http://yeinjee.com/life Personal blog, sharing stories of my past, present, future, rants, philosophies and thoughts Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:12:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Went to the Paddy Museum (Muzium Padi Nasional) in Kedah on Mar 22 (2008). The museum has been a popular place among Perakians; lots of my friends and relatives have been there somehow. My mum was eager to pay the museum a visit too... so we took the chance ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/national-paddy-museum-kedah/ Went to MATTA Fair at PWTC with CY on Friday (Mar 15) to book a trip for Taiwan. This fella, a representative at Taiwan Tourism Bureau’s booth, managed to draw a large crowd with his cute marshmallows, which were made on the spot and free for sampling. Cute marshmallows Was hoping to catch ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/matta-fair-2008-spring/ I love studying, but I hate exams. I am still having nightmares about exams occasionally despite the fact that I have not been taking any exams after graduating from university some 5 years ago. I would dream that I got the exam date wrong, forgot to bring by calculator or ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/exam-nightmares/ One of my favourite photos, taken back in Feb 2006 on a Sunday morning from my old house at Petaling Jaya... Beautiful Sunday morning It's not just the scenery that pleased me, but the unexpected circumstances... it reminds me that life should be blissful, and that happiness could be found easily ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/lovely-morning-and-blissful-joy/ People tend to make new friends during a trip, and at the end of the day would exchange contacts and vowed to keep in touch. Thing is... lots of people would forget (or choose to ignore) their promises. High school friends, university friends, ex-colleague etc... there must be ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/keep-in-touch/ Some KL neighbours had hired a troop of lion dance performers to cheer up the Chinese New Year. Odd thing is, KL people seem to like lion dancing at night, contrary to the daytime performances in my hometown, Ipoh. Besides, KL folks are bolder in lighting up the fire crackers ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/lion-dance-and-chinese-new-year/ Went to Petaling Street on Monday (Feb 4, 2008), trying to catch some Chinese New Year (CNY) mood... came back feeling moody indeed, for the wrong reason though. Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur To begin with, you can't really feel like CNY is approaching in Petaling Street; there are not many stalls ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/petaling-street-china-town-no-more/ Being an idiot... will only hurt the people you love. Those people that you want to sh!t at won't bother about how idiotic you are... probably because they are much idiotic than you could ever be. Some people are born to be idiots... some are just not meant to ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/its-tough-to-be-an-idiot/ Bought this plant for around 2 months... only started to bloom last week. Water lily or a lotus flower? Whatever... Not really sure what the official name for this flower is... the Chinese nursery named this as lotus flower in general, but it looks more like a water lily ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/blue-water-lily/ Brewster Road, Hugh Low Street, Tiger Lane, Leech Street, Clayton Road, Anderson Road, Hume Street, Fair Park... Ipoh folks would know what these roads are about, but sadly the younger generations are not knowing much about these... as the road names are being changed to something else instead. I am always ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/brewster-road-hugh-low-street-tiger-lane-etc/ Took this photo of water lettuce from the little pond at my house after a rainy afternoon. I wonder if water lettuce is actually edible... doesn't seem like a tasty treat regardless. http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/water-lettuce/ Saw an article via Japundit about 'The Top Ten Observations Foreigners Living in Japan Make About the Japanese'... makes me want to write a list of my own. I haven't been staying in Japan (in fact I have never been to Japan yet), but I worked in a Japanese company ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/top-10-ways-i-think-about-the-japanese/ My mum walks faster than me Accompanied my mother for a morning walk over the weekend... and I couldn't follow up with her pace. Well, she sure has strong legs... but my weight was a killer obviously. I couldn't buy a nice pair of slacks Went shopping for a new ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/i-know-i-am-overweight-when/ I want to be more idiotic in 2008... no point being too nice to some people if they constantly abuse your kindness. Happy New Year. http://yeinjee.com/life/2008/happy-2008/ Attended a wedding of a high school friend on Dec 7 (2007)... brought back lots of memories and some thoughts about my own future. High school is probably the best moment in my life. I am glad that I have had a decent high school life, and that I ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2007/happy-wedding-aly-sam/ There is a kind of people who always forget where they parked their cars when they visited places like shopping malls etc... I am one of these absent minded people. There was once that I was stuck at Mid Valley Megamall for more than an hour just to find my ... http://yeinjee.com/life/2007/where-did-i-park-my-car/