Nightmare and Sweet Dream: Matriculation and School Academic Award

Part One: Nightmare : Matriculation

tick tock tick tock tick tock. the clock is ticking away. finally it was 12 pm. means that we can go to www.moe.gov.my to check if we get excepted for matriculation or not. too bad the link was not up yet *curse* so i continued chatting and sharing the suspend and agony and torture and nightmare with dear bel and raymond. should we check or not? aiya.. takut laaaa!
then raymond goes: YES! sia dapat! or something like that.
then bel goes: thank god!
then i go: mana kamu check nie??? sia tia nampak link punnnnnn =(
and to my horror it took ages to load the page. think moe web page almost crash or something. haha. and finally i key in my ic number, close my eyes, and hit ENTER. open my eyes and TAHNIAH. that was the only word i saw and registered in my head, i didnt bother to read the rest haha. and thus, my nightmare has ended.
conclusion: i got excepted to Labuan Matriculation College, 1 year program. now i'm thinking should i take living science or physical science? anyone care to drop ur opinion?


Part Two: Sweet Dream: School Award Ceremony.
i reached the dewan kebudayaan, where it was held at about 8.10am. well, we are malaysian, so dont care about punctuality. although MY invitation was 8.00 am, i didnt bother to be punctual, coz passed experience told me not to do so.

anyway, it was great, meeting old friends, old teachers, new teachers (not that i bother to talk to them.. segan bah) i THINK we were very noisy, but no one even bother to shut us up. frankly speaking, i didnt bother to hear the speeches. though it seems to be 'quite interesting'. well at least the part that i over heard were interesting enough. nothing really much happened la, everyone were busy with camera, busy updating each other about each other's ups and down, busy sms-ing to check if they got matrics, in short everyone were busy in their own world.

halfway through the ceremony, i went to the washroom and ran into jason's mum. she was at the mirror, looked up and saw me.
and i went hi aunty!
and she went hi yvonne *shut the water tap and turned around*
so i held out my hand (without realising) expecting to shake her hand. and guess what i got from her? something about cant-just-shake-hand,-must-hug. lol. before i went home, i saw her again, said good bye and got another *hug* well, what can i say? she have always treated me like a daughter for the past at least SIX years. so that explains the old rumours between me and jason. haha.

anyway, i personally think that the interesting part was when it was our turn to take the award.
when cg jenn was smiling widely at me, and i simply dont know what to say.
when pengetua was ON the stage, mouthing something at.. i dont know who (she seems to be looking at me, but i think i'm imagining things)..
when cg claris asked me stop at one yellow line and then 'run' to another yellow line with my heels
when tan sri asked me some things for so long until people asked me what happened. pengetua and him with their *shocked* face. cant blame them.
when i walked down the stage, speechless.
and when cg jimmy said : yvonne! *looks and points at my heels* jaga patah!

oh, btw, the form 5 guys performance was cool!~ love it =]

p/s: dont ask me how much $$ i get. and no, i'm not gonna spend it, its going straight to my saving acc.

Drop By In School

yesterday i went to school to get the school mag and some sijil, but it turned out that 1. cg richard LOST my name, so he didn't prepare my sijil PEKA and 2. cg seri forgot to follow up another sijil for us. so i only managed to get the school mag.

and the thing that i anticipated will happen, happened! well, you see, i have no choice but to meet cg flavia in the staff room to get the school mag. and that was when and where my horror nightmare began. she asked me if i'll be attending the hari anugerah on friday, which i say yes (after yada2 to my mum coz the school didnt bother to contact us, not until i finished yadayada. pity my mum) anyway, then she said MUST wear formal ah! and i told her i have no formal outfit. and we argued and argued. lol, it's yvonne after all. asked me to wear baju kurung. teacher, the only baju kurung i have, is baju sekolah >.< asked me to buy in donggongon (okay???) . asked my to buy in city mall (sounds wayyy better). asked me to wear skirt. aiyo, teacher my skirt very short.. dont think it's appropriate la.. *sigh*


oh by the way, the block form 4 that looks like a chinese temple with all the reddish family tone have some touching up done. the pillar is now PINK. can you imagine that? suprisingly it looked good. BUT funny lol.

the bangunan pentadbiran is still the same old pinkyreddish, the colour of my camp. sheesh. but the staff room have new curtain. BLUE. nice. but it 'shocked' my eyes. i had to squint my eyes for a few secs to get used to the staff room.

then i went to KUM and i noticed the PUM is painted with new.. murals? is that the word? but i didnt bother to have a good look or take any pics.. coz wel, too many students. but i noticed that now more students ponteng kelas and go lepak2 la.. sheesh, didnt happened during our time. we were such good students oh!

and guess who i met in KUM? cg tita. yes. the one with BIG specs. the one who taught us science in form 1. who was bias. hahaha.. gagal pun boleh dapat credit! the one who loves to give quiz and the one who yada yada alot. she's replacing one of the teachers for the time being. i must say she's a great teacher, coming back after few years of retirement. i bet she's like60+ now! and i was surprise! really! she actually remembered my name. i was like impressed. " i remember my good students" she said. lol, i almost laugh. me? good student? hahahaha!!

anyway, i have to go prepare early dinner now. going out tonite to get the *curse^^* baju formal.

happy easter! and my boring update

well, today will be a normal post. nothing special. i'm currently working on three topics. which are ms chua, kebajikan and i miss high school. but i'm stuck coz i have no pics to post. all my pics are in my sister's external, which is with her in sandakan *sigh*

well, actually nothing intersting happened this few weeks. i spent 2 weeks watching it started with a kiss (excluding this week). didnt watch any movie this week, currently downloading coffee prince.

i'll try and list out 'interesting things' now..
1. my mom was chit chating with me in the kitchen while she was cooking. so our nugget ended up like this:

2. i was not shortlisted for JPA, Petronas and IPTA. which means all the things that i applied, lol.
so much so for working hard in academic, kokum and plkn.

3. i made up my mind, i want to go matrics. so i wont be sending in my yayasan sabah and kerajaan negeri scholarship application forms.

4. i finally figured out the rubiks.

5.i GAINED weight! no. let me rephrase: i gained weight, kilos, pounds, mass, inches, cms and fats!! i'm happy to gain weight, but not the fats =(

6. i went to my sister's place in sandakan.

nice view eh? taken from the peak of sandakan, the chinese temple

7. i found out that cg theresa read my post about her (kani will have to take the blame).
that gave me a heart attack!

8. i finished reading 2 novels by david baldacci. stone cold and absolute power.

and currently reading the whole truth

9. i sms-ed people for 2 1/2 hours straight, non stop. then my hand cramped. lol

10. i've been eating a LOT of bread and cereal

that's about it.. i have nothing to talk about ba this!

p/s: i upload some pic to my 18th birthday

88 Ways To Know You Are Chinese

1. You look like you are 18.

well, i AM 18, what can i say?

2. You like to eat chicken feet.

yeah, but only if my mother cooks it. otherwise i wont even look at it

3. You suck on fish heads and fish fins.

fish head no, fish fins sometimes.. but that doesnt happen often

4. You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging on your rear view mirror.

5. You sing Karaoke.

no, i dont

6. Your house is covered with tile.

yes they are. wow, i'm starting to think i have lots of chinese mix malay /indian/ other races and ethnics friends who have houses covered with tiles

7. Your kitchen is covered by a sticky film of grease.

that only happens righta after we are done with cooking. fyi: i help my mum clean the grease ok. common, dont tell me you kitchen doesnt have any grease at all

8. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil.

i believe it is covered with aluminum, but not aluminum foil (p/s: why is it spelled alumiNUM not alumiNIUM?)

9. You leave the plastic covers on your remote control.

i thought all remote control covers are made of plastic? but i dont have any transparent plastic on my remote

10. You've never kissed your mom or dad.

who say so? i still get my annual kisses on my birthdays!

11. You've never hugged your mom or dad.

i still hug my mum a lot

12. Your unassisted vision is worse than 20/500.

i may be wearing thick glasses, thick enough to be considered blind. but my vision aint 20/500. it much better than that

13. You wear contacts, to avoid wearing your "coke bottle glasses".

not true, coz i dont like contacts, makes my eyes dry

14. You've worn glasses since you were in fifth grade.

good one!

15. Your hair sticks up when you wake up.

only baby hair.

16. You'll haggle over something that is not negotiable.

haha, i'm chinese after all =P

17. You love to use coupons.

no, i prefer cash

18. You drive around looking for the cheapest gas.

i thought malaysia's petrol are standard price? btw, i dont drive. and i'd rather just pay for what's available than go waste my time and gas looking for cheaper gas. beats the purpose.

19. You drive around for hours looking for the best parking space.

20. You take showers at night.

before 8pm only. my mum would kill me with her nag if i shower/ bath at night

21. You avoid the non-free snacks in hotel rooms.

ya, true! it's double triple the price what! why waste money?

22. You don't mind squeezing 20 people into one motel room.

i dont mind being one of the 20 people, but i've never squeeze 20 people nor being 1 of the 20 people being squeezed into one motel room

23. Most girls have more body hair than you, if you are male.

24. You tap the table when someone pours tea for you.

no i dont

25. You say "Aiya!" and "Wah!" frequently.

haha! typical =)

26. You don't want to wear your seatbelt because it is uncomfortable.

who say so? i wear what!

27. You love Las Vegas, slot machines, and blackjack.

28. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can reuse the paper.

i do unwrap christmas gift and birthday gifts carefully, but not because i want to reuse the paper. even though "save the tree" is written all over me, i dont reuse gift wrappers

29. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.

i'm worst than that, i dont even buy christmas cards. well, i do, but only a few pieces that i can afford, full price.

30. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.

nope!

31. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table. (That's why you need the vinyl tablecloth)

hye, i still know my table manners okay!

32. You have stuff in the freezer since the beginning of time.

when's that? the beginning of time?

33. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.

34. You have never used your dishwasher.

dont own one

35. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.

only super typical chinese do that, i'm not one of them

36. You eat all meals in the kitchen.

i have a dining table ok. and it's not IN the kitchen

37. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.

only grocery bags

38. You have a piano in your living room.

as a matter of fact, yes.

39. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).

yeah. haha. but i thought the pick is only available in sabah? hahaha!

40. You twirl your pen around your fingers.

yeah, bad habit. even the chinese motivator told us not to do that, it's distracting.

41. You hate to waste food.

yes. hye, there's lots of people out there starving you know!

42. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

actually, it's sardine

43. You don't own any real Tupperware - only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.

the above statement is true, but i do own real tupperware. which includes, those with the word TUPPERWARE imprinted.

44. You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses.

my parents can afford to buy proper drinking cup and glasses, and they are not cheap

45. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.

yes, they work wonders when i'm travelling and camping =)

46. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (travel mean any car ride longer than 15 minutes). These snacks are always dried and include dried plums, mango, ginger, and squid.

nope! only LONG distant journey. long distance = more than 2 hours

47. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.

ya lah! can cook the rice without rinsing it meh? got lots of husk leah!!

48. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.

partially right. he will try to fix it before calling the repairman

49. The dash board of your Honda is covered by hundreds of small toys.

one, my family dont own honda. two, there's not even a single small toy in any of the cars

50. You don't use measuring cups.

as a matter of fact, our hand is our weighing scale and measuring cups. what can i say? =)

51. You beat eggs with chopsticks.

52. You have a teacup with a cover on it.

you should get me one for my birthday! oh nevermind, i just noticed my birthday had passed.

53. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information costs 50 cents.

i thought it's 20 cents? never mind, i dont do either. i need phone number, i'll check my phone or get from friends.

54. You only make long distance calls after 11pm.

55. If you are male, you clap at something funny and if you are female, you giggle whilst placing a hand over your mouth.

i thought it's called 'manners'?

56. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions.

not jus chinese films, but all films.
p/s: i've never watched dubbed chinese films

57. You love Chinese Martial Arts films.

yes! go go jackie chan!~ does that counts?

58. You've learnt some form of martial arts.

does taekwon counts? or maybe, TTS (tempur tanpa sejanta) haha

59. Shaolin actually mean something to you.

60. You like congee with thousand year old eggs.

you mean 'bi dan/ pi tan'? it's called century eggs but i'm very sure century is hundred year old and and not thousand year old

61. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached.

nope, not me.

62. You never call your parents just to say hi.

duh! of coz la! if i call them, then i'll talk about A-Z

63. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

that only happens in chinese speaking family (and i'm not one). the parents says "chi bao le ma?" literally means have you eaten. it's actually a form of greeting and courtasy

64. When you're sick, your parents tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods due to yeet hay.

what's yeey hay?

65. You know what yeet hay is.

no, and i ask my dad, and he has no idea either.

66. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you're only 10 feet apart.

i dont work, but yes this happens. i text my friends and family even though they are 10 feet away

67. You use a face cloth.

68. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat places.

haha! yes but no. i dont starve myself

69. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewellery or electronics.

70. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.

does this thing even exist anymore

71. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.

72. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.

ya, only me in the family!~

73. You know what moon cakes are.

even my malay/ kadazan/ indian/ korean friends knows what's that!

74. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out.

there's such thing ah? roilet paper sales? never knew that

75. Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles.

76. You iron your own shirts.

other wise?

77. You play a musical instrument.

instruments

78. Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them.

79. You've eaten a red bean popsicle.

80. You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.

81. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

since i'm not working yet, i just pay for my own food ^^

82. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law.

i'm considering medicine

83. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old (and they prefer it that way). Or if you're married and 30 years old, you live in the apartment next door to your parents, or at least in the same neighbourhood.

84. You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more.

malaysian dont tip heh

85. You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.

86. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.
ya! until one of my JLs had to point out a few times that i eat too 'clean', to the last grain ^^

87. You know why there are 88 reasons.
88. You see the truth in this and then send it to all your Chinese friends.

Teachers Featuring Mdm Theresa Lee

okay, today i shall write about mdm theresa lee choon moi (did i get that right?), our dearest add maths teacher, the one and only guru pakar, best in sabah , sabah and sabah =)

*i'm attempting to make is sounds like PCK, but i think i just failed horribly. oops!!*

i actually enjoyed add maths, but sadly i get a B3 for that subject. wahaha.. you know what, among the cemerlang A students, she told me that she was not confident that i would get an A, so yeah.. it turned out that way *sob*.

anyway, cg theresa has a very-very.. let's just put it this way : she has a UNIQUE sense of humour and sarcasm. and she speaks a whole lot of chinese english, which sounds cute really. "like that one ah?" and sometimes she goes "are you sureeeeee?" stressing the word sure. she's really good in add maths (obviously, other wise she wouldnt be a guru pakar) to the point that she can do probably any add maths question you give her. sometimes we think that she's one of the living add maths calculator, in a way it is true, right? and she does it real fast. there are times when she teach that we just simply got lost half way. and she'll ask which one we dont understand. and we'll say all, from the beginning. you know why? coz we cant relate to the question asked. and there were also times when she skipped steps, thinking that we can catch up, and we'll just go like "teacher! where you get that?" "how come like that?" then after she explain, we'll let out a long "oooooooooohhhhh" and she'll laugh at our foolishness (in a way its foolish)

*Wat's wrong with my writing style today? feels very dead to me ..huhu*

cg theresa or sometimes i call her cg lee is a very very tall lady and she has quite a big body frame. she's not fat at all okay, just that she's big size.. u know what i mean? sometimes i suspect that she might be mix blood, i mean western mix blood. and she has a very distinct dress code, well at least in my partner in crime and my opinion. most of the time, if she doesnt wear baju kurung or kebaya, then she will wear long skirts. i have a feeling that she fancy clothes that cover up her legs, heh. and her top will mostly be 3/4 long sleeves. occasionally she wears short skirts though, but not that often.

the advantage of having a guru pakar to teach you is the fact that you learn shortcuts. and no matter how hard the Q is, she will be able to find one way or another to explain to you why is it like that. at least it works with the formula la.. add maths is never explainable, it's too abstract. you just have to fill in the numbers into the formula and work it out. there's not much logic you can figure out from the formulas, unless you're a genius, of cause! any way, the not so good thing ( but some times, can still be good) thing about guru pakar is the fact that she travels a bit too often. every now and then we dont have a teacher in class to teach us. so sometimes our syllabus will have to be cramped, 2 classes= 1 class. and some times we have to stay back to repay the 'lost class' . the good thing about that is, we can procrastinate and not do our homework. hehe... but sometimes when she's gone for 1 week after another, we are like abandoned children (but she never abandoned us la!)

if there was any jokes about her in class, i think it might have slipped off our mind. but i'm 100% sure that no one will forget this particular joke, a joke between cg theresa and raymond.

*note: dialogue may not be exactly the same, but roughly it's the same. well, at least the story line is there!

scene: teacher teaching, raymond asleep behind. well, at least half asleep if not really asleep.
T: raymond! what are you doing?
R: *wakes up*
T: are you asleep ah? what time did you sleep last night?
R: 4am (or was it 2? nevermind)
T: 4 am ah? so late ah? i wonder what did you do ?
R: watch drama with my brother
T: what drama
R: hong kong drama
T: hong kong drama ah? very good.. and how old is your bother?
R: 12 years old.
T: 12 years old. upsr ah?
R: ya
T: wah.. boleh tahan ah, one upsr one spm, watch hong kong drama until 4 am ahhh..
* smiles sarcastically and continue teaching*

obviously everyone laughed at raymond for being so frank. okay now tell me, who doesn't remember this incident?? remember kan? nah..i told you. now go buy me a cub of yoyo drink. i want yam milky tea with pudding k, send to my house.

one thing about this teacher is the fact that she has rather sharp ears. being me, i monologue a lot. and it's rather embarrassing when she caught what i said. shessh. and she ALways repeat after me. *sigh*