Reminiscing The Past

Today was interesting. I had gone to Mid Valley to meet up with guy regarding some part time work. After finishing the meeting, I got a surprising call from Shaun who is my ex-Taylorian friend. He just got back from the UK, which is where he’s working. So it was a real pleasant surprise to get a call from him and of all places…he was also at Mid Valley..Woop pa Doop!!

After a bit of texting and calling, I found and people, I do not know why but everytime, I end up bumping into him. He will at least have one weird situation to tell me or a weird story. Haha either way, those stories are very entertaining. Today’s story was he was to buy cheese and crackers for his mom’s friend and he was suppose to pass to it to her. First thing he said to me when we greeted one another was “I hope my cheese has not melted..”

Ngeh..!!??Okkk….

Diverting yes…Now back to my real reason for writing this post. We were having a chat to catch up on what’s been happening with our lives. His in UK and mine… well here.

As we chatted, i mentioned how nice it would be to go back to Pulau Redang, which was where we had a class trip. Yeah and actual class trip we arranged by ourselves for the entire 30 people in our class. Boy that was fun! And can you believe I still don’t have pictures from that trip????

We were giving it a count.. and my gosh!!! It’s been FIVE years already since that trip. That was pretty much the last time I saw most of my classmates from Taylors. Man time flies!

You know when you were in school, we never once thought about college. Then when we are in college we never once thought about university. And then when we are in Uni we never once think about us having to get a JOB!. The dreaded ‘j’ word. It used to be the dreaded ‘hw’ for homework and assignments.

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All the stages of growing up I suppose. We never would’ve thought we would end up where we are at today (even if we are still considered young about it). I would’ve never thought that I’d be freelancing and actually trying my hand at acting. I never would’ve thought that I would’ve just quit my job like that… There were many things I never thought of….and maybe the reason for that was because I was enjoying my ‘young and foolish’ life.

I’ve even come to a point in my life, that I’m now referring to myself as forever 22 in my head. Lol. Truth is I’m 23.. but the real truth is I’m 24. So what it’s a number. Besides I’ve been getting that I look more matured for my age since high school. No difference .

But yeah, I really did enjoy school days, college days and uni days. The days of no cares. No worry about bills, no worry about what to do with your life, no worry on where life is going to take you. Choose to be a moron and waste your parents cash, beg your parent to put you in a place you like, or choose to be a smart alec. Lol.

That’s the stuff..hehe

The Deal On Project Trafford

I had mentioned to a few friends of mine that I was on , this new top secret mission project initiated by the blog ad service Nuffnang.

And just so happened that they are bloggers to on Nuffnang – yeah yeah they are Min Li and Nick Dorian. They kept bugging me to tell them what was Project Trafford all about. But I insisted that they wait until I’ve gotten details from my head in command and written about it. Unnfortunately they got me playing 20 questions where i told them I was only allowed to answer yes or no.

But before I get into that,let me first introduce the incredible masterminds of my team. Our head Kahuna and miss travelling mastermind herself Nicole Tan from nicolekiss.blogspot.com .

Check out her column here on TheStar

these are her minions/lieutenants. ^_P

• Lieutenant Linora
• Lieutenant Andy – Delta’s Dark Den

  

• Lieutenant Simon – Simon Says

• Lieutenant Chic – Bootylicious
  

  

  
  

• Lieutenant Kif – 3POINT8
  

  

  
  

Heh so we are the team reporting to duty. Now what is Project Trafford all about? Remember I did ask if you could guess what it could possibly be related to? Let’s see what are the possible thought processes?

Hmmmm stadium lights and stands.

Footballers, referees and a mad crowd.

ohhhh yeah. uh huh… uh huh .. it is what I think it is.

Honestly the answer is so in your face, you could just kick yourself if you didn’t see it. It’s Old Trafford Babbyyyy..!!!!

Project Trafford is about us 6 bloggers set to give you some – or maybe just one – idea of how you can win an all expense paid trip to Old Trafford and walk on the green grounds of the legendary footballers themselves, such Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, along with the new bloods of Man United, Christiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.

We’ve gotten wind that a very generous company is giving away 30 exclusives tickets to the Stadium and Museum of the Red Devils which is worth RM15000. Can you take a guess which company that is?

Oh come on.. it’s another in your face answer

So now the big question how?

Yes people the Project Trafford can be seen as another one of those campaigns that will make you buy tons of chips, make you get fat, cause you to create mad photoshop creations such as the above…and all for? One Grand PRIZE!

SO get ready to go Mister Potato Crazy people, for it can win you a once in a lifetime trip. Boooyah!

Look out for the next post on how you can win those tickets. Man United fans.. go on shout for joy. I know you want to ^_P.

David Cook

I am in utter love love love with David Cook. He is all that an American Idol should be.

Anyways I’m now talking about David Cook, because I went hunting for his songs. He is an amazing singer and the one song that suddenly made me stop and have chills was from not a pop song, or a rock song, or an emo ballad. No… it was a broadway number.

If you recall, he sang “Music of The Night” by Andrew Lloyd Webber written for the Phantom of The Opera. I’ve heard many renditions of it and suffice to say Phantom is my all time favourite musical. So to hear David Cook sing it was just whoaaaa..

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He is a rocker that can give me goosebumps. I was nearly ready to accept the fact he wasn’t going to win when it was the episode between just him and David Archuleta. David Archuleta had given a smashing performance and David Cook’s was just so so. Plus with that face of an angel David A. was sure to get tons of votes from young girly kids…lol.

So imagine my glee when i heard the news from Royalshortness that David Cook won. Yeah i got the news from my friends blog.. got a problem with that?

By the way check out this ridiculous ad of the two Davids with Guitar Heroes hahahhaha.

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To be very honest I was routing for Carrie Underwood the most, out of all the American Idols, mostly because not only do i think she has heaps amount of talent, looks and personality. But because she’s a Christian (I’m not being biased, but it’s because I really think that there needs to be more of us Christians out there to penetrate areas that have been well deemed as the dark side.

Burnt Out

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been a bit tired. Or rather very tired.

I don’t think i’m taking wonderful care of myself as much as I’d hope. My eyes have been looking puffy and I’m feeling bloated, because of bad eating time. Not to mention sudden parties where I will gorge myself with all the goodies laid out. Ack ack ack… plus the “French Lady” is giving me my monthly visit. Food

Me being tired, on one hand I haven’t been sleeping well. I’ll end up sleeping around at like 5 in the morning. Don’t ask me why. I would be trying to do some sort of blogging if not surfing – which in the I’ll be asking what the heck was i surfing about?

I think i really should be sleeping earlier and heading back to the gym to get my healthy life back. Ugh.. I feel like a slug right now.. bleeach..

Decode it Before…

There were days long ago, when we did not have to go through so much hassle in order to through a comment out to somebody. I believe it started out with forums, where people will ask questions, discuss and talk to one another.

But to possible bots aka A.I. aka Artificial intelligent beings roaming about, people in front of the screens decided to create challenge-response authentication. What that you say?

Usually in order to do so you don’t need to fill in a “are you human catch phrase” to prove that you are human and not some “I Robot” being that is trying to take over the world by downloading stuff from other people…sheesh.

So there were the days of just type in normal words.

Right so those were the days of when it was still easy to see what they were trying to force us to type out. Those above aren’t so bad. They are still readable. That is.. until i saw this.

What the heck?? Cats? Find the cats hidden in the letters? Worse of all, the letters aren’t even normal letters. No. They are screwed up letters!! Screwed up letters that we have to guess on the alphabet and also whether if i see a darn cat in that letter. My gosh! Why laaaa must they make things so the difficult. Gimme a simple code and that’s enough-i’ll answer.. … do they need to bring the cats in?

Sigh for all the challenge-response authentication I think the cat really was the most OTT one. Peh.

The “Pretty” Gene Means Popularity?

Disclaimer I’m letting out a bomb here.

I want to say this, I am sick… Sick and tired of the how being pretty means popular.

I’m sick and tired of how everything in this world is deemed upon looks to first get around. I’m sick and tired of males oogling drooling over females just because they have to hills at the top and two hills at the bottom. I’m sick and tired that because these males have a fantasy of how women are suppose to look, or how they want their women to look, it has caused girls to become insecure with who they are.

I’m sick and tired to have to hear how women are put down just because of the way they look. I’m sick and tired of the fact of how some girls are given more attention than another just because – just -just because one girl happens to be slightly prettier. It is degrading, insulting and unfair if any body were to treat another person differently just because they are either to chubby, or have zits on their face, or happen to not be super HOT!

I hate the fact on how some people rate one another on their looks. Let me tell you a story of how I was rated.

I had a friend in class, i shall name her Silin and she had a boyfriend who happened to be from the same school as us, whom I shall name as Robby. I was hanging out at Silin’s house and this being her first bf, she gave him a call and was all girly. Thats fine, until of course she had to ask this “Robby, if you were to rate me in looks how would you rate me,” she mushed on the phone. On the other side Robby gave her an answer “Ten out of ten”…Like duh. Then she insisted very much on what was MY rating. She even asked it out loud in front of me to him. Even he was in an awkward situation. If he says I’m a ten he die.. if he says I’m not a ten i’ll get hurt. But hey… suck it up and accept the facts eh? Needless to say after she kept pestering him, he gave an answer. I got a seven out of ten”

Not bad eh… sure but how do you think a person will feel when you rate their looks. Bad enough, we are visual creatures and so the want to look good is always there. If someone so much as says somethings off on your physique… wow… you can so feel the pinch.

Makes me wonder why it is, that some celebrities or people just don’t give a care anymore on how they look. Why bother trying to look good, when it takes so much of work and then you are still going to be seen as the person called the “pretty gene”.

And you know pageants? I think they are painful to girls. Why are beauty pageants celebrated so much international and why can’t it be for Guy pageants as well? Why do the women have to be subjected to something like the looks to get by….

I’m going through a few things in my head right now and this has been an accumulated thought process that kinda just blew up today. It got heightened even more when I was looking at Estee Lauder model search which is on right now. One of us made a comment of how some of the girls have potential because of the looks.

But i argue that for modeling it’s not about looks but rather how well you can pull of a pose for the camera. Cause in the end that pose is going to get someone to buy a product. Looks sure.. but hello there is photoshop.

Then Randy Khoo gave a lovely comment on girls trying out for modeling here in KL.

“To be frank, beauty doesn’t count these days…

Coz EVERY pretty girl all over the country will aim to come KL and make a break…
Everywhere also leng looi… so common la…

Skin deep beauty just means that you have good genes… Nothing else..
Good make up means you got skill and money…

What’s rare is :
Good Energy, A great Personality & a great Outlook of Life…
That Win Pageants my friend… hahahaha”

I throw my hat of to that and also clap. Cause I’m glad for once I get to hear some sort of understanding by the opposite gender and an even compassionate one at that. It’s true, if you have personality. My gosh it doesn’t matter how you look on the outside, but people will be able to see you look beautiful even from the inside. To see an inside beauty shine right out, is rare, but it is possible. To me, that’s beauty and not the “pretty gene”.

How I Learned to Drive Reprise

I love getting freebies. I especially like the fact that I don’t have to pay anything at all. Which is exactly what will be happening for a couple of fortunate bloggers who may win two free tickets to see a show at The Actor’s Studio!

People this is the last call for putting up entries on How I Learned To Drive in order to win free tickets. The following is what you should be posting up and the last date for the last post will end this Sunday at 12pm sharp! So all post entries have to come in by then. For those who have posted, thanks so much for the support and me giving out a big BIG BIG Linora huggie to ya’ll!! ^_^

Once again, details are as such.

THE ORAL STAGE presents

PAULA VOGEL’s

HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

Growing up in a family with thin, penetrable personal boundaries, Li’l Bit becomes the victim of an incestuous intimacy – Uncle Peck does not only teach his teenage niece to drive, but sexualises her childhood as well.Narrated through a series of bittersweet flashbacks, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is an honest, coming-of-age account on forgiveness, healing and growth – and how one can find light even from the unhealthiest of relationships.

HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE was first produced in 1997 in New York City and has since been awarded, in addition to the Pulitzer: the Obie, the Drama Desk Award, the New York Drama Critics Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award.

Featuring Amelia Chen, Johann Lim, Doreen Loo, Davina Goh and Mark Beau de Silva, with Kelvin Wong as Creative Director.

Supported by Living Arts and Autodetailer.

“…one of the best plays of the decade.” – USA Today

“…a tremendous achievement; genuine and genuinely disturbing.” – Village Voice

*FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

Check out the interview on the NTV7 Breakfast Show.

Click here to watch the interview.

HOW TO WIN SOME FREE TICKETS

The wonderful word : FREE. Yeah TOS is being kind enough to give away some free tickets to a few lucky people and bloggers. So how can you get free tickets? Two ways:

1. Head on to Kakiseni and join the How I Learned to Drive Contest. Click here to join the contest NOW!

2. Just do ONE POST on How I Learned To Drive, telling people about it and you can be one of the few bloggers who will receive some complimentary tickets to watch the show. Make sure you have a link back straight to TOS and once you have your post done send the link of your post to this email: linora.publicity@theoralstage.com

HELP OUT TO PROMOTE
We have a couple of buttons mad out if you some of you out there would like in spreading this show to the public.

Just save the following buttons and link them back to this link http://theoralstage.com. It will look something like what I have on my sidebar.

SHOWDATES & TIME
4th – 7th June 2008 @ 8.30 pm
7th – 8th June 2008 @ 3.00 pm

VENUE
The Actors Studio Bangsar Level 3,
West Wing Bangsar Shopping Centre
285, Jalan Maarof Bukit Bandaraya 59000 Kuala LumpurTICKETS

RM33 (Adults); RM22 (Students, senior citizens & the disabled)

TICKET CONTACT
TAS @ BSC Box Office: 03-2094 0400/1400THE BLOG!

http://howilearnedtodrive.blogspot.com

ON THE WEB
http://www.theoralstage.com
http://www.theactorsstudio.com.my

Lack of Time

Do we really have enough time in our lives? Ever since I got into a relationship and I quit my ’stable’ job. I have had loads of questions popping into my head. For example if i really did go ahead to try and pursue this.. will I make it? Will I be able to sustain myself? This is just me I’m talking about what bout my partner? What would he think if he was the more stable bread maker… and I wasn’t. But only am able to fend myself just so I can survive.

If I freelance will it help me at all? If got a real job.. would I be able to sustain my passion for the arts, entertaining people while I suffer the life of a normal desk job (I’m not being insulting here) ?

I can’t have everything I know and right now I’m struggling and it’s tough. And I hate it on one hand, cause the reality is…. I don’t have enough cash. I don’t have the cash to want to get my own place, I don’t have the cash to try out for education to help me in this. I also don’t have the cash to suddenly go to another country and try out.

I’m bummed out.

If I was alone or single maybe it won’t be so bad. But at the same time I can’t help thinking of my ‘family future’. You know for a woman, the years are so short. There is so much we want to do and at times the opportunities don’t come. Or when they do it’s not fast or early enough.

Worse still, I would like to think that I can have kids at younger age. Considering that I know I’m on the bigger side of the scale. Which means I already have issues trying to lose weight. I’ve seen even the skinniest of people pile on the pounds when they get pregnant. Oh my gosh!! And it doesn’t help when you know you have a person who is staying with you who will tell say to you “I hope you won’t become like that”. That in reference to somebody who is really really big and obese and having a weight problem…

I’m having those moments where i could be over thinking.

Nuffnang Wild Live

Just right after posting on the Lemme fill people in on the latest happening party that Nuffnang is arranging this coming June.

I opened up my Nuffnang this morning to check out the latest news..blogs and on Nuffie. This is what greeted my eyes. This killavu Zebra pattern sprawled all over the place.

Whooooa just check out that iguana.. or is a chameleon… it’s some kind of lizard.. maybe it’s a gecko…wait gecko is a lizard. Whatever lol. I’m too excited about the party. I think the overall look is a leeeeetible bit too much, but forgivable, because it’s a party!!!! Yay another party. Any excuse to party people! Min Li and Nick Dorian!!! We are sooooo going!!

So what’s the party about?

Maxis Broadband wants to do some promo of their service. And what better way than to hook up with Nuffnang and a bunch of overly excited bloggers to use their product to blog LIVE on how much fun the party is. (A little note here, I still don’t forgive Maxis because I’ not exactly getting great speed – but I won’t complain very because it’s the only speed i got at the moment. So i have to live with that.)

During the Event.

All us bloggers will get to blog live! Nuffnang will be setting up either some nice computers/laptops for us or we could just bring our own babies along. But that could be a hassle because then we’d have to take care of the “pram”.

How to get in?

Right up a post on a drawing of an animal, or a cut and paste thing with photoshop. Then link to the Nuffnang Wild ‘Live’ Blogging page. Picture should be accompanied by some explanation to describe the picture. I’m not going to do one long one like the one. Remember Scratty Chipster?

So anyways….

Here’s me talking about my animal. Actually I think i’ll talk about the costume I hope to wear if I make it in time for the party. I would love to wear back my Bagheera costume then when i was in school doing the Jungle Book play. I’ve always loved the thought of having a tail and in that costume I DID!! SO FUN! Of course the make up was overly heavy too.

I’m not a huge fan of cats. I am a fan of BIG CATS! Like lions, panthers and leopards. Those cats I like. Heee and i’ve petted a baby tiger before. I love panthers, maybe i’m biased cause i played one but I love them. They are so sleek, and oh yeah another reason is because when I was younger I use to read L.J.Smith and she had a character who could shapeshift into a panther… soooo cool

Yeah I want to be as scary as this one

image taken from http://nerdnirvana.org

If not I want to be as doe eyed as this little baby panther. Kewtttt!!!! Yes it’s a baby panther!! Now i just have to figure what to wear… hmmm..

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I’m on Mission Impossible

Hah I wish! Lol. Been a while since I wrote something purely on Nuffnang.

For those of you who are on Nuffnang, I’m sure you have already seen the Top Secret Post that is on the Nuffnang Blog. If you haven’t here is a recap.

Nuffnang is currently launching a Top Secret Project codenamed ‘Project Trafford’. We are looking for 40 bloggers who are willing to participate actively in this secret project.

It’s not a full recap obviously. ^_P But you can go on here to read the post and also to see the long long thread of comments. Click here for the Nuffnang Unveils Top Secret Project.
Lieutenant Linora reported for duty to Nuffnang headquarters last week and they have replied saying that out of the 200 people I have been shortlisted. Weeee hoooo…. ok and that’s all I think I’m allowed to say. Can’t tell if I’m in the group yet or not, but this sure sounds exciting! Woots.
Just a small thought, for those of you out there… take a guess why it’s called Project Trafford.