Books and movie

Suddenly in the mood of blogging,and thats a good thing!

That means I'll have more updated posts (not sure if people would read it anyway pfft)

Anyway,been filling in my time with some reading this week.

Borrowed three books from Ching,just trying to spend some time indulging myself into

 those oh-so heart warming novels.

So the first one I read was 

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

 Reallly good book!

For once its not so much about romance and all,in fact its sort of a family affair kinda thing.Well I did teared up at some parts and all,but hey!that shows how moving the story line is :)

Then a friend told me that there was a movie based on this novel,so I decided to download it.

Well,didnt expect much from it considering that almost all based-on-novel-movies are never better than the original book.The movie was just OH-KAY.You know..stories cut short and not much of an emotional drive there.haha.

The second one was 

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks.

We all know how touching his novels are.I think almost everyone would like to have a Nicholas Sparks romance in their life.hehe.Again,teared up only a little here,surprisingly.I usually cry to all the movies that were based on his novel.

and I heard that the movie is coming soon,so..cant wait! :D

The third book was ..

I Miss Mummy by Cathy Glass

The lovely thing about Cathy Glass's books is that they're all based on true stories.

She tells people about the stories of the children she fostered.I really admire her work,taking care of her own children but also making time to foster the kids in need.Stories about abandoned kids,and not-well-to-do families really makes you aprreciate what you have right now.Does anyone of you have her other books besides this and The Saddest Girl In The World?Cause I would LOVE to read them :)

Lastly,downloaded the movie that sis told me about.

Temple Grandin.

Played by Claire Dane.

You guys should really watch this movie too!Such an inspiring story about a real life person who has autism and how she deals with it.In real life,Temple was a pure genius even with her condition.I've heard so much about autism kids,about how different are they from people and some also say that they have natural musical talent.Which I believe its true,considering that I know a junior who is autistic.Temple invented the squeeze box which is now probably used by autistic kids.Since these kids cant let others touch them,they need to be hug.So whenever they feel tensed up or so,they would go into the squeeze box and sort of,hugged themself?Anyway,its too long to explain here.maybe you should really watch it,although some parts are kinda boring.But really,an inspiring movie :)

So thats it!

That was how I spent this whole week.The weekend is about to come..

sooo..Darren's birthday and SMI campire this saturday.Not too sure whether to attend it yet,but maybe a little while wouldnt harm,eh?

ta-tah!

Classic childhood time

Been spending the week with the lovely buddies.

First we went for Tuesday pasar malam.

omething we love to do randomly,just to enjoy some time together and of course not forgetting to indulge ourseleves on the good street food there.

Monster of the night was probably Mi Ching as I dont get whats with her huge appetite of

 grabbing all the different types of food there.First was the fried chicken,then keropok,then the dai gao min and then sugar cane.Really,I had one packet of sugar cane and thats it for me.LOL.

and oh!Those lovely accesories :33

But it was a fun night,provided that we knew that there might not be any more 

chance for us to do this in the future.

Funny how Ching asked "I wonder if we would still come here when we are 40 or 50 years old" 

and I answered "hahah then we wont be eating all those fried stuffs anymore.We would probably be eating vegetarian food.and who knows we will be bringing our kids here together!"

Who will know what the future holds right? :)

 (taken from night market.cute eh? )

Last Friday night,after a long week of planning,

Darren drove us to Euro Fun Park!

You know,the one everyone has been talking about and seems like its only there for a month.

So,we decided to go before it was too late. The only frustrating thing about it is the long journey we took there.Maybe they should have built it around our area and I believe that maybe more people would go?

Anyway,no one can tell how excited or relieved it was when we saw the big euro wheel from outside.

Like finally we're here!

 

From the outside,the thing that totally freaked me out but also got me excited was the Vortex.

It looks like a fricking hammer/swing/the-whoopsy thing!

Anyway,Ching and I bought the entrance tickets and waited for Darren to look for a parking.

We paid RM4.00 for the entrance alone.and thats not it.LOL. 

the huge euro wheel.

So we walked around to see which attracts us and later on to buy the tokens.

Being the timid-moussy Jean,I only agreed to take on one less scary one.

Come on,I really cant take too adrenaline rushing thing.Yeah yeah..call me a freaking scary cat :P

Well for the less scary one,not remembering whats the name of the game,its like 8 bucks for one round.

Pretty pricey eh?

Darren and Ching later took on the crazy Vortex.

Really reallllly hands down for that.I was standing at the side of the thing and even though I wasnt in it,i can feel my heart pounding like mad.HAHAHAH.

and oh,its 10 bucks for the ride.Maybe its worthy for the ride of your life?

 The cousins.

 We were satisfied after two rides and decided to get chatime in degarden..
But Chatime was too packed with people,so we went for ice-cream instead! :)

Great night spent together.
Who knows when will our next time be?
:)

Last meet up

So Begum and I have been planning this hangout since very long ago but every time

 something must disturb our plan.But finally..we decided to meet up for one time before

 she and Zat leave for matrics :(

Picked Zat up and we headed for Jusco.(where else?)

Its so soo nice to see after some time.The last time we met was when Mel was still around.

And I didnt get to even see her on results day,so sad :(

So we were so happy to see each other again.

Went for Japanese food.again.

 Me and the cutie pie! ;)

We ate and catched up on each other.

Man..so much laughter I had that day.We were probably the noisiest table there.

Even the sushi chefs kept staring at us.Oopsies!

Maybe its because we didnt meet up so long and we missed each other jokes,we laughed at almost every single word we talked.hahaha.

What to do next?

What else can we do in jusco btw?Wanted to play bowling but too bad I wasnt 

wearing any socks so..yeah :/

Mentioned about going for karaoke but everybody knows how expensive Kbox is.

But then again,we decided to take a look at the price again.

OMG.Its so cheap right now.only RM12++ per person and you can sing from 1.00pm to 8.00pm.

So yes,we screamed our lungs out in karaoke.

So much fun! 

Zat was so pressured when she realised that she was going to sing with the

 choir conductress and the choir girl.ahahah but seems like Zat was so so hyper.

All in all,a very good day.

So gonna miss these two girls,on a brighter note,

We will meet on Hari Raya! :D

18th,again?

Been so long since I meet up with the childhood buddies.

So we made up an appointment for dinner on Thursday night.
Well well,I waited and waited for Ching to come and pick me up about 8 plus.
No replies from Darren and so I thought,its okay,just me and Ching.

LOL waited and waited till i gave her a few texts.Still no reply!

And there came the reply at 9 saying that she fell asleep LOL!

Postponed it for lunch the next day.

This time again,went to Waraku Japanese restaurant for the set lunch again.

Catched up on each other a lil bit,gossips and stuffs.

And Darren just couldnt stop complaining about using an iPhone.
He's probably the leader for an anti-iPhone campaign.LOL.Left at about 2.10 cause Darren will have to attend his class at 2.30.So Ching and I drove to Jusco and
 thought we could check out on what movie is available.

Since she watched the Avengers,we bought Dark Shadows just 10 minutes before the movie started.how random!

Not bad,indeed.

Johnny Depp is seriously such a talented actor.He always manage to pull out different characters in all his movies.And I have to say,love how he transforms from one character to another.

Thumbs up!Anyway,this is quite a creepifying movie.Ching kept hanging onto my hand and we hid our faces when we knew something creepy was about to appear.Well,almost all Tim Burton movies has this scary effects but I gotta say I kinda like them!Everything in the movie is so vintage-ish!

Darren joined us an hour before the movie ended.Yeah,he ACTUALLY bought a ticket 

for the seat next to mine after his class.

Dropped by my house a lil while to get some stuffs.That two just couldnt stop going through my stuffs in the room.Correction : just Ching.hahah she even sprayed my Vera Wang Princess.LOL.
We then went on to Beacon Point.
Just for their lemon poppy seed cake.
AND RIGHT THERE,I was told to pretend that its my birthday.They requested for a candle from the waitress and told her that it was my birthday.hahaha random people!

Making my "birthday" wish

My "birthday" cake muffin :)

Camwhore attempt  take #1

Take #2

Take #3.

Ahhh finally a not so fancy,nice shot.LOL.

Couple tees yo!

Therefore I declare,11th May 2012 as World's most random day!

Oh well,we had fun :D

Interview

Soo..regine gave me a call while I was in KL to let me know that we can now check

 our application status for JPA scholarship.

and so I was called for the interview on Wednesday at 2.00pm.

To me,it wasnt really about getting it or not,I just want to have the interview experience 

(thought i've been to three before) .Whatever it is,I took it as a trial.

To get it or not,I shall let Him to decide :)

Was all well dressed up in decent formal attire and reach the velodrome before 1.30.

The first thing I did was to check on the list whether there will be any other familiar names that I will find.Nahh..only Renugah and the rest of them are total strangers to me.haha.

First of all,I was grouped with some people.There were suppose to be 8 people in a group but only 5 in my group (including myself) attended.We were briefed about the process.

The first room was the BM language room.

When I first heard that we were suppose to FULLY speak in bm in the room,I got a lil worried.

I mean come on,i cant remember the last time I spoke PROPER bm language.LOL.

   Then we were given two A4 papers,3 pencils,a piece of mahjong paper and two marker pens.

We were given a topic on "remaja larikan diri" something like that and we were suppose to discuss in our group right in front of the interviewers.

Well,all they want to see is our language and communication skills.

After all the discussions,we drew our ideas on the mahjong paper and presented like how we normally did at school.

The second room was the ENGISH language room.

Just like the first room,except that you'll present and discuss in english *phew!*

hahahah.my group's pretty cool,pretty open to each other and we communicated well!

For this time,we were given quite a tricky topic based on 1Malaysia.

But once again,it went fine.though its a little creepier than the first room.haha.

Finally,the last stage.

The REAL interviewing stage.Though we were interviewed individually,we still went in as a group.

In my group,4 out of 5 chose Germany.LOL.

Those usual questions were asked,why you wanna do this.why this country etc etc.

 

So thats it,Just wanna share out a little piece of my experience here.

Now,the waiting stage :)