Just got the Canon S90, I promise will blog more from now on. The Lumix LX3 was too tedious to use so my lazy nature totally worked against it.
How not? Take one picture had to remove lense cover and tilt the camera till the stupid lense cover and lanyard doesn’t block the lense -_- Then if need flash, have to pop it out and then position camera again…..omg TEDIOUS!
Now with S90 so easy, just switch on and off. I like.
I asked a friend, “What would be your dream in the year of the Tiger?”
Without hesitation, he answered,”I want to have so much money that I don’t have to go to work and all I can do is drink Tiger beer. Pass out. Wake up to drink Tiger beer. Pass out. Wake up again to drink Tiger beer. Pass Out. Over and over again….”.
His eyes, glistening with bliss when he oh so enthusiastically revealed his dream to me. Well, sorry to break it you mate, that is not going to happen.
What’s really going to happen though; while not as good as his dream, it does come a close second.
Tiger Beer, the official beer for the Year of the Tiger is organising a run on the 6th of February 2010 at Bar Madrid (Jaya One) to find three fastest people and they will help them materialise their dreams worth RM8888 each.
Yes, you read it correct…a run – where your pins will be making swift motions causing your body to propel forward. Of course, without a nanosecond of doubt, I intend to be one of the lucky trio. In fact, I aim to be the FIRST to cross the line at The Tiger Run so that my RM8888 wishes can be topped up with an additional RM1888!
There will only be 88 runners allowed to compete though because an unidentified fengshui master dictated such, so I’m hoping this blog entry will help me get selected to participate in the auspicious run.
You, you and you who are planning on snatching away my chance at winning RM8888 worth of dreams can make your futile attempts as I am a fair woman so please try to beat me by writing a blog entry entitled “My Dream in the Year of the Tiger” and submit the permalink and your full name to fulfillmywish.tiger@nuffnang.com.
You should also check out the Tiger Beer facebook page for a lot more juicy details and information that might just help you score a place in the marathon. May the best person win!
I will wrestle the RM8888 out of your feeble hands.
And since I’m at it, let me list out what my RM8,888 worth of dreams are….
1. I’ve been itching to learn sewing since the beginning of last year. Don’t ask me how I got bitten by the bug as back in high school, it took me 2 hours on two different sewing machines (one electronic and one manual) just to sew one effing line across a piece of fabric. Sadly, all I got was A for effort and a very flabbergasted teacher. Perhaps it’s too much of watching Project Runway but I suspect it’s also due to my difficulty in finding good quality clothing with proper cutting for a REAL woman’s body. Such as I….
So with RM8,888 worth of dreams to spare, one of it would be a sewing machine. And not just any sewing machine, I want a Bernina! One Bernina Activa 220 would set me back about USD1200. That’s a little more than RM4000. RM4000 for a piece of heaven that I will probably never learn to use properly hehe.
My 1st dream for Year of the Tiger – Bernina Activa 220.
2. With 4,888 left what else can I get? Oh, I want a Blackberry Bold 2 nao. Like nao. NAO. Believe it’s retailing for about RM2300. I’m in desperate need for a good email management application and my current phone is not providing that. I’d never realised how important push mail and email threads are until I got involved with a dozen people who just love, and I mean LOVE communicating via emails. I’m talking about emails coming into my inbox amounting into the hundreds per day.
Trust me, it’s no fun downloading 50-80 emails at a time. So give me a Blackberry Bold 2 nao, please Tiger Beer!
My 2nd dream for Year of the Tiger – Blackberry Bold 2.
3. Woohoo, I would be now left with RM2588 dream credit. What would I want to do with them? Something I’ve always wanted, I want to bring my mummy to Bangkok and shop!!!! Flight and accommodation should be around RM 1500 and another RM1088 for a shopping spree.
Can you imagine how much stuff we could get for RM1088 at Chatuchak? Oh my lard, just the thought of it is giving me a proverbial orgasm!
My 3rd dream for Year of the Tiger – Flight tickets to Bangkok and a shopping spree.
And there, my three dreams worth RM8888 that will make me a very, very happy girl.
4. This is a bonus dream. What if, just what if I were the fastest runner and won the extra RM1888 worth of dreams too???? Well, in that case I’m just going to throw a free-flow Tiger Beer party for my dearest friends and family.
I can’t think of better dreams for myself in the Year of the Tiger :)
My life is forever changed. The very core of my life’s principles have been distorted beyond recognition. It all happened just 10 minutes ago…
I was happily looking at pictures of Heidi Montag’s new breasts and chin when ST decided call me into his room. I know it’s important because he summoned me to physically enter his study instead of just MSN messaging me to serve him drinks or snacks.
On his monitor were pictures of Steve Jobs. He seemed to be giving some kind of talk. And behind him were a picture of a massive iPod Touch, iPhone or whatever. I can’t even tell the difference. “Not another iPoop”, I thought to myself, grunted and started to walk out of his room.
Steve Jobs – needs more black turtlenecks. Picture from Gizmodo.
He stopped me in my tracks and forced me to check out the content on his monitor. And then he played the video….
And then he showed me the price of the nifty device and the surprisingly cheap applications.
An Apple product that is actually reasonably priced!? Picture from Gizmodo.
Ladies & gentlemen, I have succumbed. There is no turning back for me. The evil Epal has trapped my heart, mind and soul. I am officially a shallow, wannabe cool, popular sheep, yay!
Am at my parents’s house now, using my mom’s laptop. Been in Cheras since Friday and have tragically acquired a taste for fresh laundry at my beck & call. How the hell am I to going to revert back to shitty dobby?
Really happy to see my family. Enjoyed catching up on gossips with mom and the shopping. Speaking of which, all my CNY clothes are either black or grey. It’s almost next to impossible to buy something cheerful…they look cheap -_- Don’t know how to describe, bright colours seem to accentuate the cheapness of a fabric and make unruly seams more noticeable. But the same designs and fabrics in dark colours look much more palatable.
Got my mom on Twitter too, her nick is @mercedesng. That’s her glamour name back in high school but she later changed it to Carol due to peer pressure. They kept refering to her as a car.
Been chatting with my youngest brother too. He’s just finished his SPM so he was asking me a lot of questions about working life and college. I have to say that I’m both surprised and proud that my rascal of a brother actually has a coherent train of thoughts. Eversince he made me burst out in tears at the age of 2 (by pulling my hair really hard while I was sitting upside down on the sofa, don’t ask), I never expected him to be anything more than a perpetually annoying presence in my life. Guess what, he is considerate, analytical and smart. My brother is becoming a fine young man and I am…relieved.
:)
The #porkgang also came all the way down to Cheras to visit me and Mercedes. I shall not launch into some emo how-much-I-love-you-guys prattle but yeah, I love you guys. Ruby also brought a cake which my mom absolutely loved!!
Check out how amused she is with the cake..
Picture of mom holding a penis.
Never thought I’d get to write such a caption. Ever.
Thank you Astro B.yond for a fantastic night! As I had twitted during the party, we hit the fun quota for 2010 in just one night.
Firstly, almost the whole of the now infamous #porkgang was there. Where there is #porkgang, there is sure to be endless craziness. No difference at Astro B.yond Bloggers Night.
When we reached Modesto’s in Desa Sri Hartamas, it was already bustling with people. To be honest, I was mostly nervous about the premier of the promo video that I shot with Red Mummy, Huai Bin, KY, ST, CL, Beautiful Nara, Budiey, Nurul, SaiMatKong & Tziaa. I believe I had the most NG (no-good) takes during the shot and I spoke like a complete buffoon. It’s also universal knowledge that I’m not camera-genic (therefore making me prettier in real life /clears throat) and I was crazy worried that I would look like a blob with bad English.
Anywayyyyyyy…back to the event :)
The theme of the night was new year resolutions. Everyone wrote down their resolutions on boards provided at the party entrance.
#1 – Your 2010 resolution is….
As the night progressed, more funny & outrageous resolutions were written on the board. But the one common resolution that dominated the boards was of course winning the 32″ LCD TV with a year’s free subscription to Astro B.yond.
#2 – So many people!
They were serving pizza slices as appetizer but being the #porkgang we didn’t rest till the waiting staff brought us two full-size pizzas, hahaha.
#3 – Hungry ghosts!
Before I continue, some of you are probably wondering what on earth is Astro B.yond. It is a multi-phased service beginning with the first ever High-Definition (HD) broadcast in Malaysia. In later stages, under the Astro B.yond umbrella, you’ll start to see awesomesauce services like Digital Video Recording (DVR), Video on Demand (VOD) and IPTV connectivity, all created to enhance your television watching experience.
Yes, I’m very excited to install Astro B.yond at my new house!
#4 – Astro B.yond – the future of entertainment!
The first Astro B.yond commercial shot entirely in HD was unveiled and omfg it was breathtaking. Everyone demanded they they replay the video and it was still gobsmackingly impressive. The clarity and the amazing sound, you got to watch it to believe it. Or you could watch it here.
#5 – The first Astro B.yond tvc.
And then /drumroll…it was the unveilling of our promo video! The very first time I appeared on tv, I was 17 years old. It was for a cyberstalking segment on 3R. I remember how horrified I was watching myself on national tv completely devoid of makeup. So yes, while I was very excited to see myself on tv again, I sort of dreaded it. What if I looked like Charlie’s processed meals?
#6 – Look ma, I’m on tv!
#7 – Check out my badly taken video of the video.
Turned out I was just as horrified as when I was 17, hahaha. I was so shocked I couldn’t look at myself anymore, which explains why my mug was cut off halfway through the video hehehe. Learn to sew. Who on earth makes learning how to sew an effing new year resolution? I mean no offence to people who sew and not that I want to learn sewing any lesser but omg, learn to sew?? I am so tragic can -_- I have a new resolution: Get rid of eyebags and develop a charisma.
Though I must say, I look much better pixelated on youtube hahah so I’m just going to stick to watching myself on youtube and laughing at other people on HD!
Oops I digressed, so what’s a party without camwhoring?
#8 – With ST.
#9 – With God & Horng. God flexing his muscles but looked like he’s molesting me instead.
And then it was time for a game to win the most awaited prize of 32″ LCD TV with 1 year of Astro B.yond subscription! There were 5 teams, 2 of which were made up of #porkgang members. We’re supposed to find a fictitious murderer in the house and guess what? Eric won!!!!!
We went effing crazy cause we were so happy! :) We all tumpang-ed glamour and conteng-ed on his winner board till kingdom comes over and over again.
#11 – Eric the winner posing with his fruits of labour! And also acting cute like that.
If you want to win an LCD TV and Astro B.yond subscription just like Eric, there are two ways to go about doing just that!
Number one, if you’re an existing Astro subscriber, you could play the game on Astro Facebook Fan Page called “Murder in the Details”. There are 10 sets of 32″ LCD TV with 1 year Astro B.yond subcription to be given away and all you need to do is to be an existing Astro subscriber, register yourself on the site and start finding the murder clues in the fastest time. Play carefully because you’ve only got one try!
If you’re not into Facebook game, you can just log on to this Nuffnang blog post, blog about the Astro B.yond Bloggers Night as creatively as possible and send in the permalink of your blog post to astrob.yond@nuffnang.com before 12pm, 20 January 2010 (Wednesday). You might just stand a chance to win one of two 32″ LCD TV with Astro B.yond subscription.
We were so happy, the guys were taking off their clothes hahahaha. Our only wish was these episodes were captured on HD :D
#12 – Not quite Full Monty yet but good enough. Pixelated for under-aged readers…
I was very lucky to join Cheesie, ST & KY who will be featured in Project Alpha 2. We were whisked off to Lost World of Tambun Waterpark for the shooting of the show and it was just an awesomesauce experience from start to finish.
Obviously am not going to reveal much about what we did because you’ll have to find out yourself when the show premiers in April 2010 but here are some pictures captured over the 2-day shoot..
#1 – All fresh and excited despite the lack of sleep.
#2 – On the way to Ipoh, the crew were doing crazy stunts to shoot our moving car. Mucho respect!
#3 – Lack of sleep finally catching up..
#4 – Back at the hotel. Chilling out after a long day.
#5 – “Sweet Jojo” making a face (sorry, inside joke) and KY demonstrating the act of photobombing.
#5 – It’s a wrap!
When I started blogging, seriously never would I imagine that I will be one day appearing on a reality show. Harlo, it’s just too cool for school can? My mission in life is to be cooler than my grandchildren and just maybe I have already achieved that with Project Alpha, hehehe.
The whole experience was pure fun X 5000. Although at times it got really tiring but spirits were always high. Got bitten by a monkey trying to help Ringo rescue her Blackberry from becoming monkey chow (lol!), freaked out by snakes (a lot of snakes) and up close & personal with Siberian tigers (truly magnificent creatures). It’s all good.
Can’t wait for April 2010 to see the final product!
Was telling my man about my mom today. Something about how mom is capable of something. Anyway, I ended the conversation with “mom is the most important person in my life”.
And then the man asked, “What about me?”
I retorted, “I came out of her poon”.
And I shall end the story here because the man refuses to let me tell the whole story but if you’re interested, feel free to guess what his comeback was.
Cheers and have a good weekend!
January 16th, 2010 by Kimberlycun | 9 Comments » 753 views
