I’m not usually a slacker, nor am I the most kiasu person in class. However, I slack whenever I feel like it but I always make sure my work is done, never last minute. I can safely say I am the most on-time person in class, it feels good to see other people stress and sweat at the last moments of deadlines while I’m just sitting there looking at them doing nothing. *sadistnya aku

Somehow, I am very very very apprehensive about this final semester of mine. I am actually skipping a week’s class and jetting off to Taiwan in a few days. Something that I never thought I would do, but I am doing it!

My classes actually made me felt stupid, in the sense that I am a tertiary institution student but I am being taught, not lectured like a secondary school student! Other than having group meetings for our upcoming campaign in October, the other subjects are plain stupid! Who the hell studies Academic English in their final year? And worse, who the heck does main idea outlines in a degree class? We were given workbook’s to use in class, just like how secondary or even primary students do in school. To make things worse, why do I have to learn all over again about Kata Nama, Kata Kerja Transitif/Tak Transitif, Kata Ganti Nama and all those crap in my final year?

Someone please enlighten because I’m feeling so drab as a university final year student!

Hence, I told myself, to hell with this final semester because it does not stimulate any intellectual part of my brain and I’m off for a well deserved holiday! The only thing I’m excited in this semester is my campaign project, we’re organizing an indie film fest in Penang, a first time for Penang! It’s gonna be so radical and hopefully it’ll get Penangites into the awesomeness that is local indie films!

I have a few days to go before I fly off to KL to stay for a night and flying to Taiwan the next day, I’m so excited I have actually begun packing! Plus my mum bought me a Samsonite luggage for me to officiate on this trip and best part of all, the luggage is in RED! Plus it’s huge so Hugo and I are sharing a luggage to minimize hassle. The reason I got my mum to buy that new luggage is because, our previous luggage’s have been used and broken in so many ways it’s not even funny. My mum thinks buying huge average quality luggage’s is the best because it’s value for money and usage but it keeps getting destroyed after a few uses! Plus the designs are all so generic, so identifying them is always a hassle hence here comes the bright red hardcase Samsonite which can personalized with name stickers!

It’s rollable on 4 wheels so I can just push it around while its vertical without lowering it to a 45 degreee angle, and it could even support my weight while I sit on it, vertically!

Anyhoo, enough raving about my love for my new unused luggage, I’m excited to go to Taiwan for shopping and most importantly to eat! Too bad I’m not going during winter because a bit of cold would be nice, but it’s now summer and the fruits in Taiwan is awesome! My mum who came back from Taiwan recently brought back cherries and peaches for me which I finished it in no time, so I’m prepared to have more while I’m there plus it’s really cheap! What could be better, summer fruits during summer!

Other than that, I’m looking forward to load up my stash of skincare because make up and skin care is so much cheaper plus they have more brands to offer, so I’m looking forward to stock up on my must-have BB cream! Plus I’ve been bombarded by my mum to stock up on leggings there because it’s so cheap there, thick black cotton leggings actually goes for less than RM10 there and I bought it for RM30 here.

So that’s about it for now, I find blogging with WP is so annoying especially when it comes to uploading photos! The alignment always runs whenever it’s done and I have to adjust every single thing to get it right! So hence the lack of photos in my posts.

Tata for now! In a few days I’ll be hearing greetings of “Welcome To Taiwan!”

♥ Wendy

This is probably my first time writing about a trip so I’m gonna be as detailed as I can, so here goes nothing.

Around late last year or was it early this year, Hugo who’s an avid airplane ticket promotion stalker booked two Cathay Pacific tickets for two, and luckily it was right after my finals or so it was what I think it was. When I began my semester, there were no confirmed dates as to when is my semester break and I have been bugging for 4 months and still the reply was “there is no reply from USM” so nearing the end of my semester, I was constantly bugging my school’s office for the exact dates of my break, because firstly; my semester couldn’t be like 4 freaking months long and secondly, I didn’t want to cancel my trip to sit for papers!

So yea, I was hustling all my lecturers and the admin of the Mass Comm office and thankfully, my final paper is literally a week before my departure to Hong Kong! Honestly, receiving your final examination’s schedule a week prior to your first paper is a very mean thing that your school can do to you.

Major stress mampus gila babi @_@.

Anyhow, after finally knowing the exact dates for my papers, I was relieved that my Hong Kong trip had no need to be canceled and I sat for the papers doing the best that I could and I think I’ll do okay,  but my main focus was thinking of the well deserved holiday ahead. I don’t expect any fantastic results though, it’s my first semester afterall therefore I shall take this as a learning cove.

Back to Hong Kong, surprisingly I slept like a baby the night before departure, and I was very well packed for everything unlike somebody who packed like as if he’s migrating to Hong Kong. I even brought several surgical masks just in case, as the swine flu case is getting pretty serious in Hong Kong. Our departure time was 8.10 am, therefore we had to wake up even before the male chicken starts singing. We woke up at 5.30 am and had some light breakfast before heading to the airport. I even brought Mr.Shit with me!

The flight to Hong Kong was about 3 hours plus and it was a pleasant flight. I’ve always loved Cathay Pacific airlines, especially 10 years back when they gave me my very own kiddy meal, I still have the cartoon lunchbox that they served food in with all the Looney Tunes cartoons. Breakfast on the plane was either Fritata with Hash Brown and Breakfast Sausage or Fried Noodles with Chicken. The movie selections was great too, there’s Twilight (which I watched for the don’t know how many times already), Seven Pounds, Discovery, E!, and many more.

Upon reaching Hong Kong, we were given arrival and departure cards to be filled in and sign, presented upon arrival and depature.  We had to sign health declaration forms too, because of the swine flu outbreak.

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It sure does feel good to have a well deserved break. Honestly, at the end of my semester, all I focused on was to try my best for exams and the break after. Indeed, having a holiday does feel good. There’s more me time, family time and boyfriend time.

Lim Ah Meow and Jamie now have a stay at home mum too, as they’d be abandoned throughout the day as I was busy with classes and meetings. And Jamie is seriously making me grin with happiness, he’s the fattest cat I ever had weighing in at 7 pounds, and he’s still a young cat about 5-6 months old. Can’t wait to see how big he’ll grow!

Anyhow, I shall begin my holidays with a backpacking trip with Hugo to Hong Kong starting tomorrow, no tourguide, no big group holiday, just maps and our own common sense, we’ll see how it goes. We’ll be covering places like Macau, Disneyland, and all sorts of touristy places that Hong Kong has to over. Ironically, this is my return to Hong Kong after being there 10 years ago. I still remembered how’d Disneyland looked, it was just piles of sand and rubbles with barriers on top of the hill and I can’t wait to see how it looks like right now, although I do know it’s uncomparable with the Anaheim, Florida and Tokyo Disneyland.

So till then, happy holidays to my fellow classmates and yay I can finally catch up with my series and Breaking Dawn!

♥ Wendy

and it’s not the reason that you think it is. It has no romantic element in any sort of way, but a lot moolah is involved.

Well if you haven’t know, the reason I was occupied and hadn’t had the chance to write was because I was operating a handmade accessories stall in college for a week. I had tons of fun doing it by the way.

I could probably say I’m the most semangat member of them all because I would wake up at 7.45 am to get ready and reach college at 8.30 am to set up. The process of convincing my team members was a little hard at first, there were doubts but I was convinced that this idea would work, and I’m happy to say it went well with extraordinary outcome. Thanks people!

I’d always wanted to operate a stall selling handmade accessories as I started doing all this sorta thing since 2006 but I would only sell it to close friends, classmates and friends because I lack the initiative of going forward since I’m a one man band. But this time, I had help so it’s a lot easier and the money we all spent at the beginning made us doubtful whether could we gain it back, but thank you my loyal customers for supporting us!

We had quite an array of things at our stall, ranging from bracelets of various designs to handmade rings, necklaces, earrings. With materials from plastic beads, clay flowers, Swarovski crystals, stone beads, and all sorts of recycled items from our own collection.

And although it was meant to be a Valentine’s sale, it was more like a sale for all since we had all sorts of people buying from us; from office ladies buying for themselves and friends, guys buying for their girlfriends, girls buying for themselves and buying the same thing with their friends as friendship gestures, and most of them bought a few things at once, and even came back few hours later to check out new stuffs that we have.

And I think our group made a good effort in servicing the customers. We explain the processes of making the things we have on the table and offer free adjusting services in case it doesn’t fit, we even recommended accessories that would match our individual customers. Basically, we would like our customers to be free to choose the designs they like. So we got them to choose the materials they wanted on their bracelet or ring or earring and we would do it for them. For a very low price actually.

The most expensive item we have in our stall was only a RM18 bracelet, the rest was not more than RM12. As I’ve said during the sale, all things are priced at student’s price as it is made by students for students.

The customers flow at our stall was pretty overwhelming also, all of us didn’t have time to go for lunch or take a short break (except for ENRIQUE TAN KIM HOCK who is constantly missing) as the customers kept coming again and again with more people. I guess people do love our affordable one of a kind accessories.

When it was time to close down for the last time and as I was counting the money we made on the last day, adding it to the money we’ve made from the previous days, I felt a little bit sad as I really enjoyed my time as a stall operator, though I’ve been neglecting my other studies and even Lim Ah Meow, who jumped off the balcony (to my horror) and she survived la, gatal.

I could see that most of my classmates had bittersweet times in closing down and tearing down their stuffs, because I can see a lot of people had fun as it was sorta like a short escape from the stress of other subjects. So now it’s back to reality, boohoo!

I wouldn’t mind operating a stall again really, who knows it’ll be my future occupation instead of communication?

And for more photos from the sale, click here.

♥ Wendy

Other than my family, my dogs and my Babi, I have a new loveeeeee in my life!

It was hard to say bye bye to my previous 4 year old husband but he has to go! I’m still wondering is it the right decision to opt for a smartphone but so far after days of using it, I’m loving it! Although I have yet to explore the GPS and office functions of it, I love it when I can access my blog, e-mail and chat whenever there’s free wifi around! V Oh yea, I love qwerty!

My 3 day trip in KL has been less bored with this phone around, I was so occupied with the features of this phone till I completed ignored my i-Pod and the Shuffle! Maybe like what the Chinese says, “San Si Hang” or New Toilet Bowl but regardless, this phone is pretty much what I’m looking for in replacing my old one. And yes, it has a stainless steel body which is oh so damn sexy but the fingerprints is OMG annoying! Just like the I-Pod, mafan gila to keep rubbing it off. And to end all this, the phone rocks my socks!

? Wendy