Rawang, Penang, KL

Every year my family visits two particular churches. One is St. Jude's in Rawang and the other is St. Anne's in Penang. As usual, we went about our trips again this year... St. Anne's had been renovated so so so much. This time they had the life- size stations of the cross~!~! I got some pics.. will put up later.. malas to wait for this thing to load...

then of course we went back to KL.. the sale has started~!@~!~!~! excitement.. weeeeeee
i ran about all over midvalley and did not find anything i liked... besides my MAC Brush Cleanser... lol... darn.... how boring..
nothing just caught my eye

i thought when i was back i'd go crazy for the shoes... cheap shoes weeeeeeeeeee but it didn't seem that way... maybe my taste has changed.. i found myself looking for shoes and not sandals as i used to... whatever it is i better buy a ton of pairs and head back...

I'm COMING TO KL NEXT WEEK... on my own.. .lol.. to shop
eat
and be merry (you know what i mean*wink*)

PLan to go up on Tuesday.. and embark on my mission to eat ... nasi lemak under the trees... 50 sen , 60 sen all u can eat kinda nasi lemak... then, klang's bah ku teh (i wonder if the bowl of fat and insides are gonna be ordered again.. ick), seri kembangan's banana leaf..... ( my threshold for spicy food has gone down i think.. i had banana leaf rice at Nirwana in Bangsar.. and i couldn't take it.. wow... WHAT JACKET POTATOES HAVE DONE TO ME.. NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo... i'm trying to recall where else i'd like to eat...
oh yeah.. the char siew in KL.. behind Kim Zhuan's apartment or something...
cendol in SS15...

i know i keep repeating about all this food but ... but ... but.. u have no idea how long i have dreamed about it... i about a month i'm back to JACkEt Potato WonderlAnd so.. hah~!~!

Note/: i 'm getting chubby.. i think it's due to sleeping after eating... sobs sobs.. i'll lose it.. yes i will..

of course.. the nights are left for being merry.. has the nightlife in kl changed much??? thinking about zouk on the regular thursday night.. lol.. oh goodness i remember the night of mat motos .. almost died there.. and the loft or luna on friday night.. haven't decided.. heehe

gonna go watch flintstones.. enuff blogging

another beautiful July baby shoutout~!~!

Happy Birthday Grace Lau~!~!~!~!

a BIRTHDAY SHOUTout~!~!~!

Happy Belated Birthday to

PRAKASH (12th July)

and

WILLIAM (14th July)

blog lost below..

hehehe, my pre-birthday party blog is located below italia's win.. apologies fer delay to put up

BD 891, MH001, MH1292

My three flights that brought me back home...
It started out in Manchester, all us Malaysians flying via MAS to Malaysia have to take a BMI flight. Mine, got cancelled~!~!~!~! I was upgraded to BRITISH AIRWAYS~!~!
Bags too heavy, i had to take out 4 kg's~!~!~! shoved some of it into my computer bag and managed to keep most of it.. at least the important stuff...
I checked my luggage straight to Kuantan.. Imagine the BRITISH AIRWAYS ppl trying to understand KUAntan~!~! they had to make calls to get things in order.. haahah a*giggle*
Next thing i knew i was in LOnDon... a long walk and a bus ride landed me in terminal 3 of Heathrow... ooooh.. big duty free area.. so i started my shopping weeeeeeeeeee.....
once i was tired of it, i went to see if my gate had opened.. i had like 5 hours.. my flight was at 10pm.. hmm.. bored.... Well, in my great anxiety, i was standing around waiting for the board.. the worst thing that could happen would be missing my London-KL flight...
my shoulder was killing me.. heavy ass computer bag stuffed~!~!~! handbag... grrr.. and duty free purchases...
okie..
suddenly a bunch of indian auties in sarees came up to me speaking in hindi asking me if i was flying to india
Me:"NOoooo, MALAYSIA"...
i noticed there was a flight to MUMBAi at gate 17... the gate was closing... they rushed off anyway...
as soon as malaysia showed gate 18.. i dragged my baggies.. and went off to my gate... as i was making my helluva lot of noise on the horizontal escalator due to my bag's wheel...
"roll grrrrrrrrr..rrrrrrrrrrrrrr.rrrrrrrrrr rolling*
fine, i noticed i tall man in front of me.. people seemed to be treating him like a celebrity.
there was an airline officer guiding him and all sorts of people trying to come up to him or what ever...well, hmm.. i didn't know who he was.. just a tall north indian man.. sorta familiar.. but what do i know.. so i continued rolling along.. the noise from my bag probably made him turn around and give me way...hahahhaah *embarassing*
Then, he asked me if i was late... then i said "no, i am just very panicky".. haaha...
then he asked where i was flying to.. and stuff.
then he asked my name.. so i said "Charlene, and you?"
He answered Jackie... (i still blur) then he said Shroff...
ooooh... i realized he was a hindi movie actor.. uh-oh what an insult.. shit.. i asked his name..lol...
then, i gave him a nice excited reaction and asked for an autograph...
he asked me for my number *wierd~!~!* he's like 50~!@ and then, i didn't really give, and he gave me his number... hmmm... (i never called i was just too happy to be back in Malaysia)....~~!~!
then i ran off to my gate and he went to his..
lol...
i'm so "duh"
then again most of u reading this will also not know anything hahahahha.. we're in the same boat... i know nothing about hindi movies...
but i did google him and get a picture...
he's the one on the left.... hahaha. the right is shah rukh khan.. did i spell that right?


hahhaha need to expand knowledge.. bodoh dy...

Finally i boarded my plane to Malaysia.. after more than 11 hours, i was in KLIA... i was seriously grinning all the way.. it's such a nice feeling...
Then, i found my Malaysian ATM.. *evil grin*
cleaned it out in duty freee
weee... hehe.. my father did not seeem to happy about it...
but.. i had a 7 hour transit..
and.. and.. and..
lol
then.... i sat in KFC by myself.. so lonely,... In KLIA... ahh.. foood good.. but i hate eating alone.. i feel like a loner..... i had my Glamour with me though... the "dining out alone accesories"

then, at midnight.. i was on my way to kuantan~!~!~!...
imagine.. all the way no one korek my bag
in Kuantan airport, customs make me open my bag.. and they check, thank goodness my bra's were kept separately in something.. the guy put his grubby paws on my clothes.. arrrgh...
good thing he didn't check my second bag.. full of wrapped glass... all football team souveniers....
then .. after all that.. i was home... so tired... slept 12 hours straight..
still wierd sleeping.. i wake up at 3 am for dinner.. haaha.. uk dinner.. lapar like anything.....
waiting to get adjusted.. heheheh
xoxo charlene

Italia Winning the WORLD CUP 2006

Celebrations at Sports Cafe after Italy's Win baby~!~!~!~!
It was a really nice place. The food was awesome... and there were great number of italian supporters in the house~!!!! There was this family all dressed in their italian jerseys... an adorable little boy jumping about with his balloons and jumping on the shoulders for what seems to be his uncle:)

my catholic boys...

the trophy in an attempt to look cute

weeeeeeeeeee~~!~!~!

My surprise birthday Party... awwwww...

Well, firstly i'm very touched to all of you who came to celebrate my birthday 3 weeks in advance:)
This blog is pretty last... the celebration was more than a week ago.... sorry i took so long to get around to doing it..

I turn 22 this year. And with every birthday, i never get to celebrate it with friends because my birthday is on the 21st of July. Which means it the holidays and everyone is back home including me being back in Kuantan.

This year, i got to celebrate it with friends although it is 3 weeks in advance, i didn't mind.
I was going for a normal dinner... to La Vina this new Spanish restaurant that opened in Manchester. My love for trying food...

When i went upstairs, i was surprised to see all of them there.... .. I was so surprised... shocked.. and wierdly.. SHY~!~!~ why shy? I don't know... It was so sweet... they all greeted me when i came in... Those who were there include:-
Raymond, Chia Ming, Jaycen, Sandev, Han Sian, Chee Lim, Mikael, Stephanie, Victor, Sally, Jane, Khai Sheng, Yee Yin, Kar Xian, Arvind, Yi Jun, and Yi Wei.
Yvinne had already made her way back to Malaysia... so she couldn't be there.. sobs sobs...
"Yvinne, you are welcome to visit me on my birthday~!~! *hint* lol

We giggled... talked... laughed... and took a whole load of pictures... well, not a whole load.. some.. hheheheh... as can be seen below:- ( seems like i'm writing another report.. heheh SSC~!~!~)




sally and me...:)

Tan Sri Khai Sheng and Puan Sri Yee Yin... lol.. with me of course...

THEN THERE WERE THE OCCUPANTS OF 45 THE ROYALS??? (still not sure about no.)

the honourable CminGo and me

then... there was stephanie and chee lim

We had a lot of yummy foood and my tummmy was growing..

Tapas~!~!~! and Paella~!~!~! Oh lalala

and then there were more photos:-

I must have bored raymond.. or perhaps ... this age is catching up to him...

heheheh just kidding ray`!~!~!

well, i've been trying to put up the rest of the photos but i seem to be having a lot of trouble..

but... i shall not delay this post any longer.. it's so sweet .. it deserves a spot...

xoxo

charlene

Awesome car

Check out the cool car.~!~!

Miami Vice

wanna watch it~!~!~!

Heat Rash????

I'm a Malaysian girl... born in the sweltering heat.. grew up in the sweltering heat for so many years..
9 months in UK.....
come summer i am getting a heat rash.. i noticed it when i was taking a walk today.... btw.. today was really bright sunny and hot hot hot...
but a malaysian girl who never had a heat rash getting a heat rash after almost a year in UK.. is ridiculous... aaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhh...

The Morning After

And so ended another night of of laughter and secrets amongst friends at the royallll *warm and fuzzy*..
It was a nice night... everyone was so happy... and laughing and i truly did learn a lot about my friends... I even got quite a bit of my work done during the intermissions.
I just woke up at 1pm.. i left their place at about 5am.. whilst the boys were playing their Pro-Evo Soccer imagining themselves as World Cup players... ahhahah *delusions~!!!* but it's nice to see the "boyishness" in all of them...
There is one thing which is playing in my head after last night... "Victor is the Best".. "hahaha..
His little rule of the game was to say that ...
i can't get it out of my head... arrrrgh..Kar Xian cleaned her kidneys like never before *wink-u know what i mean*..
Chia Ming will be leaving for Malaysia today... - bye !~!!! I'll see u in KL:)
Ray and Jay will be leaving tomorrow..
Then i'm stuck here.. grrrrr till the 12th... i wanna go home....

A little dedication

Happy Anniversary to Saleena and Fariz....~!~!~!~!~!~! I luv ya girl..
anyway.... i'm so hungry.. i don't wanna type no more.
till i see u again.. muacks hugs charlene

coming to you live from 45 the royals!!!!!

this is a life broadcast... podcast... haha.. nah
we've once again found ourselves at 45 the royals.. the site of so many little insanities???
rememeber the game brought to us courtesy of Vincent Tan Pok Chien.?? yeap.. it's on again tonight..
we started off with twenty one.. but lets face it.. no one is in the mood to think let alone count..
then it was a series of intimate questions.. very proud of some boyfriends who respected their girlfriends.. whether they were at the party tonight or not... and kept that bits of information to themselves..
i am able to blog because we are having an intermission... it will resume shortly...
yum... munching on my bag on cheese and onion chips....
i had kfc today... a whole bucket... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
twas fun
tonight for the non drinkers amongst us.. the ultimate punishment for them besides the pints and pints of water is extremely diluted coke... ewwwwww... it's gross..
it's like drinking water from someone's old coke glass...catch my drift???
well, i'm returning to the party... more juicy details later... not that juicy... what is answered at 45 the royals.. stays here..
xoxo charlene

Pressure on Girls

I'm sure most girls can agree that there's a greater amount of pressure for girls to looks good... instead of guys... Guys stroll about with their torn jeans and jerseys and some sneakers.. when they get dressy it's simply a stripey shirt instead of a t-shirt. How hard can it be???

But for girls it's a different story. But who puts this pressure on the girls? It's the guys~~~~!!! I've really felt this before. Truth be told, my hair has come a long way. Back in my huge short hair days,there were these boys who never payed that much attention to me. Those exact people are being extremely aware of my presence and contacting me since all that has changed. bye bye big hair, hellow straightener... and thinning haircuts.... It's annoying.. and shallow.. Well it's true i could even fall over laughing at old pictures of myself.. haha. yes i could. When i had my new I.C done, the lady behind the counter who disposed my old I.C snickered before she sliced it.. aaargh.. haha..

I spend a lot of time watching things that happen around me. People tend to gush over the beautiful girl. I was watching a group of friends with one exceptionally pretty girl and the guys always payed attention to that girl. Maybe the other girls don't realize it.. but what if they do. It would be horrible for their self esteem. They shouldn't feel they need to be beautiful in order to me acknowledged.

Back to the point... guys need not care that much about their appearance but why do they put so much pressure on girls to look good. The money, the makeup, the clothes, the plunging necklines, the push up bra's (for the girls which guys call airport!!!).. the poor things.. It's so much pressure on girls. And when a girl cares too much about her appearance.. she is termed.. vain and perasan.. and a bimbo.. arrgh..
haha

These thoughts in my head were triggered due to a discussion of a gorgeous girl who is claimed to have plastic surgery. I think plastic surgery is never the way to go but the thing is sometimes girls feel pressure. If that's the only thing that's going to make them feel good about themselves and keep them happy.. maybe it's their only choice. . . I know a girl should be able to know it's one inside that counts, but sometimes it will take them a while to see that.:)

xoxo charlene

the mystery, strangeness and peculiar ways of Charlene

After months of endless thinking and havoc in my head ... blogging and removing blogs... i figured out what's wrong with me. I'm able to see things clearer now. To all who have been a victim of my bad "characteristic" i apologize. I'm really sorry... i didn't mean to... I didn't know better. But now i do... i'll make it up to u all

Love u all

Photos from Jaycen's Birthday

can't seem to put these up with the post i did.. so i'll put them up separately...:)

A Birthday Party.. At Printworks.. and The JOURNEY back

Went out yesterday to celebrate another birthday party...:)
Had a yummy big platter but i was a bit too full to actually enjoy it being the pig i was having binged on a late lunch.
I found someone who is scared of me.. he denies it.. but i think it may be true.. haha.. finally someone is scared of me... *i'm sure he will be reading this blog*
I got a helium balloon at the party (such a kid huh?) yeap and then.. i kinda was a clumsy woman and let it go.... it's still floating at the ceiling of the Printworks..
The scary thing about this night was the journey home. Well me and yvinne managed to get the tram from Shudehill because of the change in the service for that particular day. Just a few stops later this group of people who appeared to be a family got into the end of the tram. Within a little while there was an argument... i assumed it would be about football since the world cup in on and all.
2 people who had been sitting at the back in the midst of the arguments and the shouting moved to sit in the front ..
Yvinne had been holding her helium balloon up high.. once the arguments got scary... she gently pulled it down....
(that was funny~!!! what an odd thing.. a balloon in the midst of their fight?)
Anyway, the fighting.. and i am sure there was some physical violence as well continue for about 10 stops i think..
when i curiously looked behind us i noticed they had beers on them. There was a elder looking man.. hitting two teenagers..
just as we were about to reach our stop... the fight moved up the tram and got more violent.. there was punching and kicking and beer can flew of the guy's hand.. somehow... the argument reached where we were sitting... the two people involved in the argument were blocking either tram door .. i don't wanna go pass them and say "excuse me"!!! in the enraged state they were it.. i'm pretty sure i'd get knocked in the head..
Eventually Yvinne and I managed to slide pass the teenager... we figured.. it would be safer to go pass him than the elder man who was hitting them...
As we were leaving we saw the teenager take a glass bottle of vodka out of his pocket and hold it up as if he wanted to hit the older guy with it...
we have no idea what happened next because.. we were fine and safe and running across the road to our little flat.. .in SALFORD.
i hope it all turned out ok and no one was hurt..
i wondered why the tram driver did not stop the tram and control the situation. But as i walked out, i noticed it was a female conductor..
I CAN'T WAIT TO BE BACK IN MALAYSIA AWAY FROM ALL THIS ... errrr. TRAM ADVENTURES...

Lamborghini Gallardo Promo video

One helluva sexy car

trying to overcome on of my greatest fears

Moths and Butterflies.
Moths more than butterflies
it scared me even googling this picture.
shit
it's ridiculous
but that's my only wierd thing

especially this variety
They lurk about malaysia
get them awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

making an effort to blog.

Well, it's been a tiring couple of days. Birthday after birthday. It's amazing that there are 3 IMU students in Manchester having their birthdays almost in a row! 15th June, 16th June and 18th June.
There have been loads of pictures of the events, but i don't have any... i didn't bring my camera with me.. what's the point of ANOTHER camera at a party...

Here's a photo of Yi Jun's birthday courtesy of the ever so efficient Steph~
with Yi jun grinning away..


We bought Amanda a birthday present but unfortunately, i have been informed that she will not be receiving it until we come back from Malaysia... in August.. arrrgh...

Jaycen's birthday was followed by a crazy load of puke. No kidding..
After a nice dinner, the Mancunian men and a couple of boys set out to make Jaycen Drunk..
In my mind, i had this picture of a drunken Jaycen which involved him wobbling about and break dancing.. and potentially dancing with Men in a Gay cLub..
I think.. there was too much excitement and it happened so fast...
Ray the Gay started it out by buying Jaycen 2 shots of tequila.. and then on it all spiralled outta control....
Jaycen's reaction to the large alcohol invading him was to sit and stone. . . Soon, the boys were in the toilet helping him puke???,.. yeah, i don't know how much helping went on.. there was even time for photos of him puking and then the puke... "what in the world~!!!!"

By about 2 plus, Jaycen was back in his room sleeping..

By the way, this weeked we had two glaswegian pharmacy students with us..:)

Now, i want to just rest and sit at home until it's time for me to watch Tokyo Drift:)
and i actually really really can do that.. my SSC now requred 2 hours of me a week... wooohoooo baby
~~~tired~~

SSC's

Well, last night i realized where the GP practice i was to spend the next 4 weeks at was. It was in ORdsall. All this while i thought it was around Salford Quay, a beautiful, classy area. I knew that would be safe. After a while on the GMPTE, i realized it was in Ordsall. So, i tried to figure out where that was.
I found out that my gp's office was actually at this neighbourhood i had seen before and thought looked really deserted. I had to travel there alone *gulp*... the bus stops at the main road and i was to walk in alone.. freaky.
Being the first day, i took a taxi there to avoid the aimless walking in deserted neighbourhood.
My doctor was wonderful. A really nice lady and it was going to be a very relaxed 4 weeks. She even dropped me off back at my place for lunch:)...
I came back in the afternoon for a 30 minute session and was done for the day. I took the bus this time and i realized there was another way to walk into the neighbourhood which was connected to the main road. There is a short distance which still makes me brisk walk like crazy but, i don't seem to have to go into the GP practice much so i guess it's ok:)