as i was chatting with one of my friends back in Malacca yesterday, she told me that she was afraid that i might forget all of them back home because i have a great bunch of friends in Brisbane.
I was mortified.
perhaps i had not been keeping in touch with them very often that they might felt left out in my life.
i am writing this post now to let you guys know how much you guys changed my life.
though i have a great bunch of friends over here,
YOU GUYS ARE JUST YOU GUYS.

when i had the opportunity to skip from Standard 3 to Standard 5, i wasn't really having the best time in my life. when i entered standard 5 and 6, i was still timid for friends at those time disliked me. i still could remember when i received 'surat layang' from my classmates telling me that i should leave their class and i was an intruder. that particular 'surat layang' created a huge havoc in the principal office and my home. that was when i was in standard 5. when i was in standard 6, one of my classmates stole my very precious autograph book which i took ages to get it done. even after 9 years later, i still could not figure out who did those two evil things to me. but some things are just meant not to be known.
when i was in form one, i felt even more scared when i was placed in 1 Biru, the second last class in my whole form. at that time, i really detest the way the school placed the students randomly in any classes. and at that time, my class was beside 1 Jingga. the class which jyi and darlynn were in it. i really disliked that class for no particular reasons. hahahaa.. please don't ask me why.
and finally i was in 2 merah, the first class.
i was placed in a class with students i hardly known at all.
time flies and till i was in form 4 where i met my true friends.
and in form 5, that was the best part of my school life.
sitting beside jyi who is freaking genius in math and physics, definitely made my life so much easier. and getting to know li lin who has these cute gestures when she was angry and siang with the HUGE HUGE LOUD laugh that makes everyone laugh too. and there goes luah and lynna, the two with similar height who sat in front of me and who always urged us to pass up our books. and behind me, was pin and cheryl who always complain they can't see the board.
and eunice who sat right at the end of the class who was so emo when Germany lost in the semifinals in the world cup. and yuin yi sitting beside me who was always sleeping during lessons. i remember everything so well because those images are just not meant to be forgotten.

xoxo,
shen.

studying in overseas is totally perfect except for the
FOOD part.
though western food do taste good at times, growing up in a very Chinese family i enjoy traditional cuisines a lot including both Malay and Indian food.
i been missing all my babies for six months.

wan tan me (especially those fat mee).
chai tao kueh.
chicken ball rice (especially the one in jonker street)
sate celup.
cendol(especially the one opposite pay fong's school).
fried oyster ( the one in bukit baru).
tom yum soup ( i have no idea why i crave for those even though i could find it easily over here).
siu yuk ( my favourite especially the fatty part).
char siew pau.
lotus pau.
bak chang.
karipap.
duck mee.
mui ker ( not sure bout the spelling).
satay.
u char kueh. ( especially the long strips one)
lotus soup.
ter toh teng ( pig stomach soup)
radish soup ( though i boiled it myself the last time, i still miss my mum's one).
mum's pepper soup.
secret recipe choc mud cake.
Portuguese egg tart.
tong yuan.
fried kueh teow with lap cheong and crab slices without taugeh.
yam rice.
bean rice.
mangoes!!!!!
durians.
uncle botak's nasi lemak.
hokkien mee ( malacca's version- the black fat mee)
loh shu fan.
wan tan hor.
liang teh.
barley drink.
yong tau fu.
salted egg porridge.
curry laksa.
roti canai, roti telur.
roti bom.
tosai rawa
chee cheong fun.
lou mai kai.
lemang.
rendang ayam.
bak kua.
small small rolls during cny with pork floss and he be inside (can't remember the name)
dodol ( tan kim hock's one...muahahaha)
muruku
and
of course
i do miss
AL RAFI'S INDO MEE SINGLE.
(the food that i survived on when i was in intec) muaahahahaa..

THERE GOES MY 50 FOOD CRAVINGS!!!!
impressive aren't they?

Local Food that i found in brisbane by far.

dim sum
pssstt.. my favourite dish in dim sum would definitely be the baby octopus. juicy and yummy.

gong xi fa cai!!! fatt fatt!!
mandarin oranges.

though grown in australia, taste as good as the one back in malaysia.

FINALLY I FUFILL ONE OF FOOD CRAVINGS WITHOUT COOKING IT MYSELF.
CHAR SIEW PAU!
i will give an A+ for the char siew pau i found today in chinatown.

xoxo,
the child who is never done with her food cravings.

well, i don't think you will consider these as good news.
anyway, I CHANGED MOST YOUR PICUTRES at the corner of my blog.
HORRIFIED?
people changes as they grow,
prettier and more refined perhaps and my blog should be updated with your good looks,
and i should not be displaying the ugly sides of my buddies..
er no not a sarcasm.
lol.
just check your faces at the corner of my blog. apology if that picture doesn't happen to be the best of you.

warm hugs,
shen.

after spending the whole morning in harbour town ( the so called shopping paradise which i absolutely disagreed for i BOUGHT NOTHING from there), we left for surfers paradise as the dark clouds started to form on the blue sky.
it must have been the craziest and the most spontaneous plan we ever made to visit Surfers Paradise during winter.
holy crap! we are out of mind.

those Crystal blue sea greeted us definitely reassured us that our decision of coming there was right.
despite the strong waves on that day and cold freezing weather, we spotted people swimming and surfing.
but still no NAKED babes unfortunately. no sun, no sunbathing definitely.

three guys peeing looking into the sea.

emo dude at the thought of commiting suicide. kidding. +_+

surfers boards.
big waves on that day with tonnes of surfers enjoying every single moment of it.

playing around with the golden soft sand, comparing who can stand without sinking into the wet sand.

the wind was extremely strong on that day.
the seagulls could not even soar into the sky.
every single time when they tried to fly, they will remain in the same position, flapping their wings with difficulty.
photographers flashed their cameras out to capture every single moment of those.
beautiful.

ya ya ya i know my name look horrible for i scribbled it using my big fat toe.

me and him peeking into the blue sky and sea.
is this the first picture of us together in my blog? uh oh.

with leslie @ ah pek....... check out the surfers pack behind us.

alright.no more one picture of us but two.

me and my roomie flipping into the air.

all of us who came out with those weird ideas of going to the beach during winter.

check out those rough waves.

little footsteps embedded on the soft sand.

muahahaha love the two of you girls so much.
my companion in queensland and in pharmacy course too.

before we left the beach, we were entertained with the most gorgeous rainbow i ever saw in my life.
solid 7 colours spotted in an orange sky.
mesmerizing beauty

xoxo,
the surfing shen.

Dear Australia Zoo ( one of the most pretigous zoo in australia),
yes i have visited you.
You did not really WOW me in the begining with all those marsupials even though they are rare in the world. Perhaps the small sizes of those animals weren't really a wow at first sight unlike those zoos back in Malaysia which are loaded with Hippotamus, orang utans, giraffes - those big big huge huge animals that amaze those kids.
but australia zoo definitely exposed me to different kind of animals found in the world...more precisely australia alone.
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the most adorable creature i have seen on that day was
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myself.
wakkakaka.

yeah to friends who call me piglet, those are only piglets and i don't look any much similiar to them.

and that's me.
I do not have any resemblances to those three little piglets.
hahaha...
understand??? lol.

we arrived at australia zoo pretty early but the journey to sunshine coast took us nearly two hours. we left two of our friends behind and they had to take the later train. initially, we were TOTALLY CRAZY for approaching the counter without even preparing a single cash or counting the money in our debit card. we were totally ashamed when we realised we were out of money for all our cash were in those two latecomers' hands.

alligator lizard was the first animal that greeted us upon the entrance of the zoo.

huge heavy kodomo dragon.

cute cuddly otter
but i must say those otters have the SMELLIEST cage in the zoo.

the directory board in the zoo.

long lost brother of my dear titi song (my turtle teddy). hahaha.

met the irwin's family. cute little son they had for sure.

the replica of the world biggest crocodile in the world.

those three little piglets in the barn.

sheepos!!!!!!!!!!!!!! touch their wool and it feels so good.

shen got overexcited with those adorable mek-mek sounds produced by those lambs.
I MISS YOU MARY ANNE!!! mek mek. i spotted you in australia zoo.
what an honour. lol.

cutie pies and cuddly aren't they?

prestigous red dingoes with high egoism.

majestic bird in the zoo found in australia that i, unfortunately forgotten the name of it.

in memory of the ever loveable crocodile hunter.

admiring all those messages written on Steve Irwin's uniforms.

echnida! spiky they could be but i could not resist their big bumps and cuteness.

i am so in love with you.
gimme a kiss you little joey!

PONY! short leggy but yet so cute.

patting koala's round pinkish butt.

koala could be possibly one of the laziest animal on earth, requiring 20 hours of sleep per day
but when they are awake, they could be possibly the cutest animal on earth for sure.

Playing around those tame kangaroos in the roo heaven.

boys felt intimidated with the six pegs the kangaroo had.

duckies!!

MY FAVOURITE ANIMAL OF ALL!
the most adorable animal on earth.
MR WOMBAT!!
yes you might be fat.
yes you might have big butt ( just like me)
yes you might be dull in colour.
yes you might be round.
yes you might have rough skin too.
but
no matter how your appearance are,
you still remained as the cutest marsupial on earth.

exhausted friends dozing off in the train on our journey back to roma street.
there were still many more animals in the zoo with tiger island, elephatansia, red pandas, mangarove island and etc, but the laziness of me had gotten the most of me. uploading pictures into your blog can be pretty tiring at times. pardon me for that.
but australia zoo trip was definitely a worthwhile experience and exposure on maruspials.

xoxo,
the wombatty shen.

some kind of intec reunion occurred in brisbane recently.
yes all of us from all over the places reunited in gold coast.
friends from melbourne, canberra, and auckland.
yes they are here.
beaming happily.

the magnificent beauty of gold coast.
why is there is no university in gold coast for i shall choose to study there?
if i have a choice to live in either gold coast or in brisbane, i would definitely opt for gold coast.
hippier and merrier.

dining in the best restaurant in Gold coast, Tocanis.

queensland is always flooded with street performers.
for instance like this one. the human statue.

surfers paradise is indeed a paradise.
long stretch beaches with fine sands and flooded with people despite it was winter.
the water was luke warm and crystal blue.
now i knew the reason for the popularity of this beach in australia.

unfortunately for the guys, they did not spotted any naked women. well, surfers paradise is always claimed to be flooded with hot babes. maybe they should return again during summer.
perhaps their eyes might land on one.

posing at the entrance into the beach.
a big group of us of course.

waiting for the whale watching cruise by the river.

we girls are the minority recently.

we embarked on the whale watching cruise and off we go.
vroom vroom vroom....... ~_~
beautiful view of helenslave town definitely.

in the tiny little cruise.
together with koo's sisters.
don't the three of them look alike?
triplets.

at front of the boat, checking out the wide blue ocean.

taking a snap on the bumpy boat.
choppy sea.

three poyoh guys sun bathing.

gold coast is always fulled with yatches which is pretty amazing as yatches always a signature of richness...
may i own one in the future? they look really cool

seagull flying across us.
mesmerizing capture.

light house on the cuboids rocks.
the nature.

the first sight of the whales.
we spotted approximately four to fives whales on that day.
call us lucky.
yes we are.

whales are elegant mammals. the way they swap their tails are mesmerizing and the way they made the 360 degrees flip on air is a wow wow.
triple wow.

thanks to yeong fatt's camera and his photography skills, he caught amazing pictures of the whales.
we are pretty luck for the whales swam near our boat and they even did the flip turn in just a few inches away from our boat.
close up view was really amazing!

these are seriously pictures taken by ourselves.
the whale was huge and huge.
and their flippers are huge
and their tails too.
they have pretty long mouth i shall say.

check out the elegance of the whale's body. amazing.
and also the crystal blue ocean.
we were in the middle of no where.
and the wind was so so so strong that we could not even stand properly on the boat.

this is the most amazing shot.
what an experience that i shall never forget.
lifetime memories.

our groupie picture before disembarking our journey developed by the management people.
a beautiful picture of us definitely.

on our way back to shore, the sunset was picturesque, when the sun met the horizon..... after those orange yellow red sky we were entertained with blue purple green sky.
wow. surprisingly gold coast is cloudless as a matter of fact.
shall be blogging about MY BEST TRIP to dreamworld soon.
rides are thrilling with short waiting and great weather.
a perfect trip to gold coast.

xoxo,
the beachy shen.

ta-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
our super delicious steamboat.
king prawns, tiger prawns, shark meat, scallops, musselss, dory firshes, hotdogs, chicken fillets, meehoon, egg noddles, spinachs, lettuce..
what a feast!
celebration for the exam freedom

we had two rice cookers with two different soup bases - tom yum and chicken soup.
it took ages for the soup to boil in rice cooker.
but we waited patiently by cam-whoring. =)

funny picture isn't it? but worthwhile definitely.
wonder why chong hao face gotten into this shape?
that's just simply because he wanted to block the camera.
haaha
dalam bahasa melayu, padan muka. wakakaka

two tamchiak humans snatching my food away.
how dare u??

olalalala~~~
finally we are feasting on our long served food.

more cam-whoring after eating.
check out haziq's sexy butt!

after filling our growling stomach, horror flick time in my room.
the coffin.
lol.

xoxo,
the happy shen.

hola long life updates finally..hahaha
29/06/09 - we went seaworld!!!! using the ticket we bought a few months back (those promotional tickets for three theme parks)

most of my aussie friends told me that seaworld is boring and boring and boring so i never ever thought of going there. plus it is one of the furthest worlds in gold coast.
but somehow we went too..
and
that was something we did not regret (perhaps for people like us , those who enjoyed watching animals)

being one of the largest world among the movieworld and wet and wild, seaworld definitely requires lots of walking from one end to the other end.
unfortunately, it was packed with many families with babies in prams.
err i don't consider that as unfortunate for i adore those "ah mohs'" babies.
they are so so so chubby, rosy cheeks and cuddly with sparkling blue eyes.

in short, seaworld might be more ideal for the young kids with families.
so for that reason i guessed young adults like us prefer thriller excitements in movieworld.

call me childish or what so ever.
my friends claimed this is one of the most boring show they had seen in seaworld.
THAT'S SO NOT FREAKINNG TRUE!
elmo is so so so so cute
and
THE MOST POPULAR ONE TOO
whom received the most cheers from those kids when elmo appeared on stage. ( plus my cheer of course)

elmo can do limbo rock too!!!
cha cha cha!!!!

elmo dances too.
shake ur bum bum..huhu.
cutie pie isn't he?
wait a minute after 18 years, i still could not figure out whether elmo is a guy or girl.

spectacular dolphin performances.
pretty amazing creatures i shall say.
genius mammals.

excitment faces.
among the babies' prams.
lol.

off we go for some rides!!!!!!!!!!!!
hola!

sliding down through the slide.
i have no idea how emelia could take this picture.hahaha
our faces.
errr..
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priceless??

getting off the boat with me winning the award for being the wettest among all six.
well that's the consequences for sitting in front.
but hell not i enjoyed it.

handsome Mr polar bear.
so white and cuddly and huge.

the world smallest penguin.
standing at only 30cm tall.
so cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

aren't they?
i could just spend hours staring at those adorable penguins.

mr huge stingray.
all my friends succeeded in touching it except for me.
SO UNFAIR!!!!
the consequences for having short hands.

underwater viewing.
fabulous.

nice shot by swee kee's new camera.

the australia only roller coaster ride with THREE LOOPS!!!
i could not even stand properly after sitting those ride.
imbalance fluid in my body.

off we go on the tiny cable car!!!
amazing view we saw on the whole land of seaworld

so if you are someone like me, you will definitely have loads of fun visiting seaworld.
i love watching those creatures swimming around, playing around and cuddling around.
they are adorable. yes they are.
till then, i shall be enjoying my holidays to the most till the most feared day in my life 8th july 2009 ( the release of my utterly terrible exam results).

xoxo,
the kiddy shen.