Nicole C. - 22 -                         
BSc. Grad.                            
Loves to eat.                            
Imagini - DNA test


MOOD: SOFISTICAT

-Drawn to the drama of big spectacle & appreciate the unpredictability of nature
-Like life rugged & rough round the edges
-When it comes to art, you're definitely unconventional
-Like to think differently, always from another perspective
-A good sense of humour
-Appreciate natural beauty
-Take time to soak up the nature favoring the coastline & countryside to the city galleries
-As for music, you're a discerning listener-a tech head, you're into the kit
-Like to have the best available; always one step ahead
-A real food lover

FUN: ESCAPE ARTIST - independent, thoughtful - they know themselves well

-Love to be far away from everyday life
-Love the sun
-Like to live life at a slower pace than most - knows how to take things nice & easy!
-For kicks nothing beats an adrenalin rush - like to take risks and push limits..
-Confident & brave - life is for the living!
-When it comes to holidays, you like to explore & immerse yourself in another culture
-Always on the go, you take in as much as you can
-You find it hard to switch off, as you like to learn all the time
-You like people to be well groomed, with a tight bod & heaps of sex appeal

HABITS: NEW WAVE PURITAN - strict, organised & ever so neat - practice the art of self-discipline. Like things done simply but with an eye for detail

-Living in a material world you are always flashing the plastic
-Like to live for today and not get caught up thinking about tomorrow - hey, that would slow shopping down
-Has classic taste - yes you're a bit of glamorous one
-Like to get dressed up, go out, and be seen!
-As for the home: very cool & contemporary taste; see yourself as a bit of a trend setter
-Like your surroundings to be simple & as stylish as you

LOVE: HOME SOUL - They place real importance on friendships. They are family minded, & forge strong relationships

-Care deeply about family life & all that comes with it
-The love of a child very special.

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Last-day-of-school blues

We had that so many times before:

0. (too young to understand that in kindergarten)

1. Primary school during our "class party" and we played songs by Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and Kau Ilhamku (in my days), signed perfume-filled autograph books, with all the girlpower, peace signs, and ich liebe dich. We talked as if we're not gonna see each other again for another 10 years, yet, most of us moved on to the same secondary school, if not class.

2. Secondary school, when we played Vitamin C's - Graduation and hugged and cried, and signed autographs and climbed up the roof to take photos for remembrance. We exchanged addresses, house phone numbers, and handphone numbers. That was really the point where we all will go separate ways...pursuing similar or different degrees in different colleges and universities.

3. College, we did not exactly have a typical class party with music and stuffs, but we had cards and we played "Bluff" with our tutor. She was so honest throughout the whole game, it defeats the purpose of the game, but it was hysterically fun. There's always Pradeep to cheer the class up. We took pictures in the toilet, and after our last paper, we watched 50 First Dates and laughed our hearts out.

Will always remember the way we used to say bye to each other after Biology lab every Friday and Ms. Vanitha will ask us why are we saying goodbye as if we're not gonna see each other again.

Those were the days.

What about uni?

Oh, this is the last sem I'll be in university, and the last semester all of us will be studying in this building, especially the greenish lecture theaters. We did not leave Graffiti's around, but we captured some moments :)




Yut Kee

Amidst the busy city with mushrooming growth of modern cafes and restaurants replacing the old cafes; there are also modern kopitiams like Old Town Cafe, and Uncle Lim's. But nothing will beat this preserved real Malaysian heritage kopitiam - one you can sit down and sip coffee (without needing to pay RM10 or RM11 for a cup) with tasty food at reasonable price.

Chiken Chop

And I ordered my favourite toast bread with kaya and butter:
The tasty own-made kaya.

We also had the kaya roll, also one of my favourites. I usually buy rolls of them home, and I could finish one roll in one afternoon! It's rather costly though, so I don't do that much...

But after that ,we were all too full to eat the ever famous roti babi. Anyone who goes there should try that at least once.

Yut Kee
35, Jalan Dang Wangi,
50100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-26988108

8am - 5pm.
Monday off.


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And to add on: JJ refused to make a stop at KL Sentral for an ice-cream, so we ended up taking-away four sundae cones from McDonald's in Bangsar.


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Our favourite song

My dad is really cute. More than 10 yrs ago, when I was still a little girl he used to tease my sisters and I like this:

Whenever a song comes up on the radio/CD player that we don't like, we'll ewww and eeks about it.

The next time it played, he'll say, "Hey, that's your favourite song!"
We kept defending ourselves, he will keep insisting that it's our favourite song.

We've a lot of favourite songs since.

Today, he told me a song that Se Yin likes played on the radio. He was gonna tell me how it goes; my sister said "noooo" and quickly placed her fingers on her ears.




The (way of the) Peaceful Warrior

I was impressed and inspired by this one particular scene where Dan said, after tracking up the hill full of excitement, only to be disappointed when Soc told him they've reached the destination, and they were up to see a rock:

"The journey.
The journey is what brings us happiness,
not the destination".

People often said when they get something/someone/somewhere, they'll be happy. Maybe it's true, but will they be happy forever? People will always want more, want to be better, want something different (and when they don't, the game's over).

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer;
if you get what you don't want, you suffer;
even when you get exactly what you want,
you still suffer
because you can't hold on to it forever.
Your mind is your predicament.
It wants to be free of change.
Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death.
But change is a law,
and no amount of pretending will alter that reality." - Dan Millman

When they get something/someone/somewhere, they will be happy for a while. In fact, maybe not at all, because it might not have turned out the way they expected it to be. But the whole excitement and the joy - they're all in the journey. A tear rolled down my cheek upon recollection of the journey I had. But those were the past, let bygones be bygones; so I have grieved about it for a second or two, but I will focus on the present. The now.

"The ones who are hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most."

I've loved him in my way. It was hard loving him, but it was worthwhile. I've no regrets. What is love, but just a state of mind. What is disappointment and sadness, but a state of mind.

"Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The
only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds" - Dan Millman.


And we'll always carry on our journey in life.

"A warrior does not give up what he loves,
he finds the love in what he does"

And there is no gain, without pain.

"Every positive change--every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness--involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception" - D. Millman.

:)

Socrates: Where are you?
Dan Millman: Here.
Socrates: What time is it?
Dan Millman: Now.
Socrates: What are you?
Dan Millman: This moment.


Sources:
http://www.zaadz.com/quotes/Dan_Millman?page=1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438315/quotes




KL Sightings

In an effort to conserve trees:


On the other side of the Heritage row:

A (i don't remember the name of this vehicle) sighted @ Sri Hartamas!




Post-Retail Therapy: Shopping Consultant

I had hit my quota of the month for shopping, I stopped browsing for clothes! And yes, it's only the 6th day of the month...so I stopped shopping for the month, but it doesn't mean I can't shop!

I was on a mission to helping Alan shop for he-doesn't-know-exactly-what-he-wants-to-shop-for.
It was a very spontaneous, very random shopping trip. For someone who had always think shopping by walking around randomly and going in shop after shop is a waste of time...he did that! Cheers. He's done something different!

When he asked me up for help, I totally adore the idea so I changed and had lunch and... *priiinnggg* ... I've reached 1Utama!

We walked around, entering random shops. He seems to have an affinity for working clothes. Especially high affinity to those plain-colored ones...

Went from one shop to another: Browsed. Tried. Empty handed.

So I asked him what colour does he have, or not have... and he replied "All my clothes are plain, mostly light colours". That explains his natural attraction to those. Since he only owns PLAIN colored shirts, I suggested we go for stripes! I made him try on clothes that he would never bother looking at; every now and then, I have to stop him from looking at plain-colored shirts. I tell you...that was the toughest. Getting him to go for stripes wasn't easy too, he asked "are there any striped shirts with more subtle stripes?"

So after trying on a lot (which was only less than 10 pieces, but hey, it's already very good for beginners!), he came out from the fitting room and said "I like this..."

Puts a big smile on my face. I like that too! Bingo!

Mission accomplished.

He said that was the first time he bought something out of walking randomly like that, and that was he first time he bought a shirt so expensive.





Skating-bowling

Been a while since I last ice-skated, but I've not forgotten! I've yet to master it, and I still tend to fall down sometimes. I swear 2 years from now, I will save up enough to by myself ...my OWN skates. Yes! 2 years...it will have to wait, cos I have so many other things in the list! Or maybe, some kind soul will buy me a pair. *hint*

I fell down once on my bum.

After lunch, we went bowling...and I got a STRIKE at the beginning of the game. I was so happy about it (I've not bowled since the last time Yvonne came back), but I could only be happy about that one strike for the rest of the game because that was the only strike I had. I could only aim for prosperous numbers and all.