SF

San Francisco, not Shadow Fiend.

Wheee, I arrived here last night and am staying at the Marriott on Fisherman's Wharf.

We walked for half an hour to eat CHINESE FOOD.

Omg la.

I haven't eaten rice or any savoury food for TEN days, and my tongue felt like I dipped it in acid last night. But the food was AWESOME.

Better than in Msia.

Chinese food in SF is yummier than at home.

._.''

Anyway, I'm in the business center of the hotel, where the mouse sucks (hello feeding streak in DotA) so I decided to blog - no mouse needed o_o''

Lately, I've been eating a hellota food.

I ate 3 different cheesecakes in the space of an hour - it was DELICIOUS.

White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake

Kahlua Coffee Cheesecake

Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake

The restaurant was super dark so I couldn't take any pics, unless I took out my tripod and put the shutter speed on slow (flash sucks.)

Therefore, no cheesecake pics for you guys =(

BUT HELL YEAH IT WAS AWESOME

The Cheesecake Factory - visit when you have the chance ^^

***

A few posts ago, I said I was gonna blog about my course right?

So now would be a good time - no America posts until I get back with pics (and a patient mood.)

So.

I am officially an IT student at Taylor's.

Subjects taken:

Compulsory

English as a Second Language (PFFT)

Mathematics (Apparently this is add math level, so...suxxx T.T)

Electives

IT (I think we're gonna do Microsoft, zzz)

Accounting (WTF)

Economics (And I did 3 years of science for these subjects -.-)

Ha. Ha. Ha.

Hello Stephie the Nerd.

People already call me that, so idc la. =x

Better nerd than stupid.

Anyway, I've decided to go to RIMT in Melbourne to do Digital Art.

I will be studying stuff like how to design characters, sound engineering, animation, 3D graphics, narrating - gaming stuff. SO COOL LA!

^^

Maybe I can design the next DotA, muhahahahahah!

But I don't think so la.

Anyway, SF is 16 hours behind Msian time, and tomorrow I'm flying off to New York, where it is 13 hours behind.

So if you wanna catch me online, do the math.

Gtg pack, will blog later.

Maybe.

=P

Song of the Day:

"Dreaming of You - Selena"

Hotel has a freaking iPod dock! How cool is that? =D

I'm alive!

Yes I am!
I mean yala, I haven't blogged since god knows when and I HAVEN'T DOTA-ED IN OVER A WEEK but I'm still breathing!

Ehhh, bathroom is finally free,
Gotta use then it's Universal Sudios today!

Just came back from 15 hours of Disneyland yesterday.
= =

Imet a real live celebrity!
Mickey Mouse!

How friggin' cool is that?
EVERYONE knows Mickey Mouse.

Not like you meet your favourite celebrity and they go 'Matt WHO?'

=x

Ling tagged me, I'll do it later.
Took notes about my trip, will blog later.
Till then bye bye, =)

I've forgotten all of you.
Muhahahahahah!


Song of the Day:

"California Dreamin' - JD Fortune"

I'm in Cal. Dream come true~
*Disneyland music*

Potong stim

._.''

Was playing with hm just now.

He was spiking like crazy, terjadi first blood and all without even knowing how he died.
Lol.
Stupid host.

I was only lagging very very slightly, 0.5 secs maybe?
Playable.
So I (Rikimaru) managed to kill Rexxar with hm's help.
Then Rexxar again with Veno's help.

I tried for my 3rd kill alone.

PUGNA! DIE PUGNA!

I thought it'd be bloody easy thanks to his mere 650+ life.

But nooo, the sucker anticipated my backstab and kept blasting the area over himself.
So I couldn't really go near him, cause that spell HURT. A lot. (My life was no better than his, lol.)

So I counted the timing, and went in for the kill when the spell was in cooldown.
I whacked, he whacked.
...And then he blasted me.

-.-''

I misjudged the cooldown!
Noob!
It was damn fast wei.

(I just checked. It's 5 seconds. NO FAIR!)

I was half-life, so was he.
I immediately silenced him and we had a go at each other.

Whack whack whack.
= =

Both our lives were going down at the same rate.
...
Bear in mind that my Rikimaru had no items except a single RoR. =/
Puggy had Headdress and stuff.

So I quickly blinkstruck the sucker and pulled ahead in terms of damage dealt.
He ran towards my tower, presumably to deny himself.

Both of us exited the cloud of blue smoke where I whacked him once again, before he decrepified me and continued running.

I blinkstruck AGAIN.
Pugna froze while casting his netherblast.

I panicked - whack and try to kill him first, or run and lose my prey?

*trumpets from heaven*

Spectre ulti'd by chance (he was chasing another hero) and I got the last hit!

KILLING SPREE!

The blast exploded all around me - Pugna's final spell - leaving me with 30 life.

I was ready to go: YIPPEE I DID IT WOOHOO! I'M ALIVE!

Then streamyx disconnected.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
DAMN POTONG STIM WEI!

=.=''

Lol, and to think, Hann Meng the lagger, survived.
He told me that the moment I dropped, my teammates started blaming the host.

Apparently, it he 'customed kicked me cause I was killing his friends too much.'

HAHAHA WTF!
XD

But annoyed la.
I was all ready to own with Rikimaru.
They were the kind of people who were too stingy too buy wards some more. =(
It could've been such a fun game - it was such a good start. x.x

Streamyx sucks larrr.


Song of the Day:

"Kinslayer - Nightwish"

Finally got my album today. =D

Whooooooosh!

Yesterday, B, Daniel, Panda and Amber took Fish skating for the first time.
=x

Okla, it was Panda's first time as well and Fish did better than him I must say.
If you can ignore the fact that she fell down not 6 feet from the entrance.

=P

As usual, the lady manning the skate counter had a good laugh at my shoe size.
._.''

But it's ok, I'm pretty much used to it.
To most people, girls cannot have feet above a size 7...because it's unladylike?
Who knows?

Nevermind the fact that I was only one shoe size bigger than Daniel, and I was maybe 2-3 inches taller than him ok. = =

Say, a 5 foot 5 guy with size 8 feet would not be treated all funny.
But when I walk up to the counter - all 5 foot 8 of me - and ask for size 9 shoes, they all go YOU SURE MEH? SERIOUS AH? o_O''

My gosh la, service in Malaysia sucks.
If this were America, they'd probably just hand over the shoes with nothing more than a smile.
If this were America, I'd have sued them for...I dunno, injury to my ego? Haha, anything works.

Anyhow, when I first got onto the ice, I couldn't move.
-.-

I was freaked out about the loss of friction.
The ice was super dry and smooth when we entered - it was about 10.30 am and not more than 20 people were on the rink.

So I just stood there and whined.

"I can't do it! I can't move! Hahahahaha!"

Abigail was like:

"C'mon!"

Then she grabbed my hands and towed me around the rink.
OMG LA!
She skated so fast that I got even more freaked out.

"Stop! Stop! Stop! Lemme skate by myself!"

Then suddenly I could skate by myself already.
= =''

Fear can be a good motivation.
Which is the philosophy I applied to Fish's training.
I brought her to the middle of the rink and left her stranded there.

Muahhaha!

Er, no la.
Abi and I stayed with her, lest she scream bloody murder and have the rink guard's drag her off the ice. =x

I tell you ah, this Fish so dao mei I tell you. (Unlucky.)
I was skating with her, and the only time I tried skating backwards with her following - she stumbles and crashes down on me.

Swt.
My whole butt was wet.

...

Then later, she SOMEHOW managed to fall down while standing upright.
She wasn't even MOVING!

Worse, I was skating towards her quite quickly - I was maybe about 5 feet away when she fell and put her head right into the line of fire.

Zzz, so of course I had to make an emergency brake.
Which failed miserably - I slowed down enough but the speed would still rip her hair off her head - so I did what noobs do the brake completely.

I sat down on the ice.

LOL!

I'm telling you, your butt has more friction than you think.
So once again, I 'fell' because of the unlucky Fish.
Well, better then decapitating/ripping the skin off her face by her hair ala carnival rides gone horribly wrong - then being charged with manslaughter (fishslaughter?)

Blah!
And I can't tell you how many people grabbed on to me for support that day.
Do I look like a lampost to you? = =

Seriously, some guys just skate past, go AHH~, and then grab on the my arm/shoulder/stomach (WTF) and go sorry! Sorry!

After a while I got so fed up of it, whenever someone reached out to grab hold of me, I grabbed them first, steadied them and sped off before they can apologise. -.-''

And there was this guy in a pink-collared shirt who skidded and rammed into me - he fell, I didn't. I was like WOOT MY SENSE OF BALANCE ROCKS!

Then later, he did it again.
I was semi-annoyed/amused and went AIYO YOU AGAIN?

Lol, you shoulda seen his embarassed face as he picked himself up and skated off.
*shakes head*
Little kids.

Anyway, poor Panda still couldn't skate at the end of the day - he somewhat gave up hope after falling repeatedly on his arm and injured his wrist. I saw it, it was all red and slightly swollen. T.T

Anyway, I was being silly and was trying all sorts of tricks Abi showed me.
And I fell almost every single time.
Haha, after a while, the guards stopped trying to pick me up.
Cause I'd just fall down immediately after, and besides, I could pick myself up perfectly fine.

Well, at least I tried right?
And my pants were already all wet thanks to Fishy ._.
So nothing to lose la.

Except when I took a shower yesterday and discovered that my left kneecap was completely purple and yellow.

=.=''

But it was fun!
I wanna go again!
Early in the morning where there are very few people and the ice is actually solid - not slushy and gross.

Plus! The couply lovebirds seem to arrive after lunch.
Meaning no double collisions.

= =

I went back into the rink once, to fetch Amber for Fish.
We were just standing there talking, when this couple skating super fast came towards us.

"Oh crap."

They rammed right into us - a 2 on 2 collision.
Miraculously, none of us fell.
We jsut kinda grabbed on to each other and drifted to a stop.
Thank god, the guy was HUGE.
If he fell on me, I'd die.
No question.

Lol.
That kinda reminded me about The Principle of Conservation of Momentum.
=x
Physics head.

Anyway, I fell down more than 10 times.

The first time I skated, I fell 2 times.
The second time I skated, I fell 6 times.
And now, 10 times!

Do you sense a pattern here?
Next time I skate I'll probably fall a couple dozen times.
^^
Falling is good, that means you're actually trying some new tricks!
=P Unless you're a natural klutz, that is.

Final report:

Fish could skate by herself at the end of the day, albeit wobbling constantly.

*Borat*

Great success!

Thank God she could la.
Everyone had to hold her hand at some point - Me, B, Ber, Daniel.

I asked one of my friends to come, and he said that he couldn't skate.
I told him to wall-cling and slowly he'll get the hang of it.

"No la! You hold my hand and teach me then can! =P"
"Fine~ Don't come then."
"Hahahaha..."

See? If I knew I was gonna have drag someone around the rink with me, might as well call a guy right? XD

Ahahah, I wanna go again!
It's so fun!

Still can't believe we skated from 10.30 to 3 something (with food breaks in between.)
My thighs, butt, and neck are killing me, whereas my calves, knees and left elbow are bruised.
._.'' Worth it?

Yeah!

***

Btw, Fish is so cute!

"Steph! Why cannot lock the locker one?"
"Did you put in the token?"
"No...then how am I going to unlock it?"
"You have to put in the token before you can lock la..."
"But Amber said the token is to unlock the locker..."
"...Then, tell me what the key is for.''
"Eh? Oh...OHYAHOR!"
"..."

*_*'''

With friends like that, how can you not want to go out with them again?
=P

Sorry bout the disc btw, Sui.
x.x I woke up late.
(And still arrived first, lol)


Song of the Day:

"Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes"

They were playing this at the rink.
I think I looked a tad crazy gliding around with my skates 4 feet apart and singing this song. Lol.

Scrambled

My sleeping hours are rather off.
It's the holidays after all!

I wake up at 1.30 everyday, and go to sleep when the mosque starts it's daily chant.
Which is around 5 am.

So factoring in my pre-sleep bath, I get into bed around 5.30, which means I have my 8 hours sleep every night - er, day?

Ahaha.

Last night my sis' friend Kishor arrived from NZ to stay until the weekend.
I insisted that he take my room, because the comp was in Den's room, and I'm bound to use it until the wee hours of the morning.

However, when I told him this, he assured me that it was fine~ I'm talking to a person who doesn't sleep either. Den said yala, he's another Balanar - very nocturnal one.

So I was like okay.
They have been warned.

Around 1.30-2 am he was fast asleep.
I think it was the jet lag.

I was torn between going to turn off the lights or leaving it on.
Cause for some light sleepers, like myself, I wake up when the lights are turned off especially when I've just fallen asleep.

So I was like, errrr maybe I'll turn it off after I finish the game I was playing.
Probably fallen into deeper sleep by then.

But oh crap, he woke up and asked whether I could play with the lights off.
So guilty la!

He's our guest and I'm being such an inconvenience. =(
So I was like oh yeah, ok, sorry.

And LOL I played DotA in the dark.
I know some of my friends are puzzled that I refuse the off the lights whenever I DotA - they say they can't play with the lights on at night.

o_O''

But I think I fared quite well.
At first I couldn't type anything when I tried.
I started to panic. What if a hero's missing, and by the time I find the write keys to report, my friend dies already? Aiyo.

But then I was like, 'oh c'mon you nerd, you can DEFINITELY type without looking at the keyboard la!'

So I took a deep breath and started typing.
Woot! Not many typos at all!
The words kinda just flow through your head and out your fingers to form words on the screen.
How cool is that?
It pays to be on the comp for 7 hours a day. =P

Anyway, after I turned off the lights, I decided to finish off that game and let Kishor sleep in peace. You wouldn't believe how bright the screen seems at night when all the other lights are turned off.

My eyes BURNED.

So I told my friend that I didn't want to play already la, I can't see the keyboard lol and my friend keeps waking up. Later he tulan I damn paiseh leh.

LOL.
My brain wasn't functioning properly I think.

Sam was like @@ Who?

My friend is staying over, the comp is in the guest room. = =

(Lol, Den's room became the guest room XD)

OH I thought your boyfriend leh!

...? HAHAHAHAHA NO LA!

Aiyoyo.
Anyway, I found the course I think I want.
FINALLY!

I will blog about it the next post.
Boyboy just called me to fill in a slot for a draft match (?)
Whatever that is.

Whee! More DotA =P


Song of the Day:

"Love Today - Mika"

Lalalala la la, lalalala la la, love love me! Hahaha...

I'm not a boy!

x.x

Yes, I do look a bit like one - lacking the feminine curves, typical long hair and 5 foot 8 to boot.
But c'mon!

More about that later.

Last Saturday, I finally got the answer to something that's been bugging me for a while.
A few years ago, I remember hitting Brandon and making him cry - I can remember the time pretty vividly.

But what I DIDN'T remember was WHY I did it!

o_O''

I never brought it up, cause I thought that he wouldn't remember such a thing, and I might bruise the poor lad's ego if he DID remember.

However, he did me a favour and brought it up himself.
I pretended not to remember, in case it was the wrong situation - I think I've made most of my friends cry more than once before. *covers face with pillow*

"Neh, last time you made me cry!"

"I did?"

"Yes. That time on the balcony remember? Got la!"

"Oh yeah...what did I do again?"

"You whacked me in the face with the clothes hanger. = ="

"HAHAHAHA, I did! I chased you around, lol."

"Haha, yeah."

"Eh? Why did I do it ah?"

"...I was playing with your hair."

OMG HAHAHAHA
Lmao!
Boys beware. =X
Touch me and die.

Kidding.

I was like, 10-years-old at the time and had a major attitude problem.
That has changed.

...I'm 16 now.
XD

Whee, no wonder I'm still single.
I make boys cry, and not in the heartbroken way - more like in the nosebroken way.
Lol.

"So who's your boyfriend ah?"

"Which one? Lemme see..."

"..."

"Kidding la. Don't have! =P"

"Liar."

"..."

"You always typing smses one. Not your boyfriend meh?"

"Aiyo, that one is my friend. Asking to DotA tonight la."

"= = Are you sure there's nothing romantic behind that? Y'know..."

" '...come let's DotA tonight! Want?' WOW damn romantic la! Swt."

"Hahahaha! Ok ok..."

And there's one snag.
People online still don't believe I'm a girl.

Walao la.

Real life also mistaken for a boy.
Online also cannot pass as a girl.

x.x

Sei lor.
Nevermind, I'll go to US and buy skinny jeans and boots and dress up all ladylike.
Happy? *rolls eyeballs*

I'm leaving for America on the 12th - next Wednesday and I'm coming back on the 2nd of January.

Woo, long vacation!

Going to Las Vegas, San Francisco and New York.
NEW YORK!

TIMES SQUARE!
ON NEW YEARS EVE!

HELLO MTV!
MUHAHAHAHAHA!

White Christmas too.
So beautiful...*sigh*

I hope my camera doesn't die.

On another note, lately I've been DotAing with the MoDs.
If you remember, I've blogged about my first clan invite - from the same people.

I still don't wanna join the clan la.
I mean, they're fun and all - a few of them - but I still have a problem with the clan lord.
I just don't like him. = =

Swears like...a drunken sailor?
What was the anology again?
Whatever la.
Swears like an Ah Beng. There you go.

Nevermind. ^^
I don't want a prefix in front of my name.
It's kinda tacky.
But shh, don't tell. =x

Arief and Sherman are a ball of fun, but the clan lord annoys me somewhat.
Ish.

Today he told everyone that he's a boy la! zzzzz.

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine~
If you think I have more balls than you then I'm ok with it.
Haha.

Maybe it's just the chip on my shoulder - I just don't gel with some people.
But nevermind.
It's irrelevant.
Just a bit annoyed that people doubt my sex.
Lol.

Anyway, I went to school today to pick up the school mag.
First things first, I ADORE the back cover.
Whoever did it, good job wei!

I luff ya. =x

The front is ok, just a bit pixelly.

The description was complete bullshit as usual.
I really laughed out loud while reading it to my sister.

But the scary thing is, I did the EXACT same thing - weave awesome fairytales - when I wrote the cover description the year Ling's design got picked.

SEE?
There's a little bullshit in every one of us!
=P

Not that I got any credit for it.
*pokes Ling in the eye*
Bah!

SECOND THING.

FUCKERS CUT OUT THE SECOND PAGE OF 5K's CLASS PAGES.

This is freaking bullshit la!
Our final year and you screw this and deprive us of the memory of our 5 torturous years in school?

COME ON LA!

And do you know why this happened?
Some USELESS ASSHOLES refused to pay up for the class pages.
FUCK YOU LA.

Our final year and you can't pony up 50 bucks?
I mean yeah, it's a lot of money - my one month's allowance - but you let your CLASSMATES suffer for it.

What the fuck la!
Ling should've have cut out the pictures of those kiamsiap losers from the class pages - obliterate every single gedik smirk of theirs.

In fact, I want to do the same thing.
Only in real life.
Tear off their faces baby! Grr.

Another person at fault is the useless editor or whoever who made the decision to cut out the second page.First page.

Second page.

Third page.

As you can see, the first and second pages are the individual shots, whereas the last page is for the group shots.

If there was enough money for two pages only, (Harhar, whose fault is that may I ask? Bitches.)
any IDIOT would KNOW to take out the last page right?

Frickin noob did the stupidest thing on Earth and took out the second page.
WALAOEH!
No brains one ah?
You take out the second page of pictures then how fair is it to those with their pictures there?

GOT NO MOUTH AND LEGS AH?

CANNOT WALK TO YI LING AND CONSULT HER ABOUT THE PAGE CUT AH?

SO SMART UNTIL YOU CAN DECIDE ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE CLASS AH?

I want a refund.
=/
And I'm sure the girls with their faces left out want a refund too.
We pay 50 bucks and get left out, and those WHO REFUSED TO PAY GET THEIR PICTURES IN?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
You tell me la.

Anyway, after sleeping over this piece of news, the next day I woke up thinking that it's probably a good thing that my pictures not in anyway.

I mean, when I think it over, I don't WANT to be part of this school's history anyway.
=.=

Which also the reason I skipped out on all the club photography sessions for the past few years.

Also the Eng dept group shot last year as well.
I tried skipping this year, but Siew dragged me there I had to layan her, cause I can't snub my friend (and head of dept) right? =.=''

Which is also why the smile on my face was super fake.
Lol.
I laugh whenever I look at it.
How pathetic.
Oh well.

Besides the cover, this year's mag pretty much stinks too.
Better than last year, but still pretty sucky nevertheless.

Now let me end on this very positive note:

GOOD RIDDANCE CBN!
;D


Song of the Day:

"Apologise - OneRepublic feat Timbaland"

Darn you Den and KC.
=.=