christmas eve and christmas celebrations

went for quite a few christmas celebrations, all very well done but
my favorite was the one in kampar
just cause i knew quite a lot of people there, so company matters

weird me in grey, gray scarf
wore heals that night after a long time
and gosh my legs hurt like a lot
 

went for a drink with dad and they had these christmas hats
prepare for less then epic funnies
 
the funny chinamen

 
the funny china men haz funny china lady

 
boon boon with wifey

 

 

 

followed dad on the night of Christmas eve
went pub hopping
i hate the taste and smell of beer but i went anyway just for the fun of it

papa with his evil daughters

papa with calculative treasurer and 1/2 an evil daughter

 
this was at station one in first garden

after that we went to lavo behind jusco and went home
cause i hate pubs since they are mostly dark, they smell bad, and i’m not that party girl

so that was christmas 2011 for me, rather boring since i do admit
i’d rather spend my day sleeping more then doing anything else, lazy bum

xoxo
charmchew

dad’s birthday

my dad’s birthday ended a while ago and i procrastinated till now

it was an almost perfect surprise cause my dad sadly is very observant so can you imagine how hard it was to pull off the surprise right under his nose
mission impossible almost

but we managed to get him a cake and he was surprised for sure

add in a some beer, a little good company, a dash of crazies and you kind of get the picture
otherwise, here are some pictures

here’s the birthday cake, strawberry marshmallow cake, thanks to melvin who intro-ed this awesome cake to me

birthday man holding his cake, and no i don’t know why is his mouth like that…

comparing tummy sizes
this guy above wins for largest tummy in the company
his contender?

good job but still need more practice…

the birthday chant, been hearing this song since i was a little kid, never really gets old

then the crazies came out,
warning though, since they are crazy, some sexual acts will be on display
look away if you cannot handle it

its not that sexual, but just as a precaution, some people might get too sensitive so…

le kiss and le grope

le snuggle and le squeeze, and random tongue out with pervy face

peace to the gropers

and finally

pulls away from ugly lollipop loving guy with extra funny and scary face….

 

had super fun that night, thank god i wasn’t hurt in any way
though i can’t say the same to the rest

group picture

happy birthday daddy!!!!

xoxo
charm chew

the accident

on a saturday evening, me and my sister were making our way home from work,
we were driving along a path that we passed by millions of times, a road that was once foreign that has now become so familiar
suddenly out of no where, on the right, a motorcyclist made a sharp left turn right in from of our car without warning
no signal lights, nothing
he was an old malay man and he had no helmet on,
yi was driving and she panicked as she didn’t have enough time to break and hit the old man

the impact shattered the glass and for a second we both showered in glass pieces

the man was bleeding from his head since he didn’t have a helmet on in the first place
so i did what i was supposed to, i told panicky yi to snap some photos of what happened
while i tried to call an ambulance
i dialed 999 on my phone and to my dismay, there was ringing but no answer
the old malay man was sent home to gather his stuff and he was rushed to the hospital by other bystanders
at least that was what i’d like to believe happened

next i called my neighbor and dad while trying to calm yi down
according to her, i was very calm when all this happened
i guess i played the adult role while waiting for the actual adults to arrive

when they arrived i freaked and i believe i went into an instant panic
and willingly let them take over

so we went and gather our papers and launched a report
i knew i wasn’t going to see hear touch my car for a while
while we claimed the repairs from the insurance agency

the repairs were done in peak lik wong (buntong)
the delightful surprise was when we found out the person on the case was our high school classmate
small world

this was the damage from the accident
i got to admit, i think i am to an extend a materialistic person
so seeing my car in this condition, i wasn’t as heartbreaking as worried
i was worrid about the cost of it all, true the insurance claim was being done
but what about the costs that the insurance doesn't cover??

 

this is my car being prepped for a paint job, filled with clay

while the car repairs were underway, i tried to calm myself and looked forward to seeing flowers at the office garden patch

and playing with a stray dog that i’ve gotten used to petting <3

and after nearly a whole month of being car-less
i got my car back and i love it, and i missed it

 

sidenote: went to old town for lunch today, got fried ice cream after that and saw some amazing sites
loving ipoh more and more
and finally got to eat egg custard again after so long, love that the most

yummiest thing i know since a little girl

this is the ceiling of the fried ice cream shop

and just across is the clock tower in the food court

i guess that's why i love ipoh, has its charm of its own

xoxo
charm chew

le update

gosh so many things have been going on and all of a sudden there goes one month with no updates
i feel like natalie tran, she keep promising to do stuff that she never does anyway
liar!!! unsubscribed to her btw, got sick of empty promises

so anyway back to stuff that happened, well recently i witnessed a fire, yea a fire, no big deal
except electrical cables were on fire and they were active,
and except that it was just a few blocks away from my office

here’s the video, credits to my landlords son who manage to capture this
their whole family got there earlier and i was almost the last one to get there

the fire department and the electrical company put the fire out eventually and everything is ok
i learnt that people actually burn cables like this so the plastic melts away and they steal the actual cable minus the plastic cover
interesting!!!

 

so that happened one day after deepavali
and i decorated my room again last sunday
here is how it looks like, added one furniture, new curtains. etc etc…

new curtains from tesco, surprising..
 

tied to the sides with lace

 
the new set of drawers picked out by both yi and i

inside the first drawer, tiniest collection of cheap perfumes and nail polish, my make up bag etc etc….

yi’s fabrics for arts and craft and my chunky bangles and twinings tea i got for yi

this is how we used to hang our accessories, now its on the wall next to a mirror i just got a while ago

now it looks like this and the hooks at the cupboard door is filled with bracelets and so on…

below the mirror is a shelf filled with food, dry stuff and emergency toilet rolls

and the shelf is next to my bed.

speaking of food, after 22 years, i got “compliments” on how fat i’ve gotten
i consider that a complimennt just cause i’ve been “too skinny” for too long, now i have a tummy
might keep it there for a few more months, hah!!!

i got myself a new camera, compact of course
since i was a little girl till now, i’ve always used my family’s camera, depending on what it was
from kodak camera to konica camera to nikon camera

so my youngest sister ran away a while ago and took the nikon which is the family camera
and now we have no camera except those awesome photography apps you can get on the android market

so i got this compact sony camera
in red, which does not disappoint at all, almost wanted the pink but saw the red and i changed my mind

 

and i have been obsessing over cheap perfumes, just cause as a kid i only used enchanteur deodorants
because my dad was a distributor of enchanteur and i could get it cheap

this was the peak of it and i even kept the boxes then

guess i am a cheapo at heart, and i know that buying this and using them can be dangerous but i’m young, all i care about is how i smell now!!

and yes i have a few favorites and a few disappointments

those i love (in no particular order)
escada (ocean longue)
ralph lauren (ralph)
ralph lauren (romance)
escada (pacific paradise)
clinique (happy hearts) *which is yi’s fav too
gucci (envy me)
gucci (flora)

i’m definitely going to get the original of the ones i love just cause the fake one smells so awesome, i can only imagine how the real one smells like

 

and lastly, i got demi lovato’s unbroken cd
songs are awesome
been listening to it for 4 weeks straight and still not sick of it

thats it for now, will keep updating as much as i can

miss you!!
xoxo
charm chew

punctuality!!

i cannot stress enough about how much punctuality means to me, if there is anything i cannot stand is people who are late, and by late i mean they cause everyone else to wait for their arrival like they are the very important guest who will launch the entire outing

surely you must have awesome time management skill to have agreed to join in the plan in the first place, you must have a contingency plan to support the main plan in case it fails, and for the life of me i cannot understand why you cannot text or call to tell that you will be late and to tell others to proceed with the plan anyway

can you imagine a group of 5 people waiting for that one stupid bitch who ignorantly gets ready while we sit at McDonalds and wait for her like slaves waiting for the masters orders and carries them out

and honestly, it gives a bad impression. if that in itself does not suck, i think i have the right to call you fat too just cause you indirectly insulted me by wasting my precious time doing nothing but waiting for you, never knowing when you will appear, yes appear.

so people think its wrong for me to be mad at you when i myself spend the whole time from 8.00pm to at least 11.00 waiting for you to come and start our plan which initially was to go karaoke in the first place, but its right for you to get ready for 3 hours, and when we reached your house, you were in your mask and still went on blowing your hair and slapping some more hideous clothes to cover your fat body, i mean hello, all 5 of us, yes 5, that is FIVE people waiting for you.

and then we got to jusco where we planned to sing, it was closed, bowling, closed, snooker, closed. someone decides to yum cha, fine. i suggested going to pack some drinks and go to padang ipoh, wait for fireworks and play truth or dare. you said no fireworks and rather go to woolley food court to yum cha.

i'm not sorry for showing my annoyed face and refusing to talk, since all your answers to everyone else was so snobbish to begin with, you are lucky that they were all guys, all 3 of them, that 3, yes THREE guys for you!!

my sister asked me whats wrong with me, i refused to tell her, still give you face so you won't be embarrassed. you better thank her for defending a total stranger from me, her sister poison unfiltered words, seriously, thank god if i never see you again, and you better ask for his mercy if i ever do, i'm pissed like nobody's business now!!!

if you think i'm being a little too much, what can i say, you started it first and i'm just continuing it, since you are after all the VIB, yea VIB, not VIP.

owh you don't know what VIB is for?

its a custom made abbreviation from yours truly

it means Very Idiotic Bitch

you're welcome

xoxo

charm chew

the tiniest things

the tiniest things seems so precious now, the little picture you made me, the 2 necklaces you gave me, the cuddles and hugs you gave for free, even the accidental touch of fingers, the little glances i imagine, the quick waves, the video calls that i look forward to every night without fail and the moment when i realize how all of it made me go so mad because all i could think of is you and then i drown into thoughts and everything seems to fall nicely into place like it was meant to be

the nightmares and the dream you tell me, the stories your head makes, the thoughts you fascinate me with and the words you say that sink into me, the text messages that seem to tell a tale, the novels we created throughout out time together, they all seem so useless then and yet they are what makes you the only one i keep thinking of

the love letters via e-mails that lay forgotten, the stories in a book that i stopped writing about, the dreams of endless gifts for your birthday the ambition of a new phone for you to use, empty promises all thrown away and still the air of wishing remains, the wishes that sit on my head waiting to be used, the goodnight wishes and the bedtime stories, the teddy bear that started it all and the calls to me as an alarm clock, the endless times you cares and the many time you bleed dry, the many realizations that you are now mine and the many times when i want you by my side

the many songs we shared and the only one you tried to play to me, through songs we say what we always wanted to but dared not, just incase of a broken lip from biting nervously, a warmed up face from embarrassment, and rosy red blushes from being too shy, the many things that we both like and shared, the ever growing list of nicknames created and the silliest thoughts said

the stunted growth of the pictures we took together, the many delicacies you introduced to me, the numerous times you reassured and comforted me, the many things you did for me and not expect anything more than a simple hug and a smile on my face, the various statuses written about me and for me, the many miles travelled just to say hello, the secrets we made and told, the promises that broke.

all of this little tiny things, they form the memories i have of you, but these are just the tip of the iceberg, lets make more till the world drowns in them.

xoxo
charm chew