Boredom

I am losing the passion to blog.

People blog for various reasons.

I am starting to be selfish.

In sharing ideas, knowledge and also details about my life.

I don't know.

Maybe this is a temporary feeling.

"Moments with you are never boring."-The best thing I have ever heard.

My 21st Birthday

I had the most awesome birthday celebration in my life. I had been planning it for months and almost wanted to give up when the Chillex boss called me and said that they're closing. But thankfully, during the week before the actual date, I found a place. The party did happen. I owe Jacqueline a lot for this, for recommending the place and Rikuku for suggesting the menu. Thanks to Hazel and Charlene too for helping me,asking around for a place and sister, Hayley for the decors and some other stuff. And the rest who made the effort to come, I was overwhelmed and got really excited when I saw you guys walking in. I booked for 60 people, but almost 80 people turned up. Thank you too for the wishes through facebook, call, sms and twitter. :)

So the party was being held at Kitchen Creatures, Centerpoint.

The food was not bad (some didn't like the olio aglio-oil-based spegetti though) and the price charged was fairly reasonable.

Some of my family members also came.

Thanks Aunt Lynn,Uncle Mike, Shu Wen and hi grandma, I hope you didn't get too bored though.

Eric, thank you so much for taking a leave from you work at Singapore to attend my birthday party. I am truly blessed to have a friend like you.

Jonathan, thanks for coming too. Thank god the party was during your Easter holidays. I was surprised that you could get along well with most of my friends although you know nobody there initially. You're one of a kind.

Ethan and Georyn, thanks for coming although not knowing most of the people there. You guys look hot and outstanding by the way.

Max, thanks for the awesome poster you made in such short notice. :)

There are not much stories to tell but a lots of pictures and appreciations for this post. Looking at the pictures over and over again made me so happy.

Dad, me, mom, sis and grandma :)

My second family who has always been there for me during the very hard times. :)

The Puchong family. :)

The Puchong gang whom I hung out with almost every week. :)

My UTAR friends, you guys are awesome. :D

Jonathan and Krane, amazingly you guys can click pretty well! :D

Hunky Ethan, pretty Georyn, cute Yao and sexy-lips Eric

My lover, Xiao Zhu and sexy Vivian, whom I both met in NS.

Childhood friends. :)

Sweetheart, thank you so much for the flowers. This is the first time I am receiving flowers and it's from you! I'll always love you, you're the most romantic person I have ever known. <3

Bestie, good times, bad times-you're always there for me. :)

Babe, you make a great girlfriend. I enjoy hanging out with you and thanks for listening & supporting me. :)

Jac, I'm usually not the kind who express my unhappiness outside or talk about my problems but surprisingly, most of my tweets are me being unhappy about issues that I kept to myself. Thanks for unexpected encouragements, motivations and advice. I needed all that. :)

Hey monster, do you wanna fight again? I still find it amusing how you understood me without me saying anything. You never fall for any of my mind games which sort of...make me feel like I'm myself whenever I am around you.

Wei Chuen, you're a great friend. Thanks for helping me out when I am blur. I still remember the time you helped me to look for my car when i thought I lost it. Charlene, you're like my guardian angel in university. You teach me when I don't understand and you help me when I am indecisive. Thanks for the beautiful pictures you took. :)

How could I survive university life without any of you girls? Caryn, I love your laughter. Jean, you make an excellent class rep. Maho, nice teasing you about your boobs. Jing Yi, I owe you too much. Time has shown that you're a true friend and I would never want to let go a friend like you. Ping Ping, you looked gorgeous that night, wear skirts more often. :)

Dai lou, thanks for always teaching me and guiding me throughout the degree course. I am pretty dumb when it comes to numbers and calculations and it's you who saved me so many times from failing my coursework. Besides that, I love your very intelligent and surprisingly funny quotes.

KC, thank you so much for coming and dressing up for me. You're truly unique.

Haha...Elwyn, sorry for always teasing you that I have a crush on you. You know I said that simply because I know your secret, which is very cool. I secretly wished that all guys in the university would dress like you so at least there's something to look forward whenever I attend class. LOL

Marcus, I enjoy sharing ideas with you. Krane, happy to see you again. It's funny how birthday parties are the time we meet again, eh? Jonathan, you're the most interesting person I know and I hope to catch up with you again before you leave to UK, again. Nicholas, you're so mean!! Always teasing me about my pimples! Haha..kidding, stay pretty!

Let's party!! It's fun hanging out with you guys! Thanks for the watch! I love it! :D

Eric, thanks again. :)

Deer... :P

Thank you, sis and bro-in-law for everything. :)

Thanks for igniting the flame in me that has been distinguished. I got my fire back, my passion back because of someone who is an outlier like you.

My retard cake. :P

I've received wonderful gifts.....

Intellectual gifts...:)

Sweet, sweet gifts. :)

Flattering gifts.. :)

Romantic gifts...:)

Elegant gifts... :)

I am sorry if you did not see your gifts up there. I may be using them, finish eating them or kept them hidden somewhere. There are still gifts which I did not open (I like to surprise myself some times, syok sendiri)

I am also sorry that I didn't know who gave some of gifts as most of them had no names on it.

Still, I love them all and would like to keep them in my cupboard and look at them whenever I am free,thinking of all the good times I had but sadly chocolates will expire, certain items have lifespan and flowers will die.

Nevertheless, thank you all for coming and those who wished me.

Thank you for remembering me and being with me on my special day.

Nothing's greater than having the people I love and love me as well around me.

I wanna......

My five-month holiday is coming. So I would love to do the below....

1) Pick up music again. Hello there, rusty guitar! Probably would take some music classes too.

2) Improve my cooking skills. Expect to get invited to taste my experiments. :P

3) Put the financial knowledge and skills into test. Explore the equity market. Attend more classes and read more books to expand my knowledge.

4) Gardening! Flowers! Tomatoes!

I think is may be the best year of my life. So I'm gonna enjoy it to the fullest. ;D

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

I'm a big fan of romance movies, especially mature ones. This is the first time I am watching a Hong Kong romance film and I have to say, I really enjoyed this. After watching both Western and Asian romance films, I have a preference towards Asian romance films because probably I can relate more to it or in a way, love portrayed is much more sincere, realistic and real. Western films have the tendency of too much sex without the substance.

This is a review based on a Hong-Kong romantic movie. I may have to warn you first, this review may contain spoilers, not suitable for reading if you're looking for recommendations.

Yen (Gao Yuanyuan) is an analyst in an investment bank whom is from Suzhou, China that came to Hong Kong 7 years ago with her boyfriend. However, the boyfriend left her and married another woman. Just when she thought she was really becoming lonely, she met two men. One, Sean(Louis Koo) who is of high ranking in an investment company who works in an office opposite the building she is working. He noticed her long time ago, when he was captivated by her beauty and was attracted to her high energy (positivity, hyperness). He put up paper signs to attract her attention and soon, they started communicating through showing paper signs. Sometimes, he amused her with some lame magic tricks. One day, he finally asked her out by using paper signs and he blew it by going out with another woman.

The woman Sean went out with instead

Yen, being mad at Sean

Yen also met Kevin,whom she mistaken as a beggar and gave him all her ex-boyfriend's stuff. Kevin was actually a very talented architect whom was in a phase of losing himself, so he walked around drinking and not grooming himself properly. They went out for a drink and he told her about his story and she told him hers. He encouraged her to cut her hair (her ex-boyfriend loved her long hair, so just cut the hair for a change) and wear brighter outfits to the office(usually dark colors are encouraged in banks).

Yen, when she was about to wave goodbye to Kevin after a day's out

Yen, gave a frog to Kevin

They somehow lost contact. Yen also had stopped contacting Sean after he blew her off.

Three years later, Sean became Yen's boss and soon tried to woo her again but unfortunately, he found not womanizing a very difficult task. In a scene, Yen mentioned "I love this man very much but it is very difficult to love this person." She also met Kevin, the talented architect whom has finally done some shaving, and indeed, he looked dashing. Three years ago, when Yen met Kevin, she gave him a frog and Kevin used the frog as his motivation to build his career again. Kevin could not forget Yen, the woman who encouraged, motivated and inspired him to start all over again. And thus, Yen was stuck in a love triangle.

If you watched the whole movie, you can see that the person that Yen truly loves is Sean, the womanizer. But in the end, she chose Kevin. Why?

This is only my justification. You can agree with me if you think you have watched the movie and you think it makes sense or do provide some input on your opinion, it would open my eyes and mind to a different point of view.

Sean is a womanizer. Have you ever had this relationship? The love-hate relationship? One moment you're so in love, the next moment you find yourself arguing amongst yourselves. The arguments happen due to the conflicts; "I love you, I know somehow you're not right for me, or I'm afraid that you would hurt me in the future but I want to make things work."The conflict I am referring to is the conflict of desire. Sean knew that Yen was the girl of his dreams, but he couldn't stop being charming to other women, it's just simply HIM. Yen loves him but she knew he was not right for her.

I once said that, "The more you hurt the person, the more the person loves you and couldn't get you off his/her mind."

That is why even when she was with Kevin, whom built a building inspired by her, she still thinks of Sean. She calls Sean a cheater, a player but the moment she watched the sunrise with Kevin, she actually had fell in love with him. She was confused and felt she was no different than Sean.

Sean approached Kevin and had a fight with him, thinking Kevin has slept with Yen(which they did not, they only watched the sunrise). In the fight, the frog that Yen gave to Kevin was smashed to death. The frog which motivated Kevin to start all over again. Sean left Kevin apologetically. Kevin kneeled down, looking at the dead frog, felt as if his source of motivation and happiness was crushed. Yen got to know about it, called Kevin, cried and said how sorry she was regarding the death of the frog.

Kevin came to Yen. While they were in tears, they hugged and shared a kiss.

Sean has lost to Kevin in this round because he fought with him and caused the death of the frog. Women don't like men who fight. It just showed how immature they can be. An immature person is not suitable to get married to. I believed that apart from the feelings she had for Kevin, she kissed him also out of sympathy. (Typical woman nature, tend to sympathize with others)

Sean tried to win her back by asking the waiter to pass her a menu which contain a wedding ring. He also called her and asked her to look outside the hotel (she was having dinner in the hotel with her parents, Sean, and Sean's parents) where he painted "Marry Me, <3 on some white cloth. She was surprised, she loved him but she just didn't know how much he loved her.

Kevin whom immediately noticed there were something wrong, countered back. He told Yen that she has to choose somehow, this chasing game cannot go on forever. He got down on one knee and proposed to her. She looked outside, on the building he built for her, there were lights blinking "Marry Me." The one that Sean painted seem pathetic in comparison to Kevin's building of lights.

She picked Kevin in the end. No, it's not because of the fancy lights. As referred to the title of the movie, "Don't go breaking my heart," she picked someone who would very least likely break her heart. The way a woman makes decision is rather different from men, a woman thinks a lot, about the future etc. The man relied a lot on feelings to decide a woman is the one or not. Although there are evidence she loved Sean more, she picked Kevin, someone who is truly sincere and can be relied on. She picked the "good" one.

In the movie, I found Kevin to be very attractive. He didn't used much of sweet words, more of the action kind, which is really cute. Although yes, Sean was charming and good-looking but such man will only appear as a phase to girls/women (the heart-breaking phase; everyone goes through that). Daniel Wu, the actor who played Kevin, I found his character which did not show too much expression; -attractive and non-pretentious.

So, in conclusion, men; if you want to win a lady's heart, continue being the "good" guy. No bad words, bad habits, no pushing the woman to make decision and continue going lengths for her.

For woman, just be yourself, someone is going to find you, chase you and love you the way you are. There is no need to try too hard to win a man's heart. A man's mind works rather differently, he rather do the chase and be challenged than to have things come too easy. If he found himself going crazy lengths for you, he can be certain that you might be the one.

I find this movie very meaningful. Would put it second after "500 days of Summer." I love to write a review on that movie, but someday, perhaps, someday. :)

Favourite Sex and The City Quotes

“Money is power. Sex is power. Therefore, getting money for sex is simply an exchange of power.” - Samantha

“TREY! I'm tired of being married to your penis. I'm a person! And this is supposed to be a relationship! And I am DONE walking on eggshells. Ooooooo, don't talk about moving in, in front of the penis cause it might go soft. And, and the penis likes this and the penis doesn't like that and THE PENIS WANTS TO BE MEASURED!”- Charlotte

‎"Honey, before you buy the car you take it for a test drive!"- Samantha

"Maybe there are no right moments, right guys, right answers...maybe you just have to say whats in your heart!”

“I’ve spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live?! I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes."

“The only thing I've ever successfully made in the kitchen is a mess. And several small fires".

“Sometimes second chances work out even better than the first because you learn from your mistakes.”

“After he left, I cried for a week, and then I realised I do have faith. Faith in myself, faith that I would one day meet someone... who would be sure that I was the one.”

“ I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.”

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.”

"It's infuriating! Women sit around obsessing about what went wrong over and over again, and men just say "alrighty" and move on."

“When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?”

“I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.”

“But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.”

“I had often fantasized about running into my ex and his wife. But in those fantasies, I was running over them with a truck.”

“The only thing worse than a liar is a bad liar.”

“I love you, but I love myself more.”

“Women don't care. We care about nice arms, great eyes, a big dick... I've never once heard a woman say: "He had such a big full scrotum.”

“Carrie: I just love Sleeping Beauty! The music, the sets, the costumes. It's so romantic!
Stanford: You only like it because she sleeps for a hundred years and doesn't age.”

“My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry about the future. Of course, he died penniless and single.”

“Don’t laugh but maybe we can be each other’s soulmates”

“People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates- hoping to win the jackpot.”

‎"The good ones screw you, the bad ones screw you, and the rest don't know how to screw you."