XMAS AND BDAY

this is a little late but i dont have anything much to write. firstly,


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JODIE CHEONG YIMEI

havent get anything for her yet but i will get her something. anyway, merry christmas to all of you. i know i am 3 days late but then again, i got nothing to write. last year (2007) i wrote a xmas poem and sent it all to my closest friends and family and this year i did the same again. you guys might have already read it but for those who didnt get it:

BACK FROM XMAS

sorry bout the non replying messages cos i was away in melaka for christmas. as i told u before, my uncle had an apartment in the a famosa resort, so 11 of us went there. 11 in an apratment. luckily there was no sofa around. the girls sleeps inside the room while the boys at the living room. once again, i got the sleeping bag position. anyway, melaka was quite boring (no offence to ryan and sheng) since we dont hav a proper tour guide. not only didnt we try any melaka cuisines but spent most of the time in the car searching for the right place. we went to town and my mum wanted to go into the unesco area. we did passed the old red shops but didnt stop cos no parking. we then went to the heritage shops. i want to walk more around the market but cos we dont have much time, we only walked to a few shops only. my dad bought for me a cowboy hat in one of those store. i used to have one of those made in denver but tore when i washed it (i was young and i dont know leather dont go well with water) due to ants surrounding it. i love those hats eventhough i dont wear it. i may be all china-ish boy, but i also love the western cowboy life.

my mum bought some pineapple tarts while my uncle got himself some polished stone statue and a poem written after his name (it was written in caligraphy mopit by an armless lady). so we went home. btw, for lunch, we went to the food court where we (me and you lot) ate during the 3 gamma outing and so coincidently, sat at the same place. nothing really much happened. oh ya here is what i get for xmas:

mom- 39 clues book 1 (i want book 2 for my bday but i had no idea when it'll be published.)
dad- cowboy hat (he bought me later, unwrapped)
sis- metal puzzle (me and my sis give each other cheap presents)
grandma & aunt- shirt
uncle- shirt
another uncle- shirt
secret santa- lipstick (the ss is with my family and i trade my present with my mom: mint chocolate)

what i give:
dad- tai chi training cd
mum- purple cherry pendant
sis- hp pouch & lollipops
secret santa- xmas cup with teddy bear

EXTRA BY A HUNDRED

after 2 weeks of selling products at subang parade, i earned rm150 (rm50 from model)!!! nothing much but is enough for this month till chinese new year comes. :) candy and hanisah did pay a visit but didnt buy anything. another form 4(08) boy (to ryan, he is the skinny boy from lek hung who joined pn chang's bm tuition with u during, standard 5 or 6) which i dont know his name. i also met cindy YONG and family and family'friends which none of you will recognise (except maybe sheng ling's mom. apparantely, one of my father's friend knew sheng's mom). 'the form 4 boy' i mentioned earlier was with his mom and sis when they bought from me a keychain on my first week. on the second week i was back selling, i saw he and his sister were at one of the craft market booth selling children posters. don't know if we insipired them or not but i only took one glance towards them and the sis was standing with one knee on the chair looking around while the bro stared down then looked up with a blurry eyes, my gguess, they are bored. cant blame them. i was very bored too thats why i took a walk around the craft market. i dont think he see me as both our booths were at the end of each sides and ive never seen them walked pass my booth. also, i tink they swicth turn with their mom and grandna in the afternoon so i only seen them once.

here is a few odd customers. as u know, my cousin from the Ng side also sells handmade models in sunway right, only more expensive. well, one day, this lady came to our booth and examinied the mini motorbike. she asked for the price and we gave her rm39. she was shocked to hear that (our expression was that maybe she thinks is too expensive, but wait). she then asked where izit from and we answered from china (which is the truth). she then examined is closer and said "So cheap! I've seen exactly the same one in Sunway for rm59 and is from Vietnam. Is exactly the same. I should have buy here but i bought from there already." and she walked of. fyi, of course is the same! is from the same supplier in china. according to my cousin who once worked there (luckily my family from the Ng side dont read my blog) said that they had a technique of telling people that their products are from places like thailand, vietnam, egypt and other places except china. what a broke down that she didnt buy from us. again fyi, none of the handmade models were sold due to over priced and that lady could have been our only customer for that product!

another product which we sold none would be a fury cat keychain. is rather cute and fluffy (my sister took one home), even if i said so myself. we bought in from kl at rm1.80 only. my mum sponsored us ten. on the previous sunday, me and my cousins set the cat prices at rm5. no one buy at all. so on our last day, the previous sunday, we changed it to rm3 for one. again no one buy. then 1 hour before the closing hour, one british woman accopanied by what i think is an indian-british lady came to our store and loved our car keychains. they bought one. the british woman spotted out cat keychains and begun running her hands onto the soft white fur then asked us, "Is this rabbit's fur?" at first i cant even answered as i myself not so sure. i said no and i think she dont believe me, unless she is an anaimal hater, as she walked of leaving what i think is a face of disgust. i turned to my cousin and said, "Is this rabbit fur?" she seemed equally stunned. when my mom found out no one buy any of the keychain she sponsored she was rather dissapointed. my dad said, "subang people is like that wan. they only wan to buy stuff from people who will rugi. always compared the prices with the supplier." my mom and the cousin jokingly said, "maybe everyone thought is rabbit's fur except us."

we also sell a solar powered keychain for 1-rm4 and 3-rm10. orriginally the cost price is rm4 so we considered rugi but since the cost price is sponsored, we dont care lah. the sales of it is okey. not bad. then there is the young boy and his mom came and looked. the boy said to his mum, "china sell more expensive than here. i didnt buy there. but i dont think i want to buy here." is cheaper and yet he still dont want to buy. i bet if i made it to rm1 he still wont buy.

our best sales would be a rm1 hp keychain. although it is orriginally wave and battery powered (when ur phone rings, the keychain will glow with colours) but since not all is functioning, we never tell the customers about it.

btw, here is a conversation between me (M) and a customer (C) and her daughter (D) as far as i could remember

C: what is this a?
M: this is a mp3, mp4 speaker.
C: how much is this a?
M: the big one is rm10 and the small one rm8
C: rm 10 ONLY. so cheap!
M: whispered* is actually from china
C: China! will it exploded, leak, electricute, burst anot?
M: errrrr.... i dont think so. i personally have a yellow one at home.
C: How long you use?
M: about 3 years (actually, im not so sure)
C: SO LONG! you sure or not. how often you use it?
M: errr (actually is not even mine and now i dont even see it)
C: you sure it wont spoiled after a few weeks?!
M: actually, it depends on how the owner keep it. i personally had kept it quite well and is still functionable (functionable i think).
C: i know, i know. i want to buy this for people and i dont it to spoiled. rm10 ONLY!!! i called my daughter. *she waved her hand and the daughter came* mp3 speaker, rm1o only. Can try?
D: mp3 speaker?
M: *i took the speaker for testing* you see mp3 have a liability of only hear it by yourself and using earphones. by using this speaker, it can act like a radio. *test the sound*
C: okey lah i take 2 big ones. you want anot? *the duaghter nodded* okey one of the small one. what else can u use for?
M: errm... from the box it said i got a usb cable so u can pluck it into computer and television but i personally never try it before.
C: i wan one of these also *handphone sticker* how much?
M: rm33
C: i buy so many thing!
M: err, okeylah, rm30.

thats al. thats is the funniest customer but also the biggest sale i made. btw, my cousin scolded me for reducing the discount and accidently let her walked of with th testing batteries which is not for sale. T.T

THE NEW CLASS

it seems like only yesterday i had to depart from my old class, 3 Gamma, and fit myself into 4 Beta to 4 Gamma and to the new class 4 Zeta. my expectation on zeta was pretty high as being from 3 gamma 2007, i had the best schooling life thanks to my classmates. in zeta, backgrounds definately splitted us apart. but eventually, i get to know them better and it just feels the aura of 3 gamma reliving. although, it werent as united, but definately unique in many ways. i practically mixed with everyone abit more (except for the mandarin boys which sheng and ryan were alredy closely bond) but there are still talking. not like the long ones i had with friends. bak in 3 gamma, i didnt really thought i would make friends with nigel, heng wai, afiq, muzzafar, nadia, cin dee, ashraf, bianca and a few more. but i did and same things goes to people in 4 zeta like victor, yau cherng, hue yee, azliza (i said this cos she is really shy), alvin and ect. and to add it up, my bestest of friends are with me in the same class example matthew and ryan. i oso bonded tighter with sheng, adrienne, bianca. made new close friends, amelia, lu quan, min jet, elaine, hue yee, michelle, shuhada, yee mai (sry cant spell it right, confused with my cousin), kai yee and loads more.

there really isnt much to say actually about 4 zeta. our class trip didnt go to well. it will be fun if there is one. but we still next year to do more bonding with our class. cik suhana as our class teacher isnt facinating like sulo is but she is really nice in more ways than supportive. is a glad thing we have a next year but as her teaching skills, is okey if u have one on one tutor with her.

end of 2008 is near and everyone kept reminding me that school is starting and spm is just around the corner. haihzzz. wish time froze longer. the holidays had been okey and pretty boring. the only part i enjoyed would be working and continue to writes my book (i left if for quite long before pmr then to busy to focus it anymore when form 4 arrives). is about to finish. estimate 2 chapters left to ending. my dad kept telling me to quicken the pace as he already found a publisher who MIGHT publish my book and he dont want to loose the connection in case my book comes out late. as for working in parade, i earned rm60 plus on the first week but tossed it all back in to the buiseness as me and my cousins wanted to try again one more time (yilian didnt get to work on the first week as she was too busy preparing for a final and i meant FINAL exam in college. is she passes all 3 subjects, she graduated but if she fails, books will hit her one more time).

to matthew, if u havent watch survivor dont read this.

i bet most of u didnt care but i will said it anyway. survivor gabon had finally ended and the results was satisfying and predictable. my susie didnt win although it was only difference by a vote in the finals. she got 3 out of 7 while bob the winner got 4 votes and won the game. bob the oldest winner ever was okey but he seems a bit short tempered when he knws he was about to eliminated when susie beat him in a house of cards challenge and won the immunity but he didnt get eliminated as the votes in tribal was a tied and he and matty had to beat ecah other in a fire making challenge and bob won. on the final tribal, i was quite sure bob was sure to win.

BACK IN BUSINESS

as the tittle said for itself, im officially back in business for one more week next week. we decided to continue and made keychains instead of model cars as our main product. the thing that my glance your head might be 'KEYCHAINS?! how to make a living?" well, let me explain that i am not making a living but a mere salary, is the only thing that sold last week and we have other things for sales too. in addtion to last week would be handphone stickers and more variety of keychains. like it or not, we earn rm500+ last week including rm200 model, rm120 rent, rm29 this and that and we manage to cut cost as the supplier, my uncle ala yilian and yimei's father didnt want any profit since he had longed to get rid of the keychains he bought in bulk from china. we plan to sell more thing but nothing float up into our mind yet. although we might be selling softdoll keychains like the one i sold during malam seribu bintang. something like that.

well, thats all i got to say bout business. anyway, have you lot watched survivor, i bet u didnt. lol. anyway, quick review for those who watched (and cared to read, if not, just tag and leave cos nothing interesting for you here), the survivor is now down to final 5, bob, susie, matty, sugar and ken. out of all of them, i am quite surprised susie made it to the top 5 although i am routing for her. why? well, she is nice and only once did she have to do the planning but only because she was determine her future. other than that i am routing for matty, he is nice and physically most suitable to win the survivor game. i dont really want sugar to win but compared to bob and ken, i rather take in her. bob is okey. just okey to me. ken meanwhile is just a schemer. matthew support him though but it seems like he wont last long. and even if he does, chances of him win will be tiny since the juries dont like him, i think.

as i loved to write reviews, here goes from the beginning. survivor gabon started with 18 people were sent to gabon, africa, earth's last eden. they were splitted to 2 tribes:

Kota:
Marcus (physically strongest in all)
Charlie (gay and nice)
Corrine (the evil witch)
Kelly (pretty weak girl)
Jacquie (a plain one)
Bob (old but artistic)
Ace (always the leader)
Sugar (looked dumb but not)
Paloma (the tinniest)

Fang:
Dan (average in everything)
Matty (sincere and honest)
G.C (strong and weak)
Gillian (grandma)
Crystal (olympic winner)
Ken (smallest guy)
Randy (a troll)
Susie (mother feature)
Michelle (proud)

fang was spotted as the weak tribe as soon as they were sorted due to the fact crystal, gillian and susie picked each other as a tribe for the reason that mom's have to stick with each other. other than matty, dan and gc, the rest were looked weak. the challenges prove their theory right and fang lost 4 times in a row (2 reward challenges, 2 immunity challenges) and despite dan was sent to exile island (a remote place to find hidden immunity idol) he cant find the idol. fang wasnt strategic and out of place. gc was selected to be leader but quit the next day after being sort-of mocked by gillian for being too noisy at night. no one was having alliances making more untrustworthy to each other and they were running out of food due to eating 3 meals a day. MICHELLE was eliminated first as she constantly complains bout how she hated fang and prefered kota. GILLIAN goes next for being the weakest and the oldest. fang however brought some light to them and won the next reward and immunity challenges. kota already sort out who to get rid which is paloma. the weakest member. having only kelly in paloma's support both of them tried to get rid of Ace for being the irratating leader but PALOMA's unstrategic move didnt work at all.

teams were shuffled. in the new kota were: marcus, charlie, corrine, bob, susie, randy and dan. while the rest in fang. marcus, charlie, corrine and jacquie were orginally a pack but dissapointed by the split and same goes to matty, dan, randy and susie. despite matty's grude on crystal and gc, they managed to teamed to get rid the old kotas. matty also grew stronger with ken. but like it or not, fang continuosly to lose another 3 immunity challenges and 3 reward challenges. meanwhile sugar was sent to exiled island 5 times in a row but already found the hidden idol on her first trip. kelly became the obvious target for being the weakest but kelly make sure she wont go like her best pal paloma did. instead, she deviced a plan and told ken and crystal that jacquie, sugar and ace are really close and they need to get rid of them before anything worst happen. they than convinced matty and gc and get rid of JACQUIE. kelly continuosly became the target for letting down the teams in challenges. however, gc too was letting down his teammates. despite being tought looking, gc have a history of constantly giving up. he alredy gave up in the upcoming challenge before attending to it and was missing with the next challenge just minutes away. gc even pleaded his teammates to get rid of him. meanwhile, everyone else found out that sugar had the hidden idol making her threat but it was GC's plead that took the win. KELLY was next for being the weakest. the next challenge was an individual challenge fighting for an individual idol. the game was log roll and marcus beats all his opponents from both kota and fang. he was then asked to awarded another idol to the fang tribe and he gave it to sugar for being the weakest and not a threat in later game. both teams have to go to tribal.

in fang, ken and crystal thought that there will be a merge later so getting rid of the strongest would be the best. meanwhile, ace and matty bonded without the unknown of sugar (she was in exile island during that time). when she came back, ken took her curiousity and told sugar that matty and ace are goin to get rid of her and blindsided. sigar didnt buy that at first but was convinced to the lie when ace felt treathen and asked to borrowed sugar's idol just incase. this make sugar paranoid. she teamed up with ken and crystal and get rid of ACE. in kota, marcus, corrine and charlie pulled bob and randy to have the majority votes and decided which to go, either susie or dan. dan was not only a physical threat but he was consuming most of the kota's food while susie is just another outsider who have to go before matter worsen. eventually the rounded up and decided to get rid of dan. corrine told susie bout their plan and susie happily agreed to followed and spilled out "i was actually going to vote for you". corrine became furious and demanded to get rid of her. she even brought up that dan might have the hidden idol on his first trip to exile island. corrine and the gang than decided to split the votes so that is dan did have the idol, susie will go instead but cos dan didnt DAN was eliminated while the Kota 6 alliances was form (marcus, charlie, corrine, randy, bob and susie).

a gathering feast which usually a sign of merge was held. there was an extra idol for one to wear but all of them (hesitated by the fang), they agreed that marcus and randy threw the idol to the ocean and they did. it was later then they found out they were splitted again. in kota was crystal, ken, susie, bob and dan while in fang were corrine, matty, sugar, charlie and randy. matty and sugar took opportunity to be alone away from the old fang and matty revealed to sugar that ken was lying to her bout ace. this make sugar dont trust ken and crystal anymore. it was the second time then kota lost the immunitu challenge. bob, susie and marcus wanted to get rid of ken for being the weakest. it was later known that marcus pen-pal's cousin is crystal. marcus took this relationship to pull crystal into alliance and replaced susie in the kota 6 alliance. even when marcus said that corrine and randy hated susie, crystal was not convinced (marcus was telling the truth) and took that information to susie. susie accepted crystal word and eliminated MARCUS for betrayal and the strongest link. marcus was also the first member of the jury.

a merge was next. charlie was dissapointed bout marcus (charlie loves marcus btw) while corrine was more furious on susie for flipping sides. matty, crystal, ken, sugar and susie, the underdogs rose up and became the one s controlling the game. susie won the first individual idol in the fire making competition, ken won second in the balancing beam and domiones trail puzzles. bob won the next two in 'quiz and target' and puzzled assemble across obstacle course, blindfolded. corrine, randy, bob and charlie was outnumbered by 5 to 4. The alliance of Charlie, Corrine, and Randy saw Sugar as a swing vote at Tribal Council to vote for Crystal, whom Randy wanted voted out. Sugar told Charlie and Corrine that she could not live with Randy any more and Corrine tried to convince Sugar that if she voted with their alliance that they would vote Randy out next. To get revenge for forcing him to share the note about the second Hidden Immunity Idol at the feast, Ken decided to blindside Charlie by fabricating a story that Charlie was the brains behind the Kota alliance. Ken told the story to his alliance of Crystal, Matty, and Susie who believed his story and agreed to vote for Charlie. Ken told the same story to Sugar in an effort to get her vote for Charlie. At Tribal Council, Crystal confronted Randy over why he disliked her so much. Sugar joined the alliance of Crystal, Ken, Matty, and Susie, because she did not want to align with Randy and Corinne, and CHARLIE was blindsided and the second jury.

early in the game when bob was send to exile island but couldnt find the idol (sugar had it) he made a fake one just in case. bob knew that his kota 6 alliances was drifting so he teammed up with sugar. randy was convinced that bob had the hidden idol and decided to play it and blindside susie. he make sure everyone hated him and everyone did and finally decided to get rid of him. sugar convinced bob to give the fake idol to randy so he will be more convince. bob did as told with a slight guilt and randy bought the trick. randy tried to play the idol in corrine's pleasure but became a lughing matter for sugar, matty, ken, crystal and susie when jeff (the host) revealed is fake. RANDY thus became the 3rd jury

corrine was rounded and knew she had to come up with a plan. bob too suddenly hatched another plan. he made another fake idol and told corrine to show it to ken and crystal so that they will follow them and get rid of matty for being the physically strongest or at least 2nd to bob. crystal and stunned when she got the news from corrine that she got the idol from marcus who did not actually threw the idol they found during the gathering feast and she's holding it now. crystal bought it completely but not kenny entirely. he devised a plan that crystal continues to vote for corrine while he voted for matty so the votes for matty-corrine will be 3-4. this is plan is to put corrine's elimination as priority incase its fake and if corrine did showed the real idol, matty would be gone and the idol will too. but since is fake, plan 1 suceeded and CORRINE became the 4th jury.

ken's vote for matty made matty angry at crystal and ken for betraying even when ken tried explaining things. ken brought his anger to bob for lying and getting him into this trap. bob knew he was going out so he devised a plan by buying kena nd crystal next vote by giving him his idol if he won in the next challenge which he did and did wonder bout giving up the idol to ken. ken and crystal was certain that bob would give ken. crystal and ken decided to eliminate the last of kota 6 alliance by betraying bob and regain their old mates. they told matty, susie and sugar bout the giving up idol and when ken posses it leaving bob defenceless, they would all vote for bob. sugar felt pity for bob and decided to told bob bout ken and crystal's plan. bob believed her since she was the only original kota he got left. sugar told the camera that she dont want any bad guys (ken and crystal) to win. she told bob to do give up the idol to ken but instead of voting matty, vote crystal. that way, bob can still keeps his promise. sugar went over to matty and told him bout the plan since matty was already angered by ken. sugar is also convinced the susie will follow whoever matty vote for. at tribal, bob refused to give the idol to ken and said that he will be safe without it tonight. this provoked sugar's plan so she decided to use her hidden idol (by rules of survivor, the hidden idol's power expired in final 5) since it will no longer be useful. but she didnt used it for herself but gave it to matty to used it. all votes landed on matty was not counted. sugar's effort was a no-need since bob did followed sugars plan and CRYSTAL got blindsided and became the 5th jury.

so long lol!

WORK
How's work? okey. our profit is not great. first day we earn rm170 from the sales. second day got rm165.50. is definately a great experience and although our stall got banyak rojak, but everyone only buys the keychains. sad rite. time passes faster than i expected, a little bit too fast actually. i got lots of stories to share but not really in the mood lah. so if u want to hear, ask me in person then. btw, due to too many customers buying keychains, ouyr variety of keychains is getting less and less so most probably we will stop our sales. no long buiseness cos we dont have to main products to be sale. sorry friends. no need to come and visit me lah. but MAYBE next next week i will work for this lady called aunty judy in the same place where i was selling. rm50 a week. not much but gud enough for me.

btw, i lost my hp (again, and this time, without ryan around me). sad. didnt really feel sad actually. the sales took my mind of away. :)

SURVIVOR RUSH

had just watched survivor episode 12 from youtube. what a rush and excitment. i know most of u dont watch it but that episode is jus kinda good. it shows how even can professional gamer (ken) vs physics teachers (bob) when it comes to mental battle.

their first face to face challenges is back to their second immunity challenge in the game where both of them were selected by their tribes each to be carried and untie knots. bob was quicker than ken during that pace and earn his teammates an immunity. their second fight was both of them were selected by their tribemates to solve a tough mathematical reasoning questions (not like what we learnt in school at all) and ken shows physics teachers who rules the numbers. their next battle was the previous episode we both of them became the leader of their groups to complete a gear puzzle and well, gear is all physics so victory goes to bob. and finally bob strong strategic plan to save his partner's skin (corrine) from being eliminated despite having a huge liabilty almost worked but ken was smart enough to failed his plan, although it did cost him his own grave in the next episode.

and to matthew, sugar was right in the preview. kenny is not as innocent as u think. he looks like the little guy in the game but he is the huge strategic maniac. and he almost cost susie's final 3 spot. bsides, i dont get why must he vote for matty anyway. whether the immunity is real or fake the results will still be both way his plan had expected only with better consequences like not having matty, his best mate, angry at him or having him to cost his own final four spot.

DOUBLE EVENT

this saturday is quite a big day for me. first of all i got my first sales day coming up and secondly, prefect appreciation night. actually to be honest, i am not that thrilled with prefect appreciation night as i thought i would be. the thought of my sales took most of it away. i had alredy spent quite a time to get a few things ready which includes preparing about 100 paper bags handmade. why paperbags and not plastic bags? well, is one of the rules of subang parade in their green campaign. all the while i am a big support of enviromental friendly exept these few days. it can be fun but tiring making paperbags over and over again. although we could buy those but paperbags that were sold are usually good quality and cost almost rm2 for one. we need hundred and i am not going to pay rm200+ for paperbags. instead, we made it from old magazines. not as flimsy as paper but not as though as cardboard.

as for appreaciation night, i dont really have much to wear. is a semi formal dressing so i guess i could dress however as long is nice-to-see and long pants. most prefects like zhui mun, matthew and amanda were already asking me questions about appreciation night and i can tell they are excited. zhui mun wants to recomfirm whether i am going. matthew asked about the bus thing while amanda have a fear of sitting alone in the bus. those questions popped my consious that the night was around the corner without me realising it. so, panic begun to rush me as i totally forgot bout the bus trip, the venue, the time and most importantly the date. well, i managed to contact sheng ling and she told me all i need to know. i have to rush from my shift at the subang parade to my grandma's hse and started bathing and changing then head staright to school. sounds a rush but i've got a bout 1hr and 30min in between, shud be okey if there are no jams (bless me please).

so to all prefects, see u at club, to the rest of my friends i HOPE to see you in subang parade with atleast rm10 in ur wallet. lol.