I'm feeling twenty two

Hey Yo! I am gonna write about my birthday! It's my birthday yo!!

So much thoughts and incidents to tell but now let me do it one by one. 

My BIRTHDAY is on 22 January, just FYI cause it's been quite a while from now. I've been wanted to write blog post about it but I again procrastinated. (The truth is it still takes me a lot of motivation and courage to now decode my thoughts into words. Hwaiting KPM!)

Well on that special day I decided to do something special, like- dont drive and got myself a chauffeur. 

'cause 9gag said- She is not your best friend until you put your life in danger by sitting in her car. 

I think YS and I both proved it. 

Oh yea I think I missed out this part - My companion/shadows on that day. 

They are my SHADOW! LOL 

They seriously trolled when I whatsapp them this image which was obviously edited. 

"Why are we looking like your backdrop?"

"You just care about your own face never thinking about us?!"

"Okay, it's your BIRTHDAY, we let you win."

Thank you sis, finally I look prettier than both of you. 

VENUE 1- We went to Patisserie Boutique.

It was my visit there. I have been going to the same cafe for few times but every time I made it, they full house. I think the boss purposely one, so that I can celebrate my birthday there. 

My bouquet and I. Have been carrying this bouquet to every places I visited on that day. Shamelessly occupied a seat and cucuk people's eyes. LOL

MY BIRTHDAY MEAL- Smoked Salmon Spaghetti
Thanks for the treat XW and YS!!
The meal was so so but your companionship was incredible.
<3

XW had Smoked Salmon Spaghetti as well but YS had this- Smoked Duck Aglio Olio. 

VENUE 2- Something's Brewing

It's another cafe in town. Basically because we don't want to go to the last station so fast and we were still craving for some cafe food, therefore we made it here as we got good reviews from friends. 

Here was the place where we took a lot of selfie-s. Sorry I can't upload all but this is one of those which I think is remarkable.
Me, the BIRTHDAY girl became a photo bomb.


Which in turn, asked XW to photo bomb deliberately. It was a purposely photo-bombed. LMAO！
But so sad, cause instead of photo bomb, it more looked like we've ignored her.
Awww, poor thing~

LAST STATION- YS's House

This, is, also, my, 2014, birthday, celebration, last, station. 

The same place, but each of us changed, for good. 

MY BIRTHDAY CAKE-Homemade by XW('s friend)
I've been acknowledged that this is not a cake that can obtain easily.
Very good texture, love it and hate it in the same time because of the FATS that it could bring along.
Side Note- The candles were too big to remind me that I am already 22.
（Please play "I'm feeling 22" by Taylor Swift as background music)

My fav photo of that day. 

Each of us look so great so grown up as compare to the one we took 5 years ago. 

Enough of all the pictures, I should write something proper now, 

BIRTHDAY WISHES

FROM YOU.

Thank you, for trying with all you might to give me a wonderful birthday. I dont see it with my eyes, I feel it with my heart. 

Thank you, for giving me calls and sing me birthday song. Special credit to the one who change the lyrics of the whole song, recorded and sent it to me. I feel your effort and your wish. 

Thank you, for sending me message, Facebook PM, Whatsapp and even SMS (they who still willing to send you an instant message via your phone carrier, not the social apps). 

Thank you, for writing a post on my timeline. I know Facebook didn't remind you directly (I hide my birthday LOL). Maybe some birthday wishes popped out on your newsfeed or what not. Doesn't matter, you've made the effort to write something for me and so I will appreciate it. 

Thank you. 

FROM ME. 

I've made my birthday wish(es). 

1. I wished, those who be good to me (don't say "everyone around me", too many, God also not free one), will be happy throughout the year. Happiness as in be contented with what you have and not to envy at what you dont. 

2. I wished, those who be good to me, will be in the pink of health. No serious illness, no headache no migraine no heartache etc. 

I'M FEELING 22. 

I don't really feel like I am already an adult at my 21st birthday. But this feeling had so overwhelming at this 22 birthday. Which I think I need to make some vast changes in my life or else I will ended up as a noone. 

It's also the age which I realised I should stop fooling around with my silly laughter and start to take things seriously. (say my studies for example)

Not forgetting, this is also the age which I started to ponder that, stop making A LOT of friends. Acquaintances, no. But get along with the one who appreciate you like how much you appreciate her. I am lucky, cause I found mine, and it's not one, I have a few. 

I am feeling twenty two. 

HAVE YOU?

21 Years and 11 Months in SHORT

WOW!

It’s always unbelievable and amazing, when every time I have to remind myself that I am going to be 22. Just right before my birthday, I talk to myself... 

“Hey! Don’t make people judge you by your age, ‘cause I should be judged by my maturity.”

*powertothemax which is also one way for me to escape from the fact that I am a year elder, stepping into the adulthood while deep in my mind I think I am not ready for it yet.

Where the heck all the resolutions and life achievements go?

Again, grandma stories, I want to ask myself, what is it LIFE all about?

Likewise, LIFE can’t be pigeonholed; it’s never one or only one thing. It is a great mix up of all great things in life (sometimes included some bad things too). No matter what, I still agree that everyone has a different view and definition for life. But, but….

ACTUALLY LIFE IS JUST A PROCESS  OF YOU BREATHE IN AND OUT OF OXYGEN TO GET YOUR BODY SYSTEM FUNCTIONING ESPECIALLY YOUR BRAIN SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE DECISION IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE THIS BREATHING PROCESS, NOT.

LOL.

Tell me if you agree not. I just got this definition while I am writing this. Yea life can be wtf-ing easy and clear depending on what we want and how we want to do it.

In my coming 22, there are things which I want them to come fast and things which I don’t.

Cheerfulness and positiveness please come fast and stay with me around.

Smiles laughter you cant run away either. Constant companion yo.

I don’t ask for happiness but I want gracefulness and appreciation. Learn more on how to appreciate everyone in my life, no matter they come for pleasing or teasing, I appreciate them.

Moderateness I need you too. I remembered how  I wanted to be an ordinary girl back before I enter my 20s. I don’t want to be extremely good or extremely bad at something. I just wanted to be moderately good at everything, like every ordinary girl around you which you most probably wont even pay attention to her when she passed by.

I don’t want to be an all time winner. Losing occasionary is way better than winning. Simply because sometimes you don’t win because you deserve to, but because they let you to. Which is not what I want.

Love please don’t come so fast. I still can’t handle you. When love is not something as simple, I realized every relationship is making me getting less confident at myself. Am I a total jerk in relationship? No no nooo.

Yeh so far that’s it I guess.

I still need an honest 2014 summary in a day or two later.

A literally honest summary, I don’t wanna lie to myself cause I am using you to record the pace of my life. So that I can recall back everything at my 50s.

Lots of love.

Second last day of 2014.

30 December 2014 

Media Prima

Media prima is the broadcasting company in Malaysia which included TV3. NTV7, 8TV, 9TV, One FM, Fly FM and Hot FM. It located just a stone away from the shopping mall One Utama. 

Why do I need to tell you this? 

Hehe

My school organize a trip to visit this place. Frankly I was not attracted at first and wanted to ditch it because of the frightening 10 hours bus ride (round trip). But at last I still make it, which I am quite grateful that I made it. Cause it's really amazing. 

This is me with only 5 hours sleep. Slept at 1am the previous night and woke at 6am to get ready. It's already a miracle cause I could wake up all by myself without any morning call. Gather at 6.45am but departed at 7.30am cause we waited for some who didn't turn up in the end. 

Selfie with my bus mate. Ms Teng. This photo taken before both of us fall into soundly sleep. LOL

Still look fresh cause we just enter the bus yo. 

Selfie with my VPD. Without much edit cause the sunlight is too good for any edition. She had a new hair cut which I would give two thumb ups for it. 

*thumbup x2 

Credit to VPD. This photo been taken perfectly except I look fat in it. But well this is a fact so I also can't comment much. 

I am just fat. 

This semester almost end and finally we had this opportunity to take a group photo and everyone looks so great in it. 

Wow. It's like FINALLY. 

hehe 

This is what I had for lunch. 

Chicken with mushroom, come together with soup and vege. 

Taste so so. Not extremely tasty or what. 

Just average. 

Then finally we heading to Media Prima. 

This is their old studio which they no more using now. Cause the old one has a lot of LCD screens as the background. The crews have to adjust the motion of the video everytime camera rolling for news. 

Now they have a new studio which use virtue background. 

The professional camera. 

Office of TV3. 

The studio with virtue background. 

Me acting to be a news reporter. 

We passed by One FM studio and saw William. 

Well, normally I am not a very hard die fan of his. But I literally turn crazy when he came forward and waved to us. 

Oh my god I was so overwhelmed that time. 

Silly till take PHOTO with him. While he was doing live. 

Me no medicine cure d. 

And, this siao za po. She purposely came from Semenyih to One Utama just to meet me, for 5 minutes.

Feeling extremely sorry to her and in the same time it moved my heart so much. She who still haven't master the driving skill but willing to drive and stuck in traffic for about 1 hour just to see me, even for a very limited time. 

I love you biao Mei.

Would conclude that it is a very satisfying trip. 

See you soon. 

<3 

Can I have Life Without BB Cream?

BB cream is my most loved cosmetic ever! (Which is of the same level with eye brow pencil and brown eye liner). What's been so AMAZING about BB cream is, it literally makes my face fairer, for I have natural tanned skin; make my pimples and scar less observable; and most importantly make me look more energetic because finally I can somehow hide my black eye circle. 

But the path to discover BB cream that suit you the best is tough and full of risk. 

Why is it so? 

1. QUANTITY USED AND QUANTITY BOUGHT. 

Most of the BB creams come in small packaging, but it takes quite some time to finish it. Let say if you gonna apply it daily, a 18ml BB Cream from Maybeline takes me about 3 months to finish it. Just if you bought one new brand of BB cream and you realised it doesn't work good on your face, I consider throwing it is a waste, so no matter how I will insist to finish it before I could get myself another brand. 

2. PRICE 

Honestly I don't allocate much budget for cosmetic. Therefore most of the time I will go for economical brand like Maybeline. Well once in a while pamper myself I'll go for Shu eumura as well as some weird brand. But frankly, you get what you paid. That's a huge difference between the quality of these products from different brand. But well having the thinking that I am not a very professional makeup beautician, therefore I am satisfied with my budget cosmetic. 

Here is my BB cream family. 

Yeh no doubt, I consider foundation as BB cream family too, after all we use them to cover flaw on our face right?

1. Garnier Miracle Skin Perfector 

Don't bother about the fancy name yet, it's a BB cream. Price about RM18.90 or something like this which is very very cheap. I just grabbed it when I found it in Watson even tho that time I haven't finish my current BB cream yet. 

This BB cream smells good, this is the reason why I bought it. Most of the BB cream in the market got a very typical smell ( very difficult to describe that weird scent, but certainly not a favourable scent). But this smells like facial shampoo or facial cream from Olay or Garnier itself. 

If I've need to use one word to describe the smell, it would be REFRESHING! 

2. Maybeline Clear Smooth 8-in-1 Transformer 

This BB cream comes with a lot of different tone. I used 01FRESH. It's a tone lighter than my original skin colour. It's of standard price at RM19.90, not sure if the price had inflated not but it has been kept in this price for quite some time. 

What I really like about this cream was, it changed the tone to match with your actual skin colour after you apply it for a short time. This is those HIGHTECH function which I can only find from those very expensive cosmetic, for instance Kanebo Kate, which we can't get BB cream from them at RM19.90

Another thing so great about this is, it looks very natural after applying.  There are some BB cream which I find out that I'll look pale if I gonna apply it for the whole day. This BB cream from Maybeline give you a more cheeky look but it's kind of oily. So basically your cheeks look red red very cute but your face is oily. 

Seriously love hate relationship with this. 

3. Étude House Precious Mineral Sun BB Cream 

Many of my friends told me that Etude  House sells very good cosmetic. Well at first I don't have confident at this brand, cause it looks so fancy from the outside which don't attract me from the first impression. But, well after I bought this, it somehow proven my hypothesis is half wrong. 

Half wronged as in, it's a good BB cream but my face had allergy to it. 

Bought this at RM39.90 or RM49.90 I can't remember well. This BB cream comes together with a sponge at the cover. So you can just squeeze it and apply with the sponge to have a more even BB cream apply. 

It last longer, no oily face. Overall not bad, but it caused allergy to my face which now my face is full of pimples and scars. 

4. Maybeline Angelfit Flawless Natural Liquid Foundation 

Oh well this is not a BB Cream but most of the time I used it as BB cream too, which is not good to the skin. Most of the time I apply this as the first layer and then apply another second layer of BB Cream. 

I forgot the price but I guess you can still get it from any Maybeline kiosk. 

So what I like about this foundation is that; it's not plain yellowish or white kind of cream but it's more to pink. Ignore my tanned skin but I think it will look great on those who has a fairer skin. Cause one of the thing I realised when I use BB cream was my face look literally WHITE which is awkward and obvious that I applied a lousy BB cream. But oh well this gives you a more natural look. But best apply it with sponge or brush. Or else it won't be evenly applied if you just use your finger to tab it onto your face. 

5. 

Product mom bought from Cosway. I don't usually use powder form of foundation cause I couldnt do it well which ended up look very fake and weird. But this is okay. I not sure how true it is but it is stated in the product description that it can be applied in dry powder form or even mosture cream form. 

I don't know about the price but it's one of the Cosway thing which mom uses it regularly. Guess it would be from budget price too. I used it quite often when I worked, just use it as the second layer after I apply BB Cream. Of course without the Maybeline Foundation or else my face would be full of cream. 

6. DermAfirm Intensive Blemish Balm

My current favorite BB cream. This is the sample I got from my friend but one little sample pack could let me use for about a week or even more. 

Basically this is a brand from Korea which still don't have any proper shop yet in Malaysia.( I guess.) 

And my friend happened to be the distributor of this brand in Malaysia. That's why he so generous and gave me a lot of samples from this brand. 

So I couldn't tell you how much is it since even I myself didn't know that. But I LOVE this. 

It is not the same with the other BB cream that I've used as in a little amount of this can give you good covering effect already instead of squeezing a lot from the other brand. And I also realise that it is better in covering my pimples and scars and give me a more youthful look. Well I know I am not old yet but my skin condition is kinda bad recently. Then it also comes with extra minerals in it. So when I apply it on my face I feel like I am killing two birds in one stone; got my face look better without scars and pimples while in the same time nutriening my face. 

Heh heh 

The best thing ever on earth. 

But oh well, guess that I'll have to stop applying any cream on my face now except toner and moisturiser before sleep.  Solely because, my skin condition is AWFUL. 

So dry and the pimples grow like rubbish along the road after pasar malam. 

But soon, 

Imma gonna get back to my BB cream life!! 

Jiao Sai - Maggi Goreng

I have been crazily craving for MAGGI GORENG in Penang recently. My love to MAGGI GORENG had been escalated to the extent that I walked for 1 hour to dabao my beloved MAGGI GORENG. The desire to have maggi goreng as lunch emerged at 3.30pm, and I was safe and sound in my room with maggi goreng in my hand, at 4.30pm. (okay this's rare, only when I don't have car and I wanted to walk around)

Yea proudly I would tell you the top 3 Maggi Goreng of my own. 

(in fact I've also tried only 3 different maggi goreng in Penang)

1. Golden Phoenix food Court

Location - The newly opened Food Court in Sungai Dua, Just next to Universiti Sains Malaysia. 

Reason - Surprisingly tasty, a little bit spicy and it's acceptable. Not a lot of fried beancurd but it comes together with chicken slice. Maggi and chicken are being cooked separately, that's why the chicken itself got another sauce (which I have no idea what sauce it is but it's nice)

Price - I order Maggi Goreng with Chicken everytime and it's just RM4

2. Super Tanker Food Court

Location - You should know it. The food court near Bangunan Lip Sin. 

Reason - It's quite spicy. Seriously if you cant take pungent food, you don't want to consider buying this. The hawker here very generous one. Cause she put a lot of beancurd, some crispy I dont know what it is and the portion is quite huge too. I didnt put it as the First merely because it taste nice but it didnt surprise me because I simply feel like, it's nice. and thats all. 

Price - RM4.20

3. Jiao Sai

Number 3 in this list which also means the bottom of all three. 

Location - It's the same road with 火锅之家，steamboat is at your left, look at your right hand side, when you see a smiley face by Happy Mart, and a Joo Huat shop, yea please turn right and you will see Jiao Sai.

Basically THERE ARE A LOT THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT JIAO SAI

1. THE NAME

What my friend told me was, Jiao Sai means - BIRD SHIT

They then told me the history of this Jiao Sai, that at first it was at a place where a lot of birds stopping at that area and they shit. So people named it as Jiao Sai. 

Till now even the shop owner himself also decided to name the shop as BIRD SHIT. 

Hor Chiu bo?

but okay la, quite creative also.   

You can look at the signboard, can't you see the white spots on it?

Yesh! Dont doubt, that's BIRD SAI. 

They never forget to put the SAI on signboard cause now there has no more birds after they move to this new shop lot. 

LOL

2. THE MAGGI GORENG

Frankly I am not fancy at his maggi goreng. First, the instant noodles that he used, I think it's those TomYam instant Mee from Thailand. When he fried it, he put in the Tomyam flavoring from the instant mee itself. 

So, what I was thinking is that " I have this kind of mee at home, and I can just cook the mee and I can still fried it myself! What for I 山长水远 go to Georgetown and get your version?"

What I had was a small tomyam maggi goreng. They still got big one which I see had not much different with my small one. 

Yea it comes with SUNSHINE EGG and chicken too!!

The egg is okay but a big NAY for the chicken. It's mostly skin but not flesh. I want the chicken daging I dont want the kulit chicken!

*fliptable

3.THE PRICE

Humphhhhhhhhhhhh

Honestly, I think that it's a little bit overpriced. I am totally okay with pricey food, but provided that it's tasty! I am so much willing to spend all my penny for GOOD FOOD. 

But......

Just have a look at what we had that night

2 plates of regular maggi goreng tomyam (now I dont even bother to call it as a SMALL, I rather say it's a REGULAR swt)

1 plate of large maggi goreng biasa

3 air limau ice

1 milo panas

All of the above cost us RM30.50

I dont know how much is the noodles and i dont know how much is the drinks either. 

Although I dont have to pay for this meal (obviously a Good Samaritan gave us a treat), but I seriously feel so pain for the money used. 

5. THE COMPANION

Nah you see. 

I was being Jio-ed for this random supper after I finished meeting with musical drama crews. I was walking, on my way back to hostel. 

and Siao Zha bo (Jie) just dropped me a call and she started complaining, that I've never make time for her ever since this semester started. And she complained and complained and complained. 

SO I gave in and here we go! 

JIAO SAI!

Yea so you can pardon me for that dowdy look ya!

Maggi Goreng is over and I shall start looking for other food.

CARBONARA maybe?
*hiphiphurray

My All Time Favorite Disney - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

What did you do when you was young? Like a baby or toddler. Do you give speech or presentation? Do you cycle around your housing area? Or you sit down quietly read and study?

Yo you are GENIUS if you are doing any one of that. 

I aint genius cause I spent most of my childhood time watching television program and read comic books. 

I am always proud to enumerate the television programs I watched in my CHILDHOOD. 

Dragon ball. I watched the whole serial and I remembered how my heart pumped when Goku turned into a gorilla so big that I was afraid that he might broke the television screen. 

I watched this even when I was eating. 

There are a lot more which am so lazy to put up their pictures here. Say, SailorMoon, Crayon Sin Chan, Inuyasha, Full Metal Alchemist and a loooooooooooot. 

Besides of all these Japan oriented animex, I watch Disney cartoon as well. Not sure if you remembered there were a full serial of BARBIE DOLL CARTOON. 

This is one of the Barbie Doll Cartoon which I can remember. 

But out of so many, my favorite is still BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 

I can't tell you exactly the reason why I love this Disney movie so much. Maybe becaus when I was in primary school, there was a boy who said that I looked like Bella in this movie. Then I looked at the cartoon calendar at my school that time, and I murmured in my mind: yea I did look like Bella. LOL. 

I know my over-self-confident kind of personality was already with me since I was young. 

But well I am an adult now, but still Beauty and The Beast is my favorite Disney movie. 

I see this as a true love story.

True not because of Bella fall in love with Beast even if he is a beast. True, because I see that with wealth, even a beauty would fall in love with a beast. 

I also know it's a fact that Bella she didn't even care how frightening Beast looks like from the outside, she loved Beast's personality. That noble attitude that he is not willing to hurt human even if the villagers attack him. 

But can Bella ever noticed all these positive sides of Beast if in the very beginning, he didn't appear in that luxurious way? 

Master of a big castle and hundreds to thousands of servants. 

If Beast in this story were a poor little begger at the village that Bella lives in. Will the same ending happened? 

Are they going to fall in love too? 

I guess it may ended up that Bella will help Beast, because of sympathy. And in the end they won't stay together, happy ever after. 

It just won't happen. 

True love never exist. 

Even if you think it does, it's just a mixture of materialism and lust. 

Explanation need or need not?

Well I would say that life isn't just about growing up and learning all sorts of knowledge. 

It's also about giving explanation and receiving explanation. 

Let's first talk about EXPLANATION. 

Before all of these, why don't we think upon, in the first place, why is explanation needed? And whom do we dedicate all these explanation? 

LOL it seems a little bit legit. But it's a question worth squeezing our brain juice for. 

We spend a lot of our time explaning. 

We give explanation about our motives, our thoughts and what not. 

We explain so that people could understand us. 

We want to make the situation clear. 

We want the people involve to look at the real matter by him/her self but not simply listen to all those third parties.

We hate misunderstanding. 

We dislike miscommunication. 

But once in a while. 

I wondered. 

Why do we need to explain to those who decided to doubt us? 

Okay you may say that I am stubborn cause I hold too much to my own principles. 

But it's my life and it's my principles. 

After all you are just one of those thousands or millions of passer bys in my life.

Few more years later I can't even recognize you if you pass by me in a crowded place. 

That's true. 

So why do I get myself so overwhelmed when some one misunderstand me? 

Nay That's Not Necessary Miss Mei. 

Don't bring yourself unneeded trouble yo. 

So now we had enough of giving explanation, now let's talk about accepting explanation. 

This is something sentimental. 

First, we human being was placed as the top of all living creatures because we have the ability to think and we could development so fast and so well. 

But no matter how we development we can't be fair and just. 

For how many centuries that human of all races chose not being fair but sided at the more favor side. 

Example 1. 

You know your best friend was at fault in a fight with others. But you will still be sided her cause she is your BEST friend. 

Example 2. 

As the headmaster, you know that student A could perform better but you favor student B more and since they are almost the same , you give it to B. 

Clear enough. 

In a second level thinking, no matter how comprehensible your explanation is, as long as the receiver is not by your side, it's like sea water waving by the beach- not even a shit left. 

Yea life is unfair. 

So you don't have to explain. 

In the same time you have the right not to accept any explanation. 

Live as long as you are happy. 

Life is so short why do you need to bother at those unneeded questions?