Nhu Ya

How was your new year?

Mine was celebrated according to tradition i.e. I was sleeping and oblivious to anything.
Ho ho.

Celebrated my mom's birthday the next day.

Order was restored after the party. Only the 2 balloons remained as a testament to the festivity that was once held there.

Went to Ed's for some scrumptious dinner Reena and Ulfah scraped up on Saturday. Great food, great (albeit slightly mental) company and great view. Fireworks picture above is taken from Ed's balcony last year. Amazing view of KL from his place. Lucky bastard.

Ed and his marvelous brownie concoction. This was desert, of course. No one cared to stop eating during dinner long enough to take any pictures. Food was go-Ud. Also, that's Reena, kitchen goddess.

Camwhores, Ulfah and I. Our impression of a goldfish. Not too bad at all.
We look high don't we? It was probably the brownies. Ahem.

Been spending quite some time with a lot of my friends recently (and I'm glad) but not with this group of retardos I know. Kinda miss them. Oh well.

Say What

I know that some (defining quantity less than 1) people read my posts. Okay. Some of you are my friends and sometimes you have nothing better to do. I'm not delusional.
But I was nicely startled to find out that a Karl Urban fan site had my blog referred to my Pathfinder movie review. Wonders of wonders. She/He was even cool enough to quote me. Me! Oh what joy.
Anyways. I thought you should know. So you don't feel alone. Feel free to insert my witty writings in your conversations now. Like, "..admittedly the blogger Nella did say in her post that cabbages are the most revolting vegetable in the world.." or "Did you read the post Nella wrote on the wonder of brown wrapping your textbook?". You know, to add more spice in your conversations and for you to appear more erm, resourceful.
Hahaha.
Happy New Year, my cuddly porpoises! Hope you did not regret too many things you did in 2007 and here's to looking to a whole other year of flustering about stuff that is not really important. Have a good one!

Banjir

Ati asked about the flood. Well Ati, basically Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu banjir. Damn bad banjir it was too. It has since receded significantly but at one point almost 2500 people in Pahang was forced out of their houses because they cant breathe underwater and that was where their houses were. There has also been deaths from drowning. Ghastly stuff. And we have a house in Temerloh. Which is in Pahang. Nothing happened to it (it just got slightly damp from the rain, good thing it's made out of paper) but my uncle's houses were not so lucky. Temerloh also lost a couple days of power and water due to the banjir. Here are some pictures.
The ironic thing is, this house in the picture is their banjir safe-house. This house is on a hill and was built so that when the original house gets flooded, they could hightailed it to this house. So much for a contingency banjir plan. Snort. And before you feel sorry, these people actually lives in KL. The one that got submerged and almost-submerged was the weekend house (the original, flood bent house) which is affectionately known as the chalet. The almost submerged, so called safe house on stilts is called the annex. My family's house is the bungalow (the one that is not made of paper). Yes, original people we are when it comes to naming stuff. But the banjir, to us, was all good. The kids had fun playing with the water and the boats and fishing. Only my aunt (you could see her in the second picture) got mad that her citrus groove got muddy. She's very particular about her lemon trees.