house

A brand new year needs new starts. including new environment? new house? new room? new tv set?
yea to all above and mom's decision was to shift on 1st Jan of 2010. These are few new stuffs in our house:

1. this thing came from bali. making the best sound whenever wind blows (tung...tung tung tung...)























2. some feng shui plants featuring the green lines that i'm very proud of.
















3. some very chinese stuff on the DIY tv console.
















4. one of the sunset views from the balcony.





















5. one of the very impressive sunsets.








































6. one of the nights when i was waiting for stars.
















Lastly,
7. one of the moments when i can't find any new bowl in the new kitchen set for my instant noodle.

where's the stars when i want to star gaze?

i missed sabah sky.

or at least gimme a star-full semenyih sky.

secret recipe for sore throat

sore throat culprit:
-"tou fu pok" which sucked all the red hot curry.
-evonne's maggie-curry-powder-like concentrated oxtail soup
-yean xin's half bowl of red bean "tong sui"

sulan's secret recipe for her sore throat:

1 sachet of 罗汉果蛇舌草精powder reconstitute by adding one white glass of warm water.

+

1 white glass of warm honey water

+

10ml of 川贝枇杷膏 plus 1 white glass of warm water

(white glass=my mug=my measurement)

The secret recipe DIDN'T work though and it was NOT effective at all.

until...

i found another secret recipe at PeiTing's "hijau merah sama-sama" christmas party:

"ABSOLUTE MANGO 40% vodka plus mango juice

+

Rum plus coca-cola"

--miraculously my sore throat CURED despite having running nose on that night !

ok..ini recipe boleh jalan.

I WANNA WISH U A MERRY CHRISTMAS

17122009.

Borneo autumn expedition ends today! gonna see tanned Celine and Richard soon!

[i think we are getting closer after 3 sems!!]

Connexion christmas party with notts gang at senloong's.
BBQ-ed, sang christmas songs, birthday surprised, had fun with coded language, played darts, ping-pong matches and TABOO-ed !

[name cards]

[darts time! see the professional pose]

[at least i'm the best among girls. ALL darts on the board.]

had so much fun and random replys to laugh at when we TABOO-ing. i think TABOO answer is easier to guess if you played with someone who you see everyday, then only you can avoid the "beep beep" words.

[TABOO moment!! ---"you eat my wat?"]

even mid night facebook comments on the night and sb's unoewho are so hilarious. fun to recall the TABOO moments.

AND

when i woke up today, i had unexpected egg fruit mayo sandwich ready for my breakfast! prepared by sss at 3am morning after mahjoong session..haha..egg mayo plus japanese green tea!--good start in the morning.

Gonna have a fun weekend ahead in IW with raleigh bunch!!

" i wanna wish u a merry christmas,
i wanna wish u a merry christmas,
i wanna wish u a merry christmas,
from the bottom of my heart~~!!"---this christmas song stucked on my mind since cf christmas party.

10122009

time:1.12am

i feel like writing again.

I'm pretty upset now.
I think I just pisssed a good friend off AGAIN.

and

I really don't wanna see anymore dramas.Although it is considered none of my business,seeing friends upset is not a good feeling.

I should have off my msn and concentrate on microbiology whole night.

02122009

feel like writing something today.

today 02/12/09,
1. Sue Wen's birthday. greeted her in our usual style.
2. Had a 10 minutes' nap before dodgeball tournament and i dreamt of kailan. Such a weird dream of vege, maybe i missed kailan.
3. Dodgeball is a funny game. I realised how ganas ppl can be when they played dodgeball. I no fancy.
4. Had dinner, drink and a chat with chel gee again.
5. Got my costumer for IW.

Justin TimberDrake's travelling stories

Name: Yang Su Lan
Date: 08 Nov 2009
Expedition: Borneo Summer09 Expedition (09E)
What are you doing now: Pharmacy 2nd year student at Nottingham University

What has Raleigh meant to you:

I guess none among the thousands ex-venturers regretted spending their 10 weeks' time out of normal life to embark on a Raleigh expedition, so am I.

So far, 10 weeks 'summer runaway vacation' to Sabah is still the most unforgettable 10 weeks in my life. It is so memorable and unique that I can still visualise vividly what I did on when and who I met at where. Being thrown into nowhere in the middle of Borneo jungle, I was given an opportunity to get ridiculously dirty and sweaty to construct a jungle camp in harsh environment; become so tanned that I was stunned by my skin color when I first looked into a mirror after working 3 weeks on a kindergarten site; challenged myself mentally and physically to the extreme in order to complete a 12 days trek at serene Long Pa'sia jungle with a little award journey to the hidden but undisputedly marvelous Maga Waterfalls.

[drake visited my environment phase--sepilok jungle camp]

Besides all the hardcore and fun stories shared by all, Raleigh expedition help improved my interpersonal and communication skills by forcing me ought to live together with strangers from either the UK or Bermuda. In this small community, I Iearnt how other youngsters work, communicate their different perspectives of life and not-to-forget but most importantly discovered the unknown side of myself. Despite Sabah is one of the states in Malaysia, I experienced culture shock in rural small village during my community phase. Life-long friends can be found in this lovely piece of land, where the simple yet sincere aboriginal community called it home.

Initiated by the love towards this kind of lifestyle and heartened by the kindness of the villagers, I revised my pharmacist dream. In the future, my dream is to gain as much pharmacy knowledge and bring benefits to this group of people by working in the place where I'm needed most. Upon returning home, I re-joined Raleigh committee as Expedition Officer to assist more youngsters like myself to their once-in-a-lifetime expedition. The environment and people could be the same but I feel myself it isn't the "usual" me anymore. People changed to improve, so get rid of the blues and keep up the positive spirit. Oh ya, friendship in Raleigh KL is not OK to NOT give it a mention. Without them, the crazy fellas, Raleigh KL is not Raleigh KL anymore as ALL of my crazy acts and thoughts are due to their enlightenment and influence.

[a visit to Mt.K peak]

Someone said this that I second: 'Life would never be the same without Raleigh.' I'm so into it that I couldn't imagine how my recent life will be if I hadn't decided to participate in 168Tahan Adventure. Raleigh saved me from my otherwise ordinary monotonous life.

[there I go! Get OUT there!]