`sigh of relief.

The smell of freshly cooked hot noodles,
the taste of sweetness on my lips,
the feel of the soft wind breezing by,
the sight of the words as they are typed down,
the sound of chopsticks' soft clonking...

I am back.

After a long, horrible semi-hiatus . . .

Semi-hiatus, because I do check my blog from time to time but as you know, I'm a huge procrastinator so TADA! No new updates up until now..

No worries, I haven't been outdated with KPOP. Thank goodness for AllKpop! <3. style="font-weight: bold;">Updates;
Let's start with the day I disappeared,

10thApril; Malling.

Okay, Emay invited to go to the Mall to watch Fast & Furious 4! So we brought along Deej, as well. Well, since my dad wasn't in Brunei yet, Deej had to pick me up and we went to pick up Emay. We were hungry so we went to take a bite (or bites!) at KFC! I've been craving their Cheesy Wedges for a while now. Oh god, they're like heaven!

Fattening, but who cares, right? :D

It was Emay's treat but my discount card. HAHA.

I was trying to do this pose where people pose with their mouths open, ready to eat the food they're holding. (huh?) - wahaha. I terribly failed!

I'm such a dork. ;)

After stuffing ourselves, we went to Utama Grand. I had to buy gum, and coincidently, we saw Neo. So unexpected. Well, after that, we actually saw him a lot of times. Especially at the arcade. Tsk tsk.

Then we went around the Mall, searching for keychains & of course, I had to check out my KPOP stuffs in this shop (I won't tell you the name, fangirls, you have to beg on bended knees :P). Too bad my favourite shopkeeper wasn't in, I was supposed to ask her something. I was gonna buy this keychain to bribe someone, but I decided not to. It was expensive. o_o. Yikes.

Ohh, after we found out we missed the 3.50PM and had to buy the 5.25PM tickets instead for Fast & Furious 4 (No thanks to the walking encyclopedia), we had to search for the Surau so Deej could pray. We went to the Surau of Rizqun Hotel instead. I was kind of worried if were even allowed to use the room there. But thank goodness, they allowed us since they didn't stop us or anything. While Deej was praying, Emay & I camwhored. :D

Most of the pics are on Facebook.

Emay had to get out of the room and laugh because of this picture. Guess why? ^^.

Finally, when Deej was finished!

The threesome! I love the mirror. Very classy.

Out of the surau room,

Emay wanted to take pictures in the corridor,
but I was scared (Note: the worried look on my face)
because there was a camera & there were people in the conference room decorating
and fixing stuffs.

When we had nothing else to do, we went to the arcade. and went to a Noraebang (I wish!).
Nah, it's a Karaoke box. without Korean songs. o_o.

Blurred, bleh. [Most of the other pics, you can't see the mic, that's why I chose this]

After singing our hearts out, we took pictures at the photobooth thing at the arcade. The pictures turned out like this;

I love the pictures ♥
Both these pics back-to-back are the keychain in my wallet now.
:)

Then, we went to watch Fast & Furious 4 at the Cineplex!

Fast & Furious 4 Review

I would rate this a 9/10. It exceeded my expectations & considering I'm no big fan of action movies. I'm very choosy with the action movies I watch. I really wanted to watch this fourth installment since I did watch the first one years ago (Though, I can't remember much about it anymore) and because of other reasons. :]
The movie started of with the "team of thieves" attempting to steal the 3-4 tanks of oil. Seriously, their methods were cool! It was intense and I knew us, watchers were waiting in suspense whether or not they were going to succeed. Letty even commented something like, "The oil is like liquid gold".
There was this another cool scene when Dom & Letty inside the car sped up and the car was almost gotten hit by this rolling tank on the road as they awesomely missed it. Great timing!
Letty died though, she was murdered. Was chased around by a car and shot with a gun.
Okayokay, I'll stop the spoilers.

I love that I got to hear DBSK's song, Rising Sun during the rooftop scene! Mainly the reason why I wanted to watch this movie badly! And the movie kind of had a lot of Korean stuff going about. Making their first suspect Korean (David Park), there was a Korean truck driving by, then DBSK's song. Coincidence or what that I watched it? :D [Just the other day I watched this CSI episode about Koreans. So cool!]

Vin Diesel is still as cool as before! I remember watching his xXx & The Pacifier. ;).

The movie is worth it! I recommend it~


I went home around 7-ishPM. And my Ate Ren found out.... T__T.

11thApril; Interview.

Okay, after much consideration, I decided to apply for Prefect in the Student Council at PTEKatok. Thank goodness all of my teachers agreed to sign my CV. Cool teachers I have ♥

I applied for First Aid Prefect & Public Relations Prefect. My interviews went well. I went to the First Aid table first. I was asked by my senior back in SMSHasan. Though I didn't know her much back then. She was really nice and I was asked all these sorts of questions. You can easily answer them but you have to think first on how to form a smart answer to the questions (And I'm known for speaking without thinking first).

Even during the interview session, I also talked to my sunbaes at the IT-P table. The ones in charge of the school blog. They said I could be one of the people in charge for the school blog if I applied for IT-P, but I can't even handle my own blog, let alone, the school's blog. I might just die because of exhaustion trying to update both blogs. I can help with articles. A blog post editor? :D. I should've thought of that before and should have asked the Administrator-sshi. T___T

After First Aid, I went to the Public Relations table so I had to take back my CV. The interview was really fun. Another AE, Vernon, was the one who interviewed me. I know him through DeeDee, during Orientation Day so we haven't really properly met, I just know him. xD I was actually a bit nervous with my interview. I said "environment" instead of "administration" HAHAHA. It was about the school. I was saying "I want to help the school environment" when I meant the "the school adminitration". (If I'm not mistaken with the sentence). And Vernon was like saying, "Don't be nervous" :D.

Phew, so after that, I eased down a bit. They made me read scripts in English & Bahasa Melayu. I was actually asked to choose between the two but I said I wanted to read both. It was difficult mainly because I couldn't read the handwriting. It was so hard to read because I wasn't used to the handwriting. Well, in the Bahasa Melayu version, I had a lot of hesistations. Because some of the words I'm not allowed to say. Yeah, phrases that can only be said by an Islam. :]

There were also times when I got distracted by guys talking near me, the people watching videos, etc. o_o. It was so hard to concentrate bah. I have ADD! Not.

The interview ended well, WHEW! I just hope I'll get the post. I want to gain more experience, that's why. After the interviews, I found out my sunbae back in SMSH, Fauzul, is a KPOP fan. Actually, KPOP dances. Like Rain, SHINee, etc. He was watching Replay by SHINee during my interview. So I was distracted. I offered him the songs from Super Junior's Sorry Sorry Album and gave him my SHINee videos. He made me watch all those cool dances! And random clips by Koreans. Also Music Videos. Whoaa~ We were brainstorming about the dance him & his team should do during the Korean Culture Day. It was so hard to choose. Because I actually want them to dance to either AMIGO or Love Like Oxygen, both by SHINee. (Talk about bias-ness).

Do you guys have any suggestions?

[ Wait, I have a confession. I helped a team in Adventure Club to find a clue. A clue I knew the location of. SORRY! :X ]

We'll just wait and see, then. :]
Korean Culture Day, here we come!

12thApril; Easter Sunday.

I didn't actually celebrate it. Well, I had the chance to talk to mom & dad through Yahoo Messenger! I was chatting with Ate Ren at first before talking to my parents. She was updating me with all these stuffs that my head was spinning (yes, exaggeration). But it was cool, I had to spoil stuffs to her about Kkotboda Namja. She asked for it! They were all having a great time there! They always go jogging! Man, I forgot the feeling of being in Philippines and having fun with cousins. Like you don't have a worry at all. I especially enjoyed my time there back in 2007. I miss the days~ :'(

Well, I had to go to LBC to send some money. I'm getting better now handling these stuffs. Practice makes perfect. I'm such a noob sometimes. Heee. I went with Tito Jerry & Tita Rose with cute little Revin ;). Unique name, right? And no, I didn't mispell it.
They gave me donuts from my favourite bakery shop! Gosh, I love the donuts from Sweet Deli! Especially when they're still fresh & hot.

Our neigbour gave us some Chocolate Easter eggs.

and I made one of them pose with my Math homework.
How amusing.

Dang, I think this post is pretty long already. I should stop posting excessively. Any complaints yet?

No worries, there will be a part two for this update. I need to do my homework first. Hahahaha.

yours truly,
R.

`simple explanation.

My title is the title of the latest episode of House.
Where apparently, Kutner died..

Okay okay, WHAT? When Thirteen & Foreman were trying to resuscitate him, I was like HUH HUH HUH? It was so weird. Why so sudden? x___x. Well, I just found out the actor, Kal Penn (Remember him from Harold & Kumar? - I haven't actually watched it yet but that's where I know he's from :P) had accepted a job at the White House as "a liaison connecting the Obama administration with arts and entertainment groups, as well as with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities. Hmmm, seems like a cool job, no wonder he didn't reject the offer. That'd be crazy!

But wow, why suicide? They could've thought of a better way to end Dr. Lawrence Kutner's character. Like, a disease or something. Murder would be good. But suicide? That's pathetic. Geez.

Anyway, another case was this woman named Charlotte with a bedridden husband. She was diagnosed with visceral leishmaniasis in the end. Due to her trip to Rio, where there are disease-bearing sand flies. It was too late for a liver transplant. It was sad how Eddie (her husband) kissed her hand lovingly before she flat lined. =/.

visceral leishmaniasis - (VL), also known as kala-azar and black fever, is the most severe form of leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Leishmania genus. It is the second-largest parasitic killer in the world (after malaria), responsible for an estimated 500 000 deaths each year worldwide. The parasite migrates to the internal organs such as liver, spleen (hence 'visceral') and bone marrow and if left untreated will almost always result in the death of the host. Signs and symptoms include fever, anemia and substantial swelling of the liver and spleen. Of particular concern, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), is the emerging problem of HIV/VL co-infection.

Credits to wikipedia for the definition. :]


- May I add, the episode was pretty dark. It may be the contrast of my monitor, but I think it was dark initially. To probably make the atmosphere gloomy & sad, which it was. Seriously, it was almost hard to see with all the darkness. o_o.


Note how I'm still not talking about school. :P
Wait, I want to mention something (OH NUUU, It's about school!),

Should I really apply for MP/Prefect this year? O____O.
If yes, what position should I take?
Oh, and if anyone knows, will the interviews continue on Saturday & Monday as well?
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`yours truly,
R.

`축하합니다!

CONGRATULATIONS TO MY KUYA RAYMOND FOR GRADUATING! ♡

Okay, don't kill me. That's the most decent picture I could find with you in it.
Or do you want the pictures from last 2 years ago? ;).
HAHAHAHAHA


Congratulations, Kuya my Yaya. :P
I know it was very difficult for you with your course being Computer Engineering. You had to sacrifice a lot of time and money just so you could go by with it.
Today, you proved that through thick or thin, you still managed to go through it all.
I'm proud of you! :)

축하해 오빠!

Enjoying your party there right now, eh? :). Better do!
If only I was there, sighs! You guys are making me jealous eh! If only there wasn't school or something. Or I could've gone there for only a few days and come back here! As if I have the money. xD.

-- I'm next in line to graduate. *dum di dum di duuuuum*

`I got youuuu under my skin~

Well, it's been a while, ne? Most of the week, I've just been updating myself with all the KPOP news & events. Some are shocking, some predictable and some just did not cross my mind, ever. I'm not really going to post EVERYTHING I've came across these few weeks. That would be really.. I don't know, bothersome?

Lemme start;

Since it was White Day when I last updated, let's start on that.

Apparently there was a poll for "The Most Wanted Men to Receive a White Day Gift From" held by Bugs Music. It was from 2nd of March until the 9th of March. The poll garnered 4,000 votes in total.

Here are the results:

01. 신혜성 Shin Hye Sung - 35.02% (1388 people)
02. 이민호 Lee Min Ho - 25.56% (1013 people)
03. 권지용 Kwon Ji Yong - 17.16% (680 people)
04. 김범 Kim Bum - 13.47% (534 people)
05. 소지섭 So Ji Sub - 6.94% (275 people)
06. 브라이언 주 Brian Joo - 1.84% (73 people)

I'm not surprised MinHo, G-Dragon & my Kim Bum are on the list. ;]. I was actually thinking of Lee Min Ho as the one who got the top spot. Due to the popularity he's getting from Ggotboda Namja, it's no question he's one of the hottest guy in the Korean Entertainment now.

So the question is...
Which hot guy would you want to receive a White Day gift from? Not mainly from the list above. Make sure it's a Korean guy. HAHAHA.

credits; allkpop

Korea's Top 50 Best Voices;

Top 25 Male Voices
01. Kim Junsu (TVXQ)
02. Kim Jae Joong (TVXQ)
03. Se7en
04. Kim Ryeowook (Super Junior)
05. Andy Lee
06. Kim Hyun Joong (SS501)
07. Jung Ji Hoon/Rain
08. Lee Min Woo
09. Park Yoo Chun (TVXQ)
10. Kang Ta
11. Cho Kyu Hyun (Super Junior)
12. Lee Hong Ki (F.T. Island)
13. Jun Jin
14. Shim Changmin (TVXQ)
15. Kim Jong Kook
16. Kim Ye Sung (Super Junior)
17. Shin Hye Sung
18. Son Ho Young
19. Kang Daesung (Big Bang)
20. Oh Jung Hyuk
21. Lee Seung Gi
22. Kim Jong Hyun (SHINee)
23. Tae Yang (Big Bang)
24. Ryan (PARAN)
25. Lee Dong Hae (Super Junior)

Top 25 Female Voices
01. BoA
02. Ivy
03. Dana (CSJH)
04. Jang Ri In
05. Jang Nara
06. Park Ye Eun (Wonder Girls)
07. Lee Hyori
08. Park Jung Ah (Jewelery)
09. Solbi
10. Stephanie (CSJH)
11. Kim Tae Yeon (SNSD)
12. Lee Jung Min
13. Sun Mi (Wonder Girls)
14. Jessica (SNSD)
15. Bae Seul Gi
16. Nam Gyu Ri
17. Park Bom
18. Bada
19. Min Sun Ye (Wonder Girls)
20. Han Seung Yeon (Kara)
21. Lina (CSJH)
22. JOO
23. Seo Hyun (SNSD)
24. Isak
25. Heebon

credits : siamzone + shineeTH + shineee.net & allkpop


For me, the list is pretty much true. I do have some objections though. Most of the female singers are actually nowhere to be seen. They kind of just, vanished, in a way. Well, I don't know if this was based on voting/polling.

I'm pretty happy my favourite singers are on the list.

• Jang Ri In, with her awesome voice! yaaaaaay~ :D
  
• Junsu & Jaejoong. I knew they would make it to the list. Hello, listen to their voices.
• JongHyun. Yay for SHINee!
• Sun Ye, my fave in WG! You go girl!
  
• Dana & Lina & Stephanie. My fave is Stephanie though. x). CSJH, I love their voices <3>

Do you agree on the list?

Now, On a MORE interesting note,

DBSK [동방신기] GOT INTO THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS AGAIN!

Now, for being the Most Photographed Celebrities in the World. That's awesome! First, they got into the Guinness for having the largest official fan club which is Cassiopeia. At that time, the member count was 800, 000 members and that doesn't include unofficial fans and international fans. Since I'm pretty sure that they probably have MILLIONS of fans. I'm so happy for them! Twice in the Guinness World Records is like AWESOME <3.

CONGRATULATIONS TO 동방신기! :)

The article where I read the news from : here!

edit;
I've actually been wondering how many pictures of DBSK was recorded to the GWR. After much research, I found this;

As ‘The World’s Only Artist With Most Photographs Taken’, TVXQ once again recorded in the Guinness Book Of World Records.

Reports according to China’s largest search website ‘Baidu’, TVXQ was elected as the only artist in this world that has the most photographs taken recorded in 2009’s Guinness World Records. Since from debut, all kinds of activities they did had exceeded 500 million of pictures. The photos were counted since from debut to this 19 March. All the photos counted includes solo and group shots along pictures taken with others.

TVXQ also hold another record for having the largest fan club/fan base in the world.

source: Hey!JJ
credit: TVXQbaidu
translations: crazee
article: here
Thank you very much hanleidbsk@wordpress! :)

OMG, 500 MILLION PICTURES?! Who in the world keeps count of all their pictures? Since their debut? :O. Omo, all I can say, that's AMAZING! [AH-MA-I-SSHING!]

As they say, "What do you expect? It's TVXQ!"

:)

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Okay, next post would be about what I've been doing lately. HAHA :D

`yours truly,
R.

`what's life got to do, got to do with it~

HAPPY WHITE DAY!

Yes, to all those girls who had been waiting for a month just so to see if their crushes have the same feelings towards them.
Same goes to those couples who celebrated today.
Guys, I hope you made the right choices and stay true to your choices!
Hope it was a day full of happiness for everyone.

Back to my everyday life;
-Nah, no chocolates this year for me. I did receive some last year. Without that person knowing that the day before was White Day. And that made my day last year ;). I got the choc from Deejah the other day, I'll just assume that's my White Day chocolate! Haha.


FRIDAY THE 13TH YESTERDAY;

I know I'm kind of a superstitious person (due to my gullible self), so I was extra careful with Friday the 13th! It didn't really work out though. I tripped, I bumped, I slipped a bit yesterday. It wasn't totally a bad day (kind of).

First, we had to wake up pretty early. Dad was angry since I was totally glued to the computer and not getting dressed since we were going to the capital that time. I was actually trying to finish replying to the wall entries at my facebook. But then again, it wasn't a good reason for not hurrying up since there was a lot of things to do since their flight was later that day.

We went to Pan Bright at the capital to take Mom's ticket & inquiry about Kuya's ticket. It took a while. After that, we went around to find a watch shop so that they can install new batteries into my watch & Ate's watch. We found one, thanks to Dad's smartness :]. We went to Hua Ho Kiulap and that's when my bad luck (kind of) started. I almost slipped because of this wet spot near the entrance. Good thing I didn't slip all the way, that'd be waaaaaay embarrassing!

I bought Nasi Lemak! Not that you need to know that. It's just that I've been craving some spicy food nowadays. Nasi Lemak is my fave ;D. When we finished buying food & chocolates at Hua Ho, we had to go to this Ilufah Tourist thingy for Aquarium? Okay, I don't know the exact name, that's probably the closest! We had to buy fish food. Going down the mini cliff, I almost fell. Because of the rocks. UGH.

I love to see the fishes there in the shop swimming around! Especially the koi fish at the back of the shop! THEY'RE VERY PRETTY! But oh-so-expensive, since they said Koi Fish can bring good luck! Anyone wanna back that up? :]

On the way back to the car, I tripped a bit on my shoes and hit my knew at some car's front (is it called hood? :P) and someone saw that happened. And he was like smiling, in a laughing way. UGH.

Now, that wasn't so bad, ne? I just wanted to share my lame stories ;D

Packing was alright. I helped Dad with the box. The really heavy box. So I had to help him tape it tightly and help him bring the box downstairs. Good thing I managed! I barely did, since I was carrying it the wrong way. So I asked Dad to shift places with me so that the weight of the box was at my back and not on my hands/arms. Seriously, the weight on my back was so much better. I didn't bruise my hands at all.

Unni alone, probably kind of angry because of one of the luggages. They had to remove some stuffs. Aigooo.

At the airport, me & Ate talked a lot. She was threatening to do the Rainism dance at the airport. HAHAHA. She said she'll do it in Philz at the NAIA Terminal there. Or was it the Domestic Airport? Haha. I so wanna see that!

Bye Unni! I'll miss you! See you in 34 days! :]

Got a call from Kuya just now, saying that Appa, Omma, Unni & Namdongsaeng were at my grandmother's wake. =/.
RIP Grandma. :(


SATURDAY BUMMER DAY

The highlight for today; WE WERE SHUFFLED.

Eh, school was the usual. It was the first day I was sent to school by Tito Efren. So I was at the back of the driver seat. Joven was behind JR. Jovs kept saying MD is better than PTEK. AGH. It's not like I can defend the school, since I haven't seen MD. I must have views on BOTH schools. Because it'll be bias not to. :]

Well, my schedule for school on a Saturday is Block 2, 3, 4, 5, 1. Block 1 being Biology. Everything was fine. Though when I arrived in school, I embarrassed myself. When I came out of Tito Efren's car, my glasses had moist on them, to the point I couldn't see much. I was in search for someone I know so he/she can hold my books so I can wipe my glasses. I mistook some girl for a friend of mine. Thank goodness she's from SMSHasan still. But I only know her face. HAHAHA. It was funny because I couldn't think of anything to say. I just immediately asked her to hold my things.

And I was like "Don't you know me?" HAHAHAHA. And she said, "No." Omg, embarrassing. So I told her that I was from SMSHasan as well. And I asked her name. Those were only questions to hide my embarrassment. LOL.

Enough about that, lemme skip to the shuffling part. Okay, after we were almost done with our question papers, Tr. Amani told us about the shuffling of blocks/students/whatever. So she called our names and our new block for Biology. I was praying so that I wasn't gonna be called so I can stay in Bio 1.1. (I love my class!) but I was shuffled to Bio L5. Ugh, took my PS block. So now, my PS is L1. Emay's in Bio L4 & Amalina's in Bio L2. EHH, they're like the ones that brighten me up during Biology class! Mainly the reason why I love Biology more now.

Though I just found out most of my closefriends are in PS L1. So we have time to get together and chatchatchat. But of course, we'll study together. When will the Student Centre be finished anyway? o_o.
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By the way, Deej, you didn't know, is it? Sorry I didn't mention it to you. Nah, here's my Statement of Results!

Sad, I never shared this here since I've been hoping to forget about it. =/

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To Amalina, Emay and my other classmates in Bio class; I'll miss having Biology period with you guys! Even though I'll see most of you guys during Private Study block, it won't be the same! But yeah, see you guys around! :(
To Bree; Good luck with tomorrow, Bree! You can do it! :]


Off to watch America's Got Talent now, I'll finish off House later. :]

yours truly,
R.