plastic-y looking, like a toy camera =P
next up, i should be posting pictures taken by the camera, not of the camera.
Posted by sherry at 11:32 PM 1 tortoises in a row!
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said goodbye to my little green car last sunday ='(
i sat inside the driver's seat for one last time after clearing my stuff from the car.

Posted by sherry at 8:37 PM 3 tortoises in a row!
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as in, MIA online-wise.
computer went kaput since monday. not sure when will it be up and running again, kinda depends on si brian. prolly not any time soon as he's a busy boy man boy. so no, i won't be reading/replying emails, i won't be on msn, i won't be on facebook, or twitter except the occasional tweet from my mobile.
anything, please sms or call me. calls might be missed as will be busy next couple of days, and also because i have this tendency of leaving my phone unattended -_- but if you calls are unanswered (aww. here's a pat in advance), just drop me a text.
please miss me a lot. *cough* -_-
p.s. xue and flea, read the numerous emails that i missed this past week. no time to reply now T_T but just so you know, i finally read them.
Posted by sherry at 6:17 PM 0 tortoises in a row!
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a collection of (mainly very random) pics from my phone, hence the lack of quality and variety in pics =\
Posted by sherry at 4:03 PM 2 tortoises in a row!
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the last of my final exam, over =) had a random flashback during the exam, that the very first test i sat for in my uni life was for a subject taught by this same lecturer. vaguely remember how mad he got when us noobie first sem students back then were a little out of hand in the exam hall for our very first uni test. prompted him spit out the phrase "shame on you!" while trying to settle us down. i found the whole thing very funny, cos those words and the way he said it was damn out of place. in fact, back then i was probably catching a friend's eye and smirking at his hilarious fit of anger.
Posted by sherry at 12:14 AM 0 tortoises in a row!
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so far things have been going pretty decently =) avalanche of assignments, plus the ever looming thesis deadline... but i should be okay, i think. what's more, i've been getting tremendous support and help from many. i am one very lucky person.
... afterthought. a lot of things i have to put on hold, or push to the back of my mind for now. not that they are any less important, but in terms of urgency, perhaps it's best that i attend to them later. i do not have the time and the emotional capacity to worry about these matters, at least not for now. just saying. lest i give the impression that i do not want to make any effort or something.
aaaaand that's all folks =)
Posted by sherry at 1:13 AM 0 tortoises in a row!
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not so much in a physical sense, but i'm backkkk~ in two ways =D
firstly, i'm finally WELL AGAIN. yes, i am! at long last. i came down with food poisoning last monday. lasted for one and a half week. was really nasty, what with countless times of throwing up, constant feeling of nausea, fatigue cos food all thrown up and i had no appetite, watery diarrhea hehe i hope you're not reading this while eating or going to eat. but man, coming down with flu isn't as bad as experiencing food poisoning. hate the nausea and general feeling of malaise.
and also, i was eating nothing but bread and porridge the whole time! i was SO HAPPY when i finally got my appetite back on thursday! and can eat rice! and lauk. but i'm still watching what i eat now: no dairy stuff, no fried stuff, no oily stuff, etc. i'm sure you all won't find it hard to understand all the different kinds of food i'm craving to eat now! but baby steps, baby steps... chinese new year is coming... i'm gonna go on a crazy eating rampage then! HAH. oh boyyy i'm seriously craving for carbonaraaaaa... most western food actually. oh and SASHIMI oh boy oh boy i really wanna eat sashimi~!
and nah, i don't think i lost much weight although some have commented that i look as though i have. anyhoo, even if i did lose weight, i'll prolly gain them back soon.
secondly, as i was on my way to recovering but not quite there yet, i had a few panicky days about some stuff i had to do... PRONTO. sigh, my procrastinating nature might just land me in deep shit this time. how bad is it? well, it didn't really register in my mind that the procedure will take that long. like, really long. so very long that most who had to, sent in their letters as early as october last year, or maybe even earlier? bad enough that i'm some champion procrastinator, but it's made even worse by the fact that i can be the blurrest ever when it comes to certain things. like, really really blur and clueless.
how bad is it? instead of being sensible and on time by sending in my letter around october last year like most did, i realised i had yet to do so. and i'm talking bout mid january, only do i start panicking and flapping around like some harried chicken losing its head. so on top of not feeling well, i was also feeling DAMN scared and panicky... i couldn't sleep, i couldn't sit still, i couldn't do ANYthing but worry and worry and worry some more and then worry even more that i'm worrying so much that i won't get well in time and then this will make me hit a high in worrying and go into the nirvana of worrying which is the highest level of worry one can possibly achieve *cough*
well, as it goes, when it comes to this, you do what you can do. so i did just that, and finally handed in my letter by hand last thursday. i'm still keeping my fingers crossed that it won't take too long and that everything will be done in time. in time meaning at least la before i have to do my presentation and not after!!!! *mini panics* cos you see, i have one more letter to hand in but i can only do so after this one gets approved, and the second approval takes time toooo so this had all better be settled latest by end of next month please please please.
but i'm being optimistic for now and hope things will turn out ok. at least i'm not longer the wreck i was during those few days when i was all panicky and crazily worried and stressed out. i'm guessing that me being sick made me all the more panicky cos all i wanted to do was to GET WELL so i can prepare my letter ASAP. so yeah, i was a crazy stressed out wreck, so stressed that i could hardly even stand the thought of it. it was one of the least pleasant experience i had.
but like i said, i'm backkk~ meaning i'm no longer sick! and also back to being bouncy positive me. i'm so positive that i can acknowledge that the experience wasn't all bad. mum really jaga-ed me when i was sick, and in some crazy attack of stress, she was the one i cried to -_- ok i didn't really cry as in cry *tries to redeem self* i was really sick and panicky okayyyyy *cough*. and then, friends who were concerned even though they didn't know what was going on and i was too panicky to talk to them about it. and poor wen, whom i called her in a panic quite a few times regarding the letter thingy and procedures etc... cos she was in the exact same boat as i was haha. also, the few coursemates, those who did the letter last year, were really helpful and concerned when i asked them frantically about the whole thing.
(wah what is this, acceptance speech kah?)
... and brian, who's the most supportive, caring, sweet boyfriend everrr. ok la won't disgust you guys about the many details you probably do not want to hear. like how he got me some bacteria so i can get better. yah, so now i eat bacteria every morning before sarapan. mmmm~.
Posted by sherry at 1:31 AM 0 tortoises in a row!
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i do realise that i haven't been blogging for quite a while. and my previous entries were hardly proper blog posts, ahah, shy. surprisingly, i didn't blog last month. december is usually my favourite month, cos there's always CHRISTMAS~ =D but nah, didn't feel the Christmas mood much this year, was too busy running around. Christmas eve wasn't that awesome as i attempted to do some last minute shopping (no i wasn't crazy, i didn't have much choice larr). so i practically spent the eve getting lost amongst the shopping crowd, waiting for the ktm and theN squishing myself in packed ktm. yeah, not exactly very... uh, Christmas-y? only felt a bit more Christmas-sy after going for midnight mass, to celebrate the "bird" of Christ. what, that was how the pastor pronounced it =P
so yeah, how was youR Christmas? mine was pretty ok =) on the day itself i spent some time with my parents, something i haven't done in quite a bit. and it was nice to spend the last few hours of Christmas with someone i wanted to spend it with... plus a little toy elephant that goes quack =)
ok i know i'm a bit late la, talking about Christmas -_- now that it's already the new year. fine, new year's eve kinda rocked too. there you go. haha and oh my gosh, i just checked facebook and... argh incriminating picturessssss -_-
new year's eve. fireworks were awesome, as we were practically standing right under them. awesome and a little scary, but very thrilling =) it was also a day of realisation wth. nah, i just know that i'll need to learn to be more attentive, more mature =) especially when something means this much to us.
on another note, i just finished the alchemist the day before. perhaps the timing is just right, especially when someone has just seriously spoken to me about it. although the book is kinda a tad too spiritual for me. however, i got the main message.
and i'll find my personal legend. i should've done it a long time ago.
oh and by the way, happy new year to all =) i suddenly miss friends that i haven't seen in a while. sigh.
Posted by sherry at 4:19 PM 2 tortoises in a row!
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i'm not particularly in the mood to blog, but i just don't like the idea of the emo post below to be front-lining my blog posts, you know? hence this is an unnecessary filler post =p
ok la i'll post an amusing pic from the sitiawan trip, just cos it makes me laugh everytime i see it!
Posted by sherry at 1:25 PM 0 tortoises in a row!
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as some of you all know already, i langgar kereta again -_- haihhhhh. why la always like this, macam annual ritual. it was a stupid accident, even more stupid than my previous two accidents, which were already very stupid to begin with.
damn bei.
anyway it happened on thursday morning as i was on my way to uni. was very minor, no one was hurt in any way -_-
so after class on that day i dropped by this workshop near my uni, to get a rough idea of the damage, as well as time and cost required for repair. this lady, presumably the workshop boss punya wife, came over as i stepped out of my car. i explained what i was there for, and popped the bonnet open for her to inspect. so here's a snippet of the conversation, originally in a mixture of cantonese and mandarin:
lady: hmm slight impact, some of the stuff pushed in slightly, bla bla bla
me: *listens*
lady: see here, pushed out of place by impact bla bla bla... EH your car langgar before many times hor!
me: er... ya, it's an old car, see...
lady: wah ya lor you see, aiyo hit before so many times...
me: yes it's erm, a second-hand car... perhaps the previous owner...
lady: aiyo must be langgar quite serious before! see, the last time they had to take out everything and then put them back!
me: *feebly* well erm...
lady: *surveying* tsk tsk, hit so many times...
me: *gives up trying to defend myself*
for some reason, my face took on a verY sheepish expression as she tsk-ed and aiyo-ed over my car.
anyway, everything's been settled, lesson learnt (hopefully!!), wallet emptied (can't say i didn't deserve it). and i should get back on my thesis - supervisor's expecting the first few chapters bright and early this coming tuesday. yes, roughly about 30 pages, of which i have done a grand total of... 1 and a half page. i am AWESOME!
and not like i actually have sufficient information currently to whack out the 30 pages... did i say i am awesome? yes! i am. totally awesome.
so DON'T PANIC. in said large, friendly letters.
Posted by sherry at 11:09 PM 2 tortoises in a row!
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how's everyone doing? great? i'm doing fine! and my blog may be dead, but it's not as dead as jing's!
okay end of obligatory update post bye bye.
......
alright la, i'll get into some egocentric musings and updates mmkay. pretty much point-form bullet-styled, err just without the bullets wth. okay fine, bite-sized updates then, if that makes more sense.
for those not in the know, i'm now into my second week of internship =) there, now don't tell me i don't update you people on what's going on in my life. *cough* anyway, things aren't looking too bad judging from the first week, so yeah, i hope i'll learn a lot. counting the weeks down, as i happen to be an amazingly lazy bugger, one who struggles if she has to wake up before noon. gyah cannot imagine 9 to 5 job in the future la. flexi hours for me pleaaaase =(
on a different note, i'm kinda hoping to use this couple of weeks (before next sem starts), to figure what topic i wanna do for my final year paper, and get a head-start in literature gathering. how ah how ah. do research on children? teenagers? old people, i can just steal respondents from the institute HAHAHA ok not funny. erm.
oh random - isaac just got his head shaved so now he looks so stupid and funny! HAHAHA. gosh i'm such an evil aunty. wakakaka. oh oh and he's now finally able to walk a couple of steady steps! so cute. just wanna squish the little fella. XD
okay enough gushing over baby. or i won't stop. hee.
by the way does anyone else like the juno soundtrack? =) i've been pretty deprived of musiC for quite a bit. pc speakers suck, car radio's suck even more, and i don't like deleting songs off my mp3 player to make way for songs i wanna check out =\ yes i have this whole bunch of songs i wanna check out, and they're just festering there. *cough* anyhoo, juno's soundtrack is nicee but after a bit i kinda want to hear some drums. guitar riffs. i think i want some power pop!
sigh, and i wanna go on a road trip. i want a holiday la. a decent stretch of time where i can just... think. and figure things out. and yes i know i'm blogging all this out really randomly - i did say it'll be point-form bite-sized. which equals to random.
i've just been having so many thoughts occupying my mind, that i have to keep pushing back because i can't afford to dig deeper when i have things that need to be done.

Posted by sherry at 11:56 PM 2 tortoises in a row!
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okay, i tried my best to recall the correct order of the songs that switchfoot did in kl the other day:
1. oh! gravity
with a brief intro of meant to live before kicking off with this song. obviously succeeded in working the crowd to a frenzy!
2. stars
when i look at the staaaa~aaa~aaars~! jing's not-so-favourite song hehe. but it's awesome when performed live! c'mon jing, admit it! nyahaha.
3. politicians
at this song, i was seriously already super hyped up from gravity and stars. "come on and break me~!!"
4. this is your life
are you who you wanna be~?
5. lonely nation
woo-hoo! one of my favourite songs! first and second verses were switched in the performance.
6. we are one tonight
and indeed we were one that night! haha ok sorry sorry, very lame cliche. they did a part of shadow proves the sunshine as the bridge. niCe.
7. only hope
time to slow down a little. one of my "sangat suka" songs. was good cos it was definitely one of the more familiar songs for the crowd, and the reception was awesome.
8. learning to breathe
not exactly my mostest favouritest song, but personal preference la ya. might be nice if it was performed all stripped down and acoustic though.
9. gone
they opened this song with beyonce's crazy in love as intro. haha i was kinda "no wayyyyy" but then they delved into gone and all was good. not that their cover of crazy in love isn't kick-ass ah, go check it out. oooh, and this song is when jon foreman snuck in "ella ella". i haD to laugh la! waha.
the full rocking gone.
10. american dream
the statue song! *cough* i mean, mid-song was when they all froze, in pretty impressive poses too i must say. froze for bout 1-2 minutes, before resuming the song with a bang, in perfect coordination. and if that doesn't rock your socks, i don't know what will.
11. dirty second hands
another song that sounds awesome when performed live. i think i did quite a bit of head-banging for this song. -_-"
12. on fire
ON FIRE! definitely one of my top switchfoot songs! they did the chorus high and dry mid-song - it fitted perfectly.
13. awakening
YEAAA-EEEAAAAH~! i just love this song! for some reason it's now the song that i associate with the concert. it's thE switchfoot concert song for me =D
14. meant to live
another staple of switchfoot's setlists. sure perform wan. lack of comments here doesn't mean i didn't like the performance, cos it rocked! i mean, how can it not!
15. dare you to move
the encore - and the best song to end the concert with.
and okay, i had to be nosey and dig around for singapore's setlist (of which i haven't gotten around to asking stephen tan the wei shan).
and here it is, nicked off from mtv asia:
(jo ann, in case you don't know yet, don't cry ya. i think i did.)
Oh! Gravity.
Stars
This Is Your Life
Ammunition
We Are One Tonight
Only Hope
Learning to Breathe
Chem 6A
Gone
American Dream
Dirty Second Hands
On Fire
Awakening
Meant To Live
Encore:
Twenty-Four
Dare You To Move
there. the setlist. the beautiful setlist.
can you believe it, they did Chem 6A off their legend of chin! CHEM 6A okayyy! how can that not be awesome???
and. and and. and and and...
ok la i should't be harping on this anymore la.
but i still wanna harp on it.
copypasted off mtv asia again:
"And the most beautiful and gorgeous moment was undeniably the encore where Jon came out alone and belted out the brooding "Twenty-Four" on his acoustic guitar."
wey don't la. everytime i read that i feel damn sad edi. that is exactly what i've always dreamed of whenever i listen to twenty four ok. jon foreman performing it solo and acoustic, cos the song would sound just so beautiful that way.
step, u gotta tell me how that performance was ok! ='(
so, the moral of the story is...
go to every switchfoot concert that you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
siao. haha. but eh, they'll be touring US next month onwards, with ATHLETE.
ATHLETE.
geez, those US people really have it good.
anyway, to end on a happy note =)
i know la my switchfoot posts all super wordy no pics, very sad case. but check out the awesome (seriously good) pics at CreativeClicks (yeah, the one that does good wedding pics).

Posted by sherry at 4:52 PM 4 tortoises in a row!
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SWITCHFOOT WAS AWESOME!
They totally rocked la! Fantastic performers okay! I was super hyped! - screaming and jumping and singing along non-stop!! And the crowd was very energetic as well, so it added to the whole hype (maybe too energetic for some. Poor Jing and Stephanie, waha). I think Switchfoot maybe didn't really expect such crazy reception in Malaysia? Heh.
A bit sad they didn't sing my mostest favouritest song, but it's okay - the whole performance more than made up for it. I can remember the setlist, though not in perfect order (heh, shy). The performances that stood out for me (meaning personal preference la ya) were The Awakening (Yeaaaa-eeeaahhhhhhhh~!), Lonely Nation, We Are One Tonight, Gone, On Fire, Meant To Live, Dare You To Move... Okay why am I even making this list? I'll prolly just go on til I reach the full list!
They even did a bit of their version of Beyonce's Crazy in Love before launching into Gone. When the music started playing, my reaction was kinda "Oh c'mon! Seriously?!". (Switchfoot's is a pretty good cover though. Kinda better than Snow Patrol's cover IMO). And I just had to burst out laughing when Jon Foreman snuck in an "ella ella" in the song. He was super energetic throughout the concert, it was awesome!!
(Ok yes I know I'm not using a very wide range of vocab in this post but what the hey!)
Eh I wanna relive the experience again la!
Posted by sherry at 1:05 AM 0 tortoises in a row!
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Okay, so I haven't updated in a bit. Just realised this would actually be my first post for year 2008. Awesome. Look, I managed to squeeze this in right before February, which I feel is really impressive! *cough* Well, what can I say la. Recent events in my life have been exceptionally captivating, so much so that I'm always too excited to blog about them! cannto type proeprly you know!
... Fine, it's just that whenever I blogged, all that came out of me were...
incomplete half-posts. Mostly due to the whole pointless-ness of it all, and definitely due to laziness. So yes, I have quite a number of drafts festering in my blogger account.
Totally unrelated, my blog does look kinda retarded on mozilla. Will change that when I have time. Nevermind la still can read right.
If you must know how I'm doing, I'll tell you right here right now then. I'm quite fine, I'm very busy, I'm a little emo, I'm rather irritable, I'm bloody procrastinating, I'm always late, I'm occasionally nice, I'm often irresponsible, I'm barely untroubled, I'm sometimes bitchy, I'm really confused, I'm kinda guilty, I'm extremely frenzied, I'm somewhat lost. I'm also super cute.
That, and I'm totally hyped up over Switchfoot!

Posted by sherry at 6:44 PM 0 tortoises in a row!
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at genting right after (literally)our final final exam last sem.
me, wen & jue (two roomies), eline (ex-roomie!), chengni (ex-roomie's new roomie!)
sitting on ronald mcdonald's knee. he was hard. >=)
that was my hostel room in upm. the right side's my part of the room.
that's the sexy back of eline. taken right before sem break,
so she's in the midst of packing up all her stuff.
my side of the room.
if u think that's my bra on the bed, then that's what it is.*coughsportsbracough*
oh, and spot the little daniel pic at the board on the wall! XD
group pic (taken at my workplace). not all are my colleagues tho.
taken in a desperate attempt by yuen to remember us by.
he's the one sitting with crotch exposed,ultimate lansi expression on face.
omg so so so yeng! *swoons*
kinda like this version, more natural.
weikhuan's expression for one, yuen being idiotically pervy,
kaishuen and sokfoon's laughing.
ya ya, me. sherry wong pei min, reseach assistant. looking a bit too grinny at work.
and this is how i currently look like - the michelin man. -_-"
yeah, me, sherry the blimp. ARRRGGGHHHH.
need. to. diet. wtf.
Posted by sherry at 11:37 PM 6 tortoises in a row!
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ok, i really can't help posting pics of isaac. omg i'm becoming those mothers who love showing off baby pics argh. feel so auntie, pun unintended.
ok no need to throw me auntie jokes anymore la.
auntie-ness aside, the other baby's the firstborn of my cousin (who's about the same age as my sis). baby girl, just a few months younger than isaac =) she has so much hair!
isaac: this is the first time i'm with a chick my age!
isaac: *not sure what to do*
isaac: i shall be the perfect gentleman and hold her hand.
actually, he just likes to grab anything la. but so cute ya?
brothers holding each other's first grandchild.
Posted by sherry at 1:49 AM 2 tortoises in a row!
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for some reason when i saw the position of the ironing board, it suddenly hit me that i forgot to switch off the iron before i left for uni today.
mum would've probably lectured me to no end if she wasn't already sleeping by the time i came home.
but that isn't the point. it's beyond stupid to leave the damn iron on. and baby isaac was at home too... imagine if a fire had happened.
*kicks self really really hard*
anyway, iron incident aside (still busy kicking myself), quite a number of stuff to settle. i don't particularly like all this kind of remeh-temeh stuff... remeh-temeh to me la cos i'm probably the laziest person ever.
in addition, so many people keep asking me if i've moved into my rented room and i'm like, "er, ya ya, moving soon". actually, i havent even bought ANYthing, no cupboard, no table no shelf no whatever. no mattress even, but i've sorta secured that through an ex-superior.
...... what, procrastination is my forte.
plus, i can't wait to get over this silly flu virus that's got me. i thought i was already recovering, mana tau my voice suddenly hilang. my voice breaks like crazy and some words just don't come out.
and it sucks not being able to sing... well not like i'm a singer wth, i just like singing along, esp when driving in my car.
couldnt resist a hot cup of coffee during lunch though. from my favourite kopi satu van! oh, the sight of the beautiful bright yellow vehicle parked at its usual place. the one thing i have been looking forward to when the sem reopens. once my cough goes away, i shall get my dose of ice-blended cappucino =D
i think a huge chunk of my ptptn goes to buying coffee wth. -_-"
on a totally unrelated topic, i realise i'm doing the same thing again. avoiding. well, not actively avoiding but more of becoming increasingly non-existant.
sometimes i cross the line even when i see where i'm heading. and when i can't avoid the crash anymore, i try (vainly?) to pull out, knowing that what's gonna happen is probably inevitable.
thing is, do i want to avoid the crash? why am i even avoiding it?
Posted by sherry at 2:52 AM
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indeed, i have, haven't i? haha, i wanna ber-emo mah.
anyway! gosh, old people!
(no not you guys)
old people ahhhh...... sometimes they're just the same as little kids la! except that they're harder to control. at least u can tengking at small kids. old people, must respect. -_-"
anyway, on a side note, i'm all well and alive. wanna watch shrek 3! erm, some time. soon. yeah.
and i'll probably be taking a day off just to shop! bahaha. megasale! dont play play. got lots to buy. shoes clothes bags more shoes more clothes more bags. and booksies!
ok gtg for dinner. bai bai!
Posted by sherry at 7:11 PM 0 tortoises in a row!
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impossible. need to take short nap before waking up at 6am to continue.
yes, i'm still at office. -_-"
Posted by sherry at 5:04 AM 2 tortoises in a row!
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