loooooong entry

i guess this gonna b a pretty long blog, as i juz get the pictures from See Pin, realise i have leave out a lot of update, so will post all those leave out in this post, and it is also means that there will hv more than 2 photos (my reader complain i hv too little photos!). So here we go~!

Since my class started from last 3 weeks, housemates and I decided only cooked in weekend, for saving time and money, as we usually cooked rice, but rice here is damn expensive, the cheapest one is around £ 10 for 10 kg, if convert to RM is around 70 bucks! we cant afford to hv rice everyday, so we made it like hv 2 or 3 meals of rice and chinese foods, and cooking is really eating our time, i understand now y my mom keep yelling on me that she's bz even though she's only a housewife.

we will cooked for 8 person each time, including Hong and Ivan who living in another apartment. 6 gals in 2 groups of 3 take turn to cooked for all housemates, 2 guyz to wash dishes and clean up the kitchen. And here is the photos when i become the chef of the day, also kacau-ing the other groups of chef wen they're cooking~! :)

Chef of the day: Jane, Zoe & Rach

kacau-ing another group of chefs wen they're cooking ;P

Human-traffic light- Hong, Jenn & Ivan

Guys r responsible to clean the kitchen, and clear the foods!

As i wrote in my previous blog tat my time table is hell peak, almost every week hv meeting and deadline, so even is weekend v hv to do our reading and rush our assignments. Cooking sometime took us 3 to 4 hours, this period of time enough to do research on the asisgnment, but still, while was not my turn to cook, my evil housemates will seduce me to play snoker in our hostel common room. Everytime i told them i hv to rush assignment, everytime i follow them too... -.-" (yaya i know i lazy bug ok?)

S-Shape wow!

I love this one, looks like an expert but actually i know nth bout snoker!

and random photos that i promised i'll update, which is the superlambananas project in Liverpool (review my blog if u know nth bout it!). Simple make an publisher doc with all the superlambananas that v captured in the town, will continue hunt the lamb!





today is thursday, in another named is "Glove Hunting's Day!". Dated all my lovely housemates to do a crazy shopping and hv my 1st dine-out! (yea 1st since i come liverpool, i freaking expensive). We meet Zoe in restaurant since she hv appointment with her thesis supervisor, then 5 of us (Dodo choose to enjoy her day with Hong) to hv our lunch in the restaurant (i had forgotten the name yet my housemates are sleeping). We have fish and chip for our lunch, and this is the cheapest that i can afford. The portion is big enough with fish and chip (of course! bullshit!) green bean with tea and 2 slices of bread. I finished it even the pepper, and the meals cost me £ 3.10, is around RM 21.. Sigh.. i don't even give a damn wen i spend 20 bucks only for my breakfast in Malaysia, and this is karma... sob..

Fish & Chips & Rach

Set lunch - Tea, breads & Fish & Chips

Later on, we went to Liverpool One and Primark, all of us buy a lot of outfit but too bad is a raining day, and this is the main reason we decided to take a cab, sure will nvr forget to take photos coz the cab in Liverpool is much much more different with Malaysia.

On da cab goin home

The photograher of the day - See Pin and Jane

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My lovely gals - enjoy very much with u guys! love u guyz to the max!! muarck
Sun - where u oo.. die dy not? contact le wui.

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- oh damn the cold weather
- Glove hunting project fail, will b continue tmr.
- arrrggg.... i haven't finish even half of the essay la!
- i spend A LOT OF MONEY, seeking place to beg for money.
- wanna buy a thick jacket, is hell cold.
- who wanna donate their leg for me?
- Rachel Chew, u MUST finish Dover's essay by this week!!!!!

Liverpool, UK
20080627, 1208am
Rach in very cold mood.

I LOVE YOU Project

wednesday noon, cloudy but comfortable.

juz back from town to buy some grocery, eat me nearly £ 10, plus share rice and source with housemates, my weekly budget plan failure :(


i hv nth much to updated, juz feel so sick for the weather, damn it suppose is summer wat, but the weather as cold as in autumn, am i really in summer? I can only keep my t-shirt in my wardrobe or wear under a thick jacket. People always remind me with "don't think UK is summer now, think UK is somewhere near with north point".. oh ya ya ya.. i know it now..

wat i wore to uni..

My "summer" wear

Oh yea! well last night someone knocks the door and asks us whether can on the light of our rooms in certain time, i tot that's testing or smth like that, so i promise will remind my housemates to on the light. And later Ivan and Hong told me the same guy went and ask them to on the light too, wen we are wonder wat the purpose of the guy, we saw there're lot of ppl in the street, me and housemates grab the camera and went down, this is wat we captured.

Oh Gosh is the big HEART!!! the guy wanna asks a gal to become his gf la! the whole phase of people come down and support the guy, but the gal seems like shy to appear, finally v hide into the building. Of course v cant hear wat the guy told the gal, but seem like the gal reject the guy and this is the end of the show lo.. still i was thinking if someone do this for me i'll really really touching even though i'm dislike him.. sigh.. feel wanna go into relationship again..

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Ken - thx for ya comment
The brave guy - don't give up!
The lucky gal - appreciate someone that would do this for u!
See Pin - strongly agree with the title of "I LOVE YOU PROJECT"

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- i want sunny day even the sun is fake!
- i want buy glove x 4
- tired on everything, especially assignments and reports.. sigh..

Liverpool, UK
20080625, 0339pm
Rach in waiting someone mood.

Karma's coming

Evening of Monday :)

Report deadline and meet Zoe for thesis. Hu~~ feel stress..

Anyway i finally done another report, the others are coming, i juz feel i cant breath each time i saw the time table on my board, is full, almost every weeks hv deadline and meeting, feel like going back to my high school life.

If u can see how peak is my time.. sigh..

i love the feeling that walk alone in the street. Like today, after i meet Zoe, i decided to going back to hostel without waiting for Dodo and Hong. I walking on the street of Liverpool, sunny day with wind, going to the down town and feel the crowd. Only in this time i feel is really good to studying in oversea. I can arrange my own time and destination, without consider others. :)

Anyway i did miss my homeland too, miss the food, the ppl, the culture, the feeling of "home". Everytime i feel sick on my coursework i'll look on the card that Elaine and Eva wrote to me before i depatured from Malaysia. Make me feel warm always. Luckily this is technology era, even there is 7 hours different but still can meet my fellow friends and family on Internet.

Hand-make card from Elaine and Eva, bunny from dear Keith, piglet from Sun
(Sorry Jim din bring ur tiny bottle, and Ken ur piglet head is too big for my luggage!)

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Elaine - darling i want go De Pastry la... sob..
Eva - dare u delete my comments! angry u edy!
Chris - learn to accept :)
Cookie - i saw ur brother today! damn i tot u fly to me baby cookie.. miss u badly :(
Babby - u dun tot u very dak yi ar! warn u no more junk foods la! u want become a ball edy!
Ken - thx lot for ya accompany :)

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- I'll get karma (i do nth by today which i actually PLAN to finish the readings!)
- i hate to think wat to hv for my three meals everyday.
- i want melon la!
- i want buy glove x 3

Liverpool, UK
20080623, 1132pm (am start this entry by evening & continue after dinner & tv)
Rach in waiting karma mood.

deadline oh deadline

alo~

smth that make me really pissed off is our seniors tat suppose to guide us in our coursework and daily life problem perhaps. Really feel both of them are so damn fake and i dun give a damn to them seriously, who they think they are? i will nvr forget they told us that "don't think LJMU is same as TARC Kuala Lumpur Malaysia". Fuck off la, u 2 not from TARC Kuala Lumpur Malaysia huh? Since wen u 2 become blondy? Yack... really feel shame for them.

i struggling on the assignment for whole day in my room, ok la i admit i hv touch touch this and that, chat chat with ppl, but i really feel stress la.. Last 2 assignments didn't get really good mark, i know if i didn't do well in the begining, will properly pull down the overall presentation, juz dunno how to structure my report and gain a really pretty mark in this assignment. Went to library and loan books only for this assignment, more i read more i feel confuse, i end up with mess up my room, crazy eat chips and do nothing. C how mess of my room..

die on my desk

definately i'm not the only do assignment till siao, my housemate See Pin siao till she run into my room and laugh like giler, ask me to borrow her red marker pen, i'm too afraid to refuse her, fast fast give her and halau she back her room, 15 minute later she laugh even giler and wen i went out and c wat was happened, she draws a door sign and stick on her room -.-".. all of us throw her paper and ask her draw for us as well since she's so stress, hehehe.. and now all of us own a door sign, except Jane and Dodo, their door sign still under process..

Me hugging my Greeny :)

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Elaine - u mana ada fat? ask that animal shut up la!
Eva - no worry u do the right action, always support u!
Jim - u only know ask me buy phone and shoes, hate u la.
Kalvin - only can pray for u lo, everything gonna be alright :)
Chris - rmb da keyword, follow ur heart.
Ken - sorry for da ignore, bz-ing for my report.
Carrick - wish ya hv a great trip!
Babby - here dun hv bak kut teh and wan tan mee de lo ok! bad Babby.
See Pin - thx for da cute door sign!!!

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- damn cold still, but heater is functioning!!!!!! thx god!
- assignment, report, reading, thesis = UK life
- again feel tat there is no forever love, i'll pray for u guyz.
- i want buy glove x 2
- i dunno y my leg still swollen for la! i din walk for 2 days edy wat.. T.T..

Liverpool, UK
20080621, 1111pm
Rach in rushing report with steady mood

Giler punya Summer

Freaking cold!!!

i saw my window was full of rain drop in this early morning and immediately i said "sh*t!"...

my room's heater is not working, i can only suffering on the low tempature, wear 2 t-shirts and a thick jacket in my room, and check the weather report..

damn it.. do u know how strong of the wind? argggggggggggg.... is killing me wen i get up from my warm bed.. was still raining wen i walking to my uni, i walked extra fast than usually, and i can feel my leg is pain AGAIN, i guess i need to c Ivan again tonight.. wen only my leg will recover huh?

explored a new street leaded by Dodo and Hong, found some cheap vege and a Indian shop that selling Asian foods, anyway i didn't buy anything, as long as know the shop is there for me wen i'm homesick.. hehe..

and finally my thesis title is confirm:

"To what extent is Habermas’s notion of the public sphere useful when studying online news?"

and i dunno who the hell is Habermas yet.. and i hv to meet Zoe, who's my supervisor with all the readings in the coming Monday. Very happy.....

Tmr to get back my assignment 1, hopefully won't too bad or i gonna say bye bye for my 1st class, hope can maintain at least 2-1 status, anyway as what Iqbal told us always, is all in my hands. Gonna study hard, not willing to disappointed my folks.

oh yea.. Liverpool having the "Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008", they promote a lot bout Liverpool, and here is the official website, take a look http://www.liverpool08.com/. One of the promote is the landmark of liverpool, which is place near by my hostel, was named as Superlambananas, don't ask me wat's this, i dunno either.. c the pic and judge urself.

They are having a programme call Go Superlambananas, over 100 different designed of superlambanana sculptures will be place in anywhere of the town, and will not going to tell u where those sculptures are placed, u have to explore urself. So far i found only 10 superlambananas on the way to my uni and downtown, all of us are so exciting wen found sculptures, the way to uni not bored again :). Those sculptures all in my friends' cam, gonna steal their photos and upload soon, so juz b patient ;)

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Elaine - i want go yam cha la, milo kosong panas pls..
Eva - Drama series important than me edy huh!!!!
Carrick - where'r u dear? :(

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- i NEED a glove, my fingers are numb
- i HATE reports
- i HATE rain that i nvr hate b4!
- i'm strongly agree on "don't think this is summer, think this is UK, where very near to the north point" (Iqbal, 2008 quote in Zoe, 2008)
- i'm getting siao, really siao edy.

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Liverpool, UK
20080618, 0430pm
Rach in siao mood.

Father's day

Sunday :(

but is father's day :)

Just called back to greet my Babby bear, but cant reached to his mobile, my Babby is home-daddy, whenever he at home he'll straigh off his phone and gave all his time to us. As usual my babby told me he's only 25 years old, he's my gor gor (bro) not babby, and today is Gor Gor's day, not Father's day, force me to greet him as "Happy Gor gor's day". I was laugh so happy and tease him back. Later, Babby ask me to take care and eat on time, at the same time he told me wat they had their Father's day dinner just now. I can only envy, i really miss the time b with my babby.

I think i must be homesick, am dropping my tears now without reason, mayb just simple miss my Babby. :)

Happy father's day Babby, sorry i cant be with u in this father's day, but San San still love u as i always do, I wish ya have a great father's day with Mommy, Yen, Jeff and Cookie. Without me beside u hv to listen to Mommy, not to take spicy food and don't take too much of junk food, ask cookie jogging with u k? u know i'm always care bout u Babby, so pls pls pls take good care of urself for me. I'm always love u :)

My Babby bear and me

Just post for express my missing of my babby bear. Gonna continue my thesis research background, so wish u guy have a great weekend!

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Babby - Cookie told me u very lazy, u didn't jog with him huh!!!!
Cookie - chase Babby to jog la! or no more tricks for u!
All Daddys - Wish all Daddys have a great father's day!

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- Another week, another week of assignment, sob..
- the cancer still remain on my left ankle.
- damn cold la! wat the hell of this summer?!
- i feel wanna throw out wen i see bread.
- damn, i feel wanna home.




Liverpool, UK
20080615, 0233pm
Rach in home sick mood.

Good weather, but cant go out :(

Morning people :)

good weather always cheer me up :-)

but......

I CANT GO SHOPPING WITH HOUSEMATES!!!!

juz because i hurt my muscle :(

anyway is getting ok edy, no worries ppl :). Juz wanna make sure i won't hurt it again or i think i need to buy a wheel chair to go to uni edy.

Just cooked my breakfast...

Mash potatoes plus my homeland chrysanthemum tea, very weird breakfast huh?

My mum packed me some chrysanthemum tea in case if i feel heaty or feel homesick, am love the tea very much. Sigh... now only can taste it once a while.


So after breakfast and send my housemates of, i have to send mail to Zoe for my research topic, then start to do my readings that i missed, and my assignment. Maybe will go to library a while for researching some journals or books, juz in case i have enough time to complete all those things that i plan to do la..


Have a very yummy ABC soup yesterday :), was my turn and Zoe to cooked, so v decided to cook a big pot of soup, green bean with fried egg, potatoes with meat and boil vege. Everyone feel contented with the soup. Too bad the picture still with See Pin, perhaps upload later.

hmmmm... nothing much to update, better catch up my readings or i'll real in trouble. C ya in da next blog.

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Elaine - Gambateh in ya final year project!!!
Carrick - i tot u'll return after 3 hours :(
Evon - Congrate for ya new born baby gal!

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- 2 weeks past.
- petrol in malaysia don't increase, my hubby kelisa is starving.
- a lot of things to do, but lazy pull me to not do.
- i miss wan tan mee suddenly.. damn i want eat la.




Liverpool, UK
20080614, 1058am
Rach in wanna go out mood.

Muscle pain :(

freaking stress ar!!!!!!

it is suppose a great day coz finally i done my 2nd assignment and today is the day to pass it up, then shopping, then back hostel, then cook dinner, then watch Big Brother, then snoker, then sleep, and totally forget about my study... but...........................

Rhianne gave us a short talk about our thesis, smth like instruction or guideline to do our thesis in 4 weeks time. I tension a little bit after listened her talk, but still steady coz the deadline is on middle of August. I still have time.

After submit the assignment we went to library for searching the books that recommend by Rhianne in our thesis. I juz cant control myself to search the other books regarding my next assignment, which is deadline in next next monday, and everyone is searching of it! Damn the library allow students to loan up to 15 books, that's mean i can borrow all books that i found and the library is huge like hell, all those books and journals enough me to do dunno how many thesis edy. At the end i only loan 3 books coz i remember i have to shop for grocery later and plan to go back tmr.

then, raining.

and, freaking COLD!!!!!!!

i guess is only 10 to 12 celsium, and, u know what i wore?

plus a jeans ONLY!! luckily Ivan bring his wind proof jacket along and i juz rampas his jacket and put it on. Haha evil me. But the jacket is too big and everyone laugh me like came from Swaziland like that, but i feel my life is important than my face.

then we went to shop for our dinner and self-grocery. Cold and heavy (i carry 2 kg of chicken, 2 packs of eggs, can food, vege, potatoes and forgotten), my muscel pain like hell AGAIN.

people that around me must know i had sprained my left ankle for 4 times, and doctor strongly recommended me not to walk long distance and cant burden my ankle too much, ever since i came here my only transport is my legs, i'm not afford to take taxi or bus (2 pound le!), so i juz continue suffer my my pain and SOS to Ivan since he's from St. John and he well in massage.

he said my muscel is hurt AGAIN (is actually getting ok after few days of massage), and just now he recommend me to bind my leg up to fasten the recovering, so my leg becomes like this...

Only tmr can take it off :(... luckily tmr i have no class, but i think i cant go to library anymore, my lovely housemates and Ivan (p/s: he's still available! talent and genius [he's 1st class student now!], humor and helpful, anyone interested on him huh?) properly will scold me like dog. so tmr i plan to stay room and do my assignment, search for online journal, sigh...

Oh yea i haven't tell why i feel stress, is all because of after submited my assignment, we have meeting with our supervisor of our thesis, i though it was a simple introduction so i didn't prepare anything even my topic, yet Zoe (my supervisor) wanted us to discuss the topic that we going to do research on, so die lo, die straight straight, i gave a bunch of rubbish suggestions and have no one can be use. Athough Zoe told us the is fine to e-mail her the topic later, but when i saw the others are already have their topic and start doing on their research background, i started to gan cheong edy. Plus bad weather, plus muscle pain, plus sleepy, but cant sleep well coz keep worry on the thesis and the readings that we need to done, and the next assignment... Arrrgggggggg...... i'm going to insane edy la... so stress... who the hell told me that study in oversea is the greatest enjoyment in life huh?!

alright is time to bed, i feel real tired edy, will try to sleep with one or two episodes of HK drama, or fall asleep with my journal article.. Heaven or Evil??!!! Arrgggg...........

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Housemates - Great time to play masak-masak with u guyz!!
Sun - u mana, ur phone cant reach, how can u disappear huh, cepat contact le jin yan.
Elaine - sorry dar i'm not online this noon, as u can c my leg is hurt again, sob..
Ivan - I have leg cancer arrrrrrrr!!!!! (blerrkkkk)
Babby - I spread ur name in UK edy!!
Mummy - miss ur curry pork wen i have curry chicken as dinner tonight.
Cookie - I WANT COOKIE, I'M HUNGRY (Kath, 2008, Big Brother). Miss u lot cookie pig.

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- I never know rice is as delicious like wat i ever taste before
- spent a lot of money, i'll be real begger soon.
- i cant breath each time i see the schedule of assignments on my board.
- Bread, egg, ham, bacon, lettuce, potatoes and oatmeal are haunted me.
- Miss yam cha, mamak, hubby kelisa, The Curve, sweating.....

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UK, Liverpool
20080613
Rach in muscle pain mood.

release from assignment!

hello people :)

is been some days i didn't updated my blog, if u guyz are aware my msn msg, it suppose is "deadline ar........". Yup, my assignment deadline is around the corner and i hv to concentrate for my assignment lo.

finally, i juz print out my assignment and now sitting here to blog. Is 2am midnight now, juz back from Jane's room for transfering pictures and movie and ready to have a real relaxing night with my supper (milo and biscuit). This is consider the biggest enjoyment that i have in liverpool, hardly to find my homeland's food la, i have to extra treasure the foods that i bring from malaysia, i only TASTE it once a while le.

around 2 weeks am here, well is so far so good, everything ok and getting used to the weather here already (as long as not raining), study sure stress la coz every tutors keep on telling us to gain 1st class la, do reading la, go library la, go meet them la this and that. Make me even tension than last time. Everyone call me gan cheong dai shi (tension master) edy.. -.-"

hmmm.. nth much to updated, my days were bz yet i love this kind of life, feel everyday is the brand new day and enjoy my life in stranger country. Wat make me mad is i hv to walk around 20 minute to uni, even the sun is big like hell but the wind is cold like freeze, not kidding man, then temperate is around 14 or 15 celsium in day time, night time even cold, it's only 6 to 8 celsium. And, this is SUMMER!

i think i better upload more pictures or i might bored my reader ;)

3 journalism princess with Darren, is his honor ;) LOL

i wore like a dumpling in SUMMER, is freaking cold. p/s: is John's cap ;)

everyone of us took pictures with John's cap and we wanted to set as primary photo in our frenster account, we don't know wat for but juz for FUN~! haha

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Carrick - haha where's my no ticket?
Elaine - cant wait to web-caming with u!
Ivan - thx ivan for da free massage and 24 hours printing service.
Eva - let's c i will put on how many weight wen i back from UK.
KC - u r nth for me now :)



20080612, 0119am
Rach in relaxing mood, Liverpool UK

Opening~

holala.. give another chance to blog over here since friendster could not enlarge the pictures that i uploaded, my readers complained a lot, so, just try to blog over here again and hopefully what See Pin tells me is right (she said can upload unlimited pictures which i cant last time).

Great Mayor Parade day ;). Housemates and I get ready around 1pm and went down to our hostel and waiting for it. Wow it is juz simple GREAT, and i cant explained it with my poor words, so, what else is better than pictures huh?

LOL me in da middle, right beside da army

Dare not to upload too much photos la, i still saw the photos limitation when i uploading the pictures. In short, the parade is crowdy and great and fun and happy and fantastic and warm! Took some pictures with army and they are really really nice and friendly, and HANDSOME! OMG i WANT!!!!!!

Dinner time. :) Another rice's day, chicken with coke and ginger (err, weird huh but damn nice!), fried eggs and vege. Yum yum, i never know rice is such delicious, i only take 2 spoon of rice when i was at home, but now, i ate a bowl! Unbelieveable, i guess i'm really homesick la.. Really really miss mum's cook. T.T..

Was chating online with mum and dad today since i was at hostel. Once my little Cookie heared my voice from da Internet, he immediately jumped up and looking for his jie jie. Oh my little Cookie, i damn miss him la, feel wanna cry when mum told me cookie not eat much ever since i leave home. Although i don't know how real is it but i real feel want hug my Cookie pig much.

When webcam-ing with dad, i saw there is bandage on his hands, i know he went for the treatment for his eyes again. Make me worry him that wheather he's ok and follow the advice from the Chinese doctor or not. Father's day is near and feel sorry i cant celebrate with my Babby bear..

Mum keeps on asking me to take care on myself and study hard, i felt mum is real worry bout me. Made me recall how hard i tried to grab my attention of mum from bro until i get serious sicks, i was though my mum is not caring me at all and finally i gave it up to do anything just for let my mum proud with me, cause i realized that no matter what i achieved in my study and competition were never win my bro helps my mum to washed dishes.

Few years later, now i found another side of mum and i slowly let go, maybe what was Sun told me is right, but anyway, who know what's going happen in the future?

I stop for a while before i continue to blog this paragraph, i heard some voice outside there and i went out to checked. Chi Ling and See Pin chating in front of my room and bet whether i sleep already or not, since i told them i WILL study tonight cause See Pin already started the report which has to submit in this coming Thursday, and she made me nervouse cause i haven't start it yet!!! Am going to start it after i blog, although am very very very the sleepy *yawn*.

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Dad - San San love you and PLEASE take good care on yourself. Miss you Babby.

Mum - I'll take good care on myself, i'm not little girl anymore. :)

Jeff - Take care of family and my cookie pig, and also my hubby kelisa.

Ivan - Thanks for the free massage!

Ah Hong - if you're still bully me i'll real poison you, you just try it.

Carrick - welcome to my new blog ;)

Mr. Chew - stop telling me where and what you had eat in Malaysia, i HATE you!

Liverpool, United Kingdom

20080607, 2358

Rach with sleepy mood.