February 5, 2011

Walking down Memory Lane

Once again, I managed to not update my readers about how my new year went. I'm sorry! Its just, I've been so busy doing other things that I didn't have the time to update. And well.. fine. I was just lazy to blog about it. But you all still love my blog, right? Right?? *hysterical despo smile*

Anyway, I kicked start my 2011 this year by once again, organizing a new year's countdown party with the Puteri 8 gang + the adult commitee. It was pretty last minute and the fireworks was an epic..... :D

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So yeah, I'd rather not talk about that. Lately, I've been doing more blog surfing than blogging. Along the way, I've found some really awesome pawsome blogs! :) One of 'em is Kenny Sia. For those who don't know him, where the hell have you been living?! xD He's this really funny blogger from Malaysia. I. am. obsessed. with his blog. Some of his post can literally make me LOL! or sometimes, LMAO! Or at his best, makes me ROFLMAO! Well not really, but you get the picture. His blog = good. Period.

In fact, it is because of him I am inspired to start this blog post :) First of all, HAPPY 2011 PEOPLE! and yes, I am aware its February making this probably the latest new year wish you'll ever receive.. but oh well, better late than never eh? :P Anyway, before I welcome 2011 with open arms, I'll walk down memory lane and recall....



"10 big things in 2010"

1. Playing on a life-sized snakes and ladders board with my family. 
Not once, but..




......TWICE. :)




But the most ironic part was, guess who won both rounds of snake and ladders??


Danny!!

This just goes to show Snakes & Ladders is totally a game of luck! (yes, I am a sore loser that's why I'm blaming luck for making me lose both rounds xD) Danny, the youngest in the family ended up beating everyone twice. While my brother and I on the other hand, always ended up the bottom two.



2. Became a guest judge for a bunch of ladies doing dance performance.
This was done together with my older brother and my friend Ivan. Also before that, we had to perform and teach them how to do the dance! Not only that, we also co-host that day by organizing a few games and activities for this ladies. Confused on what exactly is that day? Teehee! Actually, that day is my mom's annual "kick-off" day for her work agency!


The Dedicated Trio



Teaching ~!



The two awesome performance team xD

Posing as Randy, Paula and Simon (you guess who acts as who) and Judging~!


An awesome day! Can't wait to help with this year's kick-Off day :D


3. Went to my first ever concert :- The Wonder Girls.

The wonder girls in wonderful red dresses (haha I made a lame joke there)


Showing off the WG tickets!


Showing off the WG fan crowd!


Showing off.. err.. nothing really. I post this pic cause I think I look cute here :P


Doing the typical "nobody nobody but you" pose after the concert


Doing the typical "fan with poster" pose after getting WG freebies


and omg!! Met with my friend regina there! :D 


4. Attempted to make dinner for family for the first time.


Uh-huh fail. Maybe I'll try that again this year..?


5. Separated from big brother for first time.
All my life, I've never imagined the day would come where I'd wake up and not see my annoying but lovable big brother the whole day. Last year, I had to go trough not seeing him for weeks sometimes. He was chosen for National Service which basically means, being away from home for 3 months. After that, he went for college that is a boarding school. Hence, begins the period where big bro will no longer be living at home as much as before. As much as I hate to admit this, I do miss him. Things are just not the same at home without ya, brother! Oh well, I know this is all part and parcel of growing up (I still can't believe he's 19 this year o__O). So if you're reading this 'bang, thanks for being my play companion all trough my childhood years, my tutor trough my exams and my joke partner most of the time.  Sure we've had our ups and downs, but I'll never forget all my memories with you :) 

Now that you're all grown up and leaving home for college and all... I wish you all the best in life and your studies. Never forget me, your beautiful and gorgeous little sister okay :D BUAHAHAHA.


Visiting bro during his National Service period. (Harhar bald egg head! Sorry, couldn't help it xP)


Bro getting the good news of being accepted to some college :D


6. Had my first taste of Disco Roller Skating.
You remember how effortless Jessica Simpson looked as she did some fancy move on her roller skates while singing 'public affair'? Well guess what? Not as easy as it looks! I mean, the skating part was easy enough, but when it comes to doing some stunts. One word : OUCH.

How the hell?!?!

Coolio~!

This is how OUR version goes like xD

Danny after a fall!


Brother smiling despite falling down on that ramp 100000 times.


Mom actually not bad, doing the disco pose! 


'Ze Group Photo~!

Overall, I give it a 9/10 for fun! I THINK I WAS THE BEST SKATER IN MY FAMILY. ^_____^


7. Won second place in The City Stock Challenge.
My journey being in the Young Entrepreneurs [YE] Club has totally been a roller coaster ride. But despite all my ups and down, my BEST memory being in YE would be the 2 day event : City Stock Challenge. I was teamed up with Stefan and Edwin and together we made an awesome team called the "Oogas-oogas". In the first day, we had to learn about stocks and how it is in the real world. It was tough but totally interesting and fun! At the end of day, our team had to come up with our own buisness card, outfit, name and all.

Second day was the stock challenge itself! It was a full day of competing with other schools (plus our own school) That day was just all about stocks, calculating/balancing accounts, making wise decisions on which stock to buy depending on the current world situation. Man I tell ya, I felt like a real adult that day :) In the end, we made a whole lumsap of money! Big enough to win us second place! WHOOO!


Posing on stage after the results were announced :)


The whacko outfits that also helped us win xD


With one of the many tutors/judges there


This was later on back in school, they gave us prizes for winning :)

8. Jogged for 5 km.... ON A HOLIDAY.




The jog turned out to be surprisingly enjoyably and fun. No doubt it was tiring but hey, at least I finally did something different in Cameron Highlands other than pluck strawberries and well.. pluck more strawberries xD 


9. Performed an indian dance for 3 different locations.
So what started out as a harmless little performance for school, ended being repeated 3 times on other locations. Puteri 10 and Puteri 8! Yo, we were quite famous for awhile you know B-)

Click ME to read about the performances


10. Wore braces!!! To school I mean. I was totally self concious initially, but you know what? Its not that bad after all :) People just tend to get use to it after awhile.

*actually I have no idea what to write for number 10 cause I have so many choices to choose from xD Another big moment in 2010 was my sweet 16! I had the best birthday last year and I'd like to thank everyone who made it what it was  <3

With this, I gotta end my blog post now. I wish all of you a Happy Chinese New Year! At least I'm not late for this one, right? Heheheh. Bye! :)


December 23, 2010

Sun, Sand and Sunblock lotions


Natasha's list before going Sepang Gold Coast

Sunblock lotion
Sunglasses (uv protection)
Sun dresses and scarfs
more sunblock lotion
Shaver

Hellow people! I'm finally gonna start my blog post on my trip to Sepang Gold Coast :D If there's one word to describe the whole trip, I'd choose ; supercallifragilisticexpiadilocious. Doesn't make sense? Good! Cause no words could describe my trip there. It was definitely one of my top fav trips.

One of the best things about Sepang Gold coast was obviously our chalet itself. I mean, seriously, room on top of the ocean? COOEL! My grandfather was fishing on the balcony of our room everyday of our 3 days 2 nights there. Anyway, we started out the day of the journey by leaving at the crack of dawn, 4 am. Hehehe gotcha! Do you seriously think I got the will power to wake that early on a holiday? We left around 12 something after Danny came home from his Yatchee school. The journey in the car was... was... was... well I dunno really.. cause I slept practically the whole way xD TEEHEE.

When I woke up, whadya know? We were already there o__O how long did I sleep anyway?! All I could hear in my faint half dream-half reality state was my mom in a deep conversation with my dad about asking for directions. Wait- maybe that wasn't a dream after all >:P Anywayyyyyyy... when I woke up, I saw the beach. THE BEACH. Do you know how long its been since I've been to the beach? The sight of it definitely knocked out any grogginess from the car ride outta me. We ate lunch by a stall near the beach and after that, I straight away ran to the beach to... camwhore xD




Now now, I also took pictures of my brothers okay? Its not all about me :P Btw, if you look at the picture above and look far at the horizan of it, you can see the long row of chalets on the oceoan. That's Sepang Gold Coast. The comfiest and cosiest and most gorgeous place ever. Man, since I'm promoting Sepang Gold Coast so much, they really should give me a free trip there again huh? :P heheheh


Danny running towards me at top speed as I, errr, took a picture.


The men of the family + a random cat


Sorry brudder, couldn't help it xD

After that, we rushed to the resort to check in our room. When I saw the entrance I went all "gasp gasp gasp we're living on top of the ocean!!" Okay, now is probably the time where I should explain to you the structure of that place. Allow me to go to goole images to find an image of Sepang Gold Coast for you... :)

FOUND IT~!


Presenting, the Golden Palm Tree Resort at Sepang Gold Coast~!


But the best that explains that place it this video. WATCH IT! :D


Do you know we even have this mini cars to drive us around too our rooms? Well, partially that's cause the walk to our rooms would probably take a long time. The stretch of road, also seen as the batang of the 'palm tree' in the picture above is very long. Imagine walking trough that in the afternoon (hot sun) ?! hence, the mini cars.




OMG we're here!! and look at that long stretch of road/chalets behind me .__.


So we ride mini cars!


DAY 1
DAY 1
DAY 1

So yeah, day 1 was all about just settling in the room. Well more like starring in awe at my room xD After the driver dropped us off at our room, we entered, I went like OMG! And ran in everywhere! The balcony, the rooms, the TV room, the study/guest room and of course, my favourtie place in every hotel.. the.. toilets! :D I jst lurrvvve checking out fanch shmancy hotel's toilets. Sigh, wish mine was like that. They had this frickin' sunked bath tub in the middle of the toilet!! :D Lets not talk anymore, picture time :-


Siblings showing off balcony


Mom and I showing off master bedroom gorg bed


The trio showing off the cute table on the balcony


Dad showing off the study/guest room


Brother showing off TV room


Granny showing off the.. couch. With style~! :P

After settling in and taking a bunch of photos, we went to explore the resort  (minus grandfather cause he was already at the balcony getting ready to fish). It totally made me fall more deeply in love with the resort. There's something in the ocean I tell ya!! It makes me wanna stay there foreverrrr o__O Well, we stumbled upon the swimming pool area and the design there kinda reminded me of the design of the pool in Lake edge. Anyway, my dad, big bro and I played 'monkey' in the pool. Somehow, I always ended up being the monkey. IS THIS JUSTICE I TELL YOU?! Hmph .__.






We practically played in the pool the whole evening :) Then, when we returned back to the room, all of us got ready and went out hunting for food >:) Guess what's for dinner? SEAFOOD. No surprise there huh :) t'was good. I'm honestly not such a big fan of seafood, but the food there was fresh! Like, maybe they just caught it .___. maybe they did. Ooooh.

When we got back to the resort, surprise, surprise, my grandfather managed to catch fish!! I know its just fish, but the whole family when berserk. We were all like 'fish! fish! fish!'. Macam tak pernah nampak fish before. Eheheh :p

Go Gong Gong! (pun is intended :P)


Bro was so impressed he join in the fishing fun~


Holy macaroni, he actually caught one!! :O

That night, the fishes my Gong Gong and bro caught was just the beginning the whole lot more they were about to catch the following nights. Sadly though, we threw back all the fishes we caught that night back to the ocean cause my Gong Gong, being the fish expert, knew it was poison fish he caught. Could kill us if we ate it :O So after taking pictures of it, we threw it back to the ocean.  Alive, of course. :P


DAY 2
DAY 2
DAY 2

I woke up the next morning as an ice block. Seriously! D: My blankets were too thin cause my parents and grandparents were using the thick ones. It was the coldest night of my life. But enough of that-  Day 2, we were going to tour around the Sepang area on a bike ride tour and after that, we're going to the beach for fun and games the resort provided. Excited much?! I was!! :D

First of all, we had to have breakfast right? So our mini car driver suggested to us most cute little stall nearby that had nasi lemak & roti canai and all those sort of things. Needless to say, that was our destination! :b yum.We rushed through breakfast though, cause we thought we were late for the bike ride tour thing, but when we got there turns out! We were early? o__O Need to wait 15 more minutes. What to do in the meantime? CAMWHORE! Durhh :)


Bright and early ; posing in front of our room :)


so sweet :3


camwhoring while waiting for the bike tour to start 


The pro-ness of my photography >:P


Lovin' the background


Beach! The beach! :D

Finally, after taking some shots and all, the bike tour started! It was nice eventhough my skirt kept flying up. At least I got the exercise I wanted this holiday. Plus, one of the bike staff was a french man?! bonus bonus bonus xD 





After the bike ride, we all went to the beach!! Its was pretty hot when we went out so I made everyone splatter on sunblock before they left. What? I care for my family okay :P TEEHEE. Just so you know, it didn't really help, I turn dark anyway after the trip. Pfft.

volley ball surfing sun tanning boat riding swimming sand castles sea shells hunting relaxing checking out hotties

aaahhh, a summary of what happen at the beach. And no, I did not spend majority of my time checking out the foreign staffs there *ahem* I was busy surfing and err... riding boats!












OH FINE D: As you can see, I fell more than I surfed! But oh well, still an effort eh? After that we went for lunch and returned to the chalet. That was pretty much how day 2 went. When we got back from the beach it was pretty late, we were all exhausted! and dark! So I spend the rest of the evening snoozing :p heh. But danny and daddy (pun intended again) went to the pool while my bro and grandfather bonded over fishing. (they caught alot more btw)

Bro doing the fish face, while holding the fish


When I woke up, I watched TV and watched the guys fish for a while. I was pretty much just relaxing and taking in the sea breeze and the serenity. Very calming :) Later on, during night time, we went out for dinner  at the same restaurant we went last night. We are a family of habits xD

When we got home, surprise surprise, bro and grandfather went fishing again! And this time, my bro shocked EVERYONE by catching the biggest fish of the holiday! An Ikan Keli aka Cat Fish? I guess my bro just has the fish genes in him huh? Well that explains the smell he always carries around, heheh!


Good job! We ate that fish for dinner few nights ago. Not bad :b


DAY 3
DAY 3
DAY 3

So for day 3, the first thing I woke up to was the sound of my mom packing up all the clothes into the bags. Nosily. Anyway, the family woke up soon after and headed for breakfast, at the same stall we ate yesterday morning. Told cha' we're a family of habits! xD Soon after, where else did we head but to the beach! To try all the stuff we didn't try yesterday. Like......


This thingy-that-runs-on-windpower!!! sorry, I don't know what its called :p

When we reached the beach, we saw this couple of people in that wind car thingy running by the beach side, it look so tempting we all decided to play it too! However, the wind wasn't strong enough that morning. So at one moment you could be moving as fast as well... the wind, and the next, you could suddenly stop moving (cause the wind died). Dammit. So yeah, one kinda embarrassing incident happen while I was playing that thing. 

My brother and I were racing lah, you know us, sibling rivalry and all? Hahaha so yeah, my brother was ahead at me that time. He was totally taunting me you know >:( laughing at the fact I was behind him!!. Then, karma took over and his wind car stop moving cause the wind died at his place at that moment. I seized that opportunity to over take him and skillfully managed to 'catch' the wind and start moving very fast :D HELLL YEAH, I OVERTOOK HIM! As I turned behind to see his flabbergasted face (big word, I know), I laughed at him and shouted "LOSER" while emphasizing the L alphabet. I guess, karma did his thing on me next cause guess what happen?!

My. whole. wind car. went. UPSIDE DOWN!
No, don't ask me how it happen (though I suspect it was the sudden strong wind, karma's an ass). All I know is, one moment I was happily moving far ahead of my brother while laughing at him and the next moment I felt a weird sensation while being tossed around by the strong wind, in the wind car.

Allow me to draw you a picture in my attempt to explain this situation to you, here:

That's me shouting help while being pin to the ground, while my mom and some random uncle ran to my rescue. P/s my bro was busy laughing at me while this whole thing happen, so I did not include him in my drawing. Serves you right, har har! :3

Somehow, this incident didn't affect my parents and danny as they also decided to join in the wind car fun and get their own! Behold :-

She caught the wind! Go momma!


Dad joins in the fun too!

After that, we got tired of wind cars. So we played volley ball with some random people who were also staying at the resort that time. Pretty awkward, but okaylah. Heheheh then the volley ball game ended. So my family went and played beach football. My big bro and lil' bro vs. my dad, mom and I. It was an intense match filled with lots of foul shirt pulling (ok fine, that was mostly on my part), pushing around (danny is guilty!) and screaming (my mom -.-). But needless to say, the winners in the end, was my mom, dad and I! BUAHAHAHAHAHA. 


THE WINNERS


LOSERS :)

It started raining soon after. Perfect timing cause we have to check out soon anyway :P We returned to the room, packed our bags, rode the mini cars for the last time and said our goodbyes to that place.I was pretty bummed out though. This has been one of my most fun-filled and exciting holidays thus far. Will definitely be missing fishing at the balconies, playing by the beach, riding the mini cars, checking out the foreign staffs and eating seafood- wait, maybe not that. :P but the rest of course. I WILL MISS SEPANG GOAL COAST!


Good bye, I'll be back.



*at last I finish this post, my fingers are numb from all this typing .__.