blah...." Okay, then only i knew it's Digi "road party"!

I've been studying at UTAR Perak for two years. This is not the first time Digi having roadshow here. That's why i always tell my KL friends. Kampar here is developing so rapidly all because of UTAR students. Cyber cafe, restaurants, shops and houses are getting more and more like mushrooms after a rain. And we have Tesco now!

Digi's so pandai! Westlake Residents are students, the target for their Digi Campus plan. Plus they come at the right time! Don't know what's happening with Maxis at Kampar Westlake & New Town. The network coverage sucks! It's been 3 days.

Of course I'm not promoting for Digi Campus, although the plan is really cheap. I won't switch because my father's loyal maxis user and i'm using his supplementary line.

You can take a look at Digi Campus's rate plan, and compare it with Hotlink Youth Club. Most of my friends are using youth club. Let's enjoy our benefit as college/university students! :)

Btw, i always like Digi's ad! "I will follow you!" and the yellow ducks. Haha.

@Leo Forum 2007 (Now u know how dark i was)

Sentosa 4D Magix and CineBlast

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:24:00 +0000

Somebody please tell me when Malaysia will have a great 4D cinema like Sentosa 4D Magix and CineBlast! Thanks to Lai Quean for the Singapore trip. I had my fantastic awesome great fun experiences of 4D in S'pore!

My only 4D experience in Malaysia was at Genting.

I thought it was superb till I had a whole new experience at Sentosa. They are incomparable! If you are going to Sentosa, 4D Magix and CineBlast are must-go! Over a year, i still can remember clearly my feeling of excitement there.

The game package we had on that day was including Desperados, Extreme Log Ride and Pirates.

Sorry that i don't have any pictures when we're playing inside because we're too busy to play. Lol. But we had the time to take pictures outside while we're waiting for our turn.

This was the sticker badge we got after playing Desperado.

LOL. I got one. I can go to America become ~~Cowboy~~ COWGIRL ! Desperados is a game that employs motion-based saddle seat facing a large screen where the video game plays out. We the players are cowboys inside and shooting down all the bad guys. The game lasts for about 10 minutes and the top three scorers have their pictures up on the screen in a mini hall of fame.

Before we entered for Pirates..

I like Extreme Log Ride the most among all! It's far more exciting than playing roller coaster at Genting. It's unbelievable thrilling although I was just sitting a motion-based seat, inside an air-cond space, at the safe Sentosa Island. I experienced the fear of dropping into a 1000m high waterfall. It was so real!

I would definitely go to Singapore again for it! ♥

A for Apple?

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:24:00 +0000

I believe everyone can shout out the name of this phone. Yes, it's iPhone. As we know, iPhone is ruling the world now. No. I should rephrase. Apple rules the world!

When we start learning alphabets, we all know 'A' comes first. And you can go try ask any small kid, "A for... ?" The kid would definitely answer "A for APPLE!"

The very first alphabet 'A' means a lot. 'A' means good grade, every student's hope under Malaysia's stupid education system. 'A' stands for apple, my favorite fruit.

i like apple.

Talking about apple, i think of my name, Snow White with the poisoned apple, Isaac Newton, Big Apple Donuts and of course Steve Jobs's Apple!

Apple iPod, Mac, iPhone, iPad these revolutionary products have changed the meaning of apple. Apple doesn't stand for the red fruit alone anymore. The bitten apple is the easily recognizable logo in the whole wide world for Apple Inc. After i read the story of Steve Jobs, only i understand why Steve Jobs made Apple his company name and its logo.

Now apple has a whole new meaning for me. Apple's my inspiration. i admire Steve Jobs's awesome spirit. Never give up even after he got laid off by his own company. Steve Jobs, you deserve the Apple's success!

Apple rocks!

Meeting Merlion at Singapore

noreply@blogger.com (HP) — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:46:00 +0000

This was a great trip with friends last year. To meet the merlion at singapore, i ditched my very first class for my degree. I'm a bad student., right? lol

Of course we were not only taking picture with this small lil merlion.

and also this huge merlion.

Not to forget, the sentosa merlion.

After taking plenty of pictures with Singapore's mascot, i wondered why i've never taken any pictures with my own country's mascot. Erm.. Singapore has "sea-lion" and what about Malaysia? If you know, tell me. I was thnking if i were a tourist to Malaysia, where to take a symbolic picture?

KLCC, the Petronas Twin Tower first popped into my mind. Then only i realized i dont have any pictures of me with it even i've been living so near to KLCC for so many years and went there for N times. :(

Okay, it's not too late for me to realize. I must take a picture with KLCC building!