My most beloved hot chick tagged me to do this meme, hence there isn’t so much of a choice than to when I had to do this. So here goes -

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
- Got a lot of freebies
- Went to Chiling Falls with the bunch of jokers
- Brought the hot chick to Melaka
- Went to Bukit tinggi
- bought a washing machine
- Had foie gras
- Got free beer for x’mas eve party
- Spent Valentine’s Day with my loved one
- Met up with my ex-university mates
- Switch back to using Nokia phones

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
- Didn’t have one, and not going to have one for 2008. I don’t think we need a new year to say to ourselves what we should improve upon, it can happen all year round.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
- TGB: a son!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
- No

5. What countries did you visit?
- Myanmar & Vietnam

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
- Less procastination

7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- Everyday

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- Got myself a new job

9. What was your biggest failure?
- Can’t think of one now

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
- The usual cirit birit from being too adventurous in eating

11. What was the best thing you bought?
- Citizen Promaster Eco-Drive Nighthawk

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
- Hot Chick for being patient and loving
- Sister for being bold in her career switch

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
- No one in particular

14. Where did most of your money go?
- Food
- and more food

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- The Chiling Falls trip Suan organized
- Hot Chick coming back for holiday

16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
- Can’t think of one

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer?
a) Happier
b) Same, can’t put on weight
c) Pretty much the same

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
- Spending time with hot chick
- Spending time with family

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
- Procrastination

20. How did you spend Christmas?
- Had an awesome x’mas eve party, of course

21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
- The flame is still strong.

22. What was your favorite TV program?
- Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservation

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
- No

24. What was the best book you read?
- I thought Sleep Thieves and Confessions of an Economic Hitman were pretty good.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
- None

26. What did you want and get?
- A watch and I did (the Citizen)

27. What did you want and not get?
- A dryer, remains to be pricey and will likely to consume too much electricity

28. What was your favorite film this year?
- Stardust

29. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
- Bought myself a watch. hehe

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
- Hot chick being here

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
- I don’t have a fashion concept, I wear whatever that are still clean

32. What kept you sane?
- Food

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
- I would like to have Anthony Bourdain’s job..

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
- I thought Bersih and Hindraf were pretty eye-opening

35. Who did you miss?
- Hot chick and my family

36. Who was the best new person you met?
- too many

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
- Stay together and support each other no matter what

Tags:  2007,  Meme,  resolution,  tagged

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Inspired by Suanie’s ky is so great post (that was suggested by me), I would like to continue the baton and tell you how great I think Kimberly is.

Kimberly is so great she devours everything in sight and does not leave anything behind. As evident from this photo, she would swallow the chopsticks if only they are edible.

Kimberly is so great to play badminton with (to be her opponent), as she does not move on the court but let the partner do all the silly running. She also has a rich history of smashing the shutter cock on her playing partner’s head. However, I am sure wearing the same sweaty shirt and shorts for the 3rd straight week without washing has nothing to do with it.

Last but not least, Kimberly is so great because she has the greatest fashion sense ever. I never feel like the person who wears the oddest cloths whenever she is around, no one can out do her.

I salute to Kimberly because she is so great!

Tags:  cun,  greatest,  kimberly,  kimberlycun,  noob

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It’s been ages since I did any blog meme thing, and FA had to put my name, and solely my name on this one.. gah! Here goes..

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

1) MidniteLily.com
2) Wondering As I Wander
3) As Suanie Sees It
4) Fireangelism
5) KYspeaks

Select five people to tag:
1) the hot chick
2) others aren’t important

What were you doing 10 years ago?
Wasting away my life on IRC, yes, it still exists, and my nickname on Dalnet will be 10 years old next month. Scary isn’t it?

What were you doing 1 year ago?
According to me blog, I just had Yuen steamboat, yum!

Five snacks you enjoy
5 pieces of menthols, all at once!

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to
ais kacang song, 这是我的家, Mr. Jones, semi-charmed life, good

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire
I was a millionaire, but I didn’t manage to do much with 1 million Viet Dong though. Taxi often costs more than 10k, and a meal can be up to 320,000 Dong. Millionaire.. ptui!

Five bad habits
1) sleep on the LRT
2) snoor on the LRT
3) missing LRT stations
4) step on the wrong train
5) taking pictures of other people sleeping on the LRT

Five things you like doing
1) sleep on the LRT
2) snoor on the LRT
3) missing LRT stations
4) step on the wrong train
5) taking pictures of other people sleeping on the LRT

Five things you would never wear again
1) gel
2) hair spray
3) jeans that are too tight
4) mismatching socks
5) makeup

Five favourite toys
1) my camera
2) my PC
3) my TV
4) my phone
5) did I mention minesweeper?

Cheers!

Tags:  FA,  Meme

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So nobody tagged me. I was discussing some toilet stuff with Kim and she said it’s a good idea to turn this into a meme, which I am doing now. Here goes..

What is your favorite activities while conducting business in the toilet?
Reading, mostly the Sun, or some novel, sometimes ebook. I have friends who like to call when shitting, but I dont’ really do that.

Your favorite toilet?
The hardcore futuristic toilet at Jogoya must be the best, with automatic water jet cleaning me ass and heated seat too.. you almost wish you have a diarrhea there..

Worst toilet
High school, I routinely sneaked into the teacher’s toilet. They are alot cleaner

Most interesting toilets you’ve used
At my late grandma’s place we used to have the wooden tub, was horrible. I’ve also used the direct drop into the ocean type at a relative’s place, and another direct drop into the earth type

Any no toilet experience?
Once I had to settle in a jungle and use giant leaves as toilet paper. It was an emergency but I didn’t have to sacrify my undie.

Do you prefer the old school (squat) or the modern (sit) toilet?
Old school, definately. Though that cuts down the reading time due to legs giving way to muscle cramps after an hour..

Wash or wipe?
Wash, then wipe dry..

I’m passing this to
Kim
fsckstress
suan
kenneth
ST
paul
and you, yes, you the reader who also blogs

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Suanie said that I’ll hate her for passing me this stupid school meme, but how do you hate a suan? A display of her mightly prowess in feeding would leave you in awe and admiration, like an echantment… anyway, lets get this on.

How many schools did I go to?

SRJK (C) Hun Bin (not Huai Bin) for primary education, Chung Ling High School till form 5, then a combination of Inti, KDU, Bemidji State, and lastly, St. Cloud State Unviersity in Minnnesota. That’s not counting the 2 kindergardens I went to, I can’t recall their names to save my life. So the answer is 8.

Was I the studious nerd, or the last minute hero?

I was pretty decent in primary school, a bit of a defiant adolescent in high school. Study wasn’t exactly my top priority. I did become something in between a study nerd and a last minute hero in during tertiary education, study only a day or two before exams, but sitting in the front row and never miss any class.

Was I the class ‘taiko’ or the teacher’s pet?

A bit of a mix, dependent on the teacher. However, I was almost always a part of the group who entertains the class, for whatever that’s worth.

What was the biggest rule I broke in school?

I took a dump in the teacher’s toilet, my god, it was clean!

Three subjects I enjoyed.

At St. Cloud, it was Genetic Algorithm & Genetic Programming. Using the concept of evolution to attain a near optimal solution to difficult programming problems, that’s basically the gist of it. It was taught by 2 excellent professors covering the 2 related subjects.

Socialogy at Inti College. I didn’t expect this seemingly boring class to turn out to be rather interesting. Group think, the Harvard Stanford Prison experiment, those were some interesting things to learn.

Technical Drawing at Inti. You get dismissed as soon as you finish the drawing. I am always the first one to get done, getting out of the 2 hour class in less than half an hour. Man, I was good in it. A bummer I didn’t get to go for Architecture or Civil Engineering.

Three teachers that inspired me.

Dr. Annette Schoenberger at St. Cloud State, one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. I was lucky to be in two of her classes, she even baked us pizzas and always put little stickers on top scoring papers. Always friendly, in control, and know her stuff very well.

Winona LaDuke at Bemidji State. She was one of the professors and lecturers that was in the environmental study class. An environmental activist, once a running mate of Ralf Nader of the Green Party, author of several books, and a teacher that inspired everyone of us. The wikipedia link will tell you more about her. It was an experience of a life time to be one of her students.

Lastly, that South Asian professor I had in St. Cloud. One who drove a beat up, hail damaged, yellow 1 seater (the other seat was filled with junks) RX7 FD and can’t teach worth of nuts. He inspired me to not be like him at all.

And I’m tagging…

Everyone on my link who’s interested in this. blah.

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