my new look

yours truly decided to get her hair cut yesterday..or should i say yesterday yesterday (sunday).

and she decided to get it cut real short since she doesn't have to abide by school rules anymore. even mom was shocked when she saw the hairstylist cutting off that much hair. hehe..

i like it, i'm not really bothered whether people like it or not. to me, it's refreshing. after long, long hair. i don't miss my long locks at all. not the slightest bit. most people have complimented so that's good news. i wanted to cut my hair real short back then...when i was still in school, but i wanted a tie-able length by stpm. so that was my problem. and i wanted a decent hairlength for the wedding. so what better time to cut it than now??? lol.

and we figured out this theory - women in shorter hair do not look as attractive if compared to women with longer hair. it's like long hair has that sex appeal. if you walk down the street and you see 2 woman, one in short hair and the other in long hair, both with as flattering bodies, you'll tend to give the woman with the longer hair your first look. trust me. if you don't believe, try it for yourself. but remember k? it has to be 2 women who are just as good looking. don't compare an aunty in long hair with a young hottie in short hair k? then, this theory does not work.

before,

after,

looks like the theory doesn't quite work with me either. hehe.. i think the second photo of myself looks better. you wanna know why? because i pick the ugliest picture of me for the before one. and the nicer picture for the after one. huhu.. =D

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on a side note, i visited my ex-school today (i like that ex- word there). some people couldn't recognise me. huhu. it was nice meeting ex-teachers and ex-schoolmates.

going back brought back lotsa memories. mostly pleasant ones. i only had unpleasant flashbacks when i met people i never wanted to meet again back then on my last day of school. but overall, it was a very sweet reunion with my alma mater. will be going back again to get more documents certified. and besides, results should be out real soon. i'm anxious and excited at the same time.

God, help me to be obedient to whatever You call me to. and may Your Will be done in my life! ~Amen~

Nites, peeps!

p/s: Phobz, if you're reading this, leave a comment on my cbox. if it doesn't allow you to do that again, let me know. i'll *kill* it! haha..how can it not let my cuzzie miles and miles away leave a comment? but kenneth seems to be able to leave msges. hehe...talking about favoritism. boohoo!

The GREATEST LOVE of all

Happy Valentine's everyone! minnie and i are suppose to have a candlelight dinner tonight by the klang river. anyone interested to join? all or welcomed. tee shirts and shorts are enough. no need for roses or gifts. 7pm. remember to bring masks (foul smell) and apply lots of mosquito repellent before you come. and we'll all gaze at the stars together and dance in the moonlight. she even suggested that singles should make valentine's day a friendship day.

i got this from my devotional Our Daily Bread. it's a very meanignful one and i thought i'll share this with all of you.

"The best place to find love is not in another person but in a book, the Bible. The Bible tells of God’s great love for us. This is expressed in what my friend called the best love note she had ever received. It’s found in John 3:16.

For God so loVed the world,

That He gAve

His onLy

BegottEn

SoN

That whoever

Believes In Him

Should Not perish,

But have Everlasting life.

God loves us like no one else ever could. He showed that love when He sent His Son, Jesus, to be our Savior. He’s also the best companion we’ll ever have.

i've found Him, have you?"

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! and enjoy your day with your loved ones...

Note: i keep trying to allign it so that VALENTINE appears in a straight line but this silly system jsut doesn't permit it. check www.rbc.org if you want to see the original post.

Happy CNY '08!

Happy chinese new year everyone! may God continue to bless all of you!
we'd new year's eve's dinner at our place last night. it was a pleasant one. but nothing beats the Kuan's!

went to church this morning. enjoyed meeting so many people that i've not seen over the last couple of months. although it was short, but it was wonderful catching up with some of you.
i'll catch up with u peeps soon!

went to grandma's for lunch and more reunion. pretty exciting playing with the younger ones. they were superbly entertaining. they put a smile on my face.

it's good to be back although i very much still miss sydney and everyone there. but it's great to be home! in fact, mom has been missing me so much, we've been chatting all day long for the past couple of days. i guess she's just too excited about having me back after 5 very long weeks. hehe..

the house was so different to me when i get home. i opened the door and saw something i'd never seen before. it's good to be away for awhile cos when u get back u see a whole new thing. it's a feeling that cannot be described in words. i'm enjoying every single of what life has to offer for me and as mie puts it, " i've all the time in the world and am the free-est person!"

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i'll just like to say my thank you's here.

1. Father God
If not for His great blessings, i'd not have had the opportunity to go to the land down under. I love You, Lord. i love You!

2. Pa and Mie
i love the both of you from the very bottom of my heart. mie, thank you for getting dad to agree with me being away from home for so long! thank you for financing the entire trip. and i believe that this trip has also brought all of us closer. i love you!!!!

3. Uncle Stan and Aunty Ivy
the both of you have been so hospitable. you have made my stay in sydney so comfortable to the extend of me finding it hard to leave. thank you so much for everything. you treated me like i was part of the family. really looking forward to seeing the both of you soon.

4. Uncle CK and Aunty Grace
thank you for having me around at your place. it was great catching up with u, si ee. and it was great fun with the twins.

5. Uncle Santiago and Aunty Emily
i love playing triominos with the both of you and watched you beat me from behind. i love the japanese food we had. and i enjoyed your company a lot.

6. Pascal and Davina
paccy, you are a real gentleman. davina chee chee, thank you so much for taking me all over the place and for taking time to be with me. it was a lovely time being with the both of u. thank you!

7. Desmond and Victoria
it was great getting to know the both of you better. it was lovely doing aqua with u vic. n even more beautiful going to manly with you and boogie board. missing the both of you here.

i'm missing all of them already. and i really hope i can make it to the Reunion in Hawaii in 2009. but i hope i won't have to wait for that long. i hope i'll be able to see you real soon. hehe.. :)

in short, licia's a happy happy girl who loves the Lord and her family!

have a great time celebrating with your loved ones, peeps!

Goodbye, sydney!

it's been a wonderful wonderful holiday. and i've really enjoyed myself here. more than i'd expected actually. i don't have much time to blog. will blog more when i'm home. i want to go hug jazz real tight and hope i'll see her again. she's old, you see?

i'll be leaving in 3 hours time. so if you feel like going to the airport, go! go and welcome me. hehe..

my cousins came over last night to say goodbye. davina chee chee and paccy gave me something from church. and desmond koko and vic gave me an aussie toilet bowl. will post a pic of it soon.
i've never spend so much time away from home before. and i really had the time of my life.

i'm getting a lil emo-ed now. so i shall leave.
people at home, people in msia, you'll have to see this face of mine soon. like it or not.
pa and mie, i doubt u've been reading (which is good actually) i love you!!!! can't wait to meet all of you tonight.
people in australia, i'll miss you.

love,
~licia~

BEWARE! licia's all emo-ed

i can't believe time passes by so quickly.
i'm a lil stressed up right now with a lot on my mind. thus, an emo-ed post.
was going through some friends' friendster profiles. managed to read a few comments on their profile. and i got disgusted. why? i'll tell you why.

"wakakka...so good ar u!!haha^u not stay kl de meh?hehe "

why de?

"lol...it's ok la...i won mind de..haha..sick ad!!!walao...wana CNY liao leh...hw r u ad???gt c doctor???rmb 2 eat medicine,,,drink mor water..o els i wil dan xin de leh...XPmi aaa...on de way sick...lol..wana sick liao...T.T"

this is a real sick girl. even if she claims to be "sick on the way" and she's dan xin. i would be if i were her.

"U got learn japanese ar? ?wher u learn...i also wan...tell me...Pls..............."

yeah i take japanese lessons. you sure u want another language when u r struggling with one that's very widely spoken worldwide. i suggest that u PLEASE take ENGLISH instead. or just put in more effort in writing in proper tenses. not that i speak excellent english. but at least i'm not that detestable.

i can't quote the sites and the names of the people. it's due to privacy reasons. i still have a heart. not that heart-less.

okay okay. i know. i'm not in a position to say anything, but if it makes me feel better, why not?
i can never imagine myself saying such things. especially not after i've been in sydney for 8 weeks with hardly any manglish spoken. hit me hard if you hear me saying such things okay? i'm pretty determined not to even use -lahs and -ahs.

and if you think those comments are enough to kill me, wait till you see some of the pictures with the titles. it's gruesome! it's...yucky! i can throw up now.

alright, feli flee! yeah...i better go before i say more things which i may regret later on.

~licia~

and by the way, GOLDIE was 3 yesterday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! i'll be home soon. very soon. i promise. and then i'll cuddle you to sleep and kiss you till you get so sick of it. i promise!

EDIT: i felt pretty bad after publishing the post, yet not bad enough to make me remove it. but bad enough to add a note. i quickly went through all my archives. erm, some of them, not all. i don't have that much time. i went through to see if i'd posts with such terrible manglish in it. now i'm convinced and pretty confident that i've not. so i can go on "kutuk-ing them de!" all the edited parts are in green.

an eventful week

MONDAY, 28th Jan

cousins' day out. we all met at des and vic's place. had burittos for lunch. yummy mexican food.
then, we had a few rounds of games.

about 6pm, we headed to balmoral beach. jumped off the pier again. i've posted pictures on facebook. pretty good ones. it was a shame that i ran out of battery halfway.

we got back and had risotto for dinner - all made by des. dee made salad which may not have looked that good (because it was all green) but it tasted really good. see? looks can be deceiving.

a few more rounds of games and photos, then we left. it's probably our last cousin meeting before i leave next tuesday.

the twins and i watched "the notebook" at midnight. when i played the movie, i had no idea what it was. the minute i saw two elderly people, i knew i'd watched it before. i kinda fall asleep in the middle of the movie. cos really...there's nothing that exciting about it once you've watched it before unlike "how to lose a guy in 10 days".

TUESDAY, 29th Jan

the twins left at about 9am when aunty emily came to pick em up.
i followed uncle stan to the city. he had an appointment with the dentist.
so we had an early lunch or brunch as i'd call it. then he left for the dentist, while i left to do my own shopping. the big problem was i forgot to bring my phone out, didn't wear a watch and didn't have my camera with me either. so i'd no idea what time it was at all. and i was suppose to meet him at the dentist's place at 12.30pm.

i wandered around the area, but cleverly remembering all the landmarks and street names. the last thing i wanted to happen is to get lost. i just kept walking, and walkin and walkin and then came across this clothes store which had so much attractive stuff. i got in there and started putting on clothes. then it struck me, that time was passing by. i quickly asked the sales assistant what time it was, rushed out and literally ran all the way back to the dentist. and guess what? uncle stan wasn't done yet and i'd to wait until 1.15pm. so much for the running. lol

we went for a movie that night - "waterhorse"
i'd this preconceived idea that it was going to be a scary one. it turned out to be good not just un-scary. lol.

one thing about australia that shocked me is the movies. they are released much later than other parts of the world which also happens to include malaysia. like the other time when i went to watch "i am legend", i initially wanted to show off to my brother. and so i texted him and said "boy, guess what? i'm watching daa daa daa...." and he replied, "che, i watched it like 2 weeks ago!" and i'm like "what????"

and fashion sense as well, i thought it'll be faster than malaysia. guess i was wrong. it's about the same timing too.

WEDNESDAY, 30th Jan

i slept in till really late yesterday morning. i only got up at about 10am. (hey! that's VERY late okay?)

we went to excelsion (mie, that was the place we had dinner the day we arrived)
it serves really good food. but it's a very long drive. about an hour's drive. and it was burning yesterday. it's like sydney has been experiencing very weird weather changes recently. one day, there's a storm. the next day, you have a msian humid weather.

it was so hot yesterday not forgetting it was really humid. on a day like that, only the beach seems inviting. even shopping doesn't soung good to me. if i can't go to the beach, then i want to stay indoors. speaking about beaches, i texted mom the other day and said, "mie, your daughter is now chow-tah!" and she said, "i hope we can still recognise you when we pick you up"

you see? i came as a chinese but i'm going back as a malay - to celebrate chinese new year. how ironic is that? you tell me. i kept telling aunty ivy. i said, "i don't have to bother to dress up anymore. cos it does not matter. even a beautiful dress fails to brighten me up. i just look so dull" and she said, "well, you like the beach so much?" and i said, "yeah, i love the beach. if vicky's taking me there again this weekend, i'll still go..hehe"

a real confused girl huh. a complain freak! lol.

i took jazz for an evening walk last night. and this smart girl decided that she wanted to take a different route because she was tired of the same old things and wanted a longer walk after the big dinner she had. it turned out to be -SHE GOT LOST! lol. it was late. and she didn't know where she was. she just kept walking. poor jazz was so tired, she decided that she didn't want to walk anymore if this person holding her can't decide where she wants to go. i'd to carry her for a few minutes and phew! thank God, i got my bearings and found my way home. lol. good thing i'd jazz!

THURSDAY, which happens to be today (okay, it's so not funny)

we went to chatswood to get some photos enlargement done. and then we went to double bay for lunch.

double bay is a real expensive area where celebrities hang out. we saw some aussie celebs at the restaurant we had lunch the last time (when mom was still in aus)

my uncle says, "it's double pay!"

we were walking around the area. and we went to this shoe shop. a few items were on sale. the shoes were displayed as if they were sold in a flea market and guess how much they were? $400 aussie!!!!! oh my goodness! they were all designer labels. jimmy choo, d&g, balenciaga and a lot of aussie designers.

let's pause for a quick weather update - still hot, as hot as ever, i reckon it's preparing me for malaysian weather. and you know how hot malaysia is every chinese new year! but it's not that humid today.

i'm thinking of watching another movie tonight. i'll go pick now. see ya peeps.
ooh,and i heard that uncle stan and aunty ivy's taking me out to a very nice place for dinner tomorrow night. i think it's sheraton on the park. it's in the city. i saw pictures taken there. and it was nice. i'll bring my camera tomorrow. i have to.

and i'm going for another walk after dinner tonight. lol. no more getting lost.

~licia~

australia day and sunday

it was australia day here on saturday.
i followed uncle stan and aunty ivy for breakfast in the city. des and vic came too.
after breakfast, we went over to des and vic's place. we helped him installed his dvd player. then, we went for aqua aerobics. it was so much fun. cos the music was all march-like and parade-like.

went back to longueville to take my shower and followed des and vic out again.
about 1pm, vic dropped me at the train station. took a train to the city-wynyard stop.
waited at mcd on george street to meet dee and paccy who were attending french classes in the city.

davina chee chee took me around the rocks. we went to the rocks market. the sun was burning. but it was so fun. the place was packed. the festival of sydney was still going on.
we walked around for almost 4 hours, then boarded a bus to go back to dee's place.

we snacked, then took a short nap. paccy plays semi-professional soccer (as in football) for Manly United. and he was playing that night against western sydney berries. (yeah, a lousy name, but they played pretty well.)

dee and i went for the match. a pretty good game. they played well and it was very exciting.
after the football match, dee dropped me at the jenkins'. (uncle stan and aunty ivy were having dinner with the jenkins') i had a yummy dessert - sticky date pudding with ice-cream.

we chatted for a lil while. and left about 11ish.

there were a few things i'd wanted to do in sydney. and these were the 3 things which i did it all in a single day.
1. take a train (and i took it all by myself, not bad eh?)
2 visit the rocks
3. watch paccy play

i was a happy happy girl that night.

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church service at st. andrews uniting church was at 9.30 am.
guess what time yours truly woke up? 9.05 am!
rushed to the washroom to wash-up, then changed. and off she went.

went to chatswood chase for lunch. went back home to pack my stuff.
helped aunty ivy to arrange the photos from the wedding. they're beautiful.

des and vic came to pick me up. we headed straight to balmoral beach. the guys from their church were playing beach cricket. they normally play touchfootball every sunday. but they decided to play beach cricket this week instead. i was sitting down at the beach watching them play with totally no idea whatsoever of how the game works even after numerous people have explained the game to me. it wasn't a game that i was interested in. so i guess, i don't bother to learn it up either. even if it's just watching it.

then the girls came up with this brilliant idea of heading down to a cafe to have iced coffees. vicky and i grabbed ice-creams instead. how refreshing? ice-creams on a hot sunday afternoon.

after food, some of the girls changed into their swimmers. vic and i were already in our swimmers. instead of going to the beach and swim out to the sea, guess what yours truly did to get into the water? we jumped from the pier!!!!! i wished we had photos of it. it was so cool.

imagine jumping from somethg high to get into the water???!!!! and then in you go into cold water. haha...and the best part is, you won't be able to stand on the ground. haha...
i'll do that again if we go to balmoral.

after the beach, we dried ourselves then followed des and vic to church for the 6pm service.
they attend an anglican church in mosman. which was also where the wedding was held.

after service, we went to get thai takeaway dinner and went to matt's place (des and vic's church friend) to watch TENNIS! it was a real exciting match. Novak Djokovic vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. i was for djokovic while the other girls were all for tsonga. i've watched most of djokovic's games and liked him eversince. we were all tensed up and nervous. fixing our eyes onto the tv screen. djokovic won 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6. a 3 hrs 6 minutes game.

it was 11pm when we left matt's place. we headed back to longueville. the twins were waiting for me. we were suppose to watch 'the notebook' together. guess not anymore. when i got home, it was so late and i haven't had my bath. so by the time i got out from the shower it was past midnight. and then the 3 of us helped ji ee with more photos arrangement. it was 2.30 am by the time we got to bed.

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what's up for today??? it's cousins' day out!
we'll be going over to des and vic's for lunch in a couple of hours time.
we'll probably be going to manly for BEACH! it's a hot sunny day and it's for the BEACH! lol.
and if we do go to manly, vic and i will probably go to max brenner's again. lol.

see ya peeps!!!! in exactly a week.

~Licia~