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To make things short, I’ve shifted my blog to a better place - with more rooms, more control and of course more satisfaction in conjunction with the brand new 2008. Thank you all for dropping by my site all this while despite the crappy entries posted. I hope you will stay with me in the new place, that promises more comfort and ease and of course, more frequent updates of which I’m working hard on.

It’s here.

pintukopak.com

Don’t ask me why the name. I will probably tell in a post, if I want to… And the new home is the best X’mas and New Year present I got for myself.

 

The day has come

And yet… I am still feeling a little holdin’ back…

No matter how, all my bags are packed and I’m ready to go.

Another 90 minutes before the cab would pick me up…

And another 360 minutes before the flight departs…

I’ll be coming to you.

Mood: Contemplated
Music: Irreplaceable, by Beyonce Knowles

p/s: The kinky entry on the gatal minah tudung ketat would see you later when I get back from my five days off. Till then, stay kinky… ;P

 

Story on the fading sight of ‘yam coin’

She has just finished covering an evening function in Jonker Street. After bidding bye-bye to the photographer, she began to walk to her car, which was parked at another street nearby.

Suddenly, she got a tempting smell of live-cook ‘yam coin’ (算盘子) from a stall few steps ahead on her way. With a smile appeared on her face, she decided to follow her instinct…

Her: 老板娘，算盘子大的一份，打包。[Lady boss, one big portion of yam coin, take away please.]

Lady boss: 好，马上来。[Sure, right away.]

While the packet of yam coin was done and almost on its way to be handed to her…

Her: 老板娘对不起，我不要了。[I'm sorry lady boss, I don't want already.]

Lady boss: …… (looking at her speechless with the “why???” look on her face)

Her: 我忘了带钱包出来。[I forgot to bring my purse.]

With the fastest possible speed ever, she walked off with her ‘bengang’ face… heading to her car again.

“Damn it! Malu siol…” her heart spoken.

Sigh sigh sigh… why must the forgetfulness stroke when she finally got a by-chance opportunity to taste a Hakka delicacy that she’s been talking about all the while, ever since her last time of trying the food which were made by her beloved father more than n years ago…? Why happened when the stall was still selling the dish at that kinda hour although it used to be already-finished- long-time-ago. Why la…?

And yes, the Hakka girl in the end drove home immediately after the incident, without a single cent, without her IC and driving license… and without any yam coin obviously…

Mood: Blank
Music: Heartbreaker, by Bee Gees

 

Experiencing the fast and the furious

I’m sure many of you have watched the movie “The fast and the furious 3 - Tokyo drift” before. The drifts made by those juicy cars were simply amazing. And at many points one might not have ever seen a real car driftig for real right in front of the eyes… But I was lucky I did - and to make this experience even more perfect, I was offered a ride in a drifting car!

I was actually covering a two-day function - a drift challenge held at a stadium last Saturday night and Sunday morning. While waiting for my function to start, I chit-chatted with several participants while they were watching other drifters doing their practice. We talked alot about the drift cars and things related. Then out of a sudden one of them asked.

“Have you tried before sitting in a drifting car?”

“No… only have seen it before…”

“Heh, wanna try?”

“Uh… (excited) why not?”

The next thing I realized was, one of them agreed for the ride of showmanship. The gentleman then led me to his car and gave me a helmet. The moment I spotted the car I was going to ride in, I almost screamed. It looked so sporty and the colour was simply ‘chun’!! And it was also the most eye-catching car during the night as well as the whole competition. Oh how honoured I was…!

Hopped into the car, the gentleman told me it was a Nissan 180sx. I could see it was totally modified into a drift car with plenty of strengtheners and gadgets that I couldn’t call. While reaching the drift track, I also got to know he had been drifting for years.

The next thing happened, was the first round of drift ride. It started with a straight road, about 100m then followed by continuous turns and corners. So we moved out fast and aggresively, then I heard tyres squeeching and smokes running. It first drifted to the right then followed by a quick shift to the left throughout the U-shaped corner; then dragging itself upward before another shift and drag to the right during another C-shaped corner.

What happened to me in the car? I was all the way following the movement… both my foot were placed firmly on the base; and my body was swayed to the left and right over and over again with great force while the car was moving in high speed and high movements. It was really, really I mean really fast and furious. Phew…!

And then, I was taken for another round. Fuiyohhh~~~ so so so excited! Hahaa…

This is picture of the car I had my drift ride - a Nissan 180sx.

The gentleman Mr. Lim Chin Hong, or better known as A-siong with his striking Nissan 180sx.

The sporting and friendly team mates together with their cars. On the right was a Toyota AE86 - beautiful drift car.

Couldn’t really post too many pictures here, as some of them might be used for the news. Perhaps I might update more in future… Anyway, many many thanks to Mr. Lim Chin Hong and his friends who offered me this unforgettable drift experience. This is probably my once-in-a-life-time opportunity. I’m so glad it happened, although I had a serious sun burnt on my face and hands after covering this function… Yeah I look so dark and tan now

But the drift… What a great eye opener! Loved it!

 

Beauty pageant

I was covering a night function last Saturday, whereby there was a beauty pageant show as one of the programmes. There were ten finalists, and among them I find that I liked her the most…

 

Doesn’t she look awfully sweet?

Her name, according to the programme book, was Ho Fooi Tin.

A friend who was there said the girl looks great too. But she prefers another finalist. And since the media table wasn’t fully occupied, I gave four votes for this girl alone. Didn’t know if she stands out to be the champion or not. And I guess it was not reported as well, as I was the only media who stayed there for the longest hours…

Well… once again, doesn’t she look beautiful…?

 

New Year Mood! He Xin Nian Lor…!

Time flies… and the mood of celebrating with the spring is up again. And for this something can never be missed…

The 2007 Chinese New Year sing song project is up again… As it is set to be togetherly and officially launched by the singing bloggers today at 3:08 p.m. (hahaa again very very onngggg punye time). I’m late and I’m usually late (aihhh…) but now let me present you the little baby of this project - the song ‘He Xin Nian’ by all the contributing bloggers with their sexy voices and also juicy efforts in making this project another successful one.

Never forgetting, the ever macho el chico Lin Peh for initiating the project without fail every year. A big thanks and a huge hug for him!

The blogger singers involved for this song and the lines they sang are like this…

First round:

Allison - yes you know which I sing la…
賀新年 祝新年 He xin nian Zhu xin nian
新年啊 年連年 Xin nian ah Nian lian nian

CY Gemini
爆竹聲聲催人想幼年
Bao zhu sheng sheng cui de xiang you nian

Wen
賀新年 祝新年 He xin nian Zhu xin nian
新年啊 年連年 Xin nian ah Nian lian nian

Kenny Ng
歲月悠悠光陰似箭
Sui yue you you guang yin shi jian

John Ong, Wuching & Inevitable
回首往事如煙痛苦辛酸
Hui shou wang shi ru yan tong ku xing suan
寄望從今萬事如願
Ji wang cong jin wan shi ru yuan

LP
賀新年 祝新年 He xin nian Zhu xin nian
新年啊 年連年 Xin nian ah Nian lian nian

Wingz
願大家都過個太平年
Yuan ta jia dou guo ge tai ping nian

Second round:

Shooi & Lady Moon
賀新年 祝新年 He xin nian Zhu xin nian
新年啊 年連年 Xin nian ah Nian lian nian

Frostier
爆竹聲聲催人想幼年
Bao zhu sheng sheng cui de xiang you nian

Pin Pin
賀新年 祝新年 He xin nian Zhu xin nian
新年啊 年連年 Xin nian ah Nian lian nian

Lilpatchee
歲月悠悠光陰似箭
Sui yue you you guang yin shi jian

Angel, Lin Peh & John Ong
回首往事如煙痛苦辛酸
Hui shou wang shi ru yan tong ku xing suan
寄望從今萬事如願
Ji wang cong jin wan shi ru yuan

Lin Peh and friends
賀新年 祝新年 He xin nian Zhu xin nian
新年啊 年連年 Xin nian ah Nian lian nian
願大家都過個太平年
Yuan ta jia dou guo ge tai ping nian

Feel the festive mood and download your copy of this song here! With this song, I wish every one of you a healthy, fruitful, prosperous, magnificent and smooth year ahead. May the golden boar bring us plenty and plenty of luck, fortunes and love. Gong Hey Fatt Choy!!
 

 

Playin’ it

After having away for three days as one of the best friend’s bride’s maid, and also a nice shopping trip in Ikea, I’m finally back and slowly picking things again… Was being tagged some time ago, by this not so angelic la chica – Sharyn. My dear, sorry for being late. Now I present you my play.  

Part 1: On the Outside
Name : Allison Lai
Date of Birth : 2 February 1983
Current Status : Single but taken
Eye Colour : Dark Brown
Hair Colour : Dark Brown
Righty or Lefty : Righty
Zodiac Sign : The water bearer

Part 2: On the Inside
Your Heritage : Hakka from my papa & Cantonese from my mama and both from the Canton province.
Your Fear : Snake… Pineapple… Spooky stuffs…
Your Weakness: I have a soft spot for guys who’s botak or with long and beautiful hair.
Your Perfect Pizza : Lotsa and lotsa cheese & fillings but NO pineapple.

Part 3: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Your thoughts first waking up :   Yesterday – “Oops it’s ten and we’ll be late for the hotel’s morning breakfast.”   Today – “Mmpphhh… it’s study day again.”   Tomorrow – Don’t know yet but I have a freaking morning lecture…
Your bedtime :   Yesterday – around 2.30 a.m. – had a nice evening so end up late.  Today – hopefully around twelve coz of the freaking morning class tmr.  Tomorrow – don’t know… I really couldn’t expect
Your most missed memory :   Yesterday – the cozy hotel room and the meal and shopping in Ikea  Today – that nice given time spent with sayng in the morning  Tomorrow – see how… since it’s the so-called valentine.

Part 4: Your Pick
Pepsi or Coke : Don’t like soft drinks
McDees or Burger King : McD in Malacca, BK in KL
Single or Group Dates : Single with sayng and group with my zi mui la
Adidas or Nike : As long as I like the colour and design
Lipton Tea or Nestea : I’m a hardcore for Twinings early grey
Chocolate or Vanilla : Chocolate is something to die for…
Cappucino or Coffee : Cappuccino, as with milk will be nicer.

Part 5: Do You…
Smoke : Directly no-no. But second-handedly sometimes – no choice.
Curse : Call it whatever you like… I never made you to listen to me…

Part 6: In the Past Month
Drank alcohol : Oh yeah that red wine on Sunday’s wedding dinner.
Gone to the mall : Yesterday was in Ikea does it count?
Been on stage : I…… don’t think so
Eaten sushi : I…… don’t think so too…
Dyed your hair : Nah… didn’t even had the time to trim it

Part 7: Have You Ever?
Played a stripping game : Hah, exotic but nah
Changed who you were to fit in : Nah I don’t. I am who I am.

Part 8 : Marrriage
Age you’re hoping to be married : No specific… not such a big deal for me at the time being.

Part 9: In A Guy/Girl
Best Eye colour : Not too dark so I could really look inside and explore… hehee
Hair colour : No funny colour will do la… Sayng is botak now and I just love it!
Short or long hair : Me… either long hair or better no hair. But the face has to work well with it or else… errgghh

Part 10: What Were You Doing?
1 minute ago : Struggling at Part 9…
1 hour ago : Tutorial class in the room.
4 1/2 hours ago : Getting a good-bye kiss from sayng before he offs for work.
1 month ago : Busy and fruitful days of learning new things as a stringer.
1 year ago : Celebrating CNY with family… I guess

Part 11: Finish The Sentence
I love : being idle and relax, to slowly do the things I want to do and like to do.
I feel : like having something to eat… a little bit hungry.
I hate : it when people around tries to take advantage from me out of my job.
I hide : or I run whenever I am restricted.
I miss : the time feeling that warm temperature wrapped around me under that cold cold weather.
I need : to eat something coz I get hungrier now…

Part 12: Tag 5 People
Argh this is tough… some of the peeps out there are so out-ta this… And I guess I have less than five to go on with this… perhaps these human will layan me… ;-]

1) Anthraxxxx
2) Andy Joe
3) Tricia
4) Lin Peh

 

Rudolph in your house! Hohoho!

The 2006 Christmas sing song project is up again… The song has been officially launched on the 18th of November 2006 at 11:18am (very onnggg mia time and day).

The singers involved for this song are (in alphbetical order):

1. 5xMom
2. Allison
3. Angel
4. Cocka
5. Crazy Girl
6. CY Gemini
7. Helen
8. Inevitable
9. JKN
10. John Ong
11. Kenny Ng
12. King’s Wife
13. Lady Moon
14. Lin Peh
15. Little Patchi
16. LP
17. Matthew Kang
18. Rojak
19. Seng Kor
20. Simple American
21. Tiu Niasing

Download a copy of this song to your computer from HERE or HERE.

To find out who is singing which part, please check it out HERE to get the details and perhaps win some money for this coming holiday too!

It has been a real fun thing to do with other fellow bloggers in this sing song project, even without meeting them personally, hehee… Other than the sing song kaki, there are also a few bloggers to be credited for their generous effort in making this project successful.

JKN
For mixing the intro.

John Ong
For doing the Penang Hokkien rap and hosting the file.

Kenny Ng
For playing the rock and roll guitar.

5xMom
For hosting the file and giving out cash for the guess!

~TheAngel~
For doing such a wonderful job with the graphic design of this project.

And never forgetting, the lovely Lin Peh who actually initialized the whole thing!

Dont wait anymore la, just go and download the song now and probably find out which part I sang…

 

Holiday Gifts Ideas

I had posted a sponsored entries earlier, titled Holiday Gifts Ideas. But soon after that, I had to take it down - although it was approved by the sponsorer. The post has actually gone against the terms of service of wordpress.com. Luckily I managed to get back my entire wordpress blog, by emailing to wordpress support. Or else, my whole blog will be suspended just like that (I’d experienced some hours of freeze to my blog because of that), whereby I could never ever get the name back, nor doing further editting to it. *Phew* What a day!

But, since my sponsored post has been approved, and I also intend to have more sponsored entries coming up later in future, I am sorting things out. I will re-continue back with my old blog with blogger.com, whereby there will more on sponsored entries and reviews and sort of things. And here with wordpress, it will still remain as my personal blog. Reason I do not intend to set up another new blog with some other service provider is that, the maturity, traffic and page rank have to work from zero again - which doesn’t really inspire me at all. I think that’ll be the best I can figure out for the time being. but there’ll be tones of work to do, to sort… I don’t know how tough it could be either… Maybe in near future, I might host my own domain… Mmm…

 

Promoted: Aunt

30th November 2006, Thursday 20:44
Since your arrival to this beautiful world, I know I will be addressed otherwise. And yet, I would be so much looking forward to the day, you will really call me, aunt. Welcome to the family. May you be richly blessed and showered with joy and love. May you be growing up happily and healthily all the time. For my lovey dovey new-born niece - Carmen Lai

With love,
Aunt Allison