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

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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.

One thing I find very good in HK is, we didn’t have to rely on a GPS machine to guide us around, heck there’s no free Garmin HK maps either, so we stuck to the traditional paper map and in HKIA plenty of tourist friendly maps were available.

From the arrival hall to the bus stand outside HKIA, it took us about 20 minutes even with the airport express trains because HKIA is so damn huge. Getting to our destination, Dragon Hostel in Mong Kok was quite a breeze. The public transportation in HK is very very very and I shall add another very just to emphasize how efficient their system is. The roads in HK are constantly busy, and you will see more taxis compared to private cars. We didn’t have to wait long for our bus, probably about 5 minutes and we were off to Mong Kok.

Even in the bus, there were announcements as to where the next stop is and how many more minutes before the next stop. More importantly, the busses are double deckers!

We arrived at Nathan Road, consulted our maps guiding us to Argylle Road where our hostel for the next 6 days, Dragon Hostel is located. It’s located directly opposite Tung Choi (Ladies) Street, a daily pasar malam that sells a lot of stuffs from clothes to gadgets. It’s basically like Penang’s Batu Ferringhi night market, with less pirated stuffs only.

Our stay in Dragon Hostel costs RM 145 per night for a double bed with a private bathroom, and the room just barely fits the furniture provided and our luggage had to be stowed under the bed otherwise there is no way to walk around, unless we step on the beds. That’s how BIG our room is. But the bed is really comfy, so much better than my own bed man.

The room might be small, but it’s fine for us because we just need an adequate space to sleep for the night. There’s also two cups provided and outside the hall of the room there’s a microwave, water dispenser, water boiler, coffee and tea packets and fridge for the usage of the guests. There’s also a phone in the room where local calls are free, so in my opinion staying here is not bad. Economically comfy and convenient. There’s also two computers with internet access in the office for guests to use, so there’s where I check my Facebook and chat for a brief while with friends while researching on places to visit.

Hugo actually made an itinerary for our trip which made our trip much more systematic and we can manage our time to cover several areas, and our first day was  to explore Mong Kok and Tsim Tsa Tsui. The roads in Mong Kok is busy during day and night, and by night I mean till late night like 12 am onwards. Buses and taxis are everywhere, and each bus and taxi stop is walking distance in between, so to catch a ride isn’t very hard.

As you walk around Mong Kok, you will see a myriad of shops ranging from goldsmiths to boutiques to electronic to banks and as you walk further you will start seeing the same shops again. Like Sasa, almost every corner there’s a Sasa, and I was like “am I at the previous road that I just passed?” Being dubbed the shopping district, you will see a lot of people in Mong Kok thronging almost every shops and there’s the sale banner being plastered everywhere. It’s like a never ending sea of people everywhere you go, especially when you’re crossing the traffic light.

When the cross light turns green, it’s as if it’s Left4Dead all over again. It’s like turn green to alert the horde, everyone just pushes and walk in every direction.

I even spotted some funky car plates in Hong Kong, like this Raptor. There were more but I kinda forgot what they were.

For lunch, we decided to try the Hong Kong version of McDonalds and I was very dissappointed. Firstly, there was no pork burger unlike the last time I was in HK, there was pork burger. Secondly, I ordered this Grilled Chicken Burger which is not on our Malaysian McDonald’s menu and it tasted horrible! Even Hugo’s McCrispy Chicken Burger which is McChicken by the way tasted horrible, the chicken patty was so hard and dry. The total for lunch was about 35 HKD, RM 17.50 per person.

After walking around Mong Kok for about 2 hours, we adjourned via MTR to Tsim Tsa Tsui. Primarily for the Avenue of Stars. We decided to get ourselves an Octopus card each (equivalent to our Malaysian Touch N’ Go) to ease our travelling as the MTR stations are mostly jam packed with action from every direction. The deposit of an Octopus Card is 50 HKD each and we paid 150 HKD each to add more value to the card, prepaid travelling. The Octopus card is fully refundable when you are done with it, so no worries about losing out.

Navigating the map of the MTR isn’t that bad, it’s very extensive but when you arrive at your designated stop, there will be several signs leading you to the exit of your destination so just keep an eye for the signs and you’ll be fine. Worse comes to worse, consult the tourist map given!

So far, throughout the 6 days we were never lost in Hong Kong, so the maps provided is proven sufficient! Screw you GPS!

The weather in Hong Kong has been really good, only at certain times it can get quite hot but at most times, it was just fairly sunny with cooling breeze. Upon arriving Tsim Tsa Tsui, which is about 10 minutes via MTR from Mong Kok we took some pictures of the skyscrappers around. Hugo said it’s very Manhattan like, with all the designs of the buildings being reflective glasses and modern sleek lines.

When travelling at night, it’s advisable for those who have low tolerance for cold and strong winds to bring a jacket (like me!), because the temperature can get quite low at this time of the year, not as cold as winter but it’ll definitely make you shiver from the inside.

I called myself a porter throughout this trip, because Hugo had to bring his tripod around and he would make me carry it! And he only carries his camera gear in his backpack. Otherwise for me, I carry our water bottles, our passports, tissue paper, pens and all sorts of essential things that we need throughout the trip. Even the things we bought during shopping is stuffed in my bag.

This is one of the many stars at the Avenue of Stars, it was nothing much la, for me at least. I enjoyed the hazy view and the cool wind more. We were supposed to stay here till 8pm for the daily Symphony of Lights but we were getting low in battery so we decided to come back the following night.

Spot the Nikon Bazooka! The weather was good but the hazy view was very bad for photography, and it never rained throughout my 6 days in Hong Kong. Except for a light drizzle on the second day, so it could get quite dusty around Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Island at the back. This is a candid shot by the way.

Very Chinese-y (Chi-Nee-Zee) Boat at the back!

I’ll just do a little bit of the typical tourist pose la, don’t know how many people queued to pose with the bronze statues at the Avenue of Stars.

We head back to Mong Kok for dinner and for our first dinner in Hong Kong, we were spoilt for choices because there was so many diners everywhere. You can never go hungry in Mong Kok I tell you. We walked for about an hour before deciding on this noodle house because it’s quite packed therefore we gave it a try. The place is called Lok Yuen Noodle House and it’s located on FaYuen Street. They claim to be the Beef Ball King. Heh!

I ordered the Beef Brisket Noodle which is at 25 HKD per bowl and it tasted like bleh. The beef wasn’t tender, a little chewy and I requested for fish meat noodle instead of the normal egg noodle. The soup was alright albeit a bit too salty and the fish meat noodle was just about 3 mouthfuls. They replenish the fish meat noodles with beansprouts that looks like noodles. Hailing from Taugeland a.k.a Ipoh where the tauge is short, stubby and chubby,  compared to the beansprout in Hong Kong, the tauge in Hong Kong is surprisingly long! It’s thin and as long as a toothpick. Hugo and I thought, wow there’s two types of noodles but to found out that it was beansprouts it was quite surprising, more like potong stim because the tauge tasted bland and soggy!

Hugo ordered their specialty, the Lok Yuen noodle and it too tasted like bleh. There were fish balls, beef balls, prawn and fish roll and black pepper balls. Hugo bit half of the black pepper beef ball and had me finish the other half because it was just all pepper and no beef. It tasted like any other fish ball noodle at the cost of 38 HKD.

I find food in Hong Kong very pricey compared back home, but one thing’s for sure is the portion is definitely bigger!

After dinner, we spent about an hour walking around Ladies Street to look around, and the variety of things there is pretty staggering! From toys, clothes, shoes, accessories, sexy kinky lingerie, copy watches and bags, it’s a nice market to walk but beware during weekends, do not alert the horde. Oh yea, about 50 metres away from the hostel there’s a 7-Eleven, and at the entrance of the hostel gates there are food stalls, newspaper stands, convenient stores.

Hong Kong is taking the swine flu case very seriously, most elevator buttons is plastered with a clear plastic sheet and it is sanitized every hour. Even on the flight, passengers are sprayed with sterilizing sprays prior to landing. So for people who are going to Hong Kong, take care of your hygiene and health. Make sure you have your antibiotics and vitamin C ready. You wouldn’t wanna be quarantined upon arrival and departure right.

That’s all for day 1 in Hong Kong and I know it’s a freaking long post, it took me more than 3 hours to write this so please mind my grandmother stories yea. Next up is day 2 in Hong Kong and it starts high up in the sky!

♥ Wendy

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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

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1. Useless.

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

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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

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As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, I went for a photoshoot for OK! magazine with my fellow intern Natasha and now finally, I have my hands on the pictures! Since I was a young girl (am still young now okay) I had this dream of wanting to be a model and now it’s fulfilled! I mean, it’s not that fancy but it’s enough for me! V Plus it’s been fun to be pampered and dolled up, it’s part and parcel of being a girl isn’t it!

The last shot of the session, gotta’ end it with some memorable pictures no?

And this is my favourite shot of all! OMG my tannnnnnnnnnnn!

Ending with a candid shot of us girls, Sue Ann being the writer for OK! magazine

I have been down with stress, fever and more stresssss these few days, it’s driving me go crazy! Argh! Bodohs! I really really really can’t wait for a nice holiday after my tenure ends! 1 more monthhhhhhhh!

I CAN’T WAITTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!

♥ Wendy

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To study, or to work. That is the question.

I’m back after a 5 day hiatus, and it’s been a good mini break for me! Although I didn’t return to my hometown(s), I didn’t spend my holiday being a bum at home. Hugo came up on the first day of Raya and we went on a shopping spree, and I bought the dress I’m wearing in the picture! Plus, in the 5 days we travelled to quite a few places around KL just for food and touring around. Oh yea, been swimming alot at the apartment too! V Saddest case is, Mr.Hugo Lim Dot Com sinks like a rock in the pool. Sedihnya. =))

Meet the organizing committee.

Of my 5 days, the biggest and best part of all is, the karaoke session with my friends at Redbox, The Curve! It was a joint venture of Anna and I, out of the blue we just spur the idea of organizing a karaoke session since everyone’s on a break. And planning an outing as such isn’t easy with typical Malaysians giving excuses like “I can’t confirm yet”, “see how”, “don’t know free or not” that kinda shindig. Very the sweat can. I’ve been plurking to get responses and it all ends up in no avail, and on the day itself, a few unexpected guests such as Joshua and Daniel popped up. Of course I was happy, but yet another Joshua decided to give me the aeroplane because he forgot! x(

But the outing went nicely well, and we occupied the VIP room with an additional RM4 charge per person. But we had a 4 hour karaoke session, so it was pretty great. I haven’t had fun like this in a long long long time. And if you all hadn’t known, the food in Redbox is forever terrible. Sucksssss x infinity.

And now meet the people that made the outing happening.

Top L-R: Aaron Chua , Wai Seng, David Chong, Andrew Wong, Joshua Ong
Seated L-R: William Leong, Anna Lee, Me!, Hugo Lim, Daniel Chew, Ricky Tan

I don’t know but there’s so many expressions in this picture, it’s just funny!

So, to end this post I hope you guys had a good Raya break like I did. And now it’s back to reality where work continues to stress our eyeballs out.

♥ Wendy

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Teehee! I’m happy I got a new bag from my boss! It’s Roxy’s new Eco Friendly Bag! They’re set to be in stores soon so for you eco friendly people, keep an eye for it at Quiksilver and Roxy outlets alright!

On a stupid sad note, my laptop or rather Hugo’s laptop is failing on me! Just today, it has died on me 4 times and still counting. Dell’s XPS laptops are damn faulty la, I’ve read so many complaints about it.

Mr.Handsome Dell XPS M1330, I know deep inside you, you’re a very good guy right, don’t fail on me okay! I very very very much need you in my life, so do not die on me! WTF la I’m begging a laptop.

But I’m happy, got a new bag! Wee!

♥ Wendy

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For those who knows Jason, or simply known to us as JJ please wish him a speedy recovery okay!

And for those who doesn’t know him, he’s a friend of mine who was recently involved in a motorbike accident and he had to be in surgery for a slight splinter, resulting in 4 screws embedded into his butt. I haven’t seen him for a long time since I came to KL but I would always bump into him back then when I was a faithful patron of GSC in Gurney Plaza. And it’s crappy enough that I couldn’t visit him in the hospital but I’ll definitely be wishing for him to get well a.s.a.p!

So you CHEAP ONE, get well soon okay coz’ I still wanna challenge you in DDR! V

♥ Wendy

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I have a new perfume!

Yesterday’s Friday was the best Friday ever! I was only in the office for 3 hours, had lunch with a bunch of my colleagues who was interrogating my personal life and then left to Heritage Mansion on a Bollywood taxi.

My main highlight of the day was, Paco Rabanne’s new fragrance launch. It’s called 1 million and only selected people are invited to the event. It was lavish as it was truly bling bling with gold everywhere. I arrived early because I estimated it would be jammed from Midvalley so I decided to leave earlier just in case. I was greeted by friendly people at the event, serving me cocktails and ushering me to the photobooth for a candid Polaroid shot.

It was fun! Plus, I met alot of different people from the media world. Not bad for an intern’s life right. I’ll definitely wish for more events like this, ngek! After the announcement of the new fragrance, we chilled at the Gold Lounge where we were served with more cocktails, finger food and our goodie bags! We got a 100ml bottle of 1 million each, a Patchi chocolate which was so god-damn heavenly and a press release. Afterall, we’re the media.

L-R: Robert from Clive, John from Menshealth, Keith from Clive and me! From JUICE!

To sum it all up, it has been a great Friday for me. I was home by 5pm! The journey back home via LRT was pretty crowded but it didn’t affect me much, good mood always makes things better! So, a little wish I shall make here, I wish for more lavish events for me to attend!

ps: Wenster.net is reinventing herself!

♥ Wendy

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